CRYSTALS & STONES
Gemstones have been used for centuries as meditational aids and magical items. Each individual type of stone has different properties. Here are some healing and spiritual properties below of crystals and stones.
These descriptions are based on ancient legend and lore:
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Agate: Moss Agates considered to be most powerful. 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.
Carnelian-gives protection and energy. Moss green-balances emotional
energy. Moss red-balances physical energy. Blue lace-gives
tranquility.
Amber: Powerful healing stone with large amount of organic
energy. In ancient times, ground to a powder and mixed with honey or
oil of roses for various physical problems. Filters germs and
infections and has the power to disinfect. Worn around the neck to
help fight infection and respiratory diseases. Lifts the spirits.
Apatite: Promotes communication and mental clarity.
Amethyst: Increases spiritual awareness, has a calming and
soothing influence, has the ability to transmute negative into
positive, and is very effective as a healing stone. Warmed and placed
on the forehead and temples, it is good for headaches. Has the
ability to draw through it forces directed towards the body and repels
vibrations which the body doesn’t need, thus releasing only the energy
patterns beneficial to the body. Best worn in healing near the heart
center. Opens up spiritual and psychic centers. Helps prevent
drunkenness.
Aquamarine: Calms nervous tension. Calming effects of the sea.
Used to help banish fears and phobias. Means seawater.
Soothing and cleansing.
Adventurine: Increases perception and creative insight.
Stimulates opportunity and motivation.
Azurite: Powerful healing stone, invokes spiritual guidance, opens psychic eye.
Good for dreams and improving psychic ability.
Bloodstone: Stimulates flow of energy for healing blood
circulation, stops hemorrhaging. Removes emotional blockages.
Citrine: Stimulates openness and accelerates the awakening of the
mind. An aid to the digestive system. Helps eliminate toxins.
Encourages tremendous healing on the emotional and mental
levels, helps unblock subconscious fears, and serves as a natural
relaxant.
Coral: Balances physical energy and relaxes tensions. Carries
the creative vibrations of the sea.
Emerald: Promotes creativity, stimulates perception and insight,
and strengthen memory. Beneficial effect on the eyes.
Garnet: 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.
Hematite: Calming to the emotions. Worn as an amulet to confer
strength and procure favorable legal judgments. In Egypt, used to
reduce inflammation and treat hysteria. Considered to be a grounding
stone. Helps maintain balance between body, mind, and spirit.
Ivory: Spiritual protection.
Jade: Stimulates practicality, wisdom, and universal atonement.
Thought to provide a link between the spiritual and the mundane. Most
revered by the Chinese.
Jasper: For energy balancing of emotions and stress.
Fluorite: Opens the way for the use of other stones.
Excellent used in aquariums-provides needed minerals.
Lapis Lazuli: Stimulates wisdom, truthfulness, & psychic
experiences, healing and strengthening when worn next to the skin.
Strengthens mind and body to spiritual awareness.
Malachite: often 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.
Moonstone: 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 per-menstrual symptoms
and balancing to the reproductive system. Used to ease childbirth.
Pearl: Stimulates feminine qualities, used to focus attention,
helps pull together mental and spiritual forces, peace of mind.
Represents purity, modesty, & gentleness.
Peridot: Dispels fears, guilt, and depression. Used to
counteract negative emotions and healing of the spirit. Affects top
three chakras. Once worn as a means of gaining foresight and divine
inspiration.
Quartz: Amplifies the healing energy of the one using it. Used
to help draw out pain. Able to tap into the energies of the
universe. A good stone for meditating on. Works primarily with the
Third Eye center, also relates well with the heart center. To be able
to tune into the quartz promotes clarity while concentrating on it.
Also affects the crown chakra. Very potent and often worn to protect
from negative vibrations. Cleanse regularly. Smoky – good for calming the mind.
Rose – vibrations of universal love & inner serenity.
Ruby: Increases vigor, renews vitality and cleanses the blood.
The stone of courage.
Topaz: Calms emotions, protects against external stressors. To
restore physical energy & quiet emotional nature.
Tiger Eye: Very powerful protection, clarity of thought.
Tourmaline: Causes the wearer to be more flexible, more
understanding and more objective in purpose and reason. Calming.
Each person has a different response to this stone. Causes a
reaction in the intestinal tract. Black and Crystal – removes
negativity and cleanses. Some say it should not be worn as jewelry.
Electric and magnetic properties.
Turquoise: 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.
CRYSTALS & STONES
NAME – COLOR – CHAKRA USES:
AMETHYST – Violet – Crown Calming, grounding,
a cleanser and spiritual stimulator, yin/yang balance,
strengthens heart, cleanses liver of toxins,
excellent for lung problems.
ADVENTURINE – Green Heart – Soothes emotions,
used for the heart and heartache, for acceptance of
self and others, for inner peace.
AGATE – Varied Solar – Compels truth, promotes good manners,
happiness, intelligence, prosperity.
Heart longevity, fertility, and good health, affects stomach,
throat, heart.
AZURITE – Blue-green Heart – All purpose healing stone
MALACHITE – Crown etheric body, parathyroid glands, nerve, spleen,
pancreas, used to release repressed emotions and for physical detoxing.
BLOODSTONE – Green-red Root – Offers courage,
endurance, harmony, used to stop bleeding, helps in
making decisions, used for iron deficiency, in the
blood, for moving kundalini energy, and to invoke
peace in all who are drawn to it.
CITRINE – Golden Solar – Generates radiant, happy
Plexus vibrations, helps thoughts to be clear and emotions controlled,
raises thinking to intuitive levels, on a
physical level it can be used to help eliminate
toxins from the colon, gall bladder and kidneys and
entire eliminative system.
CHRYSOPRASE – Green Solar – Has a quality of
compassion and a Plexus, capacity for fine atonement works
on the solar plexus and heart areas to sooth
emotions, will help tranquilize many forms of and
neurosis, also used to absorb or deflect unwanted
energies.
FLOURITE – Clear – Crown, Multi-dimensional
stone, balances Blue, 3rd Eye and integrates lower
(human) self Purple with higher(spiritual)
self, good for meditation over 3rd eye chakra,
works well with virulent diseases.
GARNET – Red Root – Stimulates happiness,
peace, balance, patience, inspiration, persistence,
good for rebirthing, menstruation and life passages, disorders,
fertility, eases arthritis pain.
HEMATITE – Grey – Black Root – A very grounding stone,
very cooling to the physical body, use for
fevers, alleviates worry and anxiety as it allows for
mental clarity, often known as the “worry stone”.
HERKIMER – Clear Crown – Very balancing special
variety of quartz crystal “DIAMOND” works with yin/yang
energies, often known as the “Dream Crystal”, aids
in bringing teachings of the dream state into
conscious awareness, very highly attuned spiritually.
KYANITE – Blue, Crown – Aligns all chakras,
if so directed – Black – 3rd Eye can open chakras (energy
centers in the body), dispels frustration and anger,
excellent attunement stone, good for meditating,
aids in past life regression.
LAPIS – Blue – Used over 3rd eye (brow) chakra,
LAZULI – 3rd Eye assists in opening and clarifying
(Brow) inner vision, provides strength, vitality and
self-assurance, used for disorders of the throat,
heart, spleen, blood, skin and to counter effects of
stroke and epilepsy, also good for dream work.
LITHIUM – Lavender Crown – Helps to reduce stress
and ease depression, with Pink Solar- relates to cycles of
Tourmaline Plexus birth and death and eases transition,
good preparatory stone inner spiritual work, on physical
helps with digestion.
MOONSTONE – White Crown – Has a very calming effect
on the emotions, Pastel stimulates the pineal
gland, assists in stimulating the feeling (intuitive) nature,
eases menstrual pain, alleviates many degenerative
conditions in the skin, hair, eyes, and body fluids
(tears, digestive juices).
OBSIDIAN – Black – Used to sharpen both the
internal and external Snowflake vision, one of the most
important “teachers” of the New Age stones,
teaches one the truth of oneself in relation to ones
ego, depicts the contrasts of life-day and night,
darkness and light, truth and error.
PERIDOT – Green Heart – Promotes digestion,
eases ailments Yellow/ Brow in the digestive
system, used for Green for protection, prosperity,
emotional calming, purifies, balances.
PHANTOM – Clear – All Very powerful tool
for the New Age, Redor used to ground and
center while Yellow attuning to higher
spiritual energies, in healing work used to
disperse congested energies.
PYRITE – Gold Solar – Has a very protecting,
shielding aspect which Plexus works on the
physical, mental, emotional levels. Shields from many
forms of negative energy, strengths circulatory system,
clears oxygen in the blood.
QUARTZ – Clear Trans – All-purpose, all healing,
amplifies personal thought-forms, transmutes energy point
and forms protective shield around auric field, excellent for
meditation stone, color work, aura work, very energizing.
IRRADIATED – Very Absorbs all forms of negative
QUARTZ – Black – Energy, placed on or near electrical
equipment (T.V., microwave, computer) to absorb
harmful energies.
ROSE QUARTZ – Pink Heart – Comforts heart from all
wounds, helps heal emotional pain, enhances love, self-love,
positive outlook, joy and oneness, helpful for heart, throat,
ears, nose, hypertension.
SMOKEY QUARTZ – Black Root – Eases depression, fear and panic.
QUARTZ – Grey Solar – clears aura, very grounding,
Plexus enhances positive attitudes, tranquilizes, works
well with root chakra to release negative blocks
emotional and physical, used for menstrual
cramps,intestines, stomach and digestion.
TOPAZ – Yellow Solar – Draws negativity from
chakras, Plexus protects against insomnia and depression,
mood elevator, revitalizes, very stimulating to the
creative thinking processes,eases death.
TOURMALINE – Varied Root – Works as a protective
shield, consumes negative energy without releasing it
into the atmosphere, has to do with visions and
“seeing” with compassion, good for the eyes, teaches
to expand limited concepts of thinking, relates to
aspirations for higher love, very complete stone.
TURQUOISE – Aqua Heart – Known as”The Sky
Stone”, is 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.
