#astralita

• Astralite rock — A rare technical neologism used to describe a microstructural variety of metamorphic rock or silicate mineral with fine crystalline inclusions, which reflects light in a brilliant manner reminiscent of star dust or the night vault. In niche petrographic studies, the term indicates the textural property of certain ornamental rocks to present intense pseudo-sidereal reflections under polarized light.
• Astrality — The quality or state of being astral; the cosmic, stellar, or immaterial character of an element, a state of mind, or an artistic work. In the philosophy of culture and literary criticism, the term expresses a superior dimension, detached from the contours of the gross terrestrial world, tending toward the infinity of the celestial vault, absolute purity, and metaphorical spiritualization.