Properties of Gem Stones

This list of gemstone properties is intended for the buyer of jewelry from Native Stone Designs for their personal use. The descriptions of these properties can also be found on the internet in many places. My descriptions are certainly not exhaustive.

Please note that if you use these stones for any kind of healing you need to “cleanse and recharge” your stones when you first get them and then whenever they encounter negativity.
There are different ways of cleansing them. Try using the four elements. Call upon the Angels of God and of earth water air and fire.

Amazonite: Represents Love, Balance, Soothing. Eliminates aggregation and soothes emotional process. Enhances love. Nerves.

Amber: Represents Healing, Strength, Protection. Teaches us to reach the right decisions and handling all of life’s situation skillfully.

Amethyst: Represents Spirituality Contentment, Meditation. Balances our intellectual-emotional-physical bodies. Stability, strength and peace.

Aquamarine: Represents Courage, Protection, Awareness. Tunes spiritual awareness and thought moderation. Protects against pollution.

Aventurine: Represents Balance, Healing, Alignment. Balances male-female energies. Aids in working with spiritual guides.

Azurite: Represents Release, Meditation, Creativity. Eliminates indecision and worry. Helps in state of mind for meditation.

Bloodstone: Represents Courage, Balance, Healing. Revitalizes relationships. Centers and grounds heart energy. Blood circulation.

Boji Stone: Represents POP ROCK, Regenerates, Healing. Balance Yin-Yang. Cleans and charges Aura. Removes energy blocks. Cell growth.

Calcite: Represents Amplifier, Refraction, Healing. Different colors of Calcite places on Chakra amplifies energy. Healing bones.

Carnelian: Represents Protection, Strength, Stabilizing. Clears negative energy and sorrows. Protects against fear and rage. Energy stabilizing.

Chrysocolla: Represents Renewing, Balance, Strength. Increases love compacity. Stabilizes home, rebuilds relationships. Allergies.

Chrysoprase: Represents Alignment, Balance, Meditation. Aligns Chakras and ethereal planes. Acceptance and forgiveness. Broken hearts.

Citrine: Represents Optimism, Wealth, Cleansing. Clears Aura fields. Stimulates intuitive self. Promotes optimism. Abundance.

Coral: Represents Intuition, Regeneration, Connections. Intuition and visualization. Aids communication with past masters. Circulation and tissue.

Covellite: Represents Dreams, Rebirth, Healing. Transforms dreams into reality. Releases the past. Stimulates cells to purge toxins.

Diamond: Represents: Strength, Innocence, Abundance. Brings strength, endurance, and a loving nature. Abundance in all areas of your life.

Fluorite: Represents Order, Balance, Healing. Helps stabilize energy to bring order in mental-emotional-physical and spiritual realms.

Garnet: Represents Health, Commitment, Purification. Removes negative energy from Chakras. Adds commitment to purpose. Circulation.

Hematite: Lodestone, Order, Balance. Personal magnetism , focus mental capabilities. Balance Yin Yang. Dissolves negativity. Blood.

Jade: Represents Harmony, Fidelity, Confidence. Attain devotion to a purpose, inner peace, self reliance and self sufficient. Loneliness, sleep.

Jasper: Nurturer, Protection, Healing. Helps bring substance and joy to others. For travel and against negativity. Internal organs

Jet: Represents Protection, Healing, Psychic. Absorbs negative energy, guards and protects. Strengthens psychic awareness. Health and healing.

Kunzite: Represents Balance, Healing, Meditation. Helps align heart Chakra to 2nd and 3rd Chakras to produce loving communication. Compulsions.

Labradorite: Represents Spectrolite, Transforms, Healing. Transformation of intuition and thought. Clears and balances Aura. Brain.

Lapis: Represents Awareness, Connection, Creativity. Connects physical and celestial realms. Expands intuitive and physical. Creative potential.

Lepidolite: Represents Transition, Healing, Honesty. Helps to recognize old patterns. Assists openness and honesty. Stress, tension lowers BP.

Malachite: Represents Intuition, Balancing, Transform. Spiritual evolution. Activates all Chakras to stimulate and enhance psychic abilities.

Moldavite: Represents Astral travel, Amplifier, Healing. Higher dimensional energy. Amplifies vibrations of other stones to enhance healing.

Moonstone: Represents Cleansing, Attainment, Healing. Cleanses negativity from the Chakras. Destiny fulfillment. PMS, female health and birth.

Obsidian: Represents Apache Tears, Reflection< Grounding. Helps to see one’s flaws and to ground energy to earth. Shield against negativity. Grief.

Onyx: Represents Protection, Projection, Defensive. Defensive-protective, worn for all kinds of battle, conflict and pyschic attack. Reduces sexual impulses.

Peridot: Represents Protection, Healing, Cleansing.

Phenacite: Represents Meditation, Knowing, Healing. Facilitates deep meditation. Brings the way of love and heavenly being. Cleanses.

Rhodenite: Represents Coherence, Calming, Healing. Achieving potentials. Dispels anxiety. Promotes self-esteem, self-confidence. 5th Chakra.

Rhodochrosite: Represents Love, Balance, Purifier. Balances love on all levels, physical. Purifies root and sacral Chakras.

Ruby: Represents Dreaming, Teaching, Protection. Protects against psychic attack. Intense and vivid dreams. Ancient knowledge.

Sapphire: Represents Prosperity, Clarity, Healing. Rids unwanted thoughts. Brings joy and peace. Fulfills dreams, brings wealth. Blood.

Selenite: Represents Awareness, Flexibility, Healing. Clarity of mind, awareness of self, surroundings. Flexibility in one’s nature. Skeletal sys.

Sodalite: Represents Mental, Fellowship, Healing. Manifest trust in others and self. Helps logical conclusions. Digestive disorders. ADHD

Sugalite: Represents Love, Energy, Healing. Spiritual love of all that is. Moves Kundalini from crown to base Chakra. Headaches.

Tiger Eye: Represents Grounding, Balancing, Psychic. More practical and discreet in ones mind. Balance of both brain hemispheres. Psychic.

Topaz: Represents Love, Success, Creativity. Forms individuality  and creativity. Replaces negativity with love. Success in all  endeavors.

Turquoise: Represents Protection, Healing, Balance. Protects and balances spiritual and physical bodies. Master healer. Dissipates negativity.

Earth: Bury your stones in its natural element, the earth or sea salt and let them stand for a while. This will clear them of negative elements.

Water: Hold your crystals under the tap, visualize love flowing and replacing any obstacle .

Air: Smudge them to clean the energy field.

Fire: Expose your stones to the sun for a few hours, they will be energized with the highest energy.


BLOODSTONE:

Blood carries life throughout the body. Bloodstone gives energy, protection, courage and self-esteem. Use it to gain confidence to succeed.

BLUE LACE AGATE:

Courage, peace of mind and insight.

Fear of confrontations, and public speaking go hand in hand. If a clog in your throat chakra is holding you back you may want to use the comforting energy of Blue Lace Agate to speak your truth.

TURQUOISE:

Grounding stone, helps the wearer to stay in the moment. Helps communication in relationships. Reputed to be a protection and healing stone.

CORAL:

Fertility, Protection,Spiritual awakening.

The myth of Perseus gives an interesting meaning to this stone. When he beheaded Medusa (she was once beautiful but Athena turned her into a hideous creature out of jealousy) drops of her blood fell into the ocean and created a healing crystal as beautiful as she once was.

Represents beauty out of ugliness.

LAPIS LAZULI:

Wear this stone for understanding, understanding oneself, others and the higher principles of the universe.
Brings acceptance and serenity.

OBSIDIAN:

Helps us with introspection. Wear it to see hidden fears, patterns of life, chronic turmoil. Calms the turmoil of change.
Brings purity and protects from negativity

AMETHYST:

Known for Its healing powers, it attracts spiritual energy and calms restless thoughts. Promotes peace of mind.
Great stone for meditation and to have peaceful dreams.

CARNELIAN:

Vitality, confidence.
Boosts energy, promotes ambition, confidence, happiness and brings serenity and stability. Enhances creativity.

GARNET:

Stone of love and passion. Gives courage confidence and boosts energy. Guards against depression and melancholy.

AQUAMARINE:

The “hope stone”. It has life giving properties. Improves communication and persistence.

Takes away fear and stress.

LACE AGATE:

Stimulates the expression of what we feel in the heart and think in the mind. Being an Agate it is a grounding stone, when we feel grounded in our bodies we feel more comfortable.

BLACK ONYX:

One of the most powerful protection stones it absorbes negative energies and helps alleviate worries and tension.

CITRINE:

Helps to clarify our thoughts and build self-worth by dissolving negative energies. In helping to clear the mind you may find it is easier to get a sense of direction in life.

LABRADORITE:

Relates to dreams and imagination. Can help us to perceive things beyond the physical plane. Strengthens intuitions and insight.