Gem Stones in Alphabetical Order
Gem Stones in Alphabetical Order
Agate is a very grounding stone, Agate helps bring negative energies into transformed positive energy and it helps reconnect us with the Earth. It also aids in the integration of logic and intuition. It helps to balance yin/yang energies, and enhances connections with our higher spiritual selves.
Agate (Moss)
Moss Agate is considered to be most powerful. It aids in restoration of energy, it is used in healing, and it is believed to bring wearer happiness, wealth, health, and long life. It increases ability to ward off self-induced anger and inner bitterness.
Amazonite
Amazonite is a very soothing, calming stone, allowing one to release worries and fears. It aids in communication with loved ones, and is a wonderful stone for clarity and clear thought.
Amber
Amber is used to tap into the power of the Sun, and is good for success, abundance, healing, and happiness. A powerful stone for manifestation, Amber is also used for healing of the physical body. It carries a negative electrical energy charge and therefore is good to draw power and energy into its bearer. Amber is a healing stone with large amount of organic energy. In ancient times, Amber was ground to a powder and mixed with honey or oil of roses for various physical problems. Amber filters germs and infections and has the power to disinfect. It is worn around the neck to help fight infection and respiratory diseases. It lifts the spirits. Amber, usually when combined with Jet, is one of the traditional stones of the High Priestess.
Amethyst
Amethyst is a stone of psychic power, enhancing and increasing the abilities of the bearer. It aids in increasing spiritual awareness and helps in the attainment of your spiritual goals. Wear Amethyst to dispel fear and heighten intuitive powers. Cures Headaches; blood sugar imbalance; L brain imbalances; edginess; facilitates healing; inner peace; psychic insight; stimulates third eye; aid for meditation, spiritual opening & internal surrender
Apatite
Apatite Promotes communication and mental clarity.
Aqua Aura
Aqua Aura is clear quartz which has been dipped in molten gold. The gold which adheres to the quartz gives it its unusual color. Use this stone for creativity, open mindedness, and to respond to chaos with calm.
Aquamarine
Aquamarine is a peaceful, soothing stone It is good for communication of a higher level (beyond the mundane). It is a gentle and compassionate vibration, and helps us bring order from chaos.
Aventurine
Aventurine is a soothing, calming stone that invokes peaceful energies. It is also stimulating to creativity, and is used for healing and good luck.
Azurite
Azurite is a wonderful stone for new beginnings, and to assist in release deep inner fears. It helps us to strengthen our connection with the All, and release conceit and vanity. Azurite releases stress and is soothing to the soul.
Bloodstone
Bloodstone has long been called "the stone of the warrior" as it is thought to bring protection to those in dangerous situations. It brings strength tempered by compassion, and assists in the decision making process.
Blue Goldstone
Blue Goldstone is used to remind us of the beauty of the night sky, and helps us remember that light is always found within darkness.
Blue Lace Agate
Blue Lace Agate brings us a very spiritually attuned level of communication, both within ourselves and with others.
Blue Topaz
Blue Topaz stimulates the creative thinking process, and heightens awareness on all levels. It enhances clear communication.
Carnelian
Carnelian is a stone of courage, passion and creativity. It helps to increase physical energy and strength, and enhances personal power. Carnelian is a stone sacred to Isis.
Cat's Eye
Cat's Eye assists in bringing change and balance into one's life; it allows the bearer to tap into inner knowledge and wisdom.
Citrine
Citrine stimulates openness and accelerates the awakening of the mind. It is an aid to the digestive system. It helps eliminate toxins. It encourages tremendous healing on the emotional and mental levels, helps unblock subconscious fears, and serves as a natural relaxant.
Coral
Coral balances physical energy and relaxes tensions. it carries the creative vibrations of the sea.
Emerald
Emerald promotes creativity, stimulates perception and insight, and strengthens memory. It has a beneficial effect on the eyes.
Fluorite
Fluorite is used as a calming, centering influence for meditation or for any third eye workings. It is also used to increase concentration and focus the attention, and aids in linear thought and reasoning.
Garnet
Garnet is a stone of high energy. It gives one vitality, strength, and increasing sensuality. Given as a gift garnet symbolizes true and never-ending love and devotion. Garnet invokes and releases ones creative ability and inner fire. Garnet balances hormones, is good for mental depression, it enhances self-esteem, alleviates bad dreams, and encourages success in business. Garnet is thought to assist in seeing into past incarnations.
Hematite
Hematite is very grounding and balancing, allowing one to release negativity. It is healing and cleansing for disorders of the blood, and allows one to release harmful emotions.
Iolite
Iolite is a wonderful stone for soothing and balancing psychic energies; while enhancing the abilities of the bearer, it also assists in grounding and clearer thought/vision.
Jade
Jade is said to bring blessings and happiness to its bearer; it is also said to aid in manifesting dreams into reality. Jade is a stone of wisdom, peace, and harmony.
Jasper
Jasper is a very nurturing, strengthening stone, and was often worn by Shamans for protection. It's energies bring us motivation, and the courage to accept and flow with transformation or change in our lives. It balances emotions and stress.
Jet
Jet is grounding and balancing, and as it carries a negative electrical charge, is good for drawing power and knowledge to the bearer. Jet, usually when combined with Amber, is one of the traditional stones of the High Priestess.
Labradorite
Labradorite assists in understanding one's destiny and purpose in this life. It taps into inner knowledge and wisdom. It enhances psychic ability and helps in understanding the energies and intuitive flashes received from the Cosmos. It also helps to remind us that even in the darkest of times, all colors and lights are still nurtured within us.
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli assists in communication, and helps to increase wisdom and gain knowledge. A stone associated with Jupiter, it is used for growth, new beginnings, and in all legal matters. Lapis was considered a sacred stone in Egypt. Lapis stimulates wisdom, truthfulness, & psychic experiences. It is healing and strengthening when worn next to the skin.
Lepidolite
Lepidolite is a stone of transformation, and is used for stress reduction and to encourage beneficial change. It is a wonderful stone to enhance feelings of self love and self worth, and is very stabilizing, both emotionally and physically.
Malachite
Malachite is a tremendous healing stone. Malachite is also good for money, love, and centering & balancing. Use it to open your heart to others, and to create an energy of prosperity around you. Often used as a child's talisman to sleep soundly & protect from bad dreams. It stimulates clear vision and insight, represents hope and inner peace, and is believed to protect from danger. It increases abundance in all areas of life.
Moldavite
Moldavite is actually a form of meteorite. It carries a very high energy vibration, and opens the crown chakra to the Universal All. It aids in mental and spiritual clarity.
Moonstone
Moonstone is a stone of Goddess energy. It has a soothing, calming energy. It can be used for all lunar workings and it brings balance and harmony with the All. Moonstone brings good fortune, and reflects the wearers being. Moonstone promotes unselfishness, and opens the heart to humanitarian love and hope. It is good for protection while traveling on water. It gives clarity to spiritual understanding, and is good for premenstrual symptoms and balancing the reproductive system. It is also used to ease childbirth.
Peach Moonstone
Peach Moonstone, with it's soothing, calming energy, is a wonderful stone for improving one's image and sense of self-worth.
Rainbow Moonstone
Rainbow Moonstone can be used to invoke the power of the Moon, as well as for intuition, inner wisdom, and knowledge. It vibrates with feminine wisdom and with Goddess energy. The Rainbow effect invokes a spectrum of light, and is very cleansing and uplifting.
Morion
Morion is a naturally dark crystal, not blackened by mankind's tampering. At some point during the growth of the crystal, it blackened from exposure to natural radiation. (these crystals are not radioactive and are safe to carry). They are used for their protective qualities, and to draw in and hold energy and information. They are also good for working with the "darker" forces of nature, such as the Crone aspect of the Goddess.
Snowflake Obsidian
Snowflake Obsidian is a stone of balance and inner harmony; it teaches us that light is found within any darkness. Gently grounding and balancing, this stone helps to lift depression, release negativity, and banish negative emotions.
Obsidian
Obsidian is simply lava that cooled so fast that the minerals contained within didn't have time to form. It is a naturally occurring glass. The Ancient Aztecs fashioned flat, square mirrors of this black glass for use in divination. According to legend the famous Dr. Dee, a magician-alchemist hired by England's Queen Elizabeth I, may have used one of these mirrors in his scrying sessions. It was a popular material for fashioning stone knives, spear points and arrowheads, and when used for these purposes, it is often known as "flint." Such arrowheads have magical properties.
Black Onyx
Black Onyx is excellent for grounding negativity and releasing stress. Black Onyx can be worn for protection, to banish grief, and to encourage happiness and good fortune.
Green Onyx
Green Onyx speaks to the heart of happiness, brotherhood, and loving communication. It is a wonderful stone of friendship.
Opal
Opal is used the help release inhibitions and promote spontaneous action. Opals invoke faithfulness and loyalty in relationships, and bring opportunities for growth. Opal is also used to enhance psychic ability and awareness.
Pearl
Pearls are associated with the moon and Lunar energies, and have long been worn to bring favor from Isis. They are soothing, calming, and bring inner peace to the bearer.
Peridot
Peridot brings a happy, friendly energy, and aids in forming friendships and friendly bonds. It lessens anger and jealousy, bringing inner peace. As a healing stone, it strengthens and regenerates the body. Peridot dispels fears, guilt, and depression. It is used to counteract negative emotions and for the healing of the spirit. It can be worn as a means of gaining foresight and divine inspiration.
Quartz (Clear)
Clear quartz amplifies, focuses and stores energy and information. It can be used for healing, meditation, setting up shields or wards, to banish harmful energies, and to enhance the aura.
Quartz (Rose)
Rose Quartz is a soothing, calming stone. It is used for love, and to increase self love and feelings of self worth. It is clearing and healing to the heart. It balances yin-yang energies and heals emotional wounds.
Quartz (Smokey)
Smokey Quartz is a very grounding and balancing stone, reconnecting us with the Earth and Her strength and stability.
Quartz (Tourmalated)
Tourmalated Quartz, is a very powerful combination of clear quartz and Black Tourmaline.
Black Tourmaline is an excellent protective stone, its action strengthens and amplifies energy sent at it, and then returns it to it's back to its sender, much like a mirror spell. The natural amplification qualities of Clear Quartz heighten this effect.
Rhodonite
Rhodonite is a stone of abiding love and inner balance, and helps us to become more aware of our purpose in the Cosmos. It also enhances the ability to grasp and understand new concepts and teachings.
Ruby
The ruby fashioned into a cabochon of a specific shape was known as "carbuncle" centuries ago. There is no stone of this name, though many books list carbuncle as a separate stone. Another example of the strangely convoluted history of gemstones! This beautiful stone was considered the most perfect offering to Buddha in China and Krishna in India. A widely held belief: Dreaming of rubies indicates coming success in business or money matters. If dreamt of by a gardener or farmer, the ruby denotes a good harvest. This stone is one of many that is thought to grow dark when danger or negativity approaches its owner or when illness threatens. Whether this was physically viewed, symbolic, or an actual change in color or clarity of the stone is undetermined, but was probably a psychic phenomenon. In this sense the ruby can be used as a tool of scrying, as can most of the transparent stones.
Black Star Sapphire
Black Star Sapphire is a very protective stone, and enhances grounding and centering. It relives stress and puts us more in tune with our intuition.
Sapphire
Sapphire works to stimulate the throat chakra and third eye, assisting in matters of communication and clear thought. Associated with Jupiter, it also can be used for growth, expansion, and new beginnings. The Greeks identified the sapphire with Apollo, and the stone was worn when consulting oracles such as the famous one at Delphi.
Silver
Silver is considered a psychic metal, enhancing and empowering the psychic abilities of the bearer. It is also considered to be protective, calming, and to have money-drawing vibrations. Silver as a metal is associated with Lunar energies.
Sodalite
Sodalite brings us a clear understanding of the truth in matters, and an awareness of the bigger picture of cosmic intent behind actions. It is used for communication, especially in groups or gatherings.
Sugalite
Sugalite assists in connecting the spiritual world to the physical plane. It enhances self confidence, and is used in healing on cancer patients.
Sunstone
Sunstone is used to encourage a sense of independence, dispel fear, and to increase energy. In ancient Greece, it represented the Sun God, bringing vitality and happiness to those who wore it.
Tanzanite
Tanzanite is a stone of high magic, bringing personal power and the Will into balance in the act of manifestation of desires. It is used for communication with the spirit world, and can assist in decision making that invokes the intuitive powers of the Higher Self.
Tiger Eye
Tiger Eye brings us strength, courage, and passion; it has long been used to increase wealth and power on the physical plane. It aids in practicality and allows for a greater awareness of personal freedom.
Tourmaline
Tourmaline causes the wearer to be more flexible, more understanding and more objective in purpose and reason. It is calming. Each person has a different response to this stone. It causes a reaction in the intestinal tract. Black and Crystal-removes negativity and cleanses. It has electric and magnetic properties.
Tourmaline (Black)
Black Tourmaline is an excellent protective stone, its action strengthens and amplifies energy sent at it, and then returns it to it's back to its sender, much like a mirror spell. The natural amplification qualities of Clear Quartz heighten this effect. Tourmaline brings us balance, understanding, and inner strength; it can also be used to open one's awareness to the spiritual world. It can be used to attract success and prosperity and in matters of the heart. Black Tourmaline deflects and grounds negativity, reduces anxiety and depression, and increases vitality. It is an excellent protective stone, its action strengthens and amplifies energy sent at it, and then returns it, much like a mirror spell.
Turquoise
Turquoise is a wonderful stone for any traveler; certain Native American tribes used it for protection when traveling. It is also a stone of communication, happiness, and spirituality.
Turquoise is a sacred stone to many American Indian tribes. The Navajo used ground turquoise and coral in creating sand paintings to bring rain to the parched land. Other native inhabitants of the South-western United States and Mexico placed turquoise in tombs to guard the dead. The Pueblos laid turquoise under the floor in offering to the deities, when a house, or kiva, was built. A piece of turquoise was a nearly required tool in the Apache shaman's medicine, or power, bag. Other American peoples attached turquoise to bows to ensure accurate shots. Besides these and many more uses, turquoise has been prized for its beautiful color and potent magical properties.
Zoisite (Ruby)
Ruby Zoisite is a powerful protective stone, setting up a "grid" like energy field that repels negativity and brings inner security. It also creates a "bridge" of communication between the conscious thinking mind and the infinite subconscious All, assisting in the discovery of and enhancement of innate talents and abilities
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