Gemstones and Crystals

Gemstones and Crystals can help you to transform your life by being absorbed into the aura to heal the body on a holistic level, and being used and worn to attract health, wealth and prosperity on a magickal level.
To gain these wonderful benefits, you must always remember to cleanse and program each crystal, and keep it for your use only.
 

To cleanse a crystal, it must be able to release the negativity into another element. This can be done by using one of the following techniques;

Wash in a river or in rainwater, and leave to dry in the sun for a couple of hours (elements of water and fire)
 

Leave outside in the elements for 24 hours (Sun and Moon, Wind and Rain)

Fill a clay pot with soil and bury the crystal for a day (element of Earth)

Hold the crystal and smudge with incense, by holding the stone in the smoke of a purifying herb (Element of Air).

Minerals and their magickal meanings:

Agates: eliminates negativity whilst stabilizing and   cleansing the aura. A stone of luck, it helps you in your endeavours, giving you the strength of carry them through. There are lots of varieties of Agates.
 

Agate blue lace: For gentle people who need help in speaking out for themselves. This stone strengthens the skeleton system, so will help in mending fractures and breaks and help sufferers of arthritis.
 

Agate Brazilian: This fortification agate can help in astral travel and meditation. Good for pain, it helps with strains and sprains, enhances digestion and stabilizes the heart and pulse rate.
 

Agate fire: The fire helps you to be the best you can be.
 

Agate crazy-lace: Good for the bio-rhythmic highs and lows, as it brings them into balance and gives you high levels of energy. The "crazy" bit helps you to laugh out loud.
 

Agate moss: For ego and self-esteem, it balances the emotions and strengthens your positive traits.
 

Agate Turritella: Use for fatigue and general health and when overcoming life’s general trial and tribulations and it is a stone for survival.
 

Amazonite: Another stone for the maintenance of health, Amazonite is a stone of courage to help you achieve your dreams. Good for attracting money, use for matters of the heart, especially when communication is required.
 

Amber: Containing the energy of the sun, this is a stone of energy to calm the nerves and brighten up your life. A stone of luck, strength, healing and protection, I wear a piece of amber all the time. It is a talisman of travel, so keep a piece in the car. In days gone by, it would have been ground down and used as a penicillin-type remedy. Its healing capabilities purify the body, mind and spirit. Yellow amber brings forward creative energies, whilst green amber opens the heart and attracts love.

Amethyst: The stone of contentment dissolves stress and helps you simply to cope with life’s issues by lifting the spirits. It brings strength, calm and peace. It aids meditation whilst helping you to find your spiritual path. It brings common sense and flexibility in decision-making and changes needed. In the past, it was used to avoid drunkenness. Good for posture and the skeleton system, it is commonly used for arthritis. It also helps insomnia and headaches (usually resulting from stress), and opens the way to the 6th sense, sharpening the psychic mind.
 

Ametrine: A mixture of amethyst and citrine, it combines qualities of both stones.
 

Angelite: Connected to the throat chakra, this is a stone of communication, enhancing astral travel and telepathic communication, channelling and psychic healing. Use for throat problems.
 

Apatite: Apatite enhances creativity, healing, communication and teaching, whilst enhancing clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience and insight into past life.
 

Apophyllite: A member of the Zeolite family, this is the stone for computers as it transforms the positive ions into negative ones, ensuring the body is not harmed. It also helps Reiki energy to flow. A useful stone for astral travel, it also brings light, energy and love into your heart.
 

Aquamarine: This is the stone if you need to "always be prepared", it’s gentle energy helps judgemental people to be more tolerant, and those who get swamped down with responsibility to stand up for themselves, whilst bringing order to the chaos.
 

Aventurine: A stone for the heart, it calms troubles emotions, and as a money and lucky stone, it attracts prosperity. It helps enhance leadership qualities and strengthens the instinctive part of your nature.
 

Azurite: A psychic stone, azurite provides insight into all areas of your life. It enhances creativity and decision-making, confidence and memory. Use for healing magick and energy blockages. This stone will help give your life direction, and aid meditation and relaxation.
 

Bloodstone: Use to revitalize love and friendships and to benefit the internal workings of the body. As its name suggests, it keeps the blood healthy and helps in blood-related diseases. It is a wonderful stone for healing children. It lengthens the life span and eliminates anger. Helpful in court and legal matters, it is also a money stone. Carry or place in the till to attract wealth. It is a good stone when your creative abilities or talents need directing.
 

Bornite: Also most often known as Peacock Rock, this is the stone for joy and happiness. It helps in situations where something needs letting go of, especially if it will then increase your ability to enjoy life. It can also help you to realise those things that are blocking your life and must be dealt with.
 

Calcite: A major balancer of the body, this stone comes in every chakra colour. It helps the body to remember what it was like when it was without illness, and go back there. Good for students of Arts and Sciences. Use clear calcite for meditation and connection to the upper realms, pink for love rituals, green for money spells, blue for healing and orange for energy. A very useful stone.
 

Carnelian: This stone increase physical energy and stimulates the sexual regions. It eliminated apathy and stimulates inquisitiveness. It also allows us to get rid of things that need dealing with, things that anger us - envy, jealousy and all the negative emotions that we try and hide. Good for the study of drama and theatrical pursuits.
 

Celestite: This is a beautiful blue crystal cluster and brings about a feeling of inner peace. It brings and calm and balance in times of despair and love and light in times of pain.
 

Chalcedony: A stone to balance body, emotions, mind and spirit, chalcedony increases mental stability and eliminates sadness. Place under the pillow to be rid of nightmares or wear to protect against psychic attack. Its green colour ensures success in all undertakings, and it also attracts luck.
 

Charoite: This beautiful purple stone from Russia allows the heart to open to receive love and connects us to the spiritual dimensions. A wonderful stone of transformation, Charoite also assists in the 2nd sight, and the bringer of healing by cleansing the body and helping it transform illness to well-being.
 

Chiastolite: Known as the Cross-stone, this averts the evil eye, dispels negativity, and brings about change by helping you grasp a hold in the "new" area.
 

Chrysocolla: A stone of emotion and love, I refer to this as a woman’s stone. It eases emotional heartache and opens our capacity to love. It gives inner strength in times of communication and endurance in long and stressful situations. Good for stabilizing the home and eliminating negativity within a person. If you suffer from lung problems, wear chrysocolla as it re-oxygenates the cellular structure.
 

Chrysoprase: For compassion and clemency, Chrysoprase banishes greed, envy, jealousy, selfishness and tension whilst attracting friends and success without judgement and bringing about a feeling of joy. Use also for protection and to attract money.
 

Citrine: The stone for health, wealth and happiness, this links us to the very centre of our being. It never needs cleansing. It helps us focus on our aims with optimism and laugh with meaning. A positive stone for relationships, business and family.  It stabilizes the emotions and look for the good and positive in all situations. A lot of citrine on the market is actually heat-treated amethyst, which will simply not do the job so beware.
 

Copper: . Apart from increasing circulation and helpful for arthritis and rheumatism, it enhances creativity, stimulates optimism and combats lethargy. If wearing a copper bracelet, remember to wear on the opposite wrist to the hand you write with, if you see what I mean.
 

Danburite: Danburite allows your inner light to shine and helps you to get along with others. It activates the mind and opens the heart to help you to love yourself.
 

Diamond: For love and harmony, it brings confidence to your emotions and trust and fidelity to relationships. It fills the aura with healing light and attracts abundance into your life. It releases any sexual dysfunction and reconciles quarrelling lovers.
 

Dumortierite: This is the stone for you if you need to be able to stand up for yourself. It enhances patience and stamina whilst clearing away any unsettled areas in relationships.
 

Emerald: For loyalty, sensitivity and domestic bliss, emerald helps you to know the right action to take. It brings harmony to your life as well as love. It also can be used if you are involved in legal affairs and promotes sales in business affairs. Wear secretly to attract a lover into your life
 

Flint: Use to relieve shyness and severing ties in distressful situations, this protective stone should be placed on altars during rituals and spells. Seek out from the beach. Place on windowsills and at doorways to ensure your home is also protected at all times.
 

Fluorite: This beautifully coloured stone is wonderful for all health problems as it helps counteract anything that is in disorder, by purifying and eliminating. Is also helps bring order to those chaotic situations that we all come across. Use the green fluorite to spring-clean your life and eliminate anything that is negative in your life.  Place on computers as well, for balancing the body and ensuring the harmful ions are eliminated.
 

Garnet: Magickally, garnet was given between parting friends to ensure that their paths crossed again. Garnet is known as the stone of health, and brings order to that which is in disorder. It gets rid of things at the onset, and is best known for its regenerative powers in the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual systems. A gentle, steady progressive stone.
 

Gold: The majestic metal improves character from learning situations, and attracts honour, wealth and happiness. Gold purifies the physical body, clears negativity from the chakras and rebuilds the nervous system. Can also balance the left hand/right hand sides of the brain so use in conditions where physical co-ordination needs attention.
 

Hematite: This is the stone to help you "go for it & reach for the sun", should that be the push you need. It attracts good love into your life, whilst bringing tranquillity, peace and inner happiness. A stone you will either love or hate, it helps with spinal problems and bone fractures. Good for grounding.
 

Herkimer: Known as diamonds, these are small, double-terminated quartz found in New York only, and carry an expensive price tag for the real McCoy. Magickally, they can be used instead of diamonds. They help you to "begin again", increase energy and relaxation, whichever is most required. They stimulate the clairvoyance and clairaudience capabilities whilst eliminating fear and repression. Herkimers dispel toxins from the body, alleviates tension and brings calm to the user. Lovers can hold 2 diamonds in their entwined hands, pouring their love for each other into the stones, kiss and then keep one each. This way, even when parted, the Herkimer contains part of them and keeps you linked together.
 

Iolite: Iolite is the stone for astral travel and guided meditations. It helps release any unwanted discord from your life, and enables you to enjoy each moment life has to offer. Good for getting rid of debts as it helps you to face up to your responsibilities and deal with them. Good for the liver.
 

Jade: The stone of dreamers should be placed under the pillow if you wish to recall your dreams. Wear to attract love and to assist healing and well-being. Good for confidence and for aiding self-sufficiency, it can attract money if so programmed.
 

Jasper: This stone is a reminder that we are not just here for ourselves but for others as well. It is protective and balancing, stabilizes the aura, eliminates negativity and cleanses the body. Good for energy when it is required to be high, and calming when the nerves are frazzled.
 

Jet: Good Whitby jet is so hard to find these days, but is required by all witches. Protective for businesses and travellers, it also helps in cases of depression. Use to stabilize finances.
 

Kunzite: A stone for the heart and expressing emotions, this is the "drug" of all stones. The trip on Kunzite can be quite stimulating, bringing calm when distracted, and wisdom when needed. It stimulates sensitivity and sensuality. Good for the heart muscles, lungs and circulation. Place on your desk if you work in stressful conditions, and keep in the car if you are constantly stuck in traffic, as it calms the nerves. A lovely stone.
 

Kyanite: Another stone that never needs cleansing, this balances the whole body, aura and chakras. It brings calm and tranquillity and gets rid of frustration and anger.  The stone for meditation and dreaming.