Optical Calcite - Smaller Pieces

Optical calcite provides a perfect example of double refraction - when light passes through the crystal, half of it passes straight through, while the other half is bent (in the same way light bends when passing through still water, so a straight stick appears to bend as it enters the water). As a result, calcite creates two images when an object or text is viewed through it.

That being said Optical calcite’s double refraction is believed to amplify energy and intensify the power of magic and ritual work. It also facilitates ‘clear vision’, which can be literal (helping to improve eyesight), mental (as in seeing our way through a problem and stimulating creative thought), or psychic (enhancing clairvoyant abilities).

Chakras:  All

Zodiac: Cancer, Aquarius

Planet: Moon