Lepidolite Crystal Properties

Emotional Balance, Inner Peace, Awareness

Spiritual Properties

• Helps reorganize and restructure your behavior patterns and thoughts, and helps embrace times of change, flux, and flow
• Teaches you how to self-soothe and make choices that come with a heightened sense of awareness and commitment to your own health and happiness.

Mental Properties

• Increases drive
• Helps you let go of patterns that no longer serve you
• Helps you pay attention to the synchronicities in your life, which creates more deja vu moments
• Recognizes imbalances between self and shadow self, and works with us to move to a place of long-term healing and harmonious self-love

Emotional Properties

• Stabilizes Moods
• Increases self Confidence
• Enables you to find joy in little things
• Can bring about an attitude change
• Harmonizes all the emotions within your body, mind, and soul
• Helps soften energies affecting the emotional body, which helps keep your mental state operating in a calm manner

Kundalini Properties

• Aligns and activates the chakra column
• Help to clear any blockages from the Heart Chakra, the Third Eye Chakra, and the Crown Chakra
• Creates a connection between the heart and the third eye, which helps you become more in touch with your emotions

Affirmations

• I maintain my center through the storm of life
• I am emotionally balanced and filled with inner peace
• Every breath I inhale calms me and every breath I exhale takes away tension

Correspondence

• Chakras: All
• Energy: Projective
• Planets: Jupiter, Neptune
• Element: Water
• Zodiacs: Libra, Pisces
• Number: 8

Health Benefits

• Increases dopamine levels
• Boosts the immune system
• Harmonizes the immune system
• Most effective crystal for anxiety
• Known to help numb sciatica and neuralgia
• Reduces problems associated with Alzheimer’s
• Cuts down on the harmful side effects of electromagnetic pollution
• Adds in calming newborns and preventing anxieties and depression in their future
• Helps the body and mind deal with changes brought on by hormonal cycles and menopause
• Used as a source of lithium — a remedy often turned to for those who suffer jangled emotions, high mood swings, and symptoms of bipolar

Physical Properties

Color: Colorless, Gray, White, Pink, and Purple

Habit: Masses, Plates, Aggregates, Stacked sheets, and Prismatic crystal

Rarity: Rare

Luster: Vitreous to pearly

Species: Mica

Zoning: Present

Parting: Absent

Streak: White

Gravity: 2.8 to 2.9

Tenacity: Brittle

Fracture: Uneven

Cleavage: {001} perfect

Hardness: 3 to 4, Can only be cut and polished when found within Quartz

Locations: Worldwide, but abundantly in Brazil, Madagascar, Australia, Russia, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, Mexico, and the United States

Twinning: Rare, composition plane {001}

Inclusions: Typically a minor ore of lithium metal, with rubidium and cesium

Dispersion: weak, r > v

Chatoyancy: Absent

Pleochroism: X = almost colorless; Y = Z = pink, pale violet

Fluorescence: Possible, not common

Birefringence: 0.0290–0.0380

Diaphaneity: Transparent to translucent

Melting point: 1170C

Luminescence: Present

Chemical Name: Lithium Mica

Refractive Index: 1.554–1.586

System/Structure: Monoclinic

Optical properties: Biaxial ({)

Chemical Formula: KLi2Al(Si4O10)(F, OH)2 to K(Li1.5Al1.5)(AlSi3O10)(F, OH)2

Chemical Classification: Phyllosilicate

Chemistry Classification: Lithium, Aluminum, Potassium mineral