Afghanite Crystal Properties

Psychic Abilities, Clarity, Communication

Afghanite in host rock

Spiritual Properties

• Enhances intuition
• Aids in past life work
• Boosts your psychic abilities
• Helps you access the akashic records
• Helps you become more aware of your life path
• Helps connect you to the higher realm while you meditate
• Helps you find yourself while maintaining your spiritual growth
• Activates the unique psychic abilities that help you receive messages from your spiritual team

Mental Properties

• Stimulates the brain
• Increases telepathic abilities
• Helps you execute your desires
• Aids your problem-solving skills
• Helps you be more gentle with others
• Helps you maintain calm and clear thoughts
• Helps you take the lead in your relationships
• Helps you communicate your thoughts and feelings
• Creates a peaceful environment for yourself and others
• Helps you understand what your ideal love match could be
• Helps you evaluate your relationships from a fresh perspective
• Helps you become more conscious of minor details in your surroundings
• Helps you understand the meanings behind symbols depicted in your day-to-day life

Emotional Properties

• Provides peace to the mind
• Helps you make smarter decisions regarding love
• Calms you by reminding you that you are not alone
• Rekindles old emotions you’ve had for your partner

Kundalini Properties

• Holds high vibrations
• Creates a free flow of energy in the body
• Activates and aligns your third eye and crown chakras
• Dispels a balanced amount of energy, preventing overwhelm
• Removes negative energies from the body and its surroundings

Afghanite and Pyrite

Health Benefits

• Aids insomnia
• Provides energy
• Aids muscle strength
• Soothes your nerves and senses
• Develops and strengthens the bones and teeth

Affirmations

• The energy within me flows freely
• My mind is at peace with myself and my surroundings
• I see and understand my relationships from a fresh perspective

Correspondence

• Chakras: Third Eye and Crown
• Energy: Projective and Receptive
• Planets: Neptune, Earth
• Element: Water
• Zodiacs: Scorpio
• Number: 7

Afghanite Cubes

Physical Properties

• Color: light sky blue to a dark navy
• Habit: Long prismatic crystals, double-terminated as bi-pyramid crystals, or as crusts coating a matrix
• Rarity: Very Rare
• Luster: Vitreous
• Species: Cancrinite
• Zoning: None
• Gravity: 2.55
• Fracture: Conchoidal
• Cleavage: Perfect
• Hardness: 5.5–6
• Twinning: None
• Locations: Canada, Russia, Tajikistan, Germany, Italy, and the United States
• Fluorescence: Rare
• Pleochroism: None
• Birefringence: 0.006
• Transparency: Transparent to opaque
• Named After: Badakhshan, Afghanistan
• Melting point: n/a
• Discovered In: 1968 in Sar-e-Sang Province of Afghanistan
• Luminescence: Rare
• Discovered By: R. Giraud, F. Cesbron, and P. Bariand
• Chemical Name: Hydrous sodium, potassium, calcium, chloride, sulfate, carbonate alumino-silicate mineral
• Refractive Index: 1.523–1.529
• System/Structure: Hexagonal, Trigonal
• Chemical Formula: (Na, K)22Ca10(Si24Al24O96)(SO4)6Cl6
• Inclusions (streak): White
• Chemical Classification: Silicate

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