Howlite Dog, Tortoise – Medium

Here are two animals with healing benefits – a howlite crystal dog and a howlite crystal tortoise. Both offer you wonderful connections to Mother Nature through the crystal and their carved shapes.

They are natural although polishing can show up natural inclusions. These are medium sized which is our most popular purchase. To help you select watch the video with them listed in order – click here.

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Benefits of Howlite Animals

This is a wonderful stone to take control back for your life. To become a serene, benevolent princess of your realm. It calms communication, facilitates awareness and encourages emotional expression. Read more on the Healing Tab.

Animal shapes have healing properties too.

• Here is information of Western symbolism and
• Here is information on Chinese symbolism.

This photo shows what quality the carved crystal is for the white howlite dog or howlite tortoise that you will receive.

Weight	67 g
Dimensions	22 × 34 × 52 mm
Colour	White / Cream
Country Crystal Grew	USA
Country of Shaping	China
Size	Medium
Animal	Dog, Tortoise

Healing Properties

Benefits of Howlite and Magnesite

Calming, Patience, Memory

Howlite

• Extremely calming so use for meditation or place under pillow as antidote to insomnia from an overactive mind.
• Links into spirit opening attunement and preparing the mind to receive wisdom so use for past lives too.
• Formulates ambitions - spiritual and material, aiding in their achievement.
• Teaches patience, helping reduce anger and rage - absorbs yours or that coming at you.
• Helps overcome criticalness and selfishness.
• Strengthens positive traits.
• Allows for calm and reasoned communication to take place.
• Strengthen memory and stimulates desire for knowledge.
• Calms turbulent emotions especially those due to past life unresolved issues, releasing the strings tying old emotions to present.
• Use around argumentative/highly strung people to help disperse negativity and calm them.
• May aid balancing calcium levels within the body, teeth, bones and soft tissue.

Magnesite

• Assists in opening the crown chakra.
• Instills deep peace during meditation.
• Enhances visualisation and imagery
• Can promote dynamic and revolutionary ideas.
• Frees the body of tensions and mainly of stress.
• Said to be useful for intestine problems and more particularly about constipation.
• Said to protect sensitive skins and have good results with fibroids.
• Said help absorbing magnesium.

Additional Properties of Varieties

Depending on the colour that howlite or magnesite is dyed, then the healing help of colour adds to the above e.g. pale blue - calming, purple - spiritually uplifting ...

"Turquoise", "Chryso(colla)" really Blue Howlite or Magnesite

• Dyed as pale blue, mid-blue and green to resemble chrysocolla, turquoise and just to be colourful.
• Stone of imagination.
• Preserves friendships.
• Protects from harm.
• Helps you communicate from your heart (not head)
• Can enhance the power to form mental images.
• Stone of communication.
• Helps you connect with your dreams.
• Assists your ability to communicate when expressing your thoughts and feelings.

Purple Howlite or Magnesite

• Dyed - purple to resemble charoite and sugilite
• Stone of intuition and foresight.
• Help you to see the best behind things that you are confused by.
• Assists you to accept that sometimes things are not as they seem and not to be the "victim" because other factors are at play such as soul contracts, "Universal Law of Attraction" and etc are at work to step you up to a new way of being.

Geological Information

Geological Information of Howlite and Magnesite

In their polished white form, howlite and magnesite look the same. In their natural specimen form they structurally look different.

General Identification

• Type: Mineral

Magnesite

• Group member of: Carbonates
• Formula: MgCO₃
• Colour: Colourless, white, pale yellow, pale brown, faintly pink, lilac-rose
• Mohs: 3.5 - 4.5
• Natural non-crystal form looks like the human brain - brown lines through botryoidal white/cream.
• Most non crystal specimens (e.g. tumbles and jewellery) are from Guangdong China.
• Crystals of magnesite are rare.
• Read more about geological information.

Howlite

• Group member of: Borates
• Colour: Colourless, white
• Mohs: 3.5
• Natural non-crystal form is massive - i.e. bg lumps of rough white with thin black lines.
• Tumbles and jewellery are from Guangdong China or USA.
• Crystals of howlite are rare.
• Read more about geological information.

Special Notes

• Both are often dyed to imitate turquoise, chrysocolla, sugilite and other rarer minerals.
• Some stores now call a blue-green turquoise-like version turquenite (looks like turquoise) or chryso howlite (looks like chrysocolla).
• Others still mislabel them as turquoise.
  • vs Turquenite can also be a turquoise reconstitute with glue.