African Bloodstone: African Bloodstone has a blend of rich opaque mossy greens and white chalcedony with rich brick red inclusions.
Bloodstone is considered a stone of courage. In ancient times is was carried by soldiers to overcome enemies and to avoid being wounded. It has long been used to secure victory in physical battles, competition and on a personal level. It is often worn by athletes to increase power and physical strength. Bloodstone is considered to be excellent blood cleanser and immune stimulator and is a powerful healer and revitalizer.
Agates: Agate is a chalcedony (pronounced kal-sed-on-ee) and is one of the oldest stones in recorded history. Agate is distinguished by characteristic colors and banding. It occurs in a wide assortment of colors, the most common being green and blue.
Agate is the stone of protection. It attracts strength and protects from stress and energy drains. Emotionally, agate gives courage, emotional strength, self-confidence, and dispels fears. Agate has a cleansing and stabilizing effect on the body.
Amazonite: Amazonite is a semi-opaque blue-green variety of feldspar.
It brings clarity, insight, balance and is beneficial to the nervous system. Amazonite's powerful filtering action protects against electromagnetic pollution from microwaves, computers and cell phones. Amazonite enhances creativity and the ability to express oneself and is good for anyone involved in the arts. It is particularly beneficial to musicians and writers.
Amber: Soothing, calming, cleansing.
Amethyst: Amethyst is quartz in shades of purple, lilac or lavender.
It is a powerful and protective stone and has the ability to transform negative energy into positive energy. It enhances spiritual awareness and wisdom, promoting a higher state of consciousness and increasing spiritual developement.
They word amethyst comes from the Greek word "amethystus" meaning to be intoxicated. It was traditionally worn to guard against drunkenness and to instill a sober mind. Amethyst can help get rid of addictions (alcohol, drugs, smoking, etc.) and compulsive behavior of all kinds.
Ametrine: Intellectual stimulation, attunement, releasing, dispelling tension, connecting.
Angelite: Angelite has been formed from celestite that has been compressed over millions of years.
Angelite is a powerful healing and purification stone. It promotes compassion and understanding and represents peace and brotherhood. It encourages you to speak your truth and to be more accepting. Angelite is a very soothing, peaceful, uplifting stone and very helpful during times of transition.
Apatite: Intellect, achieving results, healing, insight, humanitarianism, meditation, balance, creativity.
Aquamarine: Courage, purification, peace, intuition, self-expression, balance, preparedness.
Aragonite: Aragonite is a polymorph of calcite and varies in color. It can be white, gray, colorless, yellow, pale blue, violet, or brown. Aragonite is also the primary mineral that makes up the organic compound commonly known as mother of pearl.
Aragonite is a wonderful earth healer and can help heal earth disturbances as well as strengthen your connection with the earth. Aragonite increases energy, gives emotional support and stress relief. Aragonite promotes focus and concentration and can be helpful for students. It also promotes patience, reliability and discipline, which makes it an ideal stone for adolescents. It will help teens channel their energies constructively.
Aventurine: Aventurine comes in several colors - but the most common in the bead world is the green. Green Aventurine is actually a greenish quartz that often contains tiny flakes of mica which give this stone it's depth and occasionally, a somewhat metallic appearance. This gemstone can vary in color from very pale translucent green, to deep dark green and almost opaque.
Aventurine is a very positive stone and is known as a stone of opportunity and adventure. It enables abundance and brings good luck and money. It is also known as the all purpose healer and helps with mental agility, visual acuity, peace, opening the heart, motivation and leadership. Wearing aventurine absorbs electromagnetic smog and protects against environmental pollution.
Azurite: Intuitive energy, dreams, healing, insight, stilling the mind, concentration, self transformation.
Bloodstone : Bloodstone (also called heliotrope) is a dark green to greenish-blue chalcedony with distinctive red spots (red iron oxide) that resemble blood, giving this stone its name.
Bloodstone is considered a stone of courage. In ancient times is was carried by soldiers to overcome enemies and to avoid being wounded. It has long been used to secure victory in physical battles, competition and on a personal level. It is often worn by athletes to increase power and physical strength. Bloodstone is considered to be excellent blood cleanser and immune stimulator and is a powerful healer and revitalizer.
Blue Chalcedony: Chalcedony is a member of the quartz family and occurs in a variety of colors including blue, lavender, white, light tan, gray, yellow, pink, red or brown.
Blue Chalcedony is a gentle energy stone. It is soothing, calming and promotes a sense of peace and joy. It absorbs negative energy and promotes harmonious emotions. Blue Chalcedony imparts mental flexibility and verbal dexterity and is often used during public speaking.
Botswana Agate: Botswana Agate can contain several members of the Quartz family (Rock Crystal and Amethyst) with additions of the Chalcedony family (like Carnelian and Onyx), as well as many types of Jaspers. Botswana Agate is generally in shades of gray with sometimes peachy areas. It can show banding as well as solid areas of color
Botswana Agate carries the generic properties of Agate, maintaining well-being and harmonizing body and spirit. It is an excellent stone for people who are sensitive and lonely or easily hurt. This stone helps release emotional repression and replenishes energy lost in situations where there has been manipulative control (such as with a parent or partner). Botswana Agate assists in exploring unknown territory and creative expression while paying attention to detail. It is an excellent stone for anyone connected with fire or smoke, especially firefighters and people who want to quit smoking.
Brecciated Jasper: Brecciated Jasper is Red Jasper that was broken at some time during its growth. During the healing process, whole quartz formed in the previously broken veins. The final product is a rusty red stone with white streaks and web like patterns.
Brecciated Jasper, in addition to carrying the generic properties of Jasper, is an excellent "worry stone". It calms the emotions, eases stress, and helps bring happiness by allowing you to have a good outlook on life. Brecciated Jasper calms sexual aggressiveness, promotes sexual compatibilty and assists in overcoming sexual guilt or shame. Brecciated Jasper sustains and supports during times of stress, and brings tranquility and wholeness.
Bronzite: Bronzite is the gemological name for the common mineral, Enstatite. It is chocolate brown with golden swirls.
Bronzite is a grounding, protective stone, helpful in situations beyond your control where you feel powerless. It assists in restoring composure and keeping a cool head. Bronzite is a stone of courtesy, promoting decisive action and loving, unprejudiced discernment.
Calcite: Purification, peace, calming, memory, awareness, appreciation of nature.
Carnelian: Carnelian is a reddish orange variety of Chalcedony.
Carnelian enhances analytical capabilities, perceptiveness and awakens hidden talents and gifts. It provides protection, increases personal power and enhances ones vitality and will. Carnelian also increases motivation, energy and endurance and encourages creative visualization.
Celestite: Verbal skill, healing, compassion, calming, growth, intuition, hope.
Charoite: Charoite was discovered in the Murun mountains in Yakutia, Russia in 1978. It is the only known location for this rare mineral. The name Charoite is derived from the Charo River which is near where it was found. The colors range from bright lavender, violet and lilac to dark purple with both white, gray and black veining.
Charoite assists in grounding the spiritual self and walking your destiny. It brings insight and reveals the life plan you are here to work on. Charoite is a stone of transformation and helps to overcome fear and turns negative emotions into positive feelings. It can be used to overcome obsessions and compulsions.
Chinese Writing Stone: Chinese Writing Stone is a limestone matrix with andalusite crystals. The contrasting colors of this stone creates patterns that are reminiscent of stylized Chinese writing.
Chinese Writing Stone helps to adjust to change, accept resposibility and stimulate originality. It is a stone of re-commitment, re-affirmation and re-alignement.
Chrysocolla: Easing heartache, stamina, wisdom, peace, love, communication, vitality, inner strength.
Chrysoprase: Balancing male-female energy, love, grace, compassion, clemency, personal growth.
Citrine: Intuition, comfort, protection, creativity, physical energy, wealth, mental awakening.
Coral: Diplomacy, quieting emotions, visualization.
Coral Fossil: Coral Fossil is natural stone formed from mineralized remains of ancient coral. Some fossil coral has been agatized or become agate over the millennia and is a hard stone which can take a high polish. The fossilized coral typically appears as small flower-like patterns in the stone and occurs in colors of earthy tans, browns, grays, yellows, oranges, reds, pinks and purples.
Agatized Fossil Coral shares the same healing properties as agate.
Crazy Lace Agate: Crazy Lace Agate has stunning patterns of varying colours from cream, white, tan, gray and yellow-orange. It is mined in Mexico and sometimes referred to as Mexican Lace Agate.
Crazy Lace Agate carries the generic properties of Agate, maintaining well-being and harmonizing body and spirit. It brings balance, counteracts physical low periods and improves stamina. Crazy Lace Agate helps reduce emotional pain and enables one to laugh.
Crystal: Intensifying energy, spiritual development, healing, raising consciousness.
Dalmation Jasper: Dalmation Jasper is an opaque, white jasper with brown and black spots, similar to "fire engine" dogs.
Dalmation Jasper is a mood lifter. It is a great pick me up and brings a sense of fun. Dalmatian Jasper helps us to see our own strengths and weaknesses and can help us when we are feeling disillusioned. This stone increases loyalty and is beneficial for long term relationships. Dalmation Jasper gives protection from nightmares, depression, and negative thinking.
Diamond: Courage, strength, healing, protection, spirituality, mental abilities.
Dumortierite: Dumortierite is named after the French palaeontologist, Eugene Dumortier. It is called "the blue denim" stone and is often mistaken for lapis lazuli.
Dumortierite is a stone of support. It assists in standing up for yourself and helps those who may feel less than confident in thought and idea. Dumortierite is known to enhance organizational abilities, self-discipline and orderliness. This stone is useful in releasing difficult circumstances and addiction and overcoming tough situations. It is excellent for promoting a positive attitude to life and brings a feeling of calm, relaxation and harmony.
Emerald: Love, domestic bliss, sensitivity, loyalty, memory, mental capacity, harmony, focus, eliminating negativity.
Fluorite: Fluorite, also called fluorspar, comes in a wide range of colors including blue, pink, purple, yellow, green and clear. Often more than one color occurs in a single stone.
Fluorite is protective and stabilizing, drawing off negative energies and stress. It helps to overcome disorganization and incorporates structure into daily life. Fluorite helps bring mental clarity, increases concentration, heightens mental abilities and assists in absorbing and processing of new information. This stone is effective against computer and electromagnetic stress.
Fossil Agate: Fossil Agate has tiny shell fossils and creamy pink tones against a dark gray or brown background which give fossil agate its lovely variegated effect. Shell or coral heighten its ancient and natural beauty.
Agate is the stone of protection. It attracts strength and protects from stress and energy drains. Emotionally, agate gives courage, emotional strength, self-confidence, and dispels fears. Agate has a cleansing and stabilizing effect on the body.
Fossil Stone: Accomplishments, improvement of ones environment, communication, innovation.
Freshwater Pearl: Freshwater Pearls are created by placing a small shell bead inside a freshwater mollusk. Layers of calcium carbonate are secreted, coating the piece of shell, to form a spherical, oblong, or irregular-shaped pearl. It takes approximately 3 to 7 years for mollusks to produce a single pearl. The color of the pearl varies depending on the type of mollusk.
Pearls inspire purity, innocence and serenity. They enhance personal integrity, promote endurance and emotional stability. Pearls foster motherly love and assists in accepting love. They are calming, centering and promote faith, charity, truth and loyalty.
Garnet: Garnet's deep, glossy red color resembles the seeds of a pomegranate, which is perhaps why its name is derived from the Latin word for pomegranate seeds, granatum. Garnets also come in a wide variety of other colors including purple, orange, yellow, green, brown, black, or colorless.
Garnet is a stone of love and passion. It enhances sensuality, sexuality and intimacy. It helps to dissolve emotional blocks in the body and provides a stable, balanced connection between the physical, the spiritual and the nervous system.
Garnet is also known as the stone for a successful business. It attracts good luck in business ventures, increases your popularity and stimulates other people to work with you. Garnet can help you be productive, motivated and build self-confidence for business success.
Hematite: Hematite is a metallic gray iron oxide mineral.
Hematite is a very protective stone. It helps absorb negative energy and is calming in times of worry and stress. It is an effective grounding stone and harmonizes mind, body and spirit. Hematite helps sort things out in ones mind and assists in memory enhancement, original thinking and technical knowledge.
Hemimorphite: Self-esteem, self-respect, assists in personal growth, evolvement, joy, creativity, healing, good fortune.
Herkimer "Diamond" Quartz: Attunement, balance, relieves tension, promotes peace of mind.
Honey Jade: Honey Jade imparts joy, happiness, cheerfulness and inner peace. It teaches the interconnectedness of all life and radiates unconditional love. Honey jade strengthens the nerves and overcomes fatigue.
Howlite: Howlite is found in large cauliflower - like masses in it's natural state. It was originally named for Henry How, a 19th century mineralogist, who discovered it first in Nova Scotia. It's natural color is white or gray but because it takes dye easily it has become an inexpensive alternative to more costly gemstones. When dyed it can resemble turquoise, lapis lazuli or red coral.
Howlite calms and soothes the emotions, can slow an overactive mind and help to achieve a deep and restful sleep. Howlite can assist in reducing stress, anxiety and tensions and works with the heart to bring gentleness, patience and tact. Keep a piece of Howlite in your pocket to absorb anger and negative energy.
Iolite: Intuition, spiritual growth, healing, balance, releasing discord, awakening to inner knowledge.
Jade: Jade is the name used for two separate gems with similar characteristics. The first being Jadeite, the second Nephrite, both are indeed "Jade". Jadeite occurs in a wide range of colors, such as green, lilac, white, pink, brown, red, blue, black, orange and yellow. Nephrite colors may vary from a dark green (which is rich in iron) to a cream color (which is high in magnesium). Nephrite jade may be homogeneous in color, banded or blotchy.
In Chinese tradition, jade symbolized the five virtues of humanity: wisdom, compassion, justice, modesty and courage. Symbols of these virtues were often carved into jade. Jade is often called the dream stone and can help with lucid dreaming, and with remembering dreams. Jade opens the heart to love energy, balancing male and female energies and helps with dysfunctional relationships. Jade can instill a sense of calm and well-being, and can help to increase ones enjoyment of life. Jade improves vitality and is associated with wisdom, peace and harmony.
Jaspers: Jasper is a microcrystalline variety of Quartz and occurs in a variety of colors including brown, red, orange, yellow, green.
Jasper is a nurturing stone. It brings tranquility and wholeness and sustains and supports through times of stress. It provides protection and absorbs negative energy. This stone works well with shy or timid people who need change. Also a good stone for people in counseling or therapy, who want to overcome addictions or compulsive behavior, and gather up their emotional strength for the battles ahead. Jasper gives one the courage to speak out and have personal independence. It encourages honesty with yourself.
Kambaba Jasper: Kambaba Jasper is an exotic looking stone from Africa. It is an opaque forest green and black jasper, deep and rich in color.
Kambaba Jasper stablizes the emotions and soothes the nerves and mind. It is a grounding stone, providing protection and reducing fears and insecurities. Kambaba Jasper helps find a sense of balance and assists in relaxation. Use this stone when working in an environment with lots of negativity.
Kyanite: Calming, dispels anger and frustration, facilitates mental clarity, dissolves confusions
Labradorite: Labradorite, also known as Spectrolite, is a Feldspar mineral. The base color of the stone itself is a silvery gray. The colors change according to the angle of light refraction, and may be blue, green, yellow, and pink. Labradorite was originally discovered on St. Paul Island, Labrador, Canada in 1770.
Labradorite is a stone of transformation and is a useful companion through change, imparting strength and perseverance. It balances and protects, raising consciousness and grounding spiritual energies. It helps to banish fears and insecurities and provides relief from anxiety, hopelessness and depression, replacing them with enthusiasm, self-confidence and inspiration. Labradorite is one of the best stones to use when dealing with any type of addiction or to break unhealthy (physical, mental, etc) habits. Labradorite allows you to see through illusions and determine the actual form of your dreams and goals. It is excellent for strengthening intuitions.
Lapis Lazuli: Lapis Lazuli gets it's name from the Persian lazuward, blue. It is a blue stone made up of several different minerals, including but not limited to: lazurite, sodalite, hauyne, calcite and pyrite.
Lapis Lazuli is a powerful stone for those who seek spiritual attainment. It stimulates personal and spiritual power and brings metal clarity and emotional healing. It harmonizes body, emotions, mind and spirit. Lapis possesses enormous serenity, is protective and can open the door to inner-knowledge and self acceptance. This stone brings honesty, compassion and harmony and is a bonding stone in love and friendship. Facilitating expression of your own opinions, it encourages clear, truthful communication and helps in taking charge of your life.
Leopardskin Jasper: Leopardskin Jasper, also called Jaguar Stone, has intricate circular "leopard" markings with tawny deep brown tone contrasts.
Leopardskin Jasper is a supporting stone, giving us the strength to take action gracefully and powerfully. It facilitates self-healing and is beneficial for those experiencing chronic health conditions. This stone fortifies natural resistance and helps maintain health. Leopardskin Jasper is a great stone to utilize when connecting or communicating with the Animal Kingdom, in both the physical and spiritual planes. It serves as a reminder of the oneness we have with the natural world around us. This stone can help align you to your life path by attracting certain circumstances and people that are conducive to your personal growth, corresponding to your direct needs, but not necessarily desires.
Larvikite: Enhances vitality and youthfulness, calming, knowledge, adaptable.
Lepidolite: Hope, stress reduction, birth, peace, spirituality, physical strength, luck, protection, emotional balance.
Malachite: Malachite is a green stone, usually banded in tones varying from very dark green to a mellow green.
Malachite is a protection stone. It absorbs negative energies and pollutants from the environment and the body, shields against radioactivity and clears electromagnetic smog. It is also a stone of balance, abundance, manifestation and intention. Malachite is an excellent stone for identifying, recognizing and releasing negative experiences from past traumas and suppressed emotions.
Marble: Charitable actions, original thinking, alleviation of sorrow.
Moss Agate: Moss Agate has the same chemical composition and the intriguing patterns of agate but is actually a chalcedony (pronounced kal-sed-on-ee) and in the quartz group. It is white to transparent with green patches and inclusions that resembles moss.
Moss Agate is a birthing stone, used by midwives to ensure a good delivery and lessen pain in childbirth. Moss Agate refreshes the soul and helps to see the beauty in all you behold.
Placed in the garden, Moss Agate helps to foster better growth in plants. It is a stone of new beginnings, helping to release old habits and promote forgiveness. Moss Agate helps with depression, comforting and soothing emotional wounds. It is a powerfully protective stone during relationship break-up.
Moonstone: Introspection, reflection, beginnings, insight, tenderness, harmony, peace, travel.
Mother Of Pearl: Mental clarity, intuition, sensitivity, imagination, adaptability, cooperation.
