Amethyst
Amethyst derives from the Greek for “to be intoxicated” and was worn to prevent drunkenness. Promoting love of the divine. Amethyst encourages selflessness and spiritual wisdom. Opening multidimensional awareness. it enhances metaphysical abilities and is an excellent stone for meditation and scrying. Sleeping with Amethyst facilitates out-of-body experiences, helps dream recall, and assists visualization. It guards against psychic attack, transmuting it into love.
A natural tranquilizer, Amethyst blocks geopathic stress and negative environmental energies. Harmonizing the physical, mental and emotional bodies and linking them to the spiritual, it purifies the aura. Amethyst is helpful for people about to make the transition through death and supports coming to terms with loss.
This stone has sobering effect on overindulgence and overcomes addictions. Beneficial to the mind, it calms or stimulates as appropriate , helping to feel more focused, assisting assimilation of new ideas, and connecting cause with effect. Amethyst enhances memory and improves motivation. This stone balances emotional highs and lows.
| Chakra: | Third Eye, Crown |
| Zodiac sign: | Aquarius, Pisces |
| Planet: | Jupiter, Neptune |
| Beneficial for: | Physical, emotional and psychological pain; decision-making; recurrent nightmares; geopathic stress; protection against thieves; anger; rage; fear; anxiety; grief; neural transmission; dreams; alcoholism; hormone production; endocrine system; blood; headache; bruises; injuries; swellings; burns; hearing disorders; lungs; respiratory tract; skin complaints; cellular disorder; digestive tract; regulating flora; removing parasites; reabsorption of water; insomnia; psychiatric conditions other than paranoia or schizophrenia. |
Carnelian
The name carnelian is derived from the Latin carnis (flesh). Deep red Carnelian may be heat-treated and, held against light, shows stripes, while natural Carnelian shows a cloudy color. Carnelian was beloved of the Egyptians, who believed that it assisted the soul on its journey and had great protective powers in the afterlife.
They wore it to calm anger, jealousy, and envy. A stabilizing stone with high energy. Carnelian anchors into the present reality and is excellent for restoring vitality. Carnelian has the ability to cleanse other stones.
Imparting acceptance of the cycle of life, Carnelian removes fear of death and assist positive life choices. Useful for overcoming abuse, it helps you trust yourself and your perceptions, overcoming negative conditioning. Removing extraneous thoughts when meditating, it tunes daydreamers into everyday reality. A stone of abundance, it motivates for success in business and other matters.
| Chakra: | Sacral, Base |
| Zodiac sign: | Taurus, Cancer, Leo, Scorpio |
| Planet: | Sun |
| Beneficial for: | Analytic ability, dramatic pursuits, courage, vitality, metabolism, concentration, envy, weak memory, anger, emotional negativity, nosebleed, infertility, frigidity, impotence, increasing potency, physical wounds, blood disorders, food assimilation, absorption of vitamins and minerals, heart, circulation, blood purification, female reproductive organs, lower back disorders, rheumatism, arthritis, neuralgia, depression in advanced years, bodily fluids, kidneys, accelerates healing in bones and ligaments, stanches blood, headaches. |
Red Jasper
Known as the “Supreme Nurturer” Jasper sustains and supports during times of stress and unifies all aspects of life. This stones facilitates shamanic journeys, dowsing, and dreams recall. Providing protection, it absorbs negative energy, balances yin and yang and aligns the physical, emotional, and mental bodies with the etheric realm.
Bringing the courage to get to grips with problems assertively, and encouraging honesty with oneself, Jasper imparts determination to all pursuits and supports during necessary conflict. This stone aids quick thinking, promotes organizational abilities and seeing projects through, and stimulates imagination, transforming ideas into action.
| Chakra: | Sacral, Base |
| Zodiac sign: | Aries, Scorpio |
| Planet: | Mars |
| Beneficial for: | Libido, rebirthing, boundaries, circulatory system, fevers, blood, liver, blockages in the liver or bile ducts, electromagnetic and environmental pollution, radiation, stress, prolonging sexual pleasure, prolonged illness or hospitalization, circulation, digestive and sexual organs, balancing mineral content of the body. |
Green Aventurine
A very positive stone, Aventurine is used to grid gardens or houses against geopathic stress. Wearing Aventurine absorbs electromagnetic smog and protects against environmental pollution. This stone guards against metaphysical vampirism of heart energy and brings together the intellectual and emotional bodies.
Aventurine stabilizes one’s state of mind, recognizing alternatives and possibilities. It aids emotional recovery and enables living within one’s own heart. Aventurine regulates growth from birth to seven years.
Green aventurine is a comforter, all-around healer, and general harmonizer, bringing in well-being and emotional calm. This stone assists in establishing exactly what makes you happy or unhappy. Traditionally, it was worn to strengthen eyesight and used as a gambler’s talisman. It is an excellent protector for the spleen chakra and should be worn over the base of the sternum or taped beneath the left armpit.
| Chakra: | Heart, spleen |
| Zodiac sign: | Aries |
| Planet: | Mercury |
| Beneficial for: | Negative emotions and thoughts, malignant conditions, nausea, stress, eyes, heart, balancing male-female energy, prosperity, leadership, decisiveness, compassion, empathy, irritation, creativity, stuttering, severe neurosis, thymus, gland, connective tissue, nervous system, blood pressure, metabolism, cholesterol, arteriosclerosis, heart attacks, anti-inflammatory, skin eruptions, allergies, migraine headaches, eyes, adrenals, lungs, sinuses, heart, muscular and urogenital systems. |
Lapis Lazuli
The name Lapis Lazuli comes from the Persian lazuward, “blue”. Prized for thousands of years, it was a favored stone in ancient Egypt, where it was believed to lead the soul into immortality and open the heart to love. The royal stone, it was said to contain the soul of the gods. A metaphysical stone par excellence, Lapis Lazuli is a key to spiritual attainment. Enhancing dreamwork and metaphysical abilities, it facilitates spiritual journeying and stimulates personal and spiritual power.
Possessing enormous serenity, Lapis Lazuli is protective. Alerting to psychic attack, it returns the energy to its source. This stone highlights the power of the spoken word, and can reverse curses or disease caused by not speaking out. Harmonizing body, emotions, mind, and spirit, it bring deep inner self-knowledge and multidimensional cellular healing. A powerful thought amplifier, Lapis Lazuli stimulates higher mental faculties and encourage creativity. This stone teaches the value of active listening and helps you confront truth, wherever you find it, and accept its teachings. Facilitating expressing your own opinions and harmonizing conflict. Lapis Lazuli aids in taking charge of life. If repressed anger is causing difficulties in the throat, it releases these. This stone brings honesty, compassion, and uprightness to the personality. A bonding stone in love and friendship, it dissolves martyrdom, cruelty, suffering, self-mortification, and emotional bondage.
| Chakra: | Throat, third eye, crown |
| Zodiac sign: | Sagittarius |
| Planet: | Venus |
| Beneficial for: | Objectivity, clarity, stress, self-awareness, self-expression, anxiety, female hormones, menopause, PMS, immune system, insomnia, pain, migraine, depression, respiratory and nervous systems, throat, larynx, thyroid, organs, bone marrow, thymus, hearing loss, blood, vertigo, blood pressure. |
Rose Quartz
A stone of unconditional love and infinite peace, Rose Quartz is the most important crystal for healing the heart and the heart chakra. This beautiful stone promotes receptivity to beauty of all kinds. Romantic Rose Quartz attracts love. Placed by your bed or in the relationship corner of your home, it draws love toward you and supports an existing partnership, restoring trust and harmony.
Rose Quartz is the finest emotional healer. Releasing unexpressed emotions and heartache and transmuting emotional conditions that no longer serve, it soothes internalized pain and heals deprivation, opening your heart so that you become receptive. If you have loved and lost, it conforts your grief. Rose Quartz teaches how to love yourself and encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance, invoking self-trust and self-worth. Excellent for trauma or crisis, Rose Quartz acts as a rescue remedy, providing reassurance and calm. This stone draws off negative energy and replaces it with loving vibes. Strengthening empathy and sensitivity and aiding the acceptance of necessary change, it is an excellent stone for midlife crisis. Holding Rose Quartz enhances positive affirmations, the stone then reminding you of your intention.
| Chakra: | Heart |
| Zodiac sign: | Taurus, Libra |
| Planet: | Venus |
| Beneficial for: | Inducing love, reducing tension, overcoming trauma, sexual imbalances, grief, addiction, overcoming rape, heart and circulatory system, chest, lungs, kidneys, adrenals, vertigo, fertility, burns, blistering Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, senile dementia. |
Tiger’s Eye
It is said that Roman soldiers wore and engraved Tiger’s Eye to protect them in battle, and it is still used as protective stone. Combining earth energy with the energies of the sun, it creates a high vibrational state that draws spiritual energies to earth. Tiger’s Eye heals mental diseases and personality disorders; deals with issues of self-worth, self criticism, and blocked creativity; and is excellent for people who are spaced out or uncommitted.
Facilitating assertion and anchoring change into the physical body, this stones assists in recognizing talents and faults to be overcome and supports an addictive personality in making changes. Facilitating correct use of power, Tiger’s Eye supports integrity and assists in accomplishing goals. It differentiates between wishful thinking and what one really needs, and assists in recognizing other people’s needs.
| Chakra: | Third eye |
| Zodiac sign: | Leo, Capricorn |
| Planet: | Sun |
| Beneficial for: | Brain hemisphere integration, perception, internal conflicts, pride, willfulness, emotional balance, yin-yang, fatigue, hemophilia, hepatitis, mononucleosis, depression, eyes, night vision, throat, reproductive organs, constrictions, broken bones. |
Black Tourmaline
Tourmaline comes from the Singhalese term “turamali”. This stone is piezoelectric, meaning that it generates electricity under pressure, and pyroelectric, generating electricity with heat. Tourmaline has strong affinity with devic energies and is extremely beneficial for plants, keeping pests at bay, and, buried in soil, encourages growth of all crops.
Purifying and transforming dense energy into lighter vibration. Tourmaline grounds spiritual energy, balance chakras, meridians, and auric bodies; and forms a protective shield. Traditionally used for scrying, it pointed to the culprit or cause in times of trouble, and indicates a “good” direction in which to move.
A powerful mental healer, balancing right and left hemispheres of the brain and transmuting negative thought patterns into positive ones. Tourmaline assists in understanding oneself and others, taking you deep into your inner being, promoting self-confidence, and diminishing fear. Banishing away feelings of victimization, it attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance and prosperity.
| Chakra: | Earth, protects all |
| Zodiac sign: | Libra (varies according to color) |
| Planet: | Pluto |
| Beneficial for: | Protection, detoxification, spinal adjustment, balancing male-female energy, paranoia, dyslexia, hand-eye coordination, assimilation and translation of coded information, bronchitis, diabetes, emphysema, pleurisy, pneumonia, energy flow, removal of blockages. |
Source: The Encyclopedia of Crystals by Judy Hall. 2013 Edition. ISBN978-1-59233-582-4
* Please note that these are not to be used for medicinal purposes and will not cure diseases alone. Any references made about “healing properties” refers to the mind and spirit rather than the physical body.