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And that concludes Metal Week

I hope you all enjoyed this month’s feature week. We certainly features a lot more than previous features (I think the queued posts were around 91!). I’m not quite sure what the next feature week will be, but Mod Peridot and I do have something special coming up in the next few weeks. It’s going to be something we haven’t done before on the blog and I hope you lovelies get a kick out of it. 

Also, we may set up another voting round for the next feature week. : O

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Stone of Unique Protection and Positive Shielding It is sometimes a bit sad that this beautiful and fascinating mineral has a nickname like “Fool’s Gold”. As it does resemble gold in it’s physical appearance, that is where the similarities end. Pyrite can not be bent or shaped like gold, it is much too brittle. Striking it with steel can even cause the sulfur in it to spark! Pyrite is actually disulfide of iron, and the metallic crystal grows in cubes, nodules, masses of tiny crystals, and can even be found as flat discs. Some have been known to confuse pyrite with marcasite, but as marcasite is also an iron sulfide, but crystallized in a completely different manner, so marcasite it unstable and often crumbles during attempts to carve it. Pyrite is quite easy to find, it is mined all over the US, in Arizona, Colorado, New York, Missouri, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Tennessee to name a few. Specimens are also found in Spain, South Africa, Russia, Portugal, Germany and Peru, as well as hundreds of other locations around the world.

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Metalloid Metaphysical Properties

Gallium challenges our idea of the established and asks us to let go of preconceptions, stretching our receptive abilities to discover the truth about reality, which is always multi-dimensional. Working with gallium increases intelligence, systemic thinking and reduces fear of the unknown.

Indium has properties which are of little use in the environments we are familiar with - but on far journeys, its existence becomes more strongly revealed, as do its purposes. Use Indium for meditations of the true unknown, the unfamiliar, and to expand consciousness. Indium can be used as a guide towards the Akashic records, and Indra's web.

Thallium is another of the metalloids that seems to be not at home on planet Earth at all. In its physical form, it is extremely toxic; in its metaphysical forms it is an event like the Northern Lights that can stimulate a renewed or deepened sense of awe about the nature of the Universe. Shows us the limitations of considering everything from a physical point of view.

Bismuth is best known for making pretty, multicoloured "hopper crystals" and is a wonderful, safe and generally non-toxic introduction to the nature of metals and crystals, which in the end, obey the same universal laws and are more than just relatives in existence. Like the other metalloids, there is a whole lot more to it than meets the eyes, and bismuth particularly combines a great many "wonderful" properties of the other metals, crystals and metalloids, such as multi-faceted refraction, flow, regularity of structure and metaphysical expansion. An excellent metal/crystal for beginners and children.

Germanium has the same physical structure as diamond, but presents as a metal-like appearance. Germanium is an excellent metalloid for stimulating finding the truth beyond the form and is therefore a particularly useful addition to truth potions, and to cut through mental confusions and prejudices.

Antimony is the example of the multi-level events that are the metalloids which has been used by humans for magic, metaphysical, practical and healing purposes for the longest time. It is relatively straightforward and like all the metalloids, stimulates thought, expansion, and banishes "construct thinking". Because Antimony has been associated with healing for so long, it has a powerfield making it useful now for healing quests and to find healing answers beyond the ordinary.

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Traditional Metal Metaphysical Properties

Zirconium is the first of the transition metals, their very existence being a practical reminder that metals are crystaline in essence - and nothing more so than zirconium, which is manufactured to produce the beautiful artificial cubic zirconia diamonds. Light and strong, lustrous and exceptionally resistant to corrosion, zirconium dances between the planes and keeps its identity regardless of the states it inhabits. Magically, this makes it into a good companion for far journeys, and transmutation.

Titanium is a light, strong metal with low density which seems at home most in an oxygen free environment - space metal, in other words. Use for meditations, explorations and invocations of stellar entities, and interstellar communication.

Chromium is primarily a catalyst that helps lift us up and out of ordinary places and into the extraordinary. Both radiant and reflective, it can be used as a portal for extradimensional travel.

Tungsten is a strong and powerful protector, highly resistant to heat and other forms of radiation. It has a core quality of strength in structure in difficult environments, including extraterrestrial environments.

Manganese has interesting effects on its environment and belongs to the group of metals used in shape shifting. Because of its ability to both deflect and refract light and energy, it is a flexible shield maker and strengthener, an ally to the traveller.  

Cobalt takes the refraction properties of manganese one step further and produces very specific, deeply hypnotic emanations that can both cloak and transform the traveller. Radiant, powerful and extremely psychically active.

Cadmium is on the other side to cobalt in relation to manganese and has a strong resonance to the physical, from where it refracts outward as it transmutes itself and stretches into other dimensions. It is good for a base, and a launch pad to far journeys, providing a grounding or beacon back home, as well as an ongoing "ladder" of unfoldment points to go further and further from home. Good for beginners.

Mercury is in essence a flow of crystals, a crystal river. Extremely active and impactful at the multi-level, mercury has many applications from change, via transdimensional transportation of consciousness to being a perfect choice for a magic mirror.

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Mercury (latin hydrargyrum = liquid silver) is shiny and silvery and the only metal that is liquid at room temperature. It is known since ancient times, when it was believed to be something magical and a cure. More recently it was and still is used in thermometers and barometers and in amalgams as filling for our teeth. Elemental mercury and many of its compounds are very toxic, so it should be avoided and not be used, if there are alternatives. Where mercury is released, it is a big threat for health and environment.

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Kamacite, a variety of iron.

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Mohawkite