eye, balances the throat chakra, recognises and blocks psychic attack and returns energy to source. Protects against physical danger. Cleanses and unifies all chakras with aura. Balances, physical, mental and spiritual levels. Releases old karmic patterns and ties. Provides access to ancient information. When placed on the third eye it assists meditation and access to past lives.
Mental Attributes: Reveals inner truth, encourages self-awareness, enables self-expression without holding back or compromise. Brings clarity and encourages creativity. Expands intellectual capacity.
Emotional Attributes: Releases repressed anger. Helps bond relationships and love. Dissolves cruelty and suffering. Helps us to face our shadow self; it is a stone of friendship. Encourages relaxation.
Healing Attributes: Lifts pain, especially headaches and migraines. Aids depression, helps the respiratory and nervous system. Helps throat, larynx and strengthens the thyroid. Strengthens the skeletal system. Detoxifying, cleansing organs, bone marrow and works with the thymus and immune system. Helps with insomnia, vertigo. Brings self-acceptance, prevents and rectifies RNA/DNA damage. Increases hearing and purifies blood. It is said that it has the power to prevent fits and epilepsy and to improve the eyesight.
Elixir - Dissolves emotional bondage
Emotional Attributes: Releases repressed anger. Helps bond relationships and love. Dissolves cruelty and suffering. Helps us to face our shadow self; it is a stone of friendship. Encourages relaxation.
Healing Attributes: Lifts pain, especially headaches and migraines. Aids depression, helps the respiratory and nervous system. Helps throat, larynx and strengthens the thyroid. Strengthens the skeletal system. Detoxifying, cleansing organs, bone marrow and works with the thymus and immune system. Helps with insomnia, vertigo. Brings self-acceptance, prevents and rectifies RNA/DNA damage. Increases hearing and purifies blood. It is said that it has the power to prevent fits and epilepsy and to improve the eyesight.
Elixir - Dissolves emotional bondage
Related Chakra: solar plexus, heart, third eye, throat
Spiritual Attributes: Links with our warrior spirit, yellow jasper being the calmest of the jasper colours. Protective during spiritual work and travel.
Mental Attributes: encourages willpower, determination and endurance, especially when faced with difficult tasks. Promotes upright attitude and honesty both with
ourselves and others. Good for the imagination and for putting ideas into action.
Emotional Attributes: Channels positive energy. Increase confidence.
Physical Attributes: Strengthens the immune system. Helps with genital diseases and associated organs. Good for digestion and intestinal disturbance, releasing toxins. Energises endocrine system.
Related Chakras: Aligns all chakras, thymus, throat, third eye, crown
Spiritual Attributes: Dispels energy blockages, moving energy from the ethereal plane in a forceful yet gentile way through to the physical body. Restores all chi in the physical body and its organs. Does not accumulate or retain any negative energy or
vibration. The energy is unlimited in application. Extremely good for meditation as has calming, clearing affect. Also helps to access the astral plane and meet one’s spirit guides. Detaches us from fatalistic imbalance, allowing us to recognise cause and effect of our own creation.
Mental Attributes: Brings calmness and determination. Encourages rational thought and spontaneity and facilitates conscious self-awareness.
Emotional Attributes: Calms stirred up emotions so good during times of upheaval. Encourages peace, liberating the user from frustration and stress.
Healing Attributes: Kyanite treats muscular disorders, fevers, urogenital system, thyroid, pap thyroid, adrenal glands, throat and brain. Natural pain reliever, lowers blood pressure, heals infections, releases excess weight, and supports the cerebellum and the motor responses of the body, helping balance, co-ordination. mobility and involuntary muscular movements. Kyanite helps to balance vein and gland energy.
Related chakras: heart, throat, third eye, crown
Spiritual Attributes: Highly mystical stone. Raises consciousness and connects with universal energies. Deflects unwanted energies from the Aura and prevents leakage. Labradorite aligns the physical and etheric bodies and accesses spiritual purpose. Prepares the body and soul for the ascension process and helps
access past lives. Stimulates intuition and psychic gifts such as mediumistic abilities. Strengthens faith in the self and trust in the Universe. Good for meditation.
Mental Attributes: Calms an overactive mind. Energises the imagination, allowing new ideas to surface. Dispels illusions. Useful partner through change; giving strength and perseverance. Highlights subconscious thoughts and suppressed memories, getting to the root of the matter, revealing the true intention behind motivations.
Emotional Attributes: Banishes fear and insecurities, Encourages depth of emotion. Helps connect with inner child.
Healing Attributes: Helps treat disorders of the eyes and brain. Lifts stress and regulates metabolism Treats colds and feeling cold, gout and rheumatism, balances hormones and relieves menstrual tension. Lowers blood pressure and assists in digestion, regulation and metabolism.
Related Chakras: heart, throat, third eye, crown
Spiritual Attributes: aids spiritual and shamanic journeying. Helps to access the akashic records, bringing cosmic awareness. Aids recall of thought patterns and feelings from past lives that are creating blockages in this life-time.
Mental Attributes: Lepidolite contains lithium so may be effective for bi-polar disorders or conditions where
mood swings are a feature. Helps to reduce reduce stress and depression, also working on obsessive and neurotic thoughts. Alleviates despondency and promotes independent behaviour to release dependency on others and associated influences from others. A stone to help with addictions, psychological and behavioural patterns including anorexia. A good stone for focus and concentration, aiding objective decision making, stimulating an analytical intellect. By neutralising distractions it enables the user to remain focused on their goals and intentions. and placed under the pillow aids sleep
Emotional Attributes: Brings deep emotional healing, calming, inner peace. Empaths or those with social phobia may benefit from holding lepidolite as it helps the user to maintain their own space when in groups or crowds.
Physical Attributes: a stone for allergies lepidolite supports the immune system. It works well with nerve pain, epilepsy, Alzheimer, sciatica, neuralgia, joint problems, those who suffer from sick building syndrome. Purifying and detoxifying for the connective tissues and skin.
Elixir: for the menopause
Due to it’s high magnesium content magnesite’s properties are similar to the nutritional mineral magnesium.
Related Chakras: third eye, heart, crown
Spiritual Attributes: brings a deep peace to meditation. Enhances visualisation when placed on the third eye. Helps with centering. Assists with the opening of the crown chakra.
Mental attributes: Brings issues of denial to the surface, helping the user to recognise subconscious thoughts and feelings and exploring the issues surrounding those. Helps to dampen down the ego in order to listen to others.
Emotional Attributes: Stimulates the heart heart chakra promoting self love and therefore unconditional love of others too. Good for anxiety and fearfulness, overcomes irritability and intolerance, instilling patience by its calming and relaxing effects. Balances both hemispheres of the brain, stimulates new ideas and promotes harmony. Calms the emotions.
Physical attributes: Aids magnesium absorption in the body. Balances body temperature, works with fevers and chills. Neutralises body odour, detoxifies the body. Relaxes muscles, provides natural pain relief, good for migraines, gallbladder and kidney stones. Anti-spasmodic, good for cramps including menstrual and stomach cramps, PMS, epilepsy, convulsions, heart disease. Treats bones and teeth. Speeds up fat metabolism, disperses cholesterol, prevents arteriosclerosis and angina.
Related Chakras: earth, root
Spiritual Attributes:Aligns chakras and meridians of subtle and etheric auric bodies. Lodestone due to it’s additional magnetic properties realigns reversed energy flow, if a meridian or organ is overactive magnetite calms, if underactive if stimulates. Aids telepathy, meditation, visualisation, manifestation and trust of intuition.
Mental attributes: attracts love, commitment and loyalty. Promotes tenacity and endurance. Helps to attain detached observer state, therefore enabling the vision of the bigger picture.
Emotional Attributes: Helps to overcome fear, anger, grief, over attachment, balances emotions with intellect.
Physical attributes: good for sports injuries, as an anti-inflammatory it relieves cramps, aches and pains in the muscles. Use for bone structure disorders, good also for asthma, the blood, stopping nose bleeds, blood vessels and circulatory system. Beneficial for skin and hair. Stimulates under active organs, sedates overactive ones.
Spiritual Attributes: Clears, activates and aligns the chakras. Stimulates heart and throat.
Mental Attributes: Amplifies the positive and negative energies. Helps mental disturbances, including psychiatric illness. Helps with dyslexia by balancing the left and right sides of the brain. Promotes understanding. Good for insomnia.
Emotional Attributes: Clarifies emotions. Releases negative experiences which may be blocked.
Healing: Can be used to treat, arthritis, swollen joints, tumours, growths, broken bones, torn muscles, cramps, menstrual cramps, epilepsy, travel sickness, optic nerves, pancreas, spleen, parathyroid, immune system. Helps regulate RNA/DNA structures. Stimulates liver to release toxins and treats diabetes.
Another powerful energy, do not use if individual is not well grounded, use with black tourmaline, hematite, red jasper to ground the energy and clear quartz to stablilise the high vibrational energy.
Related Chakras: Third eye, throat, heart and crown
Spiritual Attributes: Activates third eye, throat and crown. Brings communication with other beings and
Higher self, including the Ascended Masters.
Extremely high vibration. Opens clears and aligns all chakras. Accelerates spiritual growth. When placed on third eye it will assist with travel to past or future. Transformational properties, because its vibration is your true vibration, it therefore clears blocks in the chakras and subtle bodies, enabling you to shed what you do not need in your pure state. Useful for meditation, channelling. Accelerates spiritual growth and the ascension process. Placed on the heart chakra it assists those that suffer from “home sickness” in the spiritual sense.
Mental Attributes: Inspiring stone, releases fixed/old ideas, neutralizes hypnotic commands. Downloads information from Akashic records.
Emotional Attributes: Useful for extremely sensitive people who find it difficult to be on the earth (star children).
Healing Attributes: Gives awareness to source of disease by bringing awareness to the blockages, helps to give diagnosis to disease.
Spiritual Attributes: Balances yin-yang energies. Encourages lucid dreaming, cleanses negativity from chakras. Enhances psychic abilities and helps to develop clairvoyance.
Mental Attributes: Assists in decision making, enhances positive attributes of creativity and self
expression.
Emotional Attributes: Helps to calm overreaction. Balances overactive male hormones; so good for softening and opening up aggressive macho males. Soothes emotional instability and stress by placing it on the heart chakra, stabilising emotions. Provides deep emotional healing. Protects when traveling Placed on the solar plexus will draw out old emotions.
Healing Attributes: Heals disorders of the upper digestive tract that are related to emotional stress. Lifts menstrual related dis-ease. Eliminates insomnia, helps with insect stings and bits. Helps digestive and reproductive systems. Eliminates toxins, fluid retention, lifts degenerative conditions of skin, hair, eyes and fleshy organs such as liver and pancreas. Good for PMS, conception, pregnancy, childbirth, breast feeding. Linked to the pineal gland so works well with related hormones and their cycles.
Elixir: Can help with sleep walking and insomnia. Care has to be taken that it does not induce illusions due to wishful thinking.
Spiritual Attributes: On third eye it brings insightful dreams and can assist in remembering dreams. Helps a person to be their real Self. Radiates divine unconditional love.
Mental Attributes: Brings harmony, stabilizes personality, connects mind and the body. Promotes self-
sufficiency; releases negative thoughts. Stimulates. Soothes the mind. A protective stone. Brings realization to ones potential and purpose.
Emotional Attributes: Releases suppressed emotions. Increases love and nurturing and is a protective stone. Aids emotional release, calms irritability. Fosters courage, clarity, modesty, wisdom and nurturing.
Healing Attributes: Treats kidneys, supra-adrenal glands, removes toxins, rebuilds cellular and skeletal systems. Heals stitches. Strengthens the heart. Assists fertility and childbirth, quite a feminine stone. Aids hips and spleen. Balances body fluids and water – salt, acid – alkaline balance.
Elixir: soothes skin and stimulates healthy hair.
Related Chakras: Base
Spiritual Attributes: Invigorates base chakra. Emotionally and spiritually grounding. Aligns chakras. Balances physical, emotional and intellectual bodies with etheric energies. Balances the spirit. Cleanses and stabilizes the aura and strengthens your boundaries.
Mental Attributes: Brings problems to light before they
get to big to fix.
Emotional Attributes: Calms emotions. Eliminates aspects of depression.
Healing: Dissolves blockages in liver and bile ducts. Can be used to treat tissue or internal organs. Disorders of kidneys, spleen. Liver, stomach, bladder. Aids quick thinking and promotes organization Prolongs sexual pleasure. Helps circulation, digestive and sexual organs. Balances mineral content of body. Detoxifies circulations system of the blood and liver.
Emotional Attributes: Calms emotions. Eliminates aspects of depression.
Healing: Dissolves blockages in liver and bile ducts. Can be used to treat tissue or internal organs. Disorders of kidneys, spleen. Liver, stomach, bladder. Aids quick thinking and promotes organization Prolongs sexual pleasure. Helps circulation, digestive and sexual organs. Balances mineral content of body. Detoxifies circulations system of the blood and liver.
Also known as rhyolite, orbicular jasper or ocean jasper
Related Chakras: base, solar plexus, third eye
Spiritual attributes: strengthens, reinforces and clarifies existing spiritual states without effecting any change. Ignites soul potential with creativity. Helps to access karmic wisdom and aids past life healing. Useful stone for deepening the meditative journey
Mental attributes: Strengthens self-respect, self-value and self-esteem allowing us to accept our true selves as we are. Keeps the user in the present moment by integrating issues from the past into the present.
Emotional Attributes: Encourages emotional release if appropriate, then facilitates balance. Enables us to deal calmly with strenuous life events in a focused manner.
Physical attributes: helps with skin diseases, hardened tissue such as callouses and corns and also with kidney and bladder stones. Encourages bodies natural resilience. Improves assimilation of B vitamins.
Elixir: improves muscle tone and aids physical strength
Related Chakra: base
Spiritual Attributes: Grounds and protects. Balances the meridians, harmonizes the mind, body and spirit. Removes negativity and prevents negativity from entering the aura.
Mental Attributes: Aids memory. Helps with treating addictions such as smoking, drinking, drug use and
overeating. Removes self limitations and aids self expansion.
Emotional Attributes: Gains peace, self control and inner happiness.
Healing: May be used to adjust vertebrae by placing one at the top of the spine and one at the bottom. Supports kidneys in cleansing blood and regenerates tissue, energizes spleen. Helps with absorption of iron and formation of red blood cells, oxygenates blood. Alleviates leg cramps, anxiety, insomnia, aids spinal alignment and fractures
Elixir may be used to treat fevers
Spiritual Attributes: helps to marry and balance inner and outer experiences, such as the possibility of meditating whilst undertaking any activity
Mental Attributes: helps to stimulate a sense of adventure and new experiences, exploration both physically and mentally with a calm attitude.
Emotional Attributes: Encourages flexibility and openness.
Physical Attributes: strengthens immune system, wound healing, purification of the blood especially centred in the liver and spleen
Herkimer Diamond
Related chakras: all
Spiritual Attributes: a powerful attunement crystal for helping the user to link to their soul purpose It opens up psychic abilities, by clearing the chakras and activating the light body, it stimulates the development of telepathy, clairvoyance, dream recall, and helps the user to link to the higher spiritual planes for direct guidance. Works with past life recall and dissolving blockages which have carried over to this life.
Related chakras: all
Spiritual Attributes: a powerful attunement crystal for helping the user to link to their soul purpose It opens up psychic abilities, by clearing the chakras and activating the light body, it stimulates the development of telepathy, clairvoyance, dream recall, and helps the user to link to the higher spiritual planes for direct guidance. Works with past life recall and dissolving blockages which have carried over to this life.
Mental Attributes: hermkimer diamond’s can store information for later retrieval, so help with memory recall. Promotes clarity of mind. Eases stress.
Emotional Attributes: Can help empaths/clairsentients to distinguish between their own emotions and those of others. Physical Attributes: detoxificant, protects against radioactivity. Works with the hormones and metabolism, good for insomnia especially that caused by geopathic stress.
Emotional Attributes: Can help empaths/clairsentients to distinguish between their own emotions and those of others. Physical Attributes: detoxificant, protects against radioactivity. Works with the hormones and metabolism, good for insomnia especially that caused by geopathic stress.
Please note - the crystals & their properties below may or may not work for you. Crystal healing can a slow process, and does not necessarily happen overnight. It is important to be realistic and patient - and above all they are not a substitute for conventional medical care. Do not eat the crystals!
Bibliography and Further Reading
The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
The Crystal Healer by Sue and Simon Lilly
Crystal Power, Crystal Healing by Michael Gieger
Love is in the Earth by Melody
Crystal Properties compiled with thanks to Sheila Johnson
Please note - the crystals & their properties above may or may not work for you. Crystal healing can a slow process, and does not necessarily happen overnight. It is important to be realistic and patient - and above all they are not a substitute for conventional medical care. Do not eat the crystals!
words and pictures copyright Emma Sims 2009 ©
Hematite, Herkimer Diamond, Jade, Jasper: red, leopard skin (rhyolite, orbicular, ocean), mookaite (Australian Jasper), yellow; Kyanite, Labradorite, Lapis Lazuli, Magnesite, Magnetite, Malachite, Moldavite, Moonstone
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli is a power stone. When working with Lapis keep in mind that it is a very deep acting stone, some feel dizzy or overwhelmed by its energy. Use this stone with honour and respect.
Related Chakras: Throat and third eye.
Spiritual Attributes: Extremely powerful and spiritual stone; stimulates the journey to enlightenment. Cleanses the mental body of the aura. Opens and activates the third
Lapis Lazuli is a power stone. When working with Lapis keep in mind that it is a very deep acting stone, some feel dizzy or overwhelmed by its energy. Use this stone with honour and respect.
Related Chakras: Throat and third eye.
Spiritual Attributes: Extremely powerful and spiritual stone; stimulates the journey to enlightenment. Cleanses the mental body of the aura. Opens and activates the third
