The facts
-Axinite is an interesting mineral and produces unique flattened spatula shaped crystals that fanciers of well formed crystals love to collect. It is a triclinic mineral which means that it has no symmetry planes or axes of rotation. It does possess a center of symmetry. A center of symmetry, or center, is a symmetry operation that takes a face on one side of a crystal and inverts in through the center of the crystal to the other side. The faces that are inverted are completely flipped both left to right and up to down. With this being the only symmetry operation, faces on axinite crystals are seemingly scattered everywhere and anywhere (except for their inverted partners on the other side of the crystal).
Axinite is actually a series name for a group of isostructural minerals. All have the same structure but are different in terms of chemistry. They are named for their respective enrichment in either iron, magnesium and manganese, except for the iron manganese intermediate tinzenite. They differ slightly in color and specific gravity and most collectors refer to any of them as simply axinite, that is why they are treated as a single mineral here.
MetaPhysical Properties
-Useful in helping to submit to change. Helps to see what to change and what to change to. Grounds and aligns physical energy with earth. Excellent problem solving stone.
