About Our Stones

Agate

Color: Clear or milky white, gray, blue, green, pink, brown, often artificially colored

Appearance: Waxy and soft, usually banded sometimes translucent with small crystals, various sizes. Often sold as artificially colored slices that have no additional therapeutic properties

Rarity: Common

Source: United States, India, Morocco, Czech Republic, Brazil, Africa

Attributes:  Formed from microscopic crystals of quartz laid down in bands, this is a very stable crystal.  Agates are grounding stones, bringing about an emotional, physical, and intellectual balance.  They aid in centering and stabilizing physical energy.

       Agate has the power to harmonize yin and yang, the positive and negative forces that hold the universe in place.  A soothing and calming stone, Agate works slowly but brings great strength.  Its multiple layers can bring hidden information to light.

       Psychologically, agate gently facilitates acceptance of one’s self.  This builds self-confidence.  it aids self-analysis and perception of hidden circumstances, bringing to your attention any dis-ease that is interfering with your well-being.

       Agates enhance mental function as they improve concentration, perception, and analytical abilities, leading to practical solutions.      

       Agate’s love of truthfulness encourages speaking one’s own truth.  Agates with clear crystals can stimulate memories.

       Emotionally, this crystal overcomes negativity and bitterness of the heart.  It heals inner anger, fostering love and the courage to start again.  It is useful for any kind of emotional trauma.  it creates a sense of safety and security by dissolving internal tension.

       Spiritually, Agate raises consciousness and links into collective consciousness and awareness of the oneness of life.  It encourages quiet contemplation and assimilation of life experiences, leading to spiritual growth and inner stability.

Healing Agate stabilizes the aura, eliminating and transforming negative energies.  its cleansing effect is powerful at the physical and emotional levels.  Placed on the heart, it will heal the emotional dis-ease that prevents acceptance of love.  Placed on the abdomen or taken as elixir, Agate stimulates the digestive process and relieves gastritis.  It heals the eyes, stomach, and uterus; it cleanses the lymphatic system and the pancreas; it strengthens blood vessels and heals skin disorders.

 

 

Amazonite

Amazonite has a powerful filtering action.  At a physical level, it blocks geopatic stress, absorbs microwaves and cell phone emanations, and protects against electromagnetic pollution.  It should be placed between you and the source of any pollution or taped to a cell phone.

Amazonite heals and opens both the heart and throat chakras to enhance loving communication.  It also opens the third eye and intuition.  The stone dissipates negative energy and blockages within the nervous system.  It is beneficial in osteoporosis, tooth decay, calcium deficiency, and calcium deposits.

 

Citrine

Color: Yellow to yellowish brown or smoky gray-brown

Appearance: Transparent crystals, all sizes, often as geode, point, or cluster

Rarity: Natural Citrine is comparatively rare; heat-treated Amethyst is often sold as Citrine.

Source: Brazil, France, Madagascar, Britain, United States

Attributes: Citrine is a powerful cleanser and regenerator.  Carrying the power of the sun, this is an exceedingly beneficial stone.  It is warming, needs cleansing.  It absorbs, transmutes, dissipates, and grounds negative energy and is therefore extremely protective for the environment.  Citrine energizes every level of life.  As an aura protector, it acts as an early warning system so that action can be taken to protect oneself.  It has the ability to cleanse the chakras, especially the solar plexus and nave chakras.  It activates the crown chakra and opens the intuition.  Citrine cleanses and balances the subtle bodies, aligning them with the physical.

Healing: Citrine is an excellent stone for energizing and recharging.  It is highly beneficial for CFS and reverses degenerative disease.  Citrine stimulates digestion, the spleen and the pancreas.  It negates infections in the kidney and bladder, helps eye problems, increases blood circulation, detoxifies the blood, activates the thymus, and balances the thyroid.  It has a warming effect and fortifies the nerves.  Citrine is a eliminator-it relieves constipation and removes cellulite.  As an elixir, it is helpful for menstrual problems and menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes, balancing the hormones and alleviating fatigue.

 

 

Aventurine

Aventurine is a very positive stone of prosperity.  Wearing Aventurine absorbs electromagnetic smog and protects against environmental pollution.  Psychologically, Aventurine reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness.  It promotes compassion and empathy and encourages perseverance.  Aventurine stabilizes one’s state of mind, stimulates perception, and enhances creativity.

Healing: Aventurine benefits the thymus gland, connective tissue, and nervous system; it balances blood pressure and stimulates the metabolism, lowering cholesterol and preventing arteriosclerosis and eruptions and allergies, relieves migraine headaches, and soothes the eyes.

 

 

Coral

Spiritual and Healing Properties:

Coral is considered magical in the realm of crystals and gemstones. Coral is a traditional gift for the expectant mother or newborn as a protective amulet. Coral comes from the sea and is associated with emotional healing because of its watery home. It is also considered a bolster remedy for physical disorders involving blood and bones, nourishing blood cells and strengthening the skeleton.

Remedy Benefits of Coral:

• Emotional healer
• Brings peace
• Stimulates intuition
• Enhances fertility
• Relieves stress

 

 

Hematitie

Color: Silver, Red

Appearance: “Brain-like,” red or gray when unpolished.  Shiny when polished.  Heavy. All sizes

Rarity: Common

Source: Britain, Italy, Brazil, Sweden, Canada, Switzerland

Hematite is particularly effective at grounding and protecting.  It harmonizes mind, body, and spirit.  Used during out-of-body journeying, it protects the soul and grounds it back into the body.  This stone has a strong yang element and balances the meridians, redressing yin imbalances.  It dissolves negativity and prevents negative energies from entering the aura, restoring peace and harmony to the body.

Hematite is said to be beneficial for legal situation.  Psychologically, Hematite is strong.  It supports timid women, boosts self-esteem and survivability, enhances willpower and reliability, and imparts confidence.  This stone removes self-limitation and aids expansion.  It is a useful stone for overcoming compulsions and addictions.  Hematite brings attention to the unfulfilled desires that are driving life.  It treats overeating, smoking, and any form of overindulgence.  Hematite helps you to come to terms with mistake and to accept them as learning experiences rather than disasters.

Mentally, Hematite stimulates concentration and focus.  It enhances memory and original thought.  It brings the mind’s attention to basic survival needs and helps to sort out problems of all kinds.  This is a useful stone for the study of mathematics and technical subjects.

Physically, Hematite has a powerful connection wit blood.  it restores, strengthens, and regulates the blood supply.  It can draw heat from the body.

Healing: Hematite aids circulatory problems such as Reynaud’s Disease and blood conditions such as anemia.  it supports the kidneys in cleaning blood and it regenerates tissue.  Hematite stimulates the absorption of iron and the formation of red blood cells.  it treats leg cramps, anxiety, and insomnia, and aids spinal alignment and fractures.  use as an elixir for fevers.

Position: Base and top of spine to facilitate spinal manipulation.  Hold or place as appropriate for healing or calming. 

 

 

Howlite

Howlite is an extremely calming stone.  Placed under the pillow, it is an excellent antidote to insomnia, especially when this is caused by an overactive mind.

Psychologically, Howlite teaches patience and helps to eliminate rage and uncontrolled anger.

Howlite stills the mind and is excellent for sleep or meditation.  It allows for calm and reasoned communication to take lace.

Healing: Howlite relieves insomnia.  It balances the calcium levels within the body and aids teeth, bones, and soft tissue.

 

 

Jade

Jade is a symbol of purity and serenity.  Much prized in the East, it signifies wisdom gathered in tranquility.  Jade us associated with the heart chakra and increases love and nurturing.  It is a protective stone, which keeps the wearer from harm and brings harmony.  It is believed to attract good luck and friendship.

Physically, jade is a cleansing stone, aiding the body’s filtration and elimination organs.  It is the stone par excellence for the kidneys.

Healing: Jade treats the kidneys and supra-adrenal glands, removes toxins, rebinds cellular and skeletal systems, and heals stitches.

 

 

Lapis Lazuli

Color: Deep blue flecked wit gold

Appearance: Dense, veined, lapis Lazuli looks like the night sky.  All sizes, sometimes tumbled

Rarity: Easily obtained but expensive

Source: Russia, Afghanistan, Chile, Italy, United states, Egypt, Middle east

Attributes: Lapis Lazuli opens the third eye and balances the throat chakra.  it stimulates enlightenment and enhances dream work and psychic abilities, facilitating spiritual journeying and stimulating personal and spiritual power.  This stone quickly releases stress, bringing deep peace.  it possesses enormous serenity and is the key to spiritual attainment. 

   This stone harmonizes the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels.  Imbalances between these levels can result in depression, dis-ease, and lack of purpose.  In balance, the harmony brings deep inner self-knowledge.

   Lapis Lazuli encourages taking charge of life.  It reveals inner truth, encourages self-awareness, and allows self-expression without holding back or compromising.  If repressed anger is causing difficulties in the throat or in communication, Lapis Lazuli releases these.  This stone brings the enduring qualities of honesty, compassion and uprightness to the personality.

   Lapis Lazuli is a powerful thought amplifier.  It stimulates the higher faculties of the mind, bringing objectivity and clarity.  It encourages creativity through attunement to the source.  Lapis Lazuli helps you to confront truth, wherever you find it, and to accept what it teaches.  It aids in expressing your own opinions and harmonizes conflict.  it teaches the value of active listening.

   Lapis Lazuli bonds relationships in love and friendship and aids expressing feelings and emotions.  It dissolves martyrdom, cruelty, and suffering.  As a gem essence, it dissolves emotional bondage.

Healing, Lapis Lazuli alleviates pain, especially that of migraine headaches.  It overcomes depression, benefits the respiratory and nervous systems and the throat, larynx, and thyroid, cleanses organs, bone marrow, thymus, and the immune system.  Lapis Lazuli overcomes hearing loss.  It alleviates insomnia and vertigo, and lowers blood pressure.

Position: Wear or place at the throat or third eye.  Lapis Lazuli should be positioned above the diaphragm, anywhere between the sternum and the top of the head.

 

 

Onyx

Color: Black, gray, white, blue, brown, yellow, red

Appearance: Banded, marble-like, often polished.  All sizes

Rarity: Readily Available

Source: Italy, Mexico, United States, Russia, Brazil, South Africa

Attributes: Onyx is strength-giving.  It provides support in difficult or confusing circumstances and during times of enormous mental or physical stress.  Centering your energy and aligning it with a higher power, accessing higher guidance, is facilitated by Onyx as is connection with the whole.  It can take you forward to view the future and, with its capacity to impart personal strength, facilitates being master of one’s destiny.  This stone promotes vigor, steady fastness and stamina.  It aids learning lessons, imparting self-confidence and helping you to be at ease in your surroundings.

   Onyx is a secretive stone that assists in keeping your own counsel  However, Onyx is said to hold the memories of things that have happened to the wearer.  it can be used for psychometry, telling the story to those who are sensitive to its vibrations.

   This property of holding physical memories makes Onyx useful in past-life work for healing old injuries and physical trauma that are affecting the present life.  Holding a piece of Onyx takes your attention the site of the previous injury, which can then be released through body work, reframing, or crystal therapy.  Onyx can also be used to heal old grief and sorrows.

   Psychologically, Onyx recognizes and integrates dualities within the self.  It anchors the flighty int a more stable way of life and generally imparts self-control.  Onyx is a mental tonic that alleviates overwhelming fears and worries.  Onyx conveys the invaluable gift of wise decision.

   Physically, Onyx assists in absorbing from the universe energies that are required for healing or other purposes.  it balances the yin and yang energies within the body.

Healing Onyx is beneficial for teeth, bones, bone marrow, blood disorders and the feet.

Position: War on left side of the body.  Place for as appropriate.  traditionally, Onyx worn around the neck was said to cool lust and support chastity.

  Onyx aids learning lessons, imparting self-confidence and helping you to be at ease in your surroundings.

Psychologically, Onyx recognizes and integrates dualities within the self.  It anchors the flighty into a more stable way of life and generally imparts self-control.  Onyx is a mental tonic that alleviates overwhelming fears and worries.  Onyx conveys the invaluable gift of wise decisions.

Physically, Onyx assist in absorbing from the universe energies that are required for healing or other purposes.  It balances the yin and yang energies within the body.

Healing: Onyx is beneficial for teeth, bones, bone marrow, blood disorders, and the feet.

Position: Wear on left side of body.  Place or hold as appropriate.

 

 

 

Turquoise

Color: Turquoise, Green or blue

Appearance: Opaque, often veined, all sizes often polished

Rarity: Easily obtained

Source: United States, Egypt, Mexico, China, Iran, Peru, Poland, Russia, France, Tibet, Egypt, Afghanistan, Arabia

Attributes: Turquoise is a most efficient healer, providing solace for the spirit and well-being for the body.  It is a protective stone and has been used for amulets since time immemorial.  Turquoise promotes spiritual attunement and enhances communication with the physical and spiritual worlds.  Placed on the third eye, it enhances intuition and meditation.  On the throat chakra, it releases old vows, inhibitions, and prohibitions, and allows the soul to express itself once more.  It explores past lives and shows how the creation of your “fate” is ongoing and depends on what you do at each moment. 

   Turquoise is a purification stone.  It dispels negative energy and clears electromagnetic smog, providing protection against pollutants in the environment.  It balances and aligns all the chakras with the subtle bodies and attunes the physical level to the spiritual.  In traditional thought, Turquoise unites the earth and the sky, bringing together male and female energies.  This stone is empathetic and balancing.  A promoter of self-realization, it assists creative problem-solving and calms the nerves when speaking in public.

   Psychologically, Turquoise is a strengthening stone.  It dissolves a martyred attitude or self-sabotage.  Mentally, Turquoise instills inner calm while remaining alert, and aids creative expression.  Emotionally, Turquoise stabilizes mood swings and brings inner calm.  It stimulates romantic love.

   Physically, Turquoise is an excellent stone for exhaustion, depression, or panic attacks, one of its protective functions is against outside influences or pollutants in the atmosphere.

Healing: Turquoise strengthens the meridians of the body and the subtle energy fields.  It enhances the physical and psychic immune systems and regenerates tissue, supports the assimilation of nutrients, alleviates pollution and viral infections, and heals the whole body, especially the eyes, including cataracts.  It reduces excess acidity and benefits gout, rheumatism, and the stomach.  This stone is anti-inflammatory and detoxifying and alleviates cramps and pain.

Position: Anywhere but especially