Gemstones

Gemstones have been used throughout history, and in all cultures, to enhance spiritual and healing practices. Here are the qualities associated with a few of the most popular crystals.

Gemstones have been used throughout history, and in all cultures, to enhance spiritual and healing practices. Here are the qualities associated with a few of the most popular.

Agate Amazonite Amber Amethyst Ametrine Aquamarine Aragonite Aventurine Carnelian Chalcedony Citrine Diamond Emerald Fluorite Garnet Gold Jade Jasper Jet Kunzite Labradorite Lapis Malachite Moonstone Onyx Opal Pearl Peridot Quartz Rose Quartz Ruby Sapphire Silver Sodalite Topaz Tourmaline Turquoise

Agate Agate balances yin and yang energy, stabilizes the aura and stimulates perceptivness. ~ Blue Lace helps to reach high spiritual places and contains the qualities of flight, a grace. Highly inspirational. ~ Moss Agate leads to characteristics of agreeability, persuasiveness, strenght and improves ego and self-esteem, as emotional balance. Amazonite Very soothing to nerves, it dispels fears and worries, and irritating and negative energy. It enhances communications concerning love, and balances male/female energies to bring forth clarity and a clear spirit. Amber This stone allows the body to heal itself, calms nerves and enlivens the disposition. It helps in the art of manifestation to bring what is desired to reality, and is a symbol of the renewal of vows Amethyst The stone of Meditation, amethyst clears the aura, stabilizes and transmutes dysfunctional energy in the body, and bestows stability, strength, invigoration and peace. It also brings serenity and composure. Ametrine A mix of citrine and amethyst, ametrine enhances universal equilibrium and provides a clear connection between physical form and the ultimate state of perfection. It facilitates the release of blockages in the physical, mental and auric bodies. Aquamarine The stone of Courage, it accelerates intellectual reasoning processes and makes one unconquerable through learning. With a gentle and compassionate energy, it helps judgmental people be more tolerant, and can help those 'swamped' by responsibility, to bring order to process. Aragonite Brings ease to centre oneself, helps during times of stress and anger, and to prepare for meditation. It enhances patience, maintenance of discipline, reliability and practicality. Aventurine Balances male/female energy, enhances creativity, and reinforces decisiveness and leadership qualities. Carnelian Stimulates analytical capabilities and precision, perceptiveness. It protects against envy, fear, rage and banishes sorrow, and is conducive to stabilizing energy in the home. When offering love, it brings an exponential increase in the quantity of love returned. Chalcedony Balances energy of body, mind, emotions and spirit, encourages brotherhood, and symbolizes benevolence and good will. It alleviates hostilities, irritability and melancholy, and enhances generosity, responsiveness and receptivity. Citrine Dissipates negative energy, and is called the 'Merchant's Stone'. When placed in a cash box, citrine helps to bring and maintain wealth. It activates, opens and directs personal power, creativity and intelligent decisiveness, and stimulates mental focus and endurance. Diamond The 'king of crystals'. Traditionally, the power of the diamond worked only when it was freely given, to insure love and harmony. It brings forth purity, constancy and a loving and open nature, and instills trust, brings confidence and fidelity. Emerald The strongest physical and emotional healing gemstone. Emerald brings domestic bliss and instills sensitivity and loyalty. It enhances memory, quiets the emotions and brings harmony to all areas of life. Fluorite Stabilizes and brings order to chaos. Known as the Stone of Discernment and Aptitude, it increases concentration, and helps one to see reality and truth behind illusion. It activates nourishing energies of the body, and encourages and sustains the flawless ideal of health, intellect and emotional well being. Garnet Known as the Stone of Health, it produces expansiveness in awareness and manifestation, and enhances one's internal fire. Gold Symbolizes spirituality and the development of complete understanding, allowing one to attain and maintain communion with the source of all being. It allows beauty to come forth from the inner being as one travels in and through the world of experiences. Jade The Dream Stone and Stone of Fidelity brings realization to one's potential and devotion to purpose. It improves remembering of dreams and dream solving, releases suppressed emotions, helps to cherish one's desires and to build one's dreams into physical reality. Jasper The supreme nurturer, it is a reminder that one is not here just for oneself, but to bring joy and substance to others. It protects against negativity and helps one to be grounded. Jet This is a fossilized wood. It can dispel fearful thoughts or protect the wearer against illness and violence. It also provides protection during the pursuit of business and enhances the stability of one's finances. Kunzite Produces loving thoughts and loving communication, and can produce feelings of peace…the internal acknowledgement and external expression of self-love, unconditional love and romantic love. Labradorite Protects and helps to keep the aura clear, balanced, protected and free from energy leaks. It helps one to sustain, maintain and understand one's destiny, and facilitates transformation of intuition into intellectual thought. Lapis A stone of total awareness, it helps to expand awareness and intellectual capacity, and allows conscious attunement to the intuitive and psychic aspects of one's nature. It also shields and builds the aura. Malachite Brings harmony into one's life. Moonstone Balancing, retrospective, reflective and calming, moonstone helps with changes in life on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. A stone for hoping and wishing, to recognize ups and downs, and to gracefully acknowledge changing cycles, it brings flashes of insight, stimulates intuitive recognition and its practical application. Also called the traveler's stone, it is used for protection, and as a talisman of good fortune. Onyx For centering and alignment of the person with higher powers, it can be used to banish grief, to enhance self-control, to stimulate the power of wise decision-making and to encourage happiness and good fortune. Opal This helps one to recognize the creativity in oneself, and provides inspiration and imagination. Used to awaken psychic and mystical qualities, it encourages flashes of intuition and insight. The opal's "fire" represents a glowing inner flame, creating a gentle vitality to stimulate spiritual pursuits. Pearl For love and purity, it signifies faith, charity, and innocence, and helps to provide focus. Peridot Warm and friendly, it helps to regulate cycles in one's life. It provides a shield of protection around the body, lessens anger and jealousy and inspires happiness and delight in the nature of life. Quartz Supports the amplification, focus, storage, transfer and transformation of energy. It produces a naturally balanced, solid energy field, and can assist in the creation of power, and clarity of thought. For harmony. (Please click on 'Miranda's Necklace' for more details.) Rose Quartz Brings calm and soothing energy and gently removes negativity. Ruby For love and an open heart, it stimulates nurturing, spiritual wisdom, health, knowledge and wealth. An excellent shielding stone, it gathers and amplifies energy while promoting and stimulating mental concentration. Sapphire Brings joy and peace, and can be used to rid unwanted thoughts, opening the mind to beauty and intuition. Silver Helps to regulate emotional and intuitive energies, and attracts and retains qualities emitted by other gems. It provides patience and perseverance in order to complete chosen tasks, and allows one to understand the underlying reasons for them. Silver draws forth negativity and acts as a balancing agent and helps to cleanse the body, eliminating toxins at the cellular level. Sodalite Used for logical and rational thought, it eliminates confusion and stimulates the intellect. It manifests qualities of companionship and mutual dependence, encourages self-esteem, self-trust and trust in others. Topaz The stone of true love and success, it acts through the laws of manifestation and attraction to promote individuality and creativity, and bring confidence and trust in one's decisions. It replaces negativity with love and joyfulness. Tourmaline Acts to clear, maintain and stimulate each chakra (energy center) of the body. It attracts inspiration, promotes understanding and encourages confidence. It also balances male/female energies, and promotes the experience of "self" as part of the universal spirit. Turquoise A healer of the spirit, it strengthens, elevates and aligns all chakras and brings all energies to a higher level. It brings communication to emotional issues, to creativity and to intuition; heals, cleanses and protects the body, and supports meditative practice and peace of mind.

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