Afghanite
Psychic Abilities, Clarity, Communication
Spiritual Properties
- Enhances intuition
- Aids in past life work
- Boosts your psychic abilities
- Helps you access the Akashic records
- Helps you become more aware of your life path
- Helps connect you to the higher realm while you meditate
- Helps you find yourself while maintaining your spiritual growth
- Activates the unique psychic abilities that help you receive messages from your spiritual team
Mental Properties
- Stimulates the brain
- Increases telepathic abilities
- Helps you execute your desires
- Aids your problem-solving skills
- Helps you be more gentle with others
- Helps you maintain calm and clear thoughts
- Helps you take the lead in your relationships
- Helps you communicate your thoughts and feelings
- Creates a peaceful environment for yourself and others
- Helps you understand what your ideal love match could be
- Helps you evaluate your relationships from a fresh perspective
- Helps you become more conscious of minor details in your surroundings
- Helps you understand the meanings behind symbols depicted in your day-to-day life
Emotional Properties
- Provides peace to the mind
- Helps you make smarter decisions regarding love
- Calms you by reminding you that you are not alone
- Rekindles old emotions you’ve had for your partner
Kundalini Properties
- Holds high vibrations
- Creates a free flow of energy in the body
- Activates and aligns your third eye and crown chakras
- Dispels a balanced amount of energy, preventing overwhelm
- Removes negative energies from the body and its surroundings
Health Benefits
- Aids insomnia
- Provides energy
- Aids muscle strength
- Soothes your nerves and senses
- Develops and strengthens the bones and teeth
Affirmations
- The energy within me flows freely
- My mind is at peace with myself and my surroundings
- I see and understand my relationships from a fresh perspective
Correspondence
- Chakras: Third Eye and Crown
- Energy: Projective and Receptive
- Planets: Neptune, Earth
- Element: Water
- Zodiacs: Scorpio
- Number: 7
Fun Facts
- It is hosted in limestone
- Typically occurs in near sodalite
- Named After: Badakhshan, Afghanistan
- Is typically found with other blue minerals
- Plays with the brain’s electromagnetic waves
- It also has a lengthy wrap sheet with the mind
- Discovered By: R. Giraud, F. Cesbron, and P. Bariand
- Discovered In: 1968 in Sar-e-Sang Province of Afghanistan
- It is in the Cancrinite group because it is a feldspathoid, which is just a feldspar with less silica or quartz
- Discovered in 1968 in a remote northeastern corner of Afghanistan known as Badakhshan. Afghanite was discovered in a Lapis Lazuli mine
Physical Properties
| Color | Light Sky Blue to a Dark Navy |
| Habit | Long prismatic crystals, double-terminated as bipyramid crystals, or as crusts coating a matrix |
| Rarity | Very Rare |
| Luster | Vitreous |
| Species | Afghanite |
| Zoning | Absent |
| Parting | Absent |
| Streak | White |
| Gravity | 2.55 |
| Tenacity | Brittle |
| Fracture | Conchoidal |
| Cleavage | Perfect {1010} |
| Hardness | 5.5 – 6 |
| Locations | Canada, Russia, Tajikistan, Germany, Italy and the United States |
| Twinning | Absent |
| Inclusions | Lazurite |
| Dispersion | Weak to Absent |
| Chatoyancy | Absent |
| Pleochroism | Strong, Present |
| Fluorescence | LW-UV Bright Orange, Peach |
| Birefringence | 0.006 |
| Diaphaneity | Transparent to opaque |
| Melting point | At temps higher than 950C or 1742F |
| Luminescence | Present, Florescence |
| Chemical Name | Afghanite |
| Refractive Index | 1.522 to 1.533 |
| System/Structure | Trigonal crystal system |
| Optical properties | FluorescencePhosphorescence |
| Chemical Formula | (Na,K)22Ca10[Si24Al24O96](SO4)6Cl6 |
| Chemical Classification | hydrous sodium, calcium, potassium, sulfate, chloride, carbonate aluminosilicate |
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