Thursday 7 July 2011

Stones and their Meaning




Agate (Moss):
Moss agates are considered the most powerful of the agates. It was the agate of warriors. Moss agate is the most powerful of the agates that helps balance emotional energy. It promotes a connection to nature and self-awareness. It is the stone for new beginnings and wealth. On a physical level, this stone boosts the immune system by treating colds / flue and lowering fevers, reduces swelling in the Lymph Nodes, helps prevent Hypoglycemia and dehydration, and assists with inflammation. When applied to the skin, it is known to treat fungi and skin infections.
   
   Amazonite:
Amazonite heals and opens both the heart and throat chakras; opens the third eye, enhances intuition, psychic powers, creativity, intellect, and psychic ability; dissipates negative energy and blockages within the nervous system; benefits Osteoporosis, tooth decay, and calcium deficiencies; enhances marriage; betters skin; releases fear and anxiety; improves sense of self-worth; and, inspires confidence, truth, hope, sincerity, honour, communication, and clairvoyance. Amazonite is also the calming stone.  

  
   Amethyst:
Amethyst relieves stress and tension; purifies and dispels negativity; promotes healing and spiritual connection; transforms by releasing negativity and blocked energy; promotes intuitive dreams and inspired thinking; and, relieves insomnia. Amethyst is also the symbol of love, truth, passion, and hope while it increases your psychic powers.
   
   Apatite:
Apatite enhance one’s insight, learning abilities, and creativity; increases self-confidence and body image by reducing negative feelings of inadequacy and shyness; aids to achieve deeper states of meditation; diminishes guilt, grief, and negativity and opens joy, peace, and beauty. On a physical level, it aids the immune system, strengthen muscles, suppresses hunger, eases hypertension, relieves arthritis and joint conditions, and is used to clear blockages to release karmic suffering. Apatite is the inspirational and communication stone.
    
   Aquamarine:
Aquamarine is for building courage, travelers' safety, calming and soothing while reducing stress, mediation, intuition, and clarifies emotions. It aids in creative self-expression and releases anxiety, fear, and restlessness. Aquamarine is the spiritual connectedness stone.
    
   Aventurine:
Aventurine relieves migraines, and skin irritations while it balances emotions, comforts, and calms a troubled spirit as well as reduces stress, anxiety, and fear by encouraging emotional tranquility. Moreover, it helps one develop confidence and a positive attitude. It is the all-purpose healing stone. Aventurine stimulates financial opportunity, encourages prosperity, abundance, and luck. It is the stone of opportunity.
   
   Black Onyx:
Onyx is known to separate. It can help release negative emotions such as sorrow and grief. It is used to end unhappy or bothersome relationships. Black stones have protective energies in the sense that black is the absence of light, and therefore, can be used to create invisibility.


    
   Black Tourmaline:
Black Tourmaline protects and shields against unwanted energies, balances negative energy, and builds stability and self-discipline. It relieves nervousness, relieves nervousness, and restores vitality and physical energy. Black Tourmaline is the confidence stone.
   
   Carnelian:
Carnelian protects from bad vibrations, calms temper while increasing sense of humour, happiness, and self-esteem, and is an energy booster. It promotes positive life choices against poverty for the insecure individual needing strength and courage, with an appreciation towards nature. Physically, this stone treats lower back problems, rheumatism, and arthritis. Carnelian is the stabilizing stone.
    
   Citrine:
Citrine is a manifesting stone that attracts wealth and prosperity / success in business, abundance, and creativity. It also carries the healing properties of the sun: fears and phobias, depression, stimulates indigestion, aids the spleen and pancreas, reduces anxiety, and is generally a good stone for aligning the chakras by bringing optimism, cheerfulness, warmth, happiness, generosity, creativity, pleasure, energy, protection, spiritual growth, and confidence. Citrine is the business stone.
    
   Emerald:
The Emerald, on a physical level, improves vision and soothes the eyes, aids in the health of lungs, heart, spine, muscles, and the spine; Increases insights; detoxifies the liver; and alleviates Rheumatism and Diabetes. It nurtures, stabilizes, and, has a calming affect on emotions. As the Emerald is the sacred stone of the Goddess Venus, it promotes friendship and keeps partnerships in balance. It is the stone for inspiration and infinite patience.
    
   Garnet:
The Garnet stone's powers are for healing, protection, and strength. Physically, it cleanses and re-energizes the chakras, regenerates the body and simulates metabolism, boosts the immune system and energy levels, alleviates depression, and improves imagination. It is the protective stone for energy, the spleen, and thyroid. The Garnet stone drives positive thoughts, past life recall, inspiration, success, social popularity, and self-confidence. It is the stone for manifestation: passion, sensuality, sexuality, romantic love, intimacy, devotion, compassion, and love.
    
   Hematite:
On a physical level, Hematite helps with low self-esteem, is effective in grounding and protecting while harmonizing the mind, body and spirit. It diminishes headaches (especially if you work at a computer), inflamed eyelids, the kidneys, leg cramps, anxiety, insomnia, and cleanses the blood while it regenerates tissue and stimulates the absorption of iron. Hematite is the protective stone for healing friendships and relationships.
    
   Howlite:
Howlite is the calming stone. It stills the mind which is ideal for sleeping and meditation by eliminating rage and uncontrolled anger and by releasing the strings that tie old emotions and relevant anxieties to present life. These eliminations enhances ambition and clarity of direction. On a physical level, Howlite balances the body's calcium levels and aids in the health of teeth, bones, and soft tissue.
   
   Jasper (red):
The Red Jasper is the protection stone for hazards of the night. It brings tranquility and wholeness and balances the Yin and Yang while it nurtures, stabilizes and energizes the lower chakras. The Red Jasper is the stone of health by strengthening and detoxifying the Circulatory System, blood, liver, by dissolving blockages in the liver and bile ducts, and by supporting the sexual organs
    
   Jasper (yellow):
The Yellow Jasper is the stress stone to nurture, stabilize, and energize the lower chakras (especially the Solar Plexus Chakra) during times of stress. During these times, it channels positive energy, releases toxins and stabilizes digestion in the stomach, energizes the Endocrine System, and protects during spiritual work and physical travel.
   
   Labradorite:
Labradorite is the power stone, allowing for seeing through illusions and determine the actual form of dreams and goals by releasing restrictions and assisting with moving forward. It accelerates intuitiveness and the connection to a higher self / guide while relieving stress and deflecting unwanted energies from the aura. Labradorite is a highly mystical and protective stone and, on a physical level, it regulates metabolism, treats colds, gout and Rhematist, balances hormones, and lowers blood pressure.
   
   Lapis Lazuli:
One of the most valued gems in Egyptian and Greek history, the Lapis Lazuli is very powerful and should be used with care. It is the stone for truth and assists with expressing feelings, binds relationships, builds awareness and psychic abilities, inspiration, wisdom, and allows for individuals to take charge of their life by releasing stress and emotional wounds. On a physical level, it strengthens the immune system, balances the Throat Chakra, alleviates pain (especially migraines), minimizes depression, and can reverse curses or disease caused by not speaking out in the past.
    
   Malachite:
Malachite is believed to be a strong protector of children. It is said to protect the wearer from accidents and protects travelers. Malachite has been used to aid success in business and protect against undesirable business associations. It is a stone of balance in relationships. On a physical level, it helps with Asthma, menstrual cramps, and stimulates the liver to release toxins as well as minimizes depression by producing the feeling of well being and releasing negative experiences of old traumas. Malachite is an extremely versatile healing stone that reveals inner truth, protects, centers, and supports friendships.
   
   Moonstone (Rainbow):
The moonstone is associated with the moon and was the stone of the goddess Diana. Moonstone is a very personal stone. It is a reflection of the person who owns it. It does not add or detract, only shows how it is. The most powerful time to use the Moonstone is during a full moon for new beginnings / rebirth, harmony in relationships, happiness, deep emotional healing, and for calming overreactions to emotional and personal situations. On a physical level, it promotes long life, reduces excess body fluids and swelling, helps the digesting and reproductive systems, and heals disorders of the upper digestive tract that are related to emotional stress.
    
   Obsidian (Rainbow):
Rainbow Obsidian is particularly powerful in meditation to dissolve shock, fear or barriers. It expands your consciousness, sharpens the senses and can help you delve deep into mysterious phenomena and experience. This stone grounds, protects, stabilizes erratic energies, aids with indigestion, detoxifies, and reduces the pain of Arthritis, joint problems and related cramps.
    
   Obsidian (Apache Tear):
Apache Tear provides comfort from grief, insight into the source of distress, and relieves long-held grievances; relieves depression and anxiety; absorbs negative energy protects aura; and, forgiveness. On a physical level it removes toxins from the body; increases spontaneity; and aids with poor digestion and gastric problems. Apache Tear is the emotional stone for greater joy in life and a more harmonious state.
    
   Obsidian (Snowflake):
Snowflake Obsidian is a stone of purity. It balances mind body and spirit by preventing emotional draining from others and external stressors and integrating change. The Snowflake Obsidian is the protection stone for the over-sensitive, gently releasing emotional blockages by absorbing and dispersing negativity, promoting intuition, and enhancing compassion. On a physical level, this stone balances polarities, detoxifies, improves circulation, and eases Arthritis and joint pain.
    
   Orange Calcite Raw and Tumbled:
Orange Calcite can be used to get positive energy moving in the areas of sexuality and creativity. It has strong energizing and cleansing properties: balancing emotions and aura, combats laziness while calming the mind, stimulates insights and boosts memory, removes fears and overcomes depression by clarifying life's direction. On a physical level, Orange Calcite heals the reproductive system, gallbladder, and intestinal disorders such as Irritable Bowel Syndrome by removing excess mucus from the body.
    
   Quartz (Clear):
Known as 'the mirror of the soul' the Clear Quartz radiates that which is in us, that is divine. It is one of the most powerful of all healing gemstones, brings clarity of thought, enhances problem solving skills, helps with emotional healing by driving off negative energy, empowers and protects, amplifies and focuses energy, alleviates anger, balances thinking in both the left and right brain, and is generally good for the mind, the body, and the spirit. On a physical level, this stone stimulates the thyroid, treats vertigo, and dissolves blockages that surface.
    
   Quartz (Rose):
The Rose Quartz is known as the love stone. It helps the feeling of a strong sense of self-worth, therefore being worth love. It is the stone of universal love which includes self-awareness and self-love, friendships, relationships, and marriage as it soothes the heart for giving and receiving love as well as it enhances the ability to express love positively to oneself and others. The Rose Quartz stimulates imagination and intellect and helps to cure headaches.
    
   Quartz (Smoky):
Smoky Quartz is nature's stone of endurance. It is a grounding stone that transmutes negative energies and fears while facilitating the ability to get things done in the practical world. This stone enhances organizational skills, removes restrictions and negative energy, promotes positive thought, brings emotional calmness, clears the mind for meditation, helps to relax by providing pain relief, lifts depression, and enhances dreams.
    
   Rhodochrosite:
Rhodochrosite powers include promotion of love and relationships, helps release past psychological issues and improves eyesight. It also helps in the development of inner freedom by resolving inner conflicts that unites the conscious with the sub-conscious. On a physical level, this stone energizes the pancreas, spleen, and kidney.
    
   Sardonyx:
Sardonyx is the stone of strength and protection that enhances willpower, integrity, stamina and vigor. It brings lasting happiness and stability to marriage, career, and partnerships, attracts friends, strengthens character, and brings good fortune. On a physical level, this stone heals lungs and bones, re-sensitizes the sensory organs, regulates fluids and cell metabolism, strengthens the immune system, alleviates depression and hesitancy, and aids in the absorption of nutrients by the elimination of waste products.
   
   Sodalite:
Sodalite is the stone of athletics as it stimulates endurance. It harmonizes the inner being or the conscious and subconscious mind, promotes peace and harmony, and brings inner peace by alleviating fear, enhancing self-expression, creativity, and communication, by encouraging rational thought, objectivity, truth, and intuition, and by enhancing self-esteem, self-acceptance, and self-trust. On a physical level, this stone strengthens metabolism and the lymphatic system, is useful in the treatment of the digestive system, prevents the risk of diabetes, calms panic attacks, and alleviates insomnia.
   
   Sunstone:
The Sunstone was associated with the Sun during the Renaissance and is a protective stone. Symbolically, the Sunstone is linked to the Moonstone. The two stones together bring the influences of the Sun (healing, protection, success) into harmony with those of the Moon (love, peace, spirituality). The Sunstone stimulates self-healing powers, allows the happy self to shine through, reverses feelings of failure, increases self-worth and confidence, and encourages optimism and enthusiasm. On a physical level, this stone regulates the autonomic nervous system, harmonizes all organs, treats chronic sore throats, relieves stomach ulcers, and acts as an anti-depressant. The Sunstone is great for Seasonal Affective Disorder as it lifts dark moods / depression and switches to a positive take on events and situations.
   
   Tiger's Eye (blue):
Blue Tiger Eye is very calming and reduces stress. Blue Tiger Eye helps to calm an overactive sex drive by dissolving sexual frustrations. It aids the over-anxious, the quick-tempered, and the phobic. On a physical level, this stone slows the metabolism.
   
  Tiger’s Eye (red):
Useful for enhancing physical vitality, this stone can help create healthy patterns in exercise and eating habits. It is grounding and offers a practical and optimistic outlook, provides motivation, assists in accomplishing goals, and increases a low sex drive. On a physical level, this stone speeds up a slow

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