Crystal Descriptions
Agate
Agate's most noticeable properties overall are balancing, grounding, protection and calming.
Agate enhances creativity and strengthens the intellect, making it a beneficial stone for both students and artists. It is also known as a good luck stone. Agate is said to increase energy in bursts when required. In this way, agate is a conservation stone, and can enhance longevity.
Agate is a very protective stone.
It is especially protective for children.
Emotionally, agate gives courage, strength, self-confidence, and is said to dispel fear. These qualities make agate superior for easing anxiety and stress.
Physically, agate is particularly helpful with tooth and gum issues, stomach problems, physical endurance and insomnia.
Amethyst
Powerful & protective stone. High spiritual vibration. Guards against psychic attack transmuting the energy to love. Natural Tranquiliser - blocks negative energies. Aids overcoming addictions and blockages. Opens to another reality at higher level. Calms or stimulates mind as appropriate. Brings focus. Balances out highs & lows, centres emotions. Promotes love of the divine, encourages selflessness & spiritual wisdom.
Angelite
Angelite is a stone of heightened awareness, with special focus on peace. It gives protection in the environment around your body. Promotes compassion and understanding. Helps you speak the truth when its difficult. Alleviates psychological pain. Increases telepathy and facilitates contact with angels.
Artistic Jasper
A unique form of Jasper. Helps protect and nurture against negativity. Good for grounding and protection.
Aventurine
Also known as the “stone of heaven” or “Indian jade,” As a power stone Aventurine is excellent for attracting abundance and wealth. This is the stone of opportunity. Aventurine is known as the stone of chance or luck. It is also considered an all purpose healing stone, especially back problems. Another potent stone for relieving stress, anxiety, and emotional discomfort. Good career stone for those in stressful situations at work.
Black Agate
Attracts good fortune. Increases concentration and clarity. Promotes good will. Aids in overcoming flaws, fears, and loneliness. Has a calming effect during times of stress. Gives a sense of strength and courage. Encourages fertility. Powerful healer. Black Agate is used for Protection, Courage and Success. Agate protects new life and therefore it's excellent stone during pregnancy.
Black Obsidian
Is a very powerful and creative stone. It grounds the soul and spiritual forces into the physical plane, bring them under the direction of the conscious will and make it possible to manifest spiritual energies on earth. Black Obsidian forces facing up to one’s true self, taking you deep into the subconscious mind in the process. Black Obsidian is protective. It repels negativity and disperses unloving thoughts. It facilitates the release of old loves and provides support during change.
Black Tourmaline
Black tourmaline's particular function is to repel negative energy. This can refer both to external energies or inner emotions, such as anger, resentment, or jealousy. It is a very good stone to carry when you're experiencing any kind of stress.
Bloodstone
Carrying bloodstone calms and relaxes, aids meditation and helps to clear the mind. An intense healing stone and stone of courage. Helps to revitalise love, relationships and friendships.
Blue Agate
Agate is said to bring happiness and prosperity. Dyed blue, agates are regarded as powerful stones said to calm and soothe.
Blue Lace
Can help one to reach extremely high spiritual places. It contains the qualities of flight, air, movement and grace. It is a highly inspirational influence when used for inner attunement. Helps soothe anger hidden under grief or sadness under anger
Blue Obsidian
Man made. Its function is communication and creativity. Helps with speech and communication areas of the brain.
Breciated Jasper
Known as the supreme nurturer, it is a good balancing stone, stabilizing the aura and providing a cleansing effect to smooth dysfunctional energies and eliminate negativity. Jasper was often worn for protection, and allows one to celebrate situations of isolation.
Carnelian
High energy stabling stone which grounds you in the present. Removes fear of death. Helps to overcome abuse. Give courage, motivation and promotes positive life choices. Protects against envy, resentment and rage. Stimulates the metabolism.
Chrysocolla
Purifies the home and environment, promotes harmony, and can work to eliminate negativity from within a person. It imparts an energy conducive to stabilizing the home and re-building relationships. . For peace and patience. Also good for blood sugar levels. Very good pain reliever. Gentle and soothing Use to cleanse the aura.
Citrine
Citrine attracts wealth, prosperity and success. It energises every level of life. It cleanses the chakras and opens the intuition. Raises self-esteem and self-confidence. Citrine promotes motivation, activates creativity and encourages self-expression. Enhances concentration and revitalises the mind. It helps release depression and phobias. Stimulates digestion. It helps eye problems, increases blood circulation, detoxifies the blood and balances the Thyroid.
Clear Quartz
Clear Quartz is a power stone. It enhances ones energy. Its a stone of clarity which dispels negativity. Quartz is a very protective crystal. Quartz enhances spiritual growth, spirituality and wisdom. It helps increase inspiration and creativity. It also helps with concentration and study. Known as a stone of harmony because it balances energies, and helpful in romantic relationships.
Dalmation Jasper
Gives protection from nightmares and increases ones’ patience. Natural Healers use Jaspers for Protection, to nurture and protect against negativity. Dalmatian Jasper is just the stone you need when you want a pick-me-up. Jasper helps us release our tendencies to over think or over analyze things.
Dendritic Agate
Dendritic agate is whitish-grey with fern-like inclusions known as dendrites. It encourages abundance and fullness in ones life.
Fancy Jasper
Fancy Jasper helps one focus their mind and energies on tedious tasks. It is a grounding stone and a slow but steady healer. It helps one "just deal with it" with humour, prevents procrastination, and calms a worried or fearful overactive imagination. It sharpens the mind and is very good for intense mental work that needs done. It brings discipline and perseverance. Excellent for depression.
Flourite
Fluorite is highly protective and prevents psychic manipulation. It also protects against 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.
Garnet
Stone of prosperity. Cleanses and re-energizes the chakras. Activates base chakra, initiates Kundalini flow. Inspires love and devotion. Asks you to remember who you truly are and believe in your worth and believe in abundance
Howlite
Stimulate endocrine system; improve blood circulation;aid in meditation. Relieves insomnia, balances calcium levels, strengthens teeth and bones. Relieves stress of all kinds.
Jade
Known as a 'dream stone' and 'stone of fidelity'. It improves ones' remembering of dreams and assists in 'dream solving'. Used to release suppressed emotions during dreamtime. Assists in accessing the spiritual world.
Jasper
Good during times of stress aids achieving tranquility and wholeness. Balance Yin and Yang. Aligns Physical, Emotional and Mental bodies with etheric realm. Helps clear electromagnetic and environmental pollution. Supports circulatory, digestive, and sexual organs.
Labradorite
Protective stone Bringer of Light. Raises consciousness and connects with Universal energies. Deflects unwanted energies. Forms a barrier to negative energy. Calms an overactive mind. Energizes the imagination brings new ideas. Strengthens faith in self and trust in the Universe. A stone of transformation.
Lapis Lazuli
Strengthens skeletal system. Expands awareness and intellect and enhances psychic abilities. Promotes peace of mind. A protective stone, which helps to overcome depression and encourages creative expression. Third eye and Throat Chakras.
Larimar
A powerful healing stone, Larimar is finely tuned with the human body. Bestowing wonderful, some would say, magical benefits to the wearer. Speech, communication and the body's natural healing processes are all enhanced.
Leopard Skin Jasper
Helps draw into your life whatever you need for physical healing. By magnetically charging the areas of your aura that reflect your true needs, Leopardskin Jasper helps you attract whatever is required to fulfil them. If used long enough, it will strengthen and fine-tune your body's overall regulatory mechanism, increasing your personal magnetism and individuality. Leopardskin Jasper also assists people who constantly invite disharmony into their lives by helping them to attract forces of harmony and to repel forces of disharmony.
Magnetite Turquoise
Magnetite used in many ways. It can align the chakras, and balance yin/yang energies. It is used to lessen or dispel grief, fear, anger, and confusion. Magnetite has a receptive, attracting energy that attracts power, as well as good fortune, and love. It is said to strengthen the circulatory system, help with healing blood and bleeding problems, alleviate pain, boost the immune system, relieve agitation and depression. Turquoise can help promote honest and clear communication from the heart. It is also said to protect against pollution in the environment, and to bring abundance. Turquoise can also help speed the healing process, and is known as a master healer stone. It is very powerful for grounding and protection also.
Mookaite
Like all Jaspers, Mookaite provides protection from negativity. It shields one from danger, and helps one to accept change as an opportunity for adventure and growth.
Moss Agate
A stone of new beginnings and helps remove that which is holding one back. It is also a stone of abundance. It improves self esteem and strengthen positive personality traits while releasing fear and deep seated stress. It also promotes communicationa nd self expression whilst balancing emotions. It reduces stress and fear, encouraging trust and hope. It is an optimistic stone.
Peridot
This stone is a powerful cleanser. Releasing and neutralizing toxins on all levels, it purifies the subtle and physical bodies and the mind. This stone releases negative patterns and old vibrations so that a new frequency can be accessed. Peridot assists you to move forward rapidly. Psychologically, Peridot alleviates jealousy, resentment, spite and anger, and reduces stress. It enhances confidence and assertion without aggression. Mentally, Peridot sharpens the mind and opens it to new levels of awareness.
Rhodanite
Rhodonite is a stone of grace and elegance. It decreases anxiety while increasing attention to detail. It opens the heart to unconditional love. It is also a calming stone.
Rhodochrosite
A stone of love and balance for all bodies. It emits the power of love and heavenly energies and assists in creating new worlds of love and dreams for the user. Can balance the emotions. Used for earth and personal healing.
Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz, opens the heart chakra to ALL FORMS OF LOVE: self-love, family love, platonic love, and romantic love. Rose quartz has excellent protection energies. Its an excellent emotional healer. The elevated energy of quartz gives rose quartz a property of enhancing love. It also brings gentleness, forgiveness, and tolerance. Rose quartz is also said to be helpful with weight loss.
Ruby Ziosite
The zoisite and ruby combination is quite magical. It can create altered states of awareness. All of the psychic abilities can be stimulated and amplified by using these energies. Used by healers in Asia.
Selenite
Assists in grounding white light into the physical body. Can be used for cleansing, clearing auras, energy and crystals.GREAT for meditation as it aids in concentration and clarity.
Smoky Quartz
Smoky Quartz is one of the most efficient grounding and anchoring stones and at the same time raises vibrations during meditation. Psychologically Smoky Quartz relieves fear, lifts depression, and brings emotional calmness. Mentally, Smoky Quartz promotes positive, pragmatic though and can be used in scrying to give clear insight and to neutralize fear of failure.
Sodalite
Unites logic & intuition and opens spiritual perception. Helps one be true to oneself. Stimulates the Third Eye. Brings harmony and solidarity to groups. Calms the mind. Clears mental confusion encourages rational thought, objectivity and truth
Tiger Iron
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 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.
Tiger's Eye
Balance between extremes, discernment, vitality, strength, practicality, fairness. Assists in balancing the physical & spiritual. Can bring harmony within families. Assist in making choices based on discernment not judgement. Chakras - Root, Sacral and Solar Plexus.
Turquoise
Turquoise is protective and a very sacred stone used for centuries by the Native American's as a healing stone. It promotes spiritual attunement, assists one to remain grounded. This is a stone of peace, serenity and tranquility. Increases meditation energy, wisdom, communication, strength, friendship and love. Shields the wearer from harmful influences, attracts friendship. Beneficial for the entire body, especially the respiratory and immune systems. Assists nervousness in speech.