Gemstone properties

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 Agate is a calming and grounding stone with the power to balance yin and yang. Agates enhance mental function and improve concentration, perception and analytical abilities. Agates will build self confidence. Emotionally, this crystal overcomes negativity and bitterness of the heart. It is useful for any kind of emotional trauma. Spiritually, agate raises consciousness and awareness of the oneness of life, leading to spiritual growth and inner stability.

Amazonite is an extremely soothing stone as it calms the brain and nervous system and aligns the physical body with the  etheric, maintaining optimum health. It enhances intuition. At an emotional level, amazonite soothes trauma, alleviating worry and fear. It dispels negative energy and aggravation.  Amazonite heals and opens both the heart and throat chakras to enhance loving communication. 

Amethyst is a powerful and protective stone with a high spiritual vibration. It's serenity enhances higher states of consciousness and meditation. Amethyst has strong healing powers and helps in raising spiritual awareness. Amethyst, enhances memory, improves motivation, calms an overactive mind, dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety, and will alleviate sadness and grief. Amethyst opens intuition and enhances psychic abilities.

Aventurine is a very positive stone of prosperity. Aventurine diffuses negative situations and turns them around. Psychologically, Aventurine reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. it promotes compassion and empathy and encourages perseverance. Aventurine stimulates emotional balance, calming anger and irritation. Physically, aventurine promotes a feeling of wellbeing. It protects the heart chakra from psychic attack. Green aventurine comforts and heals the heart, bringing well being and emotional calm. Blue aventurine is a powerful mental healer.

Carnelian is a stone that connects to the lower chakras. It restores vitality and motivation and stimulates creativity. Carnelian improves analytic abilities and clarifies perception. It sharpens concentration and dispels mental lethargy. Carnelian gives courage and promotes positive life choices. Carnelian is full of the life force and vitality. Carnelian activates the base chakra and increases fertility.

Chrysocolla is a tranquil stone. It assists meditation and communication. Chrysocolla draws off negative energies of all kinds. Chrysocolla calms, cleanses and energizes all of the chakras and aligns them with the Devine. It draws out negative emotions such as guilt and reverses destructive emotional programming. Psychologically, chrysocolla encourages self-awareness and inner balance and imparts confidence and sensitivity. It enhances personal power and inspires creativity. At the heart chakra, it heals heartache and increases the capacity to love.  At the throat chakra, it improves communication but helps you to discern when to keep silent. Chrysocolla reduces mental tensions. It promotes truth telling and impartiality. Chrysocolla brings joy!

Citrine is a powerful cleanser and regenerator. Citrine carries the power of the sun! It absorbs, transmutes, dissipates and grounds negative energy. Citrine energizes every level of life. It protects the aura and has the ability to to cleanse the chakras , especially the solar plexus and navel chakras. It activates the crown chakra and opens intuition. Citrine is one of the stones of abundance. It teaches how to manifest and it attracts wealth, prosperity, success. While encouraging generosity and by sharing your wealth, it helps you to hold onto your wealth. Citrine raises self esteem and self confidence and it helps you to develop a positive attitude. It activates creativity and encourages self expression. Mentally citrine enhances concentration and revitalizes the mind. It is excellent for overcoming fears and phobias. Citrine promotes inner calm so that wisdom may emerge to awaken the higher mind. Wearing citrine helps overcome difficulty with verbalizing thoughts and feelings. Emotionally citrine promotes joy in life. Citrine imparts energy and invigoration to the physical body.

Fluorite  cleanses and stabilizes the aura. Flourite draws offf negative energies and stress of all kinds. It cleanses purifies, dispels, and reorganizes anything within the body that is not in perfect order. Flourite grounds and integrates spiritual energies. It enhances intuitive abilities and causes awareness of spiritual realities. Psychologically, fluorite dissolves fixed patterns of behavior and gently opens the door to the subconscious, bringing suppressed feelings to the surface for resolution. It increases self confidence and dexterity. Flourite is an excellent learning aid. It organizes and processes information, linking what is already known into what is being learned. and increases concentration. Physically, fluorite assists balance and coordination.

Garnet is a powerfully energizing and regenerative stone. It revitalizes, purifies and balances energy, bringing serenity or passion, as appropriate. Garnet inspires love and devotion. It balances the sex drive and alleviates emotional disharmony. Garnet fortifies, activates and strengthens the survival instinct bringing courage and hope into seemingly hopeless situations. Crisis is turned into a challenge under Garnet's influence. Garnet can stimulate expanded awareness and past life recall. Emotionally garnet removes inhibitions. It opens up the heart and bestows self confidence.

Hematite is particularly effective at grounding and protecting. It harmonizes mind body and spirit. It dissolves negativity and prevents negative energies from entering the aura, restoring peace and harmony to the body. Hematite can help to boost self esteem, enhance will power and imparts confidence. It is a useful stone in overcoming compulsions and addictions. Hematite stimulates concentration and focus. It enhances memory and original thought. Physically hematite has a powerful connection with blood. It restores, strengthens and regulates the blood supply. Hematite aids circulatory problems and anemia. It supports the kidney and regenerates tissue. Hematite stimulates the absorption of iron and the formation of red blood cells.

 Howlite is an extremely calming stone. Howlite links into the spiritual dimensions, opening attunement and preparing the mind to receive wisdom and insights. It assists journeys out of the body and and accessing past lives. Focusing your sight into howlite can transport you to another time and dimension. Howlite formulates ambitions and aids in achieving them. Howlite teaches patience and helps to eliminate rage and uncontrolled anger. Howlite stills the mind and is excellent for sleep and meditation. It allows for calm and reasoned communication to take place. This stone strengthens memory and stimulates a desire for knowledge.

Jasper aligns the chakras. It provides protection and grounds energies and the body. Psychologically jasper imparts determination to all pursuits. It brings courage and encourages honesty with yourself. Mentally jasper aids quick thinking, promotes organizational abilities and seeing projects through to fruition. It stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into action. Blue jasper connects you to the spiritual world. It stimulates the throat chakra, balances yin and yang energy and stabilizes the aura. Brown jasper is grounding to earth energies and brings stability and balance. It facilitates deep meditation, entering and regression to past lives. Brown jasper improves night vision and encourages astral travel. It boosts the imune system, clears toxins from the body and stimulates the cleansing organs. It heals the skin. Green jasper stimulates the heart chakra. It treats skin disorders. It heals ailments of the upper torso, the digestive tract and the purifying organs. It reduces toxicity and inflamation. Pink Zebra Jasper is a heart chakra stone and is said to bring contentment and joy. It's gentle and calming effect can decrease anxiety and promote relaxation. Like all jaspers it is a protective stone that can bring stability, security and grounding. Purple jasper stimulates the crown chakra. Red jasper grounds energy and rectifies unjust situations. Red jasper can provide insights into the most difficult situations. It has a calming effect. Placed under the pillow, it helps dream recall. Yellow jasper protects during spiritual work and physical travel. It channels positive energy and energizes the endocrine system. Yellow jasper stimulates the solar plexus chakra. It releases toxins and heals digestion and the stomach. Black jasper is a useful scrying stone. It takes you deep into an altered state of consciousness and brings prophetic dreams and visions. Mookite jasper imparts both a desire for new experiences and a deep calm with which to face them. Mookite encourages versatility. Mookite is a physically stabilizing stone that fortifies the immune system, heals wounds and purifies the blood.

Jet is formed from wood of ancient trees. Jet connects us to the energies and knowledge of the earth Jet is an excellent stone for for grounding and protection and can remove energy blockages affecting all of the chakras and particularly supports the base chakra. Jet helps us to open to psychic experiences. Jet is said to protect finances and businesses. Jet balances mood swings and alleviates depression.

Kyanite is excellent for attunement and meditation. It is an amplifier of high frequency energies, stimulating psychic abilities and intuition. This crystal helps in connecting to spirit guides and instills compassion. It facilitates dream recall and promotes healing dreams. Kyanite aligns the chakras, it restores qi to the physical body and it's organs. Kyanite encourages self expression and communication. It brings clarity and dispels blockages, illusion, anger, frustration and stress. It increases the capacity for logical thought and stimulates the higher mind.

Labradorite is a highly mystical and protective stone. It raises consciousness and connects with universal energies. Labradorite deflects unwanted energies from the aura. It strengthens psychic abilities and intuition. Psychologically labradorite banishes fears and insecurities. It strengthens faith in the self and trust in the universe. Labradorite calms an overactive mind bringing new ideas. Labradorite is a useful companion through change, imparting strength and perseverance.

Lapis Lazuli opens the third eye and balances the throat chakra. It stimulates enlightenment. It enhances psychic abilities and dream work. This stone quickly releases stress bringing deep peace. Lapis Lazuli possesses enormous serenity. Lapis harmonizes the spiritual, emotional, mental and physical bodies. Lapis encourages taking charge of life. It reveals inner truth, encourages self awareness and allows self expression. Lapis is a powerful thought amplifier. Lapis lazuli bonds relationships in love and friendship and aids in expressing feelings and emotions. Lapis lazuli boosts the immune system, purifies blood, lowers blood pressure. It alleviates insomnia and vertigo and overcomes depression.

Larimar radiates love and peace and promotes tranquility. It is great to use in meditation as it induces a deep state. It is said to enlighten and heal the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. it stimulates the throat, third eye and crown chakras, facilitating inner wisdom and outer manifestation. Larimar facilitates angelic contact and communication with other realms. Psychologically Larimar removes self imposed blockages and constraints. It is useful for alleviating guilt and removing fear.

Lepidolite dissipates negativity. It activates and opens the throat chakra, third eye and crown chakras. Lepidolite is useful in the reduction of stress and depression. Lepidolite contains lithium and is helpful in stabilizing mood swings and bi-polar disorders. It helps to overcome any kind of emotional or mental dependancy. Lepidolite encourages independence and achieving goals without  outside help. Mentally, lepidolite stimulates the intellect and analytic qualities. Lepidolite is a calming stone that soothes sleep disturbances and emotional stress, bringing deep healing.

Moonstone is a stone of new beginnings. It is connected to the moon and to the intuition. Like the moon, the stone is reflective and reminds us that as the moon waxes and wanes, everything is part of a cycle of change. Moonstone is effective in calming the emotions. It can move the unconscious into the conscious and promotes intuition and empathy. Moonstone can be used to enhance psychic abilities, especially clairvoyance. Psychologically moonstone calms overreactions and emotional triggers. Mentally, moonstone opens the mind to serendipity and synchronicity. Moonstone soothes emotional instability and stress.

Mother of Pearl stimulates the intuition, imagination, sensitivity and adaptability. It helps our emotions to become more harmonious and balanced. It helps to relieve stress and is relaxing and calming to the emotions. It is believed to attract prosperity. Mother of pearl is very calming and soothing to temper and feelings of fear.

Morganite is connected to the heart and the heart chakra. Morganite opens to unconditional love while dissolving the ego. Morganite is said to benefit the nervous system and improve stress related illnesses. Morganite is a gemstone of divine love. It brings energies of promise, healing, compassion and assurance to loving relationships.

Obsidian is a stone for grounding, healing and protection. Strongly protective, it shields against negativity and blocks psychic attack. It absorbs negative energies from the environment. Obsidian draws out mental stress and tension. It stimulates growth on all levels, urging exploration of the unknown and opening to new horizons. Obsidian detoxifies, dissolving blockages and tension in the physical and subtle bodies. Black obsidian is a very powerful and creative stone. Black obsidian is protective. It repels negativity and disperses unloving thoughts.  Gold sheen obsidian is useful in scrying. Gold-sheen obsidian balances energy fields. Rainbow Obsidian is one of the gentler obsidians but with strong protective properties. This stone cuts the cords of old love and gently releases hooks that others have left in the heart, replenishing the heart energy. Rainbow obsidian absorbs negative energy from the aura and draws off stress from the body. Snowflake obsidian is a stone of purity, providing balance for the mind, body and spirit. Snowflake obsidian helps you to recognize and release "wrong thinking" and stressful mental patterns. With the aid of snowflake obsidian, isolation and loneliness become empowering.

Opal holds a very fine vibration. It enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic visions. Opal stimulates originality and creativity and aids in expressing one's true self. Opal is absorbent and reflective. It picks up thoughts and feelings, amplifies them and returns them to the source. This stone teaches that what you put out comes back. Opal enhances self worth. Emotionally opal is associated with love and passion. Opal strengthens the will to live.

Peridot is a powerful cleanser, releasing and neutralizing toxins on all levels. It purifies the subtle and physical bodies and the mind. Peridot opens, cleanses and activates the heart and solar plexus chakras and releases 'old baggage'. Burdens, guilt or obsessions are cleared. This stone releases negative patterns and old vibrations so that new frequency can be accessed. Peridot will help you to understand your destiny and your spiritual purpose. Psychologically peridot alleviates jealousy, resentment, spite and anger and reduces stress. Mentally peridot sharpens the mind and opens it to new levels of awareness.

Quartz (clear) is the most powerful energy amplifier on the planet. This crystal works at a vibrational level attuned to the specific energy requirements of the person needing healing or undertaking spiritual work. Spiritually, quartz raises energy to the highest level. Clear quartz contains every colour possible and harmonizes on all chakras. Quartz enhances psychic abilities and attunes you to your spiritual purpose. Quartz is excellent for filtering out distractions while meditating. Quartz aids concentration and unlocks memory. Quartz is a master healer and can be used for any condition. It stimulates the immune system and brings the body into balance.

Rose Quartz is the stone of unconditional love and infinite peace. It is the most important crystal for the heart and heart chakra. It purifies and opens the heart at all levels and brings inner healing and self love. Rose quartz gently draws off negative energy and replaces it with loving vibes. Holding rose quartz enhances positive affirmations. Emotionally rose quartz is the finest healer by releasing unexpressed emotions and heart ache and and transmuting emotional conditioning that no longer serves. Rose quartz teaches you to love yourself. It encourages self forgiveness and acceptance. Rose quartz strengthens the physical heart and circulatory system. Rose quartz aids in removing problems related to the chest and lungs.

Rutilated quartz is an effective integrator of energy at any level. It is a very efficient vibrational healer. Rutilated quartz promotes spiritual growth. It clears and energizes the aura. It aids in astral travel scrying and channeling. It facilitates contact with the highest spiritual guidance. It draws off negative energy. Emotionally rutilated quartz soothes dark moods and acts as an anti depressant.

Smokey quartz is one of the most efficient grounding stones which also raises vibrations during meditation. It is connected to the earth and base chakras. Smokey quartz is uplifting and relieves stress. Psychologically smokey quartz relieves fear, lifts depression and brings emotional calmness. Mentally, smokey quartz promotes positive thought. It dissolves contradictions, promotes concentration and alleviates difficulties in communicating.

Tourmalinated quartz brings together the properties of quartz and tourmaline. It is an effective grounding stone and strengthens the bodie's energy field against detrimental environmental influences. This stone will turn negative thoughts into positive.

Rhodonite is an emotional balancer. This stone stimulates, clears and activates the heart and the heart chakra. It grounds energy, balances yin-yang and aids in achieving one's highest potential. Rhodonite heals emotional shock and pain. Rhodonite clears away emotional wounds from the past. Rhodonite balances and integrates physical and mental energies. It builds up confidence and alleviates confusion.

Sodalite unites logic with intuition and opens spiritual perception. This stone stimulates the pineal gland and the third eye and deepens meditation. Sodalite is an excellent stone for the mind. It encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuitive perception. Psychologically sodalite brings emotional balance and calms panic attacks. It enhances self esteem, self confidence and self trust.

Sunstone is a joyful and inspiring stone. Sunstone clears all of the chakras, bringing in light and energy. It is believed to bring good luck. Emotionally sunstone acts as an antidepressant and lifts dark moods. Sunstone helps to remove co dependancy as it facilitates self empowerment, independence and vitality. Sunstone will help to overcome procrastination.

Tiger's Eye combines the earths energy with the energy of the sun to create a high vibrational state that also grounds drawing the spiritual energies to earth. It enhances psychic abilities and balances the lower chakras. It is a protective stone. It assists in accomplishing goals. Mentally tiger's eye integrates the hemispheres of the brain and enhances practical perception. Psychologically tiger's eye heals issues of self worth, self criticism and blocked creativity. It aids in recognizing one's talents and abilities and faults that need to be overcome. Emotionally tiger's eye balances yin-yang and energizes the emotional body. It alleviates depression and moods.

Tourmaline cleanses, purifies and transforms dense energy into a lighter vibration. It grounds spiritual energy, clears and balances all of the chakras and forms a protective shield around the body. Psychologically tourmaline aids in understanding one's self and others, promoting self confidence and diminishing fear. It banishes any feeling of victimhood and attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance and prosperity. Tourmaline balances the left and right hemispheres of the brain and transmutes negative thought patterns.

Black tourmaline protects against cell phones, electromagnetic smog, radiation, psychic attack, spells and negative energies of all kinds. Black tourmaline connects to the base chakra, grounds energy and increases physical vitality while dispersing tension and stress. It encourages a positive attitude, stimulates altruism and practical creativity. Black tourmaline strengthens the immune system, treats dyslexia and arthritis and provides pain relief.

Turquoise is strongly connected to the throat chakra and helps to enhance communication and expression. Turquoise aligns all of the chakras. Turquoise can help you to become more open to love, forgiveness and to release patterns of self sabotage. Turquoise dispels negative energy And can be worn to protect against outside influences and atmospheric pollutants.Turquoise stabilizes mood swings and brings inner calm. It helps to alleviate depression and exhaustion. Turquoise promotes self realization and assists creative problem solving. It is a symbol of friendship  and stimulates romantic love.

Unakite balances emotions with spirituality. Unakite provides grounding when it's needed and can be useful after meditation and psychic work. Unakite brings a calm gentle energy.  It is also helpful in past life healing by going back to the source of the problem and reframing it.