Gemstone Meanings

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African Turquoise

The ‘Stone of Evolution’ encourages growth, development, and positive change within life itself. African Turquoise opens the mind to new ideas, possibilities, and existence. It is a stone that brings structure, balance, and prosperity where it is due. African Turquoise is a stone that hands over a key to new life with its offerings. This stone awakens the soul to its intended purpose, encouraging the being to make a positive impression while gaining and giving positive wisdom.

Agate

Agates are earth stones. Overall, agates are gentle, nourishing, and strengthening, with a lower intensity than many other gemstones. They also have a calming effect and harmonize both positive and negative energies. It works at its own pace but is powerful yet gentle. Agate is associated with stamina, vitality, and strength. Individual types of agate have their personal healing properties.

Amber

Amber is truly a healing talisman and a glorious good luck charm too. Whether given to teething babies to help quell their cries or helping recovering people pleasers set loving, healthy boundaries, this gem is all about inviting calmness and healing into your life. Amber is the lifeblood of ancient trees, bringing all that energy into the here and now. It infuses us with nourishment, awakens our sacral chakra, and gives us all the tools and empowering vibrations we need to heal ourselves fully.

Amethyst

Amethyst is a powerhouse stone. It vibrates at a high frequency, creating a bubble of spiritual protection against negative energy. It awakens higher consciousness, assists in wise decision-making free of emotional confusion, and facilitates meditation and intuition. It helps create stability, strength, inspiration, and a true sense of peace. Enhances the immune system, a blood purifier good for the stomach and liver. Strengthens spiritual awareness.

Ametrine

Ametrine combines the healing properties of Amethyst and Citrine,

believed to relieve tension, bring serenity, stimulate creativity, and balance mental stability and self-confidence. Ametrine is considered a double boost to remove toxins from the body, as both amethyst and citrine are detoxifiers.

Amazonite

Amazonite is a mint green to aqua green stone said to be of truth, honor, communication, integrity, hope, and trust. It enhances intuition, creativity, intellect, and psychic ability. Amazonite is often associated with the throat chakra and is said to be beneficial to communication.

Amazonite helps to harmonize different motivations and interests by bringing the truth to light without emotionality and allowing one to see another point of view. It facilitates this process both between people and within an individual psyche. Therefore, meditation and inner work are suitable for clarifying internal conflicts and confusion and integrating the self.

Angelite

Angelite is used to improve spirituality and spiritual awareness with a peaceful energy that is calming and soothing. Many believe it promotes communication and self-express while dispelling fear, anger, and anxiety. This stone is a fantastic healer of the physical body. This crystal can balance a person’s thyroid gland. It also allows the body to eliminate any infections related to the throat. It aids in renewing blood vessels and has beneficial properties for the heart.

Apatite

Apatite is a dual-action stone known for its positive use of personal power to achieve goals. It clears away confusion, apathy, or negativity, then stimulates the intellect to expand knowledge and truth, which may be used for personal growth or the collective good. Apatite also enhances psychic awareness and opens the mind to insight and inspiration.

Aquamarine

This is the stone to help you connect with your spiritual being. This stone is used in profound meditation. It has been called “Water of the Sea” because of its color. Aquamarine cools anger and helps create a calm, centered, relaxed, but alert state with balanced energy. It is a stone of the Divine Feminine--teaching a form of power-yielding yet resilient and letting you speak your truth clearly from a place of inner knowing rather than reactivity.

Aventurine

aventurine is known as the "Lucky Talisman" or "Stone of Opportunity" for its good luck properties. Its deeper purpose is to help you release old habits and patterns so you are ready for new opportunities and growth and can confidently move forward. Also a stone for the heart chakra and for treating heart problems. It is a regenerative stone strengthening and stabilizes the heart. It is a stone that brings comfort and balance to your life.

Bloodstone

Bloodstone assists us in courage, nobility, grounding, and protecting. It does this by strengthening the root chakra, purifying the aura, and grounding one fully in the physical body. Bringing the subtle body into balance bolsters our inner vitality and gives us the heart to make necessary sacrifices, look at painful truths, or endure physical trials.

Bloodstone draws off negative environmental energy, helping to overcome influences such as geopathic or electromagnetic stress. It stimulates dreaming and is a powerful revitalizer.

Blue Calcite

Blue Calcite helps to balance your emotions and remove emotional blockages. Opens, heals & unblocks all chakras. Aids in memory & learning help students retain their lessons. Facilitates physical healing by clearing negative energy & emotions, encouraging rest & relaxation. Blue calcite lets you explore your unconscious, dissolve limiting beliefs, and produce vivid dreams. It also boots psychic ability and soothes emotional overload.

Blue Lace Agate

Blue Lace Agate helps us communicate with the angelic realms and our spirit guides. It is a beautiful stone for helping us to calm and center our thoughts, making it an excellent tool during meditation and prayer. It inspires us to live with remarkable grace and serenity. Also, it helps you confidently speak your truth in a way others can understand.

Botswana Agate

Botswana Agate comes from Africa and exhibits a lovely blend of pale pink, cream, and gray hues. Botswana Agate has a very gentle and loving vibration. Agate is the name for many types of banded Chalcedony, a variety of Quartz. Agates are powerful healing stones.

Botswana agate is sometimes called the "change stone" because of its mystical property of helping one handle change positively. It's said to gently help one make transitions of any kind so that change is not as difficult or painful as it could be without it; it is a calming stone. Carrying a bit of Botswana agate in your pocket is said to help you cope easily with the minor changes that life throws at us daily.

Relief from depression and grief is another magical energy of Botswana agate. It is said to help us focus on solutions instead of problems, thereby increasing creativity and the power of one's intuition. Botswana agate is noted in crystal healing to help overcome addictions and other self-destructive compulsive behavior patterns and deal with repressed emotional issues. As a success stone, it achieves and copes with success. It is also a stone of sensuality. Crystal healing is said to be beneficial to the nervous system and can help rid the body of toxins and help heal broken bones.

Calcite

Calcite will increase and amplify energy--the energy of healing, learning, and awareness. Calcite is an oft-used cleanser in the material world and a spiritual cleanser that changes perspective and renews commitment to making change.

Bronzite
Bronzite helps to alleviate nervous energy when approaching new situations. Bronzite increases self-esteem, promotes decision-making, dispels negativity, and enhances creativity.

Carnelian

Carnelian Stones are stones of action that will give you the courage and confidence to move forward on a new path in life. In ancient times it was a stone used to protect the dead on their journey to the afterlife. It is a solid stone to aid the physical body, as it maintains an improved flow of life force energy via the blood. The vibration of this bright orange stone will accelerate your motivation and aid you in clarifying your goals so that you can find your best direction in life. This power stone stimulates ambition and drive; it aids in moving forward on a new life path and will assist you in making recent, clearer decisions and better future career choices.

Celestite

Celestite is a high-vibration crystal aligned with the crown, third eye, and throat chakras. Celestite brings peace, harmony, and balance and will assist the holder in finding and maintaining inner peace; its ability to heighten divine intuition makes Celestite especially useful for reiki practice. Celestite is a sweet, uplifting gemstone that brings a peaceful, serene energy to any setting.

Charoite

Charoite helps the wearer have a broader perspective on life, leading to a sense of peace and the wisdom to discern the best use of one's energy. Sometimes called a "stone of transformation," charoite is thought to aid the transformation of negative emotions into positive ones. It encourages inner strength, assertiveness, creativity, and self-esteem.

Cherry Quartz

Cherry Quartz is a Man Made Bead consisting of unusable quartz (too small to make into beads) that has been ground, then heated and formed into Beads along with a dye for color conformity.
Cherry Quartz crystal is a healer for emotional wounds and can help with anger and tension. Cherry Quartz has all the qualities of quartz and is also great for the heart chakra.

Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla, with associations of tranquility, peace, intuition, patience, and unconditional love, is a healing stone among Native American cultures. It strengthens the body's resistance to illness and emotional duress. Chrysocolla empowers the Divine feminine and the power of true wisdom to teach and transform. By activating the throat and the heart chakras, it supports you in speaking the knowledge that lives in the deepest part of you, which may even surprise you.

Chrysoprase
This lovely crystal helps to bring acceptance and healing into the body's cells and prepare them for deep healing. Chrysoprase reminds you of your heart's connection to others and the Earth. It is one of the best stones for healing a broken heart and preparing your heart for a new relationship. It also helps when facing threatening situations, strengthening your ability to stay centered in your heart and act from compassion rather than fear or anger.

Citrine
Citrine is a solar plexus chakra stone used metaphysically to increase, magnify and clarify personal power and energy. This increased personal power can be used for the individual's focused intent, as it also brings willpower. Citrine is a premier stone of manifestation, imagination, and personal will. Carrying the sun's power is warm, comforting, energizing, and life-giving. It stimulates the chakras like the sunlight of spring, clearing the mind and stirring the soul to action. Its frequency awakens creativity and imagination and sustains transforming dreams and wishes into tangible forms. Citrine's pure yellow energy encourages the fullness of life, fresh beginnings, and new pursuits. Citrine does not hold or accumulate negative energy but transmutes, dissipates, and grounds it, making it highly protective of the environment. It works out physical and subtle problems, transforming negative thoughts and feelings into positive ones. It is one of only two crystals on Earth that never needs to be cleared or cleansed. The other is Kyanite.

Coral

This stone supports bone healing. Coral eases bone disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, broken bones, bone degeneration, and bone marrow ailments. It helps to build the body’s structures. Coral builds emotional support structures. It develops and builds on all levels. This stone promotes the building of support systems and supports relationships in your life.

Crazy Lace Agate
Crazy Lace Agate is a balancing and protecting stone. It brings laughter and absorbs emotional pain. Crazy Lace Agate is used to help with decision-making by balancing the physical, emotional, and mental so that it is easy to make decisions. It also helps one stay focused.

Dragon Blood Jasper

Dragon's Blood Jasper combines practicality with courage, a rare energy encouraging us to "walk our talk" and solve our problems. Its power inspires us to grow up and take responsibility for our actions.

Dragon Blood Jasper also strengthens the physical and etheric bodies when illness or other unfavorable conditions have brought our vitality down.

Diamond

Diamonds encourage stepping up and stepping into your true power to be a force for good in the world- accepting and fulfilling your spiritual destiny. They encourage you to see, seek, and radiate the light within yourself. Also a symbol of purity, the Diamond's pure white light helps to bring our lives into a cohesive whole. It brings love and clarity into partnerships and bonding relationships. Diamond is a sign of commitment and fidelity and instills trust in relationships and situations.

Emerald

Emerald is a life-affirming and abundant stone. It opens the heart chakra and calms the emotions. It provides inspiration, balance, wisdom, and patience. It promotes friendship, peace, love, compassion, harmony, and domestic bliss by enabling the wearer to give and receive unconditional love. Like chrysoprase, it can help heal heartbreak and nourish your emotional self.

Fancy Jasper
Fancy Jasper is a stone of gentleness and relaxation. It enhances one’s ability to relax and brings tranquility, comfort, wholeness, healing, and gentle endings. As with all Jaspers, it is also a good protection stone.

Flower Agate
Agate’s most noticeable properties are balancing yin/yang energy, courage, protection, healing, and calming. Historically it was placed in water for cooking or drinking to dispel sickness.

Fluorite
Fluorite promotes spiritual and psychic wholeness, development, and protection. It helps one meditate and go past the "chatter" that our minds tend to generate when first learning to meditate. More profound meditation past the "chatter" can give access to cosmic truth and attune to spirit guides or animal totems. One can use this energy to manifest one's life purpose.

Garnet

Garnet is the birthstone for January and the stone that celebrates the 2nd anniversary of marriage. The name "garnet" comes from the Latin word "Garanatus," meaning "seedlike," about a pomegranate. This reference makes sense, as small garnets look like the bright red seeds in a pomegranate. Most successful people believe Garnet's benefits love and health. A lucky stone for love, success, and popularity, It helps to move the chi and energy flow in the body and stimulates physical activity. Garnet is known as the "stone of health" because it dissolves emotional blockages in the body. Garnet is also known for its utilization of creative energy. It grounds spirit forces within the body and helps in the ability to work lovingly on the physical plane.

Grey Picasso Jasper

Metaphysically, it is used to release creativity blocks, awaken spirit. and has strong calming qualities. It is known to aid in building relationships and self-discipline, while some say it also promotes weight loss. In astrology, Picasso Jasper is the birthstone of the Leo

Hematite
Hematite helps to absorb negative energy and calms in times of stress or worry. Hematite is a very protective stone and is great to carry to help you stay grounded in many situations. Also, it is suitable for working with the Root Chakra, helping to transform negative energies into a more positive vibration.

Herkimer Diamond

Herkimer Diamonds are powerful tools used for healing, meditation, and manifestation. As a stone of attunement, these are the perfect crystal for those who want to boost their artistic creativity and have new ideas.
Also, a form of quartz, which you can use to help heal the chakras. Using a Herkimer Diamond is a good idea if you want to balance your higher chakras. Healing Properties: Relieve Stress and anxiety, Ease headaches and migraines, To improve sleep, Boost the immune system, help to detox the physical body, Help to improve circulation

Howlite

Howlite is a stone of patience and perspective for those who need to slow it down, absorb, and clear the constant stream of chatter from the mind; it's a crystal that marries you to a more mindful way of life. Howlite also promotes proper rest, which is why it is known for helping with insomnia.

Iolite
Iolite supports and facilitates inner vision, including shamanic journeying. It bridges the rational mind and non-rational energies such as the heart, intuition, the depths of your unconscious, and your soul. This blending helps you understand and release issues from the past, including past lives, and brings forth your innate creativity.

Jade
Jade is an ancient stone that has historically been used to attract love. Carved into a butterfly in China, it is a powerful symbol of drawing love. Jade can be used to bring money into your life. Create a positive attitude towards money and visualize yourself using money creatively and productively while holding the stone in your power hand. When making an important business decision, use the prosperous energies of jade by having it while contemplating your course of action. Jade strengthens your mental faculties and assists in clear reasoning.

Jade (Red)
Red Jade is the chi stone, bringing forward the warrior's energy. It is a talisman of personal power and will, dispelling the fear, worry, and doubt that holds one back and urges one to take action. It is a stone of physical vitality, strength, and passion, stimulating the Life-Force energy.

Jet

Jet is a protection & purification stone. It helps protect you from negative influences and connects you with the energy of the Earth for integration, healing, and empowerment. Jet can help the wearer to break negative behavioral patterns. Use Jet as a stone of good luck that brings clarity during trials and tribulations.

Kunzite

Kunzite is a stone deeply connected to the heart and love. A joyful stone, kunzite opens and touches the heart with the mind, encouraging communion between the two. Kunzite allows you to experience and reciprocate love.

Kyanite

Kyanite is a calming, grounding energy, making it helpful in balancing emotions and accessing meditative states. It can also help us connect to our intuitive abilities and recall dreams, allowing lucid dreaming. It creates pathways that heal by bridging blocks and aiding communication between disparate parts of the self or between people.

Labradorite
Lore of the Inuit peoples claims Labradorite fell from the frozen fire of the Aurora Borealis, an ordinary stone that transforms into the extraordinary, shimmering in a mystical light that separates the waking world from unseen realms. It is, in every sense, a Stone of Magic, a crystal of shamans, diviners, healers, and all who travel and embrace the universe seeking knowledge and guidance. Self-discovery is excellent for awakening awareness of the inner spirit, intuition, and psychic abilities.
Labradorite is also the most powerful protector of the mineral kingdom, creating a shielding force throughout the aura and strengthening natural energies from within. It protects against the negativity and misfortunes of this world, provides safe exploration into alternate levels of consciousness, and facilitates visionary experiences from the past or future. As a workplace stone, Labradorite brings out the best in people, making work life more congenial. It encourages courtesy and complete attention to the customer and assists part-time and temporary staff in becoming fully involved in a company.

Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli was revered in Egypt and Babylonia and believed to be a cure for melancholy. The Egyptian high priest wore a Lapis Lazuli around his neck. The Romans believed that Lapis Lazuli was also a powerful aphrodisiac. In the Middle Ages, it was used to keep the limbs healthy and free the soul from error, envy, and fear.
It was associated with self-confidence, truthfulness, openness, and inner tranquility. Lapis Lazuli is the ancient stone of mental and psychological health. It promotes spiritual healing, mental calmness, and strength of will. It increases psychic abilities and allows for spiritual growth. Used during meditation, Lapis Lazuli aids in detaching one from the physical body and allowing for a deeper and more open state of consciousness.
Lapis Lazuli is said to alleviate pain, especially migraine headaches, benefits the respiratory and nervous systems, the throat, larynx, thyroid, and cleanses organs, bone marrow, thymus, and immune system. It reportedly helps overcome hearing loss, insomnia and lowers blood pressure. Lapis Lazuli is a good stone for emotional healing and helps to get to the root cause of dis-ease. Lapis Lazuli is also a potent tool for dream work. Historians leave little doubt that Lapis Lazuli was the sapphire of the ancient civilizations, which, together with turquoise, was considered Lapis Lazuli to be the most valuable of all gemstones.

Larimar

Larimar is said to enlighten and heal physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. It stimulates the heart, throat, third eye, and crown chakras, facilitating inner wisdom and outer manifestation. It represents peace and clarity, radiating healing and love energy.

Lava Stone

Lava Rock or Volcanic Rock (lava rock or Basalt) is a rock formed from magma erupted by a volcano. Basalt is a stone of strength and courage, allowing one the opportunity for stability throughout changes in their life.

These beads are porous, so they are great for soaking essential oils.

Emotional- Since lava is known for its grounding qualities, it’s excellent for calming emotions. It comes from raw energy. It’s considered a stone of rebirth and shedding unneeded layers of emotional attachment.
Spiritual- Lava stones are fantastic for stabilizing and grounding the root chakra because of the strong connection to the Earth and its creation within the center of Earth. It was also given to soldiers in folk remedies to help them remain calm during battle.

Lepidolite

Lepidolite aids in overcoming emotional or mental dependency and helps treat addictions and all kinds of conditions, including anorexia. It is to help those with bipolar disorder because of its mind-balancing properties. Lepidolite alleviates stress, nervousness, or being overwhelmed while opening the mind and calming the higher self.

**Note that healing crystal meanings are spiritual supports to healing and are not prescriptions or healthcare information.**