Selenite:
Inner Truth
Selenite comes in two forms: as a clear crystal with both clarity and a lovely shimmery quality, and in a form called a rosette.
Selenite-Desert Rose: (color-Beige, white ) Brings about security, safety, the feeling that all is well.
Selenite-Hour Glass: (color-Clear, orange )Fosters awareness of time as a physical limit.
SELENITE
Selenite is a soft, colorless-to-slightly-colored, transparent mineral. It is a crystalline variety of gypsum. Selenite has a hardness of 1-2 and a specific gravity of 2.3 to 2.4.
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SELENITE
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SulfateSelenite
CaSO4 - 2H2O
Other names/forms:
Gypsum
Most distinguishing features:
Single large crystals of gypsum, typified by hardness and transparency.
Gypsum, var. Selenite is common at Philips Mine as micro crystal coatings in cavities and on other minerals. It is likely that these crystals formed since mining began as it is visible in the tunnels and on heavily decayed minerals on the dump.
Comments: Gypsum, a hydrated calcium SULFATE MINERAL, is used as a raw material in plaster of Paris, as fertilizer, as an ornamental stone (alabaster and satin spar), and as optical material (selenite).
It can be confused with selenite gypsum, but while selenite is very soft and can be scratched with a fingernail, moonstone is relatively hard.
Gypsum occurs in nature as flattened and often twinned crystals and transparent cleavable masses called selenite. It may also occur silky and fibrous, in which case it is commonly called satin spar. Finally it may also be granular or quite compact.
The name "moonstone" (pierre de lune French, mondstein German, piedra de luna Spanish or Italian) is derived from the Greek name Selenite or "goddess of the moon.
5d is a common form for selenite (gypsum). Many common minerals crystallize in this symmetry class, including azurite, clinopyroxene and clinoamphibole groups, datolite, epidote, gypsum, malachite, orthoclase, realgar, titanite, spodumene, and talc.
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Approximately two-thirds of all the rocks on Earth are of the mineral group feldspar, which includes the iridescent moonstone. The moonstone is of the feldspar variety adularia and is also known as selenite, derived from 'selene', ...
Moonstone is considered the ideal stone for lovers, as it brings forth feelings of tenderness. Another name for Moonstone is Selenite, after the ancient Greek goddess of the moon, Selene.
of moonlight, and in India, where it is considered a sacred zodiac gem, moonstone is one of the most coveted varieties of feldspar. Other names for moonstone include adularia (a variety found in the European Alps near the Adula Group) and selenite ...
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Included are photographs, just taken, of selected specimens Bill Larson acquired at this year’s show at Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines, from the Gabriel Risse Collection: a lovely Peruvian selenite and the snail-like adamite from Mexico.
moonstone is actually the feldspar variety known as 'adularia', a potassium aluminosilicate of gemstone quality, which is also found in the European Alps near the Adula Group - hence the name 'adularia'. Another synonym for moonstone is 'selenite', ...
SELENITE Spiritual activation, communication with the Higher Self, spirit guides and angels
SERAPHINITE Self-healing, regeneration, wholeness, angelic connection ...
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