An Alphabetic List of Some Common Crystals and the Properties Ascribed to Them
Adamite Enables you to focus on your tasks and on prosperity.
Agate Helps you achieve spiritual
harmony, tolerance and love for those around
you. Enhances imagination and creativity. Can promote prosperity
and good
luck, while encouraging you to be generous to those less fortunate.
A
guardian crystal. Helps you appreciate nature. Helps in situations
requiring
courage. A general healing crystal which promotes balance and
relaxation.
- Blue Can be used to improve harmony
and reduce the quarrels among family
members.
- Botswana Helps you protect your
family and yourself. Protective love. Helps chest
area.
- Blue Lace Very peaceful and calming.
Helps throat area and those who like to argue.
Good for stubborn people.
- Crazy Lace Helps you work with
other generations within your family.
- Green Tree Great for plants.
Helps them grow stronger. Especially good for grass and
trees. Protects the wearer and absorbs negative energies that might harm
the
wearer.
- Leopardskin Helps you work
with heavy emotional issues. Especially useful now with all of
the rapid cultural and political changes in our modern society.
- Turitella Helps combine the new
with the old. Good for past life work. Grounding.
- Zebra Helps you enjoy
your body.
Alexandrite A guardian crystal. Provides
protection. Helps one enjoy life. A healing
crystal. Useful in matters requiring cleansing and purification. Associated
with
longevity and renewal.
Amazonite A must for those interested
in clairvoyance, prophecy, and divination.
Helps with all kinds of female problems including PMS. Calming, good for
the
throat area. Promotes truth, honesty, openness, self-esteem, and self-love.
Helps you communicate.
Amber A major
healing crystal. Good for general healing, cleansing, purification, and
relaxation. Can increase personal energy, strength, balance, and
clarity. Good
for those plagued by impatience. Promotes love, wisdom, romance,
passion, and
generosity. Can help one recall past lives. Charged with a subtle magnetic
energy
which can be channeled to the chakras and then to the glandular system
which controls
and stabilizes all bodily functions and health.
Amethyst Good for just about everything,
including left-right brain balance, nervous
conditions, insomnia, dreams, dizziness, and headaches. Can help end
addictions. Excellent for clearing and dissipating negative energy from
other
crystals. Promotes spiritual enlightenment. Often called the mystic's stone.
A good aid for relaxing,
meditation, and general psychic ability. A grounding crystal that
helps you
appreciate nature. A general healing crystal.
Ammonite Good for reawakening Kundalini energy. Enhances personal power.
Angelite Helps
you talk with your angelic guides while retaining Earth
power/awareness. Very cleansing and peaceful.
Apache Tears Provides grounding and protection.
Believed to help you with emotional
problems. Helps you connect with your spirit guides. Believed to protect
travelers.
Apatite
Helps you accept and use your spiritual gifts. Promotes spiritual peace
and
harmony. Enhances communication on the spiritual level. Promotes
love and
intellectual abilities. Useful during times of change.
Apophyllite The fairy stone. Helps you
work with devas and fairies. Helps you work more
closely with the plant kingdom.
Aquamarine Promotes peacefulness, calming,
serenity. A good meditation aid. A
grounding crystal that helps you appreciate nature. Increases your inner
power and will power. Useful for prophecy and divination. Useful as a healing
crystal for those regaining strength. An excellent crystal to use for attunements.
Helps the user/wearer's attunement to whatever level of spiritual development
he or she is capable of.
Atacamite A good healing crystal with
malachite. Reported to work with endocrine
glands and lower abdominal area.
Aurichalcite Helps you become more tolerant. Helps with emotional healing.
Aventurine Associated with prosperity
and abundance. Helps you establish your
independence and freedom. Promotes imagination and creativity. A
general
healing crystal, especially useful in matters dealing with balance and
relaxation.
- Blue
Helps conquer psychic fears and bad dreams. Helps walk-ins feel better
in
their bodies. Helps keep you centered.
- Green Brings prosperity. Helps
you get along better with family members. A general
healing crystal.
Azurite General psychic doorway opener.
One of the most powerful crystals for the
third eye area. The best of these crystals may blow your intuitive area
wide
open to new ideas. Aids clairvoyance. Promotes kindness and sensitivity.
Stimulates the intellect. Eases spiritual transformation. A general
healing crystal.
Mentioned often by Edgar Cayce as one that would be helpful in developing
latent
psychic abilities and attunement to higher levels of consciousness.
Benitoite Psychic activator. From old
Lemurian energy area in California along with
Joaquinite and Neptunite.
Beryl An aid to spiritual development. An intellectual stimulant.
Bloodstone A major abundance crystal. Helps you in the areas
of prosperity, good
fortune, and generosity to others. A healing crystal useful for cleansing,
purification, and balancing. Said to be useful on physical problems involving
the circulatory system and the liver.
Boji Stone A balancing stone that is alive! Almost anybody can
tune in on this one!
Excellent for opening up all chakras. Said to be effective in reducing
pain from
burns, headaches, etc. Requires human contact and recharging or it will
turn to dust.
Brookite Said to be a powerful chakra
activator, especially the crown, third eye and the
Kundalini channel. Helps one deal with intolerable situations, can be used
to
dispel apathy and lethargy.
Calcite Helps stimulate growth in wisdom, intellect, and
memory. A must for those
interested in channeling or astral projection. A peaceful calming crystal,
said
to be useful to those suffering with ulcers or other stomach problems,
poor
digestion, or hyperactivity.
- Optical An inter-dimensional
crystal. Allows you to look at two dimensions at once, or
at two different periods.
. - Golden A major tool to be used in
enhancing your spiritual development. Helps you
prepare for your karmic future.
- Green Said to be good for the
throat and lung area. Also said to aid in getting rid of
unwanted spiritual visitors.
- Orange A crystal filled
with joy and sunshine. Great for computer nerds, shut-ins, and
those suffering from post-partum depression.
- Red Enables you to express your emotions.
Carnelian Promotes harmony. Helps you raise your
self-esteem and establish your
independence and freedom. A grounding crystal that helps you appreciate
nature.
Helps you recall past lives. Helps stimulate growth in wisdom,
intellect, and
memory. Said to be an aid in manifestation of ones wishes.
Useful in combating fears
and anger, dealing with hidden emotions, and sexual problems.
Celestite Good for opening communication
with spirit guardians. Promotes openness,
kindness, sensitivity. Said to enhance psychic powers. Good for all kinds
of
voice problems. May be useful against altitude sickness.
Charoite Helps balance psychic and intellectual wisdom.
Chalcedony Helps you achieve prosperity,
abundance...and generosity. Useful in efforts at
sociability and in overcoming shyness. Encourages the traits of kindness
and
sensitivity. Helpful in matters requiring strength of purpose.
- Blue
Initiation crystal for Egyptian-Atlantean high priests.
Chalcopyrite Enhances self esteem. Everyone
can use this one if they are to survive in
today's world!
Chrysoberyl Inspires forgiveness, generosity,
happiness, optimism, kindness, sensitivity,
and hope. A healing crystal associated with longevity and renewal.
Chrysocolla Great peaceful, calming crystal.
An spirit and heart crystal that inspires truth
and honesty, patience, serenity, tolerance, love, kindness, sensitivity,
and
wisdom. A very useful aid during meditations. Good for those working with
computers. A close relative of turquoise.
Chrysoprase A talisman. Good past life
healer. Inspires happiness, optimism. A
general communication aid. Helps one regain lost energy. Enhances
longevity, renewal, balance.
Citrine
Helps balance your personal power towards health and wealth. The
merchant's crystal. Inspires truth, honesty, and general spiritual development.
An abundance crystal that aids one toward prosperity, abundance...and
generosity. A guardian crystal that protects the bearer from harm.
Aids in
achieving stability, security. Helps overcome shyness. Can aid those
looking
for true love. Associated with imagination and creativity. A general healing
crystal that helps one regain lost energy and strength.
Covellite Helps maintain a positive outlook.
Can assist in turning conscious dreams
into realities. Said to stimulate the third eye and initiate psychic
abilities, and
to allow one to move easily into a state of deep meditation.
Danburite Helps impatient people. A favorite of psychic healers.
Diamond Good for generating the energy
of wealth. Feng Shui application is to put the
diamond inside a china container; then put the container inside the house
at
the west direction against the center of the inside space.
Dioptase Great for pain relief of all
kinds. Also good for working on 1st and 2nd chakra
blockages.
Dumortierite Helps confused and poorly organized
people, particularly in business
ventures. (Blue Quartz) Also see Blue Aventurine
Emerald General heart chakra healer.
Prosperity crystal. Encourages truth and
honesty. Good for efforts dealing with wisdom and intellect. Good for
cleansing and purification.
Epidote Enables one to stay centered
in spite of negative influences. Helps you avoid
martyrdom.
Feldspar Helps you deal with change and
move on to new situations. Helps you
understand your feelings.
Fluorite Aura cleanser. Helps strengthen
bones and teeth. Helps get you organized.
Helps raise your IQ A guardian crystal. A good auric and psychic balancer.
- Multi-icolor Helps clear inner and outer auric problems, both seen and unseen.
- Blue Helps one get rid
of old anger. Peaceful. Good for throat and larynx problems.
Said to be an excellent tool for working on the upper chakras.
- Pink Very rare. A powerful auric cleanser for emotions of the heart.
- Yellow Associated with wisdom.
Flint Helps keep one grounded and sure
of the ability to survive in difficult
conditions.
Enhances will power, inner power, and courage. Chakra
balancer.
For integrating Native American ways with modern life.
Fuchsite Great for artistic creativity.
Helps strengthen the immune system, and, so,
may help those who are HIV positive deal with their affliction.
Garnet Helps release all types of fears. Gives one more energy.
- Green Associated with peace, serenity,
and patience. Promotes imagination,
creativity. A general healing crystal. Good for cleansing and purification.
- Red Associated with prosperity
and abundance; romance, passion. Promotes
sociability, helps overcome shyness. Helps with past life recall.
Geodes For rebirthing. Helps one enter the lower worlds in Shamanic travels.
Halite (salt) Helps with will power and with removing very old anger.
Hematite Helps people enter their own
minds and better understand themselves. Aids
concentration. A good gift for anyone with cancer.
Howlite Good for 6/7 chakras and for artistic types.
Iolite Helps you to be more assertive.
Jade Believed to draw good fortune
and wealth. Wards off negative influences.
Said bring one stability and strength of purpose. Inspires wisdom, harmony,
peace, serenity and balance.
Jasper Said to be on of the best protection
crystals. A good chakra balancer.
Peaceful, calming, a good spiritual power stone. A general healing crystal.
Enhances kindness and sensitivity. Aids relaxation. Good for past
life work,
shamanic work, and for adapting to life changes.
- Picture Said to calmly and gently
ease memories of past lives, while soothing worries
about future events. Helps surface hidden thoughts, grief, fears, and hopes,
so that you can face them and deal with them
- Red Can help one remember
dreams. Said to help with rectification of unjust
circumstances.
- Yellow Protects travelers.
Jet Can help you overcome cynicism.
Said to protect the possessor against
illness
and violence. Also said to protect one during pursuit of business and
enhance
the stability of finances.
Kunzite Once you get beyond rose quartz,
helps you love others and the world around
you. Activates the heart chakra and aligns it with the throat chakra and
third
eye. Said to help remove obstacles from ones path. Produces a shield from
unwanted energies. Enhances serenity, engenders kindness, sensitivity,
sociability. Helps one overcome shyness. A balancer.
Kyanite Helps balance all of your chakras. Excellent tool for directing psychic energy..
Labradorite Helps release childhood grudges,
expels demons. Said to soften warlike
urges, softens female anger. A psychic facilitator. A shaman's crystal.
Lapis Lazuli Good for all kinds of psychic
powers. One of the oldest energy stones.
Inspires truth and honesty. Helps you achieve serenity. A good present
for one
you love. Said to be a manifestation crystal. Enhances will power,
inner power,
confidence, strength. One of the oldest gemstone crystals...a favorite
of the
Pharaohs. Evidence exists of mining as of 6,500 years ago.
Larimar One of the best crystals for
the new age. Has a soft energy reminding one of
the ocean.
Larvikite A Labradorite native to Norway.
Said to be good for softening warriors. Helps
dispel female anger. A psychic facilitator. A shaman's crystal.
Lepidolite Very peaceful, good for depression.
Allows one to go to higher planes very
peacefully. The form with pink rubellite is good for the head and heart,
and
very good for children.
Lodestone Excellent enhancer for stone
layouts. Said to enhance nerve regeneration.
Travelers stone.
Malachite If one has to choose one healing
crystal, it should be malachite. It is said to
positively effect healing of all kinds of maladies, from broken bones (have
a
doctor set it please) to cuts, scrapes, and possibly tumors. A very peaceful
crystal which enhances wisdom and balance. A guardian crystal said to
provide general protection. Said to draw wealth to the possessor. A must
for
gamblers.
Manganocalcite A crystal for those providing or needing
nurturing and loving.
Moldavite One of the most precious and
rare crystals. Meteoric debris crystal which is
said to enhance psychic abilities. Opens all chakras. The most significant
gift crystal.
Moonstone The ladies crystal. Helps define
and balance female energy. Good for PMS,
pregnant women, and almost all exclusively female problems. Inspires
love,
wisdom, happiness, optimism. Enhances psychic abilities. Associated with
abundance and prosperity.
Muscovite A gentle crystal used for empowerment
of the energy associated with
manifestation of yourself and other objects. Good for channeling work.
Obsidian Good for grounding and protecting
the possessor. Snowflake obsidian said
keep the possessor's home and vehicle for harm. Wards off negative energy.
Onyx Good for grounding. Protects from negative energy.
Opal A
most desirable crystal. Associated with peace, love, romance, passion.
Aids with sociability, overcoming shyness. Enhances physical, psychic,
artistic
and healing energies. One of the oldest and most prized crystals.
Once thought to make
the possessor invisible. Said to protect the possessor from
psychic attack. Believed
to draw money and good fortune. Inspires confidence, especially
when worn in
conjunction with rutilated quartz.
- Black Said to help one heal the
dark side of ones emotions. The most precious of
all gemstones. Inspires fortitude and determination.
- Boulder A super high energy crystal.
- Fire Can aid those looking for true love.
Peridot Helps to release old disease
problems. Helps with grief over loss of loved
ones. Can be used to form a protective field around the wearer. Can be
used to cleanse and
stimulate the heart and solar plexus chakras.
Petrified Wood Very good for past life work, nervous conditions,
and for much needed
grounding.
Picasso Marble Said to enhance artistic
abilities. Very calming for the nervous system. Good
for veterans. The most prized healing stone of the sixties. Beloved of
the flower
children who believed this stone to be the major psychic healer..
Prehnite Can be used
to multiply ones energy and to enhance protective fields. An aid for
meditation and
visualization. "A stone for dreaming and remembering."
Pyrite Great for grounding and
for seeing reality in a true light. Helps one keep
centered in spite of it all.
Pyrite Suns Good for counselors who have
problem clients that drain them of energy, very
protective.
Quartz Good for everything. The all purpose
crystal. It is one of the foundation
stones for anyone into stone work. Helps you see the way and then follow
the
path. Found all over the world at sites of shamanic rituals.
- Aqua aura Super for high
level communication and calming. It works like a combination
of aquamarine and blue topaz. Balances polarity. Said to be good for easing
carpal tunnel syndrome and the after effects of strokes. The gold may attract
other gold and wealth.
- Elestial
Good for work with spirit guides and helpers. Strips away negativity. Can
heat
up your life.
- Rutilated Good for
increasing your personal power. Helps during difficult meetings.
Engenders self confidence. The single most powerful crystal. Believed to
draw money and good fortune.
- Smoky Said to help one
achieve serenity, wisdom, happiness, optimism, joy,
practicality, courage, and balance. An aid to the manifestation of ones
wishes. Dissipates negative energy. An excellent choice for crystal layouts.
Rhodochrosite Universal love. Associated
with increased self-esteem and self-love. Said to
make one more tolerant of other's faults, more kind and sensitive. Aids
one in
overcoming shyness and becoming more sociable. Also helps one heal old
holes in the aura.
Rhodonite Used to improve logical thinking
and clean up the mess of unreasonable
thoughts and desires. An excellent gemstone used to show respect for the
Buddhas. Said to be good for ones voice, for singers, mantras, and otherwise
expressing oneself. May help females overcome shyness.
Rose Quartz Called the love crystal. Said to
help one understand and love oneself and others. A spiritual
aid for those dealing with difficult interpersonal relationships. Said
to absorb negativity and
sorrow from the wearer.
Ruby Good for energy. Helps
one work with others. Inspires truth, honesty.
Associated with romance, passion, happiness, optimism. A general healing
crystal. Instills personal will power. Associated with abundance, prosperity.
Believed to draw money and good fortune.
Sapphire Antidepressant, good for mind,
body, and spirit. Said to help digestion, heart,
kidneys, and pituitary gland functions. A meditation aid. Associated with
hope, optimism.
- Blue Enhances creativity.
- Star May help one communicate with spirit guardians.
Selenite Said to be good for all kinds
of ESP work and for communications with spirit
guides. A very good stone for channelers. An aid for spiritual development.
Inspires truth, honesty, harmony. Associated with peace, serenity, love.
Good
for aura and spirit cleansing and purification.
Septarian Nodule Said to be good for
third eye chakra of those with too many ideas or those
who are themselves too far out. Combines the properties of calcite, jasper,
and vanadinite..
Serpentine A must for all Celts. Keeps
one grounded. A major shamanic ritual crystal.
Said to be good for those with allergies. A meditation and trance-work
aid.
Believed to be a direct channel to spirit guides.
Smithsonite The relationship stone - different colors work with different areas.
Sodalite Said to help you come back to
your body after long journeys. Helps you move
your 2nd chakra energy to higher purposes. Helps one discern the truth,
inspire honesty. Helps one achieve wisdom.
Sugilite The stone of the New Age. One
of the main general psychic healing crystals.
Said to work on the crown chakra to help deal with stress, childhood fears.
A
major aid in spiritual development. Helps one exercise kindness, sensitivity.
Said to enhance channeling abilities.
Sulfur Good for stomach ailments and allergies. Wards off evil and its influences.
Sunstone Said to be an aid to increasing
energy and to the digestive processes. Good
for arthritis. Brings sun light into the life of the possessor.
Believed to draw
money and good fortune.
Tanzanite Another stone for the New Age.
Helps balance very busy types, and also
evens out high- or low-energy people.
Thulite Good for younger souls who are addicted to love or who give too much
Tigers Eye Said to help one perceive
truth/honesty in inter-personal relationships and
arrive at practical decisions based on the facts. Said to increase one's
personal power and will power while protecting one from negative influences
and energy. Helps one maintain the courage and strength to carry on in
difficult situations.
Topaz Said
to aid in one's spiritual development. Associated with prosperity,
abundance, and good luck. A topaz can bring the possessor great joy and
happiness.
- Blue Good for opening up voice communication.
- Imperial Good for stress, extra energy.
Tourmaline Said to help on achieve serenity,
kindness, sensitivity. An aid in personal
transformations. Brings the possessor happiness, optimism. A good general
healing crystal which can strengthen the possessor during the time of illness.
A balancer. Said to enhance one's channeling abilities and ease the
way to
communication with one's spirit guardians and guides.
- Black Said to be a very
good aid for grounding and centering. Deflects negative
energy, especially that of another person.
- Blue Said to be an aid
to communication and psychic awareness. It can assist one
in relating to others in a loving manner and in seeing the truth in personal
relationships. Stimulates the third eye and throat chakras.
- Brown Used to clear the
aura and align one's auric energy with one's physical body.
Alleviates the effects of radiation. Said to help one get back in the body
after
meditation.
- Clear Tunes and aligns
the physical energies with the ethereal. Can be used to
activate the crown chakra.
- Green A good healer, especially
for plants. Good for use in whole body layouts to
connect chakras. Useful for visualization and for transforming negative
energy into positive.
- Pink Combines the aspects of love and spirituality.
- Rubellite Aids in the understanding
of love. Intensifies feelings and understanding of
love.
- Watermelon
The colors of this variety of tourmaline help align ones mind, body, and
spirit
into one soul unit.
Turquoise Great for empowerment and for
alignment of all chakras. Revered by those of
Native American descent and those who had past lives in that role. Prized
and used in shamanic ceremonies around the world, from Asia to America.
An ancient crystal. A meditation aid. Said to promote serenity, kindness,
sensitivity, wisdom. A major protector. Useful for general communication
and
for overcoming shyness.
Unakite Great for change. Has the properties
of epidote, feldspar, jasper, and quartz.
Inspires the same feelings and properties as serpentine.
Vanadanite Good crystal to help balance
priests and shamans. Spiritually inspiring. Said to help
increase personal power and confidence.
Youngite A power crystal for warriors
and leaders. Also said to be a source of personal
power. Lights the way.
Zoisite If you give and give and
do not allow yourself anything, you need zoisite. It will
allow you to accept your own goodness. Transmutes the negative into the
positive. Can facilitate advancement of all aspects on ones life.