The spiritual and healing qualities of gemstones
Amazonite --
Provides clarity and insight. Creates a feeling of power. The original "You can get what you want if you want it bad enough" Stone. Leads one away from the self-destructive behavior that sometimes surfaces when we experience disappointments.
Amethyst --
Releases stress and worry, dispels anger and fear, controls bad habits, fosters commitment in love and reduces physical and emotional pain. Long used by psychics as a major boost for intuition and psychic clarity. It is also a real stone of inspiration.
Black Jasper --
Builds will power. Helps with concentration and focus. Turns insights into creativity. Relieves stress. The privacy stone. Repels negativity. Strengthens the emotional nature. Useful for charging other stones and crystals.
Bloodstone --
Stone of courage. Acceptance of change. Cutting through turmoil. Mastery of renewal. Used as an amulet for protection from illness and disease. Favorite good luck and good fortune stone. Overcoming of enemies. Winning in physical contests. Stone of wizards & magicians for increasing power. Used for heart conditions.
Blue Aventurine --
Deep navy blue, almost an indigo. Can energize an overworked third eye. Provides for clarity of any psychic or intuitive input.
Bornite --
Aligns the entire chakra system and opens any chakra. Exceptionally useful in reactivating overworked chakras. Aligns the various bodies, particularly the Astral body after travel. Bornite stimulates the inner self to expand to unscaled heights and is often called the stone of happiness as it produces that exhilaration of experiencing the moment to the fullest.
Botswana Agate, carnelian --
Furthers spiritual unfoldment and personal growth. Stone of reserve energy. Useful in accessing other worlds. Provides for mental clarity and uncommon insight. Enhances creativity and inventiveness. Opens the mind to problem solving. Can counteract emotional poisoning and relieve depression.
Botswana Agate, blue/gray --
Toxin release. Stimulates crown chakra. Furthers spiritual unfoldment and personal growth. Stone of reserve energy. Useful in accessing other worlds. Provides for mental clarity and uncommon insight. Enhances creativity and inventiveness. Opens the mind to problem solving. Can counteract emotional poisoning and relieve depression.
Carnelian --
Used for allergies, colds and flu. Helps with kidneys and gallstones. Used by Greek soldiers to stop bleeding from wounds. The warrior's protection stone. Eliminates sorrow. Protects from spells and negativity. Reduces fear.
Crazy Lace Agate --
Spiritual Powers: Aids with energy lows. Relieves emotional pain. Opens the way for laughter. Healing Attributes: Strengthens the heart. Clears energy blockages. Brings vitality to major organs.
Fluorite --
Producer of order and organization. Used to provide focus and assist in concentration. Represents the heights of mental achievement, strengthens the user's analytical ability and is useful for storing and remembering quantities of knowledge. Spiritual Powers: Purification, Guidance, Aura Clearing, Intuition, Spiritual, Overcoming Fatigue
Flame Agate --
Spiritual Powers: Provides clarity during periods of transition. Stimulates awareness. Healing Attributes: Enhances physical vitality. Treatment of burns and relieving pain.
Green Aventurine --
One of the more powerful abundance stones. A favorite of gamblers. Enhances perception, intelligence and creativity. Excels in bringing balance, calming emotions and speeding the healing process. An all-around good luck stone.
Green Tree Agate --
Strength in all pursuits, aids growing things and fertility. Open contact with Nature Spirits. Promotes self-esteem and emotional balancing. For locating treasure and receiving abundance. Excellent for longevity. A very powerful healing and toxin release stone.
Hematite --
Hematite is versatile. In elixir form it is used to foster self-esteem. Very powerful in building the immune system and is used for cleansing the blood. Any disorders involving white blood cells can benefit from using Hematite. It can aid in sorting out and assigning priorities to issues. Has been used to expand one’s memory and to deal with technical questions. Recently discovered to aid clarity in computer programming. Removes inflammation from sore muscles.
Labradorite --
Used to prevent energy leaks from the aura as well as for aura healing. Assists in harmonizing the subtle vibrations of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Can provide clarity to insights and is used to clear the mind of conflict and scattered thinking. Gateway to the subconscious.
Lawrencite --
A power healing stone in all dimensions. It replaces energy lost in the healing process. It is especially beneficial to the liver and spleen. It is a most appropriate stone for people with terminal conditions, providing energy and clarity for acceptance. Red Jasper for energy. Moss Agate for self-esteem.
Mahogany Obsidian --
Relief of tension. Release of blockages. Often called the Purpose-of-Life stone. Used to stimulate growth of the physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual centers. Used to gain insight into fulfilling one's aspirations. A significant stone for protection against all negative energies.
Moss Agate --
One of the most powerful healing stones. Eliminates toxins Aids digestion. Relieves symptoms of flu, colds and infections. Used for skin disorders. Drains and heals sinus infections. Aids fertility. Promotes self-esteem. Increases inner security. Develops contact with Earth Spirits. Native American power stone. Great wealth and money stone.
Nephrite Jade --
A calming and detachment stone from the emotional ups and downs of living. Great in dream work, both for analyzing and for working into lucid dreaming. Helps mental activity with clear judgment and an increased ability for focus and concentration. Aids in promoting effortless self-discipline in any skill or endeavor.
Orange Calcite --
Used to promote de-calcification of bone growth. Aids in the assimilation of calcium. Works with improving the functions of kidneys, liver and spleen. Called the happiness stone. Clears and creates an open mind while reducing skepticism. One of the most powerful protective stones giving energy where ever held to the body.
Mauve Aventurine --
Spiritual Powers: Personal power, draws prosperity. Used for contacting Spirit Guides. Inspires creativity. Healing Attributes: Excellent for fertility, strengthening the urogenital systems.
Petrified Wood --
Carried by Native Americans for protection. As an elixir, fine tonic for hair loss. Used to access past lives. Gets rid of random worries and anxieties. Helps make new friends and improves friendships. Relieves stress.
Picasso Marble --
An artists stone. Helps to find beauty in ordinary things. Transforms intuition into intellectual thoughts. A stone for flowing with one’s destiny. Helps with transition and change. Master of the sub-conscious. Use for developing work with a pendulum. Reduces anxiety and stress and helps to regulate metabolism.
Prehnite --
A mystical light green color that at once carries you into the subconscious and astral realms. Has been used to aid in remembering dreams.
Pyrite --
Pyrite works to cleanse the circulation system, build the immune system and regulate the heart. It has been used to strengthen the skeletal system and refresh bone marrow. Pyrite improves the respiratory functions of the skin. Has been used for the lungs and bronchial conditions as well as reducing fevers and sore muscles. Because of its energizing potential is used in cases of nervous exhaustion. Cubic clusters of pure pyrite.
Quartz, clear --
Amplifies energy and aligns the chakras. Assists in the creation of power and mental focus. Aids in communication with plants, stones and animals. Fosters connection with the Universe at a cellular level. Help to connect with Angels and Spirit Guides. Clears all chakras and is used for rejuvenation. Can be effective in stimulation of the thymus and balance of right and left brain.
Red Jasper --
Often called the energy stone. Relieves pain. A real quick pick-me-up. For stamina and sexual energy. Worn by young women to promote beauty and grace. Fosters creativity. Used in magic and rituals.
Rhodonite --
A great stone to calm the mind prior to meditation or any ritual. Excellent for balancing chakras, clearing confusion and has been used to help attain one’s greatest potential. Attracts a nurturing love energy.
Rose Quartz --
Reduces wrinkles. Used for pain relief, burns and clearing of body fluids. Good for coughs and lungs. Releases impurities. Stone of gentle love. Heals emotional wounds. Gains for self acceptance and rejuvenation. Increases clarity.
Serpentine --
Works with the Kundalini and all spiral energies. A major stone for enhancing meditation and visualization. Provides direction in problem solving. Aligns the astral and emotional bodies. Works to enhance the will and at the same time to relax stress. Used for abundance.
Snowflake Obsidian --
Spiritual Powers: Brings purity and balance. Opens clarity for unwanted circumstances. Healing Attributes: Used for creating smooth skin. Works with clearing veins and clearing eyes.
Sodalite --
Often called the wisdom stone. An aid to focus and concentration. Stops the chattering mind in meditation. Rubbing the body with Sodalite is used to dissipate fear and anxiety. Helps with inner turmoil. Can regulate metabolism.
Tiger Eye --
The stress release stone. Promotes self-awareness and relaxation. Gets rid of worry. A stone of self-confidence. Used by Roman soldiers for protection in battle. Aids in finding one's direction...a purpose-of-life stone. Useful for inspiration and problem solving.
Turitella Agate --
Spiritual Powers: guidance to past lives, a gift from the stars, safety, protection, dispels old programming, aids in any type of transition, the survival stone. Healing Attributes: Energizing, reinforces the thymus, works with the skeletal structure particularly the hands and feet. Relieves swelling, tiredness and fatigue. Soothes the stomach, aids elimination. Helps in the absorption of zinc, calcium, magnesium and Vitamin A.
Unakite --
Spiritual Powers: Personal power. Taking charge of One’s life. Guardian of fate, protection, leadership. Power used with gentleness, charismatic, enhances visions and journeying, balances the emotional body, rebirthing, unlocks blockages and allows release. Healing Attributes: used to discover the root causes of disease or malfunction, balances weight distribution to desired places.
Yellow Jasper --
Useful in balancing hormones. A general tissue rebuilder. Stimulates rejuvenation of the endocrine system. Works with the thymus. Releases toxins absorbed thru the skin.
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