AEGIRINE - Its alternate name, acmite, comes from the Greek word for point. The name aegirine is after the Teutonic god of the sea, Aegir, and was given when the first specimens of the mineral were discovered in Norway. This is a stone of manifestation and excellent energy generation.  Giving strength for being true to yourself while it dispels group pressures it opens opportunities for self confidence and removal of emotional blocks.

AGATE - Agates are great aids for meditation and powerful healing stones. Good for transmutation, helps with the emotion of acceptance, gives a mellow, blended aspect, beneficial in stomach area..
- Blue Lace Agate: For peace, works on the base and heart chakras. Also use to relieve headaches when placed on the brow.
- Crazy Lace Agate: For balance. Swirls of red / yellow / brown.
- Green Moss Agate: Good for blood sugar balance and Anorexia.  Excellent for helping cultivate a 'green thumb'.  Works on heart chakra. Also can bring back a sense of self esteem, emotional priorities, mental priorities, colon, circulatory, pancreas & pulses.
- Fire Agate: Really earth and fire. Works on the whole system to produce healing and re-growth. Master healer with color therapy, enhances all essences, grounds and balances, sexual & heart chakra binder and burns energy.
- Iris Agate: Use to heal burns.
- Picture Agate: Used in meditation.

AMBER - promotes positive energy, mental clarity, attractiveness and longevity; provides protection; supports the digestive system and is good for fever and toothache. Helps user realize choice. Past or present choices can be looked at without judgment but with the knowledge that each day one can choose to walk the path of divine light and love. Aids in manifesting desires into reality and transforms negative energy into positive energy. Crystal interprets, " Amber is a sacred stone of healing and protection; transmutes all negative energy into positive energy.  It aligns ethereal energies to physical, mental and emotional bodies bringing about perfect order.  Moves the wearer into being true and loyal to themselves and others; to speak the truth.  Excellent stone for anaphylactic shock or allergic reactions.  Great for healing inflammation of joints and arthritis."

AMAZONITE - is associated with the throat chakra. It is a communication enhancing stone. It can relieve stress and calm the nervous system. It is also a good stone for enhancing creativity. Amazonite lessens self-defeating behaviors and self-defeating talk, helps clarify and improve thinking.

AMETHYST - promotes serenity, clarity, sobriety, composure, insightful reasoning, restful sleep and pleasant dreams; reduces stress
Helps user achieve higher states of awareness by cutting through the illusion of this plane. Promotes healing, inspiration, divine love, and intuition. Has strong protective as well as calming qualities. Can help one free them self from addictions.
 Amethyst is extremely effective when placed in four corners of homes and class rooms.  Amethyst automatically harmonizes the environment.

AMMONITE -  is a fossilized animal from eons ago and supports creativity with architects and those in construction, it also has strong protective qualities. It is good for stability and can change negativity into a smooth, useful energy.

ANGELITE - is one of the Angel Stones, of course. It encourages saying and sending love and light into the world. It aligns the physical body with the etheric bodies. Angelite sets up a protective field around itself. It enhances telepathic communication as well as contact with other worldly beings. It can open the pathway for channeling. It raises your conscious awareness, allowing you to "plug in" to universal awareness. It initiates or intensifies contact with your spirit totem. Angelite is useful for psychic healing, allowing a bridge between you and the ethereal energy field. It aids you in astral travel, allowing this travel to become second nature to you. It encourages both astrological and mathematical knowledge. It represents world peace and brotherhood for our world and the universe as well and does, therefore, make an ideal gemstone for a World Peace Grid. It is also useful to dispel anger.

APATITE -  stimulates the intellect and enhances creativity and clarity. Apatite is attuned to healing, communicating, teaching, and balancing energy and is useful in regulation of proper appetite.   Apatite actually helps you curb your hunger! Brings a feeling of peace and balance to you so you won't feel hungry.  High calcium content strengthens bones, muscles, mineral assimilation.

APOPHYLLITE - promotes connections, allows one to see the truth and act on it, good for those with allergies.  Apophyllite encourages a calm attitude, tranquility and honesty as it helps one to be open as it reduces fears and anxieties, worry and uncertainty.  It helps delete blocks and negative thought patterns. Apophyllite heals respiratory problems, particularly asthma. Clear, white, light green striated crystals. Very powerful for deep peaceful stillness and alpha state/meditation/dream recall. Clairvoyance, out of body travel, etc. GREEN is most powerful. Heals & brings joyous openness to Heart Chakra as it opens the Brow & Crown Chakras. Clears mental fuzziness & channels for higher self & angelic realm contact. Helps set truth for growth. CHAKRAS: Heart, Brow & Crown

AQUA AURA - A process of plasma ionization is used to deposit atomically thin layers of gold, which then interact with the crystal structure on these specimens, enhancing their natural beauty and brilliance; this electrical charge of gold combines with quartz to open channels, while retaining the qualities of the quartz crystal and adding the abundance attraction of gold.  Increases energy and after consciousness for meditation, telepathy, healing. CHAKRA: Throat

AQUAMARINE - tranquilizing and uplifting; promotes courage, peace and relaxation; supports the sensory organs.  Aquamarine aids a happy relaxed disposition as it clears up confusion and stimulates orderliness, bringing unfinished business to a conclusion.  Aquamarine harmonizes the pituitary gland and the thyroid gland, thereby regulating growth and the hormone balance.

AZURITE - promotes courageous introspection for progress, insight and creativity; corresponds to the throat chakra.  Crystal interprets,  “A sacred stone, known as the ‘stone of heaven’, helps to better communicate, to be precise in decision making.  Useful in disorders of spinal alignment, deterioration of bones, circulatory disorders and may be utilized to rid toxins of the energy centers (chakras).”

BLUE LACE AGATE  is a stone of calm and peace and is a good stone for meditation. It helps promote a feeling of space and helps connect us with the more subtle energies of the spiritual realm. It is a gentle stone and may help those who are gentle by nature not to be changed by the sometimes-harsh events that surround them each day. It is not so much a protective stone as one that helps remind us that all is of spiritual origin. A stone of wisdom, kindness and peace. Provides perceptiveness to situations and awakens inherent talents. Stimulates analytical capabilities and precision spiritual, peace, meditation.

CALCITE - promotes visualization; assimilation of life lessons, dream recall and detoxifies.  Calcite has a strong effect in speeding up development.  Calcite bestows stability, trust in ourselves and constancy.  It is effective against laziness and fortifies the ability to overcome difficulties.  It encourages ability to transform ideas into actions.  Makes us more energetic and enhances memory.  Calcite stimulates the metabolism, fortifies the immune system, alleviates skin and intestinal complaints.  Healing for tissue and bone and normalizes the rhythm of the heart and strengthens it.

CARNELIAN - initiative, assertiveness, precision, passion, concentration, strength. Considered to relieve  cramps. Promotes creativity and passion, and suppresses feelings of jealousy. Strengthens body and mind, and relieves lower back pain. - sexual health.   Confidence, boldness, initiative, dramatic abilities, assertiveness, out going. ORANGE & YELLOW centers, warms & cleanses blood, kidneys, stimulates appetite, emotions, passion, sexuality, physical energy. Reproductive system, menstrual cramps, arthritis, kidney, gall bladder, pancreas. Historically also used to pull excess fever heat out through feet. RED: Very highly evolved healing stone. Aids tissue regeneration. Vitalizes with inner self; facilitates concentration, opens heart. Warming, social, joyous

CAVANSITE - releases pleasurable endorphins that helps heal on a cellular level. Heightens psychic abilities, insight, intuition, second-sight, and channeling abilities. Enables us to focus via the Third Eye, at an etheric level. Helps us modify harmful behavior patterns. Encourages thoughtfulness, and helps us think before we react. Helps us break away from outmoded beliefs and inspires change.

CELESTITE -  attributes: invites guardian spirits   It some how lets you know you are not alone and that you are loved and supported by the angels and universal light beings.  Great stone for people with a lot of despair.  Can turn any darkness into light on all levels and situations.  Will help you to become more clairvoyant; balances body, mind and spirit.  I always send this stone with everyone who crosses over, to ensure they will go to the light without hesitation or obstacles.  Very beautiful, peaceful and graceful stone. 

CHALCEDONY -  Release touchiness, melancholy, fever, gallstones, leukemia, eye problems, stimulates maternal feelings and creativity. BLUE CHALCEDONY is a stone with a gentle energy that feels kind of dreamy. It fosters balance between mind, body and spirit. It is a stone of calm and peace that reduces or negates hostility, anger, and irritation. Blue chalcedony soothes and fosters mental and emotional stability and can engender emotional honesty. It also encourages and eases 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 also helps reduce or eliminate bad dreams by getting rid of the influences that cause them. Blue chalcedony has a very protective property, 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 for the eyes, open sores rapid healing, alzheimers, lactation, blood, circulation, bones, spleen, and gall bladder.

CHALOCOPYRITE - has been used to assist one in finding "lost" objects. It also enhances perception and strengthens ones contact with the ancient cultures of the universe

CHAROITE - reduces fear to aid transformation and assist in recognizing connections; cleanses.   Fills all your chakras with pure love and light; will help you stay faithful to your spiritual self, path and journey.  This stone is amazingly powerful in many aspects in a kind of unknown way.  Great for allowing you to be an unconditional person or to always give unconditional love. .  Heals liver disorder, spleen, pancreas, all filtering organs; opens your crown chakra bringing pure spiritual manna.

CHRYSCOLLA - promotes flexibility, friendship and creative expression; healing therapy for trauma. GEM SILICA Solid, Lt. Blue/Blue Green. Gentle, soothing, friendly. Flushes & heals heart blocks for allowingness, flexibility, self-forgiveness, peace of heart, patience. Keeps one in light, love & healing daily. Cleanses aurathic field, dreams & earth healing. Throat: Expressing feelings, verbal & artistic creativity. Thyroid. Also Heart, blood sugar & emotional balance. High conductivity from copper draws out pain, heat

CHRYSOPRASE -  helps with forgiveness and compassion, it aids with the balancing of the yin-yang energy, and enhances deep meditative states. Chrysoprase is the most valuable type of Chalcedony and is green to yellow in color. Chrysoprase is said to increase fertility, it helps relieve pains of heartache and loneliness. It also helps with emotional balance and inner peace. 

CITRINE is known as a "success" stone because it promotes abundance, especially in business and commerce. It enhances mental clarity, confidence, happiness and can alleviate depression and self-doubt, and diminish irrational mood swings. It has will power and brings good fortune, sometimes in very unexpected ways. Citrine is also a good general protection stone. It can aid the digestion and eliminate nightmares that disturb one's sleep. Citrine is associated with the solar plexus chakra.  CITRINE QUARTZ CRYSTAL - Use for mental and emotional clarity, memory improvement, problem solving, self-discipline, will power, optimism and confidence and wealth bringer. Reduces anxiety, fear and depression. Electro magnetic wonder stone. CITRINE: is Clear yellow quartz (Yellow from Iron)

COPPER -  repels lethargy, passivity, it also aids in dispelling restlessness and enhances a "calm" inner being

CORAL - bestows harmony in relationships, brings wisdom and sanity; guards against theft; provides protection from disease.  Calcium & calcite. RED ORANGE stimulates 1st & 2nd Chakras for energy, warmth, fertility,. Energizes emotions. Muscles, blood, heart, repro. system, thyroid, metabolism, meridians. Spine, bone & tissue regen. PINK: Increases sensitivity, caring, compassion. WHITE: Soothes, heals meridians, stress, smell ability. BLACK: Creativity, repels lower energies. CHAKRAS: Red Orange - Coccyx & Spleen. Pink - Heart Chakra

COVELLITE - Reported to help alleviate the disease of Cancer.  Covellite can strengthen intuitive abilities and the connection to the Higher Self, It is said to open doorways to past life recall and ancient knowledge, to help one see the solutions to problems, to relieve despondency, to dispel anxiety and to assist in re-birth..

DANBURITE - Danburite encourages you to be at your best;  getting  along well with others and as it encourages one to understand the single source from which we all come.  It stimulates the intellect.  It allows others to see you and your capabilities in a true light. This gemstone is  filled with incredible rainbows! In gem form, it sparkles and flashes very much like a white Diamond. In fact, Danburite was sometimes used in place of a Diamond in the 19th Century.: Clear Crystal. Powerfully radiates bright, pure white light, filing our body, mind & spirit (relationships) with loving light. Brings truth, honesty, strengthens mind, nervous system, life force, awareness. Program for particular uses. Excellent to cleanse, purify or debrief. Excellent for healing. CHAKRAS: Brow & Crown - fills with joy & illumination

DIOPSIDE: Star Diopside being a black stone repels negativity.  Deep healing and expansion of heart center, love, commitment, trust, humbleness, heart, lungs, Deep healing and expansion of heart center, love, commitment, trust, humbleness, heart, lungs, etc

DIOPTASE - There is much in this tiny deep blue-green mineral. Its powerful green reaches deep into the heart chakra to release and heal sadness, heartache, abuse and neglect. It empowers the heart with new depth, strength, healthiness, courage, and ability to love deeply. It is said to connect the emotional heart with the spiritual heart to receive abundance. It also promotes genuineness, sincerity, emotional balance, self-worth, and deep well-being.

EMERALD - attributes: promotes abundance and eloquence; enhances memory; attracts love - corresponds to the heart center; soothes tired eyes.  Crystal interprets, “Great on all mental levels, helps with memory, intelligence, decision making, making only right choices.  Emerald helps with issues of the heart and lungs.  Brings favored outcomes connected with legal issues.  Muscular, heart, lungs and eyes benefit."

EPIDOTE - the stone for city dwellers; enhances perception and personal power; smoothes the skin and hydrates the body.  Can provide for increase of attunement. Dispels criticalness, enhances perception, and strengthens overall health, heart, well-being, energy, courage, stamina. Helps take good care of one's self

EUDIALYTE: Promotes energies of sound waves to assist clairaudient capabilities; a fine tuner of transmissions. Stone of the Heart Land, opens and activates the 4th chakra, dispels jealousy. Connects spiritual self and intellect

FLUORITE - stabilizes and produces order; sustains health and emotional well-being. Known to be good for blood vessels and the spleen. Grounds excessive energy. It has been considered the "Genius Stone". CHINESE RAINBOW: Purple, green, blue banded stone. Brings order to chaos. Helps clarify one's emotions to aid in objective decision making. Symbol of purity and harmony of the universe. CLEAR & PURPLE: Objectivity; clears the way for new things, upliftment, aura cleanse. Eyesight, sinuses, repels colds. Enhances other gems. Match colors with chakras.

GARNET - energizing, enhances passion, focus on purpose, and sexual energy; supports blood cleansing and healing of skin conditions. Purifies all body systems, especially the blood and heart. Aids in healing liver diseases. Aids in thyroid disorders.   Improves circulation. Promotes vitality Calms anger. Improves productivity.

GOLD -  Holds the energy of other stones. Eases those who are overburdened with responsibilities. Assists in the elimination of ego conflicts. Gold emits energy assisting with purity and character, it relieves stress and eases trauma. It also is beneficial in purifying and balancing of the heart charkra,

HELIODOR is said to enhance one's intuition and to improve one's communicative abilities and is also said to make one more compassionate and sympathetic towards others. Traditionally, heliodor has been used as a charm to promote sincerity and sympathy, and as a remedy for idleness. Heliodor is said to help strengthen and stabilize the heartbeat, and to help in the treatment of disorders of the stomach and small intestines, liver, spleen and pancreas.

HEMATITE - enhances concentration and will power; reduces limiting notions; stabilizes; aids blood and bones.  Promotes awareness of personal issues and patterns. Makes it easy to access anything subconscious. Useful for focusing on past lives for the purpose of working with issues that relate to them. Makes it clear what one's issues are. Siver-gray metallic. High Iron, Mercury. One of the most grounding of stones. Condenses scatteredness into mental clarity, concentration, memory, practicality. Confidence, willpower, boldness. Egyptians used also to calm hysteria & anxiety. Yang. Helps us adjust to being physical. Spleen & blood cleanse. Can deflect. CHAKRA: Coccyx

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. 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.

FOSSIL IVORY/BONE - ancient wisdom; fossil mammoth ivory dates back to as much as 20,000 year ago.  Fossil ivory aids challenges related to bones.

IOLITE - strengthens the liver, releases discord and gives accurate visions. Iolite is used to help us connect with our souls.  It will help us to understand who we are and why we are on the planet at this time, use this stone for guidance in difficult times.   What is unique about working with Iolite is the sense of protection you feel while delving into the deepest levels of your self.  Iolite give unconditionally, allow the positive energies of this stone to come into your life.  Physically, Iolite is said to aid headaches and strengthen the entire system, promoting health on all levels.

JADE (Green)- Jade facilitates peace within the physical, emotional, and intellectual structures, as well as within the materialistic world. It was said to bring accord the environment, to transmute negativity and to instill resourcefulness. Solid to translucent. BLUE (NEPHRITE): Composed of jade and actinolite. Balances the male/female energies between self and partner. Integrates subtle energies of universe to the body. Good for protection against attack and illness. Said to bless that which it touches.  BUTTER JADE: Aids those on the path to enlightenment, meditation, visualization. Helps one to overcome the ego, selfishness and greed. Heightens awareness and compassion; promotes a peaceful mind. GREEN: Health, wealth & longevity stone. Ancient Chinese used also for courage, wisdom, justice, mercy, emotional balance, stamina, love, fidelity, humility, generosity, peace, harmony. Lungs, heart, thymus, immune, kidney & blood detox, nervous system. Androgynous. A gentle, steady energy JADE is a stone of much history, it has been a part of oriental philosophy for centuries.  Within Japan and China, it is considered to be the most precious of all stones.  There are five values credited to Jade, these are: clarity, modesty, courage, justice and wisdom.  Jade does come in many colors, among them are dark green, apple green, black, lavender, orangy-brown and sometimes a whitish color.  Black Jade which we are speaking of in this article is a wonderful stone for protection, as well bringing one a feeling of tranquility even in the most of difficult times.  By holding a jade stone in your hand, you may experience a feeling of serenity, for others black jade brings out wisdom which is hidden in each of us. Jade is a wonderful stone in all areas and an important one for your healing kit.  Realization & Devotion

JASPER -  encourages balance, confidence, perseverance and transcendence, a powerful physical healer that protects against negativity.  Jasper helps us pursue and achieve goals with determination as it imbues courage as it encourages dealing with things forthrightly.  Jasper stimulates imagination, honesty and uprightness to help transform ideas into actions.  Jasper helps fortify the immunes system circulation and energy flow as it has detoxifying and anti-inflammatory effect

.JET - alleviates fear, dispels migraines, illness, violence, deep depression; protects finances. Jet vibrates to the number 8.  This number is about personal power and abundance.  Abundance can be anything you wish it to be.

KUNZITE - contains lithium to soothe emotions and banish depression, heals loss - heart strengthener.  Kunzite encourages dedication, devotion and  banishes resistance to persevere. Kunzite combines logic with inspiration and logic.  Aids nervous complaints, epilepsy and disorders of the sensory organs and nerves.  It dissolves tension in the area of the heart and helps with joint complaints.  Spodumene w/Lithium. PINK, CLEAR. Powerful high level stone. Strengthens healers, teachers. Opens the emotional heart & spiritual heart; Unconditional lovingness, compassion. Healing abuse/loss/addictions. Helps emotional balance, confidence, connection to higher self, oneness. Reduces depression, mood swings, stress, radiation. Deepens altered state; psychic readings, healing. CHAKRAS: Brow & Crown

KYANITE - is one of only two stones which never need cleansing or clearing, and it is a stone of attunement. Kyanite enhances mental awareness, communication, and psychic awareness, it is also excellent for dream recall and helps with meditative states.

LABRADORITE - encourages self-reliance, transformation; awakens talent; aids sound sleep. Labradorite fortifies intuition and mediumistic abilities and is an outstanding illusion killer. Great for alleviating feeling cold, colds, rheumatic illness and gout  Labradorite  also has a blood pressure lowering effect and is calming.

LARIMAR STONE - is a type of Pectolite discovered in the Dominican Republic which comes in blue, red, green, and white. Larimar Stone enhances understanding, precision, and the ability to accept blame when at fault. It also brings a sense of peace to the wearer. Larimar Stone emits an energy of love and healing, facilitating one to be honest with ones self and is a "stone for Earth healing". Brings tranquility of water/sea and air to heart & mind. Soothes and uplifts hurt, fear, depression. Self-expression, patience, acceptance

LAPIS LAZULI - enhances intuition, self-expression; awakens creativity for noble purpose; supports the immune system.  Higher guidance, intuition, connection to higher self, overview, decisions for good of all. Organizes, quiets mind. Opens Throat Chakra; self expression, wiring, creativity, dream insight. Anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, autism, shyness, nervous system. MS, speech, hearing, pituitary, DNA, lymph, inflammation, pain, esp. head, protection. CHAKRAS: Throat & Brow

LEPIDOLITE - Contains Lithium & mica. Solid lavender to soft pink, dull, sparkly. Calms, relaxes. Greatly eases intensity of feelings, stress, mood swings, depression, manic-depression, addictions, anxiety. Brings hope, relief, gentleness, self-love, patience. For master gland & immune system, skin, DNA. Fragile: salt water cleanse may cause it to break apart. CHAKRAS: Spleen, Solar Plexus, Brow. With RUBELITE (Pink Tourmaline):  Very powerful combination for healing and calming. Brings emotional balance and balances body's electrochemistry. Strengthens immune system, acts as an anti-depressant; promotes self-love; relieves anger and stress; aids the immune system

MALACHITE - facilitates change; enhances introspection and natural balance; protects from radiation.  Crystal interprets, " Another stone for cleansing the chakras, excellent for energizing the auric energy field; works on emotional issues of the heart; clears blockages from the throat; used with Azurite, is a healer of asthma.  Malachite awakens responsible awareness in life matters as well as business decisions.  Great for moving a person into transformation helping growth and change, to evolve in life without being afraid.  Excellent stone for any kind of cellular dis-ease."

MAGANESE -  is a mineral of bonding, bringing others together and activating the energies of cooperation in group efforts. Maganese also stimulates spontaneity and produces a grounding effect.

METEORITE - promotes endurance, trust and sense of purpose; prevents abductions. Meteorites  are considered sacred in many cultures. Excellent stone for travelers, helping one become familiar and comfortable with new environments. Is said to store information from other dimensions. They are said to enhance communication and to strengthen endurance and trust.

MIMETITE - enhances one's uniqueness and spirit of adventure; aids recovery from atrophy and disorders; support bones

MOLDAVITE - Greenish to brown-green Tektite (fell to earth). Dull outside, deep clear green inside. Powerfully expands psychic abilities, channeling. Heart Chakra.  Moves one beyond the mirage of life into the image of eternity, giving the vision and energy to translate the image into reality.
Telepathic access to spiritual laws, information from higher regions/places to help us and Earth be healthier & more spiritual. Fragile - don't salt cleanse. More rare, expensive & powerful than plain tektite. CHAKRAS: Brow & Crown. Acts as a catalyst for change; bestows access to spiritual laws; promotes abundance; corresponds to the heart chakra

MOONSTONE - Feldspar contains aluminum. Translucent with white, pink, yellow, soft sheen. Soothes stress, anxiety, women's hormones/menstrual imbalance, lymph. Enhances intuitive sensitivity via feelings. Greater flexibility & flow with life. Connects Spleen & Brow Chakras and Pineal for emotional balance, gracefulness. CHAKRAS: Spleen & Brow. RAINBOW MOONSTONE: Balancing, introspective, reflective and lunar. Helps change emotional, mental and spiritual levels of one's life; new beginnings.  Stone for hopes and wishes, helps recognize cycles and destiny. Traveler's stone. Arouses tenderness and happiness, bringing calmness along with awareness, soothes, nurture; promotes flexibility, receptivity, and female energy; supports hormones and lymph system.

NEBULAE STONE is symbolic of the cosmic dance of life's cycles.  It represents a window to the Cosmos revealing the triad connection between the light force from the Heavens, to Earth, to all beings. This unique stone harmonizes ones energies and enhances awareness of being an integral part of the entire cosmos, reminding us that we are 'the chalice of light'.

ONYX/OBSIDIAN - encourages discipline, learning and growth; protects and grounds; like all black stones it repels negativity, corresponds to the root/base chakra  Volcanic glass which cannot be used for evil. - Smoky Obsidian. Helps with hearing defects. - Black Obsidian. This is the Wizards stone and much prized. -  protection and invigorating. Rainbow Obsidian. Contains the essence of the joy of life in all the colors. - Mahogany Obsidian. Reduces tension especially if stroked enhances a harmonious home. - Snowflake Obsidian. Use for astral travel and clairaudience, absorbs negative energy and therefore is used to cleanse before crystal healing. Obsidian is very, very grounding and anchoring. It offers us “a new way to walk on the Earth” with a newly strengthened foundational structure. It allows us to experience Earth's unconditional love supporting and nurturing us. It pulls out old discordant energy gently but powerfully and completely.  Use for Root and 2nd chakra issues: sexual healing, worthiness, safety, security…
It anchors newborns. It can also be used for Earth healing

OPAL - A silicate. Contains water, correlating with our emotions. Clarifies by amplifying & mirroring feelings. enhances intuition, helps balance the emotions, and aids eyesight. Visualization, imagination, dreams, healing. Enhances creativity while providing inspiration and imagination. Stimulates the release of inhibitions and allows personal aspirations to surface. Represents and helps maintain love and loyalty.  Fragile. Fades, cracks in sun, heat, salt, acidic foods. Moisten frequently with water or oil. May change color with hi-energy, intensity people. WHITE - balances L/Rt. brain. BLACK/DARK BLUE - One of the most potent. BLUE: Blue-White to darker blue. Helps one to voice thoughts one has been holding back; stimulates communication skills. Good for creativity. CHERRY: Orange-red to pink-red. Stimulates, activates, cleanses base and sacral chakras. Promotes accuracy, effectiveness, practicality; stimulates clairsentience and clairvoyance. COMMON: White, white-to-green, green, grey, grey-to-black, purple, brown, colorless. Contains no fire. Increases ability to earn and retain money; stimulates sense of self-worth. Enhances business and working relationships/environments. Balances energies. DENDRITIC: Branching figure or making of moss, fern or tree image within. Promotes growth, both spiritually and physically. Enhances organizational abilities. FIRE OPALS: Red to orange and contains fire. Conducive to mystery, variety, progress and change. Assists to reflect upon facets of one's life, adds clarity to intuitive and reflective processes. Brings hope to future and faith in self. OREGON: Found in Opal Butte, Oregon. Transparent, tinged with shades of blue, red, yellow and violet. Capable of amplified emotional state, clears emotional body in aurithic field; amplifies positive states. Releases past trauma, allows joyful release and expression of emotions. CHAKRAS: Brow & Crown. . clarifies feelings; lessens inhibitions; enhances visualization, invisibility; a great diagnostic tool; programmable

ORTHECEROS/TRILOBITES - Fossilized sea creature. Promotes leadership and management skills. Allows one to rule with lovingness, patience and fortitude. Helps develop patience, strength and perseverance. Helps recognize course and to maintain path

PEARL - promotes renewal and optimism; creates beauty and purity; nurtures love, attracts wealth; aids fertility and the lungs. Symbol of pure heart & mind, innocence, faith. Of the sea, it has watery & lunar elements, thus balancing emotions.  Represents innocence, faith, and charity inhibits illicit behavior and aids in maintaining personal integrity.

PERIDOT - promotes prosperity, alleviates anger and fear, promotes understanding, growth – solar plexus
Crystal's interpretation, “Peridot places a protective shield around auric energy field and body, makes a heavy heart lighter, giving an over all feeling of rejuvenation. Peridot is also great for lessening pain during child birth. Peridot helps with the lungs.”  Inspires happiness within, aids in diffusing anger or jealousy bringing openness and acceptance.

PIETERSITE -  (so called because it was discovered by Sid Pieters in Namibia) is a mix of blue and gold tiger's eye in quartz which has been folded and stressed in the Earth.  It has the lovely iridescence of tiger's eye but not in structured bands, more in swirls and swathes. Dorothy Roeder in her book "Crystal Co-Creators",  a specific anchor for a structure of angelic energy to stimulate humanity's use of the divine creative potential in Earth.  Melody in her "Kaleidoscope of Crystals"   tells us Pietersite has been said to contain "the keys to the kingdom of heaven", dispelling illusion and assisting one to recognise the beauty of the soul and helping to support human courage, tenacity and dauntless effort to create and maintain beauty.. a stone of transition and movement encouraging and bringing energy to promote change in one's life; also promotes loyalty to one's self and opens one up to experience life at a more heightened state of consiousness
The angels working through Pietersite work with a particular calm and joyous peacefulness which is very uplifting and helps dissolve confusion and fear about what lies ahead for the Earth.  Pietersite helps relax and release limits you place on your creativity and allows you to recognize your divine potential.  It can be used to stimulate the pineal gland and help you experience visions and precognitive thoughts during a meditative state.  On a physical level it can stimulate the pituitary gland to regulate the other endocrine glands. It is also invaluable when experiencing or releasing deep emotions as it calms emotional outbursts and upheavals - hence its name of Tempest Stone  

PICASSO MARBLE - It is a rare dreaming stone that assists a shaman in discovering the cause of past imbalances. Aids in circulation problems. Also known to increase ones metabolism therefore aiding in weight loss.  Marble which is a metamorphosed limestone. Assists in development of creative talents and artistic enterprises. Sustaining, maintaining and understanding the destiny one has chosen. Known as master of subconscious mind, provides intuition for inner messages. Clarity. is believed to enhance the development of creativity, and to promote weight loss.

PSILOMELANE Enhances awareness. It is said to help change outmoded patterns of thinking and re-direct your energies by helping one recognize these patterns of behavior and emotional states..  Facilitates smooth states of meditation.  Used to facilitate trance states (excellent stone for shamanic journeying) Has been used for "gazing" or remote viewing. Like other black stones it works with the base chakra for grounding and transmuting negative energy.  A  stone of magic, conjuring the memories of wizards and alchemists. It is said to blend heavenly and earthly vibrations, allowing one access to multiple realms. It can be used to access the akashic records, to draw upon the powers of the elements and bring magic into one's life.

PYRITE - is a highly protective stone, blocking or shielding you from negative energies from people, places and things.  Some like to use Pyrite to stimulate the intellect, recalling information when you need it the most.  Good for those of us who can be forgetful.  On the physical level, Pyrite can be used in the treatment and healing of all bone and cell diseases.  A good protection against flu and the common cold.  If you are a caregiver use the energies of pyrite to protect you from any harmful disease and germs associated with your work. Numerology- Vibrates to the number 3.  Creativity and Joy! Pyrite attracts abundance.

QUARTZ - QUARTZ CRYSTAL - Powerful all-around healer, stabilizer, stimulates positive energy.  This is a programmable stone; channeling stone, most useful for breaking bad habits and strengthening life force. The quartz crystal is the connection between the mind and the heart. It can be used to communicate with all life and other  dimension. As  a part  of a greater living consciousness, the quartz crystal  synchronizes the individual and total consciousness

RHODOCHROSITE -  Promotes self-acceptance  and love. A very high vibration. Relieves Stress. Gentle, yet probably the most vibrant, loving stone to heal the Heart Center. Especially for giving and receiving love. Also for loneliness, loss, heartache, fear, insecurities. Helps self-forgiveness, deservingness & trust issues

ROSE QUARTZ - opens the heart; eases trauma, promotes love; corresponds to the heart center chakra.  Love, beauty, peacefulness, forgiving, lovingness, self-love, emotional balance. Soft. Gently soothes & warms heart center. Emotional healing, loss, stress, hurt. Cleanse & recharge often. Slowly eases childhood traumas, neglect, lack of love.  

RUBY/SAPPHIRE - revitalizes; promotes courage, leadership, intensity; brings joy; strengthens psychic defenses; relieves depression   Red Corundum. Contains Corundum. Blood sugar balance. Warms, energizes after exhaustion. Strengthens physical & emotional. Love, courage, confidence, vitality, stamina, strength, leadership, success over challengers. Stimulates circulation, menses, pituitary. Healing the earth. CHAKRAS: Coccyx & Heart.  

SAPPHIRE-  Eliminates frustration, creative expression & connection to higher self. aids meditation. Sapphire, one of the most highly prized gems in the world, is a blue corundum, an aluminum oxide mineral with a hardness of 9. It comes in a variety of colors, though its name derives from the Greek word for blue. It is found in Africa, India, the USA and Southeast Asia. Intuitive sources say that Sapphire can enhance one's intuition. It is said to bring prosperity and the fulfillment of one's dreams. It can be used to enhance psychic ability and to help one to develop increased mental powers. Brings Joy and Peace of Mind

SCAPOLITE -  helps you to look deeply inside yourself to see the solutions for past problems and present problems. This gemstone helps to bring about change--physical, intellectual, or in your environment. It helps you attain your goals

SERAPHINITE: Gem variety of clinichlore. Primarily deep green color with inclusions of silver. Helps soften the heart and increases intuition. Helps one to demonstrate the courage to act upon beliefs. Aids linking to guides and guardian spirits. Balances mood swings, is calming in cases of nervousness and stress. Protects from negative energy. Helps with stomach complaints  

SILVER -  gives one the edge in life, it enhances communication skills and adds wisdom to the mix. Silver also encourages patience and perserverance and enhances perception.

SMITHSONITE -  will activate all of the Chakras, but it is excellent at enhancing physical energy and vitality. Placed on the Crown Chakra, it will align all the Chakras in the body. It enhances psychic ability, increasing clairvoyant and clairsentient abilities and allows you to determine whether the messages you get are true or not. It can be used as a substitute for any other stone for "laying-on-of-the-stones". 

SMOKEY QUARTZ - as with all dark/blackish  stones is generally associated with the base chakra. It is therefore useful in removing blockages to physical energy in relation to fear and it's foundations.

SODALITE-encourages rational thinking, logic, intelligence, emotional balance, intuition, higher knowledge, clarity, truth and perception. Fosters knowledge, learning proficiency, consciousness, communication and wisdom. This stone helps us in creating self-mastery and thus the ability to overcome obstacles and addiction. Sodalite works best on the Navel Chakra.  This gemstone allows you to identify your true feelings and verbalize them as well as letting you see the truth in your emotions. This stone encourages your self-esteem, self-trust, and trust in other This blue mineral helps one to stimulate communications and psychic abilities. Also balances male - female polarities - alleviates fear, calms and clears the mind, brings clarity and truth. Aids pancreas, balances endocrine system, strengthens metabolism and lymphatic system

STAUROLITE - FAIRY CROSS: Brown/grey, crosslike extrusions. Represents 4 elements and joining of spirit with earth. Spirituality, compassion, allowingness, dis-attachment. Focus centered on the here and now

SUGILITE - enhances self-esteem, sense of well-being; is comforting; supports organization; aids glands; androgynous.  Sugilite can help to clear the mind, making the way open for the rising of consciousness. It is also beneficial in opening and centering of the Heart Chakra. These two inevitable enhancements are not mutually exclusive but are in fact the essence of the next evolutionary step for mankind.

SUNSTONE - cleanses chakras; protects; lifts the spirit and calms the stomach.  Power, leadership, learning to use your own power to control yourself, instead of controlling others are also enhanced.  Warms the heart and lifts /rejuvenates the spirit. Protection, life force and grounding.

TANGERINE QUARTZ -  has a natural orange colour permeating the crystal. The color comes from the inclusion of hematite.  This colour is a specific for the second chakra. This chakra, if clear and balanced, helps one to maintain a healthy yin-yang balance, resolve control issues and express our natural creativity. It also, in relation with the first chakra, governs sex and sensuality. On a physical level, the lower abdomen, lower back and sexual organs come under the area of influence of this energy centre. Wearing or consciously working with this crystal will have a beneficial effect on all the areas mentioned above.

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 enhances composure, poise, and harmony. Physically, Tanzanite is beneficial for stress related illnesses and high blood pressure in particular.

TIGER-EYE - promotes logical thinking and understanding; supports manifestation; aids digestion.  Crystal interprets, "Gives wearer life force energy, eliminates feelings of melancholy or indecision.  You feel more in tune with life and situations.  Great for giving you confidence in yourself.  Gives you a sense of brother and sisterhood.  Helps with infertility, worry, guilt, grief, sorrow, and resentment.  Excellent stone for people with suicidal tendencies.  Great for low back pain.

TITANIUM/AURORA QUARTZ CRYSTALS - powerful all-around healer, stabilizer; stimulates positive energy; a plasma ionization deposit atomically thin layers of titanium and metals which interact and 'supercharge' the overall healing of the quartz crystal.  Because the colours are produced by blending natural substances with a natural affinity, and not by a dye, the metaphysical properties are enhanced rather than destroyed.  An excellent stone for creativity, both removing blockages to creativity and enhancing creative powers. An intensely visual stone, promoting clairvoyance and all forms of "seeing". They are used in meditation and yogic practice, where it appears to stimulate the upward movement of the kundalini. Carrying the mineral is said to assist in "reading" people." Stimulates the third-eye intensely

TOPAZ: Golden, White or Pink Champagne Crystal. 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. WHITE 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 A strong, steady, high level gem for mental clarity, focus. Helps mood swings, insomnia, worries, fears.  Rejuvenating from the DNA level, alignment with our higher self, creative expression, writing, focus on path CHAKRAS: Yellow - Solar Plexus & Crown. Pink - Heart.  Topaz is a powerful stone that 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) and the endocrine system.

TOURMALINE -diminishes fear; fuses self and universe; recharges; clears chakras; black repels negativity; green enhances creativity; pink opens the heart; red strengthens the will; watermelon is a super activator; yellow adds strength; blue creates peace

TURQUOISE - promotes compassionate communication; dissipates negativity; corresponds to the throat chakra.  Crystal interprets, "Is the personal stone of mother earth, it strengthens and balances all chakras and activates the meridians and energy points in the body.  Great for grounding and protection; helps to attune to higher levels of existence.  Original stone of commitment; it's energy is very soothing and peaceful. A good general healer for all illnesses and excellent conductor. This gentle, cool, soothing stone is a Native American classic. It opens the Throat Chakra for communication, creativity, serenity, spiritual bonding. Strengthens and aligns all meridians, chakras and energy fields. Ancient absorber of negativity. Protection from evil eye. Brings wisdom. Used for healing on every continent. CHAKRAS: Heart, Throat & Brow

VANADINITE - It promotes order in one's life. It promotes a clear center, from the crown to the root chakra stimulating the remainder of the chakras.

ZINCITE - stimulates energy; opens and clears all chakras  Provides synthesis of personal power, physical energy & creativity. Is useful in the radionics field to intensify the response patterns. Brings like unto like. Helps further relationships

ZOISITE - activates personal advancement; corresponds to the heart center.  For trust in the universe, releasing fears. Strengthens heart, energy, adrenals & reproductive, general health. CHAKRAS: Coccyx & Heart

ZIRCON: All colors; clear, colorless, natural form. Works with the crown chakra and transpersonal point (pituitary and pineal) for Universal truth, intuition, durability, steadiness.  Eases depression, insomnia