About the Gemstones…

Amethyst

Color(s): Primarily Purple

Gemstone Properties: Peace | Spirituality | Protection | Cleansing | Intuition

Amethyst brings a relaxing energy that is welcomed after a long day. It will help take away the day’s stresses that can keep you from a good night’s rest. It works with the third eye and crown chakras. It will help you with sound sleep and relaxation and works well with your third eye to balance the mind with insightful solutions to problems. It is also used for deflecting and transmuting negative energies. Keep Amethyst close to you for calm, peaceful and soothing vibes.

Apatite

Color(s): Most commonly green tones. Can also be found as yellows, pinks, browns, violets and blue green (teal).

Apatite will re-awaken your appetite for life. You will have a new sense of clarity that awakens self-expression. It will spark something inside you to go after your dreams and ambitions, It may also awaken some creative abilities within you. This stone can stimulate the throat and third eye chakra, making this a good public speaking or group communication tool along with memory, focus and time management.

Aquamarine

Color(s): Brilliant blue. Colors can range from pale blue to dark blue and sometimes bluish green.

Gemstone Properties: Truth| Compassion| Anger and Stress Relief | Soothing | Fluidity

Known as the stone of courage. It will help reduce stress, quiet the mind and sooth fear. It can help you with sensitivity as it relates to tolerating others and overcoming judgement. It can clear confusion and strengthen the intellect. This water-like stone can wash away stress and fear, allowing peace and tranquility to take their place. Also known as a very protective birthing stone that is great for pregnancy to help guard both mother and baby from harm.

Black Tourmaline

Color(s): Black

Gemstone Properties: Protection |Eliminate Negativity | Security | Purification

A natural bodyguard-like stone that provides protection and elimination of negative energy. Said to be great for use in times of crisis or extreme stress. It will protect the wearer until they are strong enough on their own power by breaking through old patterns and fears and in return cultivate inner wisdom, courage, stability and patience.

Bloodstone

Color(s): Opaque mossy greens and brick reds

The “coach” of the gemstone world. Will fill you with a surge of courage, self-esteem, energy and protection so you can be the most effective. Has pure upbeat energy associated. Infuses wearer with courage and strength of purpose. Gives strength when one is being bullied or disrespected. Great for athletes or anyone going through something very taxing as it promotes endurance, resolve an stamina. Known for boosting immune system.

Blue Coral Sponge

Color(s): blue with tiny holes

Gemstone Properties: Communication | Wealth | Business

Assists with communicating in a cordial, diplomatic way, energizing third eye, throat and navel. Has been said to improve one’s finances. It is excellent for those wishing to boost their aptitude for commerce. Preferred among fisherman, sailors and others who work on the water.

Botswana Agate

Color(s): Fine banding of white, black, shades of gray and occasional touches of pink/salmon hues

Gemstone Properties: Soothing | Calming | Stability | Positivity

A great gemstone for those who have repressed emotional issues that need to be addressed so that they can let go and heal. Stimulates the exploration of the unknown. Wear it to promote creative ability in any project or goal; encourages one to find solutions rather than focusing on negative aspects of daily challenges. It’s commonly used to improve attention to detail, increase positivity and waken your sense of adventure.

Bronzite

Color(s): Brown with gold flecks

Gemstone Properties: Clarity | Politeness | Self-esteem | Creativity

Promotes clarity and certainty of thinking and actions. Instills politeness. Alleviates nervous energy that is generated when we are placed in new situations. Increases self-esteem, promotes decision-making, dispelling negativity and enhanced creativity. Turns “I can’t do this” into “I can do this!” If you need fine morality, try the effect of Bronzite. People who work in education or law highly value this gemstone.

Carnelian

Color(s): Red

Gemstone Properties: Creativity | Confidence | Passion | Prosperity

A great stone to wear when looking to break through creative blocks or embark on new projects and ambitions. Use to enhance your charm and vitality. A stabilizing stone that restores motivation. It is said to attract prosperity, new resources and good luck. It improves analytical abilities and clarifies perception. Protects against envy, rage and resentment. Boosts fertility.

Citrine

Color(s): Yellow

Gemstone Properties: Happiness | Joy | Light | Success | Clearing

Citrine is one of the few stones that rather than absorbing negative energy, it clears it. It makes room for happiness and light so the spirit is open to positive possibilities. Referred as the “success stone” or “money stone” due to a superstition that it would bring prosperity. Citrine raises self-confidence, stimulates the brain in turn strengthening intellect. Enhances concentration. Promotes creativity, individuality and self-expression.

Clear Quartz

Color(s): Clear

Gemstone Properties: Awareness | Manifesting | Meditation | Purification | Amplifier

Clear Quartz amplifies the energy of anything around it. It can be used as an amplifier for your intentions. It enhances our intuition and access to the divine and brings clarity where we need it. It also has a balancing effect on our energy systems and can be used to balance all of our chakras and cleanse our energy system. Clear Quartz helps us connect with our spiritual side and get in contact with spirit guides and higher realms.

Copper Pyrite

Color(s): Various shades of gold - known as “Fool’s Gold.”

Gemstone Properties: Manifestation | Taking action| Confidence| Masculine energy affirmation

Copper Pyrite helps us take action and create abundance in our life. It is warming and stimulating and encourages us to be more dynamic and creative. Use for when you want to manifest. It can increase stamina and enhance physical performance.

Dragon’s Blood (Jasper)

Color(s): Green, red, Venusian green, blood red and olive green

Gemstone Properties: Strength| Confidence| Courage | Self-healing

This stone promotes creativity in all aspects. It brings energy that can give us the resolve and perseverance needed to move towards large goals and endeavors with ease. It’s said to help awaken kundalini energy in us and activates and balances all chakras. Allows you to give up outdated ways and start on a new/better path in life. Also known for providing support and guidance when it comes to moving to a new location.

Dragon’s Vein (Agate)

Color(s): Can be orange, green, yellow and gray

Gemstone Properties: Steady as a rock| Happiness on earth| Slow and steady progress | Increase love & knowledge

This gemstone can bring out your natural gifts to the max. Useful for improving self-confidence. Helps you go after what you really want out of life and embrace your true wishes. It can be helpful in finding a person that you truly love. When in a stagnant period of your life, look to Dragon’s Vein to improve your flow of luck.

Fluorite

Color(s): Light green

Gemstone Properties: Peace | Wishes | Renewal | Harmony

Fluorite will guide you from a state of anxiety to one of tranquility. Brings focus, structure, stability and clarity. On an emotional level it assists us to ‘think through’ our feelings when we are overwhelmed by emotional experience. It will assist in clarifying your vision for the future. It can also help you to speak smoothly and fluently. It can stimulate the brain to work more effectively while balancing the left and right hemispheres.

Hematite

Color(s): Natural state - black

Hematite is all about getting grounded. If your life is spinning out of control, this stone will give you a reality check. By connecting with your root chakra, Hematite will hep you to be grounded rather than over-analyzing, being stressed or having anxiety. It helps us see the silver linings, overcome confusion and give courage and strength.

Honey Calcite

Color(s): Yellow

Gemstone Properties: Empowerment | Confidence | Motivation | Harmony

A stone of empowerment that helps us regain our personal power by easing our troubles and worries during challenging times enabling us to realize that we are strong enough to persevere through anything. Enhances confidence, motivation and willpower when we need it most. It’s gentle loving vibration calms our anxious over-active mind facilitating inner harmony and peace. Self-discovery journeys.

Howlite

Color(s): White

Gemstone Properties: Anger and stress relief | Dealing with grief and letting go | Meditation | Purification | Sleep

This gemstone has been used for mediation and is good to calm yourself down. Has properties of enhancing your imagination, improve your creativity or clarify your vision for the future. Howlite has properties of helping you understand yourself better. If you are losing track of yourself or want to have more confidence, try using Howlite.

Imperial Jasper

Color(s): Red, yellow, brown, green and blue.

Gemstone Properties: Spiritual stone for healing | Getting organized | Relaxation | Help to reach tranquility

Imperial Jasper brings boldness, courage and determination. It encourages you to be in integrity with yourself and to face challenges head-on with grace and grit. This gemstone pushes you to acknowledge, heal and release insecurities so that you can live life more abundantly and in harmony with your highest self. Work with Imperial Jasper whenever you need greater focus and organization to complete a task at hand.

Labradorite

Color(s): Gray-green color with a blue iridescence

Gemstone Properties: Healing | Energizing | Protection

Tension and anxiety can be swept away with the plush qualities of Labradorite. It’s a stone that is known to stimulate mental clarity, helping you to chase away the fog and stay level and concise in your own mind. Exactly the formula you need to make amazing decisions. Those who do struggle with depression can find that Labradorite doesn’t shy away from mopping up bad moods. Placing it in the home invites peace and serenity and creative freedom to the place. It’s an excellent stone to put in your workshop or studio or writers room if you are wanting a divine burst of inspiration.

Lapis Lazuli

Color(s): Blue and indigo.

Known as “the most beautiful blue” all around the world. This stone is full of wisdom and awareness that will prepare your soul to embark on a journey of awakening. Brings enlightenment as you pursue your true destiny and leave stress behind. Very helpful for those who are having issues with self-expression and self-awareness. It can bring harmony and deep inner self-knowledge. Lapis also bonds relationships, guiding expression of feelings and emotions.

Lava Rock

Color(s): Natural state - black

Gemstone Properties: Great healing powers | Help to be well balanced | Help to overcome difficulties | Luck at work | Luck at love

Lava is associated with the root chakra, like roots, come from deep in the ground. The earthly qualities of lava make it a stone of grounding, focus and balance. Its fiery energy is associated with passion, assertiveness and energy. It is said to be a “stress-absorber.” The porous quality makes it popular to use as a diffuser in aromatherapy.

Lepidolite

Color(s): Purples and pinks

Gemstone Properties: Peace | Tranquility | Restful sleep

Through the transformational energy of Lepidolite, you can recognize where you want to be in life and what you need to change in order to get there. Lepidolite will guide you from the chaos toward calm times of consistent progress and positivity. Transitions are tough, but with lepidolite to provide tranquility and balance, the journey can be a little bit easier.

Magnesite

Color(s): Colorless, white, pale yellow, pale brown, faintly pink, lilac-rose

Gemstone Properties: Relaxation | Visualization | Heat-felt Love | Purification

Magnesite instills deep peace during meditation. Placed on the third eye, this stone enhances visualization and imagery, and can promote dynamic and revolutionary ideas. It assists in producing an opening of the crown chakra. It also opens the heart chakra and stimulates heartfelt love. Magnesite brings all forms of self-deceit to the surface. It brings grounding to the intellect and helps to recognize unconscious thoughts and feelings. It induces a positive attitude to life. It also brings a calming effect to the emotions, promoting tolerance for emotional stress. It supports people who are nervous and fearful and helps them to overcome irritability and intolerance.

Malachite

Color(s): Green with swirl patterns

Gemstone Properties: Transformation | Openness | Love | Empowerment | Wealth

Malachite is one of the most powerful transformational crystals for the heart. It provides emotional balance that encourages you to take action to remove negative patterns and transform. This is a wonderful empowering stone to wear when starting a new project or job or moving to a new home. Traditionally used to ward off danger and fight illness. It can also bring restful sleep by creating a sense of calm and peace.

Map Jasper

Color(s): Grays and whites, marbled

Gemstone Properties: Supreme Protector | Tender Loving | Natural Instincts | Awareness of Life on Earth

A nurturing stone, brings a protective energy like that of a mama bear, while having a calm and serene feeling of tender loving. It helps a person be in tune with their natural instincts, remove indecisiveness, and puts their words into action. It can be a great stone for anyone that loves isolation and spending time alone as it enhances their ability to reflect and understand existence. This stone is connected to the energies of the Earth; wearing it will connect you to nature, your surroundings, and bring a loving awareness to all beings on Earth.

Moonstone

Color(s): Milky white, with tones of gray, peach, blue and green

Gemstone Properties: Help you connect with the feminine divine | Balance | Self-knowledge | Enhancing intuition | Good fortune

The milky radiance of Moonstone represents tenderness and is believed to bring lovers closer together. Helps you unlock the energy of the moon that resides within you to keep you in a more balanced state. It is believed to encourage lucid dreaming and promote emotional openness to new experiences. Moonstone strengthens intuition and also enhances inspiration, success and good fortune in both business and love.

Onyx

Color(s): Brown and black

Onyx is the stone of inner strength. It is thought to increase one’s attention to detail, also to control, focus and direct the will and to boost the memory. Traditional use is to build up physical strength and vitality after illness or energy depleting activities. It assists to focus on physical goals such as weight loss and exercise. Helps calm nerves, anxiety and hot tempers and is a grounding stone.

Picture Jasper

Color(s): brown/tan

Gemstone Properties: Visioning | Healing | Balance/Harmony | Business | Dreams

Picture Jasper is said to show us pictures of the distant past. It promotes the release and letting go of repressed fears, guilt and other non-desired repressed emotions. It is said to help with business endeavors, especially when it comes to seeing the bigger picture and growing a business that’s in harmony with its environment and that serves the greater good.

Pink Opal

Color(s): Pink

The soft and gentle energy of Pink Opal reminds you to be gentle with yourself and those around you. In relationships, it will open your heart and bring kindness, compassion, empathy and tenderness, where you will witness them growing in new and profound ways. It helps you practice empathy towards others.

Pink Aura Quartz

Color(s): Pink

Gemstone Properties: Love | Manifest | Angelic

Pink Aura Quartz helps individuals advance toward higher spiritual cognition. Works well with the heart chakra by infusing the body and energy field with pure love. Offers the ability to manifest and accept pure love in the physical, emotional and mental bodies. It connects with the angelic realm and offers a sense of balanced and highly charged well-being.

Pink Aventurine

Color(s): Pink

Gemstone Properties: Love | Wisdom | Confidence | Strength

Urges us to live from the heart and love boldly. Helps us face difficult decisions and to act decisively for the highest good. Stone of great wisdom reminding us how lucky we are to be alive and able to enjoy all this world offers us. Fights depression, anxiety and other negative emotions replacing them with confidence. Helps us clear our minds of worries and allows our bodies to relax into deep sleep.

Pink Tourmaline with Lepidolite

Color(s): Pinks and purples

Gemstone Properties: Self-love | Compassion | Calm | Trust. | Acceptance

Pink Tourmaline promotes feeling of joy and enthusiasm as we release our old hurts. Helps us to trust in the power of love. Add in Lepidolite and it brings hope and is a stone of transformation in that it helps one get through transitions with trust that everything will ultimately turn out for the best. It engenders and enhances self-love, patience, and optimism.

Red Creek Jasper

Color(s): Rusty red, mustard yellow, olive green, gray and brown

Gemstone Properties: Balance | Relaxation | Nurturing | Happiness | Self-discipline

This stone is believed to bring balance and relaxation. Offers protection and grounding. It also enhances creativity and notably helps illuminate emotional issues so they don’t escalate into larger problems. It is an excellent stone for quick thinking promoting organizational abilities and stimulating imagination for transforming ideas into action.

Rose Quartz

Color(s): Pink

Open your heart chakra with this stone of the heart. It is a crystal of unconditional love, circulates divine loving energy. Helps with compassion, peace, attracts love and romance. Inspires the love of all things beautiful - in oneself, others, nature and that which stimulates imagination. It is calming for the mind; assisting us to release worry, fear and past emotional trauma. It provides physical stability and strength to the heart.

Ruby Zoisite

Color(s): Green with flecks of purple and black

Gemstone Properties: Awakening | Joy | Healing | Engagement with life

A marriage of passion and patience. Helps with empowerment and spirituality. Keeps one from overreacting in difficult situations and prevents mood swings. Ruby Zoisite transmutes negative energy into positive energy. Helps the grieving process by releasing pain and regaining passion and compassion for others who may be going through some pain. Said to be helpful for restoring vitality after radiation, chemotherapy or pharmaceutical treatments.

Selenite

Color(s): white

Known as liquid light, brightening the energy of everyone and everything within it. It has the ability to cleanse, purify and align you with your highest potential. Considered a high-energy crystal that vibrates with high frequency. Use daily to relieve stress, boost self-confidence and clear the fog in your mind. Said to be helpful for those who struggle to make decisions. Also helpful for when you want to improve shyness or increase communication skills.

Shungite

Color(s): Black

Gemstone Properties: EMF Protection | Detox | Neutralizing

Known as the go-to stone for electromagnetic field (EMF) protection, purification and detoxification of the body, as well as general healing and emotional well being. Shungite can absorb negative energy and remove it from a person or space. It keeps us grounded and protected and reduces stress by transmuting negative emotions into positive energy. Blocks outside noise and focuses on building yourself up.

Smoky Quartz

Color(s): smoky amber

Gemstone Properties: Healing | Meditation | Protection

This powerful stone is used to guide healing and meditation. Known to protect and ground one physically and spiritually. It absorbs and transmutes negative energy, releasing it to the Earth to be cleansed naturally. Lifts depression and negativity, acting a a shield for emotional and environment stress. It relieves tension and anxiety/panic attacks and wards off negative thinking and doubt when faced with confusing or chaotic situations.

Sodalite

Color(s): Blue and indigo

Use Sodalite to harness energy such as self-esteem, acceptance and trust. This gemstone is sometimes considered a guardian for heroes and heroines, especially those who speak the truth. Believed to unite logic with intuition. Practitioners have used Sodalite to organize the mind, promote rational thought, objectivity and perception.

Snowflake Obsidian

Color(s): Black with white flakes

Snowflake Obsidian will help in expanding consciousness to understand and accept change, growth and transcendental experiences. Wearing it will bring courage to find harmony and balance in life. It serves as a reminder that no matter how dark the journey may be, you always have light inside you. It has a way of clearing energy blocks, fears and obstructions of wholesome thoughts, creating hope and inspiring new positive ideas.

Sugilite

Color(s): Purple, usually translucent

Gemstone Properties: Protection | Stress Relief | Peace of Mind | Unconditional Love

Believed to generate positive energy to protect against and overcome negative emotions and situations. Thought to be a nurturing gemstone, sugilite offers release from worries. Promotes positive emotions to help relieve stress, establish peace of mind and emotional healing. A stone of forgiveness and instills the deep satisfaction of all-abiding freedom.

Sunstone

Color(s): Orange and red-orange

Sunstone will breathe life into your creative spirit. Also said to be the stone of leadership, encouraging the wearer to be open, benevolent and willing to bestow blessings upon others. Also known as the stone of joy, Sunstone is believed to inspire good nature and an enjoyment of life. It will instill confidence, motivation and optimism which enables your personal power to shine.

Tiger Eye

Color(s): Brown, blue, red, green, gray-blue

Brown Tiger Eye - Encourages you to live boldly, fiercely and bravely in all aspects of your life. When you need a boost of courage to overcome fear or take risks, there’s no stone better to turn to. It helps clear any imbalances from the solar plexus chakra, leaving you feeling like the most powerful, confident version of yourself.

Blue Tiger Eye - A highly soothing stone that can reduce stress, ease anxieties and increase your calm and relaxation. It aids in removing fatigue and easing the symptoms of depression. Will give you mental clarity, focus and deeper insight on your experiences; both good and bad. It may give you insight to your internal struggles and emotional issues.

Golden Blue Tiger Eye - Protection, wisdom and guidance. Serves as your companion in difficult moments, a gem to be consulted for wisdom and direction, much like the Goddess Athena. Consider this your counsel stone.

Green Tiger Eye - An effective stone in assisting you to accomplish goals. It aids in opening the heart chakra and prepares you for love. It may infuse you with confidence, joy and optimism and may relieve feelings of low self-esteem.

Mahogany Red Tiger Eye - A very stimulating stone that will give you inspiration and motivation in all aspects of your life. Its a highly calming stone that will keep you relaxed and centered even if you lead a very busy or chaotic life. Wearing this stone, you’ll have peace and harmony.

White Aura Quartz

Color(s): White, sheer, colors dance inside

Gemstone Properties: Peace | Clarity | Balance | Optimism

Resembling the colors of the rainbow and all colors of the chakras. Use it to expand your consciousness and elevate your spirit. Connects you to the realms of the angels. Allows a person to see with a lens of clarity and patience while enjoying the small things in life. It will naturally bring you to place of serene joy and increased optimism. A great stone for anyone who is trying to increase their potentials and achieve the highest goals.

About the Gemstones…

Amethyst

Apatite

Aquamarine

Black Tourmaline

Bloodstone

Blue Coral Sponge

Botswana Agate

Bronzite

Carnelian

Citrine

Clear Quartz

Copper Pyrite

Dragon’s Blood (Jasper)

Dragon’s Vein (Agate)

Fluorite

Hematite

Honey Calcite

Howlite

Imperial Jasper

Labradorite

Lapis Lazuli

Lava Rock

Lepidolite

Magnesite

Malachite

Map Jasper

Moonstone

Onyx

Picture Jasper

Pink Opal

Pink Aura Quartz

Pink Aventurine

Pink Tourmaline with Lepidolite

Red Creek Jasper

Rose Quartz

Ruby Zoisite

Selenite

Shungite

Smoky Quartz

Sodalite

Snowflake Obsidian

Sugilite

Sunstone

Tiger Eye

White Aura Quartz

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