Tantalite

Highly Protective, Aids Decision Making

➤ By Liz Oakes

Tantalite stones help to provide protection from various type of negativity. 

It helps to block hostility, psychic attack or spells being cast on you by malevolent people in your life who may be attacking you with thought forms.

Their vibration is beneficial to help you to feel calmer, more composed, emotionally controlled and more serene when under stress or duress.

They can stimulate a more practical outlook while looking for solutions to what is concerning you. They also have a number of helpful healing properties.

These crystals bring passion and excitement and aid decision making. Their energy boosts creativity and may enhance the daily exercise of your creative gifts. 

This is a lovely stone to use to grid your environment or to wear on your body to heighten spiritual insight and bring greater clarity.

Why Would You Use It?

The energy of this stone enhances creativity, and it may particularly help you to if your ideas are not flowing as you desire. 

The energy of Tantalite stimulates passion and excitement regarding what you are doing with your life.

It also encourages you to feel more positive and optimistic about your life choices.

If you are feeling out of sorts, anxious or depressed about what you are working on, it may help to stimulate enthusiasm and imaginative thinking.

It is a stone of courage that may give you the ability to be brave enough to do what needs to be done to help you to get your project back on track. 

It may also help you if you are feeling lethargic, lazy or simply lacking interest in your work as it inspires inspiration.

The vibration of these crystals aids you to feel inspired  to find a solution, and may also encourage you to find sensible and realistic answers to the issues you are having.

It is a strong crystal for decision making that has an excellent energy to help you to determine the best choices, and may rekindle an interest in working out a new path forward.

It can be particularly beneficial to assist you to let go of the desire to go ahead with goals once you realize you are heading in the wrong direction.

At the same time it may assist you to identify where you have had a similar experience in the past and to remember what happened last time and to recognize a better path this time.

The metaphysical properties of crystals like these may help you if you are inclined to hold back, fearful that you might go in the wrong direction.

Its energy may help you to head confidently on a new course.

How To Use It?

This is a useful stone to use in meditation, as they may assist you to gain knowledge about why you are here, and what your purpose is spiritually.

It may help to enhance your spiritual insight and bring clarity to what you experience while meditating.

They are useful stones to guard you from any type of negativity you may be experiencing, which is typically negativity that is emanating from a negative person in your life.

The vibration of these crystals can help you to feel more emotionally balanced and may strengthen your spiritual perception and insight.

They are good crystals to assist you to be more organized and may help you to declutter.

This stone also creates a strong barrier to protect you from harm caused by any being that is not of the light, and it can prevent new attachments from forming.

It also helps to release hooks from relationships earlier in your life as well as being crystals that help to sever karmic ties from past life attachments.

These hooks may be having an effect on present situations, and once recognized may be able to be released.

By releasing these hooks it may aid you to heal from emotional, spiritual and physical health issues that may have manifested as a result of these past relationships.

Who Should Use It? Healing Properties

Tantalite stones have a number of excellent healing attributes including:

• This crystal may particularly help you if you are battling health issues that are known to be hard to deal with.
• Tantalite is a useful stone to assist anyone who may have the symptoms of adrenal exhaustion.

The frequency of this stone stimulates and balances the adrenal gland.

They are known to help painful issues within the spine and lower back including aiding arthritis.

Due to its mineral makeup, it is also said to help you to assimilate iron and manganese.

One of the more well known healing attributes of Tantalite is how it assists those who have addictions.

It is one of the crystals for addiction that has an action to help to prevent cravings for food, drugs or cigarettes.

It is known to make it easier to give up substances to which you have become addicted.

The energy they give out can elevate your strength physically and boost your ability to keep going.

Other ways in which it is known to aid your healing includes helping the eyesight, fertility, skin disorders and issues related to the heart

It is also said to assist the effect of exposure to excessive radiation.

Where Is It From? About This Mineral

Tantalite stone is an ore of tantalum, which is mined for its use in mobile phones and other electronic equipment.

It is chemically similar to Columbite, so you may also see it called columbite-tantalite in some places.

It is also known by two other names depending on the exact makeup of the stones.

The more common one is the manganese rich type which is called manganotantalite or less commonly, the iron rich variety called ferrotantalite.

It is found in a number of places, with much of the world's supply of this mineral coming from both Australia and Brazil.

Less lesser quantities are found in Madagascar, Mozambique, Zaire, Canada, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Thailand, Portugal, Finland and the United States.

So while it may seem to be a rare mineral it is found in a lot of places! 

This mineral crystallizes in the massive form, as short prismatic crystals, thin tabular stone, rectangular prisms and as pyramids. 

It is more commonly a manganese rich stone that comes in a number of colors.

This includes deep black, brown, brownish-black, red, orange red and reddish brown and it may be found combined with other minerals such as Hematite.

Historical Meaning of Tantalite

The chemical element it is associated with and that it contains is tantalum. This stone's name relates to the Greek word 'tantalus'.

The name of this mineral is said to be related to a Greek myth regarding one of the sons of Zeus called Tantalus.

It was said that after Tantalus had died, he was eternally punished by being made to stand in a pool of water, located under a fruit tree with low hanging branches with fruit on them.

This fruit was eternally out of his grasp, and the water was also always out of reach so he could not take a drink. 

This word relates to an English word 'tantalizing' which is related to something that is desirable but cannot be obtained.

While it is an interesting story, it is hard to see how this pertains to the name of this mineral but you make your own mind up!

How Will It Help You?

Due to its strong connection to the earth through its vibration within both the root or base chakra and the earth star chakra it has a strong action to aid grounding.

It is also a very effective psychic protection stone that is extremely useful to either wear, or have in your environment.

One of the strongest and most potent actions of the frequency of Tantalite is how it works to protect you from spells that are directed at you by someone else.

If you have a spell aimed at you, the energy of this stone is known to turn the outcome around to create a more positive result for you.

This allows you to feel a stronger degree of safely if you are in a situation where others have been taking negative action against you.

It gives you a good sense of security against psychic attack.

Best Crystals To Use With Tantalite

What are the best crystals to combine with Tantalite? This stone aids decision making which can be helpful when there is some issue you need to resolve.

Combining it with other stones that may aid you to reach a conclusion about any problem you are dealing with can be useful, including using it with Apophyllite, Stilbite, Grandidierite or Boulder Opal.

This stone has a good energy to help anyone who has addictions, but to further assist you if you are battling an addiction you might use it with other crystals that can help to prevent cravings.

Stones to choose for this purpose includes Amethyst, Astrophyllite, Staurolite, Dumortierite or Smithsonite.

The energy of these stones are very effective to enhance your creativity. But if you require extra help you may choose to use it with other stones that also stimulate creative ability.

You can use it in your environment, including creating a grid of mixed stones that all enhance creativity.

Crystals for creativity that may specifically assist you includes Tigers Eye, Iolite, Iolite Sunstone, Carnelian and Sunstone.

If you need more help to improve your organizational abilities, combine it with other stones that can also help with this issue.

This includes crystals such as Biotite Lens, Covellite, Blue Sapphire or Seriphos Green Quartz.

This stone gives both grounding and protection and is one of a number of crystals that embody an energy that is both grounding and that provides psychic protection.

If you feel you need more help than this stone can provide to you, you may wish to use it with other stones from either of these categories.

Check out the list of grounding crystals and see which ones are also the list on the psychic protection page (see link below) as it may be advantageous to use one of these.

Stones that do both, which is extremely helpful, include Black Tourmaline, Shungite, Fire Agate and Black Obsidian. There may be more so check both lists to see.

The energy of this stone to boost psychic protection may be utilized in a grid if you do not wish to wear it on your body.

If you can get four Tantalite stones you can use them to grid your entire house which will create a lovely harmonious energy in your home.

Using it in a grid along with any of the other stones listed in my article about psychic protection may be helpful.

You might also wish to utilize some of the specific stones known to help to prevent psychic attack as this may be beneficial.

There are a number of stones that may prevent psychic attack by creating an energetic barrier around you. This includes Black Tourmaline, Maori Greenstone aka Pounamu Stone, Fire Agate, Kimberlite, Malachite or Aegirine.

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