Hematoid Quartz Crystal Properties
Self-Esteem, Transmute, Focus
Aka: Harlequin Quartz, Fire Quartz, Spectacularite Quartz, Red Quartz, Ferruginous Quartz
Spiritual Properties
- Inspires you to manifest new beginnings
- Promotes spiritual growth and higher awareness
- Strengthens the mind, body, and spirit connection
- Assists during astral travel, dream-work, and shamanic journeying
- Manifests dreams into physical reality by enhancing focus and concentration
- Helps enhance psychic abilities by providing a clear connection to your higher self
- Contains both the amplification properties of quartz and the balance and stability of hematite
- Reveals your life purpose and where you need to apply effort in order to attain what you want
- When held in meditation it brings up past life issues from previous incarnations which are still affecting your present life
Mental Properties
- Boosts concentration and focus
- Aids you in seeking a new path or ideas
- Helps bring will and courage into your life
- Will make you realize that you can learn from your previous mistakes
- Improves willpower and boosts self-confidence, self-esteem, and self-worth
- Aids in communication between those areas of your life that are in conflict
- Enhances your awareness beyond the painful experiences to a more enlightened perspective
- Helps you understand the difference between an unconscious reaction and a conscious response
Emotional Properties
- Brings optimism into your life
- Calms you down in moments of distress or anger
- Transforms old hurts into a loving self-forgiveness
- Balances the opposite sides of the emotional spectrum
- Fosters calmness and patience in animals and children alike
- Heals the heart and allows you to love freely without fear of being hurt again
- Brings understanding and clarity to your emotions helping you to perceive the difference between conscious responses and unconscious reactions
Kundalini Properties
- Balances yin and yang energies
- Dissolves imbalances in your aura
- Provides a protective shield around the aura
- Transforms negative energy into positive energy
- Removes the darkness from your mind and body
- Grounds chaotic energy from the crown chakra down to the root
- Removes negative energies attached to you through psychic attacks or unhealthy relationships
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root, Sacral, and Solar Plexus
- Energy: Receptive
- Planets: sun, Earth
- Element: Fire, Earth
- Zodiacs: Scorpio, Libra, Pisces, Aquarius
- Number: 7
Affirmations
- I am balanced and calm
- I make all my decisions consciously and for my highest and greatest good
Health Benefits
- Boosts the immune system
- Enhances physical vitality
- Cleanses toxins from the physical body
- Used in the treatment of blood disorders
- Helpful if you suffer with ADD and ADHD
- Strengthens the functions of the liver and kidney
- Increases blood circulation which enhances oxygenation in cells
- Used on the scalp for stimulating healthy hair growth while treating skin disorders like psoriasis or eczema
Physical Properties
Color: Colorless with red inclusions as well as pale yellow to a deep rust color
Habit: Crystallized in masses, nodules, clusters, druzy, as well as inclusions within existing Quartz
Rarity: Common
Luster: Vitreous
Species: Quartz
Zoning: Possible
Parting: Absent
Streak: White
Gravity: 2.65 to 2.91
Tenacity: Brittle
Fracture: Conchoidal
Cleavage: {0110} Indistinct
Hardness: 7
Locations: United States, Brazil, Madagascar, China, Switzerland, South Africa, Morocco, and Germany
Twinning: Possible, rare
Inclusions: Hematite and iron oxide
Dispersion: 0.013
Chatoyancy: Absent
Pleochroism: Absent
Fluorescence: Absent
Birefringence: +0.009
Diaphaneity: Transparent to Opaque
Melting point: A-quartz — 1670 °C, B-quartz — 1713 °C
Luminescence: Pale yellow, white, or blue (short and long wave)
Chemical Name: Silicon
Refractive Index: 1.544 to 1.553
System/Structure: Trigonal/Hexagonal
Optical properties: Uniaxial (+)
Chemical Formula: SiO2,
Chemical Classification: Silicon Dioxide