Rhodochrosite is a valuable Earth stone for healing the planet and showing love to the Mother of us all. For a pet, imagine it back in its place, and leave the crystal where it used to love sitting or sleeping or on a surface near the exit or entrance the animal used most. Visualize where and when you were last together, say the person’s name softly three times and ask them to get in touch or send news. Place the crystal next to a photograph of the missing person and place your hands on either side of the stone. It can also be used as a calling-back crystal to generate news or contact with a lost friend, relative, or former love. Rhodochrosite increases mind-to-mind or telepathic links between you and family members or animals. ![]() Rhodochrosite’s main use is as an ore of manganese, a key component of low-cost stainless steel formulations and certain aluminum alloys. However, the softness and brittleness limit it as a gemstone for everyday usage. Fine transparent crystals are rare and costly, sometimes faceted into gems for collectors. In contrast, stalactitic forms are cross-cut in slices to display their unique concentric bands. In massive form, Rhodochrosite’s pink and white bands are extremely attractive and often used in semi-precious jewelry, decorative stones, or carved into figurines. It is the State Mineral of Colorado, USA, where the Sweet Home Mine near Alma and nearby localities produce some of the rarest and most beautiful red Rhodochrosite in the world. It is the National Gemstone of Argentina, where some of the most important deposits are mined. Rhodochrosite is also referred to as Raspberry Spar, Manganese Spar, and most notably as Inca Rose (Rosa del Inca or Rosinca), as the Incas believed Rhodochrosite was the blood of their ancestral rulers turned to stone. It is often confused with the manganese silicate, Rhodonite, but is distinctly softer with white banding rather than the black veins of manganese oxide present in Rhodonite. Though most Rhodochrosite is in the pink to red color range, it can also be yellowish, orange, or brown. It has a vitreous and pearly luster, often banded in layers ranging from white or light pink to nearly red and opaque. The name Rhodochrosite comes from the Greek rhodos, meaning “rose,” and khros, meaning “color,” and refers to its vivid pink to rose-red color. ![]() Rhodochrosite forms in hydrothermal veins of copper, lead, and silver mines, and as secondary deposits in sedimentary layers of manganese oxide. It occurs mainly as massive aggregates or in granular, botryoidal, nodular, or stalactitic forms, though rare, transparent rhombohedral and scalenohedral crystals are found. Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate mineral of the Calcite group. It not only heals the Heart Chakra but is described by Katrina Raphaell in Crystal Enlightenment as “the God-sent deliverer whose purpose and mission is to clear the solar plexus and integrate the energies of the physical and spiritual realms.” It emits not only the pink/red color rays of influence but a harmonious blend of pink and light orange. ![]() The frequency of Rhodochrosite is surrounded by heavenly energies imbued with the golden sphere of Light. Its vibration of self-love, forgiveness, and compassion for the child within assists in reclaiming the self one was born to be. It allows one to acknowledge and release pain and destructive behavior patterns one may have adopted to cope. By empowering one to earnestly examine old wounds, suppressed feelings, and traumas of childhood or past lives, it enables one to view old situations with new information. Rhodochrosite, however, directs that love first toward the self for the specific purpose of emotional healing. ![]() Known as the Stone of the Compassionate Heart, Rhodochrosite symbolizes selfless love, moving one beyond mere empathy but stirring one to action on others’ behalf.
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