Royal blue veined with white, and often mistaken for lapis. Level-headed.
The aesthetic
Sodalite is a royal to navy blue mineral shot through with white veins of calcite, and it is regularly confused with lapis lazuli, from which it differs by having no pyrite and a softer, more mottled blue. Some material fluoresces a startling orange under ultraviolet light, and the hackmanite variety will darken in sunlight and fade back in the dark, a reversible trick called tenebrescence.
The dynamic
Sodalite is associated with clear thinking, calm and rational self-expression, and is often described as a stone for saying the thing accurately rather than forcefully.
Some variations
- hackmanite
- blue sodalite
- sodalite with calcite
- yooperlite