Entry № 127
Diamond
Native Carbon
Carbon reorganised by the deep mantle into pure fire.
Chakra
Crown
Element
Fire · Air
Zodiac
Aries · Leo

I. The Metaphysical Reading
How the stone has been held.
Diamond is worked with as a stone of committed clarity, kept nearby during vows, oaths and the long marriages of self to work. Practitioners hold it as a reminder that pressure met over time is not damage but structure.
- Chakra
- Crown
- Element
- Fire · Air
- Zodiac
- Aries · Leo
- Keynote
- Carbon reorganised by the deep mantle into pure fire.
II. The Scientific Reading
What the lattice actually does.
Diamond is native carbon crystallised in the isometric system under the pressures and temperatures of the Earth's mantle, brought to the surface by rare kimberlite and lamproite eruptions. It is the hardest known natural material (Mohs 10), has the highest thermal conductivity of any bulk material and a very high refractive index, giving faceted stones their characteristic fire.
- Formula
- C
- System
- Isometric
- Hardness
- 10 (Mohs)
- Provenance
- Botswana, Russia (Yakutia), Canada, South Africa, Australia, DR Congo
References & Sources
Independent mineralogical references used to verify the scientific details above.
Mineral Profile
Fact Sheet
- Chemical Formula
- C
- Crystal System
- Isometric
- Mohs Hardness
- 10 (Mohs)
- Density
- 3.51 – 3.53 g/cm³
- Refractive Index
- 2.417
- Provenance
- Botswana, Russia (Yakutia), Canada, South Africa, Australia, DR Congo
- Color Origin
- Colourless; also yellow, brown, pink, blue, green, red
Related Crystals
Stones that share this lattice
Next in the Atlas
Diopside
A pale-to-green pyroxene of contact metamorphism.




