CALCITE
COLOR: Green, blue
APPEARANCE: Translucent and waxy, often banded (may be
acid treated to enhance color), all sizes
sometimes tumbled
RARITY: Common
SOURCE: United States, Britain, Belgium, Czech Republic,
ATTRUBUTES: Calcite is a powerful amplifier and cleanser of energy. Simply having Calcite in the room cleans negative energies from the environment and heightens your energy. Within the body, it removes stagnant energy. The spectrum of colors cleans the physical and subtle bodies. Calcite is an active crystal, speeding up development and growth. This is a spiritual stone linked to the higher consciousness that facilitates the opening of higher awareness and psychic abilities, channeling, and out-of-body experiences. It accelerates spiritual development and allows the soul to remember experiences when it returns to thebody.
Psycgologically, Calcite connects the emotions with the intellect, creating emotional intelligence. Calcite has a positive wffect, especially where someone has lost hope or motivation. It combats laziness, aiding in becoming more energetic on all levels.
Mentally, Calcite calms the mind, teaches discernment and analysis, stimulates insights, and boosts memory. It facilitates knowing which information is important, and then retaining it. Calcite confers the ability to change ideas into action. It is a useful stone for study.
HEALING: Calcite cleanses the organs of elimination. It encourages calcium uptake in bones but dissolves calcifications, strengthening the skelaton and joints. It alleviates intestinal and skin conditions. Calcite stimulates blood clotting and tissue healing. It fortifies the immune system and can encourage growth in small children. Calcite works quickly as an elixir and can be applied to the skin, ulcers, warts, and supporting wounds. At a subtle level, Calcite cleans and reenergizes the chakras.
POSITIONS: Hold or place as appropriate. Wear as a pendant. Can be used to grid around a bed. Use as gem essence.
SPECIFIC COLORS--In addition to the generic attributes, the following colors have additional properties.
Black Calcite is record-keeper stone for regression and regaining memories so that the past can be released. It returns the soul to the body after trauma or stress, aleviates depression, and is a useful companion during a dark night of the soul.
Blue Calcite is a gentle stone for recuperation and relaxation. It lowers blood pressure and dissolves pain on all levels. Gently soothing the nerves and lifting anxieties, it releases negative emotions. Used on the throat chakra it aids clear communication, especially where there is dissent. Blue Calcite can absorb energy, filter it, and return it to benefit the sender.
Clear Calcite is a "cure all," especially as an elixir. It is a powerful detoxifier. At a physical level it acts as an antiseptic and at the subtle levels it cleanses and aligns all of the chakras, higher and lower. A Clear Calcite with rainbows brings about major change--it is a stone of new beginnings. Clear Calcite brings the gift of deep soul healing and revitalization of the subtle bodies. It opens and clears the inner and outer eyes.
Gold Calcite is excellent for meditation and for attuning to the higher mental planes. It instills mental alertness as it grounds the higher mental energies into the physical realm. Place on the navel or crown chakras.
Green Calcite is a mental healer, dissolving rigid beliefs and old programs and restoring balance to the mind. It helps in letting go of what is familiar and comforting but which no longer serves, and aids communication and the transition from a stagnant to a positive situation. Green calcite helps children to hold their own in debates. It is a powerful stimulator for the immune system and is especially useful in grids. This stone absorbs negativity and rids the body of bacterial infections. it ameliorates arthritis and constrictions of the ligaments or muscles and is helpful in bone adjustments. Its green tay cools fevers, burns, and inflamation, calms the adrenals, and soothes anger-generated dis-ease. Green Calcite placed regularly on the body absorbs dis-ease and should be cleansed throughly.
Icelandic Spar (Optical Calcite) amplifies images and heals the eyes. It can aid in seeing double meaning hidden behind words. It reduces the tension that causes migraines. This form of Calcite is an excellent cleanser of the subtle bodies.
Orange Calcite is a highly energizing and cleansing stone, especially for the lower chakras. Orange Calcite balances the emotions, removes fear, and overcomes depression. It dissolves problems and maximizes potential. This stone heals the reproductive system, gallbladder, and intestinal disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), and removes mucus from the system.
Pink Calcite (Mangano Calcite) is a heart crystal in contact with the angelic realm. A stone of forgiveness, it releases fear and grief that keep the heart trapped in the past, bringing in unconditional love. It aids self-worth and self-acceptance, heals nervous conditions, and lifts tension and anxiety. This stone prevents nightmares. Pink Calcite's loving energy dissolves resistance. It is helpful for anyone who has suffered trauma or assault.
Red Calcite increases energy, uplifts emotions, aids willpower, and opens the heart chakra. It removes stagnant energy, including constipation, and dissolves blockages. It resonates to the base chakras, which it energizes and heals. It alleviates fear, bringing understanding of the source. Red Calcite's vitality energizes a party. At a physical level, it heals hip and lower limb problems, loosening up joints, and on a subtle level it removes the blockages that prevent you from stepping forward in your life.
Rhomboid Calcite closes off mind chatter, bringing mental stillness. It is a powerful healer of the past.
Yellow or Golden Calcite is a great eliminator and stimulates the will. Its energy, especially as an elixir, is uplifting. It enhances meditation, inducing a deep state of relaxation and spirituality and linking to the heghest source of spiritual guidance. It stimulates the higher mind. Use at the crown and solar plexus chakras. Golden Calcite has an extremely expansive energy.
From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press
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