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Sapphire is the name given to any stones of the corundum group that are not red (since red corundum is called Ruby). It is the second hardest known mineral on Earth, and comes in practically every color: yellow, green, purple, white, orange, pink, etc. And, of course, the famous blue sapphire. The word sapphire actually comes from the Greek word sapphirus, meaning blue. I guess the Greeks didn’t know there were other sapphire colors out there J In Persia, myth had it that the Earth rested on a huge blue sapphire, and its reflection is responsible to color the sky. Use sapphire to achieve spiritual alignment and inner peace. It is very helpful when developing psychic skills, such as phychoknesis, telepathy, clairvoyance, and astral projection. It teaches mental discrimination, bringing clarity and perception to light, clearing negative thoughts, nourishing and healing the mind. Therefore, sapphire has the property of enhancing intellect, and helping us to learn and achieve wisdom. It is said that carrying a sapphire stone will attract divine favor. Myths on the divine properties of the sapphire have been found in almost every religion on Earth. Sapphire is also a protective stone, especially when dealing with legal matters. Legend says that sapphires will help one avoid incarceration or imprisonment. A friendship stone, sapphire will draw love and joy to life! On the physical body, sapphires have been used to heal rheumatism, colic, mental illness and depression. Selenite is the colorless and transparent variety of gypsum, which shows a pearl-like luster reminiscent of moon glow. In fact, the word selenite comes from the Greek, and means “Moon Rock”. It has a feminine energy and can be used to connect to the divine, especially Goddess archetypes. It also brings us awareness of our own divinity, and helps us connect to spirit guides and our own higher self. Selenite brings us a wonderful sense of security of knowing our place in the Universe and the divine plan. It brings light to all aspects of our lives, removing blockages, and helping to break bad habits (such as smoking and alcoholism).
Sodalite works on both the throat and third-eye chakras. It’s most important quality is the ability to absorb and neutralize the clouds of mental disharmony that pollute the aura, bog down the mind and make you feel burdened. By doing this, sodalite helps us live in a more harmonious auric atmosphere, and cleanses our body of negative mental energies that cause disease, helping to restore physical vitality and revealing our true nature to the self. After recognizing this inner truth, sodalite also helps us express it to others in a way they can understand, thus improving communication, and helping us share a more trustworthy relationship with others. Sodalite helps us stand up to adversity and overcome it, also relieving unneeded guilt. It also strengthens rational thought and boosts creativity, thus helping us to make clearer, more logical decisions - an excellent stone to be worn or carried with you during business presentations. As a healing stone, use it to help the lymphatic system and soothe inflammations. Also known as “royal lavelite” or “royal azel”, Sugilite is an opaque stone with waxy luster with color ranging from grayish lavender to a deep, dark purple. It was named after the Japanese geologist who found the first specimens: Ken-ichi Sugi. A spiritual stone, sugilite works on both the crown and third eye chakras, and it is a very powerful third eye activator, and best avoided by the beginner (use amethyst instead). It also works to balance body, mind, and soul, connecting the spiritual and physical, encouraging peace of mind and a general feeling of well-being and spiritual love for all things. Sugilite enhances the believe on the self, eliminating hostility, anger, and other negative feelings. It helps us understand the spiritual reasons for the lessons we encounter, helping us to follow our dreams and become better people. It is centering, and a great stone for meditation and dream work. As a healing stone, use it to aid brain problems, especially good to relieve stress and insomnia. Like the Sun shinning after a long winter, sunstone will elevate your mood when you are feeling down, bringing joy and happiness to surface. It works on the 3rd eye and Solar Plexus chakras, but helps to “deep clean” all the other chakras as well – think “spring cleaning” J- promoting health, passion, protection, and sensuality to flourish. Sunstone is a stone of leadership; it re-energizes, increases vitality and courage to undertake new projects, and promotes a good outlook on those endeavors, helping us make conscious decisions that will affect others only on a positive way. It is a teacher of self-discipline, humility, and service to the greater good. It supports the life force and helps us discover our life purposes. Use it magically to aid in all solar-workings. A beautiful blue stone with purple undertones, Tanzanite is named after the country of Tanzania, where it was first found in 1968. The “Stone of High Magick”, it facilitates vision and communication with the world of spirit, enhances psychic power and brings the power of our higher Will to manifest possibilities into being. As a healing stone, it can be used to treat varicose veins and relieve irritations like stings and eczema. This highly chatoyant (light reflection on it moves when stone is seen from different angles) stone is a variety of quartz, usually found in light brown to dark brown colors with lustrous yellow-to-brown parallel fibrous inclusions. It connects the rich browns of the Earth to the golden energy of the Sun, promoting a bridge between Earth and sky and balance between physical and spiritual. It enhances all earth qualities on the wearer, which include reliability, solidarity, down-to-earthiness, safety, common sense, stability, practicality, and peacefulness. It helps us to feel grounded and to hold a stronger sexual discipline. Tiger’s Eye has traditionally been favored as a gift between lovers, since it eases sexual tensions and help partners to get more in tune with each other in a psychic or even telepathic way. Given to a couple, it ensures their steadfastness and loyalty to each other. It pulls us to a more positive and flexible attitude, and it is especially effective for those who are somehow stubborn. It provides vitality, physical strength, mental clarity and responsible judgment. Since it is so attuned to Earth and Solar energies, Tiger’s Eye is a stone of wealth and prosperity. Worn or carried with malachite, it provides for success in all business ventures. Red Tiger’s Eye: Enhances physical vitality and helps to create healthy patterns of exercise and eating habits. Grounding, energetic, passionate. This stone was formed billion years ago of deposits of Rd jasper, Tiger’s Eye, and Hematite were slowly “smashed” together when tectonic plates shifted to create the continent of Australia. It is a beautiful combination of its 3 parent stones, and reflects properties of all three mixed together into one. It contains the spiritual energy of quartz and the grounding energies of hematite – a powerful combination that can be felt even by those who are new to working with gemstones. It stimulates vitality, will power and courage, and can be used to form an impenetrable protective shield, both against physical and spiritual danger. Use it during trance work and vision journeys, when you are vulnerable. Unlike most stones that can become overloaded with too many tasks, tiger iron can take just about anything you throw at it. The perfect stone for multi-taskers to carry around, it helps you stay focused on your goal through all the steps it takes for you to get there. Its name comes from the Sanskrit word for fire, and it comes in a wide range of colors – including red, orange, peach, pink, gold, yellow, brown and clear. Red and Pink topaz were very popular on the jewelry of 18th and 19th centuries Russian Czarinas, and for that reason they are still known as Imperial Topaz. The Braganza Diamond is actually clear topaz, which was once mistaken for diamonds. They are part of the Portuguese Crown Jewels. In the Middle Ages, it was widely believed that topaz had the properties to heal the physical and mental bodies and prevent death. The Greek believed it could increase one’s strength, and make the wearer invisible! In Rome it was used to improve eye-sight, while in Egypt, topaz amulets were worn to protect a person from injuries. Topaz has been called the “Stone of the Sun”, and it is said that if you focus your dreams and wishes into it, the many facets of the stone will reflect those wishes to the Universe for fulfillment. It also has the property of removing negativity and transforming it to joy, thus being also a protective stone. Topaz can help us see the big picture, understanding our dreams and wishes and the intents of others towards us. It increases the intellect, wealth, discipline, and ability to communicate to other realms. It also gives us the ability to focus on our dreams and motivation to bring them into being. Topaz attracts love towards the wearer. As a healing stone, it absorbs tension, pain and disease, and can also be used to eliminate toxins from the body. Blue Topaz: Communication, creative thinking. This energizing stone will help you balance both sides of the brain and the chakras, while helping to cleanse them. It promotes insight and helps us awaken from illusion, promoting understanding, self-confidence, and helping to open our spirit to life. It raises our consciousness of spirituality while calming, soothing, and uplifting our emotions. As a healing stone, it helps to strengthen the skeletal system and fight asthma. Tourmaline occurs in a wide range of colors, and each of those have its own properties. Here are some of them: · Black Tourmaline: Heals fear and panic while bringing a sense of security and safety to the wearer. It helps protect a person from psychic attacks, transmuting negative energy, and providing purification of the soul. · Green Tourmaline: Works on the heart chakra and connects us to the earth, bringing compassion, creativity, success and prosperity to our lives. · Pink Tourmaline: Works on the heart and crown chakras, offering an understanding of the higher love, peace, and change. It helps us trust the power of love. Also useful to help fighting drug addiction. · Rubellite Tourmaline: Provides vitality, strength, physical energy, independence, creativity and love. · Tourmalinated Quartz: This is quartz crystal with tourmaline inclusions. Use it for protection, as a shield stone, and grounding. It can also amplify energy directed to it, and reflect that energy back to the sender, or to the Universe. · Watermelon Tourmaline: Heart chakra stone. Strengthens our connection to the higher self, releasing guilt and soothing emotions. It aids communication, cooperation, and tact. This stone is a gem variety of the garnet mineral called grossular. It is a green variety of garnet, but not the only one (uvarovite and androdite are also green garnets, and only an experienced gemologist would be able to distinguish them). The name of the stone comes from Tsavo, Kenya, where the stone is abundantly found. Use it to help you to understand the inner-self, facilitate wisdom, and help to find and rule your own destiny. It strengthens psychic communication with higher planes, enhancing and channeling visions. This stone is a hydrated phosphate of copper and aluminum. It is believed it is called “turquoise” because the Turks first brought it to Europe. Many ancient cultures, both in the Orient and in the Americas, have used turquoise as a healing stone, or for magical purposes. It was a very popular stone in Egypt and among the Aztecs, for instance, and Native American jewelry is famous for its use of this beautiful blue-to-green stone. In fact, it is known that Native Americans carved animal shapes out of turquoise and placed it on tombs to attract beneficial spirits to guard the dead. Medicine men favored this stone for healing, while the warriors had the habit of placing it in the end of bows to ensure an accurate shot. Turquoise is most connected with the Element of Earth, and it is an excellent conductor, since it has a high copper content. However, it is also the color of the sky, and it is believed that it can unite Earth and Sky, and thus promote a bridge between the physical and spiritual worlds. It works mostly on the Throat chakra, but it also acts on the heart chakra and the third-eye chakra. It is a stone that facilitates communication, both in this plane and on higher planes, and creativity; it turns ideas into reality, and it is very useful for people in any field of work where creative problem solving skills are required. It also stimulates understanding, and helps us to figure out our role in this incarnation, making us feel more like a part of the universal plan. Turquoise also brings love, both spiritual and romantic, promoting spontaneity between lovers and stimulating new relationships. It is a loyalty stone, and can make friendships long lasting and strong. Other attributes and used of turquoise are wisdom, wealth, success, courage, luck, protection (it was said it will change colors to warn the wearer of danger), serenity, and spiritual bonding. As a healing stone, turquoise can be used to cure many ailments, especially throat related ones, but also anorexia, headache, fear, asthma, infection, lung problems, teeth, high blood pressure, and depression. It has long been said that turquoise can also protect and detox from alcohol, poison and pollution. Unakite is a mix of pink feldspar, green epidote, and quartz, thus explaining its interesting green color with pink hues. It works mostly on the heart chakra, and it is an excellent balancing stone, especially when it comes to emotions. It releases blocks from old heart wounds and helps us deal with any past issues that might be blocking out progress in the present, making it also a stone of rebirth in many ways. It helps us love ourselves, which in turn attracts love from others and to feel centered and whole. Unakite has the property to help us discover the source of physical, mental or emotional problems before they become a serious threat to our well being, allowing us to take an early action against those problems. It can be used to heal heart and circulation problems. It also acts on the reproductive system, especially of women, and for that reason it is a great stone to carry during pregnancy and childbirth. An interesting stone, zincite is an ore of zinc and other minerals, most found in Poland and New Jersey, USA. It induces creativity, creation, and manifestation of ideas. Amplifying personal power and physical energy, while removing blockages from the chakras and aura – anything that might get in the way of energy and creation. A good stone for
meditation also, since it has a mind-clearing property, and to carry or
wear when one is feeling “down” due to stress.
Zircon comes in every color you can think of. Much more effective than the man-made cubic Zirconia, it works on the crown chakra and the transpersonal point to help us see the Universal truth, and increase our intuition, durability, steadiness, integrity and connection with the All. It helps to make everything come together in life, connecting the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies. As a healing stone, it can be used to ease depression and insomnia, and help to detoxify from poisons. Zoisite is most commonly of a half transparent to opaque green color with black inclusions, however pink and blue (tanzanite) colors have also been found. This is a stone of energy and stamina. It transmutes negative energy into positive, and relieves lethargy, boosting positive energy and stamina to the mental process. Zoisite helps us to achieve the goals we set for ourselves. It can be used to heal ailments of the heart and reproductive systems. |
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