Obsidian: black
Related Chakras: base, solar plexus, throat, third eye
Spiritual Attributes: Excellent grounding stone, rooting the base chakra to the heart of the earth. Protective and shielding against psychic attack and negativity. Useful for deep soul healing, can take the user back to past lives to heal underlying emotions or traumas that have been carried through to this lifetime. Stimulates soul purpose and works through
Related Chakras: base, solar plexus, throat, third eye
Spiritual Attributes: Excellent grounding stone, rooting the base chakra to the heart of the earth. Protective and shielding against psychic attack and negativity. Useful for deep soul healing, can take the user back to past lives to heal underlying emotions or traumas that have been carried through to this lifetime. Stimulates soul purpose and works through
energy blockages. Brings the user face to face with the shadow side of the personality; helps to integrate that, thus rooting the spirit firmly in the body. Reverses any prior misuses of power; bringing understanding of power struggles and thus promoting right use of power, to enable empowerment of all. Can be used for scrying and meditation. On the third eye it releases mental blockages, barriers and conditioning and through transmutation of these it encourages clarity and clairvoyance
Mental Attributes: Brings the truth out into the open, which some might find intense. A good stone for counsellors and therapists to use as it helps the user to get to the root of the problem, whilst simultaneously absorbing the associated negativity. Draws out mental stress and tension, but also brings up the reasons for that, to be confronted – working on a more permanent than palliative effect. Snowflake obsidian, or apache tears also work well with this but with a more gentle effect. Brings clarity and therefore foresight. Clears confusing constricting beliefs, and underlying out-dated behavioural patterns by underlining the causes of those issues and opening up communication. Once cleared it then expands consciousness and enables work without issues such as fear of the unknown. Takes the user deep into the subconscious mind, magnifies hidden factors so that they can be experienced and understood. Draws together those who are mentally fractured and scattered energetically, working on grounding, after emotional release. Helps with creativity. Works with obsessions
Emotional Attributes: good for sensitive people and for those having experienced shock and trauma. Black obsidian is supportive during times of change, helps to release old loves. Physical Attributes: Helps with insight into the cause of dis-ease. Works at cellular level for injury. Good for physical digestive disturbances, as well as mental digestion. Detoxifies, works with hardened arteries. Anti-inflammatory, good for arthritis, joint problems, cramps and injuries, stopping bleeding and speeding up wound healing process. Improves circulation, thus helping those with cold hands and feet, a good stone for smokers. Can be used to shrink enlarged prostrate.
Elixir works well for shock
Mental Attributes: Brings the truth out into the open, which some might find intense. A good stone for counsellors and therapists to use as it helps the user to get to the root of the problem, whilst simultaneously absorbing the associated negativity. Draws out mental stress and tension, but also brings up the reasons for that, to be confronted – working on a more permanent than palliative effect. Snowflake obsidian, or apache tears also work well with this but with a more gentle effect. Brings clarity and therefore foresight. Clears confusing constricting beliefs, and underlying out-dated behavioural patterns by underlining the causes of those issues and opening up communication. Once cleared it then expands consciousness and enables work without issues such as fear of the unknown. Takes the user deep into the subconscious mind, magnifies hidden factors so that they can be experienced and understood. Draws together those who are mentally fractured and scattered energetically, working on grounding, after emotional release. Helps with creativity. Works with obsessions
Emotional Attributes: good for sensitive people and for those having experienced shock and trauma. Black obsidian is supportive during times of change, helps to release old loves. Physical Attributes: Helps with insight into the cause of dis-ease. Works at cellular level for injury. Good for physical digestive disturbances, as well as mental digestion. Detoxifies, works with hardened arteries. Anti-inflammatory, good for arthritis, joint problems, cramps and injuries, stopping bleeding and speeding up wound healing process. Improves circulation, thus helping those with cold hands and feet, a good stone for smokers. Can be used to shrink enlarged prostrate.
Elixir works well for shock
Pyrite ~ Fool’s Gold
Related Chakra : solar plexus, throat, crown
Spiritual Attributes: Shields physical ethereal and emotional bodies. Shields from all forms of negativity, pollutants on physical level. Activates nourishing energies of the body. Placed on the crown pyrite draws out negativity, up from the solar plexus.
Mental Attributes: Encourages positive outlook. Helps user to sense falseness and gives understanding behind
Related Chakra : solar plexus, throat, crown
Spiritual Attributes: Shields physical ethereal and emotional bodies. Shields from all forms of negativity, pollutants on physical level. Activates nourishing energies of the body. Placed on the crown pyrite draws out negativity, up from the solar plexus.
Mental Attributes: Encourages positive outlook. Helps user to sense falseness and gives understanding behind
words and actions. Enhances memory.
Emotional Attributes: to relieve anxiety. Good for inferiority complexes and deep despair.
Healing Attributes: Can be used to treat bone and cellular structure. Helps in prevention of RNA/DNA damage. Treats bronchitis, asthma and disorders of the lungs. Helps in treating violent and highly infectious disease. Lessens fevers and reduces inflammation. Aids digestion, improves circulation.
Emotional Attributes: to relieve anxiety. Good for inferiority complexes and deep despair.
Healing Attributes: Can be used to treat bone and cellular structure. Helps in prevention of RNA/DNA damage. Treats bronchitis, asthma and disorders of the lungs. Helps in treating violent and highly infectious disease. Lessens fevers and reduces inflammation. Aids digestion, improves circulation.
Milky Quartz
Related Chakras: all
Spiritual Attributes: supportive whilst learning life lessons. Helps the user to connect to deep inner wisdom during meditation.
Mental Attributes: Enables the user to let go of overwhelming feelings of responsibility associated with victim mentality and martyrdom. Helps the person to let go of that which they create such as needing to be needed
Related Chakras: all
Spiritual Attributes: supportive whilst learning life lessons. Helps the user to connect to deep inner wisdom during meditation.
Mental Attributes: Enables the user to let go of overwhelming feelings of responsibility associated with victim mentality and martyrdom. Helps the person to let go of that which they create such as needing to be needed
and the consequential notion that they are put upon by others. Helps the user to think before they speak.
Physical Attributes: see clear quartz (above) ~ it’s effects are subtler and gentler
Physical Attributes: see clear quartz (above) ~ it’s effects are subtler and gentler
Rose Quartz
Related Chakra: heart and throat
Spiritual Attributes: Relating to the emotional, mental and astral bodies. Rose quartz makes us gentle yet firm. There is no question of pliability or giving in, rather there is an awareness of the gentle soft nature overcoming the hard strong one. It encourages helpfulness, openness and the desire for a pleasant ambience.
Mental Attributes: Liberates us from worry. Alzheimers, Parkinson's and senile dementia may all benefit from the placement of rose quartz.
Emotional Attributes: Good for gently removing blocked emotional stress and drawing off negative energy and
Related Chakra: heart and throat
Spiritual Attributes: Relating to the emotional, mental and astral bodies. Rose quartz makes us gentle yet firm. There is no question of pliability or giving in, rather there is an awareness of the gentle soft nature overcoming the hard strong one. It encourages helpfulness, openness and the desire for a pleasant ambience.
Mental Attributes: Liberates us from worry. Alzheimers, Parkinson's and senile dementia may all benefit from the placement of rose quartz.
Emotional Attributes: Good for gently removing blocked emotional stress and drawing off negative energy and
replacing it with loving energy. Encourages unconditional love and harmony. Reduces aggression, promotes understanding and empathy. It encourages self-love, a strong heart and the ability to give love and receive it. It draws attention to our fulfilment of basic needs. It encourages sensitivity. It purifies and opens the heart at all levels, bringing forth deep inner healing in a calming and reassuring manner. It is excellent for trauma and crisis, especially mid-life crisis’. Rose quartz positively enhances the energy of affirmations. It also promotes receptivity, so it is a stone that is good for those that find it difficult to receive love. It helps to release unexpressed emotions and heartache, soothing pain and healing deprivation. It can help comfort grief and encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance and invokes self-trust which in turn will build self-esteem. Physical Attributes: Rose quartz stimulates the blood circulation in the tissues. Fortifies and strengthens the heart and sexual organs, helps with sexual problems and encourages fertility. Good for the circulatory system. When placed on the thymus it helps chest and lung problems. The adrenals, the kidneys and also vertigo all benefit from rose quartz.
Spiritual Attributes: Snowflake Obsidian is a stone of purity, providing balance for the body, mind and sprit. A good stone for centering and surrendering. Encourages the warrior spirit. Powerful protector against psychic attack.
Mental Attributes: Helps to release wrong thinking and stressful thinking. In cases of isolation teaches us
to value mistakes as well as success. Good for releasing obsessive behaviour.dand loneliness it changes these circumstances to become empowering.
Emotional Attributes: Placed on the sacral it calms and soothes, creating a receptive mind to open up the attention to ingrained patterns of behaviour. Dissipates blocks, fears, trauma and shock.
Physical Attributes: Snowflake Obsidian treats veins and skeleton. It also improves circulation, so is good for smokers. It can be used to treat the eyes and skin.
Elixir is especially useful for the skin and the eyes.
Spiritual Attributes: Protective stone for aura. Releases and neutralizes toxins on all levels. Purifies subtle and physical bodies and mind. Opens, cleanses and activates, heart and solar plexus. Stimulates and cleanses heart, solar plexus. Should be removed before balancing and aligning physical body with other bodies, as it provides a shield around the body.
Mental Attributes: Accelerates personal growth. Sharpens the mind. Helps to move on from past mistakes. Can improve difficult relationships. Encourages change, growth, self-forgiveness, psychological clarity and well-being. Banishes lethargy and laziness.
Emotional Attributes: Releases guilt, stress and obsession, teaches to release the pasts to continue with the future. Releases resentment, jealousy, stress and anger, enhances confidence.
Healing Attributes: Good anti-toxin, cleaning most organs and glands. Strengthens and regenerates the body. Heals and regenerates tissue. Strengthens metabolism, benefits skin. Helps lungs, thymus, heart, gallbladder, spleen, intestinal tract and ulcers. Strengthens the eyes. Can balances bipolar disorders and may help hypochondria. Facilitates birthing process, stimulates contractions, lessens pain and opens the birth canal.
Emotional Attributes: Releases guilt, stress and obsession, teaches to release the pasts to continue with the future. Releases resentment, jealousy, stress and anger, enhances confidence.
Healing Attributes: Good anti-toxin, cleaning most organs and glands. Strengthens and regenerates the body. Heals and regenerates tissue. Strengthens metabolism, benefits skin. Helps lungs, thymus, heart, gallbladder, spleen, intestinal tract and ulcers. Strengthens the eyes. Can balances bipolar disorders and may help hypochondria. Facilitates birthing process, stimulates contractions, lessens pain and opens the birth canal.
Obsidian: blue
Related chakras: throat, crown
Spiritual Attributes: opens the aura so a good stone to help people open to healing. Aids astral travel, enhances telepathy, aids divination techniques such as tarot reading.
Mental Attributes: May brings mental clarity for those with alzheimers, schizophrenia, and multiple personality disorders. Can help with learning newlanguages.
Emotional Attributes: Encourages communication and expression of emotions.
Related chakras: throat, crown
Spiritual Attributes: opens the aura so a good stone to help people open to healing. Aids astral travel, enhances telepathy, aids divination techniques such as tarot reading.
Mental Attributes: May brings mental clarity for those with alzheimers, schizophrenia, and multiple personality disorders. Can help with learning newlanguages.
Emotional Attributes: Encourages communication and expression of emotions.
Physical Attributes: speech defects, eye disorders, pain relief when placed on the site of pain.
Please note, blue obsidian is clear ~ reflected trees and sky in this pic. just looks ever so pretty!
Related Chakras : Crown chakra, works well with all
Spiritual Attributes : Doubles the Bio magnetic Field. Cleans and activates all energy centres of the body. Aligns the subtle bodies and is good for the soul. Powerfully dispels negative energy within the energy field. Inspires communication with the higher self, useful for meditation.
Spiritual Attributes : Doubles the Bio magnetic Field. Cleans and activates all energy centres of the body. Aligns the subtle bodies and is good for the soul. Powerfully dispels negative energy within the energy field. Inspires communication with the higher self, useful for meditation.
Mental Attributes: Good for the brain. Unblocks energy. Heals negative ions and surrounds with positive ions.
Healing: Excellent channel for healing. Receives, activates, amplifies, contains and transmits energy. Releases static electricity. Can be used to treat
Circulation problems and vertigo. Eliminates pain and blistering of burns. Balances the body and can be used for any condition. Increases energy.
Elixir is useful in clearing toxins from the body.
it aids verbal expression of what is within.
Physical Attributes: fortifies the thymus gland and and immune system. Calms and balances the nervous system. Used with other crystals aqua aura will enhance the healing properties of other crystals that it may be used in conjunction with.
Physical Attributes: fortifies the thymus gland and and immune system. Calms and balances the nervous system. Used with other crystals aqua aura will enhance the healing properties of other crystals that it may be used in conjunction with.
Tourmalinated Quartz
Combining the attributes of black tourmaline and clear quartz
Related chakras: root
Spiritual Attributes: brings meridians, chakras and subtle bodies into harmony. By healing shadow energies of the self it promotes unity consciousness. Grounding. Works as a deflector of environmental pollution
Mental Attributes: helps to integrate and heal the
Combining the attributes of black tourmaline and clear quartz
Related chakras: root
Spiritual Attributes: brings meridians, chakras and subtle bodies into harmony. By healing shadow energies of the self it promotes unity consciousness. Grounding. Works as a deflector of environmental pollution
Mental Attributes: helps to integrate and heal the
shadow self. Turns negative thoughts into positive ones, enabling us to see the benefits of learning from experience. Helps those caught in cycles of self-sabotage. Can help with problem solving. Good for concentration and expression whilst communicating.
Emotional Attributes: Releases tension.
Physical Attributes: see individual properties of clear quartz and black tourmaline
Emotional Attributes: Releases tension.
Physical Attributes: see individual properties of clear quartz and black tourmaline
Rutilated Quartz
Related Chakras: base, solar plexus, heart, throat, ears
Spiritual Attributes: an illuminator of the soul, rutilated quartz facilitates spiritual growth and helps the user to connect to lessons of the soul. It opens up the aura in preparation for healing, cleansing and energising it and breaking down blocks which inhibit spiritual progression. Aids astral travel, can be used for scrying. By helping the user to contact the highest
Related Chakras: base, solar plexus, heart, throat, ears
Spiritual Attributes: an illuminator of the soul, rutilated quartz facilitates spiritual growth and helps the user to connect to lessons of the soul. It opens up the aura in preparation for healing, cleansing and energising it and breaking down blocks which inhibit spiritual progression. Aids astral travel, can be used for scrying. By helping the user to contact the highest
spiritual guidance, it is useful for channelling. Protects against psychic attack. Used during past life healing, rutilated quartz can draw off disease from prior lives and also promotes insight to that which effects the present.
Mental Attributes: Supports the energy field during release and confrontation with the shadow self. Enables an understanding of the reasons for and the consequences of past actions and that which they have brought about.
Emotional Attributes: A good stone for depression, it soothes dark moods acting as an anti-depressant, easing fears, phobias and anxiety and subsequent constrictions and any associated self-hatred. The stone promotes self-forgiveness and that of others.
Physical Attributes: Useful in cases of mercury poisoning, absorbing the mercury from the nerves, muscles, blood and intestinal tract. Acting as a stimulant and revitaliser, it is useful for chronic conditions, impotence, fertility, exhaustion and energy depletion. Works with the respiratory tract and bronchitis, also the thyroid for stimulation and balances. Anti-parasitic. At a cellular level it repairs torn tissue, stimulating re-growth and regeneration
Mental Attributes: Supports the energy field during release and confrontation with the shadow self. Enables an understanding of the reasons for and the consequences of past actions and that which they have brought about.
Emotional Attributes: A good stone for depression, it soothes dark moods acting as an anti-depressant, easing fears, phobias and anxiety and subsequent constrictions and any associated self-hatred. The stone promotes self-forgiveness and that of others.
Physical Attributes: Useful in cases of mercury poisoning, absorbing the mercury from the nerves, muscles, blood and intestinal tract. Acting as a stimulant and revitaliser, it is useful for chronic conditions, impotence, fertility, exhaustion and energy depletion. Works with the respiratory tract and bronchitis, also the thyroid for stimulation and balances. Anti-parasitic. At a cellular level it repairs torn tissue, stimulating re-growth and regeneration
Physical Attributes: Good for elimination and detoxification of all levels; helps the physically and spiritually constipated. Enables acceptance of the physical body for those ambivalent to this incarnation. Enhances virility and passion. Good stone for chemotherapy and radiation – related illness, but care must be taken to choose natural smoky quartz rather than artificially irradiated quartz which is generally darker and not transparent. Good for physical problems of the hips, abdomen and legs. A good pain reliever, it works well with headaches. Strengthens the back, helps with cramps, strengthens the nerves, works with the reproductive system.
Smoky Quartz
Related chakras: base, earth, all
Spiritual Attributes: very effective for grounding and anchoring, thus enabling the expansion of energy and raising of vibrations. Neutralises negative energies, shielding against geopathic stress, absorbing electromagnetic smog. Helping with clear insight, it can be used for scrying. Promotes ease of transition between alpha and beta states; clears the mind for meditation. Good stone for therapists as it helps to negate potential healing crisis’.
Mental Attributes: good antidote to stress, fortifies resolve. Enables the user to let go and move on from that which no longer serves. Good for concentration and expression whilst communicating.
Emotional Attributes: Eases fear, lifts depression and brings calmness emotionally. Good for suicidal feelings and nightmares. Dissolves negative emotions and contradictions.
Related chakras: base, earth, all
Spiritual Attributes: very effective for grounding and anchoring, thus enabling the expansion of energy and raising of vibrations. Neutralises negative energies, shielding against geopathic stress, absorbing electromagnetic smog. Helping with clear insight, it can be used for scrying. Promotes ease of transition between alpha and beta states; clears the mind for meditation. Good stone for therapists as it helps to negate potential healing crisis’.
Mental Attributes: good antidote to stress, fortifies resolve. Enables the user to let go and move on from that which no longer serves. Good for concentration and expression whilst communicating.
Emotional Attributes: Eases fear, lifts depression and brings calmness emotionally. Good for suicidal feelings and nightmares. Dissolves negative emotions and contradictions.
Spiritual Attributes: Provides balance and love on all levels for all bodies. Contains an electrical energy that emits the strongest power in the universe, the power of love. Assists in creating a new world for the user – worlds filled with love and dreams. Rhodochrosite is also a healer of the earth - to the mother of all of us. For energising it aids with expediency on the physical, astral and mental planes.
For purification it acts to cleanse and renew.It attracts a soul mate, which may not always be as good as it seems as a soul mate brings the lessons we need to learn in life.
Mental Attributes: Rhodochrosite is a stone which makes the user face personal truth and that of others, situations etc, without excuses or evasion. With loving awareness it helps to accept things and see things with less negativity helping us to integrate new information, improving self worth
Emotional Attributes: Rhodochrosite is an excellent stone for the heart and relationships, especially for people who feel unloved.It teaches the heart to clear out painful feelings without shutting down or denial. It allows these painful memories to come to the surface and dissipate through emotional release. Soothes emotional stress. Emotionally it encourages spontaneous expression of feelings, including passionate and erotic urges. Lifts depression and brings light, cheer and positivity into life. It enhances dream states and creativity.
Physical Attributes: Acts as an irritant filter relieves asthma and respiratory problems. Purifies circulatory systems and kidneys. Restores poor eyesight normalizes blood pressure, improves circulation and stabilizes the heartbeat. It makes the blood vessels more elastic, thereby relieving migraines it can be used to help prevent sickness. It charges the sexual organs and helps kidney conditions.
Elixir relives infections, improves the skin and balances the thyroid.
Related Chakras: Base, heart
Spiritual Attributes: Stimulates Heart Chakra and encourages spiritual devotion.
Mental Attributes: May sometimes over stimulate in delicate or irritable people but traditionally used to improve mental health. Improves motivation and setting of realistic goals. Aids the memory. Encourages integrity.
Emotional Attributes: Uplifts depression.
Healing Attributes: .Overcomes exhaustion and lethargy. Calms hyperactivity. Removes toxins in the body, blood and lymph and stimulates the immune system. A good tonic for the body. Can be used to treat fevers, heart disorders. Invigorates adrenals, kidneys, reproductive organs and spleen.
Healing Attributes: .Overcomes exhaustion and lethargy. Calms hyperactivity. Removes toxins in the body, blood and lymph and stimulates the immune system. A good tonic for the body. Can be used to treat fevers, heart disorders. Invigorates adrenals, kidneys, reproductive organs and spleen.
words and pictures copyright Emma Sims 2009 ©
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!
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!
Obsidian: black, blue, snowflake, peridot (olivine, chyrysolite), Pyrite, Quartz: clear, aqua aura, milky, rose, rutilated, smoky, spirit, tourmalinated, Rhodocrosite, Ruby
Aqua aura is clear quartz artificially coated with gold and combines the properties of quartz and gold.
Related Chakras: thymus, throat, crown, all
Spiritual Attributes: a good crystal for channelling as it works with the throat chakra. It cleanses and smoothes the aura. Releases and cleanses negativity from the etheric, mental, emotional, and ketheric layers of the aura. It frees the user from limitation and creates the space for something new, calming and healing any holes in the aura. Connects the user to their soul and higher self, thus releasing their true potential and bringing this to the conscious and into this reality. Aqua aura promotes peace during meditation, deepening spiritual attunement. Protects against psychic and psychological attack.
Mental Attributes: a good stone for communication as
