Gemstone Descriptions
Agate: Powerful healer. Gives a sense of strength and courage. Grounding and energizing.
Andalusite: Helps one recover from difficult events or people and to see different aspects of one’s character.
Amazonite: Helps with creative expression, inspiration and joy. Increases self confidence.
Amber: Grounding, calming, centering. Strengthens spirit. Offers courage. Attracts money. Protection.
Amethyst: Purifying energy. Calms. Excellent for meditation/strengthens intellect, intuition, brings clarity.
Apatite: Balances the emotions. Unconditional love. Helps to let go of useless aspects of life, people, objects.
Aquamarine: Purifies the body. Calms the nerves. Clears the mind, aids creativity, balances the emotions.
Aventurine: Aids in releasing anxiety and fear, encouraging positive attitude. Protection.
Beryl: Helps relieve stress. Calms the mind. Offers courage.
Blue Quartz: Promotes speaking one’s truth. Helps to produce comfort, releases fear.
Carnelian: Aids to understanding inner self. Clears the mind for deep concentration. Grounding.
Chalcedony: Offers good fortune. Helps create coherent thoughts. Protects. Helps prevent accidents.
Chrysoprase: Calming and balancing, for inner peace. Reduces fear. Helps one to flow with life and change.
Citrine: Raises self esteem. Protects aura from negative vibrations and influences. Helps with confidence.
Coral: Calms emotions. Helps with communication and understanding. Repels negative thoughts of others.
Emerald: Valuable for healing. Tonic for body, mind and spirit. Balancing when seeking truth.
Fluorite: Powerful healer. Reduces stress. Soothes when emotionally upset. Helps the mind stay focused.
Garnet: Tonic for the entire body. Helps balance root chakra. Lifts depression. Brings focus and order.
Iolite: Strengthens self confidence and taking charge of life. Helps one feel comfortable in leadership role.
Jade: Promotes good judgment, sense of justice, fairness. Increases wisdom. Powerful, calming vibrations.
Jasper: Powerful healer. Soothes stomach and nerves. Protects and grounds.
Kyanite: Aligns with all the chakras, balancing. Tranquil and calming effect. Aids communication.
Labradorite: Excellent for overwork and long periods of work. Stimulates physical activity.
Lapis Lazuli: Increases mental clarity, creativity, psychic abilities, intellectual clarity and communication.
Moonstone: Lifts spirits, creates harmony. Relieves anxiety, balances emotions. Helps one to be more open.
Morganite: A stone of divine love. Opens the heart. Attracts love and maintains it.
Onyx: Helpful for emotional balancing and self-control. Promotes positive thoughts. Reduces stress.
Opal: Encourages creativity. Balances emotions. Enhances intuition. Helpful for making decisions.
Pearl: Balances and heals all chakras. Helps in search for higher wisdom and truth.
Peridot: Gives inspiration, strengthens inner sight. Releases emotional tension. It purifies the body.
Prehnite: Stone for unconditional love. Offers personal protection. Induces deep meditation.
Quartz Crystal: All purpose healer, very powerful. Good stone for emotional peace; excellent for meditation.
Rhodocrosite: Inspires forgiveness and compassion. Brings hope, acceptance of self and life, emotional balance.
Rose Quartz: Brings sense of calm. Teaches forgiveness and unconditional love for ourselves and others.
Ruby: Strengthens courage, selfless work, spiritual endeavors, joy, leadership. Enhances intuitive thinking.
Rutilated Quartz: Very powerful healer. Helps to develop personal potential. Stone for general detoxifying.
Sapphire: Helps with spiritual faith, peace, certainty, and good fortune. Heals mind and spirit. Inspires.
Smoky Quartz: Eases depression and severe mood swings. Mildly sedative, relaxing. Protective, grounding.
Soo Chow Jade/Serpentine: Similar effects as jade. Increases wisdom and self-restraint.
Sodalite: Aids friendship, tolerance, understanding and clarity. Deepens thoughts. Reduces stress.
Spinel: Renews energy. Offers encouragement.
Strawberry Quartz: Creates unconditional love for others and oneself, compassion and understanding.
Sugilite: Balances and heals all chakras. Represents spiritual love. Releases discouragement, despair.
Tanzanite: For highly active people, balances extremes in a personality. Increases spiritual awareness.
Tiger’s Eye: Aids clarity of perception. Enhances self confidence. Gives courage, strength, endurance.
Topaz: Aids intuition and wisdom. Promotes tolerance and peace. Creates hope.
Tourmaline: Powerful personal protection. Inspires self confidence, understanding and creativity.
Turquoise: Helps creativity, peace of mind, communication, and emotional balance. Enhances meditation.
Vesuvianite: Gives security with oneself. Represents cooperative effort. Helps clear negative thought patterns.
Volcanic Glass/Obsidian: Powerful healer. Grounds spiritual energy in the physical plane.
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