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Agates are all grounding stones, and bring physical, emotional and intellectual balance. They balance positive and negative, yin and yang. They are slow working stones of great strength, but also very soothing and calming. They help with self acceptance, building self confidence and aiding with honest self analysis. They encourage speaking one’s own truth. Agates enhance concentration, and perception, leading to finding practical solutions. They are useful in healing any kind of emotional trauma, overcoming bitterness of the heart and anger. They also foster spiritual growth and inner stability.

Agatized Coral is coral that has been fossilized over millions of years. It is a very supportive stone, helpful when working through emotional healing, especially resulting from dysfunctional families. It imparts balance and stability, and the fluidity necessary to make it all work. It helps heal anything in the past, this life or another

Amber is not technically a stone- it is fossilized tree resin. However, it still has healing properties. It is very grounding with strong connections to the earth. It can draw disease from the body as well as cleansing the environment and chakras. It absorbs negativity and transmutes it to positive. It encourages a warm, sunny attitude and can counteract suicidal or depressive tendencies.

Ametrine is a combination of Citrine and Amethyst, blending the colors and properties of both. It is a fast acting stone, and bring forth insight into causes of long-standing diseases. It is helpful in meditation, resonating with the Third Eye chakra. It can also help balance male and female energies. It can help overcome prejudice and help one understand we are all one. It enhances creativity and supports one to take control of one’s own life.

Ammonite, sometimes referred to as Ammolite, is actually the fossilized structure of a creature that lived in the time of the dinosaurs. It is a stone of protection and stability, and gives the wearer a greater ability to see the “whole picture”. It is a very grounding stone and is associated with the Root Chakra. It is also a stone of prosperity and abundance, along with encouraging general good health, stamina and high energy.

Amethyst is a powerful, serene stone, with a very high energy vibration. It stimulates the throat and crown chakras, and assists with meditation. Amethyst helps balance the mind, stimulating or calming it as needed, helping you focus and make good decisions and improving memory. It also quiets the mind when sleeping and balances emotions. It helps overcome addictions of all kinds. Amethyst is a very spiritual stone, enhancing your connection to the divine. It opens you up to your intuition. It is helpful for people getting ready to transition through death.

Aquamarine is a stone of courage. As the cool blue green color suggests, it is calming and soothing. It soothes fear while increasing sensitivity. It protects against pollutants. It used to be thought to protect sailors from drowning. It encourages people to not be judgmental while taking responsibility for oneself. It helps quiet mind chatter. It is useful for closure on all levels. It assists with communication and promotes self expression. It sharpens intuition and helps with meditation. It aligns the chakras and clears the throat chakra.

Azurite encourages psychic and intuitive development, cleansing and clearing the third eye (brow) chakra. It assists and protects one while journeying out of body. It raises consciousness and aid spiritual development. It brings clear understandings and new perspectives, expanding the mind. It stimulates memory while assisting one to let go of pre-programmed belief systems allowing for deeper insight and new reality. Azurite clears stress, worry, fear, grief and sadness. It is especially good for healing mental issues or communication problems. Azurite w/Malachite combines the properties of both stones. It allows for deep emotional healing.

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Black Jasper, in addition to the properties listed under “Jasper”, is an excellent scrying stone, assisting with attaining deep trance-states, often bring prophetic dreams and visions.

Black Tourmaline cleanses and purifies energy, transforming it to a higher vibration. It is also very grounding, and forms a protective shield around the body. It promotes self confidence and releases fear. It helps one move past being a victim and encourages inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. It is excellent protection against electromagnetic smog, radiation, psychic attack, ill-wishing and negative energy of all kinds. It connects with the root chakra and increases physical vitality, dispersing tension and stress. It clears negative thoughts and encourages a laid-back, positive attitude.

Bloodstone is made up of green quartz with flecks of jasper. It is an excellent cleanser of the blood and blood related issues. It stimulates the immune system, flow of lymph and metabolic processes. It heightens intuition and increases creativity. It is extremely grounding and protective while imparting courage and teaching strategic withdrawal when necessary. It encourages flexibility, selflessness and idealism. It also helps one act and be “in the moment”. Bloodstone also calms the mind, dispels confusion, and enhances decision making abilities while reducing irritability, aggressiveness and impatience. It also helps bring spirituality into everyday life.

Blue Lace Agate’s energy is soft and cooling, calming. Very effective in activating and healing the throat chakra. A nurturing and supportive stone, it will help neutralize anger, infection, inflammation and fever. It counteracts that which makes you suppress feelings and makes you “hold your tongue”. This stone brings peace.

Blue Tiger’s Eye in addition to the properties listed under Tiger’s Eye, is a calming stone, helping to relieve stress. It can slow metabolism and cool emotions. It can soothe an over-active libido.

Botswana Agate is a forward-thinking stone, encouraging one to find solutions, rather that focusing on problems. It encourages exploration into the unknown, physically or spiritually. It enhances creativity. This agate stimulates the crown chakra and encourages eternal love and conscientiousness. It encourages and demands high standard of personal character and enables one to see the ‘whole picture”. Like all agates, it is a very balancing stone, physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Boulder Opal forms within cracks found in ironstone boulders. It can aid one to connect with other planes of existence. It is said to connect one to the stars and “star people”, both of this world and others. It acts as a grounding agent while enhancing transfer of information. It can clear the aura and help one connect with one’s subconscious. It is a very healing stone, healing on all levels. It enhances mental clarity, emotional security, physical well being and spiritual perfection.

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Calcite is a powerful cleanser of energy. It will clear the environment of negative energy or remove energy blocks within a body. It activates development and growth, including spiritual growth. It enhances psychic abilities and heightens emotional intelligence by connecting emotions with the intellect. Calcite calms the mind, stimulates insights and boost memory. It encourages serenity and trust in oneself.

Carnelian is a grounding stone and anchors one in the present. It also has a high energy vibration and is excellent for restoring vitality and enhancing creativity while stimulating the root, sacral, solar plexus and heart chakras. It is useful those in theatre, and imparts courage, motivation and steadfastness. It helps one embrace the cycle of life and dispels a fear of death. It overcomes apathy and negative conditioning. It encourages positive life choices and supports success in business, improving analytic abilities, clarifying perceptions and sharpening concentration. It quiets the mind in mediation and protects against anger, rage and resentment (yours or other people’s). It encourages a love of life. Carnelian also cleanses other stones.

Celestite (Celestine) has a very high energy vibration and is a very spiritual stone. It can help with connection to the angelic realms and jump start spiritual development. It attracts good fortune and reveals truth. It can enhance intuitive or psychic abilities. It relieves stress and encourages creativity. It is a calming stone. Celestite resonates with the throat, third eye and crown chakras.

Charoite is a stone of transformation. It overcomes fear, reduces stress and worry. It stimulates unconditional love. It facilitates enormous change at the spiritual level. It provides deep physical and emotional healing while helping you accept the present moment at perfect. It synthesizes the heart and crown chakras.

Chiastolite enhances both practicality and creativity and stabilizes emotions. It is very protective and can transmute dissention into harmony. It is also helpful for those transitioning into death. It is calming, and helps one face reality and change with confidence. It helps release unproductive patterns and conditioning. Chiastolite can release feelings of guilt and help maintain spirituality amidst illness or trauma. It helps one attune to the soul’s purpose.

Chrysanthemum Stone can help one discover and develop one’s true potential, find one’s calling and live it to the fullest. It is also a calming, stabilizing, spiritual stone. It supports joy and innocence while strengthening character. In encourages compassion while discouraging bigotry. It helps one recognize that which is “real”.

Chrysocolla is a tranquil stone that is helpful with mediation and communication. It removed negative energy from the environment. It can evoke great inner strength, helping you deal with change and conflict with serenity. It eases communication and can help improve tough relationships, romantic OR platonic. Chrysocolla cleanses and energizes all chakras. It encourages self awareness and inner balance and enhances confidence, personal power, creativity and sensitivity. It can also alleviate guilt and bring in joy.

Chrysoprase is helpful with mediation and gaining personal insights. It helps one recognize one’s part in the divine whole, while promoting truth and stimulating creativity. It encourages fidelity in both business and personal matters. Chrysoprase is calming and helps one remove ego from situations. It instills forgiveness and compassion and imparts a sense of security and trust. It can be helpful for eliminating nightmare, especially with children. It can also be helpful in overcoming co-dependence. It resonates with the heart and sacral chakras.

Citrine is a creative stone that energizes cleanses that around it. It protects against negative energy by absorbing, transmuting, dissipating and grounding it. It warns against danger, allowing one to protect oneself. Cleanses chakras and has special affinity with the sacral and solar plexus chakras. It activates the crown chakra and also opens one to intuition. Citrine is a stone of abundance and encourages generosity and joy. It raises self esteem and self confidence and allows one to accept constructive criticism as the help it is meant to be. Helpful in overcoming depression, fears and phobias, while enhancing concentration and revitalizing the mind.

Copper is a mineral that encourages balance, combating lethargy and excitability, passivity, and restlessness. It helps one accept oneself. It encourages one to love oneself truly, not trying “fill the void” with relationships or material things. It is said to bring luck and good energy. It opens the base and sacral chakras, enhancing and stabilizing all that they affect. It is a good conductor of electricity and can magnify the energy transfer from a stone or healer.

Cuprite is often found in a matrix of copper. It is a stone of the Divine Feminine and can help one balance cone’s true feminine nature resulting in enhanced life force, vitality, physical energy, healing and courage. Cuprite is a stone of fertility, including fertility of ideas and goals. It is an excellent physical healer, including but not limited to such things as lung dysfunctions, circulation disorders, prostate and lower bowel issues and concerns with the sexual organs. On an emotional level, Cuprite can help with irrational anxieties, fears around mortality and unconscious terrors connected to past traumas. Cuprite resonates with the root and sacral chakras and can help with the awakening of Kundalini energies.

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Dalmation Jasper dispels nightmares, negative thinking and depression while increasing loyalty and fun with life. It lessens disillusionment and helps one see one’s own strengths and weaknesses honestly. See also: Jasper.

Dendritic Agate is a stone of abundance, bringing fullness to all areas of life. It helps one enjoy the moment, bring peace inside and out. Deepens one’s connection with the plant kingdom and earth. It brings stability and helps one remain centered amidst chaos. It also lends perseverance and the ability to see difficulties as challenges. Opens and aligns all chakras. It is, however, a stone that works slowly and must be worn continuously for quite a period of time. It also has attributes found under Agate.

Dumortierite is a calming stone that encourages one to stand up for oneself, while also seeking reasonable, flexible solutions. It imparts stamina and patience, and help one distinguish between reality and illusion and where they meet. It resonates with the Third Eye chakra, and enhances all mental abilities with stimulating intuition and psychic abilities.

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Emerald is a stone of inspiration. It brings domestic bliss and loyalty, and encourages patience. It supports relationships, both romantic and platonic, and opens the heart chakra. Emerald eliminates negativity and supports equilibrium (mental, physical and emotional). It enhances psychic abilities. It enhances the ability to enjoy life to its fullest. Emerald imparts mental clarity and strengthens memory.

Epidote is a manifesting stone. It dispels tendency to criticize, and enhances clear sight and supplements personal power. It encourages participation in life and all endeavors.

Eudialite can enhance psychic abilities, especially clairaudience. It resonates with the heart chakra, teaching love of “all that is”. It opens all chakras and facilitates the movement of Kundalini energy. It dispels jealousy and infuses one with inspiration and confidence. It helps separate one from negative emotions that diminish self-love and ability to love others.

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Flint is very grounding and can help one stay “in the body” while stimulating vitality. It can be very helpful for people healing from illness or injury by increasing life force. It also enhances intuition and psychic abilities. Flint encourages simple values- honesty, truth, loyalty, simplicity. Flint brings the spiritual into the physical and practical realm, paving the way for everyday miracles.

Fluorite is highly protective and prevents psychic manipulation. It also protects again electromagnetic smog. It cleanses and stabilizes the aura, and draws off negative energies. It supports organization in anything- whether it is your body, house or an organization. It brings stability to groups. It can quicken spiritual awakening and heighten intuition. It gently brings suppressed feeling to the surface to be resolved. It is an excellent learning aid and stabilizes emotions. Rekindles libido.

Fuchsite is a practical stone, often helping one access information on holistic remedies and treatment. It lessens a tendency towards martyrdom. It deals with issues of servitude from past or present life. It helps alleviate a tendency towards being a victim. It helps clarify and enforce boundaries and teaches true self worth. For those struggling to let a loved one learn their own lessons, it helps them stay strong and not “help”.

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Garnet is a cleansing, energizing, purifying and balancing stone. It inspires love and devotion while balancing sex drive. It is a stone of commitment. It augments survival instinct, allowing one to function in times of crisis and bringing hope and courage. It can expand awareness and allow for past life recall. It amplifies the affects of other stones. It sharpens ones perceptions of oneself and other people. It encourages one to let go of that which is not in one’s best interest- behavior, relationships, habits, etc… Bestows self confidence.

Gold is a spiritual mineral, allowing for understanding. It encourages one to seek knowledge. It can be used to balance the energy fields. It can help you to not feel overburdened by responsibility. It can help open the crown, third eye, and heart chakras. It is an excellent mineral for purification of the physical body.

Green Aventurine is a positive stone and attracts prosperity. It turns negative situations into positive ones. It enhances good leadership qualities, including compassion, empathy and perseverance. It can help relieve stammers. It enhances creativity, stimulates perception and stabilizes state of mind, calming anger and irritation. It resonates with the heart chakra and is a comforter and heart healer. It encourages living from the heart and protects against psychic vampirism of heart energy. It also promotes physical well-being.

Green Tourmaline is an excellent healer, opening the heart chakra and promoting compassion, tenderness, patience and a sense of belonging. It is a balancing stone, bringing with it a joy of life. It helps one move past being a victim, and dispels fears. It increases self confidence and inspires creativity, as well as attracting prosperity and abundance. It overcomes problems with father figures. Aids sleep and quiets the mind. It is very grounding, and forms a protective shield around the body.

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Hawks Eye is a form of Tiger’s eye. It is especially good for grounding and healing the Earth. In invigorates the physical body while increasing psychic abilities. It is good for breaking old patterns and beliefs that are no longer correct or helpful. It counteracts pessimism and encourages taking responsibility for one’s own actions. Brings up hidden emotions and causes of disease from this or previous lifetimes to be healed. Resonates with the base chakra. Also see properties of Tiger’s Eye.

Hematite is VERY grounding and protective. Dissolves negative energy. It is a strong stone that lends its strength to one who wears it, boosting confidence and strength of character as well as willpower and self esteem. It removes self limitations. It is helpful in overcoming compulsions and addictions, and helps one view mistakes as learning experiences rather than disasters. It stimulates concentration and focus, sharpening the mind and memory. Hematite included Quartz combines the properties of Hematite and Quartz.

Hiddenite is the green form of Kunzite and can vary from yellow to emerald green. It is a stone that supports new beginnings. It connects to other words to assist in transfer of knowledge. It helps release feelings of failure and teaches one to accept comfort and support from people and the Universe. It links the intellect to love.

Howlite is one of the most calming stones, often helping with insomnia if placed under one’s pillow. It stills the mind, often assisting with meditation. It provides a link to the spiritual dimensions, preparing one for information and insight. Journeys out of the body or into past lives are easier with the help of Howlite. It helps one form and achieve ambitions, on all planes. It teaches patience and cools non-productive anger, yours or others. It strengthens positive character traits while diminishing criticalness and selfishness.

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Iolite activates the third eye chakra and stimulates connection to inner knowing. It aids in understanding and releasing causes of addiction. It helps you express your true self and not be bothered by other’s expectations. It releases discord within relationships and can help overcome codependency.

Iron Pyrite is an excellent energy shield. It blocks negative energy and pollutants. It is said to shield one even from infectious diseases. It deflects harm and danger, especially when worn around the neck. It is a very positive stone, helping one to overcome inertia and “get moving”. It assists one to tap into ones abilities and potential and move forward with it. It teaches how to see behind a façade and yet promotes diplomacy. It relieves anxiety and frustration while boosting confidence and true self worth. It increases mental activity, memory and recall and relieves melancholy and despair. It increases energy and overcomes fatigue, while blocking energy leaks from the physical body and aura.

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Jasper is known as the “supreme nurturer”. It holds one up in times of stress, and brings tranquility while encouraging honesty with oneself. It aids dream recall. It is very protective and grounding, in all its forms, absorbing negative energy and cleansing and aligning the chakras. Clears pollution. Endows determination and courage, helping one attain goals and overcome obstacles. Jasper aids quick thinking and promotes organizations skills.

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Kyanite is helpful with meditation and facilitate intuition. It instills compassion and helps one connect to your own individual spirituality. Facilitates healing dreams and dream recall. Kyanite is helpful for those transitioning through death. It is especially helpful with the throat chakra, but it will align all chakras. It encourages self expression and communication. Dispels confusion, illusion, anger frustration and stress.

Kunzite is very spiritual stone, high energy vibration. Activates the heart chakra, teaches unconditional love. Helpful for mediation. Enhances creativity. Protective, dispels negativity. Strengthens the energy shields around the body. Helpful in reducing stress related anxiety, excellent for alleviating panic attacks. Helpful in depression that has an emotional cause. Clears away internal debris to allow for emotional healing.

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Labradorite raises consciousness and enhances spiritual connection. It is highly protective from forces outside and prevents leakage of energy from within. It is a stone of knowledge, especially esoteric. It enhances intuition and knowing, also encouraging “right timing”. It releases fears and insecurities and strengthens trust and faith in the universe. While enhancing the imagination, Labradorite calms the overactive mind and encourages contemplation and introspection. It is a useful stone in any kind of change.

Lake Superior Agate is found, as you would imagine, in and around Lake Superior in the upper Midwest. In addition to the general properties for all Agates, LS Agate works to elevates one’s self worth and self confidence. It encourages one to explore the mythical and metaphysical and learn to recognize and value the previously unknown. It aids in communication with other planes of existence.

Lapis Lazuli opens the third eye chakra and balances the throat chakra. It is a very spiritual stone, and enhances all spiritual or intuitive pursuits. It releases stress, bringing peace. Lapis is a very protective stone, guarding against attack and returning negative energy to the source. It balances physical, emotional, mental and spiritual energies, encouraging deep inner self-knowledge and self expression.

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Lepidolite is a stone that insists on being used for “the highest good”. Opens and activates the crown, third eye, throat, and heart chakras. Aids in spiritual journeying. It is able to bring to your awareness things from other lives that are affecting you now. Very useful in reduction of stress and depression. It stills an overactive brain and helps relieve insomnia. Helpful in stabilizing mood swings, bipolar disorders. It is a ‘stone of transition” and helps one let go of addictions and/or behavioral patterns. It is a calming stone, bringing deep emotional healing.
When combined with tourmaline the energy becomes positive joyous. This is truly a stone of love, joy and childlike wonder.

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Mahogany Obsidian has a gentler energy than black. It still grounds and protects, but also gives energy in times of need, affirms purpose and stimulates growth on all levels. It eliminates energy blockages while stabilizing and strengthening the aura. See also: Obsidian.

Malachite amplifies energy, both positive and negative. It is very powerful and protective. Facilitates deep emotional healing. It absorbs negative energy and pollutants (especially radiation) easily. Activates the heart and third eye chakra enhancing visualizations and unconditional love. Helpful with scrying. Malachite is a stone of transition, encouraging risk-taking and change. It will mercilessly show you what is holding you back. Breaks unwanted ties and outworn patterns. Teaches how to take responsibility for one’s own actions. It encourages expressing feeling and helps alleviate shyness. Do not get wet.

Moldovite has much to do with initiating humanity into the new age we are evolving into. It is commonly believed to be of extraterrestrial origin. All agree that Moldavite has an unusually high energy vibration, resulting in enhanced spiritual awareness and growth. This can be too powerful for some, leaving them “spacey” and should be combined with appropriate grounding stones where needed. Used in this combination, Moldavite can be especially helpful for those that are not of this earth that find they are overly sensitive to the pain found here. Said to bring good fortune and fertility. It opens, clears and aligns all chakras, but has special resonance with the heart and brow chakras. Helps one detach from everyday worries, realizing they are not of true importance. Enhances empathy and compassion. In depth study of this stone is recommended, as only a fraction of the information about it can be presented here.

Mook Jasper, in addition to the properties listed under “Jasper”, encourages versatility. It gives a desire for new experiences and the ability to undertake and enjoy them. It points out options and helps choose the right one.

Moonstone is a “stone of new beginnings” and is strongly connected to the moon and intuition and empathy. It helps one remember that everything is part of the cycle of change. It is extremely calming and soothing emotionally. It enhances emotional intelligence. Moonstone brings unconscious knowledge to the conscious, providing for deep emotional healing. It has largely feminine energy and can be helpful for those needing to work on balancing their nature. It works closely with the solar plexus chakra, and is very helpful with reproductive issues in women.

Moss Agate has the properties of Agate, plus being strongly connected to nature and helping reduce sensitivity to weather and environmental pollutants. It is helpful for midwives to carry while working, lessening pain of birth. It is stone of new beginnings and helps remove that which is holding one back. It is also a stone of abundance. It helps one find a balance between intuition and pragmatism. It improves self esteem and strengthens positive personality traits while releasing fear and deep seated stress. In supports one to “try one more time”. It also promotes communication and self expression while balancing the emotions. It reduces stress and fear, encouraging trust and hope. It is an optimistic stone.

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Noreena Jasper helps to free one from all constraints, whether imposed by self or others. It is helpful with manifesting. In addition for the properties attributed to all Jasper, it can assist one to set the right goals and aid in achieving them. It can protect against psychic attack. It helps one be unnecessarily judgmental while protecting against judgment by others.

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Obsidian is made from rapidly cooled lava. It works very quickly and is very powerful. It mercilessly exposes the truth and exposes flaws to be healed. It impels us to grow and gives solid support in the process. It can be an overwhelming stone to work with, so should be used with care. It is a strongly protective stone and resonates strongly with the root chakra. It is helpful for highly sensitive people, protecting them from being overwhelmed. It is also protects again psychic attack.

Ocho Geode is a small geode that can be used to assist one in victory in respect to recreational games or employment. It encourages one to embrace the “free spirit” while remaining ethical trustworthy. It encourages freedom and innocence. It discourages comparing oneself to others, or buying to a “better than, worse than” philosophy.

Ocean Jasper (Orbicular Jasper) resonates with the heart chakra. Helpful with circular breathing. Helps one accept responsibility, increase patience. Assists in the elimination of toxins that cause disease and body odor.

Onyx provides support in times of stress, giving strength and encouraging one to be master of one’s own destiny. It promotes vigor, steadfastness, and stamina. It encourages self confidence, self control and assists one to keep one’s own counsel and alleviates fears and worries. It can be used to heal old grief and sorrows and assists in absorbing universal energies necessary for healing.

Opal is a very delicate stone, but enhances cosmic consciousness, sometimes resulting in psychic visions. It stimulates originality and dynamic creativity, aiding in expressing oneself. It is helpful with personal transformation, amplifying one’s traits to make them recognizable as desirable or not. It is a seductive stone that can release inhibitions. Opal instills faithfulness and loyalty. It can also enhance memory. Opal is helpful in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.

Orange Calcite resonates with the root, solar plexus and sacral chakras and is energizing. It balances emotions while removing fear and overcomes depression. It also has the properties associated with all Calcite.

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Peridot is a protective stone and a powerful cleanser. It releases and neutralizes toxins on all levels. It opens, cleanses and activates the heart and solar plexus chakras, releasing old baggage. It encourages you to let go of people, things, memories, patterns, actions, coping skills that are no longer serving you and to rely on your own higher energies for guidance. This ‘letting go’ allows one to move forward rapidly towards your now-clear destiny and spiritual purpose. It is particularly helpful for healers. It can also greatly improve difficult relationships.

Picasso Marble (Picasso Stone) assists one in artistic pursuits and enhances creativity. It assists in interpreting intuitive information for practical use. It attracts strength and perseverance and stills disturbing thoughts, helping to alleviate worry. It can reduce anxiety and stress and help with weight loss.

Picture Jasper in addition to the properties listed under Jasper, encourages one to work together for the benefit of the planet. It is supportive of connection with nature and earth. It can also “unearth” hidden thoughts and emotions, assisting one to face the causes of disease or disorder.

Pietersite is a fairly new discovery and reminds us all we are on a spiritual journey. It facilitates spiritual journeying and is a stone of vision. It is helpful during meditation, helping one access a very high state of altered awareness. It stimulates the third eye and pineal gland, helping access intuition. It help free one from blindly accepted untruths and helps see oneself and part of a bigger whole. It helps one follow one’s own truth and heals past hurts from not doing so. It can release one from past vows and promises carried over from previous lives. It supports ones own willpower.

Prehnite is a stone to heal the healer. Opens one up to unconditional love. Helpful with meditation. Enhances intuition, helps you always be prepared. A helpful guide for your spiritual growth. A calming and protective stone. Will help you let go of that which you no longer need. Helps release fears, phobias.

Purple Jasper, in addition to the properties listed under Jasper, stimulates the crown chakra.

Purpurite (Lavenderite) allows one to break out of patterns and roles that are no longer productive. It stimulates the crown chakra and enhances spiritual connected-ness and enlightenment. It assists in communication, allowing one to speak with confidence.

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Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet. It stores and balances energy, excels at unblocking it. It meets you where you are and raises your energy vibration to the highest level possible. Because white light contains every color, clear quartz and work on every level, every chakra. It enhances psychic abilities and helps you find your spiritual path. It filters out distractions while meditating. Aids concentration and memory. It is considered a master healer and can be used for any condition. It stimulates the nervous system. The different shapes of quartz crystal all have meaning- please refer to a book for this information.

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Rainforest Jasper (Rhyolite) helps us realize that we (the earth, the plants, the animals, the minerals) are all in this together, and can awaken a desire to keep it all safe. This can also awaken the desire to better care for one’s own body including moderating intake of food and alcohol and spending time in nature and exercising. This stone resonates with all chakras.

Red Aventurine is a positive stone and attracts prosperity. It turns negative situations into positive ones. It enhances good leadership qualities, including compassion, empathy and perseverance. It can help relieve stammers. It enhances creativity, stimulates perception and stabilizes state of mind, calming anger and irritation. It resonates with the root and sacral chakras and can help with disorders of the reproductive tract. It also resonates with the heart chakra and protects against psychic vampirism of heart energy. It promotes physical well-being.

Red Jasper, in addition to attributes listed under “Jasper”, calms the emotions and brings problems to light before they get to big to handle. It strengthens one’s boundaries. It stimulates the root chakra.

Red Tiger’s Eye in addition to the properties listed under Tiger’s Eye, is an energizing stone. It can help stimulate a slow metabolism or slow libido, and aid in motivation.

Rhodochrosite is a “stone of love”, including love of self and selfless love of others. It combines spiritual with physical energies, and opens the way for compassion. It teaches the heart to assimilate painful feelings without shutting down and removes denial. It is considered an excellent stone for people healing from sexual abuse. It gently and slowly brings up repressed feelings to the surface, allowing them to be dealt with and released. It clears the solar plexus and base chakras, while balancing and opening the heart chakra. It insists that you face the truth with loving awareness. People with an aversion to the stone generally have something within themselves they do not want to be aware of. It does everything with gentleness and love.

Rhodonite is a heart chakra stone, a stone of love, a stone that encourages the love of all and the connection between all humanity. It is a grounding stone that balances emotions, and aid’s in achieving one’s highest potential. In a “first aid” capacity, it heals emotional shock and panic, and is exceptionally helpful in cases of self-destruction, abuse or codependency. It brings up and clears old festering wounds, allowing one to heal and move forward and forgive. It also promotes unselfish self love. It helps one remain calm in upsetting situations and realize that revenge is self destructive.

Rose Quartz is a stone of unconditional love. It is one of the most important heart chakra stones and teaches the true essence of love. It encourages deep inner healing and self love. It is calming and reassuring, and helpful in the time of crisis. It gently draws off negative energy and replaces it with loving energy. It also brings acceptance of necessary change. It is an excellent emotional healer and teaches us each how to truly love ourselves.

Rubellite Tourmaline cleanses and purifies energy, transforming it to a higher vibration. It is also very grounding, and forms a protective shield around the body. It promotes self confidence and releases fear. It helps one move past being a victim and encourages inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. It strengthens the ability to understand love and encourages tact. It heals and activates the heart and sacral chakra. It increases creativity and endurance and balances aggression with over passivity.

Ruby is an energetic stone, imparting vigor to life. It encourages a positive passion for life, “following your bliss” and helps one set realistic but challenging goals. It improves motivation and overcome exhaustion while calming hyperactivity. Ruby stimulates the heart chakra and balances the heart. It also protects against psychic attack. It is also a stone of abundance.

Ruby w/Zoisite activates the crown chakra and helps one attain an altered state of consciousness to facilitate spiritual learning. It can be very helpful in past life work and soul healing. It promotes individuality while helping one understand one’s interconnectedness with humanity. Amplifies the biomagnetic field around the body.

Rutilated Quartz integrates energy at any level, heightening the energetic impulse of Quartz. It is a very efficient vibrational healer. It promotes spiritual growth and cleanses and energizes the aura. It aids in astral travel, scrying and channeling. It draws off negative energy and protects again psychic attack. It is a useful protectant for anyone dealing with negative people. It is helpful in past life healing and reaching to the root of problems for healing. It soothes dark moods and lifts them while relieving fears, phobias and anxiety. It counters self-hatred and encourages forgiveness on all levels.

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Seraphinite is a stone of spiritual enlightenment. It helps one accept self healing. It helps open the crown and higher crown chakras. It also works with the brow chakra, assisting in meditation, and cleanses the heart chakra, opening one to love. It raises the spiritual energy vibration, making is helpful with journeying and it also protects the body while you are “away”. It is helpful with identifying the next step in your journey. Physically, it can help with weight loss.

Serpentine aids with meditation and spiritual exploration. It clears all chakras but opens the Crown chakra. It enhances psychic abilities and assists in the movement of Kundalini energy. Serpentine helps one feel more in control of one’s life and balances mind and emotion.

Silver is a mineral that brings you “the advantage”, This can manifest socially or in communication. Helps one view oneself honestly to see areas to grow. Provides a very strong connection between the physical and astral bodies, assuring that one will not “get lost” on astral travels. It is known to enhance the powers of the moon. It directs the energy of other minerals to the appropriate location.

Smithsonite is a stone of tranquility, charm, kindness and favorable outcomes. It is quite gentle and forms a buffer against life’s troubles. It is an excellent stone for releasing extreme stress gently that might harm a person if released harshly. It heals the inner child of the effects of neglect or abuse. It aligns the chakra and strengthens psychic abilities. Supports leadership and tact. It imparts harmony.

Sodalite fuses logic with intuition, making spiritual information more accessible. Stimulates the third eye chakra and deepens meditation. It encourages you to remain true to yourself and stand up for what you believe. Placing Sodalite on your computer will protect you from negative emanations. When used with a group, Sodalite encourages harmony and solidarity of purpose while stimulating trust and companionship. It eliminates mental confusion and encourages rational thought. It calms panic attacks while bringing about emotional balance. It also opens the mind, allowing for new ideas and ways of thinking. It can transform a defensive or over-sensitive personality, releasing the old negativity that created the problem in the first place. It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust.

Smokey Quartz is an excellent grounding and protective stone while at the same time raising one’s energy vibration. It is linked strongly with the root chakra. It is an excellent antidote for stress. It transforms negativity of all kinds into a positive vibe. It teaches one how to leave behind that which no longer serves you. It relieves fear, lifts depression and brings emotional calmness, dissolving negative emotions. It aid acceptance of the physical body and sexual nature. Because it is naturally irradiated, it is an excellent stone for support during chemotherapy or radiations sickness. One should be aware of dark, non transparent Smokey Quartz, however- it has often been artificially treated.

Snowflake Obsidian calm and soothes, helping you to recognize ingrained patterns of behavior. It teaches how to value mistakes as well as successes. It is stone of purity, and balances the body, mind and spirit. It helps one be less emotional, when emotion is getting in the way. It teaches how to utilize isolation and loneliness, rather than renouncing it. All attributes of Obsidian also pertain to Snowflake Obsidian.

Stichtite is a natural alteration of serpentine and brings a calming presence into it’s environment. It promotes “thinking with love”. It supports the movement of Kundalini energy and provides for emotional awareness. It encourages flexibility and openness in opinions and following through on promises. It eases loneliness and assists one with gentleness for self and others.

Sugilite is a major “love stone”, opening all the chakras to a flow of love and inspiring spiritual awareness. It helps the soul remember its reason for incarnating and to live from that truth. It assist moving into past lives to heal that which still needs healing, and aids forgiveness (including self forgiveness). Sugalite helps one discover identity and purpose. It protects the soul from trauma and negative experiences, helping to alleviate grief and fear. For those sensitive to the energies around them, Sugilite helps them to not get mired down and despondent. It aids understanding the effect of thoughts/beliefs on physical health. For those with disorders of the mind- paranoia, schizophrenia, autism, learning disorders- it helps ground the soul more firmly into present reality and reorganize brain patterns to flow more smoothly. It also aids those who feel the earth is not their home. The unique properties of Sugilite can benefit cancer suffers, as it releases emotional turmoil, alleviates despair, and helps control pain.

Sunstone is a joyful stone, and as the name implies, seems to be full of light. It instills joy of life, happiness. It also enhances intuition. It clears all chakras and fills them with light. Useful from removing “hooks” from other people. It encourages self empowerment, independence and vitality and helps overcome codependency. It acts as an anti-depressant, and it is exceptionally helpful for Seasons Affective Disorder. It always shows the good side of any situation, combating negativity and pessimism. It lightens and brightens everything.

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Tangerine Quartz is helpful with shock or trauma on a physical or soul level. It can also help with soul retrieval and integration, or past life healing. It can help you move through a limited belief system to a higher vibrational state/belief. It can enhance sexuality and creativity. Tangerine quartz helps one connect with the universe and humanity, and abates unhealthy fears. It can assist one in being “up to” a necessary change. Tangerine quartz has all the properties of Quartz, with extra emphasis on the Sacral Chakra.

Tiffany Stone activates and balances the third-eye chakra and helps with transitions. Helps remove energy flow blockages. A subtle stone, it helps with communication issues of all kinds, including sixth sense. It also helps one verbalize feelings that you have not been aware of. It can help with success in business. It is also known to help boost the libido. This highly energetic stone is a powerful all-around healer.

Tiger’s Eye brings together the energies of the earth with the high vibration of spirit. It enhances psychic energy in earthy people while balancing the root, sacral and solar plexus chakras. It is a protective stone that encourages integrity. It assists one is recognizing goals and achieving them. It is helpful for resolving dilemmas and internal conflicts, especially those brought on by pride or willfulness. It unblocks creativity and stifles self criticism, encouraging feelings of self-worth. It helps one recognize faults that need to be overcome, but also talents and abilities to be proud of. It alleviates depression, lifts moods, and supports an addictive personality to make changes.

Tiger Iron is a combination of Jasper, Hematite, and Tiger’s Eye. It enhances vitality, while assisting one to move through changes in a healthy way. It points out pragmatic, simple solutions. It is helpful for anyone who is deeply exhausted. It also brings out creativity and artistic talent. If there is danger, Tiger Iron with help one find a refuge. It is a very grounding stone, and resonates with the root, sacral and solar plexus chakras.

Topaz is a mellow, empathic stone. It is soothing and healing while it also recharges and stimulates the body. It is a motivating stone and promotes truth and forgiveness. It encourages one to trust in the Universe while teaching one to “be” rather than having to “do”. Topaz brings joy, generosity and abundance, while encouraging love. It helps with manifestation and cleanses the aura while releasing tension at any level. It enhances confidence and aids problem solving.

Tourmalinated Quartz combines the properties of Black Tourmaline and Quartz making it an exceptional stone for grounding and protection while still raising the energy vibration. It turns negative thoughts and energies into positive ones. Helps integrate and heal shadow energies and alleviate self-sabotage.

Tree Agate is considered a centering stone that allows for a deeper connection with the earth. It is also a stone if introspection. It will allow for a more objective view of the world, allowing for more clarity of observation. Tree agate also has the properties listed under “Agate”.

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Unakite promotes psychic vision and grounding after. It has a calm, gentle energy that will pervade the environment it is in. It is a stone that promotes moving forward by gently bringing up and releasing conditions, in this life or the past, which are holding one back. It heals at the source of the issue.

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Winter Agate is a stone of abundance, bringing fullness to all areas of life. It helps one enjoy the moment, bring peace inside and out. Winter Agate deepens one’s connection with the plant kingdom and earth. It brings stability and helps one remain centered amidst chaos. It also lends perseverance and the ability to see difficulties as challenges. Opens and aligns all chakras. It is, however, a stone that works slowly and must be worn continuously for quite a period of time. It also has attributes found under Agate.

Wonderstone Jasper is helpful in eliminating and recognizing the futility of worry. It also helps one determine the appropriate action. It increases ones feeling of well-being, and often eliminates distress and depression. It stimulates the imagination and increases ones faith in intuitive energies. All Jasper is know as the “Supreme Nurturer”, very grounding.

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Yellow Calcite stimulates the will and is very uplifting. It enhances meditations and helps one link to the highest source of spiritual guidance. Links with crown and solar plexus chakras. See also Calcite.

Yellow Jasper, like all Jaspers, is very nurturing and grounding. It is very helpful in times of stress. It encourages honesty with oneself and quick thinking, transforming ideas into action. It protects during spiritual work and physical travel. It channels positive energy, making one feel better. It resonates with the solar plexus chakra.

posted May 01, 2008 02:07 PM              

I hope everything is ok, whatever you may be doing, wherever you are. Ask Silverstone for my email address if you want to.

Sending you love.

posted December 06, 2021 05:42 PM            

As of late I've been loving my experience with ruby, pink kunzite (brings me the serenity of icy mountains), amethyst (can't go wrong with this one), green quartz and green tourmaline.

Getting on the vibration resonance with my moldavite and aquamarine has been more difficult than I thought. But I'm warming up to them. I get this alien vibe from both of them.👽

I think I overdosed on black tourmaline and red garnet over the past weeks, but I sure miss them!

posted December 13, 2021 04:43 PM            

I don't wear it personally makes my skin feel too hot. I think it helps blood circulation too.

posted January 24, 2022 05:07 PM            

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"Sodalite fuses logic with intuition, making spiritual information more accessible. Stimulates the third eye chakra and deepens meditation. It encourages you to remain true to yourself and stand up for what you believe. Placing Sodalite on your computer will protect you from negative emanations. When used with a group, Sodalite encourages harmony and solidarity of purpose while stimulating trust and companionship. It eliminates mental confusion and....”

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I'm Virgo,i have black tourmaline and eye of tiger gemstones,are these suit to my zodiac and if i will cleanse them with water and salt and then charge in sun for several hours,it will work fine?