Properties of Gemstones

[Akeyla]

This is a very limited beginning (guidepost) on your own personal journey of learning the value of stones in your life. Above all, as you work with stones, turn to and trust your own higher guidance on the properties and uses of any particular stone. There is a wide variance in the energies of the stones depending on factors such as color, clarity or whether it’s cut or uncut and many other possible differences between stones. Each stone is a unique entity unto itself and each of us resonates with stones in our own unique way.

Properties of Gemstones

Adventurine – comforter and supporter. Gently stabilizes emotions.

Agate – There are many types of agates. Generally grounding and stabilizing of physical energies.

Amazonite – Soothes nervous system. Helps perfect personal expression and verbalizing.

Amber – blood purifier. Clears emotions. Connects one to past, present and future. Up and Down. Yin and yang.

Amethyst – transformational healer. Purifier and amplifier or healing and spiritual energies. Helps to protect from overindulgence.

Ametrine – unifying self will and divine will. Dispels negativity, aids decision making and meditation.

Angelite – communication with angels, protects, strengthens degenerate organs. Excellent for creative people.

Apache tear – grants forgiveness, aids understanding in distress.

Apatite – humanitarian stone. Promotes acceptance and unconditional love. Controls weight gain and is good for communication.

Apophylite – loving attunement to body and spirit. Known to stimulate intuition.

Aquamarine – calming, soothing, clarification of emotions. Excellent for meditation.

Azurite – stimulates psychic abilities. Amplifies healing and meditation experiences.

Azurite Malachite – brings deep energies up and heals them. Cleanses negative thought patterns.

Bloodstone – physical cleansing, purifies blood, detoxifies organs and brings harmony to one’s vibrations.

Blue Lace Agate – soothes emotions and pain. Good throat stone. Sensitizes and attunes senses.

Calcite – (green) soothes heart chakra and emotions; (honey) boosts physical and spiritual energy; (orange) creativity and sexuality; (pink) amplifies connection between heart and mind when consciously directed to. As pink ray stone, pink calcite promotes love of self and others.

Carnelian – stimulating. Helps ground and focus thoughts. Used for fertility and impotence.

Celestite – aids clear speech and personal expression. Highly spiritual.

Chalcedony – provides courage and protection. Helps to absorb negative energy.

Chrysacolla – eases nervous tension, digestive upsets and helps clean liver. Alleviates arthritis

Chrysoprase – emotional serenity, prevents depression. Increases grace and equilibrium increases and balances energy.

Citrine – mental stimulant, opens conscious mind to intuition. Enhances creativity and abundance.

Copper- energizer and conductor of Divine energies into physical plane, quick thought, leaps of insight.

Fluorite – cleanser. Grounds excess energies and helps one to work with large amounts of energy. Very focusing.

Garnet – Very grounding. Keeps energies flowing. Sleeping with it helps you remember your dreams. Stone of passion. Business success.

Hematite – Iron based. Very grounding. Good for kidneys. Eliminates spaciness and increases intuition.

Herkimer Quartz (Diamond) – vision and dream crystal. Stimulates visual in meditation and dream work.

Howlite – combines reasoning, observation and patience, providing for discernment.

Iolite – enhances mental clarity, opening psychic abilities and energetic protection.

Jade – balancing, soothing, cleansing, effective when used over a period of time. Chinese credit Jade with clarity, modesty, courage, justice and wisdom.

Jasper (Red) – good for clearing blocks in the liver. Energizes solar plexus and lower chakras.

Jet – psychic and protection. Used for purification, to dispel migraines, illness and deep depression. Helps to protect finances.

Kyanite – (black) budging inner and outer domains, opening to the void, clearing blockages, repairing imbalances. (Blue) enhances psychic ability, telepathy and intelligence. Balances the chakras.

Labradorite – for activating psychic and telepathic abilities, magic increased synchronicity. Brings recognition of one’s destiny.

Lapis Lazuli – stone of royalty. You have to reach to the high quality of the stone. Brings old emotional wounds to the surface for healing.

Lepidolite – soothing and relaxing. Good for emotional support and stress relief. Used in meditation.

Malachite – centering, protective, mirror of soul; attests to truth within. Physical protection.

Moonstone – reflective, clear seeing, soothing, enhances clairvoyance, deals with inner planes and soul connection. Goddess energy. Lifts spirits. Brings harmony to marriage. Relieves frustration and balances emotion.

Obsidian – teaches us how to bring more light into darkness. Stabilizes erratic energies.

Onyx – very physical. Quells fear of the unknown. Helps control passions and emotions and negative thinking.

Opal – absorbent. Picks up your energies positive or negative and works with karmic law of return – what you send out is returned amplified.

Paua Shell – excellent when dealing with addictions. Helps body release toxins and create balanced emotions.

Peacock Ore – brings freshness and newness to one’s life. Also known as the stone of “happiness” Used frequently in Feng Shui. Kept at the entrance of a room it is said to protect and bring abundance to you.

Pearl – mothering, softens pain, pulls together and softens emotions and mind. Peaceful.

Peridot – lateness and beauty. Has a very light energy. Eases spiritual fears, good for clear minded people and clairvoyants.

Petrified Wood – Protection against infection. Helps past life recall. Relates to tissue regeneration and longevity.

Pyrite – increases memory, concentration and spiritual/psychic abilities. Great protection stone.

Rhodocrosite – unites the conscious and subconscious. Clears dome of the old pains, hurts and memories from deep within so we can flow more easily in the present. Helps ease extreme trauma.

Rose Quartz – soft love energy, balancer. Calming to the emotions and heart center particularly.

Ruby – passion for life and truth. Courage. Works with heart center and circulation. Devotion that transfigures Divine Love into Divine Will.

Rutilated Quartz – illuminator. Energizer, alchemical, electrical.

Selenite – flexibility, clarity in decision making. Strengthens the spinal column.

Smoky Quartz – stimulates and purifies the first chakra. Helps ground more spiritual light in the body and on the earth. Good for depression, fatigue, spaciness. Helps one brings one’s dream into being on earth.

Sodalite – Throat stone, aids communication and self-expression. Stabilizes thyroid. Eases subconscious fear and guilt.

Sugilite (or Luvilite) – third eye activator, opens the connection between mind and body. Brings conscious control of mental faculties and related bodily states. Helps spiritual oriented individuals deal with the sometimes overwhelming negative energies present on the planet. Helps open the door to awareness of one’s own divine essence. Often used by crystal workers who deal with cancer patients.

Sunstone – enhancing personal power. Wills creativity.

Tiger Eye – aids in clarity of perception, helps one to see and understand different perspectives. Stabilizing and gets in touch with our connection with the earth.

Tourmaline – (Green) deep nurturing. Quiets the mind and brings will and wisdom. (Pink) Heart stone that strengthens wisdom and willpower. (Pink and Green – Bi-Color or Watermelon) the best heart chakra healer. Helps one release old emotional pains and replaces them with love. (Black) gives protection from negative or heavy energies. Grounding. (Quartz) brings the forces of light and darkness into harmony.

Unakite – enhances sense of personal power, heart stone. Converts negative energy into positive.

[Pesha]

What a sweet and generous thing to do hun. HUGS!!

[lightdragon]

This is a very limited beginning (guidepost) on your own personal journey of learning the value of stones in your life. Above all, as you work with stones, turn to and trust your own higher guidance on the properties and uses of any particular stone. There is a wide variance in the energies of the stones depending on factors such as color, clarity or whether it’s cut or uncut and many other possible differences between stones. Each stone is a unique entity unto itself and each of us resonates with stones in our own unique way.

Properties of Gemstones

Adventurine – comforter and supporter. Gently stabilizes emotions.
which type of adventurine? green ,red, blue,etc. or is this general.

Amber – blood purifier. Clears emotions. Connects one to past, present and future. Up and Down. Yin and yang.
Ditto for this one.And there are 256 various types of amber


Calcite – (green) soothes heart chakra and emotions; (honey) boosts physical and spiritual energy; (orange) creativity and sexuality; (pink) amplifies connection between heart and mind when consciously directed to. As pink ray stone, pink calcite promotes love of self and others.take a look at what you did here. This is the proper way to do it


Fluorite – cleanser. Grounds excess energies and helps one to work with large amounts of energy. Very focusing.
again is this general or which type.is this green,purple,yellow,etc.

Garnet – Very grounding. Keeps energies flowing. Sleeping with it helps you remember your dreams. Stone of passion. Business success.Ditto again.



Jasper (Red) – good for clearing blocks in the liver. Energizes solar plexus and lower chakras.[quote] Ditto for this one in a proper way to explain.



[QUOTE=Akeyla]
Obsidian – teaches us how to bring more light into darkness. Stabilizes erratic energies. i did a whole thread on this one awhile back or i added to one.

Onyx – very physical. Quells fear of the unknown. Helps control passions and emotions and negative thinking.
Czechwoods did a many threads on this one.


Tiger Eye – aids in clarity of perception, helps one to see and understand different perspectives. Stabilizing and gets in touch with our connection with the earth.

Tourmaline – (Green) deep nurturing. Quiets the mind and brings will and wisdom. (Pink) Heart stone that strengthens wisdom and willpower. (Pink and Green – Bi-Color or Watermelon) the best heart chakra healer. Helps one release old emotional pains and replaces them with love. (Black) gives protection from negative or heavy energies. Grounding. (Quartz) brings the forces of light and darkness into harmony. very simple but good.

I`m not trying to put you down. But you have to understand this is a place to learn past a new age/occult/witchcraft store sheet. in some areas this is good like the tourmalines. i also left out the opals as i just realized i missed the various types. And you should have put that in there.I`m not all knowing,neither is Czechwoods,Wolfsong or any of the others,but we try to strive to be all knowing. there are questions about crystals and stones where we will go Duh!!!.

[CzechWoods]

excellent postie, and very valid points by DS and Lightdragons comments.

please dont be discouraged by the criticism, and do come back and share more of your insights

it is all apreciated

[firedrake377]

I really enjoy stones and gems even though i am a fire sign. I have a ring that i inherited from my grandfather. It is a square onyx with two small diamonds, it is the first accessory i have worn in a long time. I finally know what the onyx means, i appreciate it. I blessed this ring and do not leave the house without it, so thanks again for the insight.

[lightdragon]

please dont be discouraged by the criticism, and do come back and share more of your insights

it is all apreciated
I forgot to say that.Sorry_inabox_

[CzechWoods]

I forgot to say that.Sorry_inabox_

its all good, (i think) lightdragon.

we all are sometimes carried away by the cause

it does happen to me
a lot too.

and i very much agree with your post also because of teh motivation behind it. there are loads of sites that gather the main view on stones, and various books as well. it is more than right imo that we want to make a difference on mw, but i also like to see a good, albeit simple summery at times

[lightdragon]

its all good, (i think) lightdragon.

we all are sometimes carried away by the cause

it does happen to me
a lot too.

and i very much agree with your post also because of teh motivation behind it. there are loads of sites that gather the main view on stones, and various books as well. it is more than right imo that we want to make a difference on mw, but i also like to see a good, albeit simple summery at times

i`m thinking too much on cartooning critques rather than gem consulting.I also like to see simple summaries as well. IMO I think people learn better from them. I also get frustrated when i see something like this. at least i`m learning

[Akeyla]

No need to apologize for the critiques. As I said it was a quick 'guidepost'.

I am still discovering all the different types fo stones from colors to geographical locations and different cuts and all that.

The above list is what I started with and it just gave me a platform to know which stones I wanted to look into more.

That is what I wanted to share.

If anyone is interested in a certain stone or 'family' of stones then they should look into it and find out all they can. As and When I learn more about different stones and their many meanings and correspondences I will post more.

This was just a starter list and I agree that it is not very detailed. But sometimes too much detail gets to be too much information that we might not need.

I have been to many gemstone sites and pagan sites and geological sites about gemstones. Some of them tell me stuff that is interesting but not really pertinent to what I want to know while others don't tell me enough, even less than what I posted.

Also I believe that above all else, different stones will have a different feel for each person as we are all different just like the stones. Giving a person a guideline as to what to look for is helpful without giving them false expectations of what the stone is 'supposed to do'.

In my opinion anyways.

I'm a writer, I'm used to the critiques so don't appologize for them, I understood right off that they weren't meant to be a 'downer'. And thank you for feeling comfortable enough to share them.

All the best

~Akeyla~

[Wolfsong]

I think its refreshing to look at the insights of up and coming students within the mineral world. Although in some ways they may come across as simplistic they each hold a very special treasure. That being the personal insites and experiences of that individual. Often times it takes someone new looking at something from a different perspective to enlighten us all and its these times I truely hold dear for no one, young or old, has all the answers. The important thing is that we do not become complacent in our search within the mineral world.

To have people like Lightdragon and CzechWoods here to guide and encourage people along on thier paths is a wonderous thing for everyone. Constructive critisism is a very useful tool to help guide individuals and I for one appreciate it, even at my age. I think that we all agree we are all on a glorious path...a path that will never end in regards to learning. Even though some of us may have more answers than others we too still learn every day. I still go "DOH!" regularly and to be honest... those are some of my most joyful memories... even after 28 years on this path.