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Agate - courage, protection
Agate - Energizer, Strengthens
Agate - The ancients believed agate could render the wearer invisible. One of the more outlandish uses is binding an Agate to each horn of your oxen to ensure a good harvest. The danger here is that your appropriately agated beasts of burden may then become invisible and a little hard to find.
Agate is formed in a unique way and many fossils are actually agatized material that has replaced the original organic substance.
For example, petrified wood is fossilized wood that has had its organic matter replaced by agate.

Amethystine Agate - Stimulates, Brings about change
Blue Agate - Softness and femininity
Blue Lace - This stone helps one to reach high spiritual places through patience and peace. Helpful in the treatment of arthritic conditions. Enhances the mending of breaks and fractures.
Blue Laced Agate - Promotes feminine qualities, Gentleness, peace
Blue Lace Agate - The energy of this mineral is most useful at the throat chakra, the heart chakra, the third eye, and crown chakra. Activating these chakras, it helps one to enter in to high frequency states of awareness. It can be used in the treatment of arthritic conditions and in cases of "hereditary bone deformity: it can also be used to strengthen the skeletal structure." It is useful to enhance the mending of breaks and fractures. It can help to remove blockages from the nervous system and from the capillaries of the body.
Botswana Agate - Attracts gifts and small pleasures, Mood lifting
Red, orange, yellow, browns - Solid, Grounding. For stomach, colon, liver, spleen, kidneys, X-ray/radiation.
Moss - promotes agreeability, persuasiveness and strength in all endeavors. Improves self-esteem. Moss Agate was used by the Native Americans as a power stone for the art of "cloud-busting" to bring rain. Also said to help one in the acquisition of riches. Balances emotions. Useful in the treatment of de-hydration and to relieve symptoms of colds, infections and flu. Stimulates digestion and elimination of toxins from the body.
Moss Agate - Peace of mind
Moss Agate - Acceptance, confidence, a good Herbalist stone.
Picture - Gaze into for meditation. L/Rt. brain balance. Pineal, pituitary; coordination.

Amber - Clear yellow or orange ancient petrified resin (possibly pine tree). Electromagnetic. Helps the body heal itself by absorbing and transmuting negative energy into positive energy. Helps to calm the nerves and enliven the disposition. Enhances the connection of the conscious self to universal perfection. Aids in the making of correct choices. Aligns mental and emotional bodies via orange and yellow. Excellent detoxification and protection from radiation, especially x-rays, sun, computers, airport, planes and others' energies. Sacred use (incense/worn) by Asian and American Indians, and worldwide.

Amazonite - This stone improves confidence, both directed towards oneself and towards others. Throat, thyroid, nerve and Brain paths. Reduces self-damaging behavior, increases self-respect, confidence, grace, self-assuredness with communication.

Amazonite - Diane likes to call this the "writers stone "because over the years it has worked well with the many writers and speakers that are drawn to our site and our shop. According to Melody, it soothes all chakras and is particularly rejuvenating to the heart center and throat chakra. It enhances communications concerning love. It can be used in the treatment in disorders of the nervous system and to dissipate energy blockages which could propagate the improper flow of neural impulses: like I said, it's a great stone for writers and other creative types that use voice or hands for a living.

Amber - A fossilized tree resin - allows the body to heal itself by absorbing and transmuting negative energy into positive energy. It stimulates the intellect and opens the crown chakra. It also transmutes the energy of physical vitality toward the activation of unconditional love. It aligns the ethereal energies to the physical, mental, and emotional bodies, providing for an even flow of perfect order to the requirements of the Earth plane while balancing the electro-magnetics of the physical body.
Amber - Beauty
Amber - Rids Depression, Lifts the Spirit

Amethyst - Amethyst is actually a form of Quartz - one of the most common substances on earth. Tiny amounts of iron and aluminum turn ordinary clear quartz into amethyst.
All forms of quartz (including amethyst) are piezoelectric, making for important applications in electronics. Tourmaline is the only other gemstone that possesses this property. Known also as "Metamorphosis" the ancient healer of all levels of body, mind, and spirit. Cleanses purifies, restructures and renews. Transforms lower energies into higher. Protects against psychic manipulation. Wear when sleeping or when awake to reduce anger, impatience, and nightmares.
Purple has long been considered a royal color so it is not surprising that amethyst has been so much in demand during history. Leonardo Da Vinci wrote that amethyst was able to dissipate evil thoughts and quicken the intelligence (it obviously worked pretty well for him!) Because amethyst was thought to encourage celibacy and symbolize piety, amethyst was very important in the ornamentation of Catholic and other churches in the Middle Ages. It was, in particular, considered to be the stone of bishops and bishops still often wear amethyst rings. In Tibet, amethyst is considered to be sacred to Buddha and rosaries are often fashioned from it. The Greek work "amethystos" basically can be translated as "not drunken." Amethyst was considered to be a strong antidote against drunkenness, which is why wine goblets were often carved from it! The gemstone still symbolizes sobriety. The legend of the origin of amethyst comes from Greek myths. Dionysus, the god of intoxication, was angered one day by an insult from a mere mortal and swore revenge on the next mortal that crossed his path, creating fierce tigers to carry out his wish. Along came unsuspecting Amethyst, a beautiful young maiden on her way to pay tribute to the goddess Diana. Diana turned Amethyst into a stature of pure crystalline quartz to protect her from the brutal claws. Dionysus wept tears of wine in remorse for his action at the sight of the beautiful statue. The god's tears stained the quartz purple, creating the gem we know today.
Amethyst - "Stone of spirituality and contentment. Amethyst bestows stability, strength, invigoration, and peace, the peace being the perfect peace which was present prior to birth. It is "warm and cuddly" as well as regal and ruling. It has been used to encourage and support sobriety. It is an excellent stone for one who is attempting to find freedom from addictive personalities (oneself or another). Calming, strong, protective qualities, healing, divine love and inspiration. Enhances one's psychic and creative abilities.
Amethyst - Love, friendship, peace, sleep, dreams, psychic ability
Amethyst - Heightens psychic ability, inner calm, very helpful in Meditation

Apache's Tear - Repels negativity, aids in grief, protection

Aquamarine - For many centuries, oceanic energy was believed to be contained within the delicate semblance of aquamarines. When amulets made of this precious gem were worn, sailors believed that unmatched bravery would be instilled into their souls, giving them the power to overcome even the most powerful storm.
This stone is excellent to help enhance your communication skills. A beryl. Clear light blue, blue-green. Enhances the ability for rapid intellectual response and helps one to learn not only about the physical world but also about one's self. Aids in becoming more attuned to spiritual levels of awareness and yet remain centered. Encourages the ideal of service to the world and to the development of humanity. Light-heartedness, creativity, communication, self-awareness, confidence, purpose. Throat (& spleen) Heart, immune system, thymus, lymph nodes, excellent for the eyes and improving vision. Affects etheric and mental levels. Releases anxiety, fear, restlessness.
Aquamarine - Psychic ability, purification, peace
Aquamarine - Clears thinking, Purifying, Confidence, opens throat chakra

Almadine - A variety of garnet. Inspires during times of contemplation, brings peace and balance. Represents profound love, stimulates physical vitality. Initiates charitable actions and connection with higher intellect. It strengthens the proper functioning of the body to the depths of the cells. Promotes action towards regeneration.

Aqua Aura - Aqua Aura is quartz crystal that has been treated with pure gold in solution and when electrical current is applied in a special machine, fuses the gold molecules to the surface of the quartz. Metaphysically it has the qualities of both quartz and gold. Quartz has a harmonizing effect and aligns the chakra system. Gold imparts a more assertive energy to the wearer and the blue color helps stimulate the throat chakra, improving communications abilities through speaking.
Aqua Aura - Opens and cleanses the chakra

Aventurine - Speeds healing, Promotes Creativity and Luck
Aventurine - Translucent dark/lt. green quartz. Heals emotional pain/fear/imbalance by dissolving blocks in the heart, draws out heat of fevers, inflammation, nervous system stress. Provides for the balancing of male/female energies. It protects the Heart Chakra, providing a shield to block others from stealing your good energy. This stone is used in the rituals of the Medicine Wheel to show how the spirit guides the connection with the healing heart of light. When held over the heart of the participants, they were said to feel a "wave of love" all around them. Used in disorders of the heart, lungs, adrenal glands.
Aventurine (green) - It reinforces ones decisiveness, amplifies ones leadership qualities, and is a willing participant in instinctive action. Emotional tranquility, positive attitudes towards life, brings one into alignment with their center. Independence, health and well being, heals the heart chakra.
Aventurine (red/orange) - This material provides reflective qualities so that one can recognize the flaws of humanity and can remain in the heart space to continue to love this same humanity. It can help one look at a situation incomplete detail, magnifying those aspects of importance. It provides for self reflection, and allows one to recognize that "In each person you see but the reflection of that which you choose to have that person be." It can be used when fasting, to reduce hunger.

Azurite - Helps to calm, aids in truth finding and acceptance

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Barite - Excellent communication aid, especially with relationships

Beryl - Psychic Awareness, another good relationship stone

Bloodstone - Bloodstone is an intense healing stone. It revitalizes love, relationships and friendships. It brings purification, orderliness, prosperity, and instills wisdom, enhances creativity, and supports decision making. The message of the Bloodstone is to "be here now"
Bloodstone - Strengthens and oxygenates blood stream. Enhances physical/mental vitality. Strengthens heart, spleen, bone marrow. Aids in balancing vitamin deficiencies. Reduces emotional and mental stress. "The Stone of Courage" - also for renewal of the physical mental and emotional bodies. Another powerful healer. It helps one toward the direct union with the divine through contemplation, prayer or mediation and love. It has been used to stabilize, as necessary, the flow of blood. Also a very good gem for those in business - self employed.
Bloodstone - Soothes the mind, Relieves depression, Healing
Bloodstone - Courage, money, business, success

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Calcite - Balancing, good for meditation.

Carnelian - Carnelian is a translucent orange to red variety of chalcedony. The red tints are caused by iron oxide impurities. From the royalty of Ur the Mesopotamian capital of pre-biblical times, to Napoleon and Tibetan Buddhists, Cornelian has been revered for its healing, spiritual and creative qualities. Also known as Sadoine or Mecca Stone and sometimes spelt Cornelian, the name Cornelian is derived from Carne, the Latin for flesh, due to the stone’s coloring.
A deeply religious stone, Cornelian was used by the Egyptian goddess Isis to protect the dead on their journey through the afterlife; it is the symbol of the Apostle Philip; was one of the stones on Aaron’s breast plate of judgment (Exodus: xxviii, 15-30); and Muhammad’s seal was an engraved Cornelian set in a silver ring. To this day Buddhists in China, India and Tibet believe in the protective powers of Cornelian and often follow the Egyptian practice of setting the stone with turquoise and lapis lazuli for enhanced power. This stone Balances creativity and mental processes. It's useful when undertaking any project because it stimulates analytical capabilities and precision. This stone protects against rage, envy, and fear. It helps one banish sorrow. The message of Carnelion is that since one is "love" there is nothing to do but offer that love and then the love you give returns to you. Another example of " what goes around comes around".
Carnelian - It protects against fear, envy, and rage, and helps to banish sorrow from the emotional structure. The message of carnelian is that since one "is" love, there is nothing to do but to offer the love - each offering of love bringing an exponential increase in the quantity of love returned. Carnelian stimulates inquisitiveness and subsequent initiative. It can assist one in drama and pursuits related to theatrical presentations.
Carnelian - To focus, Helps in making decisions
Carnelian Health, healing, passion

Charoite - Aids in conquering own fears

Chrysoberyl - The stone of springtime, youth and innocence, the name Chrysoberyl is derived from the Greek for golden (Chryso) and green gemstone (beryl). Translucent Gold or Green Cat's Eye (often confused with qtz. Tiger's Eye). Usually clear, green or green/brown, nongreasy.
Said to bring peace of mind and increase self-confidence, Chrysoberyl also promotes kindness, generosity, benevolence, hope, optimism, renewal, new beginnings, compassion and forgiveness. Helps in acquiring more prosperity. Confidence, self-pride, healing. Amplifies other gems.

Chrysocolla - Feminine qualities, clears thinking
Chrysocolla/Gem Silica - Solid Lt. blue/blue-green. Gentle, soothing, friendly, flushes and heals heart blocks (loss, hurt, guilt, fear...) for flexibility, self-forgiveness, patience. Keeps one in light, love, and healing daily. On Throat, expressing feelings, verbal and artistic creativity, thyroid. Also, heart blood sugar, and emotional balance. High conductivity from copper draws out pain, heat (fevers, inflammations, arthritis...) Cleanses auric field.

Chrysoprase - Bright translucent green chalcedony. Greater Flexibility, wisdom, generosity, self-confidence. Heals depression, excess self-focus, emotions/sexual imbalance. Placed on heart, neck, or on brow for meditation.

Citrine - a golden yellow form of quartz which takes its name from "citron", the French word for lemon. In former times Citrine was used as a protective talisman against the plague, bad skin and evil thoughts, and as a charm against snake bites and other venomous reptiles.
It is also believed to symbolize happiness, aid digestion, remove toxins from the body, and useful in the treatment of depression, constipation and diabetes.
This stone's is good for Upliftment. Back problems.
Citrine - It is one of the few minerals on the planet which does not hold and accumulate negative energy, but dissipates and transmutes it, working out problems on both physical and subtle levels. Citrine is one of the stones to be called "merchants stone" - placing citrine in ones cash box has produced more income for the merchant. Diminishes self destructive tendencies. Raises self esteem lightheartedness cheerfulness hope. Warming, energizing and attracts abundance, affects naval and crown chakras.
Citrine - Attracts abundance, Prosperity
Coral - Sea travel protection

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Danburite - Intellectual stone

Diamond - Diamonds are made of pure carbon atoms that exist deep in the ground, exposed to intense heat and pressure over billions of years. The hardest, rarest, densest natural substance known to man, diamonds have been a source of fascination since 800 BC when they were first presented to royalty in India. In those days the Indians believed that diamonds were created when lightning struck rock and the sub-continent was the only producer of diamonds for an astounding 2,500 years. It is purifying for the whole body, and places your center of faith in the spiritual realm. This might be why it is the most popular gem to seal a bond of love or a marriage. The diamond, like the quartz crystal, can be used as a magnifier for other crystals, as it contains all of the colors when you see its rainbow sparkles in bright light. (Carbon) Powerfully absorbs and amplifies thoughts/attitudes of user, other gems, and wearer's strengths and weaknesses: Prosperity, generosity/ vs. miserly; love vs. distrust; overview, spirituality vs. lust, immediate gratification. Used with loving, clear intent; clears blocks, spiritual love, peace. Clarity, trust, confidence. Cleanse thoroughly (It can hold other's previous attitudes, emotions...) Ancients also used Diamonds for detoxing.
Diamond - Use sparingly, Solidifying

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Emerald - Emeralds are made of the base mineral beryl, with minute traces of chromium and vanadium giving this gemstone the "green fire". The mining of Emeralds has been dated back to more than 3,000 years ago, during the time of the Ancient Egyptian Empire.
The "green fire" was so mesmerizing and highly valued in the courts of Europe that the Spanish Conquistadors went on a bloody campaign to find the location of the emerald mines in South America. In 1557, the campaign finally ended with the discovery of the spectacular Muzo and Chivor mines in present day Colombia - still the world's major source. Strengthens heart for abundance, growth, peace, harmony, patience, love, fidelity, honesty. Lifts depression, insomnia. Knowingness of the heart, peaceful dreams. Breathing, heart, lymph nodes, blood, thymus, pancreas (blood sugar rebalance), labor/delivery, eyesight, and etheric field. Excellent general healer. Ancient blood detoxifier and antipoison.
Emerald - Future seeing divination
Emerald - Psychic Awareness, Future seeing

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Flourite - Excellent for advancement of mind, greater concentration, meditation. Helps one to grasp higher, more abstract concepts. Facilitates inter dimensional communication.
Flourite - Clears understanding, aids in centering, astral aid

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Garnet - The name "Garnet" is believed to have derived from "pomegranate" with its red, "Garnet colored" seeds. The history of Garnets dates back to the Bronze Age (more than 5,000 years ago), when it was a very popular gemstone. According to Christian and Jewish mythologies, when God's wrath clouded the earth with thunderous storms and endless rain during the Great Flood, a radiant red Garnet guided the way for Noah, ultimately leading his ark to salvation.
Unlike other gemstones, Garnets are believed to contain both protective and destructive elements. The Crusaders set Garnets into their body armor, believing the protective power of the stones would lead them to safety. Conversely, some Asian cultures added Garnets to bullets, believing its destructive power would greatly amplify the enormity of a wound.
(Only perfect stones are used for healing) Use cut and polished. The brighter the better.
Red: Warms, energizes emotionally and physically (arthritis, frostbite, paralysis), grounds. Used by ancient cultures. Exhaustion, detoxing and strengthening blood, muscles, kidneys, gallstones. Stimulates life force and sexuality, hormone balance, antibodies, fertility, persistence, stamina, passion, confidence (and stubbornness). Avoid if excess anger, impatience, high blood pressure, heat, inflammation, etc.)
Garnet - modern birthstone of January - known as the "stone of health" - ridding the body of negative energies and transmuting them to a beneficial state. Also know in the past as a " stone of commitment" - to purpose, to others, to oneself. The loving power of garnet tend to reflect the attributes of devotion, bringing the love of others to expressions of warmth and understanding. It both monitors and adjusts the flow of energy, providing for a balanced energy field around the physical body and aligning the emotional and intellectual bodies with the perfection of "All that is". (from Melody's book Love is in the Earth)
Garnet - Heightens sexual awareness
Garnet - Heightens sexual awareness, bodily strength, wisdom

Gold - Attracts abundance, richness Iron pyrite Guards against deception
Gold - Healing, Promotes abundance

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Hematite & Marcasite: Silver-gray metallic. (High iron, mercury) One of the most grounding of all stones . Condenses confusion into mental clarity, concentration, memory, practicality, helps study, bookkeeping, detail work, sound sleep. Confidence, will power, boldness. Egyptians used also to calm hysteria and anxiety. Helps us adjust to being physical. Spleen, blood, cleanse. Helps jet lag.
Marcasite - This stone helps us to see ourselves from an outside view and produces insights that help us to painlessly correct qualities that are unwanted. It encourages us to "shine". Stimulates the senses and intellect, dispels the use of rash words and impatience.
Hematite - Slightly grounding, reduces stress, enhances personal magnetism, optimism, will, courage. "Stone for the mind" it helps one to realize that the only limitations which exist are self-limiting concepts within the mind. Stimulates attainment of peace, self-control, and inner happiness. Balances yin-yang energies. Assists in the focusing of energy and emotions for balance between the body, mind, and spirit. Helps transform negativity to the purity of the universal light of love.
Hematite - Excellent grounding stone, Protection, soothing

Howlite - This mineral can be used to calm communication, to facilitate awareness, and to encourage emotional expression. It builds an innate decency within ones character, encouraging those attributes which are the building blocks to spirituality.

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Iolite - Also known as Cordierite and "water sapphire" is usually a blue to violet colored gemstone - is a pleochroic gem meaning that when viewed from different orientations, it displays different colors. Metaphysical properties include: stimulation of the third eye, enhancement of your inner knowing; helps one to eliminate debt by accepting responsibility which leads to successful management of money; has been a stone worn by Shamans in the past to insure accuracy of visions; also can aid the elimination of disharmony in relationships.

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Jacinth - Friendship, Healing

Jade - The "stone of the loins" is how the Spanish refer to jade - "piedras de ijada" - and it is from this colorful phrase that we derive the English name for this most unusual of gems. Jade is tougher than granite and more difficult to carve than solid steel.
Long associated with the Chinese culture, Jade was actually used by the Central American Mayan civilization hundreds of years before it attained a royal position in the Middle Kingdom. The Mayans mined jadeite in Guatemala making it into weapons and tools. Nephrite weapons were also used by the Maoris in New Zealand. The Chinese cult of Jade worship began in the Neolithic era Jade was used in religious ceremonies, agriculture and war.
The "Stone of Heaven" was very influential with the Chinese emperors. It was used for courage, wisdom, justice, mercy, emotional balance, stamina, love, fidelity, humility, generosity, peace, harmony. Jade is believed to bring good luck, health and fortune, assist during childbirth and protect infants from disease. This stone is very good for relaxation. It is a health, wealth, longevity stone with a gentle, steady energy. Helpful to lungs, heart, thymus, immune, kidney and blood detoxification, nervous system.
Jade - Inner beauty
Jade - Healing, love, money, creativity
Green Jade - Jade facilitates peace within the physical, emotional, and intellectual structures, as well as within the materialistic world. It was said to bring accord the environment, to transmute negativity and to instill resourcefulness. "Very Lucky Stone".
Honey Jade - Powerful emotional balance, radiates divine unconditional love. Dispels negativity from the third chakra (solar plexus). It has been used by the ancients {and some current} primitive tribes as a sacred stone, assisting one in access to the spiritual worlds.

Jasper - Chalcedony qtz. Multi-colored, solid. Yellow, orange, brown, green. Jasper is known as the " Surpreme Nurturer" It reminds us that we are not here on this physical plane just for ourselves but also here to bring joy and substance to others, assisting others to release the bonds of constraint. Jasper was used by Native American "shamans" to provide protection on their journey to the spirit worlds. It is a stone that protects against negativity and helps one to be grounded to the stabilizing energy of the Earth. Use this stone for long periods of hospitalization and when your energy feels low.
Jasper- Beauty
Jasper (Leopard skin variety) - "Known as the 'supreme nurturer'. It is often worn by shaman to provide protection. It balances the yin yang energy and balances the physical, emotional, and intellectual bodies with the etheric energies. It stabilizes the aura, providing for a cleansing effect to smooth dysfunctional energies and eliminate negativity".
Leopard Jasper - A good grounding stone, opens to new thinking
Jasper (Picture jasper variety) - It can be used to further both the development and continuance of business pursuits - to provide for coordination of activities leading to increase. It has been known as "the stone of Global Awareness" - It promotes "brotherhood" to work together to save the planet. It emits an energy which promotes the spiritual affinity to achieve perfect accord between humanity and nature; It is one of the "earth Stones" for the age of redemption & cleansing of the earth. It can be used to stimulate the proper functioning of the immune system, and can be helpful in the treatment of disorder associated with skin and kidneys.
Brown Jasper - Physical energy; To direct energies towards the body
Red Jasper Earthy love, family feelings. To attract a love affair or maintain passion
Red Jasper - Aids in remembering dreams, justice

Jet - Jet is fossilized wood.It is black. Jet can be used to dispel fearful thoughts and can be used to protect against illness and violence. It is calming. Can be used for treatment of migraine headaches,stomach pain and colds. I almost always carry one in my pocket to dispel negative energy.
Petrified wood Clarity in lawsuits, success

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Labradorite - (aka spectrolite) It is said to represent the "temple of the stars" , assisting one in sustaining and maintaining, while providing for the understanding of the destiny one has chosen. It assists during traverse changes, attracting strength and perseverance. It symbolizes the moon and the sun. Promotes refinement of action and discernment in direction. It allows for recognition that humanity represents "being of light", transcending the limitations of the past and thoughts of the future, and embracing the infinite possibilities of the moment. It can assist in digestion, regulation and metabolism. Also used to clarify eyes.

Lapis Lazuli - Energizes the throat chakra. Augments strength, vitality, virility, mental clarity, illumination. Enhances psychic abilities and communication with higher self and spirit guides. Creative expression. It has also been used as a protective stone, sheltering the wearer/carrier from physical danger and psychic attacks. Lapis Lazuli is a "stone of total awareness", helping to expand awareness and intellectual capacity, and allowing for conscious attunement to the intuitive and psychic aspects of ones nature. "The stone of Royalty".
Lapis Lazuli - Justice, Honor, Spirituality
Lapis Lazuli - Strengthens child-adult relationships
Lapis Lazuli - Mined in Afghanistan for over 7,000 years, the “Armenian Stone” is an enduring rock , unlike other gems it is a composite of several materials with sparkling flecks of pyrite, or fool’s gold, adding to its mystical allure. The ancient city of Ur had a thriving trade in lapis as early as the fourth millennium BC and it appears in various passages from the Book of the Dead as an inscription stone. It was one of the stones in the biblical 'Breastplate of Judgment' of Aaron (Exodus: xxviii, 15-30). The Romans believed it to be a powerful aphrodisiac.
In the Middle Ages, it was thought to keep the limbs healthy and free the soul from error, envy and fear. When lapis was first introduced to Europe, it was called ultramarinum, meaning beyond the sea. Ground lapis mixed with oil was the secret of the blue in ultramarine, the pigment which painters used to paint the sea and the sky until the nineteenth century.
Attributed with great healing, purifying and curative properties, Lapis Lazuli points the way to enlightenment, and aids in the opening of the Third Eye. Popular with ancient alchemists (who knew it as sapphirus), it was used in medicine, cosmetics and paintings. It was also believed to confer ability, success, divine favor, ancient wisdom and cure sore throats. This stone is for Understanding, Higher guidance, intuition, connection to higher self, overview, decisions for good of all. Organizes, quiets mind. Self-expression, writing, creativity, dream insight...Anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, autism, shyness, nervous system; speech, hearing, pituitary, lymph, inflammation, pain (especially head), protection.

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Malachite - Malachite helps clear and activate the chakras, and clears the path to your desired goal. It brings fidelity in love and friendship and is a protective stone for the aviation field. It brings tolerance, flexibility,and patience, and a stabilizing influence. Steady pulsing electromagnetic energy. (High copper content) On brow: Stimulates physical and psychic vision, concentration. Powerful with azurite or chrysocolla for healing: Releases and draws out pain, inflammation, depression, anger; heals blocks. Protects well by powerfully cleaning the auric field, rapidly absorbing undesirable energies.
Malachite - Sometimes called "the stone of transformation" assisting one in changing situations, and providing for the transfer of sacred information to spiritual evolution; clears and activates all chakras balancing and equalizing it can create an unobstructed path leading to a desired goal. Facilitates the rise of spirituality and the enhancement of psychic abilities. Protects against radiation and can be used in the treatment of asthma, swollen joints, tumors, growths, broken bones and torn muscles.
Malachite - Business success, stress
Malachite - Inspiration, Spiritual Harmony, Protector of Children

Moldavite - Usually finds Healers, cosmic and astral connections

Moonstone - Feldspar (contains aluminum). Popular with the Romans, who thought it was formed out of moonlight, and in India, where it is considered a sacred stone, moonstone is the most valuable variety of feldspar with an iridescent sheen known as adularescence.
A symbol of the Third Eye, moonstone is said to balance yin/yang, protect against epilepsy and sun stroke, and help cure headaches and nose bleeds.
Moonstone is a highly prized gift for lovers as it arouses tender passion. It also accentuates the wearer's nature, whether positive or negative. Translucent with white, pink, yellow, soft sheen. Soothes stress, anxiety, women's hormones/menstrual imbalance, lymph. Enhances intuitive sensitivity via feelings and less overwhelmed by personal feelings. Greater flexibility and flow with life. For emotional balance, gracefulness. Helps all be more comfortable with our gentler feminine/yin receiving side. Especially for water signs.
Moonstone - The energy of moonstone is balancing, introspective, reflective, and lunar. It is capable of helping one with the changing structures of ones life on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Once called the "travelers stone" it is used for protection against the perils of travel. Moonstone is also a talisman of GOOD FORTUNE. It is also said to both arouse tenderness within the self and to bring happiness to the environment in which it resides.
Moonstone - Sweet dreams
Moonstone - Divination, Dreams, Balances emotions

Mother of Pearl & Pearl - It signifies faith, charity, and innocence, enhances personal integrity, and helps to provide focus to ones attention. The pearl has been known as a "stone of sincerity", bring truth to situations and loyalty to a "cause". It has been used to inhibit boisterous behavior, and to provide a reflection of the self such that one may see the manner in which one appears to others.
Mother Of Pearl - Money attraction, protection

O

Obsidian - Protection, Inner hidden issues
Obsidian - Called the "Mirror Stone" it reflects ones personal shortcomings such that they can come to the conscious to be dealt with, then let go of. The most well know of the different colors is Apache Tears a black obsidian. Obsidian can help protect against the negativity of others and has a grounding influence helping one to stay focused in the moment. It can also help to stimulate analytical capabilities and precision, and can help promote a forgiving attitude and release of grievances.
Snowflake Obsidian - Brings peace and inner calm, aids in recognizing
patterns of behavior
Snowflake Obsidian - It allows one to recognize the unnecessary pattern which remain in ones life and to re-design ones thought patters to provide relief from undesired conditions. It is "the stone of purity" and balance to the body, mind , and spirit.

Onyx - Stabilization, Comfort, Faith
Onyx - "for initiating the modes of centering and alignment of the total person with the higher powers." "Can be used to banish grief, to enhance self-control, to stimulate the power of wise decision making, and to encourage happiness and good fortune". It is grounding and can be used to deflect or absorb the negativity of others.
Onyx -This stone helps to change bad habits, it's also an excellent grounding stone.
Balances and grounds. Absorbs and flattens emotional intensity.
Black - Grounding
Black Onyx - Repels negativity all around you
Green - Heart
Yellow -Seriousness, logic.The more translucent/clearer ones are more effective.

Opal - The opal essence is a result of the 5-10% of water trapped inside the stone in which rows and rows of tiny spheres of silicon dioxide are arranged, diffracting light in a unique fashion. Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD), Roman historian and author of the world's first encyclopedia was very impressed with the brilliant purple of the amethyst and the sea green color of the emerald, all shining together in incredible union. The Romans had been wearing opals for centuries and considered them a symbol of hope and purity while for the early Greeks they embodied the powers of foresight and prophecy. The Arabs thought that opals must have fallen from heaven in flashes of lightning thus achieving their unique play of color or "opalescence". Opal has also featured in literature with Shakespeare referring to it in Twelfth Night as "the queen of gems". A real queen had to intervene in the near destruction of the 19th century opal market when Sir Walter Scott's Anne of Geierstein started a superstition that opals were bad luck for people not born in October. The novel's heroine owned an opal that burned fiery red when she was angry and turned ashen gray upon her death. Queen Victoria finally dispelled the curse by giving opal jewelry as gifts at a royal wedding.The famous French actress Sarah Bernhardt rarely left the house unless adorned with her opalescent birthstone. Opal helps those who use it to see possibilities. This an EXTREMELY strong stone. Most people find it hard to use.A silicate. Contains water, correlating with our emotions. Clarifies by amplifying and mirroring feelings, buried emotions, desires (including love and passion). Less inhibition, more spontaneity. Visualization, imagination, dreams, healing. Easily absorbs, stores emotions and thoughts. Fragile. Fades/cracks in sun, heat, salt, acidic foods. Moisten frequently with water or oil. Some cancel/negate other gems. (backfires if not used for good of all) May change color with high energy/intensity people. White: Balances L/Rt. brain. "Black"/Dk blue: One of the most potent. Fire Opals: May stimulate passion, temper, energy.
Opal - Guide to the spirit world , success
Opal - Spirituality, Contact with the spirits

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Pearl - Intuition, Divination aid

Peridot - Known by the ancient Egyptians as the “gem of the sun,” peridot has a mystical reputation with its alleged powers including: warding off anxiety, enhancement of speech articulation, and success in relationships and marriage. Common in early Greek and Roman jewelry, Peridot has been popular since 1500 BC when the Egyptians started mining it on Zeberget, later known as St. John’s Island, about 50 miles off the Egyptian coast in the Red Sea.
Peridot mining was traditionally done at night when the stone’s natural glow is easier to see, the ancient Egyptians even believed that Peridots became invisible under the sun’s rays. Hawaiian natives believe Peridot is the goddess Pele's tears, while biblical references to the stone include the high priest's breastplate studded with a stone for each of the twelve tribes of Israel, one being Peridot. Cleopatra reportedly had a fine collection of “emerald” jewelry, which was really Peridot but it was the Ottoman Sultans who gathered the largest collection during their 600-year reign from 1300-1918.
Legend has it that powdered Peridot can be used to cure asthma and a Peridot placed under the tongue of someone in the grip of a fever will lessen their thirst and also that drinking from a Peridot goblet can increase the potency of medicines. Pirate’s believed Peridot had the power to drive away evil spirits (and the night’s terrors), especially if set in gold. Peridot emits a warm and friendly energy. It assists in the understanding of the changes that are occurring and detrimental patterns. It is a shield of protection around the body. Clear bright green/green-yellow. Clears heart pathway, strengthening breath of life, prosperity, growth, openness. Used by Egyptians, Aztecs, Incas to gently cleanse and heal the physical heart (lungs, lymph, breast) Yellower gems also for stomach, liver, adrenal. Helps understand relationships, other realities Alleviates depression, anger, fear, jealousy, anxiety.
Peridot also known as gem Olivine and Chrysolite - is the traditional birthstone of August - color is usually a green yellow - hardness is 6.5 to 7 This gemstone emits a warm friendly energy; works on both the heart and solar plexus chakras; acts to provide a shield of protection around the body ; to help prevent outside influences from affecting alignment and balance. Helps one to find happiness within ones self, over coming anger and jealousy.
Peridot - Compassion, Simple pleasures

Pyrite - Money attraction, eases fears and dreads

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Quartz (clear) - "Can bring the energy of the stars into the soul". Traditionally, the natural quartz crystal was said to both harmonize and align human energies, thoughts, consciousness, emotions - with the energies of the universe and to make these greater energies available to humanity. The natural tendency of quartz is for harmony, and is recognized as a "Stone of Power". Stimulates brain function & power, aids clarity of mind. Dispels negativity in ones energy field and environment, aligns all chakras, a very powerful healer.
Quartz Protection, purification, courage, strength, healing
Rock Crystal - Direct contact with spirit world, Centering
Quartz "Rock Crystal - Clear, many forms and colors! Probably the most versatile multi-purpose healing stone. Easy to cleanse, store info/energy in, program or amplify energy and healing with. Can both draw and send energy. Powerful clear ones for meditation, sending/receiving guidance. Stimulates natural crystals in body tissues and fluids to resonate at new healing frequency.
Blue (Or gray/lavender): A good healing stone to expand self expression and creativity, plus refining communication skill to new levels. Eases throat tension. Immune system, thyroid, iodine and B-Vitamin use. Some say shining light through Blue Quartz can help reduce need for glasses. Still evolving.
Pink - Love, beauty, peacefulness, forgiving, lovingness, self-love, emotional balance. Soft. Gently soothes and warms heart center. Emotional healing, loss, stress, hurt, fear, low confidence, resentment, anger. Slowly eases childhood traumas/neglect/lack of love, low self-esteem. Cleanse and recharge often. Especially if fades. Aligns mental, emotional, and astral bodies.
Clear Quartz with metallic, golden rutile, copper, or blue/gray titanium fibers that powerfully electrically conduct and amplify energy/thoughts/programming for healing. For meditation, clairvoyance, telepathy, insight. Some make one too spacey or scattered to wear. (Induces Alpha) Stimulates immunity, strength, blue corona, imagery, dreams. Golden fibers may increase radiation protection and health rejuvenation. Smoky Quartz: Smoky, rootbeer, or chocolate-colored clear crystals. inducing Alpha/deep meditation for higher guidance, deep relaxation, lovingness. Ancient use also to stimulate meridians, kundalini, and correct fertility/PMS/reproductive imbalance. Alleviates fear, anxiety, depression.
Crystal Quartz Healing Diamond Strength and everlasting ties
Clear Quartz - Inner awareness, Concentration, Energy enhancer
Clear yellow qtz. (Yellow from Iron) - Mental and emotional clarity. Problem-solving, memory, willpower, optimism, confidence, self-discipline, digestion. Reduces anxiety, fear, depression, stomach tension, food disorders, allergies. Detoxification: Spleen, kidneys, liver, urinary system, intestines, etc.
Black/brown - dull, solid/semisolidless Very grounding, opposite of other smokeys. May feel dense, heavy, nonconductive. Many were irradiated to turn them this flat, dark color with white edge of base. If so, they're not useful for conducting light/healing, thus less useful for wearing or healing.
Smoky Quartz - It can be used to gently dissolve negative energies and emotional blockages. It can be used to initiate a powerful force field which will absorb many forms of negativity, both from within ones self and from other forces. It promotes personal pride and joy in living. Smoky quartz has been used to regulate creativity in business, and to encourage astute-ness in purchasing. It works to diffuse communication deficiencies and to dissolve mental and emotional blockages which limit perception and learning. (Thank you Melody, I will wear one myself).
Smokey Quartz - A need for invisibility, ridding of unwanted elements

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Rhodonite - Has been called "the stone of love" and helps one to achieve to his/her greatest potential. It activates and energizes the heart chakra, and conveys the resonance of unconditional love to the physical plane. It dispels anxiety and promotes coherence, bringing the user and observant nature and facilitating attention to details and interrelationships.
Rhodonite - Draws love, heals emotions

Rhodochrosite - This mineral has been called a "Stone of Love and Balance", providing balancing and love on all levels for all bodies. It contains pulsating electrical energy which emits the strongest power in the universe, the power of love. Rhodochrosite is also an Earth stone for healing of the Earth and for showing love to the Mother of us all. It helps one to serve the planet in Her time of need, allowing for one to recognize that the responsibility is actually a joy. It removes tendencies toward avoidance or denial and helps one to be willing to both accept and to integrate "new" information while maintaining a clarity of intellect and a moderate ideal of practicality.

Rose Quartz - Produces gentleness. It is known as the stone of "gentle love", bringing peacefulness and calm to relationships. Promotes receptivity to the beauty of art, music and the written word. It represents a young, warm love and balances the yin-yang energy Excellent for healing emotional wounds, removing negativity and restoring harmony after crisis situations. This is one of my very favorite stones.

Rose Quartz - It emits a calming, cooling energy which can work on all chakras to gently remove negativity and to reinstate the loving, gentle forces of self love. Good to wear in a chaotic or crisis situation. It is "the stone of gentle love" bringing peace and calm to relationships. It can be used for spiritual attunement to the energy of love. It is a rejuvenating agent for both physical body and the emotions. It is an excellent energy for healing emotional "wounds".
Rose-Quartz - Healing, Friendships, Love
Rose Quartz - Friendship, releasing jealousy

Ruby - Historically, many believed that mystical powers lie within this intensely colored red gemstone. When inserted beneath the skin, the ancient Burmese believed that the stone generates a mystical force, which protects the wearer from accidents and attack. In the ancient world, many believed rubies to contain prophetic powers, enabling wearers to predict their future based on the color changes of their gemstones. The ancient Hindus enchanted by the color of rubies considered them to be "Ratnaraj" or the "King of Precious Stones".
This stone is for love. It helps one to open one's heart. Warms, energizes after exhaustion. Strengthens physical and emotional heart , love, courage, confidence, vitality, stamina, strength, leadership, success over challenges. Intensifies all emotions (passion, jealousy, impatience, love...) Attempted use for pressure/control (for love, etc) backfires onto user. Used for infections, cholesterol, clots, blood detox (alcohol, caffeine, etc), sexual blocks. Stimulates circulation, menses, pituitary.
Ruby - To bring about a very deep and pure love affair
Ruby - Deep, pure love and passion

Rutilated Quartz - Enhances life - force, strengthens immune systems, and brain function. Eases depression. Facilitates communication, increases clairvoyance. Highly electrical, more intensity than clear quartz, transmutes negativity, enhances communication with spirit guides. A great physical healer.

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Sapphire - Corundum. The modern word sapphire is derived from the ancient Latin term "Sapphirus". Ancient people believed that the power of wisdom is contained within this precious gemstone. They believed that when the wearer of a sapphire faces challenging obstacles, the stone's power enables them to find the correct solution.
Aids in the release of unwelcome thoughts, brings joy and peace of mind by opening the mind to beauty and intuition. Sustains the gifts of life and aids in the fulfillment of the dreams of your consciousness.Blue, green, pink, purple, clear. Related to Ruby.
Sapphire - Protection, luck, peace of mind
Sapphire - Enlightenment, peace of mind Silver Simplicity
Blue - Communication, insight, intuition, inspiration, spiritual prayer/devotion, peacefulness. Pituitary and Thyroid. Detoxing skin, body. Antidepressant. Cools, contracts, soothes, thus reducing inflammation, fevers, nosebleeds. Strongest if next to skin.
Star - wisdom, will,enhances the centering of ones thoughts, cheerfulness, luck. Helps you to understand the intentions of another.Reduces anxiety, procrastination. Some effects subtle.
Black: more grounding. Protection. May strengthen by posing challenges to overcome.Helps in the seeking of employment.

Selenite - Astral aid, ease thoughts and emotions

Serpentine - Serpentine helps the meditative state. It can be used to clear the clouded areas of the chakras. It helps in all disorders of the body, emotions and mental structure. Conscious direction of the healing energy toward a problem is required.

Sodalite - This blue mineral helps one to stimulate communications and psychic abilities. Also balances male - female polarities - alleviates fear, calms and clears the mind, brings clarity and truth. Aids pancreas, balances endocrine system, strengthens metabolism and lymphatic system.
Sodalite - Self-esteem, absorbs negativity

Sugilite - Laced with Manganese, it often displays a variety of black, brown and blue lines and patches creating a unique mottled effect.It is an unusual deep purple stone from Southern Africa. Sometimes referred to as "Purple Turquoise" Sugilite is a rare gem type named for Ken-ichi Sugi, the Japanese geologist who discovered it in 1944. Metaphysically, Sugilite is said to emanate a protective energy, especially for gentle people and children who don't easily screen out the negativity of others. It is especially helpful to those who feel themselves to be gentle spirits who are shocked by the harshness of human interaction here on earth. For them Sugilite may provide a nurturing vibration which allows for the screening out of hostility, anger and fear.

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Tanzinite - This stone stimulates the throat and the Third Eye. Brings together all aspects of communication and psychic power. It brings perfect power of actualization.

Tiger's Eye - brings clarity and enhances psychic ability. It can help discipline sexual, emotional life and allows one's life to open and blossom. A stone to stimulates wealth and helps to maintain it. It brings protection, practicality, softens stubbornness and balances male/female energy. Tigereye - It is helpful for individuals seeking clarity and for those who must deal intelligently with the scattered details which must be brought together in some pattern. It can be used to enhance the psychic abilities and can assist in the gentle attunement of third eye activity. This stone is best suited to earthy people. It has been used to stimulate wealth and to enhance the stability required to maintain wealth. Produces soothing vibrations, generating a calmness to unsettled turmoil, and allowing one to enjoy the actions of being unfenced and uninhibited. Can be used to enhance self empowerment.
Tiger's Eye - Strength, Independence, Business start-ups
Tiger's Eye - Courage, energy, money
Cat's Eye -Yellow-gold. Confidence, willpower, clear thinking (and thus speaking), personal power in life. Helps separate thoughts from feelings, so centered, less emotional.

Topaz - The word topaz is derived from the Sanskrit word "tapas".
Golden:The most powerful, electromagnetic of yellow/ solar plexus gems. A strong, steady, high level gem for mental clarity, focus, perceptively, high level concepts, confidence, personal power, stamina. Helps mood swings, insomnia, worries, fears, depression, exhaustion, nervous system stress, stomach anxiety. Liver/pancreas detoxification, bloodsugar balance, tissue and backbone strengthener (physically and emotionally). Radiates warmth, sun/light energy, protection. Excellent for water signs, teachers, excess work stress, manifesting, higher-self connection. Brings emotions and thinking into balance.
Topaz - Love Turquoise Healing
Topaz - Dispel fears, warmth
Blue - Alignment with our higher self, creative expression, writing, focus on your path. Removes arrogance and allows one to see all things as equally important in the overall scheme of life.

Tourmaline - The name tourmaline is believed to have derived from the Sinhalese word, "turmali", meaning - "mixed".
Many refer to tourmaline as the "muses' stone", for they believe that its imaginative colors contain inspirational powers which enable the mind of its beholder to bring forth illimitable vision and creativity. During the Manchu Dynasty in China, members of the Mandarin class wore round buttons made of red tourmaline, distinguishing themselves from other classes of citizens. Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi was so fascinated by tourmaline's beauty and color that she had over one ton of these precious gem stones in her royal collection.
The most classic tourmaline is called watermelon tourmaline. It blends from a beautiful green into a red or pink. This blending of Green and red/pink is advantageous when you are working with balancing your heart. This stone helps one to release the concept of being the "victim" and to maintain fortitude and laughter through the trials of life.
Black tourmaline is a strengthener for all emotional work. Repels and protects against negativity, especially for sensitive people. Neutralizes fears, resentment, neurosis, obsessions, intestinal or spine energy blocks, toxins, constipation.
Blue (Indicolite) -Wonderful for aligning with higher self for deep insight, vision, intuition, mental peace, patience, nerve system.
Clear - Higher frequency, effectiveness. Especially for nervous system; blood/lymph toxins. Instills the concept of progress through service.
Green tourmaline: Balances love and passion. Helps one to see with the heart. Strengthens will to live, life-force, prosperity, compassion. Holds the essence of the plant kingdom Shows that we are one and responsible for maintaining the integrity of the planet. A powerful, electromagnetic, striated gem. Strengthens body and spirit (and meridians), transmutes lower frequency thought/energy to a higher frequency of light and brings light/spirit into the physical. Radiates light protection for wearer. Energizes Central Nervous System (for neuralgia, migraine, burns, etc.)
Pink - Emotional and spiritual love, healing loss, emotional pain, fear, self-gentleness Best in combination with counseling. Self-love, compassion, release of old hurt. Trust.
Red - Emotional and spiritual love (light pink) expressed in the physical heart Yin/yang balance.
Tourmaline - Black for protection and grounding. Green for healing and purifying
Tourmalated Quartz - You get the energy of black tourmaline which deflects the negative energy of others plus the alignment and harmonizing energy of quartz. Black tourmaline also has a grounding effect helping one to stay protected and focused in the present. Quartz tends to raise the vibration of any other crystal or mineral in the area. Balances male - female energies within one's self.

Turquoise -The book of Exodus contains an important reference to Turquoise as one of the stones in the Breastplate of the Hebrew High Priest Aaron.
The Egyptians began mining Turquoise in the Sinai Peninsula around 5500 BC. In Ancient times the Egyptians, Persians, Mongols and Tibetans all valued Turquoise highly.
The Persians preferred sky blue Turquoise and the term "Persian Turquoise" is now used as a color grade, not a geographical indicator. In Persian, Turquoise is known as Ferozah, meaning victorious and it is the national gemstone of Iran to this day.
In Asia it was considered protection against the evil eye. Tibetans carved Turquoise into ritual objects as well as wearing it in traditional jewelry. Ancient manuscripts from Persia, India, Afghanstan, and Arabia report that the health of a person wearing Turquoise can be assessed by variations in the color of the stone. Turquoise was also thought to promote prosperity.
In the first Millennium AD both the Chinese and Native Americans becoming captivated by the blue stone.
In Mexico, the Aztecs began mining Turquoise between 900-1000 AD. The Anasazi people mined Turquoise in what is now Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Turquoise from this area found its way around the trade routes of the American continent and has been unearthed as far away as the great Mayan city of Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán. Montezuma's treasure, now displayed in the British Museum, includes a fantastic carved serpent covered by a mosaic of Turquoise. In ancient Mexico, Turquoise was reserved for the gods, it would not be worn by mere mortals. Legend has it that some Native Americans believed that if Turquoise was affixed to a bow, the arrows shot from it would always hit their mark. By the 16th century, the cultures of the American Southwest were using Turquoise as currency.
It is believed that Turquoise helps one to start new projects; can warn the wearer of danger or illness by changing color; and protects the wearer from falling - especially from horses. It is also believed to bring happiness and good fortune to all. A master healing stone that promotes spontaneity in romance and stimulates the initiation of romantic love. It balances and aligns all chakras and subtle bodies and can bring all energies to a higher level. A highly spiritual stone, yet grounding, it brings soothing energy and peace of mind. It brings strength, wisdom, protection, and positive thinking. A good general healer for all illnesses and excellent conductor (high copper). This gentle, cool, soothing stone is a Native American classic. For open communication, creativity, serenity, spiritual bonding, upliftment; Opens the heart for giving/receiving. Symbolizes our source (spirit/sky) and spiritual love for healing, help. Like amethyst, it protects and detoxes from alcohol, poison, pollution, x-ray/sun radiation. Ancient absorber of "negativity"; protection from "evil eye". Brings wisdom. Helps anorexia, headache, fear, etc. Throat, lungs, asthma, infections, teeth, hearing, high blood pressure, creativity block, depression.
Turquoise - Physical protection, Creative force
Turquoise - Tones, strengthens entire body , aids tissue regeneration, circulation, lungs, respiratory system. Creative expression, peace of mind, emotional balance, communication, friendship, and loyalty.

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Unakite - It acts to balance the emotional body, bringing it into alignment with the higher forces of spirituality. It can be used to help one go beneath the physical symptoms of dis-ease and to allow for the determination of the root cause underlying the condition; the cause becoming apparent in the cases of the physical, mental, emotional & spiritual planes of existence. It can be used in the treatment of the reproductive system, and to stimulate healthy pregnancies while facilitating the health of the unborn.

This is a collection of definitions as found from the following resources:
http://www.sfheart.com/stones.html
http://members.tripod.com/hruggiero/dragons/gem.htm
http://www.paganliving.com/stones/stonesmeaning.htm