Stones, crystals and minerals contain energies from the earth that can be used for meditation and healing. Often these energies may correspond with certain elements (earth/air/fire/water) and the body's chakra centers. The following is an overview of the most common stones used in ritual and their purposes.
Agate
Earth, For grounding & balance. For strength, protection and support. Aids strength and courage. Compels truth, promotes good manners, happiness, intelligence, prosperity, longevity, fertility, and good health. Assists in making and keeping friends, helpful to farmers and those interested in growing plants. Aid in restoration of energy, used in healing, and believed to bring wearer happiness, wealth, health, and long life. Increases ability to ward off self-induced anger and inner bitterness. Strength, Courage, Protection, Love, Healing. For stomach, colon, liver, spleen, kidneys, Xray/radiation.
Moss: Centering, taking heart. Bloodsugar, anorexia/food issues, lymphnodes, Balances emotions.
Iris: Insight, Restores nerve feeling and healing after injury/burns. Gaze into for meditation. L/Rt. brain balance. Pineal, pituitary; coordination.
Blue Lace: Patience, peace.
Amazonite
Regulates thinking faculties. Hope stone. Strengthens physical stamina. Gentle Friendly, calming, soothing; Opens throat, heart, and solar plexus centers for self-expression, artistic creativity, healing. Throat, thyroid, nerve and Brain paths. Reduces self-damaging behavior, increases straight posture of self-respect, confidence, grace, self-assuredness with communication.
Amber
High electrical charge for positive energy. Harmonizes Yin and Yang. Reduces fluid retention and helps to detoxify the urinary system. Filters germs and infections and has the power to disinfect. Worn around the neck to help fight infection and respiratory diseases. Lifts the spirits. Male. Fire element. Electromagnetic. Opens solar plexus chakra for mental clarity, moods balance, confidence. Stomach anxiety, spine, Central Nervous System, brain, memory loss, cell regeneration. Aligns mental and emotional bodies via orange and yellow CTRS. Excellent detoxification and protection from radiation, especially x-rays, sun, computers, airport, planes and others' energies.
Amethyst
Eases compulsive/obsessive behavior (desire for food, tobacco, drugs, alcohol, etc) calms an overactive mind, increases self-esteem, aids sleep. Relieves headaches. Enhances your mind, intuition and insights concerning practical things. Assists those to maintain faithfulness, increases spiritual awareness, has calming and soothing influence, has ability to transmute negative into positive, very effective as a healing stone. Female. Water element. Pisces. Spirituality, Dreams, Soothing, Protection, Love, Healing, Psychic awareness, Prevent intoxication. Wear when sleeping or when awake to reduce anger, impatience, and nightmares. Brow + Crown CTRS. Headaches, eyes, scalp/hair, pituitary, pineal, bloodsugar balance. Especially aids sobriety; alcohol/food/sex/other addictions. Famous ancient detoxifier (especially helped with poisons, alcohol.) Keep in pet's water to reduce fleas.
Aquamarine
Tranquility, sooths the heart, inspires compassion. Assists inspiration, favorable for travelers; helps to protect against accidents. Calms nervous tension. Calming effects of the sea. Used to help banish fears and phobias. Soothing and cleansing. Powerful aid to happiness in marriage. Female, Water element. Psychic powers, Purification, Cleansing, Soothing, Protection, Healing, The Sea. Tranquilizing, uplifting, openness, innocence, light-heartedness, creativity, communication, self-awareness, confidence, purpose. Throat (& spleen) CTR(s), Heart, immune system, thymus, lymphnodes, Especially: Mouth, ears, etc. Affects etheric and mental levels. Releases anxiety, fear, restlessness, peaceful stillness like the flow of a forest stream. Breathing allergies, water travel, journies, sea goddess, seeing through people, protection.
Aventurine
Translucent dark/lt. green quartz. Heals emotional pain/fear/imbalance by dissolving blocks in the heart CTR. Historically also draws out heat of fevers, inflamation, nerv. system stress. In your bath water, a soft, soothing stone for general healing. Universal love, truth, prosperity. Stimulates the heart chakra to aid in healing on the physical plane, place in a purse or pocket to attract money. Joy, balance, clarity. Female. Earth element. Purification, Strength, Calming, Health, Used for Migraines.
Azurite
Saturn. Developement of intuition, understanding and communication of Universal Law. Reduces personal stress and relax inner confusion. Powerful healing stone, invokes spiritual guidance, opens psychic eye. Good for dreams and improving psychic ability. Activates brow and throat CTRS. more assertive communication and alert, quite, deep access to subconscious and other times/places/lives. Psychicness, creativity, decisiveness, deeper insight, seeing truth, reduces depression, anger, abnormal cell growth. Hi copper content stimulates thyroid, sinus, skin cleansing, spleen, nervous system, mental + etheric bodies.
Bloodstone
Earth. Physical healer, mental balancer, removes toxins from blood, combats physical trauma, stimulates blood circulation and stops hemorrhaging. Removes emotional blockages. A talisman for warding off all accidents and disease. Male, Fire element. Aries. Halts bleeding, Healing, Strength, Courage, Wealth. Electromagnetic (high iron). Ancient Egypt, Atlantis used to calm, ground, revitalize. Classic for wealth, menstrual cramps, anemia, bloodclots, hemorrhoids, birthing/reproductivity, imbalance. Cleansing heart and blood circulation, marrow, thymus, lungs; Heart.
Carnelian
Sacred to Isis. Protective, aids concentration. Access to past life data. Can motivate you, and give you energy to turn your ideas into form. Stimulates the sexual/creative chakra, promotes protective, healing, peaceful, harmonious and patient energy, also eases PMS. Wish Stone, is highly favorable to health, long life, and good fortune. Its special virtue is the fulfillment of ones wishes if the stone is worn near the heart. (orange in color) Male. Fire element. Virgo. Peace, Courage, Protection, Health, Sexuality. Confidence, boldness, initiative, dramatic abilities, assertiveness, outgoingness. Precision, analysis, appetite, awareness of feelings. Orange and yellow CTRS. Warms and cleanses blood, kidneys, stimulates appetite, emotions, passion, sexuality, physical energy, celebration, reproductive system, menstrual cramps, arthritis, kidneys, gall bladder, pancreas. Historically also used to pull excess fever out through the feet.
Celestite (Blue)
Neptune. Opens one up to the angelic realms. For detachment, clear perspective, divine inspiration. Soothes nerves, stress. Quiets mind. Serenity, harmony, easiness, stillness for receiving, connection to spirit, overview, creativity. Aids Throat CTR; honesty, openness, stress, worry, hearing, thyroid, potassium/manganese deficiency, Central Nervous System, tiredness, fades in sunlight.
Citrine
Bridge between higher and lower consciousness; transmutes fear. Helps to eliminate self-destructive tendencies, enhances courage and self-determination. Male. Fire element. Virgo. Prevents Nightmares, Protection, Psychic Awareness. For Solar Plexus CTR, Mental and emotional clarity. Problem-solving, memory, willpower, optimism, confidence, self-discipline, digestion. Reduces anxiety, fear, depression, stomach tension, food disorders, allergies. Detoxification: Spleen, kidneys, liver, urinary system, intestines, etc. Electromagnetic.
Coral
Love and harmony. Relieves throat and voice ailments, balances physical endurance. Promises a long and happy married life, protects a child from evil influences, and safeguards the teenager during the highly emotional period. Balances physical energy and relaxes tensions. Carries the creative vibrations of the sea. Stimulates 1st 2 chakras for energy and warmth, fertility. Energizes emotions. Muscles, blood, heart, reproductive system; thyroid, metabolism; meridians; spine, bone and tissue regeneration. (Avoid if high blood pressure, fever, anxious).
Pink: Heart CTR, increases sensitivity, caring, compassion.
White: Soothes; heals meridians, stress, smell ability, nerves.
Black: Creativity, repels lower energies.
Diamond
Absorbes all energies. Protects the wearer from bad dreams, demons and nightmares. A symbol of bravery and strength, and also one of the emblems of innocence. Male. Fire. April. Sexuality, Fertility, Victory, Fidelity, Protection, Spirituality, Strength. Powerfully absorbs and amplifies thoughts/attitudes of user, other gems, and wearer's strengths and weaknesses: Prosperity, generosity/ vs. miserly; love vs. distrust; overview, spirituality vs. lust, immediate gratification. Used with loving, clear intent; clears blocks, opens crown CTR: spiritual love, peace. Clarity, trust, confidence. Cleanse thoroughly (It can hold our other's previous attitudes, emotions...)
Emerald
Heart stone. Great harmonizer. Love, balance, understanding. Aids neurological diseases. Gem of hope and faith. Enhances speech and can act as a natural tranquilizer when you are worried. Promotes creativity and fertile ideas. Carry to promote wealth and abundance. Promotes creativity, stimulates perception and insight, and strengthen memory. Beneficial effect on the eyes. Also an excellent preservative against decay, arrests dysentery, and heals bites from venomous animals. Female. Earth element. Cancer. Goddesses: Venus, Isis, Ceres, Vishnu. Love, Money, Memory, Knowledge, Protection, Eyesight. Strengthens heart CTR for abundance, growth, peace, harmony, patience, love, fidelity, honesty. Lifts depression, insomnia. Knowingness of the heart, peaceful dreams. Breathing, heart, lymphnodes, blood, thymus, pancreas (blood sugar rebalance), labor/delivery, eyesight, and etheric field. Excellent general healer. Ancient blood detoxifierand antipoison. Androgynous.
Fluorite
Opens wearer to influence of other stones. Grounds excess energy. Considered a goodluck piece. Also called Fairy Gem. Manifests innermost wishes. Promotes well being; enhances concentration and meditation. Powerful spirit guide. Important balancer, healer. Opens heart (especially green), throat and 2 highest CTRS for clarity, overview, seeing additional truths/realities. Spleen bones, teeth, lungs, detoxification, anxiety, insomnia.
Clear and Purple: Objectivity; clears the way for new things, upliftment, aura cleanse, 3rd eye, eyesight, sinuses; repels colds. Enhances other gems.
Green: Stills mind and heart, harmonizes and recharges all CTRS.
Blue: Throat, nose, ears, soothing; Karmic impasses resolved, atonement relieved.
Yellow: Focus, cooperation, group alignment.
Lavendar: well-being, serenity, peace, connection with universe/God/eternal life force.
Clusters: Lowers work/life stress (helpful on your desk)
Double Pyramid: Aligns spirit with physical plane, inner with outer awareness, and 2 sides/brain; crown CTR, illuminating karmic lessons.
Garnet
Pluto, Mars. Aids kundalini to ascend in proper channels. Aids circulation. Balances thyroid disorders. Balance your energy system and stimulates your desires and uplift your attitude. Can prevent fears of insecurity and even money losses. Lucky stone-lucky for love, success and goals. Balances hormones, good for mental depression, enhances self-esteem, alleviates bad dreams, and encourages success in business. Thought to assist in seeing into past incarnations. Will ensure consistency in friendship and love, preserve health, and is generally fortunate. Vitality and passion. Stimulates happiness, peace, balance, patience, inspiration, persistence, good for rebirthing, menstruation and life passages, disorders, fertility, eases arthritis pain. Male. Fire element. Aquarius. Strength, Protection, Health.
Red: 1st and 2nd CTRS. Warms, energizes emotionally and physically (arthritus, frostbite, paralysis), grounds. Used by ancient cultures. Exhaustion, low BP, detoxing and strengthening blood, muscles, kidneys, gallstones. Stimulates life force and sexuality, hormone balance, antibodies, fertility, persistence, stamina, passion, confidence (and stubbornness). Yang (avoid if excess anger, impatience, high blood pressure, heat, inflamation, etc.) 1st/root CTR.
Orange: Warmth, energy. 2nd CTR. Gem Silica: Gem quality Chrysocolla. Highly Evolved.
Hematite
Saturn. Grounding, focus, self discipline. Very strong stone; absorbs negativity. Gives optimism and courage. Calming to the emotions. Helps maintain balance between body, mind, and spirit. Use for fevers, alleviates worry and anxiety as it allows for mental clarity, known as the "worry stone". Male. Fire element. Healing, Grounding, Divination. Condenses scatteredness, fuzziness into mental clarity, concentration, memory, practicality, helps study, bookkeeping, detail work, sound sleep. Confidence, will power, boldness. Egyptians used also to calm hysteria and anxiety. Yang. Helps us adjust to being physical. Spleen, blood, cleanse. Can deflect. Regroups after jet lag, stress, birth, anesthesia.
Jade
Cooling, water element. Soothing, healing. Promotes healing of vital organs. Used to attract love and compassion, prolongs life and enhances livelihood. A most sacred stone and a symbol of divine revelation. Brings good fortune and health to its owner. Stimulates practicality, wisdom, and universal attunement. Thought to provide a link between the spiritual and the mundane. Health, wealth, longevity stone. Ancient Chinese used also for courage, wisdom, justice, mercy, emotional balance, stamina, love, fidelity, humility, generosity, peace, harmony. Lungs, heart, thymus, immune, kidney and blood detoxification, nervous system. Androgynous. A gentle, steady energy.
Jasper
Promotes healing of gastric system and balance endocrine functioning. Stability stone. Reduces your insecurities, fears and guilt. Promotes physical stamina. Aid and comfort during periods of female distress. One stone worn about the neck and another around the waist.
Red: Protection, healing.
Green: Healing, sleep. Respiratory/Heart CTR. General tissue regeneration; mineral assimilation; general healing.
Brown: Grounding.
Mixed: Protection.
Yellow: stomach, intestines, liver, spleen areas. earthy grounding. CTR:3.
Darker colors: more grounding. (Also less conductive for healing)
Kyanite
Aligns chakras and subtle bodies. Placed on brow, this opens 3rd eye and blue'/throat CTRS. Enhances psychic images, foresight, consciousness, meditation, communication. On 3rd eye; answers questions, especially in imagery. Brings out our natural ability to manifest things into reality via thoughts, visualization. Tranquility. Neptune, Pluto.
Labradorite (Spectrolite)
Opens heart chakra. Brings forth each person's strengths to share with the world. Originality. Easier, more restful sleep. Helps us relate to others. Opens energy flow to solar plexus and brow CTRS and whatever other centers are most in need. Still evolving along with us. Fragile, avoid salt cleansing.Uranus, Neptune, Pluto.
Lapis Lazuli
Venus, Neptune. Throat chakra. Stone of teachers. Clarity and ease of expression of higher wisdom. Strengthens the physical body during spiritual awakening. Stimulates wisdom, truthfulness, & psychic experiences, healing and strengthening when worn next to the skin. Female. Water element. Goddesses: Isis, Venus. Healing, Love, Protection. In meditation, opens brow CTR: higher guidance, intuition, connection to higher self, overview, decisions for good of all. Organizes, quiets mind. Opens Throat/Thyroid CTR. Self-expression, writing, creativity, dream insight... Anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, autism, shyness, nervous system; MS, speech, hearing, pituitary, DNA, lymph, inflamation, pain (especially head), protection.
Malachite
Venus. Solar plexus. Emotional balance. Strengthens physical and etheric eyes. Awakens healing qualities, it is said it helps to heal mental illness. Egyptions used it for safe-guarding pregnancy. The stone will break into two to warn the owner of approaching danger. Promotes inner peace and hope. Used as a child's talisman to sleep soundly & protect from bad dreams. Stimulates clear vision and insight, represents hope and inner peace, believed to protect from danger. Increases abundance in all areas of life. This stone supposedly has equal amounts of negative and positive forces, thereby adding to the balance of physical and spiritual life. Used to release repressed emotions and for physical detoxing. Female, Earth element. Increases magickal energy, protection, warns against danger, love, great for protection during travel. Steady pulsing electromagnetic energy. (High copper content) On brow: Stimulates physical and psychic vision, concentration. For heart and solar plexus centers: Stomach, liver, kidney stones, lungs, immune system, radiation, MS, circulation. Powerful with azurite or chrysocolla for healing: Releases and draws out pain, inflamation, depression, anger; heals blocks. Protects well by powerfully cleaning the auric field, rapidly absorbing undesirable energies, including: computer, TV, and other radiation, etc. Place in the 4 corners of a room to cleanse carpet toxins/gases. Clean very frequently - daily if possible!
Moldavite
Pluto, Mercury, Moon. Astral Projection, access to akashic records, wider perspectives. Powerfully expands psychicness, channeling. On Heart CTR. Eases longing to leave earth. On pillow, brow, crown: Telepathic access to spiritual laws, info from higher regions/places to help us and Earth to be healthier and more spiritual. An intense meteorite helping people incarnating from elsewhere be more comfortable here on earth (reducing asthma, toxin sensitivity, emotional intensity, epilepsy...) May make some too spacey; be sure to ground self after use and before driving. Fragile - Don't salt cleanse!
Moonstone
Moon. Sacred to the Goddess, moonstone may be used to enhance the feminine, strengthen psychic abilities, and increase sensitivity to natural cycles. Regulates the pituitary gland function. Lucky love stone. Aid in bringing forth memories of past lives, carried as a good luck piece. Brings good fortune. Reflects the wearers being and feelings. Promotes unselfishness. Opens the heart to humanitarian love and hope. Good for protection while traveling on water. Gives clarity to spiritual understanding. Good for pre-menstrual symptoms and balancing to the reproductive system. Used to ease childbirth. Sometimes called the Queen of the Heavens stone. Calming effect on emotions. Eases menstrual pain, alleviates many degenerative conditions in the skin, hair, eyes, and body fluids (tears, digestive juices). Female, Water element. Love, Protection, Divination, Youth, Beauty, Gardening, Weight Maintenance. Soothes stress, anxiety, women's hormones/menstrual imbalance, lymph. Enhances intuitive sensitivity via feelings and less overwhelmed by personal feelings. Greater flexibility and flow with life. Connects 2nd and 6th chakras and Pineal for emotional balance, gracefulness. Helps all be more comfortable with our gentler feminine/yin receiving side. Especially for water signs.
Obsidian
Pluto. Transforms energy and emotions in a very powerful way. Not to be worn as jewelry. Also a powerful grounding and protection stone. Boosts immunity. Helps to prevent emotional draining from others. Protective energy glass. Beneficially influences stomach and intestines. Connects mind and emotions. Slightly masculine energy. Grounds spiritual energy into physical plane. Absorbs and disperses negativity. Reduces stress. Helps clear subconscious blocks. Brings and understanding of silence and "the void." Detatchment, but with wisdom and love. Powerful healer for those attuned with it. Chakra: Root.
Onyx (Black)
Saturn. Stabilizing. Mirrors all aspects of the self, dark as well as light. Transformative. Protection and keeps away bothersome entanglements. Preserves against the bites of snakes and venomous insects, and assists in bringing marital happiness. Male. Fire element. Leo. Reduction of Sexuality, Protection. Relieves stress. Balances male/female polarities. Strengthens bone marrow. Aids detatchment. Enhances emotional balance and self control. Higher inspiration. Works with chakras and attitudes according to color of stone.
Opal
Mercury. Links physical body to higher bodies, allowing greater access to cosmic consciousness. Keep away from other stones, it will absorb all energy. A stone of hope, positive actions, achievements and love. Can be charged for almost all purposes, Astral Projection, Recall past lives, Beauty, Luck. Stimulates pineal and pituitary glands. Aids eyesight. Emotional balancer. Enhances intuition. The full spectrum of colors resonates with all chakreas. Helps conscious connection with highest aspects of being. Chakras: Heart and others, depending on color.
Pearl
Venus. Purity, chastity, emotional clarity. Promotes antibodies and fights infection. Stimulates your femininity and helps with self-acceptance. Give a pearl to a child to help him or her grow in beauty, especially a little girl. Stimulates feminine qualities, used to focus attention, helps pull together mental and spiritual forces, peace of mind. Represents purity, modesty, & gentleness.
Peridot
Mercury. Creates feeling of protection, allowing heart to open. Unblocks congestions. Aids adrenal function. Use this stone as your sun stone to prevent personal darkness from your fears and guilts. If you become depressed or fearful , a peridot can aid in changing your attitude for it may just radiate the sun's energy as an additional resource to guide you. Female. Earth element. Libra. Protection, Healing, Love, Calm, Sleep, Anti-Depression. Balances glandular system. Aids tissue regeneration. Has beneficial influence on heart, pancreas, spleen, liver, adrenals. Purifies body. Enhances bloodstream. Overall balancer and tonic for body/mind. Aligns subtle bodies. Increases intuitive awareness. Reduces stress. Stimulates mind. Accelerates personal growth, opens new doors of opportunity. Chakras: Navel, Solar Plexus, Heart.
Petrified Wood
Restores physical energy, helps hip and back problems. Ground and secures you, aids in preventing work stress. Restores your physical energy.
Pyrite
Mars. Vitality, strengthening of Will. Enhances mental capacity and attracts money to owner. Has protecting, shielding aspect for physical, mental, emotional levels. Shields from negative energy, strengthens circulatory system, clears oxygen in the blood. Also known as fools gold. Aids digestion, improves circulation. Strengthens and oxygenates blood. Enhances brain functions. Influences a more positive outlook on life. Enhances emotional body, strengthens will. Helps one's ability to work with others harmoniously. Practicality. Chakras: Root, Solar Plexus, Heart.
Quartz (Clear)
Uranus. Purifier, protector, spiritual awakener. Raises Vibratory rate. Enhances qualities of the bearer, raises the vibration of other stones with which it is stored or used. Used for directing energy. Amplifies healing energy. Used to help draw out pain. Able to tap into energies of the universe. Good stone for meditating on. Very potent and often worn to protect from negative vibrations. Cleanse regularly. Fire & Water elements. Male and female. Holds a Magickal Charge, Divination, Healing, Protection, Meditation, Magick. Enhances the crystalline properties of the blood, body and mind. Activates and enhances pineal and pituitary glands. Emotional balancer. Stimulates brain functions. Amplifies thout forms. Full spectrum energy activates all levels of consciousness. Dispels negativity in one's energy fields and in environment. Receives, activates, stores, transmits and amplifies energy. Excellent for meditation. Enhances interdimensional communication and communication with Higher Self and Spirit Guides. Chakras: All.
Rhodochrosite
Mercury, Venus. Holds any force field. Draws white light into the physical body. Prevents mental breakdowns, balances physical and emotional trauma, a rescue/remedy stone. Can beautifully guide you in your quest for emotional happiness. Adds courage, will, passion to the loving heart vibration. Represents love of God. Milky pink stone with definition. Aids spleen, kidneys, heart, pituitary gland and circulation of blood. Enhances memory and intellectual power. Emotional balancer. Helps heal emotional wounds and traumas. Aligns subtle bodies. Red/pink color helps to blend courage/will/passion aspects of lower chakras with loving expression of the heart. Divine love, acceptance of self and life. Powerful healer for those attuned to this stone. Chakras: Root, Heart.
Rhodonite
Restores physical energy, especially following trauma or shock, another rescue stone. Attracts or keeps a loving partner. Pink stone with black highlights -very defined. Aids central nervous system, thyroid gland, body reflexes, pituitary gland, pancreas. Strengthens immunity,. Improves memory. Eases physical/emotional trauma. Reduces stress, calms mind. Aligns root and heart chakras for bringing love into action and manifestation (red and black variety). Self esteem, confidence. Enhances energy levels in body/mind. Pink variety (without black) helps impart understanding of strength within vulnerability. Great stone for light workers serving in cities. Chakras: Root, Heart.
Rose Quartz
Venus. Self love, friendship. Promotes skin rejuvenation. Boost and build your image. Especially good if you have a weight problem, it will greatly foster your personal self-acceptance. Worn or carried for love, fidelity, peace, and happy marriage. Aids intuition and emotional balance. Reduces stress and tension - cools hot tempers. Vibrations of universal love & inner serenity. Comforts heart from all wounds, helps heal emotional pain, enhances love , self-love, positive outlook, joy and oneness. Female. Earth and Water elements. Venus/Aprhodite. Love, Peace, Happiness, Fidelity, Calm. Aids kidneys and circulatory system. Increases fertility. Eases sexual/emotional imbalances. Helps clear stored anger, resentment, guilt, fear, jealousy. Reduces stress and tension, cools hot temper. Enhances self confidence and creativity. Aids development of forgiveness, compassion, love. "Love stone." Chakra: Heart.
Ruby
Sun, Mars. Heart Chakra. Compassion, leadership, heals relationship to father. Prevents schizophrenia. Adds energy to the body; attracts wealth, power and joy. The stone of freedom, charity, dignity and divine power. Increases vigor, renews vitality and cleanses the blood. The stone of courage. Helps banish grief for those in mourning. Male. Fire element. Capricorn. Protection, Wealth, Joy, Will Power, Energy. Aids regeneration of physical/spiritual heart. Enhances ciculation. Vitalizes blood and entire body/mind system. Strengthens immunity. Activates sluggish or dormant conditions on physical/spiritual levels. Refines lower passions. Courage, integrity, selfless service, joy, spiritual devotion, power, leadership. Helps banish sense of limitation. Chakras: Root, Heart.
Rutilated Quartz
Sun, Uranus. High electrical charge. Powerful healer. Regeneration of tissue throughout body. Enhances life force. Strengthens immune system. Stimulates brain functions. Eases depression, facilitates inspiration. Increases clairvoyance. Highly electrical, more intensity that clear quartz. Pierces through layers of physical/emotional/mental density. Transmutes negativity. Enhances communication with Higher Self and Spirit Guides. Very powerful healer. Chakras: All.
Sapphire
Neptune. Aids spiritual understanding. Increases level of potassium, magnesium and calcium. Stone of destiny. Contributes to your mental clarity, perception and wisdom. Female. Water element. Taurus. Psychic Awareness, Love, Protection, Healing, Magickal Power, Wealth. Strengthens heart and kidneys. Activates pituitary gland, thereby aiding entire glandular system. Aligns body/mind/spirit. Stimulates psychic abilities, clarity and inspiration. Creative expression, loyalty, love. Aids connection with Higher Self/Spirit Guides. Strengthens will. Expands cosmic awareness. Dispells confusion. Excellent for meditation. Chakras: Throat, Third Eye.
Selenite
Moon. Soothing, nurturing, inspirational. Strengthens bones, teeth. Soothes nerves. Has positive effect on brain, aiding power of concentration and clarity. Enhances willpower. Grounded white light. Chakra: Crown.
Smokey Quartz
Neutralizes negative influences. Good for people with radiation-related illness; helps with the reproductive system, muscle tissue, and nervous system; influences positive change. Mercury, Earth. One of the best grounding stones. Balancing. Good for calming the mind. Eases depression, fear and panic. Female. Earth/water elements. Mood Elevator, Grounding, overcomes depression and negative emotions. Strengthens adrenals, kidneys, pancreas. Increases fertility, balances sexual energy. Aids depression. Mildly sedative and relaxing. Initiates movement of kundalini. Dissipates subconscious blocks and negativity on all levels. Grounding, centering. Excellent for meditation. Enhances dream awareness and channeling abilities. Chakras: Root, Navel, Solar Plexus.
Sodalite
Venus, Pluto. Opens throat chakra. Physical healer. Transformative. (Blue speckled stone). Promotes a balance in thyroid metabolism. Opens up lines of communication and helps us to develop creative ways in order to communicate. Alleviates fears, Clears the mind. Female. Water element. Healing, stress, meditation. Aids pancreas, balances endocrine system, strengthens metabolism and lymphatic system. Balances male/female polarities. Alleviates fear. Calms and clears the mind. Slightly sedative, grounding. Cuts through density and illusion, bringing clarity and truth. Enhances communication, creative expression. Similar qualities as lapis lazuli. Chakras: Throat, Third Eye.
Sugilite (Royal Azel)
Enhances functions of pineal, pituitary and adrenal glands. Activates and balances brain hemispheres. Strengthens heart. Airds physical healing and purification of bodily systems. Emotional balancer, reduces sress. Brings higher spiritual awareness into physical reality. Enhances sensitivity. Strong protective qualities. Excellent for meditation. Enhances channeling abilities. Chakras: Third Eye, Crown.
Tigereye
Mercury, Earth, Mars. Sacred to Bast and Sekhmet. Helps one to distinguish between actual need and false desire. Reduces headaches and nervous spasms. Calms emotions, protects against external stresses. To restore physical energy & quiet emotional nature. Male. Fire element. Wealth, protection, promotes energy flow, health. Beneficial for spleen, pancreas, digestive organs, colon. Emotional balancer. Enhances connection with personal power and will. Grounding, centering. Helps soften stubbornness. Enhances clear perception and insight. Slightly masculine energy. Chakras: Navel, Solar Plexus.
Topaz
Mercury. Bridge between higher and lower consciousness. Assimulation of abstract information. Fights kidney and bladder ailments. Calms your emotions, relieves your tensions and stress and restores your physical energy. Will make melancholy vanish when worn or carried in the left hand. Calms emotions, protects against external stresses. To restore physical energy & quiet emotional nature. Protects against insomnia and depression, mood elevator, revitalizes, stimulates creative thinking processes, eases death. Male. Fire element. Saggitarius. Protection, Healing, Wealth, Love, Calms negative emotions.
Gold: Tissue regeneration. Strengthens liver, gallbladder, spleen, digestive organs, nervous system. Detoxifies body. Warming, awakening, inspiring. Abundance. Chakras: Navel, Crown.
Blue: Tissue regeneration. Strengthens thyroid gland, enhances metabolism. Emotional balance. Cooling, soothing, peace, tranquility. Creativity, self expression. Enhances psychic perception, communication with Higher Self/Spirit Guides. Chakras: Heart, Throat, Third Eye.
Tourmaline
Prevents lymphatic diseases, battles anemia. Black - deflects negativity. Very protective. Lifts fears and negative conditions. Causes the wearer to be flexible, understanding and more objective in purpose and reason. Green - refines, strengthens, directs will. pink - love and sacrifice, devotion. watermelon - corrects imbalances, eases guilt. Aids balance of endocrine system. Aids sleep. Strengthens, vitalizes body/mind. Activates and enhances crystalline properties of body/mind. Aligns subtle bodies. Dispels fear and negative conditions. Strong protective influence. Concentration, inspiration. Enhances sensitivity and understanding. Powerful healer, highly electromagnetic. The various color will activate and align corresponding chakras.
Black Tourmaline/Schorl: Root chakra.
Watermelon Tourmaline/red/green: Root, Heart chakras.
Green Tourmaline: Heart chakra.
Blue Tourmaline/Indicolite: Throat, Third Eye chakras.
Red/Pink Tourmaline/Rubellite: Root, Heart chakras.
Tourmalinated Quartz
Pluto, Uranus. Promotes harmony and helps to resolve confliction elements within ourselves; deflects negativity. Balances male/female polarities. Aids in balancing extremes. GRounding, very protective, dissipates negativity. Combines forces of clear quartz and black tourmaline. Chakras: Root, Crown.
Turquois
Venus, Moon. Symbol of the sky. Works on respiratory system, helps manifest spiritual qualities on the physical plane. Protective; guards against negative energy, danger , accidents; promotes good luck. Can relax your mind and ease mental tensions, calming your emotions and stress overstimulation. Self-love stone. Primary holy stone of Native Americans. Vibrates calming radiations, protective, and restores healthy mental attitude. Stone of friendship. Balancing and healing. Great strength and vitality. Takes on characteristics of the wearer. It is unwise to wear a turquoise formerly worn by one who has died. Excellent for both Spiritual attunement and healing of the energy centers and the physical body, valuable for grounding as well as for vision quests and astral travel , purifies all levels of being and is capable of handling strong negativity, also used for wounds and for damage to bones. Tones, strengthens entire body. Tissue regeneration. Aids circulation, lungs, respiratory system. Vitalizes blood, nervous system. Aligns chakras. Enhances meditation. Creative expression, peace of mind, emotional balance, communication, friendship, loyalty. Chakras: Throat.
Zircon (Hyacinth)
Strengthens the mind. Aids bowel problems. Balances pituitary and pineal glands. Aligns subtle bodies. Emotional balance, self esteem. Aids sleep. Simliar properties as diamond and quartz crystal. All around healer. Chakras: All.
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