Alexandrite Crystal Properties
Grounding, Good Luck, Spiritual Transformation
Aka: Chrysoberyl
Spiritual Properties
- Enhances intuition
- Promotes spiritual growth
- Attracts good luck and good fortune
- Helps reveal your true sense of purpose
- Has a divine connection with the heavens
- Balances the mind, emotions and pacifies the soul
- Bridges the gap between the physical and etheric planes
- Guides you to inner transformation and spiritual evolvement
- Talisman to awaken the soul and invoke spiritual transformation
- Aids you in tuning your spiritual body to high vibrational dimensions
- Helps you recover alternative-life information and the Akashic records
- Connects you with the frequencies of Divine Knowledge and Divine Love, and helps you use them to gather knowledge
Mental Properties
- Centers the mind
- Boost self-esteem
- Inspires your imagination
- Reinforces and realigns the mind
- Realigns the mind with the body
- Establishes harmony in your life
- Helps to create a strong will and personal magnetism
Emotional Properties
- Balances the emotions
- Strengthens willpower
- Enhances creative feelings
- Helps you achieve emotional maturity
- Encourages you to listen to your feelings
- Encourages you to find the joy in everyday life
- Helps you find joy within the different possibilities you see
- Helps you accept change and the emotional issues that come with change
- Assist you with accurately assessing and reacting to your emotions and others
Kundalini Properties
- Opens the Heart, Third Eye, and Crown chakras
Correspondence
- Chakras: Heart, Third Eye, and Crown
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Mercury
- Element: Air, Water, Earth
- Zodiacs: Scorpio
- Number: 1
Affirmations
- I see the beauty in every moment
Health Benefits
- Eases the symptoms of leukemia
- Helps you assimilate proteins more easily
- Powerful detoxifier and stimulates the liver
- Balances the nervous system and glandular system
- Soothes inflammation and tension in the neck muscles
- Helps heal the nervous system, and reproductive organs and regenerates neurological tissue
- Supports and strengthens the pineal and pituitary glands, spleen, pancreas, male reproductive organs, and neurological tissue
Physical Properties
Color: Green shades, emerald-green, greenish-white, yellowish green, greenish-brown, yellow, blue, maybe violet-red to raspberry-red under incandescent light. Changes in color in different lighting
Habit: Hexagonal twinning, Prismatic shards, Tabular, pseudo-hexagonal, or tiny gem-like inclusions within a larger matrix
Twins: Common, producing either flattened heart-shaped or pseudo-hexagonal multiple contacts and penetration twins
Rarity: One of the rarest gemstones on earth
Luster: Vitreous
Species: Chrysoberyl
Zoning: Absent
Parting: Along twinned crystals
Gravity: 3.70–3.72
Tenacity: Brittle
Fracture: Weak, Conchoidal
Cleavage: Distinct on [110] (though rarely observed), Imperfect on [010], Poor on [001]
Hardness: 8.5
Locations: Sri Lanka, Burma, South Africa, Brazil, Madagascar, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, India, and the USA,
Dispersion: Low, 0.014, r > v
Chatoyancy: Present
Pleochroism: Strong, X = red; Y = yellow-orange; Z = emerald-green
Fluorescence: Red
Birefringence: 0.009
Diaphaneity: Transparent to Translucent
Named After: The soon-to-be leader of Russia, Czar Alexander II
Melting point: 1870 °C
Discovered In: 1834 in the Ural mountains of Russia
Luminescence: Weak red in SW and LW UV
Discovered By: Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld
Chemical Name: Beryllium Aluminum Oxide
Refractive Index: 1.744–1.755
System/Structure: Orthorhombic
Chemical Formula: BeAl₂O₄
Inclusions: Chromium and Possibly fluorite, apatite, mica platelets, rutile, and multi-phase inclusions along with negative crystals, fingerprints, liquid inclusions, needles, and hollow tubes
Streak: White
Chemical Classification: Beryllium
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