About Xonotlite
Hydrated calcium silicate, often white and fibrous or tough, compact masses. It's a stone of strength, purity, and emotional balance, promoting inner peace and resilience.
Primary Hues
Colorless, White, Pink, Grey, forms fibrous, acicular, or compact masses, sometimes tough
Metaphysical Properties
A stone of strength, purity, and emotional balance. Believed to promote inner peace, enhance resilience, and clear energetic blockages.
Associated Tarot Cards
Strength
Type: Major Arcana
Rationale: Symbolizes inner strength and emotional resilience- aligning with this mineral.
The Empress
Type: Major Arcana
Rationale: Represents nurturing and calm fortitude- resonating with Xonotlite.
Associated Deities
Hestia/Vesta
Pantheon: Greek/Roman
Domain: Hearth- Home- Stability
Rationale: Their energy of calm- steady strength aligns with Xonotlite.
Kuan Yin
Pantheon: Buddhist
Domain: Compassion- Mercy- Healing
Rationale: Her gentle- resilient strength connects to this stone.
Metaphysical Uses
Inner Strength Meditation
Emotional Resilience Focus
Calming Rituals Altar
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Geological & Scientific Details
Xonotlite is classified as a inosilicates mineral which typically crystallizes in the monoclinic system. Its chemical formula is Ca6Si6O17(OH)2.
Key Geological Properties:
- Mineral Category: Inosilicates
- Chemical Formula: Ca6Si6O17(OH)2
- IMA Symbol: Xon[1]
- Crystal System: Monoclinic
- Predominant Geological Color: White, grey, pale pink, lemon white, colorless
- Cleavage: Perfect, Good
- Luster: Vitreous, silky, pearly
- Streak: White
- Diaphaneity: Transparent, translucent
Associated Minerals
- Tobermorite
- Tacharanite
- Okenite
- Pectolite
- Calcite
- Apophyllite
- Zeolites (found in contact metamorphosed limestones/skarns or hydrothermally altered mafic rocks)