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 in situations
requiring
courage. A general healing crystal which promotes balance and
relaxation.
- 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.
- 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.
Ajoite Stone of personal peace. Helps eliminate personal negative attributes.
Alexandrite A guardian crystal.
Provides
protection. Associated
with
longevity and renewal. An expeditor of change, manifestation, and self
esteem.
Strengthens intuition. Should not be worn alone.
Amazonite A must for those interested
in clairvoyance, prophecy, and divination.
Calming, good for
the
throat area. Promotes truth, honesty, openness, self-esteem, and
self-love.
Helps you communicate.
Amber A major
healing stone. 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 general healing
crystal.
Ametrine
Possesses the attributes of both amethyst and
citrine.
Ammonite Good for reawakening
Kundalini
energy. Enhances personal power. Helpful during past life work.
Andalusite
Said to enhance one's intellect and problem solving
abilities. May aid in receiving messages
from those who have crossied over.
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.
Connection between physical and
spiritual
realms.
Allows one to see the truth and act on it.
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.
Atacamite A good healing crystal with
malachite. Reported to work with endocrine
glands and lower abdominal area. An abundance and prosperity stone.
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. 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. See aquamarine and emerald.
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. Stone of the
angels.
Clears mental clutter, reduces stress levels.
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. Stimulates intellect. Enhances
psychic ability and self assurance.
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.
Feldspar Helps you deal with change
and
move on to new situations. Helps you
understand your feelings. See amazonite, labradorite, sunstone.
Fluorite Aura cleanser. 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.
Said to be an excellent tool for working on the upper chakras and for
balancing
all
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.
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. Grounds and centers
the wearer/holder.
A psychic protection crystal.
Howlite Good for 6/7 chakras and for artistic types.
Iolite Helps you to be more assertive. Third eye activator.
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 one 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 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 . A psychic facilitator.
A shaman's crystal. Protector against psychic attack.
Lapis Lazuli Good for improving 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.. 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. 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. All entrepreneurs should have malachite and citrine.
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. An extremely powerful crystal closely attuned to human
energy
patterns.
Moonstone Chandra's crystal. Helps
define
and balance female energy.
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 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. 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. Major healer.
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. Brings sun light into the
life of the possessor.
Believed to draw money and good fortune.
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.
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.