Smithsonite


Smithsonite(s)


Center>Light blue, pink, or lavendar fuzzy bubbles. Harmonizes and aligns heart, throat, and brow CTRS. for smoother communications, leadership, perceptiveness and depth in relationships, and expansion into new areas. Meditation clarity, and receptiveness. Insight via dreams, dream recall. Versatile; Historically works well in many areas, especially Throat CTR, nose, lymph, immunity; tissue elasticity. Chakra corresponds with stone color. H:5; CTR:4,5,6

Smithsonite, which is a zinc carbonate mineral that is usually found in a botryoidal (grape-like) or globular form, is named after the founder of the Smithsonian Institute, James Smithson. It occurs in a wide variety of colors, from colorless to various hues of blue, green, purple, yellow or white, and has an unusually waxy luster. It is commonly associated with other minerals such as cerrusite, limonite, dolomite, calcite, and so on and is used as a minor ore of zinc. Its distinctive crystal structure, good cleavage, and characteristic fracture lines make it easy to distinguish from other similar minerals such as hemimorphite and prehnite.



Chemical Composition:
Zinc Carbonate ZnCO3
Color:
Very variable, Pink, lavender, green, blue-green, purple, brown, yellow, white-gray, blue, and many others.
Hardness:
4 - 4.5
Cleavage:
Perfect in three directions forming rhombohedrons
Fracture:
Uneven
Crystal Structure:
Transparent to transluscent; trigonal
Specific Gravity:
4.4
Luster:
Pearly to resinous or vitreous
Streak:
White
Occurence:
Southern Africa, USA, Mexico, Greece, Poland, Belgium, and many others.
Appearance:
Pearly, lustrous, like layers of silky bubbles, all sizes
Rarity:
Easily obtained
Source:
United States, Australia, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Namibia
Magickal Properties:
Smithsonite is a stone of tranquility, charm, kindness, and favorable outcomes. It has an extremely gentle presence and forms a buffer against life's problems. It is the perfect stone for relieving stress that is almost at a breaking point and for alleviating mental breakdown.
Healing Properties:
Smithsonite heals a dysfunctional immune system, sinus and digestive disorders, osteoporosis, and alcoholism. It restores elasticity to veins and muscles.
Position:
Place as appropriate or carry always. Place at crown to align chakras. Place Pink Smithsonite over the heart or thymus. Grid around the bed or body.
Blue-Green Smithsonite
Magical Property:
This form of Smithsonite heals emotional and other wounds by bringing in universal love. Gently releasing anger, fear, and pain, it balances the energy field between the etheric and emotional bodies, and eases panic attacks, assists in attaining the heart's desire, promotes friendship, and is auspicious in midwifery and for nurturing babies.
Lavender-Pink Smithsonite
Magical Property:
This form of Smithsonite has a very loving vibration. It heals the heart, and experiences of abandonment and abuse, rebuilding trust and security. Assisting in feeling loved and supported by the universe, it is helpful in convalescence and soothes pain. Lavender-Pink Smithsonite helps ameliorate drug and alcohol problems and the emotions that lie behind them.
Lavender-Violet Smithsonite
Magical Property:
This form of Smithsonite has a very gentle vibration. It clears negative energy, and encourages joyful spiritual service and higher states of consciousness, giving guidance and protection. It is an excellent stone for meditation and soul retrieval and facilitates going back into past lives to regain soul energy that did not make the transition away from past-life death. In this respect, it can heal past-life death trauma and point the way to soul healing. Physically, it soothes neuralgia and inflammation.
Yellow Smithsonite
Magical Property:
This form of Smithsonite balances the solar plexus chakra and the mental body. It releases old hurts and outgrown emotional patterning. In healing, this stone aids digestion and assimilation of nutrients, and relieves skin problems.