Crystal Meanings
Agate is formed in many colours and enhances Creativity, Effective Meditation & Spiritual Awareness. Agate strengthens the intellect, making it a beneficial stone for both students and artists. It is also known as a good luck stone. As a stone of harmony, one of the things agate does is balance yin/yang energy. It is a grounding and centring stone, it is because of this Agate is good for stress and anxiety. Agate rather enables the wearer to have bursts of energy as needed. In this way, agate is a conservation stone, and enhances longevity.
Amethyst is formed in shades of purple & lilac. Amethyst enhances Creativity, Effective Meditation & Spiritual Awareness. It is the birthstone of February. It is a protective stone and wearing it as jewellery or carrying it in your pocket is said to protect against psychic attack. Placing Amethyst by the side of your bed while you sleep is thought to reduce nightmares. Amethyst is mostly a protective stone. As it is linked to the crown chakra, it is helpful in purifying the mind and clearing it of negative thoughts. This includes the negativity of stress and anxiety, which is why many meditate with amethyst so as to rid themselves of that darkness. Amethyst has been used to protect against additions and drunkenness and has healing properties which are especially useful in regards to work-related stress, because the stone is also associated with abundance; therefore relieving stress while emanating prosperity. The amethyst properties which facilitate intuition and communication can also be applied to increased work effectiveness.
Aragonite is pale yellow or cream in colour. It is a Calming & Balancing stone and is an excellent stone to have around in times of stress as it is said to reduce anger and to enhance patience and acceptance under stressful conditions. It is also believed to raise energy levels and to help clear and focus the mind so that you can concentrate on the task in hand. Aragonite is good to use when you are preparing for a meditation session, as it is said to raise vibrations to a high spiritual level. In healing Aragonite is believed to aid calcium absorption, heal bones and relieve pain. It is also said to be beneficial for Reynaud’s disease. Aragonite can be used to relieve a painful knee by placing it on the affected area and holding it in place with a bandage.
Black Onyx is jet black in colour and a stone of positivity & happiness. Black onyx is a powerful protection stone, absorbs and transforms negative energy, into positive energy and helps to prevent the drain of personal energy. Black Onyx aids the development of emotional and physical strength and stamina, especially when support is needed during times of stress, confusion or grief. Black onyx inspires feelings of personal power that comes from facing your fears. Being free of garden-variety phobias is like having a super power. It frees your soul from the shackles of self-doubt and anxiety by guiding you to a richer, more meaningful existence.
Bloodstone is dark Green with small dots of Red Jasper and promotes Physical & emotional healing. It is a powerful healing stone used for thousands of years for its healing properties. It is often used to purify and detoxify the body. Great at grounding negative energy and cleansing the body, Bloodstone brings love into any situation and helps ground the negative energies surrounding that issue. Bloodstone assists in enhancing the functions of the mind, bringing clarity and understanding.Bloodstone has been used to increase energy and strength. Bloodstone is an energy cleanser, purifying the blood and detoxifying the liver, kidneys and spleen. It benefits all blood rich organs and regulates blood flow. Bloodstone cleanses lower chakras, realigning the energies.
Blue Banded Agate is a blue and white banded crystal. Blue banded Agate promotes positivity & Happiness by opening your third eye charkra. Blue Banded Agate will ease inner turmoil and aids in reducing stress. Because of these properties Blue Banded Agate enhances a smooth flow of the fortune and leads you onto the correct path for inner self. Blue banded agate is connected to the third eye chakra and therefore is said to connect you to the higher realms, and enable you to receive messages from the higher realms enabling you to make decisions and guide you to happiness.
Blue Lace Agate has blue thread like stripes and is a Calming & Balancing Stone. In addition to the generic healing properties of Agate and Chalcedony, the Blue Lace Agate variety is a very cooling and calming stone, endowing us with a sense of peace and tranquillity. A powerful throat healer, it assists with verbal expression of thoughts and feelings. Blue Lace Agate is a great nurturing and supportive stone, neutralising anger, infection, inflammation and fever.Blue Lace Agate helps to strengthen and accelerate the repair of bones, thyroid deficiencies, throat and lymph infections. It soothes red, sore eyes and any skin problems associated with redness and irritation.
Brecciated Jasper an earthy healing stone red & brown in colour. It is a Calming & Balancing healing stone and is a stone of strength and vitality. It can be used to bring mental clarity and focus to a previously scattered event, experience or life in general. Brecciated Jasper stimulates the base and sacral chakras in addition to cleansing and stabilizing the auric field. Brecciated Jasper removes negativity from any space, returning it to its original source. A detoxifying stone, Brecciated Jasper promotes health and healing/recovery from illness. Brecciated Jasper is a wonderful grounding stone which can assist those who feel overwhelmed when it comes to the task of organization. Brecciated Jasper can also help in developing creativity and finding adequate outlets for the expression of this creativity. While it is said that Brecciated Jasper can stimulate the rise of the Kundalini, it has a tendency to add stability to this energy.
Carnelian comes in various shades of vibrant red and promotes feelings of Motivation & Energising and is the Birthstone of July. It is a stabilising stone it restores vitality and motivation, and stimulates creativity. It gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy and motivates for success. Carnelian is useful for overcoming abuse of any kind. It helps in trusting yourself and your perceptions. It overcomes negative conditioning and encourages steadfastness. Carnelian improves analytic abilities and clarifies perception. It sharpens concentration and dispels mental lethargy. Protects against envy, rage and resentment. Calms anger, banishes emotional negativity and replaces it with a love of life.
Chrysoprase is multicolored green stone and is Emotionally Grounding the birthstone for May. Chrysoprase is said to be a problem clarifier. It brings unconscious thoughts to the surface and allows insights into personal problems. It gives an acceptance of oneself and others and encourages forgiveness and compassion. Chrysoprase is also believed to draw out inner talents and stimulate creativity while it's gentle vibrations are used to aid sleep and relaxation and to reduce nightmares. Chrysoprase is said to bring the energy of springtime and renewal and to help you let go of feelings of jealousy, resentment, selfishness, greed, hypochondria and scarcity. It is also thought to enhance fertility. Chrysoprase is linked to the Heart Chakra. Placing it on this area will expand and relax any feeling of tightness and anxiety trapped there. To prevent it fading keep this beautiful, apple green crystal out of direct sunlight.
Clear Quartz is a Clear crystal Promotes Physical & Emotional Healing and is the birthstone of April. Clear Quartz is the Master Healing Crystal because it contains the full spectrum of light and as such will work on every level to bring the body into balance. It strengthens and stabilizes the body's energy fields and promotes harmony. Quartz can amplify both positive thoughts and energy and can stimulate positive action when it is needed. It can be held or worn to promote clarity of thought and to help you to see your way more clearly. Place Quartz near your computer monitor to help dispel static electricity and to combat radiation. Quartz is said to help you release any negative energy you may have absorbed from other people and to help you to fight feelings of inadequacy. Quartz can be used to harmonize all the Chakras as it contains all the colours in the light spectrum.
Dalmatian Jasper stone is covered in black spots and promotes Creativity, effective mediation & spiritual awareness. Dalmation stone gives you childlike joy and enjoyment in your life. The black spots within the Dalmatian Jasper are Black Tourmaline, which gives this stone the energy of spiritual grounding and psychic protection. These stones help you to break down barriers that you have created around yourself—and your heart—to protect yourself. The dalmation jasper meaning helps you to move forward in life, discovering your true purpose. It brings a sense of playfulness and joy into your life. Dalmatian Jasper stones encourage positivity, happiness and bring you good luck! They help to reduce feelings of discouragement, helping you to look at the positives instead of the negatives.
Fluorite is a multi-coloured stone and promotes Creativity, effective mediation & Spiritual awareness. It cleanses and stabilises the aura. It absorbs and neutralises negative energy and stress. An excellent learning aid, Fluorite increases our powers of concentration, self-confidence and helps us in decision-making. It encourages positivity, balances the energies, and improves balance and coordination, both physically and mentally. Fluorite boosts the immune system and stimulates the regeneration and restructuring of cells and DNA, particularly in the skin and respiratory tract, and heals ulcers and wounds. Fluorite strengthens bone tissue, and alleviates rheumatism, arthritis and spinal injuries. It improves the discomfort of shingles and other nerve-related pain.
Green Aventurine is light green in colour and promotes Motivation & Energising. Green Adventurine is a gentle supporting and comforting stone. It is a good all round healer and can calm anger and irritation while stimulating emotional recovery. Green Aventurine can reinforce leadership qualities and decisiveness and can help us to see alternatives and possibilities, gently encouraging us to persevere. Green Aventurine can reduce anxiety and fears Green Aventurine is one of the best overall balancing stones for the heart chakra because it acts gently without causing any turbulence. Green Aventurine is known as the “Stone of Opportunity,” thought to be the luckiest of all crystals, especially in manifesting prosperity and wealth. Its winning energy makes it a great ally for boosting one’s chances in any situation. It enhances one’s creativity and motivation, and encourages perseverance in manoeuvring life’s obstacles. It also reinforces one’s decisiveness and amplifies leadership qualities, injecting a sense of humor and openness to the ideas of other The Aventurine stone is known in the gemstone world as one of the luckiest stones, which makes it a must-have for inviting good luck and prosperity into your life.
Hematite is black and shiny in colour and is an Emotionally Grounding. Hematite stone has an excellent grounding and balancing energy. They also are powerful aids to stimulate the mind. They enhance memory and evoke deep thought. They have a highly protective energy and are good to help women who lack courage. If you desire to stimulate your mind for higher learning, they are most helpful, especially in the field of mathematics and technical studies. They will assist the development of logical thought processes, and help you to reach the highest capacity possible. They will heighten self-confidence, will power and self-esteem. The energy of these stones have a strong physical grounding energy, that vibrates strongly at the base or root chakra, and they are known for their action to provide pain relief.
Kalahari Picture Stone is an excellent stone for Creativity, effective meditation & spiritual awareness. It provides us with spiritual "staying power" and can strengthen the soul when it is under prolonged strain. It aids creative visualisation and, perhaps most importantly, through the "landscapes" depicted on the stone, enables us to merge with the consciousness of our planet Earth. With Kalahari Picture Stone we are able to reconnect to the energy of the planet and to resonate with the energies of distant times and distant places, to view the history of our ancient Earth and to journey to the Earth's ancient places of sacred power. Kalahari Picture Stone can help to bring hidden thoughts, grief, fears and hopes to the surface so that we may see the cause of such issues and begin to address them openly. It is a stone that can help us with the re-evaluation of many of life's issues. It enhances the relationship between human beings and nature.
Lapis Lazuli is a deep blue crystal flecked with white and gold. It Promotes Positivity & Happiness. It is the birthstone of September. Lapis Lazuli is thought to stimulate the higher levels of the mind encouraging clarity and objectivity. It is also believed to allow the release of stress bringing deep inner peace. Lapis Lazuli is said to facilitate self-knowledge and self-expression and, when used in meditation, to enhance psychic ability and spiritual insight. In healing Lapis Lazuli balances the throat chakra and brow chakra and is believed to help overcome depression, lower blood pressure and to boost the immune system and the thyroid. Lapis Lazuli is also said to be beneficial for alleviating migraine headaches and insomnia.Lapis is said to activate the throat chakra and has often been used to support a higher more advanced form of communication, encouraging one to always discern and speak the truth. It is an excellent stone for public speaking and for those associated with the Arts, particularly singers and musician.
Lavender Aura Quartz is a form of Clear Quartz is an extremely powerful healing and energy amplifier - absorbing, storing, releasing, and regulating energies. Enhanced by precious metals, it will have additional healing attributions depending on which precious mineral is used. Quartz is a master healer that can be used for any condition. It also stimulates your immune and energy systems, and bring your body into balance. Lavender Aura Quartz is enhanced with Magnesium and Platinum and, when used at your Third Eye or Crown Chakras, it can bring about feelings of spiritual wholeness. Lavender Aura Quartz instills a sense of happiness and joy and enhances Zen states and meditation. Giving you a sense of child-like wonder, it is also said that Lavender Aura Quartz connects you with nature spirits and beings of the Faery Realm.
Malachite is various colours of green and is an Emotionally Grounding healing stone. Malachite is a stone of balance, abundance, manifestation and intention. Malachite absorbs energy and draws emotions to the surface Malachite clears and activates all Chakras, and is especially helpful in the stimulation of the Heart and Throat Chakras. An extremely powerful metaphysical stone, Malachite is often called the “stone of transformation” and is used for deep energy cleaning, bringing healing and positive transformation to the wearer. Highly protective, Malachite absorbs pollution, purifies, and shields against radioactivity. Use Malachite on the Third-Eye to facilitate psychic vision, while Malachite held on the Heart Chakra will bring balance and fidelity to relationships with other people. Physically, Malachite is a wonderful equalizing and balancing agent. Malachite has been used in the treatment of asthma, arthritis, swollen joints, broken bones and torn muscles.
Opal is a translucent healing stone and promotes Creativity, effective mediation & spiritual awareness. It is the birthstone of October. Opal most known for its ability to bring one’s traits and characteristics to the surface for examination and transformation. Just as Opal absorbs and reflects light, it picks up thoughts and feelings, desires and buried emotions, amplifying them and returning them to the source. While magnifying one’s negative attributes may prove to be uncomfortable, it allows for understanding how destructive these emotions can be and assists the process of letting them go. Opal also illuminates the positive actions and emotions of the self, enhancing the good and true, and fostering one’s highest potential. It is a karmic stone with a reminder that what one sends out will return.
Persian Jade is a purple and green healing stone and promotes Creativity, effective mediation & spiritual awareness. Persian Jade most valued for its metaphysical properties. It is the ultimate "Dream Stone," revered in ancient cultures, as well as today, to access the spiritual world, gain insight into ritualistic knowledge, encourage creativity, and dream-solve. It is cherished as a protective talisman, assuring long life and a peaceful death, and is considered a powerful healing stone. An amulet of good luck and friendship, Jade signifies wisdom gathered in tranquility, dispelling the negative and encouraging one to see oneself as they really are.
Petrified Wood is a multi-coloured brown stone of transformation. It promotes Calm & Balance. It assists one to advance to ones highest chosen level. Helps to make one feel safe and secure, calming down survival based fears. Petrified Wood assists in setting a pace and staying with that pace all day long. It is useful for bringing patience to those in a process of slow inner transformation, and for bringing that change to fruition. Petrified Wood strengthens one’s backbone, physically and in terms of self-will. It is beneficial to the skeletal system, skin and hair.
Picture Jasper is a form of Brown Jasper. It is a Emotionally grounding and harmonizing stone with a strong connection to the earth. It is said to promote feelings of responsibility towards the planet, encouraging a need to care for and protect it. Picture Jasper’s grounding energy can give you a strong sense of who you are, where you’ve been and where you are going. It is said to encourage creative visualisation, creativity and business pursuits. It is also said to help alleviate fear. In healing Picture Jasper is believed to stimulate the immune system, to help clear pollutants and toxins from the body, and to cleanse the kidneys. It is believed to be useful when giving up smoking as it is said to strengthen the resolve. Placing a large piece of Brown or Picture Jasper in a room is said to absorb negative energy.
Prasiolite is a translucent green colour and promotes Physical & Emotional healing. The correct name for the green variety of Amethyst. The effect that Green Amethyst has on many people is to create a profound connection to their higher self. It's energy is like the spirit of nature itself, embodied within a beautiful green quartz crystal. Although the green variety is not as well known as purple Amethyst, it has a similar level of energy. Prasiolite works with all the chakras to enhance healing on a deep spiritual level.
Purple Banded Agate is the stone for spiritual transformation and meditation, connected to the crown chakra encouraging intuition, and for us to be our spiritual selves. Purple Banded Agate promotes creativity, effective mediation & spiritual awareness. Purple relates to our inner self, unconscious wisdom, heightening psychic power, and accurate divination, meaningful dreams, past life work, meditation and psychic protection. Purple Banded Agate will enhances feelings of positivity and stores your power if you have too much energy. It is the stone to wear if you need to achieve longevity for a project, idea or dream. Purple Banded Agate can help with allergies, asthma, sleep disorders, headaches and migraine. The colour purple is a natural sedative.
Red Goldstone is red in colour with flex of sparkly copper and promotes feelings of positivity & Happiness. Red Goldstone encourages a positive attitude and promotes vitality. This powerful grounding stone is a must-have for those moments when you feel overwhelmed by toxic emotions and negative thought patterns. Regardless of the chaos going on in your head, hold tight to the Goldstone and immediately feel a strong connection to the earth and is healing vibrations. Goldstone is connected to the root chakra and in physical healing it has the same attributes as copper.
Rose quartz is a pink healing stone and promotes Positivity & Happiness. Rose Quartz is a stone of the heart, a Crystal of Unconditional Love. It carries a soft feminine energy of compassion and peace, tenderness and healing, nourishment and comfort. It speaks directly to the Heart Chakra, dissolving emotional wounds, fears and resentments, and circulates a Divine loving energy throughout the entire aura. Reawakening the heart to its own innate love, it provides a deep sense of personal fulfillment and contentment, allowing one the capacity to truly give and receive love from others. In healing rose quartz can help ease chest pain which comes with infection.
Silver Leaf Jasper a multi - coloured silver stone and promotes emotional grounding. Silver leaf Jasper is an excellent protection stone, providing protection for both travellers and astral travellers. Silver Leaf Jasper is also a grounding stone, and is especially useful in healing. Silver Leaf Jasper instils a feeling of wholeness, serenity and being cared for. It aids mental clarity and functioning. Silver Leaf Jasper acts as an energetic tonic for anyone recovering from long term illness and boosts the immune system. Silver Leaf Jasper assists the body to restore cellular tissue. Silver Leaf Jasper can be useful in treating urinary system, lower digestive system, reproductive system tissue dysfunction.
Snowflake Obsidian is Black & white speckled stone and promotes Emotional Grounding. It has a restful and serene energy helping to bring peace and balance to the mind and body. Snowflake Obsidian encourages inner reflection making us aware of negative patterns of thought and unhealthy patterns of behaviour and giving us the chance to change them. It is also believed to help shield the wearer from negativity and grief. In healing Snowflake Obsidian is believed to improve the circulation and to benefit the skin and veins.
Sodalite is multi coloured blue stone which promotes Protection & negativity deflection. Its meaning is all about logic, truth and inner peace. Sodalite properties are deeply connected to the heart, which is also a big part of sodalite meaning. This connection with the heart imparts a calming effect that makes it easier to attain inner peace. Sodalite brings order and calmness to the mind. It encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuition, along with verbalisation of feelings. Sodalite brings emotional balance and calms panic attacks. It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust. Sodalite balances the metabolism, boosts the immune system and overcomes calcium deficiencies. Sodalite treats the throat, vocal cords, larynx and helps with hoarseness and digestive disorders, emotional balance and calms panic attacks. It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust. Sodalite balances the metabolism, boosts the immune system and overcomes calcium deficiencies. Sodalite treats the throat, vocal cords, larynx and helps with hoarseness and digestive disorders.
Tiger’s Eye is iridescent browns and promotes Protection & negitivity Deflection. It is one of the most effective of the eye formation stones, Tiger’s Eye is ever vigilant, bringing sharpness to one’s inner vision and better understanding of the cause and effect of each situation. It encourages one to use their powers wisely, and allows scattered information to be brought together to a cohesive whole. Tiger’s Eye supports necessary change in all aspects of one’s life, strengthening the will and clarity of intention in order to manifest at the highest level. It inspires creativity and utilizing one’s talents and abilities, and is superb
Turquoise comes in all shades of blue and green and promotes positivity & Happiness and is the birthstone of December. It improves the mental state overall by increasing all of the following positive mental characteristics: serenity, creativity, empathy, positive thinking, sensitivity, intuition, happiness wisdom all of which result in a calmer state that leads to greater self-realization. It is also considered a stone of friendship. As a communication stone, it is believed to open up the connections between friends and allowing love to flow in those communications, which strengthens the friendship bond. Further, they believe it has the power to strengthen convictions, courage and personal power.
Yellow Jasper is a yellow healing stone and promotes Positivity & Happiness. It connects you with the energy of the sun, promoting happiness, Joy and positivity. The yellow jasper stone properties also help you to increase your self-confidence. Yellow jasper will help to reduce feelings of stress and anxiety, replacing them with feelings of joy and overall happiness. It will help clear your mind, helping you to move forward towards your goals instead of regressing and taking steps backwards. Carry a yellow jasper stone with you when you need a boost of energy.
At its heart, Pyrite is all about purity and protection. It’s a stone that wants to shield and protect its wearer in every way possible. Whether keeping you safe from emotional drains or protecting you from psychic attacks, cutting through negative vibrations, clearing EMF smog or simply stopping those toxic thought patterns from running through your head, Pyrite is ever eager to keep you pure. When we can free ourselves from toxic thoughts, we find that life loses its challenges, and we are able to see straight through to the truth and live in authenticity. This beautiful stone is perfect for the time of year of Imbolc, the earth festival where we celebrate ‘The return to the Light’ in early February, where we can use this stone to assist us in setting our intentions for the coming year. Used in conjunction with your full moon ceremonies where you can align to the shine of this stone as a connection to the light of the full moon to clearly illuminate your path ahead, releasing negative thoughts and set your intentions.
Red Aventurine is a stone that motivates one to take physical action that make dreams come true. It opens the flow of chi into the physical body, bringing vital energy that heals and dispels negative thought forms and beliefs that create lethargy and feelings of being disconnected. It inspires balance and alignment of our masculine and feminine aspect and aligns the mental and emotional bodies into a harmonious balance with the physical. This master motivator assists one to remain focused on the goal.