Calcite

Calcite increases and amplifies energy. This makes it an excellent stone for distance healing, as well as other types of healing. One of the energies it amplifies is learning abilities, and thus is a great stone for students.

Calcite is a protecting, grounding and centering stone, and can help bring inner peace. Since calcite also promotes creativity and imagination, this inner peace it can bring is a vibrant one.

Calcite has been said to increase prosperity. It can also be helpful in astral travel and in channeling, as well as increasing intuition. Calcite is also a stone of spirituality and wisdom.

All calcites are helpful in lessening of fear and reducing stress. Calcite is probably the premier cleanser of stored negative energies in the human system, and works on all levels from the physical to the etheric. This makes it a very purifying stone. It can also be used to clear negativity in the environment, such as a room that it's in.

In the realm of relationships, calcite brings its properties of grounding and centering, to make it a stone of reconciliation. Calcite can ameliorate arguments in a relationship, and help maintain a practical balance between the people in the relationship.

Physically, calcites are good for back pain, increasing physical strength, teeth, eyes, and are generally good for healing. Clear calcite can be used for treating all conditions. It can also be used for detoxifying and as an antiseptic agent. Calcite is especially helpful with emotional and mental conditions.

Clear calcite can be used to open and balance all the chakras. Calcite of different colors is great for using to open and balance the various chakras.

The Coloured Calcites

Blue Calcite is a gentle stone for recuperation and relaxation. It lowers blood pressure and dissolves pain on all levels. Gently soothing the nerves and lifting anxieties, it releases negative emotions. Used on the Throat Chakra, it aids in clear communication, especially when there is dissent. Blue Calcite can absorb energy, filter it, and return it to the benefit of the sender.

White Calcite improves memory, supports healing and augments the ability to astral travel when the awareness of how to do this with protection, has been attained. Thought energy is amplified to specific body areas, so it is an excellent mineral to support healing through visualization and biofeedback. Enhances the body/mind connection.

Golden Calcite is an energy amplifier. It is said to help the mind and body remember—the mind, to remember information brought to bear during astral travel and channeling experiences; the body, to remember the state of perfection during dis-ease in order to return to the natural state of flawlessness. Golden calcite is an excellent energy source for use at the Crown Chakra, is said to deepen intellect, memory, wisdom, psychic abilities, channeling and higher consciousness.

Green Calcite specifically not only holds these energies within, but also has been used to rid the body of infections and to provide a barrier to diminish the effects of dis-ease producing microorganisms. Placing a piece of green calcite on the Heart Chakra will clear and activate that chakra, also providing a sweeping action to clear the remaining centers as well.

Red/Coral Calcite will increase energy, uplift ones emotions, and aid in willpower. Clearing and activating the Heart and Solar-Plexus Chakras, Red/Coral Calcite amplifies one's virtues and helps one to learn to live by them, by inhibiting the influence of negative energy and by enhancing the positive will. Those who have had traumatic experiences can use Red/Coral Calcite to help heal the rifts left in the psyche, making room for Divine energy to enter into the Heart. This enables Red/Coral Calcite to exert it's influence by activating sympathy and compassion for others as well as for the self. Cleanses organs and bones, strengthens skeleton and joints.

Orange Calcite supports the life force and is a powerful ally for any person or practitioner who mentors, assists, aids or empowers another. Connects the seen and unseen elements of spirit and matter. This calcite is creative, willful and expressive, providing empowerment to those who can benefit from it. It is an environmental stone, used in birthing facilities, artistic studios and offices as well as a powerful reminder of the right use of will, for those who represent others. Also called "The Midwife Stone".