Dictionary of Stones

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AGATES “Stones of Harmony”

A good protective energy stone, especially for children, and very calming and soothing. It is reported to give courage, energy, strength, and dispels fears, all of which increase self-confidence. Also, enhances healing, creativity and stimulates the intellect. Agate is considered a stone that brings good luck.

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BLUE LACE AGATE

A gentle, calming stone that engenders tranquility. Eases the harsh edge off communication in difficult times, enhance public speaking, and smooth discussions. As with all agates, it is said to be a protective stone. Physically, in crystal healing, it has been used to aid with arthritis, headaches, digestive issues, growth, and bones.

BOTSWANA AGATE – “Change Stone” 

Helps one handle change in a positive way.  increases creativity, as well as increasing the power of one’s intuition.  It is also a stone of sensuality. In crystal healing it is said to be beneficial to the nervous system and can help rid the body of toxins, as well as help in the healing of broken bones.

 

AGATE

A stone of courage, protection, and strength.

 

MOSS AGATE – “Stone of Prosperity”

Is said to bring general abundance, success, and prosperity. A protective stone, as are all agates. It is said to reduce the difficulties associated with overcoming addictive behaviors. Moss agate is associated with the heart chakra, which indicates stone of compatibility and friendship. It is also believed in crystal healing to help improve circulation, enhance healing of all types, overcome digestive or intestinal disorders.

 

AMAZONITE

A stone of truth, honor, communication, integrity and trust. It is said to enhance intuition,  creativity and intellect. Amazonite is often associated with the throat chakra, and as such, said to be beneficial to communication. Amazonite is also said to assist with peacefully making the transition out of this life.

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AMBER

A stone with a soothing, light energy that is both calming and energizing at the same time.  Promotes clarity of thought and wisdom.  It is considered a good luck charm for marriage. Amber is excellent in crystal healing for inner child work and past life work. Amber is associated with the solar plexus chakra and sometimes the sacral chakra.

 

AMETHYST “Sobriety Stone”

It is said to assist with healing addictions of all kinds. Amethyst brings energies  of stability, peace, calm, balance, courage and inner strength.   It has also been used to help ease the pain of grief, and promote happiness.  Amethyst is also used as protection for travelers.

 

AVENTURINE

Is said to benefit one in all areas of creativity, and imagination, as well as intellect and mental clarity.  It is a gentle stone energetically that gives a sense of calm and balance and enhances happiness.

 

AZURITE  “Stone of Heaven” 

It aids in developing psychic awareness, psychic skills and abilities, enhances intuition, and is said to guide you to be accurate in depicting psychic experiences. It is also an excellent stone for meditation, allowing you to enter a meditative state easily.

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BLOODSTONE

Bloodstone is excellent for centering and grounding. It is said to help with calming, particularly in survival situations. It is said to be a a stone of courage, bringing mental, physical and emotional renewal by releasing blockages. It is said to be particularly good for helping emotional traumas and grief. It also enhances the intellect.  It is associated with the base, sacral, solar plexus and heart chakras. Bloodstone is said by intuitive sources to be helpful in treating anemia and other diseases of the blood, blood pressure, cardiovascular system, endocrine system, kidney, bladder, physical strength issues, physical traumas, and post-surgical issues.

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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 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. Physically, blue chalcedony has been used for the eyes, open sores rapid healing, Alzheimer, lactation, blood, circulation, bones, spleen, and gall bladder.

 

CARNELIAN “Actor’s Stone”

Is a stone of creativity, individuality and courage. Like all agates, it has protection energies. It can aid memory, including recall of past lives. It can assist one in finding the right mate. It is also a stone of protection in general and from anger, jealousy and fear. In addition it can help with manifestation of one’s desires, and brings good luck. Carnelian can help ease or remove sorrows.  Carnelian is associated with the root and sacral chakras. Physically, carnelian has been used to heal open sores, rejuvenate tissues and cells, rheumatism, kidney stones and other kidney problems, gall stones, colds, pollen allergies, and neuralgia.

 

CITRINE  “Success Stone”  or “Stone of Prosperity”

Is a stone that attracts wealth & success and brings happiness & generosity.  Citrine is also a good general protection stone according to crystal healing lore. It is said to aid digestion and eliminate nightmares.

 

CORAL

Is a stone of organic origin. Coral can be used to reconnect with nature and its variety of wonders. Coral also attracts love and prosperity, particularly red coral, which is a stone of passion. Creativity and optimism are also qualities that coral brings out. Emotionally, coral brings inner peace, strength, and understanding of purpose. Physically coral is used for general healing, blood and circulatory system issues, kidney, bladder, epilepsy, bone and bone marrow, eye problems, and the respiratory system.

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DIAMOND

Is a stone that bonds relationships and enhances love. It brings longevity, particularly to relationships, balance, clarity and abundance. It can amplify one’s thoughts, strengths, and weaknesses. It gives one who wears or carries it courage and hope.

 

DUMORTIERITE (Blue Quartz) 

Enhances organizational abilities, self-discipline and orderliness. This enhancement is believed to be due to the effect it can have of balancing the throat chakra and enhancing communication between lower chakras/physical energy and the higher chakras/mental/spiritual energy. It highly reduces difficulties of scattered mind and disorganization.

 

EMERALD

Is a stone of love and romance. It brings and enhances joy, cleansing, clairvoyance, memory, and faith. It also benefits intuition and communication, and promotes truthfulness. Emerald is associated with the heart chakra.

FLORITE

Promotes spiritual and psychic wholeness and development, truth, protection, and brings peace. Protects against computer & electromagnetic stress.

 

FOSSIL

Can help increase accomplishments in the area of business and add excellence to one’s environment. They also aid one in being open to change and new ideas. Traditionally, fossils have been used to aid in curing diseases and ailments of the skeletal system, bones, hands, and feet.

 

GARNET

Is a stone of romantic love and passion. Energizing and revitalizes, balancing energy, bringing serenity.  Lore says that garnet can heal the blood, heart and lungs. Garnet is associated primarily with the root chakra.

GLASS

Is an ancient material, one of the most ancient known and used by man.  Many consider glass to have no metaphysical properties, but others, realize that glass has energy like all else in the Universe, and thus has its own set of properties. Glass is a melding of the traditional four elements, because through fire and air the silica earth element is made molten and transmuted into a liquid only to return to its earthly state as a solid.  Metaphysically, glass represents and carries the energies of transformation, merging of elements, rebirth, focus and communication. The colors of the glass bring the vibrations of those specific color energies.

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GOLD

Gold is considered by many cultures to be the master healer, stabilizer, harmonizer, balancer and grounder. It is an excellent mineral for purification of your physical body. It is a symbol of wealth, prosperity, love, generosity, power, illumination and sacredness. Gold balances your heart Chakra and amplifies thought forms. Use it to open and to activate your third-eye and crown chakras. Gold can clear negativity from your Chakras and the energy fields of your physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual bodies, while transferring the vitality of any mineral to the affected area. Gold produces an energy which is both cooperative and receptive, allowing for extensive use with other gemstones – it attracts and maintains those qualities which are inherent within the stones.

 

GOLDSTONE

Has been called the stone of ambition and drive, and as such is said to help attain one’s goals.

 

HEMATITE  “Stone for the Mind”

Brings mental organization and is very grounding and calming. It helps with original thinking. Physically it has been used to keep the body cool, to decrease blood disorders, nervous problems and insomnia, as well as align the spine and mend broken bones.

 

HOWLITE

Decreases an overly critical state of mind, selfishness, stress, pain, and rudeness. It increases subtlety and tact. It helps bones, teeth, calcium levels and leg cramps. It also heightens creativity.

 

IOLITE “Water Sapphire”

Called the water sapphire although it is not a type of sapphire at all. It is, however, one of the best stones to use in psychic, healing, and spiritual activities.  Iolite is very helpful when dealing with addictions, including alcoholism. It is also said to help build relationships of all kinds. It assists in detoxification as well as maintaining sobriety. Iolite is also said to help build relationships. In the physical realm, iolite is used to help heal sore throat, varicose veins, and blisters.

 

JADE

Is a stone of the heart. As such it is related to the heart chakra and has a beneficial effect on all heart chakra related issues. So, of course, it can attract and enhance love of all kinds. It is also a stone of fidelity and generosity. Jade is also very helpful as a stone of abundance. Physically, jade is used to heal lung problems, kidney problems, immune system weakness, PTSD, and nervous system overwork.

 

JASPER   “Supreme Nurturer”

General All Types:

Jasper is a stone of gentleness and relaxation. It enhances one’s ability to relax and brings tranquility, comforting, wholeness & healing. It is sometimes called the nurturing stone for its nurturing and protective energies. In the physical realm, jasper is used for the liver, gallbladder, soothing the stomach, and balancing yin/yang energies. Jasper is a variety of quartz, so it also has the metaphysical and healing lore energies of quartz.

 

JASPER, BLACK (aka Blackstone)

Black Jasper is a stone with a highly protective energy. It also has very healing energy. Black Jasper is said to bring good luck to the bearer in a fight, whether it be a mental, political, legal, or other type of fight. Physically, black jasper is said to be helpful for relieving pain, stomach ailments, foot problems, and hip dysphasia. Black jasper is related to the root chakra. In addition to the general properties of all jaspers a very soothing stone. It has a subtle and deep energy that seem to nurture one on a soul level. Used for healing of traumas or other deep emotional wounds.

 

JASPER, KAMBABA

Kambaba Jasper is an exotic looking jasper from Africa. It is said to soothe the nerves and state of mind. As with other jaspers, it is good for grounding and protection. It is purported to be beneficial for plant growth and health, particularly in arid environments where the soil is poor. Crystal healing lore says that Kambaba Jasper helps dietary stabilization, assimilation of vitamins and minerals, and cleansing the body of toxins.

 

JASPER, LEOPARD SKIN  - “Leopard Stone”

Leopard skin jasper is a stone of shamanic journeying. It also aids in service to others. It helps discover and connect with one’s animal totems or “power” animals.  Helps with creative visualization. As with all jaspers, this is a protective stone, and it is particularly protective during shamanic journeying. Physically it helps eliminate toxins, and is very helpful in self-healing. It has properties of protecting the third chakra, but is associated mainly with the root chakra.

 

JASPER, OCEAN

Ocean Jasper is very soothing and helps to love one’s self as well as others. Being a type of jasper, ocean jasper is a very protective stone. Physically, ocean jasper is beneficial to the digestion, digestive organs, removing toxins. Ocean Jasper is related to the heart chakra.

 

JASPER, PICASSO -“Picasso Stone”

Picasso Marble is sometimes called Picasso Jasper. It has strong metaphysical qualities of grounding and calming. It also promotes weight loss and assists in the development of creativity, as well as engendering strength and self-discipline.

 

JASPER, PICTURE

Picture jasper helps create harmony, proportion, creative visualization, positive things in business pursuits.

JASPER, RED – “Stone of Fairness”

Red jasper is said to decreases unjustness and helps in unfair situations. It is also said to enhance responsibility, choice, and compassion. Used in mystical dreamwork, it can enhance dream recall.

 

JASPER, YELLOW

Protects during spiritual work and physical travel. Channels positive energy, energizes the endocrine system. It is associated with the solar plexus (belly) chakra.

 

JET

Draws out negative energy and unreasonable fears.  Stabilizes finances.

 

KUNZITE

Is said to help one to understand and interact better with others, to help heal “broken hearts”, to relieve stress and anger, and to bring love, peace and harmony.

 

LABRADORITE - “Stone of Transformation”

(also called Spectrolite)

It is said to clear, balance and protect the aura. It is purported to help provide clarity and insight into your destiny, as well as attract success. It is used in metaphysics for dream recall, and finding ways to use dreams in daily life. Mystically, energies of stress and anxiety are reduced by labradorite. Labradorite is said to increase intuition, psychic development, esoteric wisdom, help with subconscious issues, and provide mental illumination. Labradorite is associated with the solar plexus and brow chakras.

 

LAPIS -“Stone of Protection & Enlightenment”
(Lapis Lazuli)

Lapis brings truthfulness, openness, inner power, intuition, creativity, virility and manifestation. It strengthens the mind and body as well as increasing awareness and spiritual connection/evolution. It can help organize daily life as well as organizing and quieting a busy or restless mind. Lapis also helps build self-confidence. Lapis bring spiritual love and is also known for enhancing love and fidelity within marriage. Lapis is also said to help one overcome shyness. It is associated with the throat and brow chakras and can help one say just the right thing, as if by magic. Lapis is also a stone that protects from both physical and psychic attacks. Lapis is also helpful for sinus ailments, headaches, nervous system, speech problems, pituitary gland and pain relief.

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LARIMAR (Blue Pectolite)

Larimar, blue pectolite, found only in the Dominican Republic, is a stone of “answers from the sea of consciousness.”  Larimar has excellent energy for working with sea creatures of all kinds. It is particularly good for communication with dolphins. It has some ability to enhance communication in general, with other animals, as well as people. It can be used for dimensional and cellular work, and stimulates the heart and higher chakras. gives a sense of serenity, love and peace. Larimar is good for calming excess energies and it balances energies.It is also used in crystal healing for healing maladies of the throat and upper respiratory system, schizophrenia. In addition, it can help one maintain one’s personal energy and independence in a calm, collected fashion. Larimar is associated with the throat chakra and the Water element.

LEPIDOLITE - “Stone of Transition”

Is a stone of calm, trust, and acceptance. It has a strong relaxing and calming effect. It brings hope and is a stone of transformation in that it helps one get through transitions with trust that everything will ultimately turn out for the best. It engenders and enhances self-love, patience, and optimism. Emotionally, lepidolite is an excellent healer. It greatly decreases stress, anxiety, depression, manic-depression, despondency, PTSD, anger, and other traumas, panic attacks, and addictions.

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LODESTONE   Magnetite

It is used to lessen or dispel grief, fear, anger, confusion, and attachment. It helps relieve burdens and increase energy and endurance. It is said to have been used to make soldiers invulnerable. Lodestone has a receptive, attracting energy that attracts power, as well as good fortune, and love. It also guards against infidelity. Lodestone is related to the astrological signs of Aries, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Virgo. It is said to strengthen the circulatory system, help with healing blood and bleeding problems, alleviate pain, boost the immune system, relieve agitation and depression.

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MALACHITE

It helps balance pure love, romance, and one’s own well-being. Malachite is a stone of good fortune and prosperity/abundance, too. Malachite is also a very protective stone, being especially helpful for general protection, protection from evil, protection during pregnancy and childbirth, and protection for children. It is also an excellent protection stone during flying and other travel. Using this stone, one can counteract self-destructive romantic tendencies and help encourage true, pure love. Malachite is also good for enhancing emotional stability and balance in general. It can decrease one’s tendency to radiation illness, asthma, arthritis, and tumors.

 

MOONSTONE - “Stone of New Beginnings”

Connected to the moon & intuition, a very feminine stone. It can help calm responses and avoid overreaction; enhances feminine energies, sensitivity, intuition, and psychic abilities. Moonstone is a stone of protection, especially during childbirth, pregnancy, and travel at sea. It is also associated with love of all kinds. Physically it aids the pituitary gland and digestive system, obesity, water retention, hormonal problems, menstrual problems.

 

MOONSTONE, RAINBOW

Rainbow moonstone has a gentle, calming energy. It helps to strengthen intuition and psychic perception, and enhances creativity, compassion, endurance and inner confidence. It is a stone that brings balance and harmony. The Rainbow effect brings in a spectrum of light, and can help with clearing and bringing in uplifting energies. It has been said to have the power to grant wishes.

MOTHER OF PEARL (MOP)

It is said to attract prosperity.  It is purported to protect from negative influence, and transmute negative energy. It is said to be highly protective and a particularly potent stone of protection for children. A traditional lore use of Mother of Pearl is to purify environments. Crystal healing and folklore say that Mother of Pearl is helpful for high blood pressure, dizziness, improving vision, cataracts, and wound healing.

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MULTI-STONE

May include any or all of the following: Turquoise, Lapis Lazuli, Jasper, Quartz, Aventurine, Goldstone, Carnelian, Amethyst, Agate, Pearl, Jade, Peridot, Tiger’s Eye, Citrine or Onyx. Promotes Happiness & Well-being.

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OBSIDIAN, BLACK 

Obsidian is a very protective stone, and is excellent for removing negativity. It is a very grounding stone, and very healing. Physically it benefits the stomach, intestines, muscle tissue, and can rid one of bacterial or viral infections.

 

SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN

Snowflake obsidian has the property of bringing things to the surface. It is a stone of serenity, purity, balance, and can shield against negativity. It is associated with the root chakra and is beneficial for the veins, skeleton, and smooth skin. Snowflake obsidian gives protection from physical and emotional harm.

ONYX

Strength giving, beneficial in difficult or confusing periods. It has been used for wound healing, childbirth and to increase stamina and self-control. Black onyx and red onyx are associated with the base (root, first) chakra. White onyx is associated with linking the base and crown chakras to have balanced energy throughout the chakra system.

 

OPAL

Opal is a stone of inspiration which enhances imagination, originality and creativity. It helps one release inhibitions and enhances memory, fosters love & passion.  Physically, opal is said to be helpful for eyesight and Parkinson’s disease.

PEARL

They are calming and centering. They give purity and promote faith, charity, and integrity, truth and loyalty. They especially enhance personal integrity. They help one connect with the Goddess, the ultimate feminine energy. Pearls have been used to treat disorders of the digestive tract and muscular systems, as well as to aid fertility and to ease childbirth.

PERIDOT

It is a stone of compassion. It has a friendly energy and is excellent for healing. It assists in rebirth and renewal of all kinds. Peridot also bring abundance and prosperity. It enhances the healing and harmony of relationships of all kinds, but particularly marriage. Peridot can lessen stress in relationships, anger and jealousy, slow aging, and heal ulcers and digestive problems. It also assists in finding what is lost, and strengthens ESP abilities.

 

PYRITE

Is a stone of intellect and protection. It enhances intelligence, mental stability, logic, analysis, creativity, memory, and psychic development. It can help you tap your own latent mental talents and abilities. Pyrite is a powerful protection stone, and is very grounding. Pyrite is also known as Fool’s Gold and Healer’s Gold.

 

QUARTZ CRYSTAL (Colorless, aka Clear Quartz)

One of the most powerful healing stones. Quartz is a power stone that harmonizes and balances. It enhances energy and thoughts, and purifies the spiritual, mental, and physical. It is also a powerfully protective stone.

 

QUARTZ, HEMATOID

Combination of quartz with hematite. As a natural combination, the Hematoid Quartz, combines the high energy of Quartz with the stabilizing energy of Hematite. It also adds its own synergy to the mix. The synergistic mix also has energy of accelerating healing and pain relief, maintaining emotional balance during times of stress, and clear thinking.

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QUARTZ, ROSE

Rose quartz is a stone of unconditional love. It opens the heart chakra to all forms of love: self-love, family love, platonic love, and romantic love. Rose quartz has excellent protection energies during pregnancy and childbirth. The elevated energy of quartz gives rose quartz a property of enhancing love in virtually any situation. It also brings gentleness, forgiveness, and tolerance. Rose quartz assists in being receptive to the beauty and love in everything, also receptivity to colours, sounds, art, music and poetry. It enlivens the imagination to enable it to create beautiful forms. Opens the eyes to physical beauty, assists to love the self, have compassion, forgiveness and acceptance. Brings self-confidence, self worth and creativity. Rose quartz is soothing, calming and reduces stress and tension. It helps to clear anger, resentment, guilt, fear and jealousy.