Gemstones.....
Astrological Birthstones...
AVENTURINE : Creates positive attitude and creative insight. Eliminates psychosomatic ills, fear, skin diseases, and near sightedness
AGATE : Aids strength and courage. Compels truth, promotes good manners, happiness, intelligence, prosperity, longevity, fertility, and good health.
AMBER : Activates altruistic nature and realization of the spiritual intellect. Guards against memory loss, eccentric behavior, anxiety, inability to make decisions, thyroid problems.
AMETHYST : Increases spiritual awareness, has calming and soothing influence, has ability to transmute negative into positive, very effective as a healing stone. Has ability to prophecy, and wards off drunkenness. Calming and protective, aids meditation, aids in purification and regeneration on all levels of consciousness. Calming, grounding, a cleanser and spiritual stimulator, strengthens heart, cleanses liver of toxins, excellent for lung problems.
AQUAMARINE: Aids mental clarity and meditation, calms nerves. Wear to avoid fluid retention, coughs, fear, and eye problems.
AZURITE: Helps one let go of old belief systems, a dissolve fear and helps transform it into understanding. Opens the psychic eye. Good for dreams and improving one's psychic ability.
BLOODSTONE :For healing and strength. Stimulates flow of energy for healing. Removes emotional blockages. A talisman for warding off all accidents and disease, especially suitable for men.
CARNELIAN :Highly favorable to health, long life, and good fortune. It's special virtue is the fulfillment of one's wishes if the stone is worn near the heart.
CHALCEDONY :Stimulates creativity, guards against touchiness and melancholy.
CHRYSOLITE :Inspiration and prophecy.
CITRINE :Enables self-esteem. Stimulates openness and awakening of the mind. Helps eliminate toxins. Encourages healing on the emotional and mental levels, helps unblock subconscious fears, and serves as a natural relaxant.
CORAL : Protects children from evil influences and safeguards teenagers during highly emotional periods. Balances physical energy and relaxes tensions. Carries the creative vibrations of the sea.
DIAMOND :Enhances the dream state, helps alleviate stress, balances polarities, and increases healing ability.
EMERALD :Promotes creativity, stimulates perception and insight, strengthens memory. Beneficial effect on the eyes. Transmits balance, healing and patience, increases psychic and clairvoyant abilities.
FLUORITE : Also called "Fairy Gem". Promotes well being, enhances concentration and meditation. Powerful spirit guide. Opens and softens the way for the use of other stones. Excellent used in aquariums-provides needed minerals. Charge on windowsill at night.
GARNET : Thought to assist in seeing into past incarnations. Stimulates happiness, peace, balance, patience, inspiration, and persistence.
HEMATITE :Absorbs negativity, calms the emotions and promotes optimism. Worn as an amulet it confers strength . Considered to be a grounding stone. Helps maintain balance between body, mind, and spirit. Also known as the "Worry Stone".
JADE :Brings good fortune and health to its owner. Stimulates practicality, wisdom, and universal attunement. Thought to provide a link between the spiritual and the mundane.
JASPER (all) :Safeguard personal independence, said to bring inspirational warnings when there is danger of unfair domination from others. Balances emotions and stress. Aids in all intestinal tract troubles and infections.
LAPIS LAZULI : Stimulates wisdom, truthfulness, and psychic experiences. Healing and strengthening when worn next to the skin. Strengthens mind and body to spiritual awareness.
MALACHITE : Stimulates clear vision and insight, represents hope and inner peace. This stone supposedly has equal amounts of negative and positive forces, thereby adding to the balance of physical and spiritual life. Used to release repressed emotions and for physical detoxification
MOONSTONE :Aids in bringing forth memories of past lives. Reflects the wearers being and feelings and has a calming effect on emotions. Promotes unselfishness and clarity of spiritual understanding.
MOSS AGATE : Aids in the restoration of energy, and is widely used in healing. Believed to bring the wearer happiness, wealth, health, and long life. Increases ability to ward off self-induced anger and inner bitterness. Moss green-balances emotional energy. Moss red-balances physical energy. Blue lace-gives tranquillity.
OBSIDIAN :Protects the gentle from being abused. Used as a stabilizer. Good as a stomach, intestine and general muscle tissue healer.
ONYX : Objective thinking, spiritual inspiration, control of emotions and passions, helps eliminate negative thinking, apathy, and stress.
OPAL :An unlucky stone which can interfere with love and marriage unless one was born between September 23rd and November 21. To these people it will give second sight, or clairvoyance, and prevent contagion from the air.
PEARL :Stimulates feminine qualities, used to focus attention, helps pull together mental and spiritual forces, and creates peace of mind.
PERIDOT : Dispels fears, guilt, and depression. Used to counteract negative emotions and to promote healing of the spirit. Protection, prosperity, calm, and balance.
PYRITE : Enhances mental capacity and attracts money to owner. Has protecting, shielding aspect for physical, mental, emotional levels. Shields from negative energy, strengthens circulatory system, clears oxygen in the blood. Also known as fool's gold.
QUARTZ : Amplifies healing energy. Used to help draw out pain. Good stone for meditating on. Very potent and often worn to protect from negative vibrations. Cleanse regularly.
RHODOCHROSITE : Unconditional love and forgiveness, protection from the evil eye, and helps one utilize the creative power of the higher energy centers.
RHODONITE : Alleviates anxiety, confusion and mental unrest. Promotes calm, self worth, confidence and enhanced sensitivity.
ROSE QUARTZ : Worn or carried for love, fidelity, peace. Aids intuition and emotional balance. Reduces stress and tension - cools hot tempers. Vibrations of universal love and inner serenity. Helps heal emotional pain, enhances love, self-love, and promotes a positive outlook.
RUBY : The stone of freedom, charity, dignity and divine power. Increases vigour, renews vitality and cleanses the blood. The stone of courage. Helps banish grief for those in mourning.
SAPPHIRE :Promotes spiritual enlightenment, inner peace, and acts as an anti-depressant. Said to aid pyschokenisis, telepathy, clairvoyance and astral projection.
SARDONYX :Increases mental self control, guards against depression, anxiety, and especially grief.
SMOKY QUARTZ : Calms the mind. Eases depression, fear and panic.
SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN : Teaches one the truth of oneself in relation to ones ego. Grounds spiritual energy to the physical plane. Absorbs negativity.
SODOLITE :Helps intellectual understanding of a situation, awakens the third eye, and cleanses the mind.
TIGER EYE : Calms emotions, protects against external stresses, mind focus. Helps purify the blood system and restores physical energy.
TOPAZ : Calms emotions, and protects against external stresses. Protects against insomnia and depression, acts as a mood elevator, revitalizes and stimulates creative thinking processes.
TOURMALINE : Lifts fears and negative conditions. Causes the wearer to be flexible, understanding and more objective in purpose and reason. Electric and magnetic properties. Works as protective shield, consumes negative energy without releasing it into the atmosphere, has to do with visions and "seeing" with compassion, teaches one to expand limited concepts of thinking.
TURQUOISE : The "Master Healer". Protects against environmental pollutants, strengthens the anatomy and guards against all disease.
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