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Crystal Encyclopedia

Agate

Balancing – Stabilising – Inner Perception – Connection

Strengthen the balance between Yin-Yang, balancing physical health and emotions, with intellect and higher energies. Helps cleanse the aura of dysfunctional energies and helps one enhance overall wellbeing.

Amazonite

Peace – Serenity – Spiritual Connection – Balance – Perception – Creativity

The beautiful healing energies that radiate from the Amazonite crystal will help you restore balance, peace and clarity. It will help you remain calm, and realise all of your concerns, building an innate ability to trust – bringing all of your desires to fruition.

Amethyst

Spirituality – Peace – Positive Transformation – Meditation

Amethyst brings profound change to ones life – a time of positive transformation which will have a lasting impact on every area of your life, and to some degree on all those around you. It helps you realise that every aspect of yourself the greater good so you can awaken your spiritual gifts and rise above denying parts of yourself, they are all your divine personality so there is no need to ‘fix’ anything, just express all aspects of yourself, you will be embraced and loved and healing can take place.

Apatite

Communication – Expression – Spiritual Love – Insight

Strengthening the intellect and promoting realisation of ones inherent strength through spirituality and love, hence dissolving aloofness and negativity. Apatite works magically with other crystals as is strengthens the inherent properties of everything around it. Apatite’s energies are related to service and humanitarian pursuits. It is an extremely valuable crystal for those who teach and recognise the importance of sharing insights and communicating messages.

Aquamarine

Courage – Knowledge – Preparation – Alignment of Chakras

Stimulates, activates and cleanses the throat chakra, facilitating higher quality communication. It emits gentle and compassionate energy, helping judgemental people become more tolerant and helps one feel order where there is great responsibility. As the crystal of courage it enhances the ability for rapid responses and feeling prepared for anything. It aligns the chakras and balances the network of energy channels connecting the physical and subtle bodies. Enhancing the ideal of ‘service to the world’ this crystal brings a sense of universal brother and sisterhood to the wearer which greatly supports spiritual development.

Azurite

Heaven – Visualisation – Insight – Life Energy – Creativity

This is the crystal of heaven on earth, it provides guidance by awakening the third eye and offering insight into every area of ones life. It supports the recognition of intuitive information and is known to be a benefactor of life energy, giving what is required in any situation. This crystal supports communication from the ‘heart’ and stimulates compassion and empathy within a person. It breaks down impediments in ones progress and helps comfort anxiety.

Blue Lace Agate

Spiritual – Higher Chakras – High Frequency

This energy is useful for the heart, throat, third-eye and crown chakras. Activating these chakras it helps bring one to higher frequency states of awareness. It can help one reach extremely high spiritual states and provides incredible inspiration when used for attunment with ones higher self.

Blue Tiger Eye

Clarity – Calmness – Grounding – Mystery – Presence

Soothing and cooling vibrations help to dispel energy from even the most tedious situations and mental states. We are spiritual beings have an earthly experience. Give yourself the grace to come back to basics, you do not belong in the clouds, life has been granted to you for a purpose and as you walk upon earth know you are part of this great scheme of Divine play unfolding and have a significant role to play. Don’t undermine your purpose, blue tiger eye calls you to be uninhibited, honest in your feelings and free in your dealings. This is your gift to the world, which we need. Please come forward and share with us.

Carnelian

Healing – Creativity – Protection – Energy – Grounding – Stability

Helping to dissolve sadness and and release any anxiety you have experienced, this crystal will calm your mind and thoughts. Carnelian also helps in positive expression of emotions and latent creative talents.

Charoite

Crystal of this age – Understanding – Synthesis – Grounding

A crystal of this age, it provides a synthesis of energies between the heart and crown chakras, combining higher spiritual dimensions with unconditional love and the ability to support oneself and others on the physical plane. It helps one to recognise, integrate and understand the dimension in which others operate, facilitating acceptance regardless of their development or level in which they appear. Used for cleansing the aura, filing the chakras with loving spiritual purity and assisting one to recognise the lessons in life and move forward. It enhances a giving and open heart, allowing one to ‘see’ with love and experience the connection of ‘all’.

Chrysocolla

Health- Healing – Re-alignment – Insight – Vital Energy

Helping one attune to the earth and listen to the spiritual forces that give the understanding of what is required for the earth and oneself to heal. It is grounding and supports great inner strength, enhancing physical vitality, health and nourishment on all levels and helps one make wise choices with regards to nourishing the body. Offering the whole body renewed strength, it has the wonderful quality of increasing ones capacity to love and attune to the perfection of the universe, in order to facilitate re-alignment towards the perfect state of health.

Citrine

Wealth – Creativity – Abundance – Healing

Feel a steady stream of abundance flowing to you, all financial concerns will soon vanish and you’ll live with the feeling of abundance. Release fears connected to your needs and become thankful for all that you receive through the loving energies of citrine. You deserve to have what your heart desires. Lovingly recognise the eternal abundance and know that as you do so, all your desires will miraculously manifest into being.

Clear Quartz

Harmony – Meditation – Protection – Purity – Health – Infinite Possibilities

This most powerful crystal is one of infinite possibilities. It has a capacity of offer whatever you need to ask from or seek it’s help with. For example success, clarity, protection, energy. Clear Quartz clears inhibitions so you live your life on your terms with connection to the divine power that sustains everything. Clear quartz is a remarkable and extremely helpful crystal in any application.

Coral

Insight – Connection – Wisdom – Awareness – Intuition

Feel the connection to ancient masters and absorb their wisdom and messages, feel yourself becoming aware of their great support and spiritual guidance as you help and heal others. As you awaken your light so too you encourage others to do the same, you have eternal support for this work as you help to heal the earth and it’s inhabitants.

Garnet

Nurturer – Compassion – Universal Love – Healing – Heart Centred – Mother

The universal qualities of garnet represent abundant love and manifestation of divine motherhood, helping your heart to open in compassion and spiritual support for your children, all children, and to the whole world. Giving you the opportunity to grow in all areas of being a woman of the earth with deeply heartfelt wisdom to nurture the growth of every being. Feel as you are, a wise pioneering woman of innate graceful power, strength, dignity and pure care.

Golden Healer Quartz

Spiritual Consciousness – Transformation – Healing – Connection

Quartz brings the energy of the solar system to the soul of the wearer and aligns our human consciousness with ‘all that is’, our personal understanding determines our ability to use this crystal. It is very beneficial for healers and awakened souls for making greater energies available for humanity. Used to attain and maintain high levels of spiritual awakening and incite healing on all levels this is an excellent crystal for all healing situations and to promote the recognition of methods required for healing to take place.

Herkimer Quartz "Diamonds"

Manifestation – Pure Energy – Healing – Universal Energy – Advanced Souls

High energy seekers of the crystal world. They manifest pure, solid Light and are powerful amplifiers of spiritual energy. As perfect conduits of the universal Life Force, they are exceptional healing crystals, used in meditation Dream and vision work they offer advanced spiritual experiences. Herkimer Diamonds have the ability to transmit and receive spiritual energy and to amplify and focus it intently.

Hawks Eye

Is a rare gemstone with great depth and fascinating luminescence. 

Known for clear reasoning and the ability to see into the heart of matters it’s a boon for those with great responsibility and looks fantastic! It enhances self assurance and personal power offering protection and transmutation of any negativity directed to the wearer into personal power.

Howlite

Clear focus – Mindful determination – Powerful positive ambition – Clear boundaries

Opens up pathways to peaceful action of long held inner decisions. Dedication to aligning with your higher self’s goals. Bringing progress and triumph into your life, especially in areas you previously felt restricted. Howlite promotes calm communications and assists in creating the most positive solutions for all involved. Feel confident as howlite supports the manifestation of innate abilities that are your building blocks to true spiritual freedom and being the light you are.

Jade

Wisdom – Protection – Potential – Strength of character – Purpose

Allow Jade to remind you of your purpose and give it strength within. Realise your potential and be reminded of your dreams, both from past aspirations and during sleep, these powerful hints of your true nature are the aspirations your guided to follow for fulfilment and happiness to manifest as abundance in your life. Feel the harmony of your being; physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually as you transmute your inner reality into physical manifestation of your dreams and highest ideals.

Jasper

Nurture – Care – Protection – Energy Flow – Life Force

A crystal embodying self care and care for others, as you tune into the needs of others and help them to heal you are ultimately healing yourself and relieving deep and sometime unconscious suffering that has been deeply imbedded into the fabric of the earth. Your help and healing is for the globe.

Kunzite

Loving Communication – Infinite Love – Powerful Peace

Stimulating for the heart chakra and aligning the heart, throat and third eye chakras to produce clear insightful words and vision. This crystal synthesises the energies within to produce loving communication. Wearing Kunzite penetrates a feeling of self-love and powerful peace deeply though the wearer to the inner core of ones being. It connected one to the infinite source of Love which provides purification on all levels.

Kyanite

Meditation – Purification – Purity – Perfection – Protection – Super human

Kyanite is one of the crystals that never needs to be cleansed, it doesn’t hold or store negative energy or vibrations. The energy of kyanite is unlimited in application, making it one of the best attunement malas. Kyanite aligns all the chakras automatically and immediately without the need for conscious direction. Kyanite dispels anger and frustration, it supports clarity with respect to mental awareness and linear reasoning. It induces perseverance and stimulates energy to to support one in the continuation of projects. It also facilitates meditation.

Labradorite

Telepathic Communication – Prophecy – Auras – Energy

Allowing you to feel the energy you need to move beyond fear and remove the obstruction of self-doubt in any situation. Heralds the onset of a wonderful time and discovery of gifts within. Labradorite helps you remember to live in your highest vibration and be of service through your voice and positive expression. As you learn to have greater trust in yourself psychic abilities and telepathic communication enhance allowing you greater strength in communication and in areas of service.

Lapis Lazuli

Protection – Power – Expansive thinking 

Lapis Lazuli, this highly spiritual crystal helps you rise above all situations that drain your energy and in doing so you’ll find a clearer picture of yourself emerge. This crystal helps you cut through illusions and expands your creative thinking in ways that serve and empower you and others. It’s time to let go of the past, be a leader and shine your light in the world. Lapis Lazuli will help you unlock your real and true unique potential.

Lava

Purification – Transcendance – Power – Grounding  – Committed

Lava is a force of the earth, calling to the depths of you inner being to manifest into life and reveal your whole self to the world. This may mean purifying long held beliefs about who you are or releasing anxiety around what you should be. Above all else lava grounds you in the ability to manifest spirit on earth, walk in the light of truth and be a force for good in this world.

Lavender Quartz

Clairsentience – Clairaudience – Clairvoyance

With all the same properties as rose quartz this special crystal also facilitates the third eye awareness and intuition promoting clairsentience, clairaudience and clairvoyance. It helps with intellectual and direct responses to situations requiring mastery and is a true asset to have this crystal which integrates all aspects of ones personality.

Malachite

Healing – Change – Insight – Loyalty – Patience – Purpose

Wearing Malachite jewellery heralds a time of positive change and supports profound healing. You will feel compelled to easily let go of the past and see the way of your future being paved ahead of you, be ready to experience the true vision of your self. Malachite helps you realise how much positive has stemmed from your past, no matter how hard it may have been to go through, you are in a better place now, and will be in a much better place in the future. See everything unfolding as a divine gift to help and support you move forward. Place your trust in the hands of the divine and know that all is well and  every choice you have made and is being made now, is necessary and is helping you unfold more love and wisdom through the journey of life.

Moonstone

Feminine – Emotions – Healing – Harmony 

Moonstone has been revered as a perfect expression of the feminine energy and her connection with the changing nature of life, it helps women to connect with and honour their cycles, their femininity and grace, all necessary to achieve harmony and lasting happiness. The moonstone is a vehicle of calm, peace and balance. The tranquility of moonstone has a sensual, other-worldly quality to it and is infused with an enchanting soft glow, receptive like the feminine yet bold and creative like her deeper nature, it harmonises the energies of every women and offers a very nourishing vibration that works towards healing any imbalances. Moonstone the master healer for women -helping you regain and maintain your true power and inner balance.

Morganite

Activator of the Heart – Cleanser of the Heart – Balanced LOVE

Morganite stimulates creativity so one acts from Love and energises loving thoughts bringing forth patience and reverence. This crystal stimulates gain in ones life, in areas that help develop the soul and align teh personality with higher purpose. This is an activator, cleanser and stimulator for the heart chakra. It helps bring love into ones life and and assists one in maintaining it as it grows.

Obsidian

Empowerment – Protection – Ideas – Talents

Obsidian reminds you of the magnificent talents you have hidden within you, to date you may have kept them hidden, almost nurturing and protecting them. The fertile landscape within has kept then incubated till now, as it dawns the time for their release into the world you are asked to remember how much love you’ve put into empowering yourself to share and will now seek the practical means to give your inspirations, ideas and talents as your spiritual gift into the world, it’s time to shine your light.

Onyx

Powerful Balance – Integrity – Decision Making – Wisdom – Clarity – Confidence

A mineral excellent for balancing and bringing your whole being into alignment with higher powers. It’s encouraging and used for wise decision making, also opening you up to experience happiness and good fortune. Onyx can assist in seeing dualities and to bring balance of yin and yang to the whole totality, help you become a master of your destiny.

Pearl

Faith – Sincerity – Purity – Spirituality – Charity – Fertility

Your Pure intentions are seen by those with spiritual eyes and you’ll find in them the support you so desire. Maybe all don’t recognise your light, but it’s not necessary they do, be content that those who understand you are the ones meant for you. Relish in the softness around you. Your strength is your faith, your sincerity, your spirituality. Rest assured the divinity sees you, and your not alone. You will be served and those who know you truly will serve you. Rest assured, rest assured you are loved, you are loved.

Pink Opal

Spiritual Awakening – Creativity – Release

Opal amplifies ones traits and characteristics providing an inspiration to overcome lesser attributes and recognise the feeling of creativity within oneself. It gives comfort in expressing spontaneous creativity that comes from within and releases inhibitions. It is used to instil faithfulness and loyalty with regards to love and personal relationships and gives the understanding of ones personal ‘higher’ potentials and the glad acceptance of ones inherent perfection. It makes way for new life experiences and aspirations to rise. The awakening of mystical qualities is often experienced wearing this crystal and this power can be utilised to enhance personal understanding of the sacred realms of existence. Pink Opal is especially beneficial in releasing ‘old’ patterns and is known as the rare crystal of ‘spiritual awakening’.

Rhodochrosite

The stone of love & balance

Provides balancing and love on all levels for all bodies. It contains a pulsating electrical energy which emits the strongest power in the universe, the power of love. The energy of rhodochrosite is encompassed by the presence of heavenly energies filled with the golden sphere of light; it assists in creating new worlds for the user – worlds filled with love and dreams. Using this crystal in meditation on may melt in the golden sphere of ecstasy; an encounter with ones true self is highly likely.

Rhodonite

Balance – Spirituality – Love – Potential – Potential

Revered as the real ‘crystal of love’ Rhodonite reminds us of real purpose, to be love on earth and to manifest the highest vibration of unconditional love for all. This crystal resonates with our courage to live up to our highest ideals and facilities our knowing ‘the greatest good’ we can do. It’s our collective world and we are here together, your calling is to unite, see past differences and to bring out the most love and care of all who you are in contact.

Rose Quartz

Unconditional Love – Peace – Joy – Loving thoughts – Self Care – Self Love

Rose Quartz is a crystal of unconditional love. The way it facilitates love entering your life is through it’s ability to bring your consciousness to a higher level. Helping you to forgive, understand and see fights or situations from a different perspective. The rose quartz healing properties will imbue you with the wisdom to deepen your connection in your relationships, rose quartz provides gentle energy that assists you in recognizing your own need for compassion. It allows you to see that you deserve forgiveness and understanding from yourself. Associated with the element of water, rose quartz healing properties are naturally fluid. They wash out toxic energies and emotions that you have trapped inside of you.

Rutilated Quartz

Vibrational Healing – Higher mind – Reconciliation

Helping you to connect with and feel the loving energies and thoughts from those that have left your life, either from the past, other lives, or who have left you in this one. Any past pains are now being healed and you can safely release the resentment, guilt or inferiority connected to it. Emotional healing takes place through the energies of rutilated quartz as it draws out past negative energy, stores it until it has been transformed to positive and is then released. The love and acceptance you feel now will allow you to send love where it was previously too difficult and this will offer you a profound healing and resolution. It’s as if you can take a deep breath, release and move forward.

Strawberry Quartz

Love – Connection – Heart – Healing – Loving Environment – Harmony

Stimulates the heart centre bringing the energy of love to the whole person and environment, it also offers guidance in the respect of enjoying each moment. This is a special crystal made available for one who is ready to receive and emit the energy of total love and acceptance.

Sunstone

Cleansing – Energising – Vital Energy –  Radiance – Protection

Provides for brightening the chakras which allows one to exhibit freshness. Assisting in gently removing hook-ups which have infiltrated the energy centres and allows them to be released after surrounding them in love and positive energy. Imbibes worthiness for luck and independence. Provides immense protection in all areas and allows one to expand in radiance.

Tiger Eye

Mental clarity – Grounding – Assertiveness – Vitality – Energy

A profound grounding energy emanates from tiger eye to help you ground your abstract spiritual ideals onto the earth plane, honouring the fact that you have a body and a purpose to fulfil while you are here on earth. Give yourself the grace to come back to basics, helping you dispel anxiety, stress and worrying thoughts about how to cope. Tiger Eye is both revitalising and grounding so it helps you achieve fulfilment while being an effective force for good on earth. Live an inspired, full and beautiful life here and now. You do not belong in the clouds, life has been granted to you for a purpose and as you walk upon earth and enjoy all the mystery power and spirituality that is entwined in it you will realise who you are.

Turquoise

Speaking Truth – Clear Communication – Purification – Earth healing – Spirit

As you open up and speak the truth you will find situations resolve, even in areas you’ve found it previously difficult to express yourself. By opening up you receive much needed support, assurance and an arising knowing from within that your on your path. Your truth and honesty offers relief and release to all involved in the situations you have previously kept quiet about, you allow freedom to come into minds, rather than confusion and doubt, the seeds of negativity and distrust transform now into clear vision for a new dawn. Magical Turquoise helps you release fear and any negative emotion so you may always have true and clear communications.

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