Crystal Meanings
Amazonite
Amazonite allows one to express their heart through communication. It is a wonderful stone for those who have trouble setting boundaries. Amazonite soothes aggravation and emotional trauma, eases irritation, and calms all of the chakras. Its also a wonderful stone for relationships. Amazonite assists the user in seeing different sides of the same issue, and balances masculine and feminine energy as well as different personality traits. Amazonite is a “Stone of Success and Abundance”, attracting focus and good luck.
Amethyst
Amethyst is used to calm, protect, and balance. It aids in increasing intuition and psychic powers. Amethyst is an excellent stone to use in meditation as it clears the aura and aids to open and activate the Crown Chakra. It promotes emotional stability and inner strength. Amethyst is a natural stress reliever and also transforms negative energy into the energy of love.
Aquamarine
Aquamarine is a “Stone of Courage and Protection”. It can be used to promote verbal self-expression and stimulate the flow of energy and communication from the heart to the throat. It encourages intellectual growth and inner knowledge, opening one up to intuition and the super-conscious mind. Aquamarine allows one to look at emotional situations from other perspectives. It can help overcome judgment of others and encourage tolerance. Aquamarine can also work with the Heart Chakra by helping one to realize their innermost truth. Aquamarine facilitates the releasing of old patterns of behavior that no longer serve, and that actually inhibit one's growth. Aquamarine can also bring peace and calm to the overactive mind.
Aventurine
Aventurine is one of the best stones to attract luck, abundance and success. It has a soothing energy, and is recommended for working through unresolved emotional issues. It helps one to move with confidence into any new situation. It is known as the good luck stone and is excellent for manifesting prosperity and bringing about adventures in love and travel. Aventurine is used to loosen and release negativity and energy blockages. Some wear or carry Aventurine to increase intelligence, perception and creativity. Aventurine has the ability to expand anything that it is placed upon, like money!
Black Tourmaline
Black Tourmaline is a protective stone which repels and blocks negative energies and psychic attack. It aids in the removal of negative energies within a person or a space. It will cleanse, purify, and transform dense energy into a lighter vibration. Black Tourmaline is also great for grounding. It balances, harmonizes, and protects all of the Chakras. Use Black Tourmaline to protect against electromagnetic "smog" (i.e. cell phones, computers, etc), radiation, noise sensitivity and other such disturbances. It can be used as an aid to remove fear and boost self-confidence and has a calming effect when needed.
Blue Lace Agate
Blue Lace Agate is a very supportive stone, helping to promote the acceptance of one’s emotions. It is a calming stone that can help those who may be feeling depressed or worried, and is believed to bring one peace. Blue Lace Agate is also used for dissolving repressive blocks that inhibit expression. It's a great stone to use during important discussions or conflicts to help ease the tensions that may arise. It's also great for writer's who may have writer's block. It's a magnificent stone to use for those who fear public speaking!
Carnelian
Carnelian is known as the "Singer's Stone" as it's said to bring clarity to a singers voice. It's a stone of courage, passion, and confidence that can help stabilize emotions and protect against negativity. Carnelian is an action stone, and as such, helps to fight procrastination. It helps accelerate motivation, promotes creativity, and helps one move forward towards achieving their goals. Carnelian is a stone of the sacral chakra and can increase sexuality! It promotes self-control, marital happiness, and good fortune.
Chrysocolla
Chrysocolla is the stone of peace. It is soothing and calming in times of stress and helps one to develop patience, kindness, tolerance, and compassion. It is a wonderful support stone as it helps with emotional balancing and healing, particularly when dealing with guilt or sadness. It also increases ones capacity to love, and supports letting go, forgiveness, and release. It helps to face challenges and changes with ease. Chrysocolla inspires creativity, inner balance and self-awareness.
Citrine
Citrine is a stone that attracts and helps to manifest abundance on all levels. particularly wealth. It can help one to overcome depression, release anger, and learn effective communication skills. Citrine can activate one's imagination, and enhance creativity. It is a stone of joy and positivity that helps to bring optimism to any situation. Citrine makes a great tool for transmuting negative energy, and as such does not hold or accumulate energy. Citrine heightens self-discipline, and self-confidence, attracting professional success and wealth. Citrine can also be used to cleanse all Chakras.
Clear Quartz
Clear Quartz is the most versatile healing stone among all crystals. Clear Quartz is known as the stone of power and amplifies any energy or intention, as well as increases abundance and prosperity. It harmonizes all human energies, thoughts, and emotions. It protects and clears negativity on all levels. It has been shown to enhance and strengthen the aura, and promote inner peace. Clear Quartz is often used to cleanse, open, activate, and align all of the chakras. Clear Quartz can be used to charge and clear all other stones, and amplifies their energy. Since Clear Quartz absorbs energies very easily, it is important to clear these stones on a regular basis. Clear Quartz can be programmed with intention and kept in a central place to emit its helpful energies.
Fluorite
Fluorite is known as the "genius" stone for the highest state of mental achievement. It increases the ability to concentrate and assists in clearing brain fog, confusion, and indecisiveness. Fluorite heightens mental abilities, assisting in organization and processing information and providing mental clarity and stability. It helps one to reveal their soul's purpose and teaches us to be in a state of peace and one with the Universe. Fluorite absorbs negative energies and is very effective at Auric and Chakra cleansing. Due to its powerful ability to absorb negative energies, Fluorite should be cleared often.
Garnet
Garnet is a stone of health as it extracts negative energy from the Chakra system. It is a good stone for depression as it brings joy and hope, and helps with changes or disruptions with family and the home. It stimulates the life force and survival instinct, bringing willpower and courage to a situation. Garnet is an excellent stone to use to enhance one's manifestation abilities. Garnet can cleanse the chakras of negative energies and re-energize them. It draws the energy from earth into the body for support and grounding oneself. It also helps to balance the Sacral Chakra and sex drive, and boosts fertility. Garnet inspires love and passion, devotion and loyalty. A stone of commitment, Garnet encourages personal relationships of all kinds, and is a useful relationship tool both personally and in business.
Hematite
Hematite is a stone for the mind and is exceptional for mental attainment, and memory enhancement. It revitalizes, stabilizes, and grounds energies. It helps to absorb negative energy and helps to calm oneself in times of stress or worry. It is especially helpful with feelings of anxiety. Hematite is a very protective stone and is great to carry with you to aid you in staying grounded in many situations. Hematite is also good for working with the Root Chakra, helping to transform negative energies into a more positive vibration.
Labradorite
Labradorite is known as the "Stone of Magic" as it awakens magic and psychic abilities of all kinds. It is a stone of transformation and intuition, and helps to see true intentions more clearly. It assists in protecting and clearing the aura of negative energy, wards off psychic attacks, and negative entities. It also aids the ability to see and communicate with Angels and Spirit Guides. Labradorite transforms intuition into intellectual thought and helps to reduce stress, anxiety, and insomnia. It can also assist one through challenge or change, promoting strength, inner worth, and perseverance.
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli is a stone of total awareness, power, and royalty. It helps to develop and activate one's intuition. It is a wonderful manifestation stone, and excellent for use during meditation. Meditating on a goal, or desire, can bring this strong manifestation energy in. Lapis Lazuli offers protection from physical danger. It can also build courage, confidence, and overcome shyness. It is used to decrease irritability, whether caused by trauma or day to day frustrations. Lapis Lazuli brings spiritual love is known for enhancing love and fidelity within marriage, as it encourages understanding and success in relationships.
Moonstone
Moonstone helps to balance the emotional body, especially any aggressive tendencies as it soothes an heals the emotions, and restores hope and optimism. It is wonderful to help help to relieve stress. Moonstone is used to protect those who travel on or by water. Moonstone also enhances one's emotional vision, bringing greater creative abilities and freedom of expression. It helps to increase intuition and cleanses the aura and Chakra system of negativity.
Obsidian
Black Obsidian is a protective stone, often used to guard against negativity of all kinds, and protects against emotional or physical harm. It is an excellent grounding stone and helps to ease tension, especially in the home. It is helpful in developing intuition and grounding you to the earth, releasing negative energies, while also dispersing unloving thoughts. Obsidian protects the wearer from hostility, negativity, psychic ‘vampires’ and spiritual entities that do not belong. It offers release from tension and enables one to move forward in his/her life, with a more promising outlook.
Peridot
Peridot is a great stone for luck in love, business, and health and emits a warm and friendly energy. It promotes complete love, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. The powerful Heart Chakra energies are what give Peridotits ability to bring out unconditional love and help those who are working to lessen the effects of anger in the ego. Peridot emanates Univeral love and compatible relationships. Perdot is a protective crystal, offering a supportive energy to keep the Chakras in balance and alignment. I is a wonderful crystal to use in increasing Reiki energy. Peridot is often used to attract money and abundance as it increases prosperity and abundance on all levels.
Prehnite
Prehnite brings joy to the heart and peace to the mind. Prehnite is the stone to "heal the Healer" and allows one to cleanse the aura of energy that does not belong to them and renew one's Chi energy. It enables cord cutting and release of attachment and ego-identification. It also aids in cooling anger or nervous energy, while encouraging peace and calm. Prehnite facilitates the expression of emotions or thoughts, and helps one to communicate in a non-judgemental way, while also helping one to consider the impact of their words before speaking.
Pyrite
Pyrite is also known as "Fools Gold." It is a powerful stone for prosperity and abundance, and is excellent to use when starting new business ventures, or trying to manifest money to do so. It increases one's courage and confidence, particularly in creative endeavors and can give one the willpower to follow projects through to completion. It is a highly protective stone that helps to deflect harm or danger. Pyrite also supports the idea of health and well-being and can increase vitality, metabolism, and one's sex drive! Ooohh-la-la!
Rainbow Moonstone
Rainbow Moonstone brings the frequency of joy to one's energy field and offers psychic enhancement and protection. It increases vitality, passion, and a spark for life. Rainbow Moonstone creates full alignment in the Chakra system. It encourages inner-journeying, self-study, introspection and judgment, and aids in decision making. It enhances emotional vision, bringing greater creative abilities and freedom of expression. Rainbow Moonstone also aids in spiritual growth
Rhodonite
Rhodonite is a stone of compassion, encouraging generosity of spirit. It stimulates alignment of Chakras, while also assisting with the removal of blockages. and activates the heart. Rhodonite grounds energy, balances yin-yang, and aids in achieving one’s highest potential. It heals emotional shock and panic. Rhodonite promotes maturity in love and relationships and helps in recognizing real from wishful relationships. Its a great stone for those who fall in love too fast or too often to help be more discerning. It encourages unselfish self-love and forgiveness, and is excellent to use as a tool for weight loss and detoxification.
Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz is the stone of unconditional love. It encourages self- love and total-acceptance. It brings peace and calm to relationships, and can help one to attract love. It is a wonderful tool to help one find a soulmate connection. Rose Quartz helps open the heart to love of all types; loving yourself, family, friendships, and romance. Rose Quartz is a high energy stone, that has a calming quality and promotes empathy, reconciliation, forgiveness, and can also help heal a broken heart. It is a great stone to allow for the release of unexpressed feelings, pent-up emotions, and grief. This stone helps stimulate the true life force.....LOVE.
Selenite
Selenite is a tranquil stone that promotes a calm and soothing energy. If you feel tired, stressed, or angry, then holding a Selenite crystal can help clear away the negative energy as it evokes a protective energy and dispels negativity. Selenite clears and reprograms all other crystals when stones are placed on or against it. Selenite also accelerates contact with Spirit Guides. It is used to create protective boundaries and is an excellent energy holder for one's space. It facilitates past life understanding and acts as an emotional balancer, restoring harmony and facilitating emotional and physical healing. Selenite can clear, open, and activate the Crown and Higher Chakras.
Smokey Quartz
Smokey Quartz is a major protection stone, and can help one to feel safe and secure. It transforms negative emotions and patterns and is an excellent grounding stone. Use Smokey Quartz to absorb and transmute negative energy. This crystal has a vibration that helps to facilitate the transformation of dreams into reality as it helps remove emotional blockages which limit perception and learning.
Tiger’s Eye
Tiger's Eye is a stone of protection that is also very stabilizing and grounding. It enhances integrity, willpower, self-confidence, and practicality. It is helps enhance good luck, and brings prosperity, most often in the form of money. Tiger's eye is especially protective during travel, and also helps protect one's auric field. It can also help one see clearly without illusion. It promotes courage and self-confidence especially during transition or change. It provides balance of Yin-Yang energies.
Turquoise
Turquoise is one of the oldest stones known to man. It is a stone of Earth dating back to at least 5000 B.C. It can help promote honest and clear communication and self-expression from the heart. Turquoise is an excellent healer of the spirit, providing a soothing, calm energy that brings peace of mind. As such it is a powerful crystal for relieving stress, and for providing a grounding and protective energy. Turquoise can also help speed up the healing process, and is known as a master healer stone and heals energetic blocks, sadness, and karmic debt. Turquoise helps strengthen and align the entire Chakra system.