Crystal Properties
Here is a list of genuine gemstones used in our handmade creations and their properties. We used Judy Hall’s Crystal Bible for some of the best information out there on each crystal.
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Gemstone Properties
*Jewelry is made with genuine gemstones as indicated, as are other items, but may contain other beads
Agate: Agates are very stable and grounding, bringing emotional, physical, and intellectual balance, stabilizing and centering energy. Agates work slowly but bring great strength, soothing and calming, facilitating self analysis and acceptance. They enhance mental function, improving concentration, perception, and analytical abilities. Those with clear crystals can stimulate memories, and agates encourage speaking one’s own truth. Agates help overcome negativity, bitterness, inner anger, and help foster love and courage to start again. Agates are useful for emotional traumas – creating a sense of safety and security by dissolving inner tension.
Fire – Deep connection with the earth, with a calming energy and strong grounding properties. Fire agate supports during difficult times and brings security and safety; it builds a protective shield around the body – returning harm back to its source so it understands the harm it is doing. It dispels fear, encourages introspection, and easily brings up inner problems for resolution. Fire agate can be helpful with addictions, helping to eliminate cravings and destructive desires, instilling fortitude, and aiding relaxation.
Moss – Also attracts abundance, improves self-esteem, and strengthens positive personality traits; it releases fear and deep-seated stress, promotes self-expression and communication, balances emotions, reducing stress and releasing fear
Blue Lace – Blue Lace Agate has a soft energy that is cooling, calming, healing, bringing peace of mind and allowing free expression of thoughts and feelings. It is nurturing, supportive, and neutralizes anger, infection, inflammation, and fever. Blue Lace Agate counteracts suppression and repression of feelings stemming from fears of being judged, rejected, often from both childhood and adulthood. It can gently dissolve this old pattern and encourage a new method of expression, assisting to verbalize feelings and counteract mental stress.
Amber: Amber is grounding, a powerful healer and cleanser, it is also protective. Amber absorbs negative energies, transmuting them into positive energy that stimulates self-healing. It brings stability but also motivation to achieve through linking desires to drive. Amber stimulates intellect, clears depression, promotes a positive mental state and creative self-expression. It alleviates stress, brings balance, peace, patience, and encourages decision making and wisdom.
Amethyst: Guards against psychic attack, blocks geopathic stress and negative environmental energies. Amethyst is a strong healer and cleanser, calming or stimulating the mind as appropriate. It can help with anxiety, focus, anxiety-induced insomnia, and it enhances memory, improves motivation, balances highs/lows for emotional centering. Amethyst alleviates sadness and grief, supporting coming to terms with loss. It dispels anger, fear, rage, anxiety, working at a subtle level.
Aventurine: This is a positive stone of prosperity. It reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. Aventurine promotes compassion, empathy, and perseverance, stabilizes one’s state of mind, enhances creativity, and stimulates perception. It brings together intellectual and emotional bodies, helping you see alternatives and possibilities
Blue – Also a powerful mental healer
Green – Also a great comforter and heart healer, it protects the heart. Green Aventurine brings things back into control, dissolving negative emotions and thoughts. It is an all-around healer, brining in well-being and emotional calm
Lapis Lazuli: Lapis Lazuli stimulates enlightenment. It quickly releases stress, brining deep peace, as it possesses enormous serenity. Lapis is protective, recognizing psychic attacks and blocking them, then returning the energy to the source. It aids in communication, teaching the power of the spoken word. Lapis Lazuli brings harmony and balances, helping with depression, dis-ease, and lack of purpose. This is a stone to help those wishing to take charge of their lives, revealing inner truths, encouraging self-awareness, and self-expression without holding back or compromising. It helps release repressed anger that may be causing difficulty communicating, and brings honest, compassion, and uprightness to the personality. Lapis Lazuli helps you confront truth and recognize what it teaches, and teaches the value of active listening.
Carnelian: Carnelian grounds and anchors in the present reality; it restores vitality and motivation, stimulates creativity. Carnelian gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy, motivates for success in business and other matters. Carnelian helps you trust yourself and your perceptions. It improves analytical abilities, clarifies perception, removes extraneous thoughts, sharpens concentration, and dispels mental lethargy. Carnelian protects against all envy, rage, resentment; it calms anger and banishes negativity. Placed near the front door, it invokes protection and invites abundance into the home.
Citrine: Citrine is a powerful cleanser and regenerator. It is warming, energizing, highly creative. Citrine absorbs, transmutes, dissipates, and grounds negative energy, while also being very protective of the environment. Citrine energizes every level of life. It teachers how to manifest and attracts wealth, prosperity, success, and all good things. Citrine is a happy, generous stone and encourages sharing what you have yet helps to hold on to what you do have. Citrine improves motivation, activates creativity, and encourages self-expression. It helps develop a positive attitude and to look forward. Citrine also enhances concentration and revitalizes the mind.
Fluorite: Fluorite is highly protective, helping to discern when outside influences are at work within you, and shuts off psychic manipulation and undue influences. It stabilizes and cleanses the aura; it draws off negative energies and all kinds of stress. This is the best crystal to assist with disorganization, as it cleanses, purifies, dispels, and reorganizes anything in the body out of order. Fluorite helps focus the mind and is associated with progress on many levels. It can overcome chaos, bring structure to daily life. It dissolves fixed behavior patterns, brings suppressed feelings to the surface for resolution, and increases self-confidence and dexterity. Fluorite dissolves illusions and reveals truth, helpful in times in which one needs to act impartially and objectively. It helps with learning – organizes and processes information, linking what is known to what is being learned, while increasing concentration and quick thinking. It stabilizes emotions, helping you to understand the effect of mind and emotions in relationships, the importance of balance and coordination.
Garnet: Garnet is energizing and regenerating, cleansing while it also revitalizes, purifies, and balances energy – bringing serenity or passion as appropriate. Garnet inspires love and devotion, alleviating emotional disharmony. It is especially useful to have in a crisis, as it fortifies, activates, and strengthens the survival instinct, bringing courage and hope into seemingly hopeless situations. Garnet can sharpen perceptions of self and others, helps you let go of ingrained behavior patterns no longer helping you while bypassing resistance or self-induced subconscious sabotage. It can also help you let go of useless or obsolete ideas, remove inhibitions/taboos, and it opens the heart, increasing self-confidence.
Hematite: Hematite is a strong stone, as it’s grounding, protective, and harmonizes mind, body, and spirit. Hematite dissolves negativity, prevents it from entering the aura, and is said to be beneficial for legal situations. It supports timid women, boosts self-esteem, imparts self-confidence, willpower, reliability. Hematite removes self-limitations and aids expansion; it helps overcome compulsions, addictions, overeating, or any other form of over-indulgence. It brings attention to unfulfilled desires that are driving your life, helping you come to terms with mistakes and accept them as learning experiences rather than disasters. Hematite stimulates concentration, focus, memory, and original thought, while helping to sort out problems of all kinds. It can draw heat from the body and has a strong connection to the blood.
Jasper: Jasper sustains and supports during times of stress, bringing tranquility and wholeness. It provides protection and grounds energies, absorbing negative energy and cleansing and aligning. Jasper imparts determination, courage to get to the grips of problems, encourages honesty with yourself. It helps with quick thinking, organizational abilities, and seeing projects through. Jasper stimulates the imagination and brings ideas into action.
Black – Useful in scrying and meditation, helps bring prophetic dreams and visions
Mookaite – Provides balance between inn and outer experiences, encouraging versatility, and points out all possibilities while assisting in choosing the right one. It is a stabilizing stone
Malachite: Malachite is powerful, amplifying both positive and negative energies. It absorbs negative energies and pollutants. Malachite is a stone of transformation, encouraging risk-taking and change. It shows what is blocking your spiritual growth, drawing out deep feelings and psychosomatic causes. Malachite breaks unwanted ties, outworn patterns, and releases inhibitions while encouraging expressing feeling and taking responsibility for one’s self. Malachite develops empathy with others. It gets to the core of problems, enhancing insight, helping to alleviate mental disturbances and facilitating deep emotional healing. It releases negative experiences and traumas.
Obsidian: Obsidian has no boundaries or limitations, working very quickly and with great power. It is a stone of truth-telling, exposing weaknesses, flaws, blockages and how to ameliorate them while it also lends support during this growth. It can provide deep healing, but should be used with care. It is strongly protective, shielding against negativity. It can draw out mental stress and tension, which can be calming, but it can also bring up the reasons for the stress, which must be dealt with to resolve the problem permanently. It is highly effective in soaking up negative energies in the environment. Obsidian brings mental clarity and clears confusion, and helps you to know who you truly are – all aspects of yourself – and accept it. It dissolves emotional blockages and traumas, providing necessary insights.
Black – A very powerful and creative stone, helps increase self-control. It forces facing up to one’s truth, bringing imbalances and shadow qualities to the surface for release. It magnifies all negative energies to be fully experienced and then released. Black obsidian is also protective, repelling negativity and dispersing unloving thoughts, facilitating the release of old loves and provides support during change.
Snowflake – Teaches you to value mistakes as well as successes. Provides balance, helps you recognize and release “wrong thinking” and stressful mental patterns, promoting inner centering
Peridot: Peridot is a protective stone for the aura and a is a powerful cleanser. It releases and neutralizes toxins on all levels, as well as “old baggage” such as people or the past, that are counterproductive. Peridot releases negative patterns and old vibrations, helps you understand your purpose and move forward. It helps alleviate jealousy, resentment, spite, anger, and reduces stress. It enhances confidence, assertion, and motivates growth by helping to bring about necessary change. Peridot promotes psychological clarity, well-being, sharpening the mind and opening it to new levels of awareness. It helps release lethargy, admitting mistakes and moving on. It helps in taking responsibility for your own life to move on, and it can greatly improve difficult relationships.
Pyrite: Pyrite works as an energy shield, blocking negative energy, deflecting harm/danger. It overcomes inertia and feeling inadequate. Pyrite facilitates tapping into abilities and potential, stimulating the flow of ideas. Relieves anxiety and frustration, boosts self-worth and confidence. Pyrite expands mental capacities. It can be helpful for melancholia, deep despair. It increases energy, overcomes fatigue, blocks energy leaks.
Quartz: Quartz is a powerful healing and energy amplifier. It absorbs, stores, releases, and regulates energy, as well as unblocking it. Quartz aids concentration, unlocks memory, helps to save energy. It is a master healer that can be used for any condition and balancing.
Rose – Stone of unconditional love and infinite peace. It purifies and opens the heart at all levels, brings deep inner healing and self-love. Rose Quartz is calming, reassuring, and useful in traumas or crisis. It can attract love and restores trust and harmony in existing relationships. It gently draws off negative energy and replaces it with loving energy. It helps release unexpressed emotions, comforts grief, teaches you how to love yourself, and strengthens empathy, sensitivity and aids acceptance of necessary change.
Rutiliated – Cleanses and energizes the aura, draws off negative energies and aids in letting go of the past. Helpful for therapists and healers because it supports clients in emotional release while protecting the healer by filtering their negative energy. It helps reach the root of problems and facilitates transitions, soothes dark moods, helping with depression. It relieves fears, phobias, anxiety, while promoting forgiveness at all levels and allowing healing.
Smoky – One of the most efficient grounding and anchoring stones. Smoky Quartz is excellent at relieving stress, blocking stress and neutralizing negative energies. It also brings positive energy, helping you leave behind anything that no longer serves you. It brings calm, alleviates fear and depression, helps with nightmares and in achieving your dreams. Smoky Quartz dissolves contradictions, promotes concentration, alleviates communication difficulties, and in clearing the mind.
Rhodonite: Rhodonite is emotionally balancing, nurturing love and brotherhood. It helps show both sides of an issue, grounds and balances energy. Rhodonite helps heal emotional shock and panic, useful for emotional self-destruction, codependency, and abuse. It clears away emotional wounds and scars from the past, and brings up painful emotions for transmutation. Rhodonite assists with forgiveness and reconciliations. It can be useful to turn back insults and prevent retaliation, recognizing revenge is self-destructive, while promoting calm in dangerous or upsetting situations. It builds up confidence, alleviates confusion, helps remove blockages.
Ruby: Ruby energizes and balances energy, improves motivation and helps with setting realistic goals. It promotes positive dreams and clear visualization, sharpens the mind. Ruby is also a stone of abundance and aids retention of wealth and passion.
Sapphire: Sapphire is known as the stone of wisdom, with each color having it’s own particular wisdom. Sapphire focuses and calms the mind, releases unwanted thoughts and mental tension. It brings peace of mind, aligns and restores balance. Sapphire releases depression, stimulates concentration; placed on the throat, it releases frustration and facilitates self-expression. Sapphire is also a stone that brings prosperity and attracts gifts of all kinds.
Blue – Blue Sapphire is associated with love and purity. It opens and heals the throat chakra and thyroid, and facilitates self-expression and speaking your truth.
Sodalite: Sodalite instills a drive for truth and an urge towards idealism, making it possible to remain true to yourself and stand up for your beliefs. It is useful in group work, bringing harmony and solidarity of purpose. Sodalite stimulates trust and companionship between group members. Sodalite eliminates mental confusion and encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth, and intuitive perception, together with verbalization of feelings. It calms the mind, allows new information to be received, releases old mental conditioning for new insights to be put into practice. Sodalite brings emotional balance, calms panic attacks. It can release core fears, phobias, guilt and control mechanisms holding you back from being who your truly are. Sodalite enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance, and self-trust, and can bring shadow qualities up to the surface to be accepted without judgment.
Tiger’s Eye: Tiger’s Eye is very protective, showing the correct use of power while bringing out integrity. It assists in accomplishing goals, recognizing inner resources, and promoting clarity of intention. It grounds and facilitates manifestation of the will, anchoring change into the physical body. Tiger’s Eye enhances practical perception by integrating the hemispheres of the brain, and collecting scattered information to make a coherent whole. It helps with resolving dilemmas, internal conflicts, and with mental disease and personality disorders. It can heal issues of self-esteem, self-worth, blocked creativity, and helps to recognize one’s talents and abilities. Tiger’s Eye supports an addictive personality in making changes, balances and energizes emotions, alleviates depression and lifts moods.
Red Tiger’s Eye – Also a stimulating stone, overcomes lethargy and provides motivation. It can speed up a slow metabolism and increase a low sex drive
Tourmaline: Cleanses, purifies, and transforms dense energy into a lighter vibration. It helps with balancing, grounding, and protecting spiritual energy. Tourmaline aids one to understand self and others, promoting self-confidence, diminishing fears, and banishing any feelings of being a victim. Tourmaline attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. It balances right and left brain hemispheres, transmutes negative thought patterns into positive ones, releases physical tension
Watermelon – Also helps dissolve any resistance to healing, treats stress. Watermelon Tourmaline instills patience, teaches tact and diplomacy; it promotes inner security, alleviating depression and fear. It assists understanding situations and expressing intentions clearly; it treats emotional dysfunction and releases old pain. Watermelon Tourmaline aids relationships and helping to find joy in situations
Unakite: A stone of vision, balancing emotions and spirituality, while also providing grounding as needed. In the environment, it brings calm, gentle energy and negates the effects of electromagnetic pollution. Unakite brings to light and integrates insights from the past about the cause of blockages and gently releasing conditions inhibiting growth. It helps reach the root of issues to bring it to the surface to be transformed. Unakite is supportive in recovery from major illness, aids healthy pregnancy, growth of skin tissue and hair, and stimulates weight gain where required