Everyone who knows me, knows what a deep love I have for our Crystal and Mineral Kingdom! I have written, developed and taught many classes about them over the last 16 years and I never stop learning from them as they have so much to teach us! Please enjoy the following information on crystals and their amazing properties and if you are searching for a special one, please visit my little shop as there just may be one waiting for you there! CLICK TO VISIT SHOP
This is by no means an all inclusive list of all of the crystals and gemstones, nor does it have every single property, but I wanted to include it for you to have a quick reference. The best way to learn about crystals is for you to use them yourself as they will teach you what they can offer YOU and your life. Enjoy!
AMETHYST
A purple-colored quartz used as a semi-precious stone; the Amethyst is known as a spiritual stone and is used for general healing and for meditation. It is said that sleeping with a piece of amethyst beneath one’s pillow promotes intuitive dreams and inspired thought. Many healers also consider it useful in the relief of insomnia and to bring serenity in times of grief. The Amethyst clears, purifies and helps with any addictions or stress or tension. Soothes and calms the mind, raises the spirit, rebalances and increases intuitive awareness, protects from negative vibrations. It is a very good idea to have an Amethyst cluster in your room because of the cleansing and energizing properties associated with it.
AQUAMARINE
Preserves innocence. Quickens intellect, increases self-knowledge. It is also reputed to promote clear and logical thinking and for that reason is often carried as a ‘good luck’ charm by those who are taking examinations or being interviewed for a job. Brings inspiration and new ideas.
AVENTURINE
Aventurine is useful in relieving migraine and in soothing the eyes. A traditional method of using this stone is to leave it in water overnight and to use the water the following day to bathe eyes. Aventurine water – made in the same way can also be used for bathing irritations of the skin. Aventurine is a soother and helps relax one for a better night’s sleep! It also relieves tension and shock. Improves vitality, equalizes blood pressure. Encourages creativity, gives the wearer courage, independence, calmness and serenity. Gives adventure and luck in love and sport.
AZURITE
Azurite can be an aid to psychic development and is a very powerful stone. Also aids meditation. Relates to penetrating through your deepest fear in the subconscious. It is used as a general healing stone. Relieves arthritis and joint disabilities. Reduces hip joint pain.
BLOODSTONE
Deep-green precious stone flecked with red; it is believed that the Bloodstone will help to overcome depression and melancholia – especially if it is worn by the sufferer. It is also said to help those who suffer from psychosomatic illness and pains which have an emotional rather than a physical cause. Bloodstone is also a purifier of the blood and a general detoxification of organs, particularly the liver, kidneys and spleen. It helps to allow light into the body. Provides vitality, strengthens idealism and the will to do good – especially for charity. Increases one’s talent, stimulates the kundalini and balances all of the chakras.
CARNELIAN
This stone is useful for understanding one’s rhythms and cycles. Strengthens voice; helps rheumatism and arthritis, depression, neuralgia; aids the sense of touch. Protects from evil, elevates the spirits, grounds energies thus assisting concentration and mental focus by clearing the mind and focusing one’s thoughts. Helps daydreamers become more focused and grounded.
CITRINE
Citrine is able to help those who feel that they have misplaced their path in life and to give them a new sense of direction and rebuild the structure of their earthly existence. It helps to control the emotions and works with relationships and self- knowledge. It attracts self-worth, dissolves emotional blocks and induces dreams. Improves self-image bringing confidence into relationships and environment, improving the quality of one’s life, sometimes bringing prosperity.
FLUORITE
Fluorite helps bring the spiritual into the material and quickens enlightenment. Helps heal holes in one’s auras where energy is drained. Grounds, balances and focuses one’s energies. Absorbs and alters negative and other energies. Opens the chakras. Aids physical and mental healing.
GARNET
The garnet is most often used as a general tonic for the whole system – physical, mental and emotional. It is regenerative and revitalizing, strengthening the blood and helping with anemia and circulatory problems. It brings into consciousness the physical powers and is particularly recommended for those who need to improve their self-respect and self-confidence, pride and success and to increase their courage when dealing with changes. Improves imagination. Assists in dream work and in past life recall. Increases determination, energy and courage. Attracts love, promotes
bonding.
HEMATITE
The grounding stone! Enhances astral projection, promotes balance, focus, convergence and concentration of energy. The hematite is a stone which it is said will help to increase courage and it is also claimed that it will strengthen the heart and is good for reducing a rapid pulse.
JET
Prevents deep depression, quiets fears. Protects from violence and illness. Aids grieving. It is also used in healing to control and ease migraine and pain behind the eyes.
LAPIS LAZULI
The lapis lazuli was called by the ancient Egyptians ‘The Stone of Heaven’. Helps acquire wisdom and truth. It is also a symbol of power and a mental and spiritual cleanser. Assists one’s psychic development and mental stability. Gives hope and self awareness and helps one to face one’s shadow-self. It is the stone of friendship. Helps cut through superficialities to find inner truth. Aura cleanser.
MALACHITE
Raises one’s spirits and increases hope, health and happiness. It attracts physical and material benefits and brings prosperity. It assists wise rule and helps remove mental blockages hindering spiritual growth. It relieves any congestion in the body and helps with confusion and lack or purpose and insecurity.
MOONSTONE
It is claimed to promote long life and happiness and is said to attract friendship and loyalty towards the wearer. It acts as a mediator between mind and emotions and allows peace of mind and accessibility to one’s inner self. Helps soothe and balance emotion. Gives inspiration, encourages personal attachments. Helps obtain humanitarian love, romance and sensitivity.
MOSS-AGATE
Moss agate is said to cleanse the emotional body and release anger and frustration.
OBSIDIAN, SNOWFLAKE
A grounding stone. Dedicated to change, metamorphosis, purification, fulfillment, inner growth and introspection. Deflects negative energy.
ONYX
The onyx is reputed to improve concentration and devotion.
QUARTZ CRYSTAL
So many uses and properties that it needs a whole book to itself! The Quartz Crystal attracts the powers of light and energy and is said to be an excellent powerful general healer and dynamic working tool which works on all levels – strengthening, cleansing and protecting. Purifies air. Protects against harmful electrical vibrations. Assists the wearer to think intuitively. Amplifies and transmits subtle vibrations. The symbol of elemental wholeness, containing the four elements of creation. Assists development and integration of our entire being. Assists us to amplify, focus, direct, transmit and store energy. Its greatest attribute is known to be its use as an aid to opening the psychic centers, enabling the ability to meditate at a deeper level and to free one’s mind from the mundane and the trivia. It releases the higher consciousness and develops mystical and spiritual gifts.
ROSE QUARTZ
This lovely stone is claimed to be one of the best stones to use in the treatment of migraines and headaches of all types. Calms emotions, helps suffering due to emotional trauma, heals wounds of neglect giving inner peace. It is also said to stimulate the imagination and the intellect and to open up the heart to inner peace, self love and self recognition. It is a very healing stone for internal wounds, bitterness and sorrows. It promotes forgiveness, love and friendship. It makes one more receptive to beauty, hastens recovery and gladdens the heart. The Venus – or love – stone.
SELENITE
Selenite calms and clears troubled minds and is useful in personal meditation and visualization. Stabilizes one’s emotions, bringing them under calm control. Natural environmental record keeper. Helps to clarify one’s innermost thoughts and to expand one’s mental powers. One of the most powerful healing stones! Used in past-life recall and in regression therapy. Can be used in any healing treatment but should only be used by a qualified crystal healing therapist who is able to handle and direct the powerful energies properly.
SERPENTINE
Serpentine, which is also called New Jade, is a beneficial and versatile stone. It will 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. Serpentine is an excellent stone for meditation.
SMOKEY QUARTZ
Smokey quartz disperses negative patterns and vibrations, and transmits a high quantity of light. Good luck talisman. Helps protect soldiers on active service. Encourages survival instincts. Stimulates and purifies energy centers. Grounds and stabilizes energies, helps lift depression. Draws out and absorbs negative energies, replacing them with positive ones.
TIGERS EYE
It is claimed that tigers eye will counteract feelings of hypochondria and the onset of psychosomatic illness and will also give a feeling of self-confidence. It is especially good for clear thinking and helps one to see a problem objectively when confused or emotionally affected. It releases tension and develops will-power. Attracts good luck.
TOURMALINE (general)
Balances, protects, calms, gives self- confidence and cheerfulness. Useful for meditation. Attracts inspiration, goodwill and friendship. Protects wearer against misfortune and anemia. Grounds high-frequency energies into the physicality.
TOURMALINE (black or green)
Deflects negative energy, attracts prosperity.
TOURMALINE (blue)
All throat problems, thyroid, speech impediments. Promotes clear verbal expression, dissolves mental friction, emotional constriction.
TOURMALINE (watermelon/pink)
Heart balancer. Promotes understanding of self and emotions.
TURQUOISE
Turquoise helps the ability to express oneself and verbalize freely. Shields the wearer from harmful influences, attracts friendship. Used in meditation. Also for the development of intuition. Brings one wisdom. It reminds us of both our spiritual nature, our earthly inheritance and its beauty.
This is by no means an all inclusive list of all of the crystals and gemstones, nor does it have every single property, but I wanted to include it for you to have a quick reference. The best way to learn about crystals is for you to use them yourself as they will teach you what they can offer YOU and your life. Enjoy!
AMETHYST
A purple-colored quartz used as a semi-precious stone; the Amethyst is known as a spiritual stone and is used for general healing and for meditation. It is said that sleeping with a piece of amethyst beneath one’s pillow promotes intuitive dreams and inspired thought. Many healers also consider it useful in the relief of insomnia and to bring serenity in times of grief. The Amethyst clears, purifies and helps with any addictions or stress or tension. Soothes and calms the mind, raises the spirit, rebalances and increases intuitive awareness, protects from negative vibrations. It is a very good idea to have an Amethyst cluster in your room because of the cleansing and energizing properties associated with it.
AQUAMARINE
Preserves innocence. Quickens intellect, increases self-knowledge. It is also reputed to promote clear and logical thinking and for that reason is often carried as a ‘good luck’ charm by those who are taking examinations or being interviewed for a job. Brings inspiration and new ideas.
AVENTURINE
Aventurine is useful in relieving migraine and in soothing the eyes. A traditional method of using this stone is to leave it in water overnight and to use the water the following day to bathe eyes. Aventurine water – made in the same way can also be used for bathing irritations of the skin. Aventurine is a soother and helps relax one for a better night’s sleep! It also relieves tension and shock. Improves vitality, equalizes blood pressure. Encourages creativity, gives the wearer courage, independence, calmness and serenity. Gives adventure and luck in love and sport.
AZURITE
Azurite can be an aid to psychic development and is a very powerful stone. Also aids meditation. Relates to penetrating through your deepest fear in the subconscious. It is used as a general healing stone. Relieves arthritis and joint disabilities. Reduces hip joint pain.
BLOODSTONE
Deep-green precious stone flecked with red; it is believed that the Bloodstone will help to overcome depression and melancholia – especially if it is worn by the sufferer. It is also said to help those who suffer from psychosomatic illness and pains which have an emotional rather than a physical cause. Bloodstone is also a purifier of the blood and a general detoxification of organs, particularly the liver, kidneys and spleen. It helps to allow light into the body. Provides vitality, strengthens idealism and the will to do good – especially for charity. Increases one’s talent, stimulates the kundalini and balances all of the chakras.
CARNELIAN
This stone is useful for understanding one’s rhythms and cycles. Strengthens voice; helps rheumatism and arthritis, depression, neuralgia; aids the sense of touch. Protects from evil, elevates the spirits, grounds energies thus assisting concentration and mental focus by clearing the mind and focusing one’s thoughts. Helps daydreamers become more focused and grounded.
CITRINE
Citrine is able to help those who feel that they have misplaced their path in life and to give them a new sense of direction and rebuild the structure of their earthly existence. It helps to control the emotions and works with relationships and self- knowledge. It attracts self-worth, dissolves emotional blocks and induces dreams. Improves self-image bringing confidence into relationships and environment, improving the quality of one’s life, sometimes bringing prosperity.
FLUORITE
Fluorite helps bring the spiritual into the material and quickens enlightenment. Helps heal holes in one’s auras where energy is drained. Grounds, balances and focuses one’s energies. Absorbs and alters negative and other energies. Opens the chakras. Aids physical and mental healing.
GARNET
The garnet is most often used as a general tonic for the whole system – physical, mental and emotional. It is regenerative and revitalizing, strengthening the blood and helping with anemia and circulatory problems. It brings into consciousness the physical powers and is particularly recommended for those who need to improve their self-respect and self-confidence, pride and success and to increase their courage when dealing with changes. Improves imagination. Assists in dream work and in past life recall. Increases determination, energy and courage. Attracts love, promotes
bonding.
HEMATITE
The grounding stone! Enhances astral projection, promotes balance, focus, convergence and concentration of energy. The hematite is a stone which it is said will help to increase courage and it is also claimed that it will strengthen the heart and is good for reducing a rapid pulse.
JET
Prevents deep depression, quiets fears. Protects from violence and illness. Aids grieving. It is also used in healing to control and ease migraine and pain behind the eyes.
LAPIS LAZULI
The lapis lazuli was called by the ancient Egyptians ‘The Stone of Heaven’. Helps acquire wisdom and truth. It is also a symbol of power and a mental and spiritual cleanser. Assists one’s psychic development and mental stability. Gives hope and self awareness and helps one to face one’s shadow-self. It is the stone of friendship. Helps cut through superficialities to find inner truth. Aura cleanser.
MALACHITE
Raises one’s spirits and increases hope, health and happiness. It attracts physical and material benefits and brings prosperity. It assists wise rule and helps remove mental blockages hindering spiritual growth. It relieves any congestion in the body and helps with confusion and lack or purpose and insecurity.
MOONSTONE
It is claimed to promote long life and happiness and is said to attract friendship and loyalty towards the wearer. It acts as a mediator between mind and emotions and allows peace of mind and accessibility to one’s inner self. Helps soothe and balance emotion. Gives inspiration, encourages personal attachments. Helps obtain humanitarian love, romance and sensitivity.
MOSS-AGATE
Moss agate is said to cleanse the emotional body and release anger and frustration.
OBSIDIAN, SNOWFLAKE
A grounding stone. Dedicated to change, metamorphosis, purification, fulfillment, inner growth and introspection. Deflects negative energy.
ONYX
The onyx is reputed to improve concentration and devotion.
QUARTZ CRYSTAL
So many uses and properties that it needs a whole book to itself! The Quartz Crystal attracts the powers of light and energy and is said to be an excellent powerful general healer and dynamic working tool which works on all levels – strengthening, cleansing and protecting. Purifies air. Protects against harmful electrical vibrations. Assists the wearer to think intuitively. Amplifies and transmits subtle vibrations. The symbol of elemental wholeness, containing the four elements of creation. Assists development and integration of our entire being. Assists us to amplify, focus, direct, transmit and store energy. Its greatest attribute is known to be its use as an aid to opening the psychic centers, enabling the ability to meditate at a deeper level and to free one’s mind from the mundane and the trivia. It releases the higher consciousness and develops mystical and spiritual gifts.
ROSE QUARTZ
This lovely stone is claimed to be one of the best stones to use in the treatment of migraines and headaches of all types. Calms emotions, helps suffering due to emotional trauma, heals wounds of neglect giving inner peace. It is also said to stimulate the imagination and the intellect and to open up the heart to inner peace, self love and self recognition. It is a very healing stone for internal wounds, bitterness and sorrows. It promotes forgiveness, love and friendship. It makes one more receptive to beauty, hastens recovery and gladdens the heart. The Venus – or love – stone.
SELENITE
Selenite calms and clears troubled minds and is useful in personal meditation and visualization. Stabilizes one’s emotions, bringing them under calm control. Natural environmental record keeper. Helps to clarify one’s innermost thoughts and to expand one’s mental powers. One of the most powerful healing stones! Used in past-life recall and in regression therapy. Can be used in any healing treatment but should only be used by a qualified crystal healing therapist who is able to handle and direct the powerful energies properly.
SERPENTINE
Serpentine, which is also called New Jade, is a beneficial and versatile stone. It will 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. Serpentine is an excellent stone for meditation.
SMOKEY QUARTZ
Smokey quartz disperses negative patterns and vibrations, and transmits a high quantity of light. Good luck talisman. Helps protect soldiers on active service. Encourages survival instincts. Stimulates and purifies energy centers. Grounds and stabilizes energies, helps lift depression. Draws out and absorbs negative energies, replacing them with positive ones.
TIGERS EYE
It is claimed that tigers eye will counteract feelings of hypochondria and the onset of psychosomatic illness and will also give a feeling of self-confidence. It is especially good for clear thinking and helps one to see a problem objectively when confused or emotionally affected. It releases tension and develops will-power. Attracts good luck.
TOURMALINE (general)
Balances, protects, calms, gives self- confidence and cheerfulness. Useful for meditation. Attracts inspiration, goodwill and friendship. Protects wearer against misfortune and anemia. Grounds high-frequency energies into the physicality.
TOURMALINE (black or green)
Deflects negative energy, attracts prosperity.
TOURMALINE (blue)
All throat problems, thyroid, speech impediments. Promotes clear verbal expression, dissolves mental friction, emotional constriction.
TOURMALINE (watermelon/pink)
Heart balancer. Promotes understanding of self and emotions.
TURQUOISE
Turquoise helps the ability to express oneself and verbalize freely. Shields the wearer from harmful influences, attracts friendship. Used in meditation. Also for the development of intuition. Brings one wisdom. It reminds us of both our spiritual nature, our earthly inheritance and its beauty.
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