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Sacred Stones : Metaphysical Properties of Gemstones, Crystals and Sacred Symbols
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From: MSN NicknameThe_Autumn_Heather  (Original Message)Sent: 11/10/2008 3:44 AM
Metaphysical Properties of Gemstones,
Crystals and Sacred Symbols

Beautiful, ancient and mystical, crystals possess the healing power of the earth and are a concentrated "receiver" for healing vibrations as well as a tool for mental and spiritual focus. Just as quartz crystals are used in modern day technology for receiving and stabilizing electronic frequencies, the ancients honored and utilized the mystical properties of gemstones.

Here are some of the metaphysical and healing properties associated with the crystals and stones offered here at Soul2Soul Treasures, and explanations of the sacred symbols. For more information on crystals, please visit: Soul2Soul Crystals for more information on chakras, please visit: Soul2Soul Chakras

Crystals and Gemstones
Amber

Amber is a fossilized resin of golden, honey color. Amber absorbs and transmutes negative energy into positive and allows the body to heal itself. It stimulates the intellect and opens the crown chakra. It's used to purify the body, mind and spirit when worn, carried or used as an elixir.

Amber beads are often worn in the treatment of goiter, throat problems or arthritis. In ancient times it was ground and ingested as a antibiotic.

Amethyst

Amethyst is a variety of quartz that ranges in color from deep purple to pale lavender. Considered the "stone of spirituality and contentment," and "the stone of meditation," it balances the intellectual, emotional and physical body and opens and activates the crown chakra enhancing psychic awareness and connection to the Divine.

It's used in the treatment of headaches, insomnia, pain reduction, hearing disorders, and disorders of the nervous system, digestive tracts, heart, stomach, skin and teeth. It's useful in promoting sobriety and releasing addictive behaviors.

Andean Opal
Used to activate the heart chakra and to provide centering and grounding. It can be used to assist on in astral/spiritual journeying with protective and navigational assistance. It has been used to induce hypnotic states and enhance divination. Used in the treatment of disorders of the heart, lungs and thymus and to help alleviate water retention, muscle swelling and spinal dis-alignment.
Aqua Aura

Aqua Aura is an incredible stone created from natural quartz fused with pure gold, the result is an unworldly opalescence blue stone with flashes of violet. It carries with it the properties of both quartz and gold.

A stone of spiritual evolution, it soothes emotions, dispels depression and creates an aura of peace. It enhances communication and energizes the throat chakra. It's said to attract wealth and success, enhance inner beauty, and is an aid to spiritual channeling and wisdom.

It is said that placing a stone in drinking water or bath water will energize the body. Keeping a stone in the car is thought to prevent accidents and tickets.

Aquamarine

Considered a "stone of courage," Aquamarine enhances intellectual reasoning and response. It helps to align the chakras and attune one to spiritual awareness. The gentle, compassionate energy can bring tolerance and acceptance. It stimulates and cleanses the throat chakra, enhancing communication.

It is said to temporarily protect one from pollutants and to guard against injury in battle.

Aventurine

Most commonly green in color, and speckled with particles of mica, hematite and other bright minerals, aventurine is used primarily to activate and clear the heart chakra, it also provides protection from those that would attempt to "leech" off your energy. Aventurine balances the male/female energies, enhances creativity, decisiveness, leadership qualities, and helps balance and align the intellectual, emotional, physical and auric bodies.

Used in the treatment of disorders of the lungs, heart, glands and muscular and urogenital systems.

Blackstar

Also call Blackstar sapphire, this protective stone is said to remove negative energy from the chakra it's placed on, improving the mental and physical health of the individual. It's worn to ward off the "evil eye," and to help one to rise to success in life despite obstacles. It is also often used by those wishing to awaken their kundalini power

The star that appears in the stone when kissed by light, represents the light of spirit into inner darkness. This stone helps to ground and balance the individual, relieves stress and doubt, and allows one to trust in their intuition.

Blue Lace Agate

A blue stone displaying a blue and white lace pattern. This inspirational stone helps one attain a higher level of spiritual and inner attunement. Useful for activating the throat chakra, and also the heart, third-eye and crown chakras, allowing one to enter a high-frequency state of awareness.

Useful in the treatment of arthritic conditions , bone deformity, and to strengthen the skeletal structure.

Blue Opal

Energizes the throat chakra allowing one the courage to speak freely and the wisdom to know when to speak. Stimulates communication and enhances and activates the third-eye.

Has been used to balance the metabolism and treat fatigue and hair loss.

Blue Topaz

Topaz is known as a "stone of true love and success in all endeavors". It replaces negativity with love and joy and dispels doubt. It is a great stone for manifesting and attraction. Blue topaz stimulates the throat chakra and helps one verbalize their desires for manifesting and communicate their truth. It brings the body, mind and spirit into union with the forces of perfection.

It dispels arrogance and allows one to follow their passion.

Citrine

Citrine is a variety of quartz that ranges in color from pale yellow to golden amber. A "stone of happiness," it promotes a "fresh outlook" and dissipates and transmutes negative energy. This stone never needs clearing or cleansing, and can be used to clear and cleanse other stones in its presence. It clears and cleanses the aura, stimulating mental clarity, endurance and emotional balance, and enhances communications in relationships.

Citrine activates, opens and energizes the navel (hara) and solar plexus chakras enhancing one's "personal power." Often called "The Merchants Stone," it's said to attract abundance when placed in the cash box.

It's useful in the treatment of digestive disorders, degenerative disorders, and promotes blood circulation.

Carnelian

Carnelian is a form of chalcedony ranging in color from red-orange to red-brown. this stone stimulates analytical capabilities and precision, awakening one to their inherent talents, and produces inspiration from, and connectedness to the spirit world. It activates the navel and solar plexus chakras enhancing the flow of life energy. It is the stone of activity, increasing vitality, creativity, personal power and sexual energy while dispelling apathy and passivity.

Carnelian is useful in the treatment of gall stones, kidney stones, allergies and colds, disorders of the spine, spleen, and pancreas. It can be used to heal cuts and abrasions.

Chrysoprase

An apple-green form of chalcedony Chrysoprase is useful in balancing the yin-yang energies and aligns the chakras with the ethereal plane. It opens, energies and activates the heart chakra bringing energy to the physical body through the loving energy of the heart. It helps in healing a "broken heart".

It encourages fidelity in business and personal affairs, facilitates fluency of speech with presence of mind, and helps one to see the Divinity within.

Coral

The vacated housing of marine animals, coral is said to quiet the emotions and bring inner peace. Coral enhances intuitition, imagination and visualization. It is used to strengthen the circulatory system and bones, and stimulate tissue regeneration.

Red Coral aligns one with wisdom and enhances balance between the material and spiritual. It activates the base (root) chakra stimulating ambition and energy while protecting against depression and despondency.

Fluorite

Fluorite is known to bring order out of chaos, stabilizing the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual systems. A "stone of discernment and aptitude" it facilitates concentration, balance and the ability to see truth behind illusion.

It is said to inspire and encourage optimum health, assisting one in attaining a state of physical perfection.

It has been used to dispel colds, flu, staph and strep infections, cankers, herpes, ulcers, and similar infections.

Fuchsite
(Ruby in Fuchsite)

Fuchsite assists in personal interactions, wellness and productivity. It enhances knowledge and "right action," particularly in the fields of law enforcement and holistic medicine. It can help in bringing forth information concerning herbal and holistic remedies.

Ruby, the stone of nobility, stimulates the life-force energies and heart chakra bringing with it loving emotions, nurturing, spiritual wisdom, health, knowledge and wealth.

Ruby embedded in fuchsite is a newly discovered, unique gem that blends the energies of both crystals. Resonating with the 4th (heart) and 7th (crown) chakras, it brings one to an understanding of higher love. It is said to assist one in meeting their twin soul or soul mate.

Garnet

A deep red crystal known as "the stone of health and physical strength," it can extract negative energy from the chakras, transmuting the energy to a beneficial state. Garnet activates the Kundalini energy, stimulates the root chakra energizing the entire chakra system, giving you energy and endurance. It enhances love life, sexual drive, health and vitality.

It is used for treating disorders of the spine, spinal fluid, bone, cellular structure, heart, lungs, and blood.

Hematite

Hematite is an opaque, metallic stone most often seen in the grey-to-black range of color. It's called the "stone for the mind," and can be used to enhance mental capability, enhances memory and helps with original thought and technical knowledge. Its magnetic qualities facilitates the balance of yin-yang, or male/female energies and is conducive to attracting loving relationships. It can dissolve negativity and is useful as a "filter" near electrical equipment such as the computer screen or TV to calm the atmosphere and dispel negative electronic energies. Hematite is a grounding stone, it brings tranquility and emotional clarity. Hematite has long been known as a stone of protection and was worn by ancient Romans in battle.

It's useful for treating blood disorders, leg cramps, nervous disorders, insomnia, fevers, and for healing breaks and fractures.

Herkimer Diamond

Herkimer Diamond is not a real diamond but a unique form of quartz discovered in the hills in and around Herkimer, New York, USA. They are now found in Oaxacca Mexico and in Spain. Herkimer "diamonds" crystallize in the configuration of double-terminated, short, stout, clear crystals of amazing brilliance.

Called the "attunement stone," it can be used to attune one to another person, an environment or a group. Two herkimers can be held simultaneously by two people then carried by both for continual attunement. It can carry the energy of healing or loving thoughts and then used to facilitate healing for others and the Earth.

Herkimer Diamond also stimulates clairvoyant and clairaudient abilities and assists in telepathic communication. It can help attune one to their Higher Self and open one to inner vision.

Iolite

A transparent stone of deep blue to violet, this "Stone of Mystical Illumination" connects the third-eye and crown chakras during healing, meditation and astral travel. It activates psychic powers and spiritual growth. It's been used in shamanic healing for the stimulation of visions. The stone produces an electrical charge within the auric field that can strengthen and align this field with the subtle bodies.

Iolite brings harmony and balance within, eliminating dissonance and disruption in relationships, allowing for the release of discord from ones life. It's useful in facilitating the acceptance of responsibilities.

It's used to both protect and improve the liver, assists in lessening fatty deposits and rids the body of toxins.

Jade

Jade, known as a "Dream Stone" and as a "Stone of Fidelity", brings realization of ones potential and devotion to purpose. It helps one to remember their dreams and can assist in "dream-solving" by placing a piece under ones' pillow before sleep. In ancient (and some current) tribes, it is a sacred stone said to help one access the spiritual worlds. It is said to bring long and fruitful life.

It helps one to attune to others and inspires wisdom. It inspires self-confidence, self-reliance and self-sufficiency.

Kyanite

Kyanite ranges from grey, black, and blue with white, green, yellow and pink tones. This is one mineral that never needs cleaning or clearing, it cannot retain negative energy.

Kyanite aligns all of the chakras automatically and immediately without conscious direction. It can also align the emotional, intellectual, physical, spiritual and astral bodies with conscious direction. It dispels anger and frustration while bringing a sense of tranquility, compassion and love.

It stimulates psychic awareness and facilitates meditation. It helps connect one to their guides and the astral plane.

Labradorite

A type of feldspar of greyish color that shows spectacular flashes of swirling colors in the refraction of light. Blue, copper, red and gold flames dance in the light of this stone. Labradorite clears, balances and protects the aura while assisting in the alignment of the subtle bodies. Considered the "stone of Destiny", it facilitates transformation and brings strength, clarity and inner sight while enhancing patience. A mystical stone of intuition and psychic wisdom, it is also called the Druid stone.

It has been used in the treatment of brain disorders, to stimulate mental acuity and reduce anxiety and stress. It assists in digestion, metabolism and clarifies the eyes.

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis is the "stone of total awareness", enhancing wisdom, creativity, intuition and mystical connection. It connects the physical plane with the celestial kingdom. Lapis activates and energizes the throat and brow chakras and further clears and unifies all of the chakras. Placed over the third-eye, it's said to help one develop insight of the dream state.

Lapis promotes serenity, self-acceptance and is said to bring success in relationships by balancing the yin-yang male/female energies. It is also a stone of protection from physical dangers and psychic attacks.

It's used in the treatment of disorders of the throat, bone marrow, thymus and immune system.

Larimar

Larimar, or blue pectolite, is a rare, gorgeous stone of volcanic origin found only in province of Barahona in the south-western region of the Dominican Republic. Also called "The Atlantis Stone" or the "Dolphin Stone" it's highly prized by collectors around the world.

A "Stone for Earth Healing" said to represent peace, clarity, healing and love. Larimar facilitates inner wisdom and outer manifestation, inspiring and encouraging one toward actualizing their realities on the spiritual and physical planes. Useful in speech and communication.

It is useful in purging entities from ones environment, and for the salesperson, it's said to bring an unusual array of customers.

It stimulates the heart, throat, third-eye and crown chakras and brings serenity.

Moldavite

"The Gem that fell to Earth," Moldavite is a tektite, the product of a meteor collision with the Earth nearly 15 million years ago. It is only found in what is now called the Moldau River valley in the Czech Republic. Moldavite is one of the rarest minerals on Earth and this beautiful emerald green stone has been prized for thousands of years. Legends hold that Moldavite was the green stone in the Holy Grail, and has the power to quicken one's spiritual evolution.

It is said that Moldavite is a stone to serve the inhabitants here on Earth, facilitating interdimensional connection and rising our vibration for ascension and illumination. Even those who are not sensitive to energetic vibrations can often feel the sensations given off by this stone.

Moldavite is a powerful "chakra opener" and works well at the throat, third-eye, and crown chakras. Sleeping with Moldavite can activate lucid dream states, wearing it can manifest positive life changes.



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Moonstone

A soft, luminescent gem with a milky-sheen, the moonstone carries the energy of balance, reflection, introspection and new beginnings. A stone of feminine energy that stimulates intuitiveness, clears negativity from the chakras and gets one "in touch" with emotions.

It's been know to be a talisman of protection for travelers, and a charm for good fortune. It helps attune one to the rhythms of biological forces and eases pregnancy, childbirth, enhances fertility, alleviates the symptoms of PMS and menopause, eliminates insomnia and can help with circulatory disorders.

Nebula Stone

Discovered by Ron & Karen Nurnberg in 1995 in a remote mountain region in Mexico, Nebula stone has been a mystery to scientists who only agree that it's "not like anything else." Called "The Birthstone of the Cosmos" this dark green, nearly black stone is covered in green nebula like formations or "eyes," it's like looking into the birth of a universe in each stone, reminding us of where we came and where we will return...stardust. Nebula Stone enhances one's awareness of being an integral part of the entire cosmos, reminding each of us that eternally we are A Chalice of Light.

This stone is useful in times of tragedy, confusion and despair helping one to remember kindnesses and reflect upon the positives. It encourages kindness to self.

Nebula stone frees the mind from bondage, facilitating invention, discovery and courage to undertake adventure.

Nebula Stone's properties and powers are still being discovered, but it's agreed that the energy of the stone will continue to impart a significant contribution to humanity and the healing of the planet.

Read Ron and Karen's story of discovering this special stone: "The Enchantment of Nebula Stone"

Obsidian
A lustrous volcanic glass, obsidian is a wonderful stone for grounding and protection. It shields against negativity and disperses "unloving thoughts." Often used as a scrying or gazing stone, it reflects ones flaws and promotes a clearer picture of needed changes. The stone is useful in healing as it provides clarity to both healer and patient to the cause of the dis-ease and how to eliminate it. It is often used in shamanic healing and ceremonies to remove disorders from the body.
Onyx

Onyx is most commonly seen as a black stone but it also varies in colors from black and white, red and white, to orange-browns and honey. Onyx can be used to banish grief, center and align your being with higher powers, and stimulate wise decision-making. It encourages happiness and good fortune. This stone can help one become a master of their own future by giving understanding, intuition and the recognition of ones personal strengths.

It has been used for the treatment of disorders of the bone marrow, soft tissue structure and feet.

Pearl
"The stone of sincerity," brings truth and loyalty. It signifies faith, charity, innocence and enhances personal integrity. It gives one focus and reflection.
Peridot

A stone that ranges from light yellow-green to olive, peridot is also known as olivine. Peridot is the "stone of friendship," emitting a warm and friendly energy. It gently activates the heart chakra, cleansing and stimulating the heart and solar plexus. It helps regulate cycles in ones life, reduces stress, tension, anger, jealousy and fear.

Peridot acts as a shield of protection around the body, so it should be removed before balancing, cleansing or aligning the chakras other than the heart. Wearing peridot after the chakras and bodies are aligned and clear, it will prevent outside influences from affecting them.

Peridot is used as a "tonic" to strengthen and regenerate the body. Used in the treatment of disorders of the heart, lungs spleen, and intestinal tract. It's also used to improve eyesight and relieve ulcers.

Phenacite

This rare and expensive gem is considered to have the highest vibration of any known crystal or stone. It is a powerful activator of the upper chakras and even the non-physical chakras above the head. A stone of love and heavenly being, Phenacite unites our Light Body/Higher Self, to our physical body and earthly life allowing us to attain our highest function.

An excellent healing stone and a stone that gathers the energies of other stones to strengthen the effectiveness of healing.

Quartz (clear)

"The King of the Healing Stones" clear quartz acts as a prism breaking light into the full color spectrum, it can be used on any part of the body and is often used as an "anchor" stone to amplify and bring together the energies of other crystals. A master healing crystal, a "stone of power," and a powerful receiver for spiritual, other-worldly information.

Clear quartz energizes all chakras and strengthens the energy field.

Red Jasper
A red stone useful in activating the root chakra. It is used to assist one in rectifying unjust circumstances and can assist in providing rescue in times of danger. Meditation with this stone can help in bettering oneself and accepting responsibility.
Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite is a 'stone of love and balance', which can assist one in attaining an ecstatic state and connection with one's twin soul during meditation. Wearing the stone is said to bring the vibration of joy into one's daily life. It energizes and purifies the base, sacral and heart chakras.

It balances emotions and the male/female aspects of ones being, facilitating tolerance, balance and optimum health. Rhodochrosite is valuable in healing emotional wounds and the "inner child." Wearing or placing Rhodochrosite over the heart during meditation or sleep can cleanse, soothe and heal the energy field around the heart, repairing emotional wounds and disharmony.

It is said to assist in the relief of infections, skin disorders, thyroid imbalances, heart and pulse issues and elimination problems.

Rose Quartz

In colors ranging from soft pink to golden-white, rose quartz's calming, cooling energy works on all chakras to remove negativity and bring about loving energy. This "stone of gentle love" or "stone of unconditional love" opens and heals the heart chakra encouraging forgiveness, compassion and service to humanity.

Rose quartz is most often used to heal emotional wounds. Carrying, displaying or wearing the stone stimulates the life force of LOVE.

Serpentine
Ranging in color from green, black-green, brown-red, brown-yellow and white, sometimes speckled with red. It is useful for rising the Kundalini energy, lessening the discomfort sometimes associated with it. It enhances the meditative state and stimulates the crown chakra. Light green serpentine is said to have been one of the stones used in the breastplate of the high priest. Useful in the treatment of diabetes, hypoglycemia and to eliminate parasites from the body.
Sodalite

A stone ranging in color from dark blue, grey, green, lavendar blue, sodalite activates the throat and third-eye chakras. It encourages self-esteem and trust in others and self. A stone of "group energy" it fosters companionship, fellowship, solidarity and unifies vision and action.

Used in the treatment of gland metabolism, digestive disorders, and as a body purifier. It has also been known to treat insomnia.

Sugilite

Melody in her book "Love is in the Earth" calls Sugilite "a love stone for this age." Its vibration is of  true spiritual love and encourages the manifestation of this vital energy in our surroundings and very being.

It facilitates forgiveness in both ourselves and others, connects us to "All That Is," removes negativity, empowers our ability to co-create, attracts healing power and insight, and is said to be a powerful cure for headaches.

Sunstone

Sunstone can be used to clear and energize the chakras bringing about a feeling of freshness. It assists in removing cords and attachments from the energy centers, returning them to the source after surrounding them with love and positive energy. Sunstone can alleviate fear and stress while increasing vitality. It has been known to bring luck in games.

In ancient cultures it was thought to bring abundance, provide protection, counteract poison and increase strength.

Helpful with chronic sore throat, ulcers, rheumatism, aching feet, spinal ailments, tension and cartilage problems.

Tanzanite
A beautiful blue/violet gemstone found in Tanzania, Africa. It is said to activate and integrate the energies of the heart, throat, third eye and crown chakras. It facilitates the activation of psychic abilities guided by the wisdom of the heart while helping in clear communication.
Tiger Eye

A shimmery opaque stone whose color ranges from red, brown, gold, cream, black and blue. Tiger Eye brings together the energies of Sun and Earth and is conducive to stability, grounding and peace. It can help one to make sense of scattered details and chaos, bringing clarity. It enhances psychic ability and brings discipline and light to sexual and emotional issues. It brings a sense of oneness and balance with all. This stone is useful for the base and solar plexus chakras.

It is used in the treatment of disorders of the eye, throat, reproductive system, and improves night vision. It's said to strengthen the alignment of the spinal column and help mend broken bones.

Tourmaline
Green Tourmaline A stone of masculine energy but with the quality of compassion. It helps one to "see with the heart" as it opens the heart chakra and assists in attuning the energy between the third-eye and the heart. It transforms negative energy into positive and inspires creativity while attracting success, prosperity and abundance. Holding the essence of the plant kingdom, green tourmaline is conducive to plant healing and is useful in the study and practice of herbalism.
Pink Tourmaline stimulates the crown and heart chakras enhancing love, spirituality and the higher aspect of unconditional love. It promotes joy, peace and enlightenment. It allows one to trust in the power of love and release destructive habits, a special stone to give to one you hope will love you, and a powerful "heart healing" stone.
Turquoise

A master healer emanating purifying energy and dispelling negativity, it is used by both Tibetan and Native American shaman as a spiritual and protective stone. A gift from the Earth bringing Father Sky to Mother Earth, it merges the energies of heaven and earth and helps attune one to the spiritual world while grounding one to Earth.

It strengthens and aligns all chakras, meridians and subtle bodies, but primarily stimulates the throat, heart and naval chakras assisting in communication skills, emotional issues, creativity and intuition while initiating love in all things. It induces wisdom, mental and spiritual clarity and heals the spirit with its soothing energy.

Zoisite
(Ruby Zoisite)

Ruby Zoisite or Anyolite is a powerful crystallized mass of ruby crystals embedded in green zoisite. It increases ones awareness of individuality while maintaining connectedness to all humanity. A powerful enhancer of psychic abilities, it stimulates the crown chakra toward spirituality while amplifying the entire energy field.

Ruby Zoisite can create altered states of consciousness and is used by healers in Asian countries for diagnostic healing and channeling spirits.

Used in treatment of heart, spleen, pancreas and lung disorders.


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Sacred Symbols

Ankh

The Egyptian hieroglyphic character that stood for the word meaning "life," it's a symbol often carried by the Egyptian Gods. The original meaning of this Egyptian symbol is also not known. One suggests that it combines the male and female symbols of Osiris (the cross) and Isis (the oval) and therefore signifies the union of heaven and earth.

Chakras

"Chakra" is a Sanskrit word literally meaning or "wheel" or "wheel of light", pronounced"cha-kra" or "sha-kra". A simple definition is "any of several points of physical or spiritual energy in the human body".

A chakra is a cone-shaped wheel of spinning energy in the aura. Chakras occur in pairs, one in the front of the body and one in the back. Their points meet within the spine.

The seven main chakras and the colors associated with them are:

  • First Base/Root Chakra -red
  • Second Sacral Chakra -orange
  • Third Solar Plexus Chakra -yellow
  • Fourth Heart Chakra -pink/green
  • Fifth Throat Chakra - blue
  • Sixth Third Eye Chakra - indigo
  • Seventh Crown Chakra. - violet

For more information visit Soul2Soul Chakras

Dolphins

The Dolphins have long been a symbol of kindness and joy.  Dolphins are regarded as the custodians of ancient wisdoms of the world, and as messengers of the knowledge from our unconscious minds to our waking minds.  In feng shui, the display or wearing of the symbol of two dolphins represents loving relationships, and can bring about that state.

Eye of Horus

Horus is the falcon-headed god of Egyptian legend, this symbol represents his human eye with the cheek markings of a falcon.  It is called "udjat" by the Egyptians and is considered to be a powerful symbol for dispelling evil and imparting protection and life.

Lotus

The Lotus flower's gleaming white head rises above the filth in which it grows. A Buddhist symbol of purity, rising above suffering, growing through the murkiness into the light.

Mandala

Mandala is sanskrit for circle, and is generally a complex, circular, geometric design that often symbolizes the universe.  It is used in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation. 

Om or Ohm

A sacred Hindu symbol, the vibration produced by chanting Om is said to correspond to the original vibration that arose at the time of creation. Om also represents the four states of the Supreme Being. The three sounds in Om (AUM) represent the waking, dream and deep sleep states and the silence which surrounds Om represents the "Turiya" state.

In the traditional written symbol of Om, the various curves each have their own meaning and relate to those in the sound of the word.

  • The large lower curve represents the waking world.
  • The upper left curve represents the state of deep sleep.
  • The curve coming off the two above states represents the dream state.
  • The open semi-circle at the top represents the infinite and the point is linked to the state of absolute consciousness (Turiya).

Pentacle or Pentagram

The five-pointed star within a circle has been a sacred symbol since ancient times.  The five angles are said to represent the elements of  Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Spirit, the circle represents Unity, Wholeness and God-Goddess or Divine Source.
 

Yin-Yang or Tao Symbol

An Eastern symbol representing the perfect balance of opposing forces to bring spiritual and physical harmony. Both halves are essential to the whole.

Yin is the female energy, Yang the masculine, each opposing half retains a part of the other in perfect balance.
 

The information provided here is not intended to replace conventional medical treatment
for physical or psychological illness.