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agate
Agate is composed of microscopic crystals of Quartz laid down
in colorful bands or ribbons. The appearance of the stone
can feel waxy and soft. Almost always translucent and occasionally
transparent. Agates are grounding stones. They help obtain
a better physical/emotional balance. They work to raise consciousness.
Builds self-confidence. This is Chalcedony Quartz Red, orange,
yellow, browns: Solid, Grounding. For stomach, colon, liver,
spleen, kidneys. Centering, taking heart. Blood sugar, anorexia/food
issues, lymph nodes, Balances emotions. Insight, Restores
nerve feeling and healing after injury/burns. Gaze into for
meditation. Left/Right brain balance. Pineal, pituitary, coordination.
Patience & peace.
black/banded agate
This is a stone for grounding and centering the energies of
the Root or Base Chakra. Use for self control, grounding,
resilience, quiet power, grounding, invisibility, peace and
anxiety. Black a gate is considered a receiving stones and
is used for calming, soothing, inward meditation and reflection.
When used for Chakra healing and balancing, Black Agate represents
the element earth, and is therefore related to our survival
instincts, and to our sense of grounding and connection to
our bodies and the physical plane. Ideally, when using black
stones at the Root Chakra, they bring us health, prosperity,
security, and dynamic presence.
blue lace Helps to focus on the inner source
of love within you that transforms and heals all wounds. Contains
the qualities of flight, air, movement, and grace. Highly
inspirational when working with the inner self. Works well
with not only the Throat Chakra, but the Heart, Third Eye
and Crown Chakra. Strengthens hereditary skeletal structure,
outward manifested growths, Arthritis.
botswana
Gray and waxy in appearance. Strongly recommended for firefighters,
people who smoke, and for anyone who comes in regular contact
with excessive amounts of heat or smoke. Helpful for anyone
who wants to quit smoking. Beneficial to the circulatory system,
the skin, and the brain. A pleasant side effect may be giddiness.
Soothes depression.
Fire
Most often found in North America. Comes in shades of orange,
brown, blue, or green. Strong connection to the energies of
the earth. Excellent stone to use before meditating. Induces
a feeling of relaxation. Helps alleviate problems relating
to the stomach and endocrine system. Helps you examine and
deal with problems in a calm and safe manner. Helps take the
edge off difficult experiences. Recommended for dentists,
optometrists, and those in the healing profession.
moss
Connects one to Nature. Translucent, transparent agate containing
inclusions of minerals that look like moss or foliage. Improves
ego and self-esteem, emotional balance and strengthens positive
personality traits. Allows one to see all the beauty one's
eyes touch.
Plum (Purple)
Agate Is the stone of meditation and spiritual transformation.
This stone works on the upper Chakra. It assists in allowing
trust with your own intuition and opens the spiritual flood
gates to a realm of endless possibilities. It gives us the
space to "be" our spiritual selves and clears the
mind for extraordinary vision and insight. Agate is composed
of microscopic crystals of Quartz laid down in colorful bands
or ribbons. The appearance of agate is waxy and soft. Almost
always translucent and occasionally transparent. Agates are
grounding stones. They help obtain a better physical/emotional
balance. They work to raise consciousness and builds self-confidence.
red/banded agate
This is a stone for grounding and centering the energies of
the Root or Base Chakra. The color for the Root Chakra is
red or black and it is grounded with your power. When this
Chakra is open, you feel in good health and connected with
your physical body. It is used to ground your essence into
your physical body. This Chakra gives you determination, grounds
you and helps in survival in the physical realms. Red is a
projecting stones which assists in destroy disease, strengthens
conscious, courage, strength, physical energy, luck, and success.
Red stones are used for protection, courage, energy. Help
with blood, relieve anemia, stop bleeding, heal rashes and
wounds.
amazonite
Solid Light Blue/turquoise. Prosperity. 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. Great over a door to bring in new business.
Green stone instrumental in distilling the raw information
used for personal expression. It is a pale green form of Microcline,
a potash feldspar. Soothes the brain and nervous system. Helps
filter information and combines it with natural intuition.
Enhances masculine qualities. Good for anyone involved in
the arts.
amber
Clear yellow or orange ancient petrified resin Electromagnetic.
Past Life Work, Weight Gain. 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.
Excellent detoxification and protection from radiation, especially
x-rays, sun, computers, airport, planes and others' energies.
Sacred use (incense/worn) by Asian and American Indians, and
worldwide. Useful on the brain, lungs, thyroid, spleen, endocrine
system, inner ear, and neurological tissue. Draws disease
out of afflicted areas and neutralizes negative energy. It
is a grounding healer. Can add stability to your life. Helpful
in clearing up depression and bringing about a positive mental
state. Also useful as a memory aid. Amber should be cleansed
after being used for healing to dispense the negative energy
it has absorbed.
amethyst
Translucent, purple/lavender Quartz Psychicness, imagery,
mind quieting. Wear when sleeping or when awake to reduce
anger, impatience, and nightmares. Brow + Crown Chakra. Headaches,eyes,scalp/hair,
pituitary, pineal, bloodsugar balance. Especially helps sobriety;
alcohol, food, sex, other addictions. Famous ancient detoxicifier
(especially helped with poisons, alcohol). Dream recall. Stone
of spirituality, contentment, meditation. Provides common
sense, flexibility in decisions. Quartz family found in Brazil,
Canada, Sri Lanka, and parts of East Africa. Color varies
from a deep violet to a pale lavender, almost to the point
of being clear. Amethyst has a direct link to the mind. It
bolsters the production of the hormones, and strengthens the
cleansing organs, the circulatory system and blood, the immune
system, and body metabolism. It soothes the nervous system
and assists in the transmission of neural signals. Helps you
feel less scattered and more in control of your faculties.
Memory skills and motivation improve. Goals are clearer, more
realistic, and easier to achieve. However, paranoid or schizoid
tendencies. Can benefit people with insomnia or troubled sleep.
Ideal for those who meditate. Promotes selflessness. Useful
in dispelling rage, anger, fear, and anxiety, and is a good
stone for clarifying and remembering dreams. Helps relieve
physical and emotional pain.
ametrine
Ametrine is a mix of Amethyst and Citrine Quartz it helps
balance of the male and female aspects of ourselves. It works
on many multiple dimensions simultaneously. It is one of the
most powerful manifestive crystals around. You may use it
in elixir and body layouts. It also makes a wonderful soothing
massage tool in the form of eggs, spheres and wands. It can
Repairs DNA/RNA, accepting physical change. Sooths
and calms emotions, helps one stay rational under pressure.
Amethyst (purple) helps you visualize and the Citrine (gold)
helps to manifest your vision into the physical. Chakra 3rd
eye and solar plexus.
aventurine
Translucent dark/Light green quartz. Heals emotional pain/fear/imbalance
by dissolving blocks in the heart Chakra. Historically also
draws out heat of fevers, inflammation, nervous system, stress.
In your bath water, a soft, soothing stone for general healing.
Universal love, truth, prosperity. Aventurine is a green chalcedony
that contains small inclusions of one of several shiny minerals
which give the stone a glistening effect. The glistening effect
of Aventurine is known as aventurescence. The color of the
aventurescence depends on the mineral included in the stone.
Mica inclusions give the give the stone a yellowish or silverish
glitter or sheen. Goethite and Hematite inclusions give the
stone a reddish or grayish glitter or sheen. Fuschite inclusions
give the stone a greenish sheen. Aventurine may be green,
orange, brown, yellow, or gray. Spiritually, Aventurine protects
the heart, enhances creativity, working with spirit guides,
enables abundance and brings good luck and money. Healing:
Works with lungs, heart, adrenal glands, calming troubled
emotions, and sexual organs. Joy, balance, clarity. Aventurine
is often referred to as the all-purpose healer. This means
not only that it is considered by many to be good for physical
disorders, but that it is healing on all levels. Green is
the color of healing, and aventurine, as a member of the quartz
family, has a concentrated ability to dissolve blockages.
It is a particularly effective crystal for emotional healing
and is especially helpful when worn for this purpose or placed
on the heart centre during chakra balancing. It helps to balance
the emotions, and is one of the best stones to wear or carry
during stressful periods. It can also be used in crystal layouts
when stress is internalized in the solar plexus area.It is
also used with stones which have a seemingly more harsh energy.
bloodstone
Solid dark green, red flecks. Electromagnetic (high iron).
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. Found in the USSR and India. A deep green
with flecks of red, often resembling drops of blood. Benefits
the circulatory system. Helps purify toxic blood and detoxify
the kidneys, liver, and spleen. Increases courage, helps in
avoiding dangerous situations by soothing the mind. Benefits
the bones, heart, and reproductive organs. Helps raise consciousness.
If Bloodstone is used for a specific healing layout, it should
be used by someone who has experience with the stone.
calcite
Abundant crystal that comes in shades of white, gray, black,
green, yellow, blue, brown, or red. Beneficial for the cleansing
organs, bones, joints, and for sharpening mental clarity.
Helps boost memory. Helps one draw more insight from books
or personal experience by making important information easier
to remember. Soft. Athletes use Calcite because they feel
it can aid the bones and joints that are stressed or injured
during practice or competition. Calcite is strongly recommended
for those involved in the healing professions. lime
green Tranquility; soothes spiritual heart, helps
us learn from lessons in each situation and new options. Clarifies
visions, imagery, astral travel and recall. Helps us replace
fears, old ways with healthier ones. Cleans toxins and fumes
from body. Needs cleansing if sticky. Green Calcite helps
you adjust to the transition from a stagnant or negative situation
to a challenging, more fulfilling, and positive one. Gold
or yellow calcite is used by people who meditate
because the color is linked to the sun and light. Recommended
for astral projection. Spine, bones. Detoxification of kidneys,
pancreas, spleen. Decalcifying joints. Clear/Optical: Clearer
vision & communication, wellness, general cleansing. blue
Calcite Eases pain (especially back).
carnelian
Translucent. confidence, boldness, initiative, dramatic abilities,
assertiveness, outgoingness. Precision, analysis, appetite,
awareness of feelings. Orange and yellow Chakra. 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. Comes in a variety of colors ranging from red to orange
and, in some cases, even to dark brown. Helps you feel anchored
and comfortable with your surroundings. Provides a connection
to the past or to historical events. Strongly influences the
reproductive organs. Purifies the blood and liver, and it
is excellent for lower back trouble. Can improve motivation.
Helps one achieve greater success in career or personal matters.
Helps ground people who meditate.
chrysophrase
Bright translucent green chalcedony. Uplifts heart Chakra.
Greater flexibility, wisdom, generosity, self-confidence.
Heals depression, excess self-focus, emotions/sexual imbalance.
Placed on heart, neck, or on brown for meditation. A quartz
stone found in the USSR, Brazil, Australia, and US. A bright
green crystal similar in color to green apples. Helps one
achieve greater personal insight, feel more clam, become less
egotistical, and more open to new surroundings and situations.
Stimulates creativity and draws out unknown talents. Enhances
fertility for both sexes. Helps guard against sexually transmitted
diseases. Also helps gout, mental illness, and eye problems.
citrine
Clear yellow Quartz (Yellow from Iron.) For Solar Plexus Chakra.
Mental and emotional clarity. Problem-solving, memory, will
power, optimism, confidence, self-discipline, digestion. Reduces
anxiety, fear, depression, stomach tension, food disorders,
allergies. Detoxification: Spleen, kidneys, liver, urinary
system, intestines. Electromagnetic. Citrine is one of two
crystals which never have to be cleansed of negative energy.
An energizing and highly beneficial crystal. Its color is
usually a pale golden yellow, but can be found in darker shades
as well, although some literature considers the darkest crystals
to be Smoky Quartz. The Celtic people of Scotland call the
dark Citrine crystals Morion and Cairngorm. They are invigorating
and positive. Can surround and fill anyone with its brilliant
color, energizing every aspect of life. Increases motivation
and promotes physical activity, which in turn improves digestion
and helps the cleansing organs. May also work as a detoxifier
for the blood. Persons involved with education or business
will especially benefit. Can guide you to harness and utilize
your creative energy. Helps us analyze events and steer them
in a positive direction. Develops inner calm and security,
and makes us less sensitive and more open to constructive
criticism. Can dispel negative feelings and help us to accept
the flow of events.
desert rose
A gypsum. Light brown. Gently grounding; clarifies thinking
and mental vision, perception. Quiets worry, brings out practicality.
(Related to Selenite.) Quiets the mind. Used to access past/future
lives, assists in bring material persuits related to business.
Provides flexibility to one's nature, strengthens decisions,
align the spinal column and removes energy blockage. Stabilizes
epileptic disorders.
emerald
Its is also considered to be a life-affirming stone
with great integrity. Known as the "stone of successful
love" it can bring domestic bliss and loyalty. It enhances
unity, unconditional love and partnership and can promote
friendship. Emerald can keep a partnership in balance if a
colour change is observed it is said to signal unfaithfulness.
Emerald can open the heart chakra and has a calming influence
on the emotions. Emerald aids recovery after infectious illness.
It treats sinuses, lungs, heart, spine and muscles and can
sooth the eyes. It improves vision and has a detoxifying effect
on the liver. Emerald alleviates rheumatism and diabetes.
Wear on the little finger,ring finger or over the heart, not
reccomended to be worn all the time as it is said to trigger
negative emotions.
epidote
Deep green, striated. Strengthens over all health, heart,
well-being, energy. Courage, stamina. Helps take good care
of one's self (food, rest, etc)
fluorite
All rainbow colors. Usually translucent and come in shades
of white, brown, blue, yellow, purple, red, or colorless.
Important balancer, healer. Opens heart (especially green),
Throat Brow, Crown Chakra for clarity, overview, seeing additional
truths/realities. Spleen bones, teeth, lungs, detoxification,
anxiety, insomnia. Benefits the teeth and bones. People with
arthritis, rheumatism, or spinal injuries have reported some
relief from their conditions when they employ Fluorite in
their healing regimen. Helps to rekindle sexual appetite and
heighten intuitive powers. It is suggested using Fluorite
in conjunction with Calcite and Pyrite. Assists in fighting
mental disorder and gaining spiritual awakening. Helps one
become more aware of the higher levels of reality and can
anchor and free one from over stimulation on the psychic plane.clear
and purple flourite Objectivity; clears the way for
new things, uplifting, aura cleanse, 3rd eye, eyesight, sinuses;
repels colds. Enhances other gems.green Stills
mind and heart, harmonizes and recharges all Chakra.green
Fluorite is a valuable helper in grounding excess
energies. blue Throat, nose, ears, soothing;
Karmic impasses resolved, atonement relieved.yellow
Focus, cooperation, group alignment. 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 outerawareness,
and 2 sides/brain; Crown Chakra, illuminating karmic lessons.
garnet
Ranges in color from deep emerald green through yellow, brown,
and red. Common to the US, but found all over the world. Stimulates
creativity, passion, and the circulatory system. The brighter
the better. red Root and Spleen Chakra. Warms,
energizes emotionally and physically (arthritis, frostbite,
paralysis), grounds. Used by ancient cultures. Exhaustion,
low Blood Pressure, 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, inflammation,
etc.) Root Chakra. orange Warmth, energy.
When Garnet is used in conjunction with the pituitary gland,
can help provide past-life information. Should be placed on
the center of the forehead. If carried around in the pocket
and then placed on the forehead of another person, closer
ties will form with that individual. green
Garnets are healing stones. red represent
love and help the aspirant to strive for improvement in moral
conduct. square-cut Garnets help bring about
business opportunities and filter out concerns that are not
one's own. Rectangular shapes aid in the matter of intellect
or the earth. Garnets teach patience and constancy and are
not to be used lightly. They develop love and compassion.
They sharpen self-perception and extend that openness to others.
Help calm anger, particularly anger directed towards the self.
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