Metaphysical Gemstone Properties
Amazonite
Amazonite is used to strengthen intuition, increase good fortune and focus. It's soothing the spirit and soul and balances masculine and feminine energies. It's believed to help heal emotional trauma and alleviate worries and fears. Not only does is dispell negative energy and aggravation, it's also said to remove blockages within the nervous system. Amazonite helps you to see both sides of a problem and different points of view. Physically, Amazonite is used for menstrual, and muscle cramps and spasms. During childbirth it's used to assist with the natural dilation of the birth canal, allowing for an easier delivery. Amazonite is associated with the throat and heart chakras.
Amethyst
Amethyst is believed to promote spirituality, stability, strength and pure peace. It's been used to support sobriety and is used to help with stress, irritability, mood swings, anger, rage, fear, and anxiety. Amethyst is also said to help with pain, boost hormone production and tune the endocrine system.
Aventurine
Aventurine is also known as the "Stone of Opportunity". This stone is known to release old patterns, habits and disappointments so new growth can take place. It brings optimism and a zest for life. Green Aventurine helps with insomnia, enhances recovery, calms anger and annoyance, encourages tolerance and acceptance of suggestions. It resonates with the heart chakra.
Autumn Jasper - Four Lower Chakras - Epidote
It is believed to:
* be grounding and centering properties.
* remind us that all are connected to the circle of life and encourages a connection to the earth.
* clear negative inner and environmental energies.
Black Onyx - Root Chakra
Also called "stone of inner strength".
It is believed to:
* offer strength, protection, healing and grounding.
* promote vigor, steadfastness, stamina, self-confidence, self-control and power of wise decision-making.
* encourage happiness and good fortune.
Black Tourmaline - Base Chakra - Schorl
It can be used to repel and protect against negativity. It enhances physical well-being, increases physical vitality, emotional stability, and intellectual acuity.
Bloodstone
Bloodstone is grounding and protective associated with the base chakra. It is known to heighten intuition, stimulate dreaming, increase creativity and encourage selflessness. Bloodstone reduces irritability, aggressiveness and impatience. It calms and revitalizes the mind, dispels confusion and enhances decision-making. As a powerful healing stone, it's great for anemia and detoxification of the liver, intestines, kidneys, spleen and bladder. It stimulates the lymphatic system, healing inflammation and infections. Bloodstone is also helpful in healing blood related cancers such as leukaemia. It is believed to provide benefits for the reproductive system (ease PMS, menopause, prevent miscarriage, support pregnancy, aid in childbirth).
Blue Lace Agate - Throat Chakra
Blue lace agate corresponds with the throat chakra and is believed to help enter into high-frequency states of awareness. It is said to help raise communicative confidence, balance emotions, yin yang as well as physical and intellectual energies.
Botswana Agate - Crown Chakra
Energizes the auric field. It's a detoxifying stone and is often used in the treatment of disorders of the nervous system and fractures.
Carnelian - Sacral Chakra / Root Chakra / Base Chakra
It is said to:
* be a stabilizing crystal.
* restore lost vitality and motivation while stimulating creativity.
* protect against envy, rage, and resentment and encourages a love of life.
* be a great stone for those suffering from reproduction and menstrual disorders (for example: infertility, endometriosis, PCOS, miscarriages, etc.) because of its connection to reproductive organs.
Citrine - Solar Plexus Chakra / Third Chakra
It is believed to:
* cleanse the chakras and open intuition.
* bring up joy, wonder, delight, enthusiasm for life.
* help with depression.
* raise self-esteem, self-confidence, and help the wearer to be more extroverted and self-expressive.
Chevron Amethyst
Because chevron amethyst is a combination of amethyst and white onyx, it possesses the healing and meta-physical components of both. This crystal mostly corresponds with the third eye charka. Amethyst promotes spirituality, stability, strength and pure peace. It's been used to support sobriety. It's also protective and enhances psychic abilities and creativity. Amethyst helps with stress irritability, balances mood swings, anger, rage, fear and anxiety. Amethyst can help with pain, boosts hormone production and tunes the endocrine system. White onyx is associated with linking the base and crown chakras to for balanced energy throughout the chakra system.
Clear Quartz - Crown Chakra
Quartz is known as the "master healer" and amplifies energy and thought of the wearer as well as the effect of other crystals. Clear Quartz draws off negative energy of all kinds and is one of the protective stones. It resonates with the crown chakra.
Crazy Lace Agate - "Laughter Stone" - "Happy Lace."
It brings balance, protection, focus, laughter and absorbs emotional pain. Crazy Lace Agate is used to help with decision making by balancing the physical, emotional, and mental bodies. It's also said to ward off the "evil eye."
Fancy Jasper
Fancy Jasper comes in different color colors including green, rust, honey brown, gray, and mauve.
Fancy jasper is believed to:
* offer protection.
* promote gentleness, relaxation, tranquility, comfort, wholeness, healing, and gentle endings.
Fluorite
Comes in different color variations. It's great for cleansing and stabilizing the aura. As a protective mineral, it absorbs negative energy, neutralizes it and draws out all kinds of stress. It is purifying, cleansing and organizes everything in the body the way it was meant to be. It is a great to help organize what needs to be organized. It is said to promote intuition, self-confidence, and objectivity as well as mental and physical balance and coordination.
Garnet - Root Chakra / Base Chakra
Garnet is believed to:
* cleanse, re-energize, purify and balance energy.
* balances the sex drive, strengthen the survival instinct, alleviate emotional disharmony.
* bring courage and hope.
Green Moss Agate - Heart Chakra
Green Moss Agate aids abundance, prosperity and stimulates creativity and corrects imbalances between the two sides of the brain. It also aids emotional healing, stability, strength and courage and is great for those who struggle with fear and anxiety. Green Moss Agate promotes logical and rational thought processes as well as fertility.
Green Tourmaline - Verdelite - Heart Chakra
*Compassion
*Happiness
*Joy
*Connection with earth energy.
*Masculine yang energy.
Hematite - Base Chakra / Root Chakra
Grounding and believed to absorb negative energy. It helps to raise self-esteem and enhances willpower and reliability. It can help to overcome addictions, compulsive behavior and overindulgence.
Howlite
Howlite is great to help with insomnia caused by a restless mind. It strengthens memory, stimulates desire for knowledge, teaches patience and helps to eliminate stress. It is a very calming stone.
Jasper
Jasper is known as the “Supreme Nurturer”. It is a grounding and stabilizing stone that provides comfort and security, strength and healing. This stone is great for balancing the aura.
Kyanite - Throat Chakra
It is said to:
* encourage communication and self-expression.
* help remove blockages and fears that may prevent the wearer from speaking openly.
* be perfect for those struggling with public speaking.
Labradorite - Throat Chakra
It is believed to:
* be a stone of transformation.
* balance and protect the aura, raise consciousness and ground spiritual energies.
* strengthen intuition, promote psychic abilities, remove fears, insecurities and show the truth behind illusions.
* stimulate mental clarity, help with stress and anxiety.
Lapis Lazuli - Third Eye / Throat Chakra
Lapis Lazuli is said to release stress and bring peace. It's also said to help those seeking inner truth, encourage self-expression and self-awareness.
Lava Rock / Volcanic Rock - Base Chakra / Root Chakra
It is believed to:
* be grounding, protective, and balancing.
* connect us to the earth.
* increase fertility and libido.
Leopardskin Jasper - Jaguar Stone - Third Eye Chakra / Throat Chakra
In addition to the properties of Jasper, Leopardskin Jasper is of great use in connection and communication with animals. It is a powerful protection stone. Leopardskin Jasper is known for attracting harmonious vibrations, which correspond to one's direct needs, but not necessarily desires. This includes the attraction of certain circumstances and people that are conducive to one's own personal growth. Leopardskin Jasper is known for self-healing and especially benefits those experiencing chronic conditions.
Malachite - Throat Chakra
Malachite is strongly protective and creates a strong energetic barrier around the wearer. It's a great stone that encourages action and change in life where necessary. Malachite aids creativity and enhances the development of intuition.
Moonstone - Crown Chakra
Moonstone is a love stone that carries a feminine energy. As a fertility or infertility stone, it is known to regulate the menstrual cycle, balance hormones, offer PMS relief and is the perfect choice for conception, pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. During stressful situations, it can balance and calm emotions.
Pearls
Pearls symbolize purity, innocence, faith and charity. They enhance personal integrity, help to clear the mind and provide focus to attention. Pearls are known to increase fertility and ease childbirth.
Picture Jasper - Root Chakra
Picture Jasper alleviates fear, stress and anxiety. It is great for balancing the aura. Because of the connection to Earth’s vibration and consciousness, it helps one to understand that living in balance and having respect for the Earth is vital.
Pink Tourmaline - Rubellite - Heart Chakra
*Cognitive awareness.
*Experience of Universal Love.
*Optimism
*Balancing emotions.
*Feminine energy
Poppy Jasper - Brecciated Jasper
It's a detoxifying and promotes health and healing/recovery from illness. Poppy Jasper is very grounding. It can help with organization skills and encourages creativity. Jasper is believed to increase fertility and to promote a happy pregnancy.
Prehnite - Heart Chakra
Knows as the crystal healing "the healing" and considered a stone of unconditional love. It enhances precognition and inner knowing. It brings peace and protection and helps letting go of possessions one no longer needs. Prehnite alleviates nightmares, phobias and deep fears, uncovering and healing the disease that creates them. Calms hyperactive children.
Pyrite - "Fools Gold" - Solar Plexus Chakra
It is strong and protective. It is believed to promote positive thinking and manifestation. Pyrite boosts energy levels, willpower and helps to overcome feelings of inadequacy. It can help get new ideas into practice and with fortune at workplace. It resonates with the Solar Plexus Chakra.
Snowflake Obsidian
In addition to the generic healing properties of Obsidian, Snowflake Obsidian is calming and soothing. It teaches to value mistakes as well as successes. A stone of purity, Snowflake Obsidian provides balance for body, mind and spirit. It helps you recognize and release “wrong thinking” and stressful mental patterns. Promotes dispassion and inner centering. Snowflake Obsidian empowers isolation and loneliness, aiding surrender in meditation. Snowflake Obsidian corresponds with the root/base and sacral chakras.
Rainbow Moonstone - White Labradorite - Sacral, Third Eye and Crown Chakras
It channels our own intuition and encourages introspection. It also enhances emotional vision and brings greater creative abilities and freedom of expression. Rainbow Moonstone is a wonderful stone for meditation as it can help raise vibrations and calms the physical mind. Moonstone is known to support the reproductive and digestive systems.
Rhodonite - "Burning Rose" - Heart Chakra
It is believed to:
* stabilize emotions by soothing and nurturing feelings and emotions that are scattered, imbalanced or ungrounded.
* be a stone of compassion that clears emotional wounds and scars from the past as well as emotional shock and panic. * be helpful in cases of emotional self-destruction, codependency, and abuse.
* encourage unselfish self-love, forgiveness and stimulate fertility.
Rose Quartz - Heart Chakra
Stone of the heart and unconditional love.
It is believed to:
* open the heart to all forms of love: self-love, family love, platonic love, and romantic love.
* carry a soft feminine energy of compassion, peace, tenderness, healing, nourishment and comfort.
* help heal emotional wounds, fears and resentments.
* stimulate fertility.
Smoky Quartz - Root Chakra
Smoky Quartz is extremely protective. It protects against negative energies. It relieves stress, fear, jealousy, anger and other negative emotions by transforming them into positive energies.
Sodalite - Throat Chakra
It is believed to:
- Stimulate the wearer to live up to her/his own ideas about the nature of truth and uncover hidden creative abilities.
- Aid the development of psychic abilities, intuition, and communication.
- Bring order and calmness to the mind, rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuition.
- Bring emotional balance and calm panic attacks.
- Enhance self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust.
Sunstone - Solar Plexus Chakra
It is believed to:
* be a joyful stone.
* encourage optimism and enthusiasm.
* encourage independence and lessens fearfulness.
* bring good fortune and abundance.
Tiger Eye - Solar Plexus - Third Chakra
It is said to be:
- A protective stone that helps the wearer go through difficult situations in life without losing courage.
- Lessen the influence of mood swings and stressful situations.
- Help with doubts.
- Bring good luck to the wearer.
- Promote mental clarity, help with fear, anxiety, and tension.
Tiger Iron
Because Tiger Iron is a combination of Golden Brown Tiger Eye, Hematite, and Red Jasper, it possesses the healing and meta-physical components of all three. It is a great stone for musicians, artists, actors, and writers. Tiger Iron offers grounding, protection, clarity and knowledge.
Tree Agate - Dendritic Agate
It's known to improve self esteem, release fears and is comforting and soothing to emotional wounds. Its grounding properties help the wearer to remain centered and calm in times of strife or confusion. Tree Agate opens and aligns all chakras while helping heal diseases caused by chakra imbalances. Dendritic Agate (Tree Agate) resonates with blood vessels and nerves. It heals the nervous system and conditions such as neuralgia. For best results it should be worn for extended periods.
Unakite - Heart Chakra
It is said to:
* possess calm and gentle but powerful energy.
* help release deep-seated emotions in a slowly and gently way.
* balance emotions with spirituality and provides grounding when needed.
* support the reproductive system, healthy pregnancy and birth.
Traditionally, unakite is worn by midwives and doulas.
White Onyx is associated with linking the base and crown chakras to for balanced energy throughout the chakra system.