crystal meanings

Gem	Power & Abilities
Alexandrite	Stimulates happiness and pleasant surprises. Good fortune and success in speculative matters. Emotional balance. Encourages faith and hope.
Amazonite	Relating to the skeletal apart of the body, spasms, soothes nervous system, strengthens physical stamina. Aids calcium metabolism.
Amber	Absorbs negative energy, helps to ground you to the earth plane, protection for the sensitive person. Purification, releasing fluids from the body.
Amethyst	Healing, claming mental effect, enhances the meditative state, creates pure thought, spiritual insight, relaxation, higher values. Also transmutes negativity and enhances the dream state. Alleviates mental stress. Helps stimulate intuitive awareness.
Ametrine	Higher mental opening for meditation and inspiration which can be utilized here on the earth plane to bring more stability and order into your life. Good for headaches and depression.
Apache Tears	A stone of protection that prevents emotional draining from others, works as a shield against unwanted vibrations, sharpens vision, helps with transition. This is volcanic glass.
Aquamarine	Protection on or near the water, helps with digestion of food and the reduction of body fluids. A purifying and cleansing stone, calming, soothing, inner quiet, peace and meditation. Aids in marine travel and clams nervous tension.
Aventurine	Increases visionary powers, intuition and perception, a stone of opportunity and good luck, a stabilizing effect. Increases opportunities in speculative ventures. Good for transitions.
Azurite	Aids in communication, clearing thoughts, a quality of penetration, cleanses negative mental states, insight, vision and hypnosis. Reduces stress, anxiety and depression.
Banded Agate	The bands and stripes around agates are for the sensitive person, like loving arms surrounding you. It instills courage and extra strength to face life's challenges.
Black Obsidian	A stone of protection that prevents emotional draining from others. Works as a shield against unwanted vibrations, sharpens vision, helps with transition. This is volcanic glass.
Black Tourmaline	This stone works as a protective shield pushing away all negativity, even yours. Tourmaline does not hold any energy, it is used as a channeling device for the magnetic energy to flow through.
Bloodstone	A stone of protection to prevent injury and disease. Used for blood purification and aids circulation. Good for headaches, bloodshot eyes, kidneys, heart attack, and high blood pressure.
Blue Lace agate	It gets the energy flowing in order to soften and calm the mind. Higher states of consciousness, balances psychic centers. Aids stubbornness.
Blue Topaz	Aids spiritual strength. A stone which calms, soothes and sedates. Brings a peaceful and natural healing state of consciousness.
Blue Tourmaline	Adds spiritual strength and knowledge to the wearer. Intensifies creativity and inspiration to the artistic or innovative person. A peaceful and natural healing stone. Good for throat, thyroid, speech.
Carnelian	Stimulates energy and appetite, physical power and courage, helps to ground you to the physical plane, practical application of ideas.
Cat's Eye	Insight and perception, the "all-seeing third eye," divine vision, good judgment, seeing things clearly, clarity of ideas and grounding.
Charoite	Helps one break through attitudinal rigidity, fears, and inhibitions into a greater openness and acceptance of life and self. Encourages devotion, truth, and inspiration.
Chrysocolla	Physical activity, stimulates the mind, brings balance to fears and guilt, especially calming and relaxing for the emotions. Good for emotional heartache.
Citrine	Provides a sense of stability, practical application of ideas, adds energy and emotional balance, rational approach toward things, grounding to the here and now. Eliminates toxins from the body.
Coral	Brings stability, fluidity, and balance to the emotions. Assists one in being more positive in their emotional outlook and expression. Increases one's sensitivity to others, themselves and life. Promotes fertility, strength, and longevity.
Diamond	Intensifies and activates what is within, absorbs all energies both good and bad; generosity, openness, boldness and optimism. Use diamond with other gem stones to enhance their stone power.
Dioptase	An aesthetic quality for over working or over studying, when the brain has been overly stimulated. Mental and spiritual attunement. Good for high blood pressure and pain.
Emerald	Strengthens memory, increases intelligence, foresight and prophecy, clear seeing, wisdom, enhances speech and creativity. Good for diseases of the eyes, and speech impediments.
Fluorite	Understanding, objectivity, advancement of the mind, concentration, raises the IQ to the highest mental capacity. Good for mental disorders and the nervous system.
Garnet	Brings circulation to normal, clotting of the blood, purifies. Balance, awareness and well being, prevents fears of insecurity, draws out negativity. Increases sex drive. Can help to prevent money losses.
Goldstone	A transmitter stone which causes light to pass through you in order to convey or be received as a medium. Openness, honest, relaxation and sharing.
Green Tourmaline	Regeneration and rebirth of the physical body. Pushes out toxins from the body and brings in new energy. Brings in abundance and prosperity.
Hematite	Decreases inflammation, draws out heat from a feverish part of the body. Dissolves negative energy and works as a shield of armor for any person or thing.
Herkimer Diamond	Double-termination allows energy to be drawn from one end and released through the other. Good for extra boost of energy, healing, vivid dreaming and recollection and storage of information. Balances polarities both physical and astral.
Jade	Brings peace, calm and stabilizing effect on the body. Courage, clarity and tranquility of the mind.
Jasper	Protection against unseen lower astral entities. Enables you to work with heavy negativity. Stabilizes emotions.
Jet	Keeps others from intruding on your space. Can be worn as an amulet to ward off evil influences.
Kunzite	The energy moves through the stone with a sword-like action to remove emotional and physical pain. A good meditation stone for bringing in inspiration and giving out the messages to others.
Labradorite and Spectrolite	A mystical stone with the ability to help one reactivate ancient or future memories that are relevant to one's present growth. Accelerates telepathic abilities.
Lace Agate	An emphasis of energy that surrounds you. Red =strength & energy blue = peace and calm, white = higher spiritual thoughts, pink = love and happiness.
Lapis Lazuli	Great power to the wearer if sincere in spiritual development. Illumination of the mind, mental endurance, wisdom, purifying and healing properties, insight, good judgment and psychic abilities.
Malachite	Purification of things on the material plane. The bands provide energy for your creative ideas. Success and good fortune in business matters. Good for weight reduction.
Moldavite	Assist one in remembering their connection to other worlds. Excellent for helping one to adapt to rapid acceleration, assisting one in moving through mental, emotional, and spiritual shifts with greater ease.
Moonstone	Calms and balances emotional situation. Second sight, psychometry, aura reading, used in regression, opens up psychic potential. Enhances ones ability to give and receive. Relieves discomfort of cramps.
Moss Agate	Binds the energies of nature and assists anyone who works with the land and earth for growing things.
Mother of Pearl	Absorbs your negative energy, clarifies feelings, stabilizer. Good for asthma and allergies.
Obsidian	A stone of protection that prevents emotional draining from others, works as a shield against unwanted vibrations, sharpens vision, and helps with transitions.
Onyx	Retains physical body strength. Receives and holds vibrations both good and bad. May provoke disharmony - use when you need to end an unpleasant relationship. Protection from negativity.
Opal	Magnifies your thoughts and feelings already present. Promotes all psychic abilities. A stone which enhances the emotions. A doorway to your spiritual awareness. Intensifies prevailing mood.
Pearl	Pearls stimulate femininity and help with self-acceptance. Helps relax the mind to free up one's energy for more balanced love relationships. It represents the moon's influence upon the earth, thereby protecting the earth from catastrophe.
Peridot	Clear seeing, problem solving, healer of the spirit and physical body. Protection from nervousness in front of others (stage fright), fearlessness and strong will. Cleanses bruised egos and hurt feelings.
Pink Tourmaline	Magnetically receiving love and giving out love joyfully. Sorrows, conflicts, despairs and fears seem to melt away leaving a renewed enthusiasm for life. Happily going with the flow. Helps balance and harmonize conflicting energies between the male and female polarities within oneself and in relationships. Excellent for opening the heart chakra and deepening one's understanding of love. Good for the immune system.
Pyrite	Assists you in matching your vibrations with someone of a higher or lower frequency than yours. A shield used as protection or defense.
Quartz Crystals	A receiver, amplifier, conductor and generator of energy. Used for meditation, transformation, stability, knowledge, protection, healing and enlightenment. Increases auric field. Good for general health and balance.
Rhodochrosite	Restores balance due to physical and emotional crisis. Enhances love for self and others.
Rhodonite	Raises self-worth, gives an aura of elegance, self-confidence and self-esteem. Restores physical energy.
Rose Quartz	Relaxation, inner peace and tranquility. The ability to give and receive love. It's the stone which heals the heart emotionally and physically. All matters dealing with love, affection, compassion and kindness.
Ruby	Intensifies love and compassion, stimulation and active expression of the sex drive. Brings circulation to normal. High energy stone for courage, boldness and action.
Rutilated Quartz	Silver and gold color threads work like pathways which magnetically lead you in a direction of balance. Use when you need positive direction in life. Good for detoxification and cleansing of the arteries.
Sapphire	Aid for communication, clairvoyant perceptions, abstract concepts, divine wisdom, and prophecy. Cleanses negative mental states and disturbances.
Scarab	The symbol of immortality, eternal life, renewal and rebirth. Flight from one state to another. Good for transformation and rejuvenation.
Smoky quartz	Enables you to follow through with your highest hopes and aspiration. Abstract thought and telepathic messages put to practical use. Good for endurance, fatigue and depression.
Sodalite	Clearing and balancing mental disorders: filling the doubts, fears and anxieties with white light and transformation.
Sugilite	Higher ethereal influences, a stone for channeling higher thoughts and energies. Helps to get the analytical part of the mind out of the way. Be prepared to be spaced out. Good for astral projection.
Sulfur	Serves as a channel, linking the soul with matter via the brain and physical sensory functions. Stimulates the higher reasoning faculties of the mind. Aids self-esteem and self-control. Helps induce joy, excitement, optimism, sincerity, illumination, humor, adaptability, and transformation.
Tiger Eye	A combination of earth and sun which is for practical decision making and creativity. Belief in self, objectivity, stability and inner strength.
Topaz	Calms, relieves and balances emotional mental breakdown. Any situation related to nervous fatigue, exhaustion or extreme stress. Change, cleansing, letting go. Good for headaches, mental disorders, and obesity.
Turquoise	Mental relaxation, stress reduction, confidence, attunement and physical balance. Attracts abundance and prosperity. Good for lungs and respiratory system.
Watermelon Tourmaline	Electric and magnetic properties, giving the ability to receive and direct information that has been channeled. It pushes out old emotional wounds and brings in renewed love and joy. Good for cancer prevention.

This by no means an entire list of gems and crystals,
but it is, at the least, the more common ones.
Hope it can be of some use.

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