Gemstone Properties

AMAZONITE

Amazonite is a soothing stone.  It calms the brain and nervous system and aids in maintaining optimum health.  Balances the masculine and feminine energies.  Amazonite helps you to see both sides of a problem or different points of view. It soothes emotional trauma, alleviating worry and fear.  Dispels negative energy, aggravation and blockages within the nervous system.  Amazonite assists in manifesting universal love.  It protects against electromagnetic pollution and absorbs microwaves.

AQUAMARINE

Aquamarine is a stone of courage. Its calming energy reduces stress and quiets the mind. Aquamarine has an affinity with sensitive people. It can invoke tolerance of others and helps us give support to those overwhelmed by responsibility. It is known to clarify perception, sharpen the intellect and clear confusion. Useful for closure on all levels. Promotes self-expression. Soothes fears and increases sensitivity. Counteracts short-or long-sightedness. Sharpens intuition and opens clairvoyance. Wonderful for meditation.  Shields the aura and aligns the chakras. It is believed to be highly protective during pregnancy, helping to guard both mother and baby from harm.

BLACK OBSIDIAN

Black Obsidian is truth-enhancing.  A strongly protective stone, it forms a shield against negativity. It blocks psychic attack and absorbs negative energies from the environment. Obsidian draws out mental stress and tension.  It stimulates growth on all levels, urging exploration of the unknown and opening new horizons. Brings clarity to the mind and clears confusion.  Helps you to know who you truly are.  Obsidian dissolves emotional blockages and ancient traumas.  Promotes qualities of compassion and strength.

BLUE JASPER

Blue Jasper connects you to the spiritual world and it stimulates the throat chakra and balances yin and  yang energies. 

CARNELIAN

A stabilising stone, Carnelian restores vitality and motivation, and stimulates creativity. It gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy and motivates for success. 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.

CITRINE

Citrine is widely believed to aid in the manifestation of prosperity. It activates the solar plexus, the seat of the will, to help you be decisive about what you will bring into your life.

As it is a quartz crystal it has the added benefit of amplifying the energy of any stones that are used in conjunction with it. 

 FOREST JASPER

Helps one to see the relationship between karma and what is happening now, making these issues much easier to accept and work though. Forest Jasper can assist in the release of burdens which no longer act to serve in one’s life. It can help with healing old and deep emotional wounds and is great for issues of self-esteem and emotional strength. It helps to eliminate procrastination and distractions.

GARNET

Garnet cleanses and re-energises the chakras. Inspires love and devotion. It activates and strengthens the survival instinct, bringing courage and hope.  It is believed to stimulate past-life recall.  Sharpens perceptions of oneself and others. It opens the heart and bestows self-confidence. 

GREEN GARNET

Green Garnet is a stone of confidence, and stability in challenges. Green Garnet is used for manifestation and both physical and spiritual abundance. It is also a stone of service, enhancing one's will and ability to serve and energizing cooperative efforts.

KYANITE

Kyanite is an excellent stone for meditation and attunement.  It will not retain negative vibrations or energy, therefore never requiring clearing.  Kyanite aligns all chakras and subtle bodies instantly.  It provides balance of yin-yang energy and dispels blockages, moving energy gently through the physical body.

Kyanite has a calming effect on the whole being, bringing tranquility.  It encourages psychic abilities and communication on all levels.  It drives away anger, frustration, confusion and stress and helps to provide a capacity for linear and logical thought.  Kyanite provides a stimulating energy, encouraging perseverance in and support of activities and situations which would normally reduce one’s strength.  It can help when connecting to your spirit guides. Kyanite induces dream recall and can promote healing dreams.

LABRADORITE

Labradorite is excellent for awakening one's own awareness of inner spirit, intuition and psychic abilities.

Labradorite brings out the best in people, making work life more congenial. It tempers the negative side of our personality. Labradorite helps develop the hands' sensitivity, making it useful for physiotherapists and all who use the power of touch to heal.

LAPIS LAZULI

Lapis Lazuli is said to relieve anger and negative thoughts, as well as easing frustrations causing the anger. Lapis resonates with the energy of the inner king or queen, and is historically a stone of royalty. It helps to balance the male and female aspects of your personality. The energy of lapis may intensify the growth of psychic abilities, intuition, channelling and aid you to contact your guardian angels. The capacity of this crystal energy to stimulate the development of psychic gifts makes it a stone that is in demand.

LAVA ROCK

Lava brings physical and mental strength and courage. It is known to improve energy levels, increase libido, enhance creativity and provide radiation shielding.

 

ONYX

Onyx gives strength.  It promotes vigor, steadfastness and stamina.  Imparts self-confidence, helping you to be at ease in your surroundings. Onyx can help to diminish grief, enhance self-control, stimulate the power of wise decision-making, and encourage happiness.

 

 

PEARL

Pearl signifies faith, charity and innocence.  It enhances personal integrity and helps to provide a focus to ones attention.  Pearl symbolises purity and is known as a “stone of sincerity”.  It brings truth to situations and loyalty to a “cause”.  

 

 

 

 

PICTURE JASPER

Picture Jasper encourages ecological awareness of stability and balance.  It contains a message and/or “picture” from the past. Picture Jasper is a stone of proportion and harmony and stimulates creative visualization.  It helps to bring hidden thoughts and feelings – griefs, fears, guilt, envy, love, hope – to the surface, to be released.

PREHNITE

Prehnite is considered a stone of unconditional love and the crystal to heal the healer.  It enhances precognition and inner knowing.  Enables you to always to be prepared. Prehnite calms the environment and brings peace and protection.  It teaches how to be in harmony with nature and the elemental forces.  Helpful for “decluttering” – letting go of possessions you no longer need, aiding those who hoard possessions, or love, because of an inner lack.  Prehnite alleviates nightmares, phobias and deep fears, uncovering and healing the dis-ease that creates them.  It is a stone for dreaming and remembering. Beneficial for hyperactive children and the causes that underlie the condition.

ROSE QUARTZ

Rose Quartz is the stone of universal love.  It restores trust and harmony in relationships, encouraging unconditional love.  Rose Quartz purifies and opens the heart at all levels to promote love, self-love, friendship, deep inner healing and feelings of peace.  Calming and reassuring, it helps to comfort in times of grief.  Rose Quartz dispels negativity and protects against environmental pollution, replacing it with loving vibes.  It encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance invoking self-trust and self-worth.

SHUNGITE

Shungite is the one stone that everyone should have in their medicine bag, because of its ability to purify, charge, protect, cure, induce recovery, stabilize, heal and promote growth to all living organisms. It also purifies water of almost of all organic compounds (including pesticides), metals, bacteria and harmful micro-organisms. 

TIGER EYE

A stone of protection, Tiger Eye may also bring good luck to the wearer.  It has the power to focus the mind, promoting mental clarity, assisting us to resolve problems objectively and unclouded by emotions.  Particularly useful for healing psychosomatic illnesses, dispelling fear and anxiety.  Useful for recognizing one’s own needs in relation to the needs of others.  Balancing yin-yang and energizing the emotional body, Tiger Eye stabilizes mood swings, imbues us with willpower, purpose, courage and self-confidence, and releases tension.

TURQUOISE

Turquoise (white or green) is a purification stone.  It dispels negative energy and can be worn to protect against outside influences or pollutants in the atmosphere. It has impressive metaphysical properties that encourage empathy, but this will not hold you back from being able to speak with forthrightness when required. The energy will assist you to feel calm and relaxed when speaking in public.