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Abalone Shell - Helps us feel calmer and less afraid, allowing us more serenity and balance.  It's especially calming for those who are easily agitated or on edge.  It can stimulate fertility of both the mind and body.  It can help protect us from  uncooperative attitudes and actions. 
Actinolite - It can help shield and expand our energies.  This expansion helps us find a connection to "All That Is" and share in the Brotherhood of All.  When we use the stone it can  help us focus on an unwanted condition and decrease that condition.
Adamite - Yellowish Green crystals, usually on other minerals - Helps provide inner strength when dealing with emotional issues.  Helps us speak about our personal sentiments.  Helps give us courage when we explore the unknown and stimulates the conduct of business dealings, especially with the material issues of it.  Helps us with our "new" ideas and how to implement them.  It brings our intellect and our heart together to gain the stability of our emotions, loving and caring of ourselves and others. 
Agate – General – Helps with balancing yin yang energy, the physical being with the etheric, emotional, mental and causal bodies of the aura.  Helps with strength, courage, healing, cleansing, transforms and eliminates negativity. It can also be used to provide inspiration from and connect us with entities from  the spiritual realm.  It can help strengthen the sight, diminish thirst and promote marital fidelity.  It can help stimulate analytical capabilities and precision in our lives.  It can help stimulate our innate talents and ingenuity.  See also Chalcedony properties.
Agate - Apricot - Orange to Cream coloring, often with swirls of color. -  It can help strengthen the mind and body by bringing us a sense of sense and courage.  Helps build self confidence and helps us overcome negativity.  It is a good stone for grounding and is a powerful healing stone.  By holding this beautiful stone it can help bring a sense of calm.  It is a good grounding stone and can help improve our perception and truthfulness.  Both Apricot and Pink Agates are excellent healers of the heart, both on the emotional and physical levels.  It can help ease the symptoms of stress and depression.  It can help balance the Yin Yang, male and female energies on the physical, emotional, intellectual and etheric levels. 
Agate - Blue Lace - Light Blue w/white lines - Helps us to reach high spiritual spaces, helps the throat, heart, third eye and crown Chakra's. It can help bring flexibility in stubborn people.  It can help bring a sense of self security and self assurance.  It has a calming energy and is good to help relieve stress and anxiety.  It can help enhance our creative expression when communication becomes blocked.  Also has all the properties of agate.
Agate - Blue Storm - Blue and White.  They have the lines of "lace" as in the Blue Lace Agate and have the mossy appearance similar to the Blue Moss Chalcedony. - It can help our inner attunement and deepen our focus.  It helps us find our right path and remain on it against all odds.  It has been called the Stone of Peace and Healing.  They can help to help calm and relieve stress, helping created peace in the area where it is located.  Help neutralize negativity from ones life, enhances self worth and boosts perceptiveness.  Helps during mediation, aids access to the Angelic Realm and helps reduce lethargy.  Also has all the properties of agate.
Agate - Botswana - Gray, pink, black, brown, white stripes or swirls - It allows us to express ourselves artistically, our sensuality and emotions.  It helps us to explore the unknown and also helps us on our quest for the enlightened state.  It helps allow us to look toward solutions to our problems instead of dwelling on them.  It helps encourage eternal love within ourselves.  It stimulates the crown chakra and energizes the auric body.  It helps intensify our creativity and helps us release emotions that have been repressed.  It helps us to see the solution to a problem instead of dwelling on them.  Also has all the properties of agate.
Agate – Brazilian – Brown, Grey, Tan, Clear, some are dyed other colors i.e.: blue, pink, purple – Helps us with our strength, astral travel, helps heal and balance the physical body.  Also has all the general properties of agate. 
Agate - Brecciated - Helps with balancing yin yang energy, the physical being with the etheric, emotional, mental and causal bodies of the aura.  Helps with strength, courage, healing, cleansing, transforms and eliminates negativity.  Also has all the properties of agate.
Agate - Crazy Lace - Helps ease emotional pain, but should be cleansed often when used for this purpose.  Helps with centering and staying focused. Also helps show us, in a humorous fashion, that we can all create our experiences on earth, this helps to allow us to reach new heights of awareness.   Also has all the general properties of agate.
Agate "Eyes" were carved to resemble eyes and have been said to help ward off the "evil eye" and protect us from harm.  It can be used to stimulate the third eye, enhance channeling, help with visioning and clairvoyance.  It is a healing and protective stone helping bring happiness to the home and to remove painful and upsetting situations from our lives.  Good for enhancing meditation, courage, internal strength, grounding and helps dissolve negativity.  Also has all the properties of agate.
Agate - Fire - It sometimes has a bubbly appearance, frosty, clear or brown.  It sometimes has fiery iridescent flashes of color. - It is said to represent the spiritual flame of absolute perfection.  It can help us release undesirable desires.  Undesirable desires such as those that don't further our pursuit and acceptance of the enlightened state of being.  It helps us to be the best possible person we can be!  The energy of the stone can give us insight and inspiration while examining our inner selves.  It can give us strength and the ability to work well in difficult situations.  It allows us to project ourselves with incredible charisma, depending on the strength of our personality.  If we are more timid and shy, the effect will be less intense.
Agate - Graveyard Plume - Helps with adapting to a variety of new situations, encourages you to take initiative, to stimulate vivid dreams and to strengthen and support during times of change and transformation.  Supports during times of emotional situations, helps with memory, as well as to release the memories of unpleasant situations and to understand the lessons from them, allowing matters to be put to rest. Also has all the properties of agate.
Agate – Holley Blue aka Holly Blue – Blue, white, w/possible violet shades – Stone of spirituality and psychic actualization.  Helps with communication and to express your feelings.  It can help stimulate and activate the throat and crown chakras.  It can help the mental acuity and clarity.  Also has all the general properties of agate.
Agate - Lake Superior - They can help elevate our personal worth and help us come in contact with our higher self.  It can help us gain self confidence while exploring and understanding the mythical and mystical realms.  They can also help us to contact sources beyond the physical plane of this planet.  It allows us to realize and understand that it's natural to be in contact with other planes of existence. Also has all the general properties of agate.
Agate – Moss – Green, clear, brown, white – It helps us with agree ability, strength, persuasiveness, ego, self esteem, emotional balancing, acquisition of riches, attracts positive energies, bringing us happiness and a sense of well being.  It tones and strengthens our mind and body, cleansing emotions and releasing anger and frustration.  Also has all the general properties of agate.
Agate - Plume - Many colors with "plumes" of color within - Helps with rebirthing process, helps clear mind, helps with the flow of energy. Also has all the general properties of agate.
Agate - Purple - They are used to stimulate empathy and compassion for others. Also has all the properties of agate.
Agate - Plume - Variety of colors with "plumes" of color within - Helps with rebirthing process, helps clear mind, helps with the flow of energy. Helps with job hunting.  Also has all the properties of agate and plume agate.  Also has all the general properties of agate.
Agate – Snakeskin – Gray w/white to cream – Strength, joy of living, pleasant personality, self esteem, self awareness, inner peace also helps with worries.  Also has all the general properties of agate.
Agate - Tree Moss - White with green veins through it - May bring us a strong connection to the higher spirituality of self, related to ones origins and a strong connection to the natural world.  A 'stone of plenty' it was used by Ancient Greeks to produce plentiful crops and is useful in producing strong 'results' in agricultural and business situations.  It enhances gentleness and brings enjoyment to each moment on ones path through life.  Also has all the general properties of agate. 
Agate – Turritella Agate – Brown/black/tan w/imbedded shells  – Helps diminish superiority complex, communication with plant and mineral world, survival and coming out a winner.  It allows us to get in touch with deep seated fears and release them. Also has all the general properties of agate.
Alabaster - By placing other stones on the Alabaster you can help energize them.  It can help you "unlock" the mysteries of the pyramids while meditating.  It can help with forgiveness.  It can enhance the skills of those who are in service to mankind.  It helps bring maturity and composure in times of stress.  Helps diminish anger during times of dealing with dis-ease.
Alexandrite - Rare stone that can change colors in different light - Helps with the rebirth of the inner and outer self.  Helps with centering, balancing, self esteem, bringing joy into our lives, appreciation and our understanding of our interconnection with nature.  Also a stone of good fortune. 
Amazonite – Blue to blue/green often with streaks of white – It soothes all Chakra's, helping to rejuvenate the heart and throat Chakra, helping with communication related to love.  Helps eliminate aggravation, dispels both negative and irritating energy.  Helps soothe the emotional worries and fears.  It helps align and balance the physical, emotional and etheric bodies, also enhancing and maintaining our general health.  Helps to manifest and retain the pure energy of Universal Love.  It can help balance the male and female energies to help bring clarity, clear the spirit and balance the personality. 
Amber – Bright to creamy yellow/butterscotch, golden, brown and dyed green, red or blue – It helps the body to heal itself by absorbing and changing negative energy into positive, purifying the spirit and heart as well.  Helps us manifest our desires, stimulates our intellectual side and opens the crown chakra.  Brings good luck to warriors. Cleanses the environment as well as the body, mind and spirit.   Has a soothing energy that helps calm nerves and brighten the disposition. 
Amegreen - These are a combination of Amethyst, Quartz and Prasiolite aka Green Amethyst. - It helps purify and cleanse one's energy field and stimulates the crown chakra. It can help soothe the emotions and balance the heart chakra and to connect us with the pure Divine White Light energy.  It is good for healing past emotional wounds and lifting the veil of sorrow. It can help harmonize the chakras and help one to make new efforts in their lives.   Like Amethyst the color can fade in the sunlight!
Amethyst – Light to dark purple – It has been called the stone of Spirituality and Contentment.  Helps provide peace, balances energies and clears the aura.  It helps bring strength, stability, peace and serenity.  Helps us find freedom from addiction, yours or another's.  Helps calm and find peace during meditation.  It can help protect from a psychic attack.  Helps with our common sense and encourages flexibility during times that we need to make decisions.  It can help us with our business situations.  It can help support our sobriety and freedom from addictions. Amethyst color can fade in the sunlight, please be careful!
Amethyst - Chevron - Lavender to purple w/clear and white chevron (arrow) shaped markings - Inner self evaluation, repels negativity, third eye stone and helps with clearing our aura.  Also has all the properties of Amethyst. Amethyst color can fade in the sunlight, please be careful!
Amethyst Flower - They range in color from clear to lavender and purple.  The "flowers" are crystal points that lay flat (thin, front to back) and spray out to look like the petals of a flower, but they also resemble the look of ice crystals forming on a frozen window. - It is a stone of love and healing it can also help to bring many blessings to us all.  It is a stone for Indigo Children, of today and tomorrow.  It can help us to discover our life's purpose.  It can help remind us why we are in our physical body, living on the Earth plane and help us to understand the answer to the question, "Why am I here."  It can also help us to determine how to share our gifts with the world.  It can help bring peace and relaxation to the environment where it is placed.  It is helpful in communication between the worlds.  It can aid us in our forgiveness of ourselves and others.   It can help reduce negativity, focus attention and enhance our meditation.   It also has all the properties of Amethyst.  Amethyst color can fade in the sunlight, please be careful!
Ametrine – Purple w/Orange to Rust color – Provides for balancing of the male and female energy, releases emotional blockages and clearing.  Helps disburse negativity from the aura and good for astral travel.  Also has all the general properties of Amethyst and Citrine.   Like Amethyst the color can fade in the sunlight, please be careful!
Ammonite - Fossilized animal similar to a snail, may be opalized or have pyrite inclusions which is rare - It helps those in the fields of construction and architecture.   It helps us gain the insight to see the whole picture, from beginning to end.  It is a stone of protection, helping to gain structure and stability to life thus allowing negativity to be transformed into a smooth and flowing energy.  This stone helps with survival instincts for individuals as well as for world survival.   See also Fossils.
Analcime - White, Grey, Yellow, Pink, Green or Colorless - Helps with mental clarity, stimulates and clears the heart chakra.  Helps allow us to maintain individuality and creativity when faced with limitations set by others.  Helps in times of transformation and change.  Helps bring harmony and enhances teamwork in group activities.
Atlantisite - see Serpentine with Stichtite
Angelite – Light Blue – Balancing, polarizing and aligning the physical body, raises conscious awareness, relieve and release anger.  It can help with psychic healing.  Is also a good stone for connecting to the Angelic Realm.  It has been called one of the "stones of awareness" for the new age.  It can enhance telepathic communication and out of body experiences.  It is a stone of protection for the body and the environment.  It can help you speak your truth, no matter what it is.  It can help change pain and disorder into wholeness and healing.  It helps create a feeling of peace and tranquility. 
Anglesite - White, Colorless, Pale Green, Yellow or Blue - It is believed to help us contact "the other side" and has been used for channeling.  It helps us stay grounded during communication with others that are not on the Earth Plane.  It helps bring dreams into reality.  It helps allow open and loving communication with others regarding spiritual issues.
Apache Tears - Clear Smoky Black Obsidian - Helps us to forgive and release grievances, grounding, centering, creating a sense of harmony and balance.  Helps make it easier to be aware of and contact our Spirit Guides.  Also all the general properties of Obsidian.
Apatite - Blue, Yellow, Green, Purple, Brown, Colorless - Helps creativity, ease apathy, sorrow, and anger, allowing us to focus on more joyful times. It can help reduce irritability and aggression, helping us to accept and feel love toward even the most difficult people. Helps to expand knowledge, clear mental confusion and achieve a deeper meditative state. It stimulates the development of clairvoyance, clairsentience, and clairaudience abilities, giving us insight into past lives. It can be used on any of the Chakra's to stabilize and remove blockages. It also helps to stimulate healthy eating habits. 
Apophyllite – Clear to frosty white, often pyramid or cubic shaped – It helps promote truthfulness, helps us to be in tune with ourselves and realigns energy.  When used as a gazing stone it can help with astral travel and stimulate intuition. It can be used to create a conscious connection between the physical form and the spiritual realm.   It helps enhance mindful analysis, tinged with universal love and helps us to realize that the state of perfection is the natural state of being.  It can help with our spiritual awareness and increases awareness in our every day life.  It fills our bodies with light and joy.  It can help us to expand our new ideas and aids in decision making.  It can help us to set the direction we need to follow in life and to discover our next step on our path.  It is said to be a soul level healer. 
Aquamarine – Light blue green to clear – Helps with cleansing, meditation, serenity, safe travel on water, water spirits, stone of courage and tolerance.  It's a good stone for aligning and balancing the chakra's.  Helps to stimulate and cleanse the throat chakra to allow better communication. It also has all the general properties of Beryl.
Aragonite - Can be in crystalline form (brown, cream, white, blue) or solid cream colored stone with brown stripes in it. - Helps to stabilize the emotions, especially good when one feels overwhelmed by responsibilities.  Helps us to center ourselves during times of stress and anger.  Also helpful in calming the mind for meditation.  It can provide insight into the reason for our problems.  When we are overwhelmed by responsibilities it can help us remain comfortable and patient.  It can help enhance reliability and practicality.
Aragonite - Blue - It helps give us insights into our problems.  It can help our spiritual communication with others on higher planes, helping us to share ideas and concepts more clearly.  It also helps us to communicate and express our deepest feelings and knowledge.  Helps our healing from verbal and emotional abuse.  It can help us to speak and think more compassionately.  It can assist us in overcoming our hesitation or fear of speaking in public and sharing our ideas and thoughts with others.
Arfvedsonite - Dark Green to Black w/Streaks of Blue and/or Gold - It can help open the crown chakra and provide a clear path.  It helps us restructure and reorganize old patterns and helps smooth changes in our lives.  It can help with transitions from one life to another as well as assisting in birth and rebirthing.  It is useful in astral travel and can be used to locate energy blockages in the body.
Astrophyllite - Yellow, golden or bronze color iridescent fibers within brown, white, black or other colored matrix. - Helps with astral travels, allowing us to see ourselves from the outside.  When we see ourselves from the outside it can helps us recognize and see our own self esteem.  We recognize we have no limits and that "we are, in fact, all stars".  It helps us to understand there are no limits on ourselves except those that are self imposed.  It helps to show us that when one door closes, another door opens.  It helps us release what must be purged from our lives so that we may move forward, develop and grow.
Atacamite - Rich emerald to dark green, slender crystals -  It can be used to help prevent assault and to remove one from a situation of potential danger.  It can bring an energy of "warning" that can be noticeable when one has the potential to encounter danger, allowing escape.  It can bring self motivation and positive energy, zeal, enthusiasm and confidence.  It can help remove energy blockages and can open the heart and crown chakras, cleansing and activating them at the same time.  It is a great stone to help attain and maintain meditation.  It is a good stone to be used for healing.  It is a healer of spirit, and provides a soothing energy and brings peace of mind. 
Aventurine – Green, orange, red, brown, white, pink and blue.  Sometimes they have Mica inclusions that bring a sparkling appearance to the stone. – Helps our creativity, imagination, prosperity, career success and leadership qualities.  Helps with healing of the mind and body.  Helps balance the Yin Yang, male/female energies.  It can help bring a sense of calm, balance and enhances happiness.  It helps balance and align  the physical, auric, intellectual and emotional bodies.  It can help us see the potential and alternatives in any situation, giving a positive outlook, courage and inner strength.  It is said to be a stone of protection and bring good luck.  It can help us to relate to others on the emotional level. 
Aventurine - Blue - Helps our creativity, imagination, prosperity, career success and leadership qualities.  Helps with healing of the mind and body.  Helps release toxins from the body.  Also see the general properties of Aventurine.
Aventurine – Green - It is used to activate, protect and clear the Heart Chakra.  Also see the general properties of Aventurine.
Aventurine - Peach - It can gently increase the energy in the Sacral Chakra.  It can help with decision making and boost creativity.  Also see the general properties of Aventurine.
Aventurine - Pink - It helps bring Universal Love into our lives, allowing us to accept and embrace not only our bodies but accepting absolute love of our higher self, soul and that we are a divine being.  It can help us contact our spirit guides.  It can envelop us in the joy and love in our lives!  Also see the general properties of Aventurine and Mica
Aventurine - Red -  Helps us to see alternatives and possibilities in life.  It can help balance blood pressure and assist in reversing disease. Also see the properties of Aventurine and Mica.
Aventurine - White - It helps bring courage during spiritual journeys.  It can help relieve anxiety and fear.  It can help us to express our feelings. It helps promote our physical well being.  Also see the general properties of Aventurine and Mica
Azurite - Deep blue, can be found with Malachite and/or Chrysocolla, can rarely be found in crystalline form - Is a stone of the third eye, helping to awaken our psychic selves.  Helps enhance creativity, self confidence, forward motion on our path, helping to dissolve things that are in our way, especially energy blockages.  Helps provide relaxation during meditation as well as times of stress. 

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Barite - Clear, Blue, Grey, Yellow and Brown -  Helps induce us to "go for" our dreams without holding back.  It can help build friendships, harmony and love.  Helps us gain independence and motivating us to be free of others expectations of us.  Helps us to release trapped emotions and feelings, bring calm and self assurance. 
Beryl - Emerald Green (Emerald), Blue to Blue Green (Aquamarine), Yellow Golden (Heliodor), Red, Colorless (Goshenite) and Pink (Morganite). Check the properties of the individual stones for more information. - They have a gentle energy that helps encourage a feeling of security and self confidence.  They can guide us spiritually, toward our goals, on our path and help to ease the journey along the way.  It can stimulate thoughtfulness and help our development and carry out our plans successfully.  It is a good stone to use in energy and healing work.  Romantic love can be attracted or rekindled by carrying or wearing the stone.  It can help relieve sea sickness and guard against drowning or storms.  It is a good stone to help you while studying and to retain the information that is needed.  It is helpful during times of stress.  It can help quicken the mind and help relieve inertia.  It can help increase psychic awareness. 
Beryl - Blue Green - See Aquamarine
Beryl - Colorless - See Goshenite
Beryl - Emerald Green - See Emerald
Beryl - Golden - See Heliodor
Beryl - Pink - See Morganite
Bismuth - Man made mineral that has metaphysical properties - It can be a silver or golden color with a rainbow of iridescent colors on it as well, very beautiful - It is a stone of transformation, allowing the change to be orderly and calm during the process.  It helps transform the energy of the crown chakra to energize the base chakra and helps brings wisdom.  It can help in astral travel to the spiritual realms.  It helps relieve conditions of emotional and spiritual isolation, allowing us to feel that we are a part of "all that is".  It helps bring serenity from within, no matter what our physical location is.  It can help unite groups yet allowing independence as we advance toward a common goal, also allowing us to enjoy journey to attain that goal. 
Bloodstone – Green sometimes with red flecks – It is a wonderful stone for healing and courage.  It helps us with centering and grounding our energy.  It helps us with renewal of the physical, mental and emotional bodies.  Helps us with our creativity, decision making and talents.  Helps rid us of our bewilderment and misunderstood thoughts.  Helps bring abundance and good fortune.  Keep the stone in an area that needs it's energy cleansed.
Boji® Alive Stones - They help to both balance and align the Chakras and is helpful in removing energy blockages.  It also helps clear, charge and fill voids in the aura.  It is an excellent grounding and healing stone. 
Bornite - Black with purple, violet or blue color - Helps give despondent people the power to master their lives.   It's a healer on the physical level, since despondency is the basis of many diseases.  It increases our social consciousness and helps us to be more willing to take a stance when we see things as being unfair. 
Brazilianite - Light yellow to yellowish green - It works well with the third (intellect) and fourth (heart) chakras.  It can help us to examine and understand difficult situations and relationships and then let us make the necessary decisions to resolve them. 
Bronzite - Rich Brown or black w/sparkles of golden bronze - This stone can be  used to help stimulate decision making on unresolved issues in one's life. Helps provide a push to do what is needed, while still being able to enjoy the process.  It is called the "Stone of Courtesy" and is helpful to those who work in service to others.
Brookite- Black to Red - Brown Crystals - It can help us to withstand intolerable conditions and flow with the moment. It can attract and retain energy.  It is an excellent stone to use to energize chakras, energy fields and environments, including energizing other crystals and minerals.  It can help us understand our own "system of beliefs" and help us to correct those beliefs that do not benefit moving forward.  It can help rid us of lethargy and apathy, helping us to find our hidden energy and move it toward creative and imaginative situations.
Buddstone sometimes referred to as African Jade - Mottled Green and White - It can help with the movement of energy through the body physical, Kundalini and emotional.  It is a healing and soothing stone that can help the nerves and senses.  It is also a stone of empowerment.  It can help us to connect with the spirits in nature, including trees and other plants.  It can help strip away illusions and bring us to recognize flaws in ourselves and others.  It can be helpful for people who have suffered from brain injuries, senility or Alzheimer's.
Bytownite - aka Golden Labradorite - Transparent to light Yellow - It is helpful in psychic development, channeling, mediumship, trance work and bringing us to a higher level of spiritual wisdom.  It has been called a stone of hope, magic and fulfillment.  It can strengthen our will and increase creativity.  It can help us recognize and understand what we need to know.  It is said to help increase inner strength, vitality, courage, mental clarity, endurance, spiritual focus, intelligence and bring purpose in to our lives.

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Calcite - Clear or cloudy white, pink, peach, red, grey, black, yellow, golden, green, blue, brown, orange - A stone of spirituality and wisdom it also amplifies and clears the energy field and helps memory.  Helps bring spiritual understanding to problems on the earth plane.  It can also be helpful in astral travel and in channeling, as well as increasing intuition.  It makes it an excellent stone for distance healing, as well as other types of healing. One of the energies it amplifies is learning abilities and is a great stone for students.  It is a protective, grounding and centering stone, and can help bring inner peace. It can also promotes creativity and imagination, this inner peace it can bring is a vibrant one.  It has been said to increase prosperity.  It can be  helpful in lessening fear and reducing stress.   It is said to be the premier cleanser of stored negative energies in the human system, and works on all levels from the physical to the etheric. This makes it a very purifying stone.  It can also be used to clear negativity in the environment, such as a room that it's in.  In relationships it can bring grounding and centering, a good stone stone of reconciliation.  It can help during arguments to bring things to a good resolution and help bring balance between the people in the relationship.  It can be helpful with emotional and mental conditions. 
Calcite - Blue - It balances us emotionally and helps to remove emotional blocks.  Wear it for healing, it opens, balances and heals all Chakra's. It's especially good for the Heart Chakra.  It is a stone that is especially calming and soothing frayed nerves and stress.  It is an excellent aid to communication and can amplify energy, particularly communication and thought.  It helps us express your views calmly and with tact.  It also helps enhance decision making abilities.  Also has all the general properties of Calcite.
Calcite - Golden aka Honey - Helps strengthen our connection with the intellectual plane, it deepens wisdom, connecting us with our higher consciousness.  It can also assist in the challenges associated with change.  Helps expand our psychic abilities, helping with astral projection and channeling.  Helps bring comfort and aids in lifting depression.  It can assist in the challenges associated with change.  It is associated with the sacral and solar plexus chakras and can help bring balance between these two chakras.  Also has all the general properties of Calcite. 
Calcite - Green -  It can help increase money, success and prosperity in business and fertility of all kinds.  Helps us to release old traumas.  It helps strengthen communication between the intellect and the emotions.  It is said to enhance intuition and psychic abilities.  It is a good grounding and centering stone that brings stability.  It it is an excellent stone for gardening.  It is also considered a stone of manifestation because if it's ability to develop increase in all areas.  It is good for general health and healing, especially emotional and mental issues.  Also has all the general properties of Calcite.
Calcite - Mangano Pink -  It is a calming and loving stone that can ease and heal the heart Chakra.  It fills the heart with universal self love, enabling us to accept love from the universe and those around us.  It helps us to hope for the best in life and helps heal the inner child and past abuse.  It can help us to connect with our female guides and angels.  It has been said to transmit the motherly energy of giving life, nurturing and love. It helps amplify healing energies and is excellent when used with any healing modality including Reiki.  It can help us to express our joy and freely give and receive love.  It is a good stone to help with channeling and astral travel.  It can help with studying and retaining information learned.  It can help relieve stress, tension and anxiety as well as release fears of all kinds and reduce nightmares.  Also has all the general properties of Calcite.
Calcite - Optical, Iceland Spar or Calcite Ice - Clear to frosty - It helps reduce fear and stress and is emotionally balancing.  Helps remind us of the double meanings of words and is very good for helping in difficult conversations.  It's also good for clearing and cleansing the outer body.  It's good as a focus of contemplation during meditation, strengthening astral projection, intuition, mental clarity and expanding awareness.   Also has all the general properties of Calcite.
Calcite - Orange - It can help relieve emotional fear, mental breakdown, depression, accidents, rape, divorce or suicidal thoughts. It is particularly helpful with phobias and helps to restore mental and emotional equilibrium.  Can also help enhance psychic abilities and intuition.   Also has all the general properties of Calcite.
Calcite - Yellow - Helps stimulate the intellect, also helping to organize thoughts and information.  Helps boost energy levels, sense of personal power and self worth.  It can be used to help meditation and with psychic abilities.   It assists with channeling, intuitive awareness, shamanic work, and other psychic activities.   Also has all the general properties of Calcite.
Carborundum - Man made material aka Silicone Carbide - Even though it is man made, it's made from natural elements. It has black spiked crystals with beautiful iridescent colors. - It can help absorb chaotic thoughts.  The rainbow colors of the stones are associated with all 7 Chakras.  It helps "Shines a Light" into all areas of our lives, thus helping lift depression and melancholia. It is good to help relieve stress and its associated physical disorders. It can also help enhance the memory and increase artistic and diplomatic skills.
Carnelian – Orange, Red, Clear – Emotional warmth, creativity, self esteem, reincarnation and past life recall.  Helps protect against envy, fear or rage and to banish sorrow on the emotional level.  The message it shares is "One Is Love", when we share love it is returned tenfold.  Helps cleanse negativity, dispel apathy, indolence and passivity.
Cassiterite - Black, Yellow and Red Brown - It is said to be a stone of personal protection.  This is a great stone for grounding and protecting against negativity.  It is said to reflect negativity back to the sender.  It can help bring synchronicity within ourselves.  When you take it out into nature, with you, it helps allow you to bond with the gentleness of our Mother Earth, bringing the gentle energy back inside of you.  It helps to reduce the feelings of separateness and prejudice.  It can be used to relieve the feelings of rejection or disapproval and encourage optimism.  It can be useful in the study of mathematics, astrology and astronomy, providing us with insight into any problems which may be encountered in the study. 
Cat's Eye - This chatoyance in a stone shows up as a "floating line" that looks similar to a cats eye. - This can increase ones luck and helps bring happiness and serenity.  It can stimulate intuition and enhance awareness of what surrounds us.  It can help dispel unwanted energy and provides a protective energy around the one using or holding it.
Cavansite - Green blue to ink blue - It helps to stimulate our intuition, second sight and activate channeling abilities.  Helpful in psychic healing, also helping the dis-ease not to return.  It helps us to look within, thus inspiring new ideas and helps us to remove faulty thoughts and beliefs. 
Celestite aka Celestine - Blue, White, Yellow, Orange and Red - Helps allow us to remember and acknowledge our spirituality and gifts from the Divine.  Wonderful stone for balancing the Yin Yang within ourselves as well as clearing our Chakra's.  It is good for communication and helping to improve the disposition.  Helps us to tell of the Clairaudient messages we receive.  Very good stone for remembering our dreams.  It's also a stone of healing, brings calm and harmony in times of despair and sadness.  Helps us to manifest and further our spiritual development.  Excellent stone to help with our pursuits in the arts (music, painting, design and more) as well as in our quest for bliss.  It is a stone of good fortune and helps relieve worries.
Cerussite - White, Grey, Pale Yellow, Brown, Clear with light Blue or Green tinge to it. - It is a good grounding and centering stone, allowing us to feel comfortable, confident and at home in any environment.  It helps us adapt to any changes in situations as they come to us.  It can help encourage growth in all areas of our lives.  It can encourage strength and wisdom in all areas of our relationships.  It is helpful in decision making and in bring variety into our lives.  It is a good stone for stimulating and enhancing communication skills.  It can help balance the right and left brain and encourages creativity.  It can help us become aware of our Higher Self and release us from our self doubt and sense of inadequacy.  It is helpful in allowing us to let go of stress and addictions.  It can encourage our listening skills.  It can help enhance our psychic abilities.  It can be helpful with sleeplessness and insomnia.
Chalcedony - This is in the quartz family and includes a wide variety of stones, including, agate, bloodstone, chrysoprase, carnelian, chert, flint, jasper, onyx, sardonyx and petrified wood. The properties of Chalcedony also applies to all the stones listed above. The range of colors is very wide, but can include clear, grey, brown, orange, red, pink, blue, white and green. - It is used as a sacred stone for Native American Indians, helping promote stability within ceremonial activities of the tribes.  It is a stone that helps encourage brotherhood among all, bringing benevolence, good will and helps reduce hostility, irritability, sadness, and melancholy.  This is a very nurturing stone and helps enhance generosity.  Helps balance the energy of the body, mind, spirit and emotions.   It can help increase physical energy and balance the body, emotions, mind and spirit. 
Chalcedony - Blue - It can help soothe and foster mental and emotional stability and can bring emotional honesty. It helps encourage and ease communication. It can be used for psychic work and encourage clairvoyance, intuition, and energy healing.  It can be protective in the physical and emotional realms and can be used for protection from the "evil eye" and protection from dark magic.  It can be helpful for opening, cleansing and balancing the upper chakras.  It can help us to communicate more easily.  It also has all the properties of Chalcedony, above.
Chalcedony - Pink - It helps encourage kindness and good qualities in our lives.  It can bring out a sense of childlike wonder and willingness to learn about new things.  It can encourage storytelling as a form of creativity.  It is said to be a spiritual stone and encourages empathy and inner peace as well as a deep sense of trust. It is a good stone to help heal all issues of the heart and emotional healing.  It's a stone of universal love.  It also has all the properties of Chalcedony, above.
Chalcedony - Pink Limb Cast - It helps allow us to be open to the loving energies of the Universe and others that surround us.  It is a good stone for those that need healing from being abused as a child, it is a very nurturing stone.  It is also said to be an important stone to heal the inner child, allowing one the security needed to explore feelings on a deeper level, allowing us to let go of past hurt and turmoil.  See also the properties of Chalcedony and Pink Chalcedony above.
Chalcopyrite - There is a coating of copper on the stone that has the iridescent colors of Blue, Green, Purple and Gold on it.  - It can help you find lost objects.  It can help enhance the perception and strengthen  the contact with the ancient cultures of the universe.  It has been called the "Stone of the Mystic" helping bring information from the ethereal realm for the self and others.  It can remove energy blockages and open the crown chakra, cleansing and activating it at the same time.  It is also useful in attaining and maintaining a meditative state of mind.  It can help during acupressure or acupuncture treatments to increase the movement of the Chi. It can help  increase our feelings of self worth, making us more confident and strengthening our belief in ourselves.  It helps us feel comfortable with our eccentricities and encourages us to explore them.  This is a  stone of happiness and joy. It can help you tune in to the positive forces in life and channel that energy to others.
Charoite - Purple, Lilac, Pink - Sometimes it has Manganese (black) or Quartz inclusions which add the properties of those stones as well. - It helps change negative energy to positive and helps us to ground our spiritual selves.  Helps cleanse the Chakra's, bringing to us the spiritual and loving emotion and purity.  It helps us to accept that we are one with "All".  It helps us realize what is needed in a relationship and stimulating flexibility with the idea of "letting go".  It can help with the attention span.  It also helps us understand that "when one door closes, another opens".  This stone is one of transformation, within this world and from this world to another.  It helps align the meridians of the upper parts of the body, helping us with self approval and to move forward.  It can help us to realize that we each are where we should be at this very moment.  It helps us to change the symptoms of illness and disease to wellness!  It can assist in visioning and second sight.
Chiastolite - It is a variety of Andalusite that forms a cross within the stone. - In the "olden days" this stone was used to "deflect the evil eye".  It is also known to be a stone of devotion and to repel negativity.  It can help us understand immortality, death and rebirth as well as helping during the process of crossing over.  It's a good stone to have during problem solving and during changes to help us with insight into the situations.  Helps bring spiritual awareness, balance, creativity and harmony. 
Chinese Writing Rock - Black w/white, Cream markings - RARE! Location where it was found is now under a freeway in Southern California. - Helps to adjust to change, accept new responsibilities, stimulate original thinking.  Helps in the dream state to direct your dreams.  Also helpful in making sense of ancient sacred texts, akashic records, providing help with clarity and interpretation of the translation.  A stone of Strategic Intellect, helping us to formulate clear thoughts and plans.
Chrysanthemum Stone - Black to dark Grey with white markings. -  It is said to be a stone of harmony and change.  In Chinese lore it is said to symbolize longevity.  It is believed to promote good fortune, cheerfulness, love, personal development, trust, emotional courage and stability.  It can help enhance calmness and confidence.  It is helpful for renewing relationships and in the progression toward unity.  It has been said to help us get rid of bigotry, self righteous attitudes, jealousy, hatred, inadequacy, animosity and resentment in ourselves as well as in others.  It will help us to understand that the reason for being in our physical body is to bring love to all and to help increase the positiveness of this world.  It can help us to retain the radiance of youth while moving forward in our spiritual growth, not losing the fresh, fun loving innocence of our youth. It helps us to "bloom" and move forward on the path to our perfect self.  It can help us to recognize and understand that time often doesn't become precious and cherished until it has passed us by, so it is best to enjoy each moment of our lives as it comes to us. 
Chrysocolla - Blue Green often with White and/or Brown coloring - It works well to revitalize and calm the base, naval and solar plexus chakras.  It helps ease emotional heartache while helping renew strength and balance.  It can help increase our capacity to love.  It helps us to understand when silence would be best for all concerned.  It can help us become attuned to the Earth's energy and with understanding what is needed to help the earth to heal itself.  It helps bring inner strength to help us through times of stress or difficult, long term situations.  It can help enhance physical vitality.  It helps promote harmony and for us to release negativity in our lives.  It can help purify our environment and work to eliminate negativity within a person.  It can help bring stabilization and to rebuild a relationship that was broken. 
Chrysoprase – Light bluish green – Helps with communication, adaptability and finding alternatives.  Helps calm our fears about death and rebirth.  Good for balancing the yin yang energy and aligning the chakra's.  Helps heal the "broken heart", allowing us to grow from the experience. 
Citrine– Light to dark brown/yellowish orange – One of only a few stones that doesn't hold negative energy but dissipates it into the universe.  It is called the "Merchant Stone and helps us acquire and maintain wealth. It is a great stone to keep in your pocket, purse or in the cash register of your business, to help bring money in and keep it.  Helps to balance the yin yang energy. Brings joy, happiness, prosperity and helps to aid digestion.  Helps us with our spiritual growth and success in all walks of life.
Cobaltain see Sphaerocobaltite 
Cobaltocalcite see Sphaerocobaltite 
Colemanite - White, shades of Yellow or Grey. - It can help you "let your light shine".  It can help teach us about survival, not only physical survival but spiritual survival as well.  It can help us to get along well with others.  It can help bring light into the darkness within ones soul.  It can be helpful for study in the fields of herbs and holistic healing.  It's helps us to keep our patience and tolerance with others.  It can be helpful in changing stubborn attitudes.  It can help us to become more "yin" which is more gentle, sweeter and quieter, it's a good stone for that "macho" man.  It helps us to "mellow out".  It can help bring us all the aspects of enlightenment and love to realization. 
Copal - Golden yellow, brown to red - Similar in consistency to Amber, but a bit "younger". - It's used to activate the Crown Chakra towards spirituality and helps the ability to stay aware during meditation.  Helps remove energy blockages while helping to strengthen the meridians of the body.  Helps stimulate and amplify psychic abilities and helps amplify the energy fields of the body. This is also a healing stone and bring physical vitality. 
Copper - Helps fight lethargy, passivity, restlessness, excitability and the non acceptance of ourselves.  It can help stimulate initiative, optimism, diplomacy and independence,  It is a good stone to use to help in policy making and achieve insight into attaining what is right in all areas.  Helps provide a connection between the physical and astral bodies harmonically.  It is said to be a stone of good luck in recovering lost property. It activates and opens the base and sacral chakras bringing the energies of intuition, sexuality, desire and vitality. It can help animals settle in new homes.  It helps to recognize the barriers that are in the path of our development.  It is also a very wonderful stone of healing and magnifying the energies and electrical impulses. 
Coprolite (Dinosaur Droppings) - It enhances memory, intelligence and mental stability.  It can be used for past life regressions, due to it being an inherent link with the past.  It can help increase energy and energizing the soul.  It is also helpful in healing.  Also see the properties for fossils.
Coral - Coral is a stone of organic origin, they come in a wide variety of colors and shapes.  White, Black, Red, Pink or Blue - It helps diplomacy and is said to quiet the emotions and bring peace within ourselves.  It helps our intuition, imagination and visualization.  It can help us to understand and use the qualities of the Mystic, helping us to communicate with the spiritual masters of this world.  It can help us to reconnect with nature and its variety of wonders. It helps bring creativity and optimism as well as inner peace, strength and understanding of purpose. 
Coral - Agatized Fossil Coral - It is known to bring good luck and was used by sailors as a talisman against bad weather.  It has been used to help ward off the "evil eye".  Some have used it to help support trauma therapy and working through emotional issues with dysfunctional families.  It has been used to help healing women with reproductive problems and is good for pregnant and nursing women.
Coral - Red - Helps protect one from depression and being despondent.  It helps open and activate the base chakra and to stimulate the energetic pursuit of your predetermined goals.  Helps provide practicality with your job, helping to balance the material with the spiritual world. 
Covellite - Indigo Blue, sometimes with a purple, blue or rose iridescence - This stone helps stimulate the third eye and the psychic abilities.  It helps with communication skills, helps bring dreams into reality, It shows us a positive outlook and encourages us to verbalize it in a positive manner.  It can help relieve depression and show a way to approach and solve problems.  It can help allow one to accept gratification without being selfish and vane.  It can help heal the wounds of vanity or egotism. 
Creedite - Clear, White also Purple which is RARE.  Can also be an Orange/Rust color when it has iron inclusions. - Helps align the throat and crown chakra.  It can enhance spirituality and be used in channeling meditation to help to better understand the message to be received.  Helps one access the sacred texts and understand the messages.  Helps us move towards our objectives and to overcome the obstacles along the way.
Crocoite - Bright red, Orange to Rich Golden - It helps stimulate intuition, creativity and sexuality.  This is a stone of transition, helping on many levels, from this life to another or change from one situation to another.  Helps stimulate recovery from physical, emotional or emotional distress.  Relates to the naval chakra. 
Cuprite - Deep Red almost Black -  It is good stone for the root chakra and helpful in grounding and stabilizing the entire body.  It can help increase our energy and vitality.  It can help reduce worries, especially about things we have no control over.  It can increase our awareness, helpful for teaching and delivering spiritual messages.  It has been said to be helpful in healing one's relationship with their father.  It is helpful with enhancing will power, feelings of security, confidence and masculine energy.  It is said to be useful in recalling and examining past life experiences. 

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Danburite - Colorless, Yellow, White, Brown or Pink - It can help encourage you to "Let Your Light Shine".  It can help us get along with others.  It helps stimulate our intellectual side.  Helps us to maintain our personal identity while we are going out into the world.   It can help open and release energy blockages, thus assisting the healing on all levels.  It is an excellent stone of healing.  The pink color can help us bring self love to ourselves. 
Dendrite - It can show up as fern or treelike inclusions in a stone. - It can help enhance gentleness and encourage one to talk lightly through the gardens of life, taking time to enjoy each moment along the way.  It can help us to keep ourselves centered in all situations.  It can be used to help connect to the natural states of the universe, enhancing communication between the intellectual world and the plant kingdom.  It can open and activate the chakras, bringing the energy of our higher consciousness.  It can help bring abundance and fullness into ones life.
Desert Rose Selenite - Stone is shaped like a rose and has Sandy brown coloring - It can help resolve and dissolve "programs" that have been running for too long.  As it releases the program it helps us find a good replacement for it.  It is useful when used to strengthen our affirmations of purpose.  See also Selenite.
Diamond - Colorless, White, Black and shades of Pink, Yellow, Red, Orange, Green, Blue or Brown. - It is known as the "King of Crystals", maintaining it's perfect state and never requires recharging.  It's ability to dissipate light into brilliant prisms of color helps enhance other minerals, bringing strength and endurance to their qualities.  In ancient times it was used as a talisman against cowardice and help enhance invulnerability.  It can help enhance love and harmony and to reduce anger.  It can help remind us about our goals in spiritual awareness.  It has been called the "stone of innocence" and can help encourage purity, constancy and a loving and open nature.  It can bring trust to relationships and situations, bringing confidence to our emotional and intellectual characteristics.  It helps bring fidelity to our relationships.  It can help fill any "voids" in our aura with a loving energy of purity.  It encourages creativity, imagination, ingenuity, inventiveness and brilliance to our world.  It can help bring abundance to all areas of our lives.  It can help remove the "fog" in our mind to help open us up to find our path to enlightenment.
Diopside - White, Colorless, Yellow, Grey, Green, Red Brown or Black -  It can help stimulate our intellect on many levels, including the sciences, the arts, mathematical and analytical pursuits.  It can help encourages creativity, especially in the pursuit of writing.  It could be useful to an up and coming author, it can help enable them to get their thoughts down on paper in a timely fashion.  It can be helpful for healing trauma, partly by bringing forth the unshed tears that are needed to help us release, so the healing process may be completed.  It can help us get in touch with the feminine side of nature, which can help heal aggression and stubbornness.  It is a stone that has been used to help calm pets.
Dolomite - White, grey, green, red, pink, brown or black. -  It can help relieve sorrow and help us to recognize that "everything happens for a reason". It helps encourage energetic and original thinking and manifesting those thoughts.  It can help enhance the energy in a room.  It can help encourage charitable actions.  It also helps bring stamina while dealing with hyperactive individuals. 
Druzy Minerals - This is when a mineral is covered with small to microscopic crystals covering another mineral, often it is the same mineral, such as Quartz. - It brings a higher elevation of energy and helps direct and stimulate the energy of the original mineral.  It helps increase the original mineral's purposes, whether it be for healing or other practices.
Dumortierite - Blue to Violet or Pink with brown or black specks - Helps promote a positive attitude in all life situations.  It can help encourage organizational skills, self discipline and orderliness. It can help reduce excitability and help you stand your ground and stand up for your rights without being seen as being stubborn.  Helps provide stamina in harsh environments.  Helps give us patience in seeing the potential in our relationships.
Blue - It can help you to communicate spiritual concepts to others and understand the unusual or mystical events you may experience. 
Pink - Can help provide grounding in relationships while trying to clear out differences and unsettled areas in your relationships.

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Eilat - RARE! - From Israel - This stone combines the properties of Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise & Copper so please also look at the properties of those on the Stone Info page. - This is sometimes known as "the Sage" it helps us in attaining growth toward wisdom.  Helps provide insight into the proper action and helps creative problem solving.  It is also good for cleansing negativity from our environment. 
Emerald - Rich to light Green - Can be clear or cloudy colored - Stone of successful love, helps with domestic bliss as well as sensitivity and loyalty within yourself.  Enhances memory, helps you choose the right action for situations, works on the heart chakra and helps bring harmony to all areas of ones life. Helps eliminate negativity and bring forth the positive and helps us center into our life's work.  Helps bring rhythmic breathing to enhance meditation.  It also has all the general properties of Beryl.
Epidote - Brown green, Yellow, Yellow Green, Green Black, Grey, Black - Helps dispel criticalness, enhances our perception of life, works to stimulate our participation  and interaction with others and help our personal power.  This stone can help us to truly experience all aspects of our lives.
Eudialyte - Pink, Rose, Burgundy, Red, Brown, Grey, Black or combination of colors -   Helps dispel jealousy, opens and activate the heart chakra.  Holding the stone can bring inspiration and confidence in what we do.  Helps us separate ourselves from anger, guilt, resentment, hostility, depression, sorrow and to move forward in our forgiveness of ourselves and others.  This will bring the ability to love ourselves as well as to give love to others.  Helps to enhance and fine tune Clairaudient abilities. 

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Feldspar - It brings the flash to other minerals, such as Amazonite, Labradorite, Moonstone and Sunstone. - It can help us leave the old behind and more forward in an unconventional way.  It can help us find exciting and unusual methods of attaining our goals.  It can provide support in issues of self awareness and self love.  It can help us realize that love can unite us with all aspects of the world.  It can help us understand messages that we have received from within and outside of ourselves. 
Ferrierite - White to Colorless - It can bring us a joy and can transform ones life.  It helps cleanse the mind of unfortunate and stressful memories allowing us to release those memories.  It is a good stone to bring "smooth sailing" during travel, whether it be physical, mental or astral.
Fluorite – Purple, lavender, green, blue, brown, yellow, reddish orange, pink, white or clear, also may be multicolored. – Truth, intellect, consciousness, aura cleansing and protection.  Helps bring order to chaos, whether the chaos is on the physical, emotional, mental or spiritual level.  It helps dispel strong emotions, easing desperation, depression, and anger.  It helps concentration during meditation.  Helps ground, balance and focus our energies.     Fluorite colors may fade in the sunlight, please be careful!!!
Fluorite - Blue - Helps bring orderly thoughts to life.  Brings a calming energy.  Good stone for bringing clear communication skills.  It helps relieve light workers who are overworked.  Also all the general properties of Fluorite.
Fluorite - Green - It attracts joy and helps our Inner Child be revealed.  Also all the general properties of Fluorite.
Fluorite - Purple/Lavender - It helps bring rationality to intuition, enhances meditation, psychic and spiritual growth.  Helps ease stress, allowing us to sleep better so that we heal and are better able to regain our balance.  Also all the general properties of Fluorite.
Fossil - In ancient times they were believed to be "gifts from the stars" and have been used to enhance telepathic communication between worlds, present, past and future.  Helps bring forth accomplishments in the business world and bring quality and excellence within our environment.  Helps us open up and be more receptive to new and innovative forces that are open to us. Helps allow the old programming and schedules to dissipate.
Fuchsite - Green with iridescent, easily flakes apart - It stirs the imagination, creativity and appreciation for beauty.  It encourages diplomacy and discretion.  Helps us bounce back from difficult or stressful situations.  It enhances the energy from other stones used in combination, it strengthening the effect of both stones.

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Galaxyite - (Sometimes incorrectly called Galaxite, but actually that is a different stone.) - Grey to Greenish with the bright colored fire, similar to Labradorite.  Galaxyite is a combination of Feldspar and micro crystals of Labradorite. - It helps teach us that Love isn't two people looking at each other but both looking, together in the same direction.  It is sometimes considered a "Stone of Discovery" which helps the inner self understand with the conscious mind that our lives are really moving forward on our paths.  It can help us connect to our psychic self and awaken the energy from our third eye.  When opening the third eye it can help with self discovery and clears the way for positive changes.  It is sometimes known as the "Aura Stone" because it can help protect, cleanse and balance the aura as well as stopping energy leakage's through the aura.  It has been said to help spiritual, mystical, intuitive growth and transformation.  It can enhance the conscious intellect and the subconscious mind.  This stone has been said to represent the galaxy and has a strong connection with all of the planets in our solar system. It is a good choice for those who wish to learn about astrology and astronomy.  It can be helpful for astral travel and astral projection.  It can also assist in contacting beings from other dimensions and planes, of higher spirituality.  It can offer security and protection from negative energies and helps ease stress and anxiety.
Galena - Deep metallic Grey, heavy stone - Helps provide grounding and to center our energies.  It helps open the pathways between the physical and ethereal bodies to align the energies and stimulate the nervous system.  It helps bring harmony on all levels and assists in decreasing self limiting ideas.  It is a wonderful healing stone, helping with holistic, homeopathic and herbal medicines and studies.
Garnet – Dark Red, Black, Pink, Green, Orange, Purple, Brown, Yellow – It is sometimes known as the "stone of health", helping to transform negative energy to a more positive state.  Helps us to expand awareness and manifest the needed changes.  Helps us with commitment, to ourselves, others and to a purpose.  It is helpful in moods of abandonment, helping us to realize that letting go of the feelings will allow us to feel fresh and free.  It balances and stimulates the Kundalini, base and crown Chakras.   Helps balance the energy field, allowing the right flow of energy to flow through us at the right time. 
The brown varieties are used by healers to help draw out and release stress. 
Garnet - Almandine - Deep Red, Violet or Brownish Black - It can inspire us during times of contemplation, giving us peace and balancing the time needed for solitude.  It can stimulate physical vitality and boost our energy, helping us to achieve whatever it is that we need to do. It can be used to help you to understand the truth of all matters, providing the understanding of the higher self and the Universal Will.  It is helpful in the study of astronomy, astrology and mathematics.  Also has all the properties of Garnet.
Garnet - Hessonite - Orange or Cinnamon colored - It can help eliminate feelings of inferiority.  It can encourage us to explore new challenges and gives us courage to move forward in our personal endeavors.  It can enhance our intellect and reduce aggressive tendencies.  It can help release toxins from the body and mind and improve relaxation.  It can help inspire creativity on all levels.  It can encourage and increase self esteem, self respect, respect of others and spiritual growth.  It can help us to release worn out and unusable ideas, views, agreements and behavioral patterns that we have outgrown.  Also has all the properties of Garnet.
Garnet - Pink - It can help soothe a stressed nervous system.  The can be used by healers for stress related diseases, such as anorexia, mistrust and people needing comfort.  Also all the properties of Garnet. 
Garnet - Rhodolite - Helps in illuminating our intuition and stimulates the development of the metaphysical areas of channeling and meditation.  Helps initiate the rise of the Kundalini and supports its movement through the Chakras.  It helps protect the base chakra, helping to maintain the rhythm and synchronicity of our consciousness.  It is also good during times of contemplation, bring balance, peace, solitude and harmony.  Also has all the properties of Garnet.
Garnet - Star - It helps discourage chaos and disruption in our lives, emitting an energy to help stabilize us on all levels, bringing order to the chaos.  It helps connection to other worlds, helps us to remember dreams and to move toward success.  It is sometimes known as the "stone of majesty".  Helping us to see insights and guide us to do right and be honorable in what we do.  It helps us to feel the victory of our successful situations. Also has all the properties of Garnet.
Garnet - Uvarovite - Emerald Green - It helps us recognize the universal, galactic and endless nature of the soul.  It helps bestow peace, quiet and solitude without loneliness.  It helps bring clarity in the mental processes and helps stimulate the heart Chakra.  It helps enhance relationships via the fusion of the soul - one purpose, one mind.  It helps encourage patriotism.   See also the general properties of Garnet.
Gaspeite - It helps bring spirituality to our everyday life.  Helps bring success in our endeavors. Brings healing to the one carrying the stone as well as protection on the physical plane.  Helps bring communication with the spirits.  It can be used to attract people for friendship or business.  It helps us to understand that it is "Okay" to ask for and receive help from others. 
Girasol - aka Blue Opal - It is a type of Opal that doesn't have fire.  Clear to Milky - It is a gentle stone but has powerful energy.  It can help us to communicate freely, our thoughts that we have not been able to voice in the past.  It can help encourage and enhance creativity in the practical and artistic areas of our lives.  It is a stone of healing that can gently enhance healing on all levels.  This stone helps teach love and nonviolence and can help renew the relationship with self and "All That Is".  It can help with our spiritual awakening and activation of our inner healing on the emotional, spiritual, intellectual and physical bodies.  It can help relieve fatigue.  It is a good stone for visualization, dream work and imagination. It can help us recognize what concerns us and helps to bring a solution.
Geode - Sliced open, it sometimes contains crystals - Edges can be brown, cream, gray, or white and has been dyed many other colors - It helps us to connect with the higher plane and others that are of a spiritual mind as well.  It helps us to see and analyze the full picture before making important decisions.  It has been said to help with astral traveling.  If there are crystals or other minerals inside of the geode those properties will add to those of the geode.  This includes such minerals as Quartz, Calcite, Amethyst, Citrine and others.
Geode - Oco - Helps bring understanding that the concept of superiority and inferiority only exist within our minds.  Can help bring victory in recreational games, such as gambling, tournaments and also helps bring success in employment.  It can help bring an attitude of being a "free spirit" allowing us to have trust, freedom and innocence.  Also has all the general properties of Geodes.
Goethite -  Yellow, Orange, Red or Black Brown - It can help you enjoy the journey on your path through life as you move toward your goal.  It can help attune and help us communicate with the ethereal and Angelic realms.   It can enhance clairaudience, sometimes allowing us to hear the music of the elders.   It can help with concentration and help us not be distracted.  On the physical plane, it can help support clarity of communication between individuals and among members of a group.  It can help us tune in and communicate with our Spiritual Teachers and Guides. 
Gold - It has been called the Master Healer mineral and is good for purification of the physical body.  It can help balance the energy fields and is beneficial for opening and balancing the third eye and crown chakras.  It has been said to bring wealth, happiness and good feelings.  It can help remove negative energies and bring in the positive energies to attract positive energy.  It will also enhance the energy of any stone set in gold. It is said to symbolize the purity of the spiritual quality of "All That Is".
Goldstone - Medium brown tiny copper glitter - Goldstone is a man-made stone, a type of glass with copper in it. It was originally created when alchemists were working to create gold. - Since it is infused with copper shavings, it is a powerful energy generator.  It has a gentle uplifting energy. It has been said that it stores the energy of those who touch it, making it an excellent gift for loved ones who are far away and is also a stone of ambition and drive.  Because of the copper shavings it has many of the properties of copper, including strengthening the circulatory system, strengthening bones, and easing arthritis pain.  See also the properties of Copper.
Goldstone - Blue - A stone of wisdom and science, teaching us to reach for the stars, and reminding us of the light within darkness.  Also all the general properties of Goldstone.
Goshenite - Colorless Beryl -  It is a stone of truthfulness that can encourage truth in all actions, particularly in giving one's word.  It helps bring self control, creativity and originality.  It can help make communication easier and help stabilize relationships.  It can help balance us intellectually.  It can help us see clearly and to rely on wisdom rather than knowledge.  It can help make us less opinionated and more willing to listen to ideas that can challenge our way of thinking.    It also has all the general properties of Beryl.
Granite - It can encourage us to go with the flow and helps us find our highest path. Helps teach us to live in a state of grace.  It has been said that it was a sacred and powerful stone within the Aboriginal and Mayan cultures.  It is a protective stone and helpful in balancing relationships.  It helps bring abundance into our lives.  It can help with diplomacy, discretion and cooperativeness.  It can help us not be as doubtful or skeptical in our daily lives.
Graphite - Metallic silver gray to Iron Black  - This is a wonderful conductor for healing energy that goes from healer to the one being healed.  It can be used to align the chakras.  It is known as the stone of "personal freedom" helping one to take control of ones life.  It can help with writing, mathematical abilities, improves conversational skills, discouraging hostilities and helps relieve anger.
Gypsum - Clear, White, Green, Grey, Pink, Yellow, Blue, Red, Brown and Black - Helps bring growth and improvement in character. Helps bring clarity of mind and good fortune.  Helps eliminate stagnation and enhances progress.

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Halite - aka Salt Crystals (don't cleanse these in water, they will melt) - Clear, white, and shades of yellow, pink, blue and red -  It is helpful in enhancing good will, leveling out mood swings and relieving negativity.  It can stimulate the acupressure and acupuncture meridians. Helps us to change negative thought patterns and release bad habits.  It can help remove negative influences from our perceptions.  It helps allow to go deep into ourselves to help find ancient solutions to present day problems.  It's useful in cleansing the aura by releasing negative energies. 

Blue - Indigo -  It can help stimulate psychic power, mysticism and intuition.  It can be helpful for clearing any kind of emotion "garbage". It can protect us from psychic attack, negative entities and possessions. Helps clear blockages to opening us up to our psychic development or abilities. 

Pink - Red - Helps to clear the heart chakra and bring us the love we deserve.  It can help cleanse the crown chakra and all the kundalini chakras and channels from negative energy, entities, spirit possessions and attachments. It can help release oppression and sadness.

Hanksite - Grey/Green, Yellow, Yellow/Green, White and almost Black - Helps  us gain insight to information to help fight illusion and trickery.  This stone helps us to understand the experience of leaving this earth plane.  Helps us to fight restlessness, wonderful during meditation, helping our spirituality.  Helps our flexibility in the mental, emotional and physical bodies.  It is helpful with introversion.
Harmotome - White, Colorless, Grey, Pink, Red, Yellow or Brown - It helps us to reach out to others, bringing the spirit of brotherhood and love.  This can help one stay on a schedule. Helps during the formation of a group, to bring it together harmoniously.  It can help one to learn and absorb things of an unusual nature.  It is also a good stone for someone that is involved in musical activities.
Hauyne - It can enhance and bring us deep meditation.  It can be helpful in the journey back into past lives.  It can bring us peacefulness and self acceptance.
Hawk's Eye - Bluish green to bluish gray - It can help bring serenity and peace.  It helps us with our perspective, bring keen insight and good judgment.  It can bring us abundance, prosperity, healing and riches.  It helps bring us a love of nature. This can teach us to come to terms with the imperfections of the earth plane and to accept them.
Heliodor - Gold  Beryl - It can help us with our personal power and intellect.  It can help improve communication and help us to communicate on a higher level.  It can help bring balance between the intuitive and conscious levels of ourselves.  It can help us find comfort in nurturing others while maintaining our sense of self.  It is said to manifest purity in all aspects on all planes of being.  It helps provide initiative and independence in our thoughts and actions.  It helps promote our will to succeed, even when our courage fails us.  It's message to us is that with confidence and conviction we can resolve any circumstance or problem that comes our way.   It can help relieve nervousness and emotional eruptions that have been caused by excessive stress.  It is said to vibrate with clarity and truth, thus channeling divine light and love.  It also has all the general properties of Beryl.
Hematite – Black, Red to Metallic gray – Focus, concentration, grounding, courage and balancing yin yang.  Helps bring tranquility and emotional clarity.  Draws heat from the body, helpful with fevers. It energizes and revitalizes, increasing resistance to stress and strengthening the body.  Helps dissolve and transform negativity, helping us to feel more optimistic and able to focus on inner happiness. Helps strengthen our self control. 
Hematite has several varieties, each with their own unique names. 
• Hematite Rose is a circular arrangement of bladed crystals giving the appearance of a rose.
• Kidney Ore is the massive botryoidal form and gives the appearance of lumpy kidney like masses. 
• Oolitic Hematite is a sedimentary formation that has a reddish brown color and an earthy luster and is composed of small rounded grains. 
• Speculate is a micaceous or flaky stone that is sparkling silver gray and sometimes used as an ornamental stone. 
Hemimorphite - Clear, white, blue, green or grey - Helps to be less self centered and allows us to not be egotistical.  It helps us to take responsibility for our own Happiness or Unhappiness, thus allowing us to create our own personal reality, in that letting us recognize that we are in control of our own self concept.  It helps us gain self esteem, brings luck, to live a joyous and creative life.  Helps us to manifest practicality and sensibility as well as helping to relieve feelings of hostility and anger.  An excellent stone to help us grow toward an ego less self confidence and self respect.
Herkimer Diamond - Clear, some with inclusions - It helps increase the awareness of dreams, expands awareness and inspires creativity and imagination. It helps reduce stress and release tension, helps us to connect to our Inner Voices and psychic abilities.  They harmonize well with most other stones, particularly Moldavite.  It can stimulate psychic abilities such as telepathy and clairvoyance.   It can help stimulate conscious attunement to our highest spiritual levels.  It can help open and clear the chakras to allow the energy to flow.
Hiddenite - Emerald to Light Green and Yellow - It can enhance our creative and spiritual potentials and stimulate our intellect.  It can help us find the clarity in our lives.  It can help us to look into the deeper levels within and bring clarity to ourselves that we often ignore.  It can help us to focus on the issues and situations at hand, giving us ideas as to how to solve our problems.  It can be used for healing on all levels.  It is a stone known for attracting prosperity.  It works well on the Heart Chakra, providing protection and support for our emotions.  It is a calming stone and can help during times of loss.  It can help us to generate compassion for others as well as ourselves.  It can bring trust into relationships of all kinds.  It also has all the general properties of Kunzite.
Holey Stone aka Odin Stone - Usually a soft stone (such as sandstone) with naturally occurring holes, that were produced by erosion, wind, wave action or sea creatures, not man made!  The holes in the stones were created by the Earth Mother herself and all are one of a kind. - They are stones of protection and strengthening of mind.  They can also help enhance psychic abilities.  They are helpful in preventing nightmares when hung or placed by the bed.  Hanging one near where a pet sleeps helps guard it as well.  When hung or placed in homes or vehicles they offer protection from harm for all who reside or travel within.  When placed on an Altar they offer a perfect vessel for creating a link to the Earth Mother and her water spirits.  They have also been used to help rid the body of dis-ease by drawing it out and absorbing it.  After being used for healing please cleanse the stones before using them again.
Howlite - White/cream colored, marked with veins of black or brown - It is a gentle stone that aids and deepens sleep, allowing wisdom to be retained from our dreams.  Helps calm and soothe emotions, reduce anxiety, pain, tension, stress and rage in our lives. It helps inspire artistic creation and new ideas, allowing us to express our emotions positively.  It is a good stone for communication, allowing us to be aware of our emotions and express them calmly.  It is also a stone of healing.

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Idocrase see Vesuvianite
Infinite - It is sometimes called "the healers stone".  It can be useful for healers, athletes, chronic pain sufferers and others who have a need for healing energies. It is a soothing and calming stone.  It has been called a miracle working stone.  It can help us deal with our past, present and future, all at once.  Helping balance and deal with past life energies on the physical, mental and spiritual levels.  It has a loving, Angelic energy.  It can help clear clouded auras and raise the Kundalini.
Iolite - Purple, Blue, Brown, Yellow, Grey, Green w/iridescence - Wonderful stone for the Third Eye and Crown Chakra's during meditation and astral traveling.  Assists in our spiritual growth, strengthens and aligns the aura and can stimulate shamanic visions.  It's one of the best stones to use in psychic, healing, and spiritual activities. It can help to open one to psychic talents and expand them gently. It can also enhance curiosity.  It can be helpful when dealing with addictions, including alcoholism. It assists in detoxification as well as maintaining sobriety.
Iron - Grey to black but when included in other stones can show as red to orange - It can help bring mental and emotional balance.  It can help release our every day issues as well as create and use new ideals come in to our lives.  It has been used to bring contact with the Fairy Kingdom of this world.   It can stimulate contact with other worldly intelligence and bring insight and knowledge into the moral structure of the elders.  It can help us be more open and receptive to the tranquility and abundance that surrounds us.  It can help bring diplomacy in to our lives, especially during lawsuits, petitions and judgments.

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Jade - Black, Green, Lilac, Yellow, White and colors combined - A Dream Stone - it helps us remember and resolve our dreams, if you place it under your pillow it can help with the release of our suppressed emotions.  Helps bring harmony, peace and change negativity to positive energy.  Gives us ambition to get our objectives accomplished.  Helps provide us with confidence to become more self assured, self sufficient and self reliant.   See also Nephrite Jade.
Jasper – Wide variety of colors, just about every color imaginable - It has been called the supreme nurturer, reminds us there is more that surrounds us than ourselves, protect from negativity, helping to ground us, balances yin yang and assists us during astral travel.  Helps to align and cleanse our Chakra's and Aura.  It helps to balance the physical, emotional and intellectual bodies with the etheric energies. It is said to have been worn by priests and kings and used in a ceremonial way in Native American traditions. This stone increases determination in all pursuits and aids quick thinking.  It also reminds one to be honest with oneself and to help others.
Jasper - Brecciated - It can help enhance organizational abilities, relaxation and a sense of being complete and whole.  It helps align the chakras and balance the Yin Yang, physical and emotional bodies.  It is considered a stone of protection.  It can encourage attunement, healing and communication with animals.  It can help bring happiness, relieve stress and bring a good outlook on life!  It can help increase physical endurance and ward off dehydration.  It is a good stone for grounding oneself and is associated with the root chakra.  Also has all the general properties of Jasper.
Jasper - Cobra aka King Cobra - Helps us to realize that we are all part of the whole, no one is separate.  Helps give us confidence in taking the next step in one's true path.  Helps enable us to know that sometimes what others feel is right for us, in fact, may not be healthy for our spirit.   Also has all the general properties of Jasper and Green Jasper.
Jasper - Dalmatian - Grey to Cream coloring with Dark spots of Tourmaline - It can help us on our spiritual path and to understand that our path is our own and different from others.  On that path we will receive the knowledge we need, sometimes difficult while other times it will be easy to understand as we learn and grow.  It helps us release what we have outgrown and encourages us to move forward in a unique and exhilarating path to achieve our goals.  It helps balance the yin yang energies on the physical, emotional and intellectual bodies.  It can help cleanse and release dysfunctional and negative energies in our bodies.  It can help bring out our playfulness and lighter side.  It can also bring devotion, fidelity, constancy and allegiance.  It is a good stone to share during all types of relationships.  It can be used to calm animals.  Also has all the general properties of Jasper.
Jasper - Elephant Skin aka Elephant Jasper - It can help us see what stunts our growth as individuals.  It can help guide us through our life's journey helping create harmony.  It also has all the properties of Jasper. 
Jasper - Fancy - Helps bring tranquility, eliminate worry and depression. It can help bring mental clarity and open the Crown Chakra.  See also general properties of Jasper.
Jasper - Green - Helps balance energies between members of the opposite sex, balances and clears all Chakra's and removes energy blocks. It balances both highly energized people and those who may be too mellow.   Also has all the general properties of Jasper.
Jasper - Kambaba - Black and Green with lines, swirls and circles flowing through it. - Helps soothe the nerves and helps improve our state of mind.  It can help us connect to the earth energies and to discover our personal roots.  It is a good stone for grounding and protection.  It can help with dietary health and cleanse the body of toxins.  It also helps with relaxation and balance.  Also has all the general properties of Jasper and Green Jasper.
Jasper - Leopard Skin - Rings throughout the stone of tan, black, pink, orange or brown - Helps us to accept responsibility and increases patience.  Helps us with emotional grounding.  Also all the general properties of Jasper.
Jasper - Marble aka Brown Jasper - It helps us connect  to the earth and brings stability and balance. It can help us achieve deep meditation and  center oneself.  It also helps us with past life regression, revealing the karmic causes for what is happening in this lifetime. Also all the general properties of Jasper.
Jasper - Mookaite aka Mookite or Moukaite - Helps with decision making, shields against negative or dangerous situations also helps with emotional growth.  Helps with kindness to ourselves as well as others.  Helps us with decision making when we are having a difficult time.  Provides flexibility and openness in our opinions and faithfulness in promises.  Promotes energy and new ideas,  helping us gain enthusiasm to bring the excellence of ourselves.  It can help remove things that may slow our growth.  It is an excellent stone of shielding, even during combat, brings well being to our body.  Helps with contacting those that have passed on, both human and animals.  Helps eliminate distractions and revealing what is concealed.  Also all the general properties of Jasper.
Jasper - Ocean - Wide variety of colors including Green, Yellow, Orange, Pink, Lavender, Red, White, Cream, Black, Beige's, Browns or Clear to name a few.  Sometimes has orbs flowing through them. - It's a soothing stone and helps us to love oneself as well as others. It's very healing of the emotions and brings peace of mind. Helps with acceptance of responsibility and increases patience. The circular patterns on ocean jasper symbolizes and help us realize that we are all interconnected with nature and it's cyclical pattern. It can also help with circular breathing for healing or meditation. It helps with