| Agate (Indian): The
energy is Projective (red) and Receptive (green) and the element is Fire.
Powers: General association with red is mastery of the body, courage,
stability, health, abundance of energy and self-mastery. Green is
nurturing, love, compassion, confidence, healing and harmony.
Chakra: Root and Heart
Agate (Moss): The energy is Receptive and the element is Earth.
Powers: Strength, courage, longevity, gardening, love, healing and
protection.
Known as "The Gardeners
Stone", it encourages openness with the mind and emotions, creating
feelings of confidence and a desire to experience new things in life.
Chakra: Heart and Root
Agate (Purple Sage) aka Sage Amethyst: The energy is Receptive
and the element is Wind.
Powers: Gentle Auric cleansing,
Healing, Connecting with Spirit Guides.
Found only Oregon, Purple Sage is the
stone of Inner Guidance. It is good for purification and healing of
the ethereal body. Use in meditation for accessing Spirit Guides.
Chakra: All
Amazonite: The energy is
Receptive and the element is Earth
Powers: Success and creativity. Gentle, friendly, calming, and
soothing, this stone is associated with the afterlife, fertility and
protection from harm.
Reduces self-damaging
behavior, increases self-respect, confidence, grace, self-assuredness
through communication.
Chakra: Throat and Heart
Amber: The energy is Projective and the elements are Earth, Fire and
Akasha
Powers: Luck, healing, strength, protection, light, warmth, solar
energies, clarification, beauty and love.
Amber is the fossilized
resin of pine trees, with an energy like liquid sunshine reflecting the
very beginnings of Earth. Beads and pendants found in northern
European gravesites date back to 8,000 BC. Amber gently infuses
light, warmth and healing into the emotional, physical and spiritual
energies of its wearer. Used to invoke solar powers such as wealth,
success, attraction, vitality and joy, or to add energetic power to your
workings.
Chakra: Solar Plexus
Amethyst: The energy is Receptive and the element is Water
Powers: Clarity in dreams, overcoming alcoholism, healing, psychic
awareness, peace, love, protection against thieves, courage and happiness.
A very powerful versatile
stone, symbolizing purification, and spiritual power. Wearing it helps
promote meditation, tranquility and oneness with your spiritual goals.
Chakra: Brow and Crown
Apatite: The energy is Receptive and the element is Wind
Powers: Intuition, awareness, harmony,
psychic activation, and access to knowledge.
Apatite stimulates inner vision and helps to awaken
psychic ability. It enhances intellect, and facilitates
connection to spiritual guidance. Apatite is used as a stone of
inspiration, and is known to enhance the properties of other stones it
is near.
Chakra: Third Eye and Throat
Aquamarine: The
energy is Receptive and the element is Water
Powers: Psychism, peace, courage happiness, hope and purification.
Good for the immune
system, creative expression and communication skills.
Chakra: Throat
Aventurine: The energy is Projective and the element is Air
Powers: Intellect, eyesight, peace, healing and luck.
The calming qualities make
it particularly suitable for both meditation and emotional healing,
balancing the emotions and the physical body. It allows the wearer to act
decisively and strengthens intuitive power.
Chakra: Solar Plexus and Heart
Carnelian: The energy is
Projective and the element is Fire
Powers: Protection, peace, eloquence, focus, healing, creativity,
courage and sexual energy.
Activating all lower
chakras, it was worn in ancient Egypt to still anger, envy and hatred and
it is still used to dispel depression, overcome timidity and provide
self-confidence.
Chakra: Sacral
Chalcedony: The energy is Receptive and the Element is Water
Powers: Peace, Protection and
Luck. Known as 'The
Stone of Orators', chalcedony symbolizes calmness and composure.
Banishes fear, hysteria and depression. Provides healing for all things in
the throat including vocal chords and speech.
Chakra: Throat
Blue: The energy is Receptive and the
Element is Water
Powers: Calm, Balance, Centeredness, Inner-knowledge and Communication
Chakra: Throat and Third Eye
Purple: The energy is Receptive and
the Element is Wind
Powers: Awakening of psychic abilities, Auric Cleansing,
Purification and Union with the Higher Self.
Chakra: Third Eye and Crown
Charoite: The
energy is Projective and the elements are Air, Fire and Wind.
Powers: Inspiration, service, clarity (mentally, physically,
psychically), faster healing, revealing of ones path of service, purging
of inner negativity and protection.
This powerful stone is
found in only one place on Earth: the Chara River region of Siberia and is
just recently coming into greater use. It can be useful in cleansing the
aura, filling the chakras with a loving spiritual emotion of purity and in
assisting one in comprehension of self-inflicted lessons. A spiritual
stone, Charoite helps to keep one on their spiritual path, while still
keeping them grounded. Helps one to cope with profound changes bringing
forth spiritual truths, dispelling illusions, dealing with internal exile
and fear. Combined with amethyst, it will help to release these fears.
Chakra: Heart, Crown, Third Eye, Solar Plexus, Root, Soul Star(8) and
Earth Star (below the feet)
Citrine: The energy is Projective and the element is Fire
Note: Natural yellow citrine is rare. Most commercial stones
used in jewelry making are actually heat-treated amethysts which can harm
the energies of the stone. When choosing citrine, look for a stone which
feels alive and vibrant in your hands.
Powers: Anti-nightmare, protection and psychism, goal manifestation,
abundance, prosperity, communication, confidence, clarity of mind and
purpose through personal power. It is used for fresh starts and can help
the wearer to dispel anger and radiate joy.
Chakra: Solar Plexus
Copper: The energy is Receptive and the element is Water
Powers: Energy direction, healing, luck, love, money, protection,
communication and improves emotional situations.
Sends and amplifies
thoughts, healing, and gem electrical energy into wearer's energy field.
When worn next to skin it detoxifies and soothes arthritis, rheumatism and
other inflammation problems. Assists with exhaustion recovery and
circulation. Balances warm sun energy and cool lunar energy. Energize with
the sun.
Chakra: Base, Sacral, Solar Plexus and Heart
Crystal Quartz (Rock Crystal): The energy is both
Receptive and Projective and the elements are Fire, Water and Storm.
Powers: Protection, Spiritualism, Meditation,
Healing, Psychism and Power, Magnification of Ambient Energies, Clearing,
Cleansing and Memory Enhancement.
Known as "The Stone of Light", Crystal Quartz is
symbolic of the spirit and intellect of human beings and was used
extensively by ancient Shaman and Priests. Rock crystals tend to
amplify the quality of stones nearby and dissipate all areas of imbalance
and negativity.
Chakra: ALL
Dolomite: The
energy is
Receptive and the element is Water and Air.
Powers: Healing, creativity, strength, adaptability, humor and helps
with PMS.
This gentle stone is used to stop energy leaks and
balance and align the chakras. Attracts spirit forces and soul mate.
Soothes and provides relief during times of mourning. Promotes strong
family bonds and longevity. Protects from illness. Clear varieties,
especially pink, are used to softly open and heal heart. Soothes hurt,
loneliness and anxiety. Chakra: Heart
Emerald: The energy is Receptive and the element is Earth
Powers: Love, money, healing, communication, restoring and maintaining
balance, honesty, truth, holiness, psychism, protection, exorcism
and eyesight.
Said to grant all knowledge of the past, present and
future, Emerald also became a stone representing true love.
Chakra: Heart
Fluorite:
The energy is both Receptive and Projective and the elements are Water and
Air Powers: Mental powers, concentration,
intellectual pursuits, purification, cleansing, clear and detached
reasoning.
A new age stone, Fluorite comes in a variety of colors
and is used to prevent others from making unwanted energetic attachments.
It grows in a very ordered crystalline structure, and works to bring
stability and order into the wearer's life.
Purple is a third eye stone and an excellent choice for meditation.
Lavender promotes an increase in wealth and mental acuity.
Green cleanses and refreshes the chakras. Diminishes mild emotional
trauma and eliminates negativity. Clear
stimulates the crown chakra. Clears, aligns and energizes the chakras.
Yellow enhances creativity and provides support for intellectual
pursuits. Blue produces a calming energy
excellent for stimulating clear and concise communication.
Chakra: Brow and Crown
Garnet: The energy is Projective and the element is Fire
Powers: Healing, protection and strength. Aids in enhancing and
balancing the sex drive by heightening sexual awareness.
Helps to stabilize and protect the physical body. It is
especially effective with the blood, spine and circulatory system, and
helps some women to balance during "Moon time". It gives vitality
and provides a stabilizing influence in all realms.
Chakra: Root
Garnet, Green (African Jade). Green
garnets are healing stones, said to aid in the purification of all body
systems, and were exchanged between friends to insure they would meet
again.
Chakra: Heart
Gold: The energy is Projective and the elements are Fire and Earth.
Powers: Power, healing, protection, wisdom, creativity, confidence,
vitality, purification, abundance, money, success and male sexual
dysfunction.
Known as the Solar and the Archetypal Male energy, Gold
traditionally is a symbol of masculine and solar energies. Gold draws the
light of the Sun into the wearer bringing vitality and confidence. It's
energy is active and mobilizing, helping to turn goal into reality.
Stabilizes and energizes the properties of gemstones.
Chakra:
All, especially the Root, Solar Plexus and Sacral
Hematite: The energy is Projective and it's elements are Fire
and Earth Powers: Balance, stability, memory
enhancement, disorders of the blood, mental attunement focusing attention
on the physical plane.
It is a very easy stone to clear and cleanse, and thus
can be used multiple times in the absorption of energy. It can absorb both
positive and negative energy, but is most commonly used to absorb the
negative. A "lesson stone", Hematite forms a reflective shield
around the wearer, letting negativity bounce off and return to the sender.
Wearers should remember however, that their own negativity will be
reflected to them if they are its source. Chakra:
Base
Iolite: The energy
is Receptive and the element is Water Powers:
healing, meditation, astral travel, forgiveness, alcohol/addiction
detoxification, awareness, memory, eliminates confusion, relieves anxiety,
enables independence, success, prosperity and happiness.
A newer stone made recently more available, Iolite
helps to open the pathway for the spiritual. It produces an electrical
charge when in contact with ones aura and can both strengthen and align
this field thereby cleansing it. Chakra:
Throat, Brow and Crown
Jade:
The energy is Receptive and the element is Water
Powers: Love, healing, longevity, wisdom, protection, gardening,
heightens instinct, prosperity and money. Said to be a dream stone,
Jade is sacred to both the Chinese and the Mayans.
It is said to bless everything it touches. It aids in
finding one's path and manifesting dreams into reality.
Chakra: Heart
Jasper:
The energy is Receptive and the element is Water
Powers: Healing, protection, health and beauty. A form of chalcedony,
Jasper was often worn by Shaman to provide protection in their magical
practices.
It was considered a sacred stone during the performance
of and adherence to, the "old ways" of the Native American Indians.
Promotes mental process and to restrain dangerous desires and whims that
could lead to hazardous situations.
Chakra: Solar Plexus
Jet: The energy is Receptive and the Elements are
Earth and Akasha
Powers: Protection, purification, grounding,
divination, luck and health, holds ancient Earth wisdom.
Intensely powerful, Jet is the stone of purification
and grounding. Like Amber, it has the ability to become electrically
charged when rubbed with wool or silk. Jet can offer protection and the
ability to transmute negative energy into clear neutral energy. Also
good for purifying and clearing the Aura.
Chakra: All (for protection) and Base (for
grounding)
Kyanite: The energy is Receptive and the Element
is Water and Storm.
Powers: Endurance, Love, Tranquility, Foresight,
Consciousness, Communication, Connecting with Nature, and Meditation
(inner bridges).
Used in
meditation to communicate with higher beings, "The Stone of Connection",
enhances psychic ability and is used to embrace love in all it's
aspects.
Placed on the
brow, Kyanite opens the 3rd eye and throat centers. Brings out our natural
ability to manifest things into reality via thoughts and visualization.
Chakra: All - especially Third Eye and Heart
Lapis Lazuli: The energy
is Receptive and the element is Water Powers:
Healing, joy, love, fidelity, memory, meditation, creativity, psychism,
protection and courage.
Lapis, an uplifting spiritual stone, stimulates
gentleness in its wearer and helps to organize and quiet the mind. It also
helps with dream insights. Chakra: Throat and
Brow
Lepidolite: The energy is Receptive and the element is Water.
Powers: Peace, emotional healing, balance,
purification, serenity and calm.
Lepidolite is the stone of serenity. It calms and
soothes frayed nerves and helps to balance emotional extremes. It can also
be used in meditation and for spiritual purification, as it dispels
negative thoughts and fosters emotional healing, serenity and
peacefulness.
Chakras: All (especially Heart and Third Eye
Malachite: The energy is Receptive and
the element is Earth Powers: Power,
protection, love, peace and business success.
Good for drawing out imbalances from the body and the
emotions. Cleanses body of toxins and pollutants. It also is a powerful
stone for stimulating the physical and the psychic visions.
Chakra: Heart
Marcasite (Pyrite): The energy is Projective
and the elements are Fire and Storm
Powers: Physical vitality, spirituality in
physical life, balancing energetic polarities, cleansing and clearing.
A very powerful stone, Marcasite is excellent for
strengthening the physical, mental and spiritual bodies. Highly grounding
and protecting, it balances excessive energies.
Chakra: Root, Solar Plexus and Earth Star
(below the feet)
Moonstone:
The energy is Receptive and the elements are Water and Wind
Powers: Love, divination, enhances intuitive sensitivity, psychism,
mystery, self discovery, meditation, sleep, gardening, protection, good
fortune, tranquility, harmony, telepathy, youth and dieting.
Known as "The Stone of Mystery", it is also the gem of
the High Priestess, Keeper of the Feminine Mysteries. With ancient
roots in Rome and the Orient Moonstone has always been considered sacred
in India. It helps to unblock feelings, align and balance the emotional
self. Enables one to meet and conquer challenges. Facilitates dream
awareness, greater consciousness, psychic vision and awakening.
Chakra:
Third Eye and Crown
Peach: This stone has a gentle and loving
energy. Soothing to the emotions, it allows one to stay focused and
positive in all life's experiences.
Rainbow: The energies and properties associated
with every variety of moonstone, are more vibrant and powerful in rainbow
moonstone. Rainbow moonstone offers powerful healing, emotional
balance, intuition, and protection from negative energies.
White: Representing the energy of the full moon,
it inspires psychic perception, and enhances visions and dreams.
Gray: Also called 'new moonstone', this stone is
gifted with all the mysterious and powerful energies associated with the
new moon. It magnifies intention, and brings creativity to new light.
Mother of Pearl: The
energy is Receptive and the element is Water and Akasha
Powers: Protection, healing and wealth. Can soften and heal
emotional traumas.
Helps one let go and trust again. Heals emotional skin
disorders. Promotes self love, self worth and balances sexual misbehavior.
Chakra: Brow and Akasha
Opals:
Australian Opal: The
energy is both Receptive and Projective, and the elements are
Earth, Water, Fire and Air.
Powers: Protective, mystic visions, love,
memory enhancement, happy dreams, purity and awakening.
Opals have been used since ancient times, to promote
luck, health, loyalty and purity. While there is a modern misconception
that it is a stone of misfortune and sorrow, Opal is considered to be one
of the seven sacred stones of the Cherokee people. It is an important
gemstone in subduing an over-active 7th Chakra. Natural Healers use
it to promote visions, enhance prophetic dreams and intuition. It
can also be used in meditation, to cleanse the Etheric body, and attract
Angelic beings.
Chakra: Crown
Pink Peruvian Opal: The energy is
Receptive and the element is Water
Powers: Love, gentleness, inspiration,
imagination and creativity.
Pink Peruvian Opal is the stone of love and gentleness.
Excellent for inspiring imagination and creativity, it can also be used
for healing of the emotions and releasing of inhibitions.
Chakra: Heart
Onyx (Black): The energy is Projective
and the elements are Fire and Earth. Powers:
Spiritual, protection, courage, inner strength, focused attention,
willpower, self-mastery, reason and discipline.
This solid feeling stone is excellent for grounding
negativity, relieving stress and the aligning of higher powers. It is
soothing and helps in focus, to banish grief, change bad habits and remove
anxieties and fears. Chakra: Root, Solar
Plexus and Third Eye
Pearl: The energy is Receptive and element is Water
Powers: Love, money, protection and luck.
Enhances personal integrity and helps to provide a
focus to one's attention. In India and China it is the symbol of purity,
immortality, wisdom and longevity.
Chakra: Sacral
Peridot: The energy is Receptive and the element is Earth
Powers: Protection, health, wealth and sleep.
This stone is used to attract love as well as to calm
raging anger. It dispels negative emotions. It is calming to the
nervous system and therefore helpful in promoting sleep if worn to bed.
Natural healers use it to create a protective shield around the entire
body and heal the heart and lungs.
Chakra: Solar Plexus
Pietersite: The energy is Receptive and the element is Air
Powers: Protection, inner eye, eyes, sex, metabolism,
communication, blood pressure and body temperature.
Relating to feminine energy, Pietersite is said to
assist one during meditative states while working with Angels, to
experience visions and pre-cognitive thoughts. Provides grounding,
not to the Earth, but to the ethereal body; this rarity in grounding
ability has facilitated travel throughout the spheres of existence,
culminating in access to the Akashic records. It promotes loyalty to the
self and to the ultimate experience of life.
Chakra: Solar Plexus
Quartz Crystal (Rock Crystal):
The energy is both Receptive and Projective and the elements are Fire, Water
and Storm.
Powers:
Protection, Spiritualism, Meditation, Healing, Psychism and Power,
Magnification of Ambient Energies, Clearing, Cleansing and Memory Enhancement.
Known as "The Stone of Light", Crystal Quartz is
symbolic of the spirit and intellect of human beings and was used
extensively by ancient Shaman and Priests. Rock crystals tend to
amplify the quality of stones nearby and dissipate all areas of imbalance
and negativity.
Chakra:
ALL
Quartz (Snow): The energy is Receptive
and the element is Water
Powers:
White stones are ruled by the
moon and widely used for protection. Diffusing and dispersing negative
energy... it has all of the same energies as clear and rose quartz, except
that it has a more gentle and feminine effect, without the focus on
emotional states. With a long history of use for demarcating sacred
spaces, many sites throughout the world have stones with a high milky
quartz content dating back thousands of years, which suggests that the
choice was deliberate.
Chakra:
Sacral and Crown
Rhodonite: The energy is Projective and the element is Fire
Powers: Peace, empowering, practical, compassionate and
anti-confusion.
Beneficial in the realm of romantic relationships, it
encourages balance, solidity, trust and understanding. Excellent for
stimulation, clearing, and activation of the heart chakra. It can assist
one in the attainment of ones "greatest potential", dispelling anxiety and
promoting coherence during chaotic encounters.
Chakra: Heart
Rose Quartz: The energy is Receptive and the element
is Water
Powers: Peace, receptivity to the beauty of art, music, and the
written word, enlivens imagination, and represents a young, warm love.
Rose Quartz is the most powerful stone for dealing with
affairs of the heart. It emits a calming, cooling energy which can work on
all the chakras to gently remove negativity and to reinstate the loving,
gentle forces of self-love. It is an excellent energy for healing
emotional wounds.
Chakra: Heart
Silver:
The energy is Receptive and the elements are Earth and Water
Powers:
Lunar energy,
invocation, love, psychism, the archetypal feminine energy, mystery,
introversion, the unconscious, dreams, peace, protection, travel and
money.
Known as "The Mirror of the Soul", Silver is said to draw the light of
the moon into the wearer. It can enhance and empower stones that are
placed with it. It tends to strengthen the "silver cord" during astral
travel and diminishes the unconscious fear of the inability to return.
Chakra:
All
Sodalite: The energy is Receptive and the elements are Water
and Wind.
Powers:
Healing, peace, meditation and wisdom, deepened intuition, enhanced
insights, mental performance and access to subconscious.
A stone of meditation, Sodalite promotes clarity of
mind and spirit and enhances psychic intuition. Heals emotionally related
diseases, such as those caused by stress, nervousness, anger or fear.
It acts as a mediator and brings a deep level of peace and balancing of
energies.
Chakra:
Third Eye, Throat and Brow
Sugilite:
The energy is Receptive and the elements are Water and Wind.
Powers: Psychism, spirituality, healing, dreams,
spiritual protection and wisdom, assisting one in becoming a beacon of
light.
Promoting harmonious balance with the spirit world and
planet Earth, Sugilite acts as a channel for universal energies into the
body and mind. It energizes the entire Chakra system and helps the
crown to integrate the influx of spiritual energy into daily living.
Can be used by those who find it difficult to feel at ease with modern
life.
Chakra:
Third Eye,
Crown, Transpersonal and Etheric (8th through 14th)
Tourmaline: The energy is Receptive and the element
is Water (pink and blue) and Earth (green and black).
Powers: Love, friendship, money, business, health, peace,
energy, courage and astral projection.
Tourmaline attracts inspiration and is thought to bring
favor from the Muses, sometimes considered lucky for artists,
writers and other persons pursuing creative careers. It will diminish
fears by bringing understanding and encourages self-confidence. Blue is
said to relieve stress. Green is said to speed general healing and help
regain strength. Black is said to help clear the psyche of negative
energy.
Chakra: Crown, Brow, Heart and Root
Turquoise: The energy is Receptive and the element is
Earth
Powers: Protection, courage, money, love, friendship, healing
and luck. Turquoise is wonderful for drawing out negative vibrations
from a person.
As with many green and turquoise colored stones,
psychic sensitivity and connection with the spirit world are enhanced.
Called a 'balancing stone', it helps balance the spiritual and the
physical--as the sky connects the heavens to the earth. Ancient Indians
believed in its ability to heal and every Shaman possessed at least one
piece of turquoise. Sometimes associated with relieving migraines.
Chakra: Throat
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