Sodalite

With Sodalite, you learn to open your wings and soar high, so that, like the eagle, you can look at the world and the different events and situations in your life from a different, more global point of view, to see exactly where it's right for you to go.

It's a stone that accelerates awareness and pushes you to seek the truth, not to be taken in by your beliefs or repetitive patterns.

Its wisdom humbly teaches you to be attentive at all times, in order to remain faithful to your inner truth, to your intuition, to what you know deep down inside.

With Sodalite, you can study all the directions you can take with serenity and choose the one that suits you best, without falling into the unconscious trap of your limiting beliefs.

It also teaches you that, to spread your wings, you don't need to boast or hide your merits, that you don't need to crush others or make yourself small. You simply have to be open-minded, humble, tolerant and understanding.

Much appreciated by hypersensitive people, Sodalite possesses soothing virtues and helps to better cope with one's emotions. It also helps to develop rational and logical thinking and to communicate with kindness to self and others.

The physical benefits of Sodalite

On a physical level, Sodalite can help reduce fever and heal ear infections and bronchitis. It can also help relieve disorders related to the throat, larynx and vocal cords. It is an excellent stone to use in cases of hoarseness or aphonia.

How to use Sodalite

• On a vision quest? Place a Sodalite on your forehead during meditation.
• For chronic bronchitis or ear infections, a Sodalite under your pillow can work wonders.
• For clearer and more structured communication, combine Sodalite with Fluorite.
• Accompany yourself with Sodalite during particularly stressful and emotionally exhausting events.
• To benefit from the therapeutic effects of Sodalite, it is advisable to be in contact with it as regularly as possible, preferably directly on the skin.

Where to place a Sodalite?

• A Sodalite in your home diffuses energies conducive to awareness and harmonious communication between inhabitants.
• Its soothing virtues make it an ideal stone to place in your living room or bedroom. Close to your head while you sleep, it can encourage premonitory dreams.
• On your desk, Sodalite can help you see more clearly and work with a logical and rational mind.
• It is also welcome in a space dedicated to care or meditation.

Sodalite, for whom?

• For and who find it difficult to speak sincerely and who easily use sarcasm, mockery and irony.
• For people who feel entangled in difficult situations or repetitive stories.
• For the hypersensitive, the highly emotional or those who have trouble sorting out their thoughts.
• For people who often work in teams.

Sodalite in mineralogy

Sodalite is of magmatic liquid or volcanic formation. It very rarely forms crystals and is most often found as granular masses in large veins.

Part of the Sodalite and Nosean group and tectosilicate class, Sodalite is a sodium aluminosilicate. Other elements (usually beryllium, calcium, potassium, magnesium, molybdenum and sulfur) are often present in its composition.

Sodalite is blue, gray, blue-gray, midnight blue to dark blue in color and is almost always crossed by white lines or areas. It can be similar in appearance to Lapis lazuli, Azurite or Dumortierite.

The history of Sodalite

Its high sodium content earned it the name Sodalite, awarded in 1811 by mineralogist and professor Thomas Thomson.

In the past, a lack of mineralogical knowledge made it impossible to differentiate Sodalite from Lapis lazuli or Dumortierite. So it's not easy to trace its history.

However, archaeological excavations have revealed that this stone was frequently used for offerings and jewelry 4,000 years ago in northern Peru. Mochica jewelry of exceptional quality and beauty, created using a mosaic technique containing fragments of Sodalite and dating back 2,000 years, has been discovered in southern Peru.

In the West, during the Middle Ages, Sodalite was used to create a remedy for headaches and fever. In Africa, it was used as a stone of protection by various tribes.

In the early 20ᵉ century, it became a fashionable stone. Many luxury jewelry and watch dials are made of Sodalite.

Did you know? When Princess Mary of Wales discovered Sodalite at an exhibition, she loved the stone so much that 130 tons of Sodalite from Canada were delivered to England.