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PEARL:
Color-varies
Chakra-1st, 3rd
Inspires purity, honesty, innocence, integraty, concentration, focus, meditation, serenity, tranquility and wisdom. Helps us get in touch with the simple honest things in life.
History: The soft, lustrous beauty of the pearl had led it to become a symbol of purity and virtue, and many are the virtues and legends attached to it. The Arabs called pearls "tears of the gods," and said they were formed by drops of rain falling into oyster shells. By the Chinese, pearls are regarded as the hidden soul of the oyster. And "margarithe," another name for this gem, means "child of light."
Taken in milk, pearls were used to cure ulcers, while 6 grains in water sweetened with manna (ash tree sap) warded off the plague. Burnt pearl powder drunk in water stopped hemorrhages; inhaled, it cured headache. Oil of pearls was believed to fortify the nerves. Applying the oyster shell containing a pearl to the affected area healed leprosy and other skin diseases. The gem was considered beneficial for easing indigestion, curing hemorrhoids, and counteracting poison. Nursing women took pearl concoctions to make their milk healthy and plentiful. Pearls also were essential toiletry articles, used to clean face and teeth.
Although the pearl was a symbol of chastity, it was considered a potent aphrodisiac - and a mere ˝ grain dose would cure impotence. The Hindus deemed this gem appropriate as a wedding gift; the ceremonial piercing of a perfect ("virgin") pearl often formed a part of the nuptial ritual.
Despite the many virtues of this gem, there were limitations and, even, risks attached to using it. In fact, defective pearls were believed to cause all manner of discomfort, from disgrace and misfortune to insanity, leprosy, and death.
Like diamonds, pearls were credited with the ability to reproduce themselves. The quality was attributed to every ninth pearl, each of which was placed in a bottle with two grains of rice and left to breed. Pearl is one of the birthstones for the month of June. In Borneo, every 9th pearl is kept in a bottled with 2 grains of rice to feet it and let them breed others.
PERIDOT:
Color-green
Chakra-3rd, 4th
These wonderful bright green stones emit a warm and friendly energy, they can be used to cleanse and to stimulate the 3rd and 4th Chakras, bringing openness and acceptance to the intellectual pursuit of matters of love and relationships.Opens new doors, removes stress, fear, guilt, activates personal growth.
History: Peridot, also known as chrysolite or olivine, was usually set in gold and worn on the left side. It was used to dispel night terrors and to ward off fevers. Strung on the hair of an ass and worn on the left arm, it protected against evil spirits.
August's birthstone was credited with the power to make the wearer gracious and loving. It also was used to foretell the future.
PETALITE:
Color-pink
Chakra-1st
Associated with inspiration, fertility and imagination.
PETRIFIED WOOD:
 Color-multi
Chakra-6th, 7th
Zodiac: Leo
The original wood has been replaced by various minerals. Strength, grounding, transformation. Aids in accessing past lives. Connection to Earth and Nature, removes petty annoyances.
In Reiki, it is excellent for use on the back, skeletal structure. Used to extend lifespan; increases our enjoyment of and development within our lives; recalling past life experiences; sets up barriers of energy which deflect negativity; carried as a charm against drowning.
PHENACITE:
Color-clear, pink, yellow
Chakra-1st, 3rd
Helps those who have addictive personalities overcome their negative habits. Especially good for those who are addicted to love and to relationships.
PHOSGENITE:
Color-clear, yellow, green, white
Chakra-3rd, 4th
Associated with boldness, courage, daring and confidence.
PIETERSITE:
Dignified power and loving guidance, accesses Akashic records.
PRASE:
Resolves sexulaity issues, sense of oneness with universe.
PRASIOLITE:
Color-green
Chakra-4th
Inspires self reliance and originality. Gives us the courage to dare new things.
PREHNITE:
Color-yellow-green, yellow-brown
Chakra-1st, 3rd, 4th
Facilitates trustworthiness, truth, calmness, sincerity and sensitivity. Balances chakras, enhances personal relationships.
PURPURITE:
Color-purple, pink, brown
Chakra-1st, 7th
Brings vitality, robustness, truth, vigor and stamina, has a wholesome, rejuvenating effect.
PYRITE:
 Color-gold
Chakra-7th, 3rd Chakra - Solar Plexus
Zodiac: Leo
Chemical Composition: FeS2, Iron Disulfide, often with substantial amounts of nickel and cobalt
Hardness: 6 - 6 1/2
Occurrence: Brass-yellow in color, metallic, often tarnished with a film of iron oxide. Crystal formation varies, isometric in cubes and pyritohedrons, rarely as octohedrons. Also granular, massive, fibrous, stalactitic, and mammillary. Pyrite is found in many different rocks, and in hydrothermal veins. Localities in the U.S. include Utah, Colorado, and Pennsylvania. Commonly known as "fool's gold."
Stone of protection. Wards off negative energy and physical danger. Stimulates intellect, enhances memory. Represents physical perfection Provides a base of life force energies that can be utilized through your body; acts as an energy channel and transmitter of that energy to you; eases anxiety, depression, frustrations and false hopes. Protects against backbiting and falsehoods. Increases memory, concentration, spirtual and psychic ability for students.
PYROLUSITE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-n/a
Associated with hope, optimism, confidence, determination and material comfort.
PYROPE:
Color-red-brown
Chakra-1st
Brings stability in relationships. Helps in the transition from romance to firm commitment in love.
QUANTUM CRYSTALS:
Color-clear
Chakra-all
Three or more double terminated clear quartz crystals that are joined together. These crystals alter the statistical probabilities of your wishes, prayers and visualizations coming true. They also allow us easy access to alternate realities.
QUARTZ:
 Color-clear
Chakra-all - Activates Crown Chakra
Chemical Compostion: Silicon Dioxide
Hardness: 7
Quartz is one of the most abundant minerals in the world. Sand is mostly comprised of quartz; even the dust in the air is high in quartz content. The most well-known form of quartz is clear rock crystal, and it may be found throughout the world. Particularly fine specimens are currently found in Brazil, the United States, the Swiss Alps, and Madaga scar.
Clear quartz crystal is the universal stone. It is a pure and powerful energy source. It receives, activates, stores, transmits, and amplifies energy. Stimulates brain functions and activates all levels of consciousness. Excellent for meditation. Brings harmony to the soul. Balances & heals emotional wounds at Heart Chakra. A very general purpose stone which can be used for almost anything; especially good at amplifying and directing thoughts and energy. Purity and infinity. Aids headaches.
History: One of the oldest stones used for curative purposes, quartz (or rock crystal) was used in first century Rome as a cauterizing agent. In sixteenth century Germany, it was known as the "vertigo stone" because it was thought to prevent dizziness. Powdered and mixed in dry wine, it was used to cure dysentery; in honey it helped mothers nurse their babies. There are many tales associated with the quartz crystal...that the ancient Atlanteans and Lemurians utilized the power of crystals...that a crystal was a main component in the workings of a device used within the great pyramid of Egypt for initiation...abductees reporting the use of crystals by aliens.
QUARTZ CANDLE:
Aids in accessing ancient knowledge and putting it to use.
QUARTZ SCEPTRE:
Atlantian/Lemurian symbol of power. Focuses energy within the heart.
REALGAR:
Color-orange, red
Chakra-1st, 2nd
Associated with introspection, insight, balance, meditation, harmony and depth of perception.
RHODOCHROSITE:
Color-white, pink
Chakra-4th
Cleanses the heart Chakra and emotional body, releases suffering from past lives. Reprograms the emotional body to recieve joy. Heals chronic self blame. Aids spleen, heart, kidneys, and blood circulation. Emotional balancer. Helps heal emotional wounds.
RHODONITE:
Color-white pink
Chakra-1st, 5th - root, heart
Grounds spirit forces in body and helps us work lovingly on physical plane; helps us actualize our potential; helps those who are sensitive be less vulnerable to others negativity; raises self esteem and confidence; amplifies thought projection; increases sensitivity in hearing; increases language facility and communication skills; aids vitamin absorption; restoration of physical energy depleted by trauma; promotes self esteem; good for moral boost, good for mental unrest, confusion, fear, physical and emotional trauma, inner ear, respiratory problems. Restores physical energy, improves memory. Restores physical energy, improves memory. Self esteem, self confidence, gives an aura of elegance and helps one achieve their greatest potential.
ROSE QUARTZ:
 Colo r-pink
Chakra-4th
Zodiac-Libra, Taurus
Composition: Silicon Dioxide
Hardness: 7
Occurrence: Soft pink in color, it usually occurrs in massive form, rarely in crystal form. It may be found in Brazil, India, Madagascar, and the U.S. In the United States it is found in South Dakota, California, Maine, and Montana.
 Love stone; calming and cooling; harmony after crisis; balances all Chakras; balances yin & yang; healing emotional wounds; clear the body and release impurities; helps against stress; kidneys & adrenals; skin; heart; lungs; helps heal burns. Aids the heart. Helps clear stored anger, resentment, guilt, fear, jealousy. Aids development of forgiveness, compassion, love. Known as the “Love Stone.” Reduces weight and wrinkles and increases self-assuredness.
RUBY:
Color-red
Chakra-1st, 4th
Stone of nability; stimulates feminine attributes; financial stability; good and lucid dreams; creativity; awareness & manifestation; helps fever; heart & blood; detoxification. Mental balance, improves circulation, protects sensitive natures. Mental and physical health, and peacekeeping (when on left side of body).
History: Deep, glowing red, the ruby is sometimes said to contain the original spark of life, "a drop of the heart's blood of Mother Earth." Stories are told of a magnificent ruby which possessed youth giving properties. When rubbed on the body, this miraculous stone would remove visible signs of aging.
Because of its flame color, the ruby was used to make water boil. Powers of the ruby were many: it warded off plagues and pestilence (worn on the left side), made the wearer prudent, drove away melancholy, restrained lust, and ensured good harvests. When the color darkened, the wearer was warned of approaching danger. Inserted in the flesh, it made one strong and invincible. Sacred to Hindus - In Burma, gives soldiers invulnerability when mounted directly in the flesh.
Rubies were used to guard against the elements, and it was said that if a ruby was touched to the four corners of a house or garden, it would ward off tempest, lightning, and worms. The Burmese believed that rubies "ripened in color" while in the earth. For those born in July, the ruby is their natal gem, and they will find it most beneficial when set in gold.
RUTILATED QUARTZ:
 Color-various
Chakra: all
Zodiac-Gemini, Taurus
Rutilated Quartz is identified as quartz crystal containing rutile crystals growing within it. The chemical composition of rutile is titanium dioxide, and occurs as "hairs" or thin, straight crystals, with a metallic lustre.
Intensify the power of the quartz crystal and other stones. These stones heal and balance the aura while repelling negative energy. Intensifies healing while easing transition. Stimulates brain functions. Cleanses arteries. Increases clairvoyance. Transmutes negativity. Excellent for astral travel, insight, awareness, communication with that beyond our physical realm. Excellent for birthing process.
SAPPHIRE (blue):
Color-blue
Chakra-5th
Inspires creative expression, intuition and meditation. Goal motivator, strengthens loyalty, highly evolved spiritual stone. Help magicians understand omens.
History: Sacred to the god Apollo, the sapphire was often called the "celestial stone" because of its deep blue color. Religion plays a large role in the lore of the sapphire. It was an ecclesiastical gem, symbolic of purity. To derive the most benefit from this holy stone, therefore, it was necessary to be pure oneself. Sapphires were used to cure all eye ailments, purify the blood, fortify the heart, and relieve flatulence. Mixed with milk, this gem dried up ulcers, boils, and pustules. Sapphire was lethal to venomous insects and reptiles.
Sapphires were believed to have gender: dark stones were designated female, light ones were male. September's birthstone is thought to make its wearers amiable, wise, virtuous, and strong.
SAPPHIRE (green):
Color-green
Chakra-4th
Brings luck.
SAPPHIRE (orange):
Color-orange
Chakra-2nd
Augments wisdom, optimism and friendliness.
SAPPHIRE (pink):
Color-pink
Chakra-1st, 4th
Encourages generosity, love and loyalty.
SAPPHIRE (star):
Color-n/a
Chakra-6th
Develops independance, centering, balance and psychic powers. Most potent sapphire. Also gives luck, victory, faithfulness, stone of destiny. Protects against fraud and treachery.
SAPPHIRE (white):
Color-white
Chakra-7th
Associated with self appreciation and spiritual development.
SAPPHIRE (yellow):
Color-yellow
Chakra-3rd
Enchances intellect, study, knowledge and memory.
SARD:
Color-reddish-brown
Chakra-1st
Associated with independance, protection, achievment, courage, freedom, spontaneity and creativity. Sard is also linked with material success, ambition and career success. This is a stone of accomplishment and fulfillment of duties. Protects against magick, improves your wits, brings renewed joy.
SARDONYX:
Color-white & red
Chakra-1st
Fosters luck, frienship, happiness, good fortune, romance and marriage. Protective of the young and of those who try new things. Associated with stamina, vigor, energy, creativity. Teaches us to love nature’s wild places and inhabitants.
History: Composed of alternating layers of red-brown, sand, and white onyx, sardonyx is often used for carving cameos. Roman soldiers wore this gem engraved with the figure of Mars or Hercules to give them courage. Its medicinal use was as a cure for snake bite and other poisons.
Because it was thought to make the wearer eloquent, sardonyx was prized by orators and bashful lovers. Women used it as a charm to capture the object of their love interest. As a gem to helpful to lovers, it is not surprising that the sardonyx symbolizes marital happiness. It is an alternate birthstone for August.
SCAPOLITE:
Color-yellow, violet, pink, clear
Chakra-1st, 3rd, 6th
Facilitates integration of the mind and the heart. Helps the overly emotional person become more analytical.
SCHEELITE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-6th
”Telepathic stone”; calms and clears troubled states of mind; increases sense of inner truth; stimulates brain activity and heightens mental awareness; advances mental powers; develops telepathic awareness; records information; useful for thought transference; stimulates crown Chakra.
SELENITE:
 Zodiac - Taurus
Chemical Composition: Ca SO4 . 2H20, Hydrous Calcium Sulfate (gypsum)
Hardness: 1 1/2 - 2
Large selenite "sheets" are found in Utah. Selenite "blades" are found in Mexico, the most well-known location being the "Cave of Swords." Gypsum is a relatively common mineral, and may be found throughout the world. Selenite denotes the clear crystal variety that is less common. Granular, massive gypsum is known as alabaster. Do not leave selenite in water! You may rinse selenite with water, but if it is submerged in water for an extended period, it will disolve.
Mental clarity, insight, awareness. In meditation, can be used as a tool to aid in accessing past and future lives, by gently rubbing the stone. Beneficial to the spinal column and skeletal system, muscular structure, and cellular structure. Flexibility, decision-making, clarity. Sacred to moon and faerie folk. Plant in a flower pot by a full moon leaving an offering of bread and honey to encourage visits from faeries.
SELENITE ROSES:
SERAPHINITE:
Cleanses aura and chakras, helps contact Angels, energy of cooperation.
SERPENTINE:
Color-green
Chakra-4th
Inspires respect for the elderly, longevity, retieval of ancient wisdom and remembrance of past lives.
SHATTUCKITE:
SILVER (metal):
Color-silver
Chakra-6th, 7th
Fosters hope, meditation, unconditional love, mothering, nurturance, grounding, appreciation of women and nature, mystic visions, spiritual and romantic love, tenderness, kindness, ensitivity and psychic abilities. This metal is sacred to the moon goddess. Feminine-female intuition, the moon, water. Energy conductor, eases stress and improves speech. The balance to gold reflects the unseen world and creative energy. Good container for herbs.
SMOKEY QUARTZ:
 Color-brown, black
Chakra-1st, 3rd - root, navel, solar plexus
Zodiac-Capricorn, Saggitarius
Chemical Composition: Silicon Dioxide
Hardness: 7
From gr ey to warm brown, light and clear to an almost "solid" looking black/brown. The coloration is due to natural radiation occurring in its environment. (Quartz crystals are also radiated in the lab to create the smoke color, but it is not recommended.) Crystals can also be smoky in color from the presence of sodium. Specimens are currently found in Brazil, Switzerland, the Himalayas, and Mexico. In the U.S. sites include Arkansas, California, Nevada, and Colorado.
 Dissipates negativity. Balances energies of mind and body. Good for meditation. Protective and grounding stone. Enhances dream awareness and channeling abilities. Aids depression, is mildly sedative and relaxing. Transforms negative emotions and energy patterns, meditation, balances yin and yang, mind, energy and spirit; grounding; protection; stability; survival instinct and intuition; pride and joy in living; psychic communications; cooperation; dissolves blocks to perception and learning; helps liquid and mineral levels in the body; aids organs in solar plexus area, hands and feet. Increases fertility, balances sexual energy. Enhances dream awareness and channeling abilities. Excellent for meditation. Relieves depression, tension.
SODALITE:
 Color-blue, indigo
Chakra-5th, 6th - throat, third eye
Zodiac: Sagittarius.
Chemical Composition: Quartz, Silicon Dioxide
Hardness: 7
Logic, intellect, efficiency. Truth of emotions. Also good for fellowship, sense of commonality in groups. Prophetic dreaming, endocrine system, eliminates confusion.
Mind stone, logic and rational thought; fellowship within groups; self esteem and trust; truthful expression of emotions; helps with glandular metabolism, digestion, purification, insomnia and calcium deficiencies. Strengthens metabolism, balances male/female polarities. Slightly sedative, grounding, calms and clears the mind.
SPECTROLITE:
Color-n/a
Chakra-n/a
Associated with renewal, invigoration, energy, health and regeneration.
SPESSARITE:
Color-orange, reddish-brown
Chakra-1st, 2nd
Helps us attract land or a home. Helps us then be content with our home and put down roots. Also associated with self love.
SPHAEROCOBALITITE:
Most loving stone - deeply relaxing and balancing.
SPHALERITE:
Color-yellow, green, clear
Chakra-3rd, 4th
Is said to enchance relaxation, rest, ease, gentleness and caring.
SPHENE:
Color-tellow, green, brown
Chakra-1st, 3rd, 4th——offers solace, comfort, consolation, encouragement and balance.
SPINEL:
Color-variety
Chakra-n/a
Augments renewal, allowing us to refresh and restore ourselves time and time again. It is associated with hope, will and purpose, encouraging us to overcome all obstacles.
SPODUMENE (green):
Color-green
Chakra-4th
Enchances the ability of healers.
SPODUMENE (yellow):
Color-yellow
Chakra-3rd
Promotes spirituality and connects us with our higher self.
STAUROLITE:
“Tears of Fairies”, good luck, helps transition, makes oneself at ease.
STRAWBERRY QUARTZ:
Recalls past lives. Eases tension in a relationship.
SUGILITE:
Color-violet
Chakra-7th
Body-mind connectiveness; spiritual love; stimulates energy flow in all Chakras; foregiveness; eliminates hostility, anger, jelousy & other negative emotions; inspiration & confidence; meditation; peace & relaxation; precision in action; helps with headaches & other discomforts. Aids physical healing reduces stress, strengthens heart, emotional balance.
SUNSTONE:
Color-orange, yellow
Chakra-all
Clear & energize the Chakras; dissipates fearfulness & stress, increases vitality; protection; helps sore throats, stomach & ulcers, cartilage problems, feet & the spine. Spiritual growth.
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