Agate is known as “the stone of brotherhood and generosity”. It comes in many colours and varieties (banded chalcedony) and is found all over the world. It is a multi-purpose stone, brings about emotional, physical and intellectual balance. Soothes, calms, and grounds. Come see Nan’s wooden bowl of agate, close your eyes and pick out the color you need for the day.

Clear: helps to connect one to their faith, acceptance, universal wisdoms, and to their spiritual family.

Violet: helps to settle headaches, depression, and sleeplessness. Aids in decision making and clarity.

Blue: helps one to speak their truth. Aids in times of frustration, transition, and communication freedom.

Turquoise: is the stone of enlightenment. Helps one to stand back from situations and not to worry.

Pink: is the stone of love, peace, and harmony. Helping one to slow down and to connect to passions in life.

Green: helps with healing of heart issues. Aids in slowing down, peace and time out.

Yellow: helps with personal power, confidence, self-esteem issues. Often related to direction in life/employment.

Orange: helps with relationships, also connecting to creativity, passion, and joy for life.

Black: helps one to get out of the spin of the mind, grounds, and helps with focus.

 

Amber is clear yellow or orange fossilized resin from ancient pine trees. It carries the natural vibration of organic life: natural, free, light & warmth. It is able to draw out pain, negativity, toxins, and is a natural antibiotic. Its strong healing and protective vibration helps bring in: balance, patience, positive decision making.   Also: aids in organ health, memory, promotes wisdom, stability and motivation. Particulary aids in conditions of depression, tissue revitalization, and anyone recovering from illness. Spiritually, it helps us to connect to Light beings, including nature devas, faeries, and tree/plant energies. Known as “the stone of solar energy or solidified sunlight”.

Amethyst is known as “the stone of protection and purification”. Its purple color comes from the combination of trace elements of iron and aluminum. Amethyst is known to balance energies of the third eye (mind) to bring clarity, balance, purify thoughts, enhance intuition, create strength in thought, dispel doubts/fear/anger/depression/anxiety. Thus is a beneficial stone for almost every situation, whether it be health, emotional, or spiritual: for all situations are created and/or affected by our mind. It is also beneficial for spiritual protection, physic attack, quitting addictions, protects against nightmares, aids decision making, enhances memory, aids sound/relaxed sleep, etc. A good stone to give your children, protect/enhance positive energies in a room, use as a healing tool in healing practices. This is a powerful crystal, when in doubt use amethyst!

Angel Aura Quartz is created by heating natural clear quartz crystal and infusing it with vaporized platinum and silver, which creates an iridescent appearance of shimmering white, blue, violet, and silver. It radiates a delicate coloring and sweetness that reminds us of angel wings. It therefore stimulates the spirit and lifts one mood towards joy, peace, tranquillity, optimism and contentment. It reminds us to pay attention to the beauty around us in both nature and spirit. It helps us to remember lessons of past incarnations, connect us to insights, and guide us towards our spiritual purpose. It is a high vibration and helps us to connect to guidance from the love of angels and higher beings. Helps to clear and purify: auras, chakras, and energy fields plus helps remove: cords, negative spiritual attachments, and karmic debts. Known as “The Stone of Attunement to Beauty”.  

Apache Tear Drop is volcanic glass, a form of black obsidian.  It is composed of feldspar, hornblende, biotite and quartz. There is a haunting legend about the Apache Tear Drop. Where the Pinal Apaches and Arizona military  were in conflict.  Through a surprise attack the apaches lost many of their warriors in the first volley of shots.  The rest of the tribe retreated to a cliff’s edge and chose death by leaping over the edge rather than die at the hands of the white man.  The Apache women of those who died gathered a short distance from the base of the cliff where the sands were white, and for a moon they wept for the death of their loved ones and the loss of the fighting spirit of their tribe.  The sadness was so great, and their burden so sincere that the Great Father imbedded into the black stones the tears of the Apache women.  These black stones, when held up to the light reveal the translucent tear of the Apache.  Apache tear healing vibrations  helps to ground us and affirm that Earth is our home, protected and safe.  It helps us to release wounds and sorrow that is holding us back from joy, happiness, and spiritual growth.  Is used as a vacuum cleaner of negative energies, taking us to the Light.  It helps us to know what to keep and what to let go of (also helps in development of healthy boundaries).  It comforts grief, provides insight into the source of trauma, and promotes understanding and forgiveness.  Apache tear is therefore known as “the stone of healing grief and loss”.

Aqua Aura Quartz are created by heating natural quartz crystal and infusing them with vaporized gold which creates a striking blue color that flashes etheric shades of shimmering violet. Wearing aqua aura is said to help one shine with one’s inner beauty, to attract wealth and success, to bring forth esoteric wisdom, and to assist in creating an aura of peace and well being. It is strongly connected to the element of water and therefore is a stone for enhancing one’s access to the truth of emotions, feeling and expressing rather than holding and suppressing. It’s high and intense vibration aids in communication from heart to head, allowing for the recognition and communication of the highest truth. Increases psychic skills, spiritual awareness, innocence, genuine, honesty, and truth. It serves to help raise the vibration of humanity. Known as “The Stone of Spiritual Elevation”.

 

Aragonite is a carbonate mineral CaCO3, related to Calcite, though different structure with high magnesium content.  It is formed in oceans, caves, and warm marine environments.  Its raw form is clusters of (most common) dark honeycolored, sharp spike like clusters.  Its vibration calms, soothes, encourages patience, and renews strength & balance, grounding.  It helps to settle anger and stress, especially for those who feel overwhelmed with responsibility.  Their cluster form radiates energy outward in many directions creating a “web” of Light Force energy.   It helps release the attachment to emotional drama, calms reactions, and balances towards love and understanding.  Helps clear pain and fear, guiding towards love, compassion, and helping one to own the “human star” within.  It builds strength and confidence to face and clear present or past life traumas and guides one forward into new visions.  Especially beneficial to use when training animals.  Aids in calcium absorption, eases muscle spasms, offers patience to children.  Known as the stone of powerful clearing.

Aventurine, Green is a member of the quartz family: silicon dioxide with microscopic fuchite particles. It reflects iridescent sparkles when held in the light.  Holds emotions of new beginnings and growth similar to the vibration of spring (new grass, budding leaves, regeneration and growth). Also helps one move forward with confidence into changes: as in one’s employment, residence, school, relationships, or spiritual focus. It helps rebuild and recharge energy.  And brings in a feeling of lightness and humor. It enhances: vitality, confidence, happiness, protection, imagination, creativity, career success, calm, positive outlook, balance and inner strength. Healing: heart/cardiac, cell repair, surgery or recovery conditions, and premature infants. Known as the Stone of GOOD LUCK.

Bloodstone is a variety of green chalcedony with red spots of iron oxide or red jasper. Its distinctive red spots resemble the color of blood, from which it gets its name – bloodstone. Bloodstone is very beneficial for physical health issues for it helps support healthy blood, circulation and ultimal organ health. Positive support for blood disorders, anemia, detoxifying, immune system, relieves menstrual and menopausal symptoms, liver, kidneys, bone marrow, intestines, and heart. It is a stone of honesty and truth and helps connect one to their physical body to be at optimal health and strength. It also provides emotional support by helping one find the courage to follow one’s heart and take action based on what one knows in one’s heart to be true. It is known as the “stone of courage” and also viewed as the stone of the “spiritual warrior”. It is the birthstone for March.

Calcite
Blue calcite is one of the most soothing stones for the emotional body. It absorbs negative energy, filters it and returns it to the sender. Good for lungs, headaches and eye problems.

Green calcite cleans negativity out of stagnant situations. It helps you discover your own value. It aids in relaxation and emotional balance, a heart healer. Also helps children who are hyperactive.  

Yellow calcite heals abuse and sorrow from the past. It helps you to believe in yourself. It gradually releases gentle energies in the home or workplace to create a soothing atmosphere and encourages people to work and live together in a peaceful way.

Orange calcite helps children feel safer in what can seem to be a frightening world. It is very gentle for gallstone and any liver or spleen problems. It helps to balance women’s hormones and ease aching muscles.

Red/Pink calcite helps anyone to feel more vital, energetic and willing to experience life. useful in healing broken bones. Helps clear past trauma. It is also known as the “stone of compassion”.

 

Carnelian is an orange  colored variety of chalcedony, a mineral in the quartz family. It’s orange varies from pale to deep red orange and sometimes is banded in various shades. It’s warm and energizing energy supports our desires of passion, creativity, playful in relationships, helps us to express our joy, and to accept and enjoy our true nature. It increases our “zest” for life and the willingness to put ourselves out there and take risks as we move towards embracing life and transformation. It motivates success in business and life as it encourages us to enjoy the journey, not just the destination. It transforms: procrastination, resentment, envy, rage, physical pain (especially lower back), arthritis, improves absorption of nutrients, and helpful in healing reproductive organ disorders. Known as “The Stone of Passion and Playfulness”. 

Citrine is known as “the stone of abundance”. Citrine comes from the quartz family and is naturally or artificially heated amethyst. It is especially balancing for the solar plexus in helping us have the confidence and self esteem to be all we can be at work and at home. It helps us stay true to our life’s purpose. It helps deliver comfort, optimism, laughter, success, and to be true to ourselves. It helps one to manifest one’s dreams. It is self cleansing and does not hold/store negativity.

Fluorite is a calcium fluoride crystal that has been formed in an underground vein where hot steam/water has moved through and changed the main stone to create a new stone of higher water content. Thus giving it a fluorescent appearance. Fluorite comes in the colors of white, yellow, pink, blue, green, purple, and especially color combinations. It has a gentle vibration of healing for the heart, mind, and soul. It helps in relationships: personal or work life. It helps to clear away “brain fog”, settles chaos, and brings in peace, concentration, clarity, grounding, and encourages positive decision choices. Good for: study, arthritis, anxiety, panic attacks, anger, disorganization, insomnia, dizziness, hyper-activity etc. Fluorite helps you to step back and see better. Spiritually it brings in healing Light and channeled wisdom. Known as “Stone of the brain”.

Garnet Garnet is one of the more common stones and is popular in industry as a high quality abrasive. It comes in a rainbow of colors, the most common being deep reddish shades, opaque or translucent. It encourages: balance, peace, robust health, survival instinct, protection, healthy sexual desire, imagination, faith, truth, and grace.It inspires: love and devotion, opens up the heart and bestows self confidence, self respect and self love. Aids conditions of: pregnancy, arthritis, blood disorders, depression, lethargy, fever, stimulates metabolism, and good in times of crisis. It aids one to be open to sharing and receiving: love, kindness, and compassion. Reminding us of our gifts and encourages us to walk forward with courage on our Life Path. Referred to by Carol as:”Rose petals from Heaven”. “The stone of devotion and passion.”

 Labradorite is known as “the stone of magic, protection and Light”. It raises consciousness and connects to universal energies. It is highly protective and deflects (like a mirror) unwanted energies. Especially beneficial for protection of the heart chakra from negative thoughts from others and helps strengthen boundaries. Good in care giving situations where we tend to give more than we can physically or emotionally handle. Also a stone of esoteric knowledge as it facilitates initiation into the mysteries. It stimulates intuition and physic gifts., including the art of right timing, bringing messages from the unconscious mind to the surface. Helps bring up suppressed memories of the past, including past life experiences.

Lapis Lazuli is known as “the stone of inner vision”. It helps to expand and balance the third eye. It stimulates dream work and physic abilities. It easily releases stress, bringing deep peace. It is a protective stone that helps us to connect to spiritual guardians and angels. It encourages taking charge of one’s life, reveals inner truths, encourages self expression and communication. It helps alleviate head aches, overcome depression, and any head or throat ailments. A stone of highest truth, self awareness and honesty.

  

Malachite is known as “the stone of rebirthing, transformation, and new beginnings”. It is an intense stone that triggers and activates deep, emotional healing within the heart. It helps to break unwanted ties and outworn patterns to teach one how to take responsibility for one’s actions, thoughts and feelings. It helps with leadership, protection, willpower, courage, and helps attract “true love”. It absorbs negative energies and pollutants from the environment and body. A powerful, no-nonsense healing stone. Also aids in child birth.

Moss Agate is technically not a true agate.  It is chalcedony with spider like blotches and threads of moss-colored green minerals. It helps one to connect to Earth energy: the essence of peace, stability, balance, and harmony. It is especially beneficial to help one to connect to the elementals, fairies, and nature spirits. Moss Agate is said to refresh the soul and enable you to see beauty in all experiences. Helps to prevent and treat: mood swings, depression, infections, colds and flu.

Ocean Jasper is a form of orbicular jasper from Madagascar, it can be seen and collected at low tide. This stone has a soothing and nurturing effect, promoting emotional release and healing. It is a stone that helps one to relax and go with the ebbs of the tide (the ups and downs of life). It is formed within the ocean, carrying an ocean essence – healing effect. Ocean salt being the universal “physical/emotional/spiritual” healer. It helps us to slow down, breathe, and ground ourselves in this very busy and chaotic experience we call LIFE. Helping us to understand that everything has purpose, and to ride out the wave.

Rhodochrocite is a manganese carbonate MnCO3 (sometimes translucent) and comes in a variety of shades. Bright red to soft shades of pink including tans and browns in swirling patterns. It holds a soft yet assertive energy that can help you to move forward on your life path towards that which brings great satisfaction and joy to your heart. It helps you to let go of past hurts and give courage to step forward into new experiences of love and hope. Healing properties: comfort, harmony, friendship, forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, compassion, self love, inner child healing, past life healing. Stimulates warm feelings of love and compassion. Also helps to balance blood pressure, respiratory problems, digestion and anxiety/stress. Known as the “Rescue Remedy Stone” for healing emotions.

 Rose Quartz is Nan’s favourite overall crystal. It comes from the quartz family and its soft pink colour naturally comes from impurities of iron and titanium. This stone holds a very gentle, healing, nurturing energy and brings unconditional love and infinite peace to the holder. This is why it is known as the “stone of love”. It purifies and opens the heart chakra at all levels and brings deep inner healing and self love. Love is joy. Share it with yourself, your family, and everything that comes your way.

 

Rutilated quartz is a combination of clear or smokey quartz with hair like inclusions of rutile (titanium oxide mineral).  These fine like inclusions of metallic hair can be gold, silver, or copper color. Rutile is said to represent crystallized angel hair or cupids arrows of love. It can help us to connect to angel energy and the realization that we are never alone. It helps with “lightening the load” and can help one feel less overwhelmed with life’s responsibilities.
 Also helps with depression, loneliness, anxiety, fears, and relationship dilemmas. I helps to bring in the positive uplifting energy of inspiration, creativity, joy, and love. Stone of “Light for the soul.”

Smokey quartz is known as one of the most powerful grounding stones. It helps us to dissolve the chaos in our head and connect us to focus, deep breathing, and purpose. It helps remind us that we are solid, capable physical beings. It helps provide pain relief, helps body rid of toxins including radiation or chemotherapy. This stone is especially good when balancing one’s check book or doing the taxes. Offers protection, clears negativity by grounding it to the earth. Clears bad moods, fears, helplessness. Key works are: grounding, support, survival, organization. Manifestation of one’s dreams and desires. A “stress buster”!

 

Snowflake obsidian is a natural volcanic glass which contains the mineral Cristoballite in the form of snowflake crystal patterns.  Its blackness opens up blockages and draws them to the surface, and the white guides us to “the light at the end of the tunnel“.  It helps us to notice signs/clues towards a positive direction.  It carries courage to those on the edge of hope towards finding positive support.  Snowflake vibration opens doors to change.   Helps us to realize unhealthy patterns:  “Knowing what to keep and what to let go of”.  It helps to release “wrong thinking” and “stressful mental patterns”.  Also teaching us to value mistakes as well as success … for all is learning.  Empowers isolation and loneliness towards independence and personal confidence.  Aids in: balance in times of change, promotes manifestation, metamorphosis, practicality, and psychic ability.  Known as the ‘”stone of serenity and purity”.

Zoicite with Ruby is known as “the stone of joyful engagement with life.” It brings the energy of a summer morning to one’s heart. It offers one the energies of happiness, appreciation, abundance, vitality, and growth. It is especially good for people with serious illness or disease for it encourages one to understand the teachings of the disease while living one’s life to the fullest. It helps one to slow down and discover the peace in every situation, and brings about healing physically, emotionally, and spiritually. For this reason it is an excellent stone for cancers, with the added benefit that it helps restore vitality after radiation and chemotherapy. It helps to alleviate grief, anger, despair, and helplessness.