Petalite Crystal Properties

Calm, Truth, Inner Knowing

Gems By LYC

3 min readMay 14

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