CRYSTALS & GEMSTONES
Gemstones have been used for centuries for meditation. Each type of stone has different properties. These descrioptions are based on ancient legend and lore.
Healing and Spiritual properties:
AGATE Earth.
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 Mercury.
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.
AMETHYST Jupiter / Pluto / Violet / Crown
Calming, grounding, a cleanser and spiritual stimulator, yin yang balance, strengthens heart, cleanses liver of toxins, excellent for lung problems. 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 drunkeness.
APACHE TEARS Pluto.
Grounding. Transforms and aids in the release of lower emotions.
APATITE Promotes communication and mental clarity.
ADVENTURINE Venus / Uranus / Green / Heart.
Joy, balance, clarity. Soothes emotions, used for the heart and heartache, for acceptance of self and others, for inner peace. Increases perception and creative insight. Stimulates opportunity and motivation.
AGATE Varied / Solar-Plexus / Heart
Compels truth, promotes good manners, happiness, intelligence, prosperity, longevity, fertility, and good health, affects stomach, throat, heart.
AQUAMARINE Neptune.
Calms nervous tension. Calming effects of the sea. Used to help banish fears and phobias. Means seawater. Soothing and cleansing.
AZURITE Saturn.
Powerful healing stone, invokes spiritual guidance, opens psychic eye. Good for dreams and improving psychic ability.
AZURITE-MALACHITE Blue-green / Heart, Crown
All purpose healing stone, affects etheric body, parathyroid glands, optic 3rd eye nerve, spleen, pancreas, used to release repressed emotions and for physical detoxing.
BLOODSTONE Earth / Green-red / Root
Offers courage, endurance, harmony, used to stop bleeding, helps in making decisions, used of iron deficiency, in the blood, for moving kundalini energy, and to invoke peace in all who are drawn to it. Stimulates flow of energy for healing blood circulation, stops hemorrhaging. Removes emotional blockages.
BLUE CELESTITE Neptune.
Opens one up to the angelic realms. For detachment, clear perspective, divine inspiration.
BLUE TOPAZ Mercury, Uranus.
High electrical charge. Focuses and clears the mind, opens one to inspiration.
CARNELIAN Saturn, Earth. Orange Sacred to Isis. Protective, aids concentration. Access to past life data.
CHRYSOPRASE Green Solar-Plexus Heart Has a quality of compassion and a capacity for fine attunement works on the solar plexus and heart areas to sooth emotions, will help tranquilize many forms of hysteria and neurosis, also used to absorb or deflect unwanted energies.
CITRINE Mercury, Mars. Golden Solar- Plexus Generates radiant, happy vibrations, helps thoughts to be clear and emotins 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. Stimulates openness and accelerates the awakening of the mind. An aid to the digestive system. Encourages tremendous healing on the emotional and mental levels, helps unblock subconscious fears, and serves as a natural relaxant. Bridge between higher and lower consciousness; transmutes fear.
CORAL Venus, Neptune. Balances physical energy and relaxes tensions. Carries the creative vibrations of the sea. Love and harmony.
EMERALD Venus.Promotes creativity, stimulates perception and insight, and strengthen memory. Beneficial effect on the eyes. Heart stone. Great harmonizer. Love, balance, undertanding.
FLORITE Neptune. Clear,Blue,Purple Crown, 3rd Eye Multi-dimensional stone, balances and integrates lower (human) self with higher (spiritual) self, good for meditation over 3rd eye chakra, works well with virulent diseases. Opens and softens the way for the use of other stones. Excellent used in aquariums-provides needed minerals.
GARNET Pluto, Mars / Red / Root
Stimulates happiness, peace, balance, patience, inspiration, persistence, good for rebirthing, menstruation and life passages, blood disorders, fertility, eases arthritis pain. Balances hormones, good for mental depression, enhances self-esteem, alleviates bad dreams, and encourages successin business. Thought to assist in seeing into past incarnations. Aids kundalini to ascend in proper channels. Aids circulation.
HEMATITE Saturn / 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". Calming to the emotions. Worn as an amulet to confer strength and procur favorable legal judgements. In Egypt, used to reduce inflammation and treat hysteria. Considered to be a grounding stone. Helps maintain balance between body, mind, and spirit.
HERKIMER "DIAMOND" Uranus / Clear / Crown
Very balancing special variety of quartz crystal, 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. Releases stress, cleanses subtle bodies. Stumlates clairvoyance, dream work.
IVORY Spiritual protection.
JADE Venus, Neptune.
Stimulates practicality, wisdom, and universal attunement. Thought to provide a link between the spiritual and the mundane. Most revered by the Chinese.
JASPER For energy balancing of emotions and stress.
JET Pluto.
Sacred to Pan. Helps to confront darker aspects of self and nature.
KYANITE Neptune, Pluto /Blue, Black / Crown, 3rd Eye
Aligns all chakras & subtle bodies, if so directed can open chakras (energy centers in the body), dispells frustration and anger, excellent attunement stone, good for meditating, aids in past life regression.
LABRADORITE/SPECTROLITE Uranus, Pluto, Neptune. Opens heart chakra.
LAPIS LAZULI Venus, Neptune / Blue / Throat, 3rd Eye
Used over 3rd eye (brow) chakra, assists in opening and clarifying 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. Stimulates wisdom, truthfulness, & psychic experiences, healing and strengthening when worn next to the skin. Strengthens mind and body to spiritual awareness. Stone of teachers. Clarity and ease of expression of higher wisdom.
LITHIUM Lavender with Pink Tourmaline Crown, Solar- Plexus
Helps to reduce stress and ease depression, relates to cycles of birth and death and eases transition, good preparitory stone inner spiritual work, on physical level-helps with digestion.
MALACHITE Venus.
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.
MOLDAVITE Pluto, Mercury, Moon.
Astral Projection, access to akashic records, wider perspectives.
MOONSTONE Moon / White Pastel / Crown
Has a very calming effect on the emotions, 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). Brings good fortune. Reflects the wearers being and feelings. Promotes unselfishness. Opens the heart to humanitarian love and hope. Good for protection while travelling on water. Gives clarity to spiritual understanding. Good for pre-menstrual symptoms and balancing to the reproductive system. Used to ease childbirth. Sacred to the Goddess, moonstone may be used to enhance the feminine, strengthen psychic abilities, and increase sensativity to natural cycles.
OBSIDIAN Pluto. Black- Snowflake Transforms energy and emotions in a very powerful way. Not to be worn as jewelry. Also a powerful grounding stone. Used to sharpen both the internal and external 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.
ONYX Saturn. BLACK Stabilizing. Mirrors all aspects of the self, dark as well as light. Transformative.
OPAL Mercury. Links physical body to higher bodies, allowing greater access to cosmic consciousness.
PAUA SHELL Neptune. Aids one in accessing the subconscious for emotional and artistic inspiration.
PEARL Venus. Purity, chastity, emotional clarity.Stimulates feminine qualities, used to focus attention, helps pull together mental and spiritual forces, peace of mind. Represents purity, modesty, & gentleness.
PERIDOT Mercury. Yellow/Green, Green Heart, Brow Promotes digestion, eases ailments in the digestive system, used for protection, prosperity, happiness, emotional calming, purifies,balances.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. Creates feeling of protection, allowing heart to open. Unblocks congestions.
PHANTOM Red or Clear / Yellow /All
Very powerful tool for the New Age, used to ground and center while attuning to higher spiritual energies, in healing work used to disperce congested energies.
PYRITE Mars / Gold / Solar-Plexus
Has a very protecting, shielding aspect which works on the physical, mental, and emotional levels, shields from many forms of negative energy, strengths circulatory system, clears oxygen in the blood. Vitality, strengthening of Will. Improves circulation.
QUARTZ Uranus / Clear / Trans-personal point
All-purpose, all healing, amplifies thought-forms, transmutes energy and forms protective shield around auric field, excellent for meditation stone, color work, aura work, very energizing.
IRRADIATED QUARTZ Very Black
Absorbs all forms of negative energy, placed on or near electrical equipment (T.V., microwave, computer) to absorb. 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.
RUDILATED QUARTZ Sun, Uranus. High electrical charge. Powerful healer. Rutile needles help focus attention. Smoky-good for calming the mind.
ROSE QUARTZ Venus. 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, sinuses, kidneys, hypertension. Universal love & inner serenity.
SMOKEY QUARTZ Mercury, Earth. Black Grey Root, Solar-Plexus
Eases depression, fear and panic, clears aura, very grounding, enhances positive attitudes, tranquilizes, works well with root chakra to release negative blocks emotional and physical, used for menstrual cramps, intestines, stomach and digestion.
TOURMALINATED QUARTZ Pluto, Uranus. Deflects and eliminates negative conditioning patterns.
RHODOCHROSITE Mercury, Venus. Holds any force field. Draws white light into the physical body.
RUBY Sun, Mars. Heart Chakra Compassion, leadership, heals relationship to father.Increases vigor, renews vitality and cleanses the blood. The stone of courage.
SAPPHIRE Neptune. Aids spiritual understanding.
SELENITE Moon. Soothing, nurturing, inspirational.
SODALITE Venus, Pluto. Blue speckled stone Opens throat chakra. Physical healer. Transformative.
TIGER EYE Mercury, Earth, Mars. Very powerful protection, clarity of thought. Helps one to distinguish between actual need and false desire.
TOPAZ Mercury. Yellow Solar- Plexus Draws negativity from chakras, protects against insomnia and depression, mood elevator, revitalizes, very stimulating to the creative thinking processes, eases death.Calms emotions, protects against external stresors. To restore physical energy & quiet emotional nature. Bridge between higher and lower consciousness. Assimulation of abstract information.
TOURMALINE Varied Root, Heart Works as a protective shield, transforms and 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.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 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.
GREEN Refines, strengthens, directs will.
PINK love and sacrifice, devotion.
WATERMELLON corrects imbalances, eases guilt. Great to attune fetus with parents prior to birth.
TURQUOISE Venus, Moon / Aqua / Heart, Throat
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. 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. Works on respiratory system, helps manifest spiritual qualities on the physical plane.
These uses of gemstones are presented for information only! Follow your own inner wisdom to choose and use your stones.
