UPDATED
5/29/08
Here
you will find short descriptions of energetic properties attributed
to the stones, crystals and minerals we work with. More information
can be found in several books- we recommend Crystal Bible by Judy
Hall, The Book of Stones, by Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian
and Love is in the Earth by A. Melody.
Use
the alphabet list below to find the description you are looking
for. We will be constantly adding new descriptions. Remember-
this is a general reference list for your use only. We feel that
stones enhance our lives, but make no medical or scientific claims
or promises of how they will effect you and your loved ones, nor
do we prescribe or diagnose in any form.
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A
Agates
are all grounding stones, and bring physical, emotional and intellectual
balance. They balance positive and negative, yin and yang. They
are slow working stones of great strength, but also very soothing
and calming. They help with self acceptance, building self confidence
and aiding with honest self analysis. They encourage speaking
one’s own truth. Agates enhance concentration, and perception,
leading to finding practical solutions. They are useful in healing
any kind of emotional trauma, overcoming bitterness of the heart
and anger. They also foster spiritual growth and inner stability.
Agatized
Coral is coral that has been fossilized over millions
of years. It is a very supportive stone, helpful when working
through emotional healing, especially resulting from dysfunctional
families. It imparts balance and stability, and the fluidity necessary
to make it all work. It helps heal anything in the past, this
life or another
Amber
is not technically a stone- it is fossilized tree resin.
However, it still has healing properties. It is very grounding
with strong connections to the earth. It can draw disease from
the body as well as cleansing the environment and chakras. It
absorbs negativity and transmutes it to positive. It encourages
a warm, sunny attitude and can counteract suicidal or depressive
tendencies.
Ametrine
is a combination of
Citrine and Amethyst,
blending the colors and properties
of both. It is a fast acting stone, and bring forth insight into
causes of long-standing diseases. It is helpful in meditation,
resonating with the Third Eye chakra. It can also help balance
male and female energies. It can help overcome prejudice and help
one understand we are all one. It enhances creativity and supports
one to take control of one’s own life.
Ammonite,
sometimes referred to as Ammolite, is actually the fossilized
structure of a creature that lived in the time of the dinosaurs.
It is a stone of protection and stability, and gives the wearer
a greater ability to see the “whole picture”. It is
a very grounding stone and is associated with the Root Chakra.
It is also a stone of prosperity and abundance, along with encouraging
general good health, stamina and high energy.
Amethyst
is a powerful, serene stone, with a very high energy vibration.
It stimulates the throat and crown chakras, and assists with meditation.
Amethyst helps balance the mind, stimulating or calming it as
needed, helping you focus and make good decisions and improving
memory. It also quiets the mind when sleeping and balances emotions.
It helps overcome addictions of all kinds. Amethyst is a very
spiritual stone, enhancing your connection to the divine. It opens
you up to your intuition. It is helpful for people getting ready
to transition through death.
Aquamarine
is a stone of courage. As the cool blue green color suggests,
it is calming and soothing. It soothes fear while increasing sensitivity.
It protects against pollutants. It used to be thought to protect
sailors from drowning. It encourages people to not be judgmental
while taking responsibility for oneself. It helps quiet mind chatter.
It is useful for closure on all levels. It assists with communication
and promotes self expression. It sharpens intuition and helps
with meditation. It aligns the chakras and clears the throat chakra.
Azurite
encourages psychic and intuitive development, cleansing and clearing
the third eye (brow) chakra. It assists and protects one while
journeying out of body. It raises consciousness and aid spiritual
development. It brings clear understandings and new perspectives,
expanding the mind. It stimulates memory while assisting one to
let go of pre-programmed belief systems allowing for deeper insight
and new reality. Azurite clears stress, worry, fear, grief and
sadness. It is especially good for healing mental issues or communication
problems. Azurite w/Malachite
combines the properties of both stones. It
allows for deep emotional healing.
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B
Binghamite is a fortuitous stone, said to have the energy of both the flower fairies and the elves. It can motivate one to be less solitary, to remind us that we are part of a larger whole and encourage us to participate. It can also help recapture our childish dreams, joys and connections. It is said to enhance psychic pursuits. It helps to amplify energy while transmuting negative energy to positive energy. This effect will pervade the environment that it is in. Binghamite is found in Minnesota.
Black
Jasper, in addition to the properties listed under “Jasper”,
is an excellent scrying stone, assisting with attaining deep trance-states,
often bring prophetic dreams and visions.
Black
Tourmaline cleanses and purifies energy, transforming
it to a higher vibration. It is also very grounding, and forms
a protective shield around the body. It promotes self confidence
and releases fear. It helps one move past being a victim and encourages
inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. It is excellent
protection against electromagnetic smog, radiation, psychic attack,
ill-wishing and negative energy of all kinds. It connects with
the root chakra and increases physical vitality, dispersing tension
and stress. It clears negative thoughts and encourages a laid-back,
positive attitude.
Bloodstone
is made up of green quartz with flecks of
jasper. It is an excellent
cleanser of the blood and blood related issues. It stimulates
the immune system, flow of lymph and metabolic processes. It heightens
intuition and increases creativity. It is extremely grounding
and protective while imparting courage and teaching strategic
withdrawal when necessary. It encourages flexibility, selflessness
and idealism. It also helps one act and be “in the moment”.
Bloodstone also calms the mind, dispels confusion, and enhances
decision making abilities while reducing irritability, aggressiveness
and impatience. It also helps bring spirituality into everyday
life.
Blue
Lace Agate’s energy is soft and cooling, calming.
Very effective in activating and healing the throat chakra. A
nurturing and supportive stone, it will help neutralize anger,
infection, inflammation and fever. It counteracts that which makes
you suppress feelings and makes you “hold your tongue”.
This stone brings peace.
Blue
Tiger’s Eye in addition to the properties listed
under
Tiger’s Eye,
is a calming stone, helping to relieve stress. It can slow metabolism
and cool emotions. It can soothe an over-active libido.
Botswana
Agate is a forward-thinking stone, encouraging one to
find solutions, rather that focusing on problems. It encourages
exploration into the unknown, physically or spiritually. It enhances
creativity. This agate stimulates the crown chakra and encourages
eternal love and conscientiousness. It encourages and demands
high standard of personal character and enables one to see the
‘whole picture”. Like all agates, it is a very balancing
stone, physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Boulder
Opal forms within cracks found in ironstone boulders.
It can aid one to connect with other planes of existence. It is
said to connect one to the stars and “star people”,
both of this world and others. It acts as a grounding agent while
enhancing transfer of information. It can clear the aura and help
one connect with one’s subconscious. It is a very healing
stone, healing on all levels. It enhances mental clarity, emotional
security, physical well being and spiritual perfection.
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C
Calcite
is a powerful cleanser of energy. It will clear the environment
of negative energy or remove energy blocks within a body. It activates
development and growth, including spiritual growth. It enhances
psychic abilities and heightens emotional intelligence by connecting
emotions with the intellect. Calcite calms the mind, stimulates
insights and boost memory. It encourages serenity and trust in
oneself.
Carnelian
is a grounding stone and anchors one in the present. It also has
a high energy vibration and is excellent for restoring vitality
and enhancing creativity while stimulating the root, sacral, solar
plexus and heart chakras. It is useful those in theatre, and imparts
courage, motivation and steadfastness. It helps one embrace the
cycle of life and dispels a fear of death. It overcomes apathy
and negative conditioning. It encourages positive life choices
and supports success in business, improving analytic abilities,
clarifying perceptions and sharpening concentration. It quiets
the mind in mediation and protects against anger, rage and resentment
(yours or other people’s). It encourages a love of life.
Carnelian also cleanses other stones.
Celestite
(Celestine) has a very high energy vibration and is a
very spiritual stone. It can help with connection to the angelic
realms and jump start spiritual development. It attracts good
fortune and reveals truth. It can enhance intuitive or psychic
abilities. It relieves stress and encourages creativity. It is
a calming stone. Celestite resonates with the throat, third eye
and crown chakras.
Charoite
is a stone of transformation. It overcomes fear, reduces stress
and worry. It stimulates unconditional love. It facilitates enormous
change at the spiritual level. It provides deep physical and emotional
healing while helping you accept the present moment at perfect.
It synthesizes the heart and crown chakras.
Chiastolite
enhances both practicality and creativity and stabilizes emotions.
It is very protective and can transmute dissention into harmony.
It is also helpful for those transitioning into death. It is calming,
and helps one face reality and change with confidence. It helps
release unproductive patterns and conditioning. Chiastolite can
release feelings of guilt and help maintain spirituality amidst
illness or trauma. It helps one attune to the soul’s purpose.
Chrysanthemum
Stone can help one discover and develop one’s true
potential, find one’s calling and live it to the fullest.
It is also a calming, stabilizing, spiritual stone. It supports
joy and innocence while strengthening character. In encourages
compassion while discouraging bigotry. It helps one recognize
that which is “real”.
Chrysocolla
is a tranquil stone that is helpful with mediation and communication.
It removed negative energy from the environment. It can evoke
great inner strength, helping you deal with change and conflict
with serenity. It eases communication and can help improve tough
relationships, romantic OR platonic. Chrysocolla cleanses and
energizes all chakras. It encourages self awareness and inner
balance and enhances confidence, personal power, creativity and
sensitivity. It can also alleviate guilt and bring in joy.
Chrysoprase
is helpful with mediation and gaining personal insights. It helps
one recognize one’s part in the divine whole, while promoting
truth and stimulating creativity. It encourages fidelity in both
business and personal matters. Chrysoprase is calming and helps
one remove ego from situations. It instills forgiveness and compassion
and imparts a sense of security and trust. It can be helpful for
eliminating nightmare, especially with children. It can also be
helpful in overcoming co-dependence. It resonates with the heart
and sacral chakras.
Citrine
is a creative stone that energizes cleanses that around it. It
protects against negative energy by absorbing, transmuting, dissipating
and grounding it. It warns against danger, allowing one to protect
oneself. Cleanses chakras and has special affinity with the sacral
and solar plexus chakras. It activates the crown chakra and also
opens one to intuition. Citrine is a stone of abundance and encourages
generosity and joy. It raises self esteem and self confidence
and allows one to accept constructive criticism as the help it
is meant to be. Helpful in overcoming depression, fears and phobias,
while enhancing concentration and revitalizing the mind.
Copper
is a mineral that encourages balance, combating lethargy and excitability,
passivity, and restlessness. It helps one accept oneself. It encourages
one to love oneself truly, not trying “fill the void”
with relationships or material things. It is said to bring luck
and good energy. It opens the base and sacral chakras, enhancing
and stabilizing all that they affect. It is a good conductor of
electricity and can magnify the energy transfer from a stone or
healer.
Covellite is a bridge, connecting one both to Earth energy and etheric energies and beyond. It is helpful during the energetic/evolutionary transition we are going through now, and will remain useful, adapting to changes as they happen. It is helpful to anyone exploring their shadow side/shadow self. This type of work is absolutely necessary before moving to a higher plane of consciousness. Enhances intuitive abilities. Very helpful in past live work. Grounding.
Cuprite
is often found in a matrix of copper. It is a stone of the Divine
Feminine and can help one balance cone’s true feminine nature
resulting in enhanced life force, vitality, physical energy, healing
and courage. Cuprite is a stone of fertility, including fertility
of ideas and goals. It is an excellent physical healer, including
but not limited to such things as lung dysfunctions, circulation
disorders, prostate and lower bowel issues and concerns with the
sexual organs. On an emotional level, Cuprite can help with irrational
anxieties, fears around mortality and unconscious terrors connected
to past traumas. Cuprite resonates with the root and sacral chakras
and can help with the awakening of Kundalini energies.
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D
Dalmation
Jasper dispels nightmares, negative thinking and depression
while increasing loyalty and fun with life. It lessens disillusionment
and helps one see one’s own strengths and weaknesses honestly.
See also: Jasper.
Dendritic
Agate is a stone of abundance,
bringing fullness to all areas of life. It helps one enjoy the
moment, bring peace inside and out. Deepens one’s connection
with the plant kingdom and earth. It brings stability and helps
one remain centered amidst chaos. It also lends perseverance and
the ability to see difficulties as challenges. Opens and aligns
all chakras. It is, however, a stone that works slowly and must
be worn continuously for quite a period of time. It also has attributes
found under Agate.
Dumortierite
is a calming stone that encourages one to stand up for oneself,
while also seeking reasonable, flexible solutions. It imparts
stamina and patience, and help one distinguish between reality
and illusion and where they meet. It resonates with the Third
Eye chakra, and enhances all mental abilities with stimulating
intuition and psychic abilities.
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E
Emerald
is a stone of inspiration. It brings domestic bliss and loyalty,
and encourages patience. It supports relationships, both romantic
and platonic, and opens the heart chakra. Emerald eliminates negativity
and supports equilibrium (mental, physical and emotional). It
enhances psychic abilities. It enhances the ability to enjoy life
to its fullest. Emerald imparts mental clarity and strengthens
memory.
Epidote
is a manifesting stone. It dispels tendency to criticize, and
enhances clear sight and supplements personal power. It encourages
participation in life and all endeavors.
Eudialite
can enhance psychic abilities, especially clairaudience. It resonates
with the heart chakra, teaching love of “all that is”.
It opens all chakras and facilitates the movement of Kundalini
energy. It dispels jealousy and infuses one with inspiration and
confidence. It helps separate one from negative emotions that
diminish self-love and ability to love others.
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F
Flint
is very grounding and can help one stay “in the body”
while stimulating vitality. It can be very helpful for people
healing from illness or injury by increasing life force. It also
enhances intuition and psychic abilities. Flint encourages simple
values- honesty, truth, loyalty, simplicity. Flint brings the
spiritual into the physical and practical realm, paving the way
for everyday miracles.
Fluorite
is highly protective and prevents psychic manipulation. It also
protects again electromagnetic smog. It cleanses and stabilizes
the aura, and draws off negative energies. It supports organization
in anything- whether it is your body, house or an organization.
It brings stability to groups. It can quicken spiritual awakening
and heighten intuition. It gently brings suppressed feeling to
the surface to be resolved. It is an excellent learning aid and
stabilizes emotions. Rekindles libido.
Fuchsite
is a practical stone, often helping one access information
on holistic remedies and treatment. It lessens a tendency towards
martyrdom. It deals with issues of servitude from past or present
life. It helps alleviate a tendency towards being a victim. It
helps clarify and enforce boundaries and teaches true self worth.
For those struggling to let a loved one learn their own lessons,
it helps them stay strong and not “help”.
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G
Garnet
is a cleansing, energizing, purifying and balancing stone. It
inspires love and devotion while balancing sex drive. It is a
stone of commitment. It augments survival instinct, allowing one
to function in times of crisis and bringing hope and courage.
It can expand awareness and allow for past life recall. It amplifies
the affects of other stones. It sharpens ones perceptions of oneself
and other people. It encourages one to let go of that which is
not in one’s best interest- behavior, relationships, habits,
etc… Bestows self confidence.
Gold
is a spiritual mineral, allowing for understanding. It encourages
one to seek knowledge. It can be used to balance the energy fields.
It can help you to not feel overburdened by responsibility. It
can help open the crown, third eye, and heart chakras. It is an
excellent mineral for purification of the physical body.
Green
Aventurine is a positive stone and attracts prosperity.
It turns negative situations into positive ones. It enhances good
leadership qualities, including compassion, empathy and perseverance.
It can help relieve stammers. It enhances creativity, stimulates
perception and stabilizes state of mind, calming anger and irritation.
It resonates with the heart chakra and is a comforter and heart
healer. It encourages living from the heart and protects against
psychic vampirism of heart energy. It also promotes physical well-being.
Green
Tourmaline is an excellent healer, opening the heart
chakra and promoting compassion, tenderness, patience and a sense
of belonging. It is a balancing stone, bringing with it a joy
of life. It helps one move past being a victim, and dispels fears.
It increases self confidence and inspires creativity, as well
as attracting prosperity and abundance. It overcomes problems
with father figures. Aids sleep and quiets the mind. It is very
grounding, and forms a protective shield around the body.
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H
Hawks
Eye is a form of Tiger’s eye. It is especially
good for grounding and healing the Earth. It invigorates the physical
body while increasing psychic abilities. It is good for breaking
old patterns and beliefs that are no longer correct or helpful.
It counteracts pessimism and encourages taking responsibility
for one’s own actions. Brings up hidden emotions and causes
of disease from this or previous lifetimes to be healed. Resonates
with the base chakra. Also see properties of
Tiger’s Eye.
Hematite
is VERY grounding and protective. Dissolves negative energy. It
is a strong stone that lends its strength to one who wears it,
boosting confidence and strength of character as well as willpower
and self esteem. It removes self limitations. It is helpful in
overcoming compulsions and addictions, and helps one view mistakes
as learning experiences rather than disasters. It stimulates concentration
and focus, sharpening the mind and memory. Hematite
included
Quartz combines the properties
of Hematite and Quartz.
Hickoryite is a form of Rhyolite.
Hiddenite
is the green form of Kunzite and
can vary from yellow to emerald green. It is a stone that supports
new beginnings. It connects to other words to assist in transfer
of knowledge. It helps release feelings of failure and teaches
one to accept comfort and support from people and the Universe.
It links the intellect to love.
Howlite
is one of the most calming stones, often helping with insomnia
if placed under one’s pillow. It stills the mind, often
assisting with meditation. It provides a link to the spiritual
dimensions, preparing one for information and insight. Journeys
out of the body or into past lives are easier with the help of
Howlite. It helps one form and achieve ambitions, on all planes.
It teaches patience and cools non-productive anger, yours or others.
It strengthens positive character traits while diminishing criticalness
and selfishness.
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I
Iolite
activates the third eye chakra and stimulates connection to inner
knowing. It aids in understanding and releasing causes of addiction.
It helps you express your true self and not be bothered by other’s
expectations. It releases discord within relationships and can
help overcome codependency.
Imperial Jasper has been used to clear entities and also for connection with those of extraterrestrial origin. It can be used as the proverbial “white flag” of truce, promising no harmful intentions and enforcing the same. It is a regal stone, stimulating the crown chakra and one’s dignity simultaneously. It is a helpful stone to use when training animals or children- helping them understand the lesson and know when it is quite important. It can also help balance power struggles or power imbalances in relationships. In groups, Imperial Jasper can help bind together the will of all, encouraging cooperation. It can help with memory loss or mental/emotional disorders. Properties of Jasper also apply.
Iron
Pyrite is an excellent energy shield. It blocks negative
energy and pollutants. It is said to shield one even from infectious
diseases. It deflects harm and danger, especially when worn around
the neck. It is a very positive stone, helping one to overcome
inertia and “get moving”. It assists one to tap into
ones abilities and potential and move forward with it. It teaches
how to see behind a façade and yet promotes diplomacy.
It relieves anxiety and frustration while boosting confidence
and true self worth. It increases mental activity, memory and
recall and relieves melancholy and despair. It increases energy
and overcomes fatigue, while blocking energy leaks from the physical
body and aura.
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Jasper
is known as the “supreme nurturer”. It holds one up
in times of stress, and brings tranquility while encouraging honesty
with oneself. It aids dream recall. It is very protective and
grounding, in all its forms, absorbing negative energy and cleansing
and aligning the chakras. Clears pollution. Endows determination
and courage, helping one attain goals and overcome obstacles.
Jasper aids quick thinking and promotes organizations skills.
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Kambaba Stone/Kambaba Jasper is NOT a Jasper, therefore Jasper properties do not apply. It is a stone of abundance, but think more towards realization of ideas, projects, dreams than necessarily money- an abundance of results. Helps one in times of attack (whether you are being attacked by yourself or others) to recognize what must be done to ensure one’s safety. Can be helpful to calm a whirling mind. It enhances endurance, patience and stamina. It can help one connect to ancestors of all origins- physical, past life, other planes, etc…
Kyanite
is helpful with meditation and facilitate intuition. It instills
compassion and helps one connect to your own individual spirituality.
Facilitates healing dreams and dream recall. Kyanite is helpful
for those transitioning through death. It is especially helpful
with the throat chakra, but it will align all chakras. It encourages
self expression and communication. Dispels confusion, illusion,
anger frustration and stress.
Kunzite
is very spiritual stone, high energy vibration. Activates the
heart chakra, teaches unconditional love. Helpful for mediation.
Enhances creativity. Protective, dispels negativity. Strengthens
the energy shields around the body. Helpful in reducing stress
related anxiety, excellent for alleviating panic attacks. Helpful
in depression that has an emotional cause. Clears away internal
debris to allow for emotional healing.
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Labradorite
raises consciousness and enhances spiritual connection. It is
highly protective from forces outside and prevents leakage of
energy from within. It is a stone of knowledge, especially esoteric.
It enhances intuition and knowing, also encouraging “right
timing”. It releases fears and insecurities and strengthens
trust and faith in the universe. While enhancing the imagination,
Labradorite calms the overactive mind and encourages contemplation
and introspection. It is a useful stone in any kind of change.
Lake
Superior Agate is found, as you would imagine, in and
around Lake Superior in the upper Midwest. In addition to the
general properties for all Agates, LS Agate
works to elevates one’s self worth and self confidence.
It encourages one to explore the mythical and metaphysical and
learn to recognize and value the previously unknown. It aids in
communication with other planes of existence.
Lapis
Lazuli opens the third eye chakra and balances the throat
chakra. It is a very spiritual stone, and enhances all spiritual
or intuitive pursuits. It releases stress, bringing peace. Lapis
is a very protective stone, guarding against attack and returning
negative energy to the source. It balances physical, emotional,
mental and spiritual energies, encouraging deep inner self-knowledge
and self expression.
Lepidocrocite
is often found in
Quartz and Amethyst.
It can enhance intuition and perception. It is helpful in healing
emotional wounds, old or new. It stimulates and cleanses all chakras.
It also helps heal the auric field and body, especially from wounds
caused by addiction, negative attachments or entities. When found
with Quartz or Amethyst, Lepidocrocite is extremely helpful with
astral traveling or connection with the angelic realm. When used
during Reiki treatments, it can help facilitate the transfer of
energy to where it is needed. Worn or made into an elixir, it
can help suppress hunger.
Lepidolite
is a stone that insists on being used for “the highest good”.
Opens and activates the crown, third eye, throat, and heart chakras.
Aids in spiritual journeying. It is able to bring to your awareness
things from other lives that are affecting you now. Very useful
in reduction of stress and depression. It stills an overactive
brain and helps relieve insomnia. Helpful in stabilizing mood
swings, bipolar disorders. It is a ‘stone of transition”
and helps one let go of addictions and/or behavioral patterns.
It is a calming stone, bringing deep emotional healing.
When combined with tourmaline the energy becomes positive joyous.
This is truly a stone of love, joy and childlike wonder.
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Mahogany
Obsidian has a gentler energy than black. It still grounds
and protects, but also gives energy in times of need, affirms
purpose and stimulates growth on all levels. It eliminates energy
blockages while stabilizing and strengthening the aura. See also:
Obsidian.
Malachite
amplifies energy, both positive and negative. It is very powerful
and protective. Facilitates deep emotional healing. It absorbs
negative energy and pollutants (especially radiation) easily.
Activates the heart and third eye chakra enhancing visualizations
and unconditional love. Helpful with scrying. Malachite is a stone
of transition, encouraging risk-taking and change. It will mercilessly
show you what is holding you back. Breaks unwanted ties and outworn
patterns. Teaches how to take responsibility for one’s own
actions. It encourages expressing feeling and helps alleviate
shyness. Do not get wet.
Marra Mamba Tiger’s Eye is useful as a looking glass to see one’s true self, to help understand one’s behavior, thinking, logic, actions and reasoning. It also can help one “see”… Properties of Tiger’s Eye also apply.
Moldovite
has much to do with initiating humanity into the new
age we are evolving into. It is commonly believed to be of extraterrestrial
origin. All agree that Moldavite has an unusually high energy
vibration, resulting in enhanced spiritual awareness and growth.
This can be too powerful for some, leaving them “spacey”
and should be combined with appropriate grounding stones where
needed. Used in this combination, Moldavite can be especially
helpful for those that are not of this earth that find they are
overly sensitive to the pain found here. Said to bring good fortune
and fertility. It opens, clears and aligns all chakras, but has
special resonance with the heart and brow chakras. Helps one detach
from everyday worries, realizing they are not of true importance.
Enhances empathy and compassion. In depth study of this stone
is recommended, as only a fraction of the information about it
can be presented here.
Mook
Jasper, in addition to the properties listed under “Jasper”,
encourages versatility. It gives a desire for new experiences
and the ability to undertake and enjoy them. It points out options
and helps choose the right one.
Moonstone
is a “stone of new beginnings” and is strongly connected
to the moon and intuition and empathy. It helps one remember that
everything is part of the cycle of change. It is extremely calming
and soothing emotionally. It enhances emotional intelligence.
Moonstone brings unconscious knowledge to the conscious, providing
for deep emotional healing. It has largely feminine energy and
can be helpful for those needing to work on balancing their nature.
It works closely with the solar plexus chakra, and is very helpful
with reproductive issues in women.
Moss
Agate has the properties of
Agate, plus being strongly
connected to nature and helping reduce sensitivity to weather
and environmental pollutants. It is helpful for midwives to carry
while working, lessening pain of birth. It is stone of new beginnings
and helps remove that which is holding one back. It is also a
stone of abundance. It helps one find a balance between intuition
and pragmatism. It improves self esteem and strengthens positive
personality traits while releasing fear and deep seated stress.
In supports one to “try one more time”. It also promotes
communication and self expression while balancing the emotions.
It reduces stress and fear, encouraging trust and hope. It is
an optimistic stone.
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Noreena
Jasper helps to free one from all constraints, whether
imposed by self or others. It is helpful with manifesting. In
addition for the properties attributed to all Jasper, it can assist
one to set the right goals and aid in achieving them. It can protect
against psychic attack. It helps one be unnecessarily judgmental
while protecting against judgment by others.
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Obsidian
is made from rapidly cooled lava. It works very quickly and is
very powerful. It mercilessly exposes the truth and exposes flaws
to be healed. It impels us to grow and gives solid support in
the process. It can be an overwhelming stone to work with, so
should be used with care. It is a strongly protective stone and
resonates strongly with the root chakra. It is helpful for highly
sensitive people, protecting them from being overwhelmed. It is
also protects again psychic attack.
Ocho
Geode is a small geode that can be used to assist one
in victory in respect to recreational games or employment. It
encourages one to embrace the “free spirit” while
remaining ethical trustworthy. It encourages freedom and innocence.
It discourages comparing oneself to others, or buying to a “better
than, worse than” philosophy.
Ocean
Jasper (Orbicular Jasper) resonates with the heart chakra.
Helpful with circular breathing. Helps one accept responsibility,
increase patience. Assists in the elimination of toxins that cause
disease and body odor.
Onyx
provides support in times of stress, giving strength and encouraging
one to be master of one’s own destiny. It promotes vigor,
steadfastness, and stamina. It encourages self confidence, self
control and assists one to keep one’s own counsel and alleviates
fears and worries. It can be used to heal old grief and sorrows
and assists in absorbing universal energies necessary for healing.
Opal
is a very delicate stone, but enhances cosmic consciousness, sometimes
resulting in psychic visions. It stimulates originality and dynamic
creativity, aiding in expressing oneself. It is helpful with personal
transformation, amplifying one’s traits to make them recognizable
as desirable or not. It is a seductive stone that can release
inhibitions. Opal instills faithfulness and loyalty. It can also
enhance memory. Opal is helpful in the treatment of Parkinson’s
disease.
Orange
Calcite resonates with the root, solar plexus and sacral
chakras and is energizing. It balances emotions while removing
fear and overcomes depression. It also has the properties associated
with all Calcite.
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Peridot is a protective stone
and a powerful cleanser. It releases and neutralizes toxins on
all levels. It opens, cleanses and activates the heart and solar
plexus chakras, releasing old baggage. It encourages you to let
go of people, things, memories, patterns, actions, coping skills
that are no longer serving you and to rely on your own higher
energies for guidance. This ‘letting go’ allows one
to move forward rapidly towards your now-clear destiny and spiritual
purpose. It is particularly helpful for healers. It can also greatly
improve difficult relationships.
Petrified Wood can aid with removing little things that are holding one back, while discouraging worry about things one can’t change. It can help one transform oneself to a higher level of evolution. It is a grounding stone that lends strength. It aids in learning our lessons the first time around, preventing repeats (Karmic lessons). Petrified wood can help one gain knowledge of past lives.
Picasso
Marble (Picasso Stone) assists one in artistic pursuits
and enhances creativity. It assists in interpreting intuitive
information for practical use. It attracts strength and perseverance
and stills disturbing thoughts, helping to alleviate worry. It
can reduce anxiety and stress and help with weight loss.
Picture
Jasper in addition to the properties listed under Jasper,
encourages one to work together for the benefit of the planet.
It is supportive of connection with nature and earth. It can also
“unearth” hidden thoughts and emotions, assisting
one to face the causes of disease or disorder.
Pietersite
is a fairly new discovery and reminds us all we are on a spiritual
journey. It facilitates spiritual journeying and is a stone of
vision. It is helpful during meditation, helping one access a
very high state of altered awareness. It stimulates the third
eye and pineal gland, helping access intuition. It help free one
from blindly accepted untruths and helps see oneself and part
of a bigger whole. It helps one follow one’s own truth and
heals past hurts from not doing so. It can release one from past
vows and promises carried over from previous lives. It supports
ones own willpower.
Prehnite
is a stone to heal the healer. Opens one up to unconditional love.
Helpful with meditation. Enhances intuition, helps you always
be prepared. A helpful guide for your spiritual growth. A calming
and protective stone. Will help you let go of that which you no
longer need. Helps release fears, phobias.
Purple
Jasper, in addition to the properties listed under Jasper,
stimulates the crown chakra.
Purpurite
(Lavenderite) allows one to break out of patterns and
roles that are no longer productive. It stimulates the crown chakra
and enhances spiritual connected-ness and enlightenment. It assists
in communication, allowing one to speak with confidence.
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Quartz
is the most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet.
It stores and balances energy, excels at unblocking it. It meets
you where you are and raises your energy vibration to the highest
level possible. Because white light contains every color, clear
quartz and work on every level, every chakra. It enhances psychic
abilities and helps you find your spiritual path. It filters out
distractions while meditating. Aids concentration and memory.
It is considered a master healer and can be used for any condition.
It stimulates the nervous system. The different shapes of quartz
crystal all have meaning- please refer to a book for this information.
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Rainbow Obsidian is a very protective stone, but is one of the gentlest of the Obsidians. It protects from outside negativity and removes stress from body and draws off negative energy in the aura. It aids you to discover your spiritual self, while releasing old hooks and cords, allowing heart energy to regenerate. See also: Obsidian.
Rainforest
Jasper (Rhyolite) helps us realize that we (the earth,
the plants, the animals, the minerals) are all in this together,
and can awaken a desire to keep it all safe. This can also awaken
the desire to better care for one’s own body including moderating
intake of food and alcohol and spending time in nature and exercising.
This stone resonates with all chakras.
Red
Aventurine is a positive stone and attracts prosperity.
It turns negative situations into positive ones. It enhances good
leadership qualities, including compassion, empathy and perseverance.
It can help relieve stammers. It enhances creativity, stimulates
perception and stabilizes state of mind, calming anger and irritation.
It resonates with the root and sacral chakras and can help with
disorders of the reproductive tract. It also resonates with the
heart chakra and protects against psychic vampirism of heart energy.
It promotes physical well-being.
Red
Jasper, in addition to attributes listed under “Jasper”,
calms the emotions and brings problems to light before they get
to big to handle. It strengthens one’s boundaries. It stimulates
the root chakra.
Red
Tiger’s Eye in addition to the properties listed
under
Tiger’s Eye,
is an energizing stone. It can help stimulate a slow metabolism
or slow libido, and aid in motivation.
Rhodochrosite
is a “stone of love”, including love of self and selfless
love of others. It combines spiritual with physical energies,
and opens the way for compassion. It teaches the heart to assimilate
painful feelings without shutting down and removes denial. It
is considered an excellent stone for people healing from sexual
abuse. It gently and slowly brings up repressed feelings to the
surface, allowing them to be dealt with and released. It clears
the solar plexus and base chakras, while balancing and opening
the heart chakra. It insists that you face the truth with loving
awareness. People with an aversion to the stone generally have
something within themselves they do not want to be aware of. It
does everything with gentleness and love.
Rhodonite
is a heart chakra stone, a stone of love, a stone that encourages
the love of all and the connection between all humanity. It is
a grounding stone that balances emotions, and aid’s in achieving
one’s highest potential. In a “first aid” capacity,
it heals emotional shock and panic, and is exceptionally helpful
in cases of self-destruction, abuse or codependency. It brings
up and clears old festering wounds, allowing one to heal and move
forward and forgive. It also promotes unselfish self love. It
helps one remain calm in upsetting situations and realize that
revenge is self destructive.
Rhyolite resonates with change, progress and variety. It encourages one to “just do it”. It can assist with energy work and personal evolution. To this end, it is a good stone to use in meditation. Rhyolite helps one learn to respect and value one’s own strengths, even where we thought there were none. It can also help to clear away “stuff” that needs to be resolved, removed, let go of.
Rose
Quartz is a stone of unconditional love. It is one of
the most important heart chakra stones and teaches the true essence
of love. It encourages deep inner healing and self love. It is
calming and reassuring, and helpful in the time of crisis. It
gently draws off negative energy and replaces it with loving energy.
It also brings acceptance of necessary change. It is an excellent
emotional healer and teaches us each how to truly love ourselves.
Rubellite
Tourmaline cleanses and purifies
energy, transforming it to a higher vibration. It is also very
grounding, and forms a protective shield around the body. It promotes
self confidence and releases fear. It helps one move past being
a victim and encourages inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and
prosperity. It strengthens the ability to understand love and
encourages tact. It heals and activates the heart and sacral chakra.
It increases creativity and endurance and balances aggression
with over passivity.
Ruby
is an energetic stone, imparting vigor to life. It encourages
a positive passion for life, “following your bliss”
and helps one set realistic but challenging goals. It improves
motivation and overcome exhaustion while calming hyperactivity.
Ruby stimulates the heart chakra and balances the heart. It also
protects against psychic attack. It is also a stone of abundance.
Ruby
w/Zoisite activates the crown chakra and helps one attain
an altered state of consciousness to facilitate spiritual learning.
It can be very helpful in past life work and soul healing. It
promotes individuality while helping one understand one’s
interconnectedness with humanity. Amplifies the biomagnetic field
around the body.
Rutilated
Quartz integrates energy at any level, heightening the
energetic impulse of Quartz.
It is a very efficient vibrational healer.
It promotes spiritual growth and cleanses and energizes the aura.
It aids in astral travel, scrying and channeling. It draws off
negative energy and protects again psychic attack. It is a useful
protectant for anyone dealing with negative people. It is helpful
in past life healing and reaching to the root of problems for
healing. It soothes dark moods and lifts them while relieving
fears, phobias and anxiety. It counters self-hatred and encourages
forgiveness on all levels.
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Septarian Nodule can greatly enhance speaking ability, relaxing and aiding one to connect with the audience on a personal level. It can also encourage interest from the audience. Aids directly with the healing energy of a drumming circle. Instills patience, endurance and tolerance, and aids one to always be prepared. Supports body to heal itself.
Seraphinite
is a stone of spiritual enlightenment. It helps one accept self
healing. It helps open the crown and higher crown chakras. It
also works with the brow chakra, assisting in meditation, and
cleanses the heart chakra, opening one to love. It raises the
spiritual energy vibration, making is helpful with journeying
and it also protects the body while you are “away”.
It is helpful with identifying the next step in your journey.
Physically, it can help with weight loss.
Serpentine
aids with meditation and spiritual exploration. It clears all
chakras but opens the Crown chakra. It enhances psychic abilities
and assists in the movement of Kundalini energy. Serpentine helps
one feel more in control of one’s life and balances mind
and emotion.
Silver
is a mineral that brings you “the advantage”, This
can manifest socially or in communication. Helps one view oneself
honestly to see areas to grow. Provides a very strong connection
between the physical and astral bodies, assuring that one will
not “get lost” on astral travels. It is known to enhance
the powers of the moon. It directs the energy of other minerals
to the appropriate location.
Smithsonite
is a stone of tranquility, charm, kindness and favorable outcomes.
It is quite gentle and forms a buffer against life’s troubles.
It is an excellent stone for releasing extreme stress gently that
might harm a person if released harshly. It heals the inner child
of the effects of neglect or abuse. It aligns the chakra and strengthens
psychic abilities. Supports leadership and tact. It imparts harmony.
Sodalite
fuses logic with intuition, making spiritual information more
accessible. Stimulates the third eye chakra and deepens meditation.
It encourages you to remain true to yourself and stand up for
what you believe. Placing Sodalite on your computer will protect
you from negative emanations. When used with a group, Sodalite
encourages harmony and solidarity of purpose while stimulating
trust and companionship. It eliminates mental confusion and encourages
rational thought. It calms panic attacks while bringing about
emotional balance. It also opens the mind, allowing for new ideas
and ways of thinking. It can transform a defensive or over-sensitive
personality, releasing the old negativity that created the problem
in the first place. It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and
self-trust.
Smokey
Quartz is an excellent grounding and protective stone
while at the same time raising one’s energy vibration. It
is linked strongly with the root chakra. It is an excellent antidote
for stress. It transforms negativity of all kinds into a positive
vibe. It teaches one how to leave behind that which no longer
serves you. It relieves fear, lifts depression and brings emotional
calmness, dissolving negative emotions. It aid acceptance of the
physical body and sexual nature. Because it is naturally irradiated,
it is an excellent stone for support during chemotherapy or radiations
sickness. One should be aware of dark, non transparent Smokey
Quartz, however- it has often been artificially treated.
Snowflake
Obsidian calm and soothes, helping you to recognize ingrained
patterns of behavior. It teaches how to value mistakes as well
as successes. It is stone of purity, and balances the body, mind
and spirit. It helps one be less emotional, when emotion is getting
in the way. It teaches how to utilize isolation and loneliness,
rather than renouncing it. All attributes of Obsidian
also pertain to Snowflake Obsidian.
Stichtite
is a natural alteration of serpentine and brings a calming presence
into it’s environment. It promotes “thinking with
love”. It supports the movement of Kundalini energy and
provides for emotional awareness. It encourages flexibility and
openness in opinions and following through on promises. It eases
loneliness and assists one with gentleness for self and others.
Sugilite
is a major “love stone”, opening all the
chakras to a flow of love and inspiring spiritual awareness. It
helps the soul remember its reason for incarnating and to live
from that truth. It assist moving into past lives to heal that
which still needs healing, and aids forgiveness (including self
forgiveness). Sugalite helps one discover identity and purpose.
It protects the soul from trauma and negative experiences, helping
to alleviate grief and fear. For those sensitive to the energies
around them, Sugilite helps them to not get mired down and despondent.
It aids understanding the effect of thoughts/beliefs on physical
health. For those with disorders of the mind- paranoia, schizophrenia,
autism, learning disorders- it helps ground the soul more firmly
into present reality and reorganize brain patterns to flow more
smoothly. It also aids those who feel the earth is not their home.
The unique properties of Sugilite can benefit cancer suffers,
as it releases emotional turmoil, alleviates despair, and helps
control pain.
Sunstone
is a joyful stone, and as the name implies, seems to be full of
light. It instills joy of life, happiness. It also enhances intuition.
It clears all chakras and fills them with light. Useful from removing
“hooks” from other people. It encourages self empowerment,
independence and vitality and helps overcome codependency. It
acts as an anti-depressant, and it is exceptionally helpful for
Seasons Affective Disorder. It always shows the good side of any
situation, combating negativity and pessimism. It lightens and
brightens everything.
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Tangerine
Quartz is helpful with shock or trauma on a physical
or soul level. It can also help with soul retrieval and integration,
or past life healing. It can help you move through a limited belief
system to a higher vibrational state/belief. It can enhance sexuality
and creativity. Tangerine quartz helps one connect with the universe
and humanity, and abates unhealthy fears. It can assist one in
being “up to” a necessary change. Tangerine quartz
has all the properties of Quartz,
with extra emphasis on the Sacral Chakra.
Tiffany
Stone activates and balances the third-eye chakra and
helps with transitions. Helps remove energy flow blockages. A
subtle stone, it helps with communication issues of all kinds,
including sixth sense. It also helps one verbalize feelings that
you have not been aware of. It can help with success in business.
It is also known to help boost the libido. This highly energetic
stone is a powerful all-around healer.
Tiger’s
Eye brings together the energies of the earth with the
high vibration of spirit. It enhances psychic energy in earthy
people while balancing the root, sacral and solar plexus chakras.
It is a protective stone that encourages integrity. It assists
one is recognizing goals and achieving them. It is helpful for
resolving dilemmas and internal conflicts, especially those brought
on by pride or willfulness. It unblocks creativity and stifles
self criticism, encouraging feelings of self-worth. It helps one
recognize faults that need to be overcome, but also talents and
abilities to be proud of. It alleviates depression, lifts moods,
and supports an addictive personality to make changes.
Tiger
Iron is a combination of Jasper,
Hematite, and Tiger’s
Eye. It enhances vitality, while assisting
one to move through changes in a healthy way. It points out pragmatic,
simple solutions. It is helpful for anyone who is deeply exhausted.
It also brings out creativity and artistic talent. If there is
danger, Tiger Iron with help one find a refuge. It is a very grounding
stone, and resonates with the root, sacral and solar plexus chakras.
Topaz
is a mellow, empathic stone. It is soothing and healing while
it also recharges and stimulates the body. It is a motivating
stone and promotes truth and forgiveness. It encourages one to
trust in the Universe while teaching one to “be” rather
than having to “do”. Topaz brings joy, generosity
and abundance, while encouraging love. It helps with manifestation
and cleanses the aura while releasing tension at any level. It
enhances confidence and aids problem solving.
Tourmalinated
Quartz combines the properties of Black
Tourmaline and Quartz
making it an exceptional stone for grounding
and protection while still raising the energy vibration. It turns
negative thoughts and energies into positive ones. Helps integrate
and heal shadow energies and alleviate self-sabotage.
Tree
Agate is considered a centering stone that allows for
a deeper connection with the earth. It is also a stone if introspection.
It will allow for a more objective view of the world, allowing
for more clarity of observation. Tree agate also has the properties
listed under “Agate”.
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Unakite
promotes psychic vision and grounding after. It has a calm, gentle
energy that will pervade the environment it is in. It is a stone
that promotes moving forward by gently bringing up and releasing
conditions, in this life or the past, which are holding one back.
It heals at the source of the issue.
W
Winter
Agate is a stone of abundance, bringing fullness to all
areas of life. It helps one enjoy the moment, bring peace inside
and out. Winter Agate deepens one’s connection with the
plant kingdom and earth. It brings stability and helps one remain
centered amidst chaos. It also lends perseverance and the ability
to see difficulties as challenges. Opens and aligns all chakras.
It is, however, a stone that works slowly and must be worn continuously
for quite a period of time. It also has attributes found under
Agate.
Wonderstone
Jasper is helpful in eliminating and recognizing the
futility of worry. It also helps one determine the appropriate
action. It increases ones feeling of well-being, and often eliminates
distress and depression. It stimulates the imagination and increases
ones faith in intuitive energies. All Jasper
is know as the “Supreme Nurturer”, very grounding.
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Yellow
Calcite stimulates the will and is very uplifting. It
enhances meditations and helps one link to the highest source
of spiritual guidance. Links with crown and solar plexus chakras.
See also Calcite.
Yellow
Jasper, like all Jaspers,
is very nurturing and grounding. It is very helpful in times of
stress. It encourages honesty with oneself and quick thinking,
transforming ideas into action. It protects during spiritual work
and physical travel. It channels positive energy, making one feel
better. It resonates with the solar plexus chakra.
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