| Stone |
Magickal/Healing Properties |
Characteristics |
| Agate |
The best stone for healing serpent or scorpion bites. Aids strength
and courage. Compels truth, promotes good manners, happiness,
intelligence, prosperity, longevity, fertility, and good health. |
Brownish layered, swirly. |
| Amber |
An aid to furthering ambitions, and for healing throat disease.
Magnetic. Electrically alive with solidified golden light. Emits powerful
amount of heat and light. Powerful healing stone with large amount of
organic energy. In anchient times, ground to powder and mixed with honey
or oil of roses for various physical problems. Filters gems and
infections and has the power to disinfect. Worn around the neck to help
fight infection and respiratory diseases. Lifts the spirits. |
Golden yellow stone |
| Amethyst |
Stone of Venus. Assists those to maintain faithfulness, gives wearer
the gift of tongues, increases spiritual awareness, has calming and
soothing influence, has ability to transmute negative into positive, very
effective as a healing stone. Has ability of prophecy, and wards off
drunkeness. Warmed and placed on the forehead and temples, it is good
for headaches. Has the ability to draw through it the forces directed
towards the body and repels vibrations which the body doesn't need, thus
releasing only the energy patterns beneficial to the body. Best worn in
healing near the heart center. Calming and protective, aids meditation
purification, and regeneration on all levels of consciousness. Calming,
grounding, a cleanser and spiritual stimulator, strengthen heart,
cleanses liver of toxins, excellent for lung problems. |
Purple stone ranging from light to dark |
| Aquamarine |
Assists inspiration, favorable for travellers; Helps to protect
against accidents. Calms nervous tension. Calming effects of the sea.
Used to help banish fears and phobias. Soothing and cleansing. Powerful
aid to happiness in marriage. |
Light blue clear stone |
| Adventurine |
Increases perception and creative insight. Stimulates opportunity and
motivation. Soothes emotions, used for the heart and heatache, for
acceptance of self and others, for inner peace. |
Green layered stone |
| Azurite |
Powerful healing stone, invokes spiritual guidance, opens psychic
eye. Good for dreams and improving psychic ability. |
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| Bloodstone |
A favorite for healing and strength. Soldiers of old wore it in
battle, believing it had the power to stop bleeding. Stimulates flow of
energy for healing blood circulation, stops hemorrhaging. Removes
emotional blockages. A talisman for warding off all accidents and
disease, especially suitable for men. |
Red stone |
| Carbuncle |
Worn to increase the feeling of self-confidence and the ability to
fight through difficulties |
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| Chrysoprase |
Emits steady serene flow of light. Tranquilizing. Soothes emotions,
will help tranquilize many forms of neurosis, used to absorb or deflect
unwanted energies. |
Translucent, apple green stone |
| Citrine |
Enables self-esteem. Stimulates openness and awakening of the mind.
Aid to the digestive system. Helps eliminate toxins. Encourages
tremendous healing on the emotional and mental levels, helps unlock
subconscious fears, and serves as a natural relaxant. |
Pale yellow clear stone |
| Coral |
Promises a long and happy married life, protects a child from evil
influences, and safeguards the teenager during the highly emotional
period. Balances physical energy and relaxes tensions. Carries the
creative vibration of the sea. |
Various colors |
| Cornelian (or Carnelian) |
Wish stone, is highly favorable to health, long life, and good
fortune. Its special virtue is the fulfillment of ones wishes if the
stone is worn near the heart. |
Translucent to opaque orange-red stone |
| Diamond |
A symbol of bravery and strength, and also one the emblems of
innocence. An antidote against pestilence. |
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| Emerald |
Helps women attract a true love, and men to attract a loving wife.
Promotes creativity, stimulates perception and insight, and strengthens
memory. Beneficial effect on the eyes. Also an excellent preservative
against decay, arrests dysentery, and heals bites from venomous animals. |
Green clear stone with a hint of blue |
| Fluorite |
Considered a good luck piece. Also called a fairy gem. Manifests
innermost wishes. Promotes well being; Enhances concentrationand
meditation. Powerful spirit guide. Opens and softens the way for the use
of other stones. Excellent used in aquariums--provides needed minerals.
Charge on window sills at night. |
Varies in different shades of purples and greens. Identified by the
bands of color seen within the stone. |
| Garnet |
Wards off inflammatory diseases, promotes healthy and cheery
disposition. Balances hormones, good for depression, enhances
self-esteem, alleviates bad dreams, and encourages success in business.
Thought to assist in seeing into past incarnations. Will ensure
consistency in friendship and love, preserve health, and is generally
fortunate. Vitality and passion. Stimulates happiness, peace, balance,
patience, inspiration, persistence, good for rebirthing, menstruation,
and life passages, disorders, fertility, eases arthritis pain. |
Ranges from orange-red to pink-red |
| Hematite |
Very strong stone; absorbs negativity. Gives optimism and courage.
Calming to the emotions. Worn as an amulet, it confers strength and
procures favorable legal judgements. In Egypt, used to reduce
ininflammation and treat hysteria. Considered to be a grounding stone.
Helps maintain balance and anxiety as it allows for mental clarity, known
as the "worry stone". |
Heavy, black metallic stone |
| Herkimer |
Balancing special variety of quartz crystal. "Diamond" works with
yin/yang energies, known as the "Dream Crystal", aids in brining
teachings of the dream state into conscious awareness, very highly
attuned spiritually. |
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| Jacinth (or Hyacinth) |
Renders the wearer extremely fascinating and strengthens the heart.
Used as a cure for melancholy.(/TD>
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| Jade |
A most sacred stone and a symbol of divine revelation. Brings good
fortune and health to its owner. Stimulates practicality, wisdom, and
universal attunement. Thought to provide a link between the spiritual and
the mundane. Most revered by the Chinese. |
Creamy green stone |
| Jasper (all) |
Safeguard personal independence, said to bring inspirational warnings
when there is danger of unfair domination from others. Balance emotions
and stress. Aid and comfort during periods of female distress. One stone
worn about the neck and another around the waist. |
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| Lapis Lazuli |
Prized for its prophetic virtues. Stimulates wisdom, truthfulness,
and psychic experiences, healing and strengthening when worn next to the
skin. Strengthens mind and body to spiritual awareness. |
Royal blue in color with flecks of real gold. |
| Melachite |
Called a magic stone, favorable for travelers, missionaries, and
other adventurers. Used as a child's talisman to sleep soundly and
protect from bad dreams. Stimulates clear vision and insight, represents
hope and inner peace, believed to protect from danger. Increases
abundance in all areas of life. This stone supposedly has equal amounts
of negative and positive forces, thereby adding to the balance of
physical and spiritual life. Used to release repressed emotions and for
physical detoxing. |
| Moonstone |
Aid in bringing forth memories of past lives, carried as a good luck
piece. Brings good fortune. Reflects the wearer's being and feelings.
Promotes unselfishness. Opens the heart to humanitarian love and hope.
Good for protection while traveling on water. Gives clarity to spiritual
understanding. Good for pre-menstrual and balanxing to the reproductive
system. Used to ease childbirth. Sometimes called the Queen of the
Heavens Stone. Calming effect on emotions. Eases menstrual pain,
alleviates many degenerative conditions of the skin, hair, eyes, and body
fluids. |
Translucent, milky stone with color tints ranging from white-yellow
to blue-gray. |
| Moss Agate |
Assists in making and keeping friends, helpful to farmers and those
interested in growing plants. Moss agates considered to be most powerful.
Aid in restoration of energy, used in healing, and believed to bring the
wearer happiness, wealth, health, and long-life. Increases ability to
ward off self-induced anger and inner bitterness. Moss green balances
emotional energy. Moss red balances physical energy. Blue lace gives
tranquility. |
Translucent stone with flecks of green or red. |
| Obsidian |
Used to sharpen both the internal and external. |
Black stone with swirls of white |
| Onyx |
Preserves against the bites of snakes and venomous insects, and
assists in bringing marital happiness. When certain persons wear it, may
bring on terrible shapes to a dreamer, from which the future can be
devined. Will ground spiritual energy to physical plane. |
Deep, black color. |
| Opal |
An unlucky stone that can interfere with love and marriage unless one
was born between September 23rd and November 21st. To these people, it
will give second sight (clairvoyance), and prevent contagion from the
air. |
Generally white but various colors range depending on variety.
Identified by brilliant sparkling effect. |
| Pearls |
Worn as a necklace, makes the wearer chaste. Stimulates feminine
qualities, used to focus attention, helps pull together mental and
spiritual forces, peace of mind. A very lucky stone for those born in June.
| White, milky stone |
| Peridot |
Dispels fears, guilt, depression. Used to counteract negative
emotions and healing of the spirit. Once worn as a means of gaining
foresight and divine inspiration. Protection, prosperity, emotional
calming, purifies, balances. |
Light green clear stone. |
Phantom |
Clear powerful tool for the New Age. Used to ground and center while
attuning to higher spiritual energies. In healing work, used to disperse
congested energies. |
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Pyrite |
Enhances mental capacity and attracts money to the owner. Has
protecting, shielding aspects for physical, mental, emotional levels.
Shields from negative energy, strengthens circulatory system, clears
oxygen in the blood. Also known as Fool's Gold. |
Looks like gold except when ground into a powder, it is black instead of gold |
Quartz |
Amplifies healing energy. Used to help draw out pain. Able to tap
into energies of the universe. Good stone for meditation. Very potent and
often worn to protect from negative vibrations. Should be cleansed
regularly with sunlight or rainwater. Rudilated-rutile needles help focus
attention. |
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| Rainbow Pyrite |
Strengthens will. Otherwise same as pyrite described above. |
Stone with rainbow coloration. |
| Rhodochrosite |
Used to activate love. Attracts or keeps a loving partner. |
Pink stone with black highlights. Very defined. |
| Rose Quartz |
Worn or carried for love, fidelity, peace, and happy marriage. Aids
intuition and emotional balance. Reduces stress and tension--cools hot
tempers. Vibrations of universal love and inner serenity. Comforts heart
from all wounds. Helps heal pain, enhances love, self love, positive
outlook, joy, and openness. |
Light to medium milky pink color. |
| Ruby |
The stone of freedom, charity, dignity, and divine power. Increases
vigor, renews vitality and cleanses the blood. The stone of courage.
Helps banish grief for those in mourning. |
Generally red with orange or pink undertones |
| Smoky quartz |
Good for calming the mind. Eases depression fear, and panic. |
Translucent gray color |
| Snowflake Obsidian |
Teaches one the truth of oneself in relation to one's ego, depicts
the contrasts of life-day and night, darkness and light, truth and error.
Grounds spiritual energy to physical plane. Absorbs negativity. |
Black stone with lacy highlights of white. |
| Sodalite |
Alleviates fears, clears the mind. |
Blue with white flecks. |
| Tiger Eye |
Calms emotions, protects against external stresses. To restore
physical energy and quiet emotional nature. |
"striped" stone with different shades of brown. |
| Topaz |
Will make melancholy vanish when worn or carried in the left hand. Calms
emotions, protects against external stresses. To restore physical energy
and quiet emotional nature. Protects against insomnia and depression,
mood elevator, revitalizes, stimulates creative thinkin processes, eases
death. |
Clear, gold stone (deeper color than amber). |
| Tourmaline |
Supercharged with magnetic and electric energy. Lifts fears and
negative conditions. Causes the wearer to be flexible, understanding, and
more objective in purpose and reason. Electric and magnetic properties.
Works as protective shield, consumes negative energy without releasing
into atmosphere. Has to do with visions and "seeing" with compassion,
teaches to expand limited concepts of thinking, relates to aspurations
for higher love, very complete stone. |
Varios shades of pink and green. Some stones will have both colors. |
| Turquoise |
Helps ward off danger and clears one's path of pitfalls. Protector
against evil. Self-love stone. Primary holy stone for Native Americans.
Vibrates calming radiations, protective, and restores healthy mental
attitude. Stone of friendship. Balancing and healing. Great strength and
vitality. Takes on characteristics of the wearer. It is unwise to wear a
turquoise formerly worn by one who has died. Excellent for both spiritual
attunement and healing of the energy centers and the physical body,
valuable for grounding as well as for vision quests and astral travel,
purifies all levels of being and is capable of handling strong
negativity. Also used for wounds and damage to bones. |
Shades of blue ranging from deep sky blue to greenish Chinese
turquoise. |
