Everything in the universe, the stars in the heavens, the plants, the minerals and crystals, and ofcourse ourselves, are all made of the same basic building blocks. 

Electrons form into atoms, then gather into molecules which then build into elements, and as everything in life as we know it begins to move from the invisible to the manifest.

There is a very great similarity in the mineral and chemical elements of all life forms, whether inorganic or organic, so crystals and humans have a great deal in common!

AGATE

Often called the 'Fire Stone'.  A good crystal for grounding and also a good energizer.  A stone to carry for protection - it is particularly good in the protection of children.  Agate has been known to increase strength, courage, and even to promote longevity.  Good to use in stressful situations and removing all negative energies from ones person.  A good crystal for healing - it corresponds to the Solar Plexus Chakra.  Uses:  Digestion, lymph system, circulation and pulses, skin conditions.  Banded Agate is especially good meditation stone.

AMAZONITE

This crystal takes its name from the Amazon River.  Amazonite aligns the Heart and Solar Plexus Chakras.  Good for balancing the subtle bodies and for helping to overcome harmful tendencies.  Enhances creative expression.  Soothes the nervous system.  Improves self-confidence and self-worth.  A gentle calming crystal.

AMBER

Stimulates intellect, curbs absent-mindedness, improves memory.  Balances the male and female energies, clears emotional blockages.  Attracts friends and companions especially those of the opposite sex.  It emits a protective and positive energy helping to brighten ones life.  Amber is the treatment for any kind of abuse.  Worn as a charm it protects against disease and infections.  Uses:  Eye infections, lungs, kidneys, asthma, dropsy, toothache, glandular swellings of the throat.

AMETHYST

Helps repair broken friendships.  Strengthens will-power, courage, understanding, inspiration, calms, aids meditation and right hand brain activity.  A very strong protective crystal.  Enhances intuition and assists meditation.  Corresponds to the Third Eye Chakra.  Good to use in all forms of psychic and spiritual working.  Uses:  Very powerful energizer and blood cleanser.  Has been used for treatment of the pituitary and pineal glands.

AVENTURINE

In ancient Tibet, Aventurine was used for near-sightedness.  A centering, soothing and tranquilizing crystal.  Eases fear and anxiety.  Encourages mental clarity, brings joy and a positive attitude, heals emotional pain and fears.  Works very well when used with Rose Quartz.  Uses: Has been used to strengthen the blood and improve elasticity of muscle tissue. Has also been used in the treatment of psychosomatic illness and to release past trauma.

BLOODSTONE

Increases physical strength and promotes courage.  Links the user with higher states of consciousness.  Good to use in any forms of spiritual or psychic working. Protects against jealousy, increases empathy with others' difficulties, soothes bad dreams.  Uses: Anything to do with blood disorders.

BLUE LACE AGATE

Encourages self-expression and confidence.  Good for public speaking - enhances communication skills.  Alleviates physical tension, is calming and helps to access higher states of awareness.  It has a gentle, peaceful, cooling energy and a powerful antidote in times of anger and upset.  Corresponds to the Throat Chakra.Uses:  All throat problems, arthritis, skeletal conditions, digestive problems, neck and shoulder aches, headaches.

CARNELIAN

An excellent crystal for improving concentration  Corresponds with the Sacral Chakra.  It is said it can build a bridge between the physical and spiritual and increase energy and creativity.  It activates natural talents and mental abilities.  Brings abundance to all aspects of life.Good to use for stressful and emotional situations - helps clear confused minds. Alleviates fear and anxiety.  Uses:  Helps purify the blood and reproductive organs. 

CITRINE

A stone that does not hold negative energies.  Attracts and maintains wealth.  Develops mental clarity, helps in decision making, builds self-esteem.  Good to be worn by those very sensitive and easily buffeted by the outside world.  Good to increase confidence.  Clears, activates and energizes the Solar Plexus Chakra.  Uses:  Good for the digestive, kidney and bladder problems.

EMERALD

Associated with Venus: growth, fertility and love.  Tones and vitalizes the body and mind.  Good for improving the memory.  Enhances dreams and meditation and brings influences of prosperity, kindness, patience, balance and tranquility. Uses:  Strengthen the heart, liver, kidneys and immune system. Emerald has strong antiseptic properties.

FLUORITE

This crystal comes in beautiful shades of blue, green and lavender. Will enhance the properties of any other stone that it is used with.  Good to use in emotional situations as it calms the mind and straightens out the thoughts.  reduces  feeling of anger, depression and desperation.  Very good for hyperactive children.  Very grounding, improves concentration and assists meditation.  Works with chakras according to colours. Uses:  Strengthens the teeth and bones and assists in the absorption of nutrients.  Especially useful if worn next to tooth enamels, e.g. as earrings.

GARNET

Opens the Root Chakra while drawing earth energy into the body.  Stimulates life-force, boosts sexuality and fertility.  Brings strength to the physical and mental body.  It spiritualizes and uplifts, improving interpersonal relationships and enhancing the imagination.  Uses:  Strengthens the heart, ( be careful as a powerful energizer), thyroid, liver, lungs and kidneys.  Increases circulation and energizes the nervous system.

HAEMATITE

A wonderful crystal for worries because it helps you to be more grounded.  Use to protect self and home.  Gives confidence when challenged.  Good for traveling especially by air.  Ancient Egyptians used Haematite to treat inflammations, haemorrhages and hysteria.  It strengthen the will, personal courage and optimism.   Uses:  Anemia, low blood pressure, headaches, backaches, kidney problems, wounds, bladder problems, eye complaints.

JADE

The five values attributed to Jade are:  Clarity, modesty, courage, justice and wisdom.  Brings a feeling of tranquillity in times of need and a powerful talisman for protection.  Jade generates Divine Love, which is unconditional love.  Brings healing and emotional balance.  Brings realism, integrity and assists in ability to express true feeling.  Uses:  Heart, kidneys, larynx, liver, parathyroid, spleen, thymus, thyroid.  Cleanses the blood and removes toxins.

LABRADORITE

Will deflect any unwanted energies from the Aura.  Enhances meditation and telepathy, and increases inspiration, intuition, imagination and discernment.  Helpful in balancing and stabilising the movement of the life force/sexual energy in the body. Enhances meditation and telepathy and increases inspiration, intuition, imagination and discernment.  Uses:  Beneficial to the nerves, brain, pineal and pituitary glands, the liver and the lymphatic system.

LAPIS LAZULI

Very spiritual stone.  Allows the spiritual energy to be absorbed into your Aura.  Can be used for deep meditation and past life regression.  A potent cleanser.  Stimulates the thyroid thus releasing tension and anxiety.  Good for shy, introverted and retiring individuals.  Good for enhancing psychic abilities, spiritual contact. Relieves depression while promoting peace.  Very protective crystal.  Uses:  The throat, upper bronchial passages, lymphatic system, pituitary and thymus glands, spleen, lungs, Hodgkin disease.

MALACHITE

Known as an emotional purger.  Its use can lead to powerful emotional releases and physical detoxification.  A very calming stone.  Promotes sleep, increases fertility.  Balances the physical and emotional system.  Uses:  Strengthens the heart, head, teeth,, eyes, kidneys, pancreas, spleen and stomach.  Can aid tissue regeneration.

MOONSTONE

Increases access to the subconscious mind and developes psychic gifts.  It helps to balance the menstrual and hormonal cycles, while melting away the stress and anxiety that may occur at this time of the month.  It releases the tension in the abdominal area through opening the abdominal Chakra.  Good for problem solving and decision making.  A balancing crystal, good for meditation and self-awareness.  Moonstone aligns the astral and emotional bodies, and strengthens the meridians and nadis.  Good for increasing sensitivity, care and attentiveness in those who tend to be overbearing or bossy.  Uses:  Helps to rid the body of toxins.

PEARL

Pearl alleviates all emotional imbalance.  Aligns the etheric and emotional bodies, which creates more emotional stability.  Pearl has long been associated with the Moon, not only because of its appearance, but because of the obvious and apparent influence of the Moon on the tidal forces and on the physiology of the creatures that produce the Pearls.  Uses:  All problems associated with emotional stress.

PERIDOT

Increases clarity and patience and a more positive emotional outlook on life.  Activates the Heart Chakra thus creating a state of balance.  Brings increases of vigour and enthusiasm to mind and body.  Helps to prevent irritability and removes depression.   Uses:  Treats the liver and adrenals.  Detoxifies and regenerates tissue.

QUARTZ

known as the 'Universal Healer'.  Removes negative thoughts, increases psychism, enhances meditation and raises consciousness.  Has been used in many cultures for healing and as a link with spiritual realms.  Receives, stores, activates, amplifies and transmits energy, stimulating brain function and amplifying thought forms.  Good to wear for protection against background radiation.  Always keep a Clear Quartz crystal near your computer.  Uses: Everything associated with healing.

ROSE QUARTZ

Known as the 'Love Stone'.  It attracts and encourages self-love, friendship, loyalty, love of others and compassion.  It heals wounds of the heart with its calming nurturing energy.  It releases sadness and loneliness.  It strengthens the meridians and nadis and aligns the astral, emotional and mental bodies. Good for meditation.  Uses:  High blood pressure, vertigo, headaches, anxiety, stress.

SMOKEY QUARTZ

A grounding stone.  Good for meditation and aiding the alpha state.  Stimulates the desire for life and survival while giving the courage to make changes and break from habits that no longer serve you.  A very powerful stone for protection.  Has been used to increase fertility and balance sexual energy.  Eases depression and clears subconscious blocks and negativity at all levels.  Use in an elixa form to cleanse the Aura.  Uses:  Abdominal problems, kidneys, pancreas and sexual organs.  Use to align the meridians and nadis to open the kundalini.

SODALITE

Stimulates courage and endurance, emotional balance, spiritual growth, balances the yin and yang energies.  Good for all psychic and visionary work, past life regression.  Balances the third eye.  Positive and grounding.  Good for people who over react emotionally. Stimulates metabolism, relieves subconscious fears and guild.  Uses:  Strengthens the lymphatic system.  Soothes and heals the central nervous system.

SUNSTONE

This mineral can be used to both clear and energise the Chakras.  Dissipates fearfulness, alleviates stress, increases vitality.  Encourages independence and originality.  Uses:  Reduces stomach tension, relieves ulcers, sore throats, cartilage problems, aching feet and limbs, rheumatism.

TIGERS EYE

Protection against all forces of danger.  Use for divination and past life regression.  Promotes wealth and prosperity.  Increases energy, helps strengthen convictions, confidence and courage.  Enhances insight and clear perception.  Good for balancing and grounding.  Uses:  Digestive system, the pancreas, liver, stomach, spleen and colon.

TURQUOISE

Can change colour to warn the wearer of danger.  Strengthens and aligns all the Chakras, meridians, nadis and subtle bodies.  Protects from background radiation when worn.  A stone of peace, serenity and tranquillity.  Connect the spiritual bodies with other levels of existence:  the physical, emotional and intellectual.  brings luck in relationships.  Developes communication skills.  Uses:  Circulatory problems, tissue regeneration, torn tendons and ligaments, nutrient-deficient diseases, strengthens the entire anatomy.

The Magickal Properties of Crystals

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