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ABALONE:
Color-multi
Chakra-n/a
Associated with healing, serenity, calmness, nobility, and honesty.
ABUNDANCE CRYSTALS (quartz clusters)
 Color-clear
Chakra-n/a
A quartz crystal with many tiny crystals at the base. This is a mothering, protective crystal, bestowing nurturance, love, abundance, fullness, sufficiency, creativity, well-being, success, good fortune, blessings and growth. Encourages our dreams and our wishes to thrive.
ACTINOLITE:
Color-green
Chakra-4th, 6th
This stone is associated with creative expression. Appreciation of beauty and spontaneity. This is also an excellent stone for improving visualizations and mental imagery.
AGATE:
 Color-many colors: See color correpondences for general use by color.
Chakra-3rd,4th,5th
Astrological Correspondence: Gemini
Strengthens heart, gives courage, harmonizes heart, throat and solar plexus, detoxifies system, reduces temperature, sharpens, sight, illuminates, gives balance, eloquence, vitality and joy, mellows, brings prosperity, raises self esteem, balances extremism, aids in reoxygenation of body, regenerates, protects from x-rays, strength, protection, support, aids upset stomach, lungs, depression, lethargy, throat, skin, tumor, intelligence, truthfulness, good harvests, guards against lightning, cures insomnia. Also use for love, victory and strength. Accepts circumstatinces, discerns the truth, powerful emotional healer.
AGATE (banded):
Color-banded
Chakra-n/a
Strong protectors for sensitive persons, for courage, strength, can ease spastic discomfort and tensions. Instills courage and extra strength to face life’s challenges. Relieves spastic discomfort.
AGATE (black lace):
Color-black
Chakra-6th, 7th
Use for projective energy, protection, restores bodily energy and eases stressful situations, courage and successful competitions, guards against physical dangers, helps one to learn to balance mental priorities with emotions, ease depression, develop security within ones self.
AGATE (blue lace):
Color-blue
Chakra-5th
Makes self expression easier. Balances psychic centers. Relieves depression, despair, stubborness, emotions. Expands consciousness, soothing, wise, and aids in public speaking.
AGATE (Brazilian):
Color-n/a
Chakra-1st, 2nd
Promotes clarity and helps to ground and center, encourages a high level of physical energy, works with balancing mental, physical and emotional energies, protection under stress, especially good when worn or carried on the body; for meditation, works well when placed in the area of the navel, release intestinal blockage, enchances the function of the reproductive organs, promotes eliminations and cleansing.
AGATE (gray):
Talisman against colic.
AGATE (moss):
Color-green
Chakra-6th
Aids in finding ones life purpose, protects women against sterility.
AGATE (pink Botswana):
 Color-pink
Chakra-2nd, 4th
Chemical Composition: a chalcedony, a variety of quartz (silicon dioxide) Creativity, progress, perception. Eternal love. Helps remove toxins from the body, and is good in treatment of depression and stress. Scorpio 7th Chakra - Crown 4th Chakra - Heart . Use on heart Chakra; protection; used in fertility rites; aids in adjustment to new life and eases lonliness.
AGATE (plum):
Color-plum
Chakra-6th
Used to encourage creative visualization; a good job hunting stone.
AGATE (Sylvester):
Color: Banded with 2 colors
Is given to a child born on the last day of the year to signify the end of the old year and beginning of the new.
AGATE (tree):
Color-white, black stripes
Chakra-1st
Gardner’s charm; relieves stiff neck; lends energy to the depleted; attracts riches, happiness and long life.
AJOITE:
Acitvates adn energizes the chakras, aligns with the universal spirit.
ALEXANDRITE:
Color-green
Chakra-4th
Encourages regeneration, renewal, protection, joy, emotional maturity, purity, grace and elegance. Enhances rebirth of inner and outer self, promotes awareness.
ALMANDINE:
Color-red
Chakra-1st, 7th
Brings spirituality to relationships. Helps in transition from romance to a spiritual commitment in love.
AMAZONITE:
Color-green
Chakra-all (especially throat)
Soothes all Chakras but especially 4th & 5th; balancing. Soothes nervous system, excellent for spasms. Facilitates clearer vision of one’s own harmful tendances making them easier to release. Aligns astral bodies, unity with life, enhances creative expression.
AMBER:
Color-orange, yellow
Chakra-3rd navel, solar plexus, crown
Fossilized resin from pine trees.
A highly calming stone that facilitates energy, balancing and calming. Removes psychic attacks and energy draining from others. Used by healers as a protective shield against taking on others pain in healing work. Good for purification of the body and the digestive track. Stablizes kundalini awakening. Spiritualizes the intellect.
History: Some people believed that this golden resin was solidified lynx urine. Others said it was the rays of the setting sun "congealed in the sea and then cast upon the shore." And to the poets of ancient Greece, amber represented the tears shed by the Heliades over the death of their brother Phaeton. Was also used as an amulet for traders and merchants to bring luck in business. Symbolizes the sacred circle.
Whatever its origins, amber was widely used as a healing agent. Ground up and mixed with honey, it improved eyesight. Adding rose oil to the mixture moved the site of the cure from eye to ear, where it healed infections and, sometimes, deafness. To relieve asthma and whooping cough, amber oil was either swallowed or rubbed on the chest as a liniment. Catarrh, tonsillitis, and running eyes/nose were alleviated when the sufferer inhaled fumes from burnt amber. This treatment was achieved by throwing powdered amber onto a hot brick. Burned amber also was used to ease labor pains. To cure jaundice, the stone was worn against the body so it could absorb the yellow from the skin. Syrup of amber was employed as a sedative. And since opium was an important component of the mixture, this remedy probably was more effective than most. Holding a lump of amber in one's hand was thought to reduce fever or to cool the body on a hot day. Wearing a choker of amber beads cured coughs and reduced glandular swellings. Amber had a nonmedical use also: when laid on the breast of a sleeping wife, it was believed she would confess her evil deeds.
AMBLYGONITE:
Color-golden-yellow, clear
Chakra-2nd, 3rd
Increases feelings of ones own worth. It helps us develop empathy, self-confidence and thoughtfullness towards others.
AMETHYST:
 Color-violet
Chakra-7th - Third eye & crown as well.
Zodiac-Pisces , Virgo , Aquarius. Capricorn (Birthstone for February)
Chemical Composition: Silicon Dioxide
Hardness: 7
Amethyst has been known as the most highly prized form of quartz. It is the presence of manganese in quartz that produces the purple color, and iron content varies the coloration.
Physical representative of the Violet Ray. Cuts through illusion. Enhances psychic abilities. Excellent for meditation. Aids channeling abilities. Sedative, protective. Enhances feeling of contentment, and a connection to one's spirituality. Stone of peace and strength.
 Spirituality & contentment, balances the intelectual, emotional & physical bodies; peace, meditation, protection, sobriety. Alleviates mental stress. Healing, calming mental effect. Enhances the dreamstate. Protects soldiers and aids in making shrewd business decisions.
History: Grape-hued amethyst is most often associated with the god Bacchus, who is said to have created it. According to the legend, Bacchus, in a fit pique, threatened to sic tigers on a young girl who worshipped the goddess, Diana. Diana intervened, turning the girl (whose name was Amethyst) to clear stone. Afterwards, a remorseful Bacchus poured wine over the stone maiden, turning her glowing purple.
Amethyst was credited with the power to prevent intoxication when bound to the navel or when wine was drunk from an amethyst goblet. This gem also expelled poison, quickened the wits, protected soldiers, and cured gout. Drinking a potion of amethyst was supposed to cure barrenness; wearing it was believed to increase business success, guard against witchcraft, and restrain sexual passion.
Amethyst is the traditional gem worn by the Catholic Church hierarchy. Paradoxically, it is known as Bacchus' stone and as the Bishop's stone. In the latter context, it was said to strengthen faith and aid prayer. The natal stone for the month of February, it should be set in gold or silver for strongest effect.
AMETRINE:
Color-violet, yellow
Chakra-6th
Equilibrium & balance; meditation; disperses negativity; release physical, mental, emotional, and auric blockages; compatability.
AMMONITE:
Protective, aids in the birthing process, provides relaxation.
ANDALUSITE:
Color-yellow, green, brownish-red
Chakra-1st, 3rd, 4th
Promotes business and career success, asendancy, authority, leadership ability. It helps us to become powerful and then to use our power wisely and for the good. Stimulates past memories, realignment and centering of self.
ANGELITE (see Anglesite)
ANGLESITE: (also called Angelite)
Color-white
Chakra-4th
Promotes sensitivity, gentleness, relaxation and tenderness. Protects, strengthens degeneration of organs. Excellent for creative people.
ANHYDRITE:
Color-light blue
Chakra-5th
Acts something like a radar detector. It has a way of finding toxins and energy blocks within the body. When the toxins or blockage is identified the anhydrite works energetically to cause release. It balances hormones which are upset by toxins and stress.
APACHE TEAR:
Color-black
Chakra-1st
Helps to ground and center. Helps to connect the physical body with the cubtle body. Helps in the breaking of addictive behavior. Grants forgiveness, understanding in distress.
APATITE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-7th
Clears confusion whithin the mental strata, helps to make a person cheerful, strengthens the nerves and overcomes fatigue. Controls weight gain, good for communication and is highly psychic.
APATITE (yellow):
 Color-yellow
Chakra-3rd
Activates the passive and dreamy person.
APOPHYLLITE:
Loving attunement to body and spirit, stimulates intuition.
ARAGONITE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-1st
Centering; meditation; insight; discipline. Calms and centers, allows for insight, aids in self discipline if directed.
AQUAMARINE:
 Color-light blue
Chakra-5th
Aids in communication and voicing ones opinion. Supports one through intense physical, emotional, and karmic release. Banishes fears, calms nerves and imparts strength and control.
History: This cool, water-colored beryl has a long history of use as a curative substance. In common with many other blue or green stones, aquamarine was used to cure eye injuries. Remedy was effected in one of two ways. The first method involved grinding the stone very finely, passing the particles through a sieve to remove impurities. A small quantity of powder was then placed in the injured eye, and the patient was  instructed to lie still until it took effect. The alternative measure was to soak the stone in water which was then used to bathe the injured eye.
Rubbing swollen glands with an aquamarine was believed to reduce the swelling. Wearing it prevented spasms, convulsions, and liver ailments. Seafarers often carried aquamarines engraved with the image of Poseidon, god of the sea, to protect themselves during storms.
Aquamarine also was a handy cure for an affliction which, although not serious, could be quite annoying - hiccoughs! Sufferers had only to drink water in which an aquamarine had been dipped to gain instant relief. Aquamarine is one of the birthstones for those born in March.
AUGITE:
Color-green, black
Chakra-4th
Associated with prosperity, success, good fortune and luck. It helps us to be at the right place at the right time.
AUTINITE:
Color-green
Chakra-4th
Fosters courage, daring, new beginings and adventures. It is protective of those who are young and free and willing to take a chance.
AVENTURINE:
 Color-green
Chakra-4th
Zodiac-Aries
Protects the heart; balance; motivation; decisivness; instinct.
Chemical Composition: Quartz, Silicon Dioxide
Hardness: 7
Often has tiny particles of mica, hematite, or goethite
Creativity, motivation, leadership. Balances male-female energies. Aries 4th Chakra - Heart. Independence, strong legs and joints, helps in career change.
AXINITE:
Color-blue, violet, brown
Chakra-1st, 5th, 7th
Helps us activate our spiritual beliefs on the earth plane. Teaches us to live our spirituality in our daily lives.
AZURITE:
 Color: Blue/Green
Chakra-6th
Helps one to connect with spirit guides, aids healers, meditators, and psychics. Increases psychic ability. Dissolves energy blocks and negativity. Cuts through illusion, enhances communication.
BARITE:
Color-varies
Chakra-4th, 5th
Linked with platonic love, friendship, loyalty, love and relationships. This is a stone of interpersonal communication and intimacy.
BENITOITE:
Color-light to dark blue
Chakra-5th
Associated with emotional sensitivity, empathy and understanding.
BERYL (clear):
Color-clear
Chakra-7th
Increases intellectual abilities, wisdom and the capacity to see things from all sides. Keeps sailors brave and brings harmony in relationships.
BERYL (golden):
Color-golden
Chakra-3rd
Brings persistence, altruism, spirituality, healing, strength, learning, communication and comfort. Use as an amulet for legal battles, improves mental agility and physical energy...cures laziness.
BERYL (pink):
Color-pink
Chakra-1st
Fosters tolerance, empathy, love, acceptance and a live and let live attitude.
BERYLLIUM:
Color-n/a
Chakra-6th, 7th
Associated with altered states, meditation and cosmic consciousness.
BLOODSTONE:
Color-red/dark green
Chakra-root, heart
Zodiac: Pisces
Excellent for headaches, bloodshot eyes, hemorrhage, high blood pressure. Aids in balancing iron deficiencies. Inner guidance & idealism. Grants wishes, keeps wrath of kings at bay, gives unbelieveable speech. Aids in decision-making. Also grants victory in battle, protection, weather magic, admiration, guards against deception.
History: Green flecked with red, the bloodstone is credited with many religious and curative properties. The red specks were thought to represent the blood of Christ, and the stone is often associated with the Crucifixion.
Because it was believed to stop bleeding, the heliotrope, as it is also called, was often carried by warriors. Its value to warriors was further enhanced because the bloodstone was thought to inspire courage and to ensure success in hazardous enterprises. Longevity was another benefit attributed to this gem. The weather also was affected by this stone, which was said to cause thunder, lightening, rain and tempest.
BOJI STONES:
Color-brown
Chakra-1st
These metallic stones work to heal negative feelings, negative emotional patterns and old pain. Promotes free flow of ch’i and balanced energy, help heal arthritis, backaches and osteoporosis. Contains powerful Earth energy, aiding attunement with nature. Increase resistance to stress and disease. Influences blood, circulation, immune system. Strengthens all Chakras. Gives a sense of joy and is highly energetic. Draws out pain.
BORNITE:
Color-metallic purple
Chakra-7th
Associated with peace, social justice, goodness, fairness, truth and equality. It fosters caring on a worldwide scale, teaching us to be concerned with the welfare of all beings on earth.
BRAZILIANITE:
Color-yellow, greenish-yellow
Chakra-3rd, 4th
Associated with academic achievement, attention to detail, improved study skills and increased intelligence. Promotes trust in self, refreshes memories of pre-physical existense, gently clears blockages.
BRONZE:
Color-bronze
Chakra-3rd
Associated with relaxation, serenity, calmness. Helps promote a laid back attitude.
CALCITE:
 Color-blue
Chakra-2nd, 5th
Zodiac - Cancer
Chemical Composition: Calcium Carbonate, Ca CO3
Hardness: 3
Memory; clear and activate Chakras. Powerful energy amplifier and healer. Aids memory. Clears chakra centers, opens crown chakra. Good for arts and sciences, balances the mental and emotional.
 CALCITE (green):
Color-green
Chakra-4th
Aids in releasing old traumas held in the belly Chakra. Clears negative karmic patterns.
CALCITE (honey or golden):
 Color-honey
Chakra-3rd
Helps the mind and body remember information brought during astral travel and channeling experiences.
CALCITE (optical):
 Color-clear
Chakra-5th
Communication.
CALCITE (orange):
 
CALCITE (pink):
CALCITE (red):
Color-red
Chakra-1st
Helps one to be more grounded on the earth plane. Provides courage and the will to live.
CALCITE (white):
 Color-white
CARBUNKLE cominged with CHALCEDONY
Color: Blood-Red
Heart stimulant
Thought to have been the material within dragon’s eyes. Wise perception, health, celestrial energy. Protection from drowning.
CARNELIAN:
 Color-orange/deep red
Zodiac: Taurus, Cancer, Leo
Chakra: 1st through 4th Chakras
Chemical Composition: a chalcedony, a variety of quartz (silicon dioxide) Perception, precision. Increases physical energy. Protection against the emotions of fear and anger. Analysis and precision; protection from negative emotions; stability; inquisitiveness; initiative; cleansing other stones. Luck, protection from evil, Improves verbal skills and brings bold speech. Cures foreboding, protects from falling objects. When engraved, it also brings hope. One of the stones used in Egyptian tombs and rituals. Releases sorrow, fear, envy, apathy and rage.
CASSITERITE:
Color-brown, black
Chakra-1st
Promotes productivity; practicality and organization. It empowers us in worldly endeavors and practical pursuits.
CATS EYE:
Color-golden
Chakra-3rd
Builds determination, strenght of mind, steadfastness, will power, moral courage, tenacity, vigor, resolve, self control, intelligence and knowledge. It also fosters constancy, stability and the ability to weather all storms.
CELESTITE CRYSTALS:
 
Color-clear, pale blue-violet
Chakra-7th
Zodiac - Gemini
Chemical Composition: Strontium Sulfate, sometimes with much Barium
Hardness: 3 - 3 1/2
Sky-blue colored brittle clusters of crystals, orthorhombic in structure, transparent to translucent. In the U.S. celestite may be found in New York, Ohio, and California. Excellent specimens are currently found in Madagascar. Also called celestine.
Clarity of mind, clear communication skills, balances energies, calming, harmonious. Excellent for use in dream recall and astral travel. In healing, celestite replaces pain with loving light. This delicate and exquisite crystal is lovely to behold. Celestite advances channeling, brings about information/light, core soul healing, spiritual and karmic growth, evokes peace and the ability to flow with life. Clears speech and personal expression - a highly spiritual stone.
CERUSSITE:
Color-clear, grey, brown
Chakra-1st, 7th
Inspires contentment and a feeling of thankfulness. Teaches us to pray.
CHALCEDONY:
Color-grey
Chakra-7th
Augments emotional balance, vitality, stamina, endurance, energy, intensity, hardiness, nurturance, generosity, livliness, kindness, charity and friendliness. This stone imparts a mothering, loving energy. Aids in expression of emotional needs, honesy, and alleviates regret. Combined with carbuncle it brings protection from drowning.
CHALCOPYRITE:
Color-golden, greenish
Chakra-3rd, 4th
Enchances feelings of self worth, confidence and belief in oneself.
CHAROITE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-7th
Brings spirituality into the earth plane level. Accellerates spiritual growth, enhances self-esteem and ability to love.
CHIASTOLITE:
Transmutes dissension into harmony, balances perspective
CHLORITE:
Color-green, white, brown, black
Chakra-4th
A stone of the Goddess. Protective of women, nature and those who love and protect the wild places and animals.
CHRYSOBERYL:
Color-yellow, green, brown
Chakra-3rd, 4th
Promotes kindness, generosity, benevolence, hope, optimism, renewal, new beginings, compassion and forgiveness. This stone expresses spring time, youth and innocence.
CHRYSOCOLLA:
 Color-blue
Chakra-5th
An important tone for it releases grief, sadness, and fear from the throat. Brings joy, certainty and peace. Aids in communication, female energy, creativity, relieves ulcers and arthritis.
CHRYSOPRASE (australian): (aka Australian Jade)
  Color-greenish blue
Chakra-4th
Zodiac - Libra
Chemical Composition: a chalcedony, a variety of quartz (silicon dioxide)
Hardness: 7
This stone activates, opens and energizes the heart Chakra. Meditation with or wearing chrysoprase can facilitate a deep heart connection with mother earth. Grace, compassion, acceptance. Helps to balance energies. Increases fertility. Also helps prevent depression.
CINNABAR:
Color-red
Chakra-1st
Helps us to be vigorous, forceful, impelling and energetic. Excellent for those who need to be more assertive.
CITRINE:
 Color-yellow
Chakra-3rd - Navel & crown.
Zodiac: Gemini , Aries, Libra . Leo (Birthstone for November)
Chemical Composition: Silicon Dioxide
Hardness: 7
Iron is the element which gives Citrine its warm golden color. Extreme heat, whether naturally occurring or applied by man, will turn amethyst into a burnt golden color. Technically, it is "burnt amethyst," but is usually categorized as citrine.
 Citrine is one of the only stones which dissipates negative energy, and never requires cleansing or clearing. Emits a warm energy, promotes optimism. Attracts abundance, and is known as a "merchants' stone," to be placed in cash register or where one conducts business, to not only acquire positive wealth but to maintain it as well. Enhances body's healing energy. Good for mental focus, endurance, and self-esteem.
 Warms, comforts and energizes; gives physical and material power; self-assurance and prosperity; dissolves negative blocks; aids in digestion and assimilation, mentally, physically and emotionally; eliminates waste; teaches release; dissolves fear; has grounding influence; gives confidence; raises vibration; aids with depression, poor digestion, weak heart, kidneys, liver and muscles, degeneration of tissue, circulatory system toxicity. Eliminates toxins from the body. Enhances body’s healing energy. Diminishes self-destructive tendencies. Energizing, attracts abundance. Cleans auras and detoxifies the body. Aids in tissue regneration.
CLINOZOISITE:
Color-light green, brownish-green
Chakra-4th
Teaches us to care for ourselves and not to let others take advantage of us.
COBALT:
Color-blue
Chakra-5th
Fosters channeling, communication with higher forces, balance and praying. Helps make our prayers more effective. Teaches us to pray and give thanks more.
COBALTITE:
Color-silvery
Chakra-6th
Associated with reflection, meditation and re-evaluation. It promotes thoughtfulness and careful consideration. It allows us to see all sides of an issue and therefore foster tolerance.
COLMANITE:
Color-translucent
Chakra-7th
Helps us become mor yin-gentler, sweeter, quieter. Good for the “macho” men. Helps us mellow out.
COPPER: (metal)
Color-yellow, orange
Chakra-2nd, 3rd
Planets: The Earth, Venus
Promotes channeling, cleansing, luck, prosperity, purification, self-esteem, communication and energy. This metal is often used as the shafts of crystal wands because it facilitates the flow of energy. Strong conductor of energy. Aid for exhaustion and sexual imbalance. Release restrictions, stimulates initiative and optimism.
CORAL:
One of the most versatile gems, coral was used to cure everything, from indigestion to acne to fits. The red variety was employed to ease various blood ailments. A prescription of ½ drachm of powdered coral was used to stop hemorrhages. Tincture of red coral cured diseases of the liver and was employed as a diuretic.
Babies received particular benefit from coral, which eased teething pains when worn. Powdered and mixed with mother's milk (10 grains), it was supposed to avert epilepsy and to help the child gain weight. White coral, worn as a necklace, was thought to stop abdominal colic and indigestion. Drunk powdered in milk (60 grains), it cured acidity. A concoction of coral, emerald, and saffron, wrapped in the skin of a cat, was employed to combat fever.
Believed to have a special affinity with women, coral was believed to change its hue from deep to pale in accordance with the menstrual cycle. Other properties of this versatile gem included the power to avert tempests at sea (bind to the mast with sealskin), repel rabies, ward off the evil eye, and cure madness (including hydrophobia). Gives protection from evil and increases imagination. Resolves conflicts. Protects a ship from wind and waves. Brings wisdom.
CORAL (black):
Color-black
Chakra-7th
Grants serenity and peace while absorbing negative energy.
CORAL (pink):
Color-pink
Chakra-2nd
Associated with platonic love, friendship and community. Slows bleeding.
CORAL (red):
Color-red
Chakra-1st
Promotes creativity, passion, romantic love, wisdom, optimism and enthusiasm.
CORAL (white):
Color-white
Chakra-2nd
Linked with balance, relaxation, protection, safe travel on water, appreciation of nature and emotional balance.
COVELITE:
Color-blue metallic
Chakra-5th
Helps us focus our energy and expand it with direction and effectiveness.
CRYSTAL BALLS:
Color-clear, but can come in other colors
Chakras-6th, 7th
Helps us see the past and future. Transports us to a place that is “between worlds” a gate to other times, other realities. Promotes divination, Fortune telling, clairvoyance, spirit vission quests and the enchantment of psychic powers.
CUPRITE:
Color-red
Chakra-1st
Makes us more helpful to others and more attentive to moral duties. Encourages pragmatism and focus.
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