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HALITE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-n/a
Helps us transcend our problems.Encourages perspective and contentment.
HAMBERGITE:
Color-clear, white
Chakra-1st
Helps us stick to our beliefs. Fosters idealism, character and truth.
HAUYNITE:
Color-blue
Chakra-5th
Helps us gain respect, honor, esteem and admiration.
HELIODOR:
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HEMETITE:
 Color-red, silvery
Chakra-1st, 7th
Zodiac: Aries, Aquarius
Associated with Mars (Aries)
Chemical Composition: Iron Oxide
Hardness: 5-6
Enhances mental activity. Balances yin/yang energies and emotions. Dissolves negativity. Grounding. Mental attunement; memory enchancement; original thinking; technical knowledge; mental and manual dexterity; calming; release of limitations; physical cooling; equilibrium between ethereal and physical; balancing of yin & yang; focusing energy & emotions; dissolves and transforms negativity; peace; self control & inner happiness; meditation; grounding; tranquility; emotional clarity; helps with leg cramps, blood disorders, nervous disorders & insomnia, helps bones, especially the spine. Draws out heat from feverish part of the body. Helps circulate oxygene throughout the body. Enhances personal magnetism. Grounding, dissolves negative energy and works as a shield of protection for any person or thing. Promotes common sense and level headedness. Attraction & charm improves destiny, especially in legal matters. Gives soldiers Mars’ favor.
History: This metallic grey mineral has a long history of medicinal use. Tumors on the eyelids were treated with hematite dissolved in egg white or fenugreek. General inflammation of the eyelids only needed a solution of hematite in water. Ground to a powder, it was used to cure blood diseases (3 grains in oil) and to soothe skin ulcerations or burns. Hematite also was used to treat bilious disorders (rub with a moistened whetstone until a red juice is obtained).
HEMIMORPHITE:
Color-blue, green, clear
Chakra-4th, 5th
Fosters enthusiasm, optimism, high energy and the ability to stay excited about a project right through the end.
HERKIMER DIAMOND QUARTZ:
 Color-clear
Chakra-all
Zodiac - Saggitarius
Herkimer diamonds are a particular formation of Quartz Crystal, which can be found in Herkimer, New York, USA. Other crystals which exhibit a similar formation also are sometimes referred to as "herkimers."
Transpersonal Chakra, creates mental clarity, expands awareness, draws ones soul-mate and soul-friends. Aids in remembering dreams. Harmony, awareness, spontaneity. Crystal of attunement. Stimulates clairvoyance and telepatchic communication. Can store information/emotions. Alleviates tension.
HESSONITE:
Clears negativity, eliminates feelings of inferiority, promotes positive change.
HIDDENITE:
Color-yellow, green
Chakra-3rd, 4th
Grants spiritual attainment, enlightenment, universal compassion, transcendance and peace.
HOLLEY:
Color-blue, purple
Chakra-all
This stone focuses one’s life purpose for this incarnation. Opens and balances the casual body allowing for transmission of spiritual energy into your awareness. A good aid for new channelers.
HOWLITE:
 Color-white
Chakra-5th
Chemical Composition: Hydrated Calcium Silico-Borate
Hardness: 3 1/2
Occurence: may be found in Nova Scotia and California.
Stone of memory, knowledge, and progress. Encourages reasoning, observation, discrenment, patience, and tact. Can eliminate pain, stress, and anger. Gemini 7th Chakra - Crown
Calms communication; facilitates awareness; encourages emotional expression; discernment; memory; progress; eliminates hesitation; dispels criticalness, selfishness & facetiousness; eliminates pain, stress & rage, subtelty & tact; balances calcium levels in the body.
HYACINTH:
Color: A reddish-brown variety of zircon
(may be another name for sapphire)
Connected with the dragon, safety, guards against misfortune, carries dragon’s wisdom and power.
HYPERSTHENE:
Color-blackish-brown, blackish-green
Chakra-1st, 4th
Enchances self esteem, emotional expression and overcoming shyness. Helps put us at ease in all social situations.
IOLITE:
Color-blue
Chakra-5th
Enchances leadership ability, power, inner strength, self confidence and executive ability. Gives accurate visions, releases discord, strenthens liver. A soul connector.
IRON: (metal)
Color-reddish
Chakra-1st
Planet: Mars
Was used for Roman wedding rings.
Promotes balance, strength, endurance, protection, longevity, persistence, emotional stability, favorable legal situations, efficiency and skill. Counters evil spirits. Do not use to harvest herbs as it harms magickal qualities of plants and scares away fairies.
IRON PYRITE: (Fool’s Gold) (see Pyrite)
JACINTH:
Protection against injury or sickness for travlers and improves hospitality wherever you go. Guards against lightning if imbeded in the home. Induces sleep when put under your pillow.
JADE:
Color-green
Chakra-4th
Dream stone; stone of fidelity; brings realisation to ones potential & devotion to purpose; releases suppressed emotions; peace; access to the spiritual worlds; wisdom; confidence; helps the heart, hips, kidneys, spleen, skin & hair. Reduces eyestrain and negativitiy, promoties longevity, dreams and love.
History: Jade was known as the kidney stone, and it was widely employed as a remedy for renal disease. It was worn over this organ to break up kidney stones. Powdered and mixed with gold and silver, jade strengthened the lungs, the vocal organs, and the heart and prolonged life.
A potion of jade, rice, and dew was employed to harden bones, make muscles more supple, calm the mind, and purify the blood. Taken regularly, this prescription eliminated hunger and thirst as well as sensations of heat and cold.
Believed to protect the body from decay, jade was used for embalming. When worn around a child's neck jade would guard against infantile disease. It also was worn to relieve gastric pains and heartburn, to calm asthma, and to aid childbirth. Four grains, dissolved in wine, relieved bile. The Chinese referred to jade as the musical stone, because of the melodic tones it makes when struck.
JADEIT:
Color-variety
Chakra-n/a
Encourages emotional balance, a sense of well being and healing dreams.
JASPER:
Color-red
Chakra-2nd, 6th, 7th
Energizes life force; rejuvinates; promotes unselfishness; dissolves illusion; gives courage, wisdom, protection from stress, clear vision; relieves pain and suffering; attracts good fortune; reduces fear and suppresion; aids past life recall; increases pyschic ability and attunement to higher self; balances astral and etheric bodies; increases masculine traits; rain bringer; protection for unseen hazards at night and snakebit, stability stone; regulates metabolic processes and promotes physical stamina; good for digestive upsets; helps with blood disease, stomach ache, skin, kidneys, thymus, neurological tissue, immune system, aging, allergies. Jasper is a powerful physical healer and protects against negativity.
JET: (Black Amber)
Color-black
Chakra-1st
Fosters nobility, honor, decency, justice, goodness, protection, optimism, emotional balance, courteousness, happiness, benevolence, confidence, transformation, positive growth, courage and leadership abilities. This stone encourages us to stay centered in all situations. Victorian symbol of mourning. Dispels migraines, illness, violence and deep depression. Protects finances.
History: Jet is sometimes called Black Amber. Like amber, it often was burned and the fumes inhaled to alleviate various conditions, including edema, colds, female disorders, and hysteria. Jet fumes also were used to detect loss of virginity, although the exact method is unclear.
Drinking water in which a piece of jet had been dipped was supposed to ease childbirth. Powdered jet and wax, formed into a salve, cured swollen glands. For some reason, this black stone was used for dental problems. A mixture of jet in wine relieved toothache and served as a fixative for loose teeth. The gem also was used as a dentifrice.
In Victorian times, jet was worn in mourning jewelry. But mourners were not its only wearers, since it was believed to ease arthritis of the knee and to prevent baldness.
KIOSHI STONE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-1st
Used as a grounding stone.
KORNERUPINE:
Color-green, greenish-brown
Chakra-4th, 5th
Enchances teaching ability, eloquence, communication and clarity.
KUNZITE:
 Color-green or blue
Chakra-4th - Heart
Zodiac - Scorpio, Taurus, Leo
Chemical Composition: A spodumene, lithium aluminum silicate of the pyroxene group.
Hardness - 6 1/2 - 7
Manifest mature state in heart; to be open, clear, secure, strong, vibrant, balance and loving; enables you to reach out and give; allows one to experience purity of self love and own essence; can balance negative emotional states; good stone for children who are having a hard time adjusting and functioning in life. Powerful love energy. Peace and purification. Protects aura and dissipates negativity. Excellent for meditation. Reduces insecurity, addictiveness, manic depression, gives maturity.
KUNZITE (pink):
KYANITE:
Chakra-alligns all chakras automatically and immediately. Also used for opening the chakras.
Zodiac - Taurus, Libra, Aries
Chemical Composition: Aluminum silicate
Hardness- Lengthwise 4-5, crosswize 6-7
One of only two stones which never needs cleansing or clearing. Stone of attunement. Good for communication, menatal awareness. Stimulates psychic awareness. Excellent for meditationa nd dream recall. Promotes clarity and understanding in dream work, enhances creativity.
KYANITE (black):
KYANITE (blue):
Chakra-Excellent for use specifically on the throat and third-eye chakras.
KYANITE (green):
Color-green
Chakra-4th
Never neeeds cleaning or clearing. Aligns Chakras automatically and immediately. Calming, dispells anger, facilitates clarity and meditation. Balances yin & yang. Assists in treatment of muscular and utogenital systems, adrenal glands, throat & brain.
LABRADORITE:
 Color-yellows, greens, blues
Chakra-3rd
Chemical Composition: of the Plagioclase Feldspar Group, a series of mixtures of sodium and calcium aluminum silicates. Also known as Spectrolite.
Hardness: 6
 Labradorite is named for Labrador, where it was first discovered. It is also found in Madagascar, India, Newfoundland, Finland, and Russia. Its distinctive flash of irridescent colors is known as "labradorescence." These beautiful flashes of color change according to the angle of light refraction, and may be blue, green, yellow, and pink, with the majority of the stone itself a dark grey in color. Brings recognition of destiny, c onnects one with the elements.
Aids in healing the will, heals co-dependacy & co-alcoholism. Promotes courage and clarity. Emits a powerful light energy, from planetary sources and beings, to the soul of the user. Used in facilitating astral projection. Stone of transformation and utilization of the subconscoius mind. Promotes intellectual, intuitive, and mystical wisdom. Stimulates brain, reduces anxiety and stress. Clears, balances, and protects aura.
LAPIS LAZULI:
Color-cobalt blue
Chakra-6th, throat & third eye
Changes negative views of reality to positive views. Cleanses the mental body while releasing old karmic patterns. Mental clarity and emotional healing. Very powerful stone for those sincere in spirtual development. Helps develop psychic abilities and aids in communication with higher self and spirit guides. Increases psychic or magickal energy during meditation, cures fever and melancholy. Endows the joy of the Gods. Strengthens total awareness, ESP, skeleton, thyroid, and creativity.
History: Deep blue flecked with gold, the lapis lazuli was a staple of the medieval apothecary. To heal eye ailments, the eye was bathed with warm water in which a piece of lapis had soaked. Warming a lapis and applying it to the site of a swelling reduced the swelling.
Lapis was used to treat two reproductive conditions. A dose of 60 grams prevented miscarriage. And, at the end of the cycle, ˝ drachm powdered in egg was employed to expedite childbirth. Other uses of lapis were to cure apoplexy, purge melancholy, and as an antidote to serpent bites.
The stone is particularly appropriate for carving, and many ancient talismans were fashioned from it. According to one legend, lapis lazuli was the stone upon which Moses' Ten Commandments were engraved.
LARIMAR:
Confidence builder, good for sales, reduces depression, builds serenity.
LEPIDO LITE:
 Color-n/a
Chakra-6th - Heart & Crown
Zodiac - Libra
Composition: basic potassium, lithium, aluminum floursilicate mica group.
Hardness: 2 1/2 - 3
Peace stone; spirituality; luck; anti-nightmare; psychism; love; protection; calming stone, probably due to the high content of lithium; promotes restful sleep. Transition, hope, honesty, reduces stress & depression. Promotes self-love, alleviates stress, anger and tension.
LEUCITE:
Color-white
Chakra-1st
Ecourages reconciliation with friends and lovers. Facilitates tolerance and empathy.
LIMESTONE
Color-tan
Chakra-1st
Enhances healing, purification, innocence, centeredness and positive thoughts.
LANOITE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-n/a
Encourages individuality, expressiveness, originality and creativity. Helps us to unfold our own unique personality.
LEAD (metal):
Planet: Saturn
Heavy, foundations. Put in shoe to keep on foot on the ground.
LOADSTONE (Heraclean):
Keeps mates faitful, personal attraction, improves charisma, draws people to you. Protects against Jinn. “The Loving Stone” - cut into a heart and carved with the image of Hectate it protects rom any summoned soul. Attracts any kind of energy needed.
LUDLAMITE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-n/a
A relaxation stone fostering comfort, ease, rest, repose and mellowness. Good for workaholics.
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