Raw green calcite, unpolished. Tradition links it to renewal: closing a chapter, letting go of what no longer serves, and starting again. It is a light green to mint green mineral, soft, with a waxy sheen. Delivered in a 4 × 4 cm box, and every example is unique. Being soft and porous, it is cleaned dry.
Green calcite is the stone of starting over. Not the one that pushes, but the one that makes room: letting go of what no longer serves so the next thing fits.
Calcite is a calcium carbonate, one of the most abundant minerals in the Earth's crust, and the green variety owes its colour to traces of other elements. Its shade runs from light green to mint green, with a characteristic waxy sheen. It is a soft stone: it scratches easily and tolerates neither prolonged water nor salt.
The role attributed to it is to clear and renew.
It is best worked on a Waning Moon🌘 or a New Moon🌑. The waning moon is the phase for letting go and clearing out, the new moon the one for starting from scratch: both suit this stone, which works precisely that crossing. It is the one people reach for in a move, a change of job, or the end of a relationship.
This is a stone to keep in the space rather than on you, not least because being soft it wears down in a pocket. Leave it in the bedroom or in the part of the house you want to renew. If you are using it to close a chapter, keep it in plain sight while you write down what you want to leave behind. It goes well with a green or white candle.
With howlite if the change is costing you sleep. With rhodonite when what you are closing is a relationship and it hurts. And with clear quartz to strengthen the clearing of the space.
Better not. It is a soft, porous carbonate: prolonged water and salt water damage it and take away its sheen. Clean it with a cloth.
Because it is a soft stone. Keep it on its own in its box and do not mix it with hard minerals such as quartzes, which would mark it.
No. Within green the shade and intensity vary, and many pieces have lighter or translucent zones. That comes with being a natural mineral.
| Presentation | 4 × 4 cm box |
| Type | Raw mineral, neither polished nor cut |
| Piece | Natural and unique: shape, size and shade vary from stone to stone |
Clean it only with a dry or barely damp cloth. It is a soft, porous stone: prolonged water and salt damage it, so keep both away.
