Gemstone Metaphysical Properties

Gemstone Properties

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People from around the world have been using precious and semi-precious gemstones as healing tools for thousands of years. Today, many people believe these crystals have extraordinary enhancing and healing properties affecting mind, body and spirit. They are also associated with particular signs of the zodiac and chakras.

Wearing gemstones or having them around is believed to make you feel better. Your experience with any crystal or gemstone will be a combination of that gemstone's unique properties and what you bring to the situation. Your experiences will be unique to you.

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Disclaimer:
Crystalrockemporium makes no claims as to the healing properties of gemstones. Healing and other properties associated with crystals are given for information only. This information is offered as a service and is not meant to replace any medical treatment.

Agate - useful for balancing the energy of the body, mind, emotions and spirit. It stabilizes the aura, transforming and eliminating negativity. It symbolizes good will and benevolence
Amazonite - Extremely soothing, calms brain, nervous system; helps see different points of view; soothes emotional trauma, alleviates worry, fear; dispels negativity.
Amethyst - calming, healing, and protective. It prevents overindulgence and bestows stability, strength, invigoration, and peace.
Aqua Aura -has an energy that can enhance one's intuition and communication, calm one's nerves, and energize one's mental abilities. It is also said to help one's inner beauty to shine, and to attract wealth and success
Black Agate - enhances steadfastness and determination, setting ones mind to a task. It is grounding stone, valuable in difficult or confusing times in our lives.
Onyx -Protection, shield against negative energy. Used for grounding and centering oneself.
Black Tourmaline - premier stone for purification of one's energies and protection from environmental negativity. Cleanses the aura of disharmonious energies, help one attain states of higher awareness, and keep bad influences at bay.
Bloodstone - increases the odds of success by aiding the understanding of the need for hard work.
Blue Goldstone - A manmade stone rich in copper. Activates root and sacral chakras enhancing the energies of intuition, sexuality, desire and vitality
Blue Obsidian - stimulates and enhances all forms of communication and lingual skills. An excellent stone for someone who has to speak in public.
Blue Quartz - Helps improve heart, lungs, throat and thymus. Good for people suffering from emotional traumas.
Brecciated Jasper - is a stone for shamans. It heals mental stress and clears us clear headed. Enhances organizational abilities, relaxation and a sense of wholeness
Carnelian - Protects against envy, fear and rage; help to banish sorrow. Helps stabilize energy in the home. Cleanses negativity from other stones. Red Carnelian encourages love between partners; pink carnelian between parent and child.
Chiastolite (cross stone)- is good for problem-solving and to provide insight to answers to mysterious occurrences.
Citrine - Powerful cleanser, regenerator. Absorbs, dissipates, grounds negative energy, never needs cleansing. Attracts wealth, prosperity, success. Encourages sharing, creativity, joy. Smoothes discord. Raises self-esteem, self-confidence.
Dalmatian Jasper - Thought to lessen or remove disillusionment. It helps one to see their strengths and weaknesses,
Fancy Jasper - brings joy and happiness and a sense of contentment. It is also a protective stone.
Fluorite - Helps discern, stop outside influences. Protects from stress, negativity. Overcomes disorganization. Improves physical and mental coordination, balance.
Garnet - Energizing. Revitalizes, purifies, balances energy, bringing serenity or passion. Inspires love, devotion. Fortifies, activates, strengthens survival instinct, brings courage, hope.
Goldstone - A manmade stone rich in copper. Encourages faith that love is attainable once all limiting beliefs are released. Acts as a mood stabilizer on either spectrum-excitability or passivity.
Green Aventurine - Reinforces leadership qualities, decisiveness. Promotes compassion, empathy. Encourages perseverance. Defuses negative situations, turns them around.
Hematite - known as a "stone for the mind". It brings mental organization and is very grounding and calming. It helps with original thinking, logical thinking, and mathematics. It decreases negativity and can help balance the body/mind/spirit
Howlite - Extremely calming. Aids insomnia. Formulates ambitions, aids achievement. Teaches patience, eliminates rage, uncontrolled anger, selfishness. Stills the mind.
Labradorite - Deflects unwanted energies. Stimulates intuition, raises consciousness. Banishes fears, insecurities. Strengthens faith in the self. Removes other’s projections.
Lace Agate - is useful during physical bio-rhythmic "lows", to bring the physical energies into a balanced and steady state.
Lapis Lazuli - Blocks psychic attack. Harmonizes, alleviates depression. Encourages taking charge of life. Encourages self-awareness, self-expression, creativity. Brings objectivity, clarity.
Lemon Serpentine - also called New Jade, is a beneficial and versatile stone. This stone is known as the dream stone, bringing realization to ones potential and purpose.
Leopard Skin Jasper - Makes it easier to take responsibility property and helps with creative visualization. Protective stone
Mahogany Obsidian - Excellent for grounding and protection. Wards off negativity. Useful for introspection - helps one to see where changes need to be made within oneself.
Mixed Tourmaline - ranges in hue from green to pink, to blue or black. It is valued as a healing stone on all levels, bringing restorative energy to both the body and the emotions
Mookaite - encourages the desire for variety, and bestows both an inner calm and a desire for adventure simultaneously. It also helps us recognize several possible solutions to a problem and helps us choose the most suitable.
Moonstone - Heightens consciousness, promotes intuition, empathy. Calms overreactions to situations, emotional triggers. Balances male-female energies. Opens mind to serendipity.
Moss Agate - is worn to attract new friends, wealth and happiness. Helps to make the wearer extremely lucky.
New Jade - is usually bowenite and brings us longevity, health and prosperity and the patience to achieve it all.
Obsidian - helps to protect the very sensitive against depression. It is the stone of the soft hearted and gentle people of the world. Use obsidian to help block negativity of any kind
Ocean Jasper - is very soothing and helps to love 's self as well as other. It's very healing of the emotions and brings peace of mind.
Opal Aura - helps to protect and balance the aura and brings health on all levels, it is useful in meditation and helps one move toward 'right action'.
Opalite - is a man-made material which has an opalescent beauty. It is said to bring peace and harmony into ones life and inspires Angelic contact
Orange Calcite - is believed particularly helpful mentally. It is particularly helpful with phobias. Orange calcite restores mental and emotional equilibrium.
Peridot - Cleanses. Clears burdens, guilt, obsessions. Teaches that holding on to people or the past is counterproductive, helps detach oneself from outside influences
Picture Jasper - helps bring hidden thoughts, griefs, and hopes to the surface so that one may face the cause of disorders. Picture jasper is a stone of proportion and harmony.
Quartz - Absorbs, stores, releases, regulates, unblocks energy. Enhances psychic abilities, attunes to spiritual purpose. In meditation, filters out distractions.
Rainbow Jasper - said to ease emotional stress, carry rainbow jasper and feel relaxed and secure, as most other red jaspers.
Red Jasper - protects against negativity, and promotes beauty, grace, and healing. It also helps in remembering dreams.
Red Snowflake Obsidian - is a stone of balance and inner harmony; it teaches us that light if found within any darkness.
Rhodonite - Emotional balancer, nurtures love. Has ability to show both sides of an issue. Stimulates, clears, activates the heart. Grounds energy. Aids in achieving one’s highest potential.
Rhyolite - Also known as Rainforest Jasper. It is known as a stone of resolution and perseverance.
Rose Quartz - Calming, reassuring, excellent for trauma, crisis. Attracts love, relationships, restores trust and harmony in relationships, encourages unconditional love.
Selenite - has very fine vibration and gives clarity of mind. It brings peace and is excellent for mediation and spiritual work.
Silverleaf Jasper - Enhances willpower. Offers protection and healing. Encourages contentment in relationships, bringing sensitivity, nurturing and connection into the forefront.
Smoky Quartz is excellent for meditation, and fosters serenity, calmness, and positive thoughts.
Quartz (Snow) - Supports during learning lessons and helps let go of overwhelming responsibilities and limitations.
Obsidian (Snowflake) - Calms, soothes. Helps recognize and release "wrong thinking", stressful mental patterns. Promotes dispassion, inner centering.
Sodalite - Clears electromagnetic pollution. Eliminates mental confusion. Encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth.
Strawberry Quartz - stimulates the heart chakra and fills one with complete and total love. It was used in Atlantis and Lemuria in healing ceremonies.
Tiger’s Eye - Assists accomplishing goals, recognizing inner resources. promoting clarity of intention. Differentiates between wants and needs.
Tiger's Eye Blue (Hawks Eye) - allows one courage and will power to understand ideas and then to actually carry them out.
Tiger’s Eye (Gold) Assists accomplishing goals, recognizing inner resources. promoting clarity of intention. Differentiates between wants and needs.
Tiger's Eye (Red) - is a stone of protection that is very grounding. It enhances integrity, willpower, practicality and correct use of power. It is a stone that enhances good luck, and brings prosperity
Tiger Iron - a combination of hematite, red jasper, and sometimes yellow jasper or golden tiger eye. It is a grounding stone that also brings protection, especially protection from danger.
Unakite - Stone of vision. Balances emotions with spirituality. Grounds. Reaches root cause of disease bringing it to surface to be transformed.
Yellow Turquoise - purifies emotions, dispels negativity, and widens perspective.