Stone of the Month April 2025: Sodalite - Meaning and Effect
Each ray of sunlight provides us with warmth, light and life. Bit by bit, leaf by leaf nature is becoming greener and more lively. The projects started in the first weeks and months of the year are showing initial results but the one or other undertaking has to be reconsidered and maybe has to be planned a bit differently.
Sodalite supports to stay true to yourself and your guidelines. The pursuit and search for truth is the central theme of the blue stone. Awareness is strengthened so that things can be seen more clearly. Sodalite thus conveys idealism and facilitates standing up for one's own deep convictions, so that plans receive the still necessary kick, perhaps also a small but necessary correction.
Origin of the name Sodalite and synonyms
The Sodalite received its name in 1811 by the English mineralogist and chemist Professor Thomas Thomson (1773 - 1852). This named the mineral because of its high sodium content "Sodalite", based on the English word "sodium" for sodium. Wholesale sodalite is also occasionally referred to as alomite, bluestone, glaucolite, Canadian bluestone, odalite or soda stone.
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Historical aspects of Sodalite
Sodalite has a controversial political history: The explorer Karl Ludwig Giesecke traveled to Greenland in 1806 on behalf of the Danish king to search for new, previously unknown minerals. Due to the Napoleonic War, Giesecke could not return home immediately after his research trip and therefore had to stay in Greenland until 1813. So he had a lot of time to explore the country - during this time the number of minerals known from Greenland doubled! Giesecke's first shipment of minerals to the Danish king was on a ship captured by the British; the minerals were subsequently auctioned off in Scotland! The Sodalite from Greenland is not particularly attractive - it is mostly gray or greenish-blue. The beautiful blue material found in retail and wholesale today comes from Brazil and Namibia.
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Mineralogical profile of Sodalite
Chemical formula: Na8[Cl2/(AlSiO4)6]
Mineral class: Framework silicate
Formation: Magmatic, rock-forming gem in rocks poor in silica, large masses are found in pegmatites
Color: colorless, dark blue
Gloss: fat to glassy luster
Crystal system: cubic
Mohs hardness: 5.5 to 6
Cleavability, fracture: good (imperfect), uneven fracture
Localities, main supplying countries: Namibia, Brazil, Canada, Norway, Russia, Afghanistan.
Appearance: mostly coarse masses, often streaked with white veins, granular, crystals very rare.
Usage: Sodalite is a well-known jewelry stone available in many forms. It is used in stone healing to promote awareness, truthfulness and idealism. Astrology uses it especially for Sagittarius-born people. In industry, Sodalite finds no use. Gladly, however, the mineral is used for tiles or flooring. Due to the intense blue color Sodalite is processed with pleasure also to bracelets, necklaces, donuts and other pieces of jewelry.
Sodalite supports the search for truth and strengthens loyalty to oneself - so strengthened, can be consciously perceived, which entrenched behaviors must be overcome and how won convictions can also be represented to the outside. Therefore, Sodalite is also very popular in gemstone wellness and massages to dissolve blockages and bring energies to flow again. In the internationally known wellness concept of Gemstone Balance, Sodalite is one of the seven most important stones and is used there for the topic "Getting into flow" e.g. as a gemstone oil, massage stone or eye stone applied.
Sodalith for gemstone well-being
Sodalite supports the search for truth and strengthens loyalty to oneself - thus strengthened, one can consciously perceive which entrenched behaviours need to be overcome and how convictions gained can also be represented to the outside world. As a water stone, sodalite is of great importance as it conveys the theme of awareness and loyalty to oneself. Unconscious behavioural patterns and restrictive ideas can be overcome and released with the support of sodalite.
In spring in particular, the gemstone can help to flush away ballast and burdens, dissolve blockages and get energies flowing again. Sodalite is therefore often used in the preparation of gemstone water and can be found in the popular water stone mixtures "Get into flow" (with chalcedony and amber), ‘Success and progress’ (aquamarine, rock crystal and larimar) and ‘Communication and understanding’ (with chalcedony and rock crystal). Michael Gienger categorises sodalite as a water stone with a gentle effect.
Sodalite is mainly used in gemstone wellness treatments due to its cooling, calming and organising effect, but the aspect of ‘getting into flow’ also plays an important role. Massage stones made of sodalite are mainly used for detoxifying applications, e.g. detox treatments. The dark blue sodalite is also a popular gemstone for neck treatments.
In the internationally recognised Gemstone Balance wellness concept, sodalite is one of the seven most important stones and is used there for ‘getting into flow’, e.g. as a gemstone oil, massage stone or eye stone. In Ewald Kliegel's reflexology work, sodalite is used to find your way back to your own truth. This allows outdated patterns of behaviour to be overcome. Space is created for new things that follow the inner conviction and can therefore be implemented much more easily and consistently in everyday life as new behaviour.
In the "Steinwesen im Medizinrad" (stone creatures in the medicine wheel), the sodalite stands for the theme ‘Be with yourself and stay true to yourself’; the corresponding affirmation is ‘Light and free, I am completely with myself’.
Sodalite in gemstone jewellery
Hardly any other gemstone has such an intense blue colour as sodalite - with the exception of lapis lazuli, which is significantly more expensive due to its rarity in good quality. Depending on where it is found and how it is currently mined, sodalite sometimes shows more, sometimes less white areas in the dark blue colour. In the jewellery industry in particular, various names have therefore been developed for sodalite in varying proportions of blue and white: ‘Royal Blue’ are deep blue stones with large areas that are also suitable for making engravings, while predominantly blue sodalites are called ‘Blue Sapo’. If there are light-coloured inclusions in the dark blue sodalite, it is called ‘blue tiger’, light blue sodalite with white inclusions is called ‘nubolato’.
Sodalite is popular in both the jewellery and fashion sectors, as the colour can be perfectly combined with all other colours. As sodalite should be worn with direct physical contact wherever possible in gemstone healing applications, necklaces, bracelets and pendants play a major role in jewellery. The dark blue gemstone can be combined very well with both silver and gold-plated silver components. Maritime designs with fish, starfish and other elements can be created with sodalite in particular.
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For jewellery designers and jewellers: stringed beads made made from sodalite
