Crystals and Gems

This page will look at the aspects of different crystals  and gems. 

Note 1: Also using source information from:

Divination deck: The crystal deck designed by Amanda Samson

Link: http://www.brightnewdawn.com/private/crystal_cavern.htm

Book: The crystal bible by Ann Marie Gallagher, Judy Hall

Groups at yahoo: Egyptfaith, Magical ways, Email Witches, Witchcraft and Magic.

Note 2: There are a lot of web pages containing enough information about crystals and gems which I am not going to repeat.  This is just a short index.

Note 3: Witchcraft college  presents a very interesting course relating to this topic.

Note 4: Check out this page for more information on crystals: GraceWatcher's Earth Mysteries Studies - Studies in Crystals - Information is compiled by GraceWatcher@aol.com


Article 1 written by:

http://groups.msn.com/MysticalVisions/crystalcolorsanduses.msnw

 Crystal and Gemstones Connections to RED

 *AGATE - Calms the body, mind and spirit, Good for healing in general.

 *BLOODSTONE - Keeps the Chakras balanced and builds self-confidence; improves liver function and psychosomatic pain; Attracts creativity.

 *CARNELIAN -Helps for fertility, impotence, menstruation.

 *GARNET - a dream inducer; helpful in matters of love and as a general tonic.

 *JASPER - useful for urinary problems and blood disease.

 *KUNDITE - a pink stone for emotional support; opens the heart to trust, especially after fear brought on by others.

 *OBSIDIAN - good for countering negative moods.

 *ROSE QUARTZ - Good for building self-esteem; emotional balance and friendships, including self-love.

 *RUBY - beneficial for emotional and spiritual problems, good when you are feeling run down, helps you feel uplifted and energized, builds self-confidence.

 Crystals and Gemstones Connections to Orange.

 *AMBER - a highly calming stone, good for balancing energies, used by healers as protection against taking on others pain (Empathy), helps with earache and urinary and nervous system problems.

 *HERATITE- relieves stress, particularly during air travel, improves energy levels and heart function.

 *ORANGE CALCITE - improves awareness and self-confidences, increases vitality.

 *TIGERS EYE - increases confidence, will power and insight, reduces hypochondria.

 *TOPAZ - improves blood circulation and helps calm the body, good for intellect and brings good luck, said to aide psychic development.

 Crystals and Gemstones connections to BLUE

 *AQUARMARINE - good for eyes, vision and clarity, enhances function of the nervous system and helps neuralgia (Sharp, severe paroxysmal pain extending along a nerve or group of nerves.)

 *BLUE LACE AGATE - reduces anger and tension, increases effective communication, soothes inflammation.

 *BLUE TOPAZ - encourages artistic growth, calms body and mind, aids concentration and meditation, good for leadership.

 *BLUE TOURMALINE - helps release blocked emotions, brings increased sense of peace and ease communication, good for the throat.

 *LAPIS LAZULI - a spiritual and aura cleanser helps you gain wisdom and truth, good for strengthening friendships and for heart problems.

 *SAPPIRE - promotes faith, friendship and love, boosts imagination and reduces nervousness, aids peace of mind.

 *TURQUOISE - provides protection, increases confidence, develops friendship, aids intuitive wariness and meditation, good for throat problems such as laryngitis.

 Crystal and Gemstones connections to GREEN

 * AVENTURINE - helps with hypertension, migraines and insomnia, increases vitality.

 * CHYSOPRASE - eases sorrow; beneficial for ovaries in women, the prostate in men, improves thyroid function, increase optimism.

 * EMERALDS - the gemstone of prophecy, helps with insomnia, develops the intellect and anything related to love.

 * GREEN CLACITE - increases awareness and intuition, improves pancreas function.

 * GREEN TOURMALINE - good for grounding and restabilising after an upset, helps regulate blood pressure, aids inspiration.

 * JADE - helps with eyes and vision, increases wisdom, improves bladder problems and kidney function.

 * MALACHITE - encourages healthy eyesight, wards off negative vibrations, and invites happiness.

 * PERIDOT - Restores emotions balance, good for vision; helpful for insomnia and nervous system generally; A good tonic; possesses occult powers.

 Crystals and gemstones for YELLOW

 * AMBER – enhances bladder function, good for intestinal disorders and nervous system problems, eases rheumatism, helpful for sore throats.

 * BERYL – helps heart conditions, useful in mental health disorders and aid to self-knowledge; good for mouth and throat infections.

 * CITRINE – helpful for depression and finding one's direction in life; induces dreams; benefits stomach problems.

 * CARNELIAN – helpful during menstruation; eases neuralgia; clarifies thought; strengthens voice.

 * JASPER – a blood cleanser; helps digestive function; good for troubled mind and the nervous system; steadies pulses.

 * MIMETITE – enhances communication skills.

 * TIGERS EYE – good for asthma; increases self-confidence and insight; helpful in psychosomatic illnesses.

 * TOPAZ – helpful in intellectual pursuits and psychic development; calms the body so useful for nervous system problems, insomnia and stress; improves blood circulation; helps in colds and flu.

 * YELLOW JADE – Aids digestion; increases intuition.

 Crystals and gemstones for PURPLE

 * AMETHYST – brings spiritual upliftment; helps in developing intuitive awareness; useful for increasing energy levels; eases stress; helps insomnia.

 * HOLLEY blue/purple – helps focus on your purpose in life; useful in channelling and healing work.

 * PURPLE RAINBOW FLUORSPAR – Good for change, helps you get out of ruts,

 * ROSE QUARTZ – promotes emotional balance and healing. 

Article 2:  Egyptian Stones (Source unknown)

 Apache Tear - Removes Limits, Soothes Grief, Acceptance of Death God/dess - Anubis 
 Bloodstone - Intense Healing, Soothes Cuts, Vitality, Circulation God/dess - Sekhmet 
 Carnelian - Strength, Courage, Abundance, Confidence God/dess - Horus 
 Citrine - Energy, Clarity, Anti-Depression, Anit-Anxiety God/dess - Ra 
 Hematite - Grounding, Anti-Negitivity, Astral Projection, Past Lives, Protection God/dess - Serqet 
 Jasper - Strength, Protection, Balance, Fertility, Memory God/dess - Osiris 
 Lapis Lazuli - Wisdom, Joy, Empowering, Protection, Psychic Awareness God/dess - Nut 
 Malachite - Wisdom, Concentration, Psychic Vision God/dess - Thoth 
 Obsidian - Protection, Eases Grief, Wisdom, Scrying, Meditation God/dess - Nephthys 
 Quartz - Energy, Anti-Negitivity God/dess - Isis 
 Rose Quartz - Love, Attraction, Opens Heart God/dess - Hathor 
 Tiger's Eye - Courage, Confidence, Willpower, Focus, Truth, Communication God/dess - Khnum 
 Turquoise - Wisdom, Astral Projection, Rebirth, Communication God/dess - Hathor 
 

Article 3: Stones and their Magickal Properties  

 Source:  Various Books and web sites.  Compiled by Lady Wystira
 Amazonite (blue-green): 
Calms mental and emotional chaos by helping one to blend facts with intuitive wisdom. 
Assists in courage of personal expression. 
 Amber: 
The "Happy" stone. Relieves depression. Rough stone unpolished. Amber can also be helpful 
in dissolving energy blockages. 
 Amethyst: 
Opens intuitive and psychic abilities. 
For overstress, overwork, overwhelm; helpful for addictions and nightmares; 
calms the mind, enabling us to know the peace which lies beyond constant mental activity; 
helps one accept the passage of death. 
 Aqua Aura: 
Assists in self-_expression through service to others (jewelry only).
 Aquamarine: 
ight blue-green Meaning sea water, this stone allows us to safely navigate the sea of infinite wisdom, 
and to land safely and communicate what we've learned.
 Aragonite (honey): 
Helps to stabilize the emotions, especially good when one feels overwhelmed by responsibilities. 
Also helpful in calming the mind for meditation. 
 Aventurine (green): 
Considered by many to be the best all-purpose healing stone, 
it is especially good for soothing the heart and emotions and for creating a feeling of balance and well-being.
 Azurite (dark blue): 
Helps us let go of old beliefs which cause physical and mental pain. 
Brings our subconscious thoughts into conscious awareness so that we can examine and, 
if necessary, change these thought patterns (jewelry only). 
 Bloodstone (green and red): 
Calms the mind in tense or threatening situations. Physically, is believed to detoxify the blood.
 Blue Lace Agate (light blue with white streaks): 
Helps us to express our views in a peaceful, loving manner.
 Clear Calcite: 
Brings spiritual understanding to problems on the earth plane. 
 Green Calcite: 
Eases old, limiting beliefs (especially those based on fear) from the mind so that new ideas can flourish. 
 Honey Calcite: 
Its particular role is integrate new energies and beliefs into one's physical reality, i
.e., daily life, relationships, business. 
 Pink Calcite: 
Combines the attributes of rose quartz and pink tourmaline, blending unconditional self-love 
with the ability to love others. 
 Carnelian (orange-red): 
rounds energy and attention into the present, thus teaching us to focus and manifest personal power. 
Assists in decision making. 
 Charoite: (dark purple) 
Chrysocolla (blue and green pattern): Creates a feeling of peace and balance; 
gives comfort to the heart and mind, and self-confidence in personal _expression. 
 Chrysoprase: 
Helps to lift the emotions, and release tension and stress. It can also help with success in new enterprises. 
 Citrine (yellow): 
Helps one to manifest personal power, strengthens will, aids us in processing life's 
experiences and discarding that which is only hindering progress. 
 Clear Quartz: 
Mirror of the soul, representing our uniqueness and our journey towards clarity; 
an excellent stone for meditation. In combination with other stones, enhances their energy. 
Stores, amplifies, transforms, and focuses energy. Natural crystal point.
 Emerald: 
(medium to dark green) For balance on emotional, spiritual, and physical levels; 
opens the heart to universal wisdom and love.
 Fluorite (Green): 
Fluorite is a mental stone which helps to release persistent and unwanted patterns of thought. 
Green fluorite is particularly helpful with thought patterns which have lodged in the 
emotional body, such as anxiety and worry. 
 Garnet (red): 
Calms anger by teaching us to know ourselves and others. 
Teaches patience and perseverance in the pursuit of goals. 
 Hematite (silver-gray): 
Helps us to separate our emotions from those of others. 
A grounding stone which helps with self-esteem. 
 Herkimer Diamond: 
A form of clear quartz which helps to relieve emotional tension and intensifies dreams (jewelry only).
 Jasper (red): 
Helps to stabilize all aspects of the being; a stress-reliever which connects us to our inner strength and flow. 
 Kyanite (denim blue color): 
A mentally and emotionally calming stone which helps to release worry. 
It also brings beliefs previously accepted as fact to the surface for release. 
 Labradorite/Spectrolite (iridescent blue-green-silver): 
Teaches the wise use of psychic powers. 
 Lapis: 
Penetrates through psychic blockages to reveal inner truth. 
 Lepidolite (silvery lavender with flecks of mica): 
This stone helps cushion one against conditions which have been known to fray many nerves.
 If you don't live in New York, but are undergoing severe stress for any reason this is a stone to consider. 
 Malachite: (green with black patterns)
Helps to clear repressed emotions; balances left/right brains; for creativity and change. 
 Malachite/Azurite: 
Calms the anxiety which may accompany physical disease so that healing can take place (jewelry only). 
 Moldavite (translucent bottle green): 
This is the crystal from outer space, which helps to release beliefs, habits, and other unneeded early luggage. 
 Moonstone (ranges from cream to peach): 
For those who feel overwhelmed by their emotions, 
it helps to create emotional balance by harmonizing feelings with the higher self; 
for those out of touch with their feelings it brings them into awareness. 
 Moss Agate (clear with green pattern): 
Assists in creating peace of mind so that reason and intuition can be blended.
 Obsidian (black): 
A stern taskmaster which makes its users face responsibility, the close friend who tells us 
the truth we may not want to hear. 
 Onyx: 
Helps in emotional stability and determination; helps to release old relationships. 
 Opal (white with iridescent rainbow flashes): 
Magnifies and clarifies emotional states; brings suppressed feelings to the surface. 
 Peridot (chartreuse): 
Heals hurt feelings and bruised egos; releases emotional tension when placed on the solar plexus. 
Rough stone unpolished. 
 Pyrite (gold): 
A mental stone which opens the mind to new ideas by balancing the ability to think intuitively 
with the ability to bring a dream to realization. 
 Rhodochrosite (coral-pink): 
Relieves anxiety; assists us in correct (diaphragmatic breathing) when placed on the solar plexus. 
 Rhodonite (deep pink with black pattern): 
For being patient and loving with those you encounter in your day-to-day life without 
allowing yourself to be pushed around. 
 Rose Quartz: 
Teaches us to love ourselves, thus opening us up to universal love; heals emotional 
wounds and gives comfort; helps us to overcome grief. 
 Ruby: (pink-red/silver) T
raditionally associated with passion, both sexually and emotionally; brings negative feelings 
to the surface; teaches us to be realistic about goals. 
 Rutilated Quartz (smoky or clear quartz with golden needles of rutile): 
Helps to activate the will to the highest purpose, and to release energy blockages, especially 
those due to low self-esteem or to the excessive use of personal power.
 Snowflake Obsidian (black-and-white snowflake pattern): 
Snowflake obsidian, like black obsidian, is a truth-telling stone, but transmits the truth in a more gentle manner. 
 Sodalite (dark blue with black and white pattern): 
Clears the mind of emotional confusion so that rational thinking can occur; very good for 
people who tend to be reactive and oversensitive. 
 Sugilite (magenta): 
Helps release anger, guilt, and resentment; puts us in touch with our inner source of strength and light. 
 Smoky Quartz (transparent light brown): 
For discouragement and depression; helps to process our negative beliefs and gives the 
courage and confidence to make the changes we need. When rutilated, accelerates rate of change. 
 Tiger's Eye (brown with gold flash): 
Teaches patience, focus, and concentration; helps us develop the will to materialize our dreams. 
 Tourmaline 
In general, helps to relieve stress. 
 Black tourmaline's 
particular function is to repel negative energy, whether from external or internal sources. 
It is a very good stone to carry when you're experiencing any kind of stress. 
 Green tourmaline
is believed to be a healer on all level. It is also believed to be particularly helpful for creativity and abundance. 
 Pink tourmaline 
helps to transform unconditional self-love into love for others. 
 Watermelon Tourmaline 
is a mixture of green and pink tourmaline, and blends the energies of these two stones, 
healing the heart of emotional wounds and enabling it to give love. 
 Turquoise: 
Helps us to love others unconditionally. Helps to make our desires clear to us, and assists 
us in expressing them to others who may be able to help us materialize them. 
 Unakite (olive green/coral): 
Has a balancing and stabilizing effect. Helps us to discover the roots of illness. 

Article 4: Gems for protection

 Protection Lore

General Protection Lore: agate, alum, amber (used extensively by Ancient Romans), apache tears, aventurine, banded agate, beryl, black agate, black kyanite, black obsidian, black tourmaline, calcite,carnelian, cat's eye, chalcedony, chrysoprase, citrine, chiastolite, coral, emerald, fire agate, flint, fluorite, fossils, gold, golden topaz, halite (rock salt crystal), heliodor (golden beryl), hematite, herkimer diamond, holey stones, honey calcite, imperial topaz, jade, jasper, jet, labradorite, lapis (lapis lazuli), lava, lepidolite,magnesite (lodestone), mahogany obsidian, malachite, marble, mookaite, moonstone, nuumite, ocean jasper, olivine, pearl, peridot, petrified wood, prehnite, pumice, pyrite, quartz, quartz crystal clusters, red jasper, ruby, rutilated quartz, salt, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, selenite, serpentine, shark teeth, snowflake obsidian, staurolite, sulphur, sunstone, tigers eye, topaz, tourmaline (red and black especially), tree agate, turitella agate, turquoise, yellow agate, yellow jasper, zircon (clear and red)
Protection from Evil Lore: agate (especially Eye Agate), beryl, black tourmaline, blue chalcedony (especially evil magick), coral, garnet, herkimer diamond, malachite, pyrite, quartz, salt, sapphire, snowflakeobsidian, tiger iron / mugglestone (mirrors evil & evil spells back to the sender), turquoise
Protection from the Evil Eye Lore: agate (especially eye agate), cat's eye, carnelian (envious eye, evil eye), malachite, topaz
Protection from Negativity Lore: black kyanite, black obsidian, black onyx, black tourmaline, bornite, celestite, citrine, elestial crystals, jet (absorbs negative energies), kunzite, peacock ore, quartz, smoky quartz (especially in healing)

Home and Family Protection Lore
Protection for Children Lore: agate, jade, malachite (especially from evil eye and evil spirits), mother of pearl (newborn infants in particular), ruby (all family, including children)
Protection During Childbirth & Pregnancy Lore: ammonite, chrysocolla (especially for preventing miscarriage), geodes, hematite, lepidolite, malachite, moonstone, picture jasper (during childbirth especially), rose quartz
Protection for Homes & Other Buildings Lore: halite, salt, riverstone, quartz, ruby, witches fingers
Protection of Worldly Possessions Lore: ruby, zircon (robbery)
Protection Against Crime Lore: Sardonyx

Physical Protection Lore
Physical Protection Lore: carnelian, agate, fluorite, peridot, sard, smoky quartz, zircon
Protection During Physical Travel Lore: amethyst, aquamarine (travel upon water), chalcedony, garnet, herkimer diamond, jet, malachite (esp when flying), moonstone (travel at sea), mother of pearl (on water),pearl (on water) rainbow moonstone, tigers eye, petalite, yellow jasper
Protection from Disease/Illness Lore: chalcopyrite, jade, cavansite, zircon
Protection from Poison Lore: diamond, serpentine (particularly snake venom)
Protection from Radiation Lore: amber, rutilated quartz, star sapphire
Protection from Injury Lore: turquoise

Psychic Protection Lore
Psychic Protection Lore: amber (psychic shielding) amethyst (from negative psychic energy of all kinds), black obsidian, DT crystals, elestial crystals (esp psychic attacks), fluorite, jade (especially vs psychic attack), lapis lazuli, Lemurian seed crystal, moqui marbles / moki balls (esp during shamanic work), nuumite, prehnite, pyrite, ruby, seraphinite (serafina, chlinochlore), sugilite, tiger iron /mugglestone (especialy during shamanic work)
Protection During Channeling Lore: Angelite, petalite
Protection During Astral Travel Lore: brecciated jasper, kyanite, red jasper, yellow jasper
Aura Protection (personal energy field) Lore: fire agate, black tourmaline, labradorite, sunstone, tiger eye

Spiritual Protection
Protection from the Undead Lore: chalcedony, black sapphire, silver
Protection from Possession Lore: chrysoberyl
Protection from Spirits Lore: silkstone, silver
Angelic Protection Lore: anglite, selenite

Other Types of Protection Lore
Emotional Lore: celestite, kunzite, mookaite, rose quartz, snowflake obsidian, zircon
While Working in Public Lore: sphalerite
Against Spells Lore: cat's eye, fossil, hematite, iron, turitella agate, sunstone, tiger iron (returns spell to sender)
Protection for Sailors Lore: aquamarine, moonstone (for sailors on the ocean)
From Political Unrest Lore: blue chalcedony
Envy Lore: carnelian, topaz (greed)
Warrior Going into Battle Lore: hematite
Protection from Demons Lore: peridot (olivine)
Protection from Danger (dangerous situations) Lore: red jasper, sunstone Burial Lore: riverstone
Snakebites & Venom Lore : serpentine,

Taken from:

Twintreess. Stones Alive! A Reference Guide to Stones for the New
Millennium. TreeHouse Press, 1999.Conway, D.J. Crystal Enchantments: A
Complete Guide to Stones and Their Magical Properties. Crossing Press, 1999.

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