Actinolite Crystal Properties
Shielding, Balance, Dream Recall
Spiritual Properties
- Encourages deep meditation
- Connects you to universal energies
- Assist the wearer in recalling dreams, analyzing dreams, and connecting with the dreams of his previous birth, and ancient civilization
Mental Properties
- Helps you overcome loneliness
- Helps you clear and balance the mind
Emotional Properties
- Boosts Confidence
- Protects your emotional body from negative energy
- Pulls emotions you have been holding close to the surface
- Pushes you to release the stress and the weight you’ve placed on your heart
- Provides you with the courage and confidence needed to face uneasy emotions and helps you find closure
Kundalini Properties
- Opens the heart chakra
- Provides your aura with a protective shield from negative energy
Affirmations
- I am surrounded by a protective shield of positive energy
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root, Sacral, and Heart
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Venus, Earth
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Scorpio
- Number: 4, 9
Health Benefits
- Strengthens the immune system
- Eliminates toxins from the body
- Aids proper liver and kidney function
- Rids you of nervous tensions and anxieties
- Stimulates the production of white blood cells
Physical Properties
Color: White, Yellow, Gray, or Black
Habit: Long blades or a skinny needle-like structure, bladed, fibrous, radial
Twins: Simple or lamellar, common parallel {100}; lamellar, less common parallel {001}
Rarity: Common — Two rare forms include transparent and submerged within quartz
Luster: Vitreous, Silky
Species: Amphibole Asbestos
Zoning: Absent
Parting: on {100}
Gravity: 3.03–3.24
Tenacity: Brittle
Fracture: Splintery
Cleavage: Distinct/Good on {110}
Hardness: 5.5 to 6
Locations: Brazil, Russia, Canada, China, New Zealand, and the USA. Transparent forms are found in Taiwan and China
Dispersion: r < v
Chatoyancy: Present when in quartz
Pleochroism: Weak, moderate, yellow to dark green
Fluorescence: Absent
Birefringence: 0.022–0.027
Diaphaneity: Translucent
Named After: The Greek word “Aktis” means “beam or ray”
Melting point: Above 2700 °F.
Discovered In: 1794
Luminescence: Orangey Yellow
Discovered By: R. Kirwan
Chemical Name: Calcium magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, Amphibole Silicate Mineral
Refractive Index: 1.614–1.641
System/Structure: Monoclinic
Chemical Formula: Ca2(Mg4.5–2.5Fe2+0.5–2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Inclusions: Typically is the needle-like inclusions in other crystals
Streak: White
Chemical Classification: Silicate
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