STONES AND THEIR METAPHYSICAL PROPERTIES
Third Eye Agates - These valued crystals have long been believed to provide protection against evil, as well as enhance psychic abilities, intuition, extrasensory perception, imagination and concentration. These stones form naturally from the riverbeds of India. They are said to be very protective, watching over you & keeping you safe from harm, ill will, & negativity. Chakra: Root, Third Eye.
Botswana Agate - Brings abundance, wealth, protection, mental and physical strength, courage, security, good luck and truth. Reduces fear, tension, anger and insomnia. It is said that carrying this mineral aids in attracting love and balancing sexual energy. Hardness 6 ½ to 7. Chakra:
White Calcite - Soothes and calms. Assists with studying, teaching and learning. Aids in transition of new ideas. Promotes emotional and yin-yang balance. Provides strength in times of mental anguish and turmoil. Hardness 3, Chakra: Varies according to color, Zodiac: Cancer, Gemini.
Crazy Lace Agate – Brings abundance, wealth, protection, mental and physical strength, courage, security, good luck and truth. Reduces fear, tension, anger and insomnia. It is said carrying this stone aids in attracting love and balancing sexual energy. Hardness 6 ½ to 7. Chakra: Varies by color, Zodiac: Gemini
Blue Lace Agate - Gentle and calming. Improves communication, balance and emotional stability. Relieves stress, depression, tension and conflict. Inspires hope, optimism, promptness, happiness, truth, security and appreciation for nature. Hardness 6.5 – 7.0. Chakra: Zodiac:
Green Fluorite - Offers psychic protection. Fosters truth, focus, organization, concentration, intellect and consciousness. Improves physical and mental coordination. Relieves stress and overexcitement. Excellent for meditation. Hardness 4.0, Chakra: Brow
Tiger Eye - Promotes quiet, courage, balance, protection, calm and grounding. Eases despair and fear. Hardness 6.0-7, Chakra: Solar Plexus, Zodiac: Capricorn
Lapis Lazuli - Promotes memory, awareness, peace, insight, intellect, truth, balance, justice, courage, vitality, wisdom, friendship, creativity and relaxation. Helps depression, insomnia and disorganization. Hardness 5.5, Chakra: Brow, Zodiac: Taurus, Libra, Sagittarius.
Moonstone - "Travelers' Stone" provides protection for travelers. Enhances sensuality, sexuality, love and passion. Promotes emotional balance, calm, friendship, happiness, joy, harmony, compassion, loyalty and confidence. Reduces stress, depression, oversensitivity and fear. Brings fortune and good luck. Comes is a variety of colors: Rainbow, yellow, cream, green, brown, blue, white and orange. Hardness: 6.0 - 6.5, Chakra: Sacral (lower back), Brow, Zodiac:Cancer, Libra and Scorpio.
Ruby - Promotes calm, strength, passion, unconditional love, problem-solving, enthusiasm, inspiration, creativity, flexibility, wealth, courage, stability, and balance. Reduces stress, tension, heart-ache, anguish, anger, nightmares, lethargy, and selfishness. Hardness 9.0, Chakra: Heart, Zodiac: Aries, Cancer, Leo, Scorpio, Sagittarius. Color: Pink, Blood Red, Bright Red, Brown-Red.
Sugilite - Promotes confidence, wisdom, courage, love, creativity, forgiveness and mental balance. Reduces tension, anger, hostility, and despair. Color: Violet, pink, lilac or purple. Hardness 9.0, Chakra: Heart, Zodiac: Aries, Cancer, Leo, Scorpio, Sagittarius.
Mookaite – This stone is considered a powerful healing stone and believed to promote good heath, inner calm, creativity, new perceptions and ideas, versatility, self-esteem, grounding and communication. Reduces fear and depression and may help in meditation. Colors range from marbled red, crimson, pink, purple, yellow, white and cream. Hardness: 7.0, Chakra: Base, Zodiac: Leo, Virgo.
Amazonite - Calms and soothes & can help to promote creativity, communication, trust, truth, intuition, self-esteem, honor and integrity. Helps with eliminating negative energy, worry, fear, stress, anxiety, nervousness. Helps balance metabolism and strengthens physical stamina. Color ranges between green-yellow to blue-green. Hardness: 6.0-6.5, Chakra: Heart, Zodiac: Virgo.
Goldstone - Varies with color variations. Promotes calm, courage, self-confidence, energy, concentration and liveliness. Assists with emotional harmony and balance. Increases metabolism. Aids in the reduction of conflict and frustration. Relieves mood swings, tension, insomnia and irritability. The color of this stone varies from Reddish-Brown, Brown, Green, Blue and Purple. Hardness: 5.5, Chakra: Root, Lower Back (Brown), Heart (Green), Throat, Brow and Crown (Blue and Purple), Zodiac: Leo, Taurus, Sagittarius, Pisces.
Carnelian - Promotes motivation, self-esteem, ambition, courage and compassion. Enhances study, focus, memory and speech. Provides protection and physical power. Reduces laziness, anger, confusion, sorrow, fear, jealousy and apathy. Color: Pink, Red, Orange Or Brown, Hardness: 6-1/2 to 7, Chakra: Lower Back, Zodiac: Virgo, Aries, Taurus, Leo.
Clear or White Quartz - Promotes purity, focus, truth, clarity, memory enhancement, perception and strength. Aids in meditation, dream comprehension and past life recall. Reduces negativity, anxiety, insomnia, depression, guilt and mourning. Used to cleanse and increase energies of all other crystals. Magnifies psychic abilities. Hardness 7.0, Chakra: All, Zodiac: All.
Howlite - Promotes sleep, reasoning, memory, patience, calm, discernment, observation, study, communication and tact. Reduces insomnia, selfishness, boisterousness, rage, vulgarity, stress and anger. Hardness: 2.5 - 3.5, Color is white but can be dyed to various colors. Chakra: Crown (Head), Zodiac: Gemini.
Labradorite - Stimulates imagination, intellect, vitality, wisdom, originality and intuition. Reduces fear, anxiety, stress and insecurity. Aids development of psychic abilities and magic. Known as the "Stone of Luck" in ancient times. The color of this stone is dark gray, with a blue, red, gold, green and even purple shimmer caused by the "Schiller Effect". Hardness: 6 to 6-1/2, Chakra: Crown (Head), Zodiac: Leo, Scorpio, Capricorn, Aquarius and Pisces.
Jasper - Bloodstone, Orbicular Jasper, Picture Jasper, Zebra Jasper, Mookaite, Agate, Red, Dalmatian, Kambaba, Rainbow, Landscape, Shell, Fossil Stone. Promotes caring, grounding, stability, physical stamina, security, calm, relaxation, comfort, contentment, compassion, nurturing, tranquility, enthusiasm and organization. Helps relieve emotional stress, loneliness, insecurities, grief, fears and guilt. Hardness 6-7, Chakra: Base, varies with specific Jaspers, Zodiac: Aries, Leo.
Malachite - Promotes development of new ideas, growth, calm, maturity, wealth, abundance, endurance and emotional balance. Relieves depression. Helps in meditation and dream interpretation. Magnifies energies. Wards off evil. The color is bright green with dark green and black bands or swirls and the Hardness is 3-1/2 to 4, Chakra: Heart, Solar Plexus, Zodiac: Scorpio, Capricorn and Taurus.
Mahogany Obsidian - Promotes compassion, insight, wisdom, perseverance, self-esteem, strength, learning, protection, forgiveness, creativity, intuition, survival instincts and grounding. Reduces impatience, negativity, negativity, grief and anger. Aids in past-life recall, psychic protection and astral travel. The color can be Black, Gray, Brown, Green, Red-Black, Black with Rainbows or white. Hardness 5 to 5-1/2, Chakra: Base, Zodiac: Aries, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Capricorn.
Adventurine (Aventurine) - A good luck stone, especially in financial matters. Stimulates creativity, intelligence and perception. A great healing stone, it gives a sense of mental and emotional well-being.
Agate - general protection and healing, increases courage, self-confidence, and energy and promotes longevity. Also good for gardening.
Alexandrite - renewal and regeneration, openness to higher self. Brings love, joy, and luck.
Amazonite - helps clarify and improve thinking.
Amber - healing, protection from negativity, attractiveness and energy.
Amethyst - increases vivid dreams, relieves depression, promotes calm, serenity, and spirituality. Helps with addiction and stress.
Apatite - helps stuttering and hypertension. Rids one of guilt and grief.
Aquamarine - improves sight, sharpens the mind, calms and clarifies emotions. More about Aquamarine
Azurite - increases psychic ability and aids in meditation. Relieves arthritis and joint
Bloodstone - healing, especially related to the blood. Increases courage and charitability.
Carnelian - general healing stone. Restores the natural energy flows of your body.
Chrysocolla - soothes nervous tension.
Chrysoprase - soothes heartache and helps depression, promotes emotional balance, wisdom, and peace.
Citrine - helps digestion and aids in mental and intellectual functions. Increases self-esteem and energy. Balances and dissipates negative energy.
Coral - helps in childbirth and adoption. Wards off bad thoughts from others and promotes general well-being.
Diamond - manifests abundance. Used in conjunction, it strengthens the properties of other stones.
Emerald - a mind stone. Enhances memory, promotes clear and quick thinking, and right action stemming from right thought.
Flourite (multicolor) - enhances spiritual energy work, focuses the will and balances the psyche.
Garnet - balances your natural energy. A highly protective stone. Increases confidence and security.
Tanzanite - increases psychic abilities and enhances spiritual connectedness.
Tiger's Eye - clear thinking, helps in manifesting will, courage, and confidence.
Topaz - soothes physical pain, promotes peace and calms emotions, as well as promoting forgiveness. Promotes individuality, self-confidence, and creativity. Counteracts negative emotions.
Tourmaline (multicolor) - calm, protection, focus, and balance. Promotes self-assurance and goodwill.
Black - strong protection from negative energies. Reduces fears, obsessions, neurosis, and panic with a calm rootedness.
Pink - promotes compassion, love and healing of emotional pain.
Green - cleanses and detoxifies the spirit, brings prosperity.
Blue - helpful with verbal, speech, and throat problems. Mental peace and patience.
Watermelon - heals old emotional pains and brings emotional understanding.
Turquoise - healing stone. Attracts friendships, luck, and happiness. Releases shame and guilt.
Unakite - promotes balance and emotional stability. Transforms negative emotions into positive ones. A grounding stone.
Goldstone - uplifting, reduces tension and stomach problems.
Hematite - great stone for grounding. Calms and soothes, reducing stress and blood pressure.
Howlite - Howlite - reduces stress and anxiety. Quietly soothes and calms to bring gentleness and patience.
Jade - Jade - wisdom, mercy, humility, generosity, peace, and harmony. Protective and lucky when worn as jewelry. Place a bit under your pillow at night for restorative dreams.
Jasper - calms a troubled mind. Helps with digestive problems and other ills.
Red Jasper - helps with conflict and aggression. Promotes grace and perseverance.
Leopard Skin Jasper - aids in finding and achieving life's gifts
Picture Jasper - stabilizing, balancing stone. Aids in visualization and meditation.
Labradorite - strengthens the will and inner strength and convictions. Aids in combatting addictions.
Lapis Lazuli - emotional healing and stability. High intensity stone which cleanses the spirit to bring out inner truth and peace.
Malachite - strong stone which helps release negative emotions and protect from psychic attack.
Moonstone - helpful in psychic work. Opens the spirit to the feminine aspect. Draws love and helps in interpersonal relationships.
Morganite - love, empathy, patience and compassion. Heals the emotional self.
Onyx - good protective stone. Also releases old relationships and keeps away general negativity.
Opal - Awakens and helps understanding of psychic intuition and mysticism. Encourages living authentically in feeling and action, with faithfullness and loyalty. Helpful for eyesight and during childbirth.
Peridot - balances your emotional mind and calms emotional storms. Aids digestion and insomnia and increases psychic powers.
Quartz - the greatest of all healing stones. Acts as an amplifier for psychic energy and aids meditation and visualization.
Rose Quartz - great for attracting love. Promotes self-loving and heals emotional wounds as well as promoting peace, forgiveness, and nurturing.
Smoky Quartz - a grounding stone which helps reduce depression and negative emotions.
Rhodochrosite - love drawing stone. Helps release past psychological issues. Helps eyesight.
Rhodonite - self-affirmation and self-love. Fosters ability to remain calm in arguments and resolve disagreements in a loving way.
Ruby - stimulates nurturing emotions and economic stability. Excellent for shielding from psychic attacks and gathering and amplifying energy. Helpful for blood-related health issues, such as anemia, menstrual issues, and poor circulation.
Sapphire - promotes light, pure emotions - purity of mind, serenity, joy, and peace. Opens the mind to beauty and love. Clears the mind of unwanted thoughts.
Sardonyx - encourages self-control and courage in public speaking. Relieves anxiety and grief. Protection, luck, and peace.
Snowflake Obsidian - protects against nightmares and emotional draining.
Sodalite - purifies your aura and protects you from negative energy from people around you.
Tanzanite - increases psychic abilities and enhances spiritual connectedness.
Tiger's Eye - clear thinking, helps in manifesting will, courage, and confidence.
Topaz - soothes physical pain, promotes peace and calms emotions, as well as promoting forgiveness. Promotes individuality, self-confidence, and creativity. Counteracts negative emotions.
Tourmaline (multicolor) - calm, protection, focus, and balance. Promotes self-assurance and goodwill.
Black - strong protection from negative energies. Reduces fears, obsessions, neurosis, and panic with a calm rootedness.
Pink - promotes compassion, love and healing of emotional pain.
Green - cleanses and detoxifies the spirit, brings prosperity.
Blue - helpful with verbal, speech, and throat problems. Mental peace and patience.
Watermelon - heals old emotional pains and brings emotional understanding.
Turquoise - healing stone. Attracts friendships, luck, and happiness. Releases shame and guilt.
Unakite - promotes balance and emotional stability. Transforms negative emotions into positive ones. A grounding stone.
Disclaimer:
Please be advised that the above descriptions and/or properties are meant solely for educational and entertainment purposes only, and are not to be used as a replacement to, or instead of traditional professional medical treatment. In no way is it intended for diagnosing illness, prescription, or advice and should not replace proper medical attention. Consult your doctor or other health care practitioner regarding health issues. JRK Gems & Jewelry is not liable for any use or misuse of this information.
