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Royalty Jeweler's guide to earth's gems and crystals from around the world

About gemstones

Like crystals, gemstones are also decorative, fascinating and hav more financial value. They come in different shapes, size, color and texture and formed by earth natural forces

How Gemstones Form?
same as crystals

Choosing your gemstones
Ideally, your crystal will choose you! You may be gifted with one from a friend. You may pass a crystal store and be drawn in, "called" by a gemstone. Stand in a store and look around: the gemstone that your eye alights on is the one for you. Or, you can put your hand into a tub of gemstones: one will stick to your hand. You may find a gemstone while out walking. You could also note which gemstones attract you most as you glance through this wesbite.
The gemstone Directory will help you to find exactly the right stone for your purpose, and tell you where to place it for maximum effect. Some gemstones need to be worn close to the skin for long periods; others need to be placed on energy centers known as the chakras for a much shorter time or held in your hands. Throughout the book there are instructions for specific placements to aid you.

Gemstone Magic
The sheer beauty of a gemstone mesmerizes the mind and puts the beholder in the right mental space for magical work. The marvelous shapes and colors that are the outer form of the gemstone are mirrored by an inner lattice that picks up, amplifies, and transforms energy.

Gemstone Meanings
Gemstones have traditional meanings associated with them. For a quick answer to a question, place a selection of the gemstones listed bellow in a bag. Concentrate on your question. Pick out a gemstone at random; look at the meanings associated with that gemstone to find your answer. If two or three fall into your hand, read all the meanings.

Gem Esoteric Remedies
Black Tourmaline: Provides psychic protection and screens from electromagnetic stress. Relieves jet lag. Releases toxic energy from emotions, mind, and body.
Malachite: Harmonizes physical, metal, emotional, and spiritual; grounds the body. Use tumbled stone only.
Fluorite: Breaks up blockages in the etheric body. Anti-viral.
Jadeite: Heals eye conditions, brings peace.
Amazonite: Balances the metabolism.
Green Jasper: Restores biorhythms and natural sexuality.
Hematite: Strengthens boundaries.
Kunzite: Opens the heart.
Amber: Acts as an antibiotic, heals throat problems.
Golden Beryl: A gargle for sore throats.
Bloodstone: Releases constipation and emotional stagnation.
Charoite: An excellent cleanser for the body.
Herkimer Diamond: helps with psychic vision and dream recall.
Moss Agate: Treats fungal infections.
Moldavite: helps with staying in the present moment, releasing from past.
Aquamarine/Aventurine: Aid in the case of skin problems.
Aquamarine: Calms mental stress and overactive mind.
Aventurine: Increases stamina to see things through, integrates new experiences.
Rhodochrosite: Treats infections, promotes thyroid balance, heals the heart.
Tiger's Eye: helps with self-empowerment.
Sapphire: Removes toxins from the body.
Blue Lace Agate: Balances brain fluid, mouthwash for gingivitis, bath for inflamed eyes.
Amazonite: Balances metabolism.
Amethyst: Treats acne and arthritis.
Quartz: An energy enhancer and general cleanser.
Carnelian: Reenergizes.
Citrine: Clears mental confusion, improves concentration and decision-making processes.
Chrysocolla: Releases unresolved grief.

 

 
 

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 Name Source Appearance Esoteric Properties
Diamond South Africa, Australia, Brazil, India, Russia, United States Bright, transparent when polished. Colors: Clear, yellow, blue. Bonds relationships, brings love and clarity; amplifies energy. Qualities include fearlessness, invincibility, fortitude, purity helps with glaucoma.
Ruby India, Madagascar, Russia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Kenya Bright, transparent when polished, opaque when not. Color. Red.  Energizes, balances, helps with Leadership. Stimulates heart chakra: "following your bliss." Shields against psychic attack, promotes positive dreams. helps with in retaining wealth, passion. Detoxifies body, blood; treats fevers, restricted blood flow.
Sapphire Burma, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Brazil, Kenya, India Bright, transparent when polished. Colors: Blue, yellow, green, black, purple Relaxes, focuses, calms mind, releases unwanted thoughts, mental tension. Peace of mind, serenity. Aligns physical, mental, spiritual planes, restores balance within body. Releases depression, spiritual confusion, helps with concentration. Heals eye, removes impurities and stress. Brings prosperity, attracts gifts, releases frustration. Treats disorders of blood, alleviates excessive bleeding. Strengthens veins, improves elasticity. Yellow Sapphire: Attracts wealth to home. Stimulates intellect, overall focus. Elixir removes toxins from body. Purple Sapphire: Awakens. Useful for meditation, kundalini rise; stimulates crown chakra, opens spirituality. Black Sapphire: Protects, centers. Imparts confidence in own intuition. Promotes employment prospects and retaining job. Green Sapphire: Improves vision, helps with dream remembrance. Stimulates heart chakra, brings loyalty, fidelity. Royal Sapphire: Eliminates negative energies from chakras, stimulates third eye to access information for growth. Teaches self-responsibility for thoughts and feelings. Treats brain disorders, including dyslexia.
Emerald India, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Brazil, Egypt, Austria Bright, transparent when polished. Color. Green Gives physical, emotional, mental equilibrium; focuses intention, raises consciousness, fosters positive action. Provides inspiration, infinite patience; enhances psychic abilities, wisdom from mental plane. Strengthens memory, helps with eloquence, promotes truth, inspires deep inner knowing. "Successful love," domestic bliss, and loyalty. Treats lungs, heart, spine, muscles; soothes eyes.
Aquamarine United States, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, India, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan Clear crystal. Color. Pale Purple, blue tinge. Reduces stress, quietens mind, sharpens intellect, clears blocked communication chakra. Filters information reaching brain, helps with interpretation of emotional state. Reduces fear, increases sensitivity, creativity; enhances intuition, spiritual awareness. Shields aura, aligns chakras. Brings tolerance and responsibility. Treats swollen glands, sore throats; strengthens organs, liver, spleen, kidneys; helps with teeth, jaw, eyes, throat, stomach.
Garnet Worldwide Transparent or translucent crystal. Colors: Red, Green (Almandine). Energizes, revitalizes; balances energy, brings serenity. Activates other crystals, clears negative chakra energy. Inspires love, stimulates controlled rise of kundalini energy. Past-life recall: place on the third eye. Threats spinal and cellular disorders, blood, hearts, lungs; regenerates DNA. helps with assimilation of minerals/vitamins. Red Garnet: Represents love. Attuned to heart energy, revitalizes feelings, enhances sexuality. Controls anger, especially toward oneself.
Peridot (Olivine/Chrysolite) United States, Brazil, Egypt, Ireland, Russia Clear crystal when polished. Color: Olive green. Cleanses subtle, physical bodies, mind. Releases negative patterns, vibrations; promotes clarity, well-being. Releases, neutralizes toxins on all levels. Visionary, understands destiny, purpose, helpful to healers. Opens, cleanses heart and solar plexus chakras, regulates heart and solar plexus chakras, regulates cycles of life. Alleviates jealousy, anger; reduces stress; motivates growth, necessary change. Tonic effect, heals, strengthens. Heart, lungs, spleen, intestinal tract, ulcers; strengthens eyes. helps with birth contractions.
Opal Australia, Mexico, Peru Iridescent, fiery. Colors: White, black shot with many colors. Enhances cosmic consciousness, originality, dynamic creativity. Fosters love, passion. Induces visions. Brings loyalty, faithfulness, spontaneity. Amplifies traits. Emotionally stability. Treats Parkinson's disease, infections, fevers, strengthens memory, purifies blood and kidneys, regulates insulin, eases childbirth. Fire Opal: Symbol of hope, excellent for business.
Spinel Canada, Sri Lanka, Burma, India. Crystalline with terminations, or tumbled pebbles. Colors: Colorless, white, red, blue, violet, black, green, yellow, orange, brown. Energy renewal, encouragement, and rejuvenation. Accepts success with humility. Facilitates movement of kundalini energy. Brown Spinel: Cleanses the aura and opens links to physical body. Opens the earth chakra and grounds. Red Spinel: Stimulates physical vitality and strength. Arouses kundalini. Opens and aligns base chakra. Orange Spinel: Stimulates creativity and intuition, balances emotions, treats infertility. Opens and aligns navel chakra. Yellow Spinel: Stimulates intellect and personal power. Opens and aligns solar plexus chakra. Green Spinel: Stimulates love, compassion and kindness. Opens and aligns heart chakra. Green Spinel: Stimulates love, compassion and kindness. Opens and aligns heart chakra. Blue Spinel: Stimulates psychic abilities, aligns with higher self, facilitates astral travel. Opens and aligns brow (third eye) chakra. Violet Spinel: Stimulates spiritual development and astral travel. Opens and aligns crown chakra. 
Colorless Spinel: Stimulates mysticism and higher communication. Links chakras on physical body with crown chakra of etheric body, facilitating visions and enlightenment. Black Spinel: Stimulates insights as to material problems, for example, financial worries or moving home. Protective; earths energy to balance rise of kundalini.
Quartz Throughout the world Long, pointed crystals, transparent, milky or striated. Colors: Clear, smoky, blue, green, yellow Most powerful healer. Energy amplifier, stores, releases, regulates energy. Generates electromagnetism, dispels static electricity. Cleans, enhances subtle bodies. Deep soul cleanser. Dissolves karmic seeds. Enhances psychic abilities. Connects physical dimension with mind. Stimulates immune system. Soothes burns. Reduces fuel consumption. Blue Quartz: Assists in reaching out to others, assuages fear. Green Quartz: Opens, stabilizes heart chakra. Transmutes negative energy, inspires creativity, balances endocrine system. Golden Healer (Created Yellow-Orange): Facilitates spiritual communication over a long distance, including between the worlds, and empowers healing.
Phantom Quartz White or colored crystal encompassed within the main crystal Increases universal awareness, helps with healing the planet and activates healing abilities, brings forth a spiritual guide, facilitates reading past lives . Treats hearing disorders and opens chairaudience. Amethyst Phantom Quartz: Access prebirth state and plan for the future
Tourmalinated Quartz Long, thick, dark "threads" through clear crystal. Dissolves crystallized patterns, harmonizes disparate and opposite elements. Harmonizes polarities. Problem solver.
Rutilated Quartz Long thin "threads" in clear crystal Reaches root of problems. helps with astral travel. Absorbs mercury poisoning. Heightens energetic impulse of quartz. Neck for thyroid; heart for thymus; solar plexus for energy; ears to balance and align.
Smoky Quartz Translucent, long, pointed crystals darker ends. Note: Very dark quartz is usually artificially irradiated and should not be used. Color: Brownish to blackish hue. Elimination and detoxification at all levels. Relieves fear, lifts depression, brings calmness, positive thought. Treats radiation related illness or chemotherapy. helps with acceptance of body, strengthens virility, cleans base chakra. Grounds spiritual energy, neutralizes negative energy and geopathic stress. Alleviates nightmares, manifests dreams.
Rose Quartz Usually translucent, may be transparent. Color: Pink. Unconditional love, heals and opens heart, calms, reassures, deep inner healing. Releases unexpressed emotions, soothes internalized pain. If never received love, opens heart. helps with positive affirmations, self-trust and self-worth. Teaches how to love one's self, encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance. helps with physical heart and circulatory system. Said to increase fertility. Soothes burns, blistering.
Amethyst United States, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Sri Lanka, Uruguay, East Africa. Transparent , pointed quartz crystal. Colors: Pale to dark purple. Powerful healer, protector, enhances psychic abilities, spiritual awareness. Stimulates throat chakra, clears aura, transmulates negative energy. Calms mind, enhances meditation, visualization. Disperses psychic attack. Ameliorates anger, range, fear, resentment. helps with assimilation of ideas. Connects cause and effect. Promotes selflessness. Effects enhanced by Rose Quartz Supports sobriety. Relieves physical, emotional pain. Boosts hormones. Strengthens, cleanses organs organs and circulatory system, calms nervous system, unites scattered energies. helps with insomnia, hearing, endocrine glands, digestive tract, heart, cellular disorder. Violet Amethyst: Lighter vibration that works on profoundly spiritual level.
Ametrine Bolivia Combination of Amethyst and Citrine. Colors: Purple and yellow Powerfully combines properties of two crystals, fast and effective. Enhances well-being, brings universal equilibrium, connects physical with higher consciousness, facilitates astral travel and mental clarity. helps with thinking things through. Releases blockages on all levels including negative emotional programing and prejudice. Relieves psychic attack. Balances male-female. Disperses negativity from aura and toxins from body, energizes with light. Enhances compatibility and acceptance of others. helps with autonomic nervous system and physical maturation, stablizes DNA/RNA, oxygenates body, cleanses blood. Heals M.E., burning sensations, depression, gastric disturbances, fatigue and lethargy.
Aqua Aura Synthetic color on Quartz Clear or cloudy quartz crystals artificially bonded with gold. Colors: Blue, red, purple. Intense energy, frees from limitations. Creates space for something new. Heals, cleanses, and calms the aura, releases stress, activates chakras, releases negativity from subtle bodies, stimulates channeling and self-expression, deepens spiritual attunement and communication. Safeguards against psychic or psychological attack. Enhances healing properties of other crystals. helps with thymus gland and immune system.
Azeztulite Extremely rare: one seam, mined out. Clear quartz with striations. Color: Colorless. High vibration, attuned to high frequencies. Strongly positive, never requires cleansing. Facilitates meditation, providing protective spiral. Opens third eye and higher crown chakras. Activates ascension points. Used on third eye, helps with seeing future. Treats cancer, cellular disorders, inflammation.
 

 

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 Name Source Appearance Esoteric Properties

Dioptase Iran, Russia, Namibia, Zaire, Chile, Peru. Small transparent crystals. Colors: Very deep green-blue, green. Brings all chakras to higher level of functioning, opens higher 
heart chakra, induces spiritual attunement . Promotes living in present moment, activates past-life memory. Powerful physical and mental healer, regulates cell disorder, activates T-cells, relieves Meniere's disease, eases high blood pressure, alleviates pain including migraine. Said to prevent heart attacks and heal heart conditions.
Kyanite Brazil Striated or layered crystal, often transparent or "pearlized." Color: Blue-white, pink, green, yellow, gray, balck. Excellent for attunement and meditation. Calming and tranquilizing. helps with self expression, communication, and psychic abilities. Connects to guides. Supports continuation of difficult projects. Instills compassion. Aligns chakras and subtle bodies instantly. Dispels blockages, confusion, illusion, anger and frustration. Restores Qi. Never requires cleaning, does not hold negativity. Increases linear thought. Balances yin-yang. Treats muscular disorders, fevers, urogenital system. thyroid and parathyroid, adrenal glands throat, brain. Blue Kyanite: Strengthens the voice.
Petalite Brazil, Madagascar Quartzlike, striated, slightly iridescent. Colors: Clear, white, pink, gray, reddish white, greenish-white. High vibration, opens to cosmic consciousness. Protective, enhances meditation, attunement, communication, and angelic connections, moves beyond psychic abilities, provides safe environment for spiritual contact or vision quest. Activates and energizes. Grounds during spiritual activity. Shamanic crystal. Calms aura. Opens throat and higher crown chakras. Releases negative karma and entities. helps with tie cutting. Harmonizes endocrine system. Treats helps with, cancer, cells, eyes, lungs, muscles, and intestines. Pink Petalite: Clears heart meridian, strengthens emotional body, releases fear and worry.
Clear Petalite: Renders negative energies impotent.
Phenacite Madagascar, Russia, Zimbabwe, Colorado, Brazil. Glassy, quartz-like. Colors: Colorless, yellow, yellow-red, red, pink, brown. Highest vibration, inter-dimensional, purifying, and integrating. Activates healing from etheric body to physical. Cleanses and activates the chakras. Clear Phenacite: Inter-dimensional travel.
Yellow Phenacite: Extra-terrestrial contact.
Moldavite  Czech Republic, Slovakia Small, transparent crystals, "extra terrestrial." Meteorite. Color: Dark green. Communication with higher self, extraterrestrials. Crown chakra: opens to higher spiritual energies; on throat: communicates interplanetary messages.
Celestite Britain, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Libya. Transparent, pyramidal crystals. Colors: Blue, yellow Contacts spiritual and angelic realms, encourages spiritual development, enlightenment, pureness of heart. helps with clairvoyant communication, dream recall, astral travel. Disperses worries, attracts good fortune. Synthesizes instinct and intellect, helps with analysis of complex ideas. Brings balance and alignment. Treats disorders of eyes and ears, balances mind. Eliminates toxins, brings cellular order:
Danburite United States, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Switzerland, Japan, Mexico Clear with striations. Colors: Pink, yellow, white, lilac Activates intellect and higher consciousness. Promotes ease, changes recalcitrant attitudes, brings patience, peace of mind. Treats liver; gall bladder. Detoxifies, adds weight. helps with muscular and motor function. Pink Danburite: Opens heart.
Lilac Danburite: Opens higher chakras, raises awareness.
Kunzite United States, Madagascar, Brazil, Burma, Afghanistan. Transparent or translucent, striated crystal. Colors: Pink, green, yellow, lilac. Spiritual, produces loving thoughts and communication, radiates peace, connects to universal love. Dispels negativity. Induces deep, centered meditative state, enhances creativity. helps with self-expression; removes obstacles to path, emotional debris; allows free expression of feelings. Adjusts to pressure of life, heals psychiatric disorders. Activates heart chakra, aligns with throat and third eye. Shields from unwanted energies, dispels attached entities and mental influences from aura. Strengthens circulatory system and heart muscle. Green Kunzite: Grounds spiritual love. Yellow Kunzite: Aligns chakras, restructures DNA, deflects radiation and microwaves from auric field; stabilizes cellular blueprint and calcium-magnesium balance. Lilac Kunzite: Celestial Doorway. Symbol of infinity. helps with transition, imparts knowledge departed souls require, helps them move over into enlightenment. Breaks the barriers of time into the eternal moment.
Hiddenite Brazil Transparent with vertical striations (form of kunzite). Colors: Yellow to emerald green. As Kunzite. In addition: connects to other worlds, links intellect and love to birth the unknown and aid transfer of knowledge. helps with diagnosis.
Herkimer Diamond United States, Mexico, Spain Clear, Oily, inner rainbows. Color: Clear. Energizes, enlivens, promotes creativity. helps with attunement, stimulates psychic abilities, dream recall. Detoxificant, protects against radioactivity, helps with insomnia caused by geopathic stress, corrects DNA, metabolic imbalances; eliminates stress. Promotes past life recall.
Angelite (Compressed Celestite) Britain, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Poland, Libya Opaque with veins and "wings." Color: Blue-white. helps with angelic contact. Transmute pain and disorder into wholeness and healing.
Amber Britain, Baltic, Northern Germany, Poland, Italy, Romania, Russia, Burma, Dominica. Translucent, resinous, insects trapped inside. Colors: Yellow through orange to brown. Green created artificially. Brings wisdom, balance, patience, promotes altruism. Useful healer, draws disease from body, helps with tissue revitalization. Heals nervous system, promotes self-healing. Elixir is antibiotic. Eases stress, neutralizes negative energy. Cleanses environment, body, mind, and spirit. helps with depression, memory, decision-making. Heals throat and Throat chakra, kidneys, bladder.
Citrine (Cairngorn) Britain, United States, Brazil, France, Madagascar, Russia. Transparent, may be cloudy, Colors: Yellow through to brown. Prosperity, attracts wealth, success. Brings happiness, generosity. Energizes, invigorates, increases motivation/physical energy, activates creativity. Dissipates negative energy, promotes inner calm. Alleviates depression and fears. Balances yin-yang, opens Navel and Solar Plexus chakras, stimulates Crown chakra. Cleanses aura, aligns etheric body with physical. Treats digestive problems, thyroid imbalance, circulation of blood.
Selenite United States, Russia, Austria, Greece, Poland, Germany, France, Britain. Translucent with fine ribbing, may be fishtail. Colors: Pure white, orange, blue, brown. Brings clarity of mind, accesses angelic consciousness. Reaches other lives. Creates protective grid. Detaches entities. Assists judgment, insight; shows inner workings. Aligns spinal column, promotes flexibility. Brown Selenite: Earths angelic energies. Blue Selenite: Quietens the intellect, reveals core of a problem.

 

 Fluorite

 

 United States, Britain, Australia, Norway, China, Peru, Mexico. Transparent, cubic crystals. Colors: Clear, blue, green, purple, yellow. Protective, especially on psychic level and against computer and electromagnetic stress. helps with physical and mental coordination, counteracts mental disorder; increases concentration. Grounds, integrates spiritual energies. Promotes unbiased impartiality, heightens intuitive powers. Rekindles sexual libido. Benefits teeth, cells, and bones; repairs DNA damage. Powerful antiviral effect (elixir). Benefits arthritis, rheumatism. Clear Fluorite: Stimulates crown chakra, energizes aura, harmonizes intellect and spirit. Blue Fluorite Enhances orderly thought, clear communication, calms energy, treats eye problems. Green Fluorite Grounds excess energy, dissipates emotional trauma, clears infections. helps with stomach disorders, intestines. Violet and Purple Fluorite: Stimulates third eye, imparts common sense to psychic communication. Assists bones and bone marrow disorders. Yellow Fluorite: Enhances creativity, stablizes group energy, releases toxins.
Beryl

 

 United States, Russia, Australia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Slovakia, France, Norway. Prismatic crystals, may be pyramidal. Colors: Pink, golden, yellow, green. Brings positive view, teaches how to do only what is necessary, filters distractions, over stimulation. Enhances courage, relieves stress, calms mind. helps with organs of elimination, strengthens pulmonary and circulatory systems, increases resistance to toxins. Treats liver, heart, stomach, spine; heals concussion. Elixir treats throat infections. Morganite (Pink Beryl): Attracts love, maintains it. Energizes loving thoughts, actions. Activates, cleanses Heart chakra. Calms stressed life, benefits nervous system. Oxygenates cells, reorganizing them; treats T.B., asthma, emphysema, clears lungs. Golden Beryl: helps with scrying and magical workings.
Chrysoberyl

 

 Australia, Brazil, Burma, Canada, Ghana, Norway. Tabular crystals. Colors: Greenish yellow, honey, red. New beginnings, brings compassion, forgiveness. Increases spirituality, personal power, generosity, creativity, confidence. Enables seeing both sides. Highlights cause of disease. Balances adrenaline, cholesterol.
Alexandrite

 

 Russia, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Burma, Madagascar, Zimbabwe. Variety of chrysoberyl. Colors: Dark green in natural light but shines red in artificial light. Regenerative, rebuilds self-respect, rebirth of self, inner and outer. Centers, reinforces, realigns self and mental, emotional, spiritual bodies; brings joy, expands creativity, expedites change, enhances manifestation. Emotional soother, teaches how to expend less effort. helps with nervous system, spleen, pancreas, male reproductive organs. Regenerates neurological tissue. Treats non assimilation of protein, side effects of leukemia, relieves tension from neck muscles
Chalcedony

 

 United States, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Iceland, Mexico, New Zealand. Transparent or opaque, sometimes banded. Colors: White, pinkish brown, blue, grayish. Promotes brotherhood, group stability, benevolence, generosity; alleviates hostility. Increases physical energy. Balances body, emotions, mind, and spirit. Eases self-doubts, facilitates constructive inward reflection. Creates open persona. Absorbs, dissipates negative energies. Cleanses, including open sores. Fosters maternal instinct, increases lactation. Improves mineral assimilation, combats mineral buildup in veins. helps with dementia and senility. Blue Chalcedony: helps with communication, contact, accepting new situations. Gives mental flexibility and ability to learn new languages; improves memory; helps with regeneration of mucous membrane; ameliorates disease caused by weather sensitivity. Stimulates flow of lymph, lowers temperature.
Snow Quartz

 

 Worldwide Firmly compacted, milky often water-worn. Color: White. Supports learning lessons; helps with letting go of responsibilities, limitations. Enhances tact, cooperation. Links to deep inner wisdom previously denied in oneself and society.

 

 

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 Name Source Appearance Esoteric Properties
Turquoise United State, Egypt, Mexico, China, Iran, Peru, Poland, Russia, France, Tibet. Opaque, often veined. Colors: Turquoise or blue. Heals, protects, elevates effect, promotes spiritual attunement. Purifies, dispels negative energy. Unites earth and sky, male-female; provides healing for spirit. Empathetic, balances. Promoter of self realization, creative problem solving. Strengthens meridians of body, subtle energy fields. Enhances physical, psychic immune systems. Alleviates pollution. Heals whole body, especially eyes.
Bloodstone (Heliotrope) Australia, Brazil, China, Russia, India. Green Quartz flecked with Red Jasper. Energy cleanser, immune stimulator for acute infections. Purifies blood; detoxifies liver, kidneys, spleen. Benefits blood-rich organs, regulates bloodflow. Cleanses lower chakras, realigns energies. Gives courage. helps with recognition that chaos precedes transformation.
Calcite United States, Britain, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Peru, Iceland, Romania Translucent and waxy. Colors: Green, blue, yellow, orange, brown, gray, red. Energy amplifier. Facilitates psychic abilities, channeling, astral projection, higher consciousness. Connects intellect - emotions. Alleviates emotional stress, brings serenity. Memory aid, stimulates insight. Cleanses organs, bones; strengthens skeleton, joints. Red Calcite: Increases energy, uplifts emotions, helps with willpower. Opens Heart chakra. Gold or Yellow Calcite: Enhances meditation. Orange Calcite: Dissolves problems, maximizes potential. Green Calcite: Rids body of infections. helps with transition from stagnant to positive situation. Mental healer, brings balance. helps with communication. Absorbs negativity. Rhomboid Calcite: closes off mind chatter, heals past.
Aragonite Namibia, Britain, Spain Chalky, fibrous, translucent, or transparent, "hedgehog" form has distinct protrusions. Colors: White, yellow, gold, green, blue, brown. Earth-healer. Centers and grounds. Calming. Prepares for meditation. Raises vibration. helps with concentration, discipline and patience. Combats over-sensitivity. Facilitates delegating. Warms extremities (treats Reynauds Disease). Treats chills. Heals bones, helps with calcium absorption, restores elasticity to disks. Stops twitching. Strengthens immune system.
Smithsonite Worldwide Lustrous, like layers of silky bubbles. Colors: Pink, lavender, green, blue-green, purple, brown, yellow, white gray, blue. Tranquility, charm, kindness, favorable outcomes. Heals inner child. Excellent for birth and birthing. Treats infertility. Supports leadership. Aligns chakras, strengthens psychic abilities. Heals dysfunctional immune system, sinus, and digestive disorders, osteoporosis, alcoholism. Yellow Smithsonite: Balances Solar Plexus chakra and mental body. Releases old hurts. helps with assimilation and skin problems. Blue-Green Smithsonite: Heals emotional and other wounds with universal love, balances energy field and eases panic attacks. helps with attaining heart's desire. Lavender Smithsonite: Clears negative energy, helps with spiritual service and higher states of consciousness, gives guidance and protection. Pink Smithsonite: Heals heart, abandonment and abuse, rebuilding trust and security. helps with feeling loved and supported by the universe.
Apatite Mexico Usually opaque but sometimes transparent hexagonal crystal. Colors: Yellow, green, gray, blue, white, purple, brown, red brown. Inspirational, interface of consciousness and matter; promotes humanitarian attitude, service. Stimulates creativity and intellect; eases sorrow, apathy, and anger; reduces irritability. Increases motivation and energy reserves. Induces openness and social eases sorrow, apathy, and anger; reduces irritability. Increases motivation and energy reserves. Induces openness and social ease - dissolves negativity and alienation. Balances physical, emotional, mental, spiritual bodies. helps with psychic development, accesses past lives, deepens meditation, raises kundalini. Heals bones, encourages formation of cells, cartilage, bone, and teeth. Ameliorates arthritis and joint problems, rickets. Suppresses hunger. Blue Apatite: Facilitates public speaking, enhances group communication, opens Throat chakra, heals heart. Yellow Apatite: Eliminator, especially toxins. Activates solar plexus. Treats M.E., lethargy, depression. Overcomes lack of concentration, inefficient learning, poor digestion. Appetite suppressant. Treats cellulite, liver, pancreas, gallbladder, spleen.
Apophyllite Britain, Australia, India, Brazil, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Italy. Cubic or pyramidal. Colors: White, green. Creates conscious connection between physical and spiritual realms, facilitates conscious astral travel. Promotes introspection, correction of imbalances. helps with seeing future, stimulates intuitive vision. Green Apophyllite: Activates heart chakra, promotes forthright heart. Absorbs universal energy. helps with fire walks.
Jade (Jadeite, Nephrite) United States, China, Italy, Burma, Russia. Translucent (Jadeite) or creamy (Nephrite), soap feel. Colors: Green, orange, brown, blue, cream, lavender, red, white. Symbol of purity and serenity, increases love. Releases negative thoughts, soothes mind. Protects, brings harmony. "Dream stone," helps with emotional release. Treats kidneys, removes toxins, rebinds cellular and skeletal systems, heals stitches. Brown Jade: Earths, brings comfort, reliability. helps with in adjusting to new environment. White Jade: Directs energy constructively, filters distractions, helps with decision making. Red Jade: Passionate, associated with love. Accesses anger, releases tension. Yellow Jade: Energetic, quietly stimulates, brings joy. Teaches interconnectedness of all beings.
Rhyolite Australia, Mexico Banded or spotted with crystal inclusions. Colors: White, green, light gray, red. Ignites potential and creativity of the soul, facilitates change, fulfills quests, helps with knowing. Strengthens soul, body, and mind. Processes the past, brings in present. Enhances self-esteem. Treats veins, rashes, skin disorders, infections. Improves assimilation of B Vitamins.
Jasper Worldwide Opaque, patterned, veined. Colors: Red, brown, yellow, green, blue, purple. "Supreme nurturer." Brings tranquility, wholeness, protection; grounds. helps with quick thinking, organizational abilities, seeing projects through. Aligns chakras, facilitates shamanic journeys, dream recall. Prolongs sexual pleasure. Brown Jasper: Encourages environmental awareness, facilitates deep meditation, regression, centering. Gives night vision, helps with astral travel.
Red Jasper: Grounds energy, rectifies unjust situations. helps with dream recall. Health: strengthens circulatory system. Base chakra: helps with rebirthing.
Yellow Jasper: Protects during spiritual work and physical travel. Channels positive energy, energizes endocrine system.
Green Jasper: Heals, releases disease, obsession, skin disorders; dispels bloating. Blur Jasper: Connects to spiritual world. Balances yin-yang energy, stablizes aura. Sustains energy during fast, heals degenerative diseases. Balances mineral deficiency.
Purple Jasper: Stimulates Crown chakra. Eliminates contradictions.
Muscovite Switzerland, Russia, Austria, Czech Republic. Pearl-like mica. Colors: Pink, gray, brown, green, violet, yellow, red. Strong angelic contact; stimulates Heart chakra, facilitates astral travel. Disperses insecurity, self-doubt, helps with intuition and problem solving. Controls blood sugar, regulates kidneys.
Apache Tear (Translucent Obsidian) Black. Translucent when held to light, water-worn pebble. Absorbs negative energies, protects aura. Comforts grief, provides insight into distress. Relieves grievances. Stimulates analytical capabilities and forgiveness. Removes self-limitations.
Obsidian Mexico Shiny, opaque, glasslike. Colors: Brown, black, blue, green, rainbow, red-black. Grounds, protects, strengthens in times of need; helps vitalize purpose. Eliminates energy blockages, relieves tension. Stimulates growth on all levels. Blue Obsidian: helps with astral travel, divination, enhances telepathy. Activates throat chakra, supports communication skills. Treats speech defects, eye disorders, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, multiple personality disorder: Alleviates pain. Heart and Throat chakras: facilitates speaking. Electric Blue Obsidian: Intuitive, helps with divination, trance states, shamanic journeying, psychic communication, past life regression. Opens third eye, assists inner journeys. Accesses roots of difficulties, balances energy fields. Enhances radionic treatment or as a pendulum for dowsing. Makes patient more receptive. Black Obsidian: Grounds. Forces facing up to true self. Repels negativity, disperses unloving thoughts. Brings imbalances and shadow to surface for release. Highlights hidden factors. Increases self-control. Facilitates release of old loves. Strengthens prophesy. Provides balance during change. Used in shamanic ceremonies to remove physical disorder. Red Black Obsidian: Raises kundalini energy. Promotes vitality, virility, brotherhood. Treats fevers, chills. Rainbow Obsidian: Cuts cords of love, gently releases hooks others have left in heart. Mahogany Obsidian: Grounds and protects; gives strength in times of need; helps vitalize purpose, eliminates energy blockages, stimulates growth all levels.
Snowflake Obsidian North and South America Mottled black and white. Purit;, balances body, mind, spirit. helps with recognition and release of wrong thinking, ingrained patterns. Dispassion, inner centering. Treats veins, skeleton.
Tourmaline Sri Lanka Shiny, opaque or transparent, long striated or hexagonal structure. Colors: black, brown, green, pink, yellow, blue, watermelon, blue-green, pink, red (Rubelite). Cleanses, purifies, transforms dense energy to lighter vibration. Grounds spiritual energy, clears chakras, forms protective shield. Releases tension, helpful in spinal adjustments. Balances male-female energy, right-left brain. Attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance, prosperity. Tourmaline wands clear aura, remove blockages, disperse negative energy and specific problems. Black Tourmaline: Protects against mobile phones, electromagnetic disturbance, psychic attack, "spells," and ill -wishing. Grounds spiritual energy, increases physical vitality. Defends against debilitating disease, strengthens immune system. Treats dyslexia, arthritis.
Black Tourmaline with Mica: Returns ill-wishing to source so perpetrator learns from it; nullifies electromagnetic smog. Brown Tourmaline (Dravide): Clears aura, aligns etheric body, protects it. Treats intestinal disorders.
Pink Tourmaline: Aphrodisiac. Brings love in material realm, sharing of physical pleasure. Provides assurance safe to love, inspires trust in love, confirms acceptable to love oneself. Disperses emotional pain, old destructive feelings through Heart chakra, synthesizes love and spirituality. Promotes peace. Balances dysfunctional endocrine system.
Red Tourmaline (Rubellite): Strengthens ability to understand love; promotes tactfulness; gives vitality to physical body; heals heart; treats digestive system, blood vessels, reproductive system. Yellow Tourmaline: Stimulates solar plexus, enhances personal power. Opens up spiritual pathway. Blue Tourmaline: Activates Throat chakra, third eye. helps with psychic awareness. promotes visions. Opens way for service to others. Benefits pulmonary and immune systems, brain. Green Tourmaline: Opens Heart chakra, promotes compassion, balance. Transforms negative to positive energy. Overcomes problems with father figures. Facilitates study of herbalism, heals plants. Treats eyes, heart, thymus, brain, immune system; facilitates study of herbalism, heals plants. Treats eyes, heart, thymus, brain, immune system; facilitates weight loss; purifies, strengthens nervous system. Relieves chronic fatigue, exhaustion. Rejuvenates, inspires creativity.
Purple Tourmaline: Stimulates healing heart, produces loving consciousness. Connects base and heart chakras, increasing devotion, loving aspiration. Stimulates creativity. Watermelon Tourmaline (pink enfolded in green): helps with understanding of situations. "Super-activator" of Heart chakra, links it to higher self. Treats emotional dysfunction. Blue Tourmaline: Activates Throat chakra, third eye. helps with psychic awareness, promotes visions, opening way for service to others. Benefits pulmonary and immune systems and brain. Clear Tourmaline: Aligns meridians of physical and etheric bodies, opens Crown chakra. Synthesizes all colors.
Agate United States, India, Morocco, Czech Republic, Brazil, Africa. Waxy, banded, sometimes with crystals. Color: Most (often artificially colored). Grounds, improves perception and analysis. Balances yin-yan, harmonizes physical, emotional, metal, etheric. Soothes, calms. Raises consciousness, builds self-confidence. Stabilizes aura, eliminates negativity. Overcomes bitterness of heart, inner anger: Fosters love, truthfulness, courage. Pink Agate: Fosters love between parent and child.
Blue Lace Agate United States, Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, Iceland, Morocco, Brazil Banded, lacelike. Color: Blue. Calms, cools, lifts thoughts, takes spiritual inspiration to high vibration. Works on Throat, Heart, Third eye, and Crown chakras to bring about attunement. Treats arthritis, bone deformity; strengthens skeletal system; heals fractures. helps with blockages of nervous system, capillaries, pancreas. Elixir helps with brain fluid imbalances, hydrocephalus.
Moss Agate United States, Australia, India Branching markings, like moss, Colors: Green, blue, brown. Cleanses circulatory and elimination systems of body. Eliminates depression caused by left-right brain imbalances. Helps intellectual people access intuitive feelings, loosen restrictions, Intuitive, creative people helps channel energy practically. helps with hypoglycemia. Elixir treats fungal infections.
Fire Agate United States, Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, Iceland, Morocco, Brazil Slightly iridescent, glowing. Colors: Brown and red. Deep connection to Earth. Calms, settles energy especially before meditation. helps with introspection, brings inner problems/blocks up for examination slowly and safely, dispels fear: Reflects harm back to source to understand effect. Strong sexual connection. Alleviates stomach and endocrine problems, treats circulatory disorders, central nervous system, eyes, enhances night vision.
Dendritic Agate United States, Czech Republic, Slovakia, India, Iceland, Morocco, Brazil. Clear, fern-like markings. Color: Clear with brown markings. Abundance. Heals Earth. helps with remaining centered in discordant situations. Treats skeletal disorders and nervous system, reverses capillary degeneration. Pain relief.
 

 

 

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 Name Source Appearance Esoteric Properties

Chrysocolla United States, Britain, Mexico, Chile, Peru, Zaire. Opaque, often bands Tranquil; sustains, helps with meditation, communication. Assists speaking truth, personal confidence, sensitivity. Calms, reenergizes chakras. At Heart chakra, Heals heartache, increases capacity to love. At throat, improves communication. helps with keeping silent when appropriate. Treats arthritis, bone disease, muscle spasm, digestive tract, ulcers, blood disorders, lung problems. Regenerates pancreases, regulates insulin and blood-sugar balance.
Labradorite Italy, Greenland, Finland, Russia Dull until catches light, iridescent blue flashes. Yellow form transparent. Colors: Grayish with blue, yellow. Protective, deflects unwanted energies from aura, prevents energy leakage. Aligns physical and prevents energy leakage. Aligns physical and etheric bodies, raises consciousness, grounds spiritual energies into body. Synthesizes intellectual thought with intuitive wisdom. Accesses spiritual purpose. Treats disorders of eyes and brain, relieves stress, regulates metabolism. Yellow Labradorite: Accesses highest levels of consciousness, helps with trance and channeling.
Tiger's Eye Mexico, India, Australia, South Africa. Banded, slightly shiny. Colors: Brown-yellow, pink, blue. Protective, shows correct use of power. helps with accomplishing goals, recognizing inner resources, clarity of intention. Anchors change into physical body. Integrates brain hemispheres, balances yin-yang energy, energizes body. Enhances psychic abilities.
Hawk's Eye United States, South Africa, India, Mexico, Australia. Banded hawk-life "eye" (form of Tiger's Eye). Colors: Brown, blue. Earths energy. Stimulates, energizes. Attracts abundance. helps with circulatory system, bowels, legs.
Cat's Eye United States, South Africa, India, Mexico, Australia (rare) Banded or "eye" - like. Color. Yellow. Brings confidence, happiness, serenity, good luck. Grounds, stimulates intuition, dispels negative energy from aura, protects it. Magical properties. Treats eye disorders, helps with night vision. Relieves nervous headache and facial pain.
Lepidolite United States, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Brazil, Madagascar. Platelike crustals, slightly shiny. Color. Purple. Activates Throat, Heart, Third-Eye and Crown chakras, brings cosmic awareness. Stimulates intellect, reduces stress, relieves despondency and overcomes insomnia. "Stone of transition," releases and reorganizes old patterns, induces change. Restructures DNA. Enhances generation of negative ions. Excellent for menopause. Absorbs computer emanations.
Moonstone India, Australia. Milky, translucent. Color. White. "New beginnings," connected to the moon. Soothes emotionality, overreactions. Reflective, makes unconscious conscious. helps with intuition, empathy, psychic abilities. Powerfully affects female reproductive cycle, balances fluids, attunes to biorhythmic clock. helps with digestive system, assimilates nutrients, eliminates toxins; alleviates degenerative conditions of skin, hair, eyes, fleshy organs, PMS symptoms. helps with conception. Pregnancy, childbirth.
Carnelian Britain, India, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Peru, Iceland, Romania. Translucent pebble, often water polished. Colors: Orange, red, pink. Grounds and anchors into present surroundings. Removes fear of death, brings acceptance of cycle of life. Improves analytic abilities, clarifies perception, motivates success in business, helps with positive life choices, dispels apathy. Clears extraneous thoughts in meditation, heals etheric body, protects against rage and resentment. Capacity to cleanse other crystals. Influences female reproductive organs, increases fertility. Heals lower back problems, rheumatism, arthritis, depression. Good for dramatic pursuits. Actives lower chakras. Red Carnelian: Stimulates weak voice. Pink Carnelian: Improves parent-child relationship. Orange Carnelian: Warms, energizes.
Chiastolite (cross Stone) Russia Distinctive dark cross in center. Colors: Dark brown-gray-black. Dispels negative thoughts and feelings. Transmutes conflict into harmony; helps with change, problem solving. Brings creativity, answers to mysteries. Signifies death and rebirth. Facilitates astral travel. Lessens fevers, repairs chromosome damage.
Serpentine Cornwall, England, Norway, Russia, Zimbabwe. Mottled, dual color, can be water worn. Colors: Red, green. Opens new pathways for kundalini energy. Enhances meditation; helps with retrieval of wisdom, memory of past lives. Favors longevity. Eliminates parasites, helps with calcium and magnesium absorption.
Cuprite United States, Britain, Germany, France, Namibia, Peru. Small crystal mass. Color. Red. Philosophical, teaches helpfulness to others. overcomes difficulties in dealing with father or authoritarian figures, strengthens will. Facilitates past-life investigation. Stimulates Base chakra, grounds energy, revitalizes physical energy. helps with heart and blood, muscle tissue, and skeletal system; oxygenates; overcomes metabolic imbalances, water retention, bladder and kidney malfunction, vertigo, altitude sickness. Helps overcome fear of terminal conditions.
Aventurine Italy, Brazil, China, Russia, Tibet, Nepal. Opaque, speckled with shiny particles. Colors: Green, blue, red. Enhances creativity, brings prosperity. Absorbs electromagnetic stress. Diffuses negativity, balances male-female energy. helps with seeing alternatives, possibilities. Promotes growth from birth to seven years. Benefits thymus gland and nervous system. Balances blood pressure. Elixir helps with skin problems. Blue Aventurine: Mental healer: Green Aventurine: Works on Heart chakra; activates, cleans, protects. Shields from loss of heart energy. Useful healer for body, attracts mature love.
Rhodochrosite United States, Russia Banded. Colors: Pink to orange. Selfless love and compassion, improves self-worth, integrates spiritual and material energies. Expands consciousness, clears Solar Plexus chakra, enhances dream states. Alleviates irrational fear; paranoia. Teaches heart to assimilate painful feelings without shutting down, removes denial. Attracts soulmate. Irritant filter: helps with asthma, respiratory problems. Purifies circulatory system, kidneys, restores poor eyesight. Elixir relieves infections, balances thyroid.
Rhodonite Spain, Russia, Sweden, Germany. Mottled, often flecked with black. Color: Pink. Grounds, balances yin-yang; shows both sides of issue. Stimulates, clears, activates Heart Chakra. Balances physical and mental energies. Nurtures love. Encourages brotherhood of humanity. Useful for trauma. helps with confidence, alleviates confusion. Benefits communication, opens third eye. Aligns physical and etheric bodies, maintains good health. Balances male-female energy. Beneficial in osteoporosis, tooth decay, clacium deficiency, calcium deposits. Dissipates blocks in nervous system, relieves muscle spasm.
Sugilite (Luvulite) Japan, South Africa Opaque, lightly banded, or translucent. Color. Purple. Represents spiritual love, opens chakras to flow of love. Brings spiritual awareness, positive thoughts, promotes channeling ability. Protects soul from shocks and disappointments. helps with forgiveness, eliminates hostility. Excellent for autism, learning difficulties. helps with misfits. Promotes understanding of effect of mind on body. Resolves group difficulties. Benefits cancer sufferers. Place on third eye to alleviate despair. Clears headaches and discomfort.
Carnelian Britain, India, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Peru, Iceland, Romania. Translucent pebble, often water polished. Colors: Orange, red, pink. Grounds and anchors into present surroundings. Removes fear of death, brings acceptance of cycle of life. Improves analytic abilities, clarifies perception, motivates success in business, helps with positive life choices, dispels apathy. Clears extraneous thoughts in meditation, heals etheric body, protects against rage and resentment. Capacity to cleanse other crystals. Influences female reproductive organs, increases fertility. Heals lower back problems, rheumatism, arthritis, depression. Good for dramatic pursuits. Actives lower chakras. Red Carnelian: Stimulates weak voice. Pink Carnelian: Improves parent-child relationship. Orange Carnelian: Warms, energizes.
Chiastolite (Cross Stone) Russia Distinctive dark cross in center. Colors: Dark brown-gray-black. Dispels negative thoughts and feelings. Transmutes conflict into harmony; helps with change, problem solving. Brings creativity, answers to mysteries. Signifies death and rebirth. Facilitates astral travel. Lessens fevers, repairs chromosome damage.
Serpentine Cornwall, England, Norway, Russia, Zimbabwe. Mottled, dual color, can be water-worn. Colors: Red, green. Opens new pathways for kundalini energy. Enhances meditation; helps with retrieval of wisdom, memory of past lives. Favors longevity. Eliminates parasites, helps with calcium and magnesium absorption.
Cuprite United States, Britain, Germany, France, Namibia, Peru. Small crystal mass. Color: Red. Philosophical, teaches helpfulness to others. Overcomes difficulties in dealing with father or authoritarian figures, strengthens will. Facilitates past-life investigation. Stimulates Base chakra, grounds energy, revitalizes physical energy. helps with heart and blood, muscle tissue, and skeletal system; oxygenates; overcomes metabolic imbalances, blood disorders, water retention, bladder and kidney malfunction, vertigo, altitude sickness. Helps overcome fear of terminal conditions.
Aventurine Italy, Brazil, China, India, Russia, Tibet, Nepal. Opaque, speckled with shiny particles. Colors: Green, blue, red. Enhances creativity, brings prosperity. Absorbs electromagnetic stress. Diffuses negativity, balances male-female energy. helps with seeing alternatives, Possibilities. Promotes growth from birth to seven years. Benefits thymus gland and nervous system. Balances blood pressure. Elixir helps with skin problems. Blue Aventurine: Mental healer. Green Aventurine: Works on Heart chakra; activates, cleans, protects. Shields from loss of heart energy. Useful healer for body, attracts mature love.
Chrysanthemum Stone China, Japan, Canada, United States. Resembles the chrysanthemum flower. Color: Various. Drifts through time, exudes calm confidence; synthesizes change with harmony, enjoyment of present moment, inspires, energizes. Stimulates impetuous self-development. Overcomes bigotry, ignorance, narrow-mindedness, self-righteousness, jealousy. Brings endeavors to fruition. Treats skin, skeleton, eyes; disperses toxins.