Agate
A soothing calming stone which helps bring about balance and harmony. Psychologically it helps provide self acceptance, and confidence in self. Emotionally Agate helps heal heartache and anger, and provides courage to be accepting and open to start again.
Agate can come in varying colours, each colour has additional properties:
Green – enhances emotional and metal flexibility.
Pink – Promotes love between a parent and a child.
Amazonite
This beautiful blue, green stone is associated with the heart and throat chakras. It clears negative energies and encourages open communications. It also provides protection from electromagnetic fields, such as microwaves computers and mobile phones.
Amber
Is golden brown or yellow in colour. It is not strictly a stone: it is fossilised tree resin. As well as being a powerful chakra cleanser, it also great at absorbing negative energy and pain. I found it useful pain relief when my daughter was teething (she wore an amber bracelet). If you are going to use amber for a child in bracelet or necklace form, the mother should wear it first. Also ensure the bracelet or necklace is unbreakable and the small parts cannot be swallowed.
Amethyst
Is purple in colour and is one of the most powerful crystals. It has a high spiritual vibration, and can provide protection against spiritual attack. It is a great stone for meditation as it helps you focus and leads you to a deeper understanding. Amethyst helps heal addictions of all kinds. If you are having sleep problems place an amethyst under your pillow to ward off nightmares, and enhance intuitive dreams.
Amethyst comes in slightly varying colours each with additional properties.
Violet/Lavender – Stimulates and calms the throat and heart chakras.
Chevron Amethyst - has a very high psychic vibration. It stimulates the third eye and enhances psychic vision.
Amertrine
A cross between amethyst and citrine, this powerful crystal is popular for healing due to its fast acting quality. Not only does it combine the power of amethyst and citrine, it has powerful cleansing properties which remove negativity from the aura. It is useful for treating depression and tension headaches.
Aventurine
Is considered a lucky stone of prosperity. It reinforces leadership qualities and promotes career success. Pop one in your pocket whenever you need the help of lady luck. Has a stabilising effect on emotions, a useful stone for teenagers.
Aventurine comes in varying colours with additional properties.
Blue – a powerful mental healer, which assists with power and emotional strength.
Green – Heart chakra stone, which brings great comfort
Carnelian
Is a stabilising stone, which often comes in red or brown. It is brilliant for stimulating the base chakra, and female reproductive organs. Psychologically, it can help an insecure person to find their own inner strength as well as guarding against envy and rage. It banishes negativity and replaces it with love.
Citrine
Is a member of the quartz family and often comes in yellow or golden colour. It is known as a luck stone that attracts abundance and wealth. If you work in any type of sales carry a citrine with you or pop one in your cash draw. Alternatively, place one in the wealth corner of your home or office, which is the corner, which is the left corner farthest from the door.
Fluorite
Comes in a range of colours, clear, green, purple, yellow and brown. Often all the colours occur in one stone. Fluorite is highly protective on a psychic level and helps to absorb and neutralise negative energies. It is a great stone to have around when studying or working, as it aids concentration and helps you absorb information effectively.
Hematite
Is an affective grounding stone. It is a shiny grey/black when polished. Unpolished it can be red/black. Hematite is a very strong stone and can help boost self-esteem. It is thought to be good for blood conditions such as anaemia; however, it can cause inflammation if worn for long periods.
Jade
Jade is associated with the heart chakra and helps individuals develop a greater capacity for love
Healing properties common to all colours of Jade include ability to mellow one's existence, rid negative thoughts and energy, soothe the mind making tasks seem easier and less complicated. Can come in various colours: blue, blue –green, green, lavender, white and yellow. The most common colour is green.
Green Jade is said to be calming to the nervous system, representative of life or growth, help channel passions in a constructive way.
Lavender Jade: is said to be in touch with the emotions, beneficial to people who have been hurt by love or need to discover the gentleness within themselves, help learn restraint and subtlety in matters of emotional importance.
Red Jade: is said to be a passionate and active stone, it has been associated with many things from love, to anger, to madness - can make the wearer become agitated and feel the need to express anger - thereby helping to extract these feelings and come to terms with them, used to blow off steam, release tension, rid the mind/spirit of energies that if ignored too long can grow and become unmanageable.
White or Cream Jade: is said to help direct energies to their most advantageous outlet, help filter out distractions and aid in solution oriented thinking - some healers recommend White Jade for the eyes.
Yellow Jade: is said to be stimulating and energetic with warmth which adds a mellowness. In tune with the sun, it is said to impart joy and happiness, teach interconnectedness of all beings, help organs that process food and waste in our bodies.
Jasper
Jasper is a calming stone, which provides nurturing in times of stress. It is a protective stone, which absorbs negative energy. Jasper also provides courage, aids quick-thinking and promotes organisational abilities. Jasper stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into action.
In addition to the generic healing properties of Jasper, specific colours and forms have additional attributes:
Green - is a stone of balance that heals and releases disease and obsession. It boosts the immune system and detoxifies all the body’s systems. Green Jasper treats skin disorders and dispels bloating. It heals ailments of the upper torso, the digestive tract, and the purifying organs.
Red - Jasper is gently stimulating and also an extremely protective stone. It can neutralise radiation and other forms of environmental and electromagnetic pollution. Red Jasper rectifies unjust situations and grounds energy. It brings problems to light and provides insights into difficult situations. Red Jasper calms the emotions, aids in dream recall. Cleans and stabilises the aura. A stone of health, Red Jasper strengthens and detoxifies the circulatory system, blood and liver.
Malachite
The malachite stone is an excellent stone for the heart charka. It also is a powerful stone for stimulating the physical and the psychic visions. It will help you to concentrate, and it can assist you in releasing anger and depression, while restoring a sense of peacefulness. And is good for healing emotional pains. Malachite is also a powerful travel protection gemstone for Travel by Air. It is said to protect the travellers from accidents.
Mookaite
Is Australian Jasper, it is made up of many beautiful colours, from earthy reds and browns, yellow and creams. It is a balancing stone, which provides a sense of calm and a need for adventure at the same time. A very good at providing emotional protection, and is a useful stone for meditation.
Lapis Lazuli
Is deep blue in colour and flecked with gold. It is a crystal I am always drawn to for some reason. I am not sure why but I am a believer that a crystal chooses you. It is related to the throat chakra, and helps open the throat to release repressed communications.
Obsidian
Obsidian is a fast acting crystal which has truth enhancing properties. It needs to be handled with care as it can bring negative emotions and unpleasant truth rushing to the surface fast. It brings about emotional clarity, helps us grow, and supports us while we do so. It comes in blacks and brown-reds.
Snowflake Obsidian - Black and white, it is very calming and teaches you to value mistakes as well as successes.
Quartz
Is considered the master healer, and is considered and essential stone by many crystal healers. Quartz dispels and clears negative energies. When used it for meditation quartz it helps filter out distractions. It is associated with the crown chakra however, it can be used to enhance and balance all chakras.
Specific colours have additional healing benefits
Rose Quartz - Is the stone of unconditional love. It opens the heart chakra to any kind of love, self-love, and family love, plutonic and romantic love. It helps balance emotions and brings about forgiveness, compassion, and tolerance. If you are looking for love wear one of these close to your heart, or beside your bed.
Smokey Quartz - Has a brown or yellow hue and is a very efficient grounding stone. Physically it is effective for ailments of the hips abdomen and legs. Emotionally, smoky quartz is helpful for elevating moods and lifting depression.
Unakite
Is usually green and pink mottled looking. It is a stone of vision, as it helps open the third eye. It is useful after meditation or psychic work for grounding.
- Reference Hall J, The Crystal Bible Volume 1 (2009).
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