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Larimar (blue pectolith): Effect, care and interesting facts about the blue jewel of the Caribbean
One of the most beautiful minerals in the world is the Larimar, which is referred to as the "gemstone of the Caribbean", because in its striking blue color it occurs exclusively in mines in the Dominican Republic. It was not until the mid-1970s that the blue pectolith was given the name "Larimar" and since the 1990s the mineral has been becoming increasingly popular as a gemstone or healing stone. Here you will find everything you need to know about the blue Larimar.
1. Larimar: Effect of the healing stone
2. Larimar as a birth stone: Which zodiac sign does the Larimar stand for?
3. Meditate with Larimar: Working with chakras and affirmations
4. Use the Larimar effectively: as a chain, drumstone or flatterer
5. Care instructions: This is how the Larimar healing stone remains energetic
6. Combine the Larimar with other gemstones optimally
7. Blue Pectolith: The history of the Larimar
8. Larimar: determine authenticity and recognize counterfeits
9. Larimar: his chemical composition
10. Occurrence and origin of the blue pectolith
1. Larimar ('Blue Pectolith): Effect of the healing stone
Thanks to its origin and color, the Larimar reminds immediately of the sun, sea and vacation. But the Larimar is anything but a stone of the time out. Rather, the blue pectolith encourages to take life in hand and break through a passive attitude. The Larimar stimulates its unique play of colors, which extends from blue over turquoise and green, and opens our spirit for new consciousness without self -imposed limits and restrictions. The mineral from the Caribbean is therefore ideal as a healing stone for new beginnings. But even in difficult phases of life, the Larimar is a partner. It conveys calm and serenity and ensures a clear view - even in situations of great feelings.
• Stimulates mental growth
• Opens a new consciousness
• Strengthens self -confidence
• Freed from victims
• Promotes relaxing sleep
2. Larimar as a birth stone: Which zodiac sign does the Larimar stand for?
Larimar is assigned to the shooter (November 22nd to December 21st), whereby he optimally deals with shooters of the first decade (November 22nd to December 1st). Here the Larimar gives the zodiac sign an expanded spiritual horizon and helps in particular to allow other opinions and truths. Born in the zodiac sign, borns benefit primarily in terms of openness to new knowledge and other perspectives.
3. Meditate with Larimar: Working with chakras and affirmations
If you get involved in the Larimar as part of a meditation, you quickly discover the depths of the ocean in your cloud -like grain. Here, people recognize themselves and their unique spirit with a little patience. Larimar reflects the law "as above" like no other healing stone and reminds that life never stands still, but shows an ups and downs that subjects us to exams, the limits of which we have imposed ourselves as a person.
Larimar helps us to recognize and break these limits; to solve old faith patterns and to free our spirit from them. The view of the Larimar alone can reveal deep knowledge. In the following affirmations, if you want to specifically integrate the energy of the blue pectolith in your everyday life:
“My potential is infinite. I have the chance of a whole new life every day. "
“My life is in flow. Good times always follow in difficult times. This is a law. "
"I am trusting. I always achieve my goals and projects with ease. "
Larimar and the chakras
It is not surprising that Larimar is resonance with the Haltschakra, which is associated with the color blue. When laying on during chakrama meditation, the Larimar helps to solve blockages here, for example in communication, be it unspoken or suppressed thoughts or social fears, such as stage fright before presentations in school, university and work. The Larimar is ideal as a piece of jewelry in the form of a Larimar necklacethat you can discover with us in the shop.
4. Use the Larimar effectively: as a chain, drumstone or flatterer
In addition to a Larimar necklace, the blue pectolith is also suitable in the form of a flatterer as a healing stone for meditation or as a Larimar drumstone as a talisman for support for important telephone rates, lectures and relationship talks. Due to the connection to the Haltshakra, the Larimar carries well as an earring, because there it can work on the blue energy center in everyday life, and at the same time attracts interest.
5. Care instructions: This is how the Larimar healing stone remains energetic
Larimar jewelry and healing stones should be cleaned regularly to ensure flawless optics and, above all, maintain the energetic flow of the mineral. When caring for Larimar, there are a lot to consider to protect the color of the stone. Larimar jewelry and chains as well as drum stones and flatterers should be cleaned once a week under running water. An amethyst druse is suitable for charging. Larimar should not be charged in direct sunlight because UV radiation allows the beautiful color to fade. UV-poor evening sun is good to revive the forces of the mineral.
6. Combine the Larimar with other gemstones optimally
Larimar is a healing stone of the element water and can therefore be optimally combined with other healing stones of this element. These include turquoise, Aquamarin, Lapislazuli, Angelite, Sapphire and chalcedon.
Healing stones and gemstones that are assigned to the element of water can provide more endurance and resistance. They make people more active and take responsibility for their own lives.
7. The history of the Larimar
Although Larimar has to exist as long as other healing stones, such as mountain crystal, amethyst and rose quartz, the blue pectolith only appeared late in the healing stone. It was not until 1974 that the Dominican craftsman Miguel Mendez and the American geologist normal rilling searched for the origin of a blue stone that appeared on a beach. First of all, the origin of the blue pectolith in the sea was suspected, since the color and pattern are so similar to the vastness of the ocean. After intensive studies, however, the two men were able to find out that a river washed the stones down from a mountain that was around ten kilometers from the site of the blue stones. Mendez called the stone Larimar, a suitcase word from the name of his daughter (Larissa) and the Spanish word for sea ("Mar").
Rapidly after the discovery of the Larimar, dismantling and the global marketing of the blue stone started, which turned out to be a popular gemstone due to its color.
8. Larimar: determine authenticity and recognize counterfeits
Since the blue Larimar only occurs in the Dominican Republic, color -granted copies of deep blue are rarity that drives counterfeiters and frauds to bring duplicates onto the market. Artificially produced larimars are often too uniformly designed in their coloring. A real Larimar often has white, cloud -like or foamy patterns; Some larimars show translucent places, with most specimens showing little transparency. Using ceramic and glass, many of the properties, especially the white cloud pattern, can be imitated.
Only a precisely testing of density, break, fissap, hardness and line color by specialist staff gives certainty here. Larimar's moh hardness is also the hardness of glass with a 6, which makes it difficult to determine authenticity for laypersons. Nevertheless, the following applies: Bubes and recesses have lost nothing in real Larimar and often indicate a fake. Larimar duplicates made of porcelain and glass can be stare out quickly using a microscope.
9. Larimar: his chemical composition
Larimar belongs to the family of the silicates and is a variety of the Pectolith mineral. This mineral is usually colorless and a little softer than Larimar, which is therefore suitable for jewelry processing. Larimar gets the blue color through traces of vanadium, a soft, bluish shimmering metal. The green coloring of some specimens can be attributed to grid errors in the crystal. These are structural "errors" in the development of the mineral, which lead to special peculiarities in the shape, color and appearance of a crystal.
• Mohen hardness: 6 (harder than pectolith)
• Chemical formula: NACA2 (Si3o8oh)
• Color: blue, turquoise to green; White-swocked or grained
• Mineral class: silicates and germanats
• Shine: glass gloss, silk gloss
• Crystal system: Triklin
• Break: uneven, brittle
10. Occurrence and origin of the Gemstone Larimar
If you look at a Larimar, your origin can hardly be denied. The stone from the Caribbean with its turquoise blue color and the cloud -like patterns occurs exclusively in a mine in Los Chupaderos, in the south of the Dominican Republic and in Sierra de Bahoruco in Barahona. There is also a location of Larimar in Europe. However, the specimens from Fittà at Soave in Italy do not have the striking blue color of the blue pectolith from the Dominkan Republic, which is why they are not important on the jewelry and gems market, but are only of interest in mineral collectors.