Gemstone Meanings
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Gemstone Meanings, Energetic and Healing Properties
(condensed and gratefully acknowledged from
"Love is in the Earth: A Kaleidoscope of Crystals"
by Melody. I recommend this detailed reference very highly.)
Agate helps balance yin/yang energy, and stabilizes the aura, transforming and eliminating negativity. It increases perceptiveness and assists in loving self-examination toward one's path. Vibrates to #9.
Blue Lace Agate activates the heart, throat, 3rd eye and crown chakras. It can help one reach high spiritual places and is excellent for inner attunement. It holds the energy of flight, air, movement and grace. Vibrates to #5.
Amazonite is soothing to the nerves and emotions. It brings clarity and helps manifest the pure energy of universal Love. It assists general health maintenance, eliminates negative energy and balances male and female energies. Vibrates to #5.
Amber transmutes negative energy into positive energy. It helps in manifesting what you desire, stimulates the intellect and opens the crown chakra, enhancing activation of universal Love. It emits a sunny and bright soothing energy. Vibrates to #3.
Amethyst is a "stone of spirituality and contentment," transmuting energies into a higher frequency and assisting personal transformation. It assists in assimilating new ideas; it clears the aura, helps meditation, and bestows stability, strength and peace. Vibrates to #3.
Ametrine is a naturally-occurring combination of amethyst and citrine, with the spiritual enhancement of amethyst and the clearing properties of citrine. It is said to assist meditation and attunement, dispersing negativity and energizing with pure light energy. It can release negative emotional programming. Vibrates to #4.
Apatite is related to service and humanitarian pursuits, being attuned to healing, balancing energy and teaching. It can align and balance chakras; it facilitates and stimulates psychic abilities. Vibrates to #9.
Aquamarine is a "stone of courage." It helps attune to more spiritual levels of awareness, providing emotional and intellectual stability. It emits a gentle, compassionate energy, reducing judgment of others and helping to align the chakras. It can be used to develop psychic awareness. Vibrates to #1.
Azurite-malachite combines azurite, a "stone of heaven" which awakens psychic abilities, aligns chakras, enhances creativity and assists deep meditation, with malachite, a "stone of transformation" which promotes positive response to change and spiritual evolution. It also represents fidelity in love and friendship. The combination assists in reconstruction during transformation, enhances flexibility and promotes a sense of individuality without ego. Vibrates to #1.
Bloodstone (Heliotrope) is an intense healing stone and a "stone of courage," providing powerful grounding. It assists in harmony, adaptability, revitalization and strength. It helps one progress toward union with the Divine through meditation and love, and it can help access mystical and intuitive insights. Vibrates to #4.
Carnelian provides a strong yet tender energy, reminding us to offer and receive Love. It protects against envy, fear and anger, helps banish sorrow, and awakens inherent talents. Carnelian can be used to cleanse negativity from other stones. Vibrates to #5 and #6.
Chalcedony helps balance the energy of body, mind, emotions and spirit. Through its nurturing energy, it encourages "brotherhood" and symbolizes benevolence and good will. Chalcedony relieves moodiness and melancholy and enhances generosity, responsiveness and receptivity. Vibrates to #9.
Charoite "combines higher spiritual dimensions with unconditional love on the physical plane," opens the heart, transmutes negative energy and may activate psychic abilities. It is a "stone for transformation," assisting with changes. It is a "bestower of good" and assists psychic awareness. Charoite works with all chakras. Vibrates to #7.
Chrysoprase is a nurturing stone that aligns all chakras and activates the heart chakra. It balances yin-yang energies and instills a state of grace, facilitating deep meditation, compassion and non-judgmental attitudes. Vibrates to #3.
Citrine transmutes negative energy, clears the aura, balances yin-yang energy, and stimulates radiant energy and a happy disposition. It enhances mental focus, creativity and decisiveness. It is said to attract wealth and to assist physical survival. Stimulates the crown chakra. Vibrates to #6.
Druzy is the name of a type of clustered micro-crystals often seen in quartz, but which can form in many natural minerals. Druzy carries the energy of life and vitality and "super-charges" the energy of any stone in which it occurs.
Fluorite helps stability and produces order on all levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, thus it's known for "bringing order out of chaos." It is also known as a "stone of discernment and aptitude," increasing concentration and facilitating mental achievement. It provides stabilizing energy and capacity to understand relationships. Vibrates to #2.
Garnet is a "stone of health," balancing energy and providing protection and a calming stable vitality. It enhances creativity and expansiveness in awareness. It is a "stone of commitment" to purpose, to others and to the self and can be used to establish order out of chaos. Vibrates to #2.
Hematite is known as a "stone for the mind," enhancing mental attunement, original thinking, technical knowledge and memory. It provides a calming and balancing energy and helps transform negativity into the universal light of love. Hematite can facilitate peace, self-control, inner happiness and loving relationships. Vibrates to #9.
Hessonite is a cinnamon-colored garnet which carries the qualities of garnet, and also provides courage for personal endeavors. It assists in connection to the etheric realms, advances meditation, and helps those dedicated to service. Vibrates to #6.
Iolite is known as the "violet stone," and is a major stone for use at the 3rd eye and crown area for healing, guided meditations and astral travel. It helps one change painlessly toward spiritual growth; it can stimulate visions and has often been used in shamanic healing. Iolite balances male/female energies, helps to release discord, and to awaken inner knowledge. It can help eliminate debts and facilitate acceptance of responsibility. Vibrates to #7.
Jasper is known as the "supreme nurturer." All varieties assist awareness and help one adjust to situations of isolation. In many ancient cultures, it was believed to provide protection and eliminate negativity; to assist in grounding to earth's stabilizing energies; and to provide a sustaining energy during times of crisis. It stabilizes and clears the aura and has been used to assist during astral travel. Vibrates to #6. In addition, specific varieties have more properties particular to each type of jasper:
Orbicular Jasper contains markings of many small circles. It can be used to support one's activities devoted to service. It assists in accepting responsibility and increasing patience. Vibrates to #6.
Picture Jasper exhibits a hidden message or "picture" from the past. Known as a "stone of proportion and harmony," it stimulates creative visualization and can assist business pursuits. Picture jasper helps bring hidden thoughts and emotions to the surface to be dealt with. Vibrates to #8.
Red Jasper assists in rectifying unjust circumstances, with a reminder that all choice is one's own responsibility. It assists in remembering dreams and can provide for rescue in dangerous situations. Vibrates to #6.
Kunzite activates the heart chakra and aligns it with the throat chakra and the third eye. It contributes toward loving thought and communication, facilitating self-love, unconditional love and romantic love. Kunzite removes obstacles from one's path and dissolves negativity. It assists in meditation and balances the chakras; it helps one to be open, strong, loving and vibrant. Vibrates to #7.
Kyanite is a powerful but gentle attunement stone that never needs cleaning and can align all chakras. It stimulates psychic awareness, facilitates meditation and fosters heart-felt love and compassion. It brings tranquility and perseverance and dispels anger and frustration. Vibrates to #4.
Lapis Lazuli is known as a "stone of total awareness." It helps awaken intuition and attune to the creative source, allowing us to progress toward awakening. It also provides protection and organization, and activates the throat and brow chakras. Vibrates to #3.
Labradorite facilitates connection with the ethereal realms, mystic and psychic wisdom and the existence of pure light and love. It clears and protects the aura, encourages clarity of intuition and inner sight and assists with traversing changes. It provides support for self-awareness and self-love. Vibrates to #6 and #7.
Malachite is a "stone of transformation," assisting one through changes, balancing challenging situations and aiding spiritual evolution. It can assist in recognizing and releasing deep emotional causes of illness. Malachite represents fidelity in love and friendship, loyalty and practicality. It helps clear and activate all chakras, especially the heart and throat centers. Vibrates to #9.
Onyx: An excellent stone for initiating the modes of centering and alignment for the total person of higher powers. It can banish grief, enhance self-control, stimulate wise decision-making and encourage happiness and good fortune. Vibrates to # 6.
Opal, Blue is used to stimulate creativity and communications skills, as well as speaking one's truth and the wisdom to know to whom this may be said. Blue Opal also enhances one's visioning and activates the third eye. Vibrates to #3, 9.
Opal, Pink is a "stone for renewal". It renews the sacred connection between 'self' and 'Spirit'. It teaches love and non-violence and helps one release old patterns. It can cleanse and purify the mind and heart. Aids spiritual awakening as well. Vibrates to #6
Pearl symbolizes purity and can provide a channel for spiritual guidance. It also signifies faith, charity and innocence and enhances personal integrity and focus. Vibrates to #7.
Peridot is a warm energy stone known for healing and protective properties and for aiding in understanding the changes in one's life. It cleanses and stimulates the crown and solar plexus chakras and assists in regulating cycles. It assists in the release of anger or jealousy, thus inspires happiness within the self. Vibrates to #5, #6 and #7.
Prehnite is known as a "stone for dreaming and remembering." It enhances protection and expands energy and assists meditation. It can be used to enhance the ability for prophesy and to facilitate contact with spirit guides and other entities. Vibrates to #5.
Quartz can be used to bring the energy of the stars into the soul. It aligns and harmonizes human energies with the energies of the cosmos. A power stone, quartz promotes harmony. Quartz can assist healing of negativity relating to perspective and judgments. It clears and activates all chakras, with special energy at the heart, brow and crown chakras.
Rainbow Moonstone is a feminine energy stone, enhancing intuition and introspection and activating the heart chakra and one's openness to Love. It symbolizes new beginnings. It cleanses the chakras and stimulates awareness, confidence, creativity and self-expression, and is known as a talisman of good fortune and protection while traveling. Vibrates to #4.
Red Coral brings peace within the self and facilitates intuition. It is valued in mystic traditions related to transfer of knowledge of past masters. It brings harmony with the natural forces of the universe and energy to pursue goals. Vibrates to #4.
Rhodochrosite, a "stone of love and balance," is believed to emit the energy of Love and allows attunement to higher spirituality. It balances chakras and emotions, and also provides healing energy to Mother Earth. Vibrates to #4.
Rose Quartz: A" stone of gentle love", bringing calmness and powerful yet soft attunement to the spiritual energy of love. Rose quartz works on all chakras to remove negativity, enhances self-love and helps heal emotional issues. Vibrates to #7.
Ruby in Zoisite contains real ruby deposits and is a highly energetic combination that amplifies the energy field of the body and stimulates psychic and mental abilities. It stimulates the crown chakra toward spirituality and encourages nurturing, loving energy as well as health, knowledge and wealth. Vibrates to #4.
Rutilated Quartz. All quartz amplifies and transmits energy. Clear quartz is used extensively in meditation, spiritual development and healing. Golden rutile strands within quartz intensify the power and bring a connection with the ethereal realms as well as strength with love, ease in transition, spiritual development and calm, reason and order. It repels negative energy and stabilizes relationships and emotional and physical imbalances. Vibrates to #4.
Smokey Quartz transforms and clears negative energy and emotions and removes blocks to spiritual growth. It promotes personal pride and joy in living; it dispels anger, relieves worry and balances yin and yang energies. It is a powerful grounding and protective stone, and assists in meditation. It works with the solar plexus chakra and the chakras in the hands and feet. Vibrates to #2 and #8.
Sugilite is a "love stone for this age" representing the perfection of spiritual love, and bringing "special healing powers to humanity." It assists in forgiving the self and others and can eliminate anger, hostility, jealousy, and other negative emotions. It helps with discouragement, relieves stress and furthers creativity. It provides insights while meditating. Vibrates to #2, 3 and 7.
Sunstone clears and energizes the chakras and helps attune to the angels and the ethereal realms. It also enhances communication and concentration and encourages independence and originality. It helps dispel fear and alleviate stress. Vibrates to #1.
Tanzanite is known as a "stone of magic," aligning personal power and actualization, and transmuting negative energy into positive. It stimulates the throat, third-eye and crown chakras, inviting energy that provides protection and aids visions of the higher spiritual realms. Tanzanite assists in self-understanding and in understanding universal mysteries. Vibrates to #2.
Tourmaline helps clear, maintain and stimulate each chakra. It promotes understanding and self-confidence, and balances and aligns energies. It has long been considered a "power" stone sacred to the shamen of many cultures, and is believed to be effective in healing and protection. It helps release victim-consciousness and maintain fortitude and healthy laughter. Vibrates to #2. In addition to the above qualities, specific colors of tourmaline hold additional energy:
Black Tourmaline repels and protects against negativity and helps increase physical vitality and emotional stability. Vibrates to # 3 & # 4.
Green Tourmaline helps open the heart chakra and brings in compassion energy; it also facilitates attunement between the heart and the 3rd eye. It inspires creativity and attracts success and prosperity; also assists in activities related to plant energy . Vibrates to #6.
Multi-color Tourmaline combines properties of all colors, and also can be used as a "gate" to the inner self and to the higher self. Vibrates to #8.
Pink Tourmaline (light) stimulates the crown and heart chakras, allowing a synthesis of love and spirituality. It allows one to trust in the power of love, and promotes joy by releasing destructive tendencies. It assists in attaining peace, understanding, trust awareness and love, especially during periods of growth and change. Vibrates to #9 and to the master #99.
Rubellite (deep pink) Tourmaline stimulates the healing qualities of the heart and furthers loving consciousness. It can be used to strengthen spiritual devotion. It provides a pathway between the root chakra and the heart, stimulating physical energy and vitality, both to the physical body and spiritual systems. Vibrates to #1, 2, 4 and 5.
Tanzanite is known as a "stone of magic," aligning personal power and actualization, and transmuting negative energy into positive. It stimulates the throat, third-eye and crown chakras, inviting energy that provides protection and aids visions of the higher spiritual realms. Tanzanite assists in self-understanding and in understanding universal mysteries. Vibrates to #2.
Turquoise is sacred in many traditions as a master healing stone that promotes wisdom, understanding, trust and kindness. A highly spiritual stone, yet grounding, it balances all chakras and brings energy to a higher level. Vibrates to #1.
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