Aegirine is a sodium iron silicate mineral. Dark colored, appearing as black, brown/black, or green/black. It is a component of Guardianite.
The frequency of Aegirine connects to all of the chakras. Its energy helps to clear all one’s energy fields of negativity including entities and attachments within one’s etheric body. It helps to protect one’s energy fields from all forms of radiation and energetic imbalances, bringing high vibrational energy into one’s energy fields. Thus allowing one’s energy fields to stabilize and re-balance the flow of energy.
This crystal helps one to acknowledge and release negative thought forms and emotions by replacing them with positive energies which allows one to “step into one’s power” and help one overcome addictions and negative emotional patterns such as guilt, worthlessness, and self pity.
Associated Chakras
- All The Chakras
Physical Ailment
- Physical Energy
- Physical Healing
- Physical Stamina
Emotional Issue
- Addiction
- Guilt
- Self Pity
- Worthlessness
Spiritual Connection
- Protection – Psychic
Geological Properties
Aegirine is a member of the clinopyroxene group of inosilicate minerals. Aegirine is the sodium endmember of the aegirine-augite series. Aegirine has the chemical formula NaFeSi2O6 in which the iron is present as Fe3+. In the aegirine-augite series the sodium is variably replaced by calcium with iron(II) and magnesium replacing the iron(III) to balance the charge. Aluminium also substitutes for the iron(III). Acmite is a fibrous, green-colored variety.
Aegirine occurs as dark green monoclinic prismatic crystals. It has a glassy luster and perfect cleavage. Its Mohs hardness varies from 5 to 6, and its specific gravity is between 3.2 and 3.4.
This mineral commonly occurs in alkalic igneous rocks, nepheline syenites, carbonatites and pegmatites. It also appears in regionally metamorphosed schists, gneisses, and iron formations; in blueschist facies rocks, and from sodium metasomatism in granulites. It may occur as an authigenic mineral in shales and marls. It occurs in association with potassic feldspar, nepheline, riebeckite, arfvedsonite, aenigmatite, astrophyllite, catapleiite, eudialyte, serandite and apophyllite.
Sources
Localities include Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada; Kongsberg, Norway; Narsarssuk, Greenland; Kola Peninsula, Russia; Magnet Cove, Arkansas, US; Kenya; Scotland and Nigeria.
Aegirine History
The acmite variety was first described in 1821, at Kongsberg, Norway, and the aegirine variety in 1835 for an occurrence in Rundemyr, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway. Aegirine was named after Ægir, the Norse god of the sea. A synonym for the mineral is acmite (from Greek ἀκμή “point, edge”) in reference to the typical pointed crystals.
