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Find out what spiritual and healing properites are associated with your favorite crystals and gemstones.
Alabaster
Because the alabaster is so soft, it does best with a sun's cleansing and should not be used in making elixirs.
Amethyst
The amethyst is a powerful stone for healing. It carries many healing properties. It also aids in psychic awareness and helps with imagery.
Apatite
This is one stone that many use when trying to stay on diets, as it helps to curb the appetite.
Calcite
This stone helps to elevate the person's vibrations and faster healing will occur
Citrine
The citrine is a wonderful stone. It helps to manifest your goals. Also keeps one cheerful. It attracts abundance and personal power.
Colbaltocalcite
Cobaltocalcite helps people open up emotionally. It helps them to verbalize what their needs are and express their feelings easier.
Coral
Red coral good stimulant for the root chakra. Protects one from depression and despondency.
Diamond
The diamond is known as the stone of innocence. It is a stone to bring forth purity.
Emerald
Emerald helps one to communicate. It helps you to discover the truth when there is a lot of information to sort through. It helps you when you feel "what should I do?"
Fluorite
Fluorite is used to prevent others from making unwanted energetic attachments.
Fulgurites
Fulgurite is a glassy tube formed following a lightening strike upon rock or sand.
Geode
Geodes can help you to see the whole picture and helps with coming to a decision before things get out of hand
Iolite
Iolite helps to open the pathway for the spiritual. It connects the throat, brow and crown chakras.
Jade
Jade helps you to accept things that are difficult in your life and makes things appear to go much smoother than they really are.
Kyanite
A good stone for aligning all of the energy centers but is particularly good for the 5th chakra or throat chakra
Lapis
Lapis helps to organize and quieten the mind and also brings self expressions, helps with dream insights, writing and creativity.
Malachite
The malachite stone is an excellent stone for the heart charka. It also is a powerful stone for stimulating the physical and the psychic visions.
Moonstone
Moonstone enhances intuitive sensitivity. It also helps one to feel less overwhelmed by personal feelings. It allows one to except new beginnings.
Opal
Opal is considered to be one of the seven sacred stones of the Cherokee people.
Petersite
Petersite helps by increasing ones clarity of presentation and improving ones public speaking skills.
Petrified Wood
Petrified wood can be used to calm down survival based fears. It helps to make one feel safe and secure, helps one feel ageless.
Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz is the most powerful stone for dealing with affairs of the heart. It opens up the heart for both giving and receiving love. It soothes negative influences.
Ruby
Ruby strengthens both the physical and emotional heart. It brings love, confidence, loyalty, and courage.
Sapphire
Sapphires come in many different colors and hues. The healing and spiritual properties vary depending on the color variations in the stone.
Serpentine
Serpentine can be helpful in the rise of Kundalini. It stimulates the pathway that Kundalini will travel and can lessen the discomfort which is sometimes associated with Kundalini rising.
Sodalite
Sodalite helps to keep those who shut down sexually to open up and it helps those who are constantly centering themself in their sexuality to close that aspect down to balance out that energy.
Tanzanite
Tanzanite is a calming stone. It is good if life becomes chaotic or extremely busy and one is starting to feel out of balance from that.
Tiger Eye
This stone helps one be more flexible in their beliefs.
Topaz
Topaz helps one have a practical outlook in ones life and methods of doing things.
Tourmaline
Tourmaline attracts inspiration. It will diminish fears by bringing understanding and encourages self-confidence.
Turquoise
Turquoise is wonderful for drawing out negative vibrations from a person.
Turritella Agate
This is a stone many use for healing Mother Earth, as it opens the channels between the plant world and the mineral world.
White Opal
White Opal brings a great deal of energy to your body and helps you get more done. It charges you so to speak, making you more productive.
Yellow Jasper
The ancients used jasper over their heart and naval chakras prior to astral travel for protection and balance.

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