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Properties of Semi-Precious Stones & Crystals

The power of these stones comes from resonance and vibration. 

Sphere shaped crystals emit energy in all directions; they are usually shaped from larger pieces of crystal and may often have planes or flaws in them.  They can provide a window to the past and future; moving energy through time and space. The pendulums that I have that are sphere shaped also have a point attached at the bottom so that the energy can be focused.

Agate, Green Treethis soothing and calming stone works slowly but will bring great strength.  Its multiple layers will bring hidden information to light.  This very stable crystal has the power to balance yin and yang and to help hold the positive and negative forces of the universe in place.  Agate helps to improve concentration and perception.  Agate stabilizes the aura. 

Agate, Green Tree—Necklaceon an emotional level this crystal can help to over come negativity and bitterness of the heart.  Spiritually, agate raises one’s consciousness and one’s collective consciousness leading to greater spiritual growth.  Wear over the heart to heal on the emotional level, and eliminate and transform negative energy. 

Agate, Mossstrongly connected with nature, moss agate is a stabilizing stone which can help to refresh the soul.  Agate is a soothing and calming stone that works slowly but will bring great strength.  Its multiple layers will bring hidden information to light.  This very stable crystal has the power to balance yin and yang and to help hold the positive and negative forces of the universe in place.  Agate helps to improve concentration and perception.  Agate stabilizes the aura. 

Agate, Moss—Necklaceon an emotional level this crystal can help to over come negativity and bitterness of the heart.  Spiritually, agate raises one’s consciousness and one’s collective consciousness leading to greater spiritual growth.  Wear over the heart to heal on the emotional level, and eliminate and transform negative energy.  This is a stone of wealth and attracts abundance.

Amethysta purple, transparent crystal with a high spiritual vibration used to block stress and negative environmental energies.  This powerful, protective stone raises consciousness and is useful during meditation.  Amethyst can calm the mind and surround you with tranquility or stimulate you if that is the most appropriate need.  This crystal can be used for balancing your highs and lows, improving motivation and enhancing memory.  Place by your bed at night to help calm the mind and help to relieve insomnia.

Amethyst—Necklacethis crystal makes a wonderful piece of jewelry and works well when worn over the throat or heart.  Amethyst promotes love and wisdom.  It is wonderful to wear to keep one’s aura cleansed. 

Aventurine, Greenthis stone of prosperity is a very positive stone; it works to defuse negative situations.  Aventurine enhances creativity and stabilizes one’s mind while it calms anger and irritation. 

Aventurine, Green—Necklacewearing over the heart, this stone protects the heart and brings comfort and healing, well being, and calms the emotions.  This stone works well as an all-around healing stone. 

Aventurine, Redthis stone of prosperity is a very positive stone; it works to defuse negative situations.  Aventurine enhances creativity and stabilizes one’s mind while it calms anger and irritation; emotionally giving a sense of well being.  This stone works well as an all-around healing stone.

Bloodstonehas historically been believed to have mystical and magical powers that can banish evil and negative energy; a powerful healing stone which is excellent for the blood.  This grounding and protecting stone calms the mind as well as revitalizes the mind if it is mentally exhausted.  It can dispel confusion while enhancing the decision making process.  Place beside your bed for a more peaceful sleep.

Carnelian, Redhelps you to trust yourself and your perceptions while helping to clarify these perceptions, and helps you overcome negative conditioning.  Carnelian grounds and anchors you while providing high energy.  Carnelian is the stone of choice for anyone who is trying to overcome an abusive situation of any kind. 

Carnelian, Red—Necklacethis stone is full of life force and vitality.  An excellent stone to be used in meditation as it helps to clear one’s thoughts and sharpens concentration.  An excellent stone for generation X to wear.  Red carnelian combats sluggishness and invigorates the mind and body.  This is not only a stone of protection but it invites abundance. 

Hematiteis a strong stone, imparting confidence and boosting self-esteem; it helps to stimulate concentration and focus, memory and original thought—a great stone for any student to carry.  This is a grounding stone; it dissolves negativity, prevents negative energy from entering the aura, and is helpful to carry when you are in legal situations.  Carry this stone if compulsions and addictions are a concern. 

Jasper, Pictureis mother earth “speaking” to her children.  It contains messages from the past for those who can read it.  This stone brings comfort and alleviates fear; it instills a sense of proportion and harmony.  Jasper is the supreme nurturer; it helps during times of stress and brings tranquility and wholeness.  It brings courage to help with problems and support during times of conflict.  It encourages self-honesty and brings forth feelings normally pushed aside.  It is an aid in quick thinking and promotes organizational abilities and helps to stimulate the imagination and transform ideas into action.  Use for long periods of time as jasper is a slow working stone.  

Jasper, Redbrings problems to light while they are still small and provides insight into correcting them as well as more difficult situations.  It helps to calm emotions and can be used as a “worry bead.”  Jasper is the supreme nurturer; it helps during times of stress and brings tranquility and wholeness.  It brings courage to help with problems and support during times of conflict.  It encourages self-honesty.  It is an aid in quick thinking and promotes organizational abilities and helps to stimulate the imagination and transform ideas into action.  Use for long periods of time as jasper is a slow working stone.  

Jasper, Yellowhelps to channel positive energy; it is the supreme nurturer; it is a bold and beautiful stone that brings light and energy to any situation.  This stone comes in shades of yellow to greenish/yellow and yellow to greyish/yellow.

Jasper, Yellow—Necklaceprotects during spiritual work and physical travel.  This stone helps you to feel physically better; it energizes the endocrine system, and helps to channel positive energy.  Jasper is the supreme nurturer; it helps during times of stress and brings tranquility and wholeness.  It brings courage to help with problems and support during times of conflict.  It encourages self-honesty.  It is an aid in quick thinking and promotes organizational abilities and helps to stimulate the imagination and transform ideas into action.  Use for long periods of time as jasper is a slow working stone. The beauty of this stone will accent any outfit you wear; it is bold and attractive.

Labradoriteis a highly mystical and protective stone; it raises consciousness and grounds spiritual energies into the physical body while it connects with universal energies; it is a bringer of light.  The stone stimulates intuition and psychic gifts; it banishes fears and insecurities including those of past lives.  It helps to strengthen trust in the universe and faith in one’s self.

Labradorite—Necklacethe perfect stone for wearing as a necklace as it works best when being worn over the heart chakra; it deflects unwanted energies from the aura and prevents energy leakage; it forms a barrier to negative energies.  This stone helps to energize the imagination and bring to the surface new ideas; yet it can help to calm an overactive mind.  It is a stone of transformation; helping to prepare the body and soul for ascension.  It encourages initiation, helps to bring messages from the unconscious mind, and facilitates in their understanding.  This stone imparts strength and perseverance. 

Lapisstimulates enlightenment and psychic abilities, facilitating spiritual journeying and spiritual power, while also enhancing dream work.  This stone encourages creativity through attunement.  It is a protective stone that can help in contacting spiritual guardians.  This stone encourages balance and harmony.

Lapis—Necklacethis dark blue stone with gold flecks harmonizes physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels and helps restore them to balance.  It is a protective stone that recognizes psychic attack, blocks it, and returns the energy to its source.  This stone helps to reveal inner truth and encourages self-awareness and self-expression.  Lapis is a strong thought amplifier, bringing clarity, and help to stimulate the higher faculties of the mind.  It aids in learning, accepting, and speaking the truth.

Malachitehelps to draw out deep feelings and encourages their expression.  Place on the solar plexus to facilitate deep emotional healing.  This stone encourages intuition and insight; it supports friendship and helps to dispel shyness.  This stone can assist in receiving insight and messages.  It is an important protection stone.  This stone clears electromagnetic pollution and guards against radiation.

Warning:  do no use salt to cleanse this stone as the salt could damage the surface.

Malachite—Necklacethis stone is an excellent choice for wearing as it absorbs negative energies and pollutants easily from both the atmosphere and the body; therefore, it should be cleansed often.  This stone clears and activates the chakras and helps with attuning to spiritual guidance.  Wearing as a necklace, in the heart chakra area, it brings balance and harmony, and opens the heart to unconditional love.  It may be one of the most important healing stones of the new millennium.  This is a powerful stone and if it causes slight heart palpitations, it should be worn only for short periods. 

Moonstonestrongly connected with the moon, it is reflective and reminds us of the cycle of change: monthly, seasonally, and yearly.  This “stone of new beginnings” promotes intuition and empathy; it helps to make conscious the unconscious.  This stone balances emotional instability and stress, and helps to stabilize the emotions.  It can encourage lucid dreaming, but care must be taken to prevent a wishful thinking cycle.

Moonstone—Necklacean excellent choice when worn in necklace form as it works well when worn over the heart to help balance emotions and improves emotional intelligence.  This can be worn to encourage and enhance psychic abilities and to develop clairvoyance.  Moonstone is filled with receptive feminine energy and can help to balance macho, masculine energy.  This stone may affect the female cycle.

Moonstone (Rainbow)strongly connected with the moon, it is reflective and reminds us of the cycle of change: monthly, seasonally, and yearly.  This “stone of new beginnings” promotes intuition and empathy; it helps to make conscious the unconscious.  This stone balances emotional instability and stress, and helps to stabilize the emotions.  It can encourage lucid dreaming, but care must be taken to prevent a wishful thinking cycle.

Moonstone (Rainbow)—Necklacean excellent choice when worn in necklace form as it works well when worn over the heart to help balance emotions and improves emotional intelligence.  This can be worn to encourage and enhance psychic abilities and to develop clairvoyance.  Moonstone is filled with receptive feminine energy and can help to balance macho, masculine energy.  This stone may affect the female cycle.

Quartz, Crystalclear quartz contains every color possible, working like a natural computer; these crystals are a stored spiritual library.  Quartz can work to aid in meditation, concentration, and to unlock memory.

Quartz, Crystal—Necklacea perfect stone for meditation, quartz filters out distractions, and enhances psychic abilities and can help to attune you to your spiritual purpose.

Quartz is considered the most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet.  It is found worldwide and it absorbs, stores, releases, regulates, and unblocks energy.  It works at a vibrational level that seems to be attuned to the specific energy requirements of whoever is using it and whoever is in need of the healing.  This crystal can raise energy to the highest possible spiritual level and has the possibility to dissolve karmic residue of past-life trauma, attitude, or illness that lodges in the etheric body.

Quartz, Goldenknown as the “golden healer,” this quartz can help facilitate long distance spiritual healing and empower healing at all levels.

Quartz, Golden—Necklacethis is a perfect stone for meditation as quartz filters out distractions and enhances psychic abilities, while helping to attune you to your spiritual purpose.

Quartz is considered the most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet.  It is found worldwide and it absorbs, stores, releases, regulates, and unblocks energy.  It works at a vibrational level that seems to be attuned to the specific energy requirements of whoever is using it and whoever is in need of the healing.  This crystal can raise energy to the highest possible spiritual level and has the possibility to dissolve karmic residue of past-life trauma, attitude, or illness that lodges in the etheric body.

Quartz, Roseis the stone of unconditional love, infinite peace, purifies and opens the heart at all levels, brings deep inner healing and self-love, is calming reassuring, and is an excellent choice to use in situations of trauma or crisis.  This stone strengthens sensitivity and empathy, and is used to gently draw off negative energy and replace it with loving vibrations.

Quartz, Rose—Necklaceis the finest of all healing stones; it releases unexpressed emotions and heartache, opens one’s heart to be receptive, comforts grief, invokes self-trust and self-worth, and encourages self-forgiveness and self-acceptance. 

Quartz is considered the most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet.  It is found worldwide and it absorbs, stores, releases, regulates, and unblocks energy.  It works at a vibrational level that seems to be attuned to the specific energy requirements of whoever is using it and whoever is in need of the healing.  This crystal can raise energy to the highest possible spiritual level and has the possibility to dissolve karmic residue of past-life trauma, attitude, or illness that lodges in the etheric body.

Rhodonitean emotional balancer that helps to nurture love and encourage brotherhood.  It helps one to achieve their highest potential, and helps to align the soul more closely with this vibration; it grounds energy and balances yin-yang.  It can help enhance mantra-based meditation.   

Rhodonite—Necklaceis a perfect stone to be worn over the heart chakra as it helps to heal emotional wounds and scars from the past, and when worn touching the skin can help with internal and external wounds.  It can help ward off insults and helps to built up confidence and alleviate confusion.  This stone helps to stimulate, clear, and activate the heart chakra.  This stone helps with forgiveness and assists in reconciliation after long-term pain and abuse.  It helps to ease emotional self-destruction and co-dependency. 

Sodaliteis a perfect stone for dowsing as it helps to bring information from the higher mind down to the physical level; its purpose is to unite logic with intuition and open up spiritual perception.  It is a perfect stone for meditation if your goal is to better understand the circumstances in which you find yourself.  This stone encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth, and intuitiveness, while helping you to verbalize your feelings.  Keep pendulum near your computer to clear electromagnetic pollution and to help block their emanations.  Place under your pillow at night to help calm the mind, eliminate mental confusion, and have a better nights sleep.

Sodalite—Necklacewear this deep blue marbled pendulum necklace when you will be in a group situation to help bring harmony and solidarity of purpose, and trust and companionship between members.  This stone can help calm panic attacks, release deep seated feelings of guilt, fear, and phobias while bringing about emotional balance.  This stone is one that can be worn for long periods of time.

Sunstonethis stone loves being used out in the sun; it is a joyful, light-inspiring stone which instills good nature and heightens your intuition.  If you have lost the joy in living, this stone is for you.  It is wonderful in clearing all chakras and bringing light, sweet energy back into your life; it will lift dark moods and work as an antidepressant.  For procrastinators, this is a great stone as it can help remove the energies that are holding you back; even the most pessimistic person can respond to this stone.

Sunstone—Necklacewear this pendulum necklace to help lift out heavy or repressed emotions and transfer them harmlessly back to the sun.  This stone encourages optimism and enthusiasm, bringing back confidence, restoring feelings of self-worth, and reversing feelings of failure.  Wear during the winter to combat seasonal affective disorder and to lighten the darkness of winter.  If you are some one who is continually making sacrifices for other, this stone can help when you have difficulty in say “No.”

Tiger Eyedrawing spiritual energies to the earth, this stone combines the earth energy with the energies of the sun creating a high vibrational state while still staying grounded.  For earthy people who can have a hard time accessing psychic abilities, this stone can be helpful.  For people who are spaced out or uncommitted, this is an excellent grounding stone.  It also helps to facilitate manifestation of the will and anchors change into the physical body.  A protective stone, traditionally tiger eye has been carried as a talisman against ill wishing and curses.

Tiger Eye—Necklacea wonderful stone for earthy people, tiger eye balances the lower chakras while stimulating the rise of kundalini energy.  This stone integrates the hemispheres of the brain and enhances practical perception.  For people who have issues of self-worth, self-criticism, and blocked creativity, this is a perfect stone to wear; it aids in recognizing one’s talents and abilities and the faults that need to be overcome.  It assists in accomplishing goals, recognizing inner resources and promoting clarity of intention. 

Unakitea marbled stone that brings out depths of green and tones of red when highly polished.  This is a stone of vision; when placed on the third eye, it opens and promotes visualization and psychic vision.  This stone helps to provide grounding after meditation.  It can help balance emotions with one’s spirituality.  It is helpful in integrating insights from the past that are causing blockages and will help to gently release conditions that inhibit spiritual and psychological growth.  This is a very supportive stone for someone recovering from a major illness.  

You will notice that some stones list additional information when the stone is worn as a pendulum necklace.  Two styles of Italian Sterling Silver chains are available in 24" lengths.  Check pendulum page for pictures and ordering info.