Metaphysical Properties of Gemstones

Aventurine

 A healing stone, it gives a sense of mental and emotional well being. Also a good luck stone in financial matters. Stimulates creativity, intelligence and perception.

Agate

General protection and healing, increases courage, self confidence, and energy and promotes longevity. Also good for gardening.

Alexandrite

Renewal and regeneration, openness to higher self. Brings love, joy, and luck.

Amazonite

Helps clarify and improve thinking.

Amber

Healing, protection from negativity, attractiveness and energy.

Amethyst

Increases vivid dreams, relieves depression, promotes calm, serenity, and spirituality. Helps with addiction and stress.

Apatite

Helps stuttering and hypertension. Rids one of guilt and grief.

Aquamarine

Improves sight, sharpens the mind, calms and clarifies emotions.

Aragonite

Grounding and centering, facing truth and reality.

Azurite

Increases psychic ability and aids in meditation. Relieves arthritis and joint pain.

Bloodstone

Healing, especially related to the blood. Increases courage and charitability.

Carnelian

General healing stone. Restores the natural energy flows of your body.

Chrysocolla

Soothes nervous tension.

Chrysoprase

Soothes heartache and helps depression, promotes emotional balance, wisdom, and peace.

Citrine

Helps digestion and aids in mental and intellectual functions. Increases self esteem and energy. Balances and dissipates negative energy.

Coral

Helps in childbirth and adoption. Wards off bad thoughts from others and promotes general wellbeing.

Diamond

Manifests abundance. Used in conjunction, it strengthens the properties of other stones.

Emerald

A mind stone. Enhances memory, promotes clear and quick thinking, and right action stemming from right thought.

Flourite

Enhances spiritual energy work, focuses the will and balances the psyche.

Garnet

Balances natural energy. A highly protective stone, it increases confidence and security.

Goldstone

Uplifting, reduces tension and stomach problems.

Hematite

Great stone for grounding. Calms and soothes, reducing stress and blood pressure.

Howlite

Reduces stress and anxiety. Quietly soothes and calms to bring gentleness and patience.

Jade

Wisdom, mercy, humility, generosity, peace, and harmony. Jade is protective and lucky. Place a bit under your pillow at night for restorative dreams.

Jasper

Calms a troubled mind. Aids in visualization and meditation and in finding & achieving life goals. Helps with digestive problems and other ills.

Labradorite

Strengthens the will and inner strength and convictions. Aids in combatting addictions.

Lapis Lazuli

Emotional healing and stability. High intensity stone which cleanses the spirit to bring out inner truth and peace. A power stone giving the wearer insights into the deeper mysteries of life. It assist in creative endeavors, helping to release creative blocks as it opens consciousness and widens perspectives.

Malachite

Helps release negative emotions and protect from psychic attack.

Moonstone

Helpful in psychic work. Opens the spirit to the feminine aspect. Draws love and helps in interpersonal relationships.

Morganite

Love, empathy, patience and compassion. Heals the emotional self.

Onyx

Good protective stone. Also releases old relationships and keeps away general negativity.

Opal

Awakens and helps understanding of psychic intuition and mysticism. Encourages living authentically in feeling and action, with faithfulness and loyalty. Helpful for eyesight and during childbirth.

Peridot

Balances your emotional mind and calms emotional storms. Aids digestion and insomnia and increases psychic powers.

Quartz

The greatest of all healing stones. Acts as an amplifier for psychic energy and aids meditation and visualization.

Rose Quartz

Great for attracting love. Promotes self loving and heals emotional wounds as well as promoting peace, forgiveness, and nurturing.

Smoky Quartz

A grounding stone which helps reduce depression and negative emotions.

Rhodochrosite

Love drawing stone. Helps release past psychological issues. Helps eyesight.

Rhodonite

Self affirmation and self love. Fosters ability to remain calm in arguments and resolve disagreements in a loving way.

Ruby

Stimulates nurturing emotions and economic stability. Excellent for shielding from psychic attacks and gathering and amplifying energy. Helpful for blood related health issues, such as anemia, menstrual issues, and poor circulation.

Sapphire

Promotes light, pure emotions, purity of mind, serenity, joy, and peace. Opens the mind to beauty and love. Clears the mind of unwanted thoughts.

Sardonyx

Encourages self control and courage in public speaking. Relieves anxiety and grief. Protection, luck, and peace.

Snowflake Obsidian

Protects against nightmares and emotional draining.

Sodalite

Purifies your aura and protects you from negative energy.

Tanzanite

Increases psychic abilities and enhances spiritual connectedness.

Tiger's Eye

Clear thinking, helps in manifesting will, courage, and confidence.

Topaz

Soothes physical pain, promotes peace and calms emotions, as well as promoting forgiveness. Promotes individuality, self confidence, and creativity. Counteracts negative emotions.

Tourmaline

Calm, protection, focus, and balance. Promotes self assurance and goodwill.

Turquoise

Healing stone, providing a soothing energy which can bring peace and calm to the wearer. Attracts friendships, luck, and happiness. Releases shame and guilt.

Unakite

Promotes balance and emotional stability. Transforms negative emotions into positive ones. A grounding stone.