Stone Definitions

A t the Crystal Cove Shop in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan we have a wide variety of gemstones and tumbled stones available for purchase. Each stone has its own unique set of properties that help to stimulate you & your life in different ways. Take a look through our comprehensive list of stones by scrolling down or using the index provided, and see which ones suit you best. Be sure to stop by today or leave us a message on the Contact Page

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Stones Starting with A

Agate

This is THE stone everyone should have for protection. Agates attract strength. Agate is a protection from bad dreams. It also protects from stress and energy drains. Agate is used for stomach upsets. Place the agate on the solar plexus. The agate can’t change emotions, but helps to change our level of acceptance of the emotion. Agate is considered so powerful as it gives us the strength to carry on. Carry an agate when you have to make an important decision.

Amazonite

Amazonite has healing powers to help with physical ailments, emotional issues, and in Energy Healing and chakra balancing. Amazonite crystal therapies are primarily associated with filtering out stresses, healing traumas, and soothing energies in the home and workplace.

Amber

A powerful yet gentle healer and cleanser, Amber draws out and transmutes negative energy of all kinds on all levels. Amber aids in physical self-healing, emotional healing of depression, and environmental clearing. Amber opens and cleanses all of the Chakras. Highly protective, Amber also aids in the manifestation of ideas to reality. The life force trapped within Amber promotes fertility, and its protective and environmental clearing properties make it a good stone to use to prepare a healing or birthing room. Use Amber with the Solar Plexus Chakra to increase confidence, mental clarity, and creative self-expression.

Amethyst

A stone to instill a sober mind. It is used as a dream stone and to help insomnia. It guards against guilty and fearful feelings. The amethyst symbolizes piety, humility, sincerity and spiritual wisdom. It has the power to focus energy. Amethyst is also used for problems in the blood and in breathing problems. Amethyst helps overcome fears and cravings. It also helps relieve headaches.

Ametrine

Ametrine is a powerful combination of Amethyst and Citrine, connecting physical and spiritual realms. Ametrine is a very soothing stone, believed to be valuable for those with chronic, long-term diseases. … Ametrine combines masculine and feminine energy and helps bring harmony with others.

Ammonite

Ammonite is a powerful earth healing fossil. Its spiral shape symbolizes continual change and evolution. Ammonites have absorbed cosmic energy over eons of time and help to stimulate the life force (Chi) within. They are often used for activating Kundalini and life path energies. The Ammonite is also often recommended to put in the home to attract health, prosperity and success.

The Ammonite draws off all negative energies. Think of the Ammonite spirals as a filter, drawing in these dense energies which are no longer needed, moving them through the spirals and releasing them as fresh, positive, loving life force energies.

Physically, Ammonites can help to increase stamina and vitality. Use Ammonites when working with issues of blood pressure or problems with the ears, lungs and degenerative disorders. Ammonites will also help to lift the heaviness that is sometimes felt during depression.

Angel Aura Quartz

Angel Aura is an attunement crystal and can assist to remember and heed attention to surrounding beauty of nature and spirit. Angel Aura is imbued with divine energies that facilitate contact with the Angelic Realms and Spirit Guides. Angel Aura Quartz Crystal is a master healer bringing the light body into balance.

Angelite

Angelite – We – used during meditation to enhance the meditative state, and to clarify issues in one’s current situations as they arise.
As its name suggests, Angelite has a connection to the higher realms, facilitating angelic communication. It is a very soothing, peaceful, and uplifting stone quite helpful during times of transition. Angelite heals and clears the Throat, Third-Eye, and Crown Chakras, and sends energy to the Soul-Star Chakra, that lies 6 inches above the head. The higher vibrations sent to these chakras allows for greater spiritual growth, enhanced intuition, and clearer communication. Angelite’s ability to unblock the upper chakras clears the area to allow for the influx of higher vibrational information coming into the auric field, to be processed by the lower chakras.
By depositing inspiration from guides and angels into the chakras, Angelite allows them to be integrated into the whole even after one is done working with the stone. Physically, Angelite can work with the Throat Chakra to treat any ailments there, such as throat cancer, swollen glands, and strep throat. Angelite/Anhydrite can also heal issues of the bones and joints, and provides an overall strengthening of these systems via more efficient calcium absorption through the blood.
Aids in water retention as well as Acceptance, Compassion, Emotional Pain, Fear, Insecurity, Peace, Accepting Truth

Apache Tears

Apache Tears – is a form of Obsidian and helps to protect the very sensitive against depression. It is the stone of the soft hearted and gentle people of the world. Use obsidian to help block negativity of any kind. As a black gemstone, it symbolizes self control and resilience. Black stones have protective energies in the sense that black is the absence of light, and therefore, can be used to create invisibility. Apache Tears will gently help one to accept and then release their grief, thereby releasing and removing blockages to help move you forward.

Apatite

Blue Apatite is a dual-action stone, known for its positive use of personal power to achieve goals. It clears away confusion, apathy or negativity, then, stimulates the intellect to expand knowledge and truth, which may be used for personal growth or for the collective good.

Apophyllite

Apophyllite creates a conscious connection between the physical and the spiritual. … This spiritual stone enhances clear sight, stimulating intuition and enabling the future to be accessed. They can help to increase intuition, connect with guides, and practice remote viewing and astral travel. Apophyllites activate the Third-Eye and Crown Chakras, making them more receptive to spiritual energies. This can enable one to receive visions and insights about current situations, personal or otherwise. They can transfer ideas gathered from the higher domains to be used with the conscious mind. Meditating with an it cannot only enhance one’s psychic visions and clairvoyance, but also promote structure and organization in daily life. They can help one to plan for the future with certainty, despite any negative past experiences. Physically, They can regulate bodily functions and improve memory, can also aid in treating allergies and asthma. Hold it when you need to reduce stress, anxiety, fear and worry. Placing an Apophyllite in a room will allow it to send out its spiritual energies out to anyone nearby. They are great for filling a room with high vibrations of peace and love.

Aqua Aura Quartz

Aqua Aura Quartz is a beautiful bright blue quartz crystal created from the result of a special process involving gold. The crystals are heated and fine vaporized gold is bonded to the crystal’s surface. … These crystals resonate strongly with a vibration that is powerful to aid communication and psychic gifts.

Aquamarine

Aquamarine evokes the purity of crystalline waters, and the exhilaration and relaxation of the sea. It is calming, soothing, and cleansing, and inspires truth, trust and letting go. In ancient lore, Aquamarine was believed to be the treasure of mermaids, and was used by sailors as a talisman of good luck, fearlessness and protection. It was also considered a stone of eternal youth and happiness. [Simmons, 49] Today it protects all who travel by, over, or near water, and opens the channels of clear and heartfelt communication.

Aragonite

Use Aragonite when working with the Root and Earth Star Chakras, and for grounding and connecting to the Earth. Aragonite assists those who need to release issues from the past as well as attachments in the present. It promotes focus and concentration, and can be helpful for students. Many crystal lovers enjoy Aragonite’s centering energies, and work with it to help bring peace and serenity to volatile situations. It calms, centers, stabilizes and increases the ability to remain patient, even in the most challenging of circumstances. It will enhance and encourage sensitivity and generosity. It can be an aid for those who lack discipline and self-control, and can help one to overcome stagnation in their personal growth. Physically, it’s ability to raise vibrational energies of the body can assist with all types of healing. It can help to speed up the recovery from broken bones and nerve damage. Its highly grounding energies allow It to help relieve stress and nerve problems that may lead to restlessness, twitching or spasms.

Sleep with Aragonite under the pillow to relieve insomnia, or carry in your pocket for continuous grounding influence throughout the day. Aragonite can also be used to enhance the absorption of calcium throughout the skeletal structure and to ameliorate pain and chills.

Auralite-23

Auralite 23 or Amethyst 23 is a new crystal for Code Clearing, DNA Healing and Cellular Activation. It is the Stone of Awakening on every level. It is part of the Sacred Geometry of the Earth’s Core and the New as One Light frequencies.
There are 23 minerals in its matrix, which includes:
Titanite, Cacoxenite, Lepidocrosite, Ajoite, Hematite, Magnetite, Pyrite, Goethite, Pyrolusite, Gold, Silver, Platinum, Nickel, Copper, Iron, Limonite, Sphalerite, Covellite, Chalcopyrite, Gialite, Epidote, Bornite and Rutile.

Aventurine

You should never buy a lottery ticket without an aventurine in your left pocket. This is the stone of opportunity, chance or luck. If you gamble or play the lotto, keep this stone in your left pocket. It is the stone of luck and chance. It is said to increase perception and creative insight. It is a heart chakra stone. It has a stabilizing effect on the emotions and is excellent for teenagers.

Stones Starting with B

Black Kyanite

Use Black Kyanite for grounding during a chakra alignment or meditation. Black Kyanite works with all Chakras, focusing most on the Root Chakra. Many crystal healers like it because it can be grounding and energizing at the same time. … Kyanite restores Qi (or Ki) to the physical body, and balances yin/yang energies.

Black Obsidian Arrowhead

Black obsidian Arrowhead is a protective and grounding stone. It opens the root chakra and casts energy that mirrors your soul. It is also a powerful stone for releasing, mourning, and letting go. You can use this beautiful and symbolic piece as a reminder that transition is natural, necessary, and sacred, keeping it with you through times of trial or grief.

Black Tourmaline

Black Tourmaline – Rub black tourmaline for luck and happiness. This is a powerful stone and a very lucky stone. When the tourmaline is rubbed it becomes charged with magnetic electricity and the luck intensifies. Tourmalated quartz aids peace of mind.. It has been used with intestinal problems, but only a healer should use it. Black Tourmaline pushes all negativity away.

Bloodstone

Blue Calcite

Ametrine is a powerful combination of Amethyst and Citrine, connecting physical and spiritual realms. Ametrine is a very soothing stone, believed to be valuable for those with chronic, long-term diseases. … Ametrine combines masculine and feminine energy and helps bring harmony with others.

Blue Goldstone

Blue Goldstone is one of our few synthetic stones. Goldstone, like diamond, is a good deflector of unwanted energies, and is highly regarded in the spirit realm as a protection mineral. It is a nervous system stimulant and enhances transmission of healing energies from the hands, therefore it is applicable to long-distance healing.

The sparkles of Blue Goldstone are symbolic of the light that can always be found in the darkness, and its resemblance to the night sky will remind you to reach for the stars. It can be used during Meditations, held in your client’s hand during a session, or just to carry in your pocket. It also, protects the psychic and empathic sensitivities. Is also effective in the transmission of healing energies from the Heart, Throat and Third Eye Chakras. While this is technically a man-made piece, it does contain copper, which in itself is extremely helpful in the areas of inflammation and increasing ones blood flow.

Blue Aventurine

Blue Aventurine – is an Aries stone that opens the Third eye chakra. It is a powerful mental healer that increases vitality and a positive outlook. This stone assists in self-discipline and developing inner strength.
You should never buy a lottery ticket without an aventurine in your left pocket. This is the stone of opportunity, chance or luck. If you gamble or play the lotto, keep this stone in your left pocket. It is the stone of luck and chance. It is said to increase perception and creative insight. It is a heart chakra stone. It has a stabilizing effect on the emotions and is excellent for teenagers.

Blue Chalcedony

Blue Chalcedony – is a demure crystal, subtle and mystic, cool and serene, ethereal yet solid. It has an inviting, soft blue translucence, and an almost imperceptible movement within the stone that invokes a stillness of silent reverence. It’s calming, and speaks of spirit and trust.

Blue Lace Agate

Blue Lace Agate is a stone of communication, helping those who have difficulty being heard by others, or who need confidence and articulation to share their truths. It provides clarity of thought and unwavering intent in regards to what matters most.

Blue Tiger's Eye

Blue Tiger Eye (also called Hawk’s Eye, Tiger’s Eye, Tigereye) is a very soothing stone as it aids in reducing stress, increasing calm and easing anxiety. … Blue Tiger Eye brings a “go with the flow” attitude, aiding in relief from fears, phobias and hot tempers.

Botswana Agate

Botswana Agate – stabilizing and strengthening – it is both protective and considered especially lucky. It is an ideal crystal for very sensitive children or teenagers who are easily hurt by teasing or pressure, and can assist them in finding more like-minded friends.
Botswana Agate is excellent for those serious about giving up smoking. To increase success drink an elixir first thing each morning, made by soaking the crystal in water for a few hours. Botswana Agate is also a stone of protection for all who work with fire, and protects the home from fires.
Botswana Agate is a useful receptacle for negative energy and toxicity, excellent for gridding around a house. It prevents out-of-body visitations from another soul and turns back unwelcome spirits.
Agate promotes inner stability, composure, and maturity. Its warm, protective properties encourage security and self-confidence. It is a great crystal to use during pregnancy.
Agate is useful as a protection amulet when traveling, and is especially effective against traffic accidents.
Botswana Agate is a comfort stone, beneficial in overcoming depression, and strengthening during a grieving process. It helps alleviate obsessive thoughts and destructive mental patterns, and assists in overcoming fears, such as agoraphobia and panic attacks in crowded places. It encourages one to view the bigger picture in life, and look toward practical solutions rather than dwelling on the reasons for a situation or assigning blame.

Bronzite

Bronzite is a protective, grounding mineral that is used to restore harmony and self confidence in situations where you feel overwhelmed or powerless.

  • Strengthens non-judgmental discernment
  • Increases self esteem
  • Beneficial for masculine energy
  • Inspires courtesy, help, acceptance
  • Alleviates indecision and doubt

Bronzite promotes focused action and courtesy.
This stone is beneficial to use when making plans for the future because it alleviates indecision and doubt. Bronzite is also believed to be effective against curses or ill wishes.

Brookite

Brookite allows one to “go with the flow” of the moment. It assists one in withstanding what they perceive may be an intolerable situation. Attracts and retains energy, energizing the chakras, energy fields and/or environment.

Brown Calcite

Brown (Honey) Calcite is an excellent crystal to keep on hand, especially for those who seem to repeat mistakes; it breaks the pattern so the wearer can make better decisions. It is useful in keeping the balance, especially at home or at work. Golden Brown Calcite protects the user from negative energy and brings about a sense of peace. It is also used as a prosperity stone.

Calcite is also known as the “stone of the mind”. Calcite heightens mental discernment and analysis, increases memory and learning abilities. Calcite is THE stone for students and academics, and can be indispensable at helping students to retain their lessons. Calcite is also useful during times of mental adjustments and disagreements. Calcite can show you a new way to look at a situation, easing you away from old outdated thought patterns that may be in the way of new ideas. The simplest forms of Calcite are pure white, but the presence of other compounds during formation can create beautiful colored Calcite.

Physically, all Calcites allow for the absorption of calcium into the body, and therefore are beneficial for those who suffer from bone and joint disorders, such as osteoporosis and arthritis. Golden Brown Calcite also balances the metabolism and enhances vitality.

Bumblebee Jasper

Bumble Bee Jasper (or Bumblebee) is actually a combination of volcanic matter, anhydrite, hematite, sulfur, arsenic, etc. … Bumble Bee Jasper activates the Sacral and Solar Plexus chakras, enabling you to accept change, find new opportunities, increase your self-esteem and make decisions without relying on emotions.

Stones Starting with C

Carnelian

Ancient civilizations believed that Carnelian attracted fortune and helped you attract your deepest desires. It removes blocked or stuck creative energy that may be dominating your mind and leaving you feeling burnt out or uninspired. Its vibrant orange color stimulates your passion to move forward and achieve your dreams. Carnelian is an action stone that restores motivation, confidence and joy.

Celestite

Celestite is revered for its high frequency and Divine energies, and is a powerful healing crystal. It will connect one with the Angelic realms, allowing for the free-flow of these higher frequencies into the Crown and Third-Eye Chakras, and also down into the Throat Chakra for expression. Bringing mental calm and clarity in the midst of any chaotic circumstance, It can allow one to easily flow through a traumatic period and still come out on top. It can relieve stress, anxiety and obsessive behaviors. It gives courage to those who suffer from agoraphobia or public speaking, for shy or timid children to try new experiences. It brings harmony and balance, and will assist the holder in finding and maintaining inner peace. A stone for deep states of meditation and dream time. It will assist in recalling not only the dream, but also the specific details of the dream. Information imparted during the dream state will also be recalled with perfect clarity.

Physically, Celestite sends energy to the organs of the higher chakras, aiding the healing of disorders such as brain imbalances, cellular disorders, and ailments of eyes, ears, nose, and throat. Celestite can also act as a detoxifier and pain reliever.

Charoite

Charoite – is a soul stone with deep physical and emotional healing energies. It is a stone of transformation and is used to overcome fears. It stimulates your inner vision. It can be used to overcome obsessions and compulsions. It grounds the spiritual self, opening and balancing the crown chakra. It lifts energy when the body is exhausted, regulates blood pressure, assists with deep sleep and powerful dreams. Put it beneath your pillow, especially if you are prone to disturbed sleep or fears which surface in dreams. In combination with amethyst, it will help to release these fears. Benefit from the power of charoite jewelry: It is a soul stone overcomes fear. It brings inner vision and has deep physical and emotional healing. It bestows drive and vigor. It grounds the spiritual self. Balances the heart chakra and crown chakra.

Cherry Quartz

Cherry Quartz crystal is a healer for emotional wounds and can help with anger and tension. It has all the qualities of quartz and is also great for the heart chakra. … Healing properties for Cherry Quartz crystal can help with colds, flu and infections and can be of assistance with burns.

Chevron Amethyst

Chevron Amethyst is one of the best stones to work with the Third-Eye, enhancing both intuition and physical vision on all planes of existence. Use Chevron Amethyst to help remove resistance to change, and to dissipate and repel negativity of all kinds. Chevron Amethyst creates a strong healing field around the user, and as such, is a good choice to cleanse the aura and to enhance the immune system.

Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla is a very peaceful stone. It is soothing and calming in times of stress, bringing about a gentle release. It gently draws off negative energies of all kinds and is especially helpful during transitional times, such as breakups and job loss. It can help calm the emotions and bring understanding to discordant relationships. It is a wonderful piece to use, on a daily basis, as a support stone. It helps to face challenges and changes with ease. It inspires creativity, inner balance and self-awareness. Also, it can be used where feelings of anger, guilt and blame are present. It will gently assist in the awareness and understanding of this process and will bring in the energies of forgiveness, love and joy. It is a powerful stone because it aligns all chakras with the Divine. It is a tranquil stone and can be used with the Throat Chakra, where it helps with wise communication, or with the Heart Chakra to balance and strengthen, helping one to learn how to live from the truth of the Heart. It can also be used to open and activate the Thymus, or Second Heart Chakra. It also has been used with the Third-Eye to enhance meditation, bringing visions and knowledge of the sublime into conscious awareness. At home, use Chrysocolla to guard against obnoxious neighbors, unwanted phone calls and emails. It is helpful, especially for the elderly, to ease feelings of fear when living alone. Physically, it can help with ailments of the lungs, back, and stomach. It alleviates rheumatism, arthritis and painful joints. It oxidizes the blood and helps with proper lung function. Chrysocolla also helps with high blood pressure, insulin production, thyroid problems, PMS, healthy fetal development and labor pains.

Chrysoprase

Chrysoprase – helps to make conscious what was unconscious. It strengthens the workings of insight and the higher consciousness. It encourages hope and joy, helps clarify problems, has been used as a cure for restlessness and used as protection on sea voyages. It is used to speed the healing of any wound. It should not be placed on the body, but held over the affected area. Carry it in a pocket to help heal. Also keep it close to your bed at night to speed healing. It is used as a shield or protector from negative energy. A small bowl of Chrysoprase kept by the front entrance of the home is a very wise procedure.

Citrine

Citrine – “stone of the mind” and is used increase his psychic power. It is known as the lucky “Merchants Stone”. Used to increase self esteem, protect from the negative energy from someone else’s abuse, open the mind to new thoughts and promote clarity of thought. It is used with digestion as it is considered beneficial to the endocrine and digestive system – cleansing, purifying and eliminating poisons that have built up. Citrine is an excellent stone to calm and soothe distressed conditions. Some use it to help sooth the symptoms of depression and digestive problems. It will give joy and love to the owner.

Clear Quartz

Clear Quartz – is a common stone, but a powerful one. It is mainly used in healing as amplification for the energies of the other working stones. Using Clear Quartz to meditate and keeping one close helps one to know oneself.

Stones Starting with D

Danburite

Danburite facilitates deep change and the ability to leave the past behind. It is a very spiritual stone that carries a pure vibration. It is excellent for relief of stress and worry. Hold a danburite in each hand for a calming effect and to prepare for deep meditation.
Used for restful sleep, lucid dreaming. Promotes angelic communication. Stimulates the heart chakra. Opens one to Divine Source. It is a Karmic cleanser. Aids Spiritual and emotional healing to help bring a positive outlook on life.

Dendritic (Phantom/Ghost) Quartz

Dendritic (Phantom/Ghost) Quartz contains natural inclusions of manganese oxide that appear to be included ferns. It is used as a Personal Talisman, in Meditation, and Goddess Worship. It is primarily used as a talisman for amplifying the Universal Life Force to enable us to have total focus on seeking a specific improvement in the basic nature of our lives. It is used to focus on one’s place in the natural universe. It is an extremely powerful conduit of the Life Force that can enable a person to understand their role in the natural universe. Use dendritic quartz in meditation to get back to your natural self and escape from the artificial elements of today’s civilization.

Dragon's Blood

Known as a stone of courage, dragon blood jasper is actually a variety of quartz that displays flecks and veins of red within an opaque green background. … Metaphysically, dragon blood jasper is an intensely healing stone, promoting courage, strength, and vitality while also being very centering and grounding.

Stones Starting with E

Emerald

Emerald – Lucky for love, give your lover an emerald to stay faithful. It is the symbol for fertilizing rain. In the Christian faith it is the symbol of faith and hope. It is used by healers to help heal the heart. The power of the Emerald is highest at the full moon. It is a stone of great harmony, wisdom and love. Giving your lover an Emerald will bring the lover closer if the giver’s motives are pure love. The Emerald can be a bridge between 2 people. The Emerald vibrates with love.

Stones Starting with F

Faden Quartz

Faden Quartz is said to be excellent for transmitting energy and thought that contains a wealth of information relating to our Planet Earth. They are easily programmed and should be thoroughly cleansed of all previous programs when first received. If one is feeling weak or ill, it will fill holes in the aura and the Etheric body. It is a strong healing crystal, helping wherever there are disconnections involved, such as in cases of broken bones, torn ligaments, or any time there is a severing of parts. Energetically, Faden Quartz will make the connections, allowing for healing to commence. Tabular Crystals are believed to be activators for other crystals. These great healers can work the same way for relationships, if it is for the greater good. If a split is meant to be however, meditating with this crystal will help mend the mind and heart, enabling understanding and healthy resignation. The thread that runs through the Faden Quartz is symbolic of the cord that connects the holder to another person. In this way, this crystal can facilitate better communication between people and enhance the relationship. This crystal is also a great aid for those who are seeking Truth. It can also be used to enhance telepathic activities. It can assist to achieve a deepened meditative state, which can also bring great insights into the unknown. Meditating with these higher vibration stones can facilitate attunement with the Earth’s energies and communication with higher realms.

Fire Agate

Fire Agate is a gemstone that has a meaning and properties of revitalizing your energy. Just as its name, this is a gemstone that symbolizes flame. It will light up your spirit and burn your energy. This gemstone has very powerful energy in it. Fire Agate’s meaning can help you be in your best condition.

Fluorite (Octahendron)

Fluorite – is said to absorb and neutralize negative vibrations. It makes one more receptive to the vibrations of other stones. Fluorite should be kept in every room of the home. Fluorite is known as the “Genius Stone”. It increases concentration and helps in decision-making. It helps to open the way for the power of other stones to be effective. It can be used as a meditation stone to help energize the body and raise the power of concentration.
Healers use it to help with ulcers as well as the respiratory tract by stimulating cell regeneration in these areas. It fortifies bones, improves arthritic or other joint ailments.

Fuchsite

Fuchsite is a stone of renewal and regeneration, imparting resilience after trauma or emotional tension. It is thought to intensify and facilitate the transfer of energy from other minerals and increase flexibility in the body.

Stones Starting with G

Garnet

Red Garnet – is known as the stone for a successful business. It is believed to cure depression if put under your pillow. It raises self-esteem . It helps protect one on trips. Garnets bring constancy to friendships. The Garnet is associated with the thyroid and spleen. It helps cleanse and purify both when held over the area. It is a stone of purity and truth as well as a symbol of love and compassion. The Garnet will help everyone’s security level and spiritual awareness. It can also help increase the sex drive.

Golden Rutilated Quartz

Golden Rutilated Quartz – integrates energy at many levels. It heightens the energy of other quartz stones and is an important healing stone that illuminates the soul, cleanses and energizes, removes barriers to spiritual growth and filters negative energy. It is an excellent stone to use if you need to change your direction in life. It soothes dark moods, offers relief from fears, phobias and anxiety. Use this stone to aid respiratory difficulties, regeneration of cells, flow of energy throughout the body. It is considered an excellent balancing stone for a sad or weak heart.

Goldstone

Goldstone – is said to help attain one’s goals and is also said to help one stay calm and stabilize the emotions. It can be used as an energy generator and can deflect unwanted energies, making it used as a protection stone. It is also used for long distance healing and revitalizing one’s energy field.

Red goldstone is associated with vitality and energy.

Purple/Blue Goldstone is associated with learning, communication and opening psychic awareness

Green Goldstone is associated with growth and abundance.

Grey Silk Agate

Grey Silk Agate is a stone that offers strength, protection, and solid grounding ability. … Emotional Energy Properties: releases negative influences or jealous thoughts. Considered a soothing and calming stone, it works slowly to bring about strength.

Green Calcite

Green Calcite can be used to assist in the manifestation process. Green Calcite will also bring in the energy of trust, allowing that what has been manifested will be received. It is a wonderful stone to utilize for those who raise and tend to gardens, plants, and herbs.

Use Green Calcite when working with the Heart Chakra to bring emotional balance and knowledge of Divine Love. Great for body layouts, Green Calcite can be placed directly on the Heart Chakra to forge a better connection between the nadis (energy channels) and chakras.

Helpful for reaching mental balance, Green Calcite helps to dissolve old energy patterns and beliefs that may be holding you back. Green Calcite assists during times of mental change or big transitions. Use Green Calcite to help release the comfortable, old programs that you may be holding on to but which no longer serve you. A peaceful stone, Green Calcite can help one to look at situations differently, with the knowledge that, whether good or bad, “This too, shall pass”.
Physically, Green Calcite stimulates the immune system. Rigid old ideas can manifest as bone issues in the body, thus Green Calcite is useful for bone, ligament, and joint issues. Please note that Green Calcite should be
cleansed thoroughly after use.

Green Chlorite Phantom Quartz

While all Phantoms are facilitators for growth, Green Chlorite Phantom Crystals specifically work on self-healing and regeneration, and facilitate detoxification. They help to ground excessive emotions into the Earth, thereby helping the user in achieving a state of balance.

They are great for helping one recognize the Earth as a living being, and connecting to Her on a soul-level. Many energy workers use Green Chlorite Phantom Crystals when doing global healing, as well as personal and individual healing.

It helps to cleanse the aura and align the chakras, and this characteristic is amplified by the Quartz which houses it.

Stones Starting with H

Halite

Halite, Blue: opens a channel of communication with spirit guides and enhances psychic perceptions. Many use it in meditation to quickly clear the mind of mundane worries. It can be used to clear blocks, negative energies, and environmental debris. Place one on your desk to clean the energy in your office. Blue Halite stimulates the acupressure and acupuncture meridians and can be used for the preservation of it. It also allows you to go deep within the self in order to find the ancient solutions to present day problems. Having a small cluster in your environment can facilitate feelings of love and well being. Blue Halite can be used in the treatment of disorders of the colon and lower intestinal tract, for amelioration of water retention, and to augment strength during physical activities. Healers use this stone to balance the body’s energy systems, as an assist to fasting or cleansing regimens, clear toxins from the tissues. Blue Halite harmonizes well with lepidolite and scolecite. Blue Halite is associated with the third eye and crown chakras. The Astrological signs are Pisces and Cancer.

Indigo Halite enhances good will, elevates our mood, diminishes mood swings and negativity. It assists with abandonment feelings causing initiative and independent thoughts. It allows us to go deep within ourselves to find ancient solutions to present day problems.

Hermatite

Hematite – is used to improve relationships. If you need your personal relationship to be better, carry a hematite with you always. It is good for increasing intuition. In jewelry it is best in a ring worn on the left hand.
Hematite stimulates iron absorption in the small intestine, which in turn improves oxygen supply to the body. It is a stone of grounding. Holding hematite in your hands and thinking of the areas that needs to be healed can be enough to notice a difference. Many people use this stone to aid in recovery after surgery or when they need to revive their spiritual self.

Herkimer Diamond

Herkimer Diamonds are called “attunement stones” and are useful in attuning you with others, your surroundings, or new energies. This makes them a natural choice to assist in Reiki attunements and other types of energy work.

They help to relieve tensions, producing a peaceful calm. Working with Herkimer Diamonds is said to bring visions and an increase in psychic experiences. Great for meditation, they can help one to experience true Divine Grace and bring Divine energy down into the Third-Eye and Crown Chakras.
The Herkimer Diamond is a stone of release and relaxation. It helps to clear the mind/body of unconscious fears and repressions, allowing for a complete and total relaxation and expansion of life energy. The Herkimer Diamond can also be helpful to release and remove toxins from the body.

Heulandite

Heulandite is a purifying crystal that promotes head/heart alignment.
Green heulandite is used for emotional healing of the heart.
It helps one to experience joy and connect with very positive emotional energy.
Use Green Heulandite to:

  • Overcome grief or shock
  • Focus and align with the Heart
  • Rekindle compassion
  • Release resentful, sarcastic, judgemental and other unhealthy emotions
Honey Calcite

Honey Calcite is a powerful but gentle healing stone with incredible healing properties. It’s also known to bring you better and stronger decision-making abilities. This stone will activate your chakras and bring them all to balance and harmony.

Howlite

Howlite – It is a super-calming stone and many people use it to relieve stress of all kinds. It makes an excellent antidote to insomnia due to an overactive mind. Focusing on a piece of howlite can assist in journeying outside the body and gaining insight from past lives. Placed on the third eye, it opens memories of previous times and lifetimes. Howlite teaches patience. Place a howlite stone in your pocket to absorb your own anger – or another’s anger that is directed toward you. It helps to overcome critical or selfish behaviour. It also balances calcium levels and strengthens teeth and bones

Stones Starting with I

Iron Pyrite

Iron Pyrite – it is a symbol for money and good luck. Its sunny golden color associates it with the sun, and with fortification and strengthening of the mind. It makes a wonderful energy shield, blocking out negativity from various sources. It helps to overcome inertia and feelings of inadequacy, it energizes the area where you place it (such as on a desk where you work) and it helps you to see behind a facade. Use this stone to overcome lethargy and fatigue. It increases the oxygen supply to the blood and strengthens the circulatory system. It is beneficial for the lungs, alleviating bronchitis and asthma.

Stones Starting with J

Jade

Jade – is used to attract love. It can be used to bring money into your life. Create a positive attitude towards money and visualize yourself using money creatively and productively while holding the stone in your power hand. When making an important business decision, use the prosperous energies of jade by holding it while contemplating your course of action. Jade strengthens your mental faculties and assists in clear reasoning. Jade is also a protective stone, guarding against accidents and misfortune. Place a piece of jade between two purple candles and let the candles burn for a short while. Then carry the jade with you as a protection amulet.

Jasper

A comforting stone, Striped Brown Jasper can help with issues involving the aura and chakras. Working very slowly, Jaspers are thought to help people bring their ideas to fruition by enhancing determination. When you want to perform higher spiritual work but stay earth connected (readers, mediums, healers), this is the stone to use. Striped Brown Jasper is often recommended for bringing people down to earth and promoting mental processes, especially after meditation or rituals involving the more ethereal stones such as Moldavite or Phenakite. Carrying Brown Striped Jasper can help in relations with others throughout the day, especially in work situations.

Striped Brown Jasper can help bring vitality into a lifeless period by supporting one’s energy system. It is also helpful to those recuperating from illness or trauma, by bringing the knowledge of perfection to one’s cellular memory. Brown Striped Jasper makes a great gift for someone in the hospital.

In general, Jasper is known as the “supreme nurturer”. It sustains and supports during times of stress, and brings tranquility and wholeness. Used in healing, Jasper unifies all aspects of your life. Jasper reminds people to help each other.

Jet

Jet -is a variety of coal known as lignite. Jet protects and purifies. It neutralizes negative energies. Hold a piece of jet to clear negative vibrations. To release stress, combine jet with lepidolite. For psychic protection and purification – use jet with black tourmaline or smokey quartz. Jet is used by healers to aid the cleansing of the liver and kidneys.

Stones Starting with K

K2 Jasper

K2 Stone. All crystals contain force fields of healing energy, but some are more monumental than others. … A rare combination of Azurite and Granite, the K2 crystal balances your earthly experience with a higher consciousness, allowing you to go deep into the spirit world while being firmly grounded to the earth.

Kiwi

Kiwi Jasper (sometimes also called Sesame Jasper) is thought to be good for general non specific aches and pains. It may also help to balance the mineral content of the body. Kiwi Jasper, like all Jaspers, is a sustaining stone and can help when extended periods of hospitalisation are necessary. Mental/Emotional.

Kunzite

Kunzite – Wear kunzite to be blessed with good fortune. Its soft pastel colors symbolize purity. It can also be a sign of new life and is sometimes regarded as a symbol for pregnancy. Kunzite is a calming, relaxation stone that releases tension, promotes a peaceful disposition and emits exceptionally tranquil vibrations Kunzite opens the heart to all forms of love. The gentle energy of kunzite helps to release blocks in matters of the heart and allows one to move to a more receptive state. Gaze at or hold a kunzite to release daily stress, smooth out knotted muscles, calm nerves, anger or fear.

Kyanite

Kyanite – The fan like clusters or blades that are formed by kyanite make it an ideal stone for restoring energy balance. It is a very effective energy conduit that can balance most systems of the body. It can quickly create stillness and tranquility, making it an excellent stone for meditation.

Stones Starting with L

Labradorite

Labradorite – is a power stone, allowing you to see through illusions and determine the actual form of your dreams and goals. It is excellent for strengthening intuitions.
Use labradorite to stimulate imagination, develop enthusiasm and thus, new ideas and/or to see more clearly in meditation

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli Encourages self-awareness, allows self-expression and reveals inner truth, providing qualities of honesty, compassion and morality to the personality. Stimulates objectivity, clarity and encourages creativity. It assists to confront and speak one’s truth and inspires confidence.

Physically, Lapis Lazuli helps with the immune system, thyroid and nervous system. It can alleviate headaches, migraines, fevers and pain.

Larimar

Larimar is said to enlighten and heal in a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual way. It stimulates the heart, throat, third eye and crown chakras facilitating inner wisdom and outer manifestation. It represents peace and clarity, radiating healing and love energy. … It is said to be a healing stone.

Lemurian

Lemurian Quartz Crystals help us maintain our connection to Spirit, aiding spiritual evolution, and have been used successfully in dream work. … Metaphysical Legend states that there was once an advanced ancient civilization called Lemuria, similar to Atlantis but more spiritually developed and peaceful.

Considered one of the “Master Crystals”, Lemurian Quartz Crystals teach oneness, reminding us that while we are all individuals, we are also connected to each other, and that we are all equal in Spirit.

Leopardskin Jasper

Leopardskin Jasper (also called Jaguar Stone) is a great stone to utilize when connecting/communicating with the animal kingdom, in both the physical and spiritual planes. Leopardskin Jasper is connected with Shamanism, helping to discover personal animal totems (power animals) and learning how to work with them. Leopardskin Jasper also aides in out of body experiences and journeying. It is a powerful protection stone.

Like all Jaspers, Leopardskin Jasper is closely associated with strength and vitality, and brings stability to those who may be experiencing chaotic energies in this incarnation. Once attuned to this stone, Leopardskin Jasper is known for attracting harmonious vibrations into one’s existence, which correspond to one’s direct needs, but not necessarily desires. This includes the attraction of certain circumstances and people that are conducive to one’s own personal growth.

Lepidolite

Lepidolite – is a type of mica. It is referred to by healers as the Peace Stone. It encourages independence, used for setting and attaining goals inconspicuously. It protects from outside influences. It relieves every day stress, and promotes restful sleep when placed near your pillow. It attracts good luck to those who carry it, and drives away negativity. When used with rose quartz, it becomes a stone of reconciliation of love It helps with nerve pain, sciatica, neuralgia and joint problems.

Lithium Quartz

Lithium Quartz is a super high energy healing and balancing stone. … Lithium quartz is balancing and calming, and is used in crystal healing as a natural anti-depressant. Emotionally and other ways, lithium quartz is said to relieve stress, anxiety, and tension, bringing relaxation and peace.

Lodestone

Lodestone or Magnetite – is a potent stone for manifestation, helping you to attract what you most desire, including both desirable situations and people. It is naturally magnetic. It has an impressive capacity to balance the hemispheres of the brain.
It may aid you to bring whatever you most want into your life, and its magnetic properties makes it a highly effective spiritual grounding stone. The vibration of this stone will attract into your present situation the experiences or opportunities that you need to experience in your life.

Stones Starting with M

Magic Forest Quartz

MAGIC FOREST QUARTZ – A unique multi-vibrational crystallization which blends mineral and plant frequencies to balance body, mind, and spirit. Magic Forest Quartz demonstrates the singularity of source while recognizing the autonomy of each of its components. This assists us in integrating our multifaceted aspects and lessening our sense of internal division. This helps us focus on the present and release concerns about the future. It is a tool which opens us to seeing the ongoing processes of change while keeping us living in the NOW. This helps us see the beauty in transition and transformation while providing clarity in the most complex situations as it moves us into our heart center. As a friend it can be used as a meditation tool. Its consciousness is a composite of harmonizing, relaxing, soothing, calming, and uplifting energies all at the same time while helping us see past limiting beliefs and focus where we most need to. Magic Forest Quartz speaks to us with the intelligence of several worlds and is truly, ” A Tool For The Golden Age”

Magnesite

Magnesite is known for its calming properties, helping to improve creative visualization and imagination. It is also commonly believed to bring deep peace and silent relaxation during meditation, stimulate passion in the heart and help strengthen bones and teeth. White magnesite is said to open the heart chakra, bringing a sense of personal happiness and love for oneself, therefore increasing self-esteem.

(Red –grounding, Orange – creativity, Yellow – optimism, Green – healing, Blue – Communication, Purple – Psychic /Divine Connection)

Magnetite

Magnetite or Lodestone – is a potent stone for manifestation, helping you to attract what you most desire, including both desirable situations and people. It is naturally magnetic. It has an impressive capacity to balance the hemispheres of the brain.
It may aid you to bring whatever you most want into your life, and its magnetic properties makes it a highly effective spiritual grounding stone. The vibration of this stone will attract into your present situation the experiences or opportunities that you need to experience in your life.

Malachite

Malachite – is believed to be a strong protector of children. It is said to protect the wearer from accidents and protects travelers. It has been used to aid success in business and protect against undesirable business associations. It is a stone of balance in relationships. It has been called the “mirror of the soul” and caution must be used when wearing it. To help get rid of nightmares, keep a piece of Malachite in your bedroom.

Mangano Calcite

Mangano Calcite – is a heart crystal. It is associated with angels. This is a soft stone of forgiveness that brings unconditional love. It is used to release fear and grief from the past that is trapping you, it assists in developing self-worth and self-acceptance, it heals nervous conditions, it lifts tension and anxiety and it prevents nightmares. The loving energy of Mangano Calcite dissolves resistance.

Montana Agate

Montana Agate is a sweet and loving stone to have right within your vicinity because of its warm and supportive energies. It will harmonize your energies with the energies in your surroundings so that they become a more pleasant place to be.

Mookaite

Use Mookaite Jasper to connect with elemental Earth powers for increasing self-confidence, self-worth, and to realize one’s full potential. Use with your Solar Plexus Chakra, the seat of will and personal power.
It is an ideal tool for overcoming procrastination by revealing the true reason for avoiding certain tasks and bringing the motivation needed to resolve the issue. Its constant energy keeps one focused and well-grounded while soothing the mind and quieting distracting thoughts. It is great for focusing on a specific goal or for a motivational boost in the workplace
Mookaite emanates the energy of animal knowing, or instinct, and may be used to amplify one’s own instincts when making decisions, especially when there are conflicting factors to consider. Hold the stone close to receive a gut answer and go with it, even if circumstances suggest otherwise. Mookaite also brings assistance in “knowing” the right direction to take in physical and non-physical travel.

Moonstone

Moonstone – It is said if you give your lover a moonstone necklace when the moon is full you will always have passion with each other. It brings good fortune, assists in foretelling the future, enhances intuition, promotes inspiration, brings success in love as well as business matters and it offers protection on land and at sea. It can reunite lovers who have quarreled. It is an excellent stone to use in meditation to understand oneself. Moonstone is used to stimulate the functioning of the pineal gland and balance internal hormone cycles with nature’s rhythms. It is a stone of inner growth and strength. It also helps opening the emotional self.

Moqui Stones

Shaman Stone (Moqui) – are stones of harmony and balance. They are excellent tools for vibrational healing. They are helpful in overcoming the fear of death and the fear of pain, freeing one to pursue one’s path without limitation. They are stones of the ascetic, helping one learn to overcome physical discomfort in the search for spiritual enlightenment. They help in meditation. Helps unblock psychic visions. Relieves physical discomfort. They are excellent tools in Shamanic journeys

Morganite

Morganite is a powerful, high vibrational, universal stone of unconditional love. It helps to attract and maintain love. Morganite activates and cleanses the Heart Chakra, connecting to Divine Love. Holding a piece of Morganite brings a sense of deep peace and joy, both within us and with the world. This makes Morganite a favorite of many metaphysical users.

Morganite is a very gentle stone, allowing for easy, gentle release of emotions, “like an angel holding my heart”. Those overwhelmed by the huge Heart Chakra opening brought on by Rose Quartz will resonate better with Morganite’s slow, gentle opening that moves at the rate that is perfect for each user. Morganite’s clear and pure heart energy eases the pain of old emotional wounds and forgotten traumas. Unfulfilled emotional needs and unexpressed emotions are brought forth by Morganite as it nurtures the emotional body.

Morganite will open the heart to receive messages and wisdom from guides, angels and guardians. Encouraging patience and reverence for life and all living things, Morganite brings forth loving thoughts and actions, keeping the user centered in love. Morganite’s sweet energy makes it the stone of puppy love and first kisses.

Physically, Morganite eases symptoms associated with chest ailments such as emphysema and asthma. It may help with heart palpitations, thyroid problems and nervous system disorders.

Stones Starting with N

Nuummite

Nuummite will help you move forward with joy and optimism.
It will take away your fears and put your mind at ease. It will help you to be present in the moment and guide you more easily toward your life journeys.
It will remove any energy block and clear the damage done to your personal auric field.
Helps to settle your issues and forgive past transgressions. You will come to terms with the events of the past so that they will not affect the present or the future.
Nuummite is very rare and hard to get, and it’s also a very powerful healer. It can be used for general healing purposes and relieve pains and discomforts.

Stones Starting with O

Obsidian

Obsidian is truth-enhancing. A strongly protective stone, it forms a shield against negativity. It blocks psychic attack and absorbs negative energies from the environment. Obsidian draws out mental stress and tension.

Onyx

Onyx is known to separate. It can help release negative emotions such as sorrow and grief. It is used to end unhappy or bothersome relationships.
Onyx guards against negativity
Onyx is worn to defend against negativity that is directed at you. Black stones have protective energies in the sense that black is the absence of light, and therefore, can be used to create invisibility. It fortifies self-confidence and responsibility , Sharpens your senses & Encourages a healthy egotism

Opalite

Opalite – is a man-made opalized glass resin that is fused with metal to create an opalescent effect. Place on the Crown Chakra to enhance vision. It stabilizes mood swings. Opalite has a soft, gentle, calming and soothing effect when held or viewed.

Orange Calcite

Orange Calcite helps integrate the spiritual realm with the physical body, enhances creativity, and is helpful when working with emotional issues. Use Orange Calcite to energize and cleanse the lower chakras. Orange Calcite works especially well with the Sacral Chakra to enhance the will and remove depression. Working with Orange Calcite can bring higher insights from the upper chakras down into the lower chakras for processing so they can be used in a more instinctual way without needing extended thought.

Meditating with Orange Calcite can bring insights into the causes of apathy or lethargy, allowing one to take back control over one’s life. Orange Calcite’s vital energy can serve as a catalyst for the release of past traumas that have been holding you back, allowing for optimism and joy to come in. Those experiencing depression will benefit from Orange Calcite’s infusion of bright vibrations into the lower chakras.

Physically, Orange Calcite helps with urinary tract disorders; liver, spleen and kidney function; incontinence; sexual dysfunction, and chronic fatigue.

Orange Adventurine

Orange Aventurine is considered a stone of good luck, fortune, and a manifestor of exciting new possibilities. It has been called the “Whisper Stone” since the energy of this stone helps to quiet the critical and judgmental inner voice. … Many use Orange Aventurine to encourage perseverance

Orgonite

Orgonite

Improves overall health, plants grow healthier, animals and people are being magnetized by universal force energies, helps to negate lower magnetic frequencies from electronics, powerlines and cell towers, transmutes negative energy into good vibes, increases prosperity, opens & strengthens spiritual and psychic channels, brings a state of well-being, peace, happiness and joy.

Orgone is the universal life force (prana, chi. Ki) which is found freely in the nature where it hasn’t been energetically corrupted or polluted.

Orthoceras

Orthoceras: openness, innovation, knowledge, grounding, increased confidence; simulates thymus; activates mind; reduces anxiety and stress; balances emotions; decreases toxins; increases life span; empowers accomplishments; promotes pride and success in business; induces recognition of accomplishments: said to treat atrophy, skeletal system disorders especially hands and feet and back; fatigue; digestive disorders; rheumatism.

Stones Starting with P

Peacock Ore

Peacock Ore(Bornite) – is a stone of happiness and joy, it is said to turn you in positive directions, and help channel happiness to others; generally a stone of upliftment.

Peridote

Known as the stone of compassion, peridot is believed to bring good health, restful sleep and peace to relationships by balancing emotions and mind. This friendly bright green stone also has the uncanny ability to inspire eloquence and creativity; it also brings delight and good cheer.

Petrified Wood

Petrified Wood – works with the Root and Sacral Chakras to bring wonderful healing energies to both physical and emotional issues. Also, lending to enhanced past-life work. It teaches us patience and helps us to understand how to allow life to evolve in perfection. Working with its grounding energies can encourage one to live life as a spiritual being within this physical realm.

Petrified Wood is used to help melt away any obstacle you have put in front of your path.

Physically, tumbled Petrified Wood is said to help all types of healing, and especially any issues associated with age, such as Alzheimer’s, osteoporosis, and arthritis.

Phosphosiderite

Phosphosiderite is a soothing, calming stone that will effectively eliminate stress. It will also bring a gentle and relaxing love energy into your life. This powerful crystal will strengthen your spirituality and help you with your spiritual awakening and healing.

Picture Jasper

Picture Jasper- It is a grounding and harmonizing stone with a strong connection to the earth. It is said to promote feelings of responsibility towards the planet, encouraging a need to care for and protect it. Its grounding energy can give you a strong sense of who you are, where you’ve been and where you are going. It is said to encourage creative visualisation, creativity and business pursuits. It is also said to help alleviate fear. It is believed to stimulate the immune system, to help clear pollutants and toxins from the body, and to cleanse the kidneys. It is believed to be useful when giving up smoking as it is said to strengthen the resolve.

Piertersite

Because its swirling colors resemble a storm, Pietersite is known as tempest stone. It is said to center on the spiritual being with the ability to ground an individual to the etheric body–the first or lowest layer in the “human energy field” or aura.

Pink Tourmaline

Pink Tourmaline’s mental balancing and calming energies may be useful for those who suffer from insomnia, especially helpful with children. In crystal body layouts or healing grids, place pink tourmaline on the heart chakra for emotional healing and to assist with the release of past abuse and negative attachments.

Pink Opal

Pink opal healing properties have a gentle frequency that help to calm and soothe your emotional body, clearing and calming the heart to bring a sense of love, peace and hope. … In addition to healing matters of the heart, the pink opal meaning encourages the release of fear, worry or anxiety.

Prehnite

Prehnite – is a stone of unconditional love. It is said to connect to the archangel Raphael. It enhances inner knowledge, showing the path forward to spiritual growth through attunement to divine energy. It connects the will and the heart. In so doing one’s actions attain the highest good. Wear it to strengthen your intuition and recognize truths. It can assist in finding the root cause of an illness. Healers use it for the kidneys and bladder, thymus gland, shoulders, chest and lungs.

Stones Starting with R

Rainbow Obsidian

Rainbow Obsidian – is powerful in meditation to dissolve shock, fear or barriers. It expands your consciousness, sharpens the senses and can help you delve deep into mysterious phenomena and experiences. It helps to protect the very sensitive against depression. It is the stone of the soft hearted and gentle people of the world. Use obsidian to help block negativity of any kind.

Red Adventurine

Red Aventurine is stone of manifestation through action. It draws upon the elements of Earth and Fire to increase the flow of prana, or life force, in re-vitalizing the physical body and focusing its energy to get things done. It boosts vitality and mental alertness, and amplifies the desire to take on life’s challenges with determination and perseverance. It inspires creativity and sexuality, and renews excitement and confidence in bringing one’s projects, goals and desires into reality.

Red Jasper

Red Jasper – A strong protection gemstone, red jasper is known to protect against hazards and fears of the night. Red jasper is very lucky for actors. Jasper is a strong securing gemstone. It is a stability gemstone. It is a powerful protection against things that are not good for you and it eases emotional stresses, making it a wonderful gemstone to have in your home. Jasper gives one the courage to speak out and have personal independence. Red jasper is thought to help balance the energy in the body. All jaspers help balance the emotional energy in the body. Red Jasper helps with the sense of smell. It also promotes physical energy.

Red Tiger's Eye

Red Tiger Eye – is a stimulating stone and can support motivation and a more active sex drive. Use it with the Root Chakra to ground sexual ideas into the physical world, or to resolve sexual issues that are causing problems in a relationship. Its focus on the lower chakras is what gives it the power to send higher energies through the organs of the lower half of the body. It aids in enhancing confidence and self-esteem. It provides motivation to the non-motivated and energizes those who are feeling lethargic. While all forms of Tiger Eye help to raise vibrations, they also connect these energies to the lower Chakras in balance, which keeps one from feeling disconnected when working with higher goals. Carry it in your pocket when you want to add vitality and passion to any project you’re working on. It can enhance balance within one’s energy field, and allows one to open up to unconditional love.

Rhodocrosite

Rhodochrosite is a gorgeous, deep raspberry-pink or rose-red crystal that is also called the Stone of the Compassionate Heart. It is the quintessential gemstone of love and compassion. Rhodochrosite brings true joy to one’s life, heals old wounds and makes it possible to love oneself and others unconditionally.

Rhodonite

Rhodonite – soothes the nervous system. This gemstone vibrates with love. Just holding this gemstone promotes relaxation and brings a sense of well-being. This is a balance gemstone and is used to clear the psychic centers. Rhodonite raises self worth and helps ward off negativity. It has been known as a “rescue stone”.

Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz – is known as the love stone. It helps the user feel a strong sense of self-worth, therefore being worth love. Rose quartz is the stone of universal love. It is also the stone of love in marriage. When worn in jewelry the wearer feels a sense of self-worth.

Ruby

Ruby is a powerful heart stone, opening and activating the Heart chakra. Ruby protects against the loss of heart energy, and dissolves emotional congestion. A powerful healer, Ruby heals and balances emotions, making the holder more emotionally aware, as well as helping them to connect to others emotionally. The intense and vivid energy of Ruby stimulates loving emotions, helps with the expression of love, and can facilitate states of passion and bliss.

Ruby helps us to see the true nature of love, and reveals the Divine Love in everything in the Universe. Using Ruby can help you open up to and receive this Divine Love, as well as become a vehicle through which Divine Love can flow to others. Ruby helps to gather and amplify energy, aiding in opening the doorway to spiritual knowledge. Ruby is a wonderful stone for students as it stimulates deep mental concentration.

Ruby is a very helpful tool to use when shielding against, and protecting from, unwanted energies such as emotional or psychic intrusions. Ruby is also a stone of abundance and success in business.

Physically, use Ruby to warm the extremities, increase circulation and fight infection. Ruby is beneficial for male impotence as well as female infertility. It helps with perimenopause symptoms and balancing menstrual cycles.

Stones Starting with S

Sardonyx

Sardonyx- bestows stability, self confidence and a hopeful attitude. It helps overcome sadness and brings joy that is easily transferred to others.
This stone you understand and overcome feelings helplessness and a victim mentality. It lifts depression and encourages you to take action to make over due changes in your life. Sardonyx will assist you in mending quarrels in a marriage and also divisions between parents and children. It symbolises good fortune and happiness particularly in relationships, marriage and love.

Scolecite

Scolecite is one of the high vibration crystals, and is a strong stone to aid communication, especially with spirit. It helps to alleviate arguments. It also, is a stone that awakens the heart as it has a strong resonance within the chakras from the heart up. This facilitates deep inner peace and spiritual transformation.

Selenite

Selenite calms, brings deep peace. It brings mental clarity, clearing confusion and revealing the bigger picture behind problems. A protective stone, Selenite shields a person or space from outside influences. It can evoke protection from the angelic realm and dispels negative energy. The powerful vibration of Selenite opens the Crown and Higher Chakras and is excellent for meditation or spiritual work. Use it in a grid around your home or in the corners of a room to create a safe and peaceful space. It removes energy blocks from physical and etheric bodies. Selenite is said to reverse the effects of free radicals” to heal and repair on the cellular level. Associated with the spine and the skeletal system, Selenite also can be used to mitigate problems with mercury fillings in dental work.

Septarian

Septarian (also called Dragon Stone) is a wonderful stone to wear or carry with you if you speak in public, as it gives you confidence and allows you to gain an audience’s attention. A grounding stone, Septarian allows for better tolerance and patience, as well as emotional flexibility. It can gauge the underlying cause of an illness when meditated upon, and focuses the body into healing itself. Septarian can absorb your energy when held over a period of time and transmits that energy into strength when needed.

Seraphinite

Seraphinite – promotes regeneration and self-healing. This stone is used to establish connections to the angelic realm. It helps to greater your awareness of the Divine Feminine, it restores health and balance, it connects the physical with the angelic realm and it encourages living from the heart.

Serpentine

Serpentine – is said to help correct emotional imbalance and to enable you to feel more in control of your life. It is a good stone for crystal meditation and is said to be valuable in opening psychic abilities. In healing Serpentine is believed to have cleansing and detoxifying properties. It is a useful stone for crystal healers as it is said to help in the conscious direction of healing energy to where it is needed.

Shiva

Shiva Lingam Stone meaning
Shiva Lingams are egg-shaped stones made of cryptocrystalline quartz. They are found in one of the seven holy sites of India – the Narmada River in Onkar Mandhata. Villagers gather the stones from the river and hand polish them.

The egg shape is considered a phallic symbol of the Hindu god Shiva. The shiva lingam represents both male and female, as well as the cosmic egg from which all creation emerged.

This stone resonates with energies of all the elements – Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Stone. Use shiva lingam to:

  • Charge the entire chakra system
  • Activate kundalini energies
  • Boost vitality
  • Enhance inner transformation
  • Break up old patterns and open the path for new life
  • Help to feel unity, even during times of separation

Healing properties of shiva lingam

Healers use shiva lingams to treat impotence, infertility, strengthen and balance the whole body.

Shungite

Shungite looks similar to coal, has the ability of conducting electromagnetic and geothermal energy, and yet absorbs and shields the body from electromagnetic emissions such as those caused by computers, microwaves, Wi-Fi and the like. It can also absorb negative energy and remove it from a person or even an entire space. It will replace stress and negative emotions into positive energy, while at the same time keeping the user grounded and protected. It also rids the body of pollutants, bacteria, viruses and free radicals. Use Shungite to detoxify the body, bolster the immune system and relieve pain and inflammation. It can ease headaches and insomnia. Shungite helps with a variety of issues and ailments, from asthma and arthritis to chronic fatigue syndrome, pancreatic conditions and cardiovascular disease.

Silicon Carbide

Carborundum (Silicon Carbide) – is a man made creation, it’s exotic, iridescent, rainbow covered spikes are like something from a gothic fairy tale
Carborundum is thought to be a master healer that shines light in all areas of your life and connects to all chakras, purifies mind, body and spirit. It encourages intuition and discernment, eye strain and any computer related injuries. It is a powerful grounding material.

Smokey Quartz

Smokey Quartz – is nature’s stone of endurance. It gives you an extra boost when you need it most. It promotes personal pride and joy in living, creativity in business, opens the path for perception and learning. It is a protection stone that cleanses and clears negative energy. It is a grounding stone that transmutes negative energies and facilitates your ability to get things done in the practical world. It enhances organizational skills and is good to have around in the workplace or home office. It also helps to relieve depression.

Snowflake Obsidian

Snowflake Obsidian – is a stone of purity. It balances mind body and spirit. Placed on the sacral hara chakra, snowflake obsidian will calm and soothe and allow you to view unhealthy patterns in your own behaviour, thus opening the door to change. Obsidian draws hidden imbalances to the surface and releases them. The blackness of this stone enhances the ability to reach your inner self. It is one of the earliest known stones to be used for scrying. It is used by healers to relieve muscle cramps. It is considered a good detoxification stone.

Sodalite

Sodalite – brings inner peace. The calming effect facilitates logical thinking, which ties into sodalite meaning. As a stone of truth it improves communications. Disagreements and arguments are easier to work through with the use of sodalite.

Stillbite

Stilbite emanates vibrations of joy and love. It has a delicate quality, gently expanding a sense of self and beyond into the astral realm. This is a powerful stone that brings a calming influence and has been used to assist in restful sleep and vivid dreaming. It brings inner peace during meditation. Some uses of Stilbite are: To Balance and clear the heart chakra; Discovery of your true dreams and desires; Stimulates expansion of the mind ; Enhances the ability to learn, and Achieve mental balance

Sugilite

Sugilite (Luvulite)- is considered one of the most important love stones. It represents spiritual love and wisdom – opening and aligning all the chakras to love with its beautiful purple rays. This loving stone teaches and protects in matters of spiritual quests, love, and forgiveness. It protects the soul from shocks and trauma, it clears disappointments and relieves spiritual tension, it brings light and love to the darkest situations and it aids forgiveness by eliminating hostility. Place sugilite on the third eye to alleviate despair. Hold to the forehead for headaches. Sugilite teaches you how to live from your own truth. It imparts the ability to face unpleasant conditions, encourages positive thoughts, and releases emotional turmoil. It is used by healers for dyslexia, pain relief, motor disfunction. Light colored sugilite is used to purify lymph and blood.

Sunstone

Sunstone – is a protective stone. Placed before a white candle, sunstone will spread protective energies throughout your home. Symbolically, sunstone is linked to moonstone. Carry the two stones together to bring the influences of the Sun (Healing, Protection, Success) into harmony with those of the Moon (Love, Peace, Spirituality). It gives you extra energy when you are ill or under stress, it stimulates sexual arousal and increases sexual energy , it increases your self-healing power and promotes harmony among the organs functions. Sunstone stimulates your personal power of attraction.

Super 7

Super 7 is a rare stone, also known as Sacred Seven and Melody’s Stone, which carries the spiritual and protective qualities of Amethyst, the grounding ability of Smokey Quartz, the energy-amplifying properties of Quartz, with Rutile, Goethite, Lepidocrosite and Cacoxenite . Rutile brings strength, love, ease in making transitions, and stablise relationships of all kinds; Rutile also fine tunes intuition. Goethite facilities clairaudience and metaphysical abilities and communication. Lepidocrosite deepens intuition, promotes grounding, dissolves confusion and overcome negative thoughts and replacing them with unconditional love. Cacoxenite brings spiritual awareness; it also helps to overcome fear and clear stress.

It carries a spiritual being within them that links to the highest sources of guidance and inspiration so one need not go anywhere to obtain guidance. Meditating with it is a joy. Emotionally, it is a very soothing and nurturing stone.

This crystal activates wisdom and strengthens intuition; assist in finding solutions; and provide the inner strength to cope with different situations.

Stones Starting with T

Tangerine Quartz

Tangerine Quartz stimulates the joyful energy of the inner child, encouraging playfulness and curiosity, allowing us to learn and grow. It activates passion on all levels, from sexuality to creativity. It helps to encourage self acceptance and overcome limitations

Tanzanite

Tanzanite – activates several chakras from the heart to the crown and is used to link the mind with the heart. Tanzanite is an important communication stone, giving one the ability to speak the truth. It promotes compassion, raises consciousness in meditation, calms an overactive mind and brings on a peaceful understanding of one’s own heart.

Tekite

Tektite is a glassy object associated with meteoric impacts. The word ‘Tektite’ is from the Greek tektos, meaning “molten”. Tektites are formed when a large meteorite strikes the Earth.

Meditation with a tektite will increase telepathy. Carry tektite for heightened psychic sensitivity, psychic travel, increase energy field, open and clear the lower chakras.

Tiger Iron

Tiger Iron – is a powerful lower Chakra stone, promoting physical vitality, energy, and stamina. Helpful aid to those who feel emotionally, mentally or physically exhausted and burned out. Full of grounding Earth energy, It helps to find courage and refuge in times of danger, and promotes a deeper connection to the Earth and her cycles. It is helpful in manifesting ideas into reality and giving personal strength in times of change.

Used for creative solutions and ideas. Many musicians, artists, actors, and writers find Tiger Iron to be a perfect ally in their pursuits, but it is also helpful for any in the working world to come up with new ways of dealing with old problems.

Tiger's Eye

Tiger’s Eye – lets you see everything. Use it for insight and you can be a very lucky person. When used in jewelry the tiger eye may bring good luck and protection from the evil eye to the wearer. It also known to bring clear thinking and insight. It is a stone for the mind, not the body. Tiger Eye is used to focus the mind. It will cause the mind to have feeling of oneness and feel more direct in all thoughts. It makes one aware of one’s own needs related to the needs of others.

Titanium Quartz

Titanium (Flame) Aura Even though it shares the same properties as the Clear Quartz, it is the colors of this crystal that actually grant it enhanced healing powers. It helps the aura to release any energy blocks and patch up holes in the aura by its color. It enhances ones physical vitality and brings more energy into the auric field. It is stimulating to the auric field and meridians, acting as a prism for soul-level energy, infusing the aura with a rainbow spectrum of light. It allows for one to go deep into meditation to receive spiritual attunement. Overall this crystal is one that brings insight, compassion, energy, excitement and joy into life’s experiences. It is capable of carrying higher frequency range, excellent for trance channels, mediums, psychics and maintains grounding while in a higher state of consciousness.

Tourmalated Quartz

Tourmalated Quartz –
This super lucky stone has the luck of both the quartz and tourmaline. The luck in this stone is very strong. Many use it by rubbing it when powerful luck is needed. It is clear or milky Quartz with black Tourmaline needles. The clear quartz is an amplifier while the black tourmaline is a cleansing, grounding influence.

  • Assists with clear thinking
  • Protects from unhealthy energies
  • Clears energy patterns
Turquoise

Turquoise – is used for Strength, protection from harm, psychic sensitivity and connection to the spirit world. If given a turquoise by a loving friend, that stone would protect the wearer from negative energy and bring good fortune. The turquoise is the symbol of friendship. It also brings peace to the home. This stone is a very personal and meaningful stone to one who wears it. Turquoise takes on the characteristics of the owner. Turquoise carries great wisdom of basic truth within it. It is one of the oldest stones known. This is a stone that a person must learn to attune to instead of the stone attuning to the person. It is important that the owner of a Turquoise give it the proper attention. It neutralizes overacidity . Alleviates rheumatism, gout, stomach problems, viral infections. Increases growth, muscular strength. Alleviates pain, relaxes cramps. Contains anti-inflammatory and detoxifying effects.

Application: should be worn on the solar plexus. Use with copper to increase the power of turquoise.

Stones Starting with U

Ulexite

Ulexite is a stone of clairvoyance. Imagination is the key to creativity, and Ulexite is a stimulant to both. It is also known as the “TV Stone” due to its fiber optic property. Used to help heal and balance Helps with natural physical vision. Helps unblock psychic visions. Clears fatigue and double vision. Gives one a clear vision of all levels of reality.

Unakite

Unakite – has an excellent balancing action for your emotions… bringing your emotions into line with your spiritual aspects. It will assist you getting a better sleep, and will also help to relieve stress. Addictive habits that you have had difficulty dealing with will be helped by its energy, as it will give you help to break through the barriers that have held you back from being able to achieve your desires. It will bring through serenity and optimism about the future and will also aid your spiritual growth. This is a good stone to use during the difficult situations the world is undergoing right now.

Stones Starting with Y

Yellow Calcite

Yellow Calcite is associated with the solar plexus, self confidence and hope. It is said to be effective at clearing out old energy patterns and increasing personal motivation and drive. Yellow Calcite specifically is a clearer of accumulated self doubt, giving you the opportunity for a clean emotional slate

Stones Starting with Z

Zebra Jasper

Zebra Jasper has a balanced energy, uniting the yin and yang dynamic. It’s white and black coloring represents this balance. It is also very balancing to the chakras and all of the energy systems in the body. The zebra jasper properties restore optimism to your life, despite any stress or obstacles you may be encountering.

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