Meaning of Stones

Amber: Electromagnetic. Helps the body heal itself by absorbing and transmuting negative energy into positive energy. Helps to calm the nerves and enliven the disposition. Enhances the connection of the conscious self to universal perfection. Aids in the making of correct choices. Aligns mental and emotional bodies via orange and yellow. Excellent detoxification and protection from radiation, especially x-rays, sun, computers, airport, planes and others' energies. Amber is found mainly in Poland and the Baltic.

Amethyst: Ancient healer of all levels of body, mind, and spirit. Cleanses purifies, restructures and renews. Transforms lower energies into higher. Protects against psychic manipulation. Wear when sleeping or when awake to reduce anger, impatience, and nightmares. Symbolizes sobriety. Amethyst is found worldwide.

Aquamarine: Excellent to help enhance your communication skills and the ability for rapid intellectual response. Aids in becoming more attuned to spiritual levels of awareness and yet remain centered. Encourages the ideal of service to the world and to the development of humanity. Excellent for improving vision. Affects etheric and mental levels. Releases anxiety, fear, restlessness. Aquamarine is found in Brazil, Ural Mountains (Russia), Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nigeria and Madagascar.

Blue Topaz: A strong, steady, high level gem for mental clarity, focus, perceptive, high level concepts, confidence, personal power, stamina. Helps mood swings, insomnia, worries, fears, depression, exhaustion, nervous system stress, stomach anxiety. Liver/pancreas detoxification, blood sugar balance, tissue and backbone strengthener (physically and emotionally). Radiates warmth, sun/light energy, protection. Excellent for water signs, teachers, excess work stress, manifesting, higher-self connection. Brings emotions and thinking into balance. Blue topaz is found in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Myanmar (Burma), Madagascar, Germany, India, Tanzania, Brazil, United States, and Mexico.

Carnelian: It has healing, spiritual and creative qualities. Balances creativity and mental processes. It's useful when undertaking any project because it stimulates analytical capabilities and precision. This stone protects against rage, envy, and fear. It helps one banish sorrow. The message of carnelian is "what goes around comes around". Carnelian is a member of the Chalcedony family and it is found worldwide.

Citrine: It is believed to symbolize happiness. It aids digestion, removes toxins from the body, and it is useful in the treatment of depression, constipation and diabetes. This stone is good for upliftment and back problems. Citrine is usually produced by heating various types of quartz. It is found worldwide.

Drusy: Drusy is created by the phenomena of micro-crystalline facets forming on a gem and the surrounding rock, they were formed naturally millions of years ago. It is found in the interior of quartz geodes.

Emerald: Strengthens heart for abundance, growth, peace, harmony, patience, love, fidelity, and honesty. Lifts depression and insomnia. Brings knowingness of the heart, peaceful dreams. It is believed to aid breathing, heart, lymph nodes, blood, thymus, pancreas (blood sugar rebalance), labor/delivery, eyesight, and etheric field. Excellent general healer. Ancient blood detoxifier and antipoison. Emerald is found in Colombia, Brazil, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), South Africa, Ural mountains (Russia), Zambia, India, Tanzania, Pakistan, Australia, U.S. (Connecticut, Maine, North Carolina), Austria, and Norway.

Garnet: Contains both protective and destructive elements. Warms, energizes emotionally and physically (arthritis, frostbite, paralysis), grounds. Exhaustion, detoxing and strengthening blood, muscles, kidneys, gallstones. Stimulates life force and sexuality, hormone balance, antibodies, fertility, persistence, stamina, passion, confidence (and stubbornness). Avoid if excess anger, impatience, high blood pressure, heat, inflammation. Garnet is found in the U.S. (Arizona), South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Myanmar (Burma), Scotland, Switzerland, and Tanzania.

Green Tourmaline: Balances love and passion. Strengthens life force, prosperity, compassion. Strengthens body and spirit (and meridians), transmutes lower frequency thought/energy to a higher frequency of light and brings light/spirit into the physical. Radiates light protection for wearer. Energizes Central Nervous System (for neuralgia, migraine, burns, etc.) Green Tourmaline is found in Madagascar, North America, Brazil, Myanmar (Burma), Africa, Siberia, Australia, Sri Lanka (Ceylon).

Lapis Lazuli: Points the way to enlightenment, and aids in the opening of the Third Eye. It’s for understanding, higher guidance, intuition, connection to higher self, overview, decisions for good of all. Organizes, quiets mind. Inspires self-expression, writing, creativity, dream insight. Good for anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, autism, shyness, nervous system. Lapis Lazuli is found in Afghanistan, Russia, Chile and the U.S.

Malachite: It is considered a stone of transformation and balance, assisting in ones spiritual journey. It is capable of stimulating ones intuition and insight whilst helping in recognizing and clearing past negative influences and experiences. It allows for insight into any emotional factors that may be manifesting as physical symptoms. It is also said to help unlock the meaning of dreams. Traditionally it was worn as a stone of protection. Malachite is found in Chile, United States (New Mexico, Arizona), Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Nambia, former Soviet Union, Australia, France and England.

Moonstone: Balances yin/yang, protects against epilepsy and sun stroke, and helps cure headaches and nose bleeds. Arouses tender passion. It also accentuates the wearer's nature, whether positive or negative. Soothes stress, anxiety, women's hormones/menstrual imbalance, lymph. Enhances intuitive sensitivity via feelings and less overwhelmed by personal feelings. Greater flexibility and flow with life. Especially for water signs. Moonstone is found in Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Myanmar (Burma), Madagascar, Germany, India, Tanzania, Brazil, United States, and Mexico.

Onyx: This stone helps to change bad habits. It's also an excellent grounding stone. Balances and grounds. Absorbs and flattens emotional intensity. Onyx is found worldwide.

Opal: This is an EXTREMELY strong stone. Most people find it hard to use. Clarifies by amplifying and mirroring feelings, buried emotions, desires (including love and passion). Less inhibition, more spontaneity. Visualization, imagination, dreams, healing. Easily absorbs, stores emotions and thoughts. May change color with high energy/intensity people. Opal is found in Australia, former Czechoslovakia, U.S., Brazil, Mexico and southern Africa.

Peridot: It wards off anxiety, enhances speech articulation, and promotes success in relationships and marriage. Peridot emits a warm and friendly energy. It assists in the understanding of the changes that are occurring and detrimental patterns. It is a shield of protection around the body. Clears heart pathway, strengthening breath of life, prosperity, growth, openness. Alleviates depression, anger, fear, jealousy, anxiety. Peridot is found in St. John's Island, Zebirget Island, Red Sea (Egypt), Norway, Eifel, Germany, San Carlos (Arizona), Hawaii, Myanmar (Burma), and Italy.

Pink Tourmaline: Emotional and spiritual love, healing loss, emotional pain, fear, self gentleness. Self love, compassion, release of old hurt. Trust. Pink tourmaline is found in Madagascar, North America, Brazil, Myanmar (Burma), Africa, Siberia, Australia, and Sri Lanka (Ceylon).

Quartz Crystal: Probably the most versatile multipurpose healing stone. Stores info/energy in, program or amplify energy and healing with. Can both draw and send energy. Powerful clear ones for meditation, sending/receiving guidance. Stimulates natural crystals in body tissues and fluids to resonate at new healing frequency. Quartz is found worldwide.

Rose Quartz: Produces gentleness. The stone of "gentle love", brings peacefulness and calm to relationships. Promotes receptivity to the beauty of art, music, and the written word. It represents a young, warm love and balances the yin-yang energy. Excellent for healing emotional wounds, removing negativity and restoring harmony after crisis situations. Rose Quartz is found in Argentina, Madagascar, Brazil, U.S. (Colorado), former USSR, Scotland and Spain.

Ruby: This stone is for love. It helps one to open one's heart. Warms, energizes after exhaustion. Strengthens physical and emotional heart , love, courage, confidence, vitality, stamina, strength, leadership, success over challenges. Intensifies all emotions (passion, jealousy, impatience, love...) Attempted use for pressure/control (for love, etc) backfires onto user. Stimulates circulation, menses, and pituitary. Ruby is found in Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Tanzania, Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Pakistan, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), United States (Montana, North Carolina).

Sapphire: Communication, insight, intuition, inspiration, spiritual prayer/devotion, peacefulness. Pituitary and Thyroid. Detoxing skin, body. Antidepressant. Cools, contracts, soothes, thus reducing inflammation, fevers, nosebleeds. Strongest if next to skin. Sapphire is found in Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), Tanzania, Afghanistan, Australia, Brazil, Cambodia, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Pakistan, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), United States (Montana, North Carolina).

Sugilite: Encourages the manifestation of love in our surroundings and very being. It assists with the gift of forgiveness both to yourself and others and empowers the user to discover the unique gifts they have brought into this world. Sugilite makes it easier to become accepting of others and to be present to the here and now. Wonderful for situations where there is a possibility that anger, disappointment or conflict could prevail. It removes negativity, supports a feeling of well being and empowers co-creation. Sugilite seems to protect against, absorb and dissipate anger, hurt and other unwanted negative energies. It is a nurturing and balancing stone at all levels. Sugilite is extremely effective in those wishing to explore the relationship between physical health and the mental body. It attracts healing power and enables insight into the base causes that manifest as physical problems, whilst enabling the user to channel large amounts of energy and balancing the emotions. Removes headaches. Sugilite is found in Northern South Africa.

Tiger's Eye: Used as a protective stone since Roman times Tigers Eye is also believed to assist in the co-creation of abundance. Tiger's Eye is found in South Africa, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), India, Brazil, Australia and the U.S.

Turquoise: It can warn the wearer of danger or illness by changing color; and protects the wearer from falling. Brings happiness and good fortune to all. Promotes spontaneity in romance and stimulates the initiation of romantic love. It balances and aligns all chakras and subtle bodies and can bring all energies to a higher level. A highly spiritual stone, yet grounding, it brings soothing energy and peace of mind. It brings strength, wisdom, protection, and positive thinking. A good general healer for all illnesses and excellent conductor (high copper). For open communication, creativity, serenity, spiritual bonding, upliftment. Ancient absorber of "negativity"; protects from "evil eye". Turquoise is found in Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Eastern Australia, Tibet, Israel, Tanzania, Southwestern U.S.