Gemstone Attributes

Agate

Agate is a soothing and calming stone, one that works to bring strength and protection from harm. Agates promote self-confidence and courage, it balances yin and yang, positive and negative forces. It also enhances concentration, creativity and intellect, a very suitable stone for students. Agate stabilizes the aura, transforming negative energy. It is associated with the solar plexus and heart chakras, healing emotional suffering, fears and obsessions.

Amazonite

Amazonite is a powerful filtering stone, blocking geopathic stress, absorbing microwaves, cell phone radiation and electromagnetic pollution. It calms the brain and nervous system, alleviates worry and wards off negative energy. Amazonite opens  the third eye chakra and enhances intuition.

Amethyst

Beautiful amethyst is such a powerful and protective stone. With its high spiritual vibration, amethyst protects against psychic attack and surrounds one with love. It is a wonderful stone for meditation with its healing and cleansing powers. An excellent stone for calming the mind and focusing one’s thoughts; balancing one’s emotions. Spiritually, it enhances one’s intuition and opens up the third eye chakra. Amethyst is an excellent stone to aid peaceful sleep.

Aquamarine

Aquamarine possesses calming energy to reduce stress and calm the mind. A great stone for meditation and spiritual awareness. Aquamarine protects the aura and aligns the chakras. It is associated with the throat chakra and helps improve communication.

Beryl

To calm a stressful, hectic life, wear this beryl stretch bracelet as this gemstone assists in focusing only on what needs to be done and helps rid unnecessary baggage. Beryl opens up the crown and solar plexus chakras. These beryl gemstones come in a variety of pretty soft blue, green and pink hues.

Black Lava Rocks

Black lava rocks are associated with the root chakra and is a grounding stone, bringing focus and balance to our centre for strength and energy. This stone is also considered a fertility stone, known in ancient times to assist women with infertility or low libido.

Black Onyx

Black onyx imparts strength and self-confidence. It aligns ones energy with the higher power, accessing higher guidance.

Black Spinel

Black spinel is a stone for energy renewal, rejuvenation and encouragement in difficult times. It opens the chakras and assists the movement of kundalini energy up the spine.

Blue Chalcedony

Blue chalcedony brings the body, spirit, mind and emotions in harmony, transforming negative energy into joy. It opens the mind the new ideas and acceptance to new situations, thereby helping one look forward optimistically.

Botswana Agate

A very gentle and loving stone, Botswana Agate is such a calming stone when worn. This stone helps those with repressed emotional issues to release the repression, allowing for healing. It is a ‘change’ stone, helping to deal with difficult change and grief, making the transition less painful. Botswana Agate is especially useful with overcoming addictions and other self-destructive behavior.

Carnelian

Wearing carnelian helps to instill courage and trust in oneself, especially after any sort of abuse. Carnelian is a stone of vitality with high energy and a protector against rage, envy or other negative emotions. Carnelian activates the base/root chakra, influences and female reproductive organs and increases fertility. Carnelian also attracts abundance.

Citrine

Citrine is a stone of abundance, attracting wealth, prosperity and success. It is a happy, generous stone which protects the aura and cleanses the chakras, especially the solar plexus and sacral chakra.

Fluorite

Fluorite is a highly protective stone, especially on a psychic level. It cleanses and stabilizes the aura and is very effective against computer and electromagnetic stress. Fluorite cleanses, purifies, dispels and reorganizes anything within the body that is not in perfect order. Fluorite grounds spiritual energies and heightens intuitive powers. This stone helps overcome chaos. It also increases self confidence. Fluorite is also an excellent stone for students as it helps one organize and process information, increasing concentration. Fluorite is associated with the third eye chakra and is excellent meditation stone.

Garnet

Garnet is a powerfully energizing and regenerating stone, helping to cleanse and reenergize the chakras. It revitalizes, purifies and balances energy, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate. Historically, garnets have been used as a protective talisman. Green garnet helps with relaxation and is said to be beneficial for the mucus membranes and skin.

Red garnet is a stone of serenity and passion, inspiring love, devotion and commitment. It is a useful stone to wear during a crisis or traumatic event as it brings about courage and strength. Garnet is helpful in clearing negative energy and opens up the heart.

Hematite

Hematite is a stone most commonly used to ground or stabilize and for protection. It strengthens our connection with earth, making us feel more secure and safe. It is therefore associated with the root chakra. Emotionally, hematite decreases negativity. This lowering of negativity can benifit by helping balance the body/mind/spirit connection. It also is said to balance the meridiians, boost self-esteen, and self-confidence.
Hematite aids in the Ascension process, by facilitating the integration of higher spiritual energies into our physical 3-D existence. This allows those who are doing spiritual work to still be able to function in the physical world and relate to others.

Iolite

Iolite is a vision stone. It activates the third eye chakra and facilitates with visualization and enhances intuition when all the chakras are in alignment. Iolite facilitates understanding and releases the causes of addiction. It also releases discord within relationships.

Labradorite

Labradorite is a highly mystical and protective stone. As a bringer of light, it raises consciousness and connects with universal energies. Labradorite is such an amazing stone, deflecting unwanted energies from one’s aura and prevents energy leakage as it forms a barrier to negative energy. Labradorite raises one’s consciousness and grounds spiritual energy into the physical body. It stimulates intuition and psychic gifts. Labradorite banishes fears from past disappointments and strengthens one’s faith in the self and universe. It is associated with the heart chakra.

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis lazuli is such a spiritual stone, opening up the third eye chakra and throat chakra, enhancing one’s psychic abilities and stimulating spiritual power. It helps to release stress and helps one express feelings and emotions, thereby promoting spiritual attainment. It is also a protective stone, guarding against psychic attack and returning the energy to the source. This stone harmonizes the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels. Lapis lazuli brings about honesty, compassion and uprightness to the personality.

Moonstone

Moonstone is a stone of change and new beginnings. It calms/heals the emotions, enhances intuition and promotes empathy. Moonstone also enhances psychic abilities and helps one develop deep clairvoyance. It is also said to bring strong energies of abundance to one’s life. Moonstone is a stone of protection, especially during childbirth, pregnancy, and travel at sea. It is a stone of calm and relief from emotional stress. It balances male-female energies and is the perfect antidote for the excessively macho man or the overly aggressive female. This stone is associated with the solar plexus and heart chakras.

Peridot

Peridot is often used to balance and stimulate the heart chakra as it is a stone of compassion. Peridot also brings abundance and prosperity and enhances the healing and harmony of all forms of relationships.

Prehnite

Prehnite is a serene stone that induces deep meditation and enhances the visualization process. It helps to alleviate nightmares and deep fears and is especially good for hyperactive children.

It is said that Prehnite connects to Archangel Raphael. It is a stone that helps one to always be prepared and shows the way forward to spiritual growth. Prehnite also assists with decluttering, and letting go of possessions in a positive way.

Pyrite

Iron pyrite (also known as fool’s gold) is a great energy shield, blocking out negative energy and pollutants. It is a very positive stone, helping one overcome inertia and feelings of inadequacy, and helps energize the wearer. It enhances self-worth and confidence.

Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite is a heart chakra stone and helps with relationships. Rhodochrosite also helps to bring repressed emotions to the surface to be acknowledged, addressed, and released, allowing for much personal growth to take place. This pink gemstone aids in self-forgiveness and self-love. It is also good for clearing the Root and Solar Plexus Chakras, improving self-worth, attracting love, and relieving emotional stress.

Rose Quartz

Rose quartz is a heart chakra stone, opening one’s heart to unconditional love and infinite peace. It is calming, reassuring and especially useful in emotional healing. If you are looking to attract love, look no further than Rose Quartz. In existing relationships, rose quartz helps to restore trust and harmony, encouraging unconditional love. Rose quartz gently removes negative energy and replaces it with loving vibes. Holding rose quartz helps during affirmation.

Sapphire

Sapphire, the birthstone for September is a stone of wisdom, prophecy, and royalty. Sapphire can bring protection, spiritual insight and good fortune. It calms and focuses the mind and is known for its ability to help with curing insomnia. Wear sapphire to become more secure in your own opinions and knowledge and have an easier time expressing your thoughts. Sapphire opens the throat chakra to help you communicate effectively and better express your thoughts and feelings. It also helps with the third eye Chakra to enhance your perception and everyday awareness of the world.

Smoky Quartz

Smoky quartz is one of the most efficient grounding stones while raising vibrations during meditation. It is an excellent antidote to stress, assisting with difficult times. Smoky quartz neutralizes negative vibrations, and assists in detoxification on all levels. In turn, it brings in positive vibrations. Smoky quartz is associated with the base chakra and helps to relieve fear, lift depression and bring emotional calmness. It helps alleviate nightmare and manifest dreams.

Sodalite

Sodalite brings order and calmness to the mind.  It encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuition, along with verbalisation of feelings.  Sodalite brings emotional balance and calms panic attacks.  It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust.

Sunstone

Sunstone is a joyful stone as it instils joie de vivre and good nature. Sunstone restores sweetness to life and brings light and energy as it clears all the chakras. It is a stone that is said to bring good luck and fortune. Sunstone is extremely useful for cutting cords from anyone who drains you on an emotional or mental level. Wear sunstone often if saying no doesn’t come easily and you find yourself continually making self sacrifices. Place sunstone on the solar plexus to lift depression or repressed emotions.

Tiger’s Eye

Tiger’s Eye draws energy from the earth and sun to create high spiritual energy. It is associated with the third eye, balancing the lower chakras and stimulating the rise of the kundalini energy.

Topaz

Topaz is believed to bring success and good fortune to those who wear it, and provides protection, especially against the evil eye and greed. Topaz is also said to bring one spiritual love and peace, creativity, true love and hope. Blue topaz is associated with the throat and third eye chakras, while pink topaz is associated with the sacral and solar plexus chakras.

Tourmaline

A beautiful stone with many hues, tourmaline protects the aura, enhances energy and removes blockages. This gemstone balances one’s chakras, promotes self-confidence and diminishes fear, bringing about a positive transformation. It attracts attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance and prosperity

Turquoise

Turquoise is highly regarded for its protective attributes. It provides solace for the spirit and well-being for the body. It also enhances communications with the spiritual world. Turquoise is associated with the third eye chakra, throat chakra and solar plexus, enhancing intuition and allowing the spirit to express itself.