Sodalite Spheres

Enjoy a Sodalite Spheres from Namibia. These are a beautiful mid blue with white and tan combination. Interesting they are so soft that I wonder if the balls had to be hand polished – they have that bumpiness that usually signifies this.

The tan is an inclusive material – possibly a mica. Look closely at the photos as each has quite a different patterning. This variety has become really expensive recently and I suspect this mine is running out. They sit lovely on a medium stand like this one – click here.

This crystal is great to banish bad habits and negative thinking patterns especially breaking codependency on others. It encourages rational thought, objectivity and intuition, as well as verbalisation of feelings.

I created this video to help see the balls – their actual colour is somewhere between the photo and the video colours. Which of these sodalite spheres calls to you?

Weight	93 g
Dimensions	40 × 40 × 40 mm
Colour	Blue / Indigo
Country Crystal Grew	Namibia
Country of Shaping	China

Healing Properties

Benefits of Sodalite

Intuition, Focuses Energy, Guidance

• Unites logic with intuition & opens spiritual perception bringing information from higher mind to lower.
• Deepens meditation.
• Instills a drive for truth and an urge toward idealism so you can stay true to self.
• Good for those sensitive to "sick buildings".
• Stimulates trust, companionship & inter-dependence with a group.
• Brings emotional balance & calms panic e.g. fear of flying, helping overly-sensitive personality.
• Releases core fears, phobias, guilt & control mechanism.
• Enhances self-esteem and self-acceptance brining up shadows to be accepted.
• May assist with metabolism, improve calcium & fluid absorption, lymphatic & immune systems & organs.

Shamarah's Insights

I worked with sodalite in a big way as I broke through co-depence issues within my family. Co-dependance is where you do not think you are good enough unless someone else tells you are. You doubt your own wisdom and go with what others tell you to think and say. It goes hand in hand with not feeling comfortable to speak your emotional truth to others. As it calms, releases core fears/phobias/guilt/control mechanisms then inner wisdom, self-esteem & self-acceptance come forward to break co-dependence patterns. It also aids going into “Wise woman” life stage - empty nest, loss of fertility. Sodalite is hugely important to help you speak you emotional truth, something that often is abandoned in the family dynamics of co-dependence. Past  Buddhist teacher said this pattern was a big problem for Western people (he really meant those of European descent). Until you honestly allow yourself to feel, to acknowledge your feelings and then speak them to others as may need to happen e.g. "what I am hearing is making me angry so I am going off for an hour to cool down", then you are cutting yourself off from your intuition and honest, loving connections with people.

Geological Information

Geological Information of Sodalite

• A light, relatively hard yet fragile mineral, sodalite is named after its sodium content.

General Identification

• Na₄(Si₃Al₃)O₁₂Cl
  • Some K substitutes for Na in the grey-white Afghan sodalites.
• Colours: Usually blue, it can be grey, yellow, green, or pink and is often mottled with white veins or patches.
• Lustre: Vitreous, Greasy
• Mohs Hardness: 5½ - 6
• Crystal System: Isometric

Special Notes

• Similar to lazurite and lapis lazuli, sodalite rarely contains pyrite and its blue colour is more like traditional royal blue rather than ultramarine.
• Interesting variety Hackmanite is an important variety of sodalite exhibiting tenebrescence.
• Read more geological information.