Metaphysical Properties

Barite is a stone of inner vision and energetic alignment. It provides a smooth and clear connection to the higher worlds, making it a wonderful choice to use in dream work and the understanding of our higher purpose. 

 Bismuth is known for amplifying energy, and it is very effective in healing or color therapy. Bismuth relieves symptoms of isolation, both spiritually and emotionally. As a stone of transformation, it calms disorder and helps push changes in the right direction. Energy is transformed from the crown chakra to the base chakra, helping to actualize our intentions. It can be used on all chakras.  

Bloodstone regularly emanates a steady vibration of purification and well-being. Bloodstone has been regarded as a stone of the spiritual warrior and has been connected with the story of Jesus and the Cross.  It is thought to instill courage and provide emotional support during hard times while reminding us to stay on path. It is an amazing purifier of both the physical and spiritual bodies; regulating blood and finding inner strength.  

Blue Lace Agate: represents communication and clarity. The energy of this stone opens, clears, and balances the Throat chakra, and offers support from overstimulation. It can help those who talk excessively to find the beauty of inner stillness and only say what needs to be said. This variety of agate aids in understanding the importance of communicating one’s truth, knowledge, understanding and wisdom. 

Blue Quartz is a naturally occurring clear Quartz with tiny blue inclusions that create a pale to mid-blue color. Its energy brings harmony and order, mental clarity and eases fear. It is great to use symbolically for soothing communication and building trust.

 Botswana Agate: helps with understanding the complete picture. This stone guides us to look towards the solution of situation rather than dwelling on the problem. This variety of agate helps to reduce depression and stress as well as maintain an overall awareness of good character. 

Carborundum is an abrasive Mineral that is actually the second hardest material to diamond... even harder than its predecessor, Corundum (rubies and sapphires). It is often manufactured as an abrasive material for cutting, polishing and sanding.

Carborundum has been found to balance the chakras, and is calming and gently grounding. It shields and protects, particularly in cases of electromagnetic stress. It allows for inner expansion in an orderly and organized manner, as if each individual cell has been allocated the same amount of space around it. In spite of the dark coloration of the stone, its general mood is light and happy.

Calcite is a double refractive mineral, making any text look doubled when viewed through the crystal like a lense. Let this be a guide in your identification of Calcite! Here is more specific information on individual Calcite varieties:

Blue Calcite is both a fire and air element stone that is connected strongly with the throat and third eye chakra. It is considered a soothing stone for the emotions and can help release stress and instill a more empowered outlook on life. It is also tied strongly with the intuition, making it a great stone to use when stimulating inner vision and inspiration. 

Cobalt Calcite is known as a Seeker Builder Crystal that can help to focus your efforts to achieve a highly desirable goal. This is a wonderfully soothing pink crystal, and can help soothe the emotions and work to restore balance within a home during excess conflict.

Pink Calcite is a wonderfully soothing stone for the Heart. Its energy speaks of compassion and loving radiance towards oneself and others. It is excellent for all aspects of emotional healing and can clear past trauma from the emotional body whether from this lifetime, or a previous one. It embodies both the fire and water element and stimulates both the Heart and the Solar plexus, allowing us to take action based on the truth of the heart.

Yellow Calcite is often used to enhance one's will and self-confidence. Its vibration encourages optimism and organization through intellect. It is an uplifting and joyful stone that bring enthusiasm to the user. 

 Candle Quartz is recognized by a myriad of smaller terminations surrounding a larger central point. The smaller ones can be either very sharp, as found in translucent candle quartz, or almost rounded as is usually found in opaque crystals. Candle Quartz is a stone of self-control. It acts like a candle, shining light into the dark recesses of the inner self. 

Celestite has a very gentle and uplifting energy that helps to raise our awareness and sense of inner truth. It can be useful for easing into meditation while still remaining focused. It assists in opening the higher chakras and senses to perceive intuitive information. Celestite teaches the value of patience and the perfect trust in the Divine process.  

Carnelian is a variety of Red Agate and is known to bring an influx of life force. It stimulates passionate and creative energy and teaches appropriate use of assertive will. Carnelian can encourage taking the risks required for strong action. It is a stone of action, helping to bring concepts into being and increases your passion for living. 

Chalcedony is a member of the Quartz family with a cryptocrystalline structure, perfect for magnifying its crystal energy to soothe and restore balance. 

Chalcedony is known as the Speaker's Stone, the stone of one who must measure his words. It encourages reflection and meditation, its gentle radiance preparing us for action but helping to hold back words we might regret. It is still in use today for meditations, and as a pathway for receiving successful thought transmissions 

 Chert is a fairly common mineral that is often used in the making of arrowheads. Chert can help to ground the spiritual body, improving consciousness and over all life force. This can be very helpful for those who feel uncoordinated and flighty in the physical plane. 

 Charoite is a complex mineral found in Siberia. It facilitates an understanding of your truest path of service and assists in acclimating to higher-frequency vibrations. Charoite helps to overcome resistance to your sacred path and helps release unconscious fears and disharmonies. 

 Chrysocolla is a beautiful blue stone that can often be found growing in combination with Malachite and Azurite. Chrysocolla is a stone of the communication and expression. It helps one to speak and communicate from the heart. It encourages you to share your true self and to address your inner wisdom so that others may benefit from your experiences. Its gentle, soothing energy is a wonderful aid for those that may find it difficult to share their true selves and speak from their hearts. 

 Chrysoprase is a rich green stone that carries properties for healing as well as abundance and prosperity. This stone helps empower you to understand more deeply, the concepts around Divine Truth, as you center yourself within your heart. It is considered a stone of happiness, helping to let go of ego-based patterns of the past and moving into a heart-centered and joyful state of being. 

 Citrine is a golden variety of quartz that magnifies your powers of will, creativity and manifestation. It helps to harmonize the energies between the mind and the will, assisting in clearer thinking, efficient learning and positive perception. Citrine assists in releasing negative thought patterns, encouraging optimism and creativity. Use Citrine to assist in sifting through what you wish to create and turn ideas into a reality.

 Copper is a metal and so is a brilliant physical conductor of electricity and heat, and similarly it is also considered the conductor of the spiritualist's belief system. According to tradition, copper has the ability to conduct spiritual energy back and forth between individuals, crystals, energetic bodies, the mind and the spirit world. 

Danburite is a clear, to sometimes almost pink crystal with a very soft and soothing energy. It helps to release stress and worry by soothing the heart chakra. It clears and opens the crown chakra, linking and harmonizing it with the heart. It soothes the emotional body, bringing in a frequency of comfort and angelic rescue. Its energy encourages resonance with the Divine heart and the manifestation of high-frequency energy through the physical body.   

 Dendritic Agate is known as the Stone of Plentitude. It brings abundance and fullness to all areas of life, from business to agricultural endeavors. It was associated with the ancient Greek dryads, woodland and tree spirits, and was buried in the fields at the time of sowing to insure a good harvest.  Indoors, Dendritic or Tree Agates can bring a breath of fresh air to stagnant environments. Dendritic Agate encourages the acceptance of one's origin and the connection to the natural states of the universe. It is a stone to help heal the Earth and to stimulate a peacefulness within the structure of the inner environment. 

 The Desert Rose symbolizes all things that are possible. They enhance love and teamwork, they tell you to go for your dreams without restraint and help to dissolve self imposed restrictions and programs holding you back. Desert Roses can be used to strengthen affirmation of purpose in your life  

Diamonds have long been represented as a stone of eternity, sovereignty and radiance. It resonates with the uppermost chakras, helping to activate and expand inner vision and true inner beauty. Its connection with the highest realms of the spirit encourages us to express our most sacred self.

Diopside has a strong connection to Gaia, Mother Earth and can increase our planetary consciousness, and awareness of the realms within. It is a heart opening stone and may allow one to deeply explore the connection between humanity and nature. 

 Dioptase is incredibly prismatic. It clears and stimulates all chakras to a higher level of awareness, bringing fresh energy to physical, emotional, mental bodies.  Heals heart scars by opening, energizing heart chakra, bringing loving energies to physical body. Enhances clarity of connection between physical and ethereal bodies.  Helps eliminate oppressive feelings and encourages living to ones fullest potential.   

Garden Quartz is a variety Clear Quartz with Lodolite inclusions. The clear quartz amplifies the Lodolite within which brings strong healing energies and energetic shifting so that healing will occur. Garden Quartz helps us connect to the Earth and her needs. The energies are grounding and loving, not particularly focused on the spiritual world above, but the real loving Earth below. Its healing energies are those of long term adaptation and change.  

 Garnet promotes overall vitality and endurance. It creates a sense of security and abundance within the self and can help you release your worries and fears. It is a very Earth centered stone and helps the body to connect with the revitalizing energies within the Earth

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Spessartite Garnet is powerful stone of attraction. It can help to magnetize your desires. This stone resonates strongly with the creative energies of the Universe. Spessartite garnet increases charisma, and magnifies the vibrations of the second chakra, emphasizing creativity and sexuality, encouraging us to take action toward our dreams, visions and goals.

Green Garnet carries the energy of prosperity. It is a very optimistic stone and it encourages you to find your highest path of achievement in this world. It provides the motivation to get to work and make things happen

Goldstone is man-made glass infused with copper particles. There are stories of glass workers back in the seventeeth century that accidentally spilled a bowl of copper shavings into the molten glass, resulting in the shimmering copper flecks once it cooled. The process of combining copper shavings into glass still continues today to produce this glittering gold stone, and it has been discovered that the additions of other metals like cobalt, manganese or chromium result in other colors like, Blue and Green “Goldstone”.  And, because glass is made from quartz sand (silica), Goldstone has found its way into the healing community.

Goldstone, like diamond, is a good deflector of unwanted energies, and is highly regarded in the spirit realm as a protection mineral. It is known as a stone of ambition and vitality, building energy and improving confidence, and can be great to use for long distance healing.