Garnet
Garnet inspires love and devotion. It balances the sex drive and alleviates emotional disharmony. This is a stone of commitment. Garnet is a useful crystal to have in a crisis. It fortifies, activates, and strengthens the survival instinct, bringing courage and hope into seemingly hopeless situations. Garnet sharpens one\'s perception of self and of other people. This stone removes inhibitions and taboos. It opens up the heart and bestows self-confidence.
Gold Calcite
Gold Calcite is excellent for meditation and for attuning to the higher mental planes. It instills mental alertness as it grounds the higher mental energies into the physical realm.
Gold Sheen Obsidian
Releasing ego involvement, this stone imparts knowledge of spiritual direction.
Golden Healer
Golden Healer facilitates spiritual communication over a long distance.
Golden Tiger’s Eye
This stone aids in paying attention to detail. Warning against complacency, it assists in taking action from a place of reason rather than emotion.
Golden Topaz
Golden Topaz acts like a battery and recharges spirituality and physically strengthening faith and optimism.
Green Calcite
Green Calcite is a mental healer, dissolving rigid beliefs and old programs and restoring balance to the mind. It helps in letting go of what is familiar and comforting but which no longer serves, and aids communication and the transition from a stagnant to a positive situation. It ameliorates arthritis and constriction of the ligaments or muscles and is helpful in bone adjustments.
Green Fluorite
Green Fluorite grounds excess energy, dissipates emotional trauma, and clears infections. It is particularly effective at absorbing negative energies within the environment. It brings information up from the subconscious mind and accesses intuition.
Green Jade
Green Jade is the most common Jade. It calms the nervous system and channels passion in constructive ways. Green Jade can be used to harmonize dysfunctional relationships.
Green Jasper
Green Jasper heals and releases disease and obsession. It balances out parts of one's life that have become all-important to the detriment of others. This stone stimulates the heart chakra.
Green Obsidian
Green Obsidian opens and purifies the heart and throat chakras. It removes hooks and ties from other people and protects against repetition.
Green Opal
This stone is cleansing and rejuvenating. It promotes emotional recovery and aids relationships.
Green Quartz
Green Quartz opens and stabilizes the heart chakra. It inspires creativity.
Green Sapphire
Green Sapphire improves vision - both inner and outer, and improves dream recall.
Green Tourmaline (Verdelite)
This stone is an excellent healer and is helpful for visualization.
Hematite
Hematite harmonizes the mind, body, and spirit. It supports timid women, boosts self-esteem and survivability, enhances willpower and reliability, and imparts confidence.
Howlite
Howlite is an extremely calming stone. This stone formulates ambitions, both spiritual and material, and aids in achieving them. Howlite teaches patience and helps to eliminate rage and uncontrolled anger. It stills the mind and is excellent for sleep and meditation. It allows for calm and reasoned communication to take place. This stone strengthens memory and stimulates a desire for knowledge. Howlite can calm turbulent emotions.
Hyalite (Water Opal)
This stone is a mood stabilizer. It connects the base chakras with the crown, enhancing meditative experience.
Iron Pyrite
Iron Pyrite is an excellent energy shield. It blocks out negative energy and pollutants at all levels including infectious diseases. This stone is a very positive stone. It facilitates tapping into abilities and potential, and stimulates the flow of ideas. This stone is helpful when planning large business concepts. It is also helpful for men who feel inferior as it strengthens confidence in themselves and their masculinity, but it may be too powerful for “macho” men, initiating aggression. Pyrite is helpful for melancholy and deep despair. It increases energy and overcomes fatigue.
Jade
Jade is a symbol of purity and serenity. It is associated with the heart chakra and increases love and nurturing. It is a protective stone which keeps the wearer from harm and brings harmony. It is believed to attract good luck and friendship. Mentally, Jade releases negative thoughts and soothes the mind. It stimulates ideas and makes tasks seem less complex so that they can be acted upon immediately.
Jasper
Jasper is known as “supreme nurturer.” It sustains and supports during times of stress, and brings tranquility and wholeness. Used in healing, it unifies all aspects of one's life. Jasper reminds people to help each other. It brings the courage to get to grips with problems assertively, and encourages honesty with yourself. It supports during necessary conflict. Jasper aids in quick thinking, and promotes organizational abilities and seeing projects through.
Jet
Jet is actually formed from fossilized wood but looks like coal. Worn around the neck, it is a stone of protection. It guards against violence and illness and provides protection during spiritual journeying. It is said that those who are attracted to this stone are “old souls.” Jet promotes taking control of life. It balances mood swings and alleviates depression, bringing stability and balance.
Kunzite
Kunzite awakens the heart center and unconditional love, producing loving thoughts and communication. It radiates peace and connects you to universal love. This stone encourages self-expression and allows free expression of feelings. It removes obstacles from one's path and helps you to adjust to the pressures of life. If can aid in recovering memories that have been blocked. It is a useful healer for people who had to grow up too fast, bringing back lost trust and innocence.
Kyanite
Kyanite is excellent for attunement and meditation. It slices through confusion and dispels blockages, illusion, anger, frustration and stress. It increases the capacity for logical and linear thought and stimulates the higher mind and links into the casual self.
Labradorite
Labradorite is a highly mystical and protective stone, a bringer of light. It strengthens faith in the self and trust in the universe. This stone calms an overactive mind and energizes the imagination, bringing up new ideas. Labradorite is a useful companion through change, imparting strength and perseverance.
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli opens the third eye and balances the throat chakra. It stimulates enlightenment and enhances dream work and psychic abilities, facilitating spiritual journeying and stimulating personal and spiritual power. This is a protective stone that contacts spiritual guardians. Lapis Lazuli encourages taking charge of life. It reveals inner truth, encourages self-awareness, and allows self-expression without holding back or compromising. If repressed anger is causing difficulties in the throat or communication, Lapis Luzuli releases these. This stone brings the enduring qualities of honesty, compassion, and uprightness to the personality. This stone bonds relationships in love and friendship and aids expressing feelings and emotions.
Larimar
This stone radiates love and peace and promotes tranquility. It naturally raises consciousness. Larimar brings serenity and clarity, and constructive thought. It stimulates creativity and encourages “going with the flow.”
Lavender Jade
Lavender Jade alleviates emotional hurt and trauma and bestows inner peace.
Lepidolite
Lepidolite is extremely useful in the reduction of stress and depression. It halts obsessive thoughts, relieves despondency, and overcomes insomnia. Lepidolite contains lithium and is helpful in stabilizing mood swings and bipolar moods. This is a “stone of transition”. It releases and reorganizes old psychological and behavioral patterns, including change. Lepidolite enhances standing in one's own space, free from the influences of others.
Magnetite
Magnetite is magnetic. It attracts love, commitment and loyalty. This stone can be used to alleviate negative emotions such as fear, anger, grief, and overattachment, as well as bring in positive qualities such as tenacity and endurance. Magnetite balances the intellect with the emotions to bring inner stability.
Mahogany Obsidian
Mahogany Obsidian has a gentler energy than black. This stone stimulates growth on all levels. It relieves pain and improves circulation.
Malachite
Malachite is a powerful stone but one that needs to be handled with caution. This stone amplifies both positive and negative energies. Malachite is a stone of transformation. Life is lived more intensely under the influence of this adventurous stone, which encourages risk-taking and change. It mercilessly shows what is blocking one's spiritual growth. This stone releases inhibitions and encourages expression of feeling. Malachite goes to the core of a problem, enhancing intuition and insight. It strengthens the ability to absorb and process information, makes one more observant, and helps in understanding difficult concepts. This stone is particularly useful for cramps (including menstrual cramps) and facilitates childbirth. It has been called the midwife stone.
Mookaite (Australian Jasper)
This stone provides a useful balance between inner and outer experiences. It imparts both a desire for new experiences and a deep calm with which to face them.
Moonstone
Moonstone is a “stone of new beginnings.” It is strongly connected to the moon and to intuition. Moonstone makes conscious the unconscious and promotes intuition and empathy. It encourages lucid dreaming, especially at the time of the full moon. Moonstone has traditionally been used to enhance psychic abilities and to develop clairvoyance. This stone calms overreactions to situations and to emotional triggers. It balances male-female energies and aids men who want to get in touch with their feminine side. Moonstone soothes emotional instability and stress, and stabilizes the emotions. It powerfully affects the female reproductive cycle and alleviates menstrual related disease and tension. It is excellent for PMS, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, and breast-feeding.
Moss Agate
This stone is said to refresh the soul and enable the wearer to see the beauty in all she beholds. It is extremely beneficial for anyone employed in agriculture or associated with botany. Moss agate improves self-esteem and strengthens positive personality traits; releases fear and deep-seated stress; helps to develop strength and the ability to get along with others. It encourages expanding one’s personal space and growth and promotes self-expression and communication. It balances the emotions, reducing stress and lessening fear. It encourages trust and hope, being a highly optimistic stone. Moss Agate is helpful for anyone suffering from depression through life circumstances or brain imbalances.
Multicolored Gem Tourmaline (Elbaite)
This stone contains all colors and as a result, it brings the mind, body and spirit and soul into wholeness. It is an excellent stone for imagery and promoting dreams, inspiring creativity and enhanced emotion.
Muscovite
Muscovite has the ability to allow recognition of the flaws in humanity and at the same time stimulates unconditional love and acceptance. This stone disperses insecurity, self-doubt, and clumsiness. Muscovite aids problem-solving and stimulates quick-wittedness. It facilitates the clear expression of thoughts and feelings.