ADVENTURINE (light green) Legends say that it is an all-purpose healer, used to reduce stress, develop confidence, imagination and improve prosperity. A legend from ancient Tibet says that aventurine was used to improve nearsightedness and to increase the wearer's creativity. Many believe that aventurine has the capacity to calm a troubled spirit and bring about inner peace; has been used as a lucky talisman and is a popular stone for gamblers. Enhances creativity, helps in decision-making, and promotes the ability to see possibilities. Lessens negativity.
AGATE Creates an appreciation of nature, provides abundance, soothes emotions and nurtures love. Relieves stress, gives protection and increases courage. Provides perceptiveness to situations and awakens inherent inner talents and is believed to create hope, harmony, optimism, positive thinking, smooth energy flow, joy, truth and promptness and makes us more easygoing.
AMAZONITE facilitates expression, both creative and emotional. Brings success and good luck. Is thought to bestow truth, integrity and honor to its wearer. Enhances love, and soothes tense, aggravated emotions and situations. It is a communication-enabling stone and a good stone for enhancing creativity as well as lessening self-defeating behaviors.
AMBER brings romantic love, purification, wisdom, energy and balance. Enhances patience, and remembrance of past lives and ancient knowledge.
AMETRINE is a mixing of Citrine and Amethyst. In meditation and attunement, ametrine can help one to reach higher states more quickly. In clearing emotional blockage, it provides one with insight regarding the necessity of cooperation and interaction. Helps one to eliminate prejudice by allowing the access of knowledge concerning the connectedness of all.
AMETHYST protects and heals. Used to cleanse, purify, restructure and renew, considered by many as a healing stone. Associated with increased spiritual awareness, meditation, balance, psychic abilities, and inner peace imagery, mind quieting, healing and positive transformation. Protects against overindulgences.
AQUAMARINE "The Stone of Courage" evokes tranquility and serenity, releases anxiety, fear and restlessness, and creates a peaceful stillness. There is a flowing quality to Aquamarine that emits a gentle and compassionate energy, helping judge mental people to be more tolerant.
ARAGONITE fosters truth, stability, understanding and clear perception.
BLACK TOURMALINE in its black form protects the sensitive from negative energy. It is believed to powerfully deflect dark energies while grounding spiritual light for centeredness amid chaos.
BLUE LACE AGATE is especially valued for its said ability to calm the mind in a manner, which causes us to expand our perspective from our hearts.
CARNELIAN reminds us to be "in the moment" It is said to be a stone of protection particularly from anger, jealousy and fear. It is also believed to assist one in finding the right mate. It calms fears about death and rebirth, bringing serenity and acceptance of the great cycle of life.
CHALCEDONY was used as a sacred stone by the Native American, promoting stability within the ceremonial activities of the tribe. It is said to augment emotional balance, vitality, stamina, endurance, kindness, charity and friendliness. It supposedly alleviates hostilities, irritability and melancholy. Chalcedony occurs in many varieties and colors.
CHRYSOCOLLA (blue to green) – is associated with tranquility and peace, intuition, patience, and unconditional love. It is thought to offer gentle and soothing qualities, revitalizes and calms, it can help to ease emotional heartache and to give renewed strength and balance; it further increases ones capacity to love. It also helps one to refrain from verbalization when silence would be beneficial to all concerned. Purifies the environment, and can work to eliminate negativity from within a person.
CHRYSOPRASE Opalescent, apple green - gentle, soothing, friendly, spiritual protection prevents depression, increases grace and equilibrium and is said to help increase fertility.
CITRINE (pale to dark yellow, transparent) The golden yellow quartz is believed to withstand negative energy. It augments happiness, prosperity, creativity and enjoyment – a stone of success in all walks of life. It is especially useful in stimulating one’s mental capacities, enhancing creativity and intuition and strengthening self-confidence. It is also said to give emotional control while making one more alert. It can be very helpful in assisting, acquiring and maintaining wealth and is also referred to as the "Merchant’s Stone" The ancients wore citrine as protection against snake venom and evil thoughts.
CORAL calms the emotions and restores harmony. Provides protection and guards against violence, accidents and theft and is a good aid for meditation or visualization.
CRYSTAL (Quartz) For centuries quartz has been recognized as a "Stone of Power", being able to bring the energy into the soul. It stimulates brain function, aids clarity of mind, dispels negativity in one’s environment and is a very powerful healer. There are many kinds of Crystal, each having its own energy.
DUMORTIERITE Blue dumortierite (pronounced do-MOR-te-rite), also called the Blue Denim stone and is thought to enhance organizational abilities, self-discipline and orderliness. Encourages one to see and accept reality.
FLUORITE Enhances intuition, creativity, concentration, spiritual balance and one’s sense of order. It s said to increase mystic visions; creates a sense of well-being, serenity and peace as well as helping to release negative thoughts and give protection against them. The name fluorite is from the Latin "fleure" which means "to flow".
GARNET A stone of courage and energy is a great protector from evil and bad dreams. Garnets foster the ability to love and are the stone of devotion both to others and to oneself. It can inspire romantic love, passion, sensuality, sexuality, intimacy, positive thoughts, and inspiration, career success, social popularity and self-confidence. The loving powers of garnet tend to reflect the attributes of devotion, bringing the love of others to expressions of warmth and understanding. It is quite helpful in moods of abandonment, allowing one to realize that surrender to discontinuity brings freshness to ones life.
GOLDEN LACE AGATE helps lift depression, increases friendliness and happiness.
GROSSULARITE A green Garnet. Promotes healing.
IOLITE A "Stone of Power" is believed to enhance leadership ability, power, inner strength, self-confidence and executive ability. Known to balance the male/female aspects of ones character, bringing harmony to within the self and eliminating dissonance and disruption in relationships. The energy of iolite helps one to release discord from ones life, allowing for progression toward the perfection. It can enable one to enjoy each moment and to awaken to the inner knowledge which is so patiently awaiting access.
JADE All Jade is believed to produce longevity, fertility, serenity, wisdom, balance, moderation, perspective and stability. There are many kinds of Jade: Burmese, Green Nephrite, African, Black, Golden, Malaysian, Mountain Jade, Serpentine, White, Yellow, Brecciated (also known as Poppy Jasper), and Dalmatian, all of which have their own energy.
JASPER Protects against negative energy and eases stress. It is believed to enhance organizational abilities, relaxation and a sense of wholeness. It encourages attunement and communication with animals and may help with animal allergies.
LABRADORITE A "Stone of Power". Helps you find your inner knowledge, promotes change and transformation, and works against negativity. Reveals new opportunities, boosts energy, strengthens intuition and psychic ability.
LAPIS LAZULI (lap-iss lah-zu-li) Lapis beads are said to bring tranquility, self-confidence and a cheerful frame of mind. Strengthens total awareness, creativity, ESP, skeleton, thyroid, helps to expand viewpoint. It is good for connecting the heart and mind when worn over the heart, and is reputed to bring about harmony in relationships. It has been valued throughout the ages as a link to the all-knowing sources of knowledge and for invoking wisdom. Being a spiritual stone, it allows spiritual energy to be absorbed in the aura and helps to expand your viewpoint.
MALACHITE As the color green has long been seen as the color of life, malachite has been seen as the restorer of life. This is interpreted as assuring the body in its natural healing process. It is said that by using this stone, one can counteract self-destructive romantic tendencies and help encourage true, pure love.
MOONSTONE Moonstone is a talisman of good fortune and provides for a connection between the physical, emotional and intellectual bodies. It assists one in the total fulfillment of ones destiny. Once called the "traveler's stone", it is used for protection against the perils of travel. Creates joy and peace. An aid to the traveler by opening us up to the experiences of people and new places. It is also said to create joy and peace in our homes; and is believed to help calm responses, avoid overreaction and enhance femininity, intuition and psychic abilities, and, have the power to grant wishes.
MOSS AGATE Is associated with prosperity, success, abundance, congeniality, compatibility, healing, rain, restoration, and fertility of plants, protection of the earth, creativity, confidence and strength. Is helpful when starting new friendships or when seeking a compatible lover and helps us communicate directly with animals and plants.
OBSIDIAN Also called the "Mirror Stone" because it reflects one’s personal shortcomings, allowing them to come to one's consciousness to be dealt with, then let go of. It is believed to stimulate growth of physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual centers to provide strength in times of need. It is also said to help promote a forgiving attitude and release grievances.
ONYX Repels negativity and also deflects the negativity of others, keeping one safe from harm. It aids in grounding so that the person is not so flighty and can think and act in a more rational manner, which will help stimulate the power of wise decision-making. It is also believed to help overcome feelings of loneliness and alienation and to add comfort in unfamiliar surroundings.
OPAL Aids inner beauty, faithfulness, and eyesight and helps recall past lives, it is believed to help in letting go of anger. It may magnify existing traits whether they are positive or negative. Opal is a stone of inspiration, which enhances imagination and creativity. It helps one release inhibitions and enhances memory. Opals come in a variety of colors. Opals are said to release stuckness, calm the nerves, give emotional balance and promote mental clarity s well as bring joy and love.
PEARLS "Stone of Sincerity". It signifies faith, charity and innocence, enhances personal integrity, soothing, calming and helps to provide a focus to ones attention. It brings truth to situations and loyalty to a cause. Pearls have the powers of love, money, protection, and luck.
PERIDOT Helps one to find happiness within one's self, overcome anger and jealousy and brings the wearer success, peace and good luck. Peridot is a stone of lightness and beauty. Only spiritual or clear-minded persons should use Peridot. The person with too many earthly problems will not be able to understand the beauty of the Peridot. The very spiritual can wear Peridot in a necklace with the stone at the base of the throat to feel its soothing effect. Used in a necklace, Peridot is a protector against negative emotions.
PERUVIAN BLUE OPAL has soft relaxing energies. Legend has it that it takes the tension out of communication and helps ideas flow freely. It softens the impact of stress from the outside world and can help one release the trauma of old wounds. It facilitates facing the future with a tranquil healing nature. Also helps in quietening the mind, and acts as an aid to sleep.
RUBY gives confidence and self-esteem to the wearer. The Ruby is filled with love. It also helps sexual love to be more passionate. Persons lacking in self-love should have and mediate on the Ruby. It also gives the courage to be best potential that a person has. Ruby works with the flow of blood as an aid to circulation. It aids the cleansing and removal of infection or germs in the blood. The Ruby may be worn in jewelry, but never close to the solar plexus, as the Ruby has a disquieting effect upon it. In a ring wear it on your left hand.
SAPPHIRE The most valuable of the blue gemstones. It is widely held to symbolize prosperity. Its powers include spiritual enlightenment and inner peace. Sapphire is believed to offer healing properties for rheumatism, colic, and mental illness. It is also considered an antidepressant and an aid to psychokinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance and astral projection.
SODALITE New Age healers believe Sodalite is the stone of intuition; it unites that which is logical with the spiritual.
TOPAZ It is known as a "stone of true love and success in all endeavors". It can promote individuality and creativity, while providing for confidence in trusting ones decisions. It acts to replace negativity with love and joyfulness. This mineral is the "Crystal of Potency", quite instrumental in visualization for healing and/or attracting, in meditation and in projection. It helps one to creatively change ones personal world, enhancing awareness and inducing the states of expansiveness and manifestation. A strong, high level gem for mental clarity, focus, perceptively, high level concepts, confidence, personal power, stamina. Helps mood swings, insomnia, worries, fears, depression, exhaustion, nervous system stress and stomach anxiety. Brings emotions and thinking into balance. Comes in many colors from pink, to yellow to blue.
TURQUOISE A stone of vision, integration, and clarity, is one of the oldest known protection amulets. Considered a sacred stone of the Native Americans, is said to absorb negative energies, enhance intuition and psychic sensitivity, and give its wearer vibrance. Turquoise is the symbol of friendship. It is a very personal and meaningful stone to the one who wears it. Turquoise takes on the characteristics of the owner.
UNAKITE (apple green and pinkish) is a combination of three minerals. Green epidote cultivates a zest for growth and the ability to see what is going on below the surface of our everyday life. Pink feldspar brings a new way of approaching things. It also promotes self-love, which in turn makes us more able to love others. Quartz provides clarity and clear mindedness.