Aventurine—is thought to attract wealth to your life, alleviate stress and balance your emotions in times of trauma.

 Bloodstone— Assists the person in centering and grounding the energy of the heart. Heals the body by assisting in balancing of energy to overcome stress and anxiety associated with awakening. Neutralizes and eliminates toxins, helps to clarify the eyesight, lungs and clears congestion and rashes by helping to clear the liver. Heightens consciousness and assists in emotional purification. Assists one in attainment of the altruistic nature necessary for spiritual unfoldment.

 Carnelian -is said to protect the wearer from all negative emotions. A stone of ambition and drive, it is an excellent career stone and helpful in making choices and decisions. Self motivator carnelian is the most powerful action stone for focusing realization and self- actualization. Carnelian stimulates analytical capabilities and precision. Activates and energizes personal power. Revealing or discovering hidden talents by stimulating your curiosity and inquisitiveness. It helps one banish sorrow and protects against anger in self and others.

Chrysoprase— Strengthens the etheric body and enhances the physical body in healing in order to produce visible results. Strengthens the reproductive organs and opens the sexual chakra. Increases fertility and assists the body in being receptive to the energy necessary to pro or co-create. Provides for an attitude of acceptance and non-judgment and allows one to be open to the recognition of fellow beings as equals – regardless of their station in life.

 Citrine— Shields and protects the solar plexus. Tempers the energy of the power chakra, allowing for ease in dealing with others while maintaining your personal power. Aids in digestion and elimination. Removes toxins and aids in regenerating the digestive system. It balances the thyroid and activates the thymus thereby allowing one to act from the purity of intent of the young in spirit; child like rather than childish. Increases contact with higher self and aids in the accomplishment of matters of daily living. Assists one in attracting those things necessary for life as the Gods that we truly are.

Chalcedony—is often thought to encourage kindness, and friendly behavior and it helps absorb negativity. It is also supposed to be useful if you lack stamina.

 Emerald— Aids in the development of keener insight into dreams and alleviates hidden fears. Stimulates the greater use of mental capacity in the healing of the body. Treats disorders of the spine, muscles and over-all general healing of the physical body. Balances the heart chakra and aligns and quiets the emotional bodies. Brings harmony to all areas of ones life. Eliminates negativity and assists one in remaining centered during the practical nature of ones work.

Fluorite—comes from the Latin word to flow and is said to increase your intuition and awareness, help you to concentrate and make decisions on a less emotional basis. Supposed to help alleviate depression, disruptive behavior and help team work. Good for colds, headaches, and insomnia.

 Jade - Strengthens heart, kidneys, immune system. Helps cleanse blood. Increases longevity and fertility. Aids eye disorders and female problems. Powerful emotional balancer. Radiates divine unconditional love. Clarity, modesty, courage, justice, wisdom. Peaceful and nurturing. Dispels negativity. The stone of longevity, offers healing of the body and spirit, used to maintain a health and well-being.

Kunzite— Eases the entrance of life force into the physical body by strengthening the etheric, removes obstacles from ones path. Helps one to produce a shield against unwanted energies. Balances the cardiovascular system, assists the body in receiving radionic treatments. Promotes the cellular blueprint with the perfect reproduction of the physical form. Opens the heart chakra and promotes the unification of the soul with the heart.

Jasper (Picture Jasper)—A protector, clears negativity and assists one in grounding. Represents the elemental nature of humanity and our connection with the components of physical reality. Clears toxins, soothes the nerve and balances the mineral ratio for the body. Helps the body to stabilize itself during dietary changes and improves the assimilations of trace minerals. Helps one to stabilize emotions, eliminate contradiction and create a sense of connection between all worlds during travel out of body.

 Garnet -is said to strengthen purify and regenerates bodily systems, especially the bloodstream. Stimulates pituitary gland. Aligns subtle bodies. Love, compassion, enhanced imagination. It is believed that if a garnet is put under a pillow it will cure depression. More helpful when worn as jewelry.  Garnets can help one to recognize flashes of insight and apply them in the appropriate place in one's life. It helps protect one on trips. Garnets bring constancy to friendships. Garnets are also known for stimulating success in business. They repels negativity, gives courage and confidence as well as enhancing imagination.

 Hematite— Helps one to remain grounded and to sort out the priorities that one chooses to face. Focuses energy and emotions to facilitate balance between physical, emotional and mental bodies. Strengthens the organs that cleanse the blood, i.e. the liver, lungs, etc… Helps to dispel heat in the body often used to bring down fevers. Strengthens the etheric body, dissolves negativity and opens one to universal love while staying connected to the physical.

Labradorite— Connects one with one’s destiny in the stars. Connects the user with the other worldly energies that reside within the stone. Treats disorders of the brain, aids in digestion, reduces anxiety and stress, stimulates mental sharpness. Helps one to advance without constraint. Provides clarity of purpose and insight into ones direction according to the preconceived plans of your higher self. Aids in clearing the chakras.

Lapis Lazuli- Strengthens skeletal system. Activates thyroid gland. Releases tension and anxiety. Energizes Throat Chakra. Augments strength, vitality, virility. Facilitates opening of Chakras. mental clarity, illumination. Enhances psychic abilities and communication with Higher Self and Spirit Guides. Associated with the Third Eye and Throat Chakras. It enhances sixth sense abilities of gaining secret knowledge. Facilitates visualization of wearer and healing properties and improves communication. Brings harmony in friendships and helps the wearer feel able to state their opinions openly. It brings mental clarity and emotional healing.

Malachite - Aids functions of pancreas and spleen. Reduces stress and tension. Aids tissue regeneration. Strengthens heart, circulatory system, pineal and pituitary glands. Aids sleep. Vitalizing for body/mind. . Excellent balancer on all levels. Associated with Heart and Solar plexus Chakras. Assists in healing of emotions, brings peaceful sleep, brings extra power when used for divination purposes especially those pertaining to receiving one's hearts desire. Helps reduce feelings of guilt and clear the past. It can help in gaining insight into the cause of specific conditions such as relationships, resentments and anxiety so that you can release them. Also said to help with vertigo and a protective stone for those flying. It is also a stone of abundance and the stone of fidelity in love and friendships.

Moonstone -  is said to be a feminine stone and in harmony with the waxing and waning of the moon, promotes intuition and can enhance psychic abilities, opens the mind to higher levels of spirituality, balances stress especially hormone related disorders, pmt, conception, regulating the menstrual cycle and childbirth. In the Eastern cultures, Moonstone was believed to attract new love to you.

 Opal - Aids in restoring harmony on all levels. Opens one to spontaneity of action and decisions. Helps one to understand forces of mysticism, intuition and shamanism. Promotes clarity of sight, helps purify blood, and relieves fatigue. Often times used in childbirth to reduce the effects of pain. Opens one to balance and clarity in the decision making process. Provides faith in oneself and helps one to release old patterns of being and embrace ones true nature.

 Pearl -  reduces over-sensitivity, peaceful. Symbolize charity, honesty, wisdom and integrity, all the best within us. Alleviates emotional imbalances and smoothes the peaks and valleys of emotional expression. They lift your spirits and make you feel calm and beautiful. They remind us to walk with dignity. Pearls not only provide a mirror in which to see ourselves, but give us insight into how we appear to others.

Onyx - Encourages good fortune, enhances self-control, stimulates divisiveness. Strengthens the center of the skeletal system. Allows for internal support of outer desires. Banishes grief and allows one to separate with grace and ease. Assists one in taking the lead of one’s future. Helps one to recognize one’s strengths and to utilize them to one’s best interest.

Peridot -  balances glandular system. Aids tissue regeneration. Has beneficial influence on heart, pancreas, spleen, liver, adrenals. Purifies body. Enhances bloodstream. Overall balancer and tonic for body/mind. Aligns subtle bodies. Increases intuitive awareness. Reduces stress. Stimulates the mind. Accelerates personal growth, opens new doors of opportunity. Associated with the Nave, Solar Plexus and Heart Chakras Extends patience and also used to attract wealth, abundance, increase happiness and well being

Rhodochrosite—used to stabilize emotions, sort out scattered feelings and helps create a more balanced attitude. Balances the heart chakra and can calm inner turmoil, induces self love. As a healing stone,it is a speedy wound healer and can aid arthritis.

Rose Quartz - see Quartz

Sodalite - creates harmony. It absorbs and neutralizes disharmony and unburdens your thoughts. It neutralizes negative thoughts and emotions directed at you by others. It helps to unite common sense with intuition, often used to aid meditation and also can be used to clear electromagnetic pollution. This stone can bring emotional balance, lowers blood pressure and can help balance metabolism.

Sugilite—Strengthens ones ability to spread love and light in the world. Assists one in getting in touch with ones purpose and to believe in one’s ability to fulfill that agreement. Helps one to release negativity that often causes physical diseases. Clears the energy of despair so that healing can take place. Helps one to get in touch with the thought form that causes the physical disorder. Helps one to receive the open channel of information and support from higher self and Spirit.

Tanzanite— Assists the user in articulating the content of Psychic insight, facilitates communication between third dimension and others. Helps the body to absorb zinc, restores consciousness, clears toxins that can cause skin disorders. Allows one to be more cognizant of the anomaly of time and space in relation to our current third dimensional reality. Assist one in feeling more at one with the all.

Tiger Eye—Aids in the clarity of perception, sometimes referred to as the stone of commitment or grounding, it assists the user in forming clear and defined ideals around responsibility to relationship. Soothes the abdomen and strengthens the navel chakra, opens the circulatory system to a more uniform and consistent flow. Tiger-eye often signifies a need to complete unfinished communications; to bring closure or at least an up to date status to relationships and projects.

Topaz - Known as the stone of strength and the Sanskrit word meaning 'fire' they are used for clarity of mind and focusing thoughts they are also thought to reduce mood swings and lessen worries and help reduce insomnia.

Tourmaline - Aids Balance of endocrine system. Aids sleep. Strengthens, vitalizes, body/mind. Activates and enhances crystalline properties of body/mind. Aligns subtle bodies. Dispels fear and negative conditions. Strong protective influence. Enhances sensitivity and understanding. A powerful healer Tourmaline is highly electromagnetic Protective, guards against bad vibes. Integrates and harmonizes left and right brain activity which enhances the person's psychic and medium ship abilities. Aids in balancing the whole person and the psyche.

Turquoise -A protective stone which can dispel negative energy, balances the throat chakra and can help you find your voice if something needs to be said! also used as an aid in problem solving. As a healing stone it alleviates tiredness, depression and panic attacks. Used for protection when traveling.

Quartz-Clear/Crystal -Amplifies energies and thought patterns, quartz assists one in increasing the force of thought for sending and receiving energy, information or vibrations. It is the only stone of the mineral kingdom that can be programmed to carry a vibration other than that which it was naturally given. Strong positive influence on the digestive system and the bodies ability to heal itself. Has been used successfully to treat vertigo. Opens and activates the pituitary chakra (throat) and assists one in being better able to experience visions.

Quartz– Rose—Aids kidneys and circulatory system. Increases fertility. Eases sexual/emotional imbalances. Helps clear stored anger, resentment, guilt, fear, jealousy. Reduces stress and tension, cools hot temper. Enhances self-confidence and creativity. Aids development for forgiveness, compassion and love. Sometimes known as "The Love Stone". Associated with the Heart Chakra. Tranquilizes, calms Rose Quartz thought to be the bringer of love in its many forms- romantic and otherwise. Wear it to attract love, give it to someone as a symbol of your love or appreciation.

Quartz-Smoky -Creates a sense of stability and connection to one’s ability to survive. Helps one be aware of what drives the desire to maintain the body. Strengthens and rejuvenates the first chakra, the reproductive organs. Helps one to be grounded in the vitality of the creative process. Creates a sense of connection to the earth, the ability to draw support, focus and intention from the solid foundation of inner truth. Wards off negativity, depression.

              Zircon- Creates illumination of body/mind/spirit and motion and brings one into alignment with the universal law. Helps the body to utilize vitamin E. Aids in the treatment of vertigo and the mending of skeletal tissue and muscle. Assists one in moving freely about the other dimensions. Opens one to purity of intent in all relationships.

Please note that the information presented on this webpage  about stones and gemstones is offered for your interest. It is not scientific and should not be used to replace the advice and/or instructions of your physician(s).

Agate—Good for Grounding and balancing and encouraging forgiveness. Supposed to alleviate

stress and  make  you aware of your natural talents. It is also thought to help with accuracy in your work.

Amber -as a healing stone is thought to help with stomach, spleen, liver, gall-bladder and kidney complaints, and nervousness. It is supposed to give the wearer a positive disposition and help their creativity.

Aquamarine- is a stone of courage dispelling fear and negativity, dissolving phobias, helping decision-making and reasoning. It is calming and relaxing, helping you to be more balanced and centered. This stone of courage can be wonderful for you if you are studying for exams as it helps to calm nerves and remove fear. Aquamarine has a very gentle energy, which helps to bring compassion, moderation, tolerance and responsibility into your life. It boosts intellect and learning. Physically, Aquamarine will help with fluid retention, swollen glands, sore throat, eye disorders (especially conjunctivitis), the stomach, joints and joint pain, kidney disorder, the lymphatic system and blood cleansing, fevers, jaundice and other liver disorders, balancing the thyroid gland and an overactive nervous system. . Aquamarine makes life flow better and improves expression.

Amethyst—boosts intellectual energy, inspiration and creativity. Reducing tension on any level, amethyst is excellent in the cure and prevention of headaches and migraine. Amethyst can help you to make a “shift” – if you feel “stuck” on any level – physical, emotional, mental, and intellectual – or your spiritual state of consciousness. It will help you to clarify the goals in your life.  Amethyst guards against excess.

Amazonite—improves self worth and promotes confidence. It calms one’s emotions and moods and soothes nerves. Amazonite enhances creativity. Amazonite boosts the immune system by helping blood flow and circulation. On the mental level, it is very relaxing, balancing and calming the mind, helping to alleviate stress (and, therefore, its physical symptoms) brought about by conscious worry or concern.