Crystal Uses
Agate
Agate is grounding, bringing emotional, intellectual, and spiritual balance. It has the ability to harmonise yin and yang. It is a soothing and calming stone, it works slowly but brings great strength. It stabilises the aura, eliminating and transforming negative energies.
Amazonite
With a powerful filtering action, Amazonite blocks geopathic stress. At a mental level it filters information passing through the brain, and combines it with intuition. An extremely soothing stone that calms the brain and nervous system and aligns the physical body with the etheric. It balances masculine and feminine energies, and many aspects of the personality.
Amber
With a strong connection to the earth, amber is a grounding stone for higher energies. A powerful healer and cleanser that draws disease from the body, absorbs negative energies and transmutes them into healing forces Amber is stabilising and motivating, and can help counteract depressive or suicidal tendencies.It stimulates the intellect, promotes positivity, creativity, balance, and patience.
Amethyst
An extremely powerful and protective stone with a high spiritual vibration. It guards against psychic attack, transmuting the energy into love. It has strong healing and cleansing powers, and enhances spiritual awareness and balance. When meditating, it turns thoughts away from the mundane into tranquillity and understanding.
Aquamarine
A stone of courage. It’s calming energies reduce stress and quiet the mind. It harmonises it’s surroundings and protects against pollutants. It has an affinity with sensitive people, and has the power to invoke tolerance of others. It overcomes judgmentalism, and gives support to anyone who is overcome by responsibility. It is useful for closure on all levels, clears blocked communication and promotes self-expression.
Aventurine
A very positive stone of prosperity. This crystal defuses negative situations and turns them around. Reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. It stabilises ones state of mind, stimulates perception and enhances creativity.
Aventurine
A very positive stone of prosperity. This crystal defuses negative situations and turns them around. Reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. It stabilises ones state of mind, stimulates perception and enhances creativity.
Azurite
Guides psychic and intuitive development. It urges the soul toward enlightenment. It cleanses and stimulates the third eye and attunes to spiritual guidance. It facilitates entering a meditative and channelling state. It is a powerful healing stone, helping understanding of the effect of the mind and emotions on the body. Brings understanding and new perspectives – expands the mind.
Bloodstone
Powerful healer. Bloodstone gives courage and teaches how to avoid dangerous situations by strategic withdrawal and flexibility. Grounding and protecting, it keeps out undesirable influences.
Blue Lace Agate
The energy of Blue Lace Agate is soft and soothing, bringing peace of mind. It is effective at activating and healing the throat chakra. One of the great nurturing and supporting stones, it will neutralise anger, infection, inflammation and fever.
Calcite
A powerful amplifier which cleans negative energies from the environment and body, and heightens your energy. It is an active crystal, speeding development and growth. It connects emotions with the intellect, creating emotional intelligence. Alleviates emotional stress ands replaces it with serenity. It is a stabilising stone, enhancing trust in oneself and strengthening the ability to overcome setbacks.
Carnelian
Grounds and anchors you in the present reality. A stabilising stone with high energy, it is excellent for revitalising vitality and motivation and stimulating creativity. It has the ability to cleanse other stones. It gives courage and promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy and motivates for success in business and other matters. Helps you to trust yourself and your perceptions.
Citrine
A powerful cleanser and regenerator. Warming, energising and highly creative. Absorbs, transmutes, dissipates and grounds negative energy. It is a happy and generous stone that encourages you to share what you have, yet helps you hold onto your wealth. It enhances concentration and revitalises the mind. Excellent for overcoming depression, fears and phobias. It promotes joy in life, releasing negative traits, fears and feelings at all levels.
Emerald
Emerald facilitates inspiration and infinite patience. It is life-affirming with great integrity. Encourages physical, emotional and mental equilibrium. Eliminates negativity and brings positive actions. Gives strength of character to overcome misfortunes of life. Stone of regeneration and recovery and can heal negative emotions. Enhances the ability to enjoy life to the fullest. It is a wisdom stone promoting discernment and truth, and aiding eloquent expression.
Fire Agate
Fire Agate facilitates a deep connection to the earth, and has a calming energy, bringing security and safety. With strong grounding powers, it supports during difficult times. It has a strong protective function, especially against ill-wishing. Building a protective shield around the body, it returns harm back to it’s source so that it understands the harm that it is doing.
Fluorite
Highly protective. Cleanses and stabilises aura. Grounds and integrates spiritual energies. Promotes unbiased impartiality, & heightens intuitive powers. Used in healing, it draws off negative energies and stress of all kinds. Helps in understanding the effect of the mind and emotions on the body.
Garnet
Powerfully energising and regenerating stone, it cleanses and re-energises chakras. Revitalises, purifies and balances energy, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate. Useful in a crisis, it helps in situations where there seems to be no way out or where life is fragmented or traumatic, strengthens survival instinct bringing courage and hope in seemingly hopeless situations.
Hematite
Particularly effective for grounding and protection. It harmonises body and spirit. It has a strong yang element and balances the meridians, redressing yin imbalances. It dissolves negativity and prevents negative energies from entering the aura, restoring peace and harmony to the body. It removes self limitations and aids expansion. It helps you come to terms with mistakes and accept them as learning experiences rather than seeing them as disasters.
Howlite
A calming stone, it stills the mind and is excellent for sleep or meditation. Links into the spiritual dimensions opening attunement, and preparing the mind to receive wisdom and insights. It helps teaches patience and helps eliminate rage and uncontrolled anger.
Jasper
Supreme nurturer. Sustains and supports in times of stress and brings tranquillity and wholeness. Aligns chakras. Imparts determination to all pursuits
Red/brecciated – gently stimulating, grounds energy. Great ‘worry bead’
Jet
Draws out negative energy and alleviates unreasonable fears. Worn around the neck it is a stone of protection.
Kunzite
An extremely spiritual stone with a high vibration. It radiates peace and connects you to universal love. It induces a deep and centred meditative state, and is beneficial for those who find it hard to enter a meditative state.
Labradorite
Mystical and protective, bringer of light. Deflects unwanted energies from aura and prevents energy leakage. Barrier to negative energies shed through healing. Facilitates intuition. Calms overactive mind and energises imagination. Bringing new ideas.
Malachite
Powerful stone, but handle with caution. Amplifies both positive and negative energies. Important protection stone but should be cleansed before and after use.
Moonstone
Stone of new beginnings. Strongly linked to intuition. Enhances psychic abilities, and encourages acceptance of psychic gifts. Calms overreactions and emotional triggers. . Soothes emotional instability and stress, and stabilises emotions.
Onyx
Strength giving. Support in difficult circumstances, and in times of enormous mental or physical stress. Centres energy and aligning it with higher power accessing higher guidance. Promotes vigour, steadfastness and stamina. Good memory stone.
Peridot
A protective stone for the aura. This stone is a powerful cleanser. It opens, cleanses and activates the heart and solar plexus charkas and releases “old baggage”. Burdens, guilt or obsessions are cleared. It teaches that holding onto people or the past is counterproductive. It shows how to detach yourself from outside influences and look to your own higher energies for guidance. It releases negative patterns and old vibrations so a new frequency can be accessed. Enhances confidence and assertion without aggression.
Phantom Quartz
Promotes universal awareness. Stimulates healing for the planet, and to activate healing abilities in individuals (it connects to a spirit guide and enhances meditation). Amethyst phantom – access pre-birth state and plan for the present lifetime.
Quartz
The most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet. Absorbs, stores, releases and regulates energy, and is excellent for unblocking it. Acupuncture needles coated in quartz increase in effect by 10%.
Rhodonite
An emotional balancer that nurtures love and encourages the brotherhood of humanity. It grounds energy, balances yin and yang and aids in achieving ones highest potential. It clears away emotional wounds and scars from the past and brings up for transmutation painful emotions such as festering resentment or anger. It has a strong resonance with forgiveness and assists in reconciliation.
Rhodochrosite
For selfless love and compassion. It teaches the heart to assimilate painful feelings without shutting down, and removes denial. It clears the solar plexus and base charkas. Gently bringing painful and repressed feelings to the surface, it allows them to be acknowledged then dissipated through emotional release. It encourages a positive attitude and enhances dream states and creativity.
Rose Quartz
Used for unconditional love and infinite peace. Most important crystal for heart and heart chakra. Best emotional healer releasing unexpressed emotions and heartache and transmuting emotional conditioning that no longer serves. Soothes internalised pain and heals deprivation.
Ruby
Ruby imparts vigour to life, it energises and balances but may overstimulate in delicate people. It encourages passion for life, but never in self-destructive way. Improves motivation and setting realistic goals. It is a powerful shield against psychic attack and vampirism of heart energy. Brings up anger or negative energy for transmutation and encourages removal of anything negative from your path.
Rutilated Quartz
Effective integrator of energy at all levels. It has a perfect balance of cosmic light and is a illuminator for the soul promoting spiritual growth. Cleanses and energises the aura.
Serpentine
An earthing stone that aids meditation and spiritual exploration. It clears the charkas and opens psychic abilities to help understanding the spiritual basis of life. It helps you feel more in control of your life, and corrects emotional and mental imbalances and assists the conscious direction of healing energy toward problem areas.
Tiger's Eye
A protective stone. It shows the correct use of power and brings out integrity. It differentiates between wishful thinking between what you want and what you really need. Helpful in resolving dilemmas and inner conflict, especially those brought about by pride and wilfulness. Alleviates depression and lifts moods.
Tourmaline
Cleanses, purifies and transforms dense energy into a lighter vibration. It grounds spiritual energy, clears and balances the charkas, and forms a protective shield around the body. Excellent for balancing and connecting the charkas, and rebalance the meridians. It banishes the feeling of being a victim and attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance and prosperity. It is a powerful mental healer, balancing the right and left hemispheres of the brain and transmuting negative thought patterns into positive ones.
Tourmalinated Quartz
Combines the energies of both quartz and tourmaline. It is reputed to be very grounding, and aiding with inner balance and strength. It deflects and grounds negatitivity, decreasing anxiety and depression. A protective stone. A grounding stone that strengthens the body’s energy field against external invasion and deflects detrimental environmental influences. Harmonises disparate and opposing energies and polarities, and turns negative thoughts and energies into positive ones.
Turquoise
A very efficient healer, providing solace for the spirit, and well-being for the body. It promotes spiritual atunement. It is a purification stone: dispelling negative energy.
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