Agate

Communication, clarity and confidence

Generally, agates are lower in intensity and slower in vibrational frequencies than some other stones.  They are formed by quartz crystals making concentric rings.  There are a wide variety of agates that aid in many facets of life.  In general, they bring emotional, physical, and intellectual balance.  They help bring about stability- harmony the yin and yang. 

 

Botswana Agate

Creativity, moving forward in all avenues of life

Found only in Botswana- excellent for anyone connected with fire or smoke.  It looks for the solutions, rather than dwelling on the problems.  Helps explore new territory with your own creativity, also helps you see the bigger picture.  This stone aids in the assimilation of oxygen, which helps the circulatory system and skin.  Also helps with depression. 

 

Amazonite

Truth, intuition, communication and harmony

It’s name comes from the Amazon river, but it is found all over the world.  It is a stone of harmony, both within the self and among people.  Amazonite brings both inner and outer peace, first, it is a ‘truth-teller,’ helping one in expressing their true thoughts and opinions without getting over- emotional.  Secondly, it awakens compassion by stimulating the heart chakra.  Helps maintain optimum health.

 

Amber

Light, warmth, solar energies, clarification and healing 

Amber has been fashioned into jewelry for thousands of years.  The ancient Egyptians, at least 4,500 years ago, used Amber, and amber beads dating back to 2,000 b.c., have been found on Crete.  The energies within amber create a comfortable sense of warmth, health and well-being in the wearer.  Because it is connected to the earth, it is a very grounding stone for high energy frequencies.  Anyone recovering from illness or injury is advised to carry amber.  It is excellence for convalesce as it warms the inner being and activates the life force as well as one’s emotional desire for wellness.

 

Amethyst

Protection, purification, Divine connection, and release of addictions- a member of the quartz family

Used in ancient times by the Neolithic people of Europe, and the ancient Egyptians, Amethyst has long been highly valued and associated with royalty.  It is a stone of spirituality and contentment.  Spiritually, this stone both protects and purifies the wearer.  It aids in curbing over-indulgences and giving up bad habits. It has since ancient times been used to encourage and support sobriety This stone boosts production of hormones, and tunes the endocrine system and metabolism.  It strengthens the cleansing and elimination organs as well as the immune system.  Helps relieve physical, psychological and emotional pain. 

 

Violet/Lavender Amethyst:

clear communication from the heart

This stone has a particularly high vibration.  It has the same properties as purple amethyst, but it also takes on some of its’ own.  Because it exists at such an incredibly high frequency, it takes the brain into beta waves.  Like purple amethyst, this stone stimulates then calms the throat and heart chakras.  It is a bringer of light and love into an environment.    This stone helps children who have nightmares, and is a protective stone; good to use in areas of one’s home that feel cold and uninviting.  Lavender Amethyst is a good all- around healing stone.

 

Prasiolite (green amethyst)

Awakening the heart, linking the lower and higher self, and deepening the connection with nature.

This stone allows for the grounding of higher frequency energy through the heart.  Its energy triggers the heart center to open to the energy of the Earth and one’s Higher Self.  This allows one to become a lightening rod of healing energy for the earth.  It’s grounding effect causes energy to pass through the heart center, clearing unwanted and un-harmonious emotional patterns.  It fosters compassion, self- acceptance and self- honor.  Physically, it is excellent for the heart muscle, digestion and absorbing nutrients.  Helps with eating disorders. 

 

Ametrine

Mental and spiritual clarity, decisiveness

Ametrine is a mixture of amethyst and citrine.  In addition to the properties afforded the two other stones, Ametrine enhances universal equilibrium and provides a clear connection between the physical form and the ultimate state of perfection.  It provides a balance between male/female qualities and for an intellectual synthesis of spirituality.  It stimulates the intellect to reach beyond the worldly aspects, toward the development of the consciousness.  In meditation, it can help one reach higher states more quickly.  It disperses negativity from the aura and fills the voids with energizing and stabilizing qualities of pure light energy.  Physically, it can be used to stimulate the brain, enhance learning and creative problem solving, and aid in memory and information retention.  Helps stimulate the metabolism

 

Apatite

Psychic activation, access to knowledge, relaxation and revitalization      

Occurs naturally in a range of colors.  In Greek its name means “to deceive” because it was often thought to be another stone.  It is one of the most powerful stones available.  When used with other stones, it magnifies their properties.  This mineral can be used to stimulate the intellect and to promote the realization that ones strength derives from a combination of the spirit and love.  It, dissolves aloofness and negativity.  By stimulating the 3rd eye, it can be used to stimulate the development of clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and the awareness of the devic worlds.  It can also provide insights into past-life insights and telepathy.  It enhances creativity, and will bring knowledge to those attuned to it by clearing mental confusion.  Physically, it stimulates eyesight and helps calm headaches. 

 

Aquamarine

Cooling, soothing and enhancement of clear communication- member of the beryl family

A powerful cleansing stone, aquamarine is a cardinal Water element stone.  It stimulates the flow of energy and communication from the heart to the throat, assisting one in speaking their truest and deepest feelings.  Helps overcome the fear of speaking in public, and so is a wonderful stone for teachers and all public speakers.  It is the stone of release, helping free oneself from old attachments and patterns.  An excellent stone for mourning because it assists in fully releasing the attachment to the body of a loved one while retaining positive emotional connection to the loved one’s spiritual being.  The energy of this stone allows one’s emotional patterns to come to the surface for processing.  Aquamarine helps release old emotional baggage and ego roles.  Physically, it helps counter infection, supports the healing of inflammatory diseases and quiets the nervous system.

 

Aventurine

Vitality, growth and confidence- member of the QUARTZ family

Expression of the combined energies of the water and earth elements, Aventurine supports emotional and physical healing and energy balancing.  Stimulates a renewal at all levels, assisting one in releasing old patterns, so new growth and movement can take place.  Aventurine provides a balance of the male/female energy, enhancing ones creativity.  It reinforces ones decisiveness and amplifies ones leadership qualities.  Supports the heart, assisting with circulatory issues and stimulating the flow of life giving energy throughout the body.  It is excellent for use by those with cardiac problems or who are recovering from surgery or illness.

 

Chrysocolla/Azurite/Lapis/ Malachite

This is a combination of these 4 minerals.  It has the properties of each of these minerals, but this combination can help one to extend oneself to others, in the spirit of “brotherhood” and love.  It provides for a demonstration of compassion and intelligence, promoting both philanthropic tendencies and attachment to “rightmindedness.”  It also provides stamina against weariness from adulation.  This combination has been used in the treatment of healing breaks and fractures.  It also helps corrects imbalances in RNA/DNA and in the metabolic rate. 

 

Carnelian

Courage, vitality, sexuality, confidence and action-  orange variety of chalcedony, a mineral in the quartz family

In ancient times, Carnelian was believed to give the wearer courage in battle and to help timid speakers become eloquent and bold.  Ancient lore, and modern theories are very similar, as they both herald carnelian as a stone that supports qualities of leadership and courage.  It can assist those who procrastinate, or are unable to decide on a course of action.  This stone gives the courage to choose and dedicate oneself to a new path.  It lends vitality and energy to the physical body.  It helps one purify and sanctify the body as a temple of the spirit.  It is excellent support for detoxifying from alcohol or other drugs, breaking negative and hurtful habits.

 

Chalcedony

Calm, balance, centeredness, inner knowledge and communication

It was used as a sacred stone by the Native Americans, by promoting stability within the ceremonial activities of the tribe.  It has successfully been used to provide a pathway for receiving thought transmissions.  It is useful for balancing the energy of the body, mind, emotions and spirit.  It is a stone to encourage brotherhood among all.  Enhances generosity, responsiveness and receptivity.  It is said to cure varying forms of dementia, to rectify senility and to increase mental stability.

 

Chrysophrase

Growth, compassion, connection with Nature, forgiveness and altruism- in the chalcedony family, actually a green form of chalcedony

This stone is useful in balancing the yin/yang energies and for aligning the chakras.  It activates, opens and energizes the heart chakra, bringing the necessary energy to the physical body, through the loving energy of the heart.  The ancients said it could promote love and truth. It imparts a sense of being a part of the divine whole.  It instills a state of grace within the wearer, facilitating a deep meditative state, compassion and clemency.  It provides for non-judgmental attitudes, acceptance of others and acceptance of self.  It helps one accept the imperfection in oneself.  Also, helps heal a broken heart, enabling one to understand the patterns for growth.  It is used in treatment of disorders of the heart, to increase dexterity and to ameliorate frailty and infirmity.  It also helps the reproductive organs.  Chrysophrase is excellent for relaxation and peaceful sleep.

 

Citrine

Manifestation, personal will, mental clarity and creativity- much of the commercial citrine is heat treated amethyst

This stone is one of the two minerals on the planet that does not hold and accumulate negative energy, but dissipates and transmutes it, working out problems on both the physical and subtle levels.  Hence, it never needs clearing or cleansing.  Called the ‘merchant’s stone,’ it helps the merchant both acquire more money, and hold on to the money they already have.  Citrine is useful in balancing the yin-yang energy and for the alignment of the chakras.  This stone marries the energy of the mind and the will.  Helps digestive issues and metabolism and can be used to help loose weight.

 

Chrome Diopside

Connection with the earth, opening of the heart, healing, balance, subtle perception

This mineral can be used to stimulate the intellect and can provide assistance in analytical pursuits.  It is a wonderful ally for the spiritual seekers.   It enhances academic learning, and couples the practical side of ones nature to both the science and arts.  It allows one to understand the duality within oneself, and further stimulates the retrieval of the feminine side of nature.  It is a good stone for healing those who will not allow themselves to cry.  Physically, it can be used in the treatment of physical weakness, and psychological disorders, and general healing.  It is an excellent stone for runners, helping to eliminate the muscular spasms during the run.

 

Chiastolite-

devotion

Sometimes called the cross stone, it is a powerfully protective stone.  In ancient times it was used to ward off ill wishers and curses as well as the evil eye.  Today, it is often used as a sign of devotion.  It can transmute dissention and conflict into harmony.  This is a creative stone that has the power to dispel negative thoughts and feelings.  It aids in problem solving and change.  Chiatolite is a gateway into mysteries and facilitates journeys out of the body.  It facilitates understanding and exploration of immortality.  It dissolves illusion and calms fears, enabling the wearer to face reality.  This stone repairs chromosome damages and balances the immune system.

 

Cherry Quartz

Protection, Healing, Psychism, Power

Cherry Quartz is a man-made product - obtained by melting raw crystal stone and adding in Copper powder. There are so many uses for the quartz crystal, that it staggers the mind. Quartz is the ultimate "anything-stone" as it radiates all the color vibrations within the spectrum of light and thus can be utilized and programmed for any use which bring light and energy into our spiritual bodies.  A "stone of the mind", quartz can be used to imprint with any energy or information and helps to focus the mind, aides in concentration and enhances mental ability. It brings clarity and amplifies the energy and the aura. Quartz is highly useful in healing, in meditation and for spiritual growth and enlightenment.

Cherry Quartz has copper mixed.  Copper is a conductive metal which, heightens the magician's ability to direct energy for a specific purpose.  Copper has also long been used to stimulate healing, it has unique properties to balance the body's polarities, between projective and receptive energies.  Blockages in this healing pattern, according to shamans and healers alike, can lead to imbalances and thus, disease.Excellent for healing on all levels. Heightens meditation, strengthens auric field.

 

 

Sponge Coral

Cooperation, mental clarity, intuition, inner peace imagination

Coral houses small marine animals, and these vacated homes have been used to provide boundless growth in all endeavors.  Coral stimulates intuition, sensitivity, imagination and adaptability.  The structure of coral helps enhance clarity in the mental processes and to provide, during periods of decision-making, insight into which is the better option.  Promotes cooperation both within self and with others, and is said to quiet emotions and bring peace to the self.  It is an excellent source of cohesive energy for groups.  It can be used to treat hearing disorders, calcium deficiencies of the spinal canal, nervous system and skeletal structure.  It has been revered by ancient cultures throughout the world as a magical gift from the sea that can stimulate fertility of both the mind and body.  Red coral specifically helps in harmonizing with natural forces of the universe.  It aids in balancing the material with the spiritual, further aligning one with the source of all wisdom.  It stimulates the energetic pursuit of predetermined goals.  It protects one from depression and despondency.

 

Multi-colored Fluorite

Mental enhancement and clarity, improved decision -making, and clearing the energy fields. 

Multicolored fluorite is best for overall energy cleansing and repair of the auric field. Sometimes called the genius stone because of its effect on mental powers. Known as the stone of discernment and aptitude, bringing the energies of responsibility to the qualities of intuition.  It helps impart impartiality and unbiased, detached reasoning to situations where it would be beneficial to act objectively.  Allows one to see beyond emotion and analyze every situation objectively.  When used with other stones, it strengthens their effects.  Physically, fluorite balances the chemistry of the brain, while enhancing learning and memorizational abilities. 

 

Blue Fluorite

Communication, promotes orderly record keeping

Good for the throat chakra, ensuring clear communication of one’s ideas, also good for opening the 3rd eye and ensuring psychic clarity and accuracy.  Blue Fluorite helps one to develop orderly, sequential thoughts, and it good for promoting orderly record keeping.  It produces a calm energy.  It is an excellent energy for stimulating clear, concise communicative stills, both on the physical and spiritual plane.  This color of fluorite is used in the treatment of eye problems, inflammation, and disorders of the inner nasal passages, inner ear, throat and speech. 

 

Purple Fluorite

Purification, and access to Spirit

This is a 3rd eye stone, bringing rationality to the intuitive qualities and assisting one in precise communication of something that is psychically presented.   It imparts common sense to psychic communication.  It is an excellent meditation stone. Purple Fluorite is ideal for purification and access of the mind to the domains of the Spirit.  Is assists is disorders associated with the bones and the marrow.  It expediates suitable balance within the body bone and cellular structure.  The purple color of fluorite also is excellent in helping to prepare the physical, emotional, intellectual and or spirit realms of one’s being for healing. 

 

Garnet

Garnet is a stone of health,

Garnet extracts negative energy from the chakras and transmuting the energy to a more beneficial state.  It is said have been one of the stones used in the breastplate of the high priest.  These have been sacred stones to almost all ancient cultures, from the Mayans, Egyptians, and Aztecs, to the Greeks.  They are tools for making the products of creative imagination manifest themselves in the 3-d world.  It is called the stone of health and the stone of commitment.  Represents love.  Attuned to the heart energy, it revitalizes feelings and enhances sexuality.  Red garnet controls anger, esp., towards oneself.

 

Grossular Garnet

Prosperity and Health

This is a useful stone to have during challenges and lawsuits.   It is a potent prosperity stone.  Green garnet carries with it an especially regenerative energy.  It teaches relaxation and going with the flow, and inspires service and cooperation, as well as allowing the wearer to perceive and celebrate the abundance in their life.   It enhances fertility, and aids in the absorption of vitamin A.  It is excellent for arthritis and rheumatism and fortifies the kidneys.  Also good for the skin

 

Rhodolite Garnet

Emotional healing, self-worth, and walking the spiritual path

It stimulates contemplation, intuition and inspiration.  It elicits warm, trusting and sincere feelings that activate one’s connection to their spirit guides, or guardian angels. A magenta garnet, it has some of the same qualities as other garnets, but it also protects the wearer from negativity.  It enhances intuition and inspires love.  It helps the body fight mutating diseases, such as cancer and AIDS.  It protects the base chakra and enhances sexuality, overcoming frigidity.  It stimulates the metabolism and treats the heart, lungs and hips. 

 

Black Garnet

Grounding, protection, knowledge and creative power

This is a very rare stone.  Black Garnet is a stone of protection and power.  It connects ones life force with the fiery core of the earth, allowing one to access an almost infinite supply of energy for creative work.  It is a great healing stone, also helpful in healing thoughts.  When one enters into conscious resonance with black garnet, one’s feet are firmly on one’s spiritual path, and protection, and power are granted for the creation and completion of one’s life service.  Physically, it is an excellent protection stone, helping the body to resist infections of all types.  Good for those with a compromised immune system.

 

Hessonite Garnet

Self  Respect, intuition, hormone regulation

This stone imparts self-respect, by eliminating feelings of guilt and inferiority.  It encourages service and the seeking out new challenges.  Hessonite opens the intuition and psychic abilities.  Used for out of body journeys, it helps carry you to your destination.  It regulates hormone production, reduces infertility and impotence, heals the olfactory system, and draws off negative influences that can cause ill health. 

 

Hypersthene

Calming, self discovery, helps elucidate how one’s perceived

It can be used to stimulate contact with the “solution planes” of existence.  In the meditative state or non- meditative state, the answers to problems of all magnitudes seem to come very quickly to the wearer.  It also helps combat irritability and criticalness, providing for discriminating judgment.  Hypersthene helps one follow their convictions and defend their moral beliefs.  It helps maintain business relationships and further personal relationships. Discovering information from the spiritual and astral realms can be expedited.  Energizes aspects of self- respect, and dispels the negative facets of pridefulness, and opens the door to the unlimited and desired opportunities where the wearer’s energy is directed.  Helps decrease pain, lessen tension, treat fever, and spasms

 

Red Jade

Courage and action

Red is the most passionate and stimulating of the Jades.  It is associated with love and letting off steam.  It accesses anger, releasing tension in such a way that it can be constructive.  For gentle souls who have difficulty asserting themselves, Red Jade brings forth the energy of a warrior.  It is a stone of individual power and will, helping one put aside fear, worry and doubt.  Red Jade is an excellent invigorator for all systems of the body.

 

Green Jade

Health and abundance

In China, Jade has been the most sought after stone in all history.  It is believed to strengthen the body during life and protect one after death.  Green Jade is a stone with a heart of healing and a stone for healing the heart.  Energies are so strong within Jade that one feels the flow of well-being and balance almost immediately upon touching them.  Good stones to sleep in, because their harmonious and nourishing vibrations have a beneficial effect upon one’s dream-life.  It helps strengthen the energy system and is a powerful heart healer, that helps strengthen and soothe the nervous system.

 

Picture Jasper

Inner journeying to sacred sites and ancient civilizations, connecting with Earth’s consciousness- variety of quartz

Picture Jasper is connected with the earth and promotes ecological awareness; said to be the Earth mother speaking to her children. It contains a message from the past within its pictures for those who can read it.  it brings to the surface feeling of guilt, envy, hatred and love, and the thoughts that are normally pushed aside.  This stone instills a sense of harmony, stability and balance.  It helps alleviate fear.  It facilitates deep meditation, centering, and regression to past lives, revealing karmic causes.  This stone improves night vision, encourages astral travel, and stimulates the earth chakra.  It boosts the immune system, clears pollutants and toxins from the body, and stimulates the cleansing organs.  Heals the skin and strengthens the resolve to give up smoking. 

 

Mookaite

Slowing the aging process, intergenerational genetic healing, perception of Earth energies

Makes activities more intense and fun.  This stone makes you more flexible, and willing to try new things.  Helps in healing, particularly wounds. It provides a useful balance between inner and outer experiences.  It imparts both a desire for new experiences and a deep calm with which to face them.  Mookaite encourages versatility.  It points out all possibilities and assists in choosing the right one.  Helps with problems of the liver, spleen and blood and immune system.

 

Blue Kyanite

Inner bridges, psychic ability, connecting with nature, past life recall, telepathy and empathy

This is one of the two minerals that never need cleaning.  It will not accumulate or retain negative energy or vibrations.  The energy in kyanite is unlimited in application, making it one of the very best attunement stones.  It aligns the chakras immediately.  Kyanite facilitates meditation- and is one of the best stones for meditation.  The calming, clearing effect of kyanite can be useful for meditation because the energy is accessible, gentle and balanced.  A tranquilizing stone, it is also a powerful transmitter and amplifier of high frequency energy.  It stimulates one’s psychic abilities and intuitions, while giving spiritual integrity and maturity.  It connects the wearer to their spirit guides.  Kyanite encourages speaking one’s truth, eliminating through confusion and blockages.  It is a natural pain reliever, treats muscular disorder, glandular problems, lowers blood pressure, heals infections and helps with weight loss.

 

Green Kyanite

Connection with nature, sincerity, psychic travel

This stone can create a bridge between oneself and the dynamic balance of Nature.  Green Kyanite helps one feel the ever moving, perfect flowing balance the TAO- the life force of the universe.  It helps one stay connected with the truth of the heart.  It can also help in discerning the truth in any situation- from the news, to the stories one hears from friends.  It is not so much a lie detector as a sincerity detector, because if someone’s not speaking from the heart, you will know.  Having this stone around helps one to live from the heart’s truth, so that you are not looking outward for answers.  It can powerfully enhance dream-life and can facilitate getting into a lucid dream state.  Recommended to use different color kyanites together.

 

Labradorite

Magic and protection

It is a gemstone of magic, and it awakens in those who carry or wear it the awareness of one’s innate magical powers.  This highly mystical and protective stone is said to be the bringer of light.  It raises consciousness and connects the wearer with universal energy.  Labradorite has very strong energetic properties, like deflecting unwanted energies while guarding against energy leakage.  It also helps form a barrier against the negative energy that is shed during therapy, so that it is not reabsorbed.  Labradorite creates a force field throughout the aura, protecting and strengthening the energies within, and preventing others from tapping in to your personal energy and draining it.  It can help one see and accept the dualities in life, and is a very important stone for shamans, magicians and other “sorcerers.”  Labradorite can help reveal the nature of “mystery illnesses.”  Used to stimulate mental acuity and to reduce anxiety and stress.

 

Lapis Lazuli

Inner vision, truthful communication, royal virtues

Lapis has been used since 3100 b.c. by the ancient Egyptians in carved scarabs, beads, pendants and other jewelry.  It was even ground into medicine and used as eye-shadow.  Known as the stone of royalty in ancient Sumer, treasured in ancient China, this is one of the most timeless stones.  It was said to have existed before time was born, assisting one in gaining the insight to understand the mysteries in the ancient texts.  It is called the stone of total awareness, helping to expand awareness and intellectual capacity.  It activates the psychic centers of the 3rd eye, allowing one to develop enhanced intuition and access to spiritual guidance.  A visionary stone, it brings new information into the mind as images, not words.  A stone of truth, it assists one in both discerning and speaking the truth in all situations.  Lapis helps identify the root of a disease and can be particularity helpful in identifying habitual thought patterns and emotional sabotaging of one’s healing. 

 

Lava Stone

Helps one become more positive and focused. 

This stone brings stability to the wearer and their household.  It is said to enhance the muscle structure in men and to strengthen the reproductive system of both sexes.  Lava stone also enhances female fertility.

 

Leopard Jasper

Change, variety, progress, and spiritual creativity

This stone ignites the potential and creativity of the soul.  It facilitates change without forcing it, assisting in fulfilling quests and facilitates knowing from the soul level.  It can access Karmic wisdom, strengthening soul, body and mind.  It is immensely helpful when exploring the full extent of oneself.  It is a good stone for meditation as it helps the wearer get into a deep meditative state, in which inner and outer journeys may be made. It brings things to a resolution, no matter where the source of the difficulties may have been, and actively encourages moving forward.  It is an excellent stone to keep you anchored to the present moment.  Leopard Jasper fortifies the body’s natural resistance.  It can dissolve kidney stones and hardened tissue.

 

Mahogany Tiger Agate

Release from inner limitations, healing feelings of unworthiness

This stone can help cleanse one of negative energies and residue from old wounds.  Using this stone in meditation can draw out the poison of old, unconscious memories of shame, humiliation or abuse, releasing them into the Light for healing.  It is ideal for dispelling feelings of unworthiness that can hold one back from fulfilling one’s potential work, love and spiritual awakening.  Wearing Mahogany Agate shields one from psychic attack.  It helps one reveal limitations one has created due to fear and perceived separation.  Physically, it strengthens the organs and tissues and supports detoxification, by increasing liver and kidney function.

 

Moonstone

Mystery, self-discovery, intuition, insight, dreams, the goddess, emotional calm

Used in Roman jewelry over 2,000 years ago, and even longer in the far east- always been a sacred stone in India with a special significance to lovers.  Popular during the art noveau period, this stone transcends the ages.  Moonstone is the gem of the high priest, keeper of the feminine mystery.  This stone has a very femine vibration.  It is believed that in its reflected light, one can project and thereby observe the hidden truths that reside in the depths of oneself.  Its most powerful effect is that of calming the emotions, and avoiding over reacions. It is a talisman for the inward journey and meditation with it can take one deep into oneself.   The stone of new beginning, it is strongly connected with the moon and intuition.  The stone is meant to remind us that life is cyclic- it waxes and wanes.  Enhances psychic abilities and can develop clairvoyance.  Helps digestive and reproductive systems.  Excellent for PMS, conception, childbirth and pregnancy 

 

Peach Moonstone:

This stone’s gentle, loving energy supports the heart as it stimulates the mind.  It allows one to perceive the positive, loving existence of the Divine in all situations.  It can help soothe worry or anxiety while assisting one in celebrating the positive experiences in one’s life.  Peach moonstone carries a very soothing energy for the emotional body and is excellent for use by intuitive or sensitive children.

 

Obsidian

Psychic protection, grounding, cleansing of negativity and spirit communication

Offers spiritual protection.  Helps one get in touch with their dark side by helping to understand and deal with temptations before they cause harm.  It eases tension and helps blood flow and muscular problems.  It powerfully eliminates negative energies in oneself and one’s environment.  It is a ‘psychic vacuum cleaner,’ cleansing the auric field of disharmony, negative attachment, astral plane garbage and one’s own emanations of anger.  Obsidian is a strong grounding stone, used not only with the root chakra but also the Earthstar chakra below the feet and deep into the core of the earth.  Physically, it assists with removing blockages in the meridian system.  Its energy is useful in clearing reproductive problems based in past abuse or current physical abuse.

 

Onyx

Inner-strength, focused attention, willpower, self-mastery, discipline and reason- variety of chalcedony

Black onyx has been used as a magical stone for thousands of years and is considered to be one of the best materials for amulets.  Onyx is the stone of inner strength.  It enhances one’s endurance and persistence, enabling one to carry even the most difficult tasks through to completion.  It increases one’s ability to maintain focus, allowing one to learn challenging new material, while at the same time boosting memory retention.  It encourages attention to details.  These traits make onyx a good tool for everyone whose work requires a high level of focus, perseverance and discipline.  It is a stone of physical strength, assisting one in containing their energies rather than allowing them to dissipate.  Onyx cools and condenses excessive energies.  It calms nervousness, quells anxiety, soothes tempers and brings reason to passion.  Physically, it can be used to stimulate the connection between the feet and the 1st chakra, which is helpful for those suffering from weak legs, or who have difficulty grounding or eliminating bodily waste.

 

Opal

Purification, emotional healing, calming the mind and emotional protection

Opal is a delicate stone with a fine vibration.  It enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions.  It stimulates originality and dynamic creativity, it aids in accessing and expressing ones true self.  It picks up thoughts and feelings, amplifies them and returns them to the source.  It is a karmic stone, teaching that what you put out comes back.  Opal amplifies traits and brings characteristics to the surface for transformation.  Enhancing self worth, it helps you to understand your truest potential.  Emotionally, opal has always been associated with love and passion, desire and eroticism.  It is a seductive stone that intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions.  Physically, opal strengthens the will to live.  It treats Parkinson’s disease, infections, fevers and strengthens memory. 

 

Peridot

Increase, prosperity, warmth, and well-being

In ancient times, peridot was believed to keep away evil spirits.  The stone has been mined for over 3,000 years, and since has been a symbol of the sun, and thought to imbue the wearer with attributes of royalty.  It is still a protective stone for the aura.  Peridot is a powerful cleanser, releasing and neutralizing toxins on all levels.  It opens, cleanses and activates the heart and solar plexus chakras, and releases old baggage.  Burdens, guilt or obsessions are cleared, and it instills the belief that holding on to people, or the past is counterproductive.  The stone releases negative patterns and old vibrations so that a new frequency can be accessed.  This visionary crystal helps you to understand your destiny and your spiritual purpose- it is particularly helpful for healers.  Peridot heals and regenerates tissues, it strengthens the metabolism and benefits the skin. 

 

Clear Quartz

Programmability, amplification of ones intention, magnification of ambient energies, clearing, cleansing, healing and memory enhancement

Quartz is the great healer and it brings harmony and power.  It absorbs energy, stores it, amplifies it, focuses it and transmits it.  Quartz connects the mind and body and aids communication between all things.  Different crystal shapes have different properties. It’s one of earth's most common minerals, also

known as rock crystal or quartz crystal.   Clear quartz

facilitates wisdom, clarity of thought, general healing, memory, meditation, communication, transformation, awakening, cleansing, pureness of heart, intention, higher consciousness, positive thoughts, harmony and love. This stone amplifies prayers, wishes and positive visualizations. Clear quartz crystals that have been chipped and damaged. promote understanding, compassion, kindness, and empathy. They open the hearts of those who have closed them, while also protecting the openhearted from too much pain.

 

Rhodochrosite

Emotional healing, recovery of lost memories and forgotten gifts, self- love and compassion

All pink stones have some association with love, in the case of Rhodochrosite, the love is first directed towards the self, specifically for the purpose of emotional healing.  If assists in doing the necessary work of recovering, reliving and releasing the memories of one’s emotional wounding.  This stone works vibrationally to support self-healing.  By examining, and then releasing painful memories, you’re able to fully embrace all the gifts you have and are able to be to person you were born to be.  It can soothe, cleanse and heal the energy around the heart, and can repair holes, or areas of disharmony in the auric field.  It makes one more spiritually active and cheerful as it is the stone of joy.  Enhances sexuality while balancing it with love.  Makes the mind more active and increases mental speed.  Rhodochrosite emanates one of the most tender and loving energies of any stone.  A very flexible stone, it can be used with the base, sacral and heart chakras.  It is ideal for treating nervous system imbalances.

 

Rhodonite

Discovery and developing hidden talents, compassion, lover, generosity and altruism

As with other pink stones, Rhodonite promotes the energy of love, but in this case, the love is directed outwardly.  Like Rhodochrosite, it is a key tool in recovery of one’s inner gifts.  Rhodochrosite focuses on remembering the lost pieces, while Rhodonite promotes using the recovered gifts in one’s life, for the benefit of self and others.  It aids in perceiving where one’s talents lie and in using those talents for the highest good.  This stone’s gift is to bring more love into the world by acting as a catalyst for the fulfillment of one’s life purpose, through the expression of one’s hidden gifts.  It can enhance the depth and clarity of one’s inner experiences, making it easier to understand the messages behind the dreams and visions.  Physically, it is an excellent support for weight loss, detoxification and purification.

 

Aqua Quartz

Calming and relaxing, connection with spiritual realms, enhanced communication, psychic protection

Shares many characteristics with aquamarine, it is highly stimulating; it enhances one’s ability to speak and hear the truth.  It has a calming and relaxing effect on the emotional body.  It is strongly connected to the element of Water, therefore, this stone enhances one’s access to the truth of emotions and the portals of Spirit which are accessed through emotions.  Aqua Quartz can help in exploring the very depth of one’s soul, while retaining inner peace.  It can be used to soothe anger and release stress.  It has a very high and intense vibration and has been used to activate other stones for healing work.  Physically, it releases negative energies and brings inner peace and release from stress.

 

Rose Quartz

Love, Gentleness emotional healing, release of stress, uniting with the divine

Rose Quartz is the stone of unconditional love and infinite peace.  It is the most important crystal for the heart and the heart chakra, teaching the true essence of love.  It purifies and opens the heart on all levels, and brings deep inner healing and self love.  It is a calming, reassuring and excellent for use in trauma or crisis situations.  If you want to attract love, look no further than romantic Rose Quartz.  In fact, it is so effective at drawing love in, that it often needs amethyst to calm it down.  In existing relationships, it will restore trust and harmony.  It gently draws off negative energies and replaces them with loving vibes.  Physically, it strengthens the heart and the circulatory systems, while also releasing impurities from bodily fluids.  Increases fertility.

 

Ruby

Life force, courage, passion, strength, enthusiasm, adventurousness and protectiveness

Ancient Burmese legend told that inserting a ruby under the flesh would make them invincible.  In the middle ages, it was believed to convey good health, resolve disagreements and remove negative thoughts.  Long associated with royalty, the Chinese emperor Kublai Khan was said to have offered an entire city in exchange for a large ruby.   RUBIES emanate the pure red ray with a vibrancy unsurpassed in the mineral kingdom.  They are an excellent stone for energy, imparting vigor to life.  It energizes and balances, but may over-stimulate in delicate of irritable people.  They are powerful tool for bringing additional life force, a passion for life and vitality into one’s being- never in a destructive way.  Wearing ruby has the effect of energizing and activating one’s physical, mental and emotional bodies.  They enhance passion and fortitude, allowing the whole-hearted pursuit of one’s aspirations.  Rubies improve motivation and aid in the setting of realistic goals.  They eliminate feelings of hopelessness and defeat from one’s thoughts, and they open the mind to optimism and determination to accomplish difficult goals. 

 

 Rutilated Quartz

Programmable for attunement, amplification, acceleration, expanding awareness, quickening and grounding manifestation

Intensifies the power of the quartz crystal.  In addition, it affect both the etheric and astral bodies.  The Rutile (lines within the quartz) has been said to represent Venus’ hair and the sweet tipped arrows of love.  Rutile brings strength and love, ease of transition, growth in all avenues of one’s development, and calm, reason and order.  It assists one in getting to the root of a problem and provides access to the reason for the ‘disease or discomfort, so that one can remedy the situation.  It helps one be judicious in ones experiences and to gain insight into the inner being without being required to repeat onerous situations.

During astral travel, this stone provides insights as to why one is visiting particular locations- it stimulates awareness of the connections between this physical life and the situations viewed.  Assists one in flowing with changes and accepting alterations, adjustments and insights to further these modifications. 

 

Sardonyx

This stone is a variety of onyx, which contains layer or bands of carnelian.  It combines the properties of onyx, carnelian and chalcedony.

Sardonyx is a stone of strength and protection,  It invokes the search for a meaningful existence and promotes integrity and virtuous conduct.  This mineral can assist in bringing happiness in marriage and live- in relationships.  It allows one to realize the delightfulness of living.  It can be used to attract friends, good fortune and to encourage self-control.  It has been used to diminish hesitation and to provide courage.  It is known as the stone of virtue, and was said to have been one of the stones on the breast plate of the high priest.  It stimulates and propagates virtuous conduct throughout the many facets of one’s life.

 

Black Sardonyx- Absorbs negativity

 

Red Sardonyx- acts as in stimulating all aspects of one’s life. 

 

Smokey Quartz

Grounding, transmutation of negative energies, practicality, organization, manifestation of one’s dreams and inspirations

Known as the endurance stone, it brings calm and lessens depression, which helps one get through the hard times.  Grounds and stabilizes emotion.  This is one of the most efficient grounding stone and at the same time raises the vibrations during meditation.  It is a superb antidote for stress and assists in tolerating difficult times with equanimity, fortifying resolve.  It helps one organize and execute duties in a more efficient manner.  Smokey Quartz protect from physical and spiritual negativity.  Psychologically, Smokey Quartz relieves fear, lifts depression and brings emotional calmness.  Physically, it is excellent at treating radiation-related illness or chemotherapy.  Natural pain reliever and helps the reproductive system

 

 

Tektite

Connection with ET’s (extra-terrestrials) telepathic communication, raising one’s vibrational level

These glassy objects are associated with meteoric impacts.   The classic forms of tektites- teardrop, smooth, rounded buttons and dumbbells- suggest that at the time of impact they were heated to a molten state and flung through the atmosphere.  These stones have a long history of lore and legend.  In 2,000 b.c., a Chinese author named them ‘ink stones of the thunder god.’  Australian aborigines, referred to them as maban, or magic, and believed that finding a tektite brought good luck, Indians referred to them as the sacred stone of Krishna.  The Sanskrit translation means tears of the moon, even Tibetan monks were said to worship these oddities. 

These stones resonate at extremely high frequencies, which is why many believe they can contact ET’s, and that ET’s use them to facilitate communication with humans.  Wearing a Tektite can heighten the vibrational level of one’s auric field.  One may become aware of the teeming field of astral entities, as well and the energy fields of humans and other earth-bound creatures.  Tektites heighten one’s inner light, attracting others to that energy, and they will initiate contact without consciously knowing why.  Physically, they can be used to help the body integrate high frequency energies.

 

Tiger’s Eye

Balance between extremes, discernment, vitality, strength, practicality and fairness- a member of the quartz family

Tiger Eye is a solar stone of vitality, balance, practicality and physical action.  While keeping the wearer grounded, it assists one in responding to the needs and challenges that surround them.  It helps mental clarity, intellect and hones one’s logic.  All Tiger’s Eye help relieve stress and emotional pain.  It reduces nervousness and gives us more confidence in public situations.  It helps balance the yin and yang (heaven and earth) energies in one’s life.  It sharpens the senses and is used to treat asthma

 

Blue Topaz

Enhancement of mind and communication

The topaz crystal is considered precious by African bushmen who use it in ceremonies for healing and connecting with spirits that have departed from this plane.  It is known as a “stone of true love and success in all endeavors.’  Placed on the throat chakra or 3rd eye, it cleanses those chakras and promotes verbalization.  It is an excellent color for meditation and attuning to the to the higher self, assisting in living according to your own aspirations and views.  Topaz is the ‘crystal of potency,’ instumental in visualization for healing and/or attracting, in meditation and in projection.   It helps one absorb what is needed from the universe.  This color attunes to the angels of truth and wisdom.  It assists in seeing the scripts you have been living by and to recognize where you have strayed from your own truth. Blue topaz specifically promotes artistic inspiration, strengthening the thyroid gland and enhancing the metabolism. It is known to commonly be used for weight loss.

 

Pink Topaz

Manifestation of personal intention, will and desires.

Pink Topaz is a stone of hope.  It gently eases out old patterns of dis-ease and dissolves resistance opening the way to radiant health.  This stone shows you the face of the divine.  The energy in this stone acts through the laws of attraction and manifestation.  This is a stone of intention, and can be used to manifest one’s will.  It helps in the creative process, and helps to teach the importance of boundaries.  Pink Topaz also helps promote honor and truth. The stone of "true love and success in all endeavors", it can be used to promote understanding, compassion, kindness and empathy.  It opens the hearts of those who have closed them while at the same time protecting the openhearted from too much pain.

 

Mystic Topaz

Mysticism and Magic

For thousands of years, mystic topaz has been believed to have mystical, powerful and healing properties in many cultures, ranging from the Egyptians to the ancient Greeks. It is a hard gemstone that is easily breakable, and should be treated with care. For those who wear mystic topaz or keep it close to them, it is believed to be able to protect against harm, heal disturbing emotions and strengthen faith and spirituality. The Egyptians, Romans and ancient Greeks believed mystic topaz to be powerful and protecting because it was associated with the sun god. According to legend, topaz promoted eyesight and strength and cleared troubles and emotions from the mind. Some believe that mystic topaz has magical properties, including protection from disease, negative energy and envy. It is believed to release negative emotions such as depression and fear. It is purported to heal, help with weight loss and even improve your love life.

 

Tanzanite

Linkage of the mind and heart, enhances spiritual perception, compassionate self- expression, adherence to truth-  a variety of Zoisite

Used by the ancient Celtic chifs, Tanzenite was used in decions relating to successor-ship; used to help the vision that would determine the rights and privilewdges of those who were being considered.  Ancient tribal communities also believed that it aided communication within the spiritual world, and that it could bring the user revelations from God. A blue form of Zoisite. Is linked with composure, poise and harmony.   Teaches us to slow down and take it easy. This mineral stimulates the throat, 3rd eye, and crown chakras.   It brings together all aspects of both communication and psychic power, allowing the user to adequately communicate visions.  When used to stimulate the crown chakra, it produces visions of the higher spiritual realms.  The energy acts as a spiraling force, reaching to invite protection and safety during all activities.  It is the “stone of magic,”  producing the perfect symmetry of personal power and actualization.  It has been used to assist one in encountering the different aspects of the self and to understand the wonders that exist on other planes.  The energy of Tanzenite is also conducive in facilitating encounters with other-worldly beings.  Physically, it helps skin disorders, mis-alignment of the spinal column and disorders of the eyes. Good for workaholics.

 

Black Tourmaline (schorl)

Purification and Protection

It acts as a shield against negativity, esp., from those around us and is known first and foremost as a stone of protection.  It diminishes fear and makes one more self- confident and relaxed.  It is said to bring healing and protection from physical harm.  Connecting to the base chackra, it grounds energy and increases physical vitality, dispersing tension and stress.  Clearing negative thoughts, Black Tourmaline promotes a laid back attitude and objective neutrality with clear rational thought processes.  It encourages a positive attitude no matter what the circumstances, and stimulates altruism.  Sometimes used to treat heart disease, dyslexia, arthritis, anxiety, sleep disorders and disorientation.

 

Pink Tourmaline

Love and emotional Healing

This stone is an aphrodisiac that attracts love in the material and spiritual world.  Providing assurance that it is safe to love, it inspires trust in love, and confirms that it is necessary to love yourself before you can be loved by others.  This stone assists in sharing physical pleasure.  It disperses emotional pain and old destructive feelings through the heart chakra, which it cleanses and synthesizes love with spirituality.  Promoting peace and relaxation, Pink Tourmaline connects you to wisdom and compassion and stimulates receptivity to healing energies.  In healing, it balances a dysfunctional endocrine system and treats heart, lungs and skin.

 

GREEN Tourmaline

Healing, strength, vitality and wholeness

Brings the qualities of all the individual colors to synthesis and further assists in the redirection of energy and is a modern stone.  It was only in 1876, when George Kunz brought green Tourmaline to Tiffany and Co, that it was first used.  This is one of the premier stones for self-healing.  Opening the heart chakra, it promotes compassion, tenderness, patience and a sense of belonging.  This is a nurturing stone, giving the wearer balance and a joyful attitude.  It centers the energies at the heart chakra, and is more connected to the denser vibrations of physical life than its heart- oriented cousin, Pink Tourmaline.  It can help teach the wearer to see with their heart.  Possesses a masculine energy, but contains the quality of compassion. GREEN TOURMALINE is said to foster prosperity, success, general healing, strength, purification and communication.

 

Watermelon Tourmaline

Calm, Joy

This stone is the super activator of the heart chakra, linking it to the higher self, and fostering love, tenderness and friendship.  This stone instills patience and teaches tact and diplomacy.  It alleviates depression and fear, by promoting inner security.  Watermelon Tourmaline assists in the understanding of situations and expressing intentions clearly.  It treats emotional dysfunction and releases old pain.  It is beneficial for relationships and helps to find the joy in situations.  In healing, it dissolves any resistance to becoming whole once more.  It encourages regeneration of the nerves, especially in paralysis or MS, and treats stress.

 

Rubellite- Red Tourmaline

Alignment of the individual and Universal heart, healing the heart and one’s emotions, rekindling one’s passion for life

It strengthens the ability to understand love, promotes tactfulness and flexibility, sociability and extroversion, balancing too much aggression or over passivity.  It heals and energizes the sacral chakra and increases creativity on all levels.  This color offers stamina and endurance.  In healing, Red Tourmaline gives vitality to the physical body and detoxifies.  It heals the heart; it treats the digestive system, blood vessel and the reproductive system.  It stimulates blood circulation and spleen and liver functions and it repairs veins and is useful for muscle spasms. 

 

Turquoise

Wholeness, communication and spiritual expansion

It is the most efficient healer, providing solace for the spirit and well-being for the body.  It is also a protective stone and has been used for amulets since the beginning of recorded history.  Turquoise is perhaps the longest, and most prolificly used of all gemstones.  Beads dating back to 5,000 b.c. have been found in Iraq.  It is believed to change color to warn of danger and infidelity.  Turquoise promotes spiritual attunement and enhances communication with the physical and spiritual worlds.  It enhances intuition and meditation, while releasing old vows, inhibitions and prohibitions, and allows the self to express itself once more.  It explores past lives and shows how the creation of your “fate” is ongoing and depends on what you do at each moment.  It is also a purification stone- dispelling negative energy.  It strengthens you psychologically and dissolves a martyred attitude, or self sabotage.  Mentally, it instills an inner calm, while remaining alert, and aids in creative expression.  It stabilizes mood swings and brings inner calm- stimulates romantic love.  Physically, it is an excellent stone for exhaustion, depression or panic attacks.  It strengthens the immune system, and can heal the entire body.

 

 Ruby Zoisite

Increase in inner and outer development, awakening of the true self, joyful engagement with life, healing, increase in life force

This combination is one of those truly fortunate natural mineral combinations.   The green Zoisite emanates an energy of growth and fertility in all aspects of life. It can support the reproductive processes on all levels, from conception to birth as well as optimal growth and development through childhood.  It provides energy for the rebirth of oneself, and is excellent for those who have recently awakened to their spiritual abilities.  By strengthening the neural and energetic connections between the brain and the heart, this stone allows the mind to hear the hearts desires.  Ruby, being the stone of life force, courage and passion, when combines with Zoisite, it creates the potential for a magical manifestation of one’s inner and outer development.  The combination energizes the body and creates a sense of well-being.  It brings about an increase in intuitive abilities, whereby one simply knows things without having to work through them logically.  Harmonizes relationships with others, increasing empathy and compassion.  Physically, it is one of the foremost stones for healing the experience of terminal disease, and the transition to death.

 

Zebra Agate

This stone helps release repressed thoughts and allows the wearer to live in harmony with themselves. 

It also enables the wearer to not dwell on past transgressions.  It eliminates feat and peace and comfort.  It is an excellent stone for athletes because it increases stamina and endurance at the same time lessening fatigue.  It is also a calming stone.

 
 
 
 
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