Metaphysical Qualities A-L

Agate – Stimulates analytical capabilities.  Increases perception.  Attracts personal and spiritual strength and courage.  Stimulates happiness and increased physical stamina.  It is said to strengthen sight and to promote fidelity.  Chakra – corresponding colors.

Africian Turquoise (Jasper) - Helps one pursue and achieve goals with determination.  Spiritually balancing.  Imbues courage, readiness for conflict, aggression dealing with things forthrightly, and ability to protect oneself.  Stimulates uprightness and honesty.  Bestows courage, especially with unpleasant tasks.  Stimulates imagination.  Helps transform ideas into actions

Amazonite – Soothes all chakras especially heart and throat.  It enhances communication concerning love.  Aligns physical body with enteric and astral bodies producing balance.  Balances the male / female energies.  Brings clarity, and balances personality.  Great for the nervous system.  Chakras – heart and throat.

Amber - absorbs and transmutes negative energy into positive energy. It helps to calm the nerves, balances the moods and aligns the physical, mental and emotional bodies. Amber is a protective stone, serving as a shield against taking on others pain during healing sessions. Amber improves the memory, and helps dissolve stress and depression. Amber cleanses the environment and protects against radiation. Therefore it is ideal for use in birthing rooms, near computers and other energy sources. It can be used in the treatment of thyroid and throat problems, kidney and bladder disease, viral infections, headaches and bronchial conditions. Chakras: Corresponds to the Solar Plexus Chakra, also heals the throat chakra and cleanses and opens all chakras.

Amethyst - is a wonderful healing stone, and is valuable to all beginners to crystal healing. It enhances meditation, promotes psychic abilities by building intuition. It can be used in the treatment of stress, insomnia, mental disorders and promotes inner peace. It is useful in times of personal growth as it increases confidence, self-esteem, courage and will power. Amethyst can be used in the treatment of headaches, migraines, neck and back pain, and hangovers. It has been traditionally used to negate drunkenness and to free oneself from addictive behaviors. Chakras: It corresponds to the third eye chakra. It stimulates then calms the heart and throat chakras.

Aquamarine – is the stone of courage.  Inspires one to learn about oneself.  It provides a shielding property for the aura and subtle bodies.  It helps one to attune to more spiritual levels of awareness.  Provides emotional and intellectual stability and enhances the connection to ones higher self.  Chakras – Stimulates cleanses and activates the throat chakra.

Aventurine - Balances male and female qualities.  Activates and clears the heart chakra.  Excellent protection of the heart chakra.  Reinforces decisiveness, amplifies ones leadership qualities.  Chakras – heart chakra.

Azurite - Known as the “stone of heaven”.  Stimulates the pursuit of the heavenly self.  Awakens the development of the psychic self.  Enhances creative ability.  Helps to eliminate indecision and worries.  Aligns chakras and attunes to the structure of the physical body to the ethereal nervous system and dissolves energy blockages.  Releases barriers in ones path.  In meditation, aids relaxation and excess to ones higher self and spirit guides.  Maintains depth in meditation. Chakras: Third eye.

Bloodstone - Provides one with a grounding and centered energy of the heart.  Helps one to ‘be here now’.  Revitalization of love, friendships and relationships.

Blue Lace Agate – Helps one to reach high spiritual places. Good for arthritic conditions and to strengthen the skeletal structure.  Balances yin / yang of the body, eliminates negativity.  Chakra – throat, heart, third eye, and crown.

Citrine - is a stone that does not hold negative energy and therefore may not require cleansing. It is known as a money stone and can be placed in the purse, cashbox with financial papers or in the abundance corner (Fung Shui) of the house. It is increases mental focus, endurance and creativity and has a positive influence on business and educational matters. It promotes self confidence and motivation and helps reduce anxiety. Citrine boosts physical energy and assists with digestion and blood circulation. It helps detoxify the kidneys and liver, assists with back problems and promotes restful sleep. Chakras: Citrine corresponds to the sacral and solar plexus chakras.

Carnelian - is a stimulating stone, encouraging analytical and inquisitive thinking. It assists with motivation and precision. It increases all the appetites, and thus stimulates sexual energy and passion. It also protects against envy, fear and rage, and can be used to cleanse negativity from other stones. Because of its' stimulating effects, carnelian increases physical energy, and blood circulation. It assists with conditions affecting the female reproductive system, and eases menstrual discomfort. It can also be beneficial for backache, ulcers, anorexia nervosa, colds, kidney and gallstones, and spinal disorders. Chakras: Carnelian corresponds to the base (root) chakra, and also affects the sacral and solar plexus chakras.

Chalcedony – Balances the energy of the body, mind, emotions and spirit.  Encourages brotherhood among all.  Elevates hostility, irritability, and melancholy.  Enhances generosity, responsiveness and receptivity.

Chrysocolla - Helps one to become in-tune with the earth.  Increases ionization of the atmosphere.  Assists in communication with the spiritual forces.  Produces great inner strength.  Enhances physical vitality.  Purifies the home and environment.  Helps to regulate the blood sugar levels in the body and balances insulin.  Used in the treatment of cellular inadequacies and blood disorders.  Chakras – heart and third eye chakras.

Chrysoprase - is very useful in balancing yin / yang energies and aligning the chakras with the ethereal plane. It activates and opens the heart chakra. Instills a state of grace, facilitating a deep meditative state. Helps one to recognize the trinity within. Helps heal a broken heart. Reduces superiority and inferiority complexes.

Coral - Red coral helps one to become in harmony with the natural forces of the universe and wilderness within ones being.  Balances material with spiritual.  Opens and activates the throat chakra, stimulating the energetic pursuit of predetermined goals.  Is said to protect from depression and despondency.

Fluorite - brings order to chaos, and elevates intuition and mental achievement. It also provides for the purification, cleansing and elimination of disorder, both physical and mental. Various colors have particular effects: blue- orderly thoughts, calm, clear communication; green- cleanses chakras, eliminates negativity from a room; purple- rationality, psychic and spiritual growth. Fluorite aids in dissipating colds, flu, staph infections, herpes and ulcers, and to protect against contagion. Blue- eye, ear and throat infections; green- stomach and intestinal disorders; purple- bone and bone-marrow disorders. Chakras: Match colors to chakras.

Garnet - warms and energizes physically and emotionally. It aids meditation and promotes patience, persistence and compassion. Garnet assists in achieving emotional balance, self-confidence and the implementation of creative energy. Garnet strengthens the blood, muscles and kidneys and promotes physical stamina. It boosts sexuality, passion and fertility. Its' warming and energizing powers aid in arthritic and rheumatoid conditions. Chakras: Garnet corresponds to the root chakra and can be used with the sacral and solar plexus chakras.

Howlite - calms communication, to facilitate awareness and to encourage emotional expression.  Helps observation and memory therefore a great dream stone.  Spurs one toward the ambition to reach goals.  Can be used to eliminate pain, stress and rage.  Balances calcium levels in the body.

Jade is specifically for good luck.  It helps you to feel cool and fresh, bringing a feeling of newness to everyday life situations.  Great for balancing the solar plexus and heart chakras.

Jasper – Known as the supreme nurturer. – Enhances the care for others.  Helps to provide psychic and physical protection.   Aids in grounding.  Jasper is also known as a sustaining stone.  Useful for long periods of stress and when the energy is low.

Kyanite - does not retain negativity and therefore does not require cleansing. It has a tranquil and calming effect, dispelling anger and negativity. It facilitates communication, meditation and psychic awareness. It aids one in manifesting visualizations into reality. Kyanite is useful for the treatment of muscular and urogenital disorders as well as throat conditions. Chakras: Corresponds to the throat and third eye chakras.

Labradorite - protects the aura, keeping it clear and balanced. It promotes intuitive, mystical and physic wisdom. It aids in the reduction of anxiety and stress. It brings forth the individuals strengths. Labradorite aids digestion and metabolism. Promotes easy restful sleep. Chakras: Corresponds to the solar plexus and third eye chakras.