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Abalone
Abalone is a shell from the family that includes clams, scallops, and others. Abalone is purported to be especially useful for handling and calming emotional situations, and be very soothing to the emotions. Having abalone nearby when working through an emotional situation with someone is said to be beneficial, and to promote cooperation. Abalone is reported by intuitive sources to stimulates psychic development and intuition, and promotes imagination in a healthy way. Abalone is associated with the first three chakras. Mystical Lore and Folklore says that abalone is helpful for arthritis and other joint disorders, muscle problems, the heart, and digestion.
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Adventurine (Aventurine)
A good luck stone, especially in financial matters. Stimulates creativity, intelligence and perception. A great healing stone, it gives a sense of mental and emotional well-being.
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Aegerine
Aegerine is a high energy stone that is often used for energizing. It is said to protect against psychic attacks and negative energy. Emotionally, it is used in energy healingl for broken relationships, eliminating group pressure, and strengthening self-acceptance. It is said to help build self-esteem, self-sufficiency, and helps follow your heart. Aegerine is associated with the root and solar plexus chakras. Mystical and spiritual healing lore indicates that aegerine is excellent for the immune system, making it great for general healing and helping the body heal itself.
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Agate (General, All Types)
Agate is noted in the metaphysical world to be a good protective energy stone, especially for children, and very calming and soothing. It is also said to help strengthen the body's connection to the earth. It is reported to mystically give courage, energy, strength, and dispels fears, all of which increase self-confidence. It is said to lessen feelings of envy by grounding the emotions. Agate is also used in crystal emotional healing for resolving bitterness and resentments. It is also called and believed to be a stone of harmony. These two factors makes it a stone that's said to help improve and harmonize relationships. Also, by bringing the elements of one's being into harmony it greatly enhances healing. Agate also enhances creativity and stimulates the intellect. Agate is considered a stone that brings good luck. It works with chakras according to stone color. Agate is said to help with issues of the teeth and gums.
Rock Lore & Tidbits: Agate is a variety of chalcedony which is a microcrystalline quartz. Agate is a more translucent microcrystalline quartz and technically is striped, though many stones named agates are not striped, whereas jasper is more opaque. There are many, many different types of agates in many different color combinations, and they are found all over the world. Different types are known for different appearances and/or properties. The ones shown on the left are natural Brazilian agate.
Agate is so popular and so widespread that it is the state gemstone (or stone) of a number of US states: fortification agate (red, black, yellow bands), Kentucky; agate, Louisiana and Montana, Tennessee (state stone); Lake Superior agate, Minnesota; blue agate, Nebraska; Fairburn agate, South Dakota; prairie agate, Nebraska (state stone); fire agate, Arizona.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Protection, Strength, Harmony
Agate's most noticable properties overall are balancing yin/yang energy, courage, protection, healing, and calming. Historically it was placed in water for cooking or drinking to dispel sickness. The Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore of any specific type of agate depend to some extent on the color of the agate, but all agates have certain things in common.
Agate is a stone of strength. It was used by the Ancients on the breastplates of armor to give warriors strength and make them victorious in battle. Energetically, it is considered to give strength in both battle and physically.
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. As a stone of harmony, one of the things agate does is balance yin/yang energy. Agate increases energy. However, because it is a grounding stone, it does not increase energy at all times, but rather enables bursts of energy as needed. In this way, agate is a conservation stone, and enhances longevity.
Agate is a very protective stone. It is especially protective for children, and makes an excellent stone for children's amulets, medicine bags, jewelry, or just to carry around in a pocket. Agates are said to be especially useful for protecting children from falling.
Emotionally, agate gives courage, emotional strength, self-confidence, and dispels fears. It can also lessen feelings of envy by grounding the emotions. In the same way, it assists with acceptance of all things. It can be very beneficial for self-examination as well as examination of the circumstances one finds oneself in. These qualities make agate superior for easing anxiety and stress. Particularly when placed on the Solar Plexus (3rd) Chakra, it can help one to accept one's emotions, thereby helping overcome those emotions that one wants to remove.
Because of the harmonizing qualities of agate, and its emotional energies of removing and releasing resentments and bitterness, it is also considered by many to be an excellent stone for helping to heal and improve relationships.
Agate can cleanse and stabilize the aura by removing and/or transforming negative energy.
As far as relationships go, agate is a stone of marital and romantic fidelity.
Agate can strengthen the body and the body's connection to the earth. It also increases energy. Agate enhances healing of all kinds by bringing the elements of the healee into harmony. Physically, agate is particularly helpful with tooth and gum issues, stomach problems, physical endurance, insomnia.
Chakras: All agates can remove blockages from any chakra. Agate also relates to specific chakras according to the stone color.
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Agate Eyes
Agate Eyes are eye-like patterns/formations of agate. They are often used as charms against the evil eye, envy, and protection from black magic. They also have all the metaphysical qualities of agate.
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Agate, Blue Lace
Blue lace agate is a gentle, calming stone that engenders tranquility. In metaphysical lore it is said to assist in flight, grace, reaching higher Spiritual planes, communicating with angels and activating the throat chakra. It is also said to ease the harsh edge off communication in difficult times, enhance public speaking, and smooth discussions. It is an inspiring stone that can assist in inner attunement, and has been used to perform miracles according to mystical lore. As with all agates, it is said to be a protective stone. Physically, in crystal healing, it has been used to aid with arthritis, headaches, colic, digestive issues, growth, throat, immune system, skin especially eczema, and bones. Blue lace agate is related to the element of Air.
Alternate Names & Name Spellings: "Gem of Ecology", Blue Chalcedony Lace
Chemical Composition: SiO2
Hardness (Mohs): 7
Color(s): Light Blue with Delicate White Striping
Lustre: Vitreous
Transparency: Opaque to Translucent
Habit: Trigonal
Description: Microcrystalline variety of chalcedony, Lacy Looking
Common Locations: Namibia, South Africa
Rock Lore & Tidbits: George Swanson discovered blue lace agate on his farm, Ysterputs Farm, in Namibia, which was called South West Africa at the time. He coined the term "Gem of Ecology" for it because of the swirling blues and whites which resemble clouds above the Earth (the fragile blue marble) as seen from space. The best blue lace agate in the world still comes from the narrow seam on George's farm.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Blue lace agate is a gentle, calming stone that engenders tranquility. Blue lace agate brings with this calm and tranquility a lessening of anger, even deep anger issues, and a calming of nervousness.
Spiritually, blue lace agate assists in flight, grace, reaching higher Spiritual planes, communicating with angels and activates the throat chakra. It can help bring stronger intuition and inner knowing. Inspiration is another hallmark of blue lace agate and that can assist in inner attunement, and has been said to be useful for performing miracles.
Blue lace agate is considered a stone of communication. It can ease the harsh edge off communication in difficult times, enhance public speaking, and smooth discussions. It also brings tactfulness to speech and written communications. Blue lace agate is used in crystal healing to reduce or cure stuttering and other nervous speech habits and patterns.
As with all agates, Blue lace agate is a protective stone. Its protective energies are more gentle and subtle than some stones, but it is effective nonetheless. It can be particularly effective when calling upon angels for protection.
In the crystal healing realm, blue lace agate has been used to aid with arthritis, headaches, colic, digestive issues, growth, throat, skin especially eczema, and bones.
Blue lace agate is related to the element of Air, the throat chakra, and the zodiac sign Pisces.
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Agate, Botswana (Pink Botswana Agate, Gray Botswana Agate)
Botswana agate is sometimes called the "change stone" because of its mystical property of helping one handle change in a positive way. It is said to gently help one make transitions of any kind in a way that change is not as difficult or painful as could be without it; it is a comforting stone. Carrying a bit of Botswana agate in your pocket is said to help one cope easily with the minor changes that life throws at us daily. Relief from depression and/or grief is another metaphysical property of Botswana agate. It is said to help us focus on solutions instead of problems, and thereby increases creativity, as well as increasing the power of one's intuition. Botswana agate is noted in crystal healing to be helpful in overcoming addictions and other self-destructive compulsive behavior patterns, as well as dealing with repressed emotional issues. As a success stone, it is said to help one achieve and cope with success. It is also a stone of sensuality. In crystal healing it is said to be beneficial to the nervous system and can help rid the body of toxins, as well as help in the healing of broken bones.
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Agate, Crab Fire
Crab Fire Agate is a type of Spiderweb Carnelian Agate. As such, it shares the properties of Carnelian. Carnelian is an agate class of chalcedony that is a stone of creativity, individuality and courage. Like all agates, it has protection energies. It can aid memory, including recall of past lives. It can assist one in finding the right mate. It is also a stone of protection in general and from anger, jealousy and fear. In addition it can help with manifestation of one's desires, and brings good luck. Carnelian can help ease or remove sorrows. It also helps stabilize energies in the home. It is sometimes called the "actor's stone". Carnelian is associated with the root and sacral chakras. Physically, carnelian has been used to heal open sores, rejuvenate tissues and cells, rheumatism, kidney stones and other kidney problems, gall stones, colds, pollen allergies, and neuralgia.
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Agate, Crazy Lace (Lace Agate)
Crazy Lace Agate is a balancing and protecting stone. It brings laughter and absorbs emotional pain. Crazy Lace Agate is used to help with decision making by balancing the physical, emotional, and mental so that it is easy to make decisions. It also helps one stay focused. It is generally a protective stone, but is particularly emotionally protective. It is also said to ward off the "evil eye." Physically, crazy lace agate is excellent for increasing stamina and energy, and is good for skin disorders such as acne, excema, etc., is beneficial for the endocrine system and the heart.
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Agate, Fire
Fire agate is a stone of courage, protection, and strength. Mystical lore says that it relieves fears, halts gossip and even reflects any threat of harm back to the source. Fire agate can help with spiritual advancement and progression. It promotes and enhances energy, including meditation, ritual, and spiritual healing energies. It also balances masculine (active) and feminine (receptive) energies. It is also said that it can take the edge off the emotional charge of problems. Fire agate is often used in spells to increase skills in communication in writing and speaking. It can also heighten creative visualization. Metaphysical healing lore professes that fire agate enhances all healing energies, and assists with healing of the circulatory system, lymph system, intestines. Fire agate is associated primarily with the sacral and root chakras.
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Agate, Flame
Flame Agate is a member of the agate family. Like all agates, it has the energetic metaphysical properties of agate, as well as its own energies. Flame agate is used in spiritual healing and growth to bring supportive vital energy for this growth and awareness. It is also said to be a great helper during all times of transition, bringing clarity to ease the way. Physically, flame agate is used in crystal healing for pain healing and particularly treatment of burns. Flame agate is associated with the first through third chakras.
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Agate, Mexican Lace
Mexican Lace Agate is a type of agate. As such, it has the metaphysical energies lore listed below. In addition, Mexican Lace Agate is said to be particularly useful for weaving protections, because of the "woven lace" pattern energies it has. It is also excellent as a meditation tool for meditations on harmony, patterns of energy or magic, and other esoterica. Agate itself is good protective energy stone, especially for children, and is very calming and soothing. It also can help strengthen the body's connection to the earth. It can give courage, energy, strength, and dispels fears, all of which increase self-confidence. It can also lessen feelings of envy by grounding the emotions. Agate is also used in crystal emotional healing for resolving bitterness and resentments. It is also called and believed to be a stone of harmony. These two factors makes it a stone that's said to help improve and harmonize relationships. Also, by bringing the elements of one's being into harmony it greatly enhances healing. Agate also enhances creativity and stimulates the intellect. Agate is considered a stone that brings good luck. It works with chakras according to stone color. Agate is said to help with issues of the teeth and gums.
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Agate, Moss
Moss agate is sometimes called the "gardener's stone" due to its mystical properties of helping ensure a full crop. In addition to a full crop, moss agate is said to bring general abundance, success, and prosperity. It is also said to help one gain peace with extreme or excessive duties in life and brings self-confidence and higher self-esteem. Moss agate is also said to be a metaphysically protective stone, as are all agates. It is said to reduce the difficulties associated with overcoming addictive behaviors. Moss agate is associated with the heart chakra, which indicates stone of compatiblity and friendship. It is also believed in crystal healing to help improve circulation, enhance healing of all types, overcome digestive or intestinal disorders. Green moss agate is said to assist in finding hidden treasure, and be a stone of prosperity.
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Agate, Tree (Dendritic Agate)
Tree Agate (formerly Dendritic or Moss Agate) is said to assist with introspection and self-discovery. It can give a wider viewpoint of the world. Tree agate relives tension, fever, and skin eruptions. It also brings plentiful crops.
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Ajoite
Ajoite is known in the metaphysical world as a stone of peace and harmony. It is said to help release and overcome sorrow, anger, fear, and heal old emotional wounds. Ajoite is also said to help connect to the Higher Self and God/Universe/Goddess/All That Is, and be excellent for meditation. Ajoite is noted in metaphysics to be able to remove and release negative energies from the physical, emotional, and etheric bodies. It is said to act as a stone of transformation, bringing change and growth. Ajoite is related to and excellent for work with the throat and heart chakras. Ajoite is a great stone for spiritual healers and spiritual seekers, and is said to be avery powerful healing booster. Ajoite is usually related to the throat and heart chakras.
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Ajoite, Angel White (White Angel Ajoite)
Angel White Ajoite is Ajoite in lovely white Quartz, embodying both the energies of Ajoite and Quartz, bringing both into higher realms of energy. It is said to combine the gentle, harmonious energies of pure ajoite with high angelic realm vibrations from the quartz. Some say it's as though they contain the energies of Ajoite and Azeztulite combined. Sometimes an angel image is seen in the Angel White Ajoite, although it is reputed that all of these stones carry high angelic energies. Angel White Ajoite is used for ascencion into higher realms while maintaining a close tie to the heart in our manifestation here on Earth. Thus, Angel White Ajoite is excellent for meditation to reach higher consciousness and deeper meditations. In the physical realms, Angel White Ajoite combines the energy and folk crystal healing properties of both Ajoite and Quartz. Angel White Ajoite is said to bring our Spirit energy to its full potential. These lovely stones relate to and resonate primarily with the third eye and crown chakras.
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Alexandrite
Low self-esteem & difficulty centering imply need; central nervous system disorders; spleen & pancreas.
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Amazonite
Amazonite is a mint green to aqua green stone said to be of truth, honor, communication, integrity and trust. It is said to enhance intuition, psychic powers, creativity, intellect, and psychic ability. Amazonite is often associated with the throat chakra, and as such, said to be beneficial to communication. It is said to align the physical and astral bodies. It is noted mystically to lessen stress and self-defeating behaviors by calming and building self-esteem. Amazonite is also said to assist with peacefully making the transition out of this life. Amazonite is believe in crystal healing to heal emotional disturbances and the after effects of emotional trauma. It is reputed to have spiritual energy healing powers of preventive energy that's good for one's health in general, colic, decreasing heart problems, benefitting the muscles, calcium deficienty, pregnancy, eczema, muscle cramps, helping the nervous system, lessening tooth decay and osteoporosis.
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Amber
Amber is noted in metaphysics to give a soothing, light energy that is both calming and energizing at the same time. It is said to help manifest desires and heighten intellectual abilities, clarity of thought, and wisdom. It is reputed to cleanse its environment by drawing out negativity, and to relieve physical pain the same way. It is used mystically to bring the energies of patience, protection, psychic shielding, romantic love, sensuality, purification, balance, healing and calmness to those who wear or carry it. It is considered a good luck charm for marriage. Amber is excellent in crystal healing for inner child work and past life work. Amber is associated with the solar plexus chakra and sometimes the sacral chakra. Mystical lore says that amber is beneficial for purifying the body, headaches, bone problems, heart problems, circulation, ears, hearing problems, endocrine system, fibromyalgia, intestinal/digestive disorders, kidney, bladder, lungs, and general healing purposes.
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Amethyst
Amethyst has long been called the "sobriety stone." In ancient Rome, crushed amethyst was added to wine cups to prevent drunkenness. It is said to assist with healing alcoholism, compulsive behaviors, and addictions of all kinds. Amethyst brings energies in mystical realms of stability, peace, calm, balance, courage and inner strength. It is often used in metaphysics and crystal healing to protect against psychic attacks. On the spiritual level, amethyst is said to help open to communication with angels, telepathy and other psychic abilities. It is thus an excellent stone for meditation or dream work, past life work, and to help you see your path. It has also been used to help ease the pain of grief, and promote happiness. Amethyst is reputed to be beneficial when dealing with legal problems, and money issues, which can lead to prosperity and abundance. Amethyst is also used as protection for travelers. Physically amethyst is said by spiritual healers and mystical lore to heal the withdrawal symptoms of any sort of addiction, help with headaches, insomnia, arthritis, pain relief, circulatory system issues, endocrine system problems, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, immune system deficiencies, asthma, phobias, pregnancy and preventing miscarriage, menopause, PMS, and general healing. Amethyst is associated with the brow and the crown chakras.
Alternate Names & Name Spellings: "Sobriety Stone"
Rock Lore & Tidbits: Crushed amethyst was used by the Ancient Romans as a way to ward off intoxication. They word amethyst comes from the Greek word "amethystus" meaning not drunken, or intoxicated. And there is a Greek legend of how amethyst got its purple color. Once, Dionysis (diety of wine and mischief) was so annoyed by Artemis (a virgin huntress and Lunar deity) that he set his sacred tigers upon a maiden attending her shrine. To preserve the maiden, whose name was Amethyst, Artemis petrified her in sparkling quartz. Lamenting this virgin's demise, Dionysis poured a the contents of his cup over the statue, which immediately became infused with the purple of the grape.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Psychic, Sobriety
Amethyst is purple quartz, and is a meditative and calming stone. It works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace. Amethyst is also beneficial when dealing with legal problems and money issues, which can lead to prosperity and abundance.
Emotionally, amethyst can help heal personal losses and grief. Amethyst has a gently sedative energy that promotes peacefulness, happiness, and contentment. It also brings emotional stability and inner strength, and can enhance flexibility and cooperation. Amethyst can help get rid of addictions (alcohol, drugs, smoking, etc.) and compulsive behaviors of all kinds.
In the psychic and spiritual realms, amethyst is an excellent all-purpose stone that can increase spirituality and enhance intuition and psychic powers of all kinds. It does this by making a clear connection between the earth plane and other planes and worlds. Amethyst is also excellent for meditation and lucid dreaming. It is known to open one's channels to telepathy, past life regression, clairaudience, clairvoyance, and communication with angels. Amethyst also protects against psychic attacks, especially during spiritual work, and protects one from thieves, and protects travelers.
Physically amethyst is said by spiritual healers and mystical lore to heal the withdrawal symptoms of any sort of addiction, help with headaches, insomnia, arthritis, pain relief, circulatory system issues, endocrine system problems, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, immune system deficiencies,asthma, phobias, pregnancy and preventing miscarriage, menopause, PMS, and general healing.
Amethyst is associated with the third eye and crown chakras primarily, but can also open the heart chakra.
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Amethyst, Chevron (also known as Banded Amethyst)
Chevron amethyst is said to combine the strengthening and enhancing energies of quartz with the stress relieving energies of amethyst. Together these minerals create the chevron amethyst, which is noted in metaphysics to enhance peace of mind, relaxation and self-discovery. Chevron amethyst is said to bring courage and inner strength. The stone is said in mystical lore to lessen any resistance to helping oneself, particularly as concerns self-awareness. It also is said to diminish addictive tendencies and assists in recovery from addictions. Chevron amethyst is associated with the third eye (brow) or crown chakra.
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Ametrine
Ametrine energies are said to stimulate the intellect and rid the aura of negative energy. It is also said to be helpful for releasing negative emotional programming. Ametrine is repurted to mystically aid in meditation, boost psychic abilities, relieve tension, disperse negativity and help to eliminate prejudice. It also has the basic metaphysical and healing properties of both the amethyst and the citrine that comprise it.
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Ammolite
Ammolite is fossilized ammonite that has been compressed under great pressure beneath the ground, which is what gives it its wonderful colors. Ammolite is said to radiate positive Earth energy, and to bring good luck and prosperity. It is also said to grant miracles. Ammolite is excellent as a tool for deep meditation. Ammolite is also used mystically for general good health, stamina and high energy.
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Andalusite
Andalusite is sometimes called "The Seeing Stone" because it is used in metaphysical works to calmly see the various parts of one's character without bias. It is also reported to be helpful to see the different sides of a problem, and is used for scrying. Andalusite is said to enhance memory and recall. It is also said to bring chivalry. Andalusite is said bring moderation and balance. It is also a stone that is said to be helpful for meditation and centering. Physically andalusite is used in crystal healing and folk healing for AIDS, eye problems, deficiencies in calcium, oxygen, iodine, and water retention. Andalusite is associated with the solar plexus and heart chakras.
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Angel Aura (Angel Aura Quartz, Opal Aura, Rainbow Aura, Pearl Aura)
Angel Aura Quartz is quartz that is permanently treated by fusing platinum and/or silver crystals with heat and vacuum to give it its gorgeous angelic coloring. It is also known as Opal Aura or Pearl Aura. Mystical lore counts It a stone of high spiritual energy. It is said that it is very helpful to the aura which it can protect, balance, and bring energetic health. In addition it has been said to assist in raising Kundalini energy in a more gentle manner. It is used in meditation and can help one meditate on finding the proper course of action in life. It is said to help with angelic communication and communicating with Higher Self and inner wisdom. It is used by mystics to help access Akashic records and past life recall. It is said to bring peace and tranquility because of the angelic protection it brings. Physically, mystical lore reputes that angel aura is helpful for general health, vitality, and miraculous cure of illness. Angel aura is associated primarily with the crown chakra.
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Angel Wing (Alunite)
Angel Wing (Alunite) - Angel Wing is a stone that can help balance yin/yang, physical and emotional energies as well as environmental energies, bringing unbalanced or dysfunctional energies into harmony. Because of this, angel wing has a stabilizing and grounding effect. For balancing energies in a room or other space, simply place angel wing in a corner or other inconspicuous place. It is also beneficial in the arts, heightening creativity while at the same time grounding that creativity in current reality, thus bringing creative arts to life. Angel Wing was used by Ancient Chinese and Egyptian cultures to reduce body odor. Alunite is used in crystal healing for problems with eye-sight, body odor, excessive thirst, and dehydration. Angel Wing has been related to the heart chakra, although it is more commonly related to the sacral and root chakras.
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Angelite (Blue Anhydrite)
Angelite is a stone that can bring serenity, inner peace, and a sense of calm. Angelite is excellent to use when you need to calm down from feelings of stress and overwhelm. Angelite dispeals fear, anger, and encourages forgiveness. Psychically angelite is used to conntect with spirit guides, the higher self, and guardian angels. It is excellent for enhancing telepathy, psychic awareness, astral travel, and spirit journeys. Angelite is also excellent for creating a shield of psychic protection and for balancing etheric and physical energies. Angelite can be used to aid expression and communication in group settings and in relationships. Mystical lore says that angelite is used for infectious diseases, headaches, hemoglobin deficiencies, throat inflammations and infections, thymus, heart function, and circulatory system.
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Anthophyllite
Anthophyllite is a stone of releasing. It allows one to release things that are held onto that are causing problems or pain. It facilitates this release by cleansing, and is also very cleansing for the aura and environment. Anthophyllite is also excellent for writer’s block and creative writing. In folklore and crystal healing, Anthophyllite is used for the colon, lower disgstive tract, and absorbing nutrients properly.
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Apache Tear
The Legend of the Apache Tear is this:
One day a party of Apache Indians was ambushed by an enemy tribe. The Apaches fought bravely but were greatly outnumbered and driven to the top of a high bluff. Their arrows gone and unable to fight and unwilling to be taken captive, they leapt from the cliffs to their death. Their women were understandably grief-stricken and wept over the bodies. Their teardrops froze when they hit the ground to become the lovely stones we know today as Apache Tears. It is said that whomever owns one of these stones will never cry again, for the Apache women shed enough tears already.
Apache Tears are said to especially relieve grief and sadness as well as assisting in giving and accepting forgiveness. They can help release negative emotions, and they also can balance one's emotional state. They are good luck stones, said to bring good luck to anyone who has one. They are excellent meditaiton tools, especially for clarifying issues and gaining insight. Apache Tears are a gently grounding stone. In the physical realm, Apache Tears are reputed to alleviate muscle spasms and eliminate toxins from the body.
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Apatite
Apatite is a stone that mystically can stimulate the thoughts and ideas. It is said to increase intellect, imagination, and intuitive awareness. As a meditation or awareness tool It is said to help you maintain focus, learn, concentrate effectively, think clearly, and communicate better. Apatite can be used to enhance the energies of other crystals and stones. Having apatite near you can bring harmony on all levels, and brings inner peace. Apatie is reputed in mystical lore to physically apatite assist with nail problems, allergies, arthritis, bones, muscles, nervous system. Apatite is primarily related to the throat chakra, though golden Apatite is related mainly to the solar plexus chakra.
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Apophyllite
Apophyllite is an aid to meditation and helps make a conscious connection with the spiritual world. It has been used to help in firewalking and astral travel. It is said to one see the truth and then act on it, and is an energy stimulator. Folklore says that It relieves tired eyes when placed on the eyelids. When placed on the third eye chakra, it enhances clairvoyance and mystical vision. Apophyllite is associated with the crown chakra.
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Aqua Aura (Aqua Aura Quartz)
Aqua aura is quartz that is gold infused by taking 12 hours to heat the quartz to 1600F while setting a vacuum equal to 2 earth atmospheres, then letting chemically purified gold vapors into the chamber when the temperature and vacuum are correct. This bonds the gold to the lattice of the crystal, forming a permanent bond to the surface of the quartz and giving it an electric blue color.
Aqua Aura is an outstanding tool for people wishing to increase their psychic skills and awareness. Aqua Aura assists with meditation, telepathy, and psychic healing by bringing more intense energy to the effort. Aqua Aura is particularly helpful for distance spiritual energy healing because of its ability to send energy. Aqua Aura can enhance communications of all kinds. It can also assist in conscious awareness of one's own motivations and patterns. Aqua Aura is said to attract success and prosperity, even possibly wealth. Aqua Aura is also used for protection from psychic attacks. Physically Aqua Aura is reputed to help with throat problems, stress-related illness, immune system deficiencies, and the thymus gland.
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Aquamarine
Aquamarine is metaphysically known as a stone of courage and fortitude. It is said to assist with quick intellectual response. It gives peace, and shielding for the aura. Aquamarine is reputed to assist with calming communication issues. Mystical and folk lore states that it is attuned to the sea, and protects travelers on water, and sailors. Aquamarine is associated with the throat chakra.
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Aragonite
Aragonite increases energy, in particular it increases the energy of prayers and magick charms. Metaphysically is it said to boost self-confidence and feelings of self-worth. Diminishes anger and relieving stress are other metaphysical . Aragonite is professed by mystical lore to be beneficial for chronic fatigue, hair loss.
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Atlantisite (Tasmanite, Stichtite-Serpentine)
Atlantisite is a combination of green Atlantisite, also called Tasmanite or Stichtite-Serpentine, is a combination of Green Serpentine and Stichtite, and as such, has a synergistic energy that includes the energies of the two stones but has its own energies. Atlantisite has been used to end disputes, for Spiritual awareness, and to understande the concept and energies of love. Atlantisite is considered by many to bring the energies of ancient civilizations from Mu, Atlantis, and Lemuria, particularly in healing energies. It is used in crystal healing for heart; lungs; muscular issues such as cramps, menstrual cramping, hernias; and glucose control metabolic disorders such as diabetes and hypoglycemia, as well as a general crystal healing stone. It is considered to be a stone that resonates to and links the energies of the Crown and Heart chakras.
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Aventurine (General, Green)
Aventurine is said to benefit one in all areas of creativity, and imagination, as well as intellect and mental clarity. Lore says that it enhances prosperity and brings career success. It is a gentle stone energetically that gives a sense of calm and balance and enhances happiness. It also helps one to see alternatives and potentials in all situations, giving a positive outlook, courage and inner strength. It is also said to bring luck, especially in games of chance. Green aventurine is also a mystical stone of prosperity. Aventurine bring friendship to one's life. It is also a stone of protection energies. Folklore and metaphysical lore say that physically it is beneficial for blood, circulatory system, low blood pressure (hypotension), sinus problems, nausea, headaches, general health, allergies, eczema, fever, and sleep disorders. Aventurine is associated with the heart chakra.
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Aventurine, Peach
Peach aventurine gently increases the energy of the sacral chakra. It helps with decision making and can boost creativity. Physically it is beneficial for the lungs, heart, adrenal glands and urogenital system.
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Aventurine, Red
Red aventurine has the properties of aventurine, plus more because of its color and composition.Red aventurine enhances creativity and ability to see possibilities. It can heal the reproductive system, and sometimes reverse diseases. It also can bring prosperity and lessen negativity. Red aventurine is associated with the sacral and root chakras.
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Azeztulite
Azeztulite is a stone with a very high energy vibration that is said to be from the Angelic realm. It is an ascenscion stone that is used in psychic and mystical work to raise one's vibration. Although Azeztulite is a type of quartz, it has much higher energy than regular quartzes. Azeztulite is used in meditation to expand and raise consciousness and bring great Light energy to the meditation. This stone is also used by metaphysicians to help project positive energy to benefit self and other. Azeztulite is also used on the third-eye to assist in clairvoyant viewing of the future. This stone demonstrates no negative or neutral energy, but is truly positive in energy and never needs cleansing or reenergizing. Crystal healers consider azeztulite energies to remove energetic blocks and snarls, allowing full flow of energy and healing dis-ease of all types. Crystal healers also use azeztulite to assist in rapid but comfortable cellular regeneration and rejufenation. Azeztulite is related primarily with the crown and soulstar chakras.
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Azurite
Azurite is called the "stone of heaven." It aids in developing psychic awareness, psychic skills and abilities, enhances intuition, and is said to guide you to be accurate in depicting psychic experiences. It is also an excellent stone for meditation, allowing you to enter a meditative state easily. It can enhance prophesy and divination. Azurite is said to help control energy flow and bring just the right amount of energy to any situation. Physically, azurite is professed by folklore to be helpful for healing in general, cancer prevension, liver issues arthritis, joint problems, depression, sinuses, skin problems. Azurite is most closely related to the third eye chakra, and can balance, stimulate, and empower it. It will also work to align all of the chakras.
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Beryl
Beryl is a family of many stones of rich energy such as Aquamarine (blue-green), Bixbite (red), Morganite (pink), Heliodor (golden yellow), Goshenite (white).
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Binghamite (Silkstone or American Tiger Eye)
Binghamite was named for W.J. Bingham. It is also called "Silkstone" for the silky look of the colors and strings of "silk" in it, and sometimes called "American Tiger Eye" because it resembles a tiger eye. Binghamite is a stone that is said to bring all manner of good things, particularly good fortune. It is also said to have the energies of fairies and elves, which is a very positive energy. In crystal work, Binghamite is used to communicate with the inner child. It is also used by metaphysicians for clairaudience and communication with other worlds. Physically, in crystal healing lore, Binghamite is used to regenerate energy flow in the body, renew cells, eases disease, Theta brain wave patterns, burns, convulsions, anemia, and ear nose and throat problems. Binghamite is also used in crystal healing to energize and direct other minerals energies.
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Biotite
Biotite is a group of minerals within the Mica group. It gets its name from French physicist J. B. Biot. It has its own distinctive properties as well as those of Mica in general. Biotite is well known for helping one rationally see how one is an active part of issues affecting one's life and environment. It assists in discarding irrelevant details and gives a clear picture of the issues. As such, it is used in crystal healing to diagnose disorders caused by disorganized cell patterns. It is also used in crystal healing for eyes, to shrink growths, and bile regulation.
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Bixbite (Red Beryl)
Bixbite, red beryl, is known metaphysically as a stone of soothing and healing. It is used by intuitives and mystics to bring harmony to relationships and enhance compatibility. It is alsosaid to be helpful to heal griefs and depressions. Bixbite is also used to strengthen creativity energy. Physically, intuitive sources say that bixbite is good for healing problems with the physical heart, liver, lungs, mouth, throat, stomach, physical energy level, and digestive system. Bixbite is related to the heart and sacral chakras.
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Bloodstone
Bloodstone is a deep green stone with small red specks. The small red specks are where the stone gets its name. They make the deep green stone appear to be spotted with blood. Bloodstone is excellent for centering and grounding. It is said to help with calming, particularly in survival situations. It brings mystical energies of increasing adaptability and organization, and lessening confusion and anxiety. It is said to be a a stone of courage, bringing mental, physical and emotional renewal by releasing blockages. It is said to be particularly good for helping emotional traumas and grief. It also enhances the intellect. Bloodstone is mystically used to bring energy to one in many ways, including bringing abundance, success,and prosperity, as well as smoothing the way with legal issues. Bloodstone is said by intuitive sources to be helpful in treating anemia and other diseases of the blood, blood pressure, bleeding, cardiovascular system, cramps, lupus, colds, endocrine system, kidney, bladder, physical strength issues, flu, physical traumas, and post-surgical issues.
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Bone
Bone is an organic material, rather than a mineral. As with everything, it does have its own energies. Its energies are of vitality, animal magnetism, and strength.
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Bone, Dinosaur (Fossilized Dinosaur Bone, Petrified Dinosaur Bone)
Petrified or Fossilized Dinosaur Bone increases energy and memory. It has ties with the deep past, and this makes it an excellent stone for past life work. Dinosaur bone is also wonderful for calming anxiety, in particular survival anxieties. It helps, too, with communication and ability to understand communications. Physically, dinosaur bone is used for healing of paralysis, broken bones, hearing, vigor, regulation of body temperature.
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Bowenite
Bowenite is also the official state mineral of Rhode Island, and is found in colors ranging from light yellow, canary yellow, light and dark green, brown, blue and gray. Bowenite is a stone that has crystal healing energies of protection from enemies and destructive forces of all types via a protective energy field. It is an excellent and unusual stone of protection. Bowenite is also known as a stone of fidelity and a dream stone. It is said to assist with dream-solving, which is finding the answers to problems through dreamwork. It is also said to release stuffed or hidden emotions through dreams. Bowenite is used in crystal healing for diseases and ailments of the head and scalp.
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Bronzite
Bronzite is called both a "Stone of Focused Action" and a "Stone of Courtesy". It is helpful for helping with certainty and with taking control of our actions. It can also help one to think ahead about things, enhancing the ability to take control of our own lives. In this, because bronzite helps dispel uncertainty, it can help us also take necessary actions for our own benefit, while still being loving and polite and principled in our behavior. Bronzite is a good grounding stone also. It is excellent for these same reasons to promote change in a harmonious way. Physically, Bronzite is used in crystal healing for ailments related to the solar plexus chakra, assimilation of iron, lessening muscular tension, dispelling restlessness caused by emotional and psycho-physical ailments.
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Bustamite
Bustamite is best known for its energetic ability to remove and clear energy blockages. It is a very powerful stone for all types of energy work because of this. It can remove an energy block from a person, a particular chakra, an environment, or a situation. It is also excellent for meditation and can help one go deeper into meditation than previously possible. It is also great for dreamwork and can help communicate with angels. Bustamite is used often in ceremonies and initiations. Emotionally, bustamite helps one feel safe, which can lead to many different kinds of emotional healing, including removing anxiety and stress. Physically, bustamite has been used to heal and improve circulation, lungs, skin, nails, hair, and stress related disorders.
Calcite
Calcite increases and amplifies energy. It can also be helpful in astral travel and in channeling, as well as with increasing intuition. All calcites are helpful in lessening of fear and reducing stress. Calcite is a protecting, purifying, grounding and centering stone, and can help bring inner peace. It also increases creativity, imagination, and prosperity. Calcite is also a stone of spirituality, wisdom and reconciliation. Calcite of different colors is great for using to open and balance the various chakras. Physically, calcites can heal back pain, increase physical strength, heal teeth, and are generally good for healing. Green calcites helps overcome addictions, heal joints, bones, kidney, bladder, and the endocrine system, relieve pain. Green calcite also helps with manifestation, abundance, and intuition. Blue calcite is particularly good for channeling and increasing energy. Yellow calcite is also particularly good for Shamanic work, meditation, channeling, intuition, and amplifying energy. Orange calcite reduces chronic fatigue, and increases psychic abilities. Red calcite brings courage and inner strength and energy to handle survival situations, and benefits sensuality/sexuality. Honey calcite is also very good for increasing energy. Optical calcite is beneficial for headaches. Pink calcite (manganocalcite) is a stone of love and amplifies Reiki and other universal life force energies.
Alternate Names & Name Spellings: Calcspar; Clear Calcite is sometimes called Optical Calcite or Iceland Spar
Chemical Composition: Ca(CO3)
Hardness (Mohs): 3
Color(s): White, Yellow, Red, Orange, Blue, Green, Brown, Gray, and more
Lustre: Vitreous
Transparency: Transparent, Translucent
Habit: Extremely variable, almost any trigonal form.
Common Locations: Found all over the world.
Rock Lore & Tidbits: The word calcite comes from the latin word calx, and the Greek word chalix, meaning "lime". Calcite is common in limestone and marble. Optical (clear) calcite has double refraction. If you lay it over a line of writing, you will see the writing show up in two lines through the calcite.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Cleansing, Reconciliation
Calcite increases and amplifies energy. This makes it an excellent stone for distance healing, as well as other types of healing. One of the energies it amplifies is learning abilities, and thus is a great stone for students.
Calcite is a protecting, grounding and centering stone, and can help bring inner peace. Since calcite also promotes creativity and imagination, this inner peace it can bring is a vibrant one.
Calcite has been said to increase prosperity. It can also be helpful in astral travel and in channeling, as well as increasing intuition. Calcite is also a stone of spirituality and wisdom.
All calcites are helpful in lessening of fear and reducing stress. Calcite is probably the premier cleanser of stored negative energies in the human system, and works on all levels from the physical to the etheric. This makes it a very purifying stone. It can also be used to clear negativity in the environment, such as a room that it's in.
In the realm of relationships, calcite brings its properties of grounding and centering, to make it a stone of reconciliation. Calcite can ameliorate arguments in a relationship, and help maintain a practical balance between the people in the relationship.
Physically, calcites are good for back pain, increasing physical strength, teeth, eyes, and are generally good for healing. Clear calcite can be used for treating all conditions. It can also be used for detoxifying and as an antiseptic agent. Calcite is especially helpful with emotional and mental conditions.
Clear calcite can be used to open and balance all the chakras. Calcite of different colors is great for using to open and balance the various chakras.
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Calcite, Blue
Blue calcite is a calming and soothing stone. It amplifies energies, particularly in the areas of communications and thought. In the physical realm, blue calcite is used for the throat, lungs, tonsillitis, thyroid, joints, arthritis, and high blood pressure.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Calm Communication
Blue calcite is a stone that is especially calming and soothing. Nearness of blue calcite is great for calming frayed nerves. Blue calcite in your environment can make you aware of needs for rest, which is the first step in helping you get the rest you need.
Blue calcite is also an excellent stone for students. It helps retain lessons learned and amplifies learning.
Blue calcite also amplifies energy, particularly in the realms of communication and thought. Blue calcite is an excellent aid to communication. It fosters enlightened discussion, and eases communication between people with opposing views. It helps you express your views calmly and with tact. Blue calcite is also an enhancer of decision-making. It brings this quality to life through its ability to help you see more clearly what path will lead you to happiness. It also assists in remembering astral travel and channeling experiences.
In the physical realm, blue calcite is used for the throat, lungs, tonsillitis, thyroid, arthrits, joints, and high blood pressure.
Blue calcite is associated with the throat chakra.
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Calcite, Green
Green calcite increases success, prosperity, business, and fertility of all kinds. It is an excellent stone for gardening. It is also considered a stone of manifestation because of it's ability to develop increase in all areas. Green calcite enhances intuition and psychic abilities. In the physical realm, green calcite benefits the heart, thymus, chest, shoulders, and lower lungs, heartburn, nervous tics, stammering, neurosis, arthritis and joint pain, kidney, bladder, general pain. Green calcite is also especially beneficial for healing tumors and other malignancies.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Increase
Green calcite is a grounding and centering stone that brings stability. It increases success, prosperity, business, and fertility of all kinds. It is an excellent stone for gardening. It is also considered a stone of manifestation because of it's ability to develop increase in all areas.
Green calcite is said to enhance intuition and psychic abilities.
In the physical realm, green calcite benefits the heart, thymus, chest, shoulders, and lower lungs, heartburn, nervous tics, stammering, neurosis, arthritis and joint pain, kidney, bladder, general pain. Green calcite is also especially beneficial for healing tumors and other malignancies. It is particularly helpful with infections of the lungs, throat and sinuses. It is also used to balance and heal the endocrine system. Green calcite is also helpful for overcoming addictions and compulsive disorders. As with all calcites, green calcite is good for general health and healing, especially emotional and mental issues.
Green calcite is associated with the heart chakra.
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Calcite, Honey
Honey calcite is a stone that gently amplifies energy. It also assists in the challenges associated with change. Honey calcite enhances psychic abilities, astral projection and higher consciousness. It also enhances intellect and memory. Honey calcite is associated with the sacral and solar plexus chakras.
Also called Amber Calcite, Gold Calcite
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Gentle Amplification
Honey calcite is a stone that gently amplifies energy. It also assists in the challenges associated with change.
Honey calcite enhances psychic abilities, astral projection and higher consciousness. It also enhances intellect and memory.
Physically, honey calcite is beneficial for kidneys, bladder, female organs, menopause. It is an excellent massage stone. Honey calcite is particularly good for children who have problems with bed-wetting.
Honey calcite is associated with the sacral and solar plexus chakras, and helps bring balance between these two chakras.
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Calcite, Orange
Orange calcite is a stone that is particularly helpful mentally. It can relieve emotional fear, mental breakdown, depression, accidents, rape, divorce, suicidal thoughts. It is particularly helpful with phobias. Orange calcite restores mental and emotional equilibrium.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Emotional Healing
Orange calcite is a stone that is particularly helpful mentally. It can relieve emotional fear, mental breakdown, depression, accidents, rape, divorce, suicidal thoughts. It is particularly helpful with phobias. Orange calcite restores mental and emotional equilibrium.
Orange calcium can also give a gentle boost to psychic abilities and intuition.
Physically, orange calcite is helpful for the reproductive system, genitals, intestines, irritable bowel syndrome, kidneys, chronic fatigue, calcium intake and assimilation. It is also helpful for balancing sexual energies.
Orange calcite is associated with the sacral chakra.
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Calcite, Pink Magnesium (Pink Manganocalcite)
Pink Manganocalcite (Pink Magnesium Calcite) is sometimes called the "Reiki Stone". It has a gentle but powerful energy, and is an excellent complement to energy healing modalities such as Reiki and Seichim because of its excellent properties of energy magnification. It is a calming stone, that eases and heals the heart chakra. It fills the heart with universal love and self-love. It offers hope for the best. It heals inner child hurts and past abuse by filling one with a sense of motherly love. It is also excellent for channeling and astral travel, and for studying and retaining information learned. Physically, pink manganocalcite is beneficial for general health and healing, bones, joints, and physical heart issues.
Also called Pink Manganocalcite, Pink Magnesium Calcite, Pink Calcite (but should not be confused with pink optical calcite)
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Universal Love & Healing
Pink Manganocalcite (Pink Magnesium Calcite) is sometimes called the "Reiki Stone". It has a gentle but powerful energy, and is an excellent complement to energy healing modalities such as Reiki and Seichim because of its excellent properties of energy amplification.
Manganocalcite is a calming stone that eases and heals the heart chakra. It fills the heart with universal and self-love. It offers hope for the best. Manganocalcite heals inner child hurts and past abuse by filling one with a sense of motherly love.
Manganocalcite It is also excellent for channeling and astral travel. It also greatly helps with studying and retaining information learned.
Manganocalcite is a nurturing stone that helps us take care of ourselves. It enables us to accept love and have self-love, and act on and with loving behaviors. It is a high powered stress reliever that relieves anxiety, stress and tension. It also removes fears of all kinds and reduces nightmares.
Physically, pink manganocalcite is beneficial for general health and healing, bones, joints, kidney, uterus, and physical heart issues.
Manganocalcite is associated with the heart chakra.
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Calcite, Red
Red calcite brings stability to one's will, and increases inner strength. It assists with problem solving. It can also attract love. Physically red calcite is beneficial for genitals, reproductive organs, gonads, ovaries, hips, lets, feet, stiff muscles and joints.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Detoxify
Red calcite is an energizing and detoxifying stone. It also brings stability to one's will, and increases inner strength. It assists with problem solving. It can also attract love.
Red calcite is a stone that eases and releases fear. It calms the rushes of adrenaline caused by fear. This is particularly helpful for those who are warriors or "do battle" in their daily lives.
Physically red calcite is beneficial for genitals, reproductive organs, gonads, ovaries, hips, lets, feet, stiff muscles and joints. Red calcite is also helpful for healthy sexuality and sensuality. It is also beneficial for conditions where detoxification is necessary, such as food poisoning or alcoholism recovery. Although these are the things that red calcite helps with most, it can also be used for all other healings because of its relationship with the base chakra, which is the root of all physicality.
Red calcite is associated with the base chakra.
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Calcite, Yellow
Yellow calcite stimulates the intellect. It can help one organize intellectual thoughts and information. It is also good for psychic abilities. In the physical realm, yellow calcite benefits the stomach, upper intestines, upper back and upper spine.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Intellect
Yellow calcite that stimulates the intellect. It can help one organize intellectual thoughts and information.
Yellow calcite also boosts one's general energy level. From this, it increases one's personal power and sense of self-worth.
Yellow calcite is also very helpful for psychic abilities and meditation. It assists with channeling, intuitive awareness, shamanic work, and other psychic activities.
In the physical realm, yellow calcite benefits the stomach, upper intestines, upper back and upper spine.
Yellow calcite is associated with the solar plexus chakra.
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Carnelian
Carnelian is an agate class of chalcedony that is a stone of creativity, individuality and courage. Like all agates, it has protection energies. It can aid memory, including recall of past lives. It can assist one in finding the right mate. It is also a stone of protection in general and from anger, jealousy and fear. In addition it can help with manifestation of one's desires, and brings good luck. Carnelian can help ease or remove sorrows. It also helps stabilize energies in the home. It is sometimes called the "actor's stone". Carnelian is associated with the root and sacral chakras. Physically, carnelian has been used to heal open sores, rejuvenate tissues and cells, rheumatism, kidney stones and other kidney problems, gall stones, colds, pollen allergies, and neuralgia.
Catlinite
Catlinite, also called pipestone, is traditionally used as a Native American ceremony stone, for making pipes and other totems. Catlinite has the quality of connecting the spiritual and the physical. It can be used to ground prayer and ritual into the physical, everyday life. It is also a very protective stone. Catlinite is also used for communication with spirits and the ancestors. Catlinite is related primarily to the root (base) chakra.
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Cavansite
Cavansite is a stone that aids in many psychic areas. It can stimulate intuition greatly, heightens psychic awareness, stimulates the third eye, and enhances channeling abilities. It is especially helpful in psychic healing and protects the healer during psychic healing sessions. Emotionally, cavansite helps get rid of negative thoughts and beliefs, and inspires new ideas. It helps see what part of life need attention. It also helps one relax. Physically cavansite is helpful for sore throats, general healing, and diseases which it helps eliminate and keep from returning. Cavansite is related primarily to the throat and third eye chakras.
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Celestite
Celestite is said to be an angelic stone. It can connect you to all aspects of the angelic realm, and to angels themselves. It is said that celestite was given powers by angels to raise consciousness, and to bring guidance from the angels. Emotionally, celestite is excellent for emotional protection and to end worry, fear, and anxiety. In this way it decreases negativity. Celestite is a great tool for meditation, as it help focus on that other than of this world and block out distracting "noise". Celestite purifies the aura, and perfects the chakras. It is a stone that brings balance, especially to thought processes and communication. Psychically, celestite is an excellent tool for astral travel. In the physical realm, celestite is used for healing eye problems, mental disorders, cellular order, eliminating toxins, digestive problems. Celestite is associated primarily with the throat and crown chakras.
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Chalcedony
Chalcedony is a type of quartz. It is used in crystal work for many things. It is said to gently relieve depression and improve one's frame of mind. It is used to lessen hostility and bring emotional stability. It is considered a sacred stone by many Native American tribes and used for ceremonies. It has been called a "stone of brotherhood" bringing energies of lovingkindness and goodwill to all. Chalcedony is also reported to be a miracle stone, bringing apparent miracles to our plane of existence. Chalcedony also has energies of quartz. It is used in folk healing and crystal healing for heavy metal toxicity, senility, demential, and mental stability. Chalcedony is related to the chakras by color, and can help stabilize all chakras.
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Chalcedony, Blue
Blue chalcedony is a stone with a gentle energy that feels kind of dreamy. It is said to foster balance between mind, body and spirit. It is a stone of calm and peace that is reputed to reduce or negate hostility, anger, and irritation. Blue chalcedony mystically soothes and fosters mental and emotional stability and can engender emotional honesty. It is also reported to metaphysically encourage and ease communication, particularly what would otherwise be emotionally charged communication. Blue chalcedony is excellent for the psychic work and skills of clairvoyance, intuition, and energy healing. It is also mystically used to help reduce or eliminate bad dreams by getting rid of the influences that cause them. Blue chalcedony has a very protective property, metaphysically, which is evidenced in both the physical and emotional realms, and it is used often for protection from the evil eye and protection from evil, particularly evil magic. Physically, blue chalcedony has been used in crystal and folk healing for the eyes, open sores rapid healing, alzheimers, lactation, blood, circulation, bones, spleen, and gall bladder.
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Chalcedony, Carribbean Blue
Carribbean blue chalcedony is a stone related to the element of water. The enhanced coloring fits the stone's native "watery" nature. Carribbean blue chalcedony is very helpful in the emotional realm. It can calm anxieties and stress, and bring emotional healing in times of grief. It also assists with communication, particularly communications that are involved in emotional things. Physically, according to crystal healing and folk lore, Carribbean blue chalcedony can be used to heal menstrual cramps, PMS symptoms, and knee problems. It also has the characteristic properties of other Blue Chalcedony and Chalcedony in general, and is related primarily to the throat chakra.
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Chalcopyrite
Chalcopyrite, also known as peacock ore or peacock rock, is a versatile stone for crystal healing and energy work. It enhances inner knowing, strengthens perception and helps you trust what you see psychically. It is also a protective stone, good for many kinds of protection, including protection from illness. It is also good for Tai Chi, acupressure, acupuncture and other practices that move Chi, because it helps move Chi and break up energy blockages. Physically chalcopyrite aligns the body's cellular structure, eliminates toxins, promotes hair growth, assists with healing bronchitis, other lung disorders, can help heal and protect from highly infectious diseases, fevers and inflammation.
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Charoite
Charoite is called a "Stone of Transformation" and is a stone of power. In particular it transforms negative emotions such as anger and fear into positive feelings. As part of the transformation process it allows release of those negative emotions. Charoite is also a stone of inspiration, bringing enhanced creativity, spiritual growth, and showing new possibilities even in old situations. This is a stone that allows us to see clearly which brings with it enhanced self-esteem and helps release one from victimization. Charoite can enhance or bring courage, inner strength, and appropriate assertiveness. In the psychic realm, chaorite is used for entity release or rescue work, clairvoyance, and prophesy. Physically, chaorite is helpful for speeding up healing of all kinds, headaches, liver problems, alcohol detoxification, cramps, heart problems, eye problems, and nerves.
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Chiastolite
Chiastolite is a variety of andalusite, also knows as the "Cross Stone" because of its cross pattern of different colors that occurrs naturally. Chiastolite is a stone of balance and harmony. It can help with mental / emotional balance, stability, enhancing problem solving, adapting to change, memory, and ability to see all sides of a problem. Chiastolite can enhance spiritual awareness and harmony, as well as practical creativity. By practical creativity I mean being able to creatively think of new or different solutions to problems or issues. Psychically, chiastolite can be used to empower and enhance astral travel. In the physical realm, chiastolite is used for healing rheumatism, blood disorders, veins, blood circulation, balance of blood pressure (high or low), lactation (breast milk) and rheumatism. Chiastolite is associated with the sacral and root chakras.
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Chlorite
Chlorite is considered one of the most powerful healing stones. It cleanses and purifies the aura, chakras and other energy centers. It can remove negative energy of all kinds, including anger, hostility, illness, and others. Creatively, they promote a state of inspiration. Chlorite is also used to remove unwanted energy implants, healing the void left after the implants are removed. The energy that chlorite brings to healing and the environment are extraordinarily positive. Physically, chlorite is excellent for all healing as noted above, and is used to eliminate toxins from the body.
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Chrysoberyl (Natural Cat's Eye)
Natural Cat's Eye(chrysoberyl) is a stone of good fortune and good luck. It is said to bring serenity and happiness, along with optimism and generosity. It is used in emotional crystal healing to bring forgiveness, balanced emtions, and self-esteem. Cat's eye can enhance creativity and kindness. It is also a stone of protection. Physically, cat's eye is used in crystal healing for kidneys, pancreas, liver, lymph nodes, spleen, and leukemia issues.
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Chrysocolla (Chrysacolla)
Chrysocolla (chrysacolla) is a stone of harmony, both on a universal level and a very specific level. It can be used to purify a place or remove negativity from a person. It is a very gentle stone and its energy works in a gentle, harmonious way. It can help ease fear, anxiety, and guilt. It is also used to communicate with the spiritual forces of the Earth. Physically, it is good for treating asthma, emphysema, TB, pneumonia, muscle cramps, spasms, arthritis, headaches, particularly tension headaches, and is used for protection during pregnancy and childbirth. Chrysocolla is primarily related to the throat chakra, although it can be used on the heart and solar plexus chakras.
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Chrysoprase
Chrysoprase is powerful stone. It is said to bring good fortune and prosperity, as well as business success. It facilitates self-expression and courage and the ability to use them wisely. It can bring happiness, which is partly because it helps its wearer get rid of negative thoughts and irritability. It also enhances and strengthens friendships. Chrysoprase is a stone of balance that equalize yin/yang energies and allows deep meditation. It can mend broken hearts and remove inferiority or superiority complexes. It is a powerful healing stone that aids failing eyesight or other eye problems, immune system response, fertility issues, gout, mental illness, relieves fevers and excess body heat, and can help guard against sexually transmitted diseases. Chrysoprase is related primarily to the heart chakra, which it activates, opens and energizes. It also aligns all the chakras.
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Citrine
Citrine is known as a "success" stone because it is said in folklore to promote success and abundance, especially in business and commerce. Its lore also says that it enhances mental clarity, confidence, happiness and will power. Citrine is purported to bring good fortune, sometimes in very unexpected ways. Citrine is also a good general protection stone according to crystal healing lore. It is said to alleviate depression and self-doubt, and diminish irrational mood swings due to the effect of mental clarity it has. In traditional folklore and crystal healing lore it is said to aid the digestion and eliminate nightmares that disturb one's sleep. It is associated with the solar plexus chakra.
Alternate Names & Name Spellings: Success Stone, Merchant's Stone
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Success, Abundance
Citrine is known as the "success stone" because it promotes success, prosperity, and abundance. It particularly promotes success in business, earning it another nickname, "merchant's stone", and is said to bring business if put in the cashbox of a shop or carried. Citrine is a stone of good fortune, although it brings good fortune in sometimes unexpected ways. It is a stone of manifestation, helping manifest abundance in many ways. Along with prosperity and good fortune, citrine imparts generosity, to share the wealth, so to speak.
Citrine dissipates negative energies of all kinds. It also does not absorb any negative energies from its surroundings, and thus never needs energentic clearing. Citrine can be used to clear unwanted energies from the environment. Family issues caused by negative energies can also be resolved and cleared with citrine. Since citrine eliminates negative energies, it helps generate stability in all areas, and is good for general protection.
In the mental area, citrine enhances mental clarity, confidence, and will power. It also increases creativity and promotes honesty.
Emotionally, citrine relieves depression, self-doubt, anger, and irrational mood swings. Citrine is a stone that brings happiness and cheer to one who carries or wears it. Citrine also reduces self-destructive tendencies. Citrine helps eliminate fears caused by others' ideas and suggestions. It can help one overcome emotional traumas and grief. Sensuality and sexuality can also be heightened by citrine.
In the psychic and spiritual realms, citrine is good for general psychic awareness and spiritual development. Citrine clears the aura of negative energies and influences. It is also very useful for meditation. Citrine is a stone of protection, removing or deflecting negative energies of all kinds. It is also excellent for dream recall and dream work.
Physically, citrine is beneficial for the digestion, stomach, eliminating nightmares and other sleep disturbances, thyroid, general health, heart, kidney, liver, muscles, strength, endocrine system, circulatory system, tissue regeneration, urinary system, immune system, fibromyalgia. Citrine is also good for removing toxins, and overcoming addictions.
Citrine is associated with the solar plexus chakra.
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Copper
Copper is considered a mineral of energy and mental agility. In legend, copper is said to be the metal of the God Hermes, who facilitates that mental agility, and quick wit. Copper is an excellent conductor of energy, from electricity to the mystical subtle energies emanating from higher planes, etc. Thus, copper is said to enhance and transmit thoughts, even over long distances. Physically, copper is used in traditional folk remedy and crystal healing lore to bring in additional energies for all types of healing, treatment of arthritis, relieving pain of broken bones, sexual instability, and low energy.
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Coral
Coral is a stone of organic origin. Coral can be used to reconnect with nature and its variety of wonders. Coral also attracts love and prosperity, particularly red coral, which is a stone of passion. Creativity and optimism are also qualities that coral brings out. Emotionally, coral brings inner peace, strength, and understanding of purpose. Physically coral is used for general healing, blood and circulatory system issues, kidney, bladder, epilepsy, bone and bone marrow, eye problems, and the respiratory system.
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Covellite (Covelline)
Covellite (Covelline) is high energy stone that is excellent for psychic and intuitive work of many kinds. It can enhance intuitive and psychic abilities, and is a very good meditation stone. It strengthens the connection to the higher self. It can also help open to past life recall and ancient Atlantean and other knowledges. It is also used in rebirthing. Mentally it is useful in finding and seeing solutions to problems and ways to accomplish goals. Emotionally it relieves despondency, depression, and anxiety. Physically covellite has been known to be helpful with problems with the ears, nose, mouth, and sinuses. Covellite is related to the third eye chakra.
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Cuprite
Cuprite is a mineral with high copper content. Metaphysical lore says that it is helpful for reducing worries about things one has no control over, awareness, teaching, and delivering spiritual messages. Cuprite is associated with kundalini energy as well as opening the flow of the base (root) chakra, the solar plexus chakra, and balancing the heart and base chakras. As a root chakra stone, it is considered very grounding and stabilizing. It is associated in traditional and mystical lore with will power, security, confidence, sexuality, mortality, and masculine energy. Mystically it is used to recall and examine past life experiences. It has been historically said to help heal one's relationship with their father. Traditional folklore and crystal healing lore purport that cuprite is helpful for healing problems with the thymus, heart, blood metabolism (especially imbalances), muscle tissue, skeletal system, oxygenation of the blood, stamina, kidneys, menstrual cramps, certigo, water retention, vitamin absorption, addictions and alcoholism.
Danburite
Danburite is associated with the crown chakra and also can enhance the functionality of all the chakras. Danburite amplifies the properties and effects of other stones. It will open and release energy blockages, assisting healing on all levels. Thus it is an excellent healing stone. Danburite is also helpful in strengthening clarity and perceptiveness. It also lessens issues of self-pride as well as diminishing blockages.
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Desert Rose
Desert Rose is a variety of Selenite. It is a stone of the mind, as well as angelic stone. It is said to bring mental ability and clarity, as well as perception of all kinds, including intuitive perception. Desert rose is used in crystal healing to quiet worries and still the mind from distractions and disruptions. Metaphysically, desert rose is used to dissolve "programs" we have put upon our selves that are outdated or over-used. It is helpful for strength in meditation and affirmation. It is said to be helpful for the spine and the skeleton in general, and for aligning the spine properly.
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Diamond
Diamond is a stone that bonds relationships and enhances love. It brings longevity, particularly to relationships, balance, clarity and abundance. It can amplify one's thoughts, strengths, and weaknesses. It gives one who wears or carries it courage and hope. Historically, crushed diamond has been used as a cure for many ailments. Diamond is associated with the crown chakra.
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Diopside
Diopside is a stone that is green to black-green to black. It is a very creative stone and can bring creativity to the bearer. It can also help with analysis and logic as an assistant to learning. It is also said to be related to love, commitement, and the inner heart. It is traditionally said to be helpful for healing trauma, partly by bringing cleansing tears. Sometimes it's even called the "crying stone" because of this. It can help get in touch with the feminine side, which can help heal aggression and stubbornness. Physically it has been used for the heart, lungs, circulation, weakness, kidneys, muscle aches and spasms, and psychological disorders. Diopside is associated with the heart, third eye and root (base) chakras. Black Star Diopside is associated more with the root chakra than other colors of Diopside, and brings more energies of calming stress and anxiety. Diopside is also used for calming pets at times.
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Dioptase
Dioptase is a stone of healing that has a refreshing energy. It can help heal in many ways emotionally, including helping get one started clearing one's issues, and releasing negative emotions. It promotes healing from abuse, neglect, sadness, and despair. It is called a stone of "Living in the Moment" because it helps one overcome these hurtful past energies and find the joy of the current moment, bring calm, confidence, and self-worth. Spiritually, dioptase is good for alignment and attunement with the spiritual energies of your choice. Physically, dioptase is helpful for heart burn, physical heart problems, meniere's disease, and deep healing in general. Dioptase is related to the heart chakra.
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Dolomite
Dolomite is a gentle stone that encourages charitable actions, generosity and giving of all kinds, as well as receiving. It also encourages energetic thinking, original thinking, spontaneity, creativity, and manifestation. It can help develop stamina for dealing with hyperactive people. It is also used to stop energy leaks from the chakras, and to balance and align the chakras. It stabilizes both human and mineral energies, and when placed strategically in a home with other minerals they balance the energetic atmosphere. It is a particularly good stone for relieving sorrow, and soothing hurt, loneliness and anxiety. Sometimes it is called the "herb" of rocks. In the physical realm it is also beneficial for strengthening bones, teeth, muscles, and the female reproductive system. It reduces the effects of PMS. Pink dolomite is also particularly good for insomnia.
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Dumortierite (Blue Quartz)
Dumortierite (blue quartz) enhances organizational abilities, self-discipline and orderliness. This enhancement is believed to be due to the effect it can have of balancing the throat chakra and enhancing communication between lower chakras/physical energy and the higher chakras/mental/spiritual energy. It highly reduces difficulties of scattered mind and disorganization. It has been used to help recovery from addiction and alcoholism. In addition, it encourages one to see and accept reality, and react to it in an intelligent manner in one's own behalf.
Alternate Names & Name Spellings: Dumortierite Quartz, sometimes called just Dumortierite
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Peace, Expression
Blue quartz, also called dumortierite, is a stone of order that can enhance organizational abilities, self-discipline, and orderliness. This enhancement is believed to be due to the effect it can have of balancing the throat chakra and enhancing communication between lower chakras (physical) and higher chakras (mental/spiritual). Blue quartz brings this sense of order to all things, and releases fear, bringing courage to one's life. It is also a boost for creativity and expression.
Emotionally, blue quartz greatly reduces problems with scattered mind and disorganization, and brings mental clarity. It also helps one to see and accept reality, and react to it intelligently in one's behalf. It can lift depression and replace it with peace and happiness. It also can help reduce stubbornness, particularly stubbornness that is ultimately bad for one. Blue quartz helps reduce emotional tension.
In the psychic and spiritual realms, blue quartz brings spiritual development, and contact with spirit guides and angels. It can also help you express your spiritual thoughts and dreams. Blue quartz is excellent for peaceful mindfulness or meditation.
Physically, blue quartz can help with cooling the body, throat, thyroid, and parathyroid, detoxification, overstimulation, hyperactivity, spleen, endocrine system, blood.
Blue quartz is associated with the throat chakra, and it enhances communication between the lower and higher chakras.
Eilat Stone (King Solomon's Stone)
Eilat Stone is a combination of Chrysocolla, Malachite and Turquoise. It is said to be excellent for healing both emotional and physical aspets of the heart, lungs, throat, and balancing the heart and throat chakras. I've read that when placed on the Solar Pleux chakra it aligns the subtle bodies and aligns the heart mind and body. It is said to flush out and heal hurt, fear, stress, loss and sense of abandonment. This makes it an excellent stress reliever and antidepressant in crystal healing. Emotionally it is used for peace of mind, self-expression, and creativity in all aspects of life. In the physical realm it is said to be good for healing heart, lungs, throat, thyroid, bone, fevers, inflammation, sinuses, and whole body. Eilat Stone comes from Israel near Eilat on the north shore of the Red Sea.
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Emerald
Emerald is a stone of love and romance. It brings and enhances joy, cleansing, clairvoyance, memory, and faith. It also benefits intuition and communication, and promotes truthfulness. Emerald is associated with the heart chakra.
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Epidote
Epidote is a stone of increase. Epidote has a tendency to increase anything it touches, whether the thing it touches is energy or a material object. It is a stone that enhances emotional and spiritual growth. It cleanses repressed emotions once and for all. It opens the way for those who have denied spiritual growth, and those drawn to epidote are being rocked forcefully into spiritual awakening. Epidote also clears the emotional body aura. It stimulates perception, participation and interaction as well as personal power. It also dispels critcalness and closedmindedness. Epidote is also said to promote patience. In the physical realm, it is used to stimulate the immune system, aid digestion, support all healing, and stop panic attacks.
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Euclase
Euclase is called the happiness stone. It increases happiness by stimulating activity ruled by the heart and intuition. The energy of euclase is like a moving river in the way it cleanses blockages from the etheric body. Euclase helps one reach for goals and attain the ultimate in any area. It awakens creativity, and the forces of creativity and manifestation. It is also a wonderful crystal for improving communication skills. Euclase stimulates the crown, throat, and heart chakras.
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Eudialyte
Eudialyte is considered a personal power stone that increases and revitalizes one's personal power. Psychically, eudialyte helps with clairaudience, manifestation, and psychic resonance and abilities, and is a psychically protective stone. It is sometimes considered a "fine tuner". Eudialyte is also a stone of the heart, bringing harmony of heart matters, and dispelling jealousy. As eudialyte combines pink and red, it also brings the root and heart chakras into alignment, as well as activating the heart chakra. Emotionally it is helpful for learning to trust oneself and others, and eases compulsive behavior and thinking. Physically, eudialyte is good for healing the emotions, increasing vitality, eye problems, pancreas, thyroid, and purifying the blood.
Fluorite
Fluorite promotes spiritual and psychic wholeness and development, truth, protection, and brings peace. It protects psychically and in the physical realm. It helps one meditate and learn to go past the "chatter" that our minds tend to generate when first learning to meditate. It can help get rid of mental blocks and similar mental issues. Physically it helps general health throughout the body's main skeletal and muscular systems. All colors are also good for auric cleansing. Mixed colors bring enhanced protection in the areas enhanced by all combined types. Clear fluorite guards against psychic attack and strengthens consciousness. Blue fluorite has the quality of protecting the emotions and restoring emotional balance. Purple fluorite strengthens mystical insight, psychic awareness, and can open the third eye. Green fluorite is an excellent all purpose healing stone that promotes healing on all levels. It also promotes self-love.
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Fluorite, Blue John (Blue John)
Blue John is fluorite from the Blue John cavern in Derbyshire England. It comes in striped colors of mainly purple-red, dark blue, and yellow, which makes it name seem a bit odd to be called Blue John. The name supposedly comes from what the French miners of the past called it “bleu-jaune” meaning blue-yellow. It’s reputedly the most expensive and prized fluorite in the world. Roman legend says that drinking alcoholic beverages from cups or bowls of blue john kept away drunkenness.
Metaphysically, Blue John does have the properties of fluorite in general. Additionally, it is especially good for bringing succor and relief to sensitives and mediums who give too much or take too much in. It is said to bring renewal and energy, as well as strength, health and well-being. Blue John is said to be a catalyst for personal growth, encouraging experimenting, exploring, and understanding. It is a strong teaching and learning stone because of this. It is reputed to work very well with Magnetite for aligning the spine in polarization. Blue John is primarily related to the third eye and crown chakras with the solar plexus chakra tied in.
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Fluorite, Yttrian (Yttrium Fluorite, Lavender Fluorite)
Yttrian Fluorite, also called Yttrium Fluorite or lavender fluorite is an unusual form of purple fluorite. It is a stone of manifestation which is said to help ground the ideas of philosophers, thinkers, and dreamers by manifesting their plans. It is said to make ideas come to life, and is a stone that is thus said to bring self-fulfillment and self-actualization. We all have a little bit of the dreamer in us, so it's easy to see that these energies could be used by all. Yttrian fluorite's mystical energies are said to increase weath and mental prowess, too. It is often used by those in service professions, as the manifestation energies are in great need there. Its mystical energies of making complex ideas and thoughts understandable by most anyone can also be extremely helpful. Yttrian Fluorite is also said to bring serenity and peace by calming the mind. It is used to enhance intuition and bring clarity to psychic readers and clairvoyants. Yttrian fluorite is related to the heart, third eye and crown chakras.
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Fossils
Fossils can help increase accomplishments in the area of business and add excellence to one's environment. They also aid one in being open to change and new ideas. Traditionally, fossils have been used to aid in curing diseases and ailments of the skeletal system, bones, hands, and feet.
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Fulgurites (Fulgerites)
Fulturies are natural glass, usually tubular, formed by lightning strikes in sand or rock. Fulgurites are high energy formations do to the nature of their birth. They are particularly noted for their ability to channel and direct energy. Fulgurites have been used to communicate with aliens and entities, or ascended beings in the spirit world. They are often used for clairaudience. Fulgurites are also used to enhance communication in the physical world, and are used as stones of leadership. Fulgurites are used by Native Americans to bring rain (cloud-busting), and as charms for protection from lightning. Weather-changing of any sort is not recommended, however, unless, as with the Native Americans, one have an exceptionally good sense of the balance of Nature. Physically, fulgurites are used in crystal healing and folklore in treatment of the immune system, ear, nose, and throat ailments, sight, thymus, tumors, growths, and colon.
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Fuschite
Fuschite is a type of green mica. It is sometimes called the "stone of health" in part because it can help access information on health. Fuschite can also help one bounce back after emotional or physical problems. It can also help get information on daily routine, stress, pets, and career. Fuschite also can bring friendliness, compassion, and lightheartedness. It is said to speed deep healing by assisting with recovery and immunity. It also increases energy transfer when multiple stones are used for healing.
Gaia Stone
Gaia Stone is green obsidian from volcanish ash of the eruption of Mt. St. Helen's, and carries strong Earth energy, even the "soul of the Earth." Gaia Stone enhances Goddess connection, connection with Earth and Earth devas. It also brings prosperity. Gaia Stone is especially good for self-healing emotional wounds and past traumas. Gaia Stone is primarily associated with the heart chakra, but can also be used to harmonize all the chakras.
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Galaxite
Galaxite, or Galaxyite, is a micro-labradorite with intense energy. It is sometimes known as the "aura stone" because one of its most noticable energetic characteristics is that of protecting, cleansing, and balancing the aura. It can protect the aura also by stopping energy leakages. Galaxite is also a stone of transformation, especially assisting in spiritual, mystical, and intuitive growth and transformation. It enhances both the conscious intellect and the subsconscious mind, and eases stress and anxiety. Galaxite is helpful for astral travel and astral projection. It can also assist in contacting beings from other dimensions and planes. Physically, galaxite is helpful for stress-related illnesses, anxiety disorders, brain disorders, digestion, metabolic illnesses. Galaxite is associated primarily with the crown chakra.
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Galena
Galena is a primary source of lead, and as such is not recommended for internal use such as making gem elixirs, or for children, and hands and surfaces should be washed after handling. It is, though, a "stone of harmony" and brings healing, calmness, efficiency, receptivity, communication and insight. It has been known to decrease inflammations and skin eruptions, and help with circulation problems and hair growth. Carried in a medicine bag or pocket, though, it has grounding properties.
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Garnet
Garnet is a stone of regeneration and stability. It is said to bring positive thoughts and be excellent for manifestation and bringing abundance. Garnet can boost the entire system's energy and remove negative energy from the chakras. It is said to be stabilizing in that it can bring order to chaos whether internal or external. It discourages disorganized growth, and brings inner strength. It is said also assist mystically with success in one's career and building one's self-confidence and creativity. It is also a protective energy stone which is especially effective for protection from evil, during travel, and from wounds. Garnet has been used to release bad karma, and to encourage movement of the kundalini is an orderly manner. It has also been used to assist in diminishing or eliminating abandonment issues. Garnet is a stone of romantic love and passion which is used in metaphysics to enhance sensuality, sexuality, and intimacy in a balanced way. It is also considered a stone of increasing truth, commitment, and faith. It is said to enhance emotions in a positive way, and also be quite calming. Garnets are used to reduce and eliminate self-sabotage whether conscious or unconscious. Garnet has been used a great deal for gentle spiritual healing, and is used to enhance intuition. Garnet is sometimes called a "stone of health" and lore says that garnet can heal the blood, heart, lungs, spine, bone, cell structure, adrenal glands, acid reflux (GERD), hemhorrage, DNA/RNA, allergies, anemia, skin, reproductive system, physical strength, help assimilate vitamins and minerals, as well as more rapid general healing particularly in areas where regeneration is needed. Garnet is associated primarily with the root chakra, but also with the heart chakra. It is used to remove negative energy from all the chakras. Various types of garnets have their own properties in addition to those of garnet in general and may be related other chakras as well.
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Garnet, Grossular (Grossular Garnet)
Grossular Garnet is a green garnet that has its own energetic properties as well as those of garnet in general. Grossular Garnet is a stone of confidence, and stability in challenges. It is said to be particularly beneficial and stabilizing in lawsuits. Grossular Garnet is used for manifestation and both physical and spiritual abundance. It is also a stone of service, enhancing one's will and ability to serve and energizing cooperative efforts. Grossular Garnet is a fertility stone and said to particularly enhance fertility when one meditates upon it. Physically, Grossular Garnet is used in crystal healing and folklore for acid reflux (GERD), rapid healing after injury, arthritis, rheumatism, strengthening kidneys, skin, mucus membranes, and assimilating Vitamin A. Grossular Garnet is related primarily to the heart and solar plexus chakras.
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Garnet, Hessonite
Hessonite Garnet (Hessionite), is a stone of passion and creativity. In addition to the metaphysical energies of Garnet in general, it is particularly geared toward creative and personal expression. Emotionally, Hessonite Garnet is used in crystal healing for issues of sexuality, emotional balance, and lack of interest in life. Physically it is used in crystal healing and folklore tradition for bladder, intestine, sexual organs, and spleen. Hessonite Garnet is related primarily to the sacral chakra.
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Gaspeite
Gaspeite is a recently discovered stone in the western hemisphere, found in 1966 and was initially a discarded byproduct of nickel sulfide mining. Emotionally, it reduces distress and brings assurance. It also reduces ignorance, particularly emotional ignorance. It also helps attracts friends and friendship. Aboriginals use gaspeite to bring visions and grant success. Metaphysically, gaspeite is best known for helping to bring spirituality into every day life. It brings good fortune and helps prevent loss. Physically gaspeite has been used for heart problems, lungs, andgallbladder. Gaspeite is primarily related to the heart chakra.
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Germanium
Germanium is an elemental metal. It is almost never found on its own in large quantities as a solid metal, but is a component of certain hard to find ores, found in various vegetables and waters, and is used in Argentium Silver. It is said to be found in large quantities in the holy waters at Lourdes, France, for instance. Germanium is said to be an excellent energy conductor, and to project protective energies. It is said to be a boost to inner journeys and astral travel. It is purported to be helpful in crystal healing for strong healing of all kinds, cancer, immune system support, viruses, stimulating natural "killer" cells, AIDS, HIV, healing at a cellular level, oxygenation of the blood, and antibiotic effects against bacteria. Germanium, as a white metal, is associated primarily with the crown chakra.
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Girasol
Girasol, also known as "Blue Opal Quartz" and "Moon Opal" though it is not an opal at all, is a stone of gentle but powerful energy. It can enhance and mirror feelings. This makes it excellent for visualization, imagination, dreamwork, and guided direction of energy. Girasol enhances communication skills including freely speaking thoughts you've been holding back. Girasol encourages and enhances creativity in the artistic and practical areas. It is also a powerful healing stone that works in a strong but gentle way to enhance healing on all levels. Girasol is particularly helpful for metabolic disorders like diabetes and others, and fatigue and chronic fatigue.
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Glass, Dichroic
Dichoric glass was originally created for the space and laser industries, and was developed extensively by NASA. The word dichroic means "two colors" because of the two or more colors that the glass reflects and transmits. Dichroic glass is said by some to have no metaphysical properties. However, as everything has an energy vibration of some sort, which is what gives a material its metaphysical properties. Additionally, the glass is made with metallic oxides which would bring their properties to it. Intuition says that dichroic glass can be helpful for seeing past illusions, communication with stellar beings, bringing child-like joy into your life, and meditation. It can certainly be used effectively as a focal point in meditation by staring into the layers of color of the glass.
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Glass (Manmade)
Glass is an ancient material, one of the most ancient known and used by man. The first glass used was natural obsidian, volcanic glass, used to make arrowheads, knives, jewelry, etc. Glass objects created of manmade glass are reported to have been found as early from as 4,500 BC in Mesopotamia and 3,000 BC in ancient Egypt. Many consider glass to have no metaphysical properties, but others who are aware, realize that glass has energy like all else in the Universe, and thus has its own set of properties. Glass is a melding of the traditional four elements, because through fire and air the silica earth element is made molten and transmuted into a liquid only to return to its earthly state as a solid. It can be made to focus light or allow light to pass through invisibly or carry lightwaves great distances through tiny strands. Metaphysically, glass represents and carries the energies of transformation, merging of elements, rebirth, focus and communication. The colors of the glass bring the vibrations of those specific color energies.
*Red – The Fire
Keywords: Stimulation, Energy, Assertiveness
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Stimulating, Excites Nervous System, Anti-depressant, Can Stimulate Appetites, Warmth, Energy, Assertiveness, Aggression, Masculinity, Independence, Sports, Competition, Conflict, Potency, Passion, Passionate Love, Romance, Danger, Revolution, War, Yang
Healing Lore: Fatigue, Colds, Chills, Blood, Circulation, Energizes Senses, Stimulate Ovulation, Stimulates Menstruation, Stimulates Growth, Adrenal Activity, Raise Body Temperature, Anemia, Eases Stiffness, Alleviates Constrictions, Physical Strength, Spine, Feet, Hips, Legs
Color Cautions: Excessive red can be overstimulating and cause irritability. Can stimulate cell growth, therefore is not appropriate for cancer treatment.
Related To: Fire Element, Root (Base) Chakra
*Orange - The Warmth of the Fire
Keywords: Warmth, Optimism, Creativity
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Warmth, Cheering, Passion, Creativity, Creative Thinking and Expression, Find New Options, Creative Decision-making, Good Luck, Charm, Kindness, Enthusiasm, Encouragement, Optimism, Success, Abundance, Prosperity, Celebration, Energy, Achieve Goals, Investments, Legal Success, Sensuality
Healing Lore: Emotionally Uplifting, Alleviates Emotional Repression, Sexual Issues, Thyroid, Muscle Cramps and Spasms, Increases Lactation, Bladder, Bowel (Large Intestine).
Color Cautions: Excessive use can lead to overexcitement or overindulgence.
Related To: Combination of Fire and Air Elements, Sacral Chakra, Autumn (Fall Season)
*Yellow – The Airborne Sparks of the Fire
Keywords: Joy, Success, Mental Clarity
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Joy, Cheer, Commerce, Business, Success, Alleviates Psychological Depression, Lust for Life, Mental Clarity, Progress, Change, Business Communication, Learning, Knowledge, Personal Power, Optimism, Test Phobias, Travel, Visualization, Emotional and Mental Vitality, Hope, Cheerfulness, Curiosity, Relaxation, Relieve Stress, Philosophy
Healing Lore: Mental Agility, Nerves, Muscle Energy, Stomach, Liver, Intestines, Digestion, Assimilation of Nutrients, Shooting Pains, Scarring, Skin (especially pores), Acne, Dermatitis, Eczema
Color Cautions: Excessive use can induce overactive thinking, obsessive thinking, rationalization, or superficiality with a tendency to change too often.
Related To: Air Element, Solar Plexus Chakra, Summer Season
*Green – The Harmony of Nature
Keywords: Nature, Harmony, Heart
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Nature, Harmony, Balance, Emotional Balance, Inner Peace, Unconditional Love, Loving Romanticism, Rejuvenation, Abundance, Prosperity, Money, Soothing, Herbal and Plant Magick, Fertility, Sense of Home, Concern for and Love of Fellow Man, Family Life, Youthful Vigor
Healing Lore: Any Healing, Heart, Blood Pressure, Pain Relief, Psychological Problems Dealing with Arrested Psychological Development, Fertility, Growth, Purification of Blood and Lymph Systems, Raises Immunity, Build Muscle Bone and Tissue, Fertility
Color Cautions: An excess of green may stimulate an aversion to conflict, or envy.
Related Elements: Earth Element, Heart Chakra, Spring Season
*Blue – The Singing Voice of Truth
Keywords: Communication, Truth, Loyalty
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Soothing, Alleviates Suffering, Calming, Truth, Wisdom, Loyalty, Tranquility, Communication, Speech, Public Speaking, Peaceful Dreams, Dreamwork, Prophetic Visions, Protection During Sleep, Astral Projection, Magickal Work, Power of the Word, Ideals, Devotion
Healing Lore: Antiseptic, Arthritis Inflammation, Relieve Fever, Cooling, High Blood Pressure, Bleeding, Sinus Headache, Anger-Related Psychological Problems, Hysteria, Anti-itch, Anti-inflammatory, Relieve Pain, Sore Throat, Larynx, Laryngitis, Swallowing Problems
Color Cautions: Excessive use of blue can bring too much cooling energy.
Related To: Air Element, Throat Chakra
*Purple (including Violet) – Inner Sight
Keywords: Mystery, Psychic, Spiritual
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Perception, Psychic Power, Royalty, Transformation, Meditation, Relieve Stress and Anxiety, Spiritual Insight, Spiritual Renewal, Psychic Healing, Balance Polarities, Spiritual Power, Mysticism, Astral Projection, Paranormal Sensitivity, Compassion, Dignity, Mystery, Remove Curses and Black Magick, Inspiration, Active Dreaming, Power, Wisdom
Healing Lore: Mental/Emotional/Psychological Problems, Eyes, Ears, Pineal Gland, Addictions, Alcoholism, Recovery, Stimulate Spleen, Increase White Blood Cells, Decrease Pain Sensitivity, Depression
Color Cautions: Excessive purple can bring an unrealistic and impractical energy.
Related To: Spirit Element, Third Eye (Brow) Chakra
*Black – The Root of Being
Keywords: Grounding, Protection, Survival
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Protection, Grounding, Repel Evil and Negativity, Binding, Freedom from Bad Habits, Access to Deep Unconscious Levels, Seriousness, Secrecy, Underground, Hiding, Primordial Nothingness, Extremes, Survival
Healing Lore: Lower Blood Pressure, Lower Pulse, Compulsive Behavior
Color Cautions: Extreme exposure can cause depression mentally and physically.
Related To: Earth Element, Root (Base) Chakra
*White – The White Light of Spirit
Keywords: Balance, Light, Divinity
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Purity, Innocence, Harmony, Balance, Spirit, Inner Light, Cosmic Consciousness, Divinity, Perfection, Protection on All Levels, Cleansing, Simplicity, Freshness, Completion, Oneness, Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Divination, Invoking Good Spirits, Angels, Higher Self, Spiritual Enlightenment, Serenity
Healing Lore: Healing of Any Illness or Disease by bringing balance and harmony of all spiritual, mental and physical systems, can be a substitute for any other color as white is a blending of all other colors
Color Cautions: An aversion to white may indicate an inability to accept spirituality as a part of life.
Related To: Spirit Element, Crown Chakra
*Gray (Grey) – Neutrality
Keywords: Neutrality, Self-Control
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Neutrality, Dampening Effect, Neutralize Negative Influence, Erasure, Alleviate Stalemates, Deliberateness, Reserve, Refined, Tact, Non-expression, Self-Control, Self-Reliance
Healing Lore: Irritations, Hyperactivity, Mania, Tourette's Syndrome
Color Cautions: Very dark or excessive gray may bring depressive energies.
Related To: Sluggishness or Low Energy of Any Chakra
*Pink – Nurturing Kindness
Keywords: Nurturing, Kindness, Love
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Love, Infatuation, Relaxation, Relieve Tension, Motherhood, Awareness of Life Purpose, Charm and Personal Magnetism, Life Path, Attracting, Increase Speed, Self-Realization, Unconditional Love of Self and Others, Alleviate Jealousy, Grief, Sadness, Youthfulness, Awareness of Deepest Feelings, Tenderness, Nurturing, Caring, Friendship, Feminine Energy, Receptive, Yin
Healing Lore: Overeating, Obesity, Childbirth, Pregnancy, Adrenal Activity, Heart, Emotional Healing
Color Cautions: Excessive pink may incline toward excessive passivity.
Related To: Heart Chakra
*Brown - The Solidity of the Earth
Keywords: Stability, Practicality
Color Energy Properties & Associations: Home, Hearth, Stability, Stamina, Security, Calming, Common Sense, Practicality, Ritual Protection, Humility, Totem Animals, Animal Guides
Healing Lore: Instability of Any Body System, Hyperactivity, AD/HD, ADD, Immune System, Animal Healing
Color Cautions: Excessive use of brown can bring depressive effects.
Related To: Earth Element, Fall Season
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Glendonite (Glendenite)
Glendonite is a teaching stone of learning, discovery, and understanding . It supports the learning process by helping process information and thoughts in easy to understand terms. Because of this, it may help discover one's life purpose. Physically glendenite helps heal broken bones, abrasions, regenerates cells, and makes teeth and bones stronger. It is also known as a stone that helps make a loving home and good family life.
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Gold
Traditional folklore and crystal healing metaphysical lore say the following about gold. Gold can balance energy fields, and is beneficial for opening and balancing the third eye and crown chakras. It can also balance the heart chakra. It can remove negative energy from the chakras and bring in the positive from the stones it is with. It has been used to bring wealth, happiness and good feelings. Gold is a mineral of spirituality, understanding, and attunement to nature. It attracts positive energy and is a great healing mineral.
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Goldstone
Goldstone has been called the stone of ambition and drive, and as such is said to help attain one's goals. Goldstone 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. Goldstone also has many of the metaphysical properties of copper, including strengthening the circulatory system, strengtheningbones, and easing arthritis pain. Goldstone is actually a manmade glass with flecks of copper suspended in it, which give it the sparkles. Goldstone was originally created by French monks, and in time the secret was lost. It's been rediscovered or recreated in modern times, though, and goldstone is a popular material because of its beauty as well as its metaphysical properties lore.
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Goshenite
Goshenite is colorless beryl. It is a stone of truthfulness that encourages truth in all actions and particularly in giving one's word. Goshenite bring self-control, creativity, and originality. It makes communication easier and can stabilize relationships. Goshenite is used for healing the leg muscles.
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Gyrolite
Gyrolite is a mineral that has particularly positive effects on the metaphysical properties of other minerals by activating them and cleansing them. It is used to connect the physical body with the auric bodies. Gyrolite is good for meditation and is said to bring the wisdom of ancient civilizations, insight, willpower, and stability. It is also said to assist with self-confidence, as well as overcome excessive introversion and addictive behaviors. Mystical and Healing Lore purports that gyrolite helps align the spine, assimilation of calcium, cellular maintenance, bone structure, acupuncture, and emotional healing.
Heliodor
Heliodor is a Golden or Yellow Beryl, and as such has energies of Beryl plus its own. Heliodor has strong energies to bring will power and personal power to bear on any challenge. Heliodor is used to remove emotional debris and emotional toxins from toxic people. Heliodor is also used in folk and crystal healing to remove toxins from the body, and treat the spleen, liver, and pancreas. Heliodor is primarily associated with the solar plexus chakra and can be used to activate it.
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Hematite
Hematite is known as a "stone for the mind". It brings mental organization and is very grounding and calming. It helps with original thinking, logical thinking, and mathematics. It decreases negativity and can help balance the body/mind/spirit. Physically it has been used to keep the body cool, to decrease blood disorders, nervous problems and insomnia, as well as align the spine and mend broken bones. Hematite is associated with the root (base) chakra. During my first trip to the Tucson Rock and Gem Shows, I carried a piece of hematite around in each pocket to help ground me from all the strong crystal energy there. Hematite is good at grounding out excess energy and acting as a stabilizing force.
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Hemimorphite
Hemimorphite is a stone that helps one attain a positive self-image including self-esteem and self-respect. It assists in personal growth on all levels, and helps one evolve and transform in healthy ways. Hemimorphite is a stone that bring joy and creativity to one's life. For crystal healing, hemimorphite is an excellent stone that can bring strong but gentle healing energy as well as assisting the healer in accessing ancient healing techniques. Hemimorphite is sometimes used for protection from malice and poisoning. Additionally, hemimorphite brings good fortune and good luck. Physically, hemimorphite is great for regaining or maintaining healing and is particularly healing for pain relief, ulcers, blood diseases, cellular disease or disorder. Hemimorphite is associated with the heart chakra.
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Herkimer "Diamond"
Herkimer Diamond is called the "stone of attunement". While it is not actually diamond, it is a quartz that often resembles the sparkling clarity of diamonds. It can be metaphysically programmed to attune one to an environment, a situation, a quality, or most anything. It is said to assist with balance on the mental, emotional and physical levels. It can be used effectively to clear and open any chakra. It is professed to relieve tension and thereby promote peace of mind. Psychically, it's useful for auric cleansing and dream recall. Mystical lore says that physically it can be used to heal addictions and remove toxins. Herkimer Diamond is associated with the crown chakra.
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Heulandite
Heulandite is in the mineral family of zeolites whose crystals have been grown aboard the space shuttle. It is one of the stones that is said to bring one ancient mystical information from Atlantis Lemuria including techniques and traditions. Heulandite is a stone that promotes receptiveness and having an open mind even in situations that it is normally difficult. As a psychic tool, heulandite is used for past-life recall in addition to accessing Atlantean / Lemurian information. This stone is an excellent emotional healer for dealing with loss of all kinds, especially grief. Physically, heulandite can assist with weight loss (obesity), balance and inner ear problems, foot issues, and respiration. Heulandite is considered to be associated primarily with the crown chakra.
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Hiddenite
Hiddenite is the green variety of spodumene, as kunzite is the pink variety, and it is a stone that is known best for attracting prosperity. It also is a heart chakra stone that provides protection and support for the emotions. Hiddenite helps relieve loss, particularly in the areas of love or money. It is a very calming stone, and helps engender compassion for others. It also brings trust to relationships of all kinds. Psychically, it is said to help connect with other worlds and help transfer knowledge from them and bring insight. It also stimulates the intellect. Physically it is helpful for helping regain youthful-type vigor, skin issues, and circulation, plus any diseases from repressed emotions.
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Holey Stone (Holed Stone, Odin Stone)
Holey Stones, also called Holed Stones or Odin Stones, are stones that have one or more nature-made holes in them. These hard to find stones are considered powerful protection stones that can be worn for personal protection, hung at doorways or windows to protect a home or business, or even hung near a pet's sleeping place to protect the pet. To prevent nightmares, these stones are placed in the sleeping place of the one who wishes to be free of nightmares. Holey Stones are also said to be bringers of high psychic powers. This is noted in folklore to be most powerful when one looks through a hole in the stone to see visions and non-corporeal entities and beings. They are excellent for meditation and creative visualization. For health, crystal healing lore and folklore state that Holey Stones are helpful for healing disease and maintaining general health, particularly when the stone is rubbed on the body of someone sick. They are also said to improve eyesight. Holey Stones are related to the water element.
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Howlite
Howlite decreases an overly critical state of mind, selfishness, stress, pain, and rudeness. It increases sublety and tact. It helps bones, teeth, calcium levels and leg cramps. It also heightens creativity.
Indicolite (Blue Tourmaline)
Indicolite is blue tourmaline, which is probably the rarest form of tourmaline. Indicolite corresponds to all chakras in terms of clearing, but particularly to the throat and third eye chakras. It is said to aid in the quest for spiritual growth. It increases psychic awareness, and increases healing powers. Indicolite can also bring happiness and laughter to your life. It also promotes inspiration of all kinds, and lessens fear. Indicolite is a protective stone that can dispel curses and protect from all dangers. In the physical realm, indicolite is said to benefit the lungs, larynx, thyroid, heart, internal organs, and parasympathetic nerves.
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Infinite Stone (Infinite)
Infinite is often called "the healer's stone." It is particularly useful for healers, athletes, chronic pain sufferers, and others who have an ongoing need for healing energies. Infinite is a soothing and calming stone. It is used in crystal healing to draw pain out from affected areas. It does, however, need to be cleansed regularly. Although both shades are equally valuable, some people prefer the lighter shades, and others the darker shades to work with. It is said to be excellent for the treatment of joints, muscles, connective tissue, and is excellent at pain relief. It has been called a miracle-working stone.
Iolite (Water Sapphire)
Iolite is popularly known as water sapphire, although it is not a type of sapphire at all. It is, however, one of the best stones to use in psychic, healing, and spiritual activities. It can open one to psychic talents and expand them, and is excellent for use on the 3rd eye and crown chakras. It was used in thin sheets by the ancient Vikings as a "lens" to see during their ocean voyages, as the world's first polarising filter, and is often known as the Viking stone. It is thus said that iolite can bring clear psychic vision. It can also enhance curiosity. It is also an excellent stone for meditation and astral travel. It helps one grow spiritually in a gentle fashion. Iolite is considered a very strong "Shaman" stone, and can stimulate visions. Iolite is very helpful when dealing with addictions, including alcoholism. It is also said to help build relationships of all kinds. It assists in detoxification as well as maintaining sobriety. Iolite is also said to help build relationships. In the physical realm, iolite is used to help heal sore throat, varicose veins, and blisters.
Jade
Jade is a stone of the heart. As such it is related to the heart chakra and has a beneficial effect on all heart chakra related issues. So, of course, it can attract and enhance love of all kinds. It is also a stone of fidelity and generosity. It is also considered to be good for the physical heart and for emotional balance and stability. Jade is also very helpful as a stone of abundance. Physically, jade is used to heal lung problems, kidney problems, immune system weakness, PTSD, and nervous system overwork.
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Jade, Nephrite
Nephrite jade is a stone of the heart. As such it is related to the heart chakra and has a beneficial effect on all heart chakra related issues, and all love relationships. It is also considered to be good for emotional balance and stability. Jade of all kinds is a very protective stone and is particularly good protection for children, against illness, and for psychic protection. It has energetic clearing properties, and is useful to keep with other stones. Physically, nephrite jade is used in the crystal healing of the physical heart, and kidney problems.
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Jasper
Jasper is a stone of gentleness and relaxation. It enhances one's ability to relax and brings tranquility, comforting, wholeness, healing, and gentle endings. It is sometimes called the nurturing stone for its nurturing and protective energies. Psychically, jasper is used to assist with astral travel. In the physical realm, jasper is used for the liver, gallbladder, soothing the stomach, and balancing yin/yang energies. Jasper is a variety of quartz, so it also has the metaphysical and healing lore energies of Quartz.
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Jasper, Black (Blackstone)
Black Jasper is a stone with a highly protective energy. It also has very healing energy. Black Jasper is said to bring good luck to the bearer in a fight, whether it be a mental, political, legal, or other type of fight. It is also used for protection against lightning. Black jasper is said to have energies of determining value; It was used as a touchstone for determining gold content in allows for thousands of years. In addition it has the other properties of jasper. Physically, black jasper is said to be helpful for relieving pain, stomach ailments, foot problems, and hip dysplagia. Black jasper is related to the root chakra. Black jasper is sometimes called "blackstone".
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Jasper, Brecciated
Brecciated Jasper (sometimes spelled brecceated jasper or bracciated jasper) has the qualities of enhancing organizational abilities, relaxation, and a sense of wholeness. It is occasionally used to assist when dowsing. It aligns the chakras and balances the yin-yang, physical, and emotional. It is a stone of protection, and is used in particular for protection during astral travel. Brecciated jasper encourages attunement and communication with animals and can help with animal allergies, plus other allergies. It brings happiness and a good outlook on life and eases stress. It is also said to bring energies for success in work. Brecciated jasper can help increase physical endurance and ward off dehydration. It is also a good stone for grounding oneself and is associated with the root chakra. Red Brecciated Jasper is often called Poppy Jasper.
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Jasper, Dalmatian (Dalmation Jasper, Dalmation Stone, Dalmatine)
Dalmation jasper is a stone that lessens or removes disillusionment. It helps one to see their strengths and weaknesses, and encourages grounding both with the Earth and in reality. Dalmatian Jasper increases loyalty and is beneficial for long term relationships. It brings a sense of fun to one's life. Physically it can help purify the blood. It is a stone of protection from nightmares, depression, and negative thinking. It is also particularly beneficial for healing people who have trouble relaxing and having fun.
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Jasper, Fancy
Jasper is a stone of gentleness and relaxation. It is professed to enhance one's ability to relax and bring tranquility, comforting, wholeness, healing, and gentle endings. As with all jaspers, it is also a good protection stone. In mystical healing lore, jasper is said to be good for the liver, gallbladder, and soothing to the stomach. Fancy Jasper is reputed to be particularly good at bringing energies of wholeness and healing to an environment or situation.
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Jasper, Kambaba
Kambaba Jasper is an exotic looking jasper from Africa. It is said to mystically soothe the nerves and state of mind. As with other jaspers, traditional lore says that it is good for grounding and protection. It is purported to be beneficial for plant growth and health, particularly in arid environmentsor where the soil is poor. Crystal healing lore says that Kambaba Jasper helps dietary stabilization, assimilation of vitamins and minerals, and cleansing the body of toxins.
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Jasper, King Cobra
King Cobra Jasper is known as the counselor's and therapist's stone. It is a very calming and nurturing stone that can help alleviate anger and bring contentment and order out of chaos. It is a good tool for organization. King Cobra Jasper is particularly helpful in dealing with mental disorders because of these traits. It is also a very protective stone, particularly in cases of hospitalization.
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Jasper, Leopard Skin (Leopard Stone)
Leopard skin jasper (also called leopard stone) is a stone of shamanic journeying. It also aids in service to others. It helps discover and connect with one's animal totems or "power" animals. It makes it easier for one to take responsibility properly. Leopard skin jasper is said to bring energies of success in work or business. Helps with creative visualization. As with all jaspers, this is a protective stone, and it is particularly protective during shamanic journeying. Physically it helps eliminate toxins and decrease body odor, and is very helpful in self-healing. It has properties of protecting the third chakra, but is associated mainly with the root chakra.
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Jasper, Mookaite (Mookaite, Mook Mook, Mook Jasper)
Mookaite is a stone of the "here and now." It can help one balance the internal and external and acceptance of change. It helps with living meditation, where one makes a meditation of any act one does. Mookaite is a very protective stone, and is particulary good as an emotional protector. In the physical realm it is said in crystal healing lore to stabilize health and fortify the immune system. Mookaite is associated with the lower chakras.
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Jasper, Morrisonite
As with all jaspers, Morrisonite Jasper is a stone of gentleness and relaxation. It enhances one's ability to relax and brings tranquility, comforting, wholeness, healing, and gentle endings. Morrisonite is an expecially nurturing stone as it works on the heart chakra energies. Psychically, morrisonite jasper is used to assist with astral travel as with other jaspers, for energizing the heart chakra, and for bridging the heart and root chakras to bring loving to survival. In the physical realm, jasper is used in crystal healing and folklore for the stomach, heart, cardiovascular system, blood pressure, gall bladder, GERD, lymph system. Morrisonite is associated primarily with the heart chakra and bridging the heart and root chakra energies.
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Jasper, Ocean
Ocean Jasper is very soothing and helps to love one's self as well as others. It is very healing of the emotions and brings peace of mind. It helps with acceptance of responsibility and increases patience. The circulars patterns on ocean jasper symbolize and help us realize that we are all interconnected and nature is a cyclical pattern. It can also help with circular breathing for healing or meditation. Being a type of jasper, ocean jasper is a very protective stone, and any orbs ("eyes") enhance this in regard to protection from the "evil eye." Physically, ocean jasper is beneficial to the digestion, digestive organs, removing toxins, lessen body odor. Ocean Jasper is related to the heart chakra.
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Jasper, Picture
Picture jasper helps create harmony, proportion, creative visualization, positive things in business pursuits. It brings and shows hidden messages from the past as well as hidden thoughts, fears, and hopes. These qualities make it useful as an emotional/psychological healing stone.
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Jasper, Poppy (Red Brecciated Jasper)
Poppy Jasper is the reddish variation of brecciated jasper. Sometimes it is just referred to as brecciated jasper, but the modern term is poppy jasper. It has the qualities of enhancing organizational abilities, relaxation, and a sense of wholeness. It is occasionally used to assist when dowsing. It aligns the chakras and balances the yin-yang, physical, and emotional. It is a stone of protection, and is used in particular for protection during astral travel. Poppy jasper encourages attunement and communication with animals and can help with animal allergies, plus other allergies. It brings happiness and a good outlook on life and eases stress. Poppy jasper can help increase physical endurance and ward off dehydration. It is also a good stone for grounding oneself and is associated with the root chakra.
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Jasper, Rainforest (Australian Rain Forest Jasper, Rhyolite, Ryolite)
Rainforest Jasper or Australian Rainforest Jasper, is more specifically known geologically as rhyolite or ryolite. It is known as a stone of resolution and perseverence. It is said to help communication of all kinds, and helps one listen easily and without distorting the message one is hearing. It is also a wonderful stone for meditaiton. Rainforest Jasper balances the Yin/Yang (masculine and feminine) energies. It can help one allow other people into their lives, even if one has been reclusive or solitary. It is also a stone of protection. Physically, Rainforest Jasper is used for cleansing the liver, regeneration, and general healing. It is related to and helpful with the solar plexus chakra primarily, and also the throat chakra.
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Jasper, Red
Red jasper is called a stone of fairness and justice because mystical lore claims that it decreases unjustness and helps in unfair situations. It is also said to enhance responsibility, choice, and compassion. Used in mystical dreamwork, it can enhance dream recall. It is said to assist in protection and rescue from danger. Red jasper is associated with the first and second chakras. Metaphysically, it is purported to have a stabilizing effect, and help one take all one's energy and use it in a balanced manner. It is also said to be a stone that helps in all areas of survival, and is a very protective stone. Red jasper said in gemstone lore to be a stone of controlled passion and used to help control one's own passions. Crystal healing lore says that physically it assists in healing by maintaining positive movement with all types of disorders and disease.
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Jasper, Yellow
Yellow jasper has characteristics of helping one be strong and balanced in the social arenas and protects one's social welfare. It is associated with the solar plexus (belly) chakra. Yellow jasper is a protective stone that particularly gives protection during travel, both physical and spiritual. It also shields one from negativity, and can protect from depression.
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Jet (Black Amber)
Jet is also known as black amber, although it is not actually an amber, but rather fossilized coal. It was used extensively in mourning jewelry in Victorian times and was considered a stone for alleviating and bringing grief to the surface to be healed. It has also historically been used as a protection stone and is said to have very powerful protection energies to ward off evil, negativity, and psychic attacks. It is also said to protect finances and protect from depression. Jet is related primarily to the base chakra, but when used on the upper chakras it helps kundalini move to the crown chakra. Mystically, jet is considered a stone of sympathy, healing grief, psychic experiences. It is said by intuitive sources to be an excellent calming stone, and helpful for treating epilepsy, migraines, stomach pain, colds, glandular problems, and lumpathic problems.
Katanganite (Katangite)
Katanganite is a variety of Plancheite, and as such it has the energies of Plancheite as well as its own. It is said to raise vibrations and bring energy and power. It is used mystically for design, development, fame, strength and courage. Strength and courage is especially seen during stressful times and situations. Katanganite is a stone of protection from negative energies. Katanganite is a highly psychic stone used expecially for clairvoyance, clairaudience, astrology, and automatic writing, as well as finding and working with Spirit Guides. It is said to help bring positive energy from the planets as they move through the Houses of astrology. Katanganite is used for meditation and visualization. In crystal healing it's used for tonsilitis, throat cancer and illnesses of the throat, and coagulation of the blood.
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Kinoite
Kinoite is a stone of communication of higher truth. It is used to avoid and eliminate delusions and self-limiting concepts. It is also excellent for bringing psychic abilities into the realm of easy communication, so that psychic vibrations can be imparted with a gentle but firm voice of truth. Kinoite is excellent for channeling from other dimensions and spaces. As such with these energies, Kinoite is said to especially enhance the first bloom of spirituality in one. Physically, Kinoite is used in crystal healing and folk healing for teeth, throat, nerves, calming, and increasing stamina. Kinoite is related primarily to the throat chakra, but also associated somewhat with the third eye chakra.
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Kunzite (Pink Spodumene)
Kunzite is said to help one to understand and interact better with others, to help heal "broken hearts", to relieve stress and anger, and to bring love, peace and harmony. It is also a stone that is used in metaphysics to removes obstacles. Kunzite is said to help strengthen the circulatory system, and to be helpful in the treatment of lung disorders. Kunzite is associated with the heart chakra.
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Kyanite
Kyanite is a stone of channeling, altered states, vivid dreams, dream recall, and visualizations. It gives protection during these states. It brings loyalty, honesty and tranquility, and diminishes anger and confusion. Kyanite does not retain negative energy and never needs energetic cleansing. It does align and balance all chakras, often very suddenly. Kyanite can remove energy blockages. Green Kyanite is particularly good for balancing the heart chakra and maintaining heart balance. Blue kyanite is associated with the throat chakra and is a boost to meditation. Black kyanite is also a boost to meditation, and is associated with the root chakra. Black kyanite is also very protective and deflects negativity.
Labradorite
Labradorite (also called Spectrolite sometimes) is a considered by mystics to be a stone of transformation. It is said to clear, balance and protect the aura. It is purported to help provide clarity and insight into your destiny, as well as attract success. It is used in metaphysics for dream recall, and finding ways to use dreams in daily life. Mystically, energies of stress and anxiety are reduced by labradorite. Labradorite is said to increase intuition, psychic development, esoteric wisdom, help with subconscious issues, and provide mental illumination. Labradorite is associated with the solar plexus and brow chakras.
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Lapis Lazuli (Lapis)
Lapis (lapis lazuli) brings truthfulness, openness, inner power, intuition, creativity, virility and manifestation. It strengthens the mind and body as well as increasing awareness and spiritual connection/evolution. It can help organize daily life as well as organizing and quieting a busy or restless mind. Lapis is also used to contact guardian spirits. Lapis also helps build self-confidence, and is a stone traditionally for royalty. Lapis bring spiritual love and is also known for enhancing love and fidelity within marriage. Lapis is also said to help one overcome shyness. It is associated with the throat and brow chakras and can help one say just the right thing, as if by magic. Lapis is also a stone that protects from both physical and psychic attacks. Lapis is also helpful for sinus ailments, headaches, nervous system, speech problems, pituitary gland and pain relief.
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Larimar (Blue Pectolite)
Larimar found only in the Dominican Republic, is a stone of "answers from the sea of consciousness." The blue color of the larimar reflects the "sea" of all consciousness, which gives freedom from self-imposed limitations and a sense of peace in finding truth. Larimar has excellent energy for working with sea creatures of all kinds. It is particularly good for communication with dolphins. It has some ability to enhance communication in general, with other animals, as well as people. It can be used for dimensional and cellular work, and stimulates the heart and higher chakras. Being open to answers from the sea of consciousness gives a sense of serenity, love and peace. Larimar is good for calming excess energies and it balances energies.It is also used in crystal healing and folklore for healing maladies of the throat and upper respiratory system, schizophrenia. In addition, it can help one maintain one's personal energy and independence in a calm, collected fashion. Larimar is associated with the throat chakra and the Water element.
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Larvikite (Norwegian Moonstone)
Larvikite is said to be an excellent stone for various psychic and esoteric uses. It is said to stimulate and enhance inner vision, psychic abilities, past life recall, remote viewing of the past, inter-dimensional travel andm ore. Larvikite is also said to be excellent for Elemental Magick and to connect with nature spirits. It is said to help one read between the lines to understand what others mean on both a conscious and unconscious level. On a physical level, crystal healing lore says that Larvikite is good for renewing and maintaining vitality and youthfulness, as well as brain maintenance and healing. Larvikite is generally associated with the third eye and throat chakras.
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Lepidochrosite (lepidocrocite)
Lepidochrosite is a stone that is said to bring one to choose highest love and integrity. It also eliminates distraction and confusion, helping one think clearly. Because of all this, it lessens negative thinking and negative mental habits. Physically, lepidochrosite is used for circulation. When found in combination with quartz, the quartz amplifies the properties of the lepidochrosite.
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Lepidolite
Lepidolite is a stone of calm, trust, and acceptance. It has a strong relaxing and calming effect. It brings hope and is a stone of transformation in that it helps one get through transitions with trust that everything will ultimately turn out for the best. It engenders and enhances self-love, patience, and optimism. Emotionally, lepidolite is an excellent healer. It greatly decreases stress, anxiety, depression, manic-depression, despondency, PTSD, anger, and other traumas, panic attacks, and addictions. Psychically, lepidolite is used for dreamwork, rebirthing, and is also good for dream recall. Lepidolite is also a protective stone that brings success in business or career. It can also bring a growing energy to gardening and agriculture. Physically, lepidolite is helpful for healing of glands, immune system, skin, nails, hair, DNA, enzyme balance, addiction and alcoholism recovery, pregnancy, childbirth, and general healing. Lepidolite is related primarily to the heart chakra, and also to the crown chakra. When combined with rubellite (pink tourmaline) it is an extraordinarily powerful agent for calming and healing, especially in the emotional areas.
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Lodestone (Magnetite)
Lodestone is used in many ways. It can align the chakras, and balance yin/yang energies. It is used to lessen or dispel grief, fear, anger, confusion, and attachment. It helps relieve burdens and increase energy and endurance. It is said to have been used to make soldiers invulnerable. Lodestone has a receptive, attracting energy that attracts power, as well as good fortune, and love. It also guards against infidelity. Lodestone is related to the astrological signs of Aries, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Virgo. It is said to strengthen the circulatory system, help with healing blood and bleeding problems, alleviate pain, boost the immune system, relieve agitation and depression. Magickally, lodestone is used for its power of attraction, and can be placed on an altar or worn during a ritual to increase a spell's power. It's been used for millennia for amulets and talismans. Lodestone is excellent for grounding and protection from evil and spells.
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Lodolite (Lodolite Quartz, Lodelite, Lodalite, Scenic Quartz, Garden Quartz, Landscape Quartz)
Lodolite is a type of included quartz crystal with inclusions of many possible colors and types, often having the look of gardens, landscapes, or underwater scenes. Thus, lodolite is often called garden quartz, landscape quartz, or scenic quartz. It's often used in meditation practices. Another metaphysical use of lodolite is to bring energies to effect manifestation of one's desires. Lodolite is also said to enhance communication with beings on the spiritual plane and heighten one's spiritual energies. It is used mystically to increase ESP and bring knowledge from your past lives. Lodolite is said to bring loving energies and energies of gentle strength. Mystically and in crystal healing, lodolite is purported to be an excellent healing stone bringing strong healing energies and energetic shifting so that healing will occur. Lodolite is associated primarily with the crown chakra.
Malachite
Malachite is a stone of transformation and helps with change and spiritual evolution. It can clear and activate all chakras, as well as balance them. Malachite is a stone that bridges the energy of the heart and root chakras. It is particularly useful for balancing and clearing the heart chakra. As such, it helps balance pure love, romance, and one's own well-being. Malachite is a stone of good fortune and prosperity/abundance, too. Malachite is also a very protective stone, being especially helpful for general protection, protection from evil, protection during pregnancy and childbirth, and protection for children. It is also an excellent protection stone during flying and other travel. Using this stone, one can counteract self-destructive romantic tendencies and help encourage true, pure love. Malachite is also good for enhancing emotional stability and balance in general. It can decrease one's tendency to radiation illness, asthma, arthritis, and tumors.
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Marble, Picasso (Picasso Stone, Picasso Jasper)
Picasso Marble has strong metaphysical qualities of grounding and calming. It also promotes weight loss and assists in the development of creativity, as well as engendering strength and self-discipline.
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Mariposite
Mariposite is said to be a stone that reduces stress and helps us be calm and balanced. It is a stone said to help us adapt to change and be more flexible as well, from a calmer spiritual space in the face of change. This calm and balance from reduced stress also helps reduce fear, which in turn breeds more calm and balance. Mariposite is also said to help cope with energy overload, and avoid or eliminate exhaustion. It is also a stone of creative self-expression.
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Mica
Mica is a group of minerals, also called Isenglass and Glimmer. All share common properties as well as each type having its own properties. Mica has reflective qualities to recognize flaws and see them with love. It is used to improve visions and clarity in mysticism. It is said to help eliminate negative personality traits by helping one recognize them. Mica is said to enhance flexibility in all realms and also assist growth in those areas. It is used to diminish anger, hostility, and nervous energy. Mica aligns energy of the body and releases blockages of energy within the body. Physically, mica is used in crystal healing and folklore to reduce hunger when fasting, insomnia, mononucleosis symptoms, dehydration. It is also said to provide energy and purpose. Mica comes in many colors and is associated with the chakra of similar color. Some types of Mica are Lepidolite, Muscovite, Fuschite, Phlogopite, Biotite, and there are others.
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Moki Marbles (Moqui Marbles)
Moki marbles have long been used as a shamanic stone. It brings a knowledge and deepening of ancient ways. Moki marbles often have a slight magnetic charge, and they stimulate chi. They may be used to contact your animal spirits, totems, and guides, and to aid in shapeshifting. They help a great deal with grounding and centering. Physically they are beneficial for the veins, arteries, muscles and immune system. They have a protective quality and are useful for protection against psychic attacks and other unbalancing forces.
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Moldavite
Moldavite is a tektite and is the only "extraterrestrial" gemstone, which is found only in the Moldau Valley in Czechoslovakia. Lately there have been other green tektites or imitations that are called "moldavite," but only the Czech moldavite is the "real thing." It is associated with the heart and third eye (brow) chakras, as well as the crown chakra. Moldavite is also associated with the Star card of the Tarot. It strengthens and enhances inner journeys, channeling, cosmic consciousness, crystal consciousness, expansion, contact with interdimensional or extraterrestrial forces. It is a powerful stone, and its energies can at first be intimidating for those that are not aware of its energy, and tends to bring issues to the surface to be transformed, thus making it called "stone of transformation." When wearing moldavite, it is best to be mentally prepared and be properly grounded. Moldavite diminishes contracting or withdrawing energies. Moldavite in any form increases the depth and clarity of inner journeys. Moldavite has been said to raise the vibrational level of both the human race and the Earth. Physically, moldavite works excellently with other crystals and stones to raise the vibrational level of all healing, and also heals hair loss, fertility issues, and promoting new cell growth.
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Molybdenum
Molybdenum is a mineral that brings balance and continuity to life. It can help engender reliability and constance in one's environment and self, giving equilibrium in all areas of life. Molybdenum is also a super stress reliever. It can also be useful in retaining possessions and making progress. Molybdenum enhances communication between conscious and inner selves, as well as filling in holes or voids in the aura. It balances the chakras, as well as the physical body and the mind. Molybdenum is helpful for all types of healing because it energetically balances the body toward health.
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Moonstone
Moonstone is associated with the heart chakra. It can help calm responses and avoid overreaction; enhances feminine energies, sensitivity, intuition, and psychic abilities. It is also said to bring strong energies of abundance to one's life. Moonstone is a stone of protection, especially during childbirth, pregnancy, and travel at sea. It is a stone of calm and relief from emotional stress. It is also associated with love of all kinds. Physically it aids the pituitary gland and digestive system, obesity, water retention, hormonal problems, menstrual problems. Moonstone is also used as a stand in for pearl, when pearl is not available.
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Moonstone, Rainbow
Rainbow moonstone has a gentle, calming energy. It helps to strengthen intuition and psychic perception, and enhances creativity, compassion, endurance and inner confidence. It is a stone that brings balance and harmony. The Rainbow effect brings in a spectrum of light, and can help with clearing and bringing in uplifting energies. It has been said to have the power to grant wishes. Rainbow Moonstone is primarily related to the Crown Chakra.
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Morganite
Morganite is known both as an angel stone and a heart stone. It can bring love to one's live or rekindle old love. As an angel stone, it is known to help with communicating with angels. Morganite also brings compassion, empathy, self-control, and patience. It can also balance emotions and ease the pain of separation. It has been said to be one of the highest frequency stones available. Physically, morganite is used for healing emphysema, tuberculosis, heart disease, breathing problems, and throat problems. Morganite is associated primarily with the heart chakra, and can open, balance and clear this chakra.
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Mother of Pearl
Mother of Pearl gets its name from the fact that it is the iridescent lining of shell, where pearls can grow. Mother of Pearl has both traditional and New Age metaphysical and healing lore. It is said to attract prosperity. It is used in mystical work and lore to heighten intuition, psychic sensitivity, and imagination. It is purported to protect from negative influence, and transmute negative energy. It is said to be highly protective and a particularly potent stone of protection for children. A traditional lore use of Mother of Pearl is to purify environments. Mother of Pearl is also used in metaphysics to access primordial and racial memories. Crystal healing and folklore say that Mother of Pearl is helpful for high blood pressure, dizziness, improving vision, cataracts, and wound healing.
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Muscovite
Muscovite is a type of mica that comes in pinks, browns, clear and yellows. It has both the properties of mica as well as its own particular ones. It is a stone of angelic contact, and can bring awareness of the higher self. Mystically it is used in scrying and can contact the highest spiritual planes, as well as assist with astral travel. Muscovite is also good for lessening insecurities, self-doubt, and brings self-confidence and optimism. It is considered good for problem-solving, self-reflection, and dealing with major life changes. Physically, muscovite is used in crystal healing to balance the pancreas, control blood sugar, heal dehydration, kidneys, hunger pangs while fasting for medical or spiritual purposes, insomnia, allergies, disease-related conditions.
Novaculite
Novaculite is known as the "Cord Cutting Crystal." It is used psychically to cut psychic or etheric cords. It can also be helpful for "cutting through" problems, getting past problems, and finding solutions. Novaculite is useful for alleviating depression and despair. Physically novaculite is helpful for healing of clinical depression, obsessive disorders, warts, and moles. Novaculite energizes all the chakras.
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Nuumite (Nuumit, Nuummite, Nuummit)
Nuumite is a very protective stone. It can protect one from negative energy of many, many kinds by wearing or carrying the stone, and is often sought for this shielding property. It is also helpful for removing energy blockages, and to clear the aura. Nuumite is also good for synthesizing psychic and intuitive wisdom with intellectual thought. Physically nuumite is used in general healing, infections, purifying blood, kidneys, insulin production regulation, eyesight, and CNS (central nervous system) disorders. Nuumite opens and clears the heart chakra, and will also activate and integrate all the chakras.
Obsidian, Black
Obsidian is a very protective stone, and is excellent for removing negativity. It is also excellent protection against psychic attacks. In particular obsidian protects the gentle from abuse. It is a very grounding stone, and very healing. Obsidian is also an excellent manifestation stone. Physically it benefits the stomach, intestines, muscle tissue, and can rid one of bacterial or viral infections. It sharpens and focuses internal and external vision, and helps get in touch with buried issues before they explode. Obsidian is related to the root chakra.
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Obsidian, Rainbow (Sheen Obsidian)
Rainbow Obsidian is called a "stone of pleasure" because one of its most notable attributes metaphysically is bringing pleasure, enjoyment and joy to one's life. It also brings love and light to one and can bring out the Spiritual. Rainbow Obsidian is used psychically to enhance clairvoyance and is an excellent scrying stone, especially in the areas of love, relationships and self-development. It is also a very protective stone, and is especially effective in protection rituals and amulets, where it works by grounding out negativity to let light in. Thus, it is also a very grounding and centering stone. Rainbow Obsidian is primarily associated with the root chakra.
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Obsidian, Snowflake (Snowflake Obsidian, Gray Snowflake Obsidian, White Snowflake Obsidian)
Snowflake obsidian has the property of bringing things to the surface. The things brought to the surface could be positive or negative, love, anger, secrets; but with snowflake obsidian, these things are brought to the surface more gently that they might be otherwise. Snowflake obsidian can provide balance during times of change. It aids in seeing patterns in life and recreating them in a more beneficial way. It is a stone of serenity and purity, and can shield against negativity. It is associated with the root chakra and is beneficial for the veins, skeleton, and smooth skin. Snowflake obsidian gives protection from physical and emotional harm.
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Okenite
Okenite is often called a "warm and fuzzy" stone because it brings feelings of the "warm fuzzies", feelings of comfort and belonging. Emotionally okenite encourages forgiveness of self and others, and lessening of denial. It can bring truth with self and others and ease the harshness of that truth. It also helps break bad habits of all kinds. In the psychic realm, okenite is an excellent helper stone for channeling angels and other benign beings. Okenite is a purifying stone. Physically okenite is helpful for blood diseases and problems, lowering fever, stomach problems, and slowing aging. Okenite is associated primarily with the crown chakra but can align and purify the energy of all chakras.
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Onyx
Onyx is associated primarily with the root chakra. It assists with challenges in life, especially those caused by a drain of energy. It prevents the draining away of personal energy and can be used for protection from such. It also helps with grounding and controlling or eliminating excess or unwanted energies. It has been used for wound healing, childbirth and to increase stamina and self-control. Black onyx and red onyx are associated with the base (root, first) chakra. White onyx is associated with linking the base and crown chakras to have balanced energy throughout the chakra system. Other colors are associated with the related chakra by colors.
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Opal
Opal is a stone of inspiration which enhances imagination and creativity. It helps one release inhibitions and enhances memory. Opal is also a very spiritual stone, and can help one be "invisible" in situations where they don't care to be noticed. Opal brings happy dreams. It also eases the process of change. Physically, opal is said to be helpful for eyesight and Parkinson's disease.
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Opal, Blue Peruvian (Blue Andean Opal)
Blue Peruvian Opal is mystically known as a stone of courage and ingenuity. It is said to improve self-esteem and self-love. It is also said to be an aid to creativity and communication of all types. It is reputed to help one find a confidant. Peruvian blue opal is also said to help with stress reduction, fatigue, and weight loss. Crytal healing lore reputes that Peruvian (Andean) blue opal is physically healing for fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, metabolic balance issues, iron absorption, dizziness, and brain disorders. Blue Peruvian opal is associated primarily with the throat chakra.
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Opal, Mexican Fire
Mexican Fire Opal shares the properties of all opals and also has its own personality and energies. Mexican fire opal brings vitality and a creative energy to endeavors. It also had energies of ability to handle change well and comfortably. Mexican Fire Opal is also a stone of sensuality and sexuality, enhancing those energies. It is often used in clairaudience as well. Mexican Fire Opal is said to help with headache pain. Yellow Mexican Fire Opals are associated more with the solar plexus chakra, Orange with the sacral chakra, and Red with the root chakra, though all colors are also associated with the lower chakras in general.
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Opal, Mexican Water
Mexican Water Opal also shares properties of all opals in addition to its personal energies. Mexican Water Opal has a Yin, receptive energy. It brings a strong motherly energy to activities to support beginnings and learning, especially. It is used for clairvoyance and other intuitive awareness. Mexican Water Opal is reputed to help with feminine health problems, lungs, and throat illness. It is commonly associated with the higher chakras.
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Opal, Pink Peruvian (Pink Andean Opal)
Pink Peruvian Opal is a stone of love and gentleness. It brings energies of gentle love and kindness to both romantic relationships and relationships of other kinds. As with other opals, it also brings inspiration, imagination and creativity. It can help release inhibitions and brings happy dreams. It also eases the process of change. Physically, pink Peruvian opal is helpful for eyesight, heart disease and injury, Parkinson's disease, lungs, and spleen. Pink Peruvian opal is associated primarily with the heart chakra.
Papagoite
Papagoite is said to bring optimism. Historically it has been used to bring peace and purity. It helps one speak with clarity. It is also used for thought projection. In meditation, it can help bring one to a euphoric state of oneness. It is associated primarily with the third eye chakra, but also aligns all the chakras.
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Pearl
Pearls attune the wearer to ebb and flow of life. They are calming and centering. They give purity and promote faith, charity, and integrity, truth and loyalty. They especially enhance personal integrity. They help one connect with the Goddess, the ultimate feminine energy. Pearls have been used to treat disorders of the digestive tract and muscular systems, as well as to aid fertility and to ease childbirth.
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Peridot
Peridot is associated with the heart chakra, and can be used to balance and stimulate that chakra. It is a stone of compassion. It has a friendly energy and is excellent for healing. It assists in rebirth and renewal of all kinds. Peridot also bring abundance and prosperity. It enhances the healing and harmony of relationships of all kinds, but particularly marriage. Peridot can lessen stress in relationships, anger and jealousy, slow aging, and heal ulcers and digestive problems. It also assists in finding what is lost, and strengthens ESP abilities. It has been said to make a shield of protection around the body of any wearer of peridot.
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Petalite
Petalite is sometimes called the "Stone of the Angels". It is excellent for spiritual healing. It also encourages and promotes connections to angels, spirit guides and totems. It is said to lift one to higher awareness and allow access to higher dimensions. It has been used to protect Shamans during ceremonies such as medicine wheels. It is extremely useful for astral travel and meditation because it will ground and protect you during these activities. It will also dissipate and remove negative energy and black magic spells. Petalite is also a stone of peace that can bring gentle calm in most any situation. It is also great at enhancing and increasing intuition and psychic abilities, and increases one's ability to feel subtle energies. Petalite balances yin/yang energies and aligns and balances mind/body/spirit. It is related to and works best on the throat and crown chakras.
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Phenacite (Phenakite)
Phenacite, also spelled Phenakite, is often considered the highest energy crystal in existence. It is said to stimulate the Third Eye chakra very strongly, which in meditation can bring great and deep knowing. This crystal is used extensively for meditation, intuition, and psychic awareness. As a high energy crystal it also enhances and facilitates the energies of other crystals. Phenacite is used in crystal healing and Lightwork to clear, cleanse and activate all chakras, the body, energy centers, energy paths, where energy centers and paths may be those inside the body or within a community or other "body". Phenacite is also said to be able to make contact with Masters and Angelic beings of Light. Physically, phenacite is used in crystal healing lore for all types of healing as it has the extremely high vibration that can multiply the energies of other stones used in crystal healing. In folk healing it has been used for the spine, throat, hypothalamus, amygdala, carotid arteries, and jugular veins. Phenacite is associated with the upper chakras.
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Phlogopite (Phlogopit)
Phlogopite is a member of the mica group and biotite subgroup. As such it has both the properties of Mica and Biotite, plus its own distinctive properties. In the Native American tradition, Phlogopite is used to bring energy from the four directions, Mother Earth, and Father Sky. It is a stone said to bring and speed evolution and revolution in all areas, bringing one to proper paths. It is also used to remove spiritual blocks. Phlogopite is a stone of flexibility of perception and adaptation of that perception to integrate the past, present and future. It is used extensively in channeling, including blocks to conscious awareness during channeling. Emotionally, Phlogopite is said to be helpful for relieving mental anguish. Physically, Phlogopite is said in crystal healing and folklore to be beneficial for back pain, muscle relaxation, retaining teeth, integrity of bone structure, mononeucleosis symptoms.
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Phosphosiderite
Phosphosiderite is unusual in that it is an iron mineral, and these seldom show purples, though it also comes in more usual red, brown, or yellow colors too, as well as colorless. Phosphosiderite is an excellent healing stone, so it's often called the "Stone of Healing and Hope". It is used to assist with finding balance and stability, which can help one in everyday life as well as in healing. Phosphosiderite is also used to access and work with past life memories, and the third eye chakra.
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Pietersite (Tempeststone)
Pietersite helps one see beyond the immediate to beauty in the All. It enhances courage, tenacity, and ability to maintain or create what is yours. Spiritually and psychically, pietersite helps in working with angels, experiencing visions, and precognition, relating to feminine or goddess energy, as well as astral and dimensional travel. Emotionally, pietersite helps to relax, and release deep emotions in a calmer way. Physically, pietersite balances body fluids, improves nutrition, helps with gastrointestinal functions, and helps the endocrine glands, balances female homones, alleviates PMS and menopause symptoms. Pietersite is also excellent for improving memory.
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Plancheite
Plancheite is an energetic stone that raises vibrations. It is used metaphysically for design, development, worldly power, fame, strength and courage. The strength and courage is especially seen during stressful times and situations. Plancheite is a protective stone for dealing with negative energies of all kinds. Psychicly Plancheite is used to stimulate higher energy in the higher chakras for astrology divination, psychic skills, visualization and automatic writing. It is said to help bring positive energy from the planets as they move through the Houses of astrology. In crystal healing it's used for tonsilitis and coagulation of the blood.
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Prasiolite
Prasiolite is named for the Greek words "prason" meaning leek, and lithos "stone", for its leek green color. It's also called vermarine or green amethyst, and is technically a greened amethyst. In metaphysical lore, Prasiolite is a stone of originality and courage and can foster self-reliance in all situations. Prasiolite is also a prosperity stone, said to attract abundance. It can help strengthen and express emotions as well as the mind and will. It is also said to be highly beneficial for prophesy. It is used in crystal healing for cleansing the body of toxins of all kinds, tumors, stomach acid, ulcers, assimilation of nutrients, and healing the whole body from a spiritual level.
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Prehnite
Prehnite is a very protective stone and can protect one on all levels. It strengthens the life force and generally increases and stimulates energy, while at the same time bringing powerful calming energies. Thus, prehnite is said to ease worries and restlessness of all kinds. It aids spirit communication through meditation or visualization, out-of-body travel, and is a powerful dream stone. Prehnite is also known as a stone of prophesy which stimulates inner-knowing. Physically, prehnite is helpful in the healing of gout, anemia, and kidney problems.
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Psilomelane (Crown of Silver)
Psilomelane is a stone that is considered excellent for gazing and scrying. It is used in mysticism for out of body travel and gazing at any distance. For gazing at a distance it must be programmed beforehand in order to see things relevant to your query. It is used also for many other kinds of trances. Psilomelane is used in emotional crystal healing to recognize patterns and uncover hidden motivations. This can help one to correct emotions and behaviors that are unloving or not useful to Life. Physically, in crystal healing and folk healing, Psilomelane is used for many lung conditions including pneumonia, clearing the lungs, lung walls, as well as skin inflammations, carbohydrate conversion, insulin regulation, and diabetes. Originally Psilomelane from the Silver Crown Mine in Mexico is called "Crown of Silver", although this moniker is now used for this stone from any mine. Psilomelane is associated with the third eye chakra and linking energies between the third eye, crown, and root chakras.
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Purpurite (Purperite)
Purpurite is a stone that helps break away from self-destructive or self-limiting patterns, as well as external restraints. It helps one speak with confidence. It increases spirituality, promotes inner growth, and stimulates the ability to absorb spiritual insights. Purpurite is also a stone that can bring prosperity and help with finances. Physically, purpurite is helpful for wounds, bruises, uric acid levels, and purifying the blood.
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Pyrite
Pyrite is a stone of intellect and protection. It enhances intelligence, mental stability, logic, analysis, creativity, memory, and psychic development. It can help you tap your own latent mental talents and abilities. Pyrite is a powerful protection stone, and is very grounding. Pyrite is also known as Fool's Gold and Healer's Gold. Pyrite additionally is a stone that brings energies of good luck or good fortune.
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Pyromorphite
Pyromorphite is a mineral that enhances the energies of other minerals. Pyromorphite is said to attract money and other objects of wealth, and can help one see the steps to take to achieve goals, giving it the nickname "the Victory Stone". It also activates and stimulates one's personal energy. Pyromorphite can be used to get rid of creative blocks. It is also used to renew connections with people one has lost touch with. Pyromorphite should not be used directly to make elixirs. Pyromorphite is excellent for healing because of its enhancement of other stones used in crystal healing. Physically, pyromorphite is used for chills, gum disease, removing organisms from the blood, and assimilating B vitamins.
Quartz (Colorless Quartz, Clear Quartz, Rock Crystal Quartz)
Quartz is a power stone that harmonizes and balances. It enhances energy and thoughts, and purifies the spiritual, mental, and physical. It is also a powerfully protective stone, bringing the purified energy in. Historically this crystal has been used to counter black magic, to perform diagnostic healing, and to communicate with spirits and other worlds. Clear quartz, as opposed to colored quartz, is associated with the crown chakra, but also works well on all chakras.
Alternate Names & Name Spellings: Rock Crystal
Chemical Composition: SiO2
Hardness (Mohs): 7
Color(s): Clear, White, Pink, Brown, Gray, Black, Green, Blue, Orange, Purple (Amethyst), Yellow (Citrine)
Lustre: Vitreous
Transparency: Transparent, Translucent
Habit: widely variable, trigonal-trapezohedral, crystals often columnar
Common Locations: Found all over the world, most notably Brazil and Arkansas, USA.
Rock Lore & Tidbits: Quartz is the most common mineral on the planet. It is a component of a huge variety of rock types, and comes in an extensive range of colors and varieties. Chalcedony is a crypto-crystalline variety of quartz and includes the agate and jasper families. Many colors of quartz or formations have their own names, such as amethyst for purple quartz. The word quartz is thought to come from the German word "quarz", but the origin of that word is not known. The word crystal, however, comes from the Greek word "krystallos" which means ice. Ancient Japanese believed quartz formed from the breath of a white dragon, and regarded it as representing perfection. Australian Aborigines used quartz in rain rituals. Crystals skulls were reportedly made by Atlanteans and are believed by some to be living entities. Clear quartz formed into spheres have been used as crystal balls to predict the future at least since the middle ages.
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Power, Clarity
Quartz is a power stone. It has been called the "Universal Crystal", and is the most recognized type of crystal. It's what many people envision when they think of crystals, even though there are many types of crystals. Quartz can be icy clear or have inclusions, veils, bubbles, etc. Visual clarity normally isn't important to a quartz crystal's energetic quality and ability to amplify subtle energies.
Quartz enhances energy by absorbing, storing, amplifying, balancing, focusing and transmitting. It channels universal energy. Quartz also enhances thoughts, as they are a form of energy. Because it directs and amplifies energy, it is extremely beneficial for manifesting, healing, meditation, protection, and channeling. It is also beneficial for storing and retrieving information of all types, as information is a form of energy pattern also. This makes them particularly good for programming. Due to its ability to balance, quartz is excellent for harmonizing and balancing one's environment. Quartz is also good for energizing other crystals.
Quartz is a stone of clarity which dispels negativity and clears away negative energy. It can be used to purify and clarify on the spiritual, mental, and physical planes. It is also powerfully protective. Quartz enhances spiritual growth, spirituality and wisdom. Because it clarifies though processes and emotions it increases inspiration and creativity. It can also help particularly with concentration, studying, and retaining what one learns. Quartz is also a stone of harmony because it balances energies, and is even helpful in romantic relationships.
Psychically, quartz is a powerful stone. It is used for protection because it counters black magic and protects from negative energy. Quartz is very useful on the third eye chakra for clarity of psychic vision, and can be used to communicate with spirits and other worlds. Quartz is a stone that can access ancient wisdom and bring it into the present. It is a very good stone for astral travel, manifestation, scrying, channeling, dream recall and dream work.
Quartz is a Master Healer stone. It is an excellent all purpose healer. It amplifies healing energy and is used to perform diagnostic healing. It has been used historically to detect food poison. It is said to draw out pain. Quartz fortifies and strengthens all systems of the body. Quartz is reputed to be particularly effective for chronic fatigue, arthritis, bone injuries, depression, fibromyalgia, intestinal troubles.
It also improves mental and physical energy, stamina, and physical strength .
Clear quartz is associated with the crown chakra, but also works effectively to balance and energize all chakras.
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Quartz, Angel (Amphibole Quartz, Angel Phantom Quartz)
Angel Quartz is found only in Brazil at Minas Gerias. Angel Quartz is said to be excellent for attracting and working with angels. Some Angel Quartz crystals even show phantoms that resemble angel's wings. It's also used in metaphysics to create balance in any aspect of life, and act from Universal love, as well as to contact one's Spirit Guides. It's also used in mystical energy work for astral travel, lucid dreaming, and interplane or interdimensional communication, as well as communications with the Higher Self . Angel Quartz is said to be a stone of emotional clarity and balance in particular, particularly as it's reputed to shield one from verbal abuse. Angel Quartz is a wonderful aid to meditation. In crystal healing and energy healing, Angel Quartz is said to be helpful for problems of the eyes, digestion, fevers, and pain. Angel Quartz is associated primarily with the third eye (brow) and crown chakras.
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Quartz, Blue (Dumortierite Quartz)
Blue quartz, sometimes called dumortierite or dumortierite quartz, enhances organizational abilities, self-discipline and orderliness. This enhancement is believed to be due to the effect it can have of balancing the throat chakra and enhancing communication between lower chakras/physical energy and the higher chakras/mental/spiritual energy. It highly reduces difficulties of scattered mind and disorganization. In addition, it encourages one to see and accept reality, and react to it in an intelligent manner in one's own behalf.
Alternate Names & Name Spellings: Dumortierite Quartz, sometimes called just Dumortierite
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Peace, Expression
Blue quartz, also called dumortierite, is a stone of order that can enhance organizational abilities, self-discipline, and orderliness. This enhancement is believed to be due to the effect it can have of balancing the throat chakra and enhancing communication between lower chakras (physical) and higher chakras (mental/spiritual). Blue quartz brings this sense of order to all things, and releases fear, bringing courage to one's life. It is also a boost for creativity and expression.
Emotionally, blue quartz greatly reduces problems with scattered mind and disorganization, and brings mental clarity. It also helps one to see and accept reality, and react to it intelligently in one's behalf. It can lift depression and replace it with peace and happiness. It also can help reduce stubbornness, particularly stubbornness that is ultimately bad for one. Blue quartz helps reduce emotional tension.
In the psychic and spiritual realms, blue quartz brings spiritual development, and contact with spirit guides and angels. It can also help you express your spiritual thoughts and dreams. Blue quartz is excellent for peaceful mindfulness or meditation.
Physically, blue quartz can help with cooling the body, throat, thyroid, and parathyroid, detoxification, overstimulation, hyperactivity, spleen, endocrine system, blood.
Blue quartz is associated with the throat chakra, and it enhances communication between the lower and higher chakras.
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Quartz, Fairy (White Fairy Quartz)
Fairy Quartz is a fledgling Spirit Quartz, showing the milky white lazer wand point and a light coating of smaller crystals growing on it. Fairy Quartz has a very soothing energy, which brings peace and calm to those in its energy field, including the groups, families, and individuals. This soothing energy is extremely beneficial for emotional pain or illness. It also brings heightened energy even as it calms. Fairy Quartz is great for meditation. Physically, Fairy Quartz is used for detoxifying the body and tissues, removing pain, and overall healing.
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Quartz, Gold Reef
Gold Reef Quartz is a combination of clear quartz and chlorite. The quartz brings high energy and chlorite is a very power healing mineral. Gold Reef Quartz is good for crystal healing layouts, warding off psychic attack, warding or guarding an environment. They are excellent healing stones, and are helpful for healing on all levels. Gold Reef Quartz can also help diminish and remove anger, frustration, and hostility.
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Quartz, Hematoid (Hematoid Quartz)
Hematoid Quartz is quartz with hematite.As a natural combination, the Hematoid Quartz, combines the high energy of Quartz with the stabilizing energy of Hematite. It also adds its own synergy to the mix. The synergystic mix also has energy of accelerating healing and pain relief, maintaining emotional balance during times of stress, and clear thinking. I first encountered Hematoid Quartz when I'd hurt my wrist, I came across hematoid quartz in a little shop here in town. I thought they looked neat, and I love both quartz and hematite, so I started playing with them. My mind almost popped when I placed one on my hurt wrist and the pain just stopped and never came back. While that may be just an odd coincidence, I was amazed and thrilled, to say the least. Hematoid Quartz closes the energetic loop between the Root and Crown Chakras.
Quartz, Himalayan Ice (Nirvana Quartz)
Nirvana Quartz grows high in the Himalayan mountains. As it is twisted and shaped by the ice that forms there, it is a type of growth interference crystal. Himalayan Ice Quartz brings energies of perseverence, very high energy Spirituality. They are said to attune one to potential of all that can be. It is an awesome tool for meditation, and is said to bring visions of the path to one's destiny. This crystal is primarily associated with the crown chakra. White crystals are associated with masculine energy and are associated with the third eye as well as crown chakra, and the pink crystals with feminine energy and is also associated with the heart chakra.
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Quartz, Kundalini (Kundalini Quartz)
Natural Citrine from the Congo has become known as "Kundalini Quartz" because of its powerful Kundalini moving energies. It's said to move energy upwards from the base chakra to the crown, opening each chakra along the way. This can be a very intense experience as the energy spirals through each chakra, so it's best to be prepared for it energetically. Citrine is a type of quartz, and the general properties of Citrine such as success, will power and others, also apply to Kundalini Quartz. Like other types of Citrine, Kundalini Quartz also does not accumulate negative energies.
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Quartz, Lithium
Lithium Quartz is a super high energy healing and balancing stone. It is said to be self-clearing and self-cleansing, and from my experience with it, I'd say that's correct. Lithium quartz sends and receives energy as well as storing it. 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. It works in a gentle and slow but steady and powerful manner, not causing the discomfort of sudden change that some crystals might at times. Lithium quartz is excellent for meditation and prayer. It is used to heal repressed grief and anger, as well as emotional issues from past lives. It is also said to purify water. Physically, lithium quartz is used in crystal healing for stress related disorders, depression, bipolar disorder, muscular tension, repetitive motion injuries. Lithium quartz is related to activating and balancing all chakras and is handy to work with any individual charka also.
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Quartz, Phantom
Phantom crystals are wonderful awareness tools. They can give a sense of magic that most of us have lost along the course of our lives. Phantom crystals can help us increase awareness of evolution, in ourselves and in the world around us, showing how growth, rest, and rebirth cycle through all existence. Psychically, phantoms are considered excellent for past life work and meditation, and is valuable for the mystic or spiritual seeker. Physically, crystal healing and folk lore say that phantom crystals are excellent for initiating healing, bringing great energy to the healing process, and are especially helpful for hearing disorders and emotional healing.
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Quartz, Red Orange River
Red Orange River Quartz is found in South Africa, at the Orange River. Red hematite gives this quartz its deep orangey-red. The combination of the quartz and the hematite energize and at the same time ground you. Red Orange River Quartz is good for helping accept one's life path, and is excellent for self-realization and acceptance. It is helpful for clear thinking and decision making. It aligns the lower chakras.
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Quartz, Rose
Rose quartz is a stone of unconditional love. It opens the heart chakra to all forms of love: self-love, family love, platonic love, and romantic love. Rose quartz has excellent protection energies during pregnancy and childbirth. The elevated energy of quartz gives rose quartz a property of enhancing love in virtually any situation. It also brings gentleness, forgiveness, and tolerance. Rose quartz is also said to be helpful with weight loss. Rose quartz is associated with the heart chakra.
Alternate Names & Name Spellings: "Love Stone"
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Love
Rose quartz is pink quartz that is often called the "Love Stone." It is a stone of unconditional love that opens the heart chakra to all forms of love: self-love, family love, platonic love, and romantic love. The high energy of quartz gives rose quartz the property of enhancing love in virtually any situation. In turn, this lowers stress. All in all it is a very soothing and happy stone.
Emotionally rose quartz brings gentleness, forgiveness, compassion, kindness and tolerance. It raises one's self-esteem and sense of self-worth. It helps balance emotions and heal emotional wounds and traumas, even grief, bringing peace and calm. Rose quartz removes fears, resentments and anger. It can also heal and release childhood traumas, neglect, and lack of love, in part by enhancing inner awareness. It can help with reconciliation with family and others. Overwhelming or unreasonable guilt is eased by rose quartz.
In the psychic and spiritual realms, rose quartz is often used to attract love, and for love spells. It is also used to ease the process of transition in dying. Rose quartz can be helpful for dream recall and dream work.
Physically rose quartz is used in crystal healing to benefit the heart, the circulatory system, fertility, headaches, kidney disease, migraines, sexual dysfunction, sinus problems, throat problems, depression, addictions, ear aches, slowing signs of aging, reducing wrinkles, spleen problems, fibromyalgia, and reaching one's ideal weight / weight loss. Rose quartz is also helpful and protective during pregnancy and with childbirth. It is also sometimes said that rose quartz is helpful for supporting brain functions and increasing intellect.
Rose quartz is associated with the heart chakra.
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Quartz, Rutilated
Rutilated quartz is said to assist with tissue regeneration, assimilation of nutrition, and slow the advancement of aging. It is also said to boost the immune system and treat respiratory illness. Rutiliated quartz is also a mystical crystal "diagnostic tool" which can help discover the true cause of an ailment. Rutilated quartz is also purported to enhance mental and physical stability, self-reliance, and meditation on feminine ideas. It is reputed by intuitives and folklore to diminish fears, depression and issues with decision-making. Rutilated quartz is associated with the solar plexus chakra.Alternate Names & Name Spellings: Rutile in Quartz, Venus' Hair Stone
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Mystical Lore Keywords: Move Energy
Rutilated quartz, is a type of quartz with needlelike rutile (a titanium dioxide mineral), embedded in it. The rutile needles can be reddish, which is what rutile means in Latin, or they may be golden, silvery, or on very rare occasions, greenish.
Rutilated quartz is reputed to be an energizing stone that helps get energy moving on all levels. Intuitive sources say that it assists with mental focus. It is also said to attract love and stabilize relationships. Rutilated quartz said to be particularly effective for getting things moving energetically. It can help slowed chakras return to normal spin and balance.
Emotionally, rutilated quartz is said to be very helpful in uncovering the causes of mental issues and hang-ups. It is reputed diminishes fears and be excellent at assisting with decision-making processes. It is said that it can also ease loneliness and relieve guilt thereby bringing happiness happiness. It is used metaphysically to help one get out of a rut with their life as well as for stabilizing emotionals and mental processes, clarifying thought patterns and emotional reactions. Rutilated quartz is also said to increase one's self-reliance and ability to find one's own way.
In the psychic and spiritual realms, rutilated quartz is used for meditation, spiritual communications, and dream work. It is particularly good for seeking higher spiritual experiences and meditation on feminine ideas. Rutilated quartz is also used metaphysically to deflect negative energies and unwanted energetic, psychic, and magickal interferences.
Physically, rutilated quartz is said to be beneficial for food disorders, the immune system, regeneration of tissue, fatigue, depression, respiratory illness, stability of all physical systems and general health, and absorption of nutrients from food. It is also reputed by intuitive sources to be helpful for getting energy moving in meridians and areas where the physical energy is sluggish. Rutiliated quartz is also a mystical crystal "diagnostic tool" which can help discover the true cause of an ailment.
Rutilated quartz is associated with the solar plexus chakra, and is sometimes considered a link between the root and crown chakras.
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Quartz, Smoky
Smoky (or smokey) quartz is a grounding and stabilizing stone. It brings calm and centering, lifts depression, enhances practicality, and generally removes negative energies, bringing happiness. Smoky quartz is also a good luck stone. It can also assist in tapping subconscious wisdom. Smoky quartz is a protective stone, particularly for physical protection, protection from negativity, and psychic protection. Physically, smoky quartz is helpful for kidneys, abdomen, pancreas, reproductive organs, menstrual cramps, fertility issues, water retention. Smoky quartz is associated with the root chakra.
Alternate Names & Name Spellings: Smokey Quartz
Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Grounding, Remove Negativity
Smoky quartz is an excellent stone for removing negativity and negative energy of any kind and transforming them to positive energy. It is also a very protective and grounding stone. It brings physical, protection, psychic protection and protection from negative energy. It enhances survival instincts, and can help one reach personal and business goals, as well as assisting in making wishes come true. Smoky quartz is beneficial for groups, and engenders cooperation. It also helps with creativity, prioritizing needs and wants, and wisdom. In addition, smoky quartz is a stone that brings abundance, prosperity, and good luck.
Emotionally, smoky quartz is excellent for elevating moods, overcoming negative emotions, and relieving depression. Smoky quartz relieves stress, fear, jealousy, anger and other negative emotions by transforming them into positive energies. Smoky quartz is very comforting and calming, and can be considered a stone of serenity. It can, therefore, be very helpful in relieving grief.
In the psychic and spiritual realms, smoky quartz grounds one during meditation, and can provide a grounded link between the physical and higher selves, helping to uncover subsconscious wisdom. Using smoky quartz during meditation enables you to reach higher states of consciousness. Smoky quartz also stimulates kundalini. Because smoky quartz transforms and removes negative energy, it also protects and cleanses the aura and astral bodies. It can be used for psychic shielding.
Physically, smoky quartz is said to treat all kinds of problems associated with the lower torso including kidneys, abdomen, pancreas, reproductive organs, menstrual cramps, fertility issues. Smoky quartz also removes toxins from the body and helps the adrenal glands. It is also very helpful for regulating body fluids and relieving fluid retention. Smoky quartz is also excellent for dealing with hyperactivity, and attention deficit disorder. Smoky quartz is good for balancing and improving one's general health.
Smoky quartz is associated with the root (base) chakra.
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Quartz, Snow
Snow quartz is a stone that brings good fortune. It is also a calming and soothing stone. Snow quartz is helpful for meditation, and looking within. It also has all the properties of clear quartz to a lesser degree. Snow quartz is often used for purification. Physically, it is beneficial for the immune system.
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Quartz, Spirit (Porcupine Quartz, Cactus Quartz, Spirit Crystals)
Spirit Quartz was known as porcupine quartz or cactus quartz until it settled into its "real" name. Spirit quartz is reputed in the metaphysical lore to bring qualities of energy, peace, and positive energy to all realms. It is said to transform negative energy into positive energy, thereby being a very protective stone, and excellent for auric shielding as well as mental and physical types of protection. Spirit quartz is also excellent and often used for astral projection, dreamwork, shamanic journeying, and rebirthing. Emotionally it is said to remove fear, bringing emotional peace and happiness. Spirit quartz works very well with other minerals and can boost their energy as well as cleanse and activate them. Physically spirit quartz is used in traditional folklore and crystal healing lore for skin disorders, allergic reactions, colon disorders, detoxification, obsessive disorders, familial abuse related stress disorders. Spirit quartz is associated primarily with the crown chakra, but will work to align and balance all chakras together.
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Quartz, Tangerine
Tangerine quartz is an orange colored quartz that, as with all quartzes, has the properties of clear quartz, plus its own properties. Tangerine quartz enhances one's strength to continue all endeavors. It also helps balance or level the emotions, making one feel more calmly detached instead of panicky or upset. It expands etheric vision. It enhances encounters with others and facilitates giving and receiving, and bring a sense of expansiveness to relationships. Tangerine quartz can increase and enhance evaluation and evolution of the inner self. On the physical plane, tangerine quartz has been used for reproductive system disorders, weight loss, and AIDS. Tangerine quartz is related to the 2nd chakra which it activates to promote creativity and sexuality.
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Quartz, Tourmalated (Tourmilated Quartz, Tormilated Quartz, Tourmaline in Quartz)
Tourmalated quartz, also known as tourmaline in quartz, is an excellent protective stone, and brings balance and inner strength. It deflects and grounds negativity, and reduces anxiety and depression.
Rhodizite
Rhodozite is sometimes called the "master crystal." It is a truly positive energy stone that never needs to be cleared or charged. Rhodizite assists with astral travel by helping you get and process the information needed from the astral travel. It is also very helpful for meditation, making stilling the mind much easier. Madagascar Shamans are said to use rhodizite for "cloud busting" and initiating rain. Energetically, rhodizite is very powerful for unlocking and clearing blockages, and activating all the chakras. Physically, rhodizite is helpful for cancer, tissue inflammation, cellular diseases, pH balance in the body, stabilizing brain function, and is an excellent energy booster for all types of healing.
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Rhodochrosite (Rhodocrosite)
Rhodochrosite is an elegant pink and white stone called the "stone of love and balance" as it balances and enhances love on all levels. It allows fuller love to enter one's life, in part by calming excessive passions. It energizes and cleanses the base, sacral and heart chakras, as well as balancing the mental and emotional processes. Traditionally rhodocrosite has been considered good for the digestion, the heart, the kidneys, the pulse rate, and the thyroid.
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Rhodonite
Rhodonite is a stone of Grace and elegance. It decreases anxiety while increasing attention to detail. It works beneficially on the heart chakra, opening one to unconditional love and increased service to mankind. It is a stone of inner growth as well, and helps with self-love. It is also a calming stone, with energies used for easing anger. It is said to bring emotional balance, and as such bring confidence in one's life in many areas. Rhodonite is also a stone of contrasts. The bright pinks indicate energy that enhances passionate love, and is used in metaphysics to attract a good mate. This stone can help one have a passionate love that is also grounded, or help mend a broken heart. Rhodonite is a stone often used in crystal healing for healing trauma and abuse issues. Physically it has been said to help with emphysema, joint inflammation, ears, heaing, immune system, the pituitary gland, thyroid, light sensitivity, strep throat and heart disorders.
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Richterite
Richterite is a stone of calmness, relaxation and strength. It is said to help lessen the "fight or flight" syndrome associated with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) and other anxiety states. It is said to help one balance action and reaction, and handle life in a calm, steady, and strong manner. When one is already in a relaxed state such as meditation, richterite can profoundly deepen the relaxation, allowing the body freedom to heal more fully, grow stronger, and for the mind to expand into higher states of awareness. As a throat chakra stone, richterite is involved with communication, but rather than external communication it is primarily involved with communication within the entity or person. Physically richterite is used in folklore and spiritual healing to aid in healing of circulation problems, glandular problems, particularly thyroid problems, respiratory problems, parasites, fevers of various kinds, and typhoid. Richterite is commonly associated with the throat (5th) chakra.
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Rubellite
Rubellite is pink to red tourmaline. It is a stone of balance and calm. Emotionally, rubellite helps bring emotional balance and helps open up, relax, and detach from personal pain. It can be used with lepidolite as a super-powerful energy for calming people in distress. As prosperity is a natural effect of a life in balance, rubellite also brings abundance. Rubellite is also a stone of passion, bringing passionate energy and love. Physically, rubellite balances the body's electrochemical system, strengthens immune system, heals backaches, and reproductive system disorders, detoxifies the blood, assists with recovery, and eases the effects of radiation poisoning. Rubellite is associated with the sacral and root chakras, as well as the heart chakra.
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Ruby
Ruby brings integrity, devotion and happiness. It also enhances generosity and brings prosperity. Ruby brings and increases romantic love. Ruby is a stone that has been known to be very protective of home, worldly possession, children, and psychic protection. It is a stone of high energy and power that promotes healing on all levels. Ruby is associated with the root chakra.
Salt (Halite, Sea Salt, and others)
Salt is a common mineral, and a very important one. It is found in many types... sea salt, halite, himalayan, volcanic, and others. Salt is used for flavoring foods, as most everyone knows. It is also a crucial part of life for us on this planet. Metaphysically, all salts are used for protection in general and protection from evil, especially protection of the home. Salt is used for purification and dispelling negativity in many magical and traditional rituals. It is also used for extending clairvoyance. Salts are used to release attachments, including emotional attachments. It has gentle but strong grounding and centering energies. Salt is a mineral that is said to bring abundance and a rich home life. Physically, salts are used in crystal healing for blood disorders, hypotension (low blood pressure), diarrhea, physical strength, intestines, and to stimulate the meridians. Salts are associated primarily with the root (base) chakra, though salts with different colors also are associated with the related color chakras. All types of salts are related to the Earth element. Sea salts are considered the best for purification, and are related to the Water element as well as Earth. Blue (indigo) halite is used in crystal healing for issues with the thymus, thyroid, and thalmus, as well as for mystical uses for psychic awareness and psychic communication. Pink halite rock salt is said to be excellent for both physical and emotional heart problems. Natural volcanic black salts (lava salts) are related to the Fire Element as well as Earth, and are used in spells and energy work for obtaining desires, manifestation, and releasing.
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Sapphire
Sapphire is a stone of creative expression, intuition, and meditation, and enhances all those things. Sapphire is corundum, and comes in virtually any color of the rainbow including blue, pink, purple, orange (Padparadsha), green, colorless, and red (known as ruby). Sapphire is beneficial for mental clarity and depression. Physically it is good for lowering fevers and inflammation, hearing problems, cancer, and burns. Sapphire is associated with the brow chakra. Various colors of sapphire have properties in addition to the general sapphire properties.
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Sardonyx
Sardonyx encourages self-control and courage in public speaking. Relieves anxiety and grief. Protection, luck, and peace.
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Scapolite
Scapolite is known as a stone of problem solving and achievement. It is said to help find elegant solutions to problems, make changes in one's life, and bring inspiration and strength of purpose. Use scapolite mystically for bringing energies of breaking old patterns of sabotaging self and bringing acceptance of success. In this way, scapolite is a stone of success too. Spiritually, scapolite is said to bring peace of mind and calm debilitating emotions. Intuitives use scapolite on computers, TV's and other electronic equipment to absorb and negate EMF emissions. Folklore and spiritual healing says that scapolite is helpful for eyesight; mental clarity; glaucoma; cateracts; tension and pain in shoulders, neck, upper chest, and head; bone disorders; calcium assimilation; recovery from surgery; arthritis pain; and emotional chaos. Spiritual healers also use scapolite to draw out pain.
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Scolecite
Scolecite is a stone of connections, patterns, and peace. It has energy for helping to see patterns of information, make connections, network, and collect patterns together. With this gentle but powerful energy, these things are brought to bear: growing and improving relationships; understanding, stabilizing and improving organizations and groups; networking with people. It can also assist with understanding the root of a problem or issue or challenge so that it can be worked with and overcome successfully. This energy can help take control of life so that what you want can be manifested. The peace energies of scolecite are far-reaching and can help one learn gentleness, inner peace, living from the heart with peace and lack of fear. Emotionally, scolecite has been used to decrease violence in thought, emotion, and behavior. Physically, scolecite has been used in crystal healing for circulation, blood clotting, clogged arteries, bruises, mental imbalances, eyes, lungs, intesting, misaligned spine, and removing parasites. Scolecite is associated with the third eye and crown chakras.
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Selenite
Selenite is a stone of mental clarity, enhancing mental flexibility and strengthening decisions. It is also a sweet Angel stone, for angelic guidance. With it you can access past lives. It also promotes good business practices. It removes energy blocks from the physical and etheric bodies. It also is said in crystal healing lore to remove blockages for healing, align the spine, good for the skeleton, and decrease epilepsy and seizures. It also has the ability to clear and enhance the energy of other stones that are placed on or near it. Selenite is associated with the crown chakra.
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Septarian
Septarian is a geode that is a combination of yellow calcite, brown aragonite, grey limestone and white/clear barite, thus it has properties of each of its component minerals. Septarian is brings calming energies which have a nurturing feel to them, and can bring feelings of joy and spiritual uplifting. Septarian is used to enhance and nurture communication with groups, making it much easier to speak clearly and kindly in group settings.Septarian is also used to assist with communication with Mother Earth. It is said to bring unconscious foreknowledge needed by the user to help him or her always be prepared for what is coming up. In crystal healing folklore, Septarian is used for healing of the blood and kidneys. Septarian is related to the lower chakras, root, sacral and solar plexus.
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Seraphinite (Serafinite, Serafina, Serefina Chlorite, Chlinochlore)
Seraphinite is often referred to an an angel stone because of its higher energies and relationship with angels. Seraphinite is said to help contact angels and communicate with them. Psychically, seraphinite is beneficial for intuition and psychic awareness. This stone can be very protective of the heart chakra when used over this chakra, and is helpful for sending unconditional love. Seraphinite is a purifying stone that helps one find one's higher purpose and will. Seraphinite is also extremely helpful for all forms of transformation and transmutation, including the magickal kind. Physically, seraphinite is healing for nerves, brain cells, purification of the blood and organs and eliminating toxins, kidneys, liver.
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Serpentine
Serpentine, is a beneficial and versatile stone. It is said by mystics to help with emotional cleansing, psychic powers, and attract love and money. It is also used in the rise of the kundalini, facilitating the rise by opening a path that lessens discomfort. In addition, serpentine is considered a metaphysically protective stone that is especially protective against snakebite, poison, and venom. Serpentine is an excellent stone for meditation. Physically, traditional and mystical lore says that serpentine eliminates parasite infections and removes venom and other poisons. Serpentine is associated primarily with the heart chakra.
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Shattuckite
Shattuckite is often called a stone of reconciliation. It is reputed to have properties of assisting with reconcilation and renewal. Shattuckite is also used to channel information, particularly from extra-terrestrials; and it is used for automatic writing. It is said to calm the mind and create harmony. Crystal healing lore reputes that shattuckite is helpful for healing diabetes, calcium absorption problems, parathyroid, mites and other infestations, and tonsilitis. Shattuckite is primarily associated with the throat chakra.
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Silicon
Silicon, the natural element Si, is the second most abundant element after Oxygen. It is usually found as a portion of something else, in much the same way oxygen is. Quartz crystal, is, in fact, SiO2! Silicon, when purified by man, is a pure element energy, and though "manmade" does have mystical energies, just as Silicon lends its energies to the minerals and other things it is a part of. My initial take on Silicon was that it had energies of enhanced communication, agility of thought, and grace. After more research and time with the element, I've discovered more about Silicon. Silicon is also used to enhance and sharpen mental activity and focus. It is also said to promote discrimination in the sense of being able to sort out the truth from a great deal of possibly conflicting information. When using Silicon, many have found that its energies promote and accentuate positive energies for all situations. Silicon is said to be a great healer, and by some is called a "Master Healer" stone. Physically it is said in crystal healing to help with headaches, eyestrain, as well as repetitive motion injury and other difficulties related to overuse of computers. It is also said to be a great vitality booster, and help strengthen bones and teeth. In crystal healing it is sometimes used to purify the body and mind, and is helpful for enhancing manual dexterity. It is also said to promote increased memory and possibly help with Alzheimer's disease and other dis-ease states that affect the memory negatively.
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Silver
Silver is a mineral that is said to mirror the soul, strengthen the connection between astral and physical bodies, and enhance intuitive and psychic energies. Silver is mystically considered to improve speech, bring eloquence. It is also purported to attract, enhance and store the energies of gemstones, as well as draw out negative energies. Silver is related to the moon, and moon energies. Physically, crystal healing lore indicates that silver is has been traditionally used to aid heptatitis treatments, eliminate toxins, expel toxins through the pores, headache, rheumatic pain, nausea and gastritis, obesity, diabetes, and increase assimilation of vitamins A and E.
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Smithsonite
Smithsonite is a stone of charm, kindness and positive happenings. It is auspicious for new beginnings. It can activate each chakra (energy center) of the body and can be used as a "replacement stone" in crystal healing. It reputedly helps with immune system problems, alcoholism, sinus problems and digestive ailments. It also helps attract new friends.
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Sodalite
Sodalite is a stone of logic, rationality, and efficiency. It is helpful for work in groups and stimulates thought. Sodalite is a stone that is good for healing breaches in communication. It is a stone of truth, and brings this to all communications. It can help end arguments or other disagreements. It is particularly useful for honesty of emotions. It increases intelligence, knowledge and learning, and can unite the logical with the spiritual. Physically it is said in folklore and crystal healing to be beneficial for the glands, digestive system, lymphatic cancer, relieving insomnia, and decreasing calcium deficiency. It is also used in crystal healing for quicker relief of head colds. Sodalite is associated with the throat and brow chakras.
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Spinel
Spinel is a stone that comes in so many colors it's often confused for other stones. It's a valid mineral in its own right, though, and has many positive energetic properties. In metaphysical and crystal healing lore, spinel of virtually any color is known for the following energetic attributes. It is a stone that can bring high energy to all efforts and all realms. In the outer world, spinel is used to attract money, wealth and prosperity. It is also said to be a stone of immortality. Spinel is used in the mental realm for intellectual power and alleviating forgetfulness. Psychically, it is used for aura cleansing, astral travel, channeling, and clairaudience. Emotionally, spinel is used for alleviating stress and depression, bringing calm to those within its energy field. In the physical realm, it is used in folklore and crystal health to benefit teeth, spine, gums, whole body healing, cancer healing, slimming to a healthy weight, and increasing physical energy and stamina. It is related to particular chakras and color healing work according to its color, and is said in all colors to assist with raising kundalini energy.
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Stichtite
Stichtite is a stone that brings emotional awareness and expansion. It is a very calming stone that brings tranquility and peace to individuals and to one's environment. It help one to be gentle with self and others, and promotes keeping promises, openly sharing opinions, and considering all thoughts with love. It engenders loving companionship of all kinds. For family life, stichtite can help children behave positively. Physically, stichtite helps heal teeth, gums, skin elasticity, skin regeneration, mucous membrane problems. Stichtite is associated with the heart chakra, which it helps the passage of kundalini through.
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Stilbite
Stilbite is a powerful mineral. It helps with psychic knowing and intuition. It is also used for psychic direction and guidance from guides, guardian angels, and totem animals. Stilbite is also a powerful stone of creativity that enhances creative energy. It heightens many physical senses, particularly taste (but as Mr Volunteer Man reminds me, the stone itself should not be eaten!) Stilbite can also help with acceptance and letting go. It is also used for manifestation. Physically, stilbite is used to remove toxins, and for laryngitis. Stilbite is associated with the heart, crown, and throat chakras.
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Sugilite (Sugalite, Royal Azel, Lavulite, Luvulite Cybeline, Wesselite)
Sugilite is sometimes known as "the healer's stone" because of its great ability to enhance healing. It is associated with the third eye and crown chakras. It lessens effects of shock and disappointment. In addition to its well known enhancement of crystal healing ability, it also strengthens spirituality, psychic ability and channelling. Sugilite is a stone that helps perfect spiritual love and open the heart chakra to unconditional love. It can help manifest one's natural gifts and protect against harsh realities. It lowers hostility, anger, jealousy and prejudice and gives a sense of freedom. Psychically, it is excellent for all kinds of psychic and spiritual protection. It has been used for headaches and to decrease all types of discomfort. Sugilite is associated with the brow chakra.
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Sulphur (Sulfur, Sulfer)
Sulphur is said in the crystal healing world to be a stone of energy and vitality which can help remove negative thoughts and feelings. Mystically, this is said to help decrease illness by taking away the mental/emotional component. The vitality properties of sulphur are said to bring protection and purification. It is used in metaphysics to purify and detoxify environments, thoughts, and even the energy fields of people. Traditional and mystical lore repute that sulphur is helpful for the skin, digestion, arthritis, recuperation, muscles, back-aches, feet, chemotherapy related discomforts and detoxification of substances or toxins. Sulphur is considered to be related primarily to the solar plexus chakra.
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Sunstone
Sunstone is a powerful stone for dispelling fears and phobias of all kinds. It is also a leadership stone, and brings leadership qualities to its wearer. In addition to dispelling fears and phobias, sunstone also decreases stress and lifts depression. Sunstone also brings good luck and abundance, and turns negative energies and psychic attacks into positive energies. This stone increases personal power and will, as well as life force energy. Sunstone is also said to be helpful in contacting animal or spirit guides. Physically, sunstone is beneficial for general health, physical energy, sexual dysfunction, increasing sexual energy. Sunstone is associated with the sacral chakra.
Tanzanite (gem Zoisite or blue/purple Zoisite)
Tanzanite is sometimes called the "workaholic's stone". This is because it helps you slow down and take it easy. This in turn, brings success in more areas of life. It relieves stress and depression, and enhances composure, poise, and harmony. Tanzanite is also called a "stone of magic" that helps with spiritual awareness and psychic insight. Tanzanite is also said to transmute negativity. Physically it is beneficial for stress related illnesses and high blood pressure in particular.
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Tektite
Tektites are used for wisdom, knowledge, and to help withstand mental or emotional "stumbling." They are also used to dimish or overcome challenges with mental processes. Psychically they are used for extraterrestrial communication, astral travel, and lucid dreaming. Tektites are also used to strengthen one's energy field.
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Thulite
Thulite, sometimes called unionite or pink zoisite is a stone of nurturing in a deep and full way. It aids understanding and healing the pains and illnesses caused by a lack of nurturing, even abuse. Crystal healers and psychic healers will find thulite helpful when working with survivors of incest, physical abuse, emotional abuse, abandonment, and neglect. Survivors themselves often find thulite comforting and helpful in combating self-sabotage, low self-esteem, and other life-long symptoms of abuse and neglect. Others will find that thulite can help them too, by helping them nurture themselves and those they love. Thulite is helpful for bringing healing of eating disorders including anorexia and bulemia, loneliness. Thulite helps bring nurturing love and understanding of love to one's life, and can help bring harmony in relationships or communities. In addition, thulite is a stone for the central nervous system that enhances coordination, concentradion, and dexterity by bringing the mind and body into alignment together to work together at their highest capacity. Artists, craftspeople and others who work with their hands can find thulite extremely helpful. Athletes can also find thulite very helpful because of its boost of these qualities, which can improve their athletic performance. Thulite is usually related to the root chakra, particularly the darker shades, although it is also related to the heart chakra by many.
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Tiffany Stone (Opalized Fluorite, Opal Fluorite, Bertrandite, Ice Cream Opalite, Purple Opal)
Tiffany Stone is a highly energetic but subtle stone. Psychically it helps with communication and interpretation of psychically received information of all kinds, including telepathic, channeled, clairaudience, clairvoyance, and others. Energetically it is excellent for removing energy blockages of the meridians and chakras. Tiffany Stone is helpful emotionally by assisting transitions during changes of all kinds, engendering persistence and emotional strength, and verbalizing hidden or secret feelings. Tiffany Stone is also beneficial for business and business success. Physically, Tiffany Stone boosts the sex drive and can enhance sexual experience, and is an all-around healing stone. Tiffany Stone is associated primarily with the third eye chakra.
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Tiger's Eye (Tiger Eye)
Tiger's Eye is a stone of protection that is also very grounding. It enhances integrity, willpower, practicality and correct use of power. It is a stone that enhances good luck, and brings prosperity, often in the form of money. Tiger's eye is also a very protective stone which is especially protective during travel. It can also help one see clearly without illusion. Tiger's eye brings a special boost to the solar plexus chakra and to one's personal power.
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Tigers Eye, Blue (Hawk's Eye)
Blue Tigers Eye, which is also known as Hawks Eye, enhances integrity of communication and practical communication. It can help find courage to recognize thoughts and ideas, and the willpower to carry them into the physical realm. Blue tigers eye can be used for protection, especially of the upper chakras. It is also said to bring good luck to one who wears or carries it. Blue tigers eye is associated primarily with the throat chakra.
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Tigers Eye, Red (Dragon's Eye, Ox Eye)
Dragon's Eye brings energies of vibrance and vitality, and of enhancing integrity of self and can be very grounding. It can help one have the practicality and willpower to take care of oneself fully. It is a survival stone and helps with the correct use of power for survival in difficult times, and can bring vitality. It promotes energies of health and vibrancy of those who wear it. It is said to bring good luck. It also has the energetic properties of "regular" or golden Tiger Eye.
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Topaz
Topaz is a powerful stone in the way that quartz is. It is a balancing and calming stone that balances emotions, releases tension, balances emotions, and can bring joy. Topaz is also believed to bring success and good fortune, and synchronicity. It is also used for protection, particularly protection from the evil eye and greed. It also is said to bring creativity, individuality, true love, and hope. Spiritually it brings in spiritual love and peace. Physically, topaz aids with gout, blood disorders, hemorrhages, poor appetite, tissue regeneration, tuberculosis, aging (reverses), endocrine system.
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Topaz, Blue
Blue topaz brings leadership ability to anyone who wears or carries it. It also enhances and improves psychic knowledge, spiritual growth, and psychic insight. It also lends and air of tranquility in those endeavors. Blue Topaz is primarily associated with the upper chakras. Blue Topaz also has the energies of general Topaz.
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Topaz, Silver (White Topaz)
Silver Topaz is a stone of success and manifestion when directed toward the highest good of all. It promotes creativity and individuality. It replaces negativity with love and joy. It enhances healing and visualization, and aids in the healing of depression, wounds, and skin problems. It helps communication with animals and plants. Silver topaz is associated with the crown chakra, but will work with all chakras. Topaz is associated with the astrological signs Scorpio and Saggitarius.
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Tourmaline
Tourmaline increases flexibility, happiness, objectivity, compassion and serenity. It also enhances tolerance and understanding. It is a stone that is very helpful for channeling. Tourmaline is also a very protecting stone. Tourmaline is often associated with the heart chakra, particularly watermelon tourmaline, where it opens one to accept love. Other colors of tourmaline are associated with the chakra of the same color.
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Tourmaline, Black (Schorl)
Black tourmaline is associated with the root or base chakra, and is excellent for grouding excess energy. It is a well known as a purifying stone that deflects and transforms negative energy, and thus is very protective. It can transform and remove negativity from an individual or an environment. It is often used as an aura cleanser, and can help one attain higher levels of awareness. Black tourmaline is also used for repelling and protecting one from black magick, and is often said to return the negative spell to the sender. Some claim that black tourmaline deflects all kinds of energy, but my personal experience is that it's not so. It is possible that the black tourmaline's effect of grounding excess energy gives this impression. Black tourmaline has also been used to deflect radiation energy from tv's and computer monitors. Emotionally, black tourmaline is excellent for dispelling fears, obsessions, and neuroses, bringing emotional stability. Physically, black tourmaline is said in crystal healing to strengthen the immune system, help with heart disease, arthritis, and gout.
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Tourmaline, Blue
Blue Tourmaline is helpful with verbal, speech, and throat problems. Mental peace and patience.
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Tourmaline, Green
Green Tourmaline cleanses and detoxifies the spirit, brings prosperity.
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Tourmaline, Pink
Pink Tourmaline promotes compassion, love and healing of emotional pain.
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Tourmaline, Watermelon
Watermelon Tourmaline heals old emotional pains and brings emotional understanding.
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Tsavorite (Tsavorite Garnet, Tsavolith)
Tsavorite is a gem grade type of Grossular Garnet which is sometimes called Tsavolith or Tsavorite Garnet. As a type of Grossular Garnet it has both Grossular Garnet and its own energetic properties. Tsavorite is a stone of manifestation, prosperity, vitality, and benevolence. It is often found to be very uplifting. Tsavorite is a stone that is said to help find the inner beauty both in oneself and others. It is said to help one live one's own destiny rather than struggling along a path that is not truly theirs. Tsavorite is not only a stone of prosperity, but it decreases financial anxieties. This crystal is used in metapysics to contact the spiritual world and higher planes, and is even said to allow one contact with Greek and Egyptian gods. Tsavorite not only affects the energy of the person wearing it or carrying it beneficially, but also other people nearby. Physically, Tsavorite is used in crystal healing and folk medicine for cell growth, quicker healing, heart problems, disorders of the five senses. Tsavorite is related to the heart and solar plexus chakras.
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Turitella (Turitella Agate)
Turitella is a protective stone. It is especially good protection against spells. As with all fossils, it can help increase accomplishments in the area of business and add excellence to one's environment. They also aid one in being open to change and new ideas. Traditionally, fossils have been used to aid in curing diseases and ailments of the skeletal system, bones, hands, and feet.
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Turquoise
Turquoise is sacred to both Native American and oriental traditions. It is associated with the sky, and bringing sky energy to earth. It 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. Turquoise is associated with the throat chakra primarily.
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Turquonite (Turquenite, Howlite Turquoise)
Turquonite is howlite that is dyed blue to resemble turquoise, and is often falsely sold as turquoise. It balances and evens out mood fluctuations and brings inner peace. Because the stone is actually howlite, it has the properties of howlite of decreasing an overly critical state of mind, selfishness, stress, pain, and rudeness; increases sublety and tact. It helps bones, teeth, calcium levels and leg cramps. It also heightens creativity.
Unakite (Unikite)
Unakite is a stone with gentle but powerful energy. It can assist one in finding one's animal guide. It is also a stone that is helpful for gardening. Unakite is also a good protection stone. Unakite brings unconditional love of humanity, connection and reunion. Unakite is considered to be very helpful for pregnancy and childbirth. It can help with healing of abandonment and separation issues. Unakite is said to benefit the heart, circulatory system, female reproductive system, male reproductive system (to a lesser extent), weight loss, and ease pregnancy.
Variscite
Variscite is a soothing stone. It is sometimes called a "true worry stone" because it eases fear, tension, anxiety, worry, and impatience. It also relieves stress and depression, and can give courage and inner strength. Variscite can help calm the mind and help it be still, which makes it an excellent stone for meditaiton. Variscite can be a benefit for intuition and psychic perceptions, and is excellent for past-life recall. Physically, variscite is used for helping strengthen cells and tissues, blood problems, nervous system, kidneys, muscles and bones. It is also used for male reproductive healing, including impotence.
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Verdite
Verdite is a stone that stimulates the energy centers/chakras. It can assist the movement of Kundalini. Often, verdite is used to access and assimilate ancient knowledge. Emotionally, verdite brings consistency, stability, and fortitude. Physically verdite is used for cleansing the blood, removing toxins, and genital disorders.
Witches Fingers (Witch's Finger Quartz)
Witches Fingers are excellent tools that are quartz crystal with actinolite, mica, and/or rutile inclusions. They are excellent for crystal grids for healing and protection. They are also great protection against chaotic energy, and can be placed around a room or house to guard against chaotic energy. In addition, they are excellent for aura shielding. Witches Fingers are also good for meditation, channeling information regarding spiritual growth and attracing spiritual partners to help you down your spiritual path. Physically, they are good for general healing, and healing dis-ease caused by chaotic physical conditions, such as cancer.
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Wonderstone
Wonderstone is a type of rhyolite that grows with gorgeous patterns of creams, yellows, pinks and reds. As with all rhyolite, it is an excellent meditation stone, and enhances creativity. It brings energies of tranqulity and helps eliminate worries. It also helps reduce or eliminate depression and anxiety, giving an overall sense of wellbeing. Wonderstond can also bring mental clarity and give insigh into the right course of action. Physically, wonderstone has been used to help with back pain, and abdominal pain. Wonderstone is associated with the sacral chakra, particularly in connection to the heart chakra.
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Wood, Petrified
Petrified wood is a stone that is good for grounding and stabilizing one's emotions. It is particularly useful in calming survival-based fears. It helps one be practical. It is a stone of business success. Petrified wood is a good stone for general protection. Physically, it is beneficial physically for the bones, backaches, skin and hair. Petrified wood is also used for past life regressions because of its inherent link with the past.
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Wulfenite
Wulfenite is a crystal seen in reds to oranges to orange-yellow most often. As such, it is associated with the lower chakras, particularly the solar plexus chakra. It is said to harmonize emotions and help get in touch with them. It is also a nice grounding stone. Wulfenite is used mystically to clear emotional blockages and get blocked energy of all kinds moving again. Wulfenite is also used in white magic rituals of all kinds, and is said to bring moving energy to this type of magic and is used for astral journeying and communication with higher beings. In crystal healing lore it is used for healing the reproductive system, energizing and revitalizing the body systems encouraging healing of all types.
Zebra Stone
Zebra stone is a stone that can help us connect to mother earth and to the infinite energy and love in the universe. Zebra stone, by these connections, can show us our own true natures and help us see past illusion. Zebra stone is particularly effective at protecting one's aura. Physically, zebra stone stimulates energy, and is beneficial for stamina, endurance, bone disorders, osteoporosis, teeth, gums, muscle spasms, and heart palpitations.
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Zeolites
Zeolites are a family of minerals and related minerals, including apophyllite, chabazite, stilbite, heulandite, goosecreekite, laumonite, natrolite and others. Technically, zeolites are framework silicates with exchangeable cations and some of the minerals considered zeolites metaphysically do not strictly fit the technical criteria, but are like "cousins" with some metaphysical properties that are the same. In particular, zeolites are said to be extraordinarily helpful for absorbing and removing toxins, whether it be in the environment or in a person. In a person, this metaphysical aspect would make zeolites excellent healing stones, and they are often used in conjunction with Reiki. Zeolites are also said to be useful for agriculture or gardening, especially when they are buried in the field or garden. Zeolites are said to remove negative energy and bring in happiness where the negative energy was. Mystical healing lore says that zeolites are helpful for goiter, addictions, detoxification, and bloating. Each individual type of zeolite also has its own unique metaphysical properties.
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Zincite
Zincite in metaphysical lore is a stone of synthesis. It can bring together seeminly disparate or chaotic energies and synthesize them to work together well. It is particularly wellknown from Melody's books to synethesize energies of personal power, physical energy, and creativity. This makes it a powerful stone for boosting creative energies in a way that brings creations to fruition. It is often used to remove energy blockages, as well as being used in Radionics. Zincite can also synthesize groups of people or things, bringing together like-minded people and promoting their efforts as a group. Yellow zincite in particular can bring or boost a strong sense of one's own personal power and enable one to use it. Zincite is used in crystal healing lore to treat chronic fatigue, AIDS and other auto-immune problems, bronchitis, and candida, as well as prevention of epileptic seizure. Zincite is related to the lower chakras.
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Zoisite (Green)
Zoisite is considered in mystical lore to be a stone that brings and enhances trust in the universe and trust in the ultimate goodness of life. This brings trust in general as well as releases fears, which can bring a depth of happiness to one's life. Zoisite is also said to bring energy and dispel laziness. Crystal healing lore purports that zoisite is good for vitality, adrenal glands, reproductive organs, and strengthening the heart. Zoisite is associated primarily with the heart chakra, but is sometimes associated with the root and sacral chakras.
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