Petalite Crystal Properties

Calm, Truth, Inner Knowing

Aka: Castorite, The Angel Stone

Spiritual Properties

• Activates the higher mind
• Opens cosmic consciousness
• Protects against black magic
• Calmly connects you to the spirit
• Helps you find the answers you seek
• Useful for ancestral and family healing
• Assist with an easy transition from ego to the conscious mind
• Enhances your ability to see other vibration energies and auras
• Promotes communication and interactions between the physical and spiritual world

Mental Properties

• Creates calm peace and serenity
• Helps you manifest your inner desires
• Aids those who are mentally scattered or flighty
• Helps you maintain a balanced state of consciousness
• Calms hyperactivity when held with focused intention
• Helps you remain focused despite environmental distractions
• Helps you cut ties with people from the past and encourages independence
• Helps you perceive the world from the calm, centered, and high-energy self

Emotional Properties

• Centers the body
• Aids abuse traumas
• Keeps mood swings at bay
• Soothes and heals the emotional body
• Great to help children stand up to bullies
• Brings calm self-acceptance and self-love
• Excellent for healing all types of emotional trauma
• Clears negative emotions and lessens emotional sensitivity

Kundalini Properties

• Protects against negative energy
• Balances the solar plexus and heart chakras
• Activates all of the energy centers in the body

Affirmations

• I allow my consciousness to easily and gently ascend to the higher realms of awareness
• I am now choosing to resolve my conflicts with others through peace and understanding

Correspondence

• Chakras: Throat, Third Eye, Crown
• Energy: Projective and Receptive
• Planets: Sun
• Element: Air
• Zodiacs: Leo
• Number: 8

Health Benefits

• Aids manic episodes
• Brings calmness to the systems
• Balances your brain physiology
• Dissipates electromagnetic energy
• Aids in healing the endocrine system
• Useful for the treatment of AIDS and cancer
• Regulates blood pressure and counters anxiety attacks
• Benefits cells, eyes, lungs, muscular spasms, and the intestines
• Supports you when the chemicals in your brain are out of whack
• can be used for ADD, ADHD, excessive worry or stress, and other instances of an overactive mind

Physical Properties

Color: Colorless, Grey, Yellow, Pink, white

Habit: Large, cleavable masses, Tabular Prismatix

Rarity: Rare

Luster: Vitreous, Pearly

Species: Silicate

Zoning: Absent

Parting: Absent

Streak: Colorless

Gravity: 2.4

Tenacity: Brittle

Fracture: Subconchoidal

Cleavage: Perfect on {001}, poor on {201} with 38.5° angle between the two

Hardness: 6 to 6.5

Locations: Sweden, Afghanistan, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Karibib, Namibia; Manitoba, Canada; and Bikita, Zimbabwe.

Twinning: Common on {001}

Inclusions: Absent

Dispersion: r > v weak

Chatoyancy: Absent

Pleochroism: Absent

Fluorescence: Absent

Birefringence: 0.012

Diaphaneity: Transparent, Translucent

Melting point: 1350 °C

Luminescence: Yellowish white, Pinkish white

Chemical Name: lithium aluminum silicate

Refractive Index: nα=1.504, nβ=1.510, nγ=1.516

System/Structure: Monoclinic

Optical properties: Biaxial (+)

Chemical Formula: LiAlSi4O10

Chemical Classification: Phyllosilicate