We oftentimes encounter gemstones and take them only for their external qualities, and appreciate them only for their aesthetic qualities. However, there is more to gemstones than that. Here’s a short guide on gemstone qualities, healing and definition.
Agate
Agate’s most noticeable propertiesoverall are balancing yin/yang energy, courage, protection, healing, and calming. Historically it was placed in water for cooking or drinking to dispel sickness. TheMetaphysical and Healing Properties Lore of any specific type of agate depend to some extent on the color of the agate, but all agates have certain things in common.
Aquamarine
Aquamarine is metaphysically known as a stone of courage and fortitude that can bring great power. It is said to assist with quick intellectual response. It brings inner peace, hope and self-love, gives shielding for the aura, and is said to bring angels for their guidance and protection. As such, it is an excellent crystal for meditaiton. Aquamarine is used metaphysically to dispel anger and fear.
Australian Opal
Opal is a stone of inspiration which enhances imagination and creativity. It can bring inspiration to projects and to life and Spirit. Its own spirit is at times like that of a child spontaneously playing, dashing color where ever it pleases. Carrying this imaginative spontaneity into the realm of you life can bring strong creativity. Opal has a larger proportion of water in it than most stones and is considered a water stone. This can help ease the effort of handling change in life. Like water rolls over and past rocks and roots in its way, the energy of opal can help continue on your path regardless of obstacles. During times of transformation, this is an invaluable energy to work with and hold close to your heart.
Chrysoprase
Chrysoprase is powerful stone. It is said to bring good fortune and prosperity, as well as business success. It facilitates self-expression, courage, hope, and the ability to use them wisely. It can bring happiness, which is partly because it helps its wearer get rid of negative thoughts and irritability. It also enhances and strengthens friendships. Chrysoprase is a stone of balance that equalize yin/yang energies and allows deep meditation. It can mend broken hearts and remove inferiority or superiority complexes. t is a powerful healing stone that is said to aid failing eyesight or other eye problems, immune system response, fertility issues, gout, mental illness, relieves fevers and excess body heat, and can help guard against sexually transmitted diseases. Note that healing crystal meanings are spiritual supports to healing and are not prescriptions or healthcare information.
Citrine
Often known as the “merchant’s stone”, this lucky stone brings good fortune and it is often placed where business is conducted, not only for acquiring wealth, but to maintain it. Citrine improves mental focus, endurance and self-esteem. Said to open the mind to new thoughts, it inhibits impatience and restlessness. Citrine is also thought to promote optimism, suitable for trying to overcome sorrow or depression. Citrine can also help balance the solar plexus chakra.
Clear Quartz
Quartz is the most common stone on the planet. It is a component of a huge variety of rock types, and comes in an extensive range of colors and varieties such as agate and jasper. Many colors of quartz or formations have their own names, such as amethyst for purple quartz.
The word quartz is thought to come from the German word “quarz”, but the origin of that word is not known. The word crystal, however, comes from the Greek word “krystallos” which means ice.
Druzy
Light and joy are brought to an environment or ritual by a Druzy Cluister. As a type of Crystal Cluster they also bring harmony to groups. They have energy that is especially helpful for Spiritual worship and Lightwork. Like other types of clusters, they can empower the energy of other crystals and stones. Placing a stone on the druzy cluster for a day or longer period enhances their energy, especially if placed in moonlight or sunlight for 24 hours.
Garnet
Garnet is a powerful energizing and regenerative stone. It balances, strengthens and protects and is sometimes known as a “Warrior’s Stone”. Although garnets are commonly known to be red, it’s colors can vary.
The most common Garnet is likely the Almandine Garnet, the color of scarlet and red united with the more muted, earthy overtones of brown. It is intimately tied to the Earth, and is a talisman of protection and unyielding strength, increasing willpower and resistance to all things negative. It aids circulation and all blood related issues.
Associated with the First Chakra, it is a stone of physical love and relationships, and a spiritual stone of psychic protection.
Gold
Traditional folklore and crystal healing metaphysical lore say the following about gold. Gold can balance energy fields, and is beneficial for opening and balancing the third eye and crown chakras. It can also balance the heart chakra. It can remove negative energy from the chakras and bring in the positive from the stones it is with. It has been used to bring wealth, happiness, stress relief, and good feelings. Gold is a mineral of spirituality, understanding, and attunement to nature. It attracts positive energy and is said to be a great healing mineral. Please note that healing crystal meanings are spiritual supports to healing and are not prescriptions or healthcare information.
Labradorite
Labradorite, a healer’s stone, believed to have once fallen from the frozen fire of the Aurora Boealis, is revelled for it’s magical properties. Wearing or carrying Labradorite allows one’s awakening of inner spirit, intuitive wisdom and psychic power. An uplifting crystal, it stimulates mental acuity, reduces stress and enhances creativity.
In the workplace, Labradorite brings out the best in people, making work life more congenial. It tempers negativity, helping to banish fears and insecurities while channeling self-empowerment. It’s known to calm an overactive mind, energizing imagination, spontaneity, awakening one’s sense of adventure and ability to deal with change.
Labradorite radiates a predominant blue crystal energy that stimulates the Throat Chakra, the voice of the body. It allows the energy from the other chakras to be channelled through it . If it is blocked, or out of balance, it can affect the health of the other chakras. When the throat chakra is in balance and open, it allows for the expression of what we think and what we feel. We can communicate our ideas, beliefs, and emotions, bringing our personal truth out into the world. We have an easy flow of energy within the body and spirit. The energy that springs upward from the lower chakras can continue its path enabling free expression and natural release.
Darker shades of blue encourage the power of truth, while lighter shades carry the power of flexibility, relaxation, and balance. Labradorite, with its iridescent flashes of color, can be very beneficial in uniting all of the chakras.
Moonstone
Let’s take a look at this gemstone as we further take a look at gemstone qualities, healing and definition. Popular for it’s shimmering radiance, moonstones are termed by gemologists as ‘adularescence’ in quality, known to exhibit a distinct sheen under certain lighting conditions, and it is the sheen which renders moonstone one of the most remarkable gemstones available today. In fact, its name is owed to the almost magical, bluish white shimmer it exhibits, which closely resembles that of the moon.
Moonstones are good to have if you’re an entrepreneur or run a business. In business, you’ll typically require good intuition– when you have to be able to read people, solve puzzles or problems, perhaps when you have to take calculated business risks, a moonstone is a good stone to have on hand. Moonstones are known for improving your intuition, and they’re also hailed for bringing good fortune. If you travel a lot for business, moonstones are also ideal stones for protecting you in travel. If you work with stocks, science or doing any kinds of investigations, this is the ideal stone for you. You can also carry it around when you’re not working, as its energies will bring you peace and tranquility.
- Balances the Sacral Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra
Onyx
Onyx is associated primarily with the root chakra. It assists with challenges in life, especially those caused by a drain of energy. It prevents the draining away of personal energy and can be used for protection from such. It also helps with grounding and controlling or eliminating excess or unwanted energies. It has been used for wound healing, childbirth and to increase stamina and self-control. Note that healing crystal meanings are spiritual supports to healing and are not prescriptions or healthcare information. Black onyx and red onyx are associated with the base (root, first) chakra. White onyx is associated with linking the base and crown chakras to have balanced energy throughout the chakra system. Other colors are associated with the related chakra by colors.
Pearl
Pearls attune the wearer to ebb and flow of life. They are calming and centering. They give purity and promote faith, charity, and integrity, truth and loyalty. They especially enhance personal integrity. They help one connect with the Goddess, the ultimate feminine energy, and bring love energy. Pearls have been used in crystal healing to treat disorders of the digestive tract and muscular systems, as well as to aid fertility and to ease childbirth. Please note that healing crystal meanings are spiritual supports to healing and are not prescriptions or healthcare information.
Pyrite
Alternate Names and Spellings: Fool’s Gold, Healer’s Gold
Pyrite is a stone of intellect and protection. It enhances intelligence, mental stability, logic, analysis, creativity, memory, and psychic development. It can help you tap your own latent mental talents and abilities. Pyrite is a powerful protection stone, and is very grounding. Pyrite additionally is a stone that brings energies of good luck or good fortune.
Quartz
Quartz is the most recognized type of crystal. In fact, many people envision quartz crystals when they think of crystals, even though there are many different types of crystals. Quartz can be icy clear or have inclusions, veils, bubbles, and various colors. Visual clarity normally isn’t important to a quartz’s energetic quality and ability to amplify subtle energies. Quartz s a power stone. It has been called the “Universal Crystal” because of its many uses. It enhances energy by absorbing, storing, amplifying, balancing, focusing and transmitting. It channels universal energy. Quartz also enhances thoughts, as they are a form of energy. Because it directs and amplifies energy, it is extremely beneficial for manifesting, healing, meditation, protection, and channeling. It is also beneficial for storing and retrieving information of all types, as information is a form of energy pattern also. This makes them particularly good for programming to use for a particular purpose. Due to its ability to balance, quartz is excellent for harmonizing and balancing one’s environment. Quartz is also good for energizing other crystals.
Rose Quartz
Known often as the “love” stone, rose quartz brings a gentle peacefulness and calmness, enhancing romance. This universal love stone is excellent for healing emotional wounds, removing negativity and restoring harmony especially after conflict.
Bring more spark to your bedroom when you keep a rose quartz under your pillow or near the bed. When worn in jewelry, it brings inner peace, attracts love energies and increases a sense of self-worth. If you have not yet found your significant other, or need to spice up the romance, then rose quartz is for you.
Spinel
Spinel, though often mistaken historically for other stones such as ruby or sapphire, is a valid mineral in its own right and has many positive energetic properties. In metaphysical and crystal healing lore, spinel of virtually any color is known for these energy vibrations and more. Spinel is a stone that can bring high energy to all efforts and all realms. In the outer world, spinel is used to attract money, wealth and prosperity. It can also be used to bring vitality to any endeavor.
Topaz
Topaz is a powerful stone in the way that quartz is. It is a balancing and calming stone that balances emotions, releases tension, balances emotions, and can bring joy. Topaz is also believed to bring success and good fortune, and synchronicity. It is also used for protection, particularly protection from the evil eye and greed.
Spiritually it brings in spiritual love and peace. It also is said to bring creativity, individuality, true love, and hope.
Physically, topaz is said in crystal healing to aid with gout, blood disorders, hemorrhages, poor appetite, tissue regeneration, tuberculosis, aging (reverses), endocrine system. Note that healing crystal meanings are spiritual supports to healing and are not prescriptions or healthcare information.
Tourmaline
Tourmaline is a stone that can increase flexibility, happiness, hope, objectivity, compassion and serenity. It also enhances tolerance and understanding. It is a stone that is very helpful for channeling. Tourmaline is also a very protecting stone. It is called the Poet’s Stone. Tourmaline is often associated with the heart chakra, particularly watermelon tourmaline, where it opens one to accept love. Other colors of tourmaline are associated with additional chakras.
Turquoise
Turquoise is sacred to both Native American and oriental traditions. It is associated with the sky, and bringing sky energy to earth. It can help promote honest and clear communication from the heart. Turquoise is also a powerful crystal for relieving stress. It is also said to protect against pollution in the environment, and to bring abundance. Turquoise is said also help speed the healing process, and is known as a master healer stone. It is very powerful for grounding and protection also. Turquoise is associated with the throat chakra primarily.
