Crystal Description – Page D
Diopside
► Attributes: Crystallizes in thin plates & grainy structures. Color range includes white, yellow, green, grey, red-brown & black.
► Energy: Couples the practical side to both sciences & arts.
► Spiritual: Allows one to understand the duality of in life of oneself. Retrieves & expresses the feminine nature of oneself. Black Diopside establishes a core grounding connection.
► Mental: Encourages humility & respect for superior exhibition of intelligence. Can stimulate intellect and can provide assistance to mathematical & analytical pursuits.
► Emotional: Expands love in every aspect in life. Good stone for healing for those who will not allow themselves to cry or express their unhappiness.
► Physical: Used by healer to assist in regeneration after a surgery or physical trauma. Assists menopausal women as it calms emotions and physical changes. Treats physical weakness & psychological disorders. Assists in eliminating muscle spasms.
► Elements: Pyroxene Mineral (MgCaSi2O6)
► Crystal Structure: Monoclinic
Dolomite
► Attributes: Prismatic crystals. Color ranges from white, grey, green-white, red, rose-red, green, pink, brown & Black.
► Energy: Gentle stone that brings to the owner increased mercy, unselfishness and giving in all its forms and manifestations.
► Spiritually: Encourages charitable actions & relieves sorrow in such a way as to assist one to recognize that there are actually no reasons to be sorrowful.
► Mentally: Encourages in original thinking & manifestation. Produces stamina while dealing with hyperactive people.
► Emotionally: It encourages self-realization. It also fortifies a sense of tradition & helps us acclimate to new communities. It promotes moderation & alleviates negative emotions.
► Physically: Arrests leakages of energy from chakras. Can be used by the body to build muscular structures, blood cells, bones, teeth, nails & skin. Aids the oxygenation to the lungs & Cellular structures.
► Elements: Calcium Magnesium Carbonate – CaMg(CO3)2
► Crystal Structure: Rhombohedral Trigonal
Dumortierite
► Attributes: Colour usually from blue to violet. Can be pink to brown.
► Energy: Excellent stone for patients. Grounding and calming.
► Spiritual: Stimulates verbalization of spiritual ideas and can provide grounding in love matches while clearing away unsettled areas in relationships. It is highly stimulating to the pineal gland located behind the third eye in the forehead.
► Mental: Can be used to reduce excitability and to eliminate stubbornness while at the same time standing up for ones self.
► Emotional: They help you to stabilize your emotions, and this is helpful as these stones can create a large degree of change. If you are willing to work with the change, these crystals bring many gifts to you.
► Physical: This dark blue stone, has a strong ability to aid intellectual activity within the brain, and will assist you to develop enhanced mental abilities.
► Elements: Al7BO3(SiO4)3O3 or Al6.5-7BO3
► Crystal Structure: Orthorhombic