Gemstone Healing & Meaning

-color: blue-green, pale aqua

- to me the love stone: helps you to be kind to yourself, love yourself and let others love you, aids in realizing how beautiful you are inside and out

- aids speaking & expressing oneself -> stimulates peaceful confrontation & communication

- helps with self-understanding, clarity of spirit

- promotes all sorts of creativity

- inner peace (reduces worry-soothes and calms)

- said to promote psychic help from water spirits

- great for general health maintenance -> aligns the physical body with the emotional body

- soothes the emotional body -> soothes nerves and eliminates irritating and negative energies

- soothes all chakras -> best for the Heart & Throat Chakra

- balances yin - yang energies

- great lung worker and heart healer

- (Amethyst + Citrine) has all qualities of Amethyst but has a more grounding effect

- balances the spiritual and physical life

- rids ones aura of negative energies and brings in the "White Light" to reenergize it

- releases blockages in the physical, mental, emotional and auric bodies

- color: purple, (Chevron Amethyst: purple w. white streaks)

- stone of the mind, spirituality, positive transformation

- encourages common sense, fairness, debating, intellectual reasoning ->good “business stone”

- stability, strength, invigoration, peace

- brings clarity & calmness to confusing or anxious situations

- aids sobriety & addictions, stress relief, good for meditation

- protection (psychic attacks)

- magic, mysticism, spiritualism, past lives, intuition, psychic abilities

- opens and activates the Crown Chakra

- aids with headaches

- promotes sobriety

- balances all energy bodies (spiritual, emotional, mental, physical)

- clears the aura of any unwanted negative energies

- color: black to smokey-black, black-mahogany

- a type of Obsidian (volcanic glass)

- traditionally thought to be the tears of American Indian women mourning for their warriors

- comfort in times of grief (release of grief, forgiveness)

- stimulates analytical abilities & precision

- said to expel venom of a snakebite

- used to detoxify the body

- color: azure to deep blue

- known as “stone of heaven”

- enhances self-confidence

- good meditation stone (state of “no-mind”)

- enhances creativity, promotes compassion

- connection with Angels, Spirit Guides, Goddess

- gets rid of blocks and negativity

- aids in psychic healing, meditating & visualization

- heals emotional traumas from present & past lives & aids in breaking old patterns

- dissolves energy blockages (often promotes breakthroughs in a healing process)

- heals confusion

- helps you to know yourself regarding circumstances relating to ones well-being

- stimulates analytical abilities, precision

- is said to promote marital fidelity

- balances the yin - yang energies

- stabilizes and cleanses the aura

- color: blue & white lace pattern

- peace, patience, gentle, understanding, optimism, joy, truth

- stabilizing, strengthening & protecting influences

- contains energies of flight, air, movement, grace

- highly inspirational for inner attunement

- stimulates cohesiveness in thought

- works well on the Throat Chakra

- used in treatments of arthritis to strengthen the bone structure

- removes blockages from nervous system

- color: light blue to green

- “stone of courage”

- promotes a quick mind, intellectual reasoning

- soothes & calms, brings order into chaos

- encourages tolerance, teaches responsibility

- aids with grief and letting go of old negative baggage

- shields & protects (has been used to guard against injury in battle)

- reminder of love & caring

- aids in communication with Spirit Guides & connection to the Higher Self

- acts as a shield to the aura

- activates, stimulates and cleanses the Throat Chakra

- provides intense emotional and physical release

AVENTURINE

- color: usually green, but also: yellow, orange, red, brown, blue, grey

- money, prosperity, luck (personal goals & career), growth

- motivates, enhances creativity, amplifies leadership qualities and decisiveness

- promotes adventures ->“pioneering spirit”

- promotes trust & light-heartedness

- worn with love stones it will enhance your chance of finding lasting love

- heals grief of all kind through promoting comfort, acceptance and the idea that death is merely a tranformation of our energy into a different form or state of being

- color: green & red

- courage & strength

- revitalizes relationships, love and friendships

- abundance, wisdom, sensitivity, harmony, adaptability, unselfishness, idealism

- strong connection with the ancestors through meditation, contemplation

- dispels bewilderment & scattered thoughts, grounding (psychic protection)

- intense healing stone

- increases flow of life energy -> aids disorders of the blood system in the body (high blood pressure, diabetes, irregular menstrual cycles)

- aligns and renews all centers of the body

- said to neutralize and remove toxins in the body

- color: yellow to orange

- does not hold or accumulate negative energy hence never needs cleansing

- promotes luck in travel

- success & luck in business ->“stone of the merchant”

- stimulates intellect, mental sharpness & endurance

- communication, creativity, abundance, happiness

- penetrates problems & expedites solutions

- dispels anger, stabilizes emotions, encourages Optimism

- balances the yin - yang energies

- activates, opens and energizes the Solar Plexus Chakra

- clears, expands and aligns the aura bodies

- cleanses and detoxifies on a physical and emotional level

- said to support tissue regeneration

- eases urinary, kidney and digestive diseases

- balances the energies of the body

- increases mental capacity and stability

- said to cure dementia

- said to help the mind to remember (astral travel, channeling, recall of trauma)

- promotes appreciation for nature

- great stone when studying arts & science

- amplifies ones energy field

- clears and activates the chakras (using the appropriate chakra color)

- color: clear

- clears attachments

- promotes spirituality

- opens your horizon to new ideas & ways of thinking

- clears the Crown Chakra

- fills the aura with "White Light"

- amplifies all chakra energies

- color: pink and white

- releases fear & grief from the past that is still ailing a person

- assists in developing self-worth & self-acceptance

- prevents nightmares (just place under the pillow)

- heals nervous conditions and emotional wounds

- lifts tensions and anxiety

- said to stimulate the immune system

- color: orange to red

- personal power, courage & confidence, growth

- protects against envy, fear, rage, sorrow

- promotes responsible sexuality

- helps women to appreciate and respect their bodies

- stimulates creativity

- elevates the mood & warms

- heals, stimulates and balances women’s reproductive systems (uterus, ovaries, vagina etc.) and the Sacral Chakra

- eases premenstrual syndrome, irregular menstrual cycles, cramps

- said to ease non-inflammatory arthritis, pollen allergies and colds

- said to heal cuts and abrasions (used as elixir)

- used to ease disorders of pancreas

- “Cross Stone”

- color: brown & black

- was in old times associated with deflection of the “evil eye”

- helpful during state of change (facilitates balancing & centering of the Self)

- aids astral- and mind travel

- said to promote communication & learning from fairies, elves, water & animal spirits, nature spirits

- used to lessen fevers

- said to balance the flow of blood

- good stone for gardeners and animal healers

- colors: black, red, pink, blue, white

- used to strengthen bones of the body

- has been used to treat heartburn & hiccups

- said to promote conception & pregnancy

- eases childbirth

- opens, activates & stimulates the Root Chakra

- regenerates & purifies

- used to treat skin disorders

- activates & energizes the Throat Chakra

- calms, reduces fear & insecurity

- used to treat ailments of the throat

- said to heal one's inner child

- stimulates & activates the Heart Chakra

- said to aid with morning sickness & mother's postpartum depression

- said to aid in infant distress

- color: green

- stones of compassion

- attracts lasting love by promoting sensitivity & loyalty

- security (soothes & stabilizes)

- transforms negativity into positive emotional energy

- aids in transitions & changes in one’s life

- said to bring beneficial outcome to legal matters

- helps heal emotions

- said to help with disorders of the spine, lungs, heart and muscular system

- color: pink, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, red, black or colorless

- stabilizes & produces order within mental, physical, emotional and spiritual systems (discourages disruptive & chaotic energies)

- promotes objective reasoning

- symbolizes a “pioneering spirit”

- increases concentration

- activates nourishing energies of the body

- clarity, simplicity, perception, safety, love

- connection with outer-worldly realms (Spirit Guides etc.)

- protects & shields against psychic attacks

- keeps away negative people

- promotes self-sufficiency

- activates and energizes all chakras

- used to treat emotional trauma

- color: red, red-violet

- “stone of commitment” (to oneself, others or a purpose)

- protection (grounding/calming/stable)

- helps dissipate anger & confrontations, chaos -> stabilizes & produces order within mental, physical, emotional world

- passion, fertility, sexual energy

- “stone of health” (brings vitality to the whole body)

- warms, grounds and directs energy into the Root Chakra

- color: The colors range from metallic grey, black-brown to brown-red with metallic luster

- wisdom, knowledge, memory, logic, rationality -> “stone of the mind”

- simplicity, calm, grounding (good for meditation)

- strength & courage

- dissolves negativity into love

- support stone -> gives courage to take charge of your life

- acts as a shield for ones aura

- balances the yin – yang energies

- aids in focusing of energies and emotions

- said to draw out heat from the physical body

- color: white & grey

- innocence & strength

- calm communication through elimination of pain, stress and rage

- encourages emotional expression with subtlety & tact

- reasoning, patience

- promotes ambition and the desire for knowledge

- dispels criticalness, turns selfishness into decency

- said to balance the calcium levels in the body

- used to treat disorders of the teeth, bone structure

- color: greenish white

- “stone of the warrior”

- success in business, personal & intellectual pursuits

- said to protect from enemies & destructive forces

- promotes love and friendship -> said to assist in finding ones soul mate

- provides “clean break” from past traumas & environments

- adventure, change, freedom, light-heartedness

- for restful sleep place a tumbled stone under the pillow

- grief stone -> dispels tears & sorrow

- connection to angelic realm

- stimulates physical, emotional and spiritual healing

- heals feeling of loss, separation and betrayal

- stimulates fertility in humans and plants

- aids in pain relief

- occurs in form of Jadeite, Transvaal Jade and Nephrite Jade

- color: green

- “dream stone” -> remembering dreams & dream solving

- mercy, compassion, devotion “stone of fidelity”

- frees from anger, selfishness, greed

- aids in realizing dreams & ideals

- promotes self-reliance and self-sufficiency

- brings a sense of peace and stops the worrying

- aids heart opening and healing

- as an elixir it is said to soothe and smooth the skin and stimulate the health of the hair

- color: It ranges from red, orange, yellow, tan, brown, green, grey to blue with occasional “banding”

- known as the “supreme nurturer”

- protection against negativity

- grounding

- yellow jasper was used by American Indians to protect during travel (including safe astral travel)

- used for dowsing

- balances the yin - yang energies

- stabilizes and cleanses the aura

- keeps ones energy high (good during long hospital stays)

- used to treat kidneys, bladder, liver, stomach

- cleanses the Root Chakra and grounds

- helps balance irregular menstrual cycles, ovulation, menstrual cramps (brings on menstruation)

+ used to prevent "set-backs" in disorders

- used to dispel grief, fear, anxiety ( has a calming energy) and depression

- protects against illness and violence

- stimulates the Root Chakra

- used to treat migraine pain, stomach pain, epilepsy, colds

- never needs cleansing or clearing because it will not accumulate or retain negative energy

- aligns and opens all chakras (very beneficial for the Throat, Heart and Sacral Chakras of the body)

- balances the yin-yang energies of the body

- dispels energy blockages

- has a very high energy vibration which might be too much for some people

- in addition to the properties listed in the Blue Kyanite section Green Kyanite is great for depression

- strengthens the bones

- aids with eyes and vision problems

- “stone for earth healing”

- said to increase business

- use to treat the hair and feet

- color: deep blue; with Pyrite

- dreams, creativity

- aids in attunement to the intuitive & psychic abilities and accessing the unknown

- expands intellectual capacity, objectivity, mental endurance by providing clarity & responsiveness during communication

- promotes Optimism

- to soften the energy of Lapis use it with Amethyst, Rose Quartz or any Quartz - activates and energizes the Third-Eye Chakra

- heals mental body from old traumas and outdated thought patterns

- color: violet, lavender; with Mica

- universal light, hope and acceptance

- openness, honesty, diplomacy -> good business stone

- self-love and acceptance with the aspect of trust

- “stone of transmission” -> assists in reprogramming the mind by letting go of old patterns with a smooth transition

- facilitates astral travel

- useful for gridding ones environment because of its calming and stabilizing energies

- assists in gardening

- activates the Throat, Heart and Third-Eye Chakras and opens the Crown Chakra

- used to locate blockages within body

- assists in digestion

- relief of tension and stress

- soothes nervous system, stabilizes the flow of blood and calms the heart

- said to help treat leg cramps and aching shoulder muscles

- color: green

- “money stone” -> promotes luck in business

- confidence & strong protection

- psychic protection

- represents fidelity in love & friendship

- cleanses and detoxifies the emotional body of old traumas and negative emotions

- used to ease the process of birth

- used to treat problems with joints, bones, muscles

- color: bluish to milky-white or opaline

- represents love, peace, spirituality, female

- communication with light beings, spirit guides, angels, devas etc.

- helps to deal with change in life

- innocence, confidence, diplomacy

- intuition, insight, clear thinking

- passion in love, power, luck (travel/good fortune)

- for luck in love wear with: Rhodochrosite, Blue/Rose Quartz, Rhodonite

- for a balanced love use with: Sunstone (Sunstone represents: healing, protection, success, male)

- said to rejuvenate the skin, hair, eyes and fleshy organs of the body

- ease in pregnancy and childbirth

- said to enhance fertility

- eliminates insomnia

- Mugglestone is a combination of Red Jasper & Hematite

- color: red/tan & silver

- extremely protective & grounding

- protects against psychic attacks

- reduces stress

- grounds, centers and balances

- repairs the aura

- said reduce bleeding

- aids recovery from surgeries

- volcanic glass

- color: black, blue, brown, red, green, grey, rainbow etc.

- excellent grounding stone

- very protective against physical and emotional harm -> shields against negativity

- aids in realizing one flaws & subsequent necessary changes

- provides insight to the cause and healing of a dis-ease

- color: black with white blotches

- aids in past life recognition, meditation and regression work

- aids to make necessary changes in ones’ life

- brings purity and balance to the body, mind and spirit

- used in treatment of skeletal structure

- (Sardonyx: Carnelian (Sard) + white Onyx = good for depression)

- color: black, black-white, orange-brown, red-white etc.

- inner strength, discipline

- protection

- self-control, wise decision-making

- aids in connecting with your Inner Self

- enhances clairaudience and clairsentience - past-life, regression work, medium-ship - centers and aligns

- color: includes almost any color

- love (faithfulness, loyalty)

- luck

- amplifies ones traits & characteristics

- promotes creativity (inspiration, imagination)

- dreams, visions, mysteries

- said to purify blood and kidneys

- said to regulate insulin production and alleviate fevers

- comfort & ease during childbirth

- color: clear

- promotes spiritual awareness & expansion

- protects from negative energy

- helps you to stay calm, clear, patient

- stimulates positive thoughts & feelings

- promotes communication with Light Be-ings, plants, animals, spiritual other-worldly masters, teachers, guides and healers

-“stone of power” thought and energy wise

- stimulates & amplifies psychic abilities

- enhances the powers of other stones, used to program other stones

- heals, aligns and purifies the physical and emotional bodies

- clears negativity at all levels

- aids in energy flow (the energy flow can be directed with the pointed end)

- speeds the healing process

- assists in maintaining balance, protection, energy

- it is a physical and mental energizer

- color: pink

- promotes love & self-love (self-esteem etc.)

- promotes peace and calm in friendships, relationships and family

- joy -> eases heart-ache, loneliness, fear, soothes grief

- promotes receptivity to arts, music and the written word

- promotes imagination

- has a young & vibrant energy

- heals emotional wounds and helps heal from old negative experiences

- calming and cooling effect on all chakras best for the Heart Chakra

- restores the mind to harmony after chaotic or crisis situations

- color: smokey grey/brown

- promotes stability, security and safety by absorbing negativity from within & without

- promotes personal responsibility, earth awareness

- great for meditation -> promotes clarity of thought (state of no-mind)

- dissolves mental & emotional blockages which limit perception & learning

- promotes creativity & astuteness in business

- heals fear, depression and addictions

- stimulates the Solar Plexus Chakra as well as chakras of the hand and feet

- dispels negative thought forms (anger, resentment)

- color: green, yellow-green, brownish green, also: red, yellow-brown

- "stone of fidelity" -> promotes openness & acceptance in relationships and love matters

- helps you to accept and understand necessary changes in life

- lessens anger, jealousy and promotes happiness

- increases prosperity and well-being

- excellent healing stone -> strengthens and regenerates the body

- stimulates the Heart and Solar Plexus Chakra

- said to strengthen eyesight (astigmatism, nearsightedness)

- prevents outside influences from affecting your energy bodies

- dissolves negative energy and protects the aura of psychic attacks

- used to ease child birth and digestive issues (such as bloating)

- color: tan & green, brown, brownish black

- aids concentration, centering, grounding

- promotes setting & keeping goals -> helps with indecisiveness and procrastination

- eliminates worries & helps to focus on important things ( provides strength)

- past-live retrieval

- used to strengthen neck and skeletal structure (said to soothe muscular structure)

- said to stimulate thickness of hair

- color: brass-yellow

- prevents & shields many forms of negative energy (physical or emotional)

- symbolizes warmth/lasting presence of sun

- promotes recall of beautiful memories (love, friendship)

- assists in seeing behind the mask

- stimulates intellect & enhances memory

- promotes manifesting

- said to lessen fevers, reduce inflammation

- color: pink to rose red & black

- "rescue stone" & "stone of love"

- with moonstone: heals emotional scars from past relationships

- helps to tell reality from fantasy in love situations -> promotes maturity in love

- dispels anxiety & promotes coherence & attention to details during chaotic times

- promotes “brotherhood” & generosity of spirit

- can act as “wake-up-call” in situations where you might be taken advantage of

- activates, energizes, stimulates and clears the Heart Chakra (provides grounding at same time)

- color: ranges from pale pink to deep red, yellow, tan, orange, grey, brown

- "stone of love & balance" (on all levels & all bodies)

- creates new worlds filled with love, dreams and the desire to realize them

- helps to accept and not avoid or deny

- "earth stone": promotes love to the mother of us all

- balances mental processes in order to attain attunement to Higher Self & enhance spirituality

- energizes, purifies and balances the Heart Chakra

- gentle pulsating and loving energy

- balances yin - yang aspect of ones character and physical body

- enhances digestion

- said to aid thyroid imbalances

- used to treat Calcium deficiencies, hearing disorders and breaks (bone structure)

- stimulates fertility in both body and mind

- color: white w. pale bluish reflections

- promotes clarity of the mind

- expands ones self-awareness & awareness of ones surroundings

- helps access past & future lives through meditation (said to help you look into the future as well as the past)

- provides good judgment, insight, strength & flexibility in decision making

- aids in reconnecting with your Higher Self

- said to align the spinal column

- promotes flexibility in muscular structure

- said to extend ones life span -> (cell regeneration)

- color: green, black-green, brown-red, brown-yellow, yellow-green, white

- enhances meditative state

- connects you to nature & your true self

- inspires trust

- provides emotional healing and opening (learning to love or love again)

- clears the chakras and stimulates the Crown Chakra

- said to stabilize the physical, mental and emotional bodies

- used to treat diabetes

- color: ranges from dark blue, grey, green, yellow, white to pink

- enhances self-esteem, efficiency, mental performance & logical conclusions (eliminates confusion)

- fellowship, solidarity, fidelity

- self-esteem, self-trust, trust in others

- allows one to speak & know the truth

- psychic visions -> calms fear and promotes acceptance

- purifies the body

- soothes, heals and stabilizes

- aids with insomnia

- clears & energizes the chakras -> increases vitality

- dissipates fear -> "candle in the dark"

- aids with stress

- used to treat sore throats, stomach issues, aching feet & spinal problems

- color: red (heated), brown, gold, cream, black, blue

- provides sharpness & grounding, stability

- practical, discrete, calm

- passion for life, optimism

- provides insight into internal mental battles

- can be used to enhance psychic abilities (for “earthy” people)

- self confidence -> promoting new experiences

- great protection & luck

- balance with justice & fairness, understanding

- at the Root Chakra level it can help to discipline the sexual and emotional life

- said to strengthens the spinal column and facilitate the mending of broken bones

- color: ranges from pink, red, violet, blue, yellow, brown, green, pink, orange to black etc.

- attracts inspiration

- diminishes fear, promotes understanding & self-confidence

- protection from physical danger

- said to balance left & right side of brain

- helps to look within oneself

- clears, maintains and stimulates the chakras (using the appropriate chakra color)

- balances the yin - yang energies in the body

- said to provide healing power to the user

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- repels & protects against negativity that is directed towards oneself by other people

- very grounding (protects against psychic attacks, spirit possession)

- protects against spells -> with Mica it will return the spell to the sender

- increases emotional stability, intellectuality, optimism

- stimulates the Root Chakra -> grounding and balancing

- increases physical vitality

- used in treatment of arthritis, dyslexia, anxiety, disorientation

- color: ranges from blue, dark blue to green

- promotes good communication skills (regarding emotions, creativity, intuition, be it written or oral)

- wisdom, understanding, trust, kindness, romantic love

- self growth, mental & spiritual clarity

- improves meditation (state of “no-mind”) -> aids connection to spirit world and provides grounding at the same time

- protection during vision quests, astral travel -> said to protect against accidents

- said to change color to warn of danger or indicate infidelity

- soothing, peace of mind

- master healer -> purifying energy that disolves negativity

- strengthens and aligns all chakras

- can balance male/female aspects of ones character

- primarily stimulates the Throat, Heart and Sacral Chakra

- strengthens entire anatomy -> helpful in healing of all dis-eases

- Native Americans used Turquoise to repair physical damage to their body

- color: green & pink

- changes anger, resentment and vengeance to positive awareness for clearing

- promotes compassion

- balances the emotional body

- clears old negative emotions and pain of the past that have built blockages

- aids in determining the root cause of dis-ease that affects the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual bodies

- used to enhance weight gain

- stimulates healthy pregnancies