Stones And Their Properties

Agatized Coral

These are wonderful pieces of coral that have undergone the natural process of turning into agate. Many people like to have a stone that represents the ocean.

Amazonite

These stones have a lovely green/blue color, with white lines. It is a very soothing stone, especially for soothing nerves and emotions. It works mostly on the 5th chakra, aiding communication. Many people use it to help "cool" things, like inflammation or a hot temper.

Amber

The pieces are a dark golden brown color. They have not been polished so they are wonderfully natural. A wonderful third chakra stone. People also find it to be grounding.

Amethyst

A stone of spirituality and contentment. Clears the aura. Provides a clear connection between the earth plane and other worlds. Transmutes any dysfunctional energy in ones body. Promotes peacefulness. Protects against psychic attacks. Enhances cooperation, common sense and flexibility. Encourages sobriety. Amethyst is a purple-colored quartz crystal. Purple shades vary from light lavender to deep violet. Amethyst crystals have a spiritual quality to them and can be used to help individuals tap into higher levels of consciousness. It can serve as a bridge between physical and ethereal frequencies, creating an opening for enlightenment. Lavender quartz is thought to awaken the soul, helping people to realize their life purpose.

Apache Tears

These are rough, non-polished Apache tears, a form of volcanic glass. 1st chakra stone. Grounding and protective. Comforting in times of grief. Promotes forgiveness. Helps one channel ones spirit guides. Helps dispel negative energies. Good to place above your door or in the corners of your home or office.

Apophyllite

These are natural Apophyllite crystals from India. They are a nice green color. It is a great heart chakra stone. And it has been used to get one out of a state of ego. It also has a fairy like quality and seems to energetically brighten the area where it is placed.

Aquamarine

These have a lovely light blue color. It is known as a stone of courage. Acts as a shield for the aura and subtle bodies. Helps one attune to more spiritual levels of awareness. Supports the throat chakra, helping with communicating ones true feelings.

Aventurine

These are green Aventurine and there are red Aventurine as well. It activates, clears and protects the heart chakra. Helps one to release fears and anxiety. Calming and soothing. Helps one open their heart Helps you stay in your heart.

Bloodstone

Bloodstone is a green jasper with areas of red jasper. Reduces emotional and physical stress. A powerful physical healer. Many people have used it if they need support for their circulatory system. Bloodstone is a form of red and green jasper. Early Christians likened the splattering of red jasper running through the green jasper to be representative of Christ's blood. Bloodstone helps a person focus on current events helping the mind not to dwell on past or future thoughts. Blood purifier and energy cleanser. Excellent focusing stone for staying with the task at hand. Grounding energy.

Blue Lace Agate

These are beautiful agates with blue and white striations. Enhances flexibility and softens stubbornness. Helps cool a hot temper. Soothes the emotions. Gently opens the throat chakra. Helps aid with communication.

Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz has a gentle energy. It is a heart healer of physical heart ailments as well as emotional heartbreaks. Rose quartz is a timely gift to offer someone who desires to learn self-love.

Fluorite

Fluorite comes in a variety of colors. Fluorite is a beneficial stone to help guard one against picking up negativity or negative energies from those nearby. Basically, the stone absorbs any negativity, keeping it at bay. It is important to cleanse it at least once a week when you are using it as a protective helper.

Fluorite is a stone that helps normalize and give balance in all areas of your life. It is an excellent discernment tool that helps steer you clear of fraud or deception. It is often used as purification or cleansing tool in healing rituals. They need to be cleaned often because of their absorption qualities they need the release or they will fracture from the weight of taking on so much negativity

Lupis

Egyptian energy. Lupis is a stone that has been said to unlock mysteries as it helps one move through confusion and emotional blocks and dig through fog/muck to the root of problematic issues. Deep blue in color, lapis lazuli is actually a combination of lazurite, calcite and pyrite. It is prized as a stone that activates the throat and brow chakras. Lapis lazuli offers mental reasoning and objectivity assisting the clearing of emotional baggage. It also can be used as a focusing tool for meditation and dream analysis.

Hematite

Hematite is a grounding stone. This silver-gray metallic gemstone is often used as a grounding tool to aid those who tend to avoid worldly tasks/events by out-of-body flight.

Jade

Jade teaches acceptance. Carries serene and calming energy. It helps a person become less critical of self and others. Jade is a wonderful balancing stone. It is considered to be a lucky stone that offers good health, wealth, and love. Jade can help you realize your full potential and attain purposeful goals. Jade also helps lift stuffed-down emotional issues and bring them to light for resolution. Jade can be used as a dream-enhancer by slipping a chunk of it under your pillow or inside your pillow case while sleeping. Keep a small chunk of jade inside a box or bowl where you empty your pockets into at the end of the day. Mingling jade with coins attracts more abundance.

Turquoise

Turquoise is a teaching stone can be used to help one learn spiritual lessons through meditation and/or dream visions. My first turquoise was a stone set in a silver ring my grandmother gave me as a souvenir she picked up for me when she vacationed in Arizona. It's little wonder that my grandmother has served as one of my spiritual advisers from the other side since her transition from the physical realm.

Kyanite

Kyanite is best worn near the throat chakra. This blue crystal helps facilitate channeling and will open communications centers to enable contact with your guides and angels. Kyanite is probably best known for its balancing properties that align the chakras. There is no need to cleanse this stone, it clears itself automatically of negative energies.

Obsidian

All varieties of obsidian are good utilized as grounding and protective agents - The snowflake in particular helps us surrender or let go of negative habits or past pathways that no longer the present condition. It will bring about opportunity for change, serenity, and clarity.

Citrine

Citrine is a wonderful yellow stone. It helps to manifest your goals. Also keeps one cheerful. It attracts abundance and personal power. Citrine (yellow quartz) carries the healing properties of the sun. It expands the auric field, filling it with light and clearing away any lingering etheric toxins. Citrine is also a wonderful manifestation crystal by motivating you into taking action. It brings optimism and cheerfulness. Citrine is a good stone for aligning all the chakras. It focuses on balancing the solar plexus chakra, which in turn integrates the lower and higher chakras.

Topaz

Topaz is best known for its manifesting properties. Golden topaz in particular is associated with abundance. Golden topaz is also an energizer. Blue topaz stimulates the throat chakra. Champagne topaz can assist the soul in fulfilling the earthy purpose for its incarnation. Clear topaz is a transformative gemstone that can help facilitate karmic clearings and soul healings

Opal

There are many different color variations of opals. Clear, white or water opals have been used as gazing tools as a way to look inward, a spiritual mirror. Opals are also helpful for enhancing dream work or assisting spiritual journeys. Blue opals can help open up the third eye, sooth the throat chakra, and encourage telepathic communications.

Fire opals (ranging from orange to red) can be used to stimulate change, manifest your ideas. They have also been associated with improving circulation. Green opals help give an energy boost. Pink opals address emotional issues, offering nourishment and support to the heart chakra

Petrified wood

Petrified wood can assist anyone who is feeling stuck or experiencing being frozen in time. It helps to create balance and offers a foundation from which to launch new goals or undertake a different path. Petrified wood is also a wonderful grounding stone. It helps calm scattered energies.

Pietersite

Most pietersite is bluish-black in color. Pietersite can help assist astral travel and also helpa facilitate access to the akashic records. It has been called a "key to the kingdom of heaven." This stone can clear blockages in the third eye and crown chakras, opening up the psychic centers within the human energy field.

Remedy Benefits of Pietersite:

Assists astral travel

Promotes soul recognition

Gold pietersite heals/protects the hara line

Red pietersite is a grounding stone

Apatite

Apatite is a balancing stone that can help to integrate emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual bodies. It can be used to clear chakra blockages. Apatite can stimulate the "knowing centers" and strengthen intuition. When worn or used as a crystal elixir apatite has been attributed to suppressing hunger it can be green or blue. Sometimes red.

Cobatocalcite

Cobaltocalcite is a rose or pink form of calcite. Another name for this crystal is Sphaerocobaltite. It is a cleansing stone used to clear and recharge depleted energies. It helps to clear a space of stagnate or negative energies. Cobatocalcite is also attributed to amplifying positive energies.

Fulgurite

Fulgurites are glassy tubes formed as a result of lightening striking rock or sand. For this reason they are said to resonate with a powerful source of heat and electricity. Fulgurite is used as a tool for prayer and meditation. It arouses the kundalini energy and helps it to rise to inspirational heights, an awakening. The Fulgurite can be used for manifesting and focus. Helps to clear clogged chakras as well.

Serpentine

Serpentine creates an opening for a kundalini awakening to take place. It can also help ease any discomforts associated with this awakening process because of its grounding properties. Also clears blockages in the chakras and hara Line.

Tourmaline

Tourmaline comes in a wide variety of colors. The energies vary depending on the colors. Tourmalines of all colors excellent tools for chakra balancing. A good rule of thumb in regard to the healing properties within the various stones is to match the colored stones with the colors associated with the Primary chakras The colorless variety of tourmaline can be used for communications with the ascended masters, extraterrestrial beings and the angelic realm. Aids higher awareness.

Alabaster

Alabaster (a form of gypsum) is a somewhat crumbly stone that can actually be used for chalk markings. It has absorption qualities that can help draw energies that you are lacking in your way.

Melody, author of Love is in the Earth, believes that alabaster can unlock secrets of the pyramids when used during meditation, taking the meditator to the time when pyramids were being built.

Geode

Each one (geode) holds special energy. They can hold just about anything. They are more about reminding one of a feeling or a way than about healing other things. such as meditating, one can hold that knowledge and assist you in remembering to do it, or to exercise, or getting the rest you need, or something as simple as remembering to smile. it is important that you find the one that connects to you and holds a feeling you connect to when choosing to work with geodes.

In the place I take people to seek vision there are many geodes. Because of this many times those seeking vision are gifted a geode by mother earth while there to remind them of what spirit has given them on the mountain. each memory is different and the geodes hold those for the one they are gifted too.

Iolite

Iolite is a a useful stone for use during meditation and to help induce third-eye visualizations. Other names for iolite are "violet stone" and "water sapphire." Iolite helps natural psychic abilities to surface. Helpful tool for the spiritual seeker. It also helps to balance feminine and masculine energies.

Turritella Agate

Turritella is a fossilized form of agate that is easily recognized from embedded sea creatures and snail markings in the stone. It can be carried as a protective amulet. Turritella agates are among healing stones called "record keepers" and can be used to attain knowledge of past events in history.

Rubies

The ruby is a stone of nobility. The energy of the ruby is intense and vivid. This stone encourages one to follow bliss. It also acts as a "plug" for holes in the energy field. Wonderful stone for the 1st chakra as it stimulates our basic instinct of/for survival. It strengthens both the physical and emotional heart.

Ruby brings love, confidence, loyalty, and courage. It instills stamina, vitality and strength. A good stone for removing blocked energies in the reproductive system. It re-energizes one after exhaustion. Also good for balancing the blood's sugar. It also helps to reduce negative thought patterns.

Ruby allows you to love Self and Spirit. A good stone of protection. Depending upon which type of gold you have the ring set in, (yellows or silvers) it would bring with it these healing properties as well. The yellows carry the energy of the Sun or a masculine energy, while the silvers carry the energy of the Moon or a feminine energy.

This is a stone that all those who are in service to others should have upon them. it helps you feel more like giving to others and doing so with love and joy in your heart. There is no room for resentment in ones heart who is being of service to others and this stone does not allow that to be a part of your heart. it helps you relax as you care take others because you can trust you will not be trapped in any way in that role. it helps all to be warm, caring and help out with the needs of others. it also helps one with devotion to others.

Diamond

Aid creativity

Manifests good fortune

Enhances psychic ability

Diamonds are associated with love and romance. It is the stone traditionally chosen for engagement rings. And, rightly so, because diamonds foster unity, trust, and fidelity.

Yellow Jasper

Jasper in general is a protective stone. A traveler would be wise to choose a yellow jasper as a hitchhiker, its protective properties are likely to assure safe traveling conditions. Yellow jasper can also be used to assist astral travel.

Yellow jasper's energies are compatible with the healing properties of the sun. This healing stone can also be used to tap into knowledge stored in the instinctual gut (solar plexus) chakra. Yellow jasper can also help to repair damage to the auric field in the lower extremities of the physical body.

How to clean the stones

There are many different ways to clean your gemstones. Choosing the best cleaning method depends on the type of stone you are wanting to clean. An hour in direct sunlight is more than enough to clean most stones. Certain stones will fade if left out in the sunlight, amethyst is one example. Keep your amethysts out of direct sunlight if you want them to retain their vibrant purple hues. Moonlight cleansing can take several hours or days. To expose a stone to all the moon phases (full moon to new moon) place the stone outside each evening at dusk (retrieving it before sunrise) for 28 consecutive days.

Some stones will dissolve in water, whereas others love to be soaked in fresh water. I actually clean most of my stones under a running tap of cold water while brushing them with a soft-bristle toothbrush until they are sparkling clean. My stones are perfectly happy to be shined up from the same water source that I take my showers in. Rub-a-dub-dub!

List of crystal cleaning methods:

• Energize crystals in the sunlight.

• Energize crystals under the moonlight.
• Cleanse crystals in the ocean or inside bowl of salt water.
• Cleanse crystals in a natural water reservoir (lake, river, creek, pond).
• Purify overnight in a bowl of brown rice
• Bury crystals in the earth for a ritual purification.
• Scrub crystals under running tap of cold water.
• Infuse crystals with balancing reiki energies and symbols.
• Visualize beaming white light crystals.
• Cleanse and re-energize with purple Plates.
• Smudge crystals with smudge sticks (sage, sweet grass, ceder, lavender)

Healing Stones II

The process may be done with clear quartz crystals only, colored gemstones only, or a combination of both. The stones may be used alone or with a hands on healing (ie; Reiki). The stones are placed upon the receiver's body from feet to head. The healer then begins using her hands as usual starting at the head and moving toward the feet. (Use gemstones with colors matching each chakra's color. The stones can be in any form-faceted, raw, tumbled,eggs, or beads.) Energy in this type of healing needs to move in one direction through the body, either Earth to sky or sky to Earth. If the energy is Earth to sky, all the gemstones that have points are placed with the points turned towards the receiver¹s crown. The effect of this direction is to move the receiver's energy to a higher vibration or more spiritual level. If the direction is from sky to Earth, it is the opposite, with the crystals pointing toward the feet. This direction moves life force energy from crown to feet for grounding and rooting into Earth.

To begin, the receiver lies on her back on a padded floor or massage table, with pillows under her head and knees for comfort. The space should be quiet, comfortable, and warm. Use only stones that have been dedicated to positive energy and programmed for healing. Invite spirit guides and angels into the session if you wish.

Start by placing a clear quartz crystal above her head and below her feet. In the right hand place another crystal and in the left hand place a rose quartz gemstone. (my personal method). Then go chakra by chakra, moving from the feet to crown and placing the appropriate colored gemstone for each center. (Be sure you have your healing stones spread out where you can reach them easily.) There may be stones that you are drawn to for a particular reason, let yourself be guided, there are no real rules. You cannot do it wrong. A stone that is not needed for the session or is inappropriate for the receiver's energy will roll right off or roll to another place where it is better utilized. Allow this to occur. If the receiver feels uncomfortable with a particular stone, remove it, the energy is not right for her needs.

When the stones are all in place, the healer has two options. She (he) can go to the head and begin a hands on healing. Be sure to cover the stones with your hands carefully in order not to scatter the gemstones. While your hands are covering each chakra over the stone, visualize the bright color of the gemstone entering the chakra, making it appear bright, balanced, centered, and healthy. Do this visualization until you feel confident to move to the next chakra. Be sure to flick fingers to release any negative energy before going to the next center. End with a complete brushing of the aura.

The other option a healer has once the stones are placed is to sit beside the receiver and simply wait, allowing the gemstones and spirit guides to do the healing. As the receiver¹s chakras and aura absorb and are balanced by the crystal and gem energies, the stones begin to roll off one by one. When all the stones are off, or the receiver feels finished with those that remain, the healing is over.

End with a complete brushing of the aura and allow the receiver to lie quietly without the stones. Ask for feedback and discuss anything that you feel should be discussed. While she is doing this, the healer can gather up the stones from the table or floor and clear them again before putting them away. Put them into your protective box.

A laying on of stones healing can be quite intense. There is often a major energy shift during this type of healing. More frequent emotional releases, past life and this life trauma openings and other transformative events. The healers role in this is to wait for the release to end and to be entirely non-judgmental. After a session, there may also be a physical detoxification process that can continue for up to a week. Be aware of what is happening and again, allow it. The changes are always positive and are usually gentle.