Blue Agate
Blue is associated with truth, loyalty and reliability. Today, healers who work with color use blue stones for diagnosing and treating throat-related problems. Poise and serenity have always been associated with blue light. Even the expression "feeling blue" comes from blue's cool, sedative effect.

Blue Lace Agate
Blue lace agate enhances grace and lightheartedness. It's a soothing stone known for calming the mind, releasing stress and removing anxiety. A stone for grounding.

Botswana Agate
Botswana agate has been used traditionally to sustain attentiveness to detail. It's an ability needed by every successful person in today's
changing, but nonetheless difficult world.

Crazy Lace Agate
Agate is used for rosaries and necklaces because it brings calmness, which leads to good luck. That relationship between calmness and good luck is especially evident in crazy lace agate. It's called the generational stone.

Fossil Agate
This has magnetic properties with removing anxiety from the body.

 

Golden Lace Agate
As a member of the quartz family, agate is associated with the moon, golden lace agate really blends the beauty of both earth and moon. It contains the rich dark brown color of soil and the golden glow of moonlight. Wear golden lace agate whenever your life feels out of balance--or when you’re feeling particularly good and don't want anything to change that.

Golden Leaf Agate
Brown agates with gold/yellow tones such as golden leaf agate correspond to people who are serious, gentle people with good memories,
people referred to as "long-thinkers."

Green Agate
Green agate corresponds to someone who is compassionate, generous, has good fortune and a keen sense of justice. It also encourages those traits in others.

Moss Agate
It helps balance male/female energies whenever they become extreme.

Tree Agate
Tree (Dendritic) Agate is said to assist with introspection and self-discovery. It can give a wider viewpoint of the world. Tree agate relives tension, fever, and skin eruptions. It also brings plentiful crops.

Amazonite
Amazonite is said to have a soothing effect on the nervous system. Since the nervous system controls our emotions a great deal, this stone is said to soothe tense and aggravated situations and enhance love. Since this stone is associated with the throat and heart, it is best when worn as a necklace near these areas. Amazonite is said to bestow truth, honor and integrity to its wearer. Used for centering oneself, getting back to balance, re-focus and stabilization. 

Amber
Amber is a fossilized organic substance, not the gemstone that everyone thinks it is. Amber is associated with the solar plexus or yellow chakra. It has long been believed to be a stone of healing, used to alleviate problems of the stomach and liver. It has been used for courage and self confidence.

Amethyst
Amethyst is used to increase your psychic abilities and enhance your intuition. Amethyst has been a symbol of peace, purity and unification and can aid in bringing serenity and calmness. Use amethyst to treat insomnia and promote peaceful and healing sleep. It is also commonly used to relieve headaches, sugar imbalances and general edginess. Healing for the soul, body and mind, it has the universal vibration and enables the holder of the crystal to be connected to it. 

Aquamarine
Aquamarine is said to have protective qualities for those at sea. On land, it is believed to have soothing effects on couples and helps them work out differences that ensure a long and happy marriage. Said to give insight, foresight, freedom from insomnia, cure laziness, quicken the intellect, provide courage and happiness and make youth everlasting. Aquamarine is often used as a ''good luck'' stone to bring feelings of peace, love, joy and happiness. Believed to aid digestion, reduce inflammation in swollen glands, help reduce dependence on drugs and maintain the health of the teeth.

Aventurine
When you see aventurine think "adventure." Think optimism. Think bountiful. Think practical enthusiasm. All are ingredients for adventure. If you long for change, aventurine is for you. It keeps various chakras open and unblocked, allowing good things to come your direction. Good luck and good fortune, it is said to attract money. Also,  for increasing ones perception and creativity.

Blackstone
Some people believe any black stone has a power associated with its blackness that intensifies the spiritual values of the gemstones around them.

Carnelian
Wards off insanity and depression. Enhances self esteem, combats feelings of inadequacy, and increases physical energy. In the home, it is sometimes used to protect against fire and misfortune. Carnelian is associated with the solar plexus chakra (the yellow chakra), in which imbalances are thought to cause digestive problems, as well as lack of confidence. Inspires bravery and courage. Helps with the circulatory system, kidneys, stimulates appetite, emotions, sexuality, physical energy, reproductive system, menstrual cramps, arthritis, kidneys, gall bladder, pancreas.

Chrysocolla
It is said to be the ultimate healing stone. Lifts and balances emotions, eases emotional heartache, attracts love, sweet dreams.

Chrysoprase
Chrysoprase is believed to release negativity from the body. This release is for emotional tension and stress anchored in the body. It is said to bring the mind and body together as one. This increases courage, self awareness and is believed to act like a shield against any incoming negativity. Because of its color, chrysoprase is related to money and sucess. This stone is often considered a good luck stone or charm when worn or held.

Citrine
The color of the solar plexus chakra is yellow, so citrine is associated with this chakra. It is thought to have a positive influence that can relieve backache, and combat depression and problems with the liver, spleen, digestive system and the bladder. Some believe that the gemstone can help promote prosperity. Wards off fear forms that are generated from others suggestions, instills confidence in the personal self. Mental and emotional clarity, problem-solving, memory, willpower, optimism, confidence, self-discipline. Reducing anxiety, fear, and depression.

Coral
It teaches us to value life and our place in it. It is a beautiful symbol of the importance of creatures and plants living harmoniously together. Helps with muscles, blood, heart, reproductive system, thyroid, metabolism, spine, bone and tissue regeneration. Not to be used with high blood pressure. Protect and strengthen emotional foundation and enliven emotions.

Dumortierite
Deep blue dumortierite is called the "blue denim stone." It's often mistaken for lapis lazuli. Like denim, it's worn in all kinds of places by all kinds of people. But those who wear dumortierite often seem to have one thing in common: a clear-eyed approach to life. They know how to prioritize. They know when it's time to get organized and how to settle down and do it.

Fluorite
Ever notice the effect of a beautiful rainbow? It softens something in us. We feel connected to something larger than ourselves and to everyone else standing there looking at that rainbow. It reminds us that we can always begin again. That's the wonderful sense of life fluorite gives us whenever we wear it.

Howlite
The important spiritual values Howlite offers are trust, openness and discipline. That's why it's a tremendously important stone for anyone who's creating anything.

Iolite
Iolite helps us to see the path we are on and the path we should be on. It calls for us to honor ourselves and to surrender some space so the sacred can work through us to make the necessary changes.

Green Jade
Helps with enduring peace and strength. It offers physical and emotional well-being, especially during unpleasant or difficult situations, by helping us feel more grounded. Though we may not be able to change the situation, jade can help us accept and deal with it sanely.

Mountain Jade
The darker shades help those with excessively high male energy by softening that male energy when it becomes destructive. The lighter shades aid those whose female energy is working overtime and making them feel overly sensitive. Wear marble whenever your life seems out of balance.

New Jade
Produces a tranquil mood, it helps us when we're depressed, especially when we feel stuck in a situation. Like green jade, "new jade" serpentine can help you get grounded, so you can live with the situation and feel more tranquil while you're doing it.

Autumn Jasper
Jasper, like agate, is a powerful healing stone. It helps us move beyond just surviving to making us glad to be alive.

Brecciated Jasper
A stone that heals mental stress by "waking us up" and making us clear-headed.

Dalmatian Jasper
Dalmatian jasper is just the stone you need when you want a pick-me-up. Jasper helps us release our tendencies to over think or over analyze things. When you wear it, your mood lifts immediately.

Fancy Jasper
Fancy jasper intensifies a sense of well-being. Referred to as "the party stone." It is especially helpful for people whose male energies are extreme. Like dalmation jasper, it helps people lighten up and enjoy themselves, but fancy jasper's subtler, blended colors make for a quieter kind of partying.

Flower Jasper
Like all jaspers that have brown or grey in them, flower jasper eases tension.

Leopardskin Jasper
Leopardskin jasper's spiritual values are very connected to the physical body. It is credited with supporting and strengthening the spine and thigh muscles, giving us the strength to take action gracefully and powerfully. It serves as a reminder of the connection we have with the natural world around us.

Peridot Jasper
Peridot jasper is like rich cream with a hint of cool mint blended into it. Peridot Jasper can help us celebrate and honor life.

Picasso Jasper
Celebrate life. That's what this gemstone calls for. It says wake up. It reminds us that it isn't only later than we think, it's also earlier. We still have time to "live a little". That's Picasso jasper's message. We enjoy life more when we don't ignore it.

Picture Jasper
When we've stepped off the path or gone down a path we never intended, most of us need some time and space alone to sort through things. That's the great spiritual value of picture jasper. It helps us get quiet and recall earlier memories, so we can understand their significance and move beyond them.

Rainbow Jasper
Rainbow jasper helps us focus without overanalyzing things. Rainbow jasper can give us focused attention in our own lives.

Red Jasper
Red jasper has been used as a stone of protection for thousands of years. Part of the reason is its ability to create and help balance aggressive, dynamic energy. Its spiritual values are those found in ancient female warriors-a perfect balance between beauty and bold, confident power, a power you can feel when you wear it.

Silver Leaf Jasper
Like all black and grey stones, silver leaf jasper encourages willpower. It's worn by independent, highly disciplined people.

Tigerskin Jasper
Jasper is not about thinking or analyzing things. It's about experiencing life right in the moment. Tigerskin jasper's animal colors intensify those things. Tigerskin jasper takes us out of our heads and puts us back into our bodies.

Labradorite
Labradorite is a tremendously spiritual stone. When you think of labradorite, you think of "labor." It is especially helpful for people who tend to overwork. It helps us regain our energy and aids our bodies and spirits in healing themselves. If you practice meditation (or would like to), focusing on labradorite can help you enter and maintain the meditative state. Like the sound and glistening beauty of a gentle rain, this gemstone quiets us physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Lapis Lazuli
Lapis lazuli has been worn in the belief that it will ward off evil. In ancient Egypt, it was powdered and worn about the eyes to improve eyesight. Today, it is considered by some to be an aid to balancing the brow chakra (which influences vision and hearing). Imbalances of the brow (or blue) chakra are said to cause headaches, anxiety and disorders of the skin.

Malachite
Malachite releases negative and painful emotions by absorbing them. Malachite is the stone of transformation. It clears the path to your desired goal. It brings fidelity in love and friendship. It brings tolerance, flexibility, patience and stabilizing influence.

Multi-colored Moonstone
Moonstone helps with stress by calming the mind and soothing the spirit. It's so effective that gem therapists and doctors use a purified form of it (called godanti) to cure anxiety and strengthen the will.

Rainbow Moonstone
Moonstone is often called the visionary's stone. It helps us see things more clearly. Rainbow moonstone offers us visions of things that aren't immediately obvious. Because it helps us avoid tunnel vision, we are able to see other possibilities. It's like a flash of inspiration that comes when we are open and quiet. When we wear rainbow moonstone, life-changing inspirations can happen more and more often.

Silver Moonstone
Moonstone was once called the traveler's stone because it was believed to protect traders and merchants from perils at sea. On our "journey" through life, silver-grey moonstone gives a sense of calm, assured strength.

White Moonstone
It soothes and restores and deepens our sense of safety, no matter where or how far our journey takes us. That's the deep, enduring spiritual value moonstone carries within it.

Mother-of-Pearl (Natural)
Natural mother-of-pearl has tremendous spiritual value for those whose high goals and attitudes keep them feeling stressed.

Mother-of-Pearl (White)
Mother-of-pearl may look delicate and gentle and even old-fashioned, but modern women, especially, need its spiritual values. Since it has a tremendous ability to calm and lessen the fears of those who wear it, it is especially helpful for anyone whose life is intense and stressful.

Moukaite
Sumptuous, voluptuous, and sensual are words we usually associate with physical pleasure rather than with spiritual values. Moukaite blends the two. Because it makes us more comfortable with our bodies, our physical activities elevate our spirits.

Mahogany Obsidian
Obsidian is a powerful stone that reminds us that birth and death are simultaneously and constantly present, one within the other. It has always been associated with guardian spirits that watch over us. Earlier peoples drew on that protective power in weapons they made from obsidian. Today people who wear it often speak of a sense of protection. Mahogany obsidian, in particular, is said to increase sexuality and sensuality-- the sense of touch, especially.

Snowflake Obsidian
Snowflake obsidian makes us fee safe and protected. Like a sky full of beautiful snowflakes, it restores something: a deep, abiding sense of protection and reverence.

Black Onyx
Black has been associated with regeneration and new beginnings. Black onyx is thought by some to have protective qualities, making it advantageous to carry when one is traveling. It is said to be useful in fighting basic fears and in helping to create the opportunity to move beyond bad relationships--and to heal old emotional wounds. The Romans associated it with courage and it is thought to be useful when one is defending him/herself against unfair criticism.

Pearl
Pearls come fine-finished directly from nature. Because of their natural beauty, they are associated with the matrix of life and some say that the pearl helps balance one's bodily rhythms and hormonal levels with lunar cycles. They are said to harmonize one's life with the rhythms of the natural world. Having what appears to be an inward glow, some claim that pearls can be used to help tap inner wisdom and to nurture the growth of love

Peridot
This stone has an association with humor, especially in dark situations. Peridot has been used traditionally to heal bruised egos, lessen anger, and prevent jealousy. Used to attract wealth, abundance, increase happiness and well being.

Crystal Quartz
If something is crystal clear, it can't be any clearer. That's the kind of clarity rock crystal can give to our perceptions.

Lemon Quartz
Quartz is said to structure, focus and amplify thoughts and information. It is also said to transform and transmit energy. The color yellow is used to help with clarity, happiness and communication. Therefore, it is assumed that Lemon Quartz activates, balances and strengthens your clarity, happiness and communication.

Rose Quartz
Rose quartz is associated with love, the heart and beauty, and is thought to be a healing aid for the heart chakra. Imbalances of this chakra have been said to cause colds, allergies and psychosomatic illnesses. When in balance, the heart chakra is thought to make one open to love and compassion. Some believe that rose quartz has calming effects and helps people develop strong friendships.

Smoky Quartz
Smoky quartz is like a dream that shows us things we don't always see when we're awake. It helps us "go to" those places in us that make us uncomfortable and to look at those things we'd like to deny. Most important of all, it says just accept them-the positive and the negative. Do it happily. That explains why we may feel so calm and generally loving of our selves and others whenever we wear it. A filter and trap for those negative thoughts and emotions

Snow Quartz
Snow quartz and innocence are nearly synonymous. Wearing it helps us look at things from a child-like perspective, without preconceived and cynical notions. When we wear snow quartz, it reminds us that the word "wonderful" comes from the word "wonder". And that if we'll look at the world from the eyes of a child again, "pure wonder" is what we will experience.

Tourmalinated Quartz
Tourmalinated quartz is filled with energy that flashes through it and connects us with other fields of energy. It's the sort of thing that happens spontaneously and often unexpectedly. Vibrant, spontaneous energy can flash through us when we wear tourmalinated quartz.

Rhodonite
Rhodonite does for us what paying attention to nature always does for us. It softens our needs. It helps us put petty things behind us. It reminds us that leisure is important and that there's a bigger picture we often lose sight of.

Sapphire
Sapphire is said to enhance creativity and to focus purity of thought. It is known as the stone of new love and commitment and is claimed to be useful in encouraging faithfulness and loyalty. Because of its blue color, it is associated with the throat and brow chakras - where energy imbalances are said to cause sore throats, headaches and nightmares.

Sardonyx
The spiritual values of red and white-banded and red bull's eye sardonyx make these stones particularly powerful. In fact, they allow one to project such an incredible charisma, those "in the know" suggest they should be used with care so we don't overwhelm others. Wear them when you want extra power in a particular circumstance.

Sodalite
Sodalite is the gemstone guardian for heroes and heroines. When our backs are against the wall, when we need the courage to speak and act out of our convictions, that's when sodalite has it’s greatest power.

Tiger Iron
Its balance comes from the combination of yellow (earth colors) and black/dark brown (water colors). Because yellow is also associated with communication and dark colors with independence and strong self-discipline, you can give others a strong, clear message when you wear it.

Tigereye
Tigereye promotes clear-eyed vision. It helps us see our selves and the world around us more perceptively. Like the great cat it's named for, this gemstone knows the importance of being attentive. When we keep our eyes wide open, we are more apt to act appropriately and at the appropriate moment.

Blue Topaz
Because topaz has always been associated with compassion and communication, it's a wonderful stone to wear when you need to "build bridges" between yourself and other people. Blue topaz, in particular, helps you have more control in touchy situations. For one thing, it develops curiosity and humor. For another, it heightens your competence without making you seem dominating.

Tourmaline
Watermelon tourmaline, with its contrasting pink and green banding, represents opposites. It is said to have a calming effect during emotional upheavals or when there are conflicts between people of different temperaments. It is associated with the heart chakra and healing powers. Rubellite, or pink tourmaline, is claimed to have similar healing powers and to help people become more compassionate.

Turquoise
Turquoise is said to attract prosperity and success, to have the power to influence creative powers, and to enhance the ability to communicate. The stone has long been prized as a powerful talisman with healing properties. It is said that turquoise can help balance the throat chakra (the blue chakra), increasing resistance to viruses and helping to relieve sore throats, lung infections and the affects of allergies.

Zoisite
The kind of focused, creative empowerment zoisite can give us is similar to an artist at work.