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• Agate: Instills energy,
courage and extra strength to face life's challenges.
• Agate, Blue Lace: Balances psychic centers.
Aids with depression, despair, stubbornness and other difficult
emotions. Gentle, calming.
• Agate, Botswana: Sometimes
called the “change” stone – assists in handling
change in positive ways, helping one make transitions in a way
that change is not as difficult or painful as it could be. Helps
one to focus on solutions instead of problems, thereby increasing
creativity. Beneficial to the nervous system. Attracts gifts and
small pleasures; mood lifting.
• Agate, Moss: Assists with getting in
touch with nature; plant knowledge.
• Agate, Tree: Introspection. Helps one
view oneself with more clarity and see the world from a broader
viewpoint.
• Amazonite: Truth, honor, communication,
integrity and trust. Enhances intuition, creativity and psychic
ability. Elevates self worth. Soothes nervous system. Facilitates
clearer vision of one's own harmful tendencies, making them easier
to release. Enhances communications concerning love.
• Amber: Spiritualizes, and both calms
and stimulates the intellect. Helps to manifest desires. It also
transmutes the energy of physical vitality toward the activation
of unconditional love, patience, balance and calmness.
• Amethyst: "Stone of spirituality
and contentment. Amethyst bestows stability, strength, invigoration,
and peace, the peace being the perfect peace which was present
prior to birth. It is "warm and cuddly" as well as regal
and ruling. It has been used to encourage and support sobriety.
It is an excellent stone for one who is attempting to find freedom
from addictive personalities (oneself or another). Calming, strong,
protective qualities, healing, divine love and inspiration. Enhances
one's psychic and creative abilities. Excellent for meditation.
• Amethyst, Cape: Inner alignment.
• Apache Tears: Repels negativity, aids
in grief, provides protection.
• Apatite: Communication. It can help to
integrate, co-ordinate, and balance the emotional intellectual,
physical, and etheric bodies. It can provide access to past -
life insight and telepathy. Apatite enhances creativity. It is
a stone of the future and will bring knowledge to those attuned
to it by clearing mental confusion. It truly awakens the finer,
inner self.
• Aquamarine: Love and mercy, clear thinking,
purifying, confidence. Purification and cleansing that washes
the mind with fresh clear thoughts. Its calming effects make it
a popular gemstone for those who practice meditation, as it is
also believed to eradicate fears and phobias.
• Aventurine, Green: Reinforces ones decisiveness,
amplifies ones leadership qualities, and is a willing participant
in instinctive action. Emotional tranquility, positive attitudes
towards life, brings one into alignment with their center. Independence,
health and well-being. Speeds healing. Aids creativity and imagination,
prosperity and career success. Helps one to see alternatives and
potentials in all situations.
• Aventurine, Red/Orange: This material
provides reflective qualities so that one can recognize the flaws
of humanity and can remain in the heart space to continue to love
this same humanity. It can help one look at a situation in complete
detail, magnifying those aspects of importance. It provides for
self reflection, and allows one to recognize that "in each
person you see but the reflection of that which you choose to
have that person be.”
• Azurite: Helps to calm, aids in truth-finding
and acceptance.
• Beryl: Psychic awareness. Another good
relationship stone.
• Bloodstone: Inner guidance, idealism.
"The Stone of Courage." Assists with renewal of the
physical mental and emotional bodies. Also a very good gem for
those in business - self employed. Reduces emotional and mental
stress (depression). Assists with centering and grounding oneself.
In survival situations, it increase adaptability and lessens confusion.
• Calcite: Balancing, good for meditation;
increases and amplifies energies.
• Carnelian: Balance, creativity, focus,
individuality, courage and mental processes. It protects against
fear, envy, and rage, and helps to banish sorrow. Helps in decision-making.
Helps stabilize energies in the home. The message of carnelian
is that since one "is" love, there is nothing to do
but to offer the love - each offering of love bringing an exponential
increase in the quantity of love returned. Carnelian stimulates
inquisitiveness and subsequent initiative. It can assist one in
drama and pursuits related to theatrical presentations.
• Chalcedony: 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. Encourages "brotherhood" among all. Alleviates
hostilities, irritability, and melancholy. It enhances generosity,
responsiveness and receptivity. It is said to cure varying forms
of dementia, to rectify senility, and to increase mental stability.
• Charoite: Aids in conquering ones own
fears.
• Chrysocolla: Feminine qualities; clears
thinking.
• Chrysoprase: Spiritual protection.
• Citrine: Energizing attracts abundance.
It is one of the few minerals on the planet which does not hold
and accumulate negative energy, but dissipates and transmutes
it, working out problems on both physical and subtle levels. Citrine
is one of the stones to be called "merchants stone"
or the “success stone” - placing citrine in ones cash
box has produced more income for the merchant. Diminishes self
destructive tendencies. Raises self esteem, lightheartedness,
cheerfulness, hope; enhances mental clarity.
• Coral: Protects and strengthens one's emotional
foundation.
• Danburite: Aids the intellect. Amplifies
properties of all other stones. Strengthens clarity and perceptiveness,
lessens issues of self-pride.
• Diamonds : Increase personal clarity.
Bonds relationships and enhances love. Brings longevity to relationships,
balance, clarity and abundance. Amplifies ones thoughts, strengths
and weaknesses. Gives the wearer courage and hope.
• Emerald: Love and romance. Physical and
emotional healing. Tonic for body/mind/spirit. Enhances joy, memory,
intuition, communication, truthfulness, dreams and meditation.
• Fluorite: Assists with change. Helps
one get out of ruts. Raises IQ to the highest capacity. Excellent
for advancement of mind, improving concentration, meditation.
Helps one to grasp higher, more abstract concepts. Facilitates
inter dimensional communication.
• Fossils: Increase accomplishments in
the area of business and add excellence to one’s environment.
They also aid one in being open to change and new ideas.
• Garnet: Prevents fears of insecurity,
draws out negativity. “stone of commitment" - to purpose,
to others, to oneself. The loving power of garnet tends to reflect
the attributes of devotion, bringing the love of others to expressions
of warmth and understanding. It both monitors and adjusts the
flow of energy, providing for a balanced energy field around the
physical body and aligning the emotional and intellectual bodies.
Increases sex drive. It can also assist with success in one’s
career and building one’s self-confidence.
• Gold: Healing; balancing, promotes abundance.
Mineral of spirituality, understanding and attunement to nature.
• Hematite: Enhances personal magnetism.
Grounding dissolves negative energy and works as a shield of protection
for any person or thing. Reduces stress, enhances personal magnetism,
optimism, will, courage. "Stone for the mind" - it helps
one to realize that the only limitations which exist are self-limiting
concepts within the mind. Stimulates attainment of peace, self-control,
and inner happiness. Balances yin-yang energies. Assists in the
focusing of energy and emotions for balance between the body,
mind, and spirit. Helps transform negativity to the purity of
the universal light of love.
• Howlite: This mineral can be used to
calm communication, to facilitate awareness, and to encourage
emotional expression. It builds an innate decency within ones
character, encouraging those attributes which are the building
blocks to spirituality. Decreases an overly critical state of
mind, selfishness, stress, pain and rudeness. Increases subtlety
and tact.
• Iolite (Water Sapphire): Enhancement
of inner knowing; helps one to eliminate debt by accepting responsibility
which leads to successful management of money; has been a stone
worn by Shamans in the past to insure accuracy of visions; also
can aid the elimination of disharmony in relationships.
• Jacinth: Friendship, healing.
• Jade, Green: Relaxation. Facilitates
peace within the physical, emotional, and intellectual structures,
as well as within the materialistic world. It was said to bring
accord the environment, to transmute negativity and to instill
resourcefulness. "Very Lucky Stone".
• Jade, Honey: Powerful emotional balancer;
radiates divine unconditional love. Dispels negativity. It has
been used by the ancients {and some current} primitive tribes
as a sacred stone, assisting one in access to the spiritual worlds.
• Jasper, Brown: Directs energies toward
the body.
• Jasper, Leopardskin: Support; known as
the ‘supreme nurturer.’ It is often worn by shaman
to provide protection. It balances the yin yang energy and balances
the physical, emotional, and intellectual bodies with the etheric
energies. It stabilizes the aura, providing for a cleansing effect
to smooth dysfunctional energies and eliminate negativity".
• Jasper, Picture: It can be used to further
both the development and continuance of business pursuits - to
provide for coordination of activities leading to increase. It
has been known as "the stone of Global Awareness;" it
promotes "brotherhood" to work together to save the
planet. It emits an energy which promotes the spiritual affinity
to achieve perfect accord between humanity and nature.
• Jasper, Poppy: Helps to stimulate a positive
outlook.
• Jasper, Red: Used to attract a love affair or maintain
passion.
• Jasper, Yellow: Helps one to be strong
and balanced in social areas, and protect one’s social welfare.
Gives protection during travel, shields one from negativity and
can protect from depression.
• Kunzite: Emotional support. Helps one
to understand and interact better with others, heals “broken
hearts”, relieves stress and anger, brings love peace and
harmony.
• Labradorite (aka spectrolite): It is
said to represent the "temple of the stars," ,assisting
one in sustaining and maintaining, while providing for the understanding
of the destiny one has chosen. It assists during traverse changes,
attracting strength and perseverance. It symbolizes the moon and
the sun. Promotes refinement of action and discernment in direction.
It allows for recognition that humanity represents "being
of light", transcending the limitations of the past and thoughts
of the future, and embracing the infinite possibilities of the
moment.
• Lapis Lazuli: Mental clarity and emotional
healing. Very powerful stone for those sincere in spiritual development.
Helps develop psychic abilities and aids in communication with
Higher Self. Augments strength, vitality, virility, mental clarity,
illumination. Enhances psychic abilities and communication with
higher self and spirit guides. Creative expression. It has also
been used as a protective stone, sheltering the wearer/carrier
from physical danger and psychic attacks. Lapis Lazuli is a "stone
of total awareness", helping to expand awareness and intellectual
capacity, and allowing for conscious attunement to the intuitive
and psychic aspects of ones nature. "The Stone of Royalty".
• Malachite: Brings harmony into one's
life. Reveals subconscious blocks. Is said to be a useful aid
in pathworking. Sometimes called "the stone of transformation,"
assisting one in changing situations, and providing for the transfer
of sacred information to spiritual evolution; clears and activates
all chakras balancing and equalizing it can create an unobstructed
path leading to a desired goal. Facilitates the rise of spirituality
and the enhancement of psychic abilities.
• Moldavite: Grounding stone.
• Moonstone, Grey: Cleansing.
• Moonstone, Orange: Comforting.
• Moonstone, White: Balances yin/yang.
Opens up psychic potential. The energy of moonstone is balancing,
introspective, reflective, and lunar. It is capable of helping
one with the changing structures of ones life on the physical,
emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Once called the "travelers
stone" it is used for protection against the perils of travel.
Moonstone is also a talisman of good fortune. It is also said
to both arouse tenderness within the self and to bring happiness
to the environment in which it resides.
• Mother of Pearl: Protection, nurturing.
Attracts money.
• Obsidian, Black: Called the "Mirror
Stone," it reflects ones personal shortcomings such that
they can come to the conscious to be dealt with, then let go of.
The most well know of the different colors is Apache Tears, a
black obsidian. Obsidian can help protect against the negativity
of others and has a grounding influence helping one to stay focused
in the moment. It can also help to stimulate analytical capabilities
and precision, and can help promote a forgiving attitude and release
of grievances.
• Obsidian, Mahogany: Assists with decision-making.
• Obsidian, Snowflake: Allows one to recognize
the unnecessary patterns which remain in one’s life and
to re-design ones thought patterns to provide relief from undesired
conditions. It is "the stone of purity" and provides
balance to the body, mind, and spirit.
• Onyx, Black: Helps one to change bad
habits. Assists with the challenges in life, especially those
caused by a drain of energy. Relieves stress. Retains physical
body strength. Can be used to banish grief, to enhance self-control,
to stimulate the power of wise decision making, and to encourage
happiness and good fortune. It is grounding and can be used to
deflect or absorb the negativity of others. Repels negativity.
• Onyx, Mexican: Helps one sleep better.
• Opal, Black: Helps one see the possibilities
of how one can be all they can be.
• Opal : Assists one to see possibilities;
discover a broader view; spirituality.
• Pearl: Enables one to accept love. See
the good parts of oneself so you can love yourself and others
more. It signifies faith, charity, and innocence, enhances personal
integrity, and helps to provide focus to ones attention. The pearl
has been known as a "stone of sincerity", brings truth
to situations and loyalty to a "cause". It has been
used to inhibit boisterous behavior, and to provide a reflection
of the self such that one may see the manner in which one appears
to others.
• Peridot: Brings the energies from in
the aura to the physical body. This gemstone emits a warm friendly
energy; acts to provide a shield of protection around the body
to help prevent outside influences from affecting alignment and
balance. Helps one to find happiness within one’s self,
overcoming anger and jealousy. Compassion, simple pleasures.
• Pyrite: A stone of mentality and protection.
It enhances intelligence, mental stability, logic, analysis, creativity,
memory and psychic development. It can help you tap your own latent
mental talents and abilities, and is a powerful protection stone.
• Quartz (clear): Traditionally, the natural
quartz crystal was said to both harmonize and align human energies,
thoughts, consciousness, and emotions with the energies of the
universe, and to make these greater energies available to humanity.
The natural tendency of quartz is for harmony, and is recognized
as a "Stone of Power". Stimulates brain function and
power, aids clarity of mind. Dispels negativity in ones energy
field and environment, aligns all charkas; a very powerful healer.
• Quartz, Frosted: Balance, soothing
• Quartz, Rose: Emotional balance. Very
good for expressing and soothing emotions. Helps clear stored
anger, resentment, guilt, fear, jealousy. Aids development of
forgiveness, compassion, love. Known as the "Love Stone."
It emits a calming, cooling energy which can work on all chakras
to gently remove negativity and to reinstate the loving, gentle
forces of self love. Good to wear in a chaotic or crisis situation.
It is "the stone of gentle love" bringing peace and
calm to relationships. It can be used for spiritual attunement
to the energy of love. It is a rejuvenating agent for both physical
body and the emotions. It is an excellent energy for healing emotional
"wounds". An excellent stone to give to express friendship.
• Quartz, Rutilated: Stimulates brain functions.
Increases clairvoyance. Transmutes negativity. Enhances life -
force and brain function. Eases depression. Facilitates communication,
increases clairvoyance. Highly electrical, more intensity than
clear quartz, transmutes negativity, enhances communication with
spirit guides. A great physical healer. Slows the advancement
of aging.
• Quartz, Smokey: Balances sexual energy.
Enhances dream awareness and channeling abilities. Excellent for
meditation. It can be used to gently dissolve negative energies
and emotional blockages. It can be used to initiate a powerful
force field which will absorb many forms of negativity, both from
within ones self and from other forces. It promotes personal pride
and joy in living. Smoky quartz has been used to regulate creativity
in business, and to encourage astuteness in purchasing. It works
to diffuse communication deficiencies and to dissolve mental and
emotional blockages which limit perception and learning.
• Quartz, Tourmalated: The energy of black
tourmaline, which deflects the negative energy of others, combined
with the alignment and harmonizing energy of quartz. Black tourmaline
also has a grounding effect, helping one to stay protected and
focused in the present. Quartz tends to raise the vibration of
any other crystal or mineral in the area. Balances male - female
energies within one's self.
• Rhodocrosite: Gives one confidence while
making desired changes. Very supportive. Emotional balancer. Helps
heal emotional wounds. This mineral has been called a "Stone
of Love and Balance", providing balancing and love on all
levels for all bodies. It contains pulsating electrical energy
which emits the strongest power in the universe, the power of
love. Rhodochrosite is also an Earth stone for healing of the
Earth and for showing love to the Mother of us all. It helps one
to serve the planet in Her time of need, allowing for one to recognize
that the responsibility is actually a joy. It removes tendencies
toward avoidance or denial and helps one to be willing to both
accept and to integrate "new" information while maintaining
a clarity of intellect and a moderate ideal of practicality.
• Rhodonite (Garnet): Emotional support.
Helps one take the next step emotionally. Restores physical energy,
improves memory. Elevates self esteem, self confidence; gives
an aura of elegance. Has been called "the stone of love"
and helps one to achieve to his/her greatest potential. It conveys
the resonance of unconditional love and service to humanity to
the physical plane. It dispels anxiety and promotes coherence,
bringing the user and observant nature and facilitating attention
to details and interrelationships – it can help one have
a passionate love that is also grounded.
• Ruby: Love, integrity, devotion and happiness.
Opens the heart, helps to overcome fear. Enhances generosity and
prosperity.
• Sapphire: Mental clarity, protection,
luck. Enhances creative expression, intuition and meditation.
• Selenite: Eases thoughts and emotions,
strengthens decisions. Promotes good business practices. Removes
energy blocks.
• Silver: Mirror of the soul.
• Sodalite: Logic, rationality and efficiency.
This blue mineral helps one to stimulate communications and psychic
abilities. Helps one work in groups and heal breaches in communications
(ending arguments and other disagreements). Aids with honesty
in emotions. Increases intelligence, knowledge and learning, and
can unite the logical with the spiritual. Protects from external
negative energy. Balances male/female polarities. Slightly sedative,
grounding; calms and clears the mind, alleviates fear, brings
clarity and truth. Aids with self esteem.
• Sugalite: “The healer’s stone.”
Lessens the effects of shock and disappointment, strengthens spirituality,
psychic ability. Helps to perfect spiritual love and unconditional
love. Helps to manifest one’s natural gifts, and protects
against harsh realities. Lowers hostility, anger, jealousy and
prejudice, and gives a sense of freedom.
• Sunstone: Enhances contemplations, remembering
dreams.
• Tanzanite: Assists with changes. Uplifts
and opens the heart. Sometimes called the “workaholic’s
stone” because it assists one to slow down and take it easy.
Relieves stress and enhances composure, poise and harmony.
• Tiger Eye: Enhances personal power and
will, strength and self confidence. It is helpful for individuals
seeking clarity and for those who must deal intelligently with
the scattered details which must be brought together in some pattern.
It can be used to enhance the psychic abilities and can assist
in the gentle attunement of third eye activity. This stone is
best suited to earthy people. It has been used to stimulate wealth
and to enhance the stability required to maintain wealth. Produces
soothing vibrations, generating a calmness to unsettled turmoil,
and allowing one to enjoy the actions of being unfenced and uninhibited.
Can be used to enhance self empowerment.
• Topaz: Dispels fear, provides emotional
warmth.
• Topaz, Blue: Brings leadership ability;
enhances and improves psychic knowledge, spiritual growth, and
psychic insight. It also lends an air of tranquility in these
endeavors.
• Tourmaline: Increases flexibility, happiness,
compassion and serenity. It also enhances tolerance and understanding.
It is a stone that is very helpful for channeling. Tourmaline
is often associated with the sacral chakra. A gem with balancing
powers, tourmaline is one of the birthstones for Librans everywhere
and is believed to foster inner harmony while bringing balance
to both individuals and relationships. The favorite of Dowager
Empress Tzu Hsi, Tourmaline is known as the "Chameleon Gemstone"
for its myriad of stunning colors.
• Tourmaline, Black: Protection and grounding.
• Tourmaline, Green: Promotes male balance
and physical healing.
• Tourmaline, Pink: Promotes female balance
and protection.
• Turquoise: Attracts abundance. Creative
expression, emotional balance, communication, friendship. Creative
expression, peace of mind, emotional balance, communication, friendship,
and loyalty.
• Unakite: Balances physical/emotional
body. It acts to, bringing it into alignment with the higher forces
of spirituality. It can be used to help one go beneath the physical
symptoms of dis-ease and to allow for the determination of the
root cause underlying the condition; the cause becoming apparent
in the cases of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual
planes of existence.
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