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Abalone To strengthen the heart, bestow tranquility, abundance and spirit.
Actinolite

An immensely important tool as it is a phenomenal shielding device & expands energy bodies. Also provides a familiarity with all of those who one encounters.

Agate To balance the spirit and emotions, inspire courage, bring peace and promote longevity. In ancient times, agate was highly valued as a talisman or an amulet, said to miraculously quench the thirst of its owner and to protect him from fever. Agate was also said to add an element of stability to its owner's life, cure insomnia, facilitate greater discretion, and bring its wearer strength and victory in battle. Accepts circumstances, discerns the truth, powerful emotional healer.
Agate
Blue Lace
A healing gemstone that is cooling and calming, bringing peace of mind. Particularly effective for activating and healing the throat chakra. Effective for reducing family quarrels.
Agate
Moss
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.
Ajoite Believed to removes implants, activates and energizes the P-chakra, aligns with the universal spirit.
Alexandrite To renew and regenerate. Brings love, joy and luck. Enhances the rebirth of inner and outer self, promotes awareness.
Amazonite To align astral bodies, create unity with life, enhance creative expression.
Amber Believed to be a healing stone. Brings good luck and helps to turn dreams into reality. Calming for hyperactivity and stressed nerves, aids in finding humor and joy.
Amethyst Legend says that amethyst originated in Greek mythology. Angered by an insult from a mortal, Dionysus, the god of intoxication, swore revenge on the next mortal to cross his path. This mortal was a beautiful, young maiden named Amethyst who was turned into a statue of pure crystalline quartz by Diana to protect her from Dionysus' wrath. Remorseful, Dionysus wept tears of wine that stained the quartz purple, creating the gem we know today. More contemporary legends about amethyst have religious undertones because it was a sacred stone to Buddha and the same color as many Church ornaments.

Amethyst is one of the best stones to use for meditation.  Since the amethyst color is the highest vibration of the third eye, an amethyst stone can be placed directly over this area to usher in a meditative state.  Amethyst's gentle persuasion temporarily stills the mundane thought processes that usually inundate the consciousness so that the mind can experience tranquility.  

Amethyst energy shows the mind how to be humble so that the door to the higher mind can be opened.  The inner calm and peace initiated by this stone enable one to dive deep into the ocean of silence and participate in the serenity that exists beyond constant mental activity.  

Amethyst could be called the "soul stone" because it communicates directly with that level of being.  It initiates deep soul experiences.  Because of the calming mental effect, amethyst is a stone that can be used for overworked, over stressed or overwhelmed mental states.  It is one of the best stones to use for tension or migraine headaches as it eases the mental anxieties that tend to cause such conditions.  

Amethyst is also helpful for people suffering recurrent nightmares.  Before retiring, hold an amethyst crystal up to the forehead and program it to guide the mind safely through the sleep state. Then place it under the pillow and sleep securely. Amethyst will inspire sweet dreams.

Amethyst is believed to clear the aura. Gives strength, stability and peace and brings new ideas, encourages inner peace, fights addictive behavior, transforms energy. Amethyst is a symbol of sincerity, security, and peace of mind. It is a healing stone and was once thought to hold the power to prevent intoxication if made into a chalice. Amethyst is also said to help a traveler find his way. When worn on a bracelet, amethyst is said to improve one's reasoning and give him heightened intelligence.

Amethyst is represents the 4th and 6th wedding anniversaries. It is the birthstone for February.
Ametrine Ametrine is a gemstone combining mental clarity and strength of will with a high sense of spiritual purpose and purity of one's energies. It can activate the third and seventh chakras, putting one's personal power in service to one's highest aspirations. It can dispel negative energies in one's environment. An all around healer. Promotes good luck, serenity, energy & unconditional love, dispels negativity, aids decision-making, meditation, relieves stress.
Ammonite Protective, aids in the birthing process, provides relaxation. Ammonite is a fossilized animal, which was present on the earth in eons past. It is a stimulus to architects & those in the fields of construction. Provides insight on where to start and allows one to retain the "whole picture" from conception to use. A protective stone, gives stability & structure to ones life. Can transforms negative energy into smooth flowing energy. Can alleviate the burdens of the birthing process.
Andalusite (green/brown) To dispel loneliness and depression. Stimulates past memories, re-alignment and centering of self.
Angelite  Protects, strengthens degenerate organs, excellent for creative people.
Anhydrite

This mineral facilitates strength on the physical plane and allows one to understand that the physical body is in fact, transient. It has been used to help one to develop stamina and to provide for loving communication with those of a different mind. It also provides the energy6 for "glad acceptance" of all of the changes and situations which one has the opportunity to experience: allowing one to recognize that the past is gone, except for the memories of beauty, and nothing remains except grace.

Apache Tear Grants forgiveness, understanding in distress.
Apatite Apatite is believed to help integrate, coordinate, and balance the emotional, intellectual, physical, and etheric bodies. Believed to help provide access to past life insight and telepathy. It is a stone of the future and will bring knowledge to those attuned to it by clearing mental confusion. It is used to awaken the higher inner self and enhance creativity.
Apophyllite Loving attunement to body and spirit, stimulates intuition.
Aquamarine For those drawn to aquamarine, it will be calming and soothing.  It may ease pain and grief for those stricken with an unrelenting feeling of loss.  Anger and frustration may be easier to handle as the wearer becomes accustomed to the vibrations of aquamarine.  You may find a brighter outlook on life, and the effects of emotional trauma on brain tissues will be gradually reversed.  These benefits can be directly attributed to the higher-octave blue ray energies as amplified by aquamarine.  

Aquamarine was used extensively as a tool for the improvement of mental powers of priests and priestesses in Egypt, certain remote parts of Asia and in Atlantis.  Even earlier cultures knew aquamarine as the stone of the sea goddess.  They used it to enhance their powers of receptivity, improve their understanding of cycles, expand consciousness, see beyond the wall of death, and heighten awareness during an initiation.

The name is derived from a Latin word meaning "sea water" because of its beautiful blue color. Aquamarine has a long association with tranquility and happiness, and is thought to instill courage, cure laziness and sharpen the intellect. It is also thought to protect ocean voyages and guard against sea monsters. It was believed that aquamarine soaked in water would treat eye troubles, respiratory diseases, hiccups, and ease depression and grief. It also signifies the making of new friends and the re-awakening of love in long marriages. Represents serenity, inner power and health. Given in the form of earrings is said to awaken love and affection.

Although ultrasonic and steam cleaning are usually safe, undetected inclusions that frequently occur in Aquamarine can fracture with these cleaning methods and is chemically sensitive to acids. Warm soapy water is the safest alternative.

Aquamarine represents the 16th and 19th wedding anniversaries. It is the birthstone for March.
Aragonite

Calms and centers, allows for insight, aids self discipline if directed.

Avalonite This stone is useful in calming a person. It helps during meditation promoting a feeling of being protected in the user.
Aventurine (green) Independence, helps in career changes. To protect and aid in decision making. Purifier of the etheric, emotional and mental bodies. Enhances tranquility & peace. Lessens anxiety & fear. Protects and clears heart chakra. Balances male and female energies. Activates one's pioneering spirit. Amplifies leadership qualities. Shields heart chakra from energy invasions. Aventurine was once thought to bring luck and prosperity to those who wore it. If placed into a prayer or bead bracelet, it is thought to bring success.
Aventurine (red/orange) To help in self reflection and reduces hunger.
Azurite To calm anxiety that comes with disease and helps in meditation. Guidance to the psychic self, cuts through illusion, enhances communication.
Azurite-Malachite Initiates transformation, aids clarity and understanding in vision.
Beryl Beryl assists in filtering out distractions, relieves stress, and calms the mind. It is especially beneficial for those who need to attain some semblance of calm when used with emeralds or lapis lazuli. Said to bring hope, beryl will assist in any battle or litigation by sharpening the intellect. This stone is also a cure for laziness. Associated with Venus, the goddess of love, if the love between two married people is flagging, this stone can help reawaken it.
Bizmuth

Bismuth has been used as a stone of transformation; it directs the change to orderliness and calms the state of change, providing a supplemental physical vitality to the user. It transforms the energy of the crown chakra to energize the base chakra and actualizes the power of wisdom.

Bismuth can be used to assist in diminishing fevers and in lessening catatonic states. It can be used to help one to transit from the physical plane to the astral state and/or to the spiritual realms. In case, it provides for the opening for, and the continuity of travel with respect to, a pre-established travel plan.

Bloodstone (Heliotrope) To promote protection, grounding, calming and wealth. Eases irritability and impatience. Prevents high blood pressure, cleanser of body, aids decision-making.
Blue Lace Agate

Expands consciousness, soothing, wise, and public speaking.

Boji Stone Sense of joy, highly energetic, draws out pain. The smoother stone is describes as being more female & the more heavily crystallized stone defined as the male. Some are said to be androgynous. Excellent healing mineral. The Boji stone aligns all the subtle bodies, balances and aligns the chakras.
Brass Because it is a poor conductor it is not generally used for healing. Flattens and grounds energy.  May be used as shield, reducing sensitivity and awareness. A common alloy made by combing Copper and Zinc. Recommended by healers as helpful to people who have unusually high levels of metal in their bloodstream, since it is a blood cleanser and detoxifier.
Brazilianite Promotes trust in one's self, it refreshes memories of pre-physical existence, gently clears blockages.
Bronze Mental agility, intelligence, consistent strength and stamina while under burden.
Bustamite

Stimulates awareness in dream work, a harmonious stabilizer.

Calcite

Aids memory, good for arts and sciences, balances mental and emotional.

Calsilica
Rainbow
Aligns all chakras, brings mental clarity, bolsters the immune system, heals grief from past trauma.
 
Carnelian To protect against envy, fear, and rage. Dispels sorrow, apathy. Carnelian is a love stone, thought to have the power to awaken passion and desire. It is also said to re-energize its wearer when placed in a bracelet and to aid in natural revitalization processes.
Cat's Eye It is thought to miraculously salvage a person's career, business and trade. Thought to have the ability to calm the mind, bestow patience, and help a person concentrate. It helps those into meditation and in the pursuit of enlightenment or moksha. It believed to hold the power to cure chronic diseases.
Celestite

Clears speech, personal expression, highly spiritual.

Chalcedony A nurturing stone that promotes good will and enhances group stability. Used to assist thought transmission and telepathy. Absorbs negative energy and then dissipates it to prevent onward transmission. Chalcedony brings the mind, body, emotions, and spirit into harmony.
Chalcedony
(Blue)
Gentle ethereal energy. It promotes balance between mind, body and spirit. It is a stone of calm and peace that reduces or negates hostility, anger, and irritation. Blue chalcedony soothes and promotes mental and emotional stability and can encourage emotional honesty. Eases communication, particularly what would otherwise be emotionally charged communication. Blue chalcedony is excellent for the psychic work and skills of clairvoyance, intuition, and energy healing. It helps reduce or eliminate bad dreams by getting rid of the influences that cause them. Blue chalcedony has a very protective property, which is evidenced in both the physical and emotional realms.
Charoite

Accelerates spiritual growth, enhances self-esteem and ability to love.

Chiastolite

Also known as the fairy cross for its naturally formed cross pattern. Used as a talisman for psychic grounding and protection. Enhances intellect, problem solving and mental abilities. Also conducive for messages from the netherworld. Transmutes dissension into harmony, balances perspectives.

Chrysoberyl
Cat's Eye
The chrysoberyl family comes in three varieties: alexandrite, cat’s-eye, and chrysoberyl. While chemically alike, they are quite distinct in their optical characteristics and bear no resemblance to one another. It has long been used as a charm to guard against evil spirits, and one can understand why, given the pronounced eye effect (the eye could see all, and it watched out for its wearer). It was also believed that to dream of cat’s-eye signified treachery. It has also symbolized long life.
Chrysocolla

Communication, female energy, creativity, relieves ulcers and arthritis.

For thousands of years, chrysocolla has been the stone of conciliation, reassurance and hope throughout the world.  The ancient Egyptians called it a wise stone because those who wore it came up with clever compromises while also being protected from psychological damage.  It was said to make violent-tempered people sensitive and tolerant.  This is apparently why Cleopatra carried a chrysocolla with her wherever she went.

This stone has a very beneficial effect on children.  It also has positive psychological properties.  It lowers stress and tension while reducing anger and hatred.  Chrysocolla symbolizes psychological and mental conciliation.  It promotes calmness, goodness and tolerance and strengthens intuition.  

Chrysoprase Chrysoprase is apple green chalcedony believed to soothe headaches and help with depression, increases grace and equilibrium. Promotes balance, wisdom and peace. Allows acceptance of self and others.
Cinnabar

Stimulates dignity, vitality & power. Is beneficial in the world of business & finance. Enables one towards invincibility, while serving to remove obstructions. Can be called the "merchant¹s stone"...helps one maintain the state of wealth. Brings one the qualities of fluency, persuasiveness & effectiveness in ones aspirations. Excellent in extracting energy blocks. Helps in the treatment of weight disorders.

Citrine Citrine represents happiness, prosperity, generosity, creativity, pleasure, protection, strength, alignment, confidence, stability, moderation, energy, comfort, career success, truth, goodness, warmth, enjoyment of life and spiritual growth. Citrine is one of the most positive stones available. It is also one of the few stones that never needs cleansing because it does not hold negative energies. This is a stone of success in all walks of life.
Copper Believed to soothe arthritis, stimulates initiative and optimism. Releases restrictions.  An excellent energy conductor,  sends and amplifies thoughts, healing, and gem electrical energy into wearer's energy field. Touching skin it will detoxify and sooth arthritis, rheumatism, other inflammation problems. Warms, releases resentment, anger built up in joints as arthritis. Exhaustion recovery, circulation, balances warm sun energy and cool lunar energy. Energize with sunlight. Aids in increasing one's ability to express and accept true feelings, balance personal reserve and confidence.
Coral Coral brings diplomacy and concurrence, quiets emotions, brings peace to the inner self. Facilitates intuition, imagination, visualization, accelerates the transfer of knowledge.

Dark red coral is used for heating and stimulating the bloodstream.

Pink shades restore harmony to the heart, assists in the search for the inner child and the need to bring key issues from the unconscious to a conscious state of awareness. Helps resolve conflict and clear the paralysis experienced due to the fear of making a move.

White coral strengthens self-esteem and assists with clearing judgment, frustration and resentment at being told what to do. Encourages self-affirmation and recognizes the self within. Enhances intuition and calms the emotions. Aligns the chakras and connects us to our etheric body.

Blue coral helps battle mental illnesses. Has a true link with the past and can pass knowledge along. It is used to illuminate the third eye chakra, enhancing psychic awareness and capabilities of the user. Facilitates the improvement of commerce, improves communication skills.

Black coral encourages creativity, repels lower energies, and acts as protection against potential harm. Dispels negativity and fear of the unknown, helping to
develop self-confidence.

Coral symbolizes life and blood force energy.
Believed to protect the health and growth of an infant, helps in childbirth and adoption, provides balance, protection and relaxation. Increases imagination, resolves conflicts. Wearing coral helps remove any hurdles faced in a marriage.
Crystal
Leaded
Represents peace.
Crystal
Rock or Quartz
Quartz is said to stimulate mental clarity, emotional stability and to facilitate and focus meditative states. It is also said to stimulate positive thoughts and feelings, and to amplify psychic abilities.

Quartz has been long associated with mysticism - the crystal balls used by fortune tellers are balls of clear quartz. Quartz is also a luck stone, and it is said to hold healing powers for its wearer. Clear quartz, or rock crystal, is also a charm employed to bring strength and long life when worn on a bracelet.
Crystal
Blue Quartz
Like all quartz, it can be used as a power amplifier during magic. Blue quartz is a stone of order that can enhance organizational abilities, self-discipline, and orderliness.  The enhancement is believed to be due to the effect it can have of balancing the throat chakra and enhancing communication between the lower chakras (physical) and higher chakras (mental/spiritual).  Blue quartz brings the sense of order to all things, and releases fear, bringing courage into one's life. It is also a boost for creativity and expression. Blue quartz is especially good as a peace or tranquility stone, greatly reduces problems with a distracted mind, reduces stubbornness, and brings mental clarity.  It also helps one to see and accept reality, and react to it intelligently in one's behalf.  It can lift depression and replace it with peace and happiness.
Cubic Zirconia Cubic Zirconia is a synthetic gemstone, zirconium oxide (ZrO2), a mineral that is extremely rare in nature but is widely synthesized for use as a diamond simulant. The synthesized material is hard, optically flawless and usually colorless, but may be made in a variety of different colors by using certain metal oxides during the manufacturing process. Cubic zirconia is relatively hard, at about 8.5 on the Mohs scale - nowhere near diamond, but much harder than most natural gems. Because of its low cost, durability, and close visual likeness to diamond, synthetic cubic zirconia has remained the most gemologically and economically important diamond simulant since 1976.
Danburite

Stimulates intellect, enhances psychic ability and self-assuredness.

Desert Rose Related to Selenite, it clarifies thinking and mental vision, perception. Quiets worry, brings out practicality. Used to access past and future lives, assists material pursuits related to business. Aids personal flexibility, strengthens decisions, and removes energy blockage.
Diamond Diamond encourages self-confidence and a desire for independence while counteracting jealousy. The diamond symbolizes wisdom and enlightenment, purity and clarity. It provides protection, preserves peace and gives power. The diamond has a harmonizing effect on all the chakras. Represents purity, perfection, abundance and inspiration. Diamonds symbolize love, endurance, courage, and invincibility, and they are said to increase one’s clarity of thought and expression. The higher the quality of diamond, the more honest a person may be, and the more clearly he can view matters. Brings forth purity, harmony, love, and abundance.

Diamond is derived from the Greek word adamas, meaning "unconquerable", reflecting a recognition of diamond's superior hardness.  Many cultures believe diamonds have been associated with the moon and the sun to resemble its colorlessness, brilliance, hardness, and value.  Diamonds range from colorless to distinct colors such as blue, red, green, pink, and yellow.  To some, the diamond is a symbol of love, purity, and faith.  To others they symbolize ideas such as power, success, and security.  A diamond portrays romance when reflected in lovers' eyes.

The diamond  represents the 75th wedding anniversary. It is the birthstone of April.
Diopside

Brings necessary tears, heals trauma, and aids regression, scrying stone.

Dioptase

Attracts love, abundance, prosperity and health.

Dravite

This is a protective stone that brings the peace of the earth to the higher self.

Drusy Enhances the ability to heighten intuition, improve creativity, awaken one’s own spirituality. Used for balance and to increase energy. Holds and amplifies healing and therapeutic properties.

Drusy is a layer of minute quartz crystals that have crystallized on the surface of another gemstone or mineral.  Drusy quartz is basically minute quartz crystals on the surface of crystalline quartz, chalcedony quartz or agate quartz.
Elestials

Assist in comprehending life, the levels of death and the immortality of the spirit.

Emerald Emeralds promote love, romance, joy, cleansing, clairvoyance, clear vision, memory, faith, intuition, serenity, intelligence and communication.  This is a truth promoting stone, inspiring deep knowing from within.

Represents faithfulness and unchanging love, protects from accidents, and promotes loyalty and sensitivity. Supposedly, emerald can strengthen its wearer’s memory, quicken the intelligence, and assist in predicting the future. It has the power to improve insight and allows one to see others in a better light. It is also supposed to aid in physical and emotional healing. Emerald is also a symbol of immortality and faith. Secures love, attracts wealth, profitable dreaming.

Historically, emeralds were used by Nero as sunglasses to view the chariot races since it was believed to soothe the eyes.  Emerald ground into a powder form was thought to stop bleeding, cure dysentery and fever, prevent epilepsy, and avert panic.  The emerald was also thought to make its owner eloquent and persuasive, bring joy, give the ability to foretell the future and improve memory.

The emerald represents the 20th and 55th wedding anniversaries. It is the birthstone for May.
Epidote Enhances that to which you attune it.
Eudialyte

Assisting in clairaudient capabilities, serves as a fine-tuner for transmissions. Stimulates both Alpha and Beta states. Activates the heart chakra, known as a "stone of the heart land", dispels jealousy, used in the treatment of disorders of the optics of the eyes.

Feldspar Encourages unconventional ways to obtain achievements. Promotes self-awareness and self-love. Helps one to find missing items.
Fire Agate

Aligned with the element of Fire, this gemstone is a dynamic crystal energy for dealing with fatigue and lethargic patterns of stress. Its warm energy, brings us a sense of passion & enthusiasm, to those everyday tasks and duties.

Fluorite Helps increase concentration and heighten intuition.  Clears the fog of illusion and brings order to chaos, clearing the way for new things.  Perfect health and order on every level. Purification and harmony.  Strengthens users' analytical abilities and ability to concentrate. Excellent for advancement of mind, greater concentration, meditation. Helps one to grasp higher, more abstract concepts. Particularly good for accessing the universal energies that activate all that is good for the physical body.

Fosters objectivity, truth, intellect, consciousness, aura cleansing and protection, concentration, purification, harmony, and attracts wealth and abundance. Innovative and inventive, it is a highly effective “brain” stone, allowing you to use your creativity to build wealth

Fluorite, in all it's forms, is here to teach us to be inter-dimensional.  It can show us how to be at one and in a state of peace while still being individually unique; and how to incorporate infinity into each moment.  It is the symbol of the growth process that we are all involved in; of aligning with the cosmic force and source of our being and accepting the responsibility to live in the Divine Will and manifest Light through physical action.  

Fossil Aids past life exploration, protection from spells.
Fuchsite

Assists one in eliminating any type of servitude issues, used to enhance knowledge and right action, used in channeling activities, can bring information concerning herbal remedies and holistic remediation.

Facilitates the transfer of energy from other minerals; hence, using this mineral in conjunction with other minerals during healing sessions promotes an increase in energy transfer.

Galaxyite

Promotes the occurrence of events of all sizes, with insignificant events occurring frequently and with significant events occurring infrequently. It is a "stone for discovery", bringing the sensation and actualization of discovery and inventiveness from the Inner Self to the conscious mind, providing the information, and the actuality, that "things are moving". The mineral represents the galaxy, and has been used to facilitate contact with the extra-terrestrial beings of higher spirituality.

Galena

 Harmony, healthy hair, medical students, promotes holistic studies.

Gaspeite Opens the heart and encourages joyful creativity, calms the emotions and brings assurance. Aides in enlightenment, opening the mind to new possibilities. Helps attracts friends and friendship and draws others to you. Gaspeite is used to bring visions and grant success.  Physically gaspeite is primarily related to the heart chakra, and has been used for heart problems, lungs, and gallbladder.
Garnet Garnet is known as the gem of faith and truth. Folklore indicates that the garnet gives the wearer the quality of constancy and the ability to make deep and lasting friendships.  Represents friendship, protection from harm, enhancement of self. Promotes new beginnings, compassion, courage and ends crisis. Garnet is given and received as a symbol of consistency, perseverance, and good health. It is a power stone, and, according to legend, it guides its wearer when he’s traveling at night. The stone also supposedly protects its wearer from nightmares and depression, increases health, fidelity, imagination, and balances energy flow.  Garnet can be found in all colors, with the exception of blue. In Victorian times, garnets were referred to as carbuncles.

Rhodolite garnet represents the 5th wedding anniversary.
Tsavorite garnet represents the 12th wedding anniversary.

Garnet is the birthstone for January.
Geode

The geode structure itself exhibits several properties in addition to the properties of the contained minerals. These properties include facilitation of astral travel, and assistance in the pursuits of mathematics. The geode also allows one to both recognize and analyze the total picture prior to decision-making. It allows one the freedom to mold and to shape ones own future and assists one in attaining highly effective communication skills. It furthers ones connection to higher forces and higher planes, stimulating the bridge of association with those of like pursuits.

Gold Excellent all-purpose, high level gem amplifier and electrical conductor, especially when placed on the solar plexus and heart chakra. Strengthens meridians, nerve system, digestion. Positively charged with warming sun energy. Often worn by teachers/healers, especially after self-healing. Attracts prosperity, stores, amplifies thoughts, emotions, and energy. Gold is ruled by the Sun, a masculine planet, and therefore imparts a more assertive energy to stones that are set in it.

Yellow gold, purifying, healing, balancing. Attracts honors. Masculine energy. Represents spirituality and understanding. Attracts positive energy and promotes healing.

Pink gold has copper added to give its color. Lovingness, warmth, spirituality. Amplifies gem effects.

White Gold combines the sun and moon's energy, creating a high conductor and amplifier. It is a regenerator, helping to renew one's self. Works on the physical, mental, and spiritual planes. It works well with all crystals and gemstones. Can be used in conjunction with copper and silver, which aid in boosting its abilities in specific situations.
Goldstone
Brown or Blue
A man-made stone, it is said to have been originally created when alchemists were working towards creating gold. Because of the tiny glittering fragments of copper embedded in glass, goldstone has many of the metaphysical properties of copper, including easing arthritis pain and strengthening the circulatory system. Copper is a good conductor of energy, so goldstone helps to revitalize the mind and body. Goldstone is believed to store the energy of all those who touch it (which makes it a special gift for loved ones living far away).
Gypsum Relieves stagnation, offers level-headedness.
Heliodor Heliodor is a good stone for those suffering from exhaustion. An excellent stone for assisting one to cope with a difficult or stressful life. Heliodor stimulates the mind, inspires mental clarity, improves confidence and strengthens willpower. It is a stone that encourages initiative and independence. Heliodor is also an excellent stone at combating depression, minimizing over-analysis of situations and helping to overcome feelings of fear and resentment. May reawaken love in those who have been married for some time but who feel that the spark has gone out of their relationship. Heliodor encourages feelings of empathetic and compassionate understanding.
Aids when seeking inner guidance on what we should be doing with our lives. It is a wonderful stone for scrying as it promotes visualization with protection, and is often referred to as a "Seers Stone". It has been used in magical rituals and promotes purity of being.
Heliotrope (Bloodstone) To promote protection, grounding, calming and wealth. Eases irritability and impatience.
Hematite One of the most grounding of all stones.  Pulls together feelings of being scattered, helps turn fuzziness into mental clarity, concentration, memory, practicality, helps study, bookkeeping, detail work, sound sleep. Confidence, will power, boldness. Also to calm hysteria and anxiety. To encourage survival, strengthen will, bestow vitality, and bring balance, grounding, common sense, level headedness. Hematite was also supposed to be able to stop bleeding, and was said to bring good fortune to those addressing kings, judges, and entering litigation. Additionally, hematite was once used to bring invulnerability to warriors. It is also said to have a good influence on the circulatory system. If placed in a bracelet, the stone is said to be a ward off depression and minor pains.
Herkimer Diamonds Stimulates clairvoyance/psychic abilities, soothes tension, sleep. Herkimer diamonds are double-terminated quartz of exceptional brilliance. They are mined only in Herkimer, NY. Harmony, awareness, spontaneity. Crystal of attunement. Stimulates clairvoyance and telepathic communication. Can store information/emotions. Alleviates tension.
Hessonite Hessonite garnet is sometimes referred to as the stone of creativity.  It is believed that use of hessonite on the third chakra will stimulate creativity on all levels. Hessonite encourages respect of self and others and is used to enhance spiritual growth. It may help the wearer to release ideas and behaviors that have been outgrown and are no longer useful. Hessonite is believed to help regulate hormone production, stimulate metabolism, fortify the immune system, and aid in the absorption of nutrients.
Holly Blue Agate

Spiritual and psychic actualization, as one teaches, one also learns.

Howlite

Combines reasoning, observation and patience, providing for discernment.

Huayruro Ormosia coccinea produces beautiful red seeds with one black spot covering one-third of its surface. These seeds are used for jewelry and other decorative purposes. They are poisonous if eaten. This plant grows throughout the South Eastern North American countries, and all throughout South America. The seeds are known as huayruro in Peru, where villagers believe them to be powerful good luck charms, and Nene (seed) or Chumico in Costa Rica.
Iolite To awaken inner knowledge, inner power and inner strength. Iolite has also been said to improve eyesight; promote faith, charity, and helpfulness; and bring higher, purer thoughts. Gives accurate visions, releases discord, strengthens liver, soul connector.
Jacinth
(Hyacinth)
The orange variety of zircon is called jacinth. Zircon helps one be more at peace with oneself. Zircon is believed to provide the wearer with wisdom, honor and riches. The loss of luster on a zircon stone is said to warn of danger. Jacinth helps rising one's self-esteem. Protects from fever, plague, dropsy, and disorders of the stomach. Worn on the third finger, it brings peace of mind and a sound sleep.
Jade Represents confidence, realization of potential, balances energy and aids in meditation. Jade was once thought bring wisdom and prosperity, and to preserve the body after death. For thousands of years it has prevailed as a symbol of love, purity, and status. Jade was also, for a time, viewed as a prevention and a cure for kidney problems.
Jasper Jasper is one of the oldest known gemstones. Considered a power stone, this earthy, grounding stone has excellent protective and stabilizing energies. It is a powerful protection against things that are not good for you and it eases emotional stresses. Jasper gives the courage to speak out and to have personal independence. Jasper helps to ground and re-align chakras, balances yin and yang energies, stabilizes the aura, and cleanses dysfunctional energies.

Red jasper is known to protect against hazards of the night. Red jasper is very lucky for actors.
Jet A fossilized organic matter used as a healing stone. A form of petrified wood similar to coal, though much harder. Has absorbing qualities. Helps draw out negative energy. Especially useful for people who have unreasonable fears that limit their lives. Helps control migraines, illness, violence, mood swings and fights deep depression. Recommended for stimulating psychic experience and guiding one in the quest for spiritual enlightenment.
Kinoite

This mineral helps to enhance ones spirituality during the initial stages of growth. It helps one to refrain from delusion and to recognize and to extinguish the self-limiting ideas which have been imparted. It is an excellent stone for the throat chakra, bringing the energies of communication to the demonstration of psychic abilities; it further instills a beauty and an undisturbed composure to one during the receipt of information during channeling activities

Kunzite

Kunzite is extremely sensitive to light and ultrasonic sound, and prolonged exposure to either of these will fade its color. For this reason, kunzite has often been called the “evening stone”. Believed to give off powerful love energy, promote peace and purification, dissipate negativity. Reduces insecurity, addictiveness, manic depression, gives maturity.

Kyanite

Promotes clarity and understanding in dream work, enhances creativity, psychic images, foresight, consciousness, meditation, communication. Used with the third eye to answers question, especially in imagery. Brings out our natural ability to manifest things into reality via thoughts, visualization.

Labradorite To promote calmness, intuition and enhance magical abilities. Brings recognition of destiny, connects one with the elements. Often regarded as a transformational stone that heals and balances the aura, labradorite is said to be protective during vulnerable growth stages and intense transitions.

Labradorite occurs in metamorphic and igneous rocks and is in the feldspar category. The name is derived from the main source for this gemstone, which is Labrador, Canada. The ground color is dark smoke grey and when light strikes it in a particular direction, it displays striking rainbow-colored reflections. These flashes of violet, blue, green or even orange and red are known as labradorescence. Spectrolite is the trade name for a brightly colored variety of labradorite found in Finland.  
Lapis Lazuli To promote self knowledge, wisdom, honesty and abundance, release tension and anxiety. Lapis Lazuli is a confidence stone, said to improve one's self-image and inspire self-confidence. Strengthens total awareness, ESP, skeleton, thyroid, creativity.
Larimar
(Pectolite)

Confidence builder, good for sales, reduces depression, builds serenity. Soothes and uplifts hurt, fear, depression, pain of life, changes with love. Self-expression, patience, acceptance, simplicity, creativity, artwork.

Larimar is an extremely rare gemstone that has been found in only one location: in a mountainous, relatively inaccessible region of the Dominican Republic overlooking the Caribbean Sea. This gemstone first surfaced in 1974, although the inhabitants of the region and their ancestors have long been aware of the stone.

Legend has it that they used to simply collect these stones on the beach, but one day they couldn't find anymore. They went to explore upstream, and came upon a rock formation that seemed to be the source of this blue precious stone.

The name Larimar was given to the stone by a Dominican, Miguel Méndez, who combined his daughter's name LARIssa, with MAR, the Spanish word for sea. The stone is also called the Atlantis Stone, since a wise prophet once claimed that the Dominican Republic was part of the lost continent of Atlantis, an association that has been affirmed by various spiritual and metaphysical authorities.

Lepidolite Promotes self-love. Alleviates stress, anger, and tension.
Lodestone
also called
Magnetite

A natural magnet, it is strongly magnetic and possesses polarity attributes in the form called Lodestone. Used for grounding, clear thinking, focus on detail work, decisions. Electromagnetically pulls toxic blocks and pain from energy meridians, and temporarily aligns the chakras and the meridians of the physical and etheric bodies. It is used to lessen or dispel grief, fear, anger, confusion, and attachment. It helps relieve burdens and increase energy and endurance. It is said to have been used to make soldiers invulnerable. Lodestone has a receptive, attracting energy that attracts power, as well as good fortune, and love. It also guards against infidelity.

Lodestone is related to the astrological signs of Aries, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Virgo. It is said to strengthen the circulatory system, help with healing blood and bleeding problems, alleviate pain, boost the immune system, relieve agitation and depression. It's been used for millennia for amulets and talismans. Excellent for grounding and protection from evil and spells.

Malachite To promote willpower, beauty, desire and justice. Brings good luck and relieves mental blocks.
Malachite To calm anxiety that comes with disease and helps in meditation. Malachite brings luck in pecuniary affairs, and a piece kept in the pocket or purse enables its bearer spend money more wisely. Aids sleep, asthma, and labor.
Marble To transform unhappy circumstances, give creativity and rid emotional dissatisfaction.
Moldavite Moldavite is a tektite (meteoric silicate) found only in the former Czech Republic. It was created by the meteor impact over 14.8 million years ago that formed the Bohemian Plain. Moldavite Tektite is a melding of Earthly and extraterrestrial material that vaporized in the heat and energy of impact, then reformed into these small, powerful pieces as it cooled. Its color ranges from a very dark opaque olive green, to a medium light green. The thicker the piece, the darker its color.

Moldavite is known as the stone of transformation. Above all other stones, it carries a frequency that initiates spiritual growth and the transformation of one's life. Helps in channeling inter-dimensional sources, catalyst for important changes in life.
Moonstone To promote intuition, helps to understand one's destiny, rids self of tension and enhances creativity. Protects wearer while traveling. Lucky love stone, calming, introspective, assists with emotional release.
Morganite Morganite is said to instill and nurture love. It is also said to give patience, and to enhance one's communication skills. Sisterhood, balances emotions, heals pain of separation, subtle and powerful love energy.
Mother of Pearl Signifies faith, charity, and innocence, enhances personal integrity, and helps to provide focus to ones attention. The pearl has been known as a "stone of sincerity", bring truth to situations and loyalty to a "cause". It has been used to inhibit boisterous behavior, and to provide a reflection of the self such that one may see the manner in which one appears to others.
Neptunite Neptunite is a silicate which contains titanium and manganese but also contains the element lithium. This rare mineral, only just discovered in the 20th Century, is prized by collectors. Crystals are well formed and typically show multiple secondary faces. The flashes of red that appear to come right from the center of the crystal are a nice added touch to this rare and interesting mineral.

The finest specimens are mined in San Benito County in California. This site contains natrolite veins in a serpentinite rock. Embedded in the pure white natrolite are the sapphire blue benitoite and the black prismatic crystals of neptunite. The assemblage of these three minerals is a classic among collectors, and specimens with all three are much sought after.

Named for the Roman god of the sea, Neptune, this gemstone is reputed to help the wearer sense the truth in all situations.
Obsidian Obsidian is for protection and invigoration. It can be used to find the essence of joy and to reduce tension. It is said to absorb negative energy and is a grounding stone. Obsidian has also been used as a tool for inner focus. It may act as a mirror to show you negative aspects about yourself, which can then be cleansed and changed. Another meaning of obsidian is to absorb anger, fear, and stress. By doing so, obsidian helps transmute negative energy into positive energy. Obsidian has also been used for clear vision and to see into the future.

A stone of honesty, sincerity and truth. Obsidian is a protective stone that keeps negative thoughts at bay, aids in self-control, and provides courage to the wearer. Connects mind and emotions. Slightly masculine energy. Grounds spiritual energy into physical plane. Absorbs and disperses negativity. Reduces stress. Helps clear subconscious blocks. Brings an understanding of silence and "the void". Detachment, but with wisdom and love. Powerful healer for those attuned with it.
Onyx Enhances self mastery, steadfastness, and determination. Helps one to follow the path alone, promotes personal strength, understand the reality of the moment, become the master of one's own future. Aids in decision making, dispels grief and encourages good fortune. Relieves stress, strengthens self-control. A grounding stone beneficial for controlling and eliminating unwanted energies. Helps overcome feelings of loneliness and alienation. Black onyx assists with challenges in life, in particular those caused by a drain of energy. It prevents the draining away of personal energy.
Opal In ancient times, opal was recognized as a symbol of faithfulness and confidence.  The brilliantly colored opal was said to have magic powers because of its play of many colors.

Opal represents good fortune, creativity, inspiration and imagination. Opal has a beneficial effect on the psyche, pouring balm on broken hearts and restoring inner harmony.  In meditation opal is one of the most powerful stones for the soul. Opal is given and received as a symbol of hope, love, happiness, and truth. It was described in medieval times as a cure for diseases of the eye and to strengthen eyesight. Opal is also said to have the power to help one control his or her temper, improving the expression of anger. It was thought to protect against contagious disease, ease sadness, and turn pale in the presence of  poison.  Opal symbolizes magic, love, hope, happiness, and truth. Helps to recall past lives, aids inner beauty, faithfulness, and eyesight.

The opal represents the 14th and 18th wedding anniversaries. It is the birthstone for October.

Opal
Boulder

Boulder Matrix Opal is found in Queensland, Australia, and is configured with an opalized ironstone matrix with random intermixing of gem opal with brown ironstone. Boulder Matrix Opal is one of purity and intensity. The intensity of the opal portion brings clarity to problematical situations and allows one to remain centered during times of decision-making and stress. It assists in calming the inner soul while facilitating the actualization of the end of dilemmas. The accessing of the bases of any difficulties which one is experiencing is expedited. It is an excellent stone for progress, expansion, and development. It further expedites the resolution of conflicting desires, aspirations, ambitions, and dreams. It tends to provide a grounding action while enhancing the transfer of information. It has been used to access ones spiritual guides and ones animal guides.

Opal
Dendritic
 Promotes growth spiritually and physically, aligns physical and etheric bodies.
Opal
Mexican Fire
The energy of this stone is conducive to mystery, variety, progress, and change. It can add brilliance and clarity to the intuitive and reflective processes. It assists in maintaining during stressful situations and provides added energy to lessen symptoms of burnout.

Fire opal also allows us to look deeply within to understand ourselves in a better way. A great choice if you are looking for your purpose in life. Some find the fire opal to be energizing, giving strength and endurance in stressful times. Other people like to meditate with fire opal, it is very easy to get into this meditative state by simply gazing at the incredible colors of this opal.
Opal
Peruvian Blue
Said to help quiet the mind in mediation and to aid sleep. Promotes peaceful and imaginative dreaming, clears intuition. Opals foster love, passion, loyalty, faithfulness, emotional expressiveness, warmth, spontaneity and dramatic ability.  A very emotionally responsive stone.
Opalite Helps recognize personal creative qualities. Releases inhibitions. Clears the head – releases excess energy. Faithfulness and loyalty. Encourages intuition.
Paua Shell Stimulates intuition and imagination. It increases ability to be more emotionally expressive and encourages cooperation between ourselves and others. Paua is very much an emotional healing object and is invaluable when working through emotional issues. Encourages calmness and soothing in emotional situations, but still allows unique individuality and expansiveness. Paua is extremely useful in stimulating psychic development.
Peacock Ore Fresh new outlook on life, strong healing properties. Helps to identify what obstacles may be preventing you from reaching your own goals. Stimulates the inner spirit to seek ever further heights.
Pearl Because pearls are formed as a result of irritation, they are believed to hold the key to the ability to overcome pain and troubles. They are an example of turning the insignificant into the sublime. Pearls represent faith, charity, purity and innocence. They enhance concentration and meditation while inspiring wisdom and tranquility.

Usually pale white or cream-colored, though darker blue, gray, and even black variations exist. Represents wisdom, wealth, faith and innocence. Pearls symbolize rebirth, and the journey we all make. They are the transitions that are constantly appearing in our lives. Pearls speak to us of new beginnings. A small grain of sand, continually working on itself, until complete. In tune with women, especially pregnant women. Absorbing by nature and because of this must be used with care. If you feel excessively negative while wearing a pearl, it will hold that energy until it is worn again.

Throughout history, Indians used pearl-adorned swords to honor tears of sorrow brought by battle.  In the 13th century, pearls were known to cure mental illness and heart break.  Pearls were once thought to be the tears of God, and their shape represented an association between the moon and the sea.  The pearl is considered to be an emblem of modesty, chastity, and purity.  It symbolizes love, success, and happiness. 

The pearl represents the 3rd and 30th wedding anniversaries. Along with Alexandrite, it is the birthstone for June.

Special care is needed for pearls. Since they are a natural substance and are porous, it is important to make sure they do not absorb cologne, hair spray, lotions, or make up. So, it is always recommend that the wearer puts pearls on last so contact to these are limited. When pearl jewelry is purchased, it is often accompanied by a silk or felt pouch. These pouches should be saved to keep the pearls in because they are easily scratched. To clean pearls, do not use any jewelry cleaners. Instead, wipe them gently with a damp cloth. Another great way to take care of pearls is to wear them. The oils from your skin help keep the pearls from drying out.

Pecos Diamond Stabilizes emotions, brings joy, aids creativity and intuition.
Petrified Wood Connection to Earth and nature, removes petty annoyances.
Phenacite Inner knowing, spiritual travel, increases energy of other stones.
Pietersite Dignified power and loving guidance, accesses akashic records.
Pink Mussel Shell Strengthens intuition, sensitivity and imagination. Attracts prosperity and wealth. It's also believed that if placed on an infant it will help protect them in their new life.
Prasiolite Brings together the higher and lower aspects of the physical body. Helps link the physical and spiritual aspects of life, activating the heart as one's center of conscious. It is said to strengthen one's mind, emotions and will, and to attract prosperity.

Amethysts from Brazil originate as normal purple, but naturally heated by hot springs to a light green color.
Prehnite Balances chakras, enhances personal relationships, increases one’s protective aura, facilitates trustworthiness, truth, calmness, sincerity and sensitivity. It also aids in remembering dreams.
Pyrite Increases memory, concentration, spiritual and psychic ability for students.
Peridot To protect from evil spirits, reduce stress, attract wealth, alleviate anger, fear and anxiety, aid insomnia & protect from nightmares. Peridot is a symbol of fame, dignity, and protection, and it is used to transform dreams into reality. When set in gold, it also protects its wearer from terrors of the night. Legend has it that pirates favored peridot to protect them against evil. Peridot is said to guard against envy and promote optimism. Opens new doors, removes stress, fear, guilt, activates personal growth. Peridot is a powerful generator of the frequency of abundance; increase of wealth, increase of health, and increase of joy and emotional well-being. It is said to bring the will and emotions into alignment, and to decrease fear.

Peridot comes  from  the  Arabic  word  "faridat",  which  means  "gem".  It was known to be dull by day, but "glow like a coal" at night.  This "glow" let prospectors spot deposits in the dark and mark them for digging the next day.  In the past,  prospecting  for  peridot  was  usually  done  at  night  because  the  gem  was difficult to see in the  sunlight.  The  miners  would  mark  the  spots  and  return  the  next  day  to  dig  out  the stones.

Peridot represents the 16th wedding anniversary. It is the birthstone for August.
Platinum Believed to alleviate depression, improve memory and enhance intuition.
Pyrite This stone sharpens one's memory, attentiveness, spiritual and psychic abilities.
Quartz Enhances the ability to heighten intuition, improve creativity, awaken one’s own spirituality. Used for balance and to increase energy. Holds and amplifies healing and therapeutic properties. As a programmable stone it helps to focus and direct energy, works as a channeling stone, amplifies the attributes of other stones used with it. Clear quartz, or rock crystal, is also a charm employed to bring strength and long life.
Quartz
Aqua Aura
Aqua Aura [blue] quartz crystals have been enhanced with pure gold; Combining both the properties of quartz and the properties of gold. This crystal form stimulates the throat chakra and encourages "opening to channel". It has been used extensively to cleanse and to smooth the aura, to activate all chakras, and to release negativity from ones emotional, physical, intellectual and spiritual bodies.

Quartz
 Double Terminated

 

Double Terminated Quartz Crystal are multi-functional; energy moves outward in either direction or in both directions concurrently. They have the capacity to draw or to transmit energy through both ends. "Doubles" are excellent for astral projection and for dreaming – place them under your pillow at night and they can increase and intensify the dream state. They are also excellent for use in meditation. Carrying a double terminated crystal can enable one to maintain ones energy shield. They symbolize patience and perseverance; this is quite important during healing situations.
Quartz
Flame Aura

Flame Aura Quartz crystals are clear/cloudy quartz crystals which have been enhanced with a combination of Titanium and Niobium; the molecules of Titanium and Niobium adhere to the natural electric charge which surrounds the quartz crystal, and are not removed by rubbing or by scraping. Flame Aura has been used in emotional/spiritual applications to assist one in traversing the interval between the mineral kingdom and the self such that energies meld into orderly systems for use and energy transfer. The combination of the Quartz with the Titanium and Niobium brings a violet and/or golden ray to the aura.

Quartz
Rose
Believed to bring love. Represents kindness, caring and forgiveness. Promotes peace and nurturing. A stone of romance, rose quartz is said to promote love and improve one's self confidence. It is also a stone of faith and tranquility when worn on a bracelet. Reduces weight, wrinkles; increases self-assuredness, love stone.
Quartz
Rutilated
or
Tourmalinated
 
Excellent for birthing process, enhances energy in other stones. Rutilated quartz is also a mystical crystal diagnostic tool which can help discover the true cause of an ailment. Rutilated quartz is said to enhance mental and physical stability, self-reliance, and meditation on feminine ideas. It is thought to diminish fears, depression and issues with decision-making. Rutilated quartz is associated with the solar plexus chakra.

In ancient China tourmalinated quartz was known as a harmonizing stone, one which achieved a harmonious balance between the two poles of yin and yang, the female and male principle, and heaven and earth.
  
Quartz is believed to bring the energy of the stars to the soul and has been used for centuries for it's magical and healing properties.  The tourmaline within tourmalinated quartz is said to multiply the quartz energies, creating a powerful healing tool. The natural energy for quartz is harmony and it is recognized as a stone of