THE CRYSTAL PROPERTIES INDEX

ABALONE
Abalone is not a crystal or mineral, it is polished mollusk shell! It helps calm you down in emotional situations by soothing the nerves. It is known to stimulate and enhance metaphysical abilities, expand the imagination, and help you see the beauty around you.

AGATE
Agate is a calming and stabilizing stone, increasing optimism by easing emotional stress. It also promotes self acceptance and confidence by acting as a shield to the aura. Agate balances yin and yang energies bringing emotional, physical, and spiritual balance. It has a cleansing quality that ushers out energy that is stagnant and not helping you grow while inviting in a nurturing and more productive energy.

AMAZONITE
Amazonite facilitates loving and compassionate communication by clearing, balancing, and bridging the heart and throat chakras. It nurtures constructive and creative expression, protecting the heart from doubt and insecurity. It acts as a great mediator of intellect and intuition – encouraging you to draw more of your own conclusions which in turn promotes self determination. It works to help you understand your true path and put in place boundaries so that you can get yourself where you want to be. It is a powerful manifestation stone that can be programmed — speak your wishes and wildest dreams to it and it will put in a good word with the universe. Amazonite is also known to block geopathic stress and to protect the wearer against electromagnetic pollution like wifi and phone stress. 

AMETHYST
Amethyst is known to work with the higher chakras involving communication, thought, and spirituality. It calms the nervous system and the brain creating a peaceful environment for times of thought and meditation. It also helps open and access the third eye and crown chakras, enhancing spiritual awareness and metaphysical abilities, also good for dream recall. It harmonizes the physical, mental, and spiritual bodies which cleanses the aura. Amethyst is used as a purifying crystal (like a natural tranquilizer) to eliminate negative energies and protect from geopathic stress. It has a sobering effect on overindulgence and helps overcome addictions. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

APATITE
Apatite assists with structuring thinking and bringing disordered ideas into a more cohesive focus, promoting concentration, motivation, and problem solving. Providing energy for the base chakra, apatite clears frustration and supports passion without guilt. It also aids with communication and induces an openness and a social ease, drawing off negativity about oneself or others. Apatite is also known to expand awareness of other levels of consciousness – expanding the limits of the mind in general. 

AQUAMARINE
Aquamarine is a powerful cleanser of the water element, seeing that we are over 70 percent water this is an important stone for keeping us calm cool and collected. It clears the throat chakra which aids with creative verbal expression and harmonious communication, soothing feelings of grief and loneliness. Aquamarine is helpful in understanding underlying emotions and interpreting how you feel – clearing away emotional toxicity and encouraging inner peace. It can be a powerful stone in meditation, shielding the aura and invoking higher states of consciousness.

AVENTURINE
Aventurine is effective at balancing and opening up the heart chakra, clearing away negative emotions and soothing powerful negative feelings like anger and rage. Stabilizing the mind, aventurine allows you to recognize alternatives and new possibilities and encourages you to establish what makes you happy and unhappy. It calms the heart, the body, and the mind creating an emotional harmony that promotes the expression of gratitude, hope, and optimism. Aventurine is an extremely effective stone for neutralizing and eliminating electromagnetic stress from the aura.

BLACK TOURMALINE
Black Tourmaline is a powerful protection stone, deflecting negative energies and electromagnetic pollution from inflicting the aura and physical body. It cleanses, purifies, and detoxifies the system and grounds the chakras – creating a clear path for spiritual, physical, and emotional healing. It changes negative thought patterns into positive ones, and attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. Read more in our mineral monday feature

BLOODSTONE
Bloodstone is a dark variety of quartz with red jasper inclusions. Bloodstone strengthens the body, cleanses the blood, and promotes emotional health – encouraging self confidence, mental stamina, commitment to spiritual goals, and strength to overcome obstacles. Meditation with bloodstone before embarking on anything new is helpful because it grounds and balances the impulsive energy of the base chakra (red) with the cautious energy of the heart chakra (green). It is a protective stone that guards from negative influences while also teaching the notion that chaos often precedes change and transformation. 

BLUE LACE AGATE
Blue lace agate great for activating and healing the throat chakra. Blue stones help to enhance the quality of your communication and ensure it is thoughtful and intentional. It is important that you learn to communicate in a way that generates positive energy going out and coming in, otherwise you will be stuck with toxic communication and the inability to express yourself. The gentle and nurturing energy of this stone helps one listen, process, think, respond in a way that is clear, meaningful, and from your truth. It helps enhance stability and balance by encouraging a sense of clarity and peacefulness which helps one accept their emotions and feel more at ease. Read more in our mineral monday feature.

BOTSWANA AGATE
Botswana agate promotes inner stability, balance, and composure. It’s warm and protective energy encourages security and self confidence. It provides the strength to find solutions to our problems instead of dwelling on difficulties and setbacks that we may hyperfocus on -- which perpetuates cycles of feeling stuck or stagnant. It helps with that final push needed to accomplish things we’ve been working on for longer than we need to due to feelings of lack and insecurity. Agate enhances mental function by improving concentration, perception, and analytical abilities. It also helps alleviate destructive thoughts and assists in overcoming fears!! A great stone for travel, it wards off physical harm especially during transportation. 

CARNELIAN
Carnelian is a stabilizing stone with high energy. It assists you in trusting yourself and your perceptions by energizing the sacral and root chakras – bringing courage and vitality. It inspires self expression and creative problem solving when facing personal challenges. It is also known as a stone of abundance that motivates growth and success. It helps you express yourself truly and without any shame or negative feelings. Ancient Egyptians (and myself) are known to have worn carnelian to calm feelings of anger, stress, jealousy, and envy. Carnelian urges you to replace your doubts with confidence and action that will make those negative patterns a thing of the past. You have everything it takes to be your best self, sometimes it just takes a little boost to your inner flame to get you back on track. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

CITRINE
Citrine stimulates creative thinking, natural wisdom, and inspiration – freeing the mind of limitations and encouraging a path towards success and abundance. It cleanses and brings the energy field (aura) back into alignment with the physical body, restoring balance and an inner calm after times of stress and trauma. Citrine clears tension and feelings of depression which promotes self expression, motivation, and the opportunity for ideas to become realities. It activates the solar plexus and allows you to let go of all that is not serving you and your growth.

EMERALD
Emerald is directly associated with the heart chakra and stimulates love in its most pure forms of expression by balancing and purifying the emotions. It is said to enhance wisdom and inner knowing – in turn enhancing the love and integrity of a relationship. Emerald encourages domestic bliss, loyalty, unity, unconditional love, and partnership. It also allows for clear and pure expression of ones feelings. It is effective at inviting in people and opportunities that will nurture your heart and serve you positively on your true path. Emerald will also protect you against those who intend to harm your heart. 

FLUORITE
Fluorite cleanses the heart chakra, easing turbulent emotions and bringing a sense of calm, peace, and renewal. It attempts to balance the mind with the emotions, enabling clear thinking and decision making. Green fluorite supports and encourages mental expansion, creative thinking, and new growth. Purple shades of fluorite are associated with spiritual expansion and the awareness of higher levels of consciousness. Meditating and relaxing with fluorite brings a sense of peace to mind, body, and spirit. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

GARNET
Garnet balances the mind, body, and emotions, bringing the heart into alignment. It helps discard old and unhealthy thought patterns and encourages new opportunities for abundance and vitality. It is helpful in dire circumstances — stimulating courage, hope, and the survival instinct. It offers protection and grounds you in the moment where you can identify what makes you feel secure and what you need to work on to feel more safe. Opening up the heart, it inspires love and devotion, as well as bestowing self confidence and self expression.  It is great as a personal power stone, allowing you to harness and understand your passions and intentions without doubts and negative patterns trying to slow you down. I feel like it connects the root chakra with the heart, supercharging your sense of security and releasing a flow of emotional expression that further informs your path.

GRAPE AGATE
Agate is a calming and stabilizing stone, increasing optimism by easing emotional stress. It promotes self acceptance and confidence by acting as a shield to negative influence and thought patterns. Agate balances yin and yang energies –  bringing emotional, physical, and spiritual balance. It has a cleansing quality that ushers out energy that is stagnant while inviting in a nurturing and more productive vibration. Grape agate works closely with the higher chakras (throat, third eye, crown) to inspire calm and clear communication and connection. It urges you to express yourself fully and truly and through that you will nurture your relationship with yourself and with those around you. Grape agate is a great aid for meditation as it inspires deep introspection and can connect you to your guides, providing further insight on your path.

GREEN TOURMALINE
Green, the color of growth and expansion, is associated with the heart chakra. Tourmalines in general are a protective stone that shield the aura from negative energies and influences. Changing negative and overactive thought patterns into positive ones, tourmaline attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. Green tourmaline soothes and encourages the heart chakra to open and expand into a state of unconditional love, stimulating a particular appreciation of the beauty in nature. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

HERKIMER DIAMONDS
Herkimer Diamonds are a form of quartz that has isometric faceted sides, deeming it a diamond – geometrically speaking. They were first discovered in Herkimer, NY and it is where all of our stones are sourced. In addition to the energy amplifying and cleansing properties of clear quartz, Herkimer Diamonds stimulate the full awareness of spiritual energy within the physical body, enhancing metaphysical abilities. They open and expand the energy field or aura and encourage one to recognize blockages and areas that need work, promoting spiritual growth. They amplify the truest parts of yourself and help you on your path to becoming your truest self. Acting as almost a magnetic amplifier it attracts things to you that are meant for you and have been floating about the universe waiting for you to find them. Not all stones are high vibration enough to warrant a disclaimer but this stone has a force of its own and it will pair with your energy to do things that are truly right for you and you just have to go with the flow and accept the opportunities and change as they come!!!! Read more in our mineral monday feature!

JASPER
Jasper is a powerful nurturing, cleansing, and healing stone — working gently but effectively to clear physical and psychic impurities from the body and mind. It brings joy, expansion, renewed interests, and free flowing creativity by reducing stress and soothing the nervous system. Jasper is a highly centering and grounding stone, promoting self expression and self confidence. It is also protective, absorbing negative energy, it balances yin and yang and aligns the physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies. 

KYANITE
Kyanite’s crystalline structure makes it a powerful conductor of energy that never needs to be cleansed, working like a filter to transmute negative into positive. It promotes a constant flow of energy, allowing you to move through blockages with ease. Releasing old patterns that no longer serve you encourages spiritual growth and becoming your true self. Kyanite enhances metaphysical abilities and is powerful when used in meditation, it can even charge other stones by being in the vicinity of them. It is a powerful aligner of the chakras, releasing any tension and returning our energy centers to their proper rotations. Kyanite will help you bring harmony into all your interactions, allowing you to offer that aligning and peaceful energy to others. Read more in our mineral monday feature.

LABRADORITE
Labradorite is considered a powerful stone of transformation and expansion – awakening metaphysical abilities and the awareness of other states of consciousness and energy. With this stone, analysis and rationality are balanced with inner sight and intuition. It holds esoteric knowledge and may promote extrasensory perception by means of past life recall, clairvoyance, or lucid dreaming for example. A highly mystical and protective stone, labradorite deflects unwanted energies from the aura (including people’s projections) which helps to banish fears and insecurities, strengthening trust in the universe. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

LAPIS LAZULI
Lapis Lazuli was a favored stone in Ancient Egypt, known to open the heart to love and to lead the soul into immortality. It activates the third eye and crown chakras, bringing awareness to spiritual purpose and promoting you to express yourself through creativity, compassion, and honesty. Lapis harmonizes the physical, spiritual, and emotional bodies bringing deep inner self knowledge. A protective stone, it returns negative energies to their source.

MOONSTONE
Moonstone links and balances feminine and masculine energies, amplifying the ability to be more receptive to inner emotions – encouraging reflection and understanding. It has a powerful receptive feminine energy that enhances metaphysical abilities – opening the mind to intuition, serendipity, and synchronicity. Like the moon, the stone is reflective and reminds you that everything is part of a cycle of change. Moonstone helps balance the hormones and assists in times of hormonal change like the menstrual cycle, puberty, and menopause. It is also a stone of new beginnings and considered “the travelers stone” bringing luck to those on a journey.

ONYX
Onyx encourages inner stillness and meditation, helping one restore their system after being overloaded with stress by finding rest and new inspiration. It is a protective stone, absorbing negative energy and balancing yin and yang it aligns the physical, emotional, and spiritual bodies. Onyx is also a strength-giving stone that allows you to “view” your future and be a master of your own destiny, helping you find and embark on the path to be your truest self. 

OPAL 
Opals are emotionally supportive stones that stabilize the mood and help increase trust in ones feelings. They are associated with vitality, passion, love, and desire – making it a seductive stone. Opal expands cosmic consciousness and enhances metaphysical abilities and mystical visions. Opal strengthens intuition and insight while providing strong protection while doing inner work, meditation, and shamanic journeys. They also help to heal the earth’s energy field, repairing depletions by reenergizing and stabilizing the grid.

PERIDOT 
Peridot is effective at cleansing the heart chakra of negative emotions and the solar plexus of mental blocks – neutralizing physical, emotional, and mental toxicity. It enhances mental clarity and aids with decision making. Showing how to detach oneself from outside influences and to look to your own higher energies for guidance, peridot teaches that holding on to people or the past is counterproductive. Peridot clears old patterns that no longer serve you and encourages new experiences. This visionary crystal helps you understand your destiny and spiritual purpose.  

PINK TOURMALINE
Pink Tourmaline soothes the heart chakra and eases anxiety and turbulent emotion. Tourmalines in general are a protective stone that shield the aura from negative energies and influences. Changing negative and overactive thought patterns into positive ones, tourmaline attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. Pink is the color of unconditional love, the frequency associated with a strong and balanced heart chakra. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

PREHNITE 
Prehnite is valued as a calming and soothing stone. It helps expand the heart chakra into unconditional love by releasing emotional pain from the past and encouraging new beginnings. It is a gentle detoxer for the lymphatic system. It is a good stone for a healer to heal themselves with as it replenishes energy that may have been depleted. When working with energy, it is important not to lose sight of the balance between giving and receiving. For every ounce of energy you expend on helping others, prehnite ensures you fill yourself back up. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

PYRITE
Traditionally, Pyrite is known as a stone of luck, helping to attract abundance, wealth and prosperity to the user, via its creative energies of manifestation, and its encouragement of following one's dreams. This quality makes Pyrite excellent for grid work and rituals. Pyrite not only deflects negative energies, but also helps to release negative and inhibiting patterns of behavior. Pyrite can enhance one's will during challenging times and supports the action necessary for personal growth and success. Meditation with Pyrite can encourage greater frequency in moments of inspiration, and its grounding action allows these higher frequencies to be grounded into the physical world. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

QUARTZ 
Quartz works at a vibrational level attuned to the needs of the user – absorbing, storing, releasing, and regulating energy as necessary. Quartz crystals can be programmed to reflect the intentions that the person working with them has set, amplifying the potential for those intentions to manifest. Quartz is also a cleansing stone that works to remove impurities and psychic debris from the energy field that may permeate the human body. Increasing concentration, it realigns and refocuses the mind, body, and spirit towards clear goals. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

RED JASPER
Jasper is a powerful nurturing, cleansing, and healing stone, working gently but effectively to clear physical and psychic impurities from the body and mind. It brings joy, expansion, renewed interests, and creativity by reducing stress and soothing the nervous system. Jasper is a highly centering and grounding stone, promoting self expression and self confidence. Red jasper is linked to the root chakra and creates a grounded connection to the earth’s energy. It is gently energizing and can restore a tired body by strengthening the energy field and protecting from negative energies.

ROSE QUARTZ 
Rose Quartz is directly linked with the heart chakra but it can be used on any part of the body where the powerfully healing energy of love is needed. It attunes to the user and balances issues of love including self love, love given, and love received. Holding and meditating with rose quartz is an effective way to soothe and regulate emotional stress. It eases anxiety and fear, bringing the warmth of compassion and unconditional love to the energy field. Rose Quartz also awakens an appreciation of the beauty in all things. 

RUBY
Rubies have been valued as a symbol of royalty since early times as tokens of abundance, strength, and power. Rubies increase life force in the body and ignite your passion. Interacting with and protecting the heart chakra, ruby activates feelings of love and compassion. They also invoke a strong sense of renewed energy and strength – improving self confidence and courage and the motivation for personal and spiritual growth. I like to think that rubies hold secrets of the past that inform the path of the future. In my experience they invite in opportunities that offer you abundance and growth. A big personal power stone!

RUTILATED QUARTZ
Quartz works at a vibrational level attuned to the needs of the user – absorbing, storing, releasing, and regulating energy as necessary. Quartz crystals can be programmed to reflect the intentions that the person working with them has set, amplifying the potential for those intentions to manifest. Quartz is also a cleansing stone that works to remove impurities and psychic debris from the energy field that may permeate the human body. Increasing concentration, it realigns and refocuses the mind, body, and spirit towards clear goals. Rutilated quartz harnesses these properties as well as a boost to intuition and confidence. Rutile gets its color form little streaks of titanium oxide that look like glowing gold hairs — it has also been referred to as the Venus stone because it is reminiscent of her gorgeous locks. It clears all blockages and aligns the chakras to allow you to be fully present in the moment as your truest self. It is an effective personal power stone.

SAPPHIRE
Sapphire is known as “the wisdom stone” as it links the throat, third eye, and crown chakras – enhancing spiritual and psychic perception. Sapphire has a long history as a token of royalty and is said to alleviate spiritual confusion while attracting prosperity. It focuses and calms the mind, releasing unwanted thought patterns and tensions – encouraging self confidence, self expression, and truthful communication. Sapphire is restores vitality, stimulating life force and your ability to take on all around you.

SELENITE 
Selenite is a powerful conductor of energy and acts as a cleanser that clears away physical and emotional toxins and negative mental patterns. It facilitates the flow of high frequency energy to permeate all the chakra centers, aligning them with spiritual purpose. When placed in the home it maintains a positive energy in the space and eliminates negative energies and influences that may attach themselves to you. It is a stone that never needs cleansing and is able to cleanse other stones by being in their vicinity. Do not get selenite wet as it will deteriorate and lose some shine. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

SMOKY QUARTZ
Smoky quartz is a protective stone, its soothing and enveloping energy creates a safe and nurturing space for the user. It grounds and focuses ones energy in the present moment, bringing clarity and encouraging you to rest and nourish yourself with the grounding energy of the earth. It can relax tension and bad feelings by neutralizing negative energy and eliminating electromagnetic pollution from the energy field. Read more in our mineral monday feature!

SUNSTONE
Sunstone balances the sacral chakra with the solar plexus chakra to aid the mind and emotions to work together harmoniously. It is said to harness the energy of the sun, and is known to help lift depression and anxiety – bringing clarity, a feeling of expansion, and positive decision making. Sunstone heightens intuition and allows one to link to their future in a way that guides them to the path to become ones truest self. 

TIGERS EYE
Tigers Eye is used as a shield for the energy field, deflecting and clearing negative energy from the aura. Combining earth energy with that of the sun, it draws spiritual energies towards the earth – anchoring the lower chakras during meditation for enhanced spiritual expansion. It eliminates tension and mental blocks from the solar plexus chakra, dealing with issues of self-worth, criticism, and blocked creativity. It supports integrity and assists in accomplishing goals by differentiating wants from needs.

TOPAZ
Topaz clears the solar plexus of negativity while also clearing the mind – opening it to higher wisdom and guidance. It clarifies intentions linked to a higher purpose and aids one in finding their true path. It stimulates a trust in the universe that allows you to “be” rather than “do” – eliminating doubt and uncertainty. It is known to be a stone of love, good fortune, affirmations and manifestation. It releases tension in all the chakras and induces a pure relaxation and sense of joy.

TURQUOISE 
Turquoise is a stone used for millennia for personal protection, defending against negative energies and influences. Promoting spiritual attunement and aiding communication between the spiritual and physical,  turquoise provides solace for the mind and body. It soothes and balances the heart chakra, enabling communication from the highest source of love and acceptance while allowing you to express yourself truthfully. It is a stone of calm and clear communication and of enhancing interpersonal relationships.