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Healing & Spiritual Properties of Gemstones

We are lucky to be able to share with you here, a list of the kind of gemstones used in our jewelry and the properties commonly associated with them, thanks to the kindness of the author, Atala and Crystal-Life Technology, who have given us permission to share this list with you here.

Gemstones A-M. see Gemstones N-Z

African Jade	Heart's Wisdom	A solid, stable stone that grounds in a practical way the heart's knowledge for everyday work.
Amethyst	Wisdom	Stone of inner wisdom. Offers a peaceful, centered awareness. Clears, harmonizes and stabilizes all levels of positive consciousness. Helps protect the wearer in stressful situations.
Aventurine	Renewal	Removes hurts of the heart and encourages a renewal of healthy growth. Balances male/female energies. Amplifies leadership qualities. A stone that provides courage through love.
Black Jet	Dispels Sadness	Dispels fearful thoughts, depression; protects during the pursuit of financial goals. Helps kundalini to rise in stable way from base to crown chakras, binding together the qualities of each chakra for attaining the common goal.
Black Onyx	Self-Mastery	Helps you center and align yourself with the higher states of consciousness so that you absorb the energies you require. Helps banish frustrations and grief, encourages self-control and self-mastery. Helps to perceive dualities.
Bloodstone	Vitality	A stone of dynamic courage. Helps you recognize the benefit of turmoil prior to renewal. Folk medicine: neutralize toxins and strengthen the blood.
Blue Lace Agate	Psychic Communication	Helps you connect with the energy of communication on a psychic level and convey this information to others. A soft, gentle, self-confident stone. For the throat and third eye chakras.
Botswana Agate	Creativity	Enhances creativity and encourages exploration of the unknown, physical to spiritual. Folk medicine: helps rid body of toxins.
Carnelian	Confidence & Creativity	Helps you see the universe as a loving, supportive home. It provides you with the inner confidence to create your own stabile, supportive environment. Helps with career success & personal power.
Citrine	Prosperity	Works on the psychic level to bring prosperity and warm sun qualities into your energy field. Transmutes negative energies. Helps you manifest your personal power in original ways.
Clear Quartz	Power	A communicator stone, working at all levels to give you access to energy by clearing and balancing the field. The classic shaman's stone. Used in watches, radios, computers…and psychically…to transmit information for specific use.
Dancing Chakra		These chakra stones help you dynamically manifest your goals by clearing and balancing the body’s chakras (energy centers). Stones are: red jasper, orange aventurine, yellow calcite, green African Jade, blue lapis lazuli, purple amethyst, clear quartz. (And, 10 1/2” anklet, black onyx).
Dynamic Chakra		This sequence of seven stones helps you dynamically manifest your goals by clearing and balancing the body’s chakras (energy centers). Stones are: red jasper, orange aventurine, yellow calcite, green African Jade, blue lapis lazuli, purple amethyst, clear quartz.
Frosted Crystal	Angelic peace	Angelic peace and compassion, especially useful when experiencing the uncertainties that come with growth. Offers compassionate love and protection when insight is not operating due to inner change.
Garnet	Self-Esteem	A “sacred” stone, transmuting negative to beneficial energy. Balances kundalini. Attracts loving assistance for the wearer. Moves courageously and swiftly, helps with self-esteem and bonding in love.
Hematite	Protection	Helps define your energy field. Protects you from the ill-wishes of others. Helpful for travel, business, martial arts, legal issues. Excellent base chakra stone: it is actually red but polishes black. Folk medicine: strengthens the blood.
Howlite	Strength	Combines the power of reasoning with observation and patience, dispelling the energy of confrontation. Encourages tact. Folk medicine: helps strengthen bones and releases muscular tension.
Iolite	Shadow-Keeper	Iolite helps you attain true vision of the subtle inner energetic worlds, then break through shadows to ground this in the material world. A third eye wisdom stone.
Labradorite	Vision	Helps to protect and to keep the aura clear, balanced, protected, free from energy leaks. Helps align the subtle bodies. Helps in attracting strength and protection during period of change. Folk medicine: brain disorders, anxiety, stress, digestion.
Lapis Lazuli	Initiation	A stone of “initiation’ permitting access to mystic knowledge. Protects from harm by clearing negative energies from your energy field, cleansing your aura. Balances forces so you can walk safely through the situation.
Leopardskin	Humility	Leopardskin (rhyolite) strengthens body, mind and spirit to attain desired goals, which are inevitably within yourself. Promotes humility during the search. Folk medicine: dispels chills.
Lepidolite	Emotional balance	Lepidolite helps you feel self-love, reduces stress and relieves despondency, ensures change is to higher truths. Folk medicine: helps digestion, tight shoulder muscles.
Malachite	Decision Maker	A powerful grounding stone that clears obstructions and helps avert confusion and apathy. Helps with business success, vision quests, meditation. Folk medicine: helps strengthen immune system.
Mookite Jasper	Reflection	Helps bring clarity to the transformation process the world is now moving through. Enhances relaxation, contentment, compassion; stabilizes and heals in grounded way. Folk medicine: increases energy, regulates minerals, soothes nerves.
Moonstone	Intuition	Balancing, introspective, reflective and lunar. It brings calmness united with awareness. Helps you to know what to do intuitively; excellent during times of change.
Moss Agate	Self-Esteem	Leads you to be agreeable and persuasive, improves self-esteem, helps you see beauty in all things. Folk medicine: fungal infections, digestion, eliminating toxins.