Yellow Calcite
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Yellow Calcite is a solar stone, radiant and warm. Like the sun, it dries your tears and the dark clouds of gloom. It lets you see things in a new, clear and positive light.

No more masks and camouflage! She invites you to leave your shell or even your cave. Hiding is not an option if your wisdom is your companion - because it's in the light and in action that you can trust yourself and live your potential.

It asks you to dare to shine, to let your magic exist!

She doesn't care about other people's judgments and invites you to follow her. To free yourself from jealousy, frustration, feelings of inferiority and shyness. To get rid of the bad image reflected in the mirror and all those self-imposed judgments. To finally feel good about yourself and your place in society, with friends and family, at work or with strangers.

Known as a "stone of luck", Yellow Calcite helps you free yourself from blockages, opening the door to new possibilities and experiences. It's an invaluable good-luck ally for initiating the changes that can lead you to abundance and prosperity with joy, confidence and optimism. Its properties are similar to the virtues and powers of Citrine.

On a physical level

On a physical level, in lithotherapy, it possesses the general properties of Calcite (growth, bone structure, fracture healing, tooth enamel care, mental development, healing, calcium deficiencies...). In addition, its action on the digestive system can help relieve disorders and pathologies. It can restore appetite to those who have lost it, has detoxifying properties for the body and boosts mental capacity. These properties have not been scientifically proven, but are firmly rooted in tradition.

How to use yellow calcite

• Wear a yellow Calcite on your body, preferably directly against the skin, to benefit from its daily virtues.
• you can do a relaxation, a visualization or a treatment with the stone placed on your solar plexus to dissolve blockages and harmonize the energies of your 3ᵉ chakra
• use it as a good-luck charm to attract wealth and luck into your life
• You can drink water energized with yellow Calcite to benefit from its detoxifying effect.

Where to place yellow calcite?

• Yellow Calcite in your home will bring solar energies that rhyme with joy, abundance and optimism.
• it's perfect for your kitchen or dining table, and will make you want to share good, convivial meals.
• you can place it at your place of work or study to gain full confidence in your abilities. It will help motivate you to achieve your goals. If you run a business, you can place a yellow Calcite in your till to help your business prosper.
• in a hospital room or the room of someone recovering from an illness, it will give courage and warm and positive energies conducive to healing.

Yellow Calcite, for whom?

• Yellow Calcite is well suited to people who are introverted, shy, lack self-confidence, underestimate themselves or feel uncomfortable in social situations.
• perfect for people who are convalescing or easily depressed, as it helps lift their spirits
• by working on self-esteem and self-image, she could help and who have complexes, or who suffer from eating disorders such as bulimia or anorexia
• As a "stone of luck", it's ideal for people who feel that misfortunes happen to them too often. And for those who like to play the lottery, gamble or enter contests.

Which stones to match it with?

In addition or as an option to the Citrine mentioned above, Yellow Calcite can be combined with crystals whose synergy amplifies its solar energy. They will help balance emotions and creativity. Here are some recommended combinations:

• In harmony with the invigorating virtues of yellow Calcite, Carnelian or red Chalcedony will support creative expression and clarity of mind.
• reinforcing the action of yellow Calcite on the solar plexus chakra, Pyrite or Iron Disulfide will help motivate you
• soothing Selenite or crystalline Gypsum can channel the stimuli of yellow Calcite, bringing purification and mental clarity.

Mineralogy of yellow calcite

Yellow calcite is a variety of calcite in the carbonate family. Its characteristic geometric shapes are due to its crystallization in the rhombohedral system.

Its yellow color comes from traces of iron or manganese, varying from pale yellow to honey or golden yellow. It is often transparent to translucent, with a vitreous sheen.

It forms mainly in sedimentary rocks such as marble and limestone and more rarely in metamorphic or hydrothermal environments. Calcite layers in speleothems are a tool for analyzing climate variations over the millennia.

Moreover, its optical birefringence (splitting of the light beam) is used in petrography to identify minerals thanks to its unique optical properties.

They have been used since antiquity for decoration and rituals.

Today, its industrial uses are numerous: to bleach paper, to create mastics and paints, for plastics and adhesives, to make lime and cement, to treat water by neutralizing acidity, or to amend acidic soils in agriculture.

It can be found all over the world: in America, Europe, Australia and Asia. For example, in Mexico, the United States, China, Romania, Slovakia and Germany.

Its hardness is 3 on the Mohs scale - a relatively soft stone.

Did you know? The "yellow stones" of Neuchâtel's historic buildings are 83% yellow calcite (according to a 1993 mineralogical study by Rumley).