Fluorite or Fluorine
blue, brown, colourless, yellow, lavender, multicoloured or "rainbow", green, violet

What does Fluorite mean?

Fluorite crystals, octahedral in shape (two pyramids together), represent the union and balance of cosmic and telluric forces, masculine and feminine polarities, high and low, material and spiritual. The structure and its symbol help you move towards your own inner balance.

What are the benefits of Fluorite?

In lithotherapy, the accompaniment of Fluorite helps to clarify the mind. It will help you improve your ability to structure ideas, thoughts and projects. With it, you can gain in concentration and alertness, your thoughts become more organized and coherent, giving your creativity and imagination a framework in which to flourish.

Fluorite can help you acquire a sharp sense of analysis, a great capacity for discernment and perspective, and greater flexibility. It can become very difficult to influence or manipulate you if you know how to keep a "cool head" and not get involved in excesses or impulsive behavior.

It's an ideal stone for study, exam revision, intellectual work and also for learning and concentration difficulties, hyperactivity and DYS disorders.

Fluorite colors vary according to the substances present in their composition and this will influence the specific virtues of the stones.

Colorless Fluorite is particularly effective in improving mental clarity. In fact, it is used in the manufacture of optical lenses to prevent chromatic aberration.

Blue Fluorite helps integrate teachings and concepts from the laws and wisdom of the universe into daily life. It also encourages expression.

Yellow Fluorite is excellent for memory and everything related to the intellect.

Green Fluorite helps highly emotional people to bring order, light and fluidity to their emotions.

Violet Fluorite connects to intuition and intensifies dreams.

Multicolored or "rainbow" Fluorite incorporates all the virtues of the colors present on the stone.

Lavender Fluorite has soothing properties that can help with sleep and reduce stress.

On a physical level

In lithotherapy, Fluorite acts directly on the brain, improving coordination between the two hemispheres and stimulating the nervous system. It strengthens teeth and bones, and promotes healing of burns. It also has detoxifying properties for the body.
Yellow Fluorite helps with respiratory allergies.
Green Fluorite supports the immune system and helps heal infections.

How to use Fluorite

Keep a Fluorite near you when you have intellectual work, research or an exam to do.

Are your ideas and projects all over the place? Do you have lots of great ideas, but can't seem to anchor them in form or substance? Wearing Fluorite on a daily basis will help you to structure your ideas and keep them on track.

If you need to manage and coordinate a team or work group, place Fluorite on your desk and table during meetings. If you want to improve your oral expression, combine your stone with Sodalite.

Where to place Fluorite?

Fluorite in your home is ideal for perfecting organization. With it, chances are you'll want to tidy up, sort through your belongings and rearrange your interior so that energy flows more smoothly.

You can place it on your desk to support your intellectual work.

What other stones can it be associated with in lithotherapy?

• You can combine it with Amethyst to boost your mental clarity.
• to preserve your energy, you can combine it with Labradorite or Quartz prase to amplify positive energies
• to repel negative energies, combine with black Tourmaline.

Fluorite mineralogy

Fluorite is most often of hydrothermal formation and more rarely of metamorphic or sedimentary origin.
The shape of its crystals is impressive: its crystal system is cubic and can take on 7 different configurations, but the cube, octahedron and dodecahedron are the most common. It can also be found in groups of crystals or in granular to fissile masses.

It can be colorless or present a wide variety of colors, most often violet, blue, green, yellow, mauve and rarely red, orange or black. Fluorites with zones of several colors are nicknamed "Rainbow Fluorites".
Most Fluorites fluoresce under ultraviolet light and sometimes phosphoresce. They can also be thermoluminescent (emitting light when heated) and triboluminescent (emitting light when struck or rubbed).

Fluorite belongs to the halide class, and consists mainly of calcium fluoride and a large number of other trace elements that give it its color.

The history of Fluorite

Highly prized in many parts of the world for its beauty and diversity of color, Fluorite was used by the Egyptians to make sculptures and jewelry, by the Chinese to ward off evil spirits and by the Greeks, who carved magnificent vases in Fluorite.

The Romans, meanwhile, claimed that drinking wine from a Fluorite glass prevented drunkenness (something to think about for your next aperitif).

Fluorite sculptures dating back over 1,000 years have been found on the American continent.
Today, it is used in industry, notably in the manufacture of glass and steel, and also for medical purposes, thanks to the fluorine it contains.

Did you know? The largest Fluorite crystal was discovered in Russia, measuring 2.12 metres in height and 16 tonnes.

Fluorite is the first stone to be recognized as a "cultural asset of major heritage interest" (law of August 1, 2003).