GEMSTONE PROPERTIES
Amazonite – Compassion, Truth, Communication – A stone of harmony, allowing for free communication of one’s true thoughts leading to inner and outer peace. It can awaken compassion through stimulation of the heart chakra. Amazonite is an extremely soothing stone, helping to calm the brain and nervous system, alleviating worry and fear.
Moss Agate – Stability, Persistence, Grounding – Emanates vibrations of balance and stability. It enhances mental concentration, persistence, endurance and brings one’s goals to completion. Moss Agate is a grounding stone and can assist one in connecting with Earth energy. It can help one bring dreams into reality by helping clarify one’s inner vision until manifestation can take place. Moss Agates grounding influences can help bring a feeling of wholeness and inner calm.
Tree Agate – Grounding, connection to Earth energy – An effective Earth and environmental healer. It helps you to feel strong, safe, and secure when going through challenges in life, protecting you against negative energies. Agates are grounding stones. They assist in bringing about emotional, physical and mental balance and bring clarity and to all situations. Agates heal emotional trauma providing that sense of safety and security by dissolving tension.
Amethyst – Protection, Purification – A member of the Quartz family, its colour, which ranges from pale to deep purple, comes from trace amounts of iron and aluminum plus natural or applied irradiation. It has long been viewed as a stone of royalty, utilized in crowns, sceptres and rings. Amethyst helps to quiet the mind and is a powerful aid to meditation. It can help cope with sadness and grief and in coming to terms with loss. It can help get rid of pain, release tension and can help counter addictive behaviour and thought patterns.
Jade – Health, Abundance, Connection to Earth energy – stone for healing the heart, it can help one share their heart with others. It represents harmony and happiness in business and family relationships. Jade helps one to form a deep connection with Earth’s energy even when they can’t be outdoors.
Labradorite – Protection – Works as a protective force, strengthening your energy and preventing outside energy from draining you. It can help one to become clearly aware of beliefs, and patterns that are having a negative effect. Labradorite is a stone of strength, and can help one clearly envision their goals.
Lava – Protective, grounding, rebirth – A grounding stone that strengthens one’s connection to earth energy. It gives one strength, courage and stability in times of change. A calming stone, it provides balance in situations where one needs to regain their balance after a setback.
Lepidolite – Emotional healing, Balance, Stress Relief – A potassium lithium aluminum silicate. The presence of lithium makes Lepidolite a very effective stone for helping one to release stress and worry and to calm frayed nerves. Lepidolite is a stone of serenity and can help to release past emotional trauma. It can assist one in finding a strong emotional center, balancing the emotions and preventing extreme emotional shifts. It is an excellent stone for sleep disorders, including insomnia due to stress or worry.
Obsidian – Psychic protection, grounding, cleansing of negativity – A powerful protective stone which eliminates negative energies in oneself and one’s environment. It is also a strong grounding stone, stimulating the root chakra making deep connections with earth energy. Obsidian creates a protective shield that helps one remain centered when faced with negativity.
Snowflake Obsidian – Perseverance, courage, insight – Helps one to make the best of a bad situation by clearing negative and self-defeating thoughts and inspiring one with new ideas. It can help one to notice meaningful synchronicities that may point the way to one’s higher path. Snowflake Obsidian can give courage in trying times and can help one to recognize the guidance and assistance that are always available through the natural world.
Ocean Jasper – connection with Earth energy, release of stress, emotional healing – A stone of joy and high spirits, Ocean Jasper is helpful to those who suffer from depression and can help to gently focus one’s awareness on the positive aspects of life. It is a powerful Earth element stone with strong physical healing properties. It can be beneficial to wear Ocean Jasper in social situations, the workplace or anywhere that one will be among groups of people, helping relax oneself and others. Ocean Jasper is a soothing, centering stone that is useful in facilitating meditative states and helping bring about a calm state.
Tourmalinated Quartz – Purification, Recovery from negative influences – (clear quartz with crystals of black tourmaline running through it) It facilitates clear thinking and is ideal for psychic protection because it keeps negative forces at bay while enhancing overall awareness. It can clear stagnant energy patterns, establishing a clearer flow of energy helping one to feel grounded. Contains the protective properties of Black Tourmaline which is amplified by the cleansing properties of Clear Quartz.
Rhodonite – Compassion, Love, Generosity – A stone of power, giving one the ability to recognize how to use one’s talents to effect change. It supports in realizing one’s gifts and in utilizing those gifts. Rhodonite’s gift is to bring more love into the world by acting as a catalyst for the fulfillment of one’s life purpose. It supports the flow of life energy through the body, giving more energy and vitality.