Crystal & Gemstone Properties

Amazonite

Zimbabwe - Healing Properties: Inspires expression of self and improves self worth. Stimulates heart and throat chakras and balances male/female energies. Brings out faith in the larger picture in life. Great stone for healing the heart, both emotional and physical. It can be used to treat nervous disorders and reduces muscle spasms.

Amethyst

Brazil - Healing Properties: Called the "sixth sense" stone. It is highly connected to spirituality. Known for attaining wisdom and peace. It centers you through changes with ease and comfort. Opens crown chakra for insight to inner light. Great to release addictive behaviors, especially alcohol. Great to relieve insomnia and headaches.

Aventurine

India - Healing Properties: Great for motivating you to put your heart's desires into action. Brings out leadership abilities promoting clarity in making choices. Can treat disorders of the thymus gland, heart and lungs. Stimulates and clears heart chakra. Great for attracting prosperity and wealth.

BloodStone

India - Healing Properties: The "stone of courage" is great for stamina of mind and body. Can connect you with Divine source inspiring trust to live in the moment. Good to attract money. Can rid toxins and purify spleen, kidneys, liver and bladder. Opens and activates chakra.

Blue Lace Agate

Namibia - Healing Properties: Can activate chakras from heart to crown stimulating clear choices from heart and head. Eases depression and despair bringing feelings of encouragement and support. Conducts steady energy flow through body and can relieve arthritis.

Botswana Agate

Botswana - Healing Properties: Encourages understanding of eternal love in the ever-changing universe. Allows focus on solutions rather then existing problems. Great for treating stress and depression. Strengthens sexual energy and dispels feelings of being discounted from friends and family.

Citrine

China - Healing Properties: The "Merchant's Stone" can assist you in building and maintaining wealth. Teaches you to use, enjoy, and then release inviting even greater things into your life. Good for balancing thyroid disorders. Diminishes self-destructive tendencies and will not hold any negative energy. Inspires you to choose from your heart with confidence.

Carnelian

India - Healing Properties: Can dispel feelings of rage, fear and envy. A cheerful stone that brings out joy. Calms emotions and increases ability to reason. Recommended to ease arthritis pain. Strengthens bond between parent and child. inspires unconditional love for yourself and others.

Chalcedony

is a stone to encourage "brotherhood" among all. It symbolizes benevolence and good will, the benevolence stemming from the nurturing energy within the stone. It alleviates hostilities, irritability, and melancholy. It enhances generosity, responsiveness, and receptivity. It is used for balancing the energy of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit.

Citrine / Smokey Quartz

is useful for balancing the yin-yang energy and for aligning the chakras with the ethereal plane. It is known as the merchants stone, helps to acquire wealth and maintain it. It activates, opens and energizes the navel and solar plexus chakras, directing, via personal power, creativity, and intelligent decisiveness, the energy necessary to enhance the physical body.

Emerald

is known as the "stone of successful love".

Fancy Jasper

India - Healing Properties: The stone can relieve fear, frustration and guilt. It builds inner strength and confidence to nurture your deepest desires. Increases total body vibration improving physical and mental health. Can stabilize heart and solar chakra allowing choices to be made from the heart.

Fluorite

China - Healing Properties: The stone brings order to chaos. It is good for grounding excess energy and focusing emotions. Is a source of fluoride and can strengthen bones. Excellent for inter-dimensional travel and for grasping higher, more abstract thinking. A warm vibrant stone that brings enlightenment to the soul.

Garnet

India - Healing Properties: The "stone of health" is great for vitality, strength and happiness. Traditionally a stone of lovers to signify devotion. Can lessen feelings of abandonment and fear. great for purifying the blood and ease pain in cramping or muscle spasms. It can stimulate your desires and draw happiness to you.

Hematite

Brazil - Healing Properties: The "stone of the mind" can balance and ground you to bring focused thinking. Has been used to draw illness from the body, especially fevers. Assists in breaking beliefs about limitations and inspires you to make your dreams come true. Attracts kind and generous love from others, as well as yourself.

Howlite

Zimbabwe - Healing Properties: Presents calm communication skills when faced with confrontation. Can eliminate fear, rage and envy to heal anger. Can assist in balancing calcium levels to heal teeth, bone and tissue disorders. Encourages patience and empathy drawing others to you.

Iolite

is called the violet stone. It is one of the major stones for use in the third-eye crown area during healing, during guided meditations, and during astral travel adventures.

Jade

China - Healing Properties: One of the most pure and serene stones, it carries the "wisdom of the ages". Combining the powers of heaven and earth it can inspire you to make clear choices quickly, leading to the path of true joy and abundance. Can treat disorders of the heart and spleen. Brings out the deep peace from within.

Jasper

this mineral is known as the supreme nurturer. It acts as a reminder that one is not here, on this physical plane, just for oneself, but is also here to bring joy and substance to others, assisting others to release the bonds of constraint. Jasper can be used to align the energy of the chakras and to integrate the attributes of the chakras such that astral journeys can be affected.

Labradorite

Madagascar - Healing Properties: Drawing together the energies of the sun and moon this stone's ability to balance emotions with intellect is superior. Reaffirms that all things happen according to what is destined for you. This reduces stress and fear providing peace and harmony.

Lapis, Lapis Lazuli

Afghanistan - Healing Properties: Harmonizes the heart and mind. It is great for deep soul work. Draws a spiritual love to you. Stimulating the third eyes and crown chakras it can activate total awareness. Great for treating gland disorders. The "stone of the stars" is named for the Arabic word heaven. Let it bring a little heaven to you.

Malachite

Zaire - Healing Properties: The "stone of transformation" can detect emotional source of physical illness. Clarifies heart energy harmonizing desires for both material and spiritual success. This copper ore is highly conductive and can ease arthritis pain. This stone can guide you to live from your heart and the money will follow.

Moon Stone

India - Healing Properties: Drawing it's strength from the moon, it's known as the "Traveler's Stone" so use it for protection when you travel. Because of it's strong female energy it is also called the "Goddess Stone". Inspires spiritual nourishment and firm compassion. Teaches that everything comes in its divine time.

Moss Agate

Brazil - Healing Properties: Considered the "Garden Stone" it brings abundance to anything it is directed to. Encourages teamwork and flexibility. Can lessen flu and cold symptoms. Stimulates universal love and a very deep connection to the earth.

Onyx

Mexico - Healing Properties: Inspires you to honor inner wisdom. A deep protection stone helps balance intuition with action. Great for long endurance and self-mastery. Can treat disorders of bone marrow, soft tissue and feet. Absorbs positive energy from your environment and brings it into you.

Pyrite

Peru - Healing Properties: It can program your energy for optimal health. Use this stone to see the good in all things. Provides stability and calms emotional outbursts. Reduces stress, worrying, and ill health. Can aid in digestion and assist in assimilating all nourishment from food.

Quartz Crystal

Brazil - Healing Properties: Called the "Ice of Eternity" it connects you with your higher self. Purifies mind, body, and soul. Great for boasting immune system, alleviating respiratory problems, and increasing overall energy. Transmits and conducts vibrations where it is focused. Use with only serious intentions for positive outcomes.

Red Jasper

South Africa - Healing Properties: Provides insight that your life is a result of your choices. Inspires you to make your life exactly what you want by making new choices. Can give you confidence to move forward enjoying the journey, not waiting in expectation. Helps prevent setbacks or relapse illnesses that have been overcome. Good for rectifying unjust situations.

Rhodonite

Canada - Healing Properties: The "Stone of Love" dramatically impacts your heart chakra allowing love to be your highest law. Inspires compassion for you and others. Can bring assurance that your choices are leading you on the right path. Can treat thyroid, nervous, and heart disorders. Has been said to improve memory.

Rose Quartz

Brazil - Healing Properties: The "Stone of Gentle Love" brings compassion and respect of self. Inspires beauty in art, music, and written word. Can clear stored anger to open space for new, healthier relationships. Can treat disorders of thymus and heart. Opens your heart chakra and increases your ability to love and forgive others.

Sardonyx

It combines the properties of Onyx, Carnelian, and Chalcedony. This mineral can assist in bringing happiness in marriage and live in relationships. It allows one to realize the delightfulness of living. It can be used to attract friends and good fortune, and to encourage self-control. It has been used to diminish hesitation and to provide courage. It is known as a stone of virtue, stimulating and propagation virtuous conduct throughout the many facets of ones life.

Serpentine

is useful in the rise of the Kundalini. It stimulates an opening in the pathway through which the Kundalini may travel, and lessens the discomfort which is sometimes associated with this movement. Placement of the mineral at the crown chakra provides a drawing force conducive to initiating the movement. It can be used to clear the clouded areas of the chakras, and to stimulate the crown. It is also an excellent stone for enhancing the meditative state.

Smokey Quartz

Brazil - Healing Properties: The "Stone of Co-operation" works well to unify group energy. Sharpens ability to understand abstract thinking. Removes energy blocks thoroughly. Can activate survival instincts and improve intuition. Great stone for relaxing and calming, good for treating anxiety.

Snowflake Obsidian

Utah, USA - Healing Properties: The "Stone of Purity" removes toxins from body and soul. Can assist in removing belief patterns that no longer serve you. Can treat disorders of the skeletal structure. The color contrasts in this stone show the balance in life. Dark represents the mastery of physical plane and light shows the connection to spirit.

Sodalite

Brazil - Healing Properties: The "Stone of Speech" improves all levels of communication. Is great for teachers, lecturers, and healers. Can assist you in manifesting quality, long-term and otherwise. Can treat thyroid disorders. Stimulates logic and reasoning so you can speak "your truth" with confidence.

Sunstone

can be used to both clear and energize the chakras. It can also provide for a brightening of the chakras, allowing one to exhibit a floral freshness and a feeling of being squeaky clean. It assists in gently removing the hook-ups which have infiltrated the energy centers, returning them to the source after surrounding them with both love and positive energy.

Tiger Eye

South Africa - Healing Properties: Bringing together the powers of the sun and earth, this "Stone of Creativity" assists you in clearing the chaos from your mind. Balances left and right brain activity. It can inspire optimism during times of struggle with the rewards of vitality and prosperity.

Tree Agate

Brazil - Healing Properties: Brings connection to the earth drawing out your natural ability to love, heal, and nurture yourself and others. Assists you in letting of events or people with grace and gratitude. Inspires trust that new treasures are still to come. It can bring abundance to whatever you direct it.

Turquoise

is another gift from the Earth, bringing the blue of Father Sky to the Earth and melding together the energies for the heavens with the consciousness of Mother Earth. It strengthens and aligns all chakras, meridians, and subtle bodies. It actually elevates all chakras and can facilitate attunement between the physical level and the higher planes of existence. It can bring any and all energies to a higher level. It does, however, primarily stimulate the throat, heart, and naval chakras, bring communication skills to emotional issues, to creativity, and to intuition, while allowing for application of love in all issues. It is excellent for spiritual attunement, for healing and cleansing of both the energy centers and the physical body, and for providing protection. It has been said that turquoise changes color to warn of impending danger and/or to indicate infidelity in thought or action. It can be used to protect against environmental pollutants as well.

Unakite

Mexico - Healing Properties: The "Heart Healer" opens inner vision to restore broken hearts. Use it to gently release blocked energy to improve over all health. Can help both parent and child during pregnancy. Is very connected to all re-birthing processes and eases through major changes in life. Balances Yin and Yang energy.

Yellow Jasper

India - Healing Properties: This stone reflects the nurturing aspects of sunshine bringing lightness into your life. A protective stone that is excellent for traveling. Inspires endurance by teaching that patience is it's own reward. A very positive and cheerful energy is sure to follow whenever you use this stone.