Moldavite
mineralogy, history, and metaphysics
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Overview
Composition
SiO2
Origin
Asteroid + Earth + Silicates + Collision = Moldavite
Benefits
(Cosmic Consciousness, Transformation, Good Fortune, Ascension)
MOLDAVITE
Moldavites are a green colored vitreous silica projectile, or tektite, that are believed to have been formed 14.7 million years ago as a result of the asteroid impact that created the Nördlinger Ries crater in Bavaria. The size of the asteroid that created the crater is estimated to have been roughly 3,300 feet wide and 540 feet high, with an impact velocity of over 45,000 miles per hour. In its wake, the asteroid left a crater that measured over 82,000 feet across and over 500 feet in its depth. The resulting impact explosion is estimated to have possessed the power of 1.8 million Hiroshima bombs, creating a violent shock wave that swept across 62 miles of the Alb plateau, flattening everything in its path. Ahead of the massive impact, moldavites formed due to the immense heat and energy of the impending asteroid, when the sandy surface sediments of the Alb plateau were vitrified as it approached, then projectiled as it made its destructive collision. As a result, moldavites have been discovered across the strewn field of southern Bohemia and Moravia, which are in the Czech Republic, with minor occurrences having been found in Waldviertel, Upper Austria; as well as Lausitz, Germany; and in very rare occurrences, as far away as 279 miles from the impact zone, in south-west Poland. Additionally, there is interesting evidence to suggest that moldavites were once traded by prehistoric humans, as several specimens have been discovered outside of the asteroids presumed strewn field.
MOLDAVITE CHARACTERISTICS
Moldavite is not a mineral but is, instead, considered a mineraloid. This is because it is a naturally occurring, inorganic solid that does not exhibit crystallinity. During its vitrification process, the material formed so quickly that its atoms did not have enough time to organize themselves into a crystallized mineral. Moldavite is typically transparent or translucent with a mossy green color, with swirls and elongated bubbles defining its appearance. These bubbles are distinctly elongated and abnormal, which is a result of the immense force and instantaneous pressure that was initially applied to the silicates. As they were vitrifying, the trapped air did not have enough time to escape the molten glass as it was being forcibly flung into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, because moldavites are a type of glass, they are sometimes imitated and sold as authentic material; Fortunately, most authentic moldavite can be distinguished from green glass imitations by carefully observing their elongated stress bubbles and the inhomogeneities of the worm-like inclusions, called schlieren.
MOLDAVITE METAPHYSICS
Metaphysically, moldavite is considered an extremely powerful stone of extraterrestrial origin. As the asteroid that created the glass approached the Earth 14.7 million years ago, it brought with it an immense amount of energy that, in turn, transferred into the resulting green tektites. Moldavites are an extremely high vibrational stone of good fortune, spiritual development, and cosmic consciousness. Moldavites are also considered a stone of great change, reflection, forward motion, and ascension. It is said that moldavite can facilitate an upheaval of necessary change, allowing for its user to set aside limitations and boundaries that are no longer serving their greater purpose. Physically, moldavite is said to aid the body with necessary release of emotional trauma and disease that is often associated with the nervous system. Moldavite is also said to aid the body with afflictions of the thyroid, para thyroid, and endocrine glands; most specifically, the pituitary gland.