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Abalone
Used by athletes to help build and protect muscle tissue. Also benefits the heart and helps in digestion. Nicknamed the sea ears, the Abalone’s flattened, oval shape with iridescent interior was used by the Native Northwest American Indians as a natural vessel for cleansing, offerings and prayers.
 

Actinolite
The color is green. This stone is associated with creative expression, appreciation of beauty and spontaneity. This is also an excellent stone for improving visualizations and mental imagery.
 

Adamite
Blue, blue-green, yellow-green. Brings gifts of heart & mind together for balance, inner strength, and steering steadily through life. Creativity & entrepreneurial thinking, and new directions for business/personal growth. Blue: Creativity, throat, mouth, ears, breath of life, lymph. Green: Lungs, heart, thymus, endocrine glands.
 

Aegerine
Will empower your quest of self. It facilitates our truth in importantways. It enables one to do what is in the heart, and the required steps-to be who we are! It is an excellent self-esteem builder especially for women! The need for conformity is broken into a sense of self-acceptance. Personal integrity and convictions are made concrete, allowing self-sufficiency. Excellent stone for energy generation. It concentrates positive energy for dispersion to stimulate growth and revitalize the mind. Delineates emotional trouble spots. Guards against negative energy & psychic attack. It increases the energy of other stones in any healing situation. It augments the immune system.

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Ajoite
Ajoite is a stone of peace and harmony. It can help release and overcome sorrow, anger, fear, and heal old emotional wounds. Ajoite also helps connect to the Higher Self and God/Universe/Goddess/ All That Is. It is also excellent for meditation. Ajoite can remove and release negative energies from the physical, emotional, and etheric bodies. It acts as a stone of transformation, bringing change and growth. Ajoite is related to and excellent for work with the throat and heart chakras. Ajoite is a great stone for spiritual healers and spiritual seekers, and is said to be a very powerful healing booster.
 

Albite
White or translucent stone with a bluish tinge. Moonstones are a cut and polished form of Albite. Helps relieve depression and can be used as a booster for the immune and respiratory systems. Soothing for mental stress. Strengthens the spleen and thymus. 
 

Alexandrite
Clear violet-green, lt. blue or orange-yellow iridescence. Extremely rare. Alexandrite changes color with source of light. That is incandescent light vs sunlight vs flourescent light. Opens Heart, Solar Plexus, and especially Crown Centers. For healing, centering, self-esteem. Rare and Powerful. Opens to higher self, disattachment, psychicness, spiritual love, joy, and luck. Excellent tissue regeneration; especially Central Nervous System.
 

Almandite
A red garnet with a violet tint. Brings spirituality to relationships.
Helps in the transition from romance to a spiritual commitment in love.

 

Alum
Alum has been worn in Egypt as a protective amulet against evil. On the north coast of Africa, alum is also used for this purpose. A piece of alum is placed in the home to guard it, and small amounts of this mineral are sewn into or placed in children's hats to protect them as well.
 

Aluminum
Mental Abilities, travel, image magic.Small pieces of aluminum can be carried to stimulate mental abilites. Due to its modern associations with travel, aluminum is also utilized in spells involving trips to distant lands.
 

Alunite
A rare stone, Alunite is also known as alumstone and is a source of potassium and aluminum. Good for fostering long term commitments. Teaches the rewards of patience. Alunite is a stone that can help balance yin/yang, physical and emotional energies as well as environmental energies, bringing unbalanced or dysfunctional energies into harmony. Because of this, Alunite has a stabilizing and grounding effect. For balancing energies in a room or other space, simply place Alunite in a corner or other inconspicuous place. It is also beneficial in the arts, heightening creativity while at the same time grounding that creativity in current reality, thus bringing creative arts to life. Alunite was used by Ancient Chinese and Egyptian cultures to reduce body odor. Alunite is used in crystal healing for problems with eye-sight, body odor, excessive thirst, and dehydration. Alunite has been related to the heart chakra, although it is more commonly related to the sacral and root chakras.
 

Amazonite
Solid Lt. Blue/turquoise. Prosperity. Gentle Friendly, calming, soothing; Opens throat, heart, and solar plexus centers for self-expression, artistic creativity, healing. Throat, thyroid, nerve and Brain paths. Reduces self-damaging behavior, increases straight posture of self-respect, confidence, grace, self-assuredness with communication. Great over a door to bring in new business. Green stone instrumental in distilling the raw information used for personal expression. It is a pale green form of Microcline, a potash feldspar. Soothes the brain and nervous system. Helps filter information and combines it with natural intuition. Enhances masculine qualities. Good for anyone involved in the arts.
 

Amber
Clear yellow or orange ancient petrified resin (possibly pine tree). Electromagnetic. Past Life Work, Weight Gain. Opens solar plexus chakra for mental clarity, moods balance, confidence. Stomach anxiety, spine, Central Nervous System, brain, memory loss, cell regeneration. Aligns mental and emotional bodies via orange and yellow. Excellent detoxification and protection from radiation, especially x-rays, sun, computers, airport, planes and others' energies. Sacred use (incense/worn) by Asian and American Indians, and worldwide. Useful on the brain, lungs, thyroid, spleen, endocrine system, inner ear, and neurological tissue. Draws disease out of afflicted areas and neutralizes negative energy. It is a grounding healer. Can add stability to your life. Helpful in clearing up depression and bringing about a positive mental state. Also useful as a memory aid. Amber should be cleansed after being used for healing to dispense the negative energy it has absorbed.
 

Amblygonite
Helps remove pent up emotions, activates electrical system and transmutes negative energy. Tape on back of neck or pinch one in each hand with thumb and index finger for headaches or tape on thymus when working on computer terminal. Opens all chakras and meridians and rebalances all energy levels of the aura. Makes structured water in 15 minutes. Caution: do not put directly in water if making an elixer for consumption; rather place near container of water.
 

Amethyst
Translucent, purple/lavendar Qtz. Psychicness, imagery, mind quieting. Wear when sleeping or when awake to reduce anger, impatience, and nightmares. Brow + Crown Chakra. Headaches,eyes, scalp/hair, pituitary, pineal, bloodsugar balance. Especially helps sobriety;alcohol/food/sex/other addictions. Famous ancient detoxicifier (especially helped with poisons, alcohol). Dream recall.
Stone of spirituality, contentment, meditation. Provides common sense, flexibility in decisions. Color varies from a deep violet to a pale lavender, almost to the point of being clear. Amethyst has a direct link to the mind. It bolsters the production of the hormones, and strengthens the cleansing organs, the circulatory system and blood, the immune system, and body metabolism. It soothes the nervous system and assists in the transmission of neural signals. Helps you feel less scattered and more in control of your faculties. Memory skills and motivation improve. Goals are clearer, more realistic, and easier to achieve. However, you must use this stone cautiously with subjects who have paranoid or schizoid tendencies. Can benefit people with insomnia or troubled sleep. Ideal for those who meditate. Promotes selflessness. Useful in dispelling rage, anger, fear, and anxiety, and is a good stone for clarifying and remembering dreams. Helps relieve physical and emotional pain. Strongly recommended that when using Amethyst in conjunction with other stones or crystals, Rose Quartz is used.

Vera Cruz Amethyst
Vera Cruz Amethyst produces an immediate Beta state. It stimulates the Throat Chakra and the Heart Chakra which produces a calming effect. If you place one of these crystals or crystal clusters on your arm, it provides tranquility. Stroking Vera Cruz Amethyst causes it to emit energy.
 

Chevron Amethyst – The Breath Of Life Crystal

A chevron crystal is a series of phantoms (crystals that have enveloped previous crystals) separated by distinct quartz markings leaving a distinct Chevron shape (V shape). 

Metaphysical: intuitive and spiritual sources call this crystal “The Breath Of Life”, its an excellent third eye stone, aura cleanser, self journeying stone, and may help one actualise things necessary for personal growth, allowing one to gain knowledge for spiritual healing. Very powerful healer and stone for personal empowerment. Chevron Amethyst combines the strengthening and enhancing qualities of Quartz with the spiritual nurturing qualities of Amethyst. Together these minerals create the Chevron Amethyst, which enhances peace of mind, relaxation and self-discovery. Chevron Amethyst brings courage and inner strength.
 

Ametrine
Ametrine is a mixture of Citrine and Amethyst and does, therefore, have the metaphysical qualities of both. In addition, Ametrine helps to dispel negativity and fill one with pure white light energy. It aids astral travel and protects you during that travel. This crystal helps you to enter a deep state of meditation quickly and helps to expand your consciousness.
 

Ammolite
 Ammolite is fossilized ammonite that has been compressed under great pressure beneath the ground, which is what gives it its wonderful colors. Ammolite is said to radiate positive Earth energy, and to bring good luck and prosperity. It is also said to grant miracles. Ammolite is excellent as a tool for deep meditation.
Ammolite is also used mystically for general good health, stamina and high energy.
 

Anatase
Anatase is used if you are resistant to change, fearful of change, or become ill because of change. It is also good when used to help collect and retain information, handy if your a student.
 

Andalusite
Discovered in Spain, Andalusite is a naturally occuring gemstone that forms "X" or crosses. Considered a talisman for the very psychic or sensitive as it is said to "ground" their energies. Those to help access the Akashic Record, or the spiritual library of all that is or ever will happen.
Considered a gemstone to enhance the intellect, problem solving abilities and mental clarity. Sometimes mentioned as being conducive to messages from the netherworld.
Thought helpful to all lower Chakras. Natural Healers use Andalusite to bring protection and balance, especially during periods of upset or change. Considered helpful for all Chakras, though most often associated with the 1st Chakra and used to allay fear, anxiety and guilt. Reduces anxiety, stress and guilt. Lonlieness, depression. Mysterious fevers. Sometimes recommended to improve milk flow in lactating women.
 

Andradite
This stone is great used or men as it balances the system and enhances male qualities like courage, stamina and strength. The reflective qualities reflect who you truly are and then works to attract that special person. Andradite has a mystical quality to it as well, it helps us to understand and acknowledge the unknown.
 

Angelite
Medium blue to white crystals. Fairly new discovery in Peru during the Harmonic Conversion. Excellent balancer, polarizing and aligning the physical body with the ethereal network. Used to call your Angels for guidance and support. Psychic connection to oneness with universe, angelic realm, spiritual guidance. Astral travel, heightened sensory awareness. Seeing paths to surmount challenges. Aligns physical and etheric fields for healing self & others. Regenerates and rejuvenates ill or depleted areas. Provides a protective energy field around the area where it is placed. This blue stone has soothing effects on the Throat Chakra and works beautifully in calming and soothing anxiety or overactive children.
 

Anglesite
A white metallic mineral. Promotes sensitivity, gentleness, relaxation and tenderness.

 

Anhydrite
Anhydrite is to assist in breaking down old habit patterns by bringing secrets buried deep within the soal to light. This stone will also open the heart center by arousing sympathy for the human condition.
 

Annabergite
This rather flaky and sometimes delicate green stone can help to increase the bio-magnetic forces within the body and help to align the body to the Earth’s magnetic field. Annabergite can also help the body to receive radiotherapy treatment. It can help with the treatment of Cancer, cellular disorders and with dehydration. It is also said to eliminate infections. Annabergite helps you to realise that the concept of "Perfect Harmony" already exists within yourself and that if you can access this, then nothing is impossible nor unbelievable nor unimaginable. Annabergite also increases your levels of intuition and imagination. Annabergite is a stone to help with visualisations. It can bring about communication with the past spiritual masters of this world and can also help you to better understand the mystic elements of our world.
 

Ant Hill Crystals
Ant hill crystals expand and awaken the mind and soul through memory. These stones may be found at any ant hill; the bigger the ants the larger the crystals. North and South American shamans use ant hill crystals in their medicine bags and rattles in order to remain in contact with the spirits.
 

Antimony
Protection. Wear a small piece of antimony to guard against negative vibrations. This white metal can also be worn or carried for protection. This metallic mineral may be worn against the skin for vitality and improved circulation.
 

Aotea Stone
This stone brings harmony and commonality within the self and others. It works to bring both love and beauty to the exterior and interior while providing for magnetic attraction between kindred spirits. It opens, energizes and cleanses the heart and throat chakras, providing for speaking words of love and kindness. It can be used to attract people, experiences or objects that are necessary for ones growth. Similar to Larimar used for "earth healing" 
 

Apache Gold
Apache Gold is a combination of Steatite and Gold Pyrite and in addition to exhibiting the characteristics of those two stones, it also has characteristics of its own. It helps rid us of negativity and substitute those energies with positive ones. It is an excellent grounding and protection stone, especially during meditation. When worn, this gemstone aligns all the bodies--physical, spiritual, and etheric. It encourages you to act on instinctive impulses. Apache Gold increase the bio-magnetic forces in your body and aligns your body with Earth's magnetic fields. It makes your body more receptive to radionic treatment. 
 

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Apatite
Transparent dk. blue, yellow, clear...Weight loss. Helps to deepen meditation. Blue and purple are used especially to heal and stimulate throat Chakra and kidney point for self-expression, teaching, healing mouth, throat, thyroid, high blood pressure, stuttering. Reducing hunger. High Calcium content strengthens bones, muscles, mineral assimilation. Use yellow on Solar Plexus and Brow Chakra. A mineral still in its embryonic stage as a healer. Comes in many forms and colors. Easily confused with half a dozen other minerals. Found in transparent, translucent, and opaque forms. Varies in color from white to brown to green to yellow and even violet. Crystal form is hexagonal and glassy in appearance. Most commonly confused with Fluorite and Aquamarine. Benefits muscle tissue and general motor skills. Promotes calcium absorption. Eases hypertension and restores clear thought.
 

Apophyllite
Clear, white, light green striated crystals. Helps one connect to the spirit and act in truth. Very powerful for deep, peaceful stillness and alpha state/meditation/dream recall. Clairvoyance, out of body travel. Green is most powerful: Heals and brings joyous openness to the heart Chakra as it opens the brow and crown chakras. Clears mental fuzziness and channels for with higher-self + angelic realm contact. Helps see truth for growth.
 

Mirror Apophylite
Has the additional reflective qualities of being able to recieve back what intentions are sent into the "mirror' of this stone. It has been used for centuries in India in the "art of gazing". One Mirror Apophylite is usually passed down from generation to generation. It is often called upon to reflect doings from the past to its user, in order to see both the good and the bad aspects of a families' past.
Allowing the gazer to be aware of and work on improving the defieciencies from within. It provides a clear and absolute connection between the physical bodies and the astral bodies of its user. Mirror Apophylite is an extremely powerful crystal and will also enrich the users' intuitive capacities by stimulating the Third Eye Chakra.
 

Aqua Aura
Clear quartz with metallic light blue tint from electrical infusion of gold (amplifies quartz conductivity). Created by treating crystals of natural quartz with an infusion of pure gold. Quartz is placed in a pressurized chamber at high temperature and exposed to pure vaporized gold. The resulting bond creates the rich blue color called Aqua Aura. This is truly a `master' vibrational crystal, as with all energies the conscious use of this energy towards enlightenment is always the prime goal. Aqua Aura Quartz has an energy that can enhance one's intuition and communication, calm one's nerves, and energize one's mental abilities. It is also said to help one's inner beauty to shine, and to attract wealth and success. It increases the ability to send energy & alter consciousness for meditation, telepathy, healing. Opens/clears throat. The aqua aura crystal can help with the thymus gland, located between the heart and throat under the sternum, which is now known to play a vital part in maintaining the body's immunity against all diseases. It will cool fevers and bring calm to the aura, allowing for a flowing peaceful energy. This crystal also works very well with any kind of facial work due to it overall healing energies of the upper chakras, most notably. Aqua Aura can work as a shield from psychic or psychological attack. Intrusion from outside sources are quickly dissipated by transmutation into pure loving energy, which can work in a healing process which caused the attack. Aqua aura will help you find your own space again. The aqua aura quartz crystal will bring wisdom to expressive communication, encouraging peace and guard against opposing energies. Aqua aura quartz is even more shielding than an aquamarine crystal, because its gold inclusion.

 

Aquamarine
A beryl. Clear light blue, blue-green. Tranquilizing, uplifting, openess, innocence, lightheartedness, creativity, communication, self-awareness, confidence, purpose. Throat (& spleen) Chakra, Heart, immune system, thymus, lymphnodes, Especially for mouth, ears. Affects etheric and mental levels. Releases anxiety, fear, restlessness, peaceful stillness. Breathing allergies, water travel, journeys, seeing through people, protection. Has a soothing influence. The stone also occurs in a golden yellow color. Helps stabilize and harmonize unsettled surroundings. Filters out unnecessary information to the brain. Calms the nerves. Clarifies perception and strengthens the body's cleansing organs such as the liver, spleen, thyroid, and kidneys. Helps the eyes, jaw, neck, stomach, teeth, and throat. Was given to sailors as protection against drowning and for courage in battle. Helps reduce fears. Has an affinity with sensitive and mystical people. Increases creativity and sharpens intuition.
Excellent stone for meditation. Helps one attune to nature. Quiets the mind and reduces stress. Helps bring about a tolerance toward others. Recommended as a purifier of the throat and helps sore throats. Clears blocked communication and aids the user in verbal expression. It is a good stone for teachers, counselors, chiropractors, genetic engineers, lecturers, and massage, reiki and crystal therapy practitioners.
 

Aragonite
Translucent purple-pink-brown hexagonal, or white needle crystals. Deep, peaceful meditation; uplifts emotions. Centering, overview, patience under stress, helps us navigate business/managerial/personal challenges with a clear head and steady hand. Giving and receiving easily. Balances yin-yang. Eyes, brain, Central Nervous System, heart, opens spiritual/brow chakra for day-to-day living with an open heart and mind.
 

Artemis Crystal
Also called Candle Crystal. A long, thin, clear quartz crystal with a sharp, undamaged point. Promotes independence, freedom and love of nature. Protective of women, children, wild places and wild creatures. This crystal combines strength, action and directness with sensitivity and kindness. Helps us focus and speed our prayers, visualizations and thought-forms to their goal.
 

Astrophyllite
Astrophyllite is a rare titanium mineral. Its name translated means star sheets.  Used for astral travel and examining the inner self.  Helps eliminate blockages to our development or progress. Good for self esteem and understanding that when one door closes, another opens. These stones link you with your Higher Chakra 14, the I Am chakra.

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Atlantisite
The combination of Serpentine & Stichtite is called “Atlantasite”. Serpentine in known for the gentle energies it has which is best used at the heart chakra.  It is a crystal that can be useful in past life meditations. Serpentine assists with the balancing of the emotions and lowers stress levels, promoting calmness & compromise to resolve conflicts. The additions of Stichtite further enduces calmness, promoting “thinking with love prior to speaking with intellect”.  It stimulates the inner awareness and positive behaviour modification for children.
 

Augite
Green to black. Is associated with prosperity, success, good fortune and luck. It helps us to be at the right place at the right time.
 

Autinite
Green. Is said to foster courage, daring, new beginnings and adventures. It is protective of those who are young and free and willing to take a chance.
 

Avalonite
2nd and 4th chakras. Avalonite’s basic function is to deal with issues relating to fear of love. Fear and fear of love keeps us from finding our life path, Avalonite aids in healing this fear so you can discover your true path.. It does this by allowing you to trust your intuition through letting go of fear; fear of all love related issues, fear of being wrong, and/or fear of failure. Avalonite brings love and wisdom to help you discover your true self AND then you may start ‘living your truth’. Wisdom and clarity; being clear about who you are. Helps you to become conscious; or aware of areas in your life that need healing. Aids feelings of loneliness by making you realize that you are apart of the Universe, you are never alone. Aids in decision making. Wisdom, Joy and happiness. Love integrating to wisdom or emotional to mental.
 
 

Green Aventurine
Green Aventurine is used primarily to both activate and clear the heart chakra. It is also an excellent protector of the heart chakra, providing for a shield to block the entry from those who wish to “tap in” and use the energy of another. It facilitates balancing and alignment of the intellectual, emotional, physical, and auric bodies.
 

Peach Aventurine
Peach aventurine gently increases the energy of the sacral chakra. It helps with decision making and can boost creativity. Physically it is beneficial for the lungs, heart, adrenal glands and urogenital system.
 

Pink Aventurine
Balances male/female energies. Enhances creativity, reinforces decisiveness and amplifies leadership qualities. Helps to balance one’s mental, emotional, and physical bodies. Opens the heart to others and increases trust in life.
 

Red Aventurine
Red aventurine has the properties of aventurine, plus more because of its color and composition.Red aventurine enhances creativity and ability to see possibilities. It can heal the reproductive system, and sometimes reverse diseases. It also can bring prosperity and lessen negativity. Red aventurine is associated with the sacral and root chakras. 
 

Blue Aventurine
This is apparently a very rare stone. It activates and clears heart chakra. Promotes communication with angels and spirit guides.
 

White Aventurine
Assists in problems with the lungs, heart, adrenal glands, the muscular system and the urogenital system. Promotes physical well being. Calming and soothing. Balances male/female energy leading to a sense of well being. Promotes mental/emotional well being. Enhances creativity and originality. Allows for an easy expression of feelings. Wards off anxiety and fear. Reinforces decisiveness. Offers courage during a spiritual journey.
 

Axinite
Axinite is a rare and unusual crystal that is a deep brownish red color. It is a tabular crystal, very wedge-like in form. Not much has been written about this unique crystal. However, what is known is that this crystal is a good choice when going through change and transformation. It allows you to gracefully make the change required for personal growth. It is a very positive crystal that brings out the positive in everyone who encounters it. Some say this stone aids friendships, bringing two people closer together than ever. Physically, Axinite treats disorders of the adrenal glands.
 
 

Azulicite
Feldspar crystal of blue-blue to gray-green iridescent mineral. Special crystal that brings forth energies of 3rd and 5th chakras, joining the forces of the soul with the throat/communication Chakra. Proven useful for those with difficulty in intellectual communication. Also useful in astral travel and to advance communication with entities from other worlds.
 

Azurite
Solid deep blue, blue-purple. A blue copper-based stone found in association with Malachite, which is its cousin. Less common than Malachite but found in abundance in Arizona. Activates brow and throat Chakra more assertive communication and alert, quite, deep access to subconscious and other times/places/lives. Psychicness, creativity, decisiveness, deeper insight, seeing truth, reduces depression, anger, abnormal cell growth. High copper content stimulates thyroid, sinus, skin cleansing, spleen, nervous system, mental and etheric bodies. Referred to as the jewel of wisdom. It is said to increase psychic abilities. Esoteric gem literature states that Azurite can restructure molecules, revitalize the brain, rebuild gray matter, and aid in developing embryonic babies in the womb. The deep blue stone helps you release the past and gracefully anticipate and accept the future simultaneously. Cultivates the ability to reach into the subconscious and examines states of mind. This cleanses the mind and makes one more capable of insight and pure thought. Helps one recognize the resources within themselves. Benefits the spleen, thyroid, bones, and skin. An integral part of many crystal and gemstone-healing layouts. Also enhances meditation.
 

Azurite and Malachite
A combination of Azurite and Malachite, this stone assists in dissolving egocentric characteristics, dispelling conceit, arrogance, and vanity, while instilling individuality. It calms anxieties, while facilitating stability of the intellect to produce rationality.
 

Barite/Barium
Barium, is an orthorhombic mineral form of barium sulfate(BaSO4).
It is the chief barium ore and is also called barytes and barite. It is a white or colorless mineral which is often tinged with blue, brown, gray, red or yellow. It's name is derived from the Greek word "barys" meaning heavy. Barite is used by the Native Americans in their cerimonial practices. They used it to go from physical mattter to the spiritual. In Dream Therapy, barite is used to promote and stimulate the dream state, allowing one to remember their dreams. On a physical level, Barite is used to cleanse the system of toxins, to soothe a nervous stomach and to assist in the healing of addictions. The Blue variety of Barite is used to stimulate conversation as well as to give the courage needed to speak in front of large crowds. This sky-blue colored cluster of crystals, made of orthorhombic structure, is often seen as Celestite also called celestine. Barite is found all over the world either in masses, crystals or the famous desert rose.
 

Benitoite
The blue / purple varieties (some have white bands) speak for its high-level creativity and self-awareness activation powers. Improves the clairvoyance and visualization during spiritual practices. This is a fluorescent mineral that allows for insight through darkness. (Throat chakra).
 

Beryl Family
Strong, hard. (Some look "Greasy"). Clear: Brow & Throat Chakra Heliodor/Golden Brown: Stimulates the mind, nervous system, spine, bones, Solar Plexus and 3rd eye Chakra with warm sun energy for mental clarity, confidence, will power, visualizing, protection. Helps stomach, intestines, works with mental body for exhaustion, depression, ulcers, nausea, eating disorders. Cleans emotional and physical toxins from liver, skin, including fear and resentment. Pink is excellent for heart chakra growth, transition, stabilizing. Comes in shades of yellow, gold, white, blue, or green. Helps teach one to cease doing the unnecessary. Assists its possessor in learning how to filter out distractions and unnecessary stimulation. Good for relieving stress, calming the mind. Beneficial for elimination organs such as the kidneys, liver, and intestines. Helps strengthen the circulatory and pulmonary systems, making them more resistant to toxins and pollutants. Helpful to the eyes, throat and easing a stressed mental state. Uses as a sedative. Beryl reawakens the love of married people.
 

Bismuth
Bismuth aids the transit between the physical and Astral or spiritual realms.  Good for pre-planned Astral Travel. Relieves emotional and spiritual isolation, allowing one to feel a connectedness with All That is.  A stone of transformation. It transforms the energy of the Crown Chakra to energise the Base Chakra (in contrast to many stones) and actualises the power of wisdom.
Bismuth is grown in a laboratory in a vacuum.
 

Bixbite
Bixbite, red beryl, is known metaphysically as a stone of soothing and healing. It is used by intuitives and mystics to bring harmony to relationships and enhance compatibility. It is alsosaid to be helpful to heal griefs and depressions. Bixbite is also used to strengthen creativity energy. Physically, intuitive sources say that bixbite is good for healing problems with the physical heart, liver, lungs, mouth, throat, stomach, physical energy level, and digestive system. Bixbite is related to the heart and sacral chakras.
 
 

Bloodstone
Solid dark green, red flecks. Electromagnetic (high iron). Ancient Egypt, Atlantis used to calm, ground, revitalize. Classic for wealth, menstrual cramps, anemia, bloodclots, hemorrhoids, birthing/reproductivity, imbalance. Cleansing heart and blood circulation, marrow, thymus, lungs; Heart. A deep green with flecks of red, often resembling drops of blood. Benefits the circulatory system. Helps purify toxic blood and detoxify the kidneys, liver, and spleen.
Increases courage, helps in avoiding dangerous situations by soothing the mind. Benefits the bones, heart, and reproductive organs. Helps raise consciousness. If Bloodstone is used for a specific healing layout, it should be used by someone who has experience with the stone.

 

Bornite
Facilitates the activation of individual chakras. Brings freshness and newness to one's life. Stimulates inner spirit to seek heights and ability to enjoy happiness. Helps to separate emotions from intellect, to recognize and accept the difference. Excellent healing stone.
 

Brazilianite
Colorless to pale yellow to pale green. Promotes understanding of difficult situations and allows decisions of loving-intellect. Helps obtain insight for obtaining and releasing. Helps alleviate conditions of heatstroke & sunburn. Chakras Solar Plexus & Heart.
 

Brass
Flattens and grounds energy. (poor conductor); not generally used for healing. can dull/block energy. May be used as shield, reducing sensitivity and awareness. A common alloy made by combing Copper and Zinc. Recommended by healers as helpful to people who have unusually high levels of metal in their bloodstream, since it is a blood cleanser and detoxifier. Also used for hair loss.
 

Buddstone
Buddstone is also commonly referred to as African Jade. Buddstone is said to allow us to connect with the nature spirits, especially with the green growing trees and plants. Helps one to strip away illusion and recognize flaws in self and others believed ot be an extremely healing and soothing stone for the nerves and senses. Some believe that it is helpful to place Buddstone in the living areas of those suffering from brain injuries or brain disesase such as senility or Alzheimers. Suggested uses: Most effective in its raw or tumbled state, less effective when worn in jewelry. Good for crystal healing, although its soothing effect can permeate your home is you use three or four pieces in a small bowl of water in your main living area.
 

Bustamite
Bustamite is best known for its energetic ability to remove and clear energy blockages. It is a very powerful stone for all types of energy work because of this. It can remove an energy block from a person, a particular chakra, an environment, or a situation. It is also excellent for meditation and can help one go deeper into meditation than previously possible. It is also great for dreamwork and can help communicate with angels. Bustamite is used often in ceremonies and initiations. Emotionally, bustamite helps one feel safe, which can lead to many different kinds of emotional healing, including removing anxiety and stress. Physically, bustamite has been used to heal and improve circulation, lungs, skin, nails, hair, and stress related disorders. 


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Carnelian
Chalcedony (jasper) qtz. Translucent. confidence, boldness, initiative, dramatic abilities, assertiveness, outgoingness. Precision, analysis, appetite, awareness of feelings. Orange and yellow Chakra. Warms and cleanses blood, kidneys, stimulates appetite, emotions, passion, sexuality, physical energy, celebration, reproductive system, menstrual cramps, arthritis, kidneys, gall bladder, pancreas.
Historically also used to pull excess fever out through the feet. Comes in a variety of colors ranging from red to orange and, in some cases, even to dark brown. Helps you feel anchored and comfortable with your surroundings. Provides a connection to the past or to historical events. Strongly influences the reproductive organs. Purifies the blood and liver, and it is excellent for lower back trouble. Can improve motivation. Helps one achieve greater success in career or personal matters. Helps ground people who meditate.
 
 

Catlinite
Catlinite, also called pipestone, is traditionally used as a Native American ceremony stone, for making pipes and other totems. Catlinite has the quality of connecting the spiritual and the physical. It can be used to ground prayer and ritual into the physical, everyday life. It is also a very protective stone. Catlinite is also used for communication with spirits and the ancestors. Catlinite is related primarily to the root (base) chakra.
 

Cavansite
Cavansite is a stone that aids in many psychic areas. It can stimulate intuition greatly, heightens psychic awareness, stimulates the third eye, and enhances channeling abilities. It is especially helpful in psychic healing and protects the healer during psychic healing sessions. Emotionally, cavansite helps get rid of negative thoughts and beliefs, and inspires new ideas. It helps see what part of life need attention. It also helps one relax. Physically cavansite is helpful for sore throats, general healing, and diseases which it helps eliminate and keep from returning. Cavansite is related primarily to the throat and third eye chakras
 

Celestite– Angels Quartz 

White, clear, or cool lt. blue cluster crystals. Gentle. “Celestite, also known as Angels Quartz, is said to have a direct link to the realms of heaven. It is said that celestite was given powers by angels to raise consciousness, and bring guidance from the angels. Intuitive and spiritual sources suggest keeping it is said to offer you a physical link to your guardian angel. Celestite is said to reduce stress and bring one to a state of inner peace, compassion, eloquence, healing, describe the message of this crystals. Placing this crystal on the soul star helps to activate the soul chakra. Helps Throat Chakra. Honesty, openness, stress, worry, hearing, thyroid, potassium/manganese deficiency, Central Nervous System, tiredness, fades in sunlight.

 

Cerussite
Clear/misty white to brown. Helps us be centered, confident, capable and versatile amidst life's challenges. Grounding to here/now and higher self. Graciousness, good listening/communication skills. Translate higher concepts to everyday language. Psychicness, clarity. Shows what we can/can't change. Letting go (stress, addictions..) Insomnia, Central Nervous System, coordination, general healing. Both grounds root chakra and opens crown (& Throat) Chakra. Plant growth , protection against bugs.
 

Chalcedony
A type of Quartz that heads a family which includes Agate, Carnelian, Jasper, Tiger's Eye, and Onyx. Gray is most common color but stone are found in shades of white, black, blue, and brown. Helps ease self-doubts, makes one more reflective. Eases bad dreams and problems related to the eye, gall bladder, bones, spleen, blood, and circulatory organs. Cleansing in nature and will promote healing of open sores. It needn't be cleaned afterward since it has such strong cleansing qualities of its own. Fosters teh maternal instinct and is said to aid lactation.
 

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

Carribbean Blue Chalcedony
Carribbean blue chalcedony is a stone related to the element of water. Although it is dyed to give it such a bright blue color, the coloring fits is basic "watery" nature. Carribbean blue chalcedony is very helpful in the emotional realm. It can calm anxieties and stress, and bring emotional healing in times of grief. It also assists with communication, particularly communications that are involved in emotional things. Physically, according to crystal healing and folk lore, Carribbean blue chalcedony can be used to heal menstrual cramps, PMS symptoms, and knee problems.
 

Blue Moss Chalcedony
Prevent accidents, Beauty, ease legal matters to go your way, Gain personal power, Releasing and Cleansing, Personal Acceptance, Truth and Anti-Illusion. 

 Chalcopyrite
Chalcopyrite has been used to treat disorders of the brain, to lessen the pressure from tumours and growths. It has also been used to treat bronchitis and disorders of the lungs. to lessen fevers, reduce inflammation and to promote hair growth. Strengthens the ability of perception. Helps you to get in touch with the ancient cultures of the universe so that information may be readily received. It is a stone whose own internal energy can clear energy blockages and totally open the crown Chakra. It is excellent for use in attaining the "no mind" state of meditation. Chalcopyrite allows you to meditate on the perfection of each and every piece of the universe. An excellent meditative stone. 
 

Charoite
Purple, solid. Newly coming into greater use. Works with Indigo & violet Chakra to transmute/lift us out of emotions, fear. Seeing old patterns with new possibilities. Opens heart, inspiration, service, seeing clearly (mentally, physically, psychically), faster healing. Some find useful also for entity release work and alcohol/liver detoxification.

Chlorite
Chlorite is considered one of the most powerful healing stones. It cleanses and purifies the aura, chakras and other energy centers. It can remove negative energy of all kinds, including anger, hostility, illness, and others. Creatively, they promote a state of inspiration. Chlorite is also used to remove unwanted energy implants, healing the void left after the implants are removed. The energy that chlorite brings to healing and the environment are extraordinarily positive. Physically, chlorite is excellent for all healing as noted above, and is used to eliminate toxins from the body. 

Chrysoberyl
Translucent Gold or Green Cat's Eye (often confused with qtz. Tiger's Eye, but rarer). Usually clear, green or green/brown, nongreasy. For acquiring more prosperity. Confidence, self-pride, healing. Amplifies other gems Some are irradiated to turn green trust your feeling with each stone. 

Chrysanthemum Stone
Stone resembles blooming autumn chrysanthemum flowers. Allows one to drift through the blossoms of life. Stone of harmony and change. Enhances compatibility, renewal of relationships and unity. Fun loving and innocence, helps one to enjoy each moment. Removes obstructions from one's path; calms and provides confidence.

Chiastolite
The "Cross Stone". This crystal is a variety of Andalusite. It exhibits the axis and angle in a different color from the rest of the crystal forming a natural cross. It is used as a sign of devotion towards awareness and dispels negativity. It signifies both death and re-birth and helps one to understand the realization of
immortality. It is used as a bridge for "crossing over". It helps one to assimilate during times of change. It provides insight to answers when problem solving. This powerful crystal balances one's perspective in both creativity and practicality. During illness, it helps to maintain spirituality, lessens fever, balances blood flow, increases secretion of milk in nursing mothers and repairs chromosome damage. 

Chinese Writing Stone has its own page!

 Chrysocolla/Gem Silica
Solid Lt. blue/blue-green. Gentle, soothing, friendly. Excellent for Heart Chakra; flushes and heals heart blocks (loss, hurt, guilt, fear...) for allowingness, flexibility, self-forgiveness, peace of heart, patience. Keeps one in light, love, and healing daily. On Throat, expressing feelings, verbal and artistic creativity, thyroid. Also, heart bloodsugar, and emotional balance. High conductivity from copper draws out pain, heat (fevers, inflammations, arthritis...), Excellent therapeutic assistance for healing loss, incest, other traumas. Cleanses auric field. Dreams and Earth healing. A stone found in shades of blue or green. Resembles Turquoise and its properties are similar to it. Benefits arthritis and other bone diseases as well as the organs of the digestive tract, and ulcers become less problematic. Relieves hypertension and stressful conditions due to fear or guilt. Helps one feel more comfortable speaking the truth. Help develop personal confidence. Historically used by musicians, perhaps because of its reputation for having healing properties for throat and lungs. 

Chrysoprase
Bright translucent green chalcedony. Uplifts heart Chakra. Greater flexibility, wisdom, generosity, self-confidence. Heals depression, excess self-focus, emotions/sexual imbalance. Placed on heart, neck, or on brow for meditation.
A bright green crystal similar in color to green apples. Helps one achieve greater personal insight, feel more clam, become less egotistical, and more open to new surroundings and situations. Stimulates creativity and draws out unknown talents. Enhances fertility for both sexes. Helps guard against sexually transmitted diseases. Also helps gout, mental illness, and eye problems. 

Cinnabar
Heals & purifies the blood. Imparts strength and flexibility to the physical body, stabilizes weight and enhances fertility. 

Citrine:
Clear yellow qtz. (Yellow from Iron.) For Solar Plexus Chakra. Mental and emotional clarity. Problem-solving, memory, will power, optimism, confidence, self-discipline, digestion. Reduces anxiety, fear, depression, stomach tension, food disorders, allergies. Detoxification: Spleen, kidneys, liver, urinary system, intestines. Electromagnetic. Citrine is one of two crystals which never have to be cleansed of negative energy. An energizing and highly beneficial crystal. Its color is usually a pale golden yellow, but can be found in darker shades as well, although some literature considers the darkest crystals to be Smoky Quartz. The Celtic people of Scotland call the dark Citrine crystals Morion and Cairngorm. They are invigorating and positive. Can surround and fill anyone with its brilliant color, energizing every aspect of life. Increases motivation and promotes physical activity, which in turn improves digestion and helps the cleansing organs. May also work as a detoxifier for the blood. Persons involved with education or business will especially benefit. Can guide you to harness and utilize your creative energy. Helps us analyze events and steer them in a positive direction. Develops inner calm and security, and makes us less sensitive and more open to constructive criticism. Can dispel negative feelings and help us to accept the flow of events. 

Clinochlore
Clinochlore improves the circulation of the blood, assists with general "colds and chills" and can help with weight loss. It also reduces the appearance of liver spots on the skin and can be useful in helping to alleviate pain.
Clinochlore is an extremely useful and very positive healing stone. It can help us to feel centered, and to see what changes we must make to bring peace and happiness into our own lives. It is a protective stone and one that also engenders Love. Clinochlore is good for positively enhancing relationships as it helps you to become more independent for your own good but still a diplomatic and loving friend within that relationship. It teaches us tenderness and care. Clinochlore can help us to bring order out of chaos and also teach us that we are neither simply helpless nor hopeless human beings. During meditation with Clinochlore this mineral can assist you in contacting the highest levels of angelic forces. It will help you to understand the various stages of your life and will also allow you to appreciate people and things that are growing spiritually. 

Conichalcite
Conichalcite is helpful in treating skin problems, psoriasis, cancer, herpes, kidney and bladder problems and can eliminate toxins from the body. Conichalcite provides us with a mental link to the plant kingdom. It brings together the emotions and the intellect so that we may be better communicators. It increases our personal power so that we may direct this in a more loving manner. Conichalcite not only provides us with a measure of stability, but also gives us the strength to sway with any changes. It stimulates our intuition, our imagination and our adaptability. It helps you to realise just how boundless your own abilities really are. A helpful mineral for those just beginning meditation practices. 

Coral
Calcium and calcite. Coral brings diplomacy and concurrence, quiets emotions, brings peace to innerself. Facilitates intuition, imagination, visualization, expedite, accelerate the transfer of knowledge. Strengthens both circulatory and bone structure in the body. Stimulates tissue regeneration and nourish blood cells. Helps with disorders of the spinal, alimentary canals, nervous system and thalamus. 
 

Red and Orange Coral
Stimulates Root and Spleen Chakra for energy and warmth, fertility. Energizes emotions. Muscles, blood, heart, reproductive system; thyroid, metabolism; meridians; spine, bone
and tissue regeneration. (Avoid if high blood pressure, fever, anxious.) 

 Pink  Coral
Heart Chakra, increases sensitivity, caring, compassion. Assists in the search for the ‘inner child’ and the need to bring key issues from the unconscious to a conscious state of awareness. Helps resolve conflict and clear the paralysis experienced due to the fear of making a move. 
 

White Coral
Soothes; heals meridians, stress, smell ability, nerves. Strengthens self-esteem and assists with clearing judgement, frustration and resentment at being told what to do. Encourages you to affirm yourself and recognise the self within. Enhances intuition and calms the emotions. Aligns the chakras and connects us to our etheric body. 

Black Coral
Creativity, repels lower energies. Black coral acts as protection against potential harm. Dispels negativity, fear of dark and unknown.
 

Blue Coral
activates and energizes the Throat Chakra. Also used to illuminate the Third Eye Chakra, enhancing psychic awareness and capabilities of the user. Facilitates the improvement/permanence in pursuit of commerce, improves communication abilities, treatment of throat ailments and cleansing of mucoid system. Different colors of Coral can be used alone, in combination, or all together. Sympathetic to both the skeletal structure and the circulatory system. Good stone for ailments of the bones and blood such as arthritis and anemia. Also benefits the cleansing organs and thymus. Helps battle mental illnesses. Has a true link with the past and can pass knowledge along. 

 Corundum
Second hardest mineral. Insight to the unknown. Intuitive awareness, stimulates ambition, confidence. Subdues and calms emotions, harsh and irritable attitudes, releases anger. Soothes and smooths the skin, eye disorders, brings peace to the body. 

 Covellite
Covellite is high energy stone that is excellent for psychic and intuitive work of many kinds. It can enhance intuitive and psychic abilities, and is a very good meditation stone. It strengthens the connection to the higher self. It can also help open to past life recall and ancient Atlantean and other knowledes. It is also used in rebirthing. Mentally it is useful in finding and seeing solutions to problems and ways to accomplish goals. Emotionally it relieves despondency, depression, and anxiety. Physically covellite has been known to be helpful with problems with the ears, nose, mouth, and sinuses. Covellite is related to the third eye chakra. 
  
Creedite
A white stone found in the US and Mexico. Beneficial to the body's cleansing system. Useful for blood detoxification. Helps one discover how best to express themselves and intuitively understand other people. Will also benefit the nervous system by aiding in the
transmission of nerve impulses. 
 

Crocoite
Crocoite is a very rare and very fragile mineral. When a woman works with Crocoite it helps her to better gauge the best time for conception and allows the highest level of astrological planning to take place. Crocoite also allows women to readily asses males as potential mates and/or fathers. Disorders of the reproductive system respond well to Crocoite as does recovery from distress.
Crocoite "improves" and/or "builds upon" our natural inborn qualities. It promotes fertility in women and allows women to fully realise all of their their feminine aspects. It stimulates intuition, creativity and sexuality.
Crocoite is a transition stone from one state to another – be that physically or spiritually. 

Cuprite
Deep wine red. (High copper content) Opens flow of Root and Spleen Chakras, Kundalini energy, will power. Also, with Heart Chakra.
Strengthens thymus, heart, blood, and oxygen, metabolism, stamina and healing. Historically also heals relationship with father, the yang side of us, masculinity (for men) and confidence/security issues. Access past life.
Beneficial for metabolical imbalances. Helps the heart and blood, muscle tissue, and skeletal system. Helpful for people having difficulty dealing with father or authority figures. Considered helpful in investigating past-life experiences.

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