Energy and Metaphysical properties of nature’s gifts
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ABALONE SHELL: Just as an Abalone Shell provides protection for abalone, it will also shield one from negative energy and provide healing energy to one’s spirit. Abalone Shell’s soothing energy is full of peace, beauty, compassion and love. Native Americans believe Abalone Shell to be sacred. Use it with palo santo or sage to carry messages to Heaven. It is excellent to wear when guidance in a relationship is needed.
AGATE (BOTSWANA) is the highest vibrational agate known with intense energy that resonates directly with the third eye and crown chakra. One will begin to feel more in touch with their Higher Self simply from carrying this stone on them. The channel between ones third eye and crown chakra becomes strengthened when meditating with this stone, allowing one to process, transfer, and understand energy easier. Botswana Agate opens one’s mind to an abundance of knowledge to be grounded and used towards one's life path. This stone helps connect to guardian angels and spirit guides that guide us daily.
Botswana Agate will open one’s mind up to extreme visions while sending pulsating vibrations through one's entire face. This an extremely powerful energy that should be harnessed and used towards the betterment of one's life and spiritual path. This stone pushes one to have a “spiritual awakening” that has no bounds or limits. Botswana Agate can be the start to one's personal evolution.. This stone helps one see what it is they truly need and want to get out of this life experience, while providing the mental strength to necessary changes.
AGATE (PINK BOTSWANA) is a soothing stone that helps ease one through any transitions with positivity and grace. It is comforting and protective, and soothing to those who are lonely, easily hurt or grieving a loss. It helps to bring happiness, love and compassion to those in need. Its gentle energy helps promote maturity and encourages personal contemplation while encouraging inner strength and stability. Pink Botswana Agate has a slower frequency than other stones but is excellent for balancing emotional, physical and intellectual energy. Its is known as the “sunset stone” because it retains sunlight and provides comfort through darkness. This stone connects to the heart chakra, supporting, stabilizing and clearing negative emotions, so that life can be viewed with a heart centered loving awareness.
AMAZONITE is the anti-anxiety medication of stone’s and is a powerful heart chakra stone helping to release toxic emotions when placed on the chest in a healing layout. Whenever you glance at it, imagine the refreshing and life-giving flow of water clearing away psychic debris and negativity left over from past traumas. Meditate with Amazonite and ask it to bring clarity and truth to the purpose of your life
AMETHYST helps one’s body give into innate desires such as sound sleep and relaxation, but it also works with the third eye to balance the mind with insightful solutions to problems. Amethyst’s healing properties are plentiful. It is a protective stone because it is linked to the crown chakra and the third eye. It is helpful to purify the mind and clearing negative thoughts, stress and anxiety. It is useful in in alleviating work-related stress because it is associated with abundance thereby emanating prosperity. It facilitates intuition and communication.
CHEVRON AMETHYST also known as “Dog Tooth Amethyst”, and given to naturally occurring Amethyst with White Quartz in a banded or “V” pattern. This variety of Amethyst is only found in India, Russia, and Brazil. The offsetting colors, as well as the White Quartz makes this combination stone highly sought after.
Chevron Amethyst is far stronger and more powerful than regular Amethyst when working with higher chakras. This variety activates and link the third eye and crown chakras. This important channel is useful when attuning and aligning yourself with higher energies and frequencies. Meditating with this stone helps to increase the vividness and clarity of dreams and imagery. As the third eye sees these images, one will be able to better understand what it means and the connection it has to one’s current life.
Chevron Amethyst is here to help connect one to your higher self and work towards establishing a permanent connection. You will naturally be guided on a life path that best suits you by connecting to your Higher Self which pushes us to be the person that we truly want to be.
AMMONITE FOSSILS hold the ancient knowledge of Earth within and gazing into its spirals can take one even beyond the origins of the Earth and into the structure of the Universe itself. Ammonite’s shape resembles the number 9 and carries the vibrations of this number within it. It is a stone of completion that represents all things in creation and in life coming full circle. They promote structure and offer clarity into one’s life path and one’s importance in the universe.
These fossils have a protective quality in which they filter out negative or heavy energy and releases it as pure life force energy or chi. Ammonites are helpful for anyone starting a new project or journey in life. They give insight on where to begin and how to maintain full vision until completion. They are beneficial for anyone struggling to maintain structure. This fossil stimulates survival instincts, keeps one grounded, and brings about great stability in all situations.
APATITE awakens a sense of clarity that lights the path to self expression. Its exhilarating energy spurs creative endeavors and passionate pursuits with the the exhilarating energy of Apatite. Working with the energy of this crystal helps you to not only recognize one’s ambitions, but also chase after them with new found vigor. Let the inspiration Apatite stirs within to find new creative outlets.
AURALITE-23 COAXCOALITE is the most powerful crystal on Earth with the highest vibration and holding the energies of 23 different earth elements and minerals all in one, including titanite, cacoxenite, lepidocrocite, ajoite, hematite, magnetite, pyrite, pyrolusite, gold, silver, platinum, nickel, copper, iron, limonite, sphalerite, covellite, chalcoppyrite, gialite, epidote, bornite, rutile, and smoky quartz in amethyst. Its like having 23 crystals in one, a powerful crystal ally and spiritual healing tool. Auralite-23 comes from only one mine in the world located north of Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Auralite-23 has have been scientifically proven as the worlds oldest crystal gemstone which developed more than 1.5 billion years ago while the first signs of life appeared on Earth.
Auralite-23 aides spiritual evolution and in the development of conscious awareness. Auralite-23 switches off the chattering mind, instilling clarity and spiritual awareness. It dispels mental influence, releasing outdated beliefs and protecting against invasion by other people's thoughts or beliefs. This crystal is exceedingly ancient, and it assists with reading the Akashic Records and with past-life and ancestral healing. It provides a type of clarity through meditation, healing and the exploration of ones own consciousness. Auralite-23 is highly transformative activating dormant intuitive abilities and enhances one’s psychic skills. It can help the user to develop clairvoyance and clairaudience. For this reason, Auralite-23 can be successfully used in meditation to connect and communicate with personal spirit guides, guardians, higher dimensional beings and Divine Source Energy. Auralite-23 is a master crystal and is not meant for beginning practitioners. This power crystal is meant to be used for the world and the user to make changes in their life and the world around them for the betterment of mankind. Auralite-23 is not a play thing. Its is a very powerful healing tool to activate spiritual DNA and the pineal gland, and so we strongly suggest that you have experience working with crystals and meditation and are a well grounded soul to use this crystal. People who have problems staying grounded should not be using Auralite-23 as its energy is too intense if you do not have a good solid base.
PINK AVENTURINE: Pink Aventurine works with the Higher-Heart Chakra imparting a wonderful sense of well-being. It is a very calming stone that can help clear the way for an understanding of alternatives in one's life, removing feelings of being trapped in a certain circumstance. Pink Aventurine can also facilitate creative inspiration tempered by knowledge of practicality, so that one's true options are illuminated among those that will not ultimately come to fruition. Meditating with Pink Aventurine can aid in balancing the subtle bodies and reinforcing the flow of energy through them.
AQUAMARINE: Use Aquamarine to ride the positive waves toward closure, major life changes and a higher consciousness. This water-like stone washes away stress and fear, leaving room for peace and tranquility in their absence. Aquamarine protects the psyche from taking on dark vibrations and negative behavioral patterns. Easy is the essence of the smooth flowing energy of aquamarine. It gently brings rejuvenation and renewal to the mind, body and spirit.
AZURITE cleanses and strengthens emotions, releases stress and worry, and helps to overcome grief and sadness. Its healing energy infuses into thoughts, feelings, words and action. It reveals fears and phobias for what they are and why they occurred. Azurite helps to overcome negative behavior patterns caused by insecurity and fear. It helps those who are deceptive to be more clear and truthful, calms those who talk out of nervousness, and encourages those who hold back from self-expression to verbalize their thoughts and feelings. Azurite is highly conducive for meditation helping one to travel deep within for spiritual guidance.
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BLOODSTONE carries tremendous power to ground one fully in the body, in the here and now, and to enhance one’s strength, determination and courage. It provides emotional support during times of extreme adversity, and helps those who have been bullied or abandoned by others to regain their connection to the Divine. Bloodstone calms the emotional body, dispels confusion, enhances decision making, and nourishes feelings of worth, confidence and self-sufficiency. Its is an intense healing stone used to cleanse and realign the lower chakras with the heart. It is also a stone of mysticism, providing insights and the spiritual intuition of truths that transcend ordinary understanding. Bloodstone grounds and protects the soul on many levels, heightening intuition, dispelling mental confusion, and keeping out negativity and undesirable entities. It is an excellent stone for meditation bringing a calm harmonious energy along with grounding.
BRONZITE brings peace, harmony, compassion, forgiveness, stress relief. In stressful situations it helps one to remain calm, and may assist in keeping tempers cool when feeling challenged by life situations. This stone has a lovely higher heart chakra vibration that encourages compassion and forgiveness. Bronzite has powerful metaphysical properties helpful to meditation. This is a strong stone to aid psychic protection, and is known for its action to send negative energy back to the sender. The negative energy can bounce back causing an ongoing back and forth, so to stop this, use Bronzite in combination with another strong psychic protection stone such as black tourmaline.
BLUE LACE AGATE: Fear of public speaking and fear of confrontations usually go hand in hand. If a clog in your throat chakra is holding you back, use the comforting energy of Blue Lace Agate to speak your truth. Let its blue hues sooth anxiety and calm your spirit. The relaxed peace of mind that blue lace agate establishes will promote insightful, authentic and articulate dialogue. Bring in good vibrations and positivity with the heavenly energy of Blue Lace Agate.
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WHITE CALCITE is a powerful amplifier and cleanser of energy. It cleans negative energies from the environment. It brings forth a polarizing prismatic energy, which engenders a spectrum of energy to clear and to activate all of the chakras. Calcite is a spiritual stone that facilitates the opening of higher consciousness and psychic abilities. It helps mind and body to remember soul experiences.Calcite connects the emotions with the intellect. It is an excellent stone when studying the arts and sciences. It calms the mind, teaches discernment, stimulates insights, and boosts memory.
CARNELIAN is the life of the party. Creative and confident, the energy of carnelian motivates a rush of vibrancy within the sacral chakra to stimulate your inner star. Tapping into carnelian’s exciting properties will lend a sense of power that can prove especially beneficial for anyone looking to break through creative blocks or embark on new projects and ambitions. With carnelian close, you'll be sure to impress others with your charm and vitality.
CHAROITE stimulates inner vision and spiritual insight; cleanses the aura and stimulates feelings of unconditional love for self and others; helps one to cope with sudden life changes and to overcome fears. This stone brings spirituality onto the earth plane. Its helps to heal the body by making one aware of karma and the higher purpose in play. Charoite can facilitate a better connection with the spirit world and accelerate emotional healing. Charoite is opens the heart chakra allowing kundalini energy to move into the throat, third eye and crown chakras. It can also be used to ward off negative energy and vibrations from psychic attack. Charoite activates the swirling energy of the crown chakra and to initiate movement of the vortex in alignment with the cosmos. Charoite helps to heal negative past lives; assists in recognizing and manifesting one’s path of service; stimulates intuitive and psychic abilities. This stone is an excellent choice for channeling, trance channeling, psychic development and spiritual awareness. Its vibration is connected with Ascended Masters.
CHRYSOBERYL CAT’S EYE increases the amount and frequency of energy carried by the physical body. It is excellent for replenishing depleted energy reserves and assisting the body in regenerating after illness or injury. It will increase the user’s inner radiance and help the user with self-love. It can be used to aid vision, especially night vision, and mental clarity. It also increases the healing effect of other stones. Chrysoberyl Cat’s Eye brings a lovely sense of peace to the user’s energy field. It helps the user surrender to Divine Will and stop trying to control every aspect of life. It is a general stimulant for the Third Eye Chakra and psychic abilities. It facilitates communication with beings from other dimensions and levels of reality. It can assist in receiving stronger communication signals from these beings and in channeling their information to others. Use Chyrsoberyl Cat’s Eye at home and work to restore lost fortune or income or to find other sources of making money. It is good when the user wants to lower their psychological or physical profile. Gaze into the stone to visualize being surrounded by shimmering light. It is also good for scrying and for increasing your intuitive and clairvoyant powers.
CHRYSOCOLLA can be used daily to bring light, love, healing and emotional expression. It inspires flexibility and creativity in all things while manifesting abundance. It encourages self awareness, inner balance, confidence, sensitivity, anxiety relief and clarity. It supports women's internal physical healing while promoting a connection with the Goddess within. Chrysocolla aids in inducing psychic dreams that answer one’s questions, sacred earth rituals and rituals that honor the mother goddess. Chrysocolla aligns consciousness with the Divine. Use it on the third eye and crown chakras during meditation to enhance clairaudience abilities, and to help flush out and heal emotional blockages enabling one to make peace with heartbreak and anguish and the past. It also provides a focus when one’s wants to attract love and banish fear. Chrysocolla connects the lower chakras with the higher chakras to achieve homeostasis.
CHRYSOPRASE: End the pattern of denial and confront truth with the energy of Chrysoprase. Through a mix of compassion, forgiveness, increased conflict resolution capability and the abandonment of petty judgements, the properties of this crystal will create a mindset ready to take on any harsh truth. The kindness and love that chrysoprase imbue your heart and sacral chakras with will give you a more optimistic and insightful point of view.
CITRINE energizes the solar plexus chakra to radiate power, confidence, endurance and centeredness. Its sunny attitude cultivates energy that is fertile for growth. Citrine is one of few stones that, rather than absorbing negative energy, clears it. It makes room for happiness and light so the spirit is open to positive possibilities.
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DALMATION STONE (aka DALMATION JASPER) is made up of feldspar and quartz with black or brown spots of iron oxide, tourmaline, or other inclusions. Known for its protective and healing properties, this mineral's vibrational energy is slow, though quite effective, and should be used long term. The determination within Dalmatian Stone encourages one to carefully think over plans for any project, reflecting on every phase of development, and then to translate the ideas into actuality with enthusiasm and vigor. It is an excellent talisman for the early stages of setting up a business or solo venture. An excellent anti-smoking crystal, Dalmatian Stone strengthens the resolve to quit smoking and provides the determination needed to succeed. Dalmatian Stone encourages fidelity and emotional harmony, strengthening family bonds and long-term friendships. It encourages team effort and cooperation at work. Children benefit on all levels from this beautiful stone, particularly at night to assure safe sleep and in preventing dreams of monsters and other nightmares. Dalmatian Stone is very good for deepening the meditative state when held in the hand. It helps one to maintain peace and encourages contemplation of the duality of life. It helps one to stay focused on the light in the world while still embracing the darkness. Dalmatian Stone opens the Base, Sacral and Earth Chakras, grounding and assisting one in coming to terms joyfully with being in incarnation. Carrying this stone can reawaken a sense of fun and humor. It has a fortifying, restorative and emotionally harmonizing effect, counteracting disillusion, cynicism and skepticism. Its Tourmaline inclusions quickly dissipate negative energy and outworn patterns, moving you forward in life.
BROWN DENDRITIC OPAL helps with one's growth, both within the physical body and with “spiritual”growth”. It allows one's to be able to be consciously aware of the nature of life's experience, giving one clarity into one's actions and bringing balance and harmony into one's life. It can help with one to remain open and approachable when entering into new relationships and group dynamics. . Dendritic Opal helps to heal wounds from the past, including past lives, and bring help one to approach others without prejudice. Dendritic Opal helps to enhance achievement of personal goals while bringing abundance and prosperity.
DUMORTIERITE (Blue) promotes mental acuity, clarity and linguistic capabilities; aids in increasing self-discipline, improving organizational skills making it an excellent stone for starting up or running a business. Use Dumortierite to stay focused in achieving goals. Dumortierite opens and balances the throat chakra. It eases self effacement, shyness and stage fright. Blue Dumortierite fosters security, inner peace and certainty. It grounds one’s goodness so it can be seen, felt, experienced and enjoyed.
If placed behind the ear, Dumortierite opens clairaudience; placed further back it activates past life memories. This stone breaks ties that no longer serve and facilitates rescinding of vows. It is a good stone for meditation and supporting psychic communication with spirit guides, angels, pets and other people. Dumortierite is a tool to help hearing, sensing or knowing Divine intervention and information from angels, spirit guides and devic forces. Use it to realign your inner sight and when you are developing your spiritual awareness and psychic intuition. Dumortierite can be used to open or enhance psychic connection and intuitive abilities and activating prophetic dreams.. It helps with higher vision and inspiration and to see to see beyond obstacles.
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FLUORITE is an absorbent crystal that neutralizes all negativity around it. Its rainbow hues spiritually cleanse you and fill you with peace, joy and happiness. Sleeping near or meditating with fluorite ensures mental clarity, and harmony between chakras. Fluorite guides one from a state of anxiety to tranquility by cleansing both the mind and environment. Fluorite is a highly protective and stabilizing stone, useful for grounding and harmonizing spiritual energy. Fluorite heightens mental abilities, assisting in rapid organization and information processing bringing mental clarity and stability to an otherwise chaotic situation. Fluorite absorbs negative energies from the environment and is effective at Auric and Chakra cleansing. Fluorite can also shield from psychic manipulation. When working with the upper Chakras, Fluorite increases intuitive abilities, links the human mind to universal consciousness, and develops connection to Spirit. Fluorite further anchors intuitive insights into the physical plane, allowing mental and physical coordination. Due to its powerful ability to absorb negative energies, Fluorite should be cleared often.
In addition to the general metaphysical uses of Fluorite, there are unique properties associated with the different colors of Fluorite.
GREEN FLUORITE aids access to intuition. Green Fluorite can ground and absorb excess energy, including environmental energies. Use Green Fluorite to cleanse and renew the chakras.
When used with the Third Eye Chakra, BLUE FLUORITE brings spiritual awaking and clear communication between the physical and spiritual planes. Used with the Throat Chakra, Blue Fluorite aids in orderly communication of intuitive insights. The calm, serene energy of Blue Fluorite brings inner peace.
PURPLE FLUORITE stimulates the Third Eye Chakra and brings common sense to psychic intuitions. Use Purple Fluorite when you want to really focus on the expression of Spirit, and communicate precisely its messages.
Use CLEAR COLORLESS FLUORITE with the Crown Chakra to merge personal and spiritual energies. Clear Fluorite aligns all of the chakras, and helps the user to see what is holding you back in your spiritual evolution.
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GARNET arouses the chi, or life force, within the physical body, and encourages one to go out and smell roses. It clears any energy blockages within the body that are preventing one from living fully. Seize the day and all of your potential with help of this stone for enhancing health, passion and pleasure.
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HOWLITE is one of the “attunement stones” linking the user to higher spiritual consciousness. Howlite opens and prepares the mind to receive the energies and wisdom of attunements. Use Howlite when needing to reduce anxiety, tensions and stress. It can be be used to facilitate awareness, encourage emotional expression and assist in eliminating pain, stress, anger. Howlite calms and soothes emotions, slows an overactive mind and helps to achieve a deep and restful sleep. Howlite brings mental awareness, both to current and past-life issues. Meditating with Howlite can help in connecting to higher realms, allowing for greater communication of higher frequencies into the higher chakras. Howlite strengthens positive character traits, removing selfishness, rude behavior, and greed.
HEMATITE tells it like it is. If you’re spinning out of control, or spending all your time going over things in your mind on constant replay, hematite is going to give you a reality check. It brings you out of your mind and back down to earth. Hematite’s energy focuses on the body, and it teaches us to do the same. Rather than over analyzing due to stress or anxiety, use hematite to connect to your root chakra so that you can stay grounded and just be
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IOLITE is the perfect stone to help one stay focused on emotional goals. It helps calm an over active mind, and aids in reaching a state of focused meditation. It helps one to see circumstances from a higher vantage point and to separate the mind from the emotions which helps one to respond from higher guidance and not the heat of the moment. It is a stone of enlightened discernment and action based on wisdom. Iolite is a vision stone because activates the third eye facilitating visualization, creative imagination and intuitive insight. When all chakras are aligned, Iolite stimulates a connection to inner knowing. Iolite help one to align with the higher forces of the universe and connect to the subtle bodies of energy. Iolite opens, heightens and expands psychic abilities in a gentle way. It encourages and protects psychic exploration and enhances curiosity and achievement. Iolite is ideal for meditation enhancing one’s ability to quiet your mind, slow down thoughts, and relax. It helps one to receive communications from love ones who have passed onto the other side, spirit guides and ascended Masters.
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JADE (GREEN) is most valued for its metaphysical properties. It is the ultimate "Dream Stone," revered in ancient cultures, as well as today, to access the spiritual world, gain insight into rituals and encourages creativity. Jade is the stone of calm in the midst of storm as it balances nerves and heals guilt. .
Green Jade is a protective talisman, assuring a long life and a peaceful death, and is considered a powerful healing stone. It is an amulet for good luck and friendship. As a travel stone, Green Jade prevents illness while on holiday, is beneficial for those traveling alone, and protects children and pets from straying or being hurt while on a journey. Green Jade fosters chi, or Life Force energies, and is excellent for hiking, gardening or relaxing outdoors. Green Jade is an abundance stone, representing the flow of Divine energy into the reality of one's life. Green Jade balances and harmonizes the Heart Chakra, aiding in both emotional and physical well-being. Green Jade is supportive of new love increasing trustworthiness and fidelity, and also inspires love later in life. It brings harmony and happiness in business and family relationships, as well material abundance. Jade is a reminder to smell the roses, touch the ones you love, and share your heart with others.
Olive shades of Jade are particularly conducive to meditation. The wearing of Jade assists in creating magic for the highest good and in protection from harmful or deceitful entities during spirit work. Depending on the date of one’s birthday, varying shades of green Jade can be a valuable conduit to one’s Guardian Angel or other Angels.
JASPER is known as the Supreme Nurturer commonly used for grounding and stability, providing support in times of stress and worry. Its presence unifies all aspects of life by balancing the aura to a level of wholeness and acts as a reminder that one is not here on the physical plane simply for oneself, but to bring joy and substance to others. It is an excellent stone for quick thinking, promoting organizational abilities, and stimulating imagination to transform ideas into action. Jasper is commonly used for facilitating shamanic journeys, dowsing, and dream recall. Jasper’s frequency is slow and constant which helps to enable one to be more present in the physical body and conscious of one’s surroundings.
OCEAN JASPER detoxifies one from the stress of life and helps to ease your overburdened mind with positivity. Its energy helps you return to a natural state of joy. Embrace and enjoy your journey with other humans, and let happiness be the current you flow to. When difficulties arise, ocean jasper will help your to avoid a crash by lending you the insight to peacefully navigate around them.
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KYANITE (BLUE) encourages one to speak one’s truth by cutting though fears and blockages, encourages self expression and communication. It calms anyone suffering from anger or other emotions through faulty perceptions. Kyanite encourages logical, rational thought and spontaneous action whenever necessary. It also encourages conscious self awareness.
Kyanite is excellent for attunement and meditation.
It initiates psychic ability, promotes communication with higher beings. Use this stone to support you when you are consciously transforming ideas into manifest reality. It bridges blockages in the energetic and physical bodies and helps protect the auric field from intrusion.
This stone can help spiritual energy manifest in thought. Kyanite helps you connect to your spirit guides and instills compassion. It grounds spiritual vibrations and brings spiritual integrity and maturation. It aligns the spiritual being with the higher realms of consciousness, enhancing one’s ability to receive and transmit information on all levels. Blue Kyanite has a high vibration and can create very rapid transfers of energy. It opens the psychic channels and activates the mind center, accentuating and enhancing your ability to download information from higher sources. Blue Kyanite can make telepathic communication between people easier, especially if both parties are using the stone. It helps to stimulate lucid dreaming.
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LABRADORITE is a philosopher's stone, helping one to examine the recesses of your mind. Use this stone to shine a light on the knowledge and wisdom within you. Labradorite assists in moving between realities and connecting with unseen realms. It enhances psychic abilities and increases one’s ability to visualize and perceive with the inner eye. It helps one to reflect on one’s inner light and recognize the effects that light, color and sound have on consciousness and spiritual practices. Labradorite is very useful for meditation, lucid dreaming, psychic development and spiritual awareness. It expands the awareness of the heart and mind. It deflects unwanted energies from the aura and prevents energy leakage. It aligns the physical with the aura. It raises consciousness and grounds spiritual energies into the physical body. It stimulates intuition and psychic gifts. It is a highly mystical and protective stone bringing light, raising consciousness and connecting with universal energies.
LAPIS LAZULI is a stone of truth in all aspects. It reveals inner truth, promotes self-awareness and acceptance of that knowledge. It provides relief of things that may have been suppressed and allows them to surface, helping to diminish repressed emotions, allowing for expression without holding back or compromising. Lapis is also a protection stone. Lapis quickly releases stress, allowing for peace and serenity. It activates the psychic centers of the Third Eye, and balances the Throat Chakra. Lapis expands awareness and conscious attunement to the intuitive self, stimulating enlightenment and enhancing dream work when placed over the third eye. Lapis Lazuli is a visionary stone, bringing information to the mind in images rather than words.
LARIMAR is said to enlighten and heal in a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual way. It stimulates the heart, throat, third eye and crown chakras facilitating inner wisdom and outer manifestation. It represents peace and clarity, radiating healing and love energy. It is recommended for people who are stressed and it is said to be a healing stone. Larimar soothes stress, and can be helpful for phobias, panic attacks, stress-related imbalances, and excessive anger or fear. It aids in breaking down the walls one has built around the heart for defense, and allows for emotional release and the clearing of deep emotional patterns. It helps one to reconnect to a previous, more natural state of playfulness and joyful childlike energy. Larimar is said to help us to view events from a different perspective; it softens, enlightens and heals in a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual way, stimulates the heart, throat, third eye and crown chakras facilitating inner wisdom and outer manifestation. It represents peace and clarity radiating healing and love energy. It is said to be a healing stone. Larimar benefits the throat chakra, providing the power of clear communication and the emotional strength and stability that enable one to speak from the heart. Relaxation is one of the benefits of Larimar soothing emotions, releasing undesirable attachments and relieving stress. Wearing the stone, one feels surrounded in an oasis of calm. Larimar can cool hot tempers and guide excess passion into peace.
LAVA is a force of the earth, calling to the depths of you inner being to manifest into life and reveal your whole self to the world. This may mean purifying long held beliefs about who you are or releasing anxiety around what you should be. Above all else lava grounds you in the ability to manifest spirit on earth, walk in the light of truth and be a force for good in this world. Key words for Lava are purification, transcendence, power, grounding and commitment.
Lepidolite has soft nurturing energies that connect to one’s inner being to help bring self love. As a stone of transition by releasing and reorganizing old psychological and behavioral patterns. Meditating daily with lepidolite will assist with weight loss, alcohol dependency, smoking or drugs where these act as a mask for unhappiness. It encourages feelings of independence from all forms of neediness. It detoxifies emotions, bringing calm and reducing dependency on others for emotional wellbeing. Lepidolite calms and releases fears and heals damage from psychic attacks, and protects against psychic draining. It assists one in finding a strong emotional center, unaffected by the dramas and events of your external experience. It helps balance emotions and prevents extreme emotional shifts. It is an excellent stone for those with excessive worry or fear. It is useful in the reduction of stress and depression while stopping obsessive thoughts. It contains lithium so it is helpful in stabilizing mood swings and bipolar disorders.
Lepidolite encourages objective evaluation and targeted decision making. It helps one to concentrate on what is essential so that you will stick to your intentions and not be distracted. It encourages a healthy detached outlook on situations.
Purple lepidolite brings spiritual information into daily life, helps with channeling and mediumship, and promotes contact with spirit guides and angels. It helps to hone psychic skills while fostering a reasonable hold on this reality. Lepidolite encourages release of identification with the ego and acceptance of the present moment as a dwelling place for the soul.
With this stone in hand, one is able to connect the lower chakras with the higher chakras to achieve homeostasis. It will encourage compassion for yourself and others and enhance your innate healing abilities.
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MOLDAVITE is an activation stone - not really a healing stone. Use this stone if you are already fairly healthy and balanced and ready to move to the next phase of your life. If you are frustrated with not being able to identify the reason for your imbalance or disease, using this stone can clearly point to the problem. Moldavite opens your heart as well as your mind, enabling you to find inner peace, harmony and joy. This stone can help in releasing negative emotions. Use it to help you shed tears and heal pain to improve your emotional health. Moldavite will bring to the surface things that need to recognized, honored, integrated or cleared, so that problems are seen and can be removed. Moldavite can help expand your mind to enable you to think beyond the ordinary. As moldavite is formed by the impact of meteorites on the earth, this stone will help you in all areas of your life, including your ability to see the greater vision. Moldavite is a tool for channeling otherworldly beings. It also helps one to contemplate the vastness of the cosmos and the part one plays in the vast scheme of life on Earth. This naturally formed green glass can help one to remember your soul's contract and how to complete it while remaining focused on love, peace and harmony. Moldavite helps one to have the experiences most people are seeking when they refer to 'spiritual experiences'. Connection to guides, expanded awareness and a visceral experience of the highest frequencies are all possible when you use Moldavite’s energy.
MOONSTONE is believed to bring lovers closer together. Moonstone’s milky radiance represents tenderness. Its is a magical stone that connects you to your divine feminine and inner Goddess. It helps unlock the energy of the Moon that resides within each person to maintain a more balanced state and guides one to do what’s necessary to become more balanced, healthy and synchronized. Moonstone is the light in the darkness.
GRAY MOONSTONE is a stone of seeing beyond the veil. It is a powerful stone for the clairvoyant and the shaman, assisting you in moving into the unseen realms. Grey moonstone is also called the New Moon Stone, and it does carry the mysterious and powerful energies of the new moon, where at that time all things exist as potential. It is a powerful magnifier of intention and can help you bring forth creations from the void
PEACH MOONSTONE has a gentle loving energy that supports the heart just as it stimulates the mind. It allows you to see the positive, loving existence of the Divine in all situations. It can help soothe worry or anxiety while assisting you in celebrating the positive experiences in your life. Peach moonstone carries a soothing energy for the emotional body and is excellent for use by intuitive or sensitive children.
RAINBOW MOONSTONE acts as a prism that diffuses energy throughout one’s aura. It assists in clearing the psychic senses of the mind, it also brings the frequency of joy to your energy field. It is a positive protection stone helping to deflect negativity and densities before they enter the energy field. It is particularly good for psychic protection and for maintaining clarity of energy while working on an intuitive level. Rainbow moonstone can be helpful in clearing the emotional body as well and easing emotional trauma. Rainbow moonstone facilitates activation and alignment of all chakras, while helping one maintain groundedness and centredness. This stone is recommended for anyone who suffers from daily stress or who carries old emotional wounds or grief. It promotes healthy optimism that help one to overcome obstacles and difficult people. Rainbow moonstone is aligned with the energies of the Goddess, and can help to empower one’s feminine qualities.
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OBSIDIAN dissolves emotional blockages, dissolves shock and fear bringing a depth and clarity to the emotions. It promotes compassion and strength.
Obsidian bestows an unimagined depth, on one’s emotional nature and helps with any type of obsession. Obsidian is a strongly protective stone, forming a shield against emotional negativity. It grounds one to the earth through the base chakra and strengthens one in times of need. It is helpful to highly sensitive people. It blocks psychic attack and removes negative spiritual influences. Obsidian brings clarity to the mind and clears confusion and restricted belief systems. Obsidian is a stone without boundaries or limitations. It works extremely fast and with great power. Obsidian provides deep soul healing. It vitalizes one’s soul purpose, eliminating energy blocks, relieves tension and anchors the spirit into the body.
ONYX: Black onyx is a powerful protection stone, absorbing and transforming negative energy, also helping to prevent draining of personal energy. Black Onyx aids in developing stamina, emotional and physical strength needed during times of stress, confusion or grief. It also fosters wise decision-making. Use Black Onyx to encourage happiness and good fortune. Black Onyx helps one to become master of their own future. It is also a strength-giving stone and providing support for self-discipline issues. It is also helpful in healing old wounds or past life issues.
PINK OPAL is a lovely stone for healing emotions, especially emotions connected with subconsciously held pain. Pink opal clears and calms the heart and brings a sense of peace and tranquility to one’s aura.
Pink opal can help those who have excessive fear, worry or anxiousness. It is useful in relieving stress by helping one be more emotionally centered and calm. Pink opal brings peace, allowing one to discharge past trauma, tension and stress. It can be used to keep connections to the angelic realm open and clear.
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PEARL helps one to learn the lessons with every life experience, and it will make you wiser and stronger for it. Pearl is also known for its powerful calming effects and its ability to balance the user’s aura and grounds and centers the user no matter how chaotic thing get. Pearl enlightens the mind and helps one to determine right from wrong, but that not everything is black or white or set in stone. Pearl attracts luck, wealth and success by bringing forth energies of prosperity and abundance. Pearl strengthens existing love and helps one find the love they are seeking. Pearl strengthen relationship by will improving treatment of each other and opening lines of communication. The energies of Pearl help one to create new beginnings and fresh starts, promote truths, honesty, and modesty. It will also enhance feelings of goodwill and positiveness . Pearl will help one to see the positive things about one’s self, partner, and relationship. Pearls provide a powerful barrier against negativity, emotionally draining people around you, or even psychic attack. It’s a stone that will enhance one’s ability to care and nurture one’s self. Pearl is very soothing and calming and will will stabilize moods and relieve feelings of tension, anxiety, nervousness, and uneasiness. Pearl help one to let go of negative attachments. Pearl is considered the matrix of life itself because of the incredible natural energies it possesses.
PERIDOT, considered a stone of light, helps to release toxic emotions of jealousy, spite, stress and fear and replace them with the feelings of abundance, insight, confidence and a radiant sense of purpose. The beauty of this energy will shine through you, as it washes you with cleansing properties that will leave you with a lighter, more pure essence.
PIETERSITE is also known as the Tempest Stone because the swirling colors in the mineral can look like a storm. It is said to "hold the keys to the kingdom of heaven". Pietersite helps one cope with unprocessed images and inner conflict. Pietersite strengthens personal power and the ability to shine. It is useful for improving self esteem, joy, enthusiasm and courage. Use this stone to have confidence in one’s perceptions. It dissolves stubborn blockages, clears confusion and helps one to speak out. Pietersite can ‘light a fire’ under the base chakra, giving one the resolve to take action and change one’s life. It can help one to become fearless and overcome uncertainty and indecision. Pietersite helps to process impressions faster and to remain open to absorb spiritual content. Pietersite is a stone of vision that can be used for a vision quest or shamanic journey. It works with the body during meditation by quickly accessing a high state of awareness. It stimulates the third eye and pineal gland, accessing intuition and profound visions and precognition. It activates mind and imagination, stimulates psychic vision and enhances telepathy. It acts as an etheric lightning rod, grounding high-frequency energy into the physical realm. Pietersite activates hidden corners of one’s energy field revealing new directions for life. It helps clear stagnant energies, habits and patterns from one’s life and encourages one to take action toward one’s dreams. It is a good stone to enhance clairvoyance and psychic insight and is considered a spiritual activation stone. It helps one find new directions and move forward. It strongly activates the chakra system to help in grounding the full spectrum of electromagnetic energy, increasing the amount of light energy in one’s body and energy field.
PREHNITE is a gentle, nurturing stone that can help one to release constant identification with past wounds. It helps to release emotional debris from the aura.
Prehnite aids in cooling tempers and grounding excessive anger and nervous energy, encouraging a sense of peace and calm. It helps renew one’s chi and strengthens the flow of vital energy in the body. Use this stone to help stay focused and renew your attention on matters at hand. This stone is ideal to help release incessant chatter within one’s mind. In using this stone in meditation, one will be connected to angelic communication and guidance of spirit beings and put one in touch with the universal energy grid. It enhances visualization and induces deep meditation. Prehnite helps with precognition, inner knowing, prophesy and illuminates the way for spiritual growth. Prehnite is an excellent Feng Shui stone by helping one to de-clutter one’s space and organizing things that are to be kept.
PYRITE: Often referred to as “Fool’s Gold” for its resemblance to real gold, Pyrite is a metaphysical treasure. In addition to attracting wealth and abundance, it’s believed to hold a strong protective energy. The reflective nature of pyrite is more than just physical. It has the ability to show you which of behaviors are holding you back, which makes you more aware of what you need to change in order to vibrate the intention of abundance on the same frequency as pyrite.
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Golden Rutilated Quartz (“GRQ”) helps to clear energy blockages of all chakras, energizing them and stimulating alignment of body and mind. GRQ helps in strengthening motivation and willpower, as well as attuning to one’s Divine purpose and connecting to the spiritual realm. It helps in filtering negative energies and removing barriers to spiritual growth. GRQ works well with chakras, buts it mainly works with the solar plexus, the seat of the will. It allows one to use one’s energy to manifest prosperity and abundance. The golden color itself symbolize luck, money, and prosperity. GRQ helps encourage self-control and courage, uplifting mood and power in order to make one feel great. It helps to protect one from hopelessness, sadness, and loneliness and relieves fear, anxiety or phobias from your past relationships, forgiving one’s self on all levels. GRQ has talismanic properties that help to protect one from danger and trouble. GRQ is a powerful energy that amplifies the energies of any other crystals touching it. It is highly programmable, having the ability to amplify the intention you ask it to carry. GRQ is an example of two minerals working together to enhance the energies of the other. GRQ promotes a strong connection with the Divine, enhancing channeling and psychic abilities. The golden rutiles are known as the “Hair of Venus” with smokey or clear quartz matrices that can have slightly different effects when used for healing.
RUTILATED QUARTZ: By filtering out negativity through its needle-like rutiles, Rutilated Quartz ensures that only the purest vibes get through. If you’re prone to holding in frustrations or resentments, working with rutilated quartz is the energy you need to forgive and let go. The supportive energy of rutilated quartz will force you to bring issues to the surface so that they can be dealt with, and relieves the fear and anxiety you may have when dealing with them.
QUARTZ CRYSTAL is considered the universal healer crystal because it links to all chakras providing balance and harmony. For those whose spirit needs illumination, clear quartz brings clarity to shadows within the mind. It is a programmable crystal for manifestation unlike any other crystal. By elevating thoughts and perspective, clear quartz help manifest one’s intentions like never before.
SMOKY QUARTZ isn’t the kind of energy that’s going to let you sit in a dark, stuffy room and pout. This crystal wills you to get up, draw the curtain to positive light, and open the windows to let the air of negativity out. Working with Smoky Quartz helps you to overcome negative emotions such as stress, fear, anger, jealousy, and even feelings of depression. Elevate your mood with this stone that helps you remain balanced in any situation.
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RHODOCHROSITE provides a link between the heart and solar plexus chakras helping one to love yourself fully and completely and remind oneself of one’s perfect magnificence. This stone helps one overcome verbal, mental and emotional abuse by jogging one’s memory to say a positive affirmation any time negative thoughts from the past arise. It is an excellent anti-anxiety and anti-stress stone. Its is the foremost ally in healing the inner child, especially where deep emotional traumas have left one unable to feel joy or express creativity.
Rhodochrosite represents selfless love and compassion. It expands consciousness and integrates the spiritual with the material energies. This stone gives one a dynamic and positive attitude to life. Rhodochrosite is an excellent stone for the heart and relationships, especially for people who feel unloved. It is the stone for people who need healing from sexual abuse. Rhodochrosite will attract your soul mate but remember not all soul mates are there for eternal happiness some are there to teach you a life lesson.
During the meditation or afterwards, Rhodochrosite can be used with affirmations or other rituals rituals to release the memory and recover the energies that had been bound in the fixation. In some cases, certain traits or gifts can be remembered and brought back into the realm of the conscious self.
Rhodochrosite helps one rediscover the sacred practice of play. It stimulates creativity and expression and helps one align to the frequency of Love. It can repair ‘holes’ or areas of disharmony in the auric field, especially the emotional body. It can deepen meditations and past-life regressions. It is also a stone of joy.
Rhodochrosite provides a link to the Divine Feminine. With this stone you are able to connect with your female ascended masters, including Mother Mary, Kuan Yin, Isis and Mary Magdalene, to acquire the the qualities of the feminine consciousness. Its helps one to to align with compassion, inner peace, tolerance, love and reminds one to love yourself just as you are.
RAINFOREST RHYOLITE aka RAINFOREST JASPER: Associated with the heart chakra, Rhyolite is thought to help people deal with past-life issues, by helping one to see the relationship between karma and what is happening now, making these issues much easier to accept and work though. Rhyolite will assist one in the laying down of burdens which no longer act to serve in one’s life. Using Rhyolite may help with healing old and deep emotional wounds in this lifetime as well. A balancing stone, Rhyolite is recommended for help with issues of self-esteem and emotional strength. Its aids in finding one’s expression in the wake of problems and anxieties. It also helps to stimulate insight into solutions and alternatives. Rhyolite is the perfect piece to carry when facing confrontation. It helps to eliminate procrastination and distractions. Its is often used as an aid to activate contact with loved ones who have passed on. It is an excellent tool to use when communicating with animals.
ROSE QUARTZ: See the world through rose tinted glasses by tapping into the universal love of rose quartz. This stone will open up your heart chakra to every kind of love that you need—whether it’s self-love, familial love, friendship love, love for humanity or romantic love. As a flush of compassion, happiness, forgiveness and peace pulses through you, rose quartz will assist you in releasing toxic emotions so your spirit can finally be free of petty negativity. Rose Quartz opens the heart and allows one to restore trust by balancing the heart chakra and thereby soothing emotions, The essence of Rose Quartz is to align love energy in all aspects of life. It is strongly linked with compassion and unconditional love and enhances love of all kinds, including self-love. Rose Quartz enhances the energy of unconditional love to bring consciousness to a higher level. Its high frequencies will help to forgive by understanding situations from more positive perspectives.
RUBY carries the frequency of the enlightened Base Chakra stimulating the life-force energy or chi through the body. Wear or carry Ruby to overcome exhaustion and lethargy. It stimulates circulation, amplifying energy and vitality to the whole body. Ruby’s intense energy sharpens the mind, bringing a heightened awareness and concentration, and courageousness. Ruby to be over-stimulating or uncomfortable for those who are highly sensitive or irritable.
Ruby is also an aphrodisiac, helping one to experience all forms of love, from wild sensuality to mystical communion. It deepens a couple’s relationship and encourages closeness and commitment. Ruby can help restore and maintain passion if worn during lovemaking, and is excellent for increasing the chances for conception. Ruby helps to share loving energy despite past hurts. It gives the strength to rise from martyrdom and choose whether or not to dwell in anguish, distress, or suffering. It also brings out the protective aspects of one’s character.
Ruby helps to protect those with sensitive natures and distorted views of themselves or others. It helps to overcome fears of being unattractive or unloved, and is particularly empowering for those who hold excess weight. It releases destructive emotional holds, and is a powerful stone for developing a more loving attitude toward oneself and the physical body.
Ruby helps reduce fear of the paranormal, banishing nightmares, and guards against psychic and psychological attack.
RHODONITE: Rhodonite is a stone of compassion, an emotional balancer that clears away emotional wounds and scars from the past, and that nurtures love. It stimulates, clears and activates the heart. Rhodonite grounds energy, balances yin-yang, and aids in achieving one's highest potential. It heals emotional shock and panic. Rhodonite is an ideal stone for processing and dispelling emotional pain. It clears away wounds and scars of the past, releasing abusive and self-destructive behaviors, feelings of hatred, anger or resentment, and allows one to see both sides of an issue. It encourages mutual understanding and opens one to forgiveness and reconciliation. It is a marvelous stone for turning back insults and understanding that retaliation and revenge only hurt the self. Rhodonite can be used in past-life healing to deal with betrayal and abandonment, and is especially empowering for those who are generally passive to act on their need for healing. Rhodonite brings balance to the emotional body, increasing self-esteem and confidence, and helps one to recognize and value their gifts and talents, and to expand them to their highest potential in order to help others. In shades of pink or light scarlet, Rhodonite crystals reflect the Light of the heart and love, and stimulate the Heart Chakra. It is a stone of great love and giving of oneself for the betterment of humanity. It is ideal for grounding one’s spiritual practice and inspiring ways to integrate that spirituality into everyday life so one’s heartfelt connection with the Divine becomes evident in daily interactions. Rhodonite is ideal for grounding energies during meditation and dreamwork, enhancing the depth, clarity and meaning of one’s inner experiences so the messages behind the dreams and visions can be better understood. Rhodonite can be used to provide a psychic link for guidance in fulfilling one’s personal destiny, and is thought to enhance mantra-based meditations, aligning the soul more closely to the vibration.
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Shiva Eye Shells are also known as Pacific Cat's Eye and are found in the seabeds of Thailand, Indonesia, and Australia. Shiva Eye symbolizes creation, destruction, spiritual knowledge, and transformation. Its spiral pattern illustrates eternity, understanding, and the interconnectedness of all things.
SODALITE is a stone of truth, enabling the conscious and subconscious mind to connect with one’s thoughts and feelings, and helps one to recognize and verbalize those feelings and truths objectively. It allows the shadow qualities, those negative traits one dislikes about oneself, to rise to the surface to be acknowledged and accepted without judgement. Sodalite discharges anger and negative thoughts and empowers the release of core fears, phobias, guilt, and control mechanisms that hold one back. It creates a clear insightful mind open to finding inner peace. Sodalite enkindles self-acceptance and self-trust, and embraces the importance of remaining true to oneself.
Sodalite stimulates the Throat Chakra which, in essence, is a pressure valve that allows the energy from the other chakras to be expressed. If it is blocked, or out of balance, it can affect the health of the other chakras. When the Throat Chakra is in balance and open, it allows for the expression of what we think and what we feel. We can communicate our ideas, beliefs, and emotions, bringing our personal truth out into the world. We have an easy flow of energy within the body and spirit. The energy that springs upward from the lower chakras can continue its path enabling free expression and natural release. Darker shades of blue encourage the power of truth, while lighter shades carry the power of flexibility, relaxation, and balance.
Sodalite is an excellent grounding tool for channeling inspirational, spiritual, and metaphysical writings, keeping one’s focus on the Third Eye center. It assists in activating the six clairs - clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance, clairsentience, clairolfaction, and clairgustation.
Sodalite is a perfect ally for meditation, clearing the mind and calming internal chatter, helping one to stay focused on the moment. By stimulating the pineal gland and the third eye, Sodalite encourages a deep trance-like state from which one may gain valuable insights into the self without judgment, and an understanding of why one may find oneself in a current circumstance.
SUGELITE dissolves tension in the soul, alleviates sorrow and grief and helps with fear. It is a stone for the heart and resolves inner hurt. Wear sugilite to attract kindred spirits and encourage a love of life and a belief in the inherent goodness of people. Sugilite helps one to cultivate tools to love and be loved without neediness. Its assists in transforming disturbing emotions or ignorant beliefs, especially as they relate to relationships with others. Sugilite helps one to overcome hopelessness and overwhelming feelings of having no options in life. It reminds one that anything can be achieved and lends the strength and courage to manifest those dreams. It is ideal for people who tend to fall into negative thinking or who lack confidence, . Sugilite is useful in counteracting nightmares and insomnia. It helps forgiveness and eliminates hostility. It encourages loving communication. Sugilite encourages positive thoughts and is ideal to use with affirmations.
SUNSTONE: Just as the sun brings life to all the living things on Earth, Sunstone will breathe life into your creative spirit. It promotes energy, vitality, and creativity. Its effervescent energy reminds you of the joy that creating is meant to inspire. Sunstone nourishes the sacral and solar plexus chakras to breed confidence, power and leadership. Free from beneath the blanket of self-doubt, your creativity will finally flourish with the power of the sun.
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Tibetan dZI Agate: There is a lot of mystery surrounding dZi agate and dZi beads which have been found from as early as 2500 BC. This mysterious agate is steeped in history, with many religions and belief systems turning to the powers and energies of the stone for assistance in medicine as well as holistically. They were often ground up and used for healing or alternately small bits were chipped from them. As agate is naturally a hard stone which would chip quite easily, the stone would have to be heated (in a vacuum) before it could be carved and even then, this may not always work. Tibetans believed dZi beads to be insects that have become petrified and were left as gifts to people with good karma. The dZi beads are said to bring the owner/wearer good fortune, health and luck, as well as being a very protective thing to wear every day. To truly connect with dZi and benefit from the healing and intrinsic effects, you must cleanse them fairly regularly. They are quite receptive to their surroundings and can absorb negative energies which need to be cleansed away – this can be achieved by simply holding the beads under running water or using sage to smudge them. The best way to bond with your dZi agate beads is to wear jewelry which will be on your person for long periods of time. DZi beads are predominantly used for protection but the various markings on the beads can give them different properties.
TIGER'S EYE ability to bestow fierce focus and primal power bolsters its tiger-like reputation. This crystal shifts your outlook so that you can gain a deeper understanding of yourself. Is there a new hobby you’d like to try? A solution to a problem you haven’t considered? An aspect to yourself that you haven’t indulged? Tiger’s eye connects to the solar plexus and sacral chakras to ground you in the power you need to pursue those ventures.
HAWK’S EYE aka BLUE TIGER’S EYE provides a state of calmness, and reduces tension and anxiety; additionally it helps with depression, alleviates feelings of frustration, enhances mental focus, and supports clear thinking and effective decision making.
This stone is popular with those who practice shamanic arts, this as it can be used during astral travel for protection; and as an ‘eye stone’ it enhances clairvoyant readings and remote viewing sessions. One of its more valuable properties, is that it helps us to garner life messages that would otherwise lie hidden within various daily events. To healers it is regarded as an asset as it blocks them from negative energy. Because it balances the throat chakra it promotes honest communication and allows effective speech with integrity. In the home it encourages you to open your mind to pursue new projects and valuable life experiences. In the workplace it will guide one towards higher learning, expanding skills and talents, and assisting one to find opportunities in line with one’s ambitions. Improving your luck, seeing the big picture in all circumstances, and bringing raw energy to manifest in practical ways, are all potential benefits of working with Hawk’s Eye.
TOURMALINE (BLACK) is a protective stone that repels and blocks negative energies and psychic attack. It also aids in the removing negative energies within a person or a space. It will cleanse, purify, and transform dense energy into a lighter vibration. Black Tourmaline is also great for grounding and in balancing and harmonizing and protecting all chakras. It can be used to help remove fear and boost self confidence. Black Tourmaline can be used to protect against electromagnetic "smog" (i.e. cell phones, computers, etc), radiation, noise sensitivity and other such disturbances. Carry a piece of Black Tourmaline to increase physical vitality throughout the day. Meditating with Black Tourmaline can enhance integration of insights and visions into one's daily life.
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In general, Tourmaline is very grounding and helpful in releasing stress and tension. All tourmaline can bring inspiration from higher realms into the chakras for processing within the body. All Tourmaline is thought to balance yin and yang energies, as well as the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
GREEN TOURMALINE is often used to attract money and success by encouraging one to release inhibitions and reach for their true desires. Additionally, Green Tourmaline aids in connecting one to the cycles of life, which can be of great assistance in planning and implementing new projects. Green Tourmaline is a supreme heart chakra crystal that encourages strength and vitality. Green Tourmaline is ideal for healing purposes, as it can focus its healing energies, clearing the aura, and removing blockages. It is often used for opening and activating the heart chakra, as well as providing a sense of peace and calm to the heart and nervous system.
PINK TOURMALINE brings cognitive awareness and experience of universal love. It is a very positive crystal, and is supportive of those who work with it, bringing strength during any trials in one's life. It has balancing properties which help one to move away from extremes, and into more equitable emotional and intellectual perspectives. Pink Tourmaline opens and brings a higher vibration to the heart chakra. It also works with the root chakra, bringing strength, courage, and conviction to endeavors that are based on love. It helps to gain the courage to overcome issues that hold the heart hostage, such as abusive relationships and negative work situations, and to recognize how why these issues come to be in one's life. Bringing the power to break free of such conditions, Pink Tourmaline can then provide emotional support for the transitional period when one is learning to live free of destructive patterns. Pink Tourmaline can also facilitate the great emotional healing that takes place during and after a breakup, or other loss, but excels at healing old emotional wounds from childhood. Pink Tourmaline can help open up the heart chakra of those who have been closed off for years, and ultimately bring the joy back into living.
BLUE TOURMALINE is often used to enhance communication by enabling you to speak honestly and through the heart. It is a stone of compassion, and helps one to be more open-minded. Blue Tourmaline can open up communication with higher realms, and helps one find the cause of illness. By concentrating on the Third Eye, Blue Tourmaline can increase perception, intuition and psychic abilities.
CHAMPAGNE TOURMALINE is great for grounding, clearing and opening the root chakra as well as cleansing and aligning the aura. If you feel uncomfortable in a crowd, carry a piece of Champagne Tourmaline with you, as it will put you at ease. Champagne Tourmaline can help with family issues, including the dysfunctional family. It helps to promote practicality and stability. Placing a piece of Champagne Tourmaline in a room can help to emit the collective understanding vibration out to anyone nearby, making for a more peaceful atmosphere once issues are addressed. Issues that have been buried will come to the surface, so be prepared to deal with and resolve these issues.
TURQUOISE: Said by Native American cultures to be the bridge between heaven and Earth, Turquoise provides a path to your vibrationally highest self. Many Native American cultures believe that turquoise connects the mind to the infinite possibilities of the Universe. As a throat Chakra stone, turquoise helps to foster honest and open communication. In working to protect and align the chakras, turquoise strengthens the entire mind and body in the process.
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UNAKITE balances the emotional and spiritual bodies, and provides gentle release of energetic blockages. It helps us to move on from outmoded beliefs from the past. A stone of vision, Unakite opens and activate the third eye chakra to receive spiritual insights from higher realms. Unakite's grounding effect can bring a calming influence to any environment, and is great for the workplace or the home, sending out peaceful vibes to all those nearby.
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Rudraksha is used for meditation and is the only seed which all positive energy as well as storing it and magnifying it over time. Use the Rudraksha in the right hand, and repeat one mantra per bead, implanting in the seed the vibration of liberation which is then kept with us (through the beads) at all times regardless of where our thoughts may dwell.
The longer it’s worn and used for meditation (to repeat mantra) the more powerful it becomes, constantly emitting a positive and pure vibration that settles the energy of any different environment and neutralizing the thoughts of others. After some time one feels that something is missing when not worn.
Wearing Rudraksha gradually releases oneself from fluctuating emotions and protects against psychic disturbances. To be gifted a Rudraksha is a great blessing and sign of good luck. Rudraksha is a very helpful support because it creates a cocoon of your own energy. It harmonizes any surrounding environment so you feel comfortable, relaxed and easily able to express yourself. It is also a shield against negative energies. It is possible for some people to use negative energies to cause harm to others, or there may be a negative energy in a place where you live or work.
SANDALWOOD: Sandalwood has a stimulating effect on the pineal and pituitary glands, as well as the third eye chakra. Sandalwood is known for clearing the mind and bringing calmness to the entire being, while promoting inner peace and feelings of greater unity. In meditation, Sandalwood helps get people out of their minds and into a space of heart and spirit. It connects one to the divine, not in an out of body or otherworldly sense, but through opening one to the realization of the simple divinity of life itself. Sandalwood helps bring people to the moment and is widely known to have a strong grounding effect to one’s energy. Those who often find themselves distracted mentally, or feel they’re elsewhere energetically, tend to experience a sharper presence in the here and now when using Sandalwood.
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Copper is a very good energy conductor. It can magnify the intensity of psychic vibrations, promote healing and magnify a crystals electrical energy. If worn or carried on bare skin, it detoxifies the joints and soothes arthritis, rheumatism and other inflammation problems. If used on the solar plexus chakra, it can tone the stomach and intestines; and aid in exhaustion recovery and boost circulation.
When used on the heart chakra it can inspire the heart to warm, as well as release resentment and pent up anger. This mineral can intensify both sun and moon energies. Carrying it can help stabilise the metabolism and improve the immune system. The blood also benefits from copper, and is purified, and arteries are rejuvenated.
When worn near the throat, as a pendant or as a part of an amulet, it can be beneficial for the lungs, improving the exchange of oxygen and filtering out pollutants. Copper can benefit the tissue and mucous membranes, tremendously, causing them to absorb more moisture and become less susceptible to irritation.
GOLD is an excellent all purpose, crystal amplifier and electrical conductor. It can give tremendous benefits when used on the solar plexus and heart chakras. It can align the chakras with the physical and spiritual bodies. This mineral tones the digestive system. It attracts abundance, fertility and prosperity. Gold can store and amplify the energy levels of the wearer and of any other stones. Yellow gold is ruled by the sun and therefore imparts yang energy to the user, and to the crystals and minerals that are mounted in it.
White gold combines the sun and moon's energy, and acts as a higher conductor and amplifier of both. White gold is a regenerator, helping you to renew yourself. It benefits the nervous system and helps those of you with nervous disorders such as anxiety and panic attacks. It can assist in digestion and helps the body in the proper assimilation of food, while also assisting your body's natural methods of elimination in working effectively. It can also help control chemical imbalances. It works well with all crystals and gemstones, and can be used in conjunction with copper and silver.
SILVER works well on all chakras, and when combined with other gemstones may in turn stimulate the Kundalini energy and help one to enjoy full development. It is used to conjure patience and perseverance to the wearer, and is used extensively with gemstones due to the fact that the metal attracts and retains the qualities emitted by the stones. It is known to enhance the powers of the moon, particularly during the full and new moons. As the metal is reflective, as the moon reflects the light of the sun, so does silver reflect negativity from the wearer. Silver can also be used to enhance one’s psychic abilities, as it is a psychic-influencing metal. When worn it stimulates one’s psychic awareness but simultaneously lulls the conscious, so as not to overwhelm. Silver has almost no vibrational impact on other stones it is near, but rather enhances the connection between the wearer and the stone, allowing for a gentle flow of energy between the two.