Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez , Ashley Leavy and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #14 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Arfvedsonite meaning, including:

Creating cosmic connection with Arfvedsonite

Working with Arfvedsonite to enhance spellwork

Arfvedsonite & the New Moon in Capricorn

 

Tune in now for a deeper look at Arfvedsonite meaning!

Podcast Transcript:

Crystal Confab Podcast Introduction: Are you just starting with crystals? Or maybe you have a whole collection, but aren't sure how to use them? Join 4 crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for crystal confab, a casual chat about all things crystals.

 

Adam Barralet: Hello, and welcome to another week of crystal confab. You know, I sometimes wonder if I was to discover a crystal, would everyone call it instead of Barralet mispronouncing my name? Well, today, we're gonna talk about another crystal that poor Johan Arfwedson probably gets rather upset often because he was a Swedish chemist who discovered Arfvedsonite, the crystal that we're going to be exploring today. Now this is a bit of a confusing crystal. It is a bit of a rarer one.

 

You will find it occasionally in crystal shops, but even identifying it may be a bit of a challenge. So I'm gonna talk to my other crystal gurus and see what they can recommend on what we can do with Arfvedsonite and how we even work out if it is Arfvedsonite. So here I have 2 different crystals that are in my hand. They're both black. They're both sparkly.

 

This one, when I bought it, was labeled as a strophylite, and this one was labeled as Arfvedsonite. And maybe, Kyle, could you start off by maybe shedding some light on how we work out if Arfvedsonite is Arfvedsonite?

 

Kyle Perez: Well, for me, the most simple way that I've learned to differentiate between the 2 is the simple color shift. I see that within the especially polished stones, it's not as easy within the crystalline form because the crystalline form is quite similar and you don't see that sheen as much. But in the tumbled stones, polished pieces that you kind of see everywhere around the world, It is a bluer flash that you will see within your Arfvedsonite. I don't know if this piece will show up. I think it's showing it off.

 

You can see a little bit of that blue flash. Whereas with your stropholite, it's yellow. I always see that bright yellow flash. It's more of like a yellowy beige, maybe even a little bit of orange, whereas you'll always see the bluey teal shift of color with Arfvedsonite that I've seen, but I think Nicholas might even be able to shed some more light on that.

 

Nicholas Pearson: Yeah. So, in simplest terms, the majority of any of the astrophyllite we're gonna have access to in the market has crystals that are always perfectly parallel, and they're usually in a very pale quartz matrix. They're more rod shaped, whereas with Arfvedsonite, it undergoes more intense metamorphism and will always be fibrous and kind of twisted. It can have a blue flash. Astrophylite will never have a blue flash, but Arfvedsonite could also be green or gold or orange or several other colors.

 

So if you've got this dark swirly matrix, it is guaranteed to be closer to Arfvedsonite than anything else, but I actually know how they got confused.

 

Adam: But it's not.

 

Nicholas: Yeah. So this is a case of someone attempting to get the chemistry right, and they came very close. So these materials that we usually see labeled Arfvedsonitet are actually, like, more more accurately. A geologist would describe them as, like, quartz amphibole schist. And the predominant species of amphibole, because amphibole is a really big and complicated group of chain silicates, the dominant species will either end up being Arfvedsonite or anthophyllite.

 

Anthophyllite is something we don't see written about in the crystal world hardly ever,