Quick Specs
- Type: Pencil point pendant
- Stone: Sodalite
- Shape: Slender column with flat faces and a pointed tip
- Color: Deep blue with white veining and rust-toned threads
- Hanger: Silver-toned rings
- Mohs Hardness: 5.5 to 6
A Slender Point of Veined Blue Sodalite
The pendant is a slender column of sodalite with flat faces, a flat top and a point at the bottom, where small facets meet. The front face is a deep blue that runs from navy to a brighter royal tone, and white veins branch across it in a network of fine lines and broader patches, some of them wide enough to read as clouds. A few thin threads in a rust or tan shade run through the white. The narrow face on the left is paler and grayer, with the same white veining, so the column reads as a blue block with soft light and dark sides. The veining is dense through the middle of the column and sparse near the tip, so the point itself stays a solid, darker blue. The surfaces are smooth and give back a gentle sheen. At the top, a small silver-toned ring is joined to a larger silver-toned ring, and that larger ring takes a chain or cord. Hung point-down, the column catches light along its edges, and the white veins stand out against the blue like lines on a map.
Sodalite is named for its sodium content, and Wikipedia and geology.com class it as a feldspathoid. It rates 5.5 to 6 on the Mohs scale, and Wikipedia calls it a light, relatively hard yet fragile mineral with poor cleavage in six directions. The blue runs from royal blue to blue-violet, and white veining is common. Wikipedia places sodalite in the sodalite group with hauyne, nosean, lazurite and tugtupite, and says massive sodalite is opaque while crystals are usually clear to translucent. Wikipedia says the more uniformly blue material is the kind used in jewelry, where it is fashioned into cabochons and beads, and geology.com adds tumbled stones to that list. Well-known sources, according to geology.com, include northern Namibia, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, Magnet Cove in Arkansas and Litchfield, Maine. Sodalite also appears in green, yellow, violet and pink, though Wikipedia calls it well known for its blue color. The Gem Society lists heating, irradiation and dyeing among the treatments used on sodalite, and says white sodalite may be dyed blue. Most sodalite fluoresces orange under ultraviolet light, according to Wikipedia, and geology.com says it often shows a weak orange glow.
Practical Ritual Applications
Thread a chain or cord from my neck chains, cords and cages through the larger ring and wear the point at the collarbone, where the blue shows against a pale top. At home, hang it from a lamp or a bedpost so it turns in the light. Crystal practice calls sodalite the logic stone, so some people lay a point like this on a notebook or beside a laptop for planning and study. On an altar, set it upright against a small dish with a blue candle in its own holder nearby, a safe distance from the flame. A slim pendant tucked into a card or a small box makes an easy gift for someone who likes deep blue stones, and its narrow shape layers well with a shorter chain.
How to Wear and Care for the Sodalite Pencil Point Pendant
Three steps cover choosing a chain, wearing the point, and cleaning it.
- Choose a Chain or Cord
Check that the end of your chain or cord passes through the larger silver-toned ring, then thread the pendant on and let it hang point-down. Look at the small ring where it joins the larger one and make sure the join sits closed. A fine chain shows the full column, and a cord gives the blue a little more weight against the neck.
- Wear It With Care
The Gem Society says sodalite scratches easily at 5.5 to 6, because quartz, topaz and even household dust can mark it, and it notes that necklace use poses fewer risks than rings. Wikipedia calls the mineral fragile, so take the pendant off for sports and heavy work. The Gem Society also says heat may cause sodalite to lose color, so keep it away from radiators and hot water.
- Clean and Store It
The Gem Society advises a soft brush, mild detergent and warm water for cleaning sodalite, followed by a gentle dry. Store the pendant on its own in a small pouch or a lined box, since the same source recommends keeping sodalite jewelry apart from other pieces to avoid contact scratches. A soft cloth around the point protects the tip.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock this pendant because a slim point suits sodalite: the shape leaves the deep blue and the white veining in clear view. Sodalite is soft, so I treat it as a piece for careful wear, kept apart from harder stones between outings. The throat chakra and third eye links, and the name logic stone, belong to modern crystal lore, and I offer them as themes for your own reflection. For more stones tied to clarity and meditation, browse my meditation, wisdom and clarity stones.
Frequently Asked Questions
Pyrite is the first clue. Fire Mountain Gems says lapis lazuli carries flecks of golden pyrite, and Wikipedia notes that sodalite rarely contains pyrite. Streak is another: sodalite leaves a white streak when scratched, according to Wikipedia and Fire Mountain Gems. Wikipedia also says the blue of sodalite is closer to indigo than to the ultramarine of lapis. Both stones can show white veining.
The name comes from its sodium content. Geology.com explains that sodalite crystallizes from sodium-rich magmas, and Wikipedia says the mineral is named after the sodium it contains. Europeans first found it in 1811 at the Ilimaussaq complex in Greenland, and Wikipedia says it became an important ornamental stone in 1891, when large deposits turned up in Ontario, Canada. Fire Mountain Gems also dates the Ontario find to 1891.
Crystals.com and Fire Mountain Gems link sodalite with the throat chakra and the third eye. Crystal Vaults calls it the blue Logic Stone and ties it to clear thought, analysis and intuition. These pairings come from modern crystal practice, so take them as themes for your own reflection.
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