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Different minerals are traditionally associated with different elements. Below is a list of some of the more common associations between minerals and the elements.
AGATE:
For grounding, when there is a need to return to basics, starting
over again, back at the beginning, at the Root Chakra. At the end
of some trying time or situation, this is a renewal place to begin
again.
AMBLYGONITE
Amblygonite calms and sooths and balances you in time and space.
Releasing traumas of the past it brings the emotional body into
balance and clarity to the mind. Imparting a sense of divinity and
immortality, It is considered to be the food of the gods. It helps
those in the arts to bring new ideas and creativity. It releases
blocks helping to bring ideas into reality. It is a bringer of
insight into duality and helping us to resolve any issues we might
have. Affects all chakras and is associated with the Taurus Sun
Sign.
AMETHYST
Amethyst is a stone of contentment. It is said to balance the
energy of the intellectual, emotional and physical bodies. It
clears the aura and bestows stability and peace. Amethyst provides
the sense of commonsense in making decisions. It can also help
business affairs to prosper. Amethyst can be useful for one who is
attempting to find freedom from an addictive personality.
AMETRINE
Ametrine disperses negativity from the aura and facilitates the
release of blockages in the physical, mental, emotional and auric
bodies. Ametrine enhances compatibility. It works in all areas;
the amethst raising the clearing quality of citrine to a higher
level of vibration while expanding the extent of the energy.
APOPHYLLITE
Apophyllite is an aid to meditation and helps make a conscious
connection with the spiritual world. It has been used to help in
fire walking and astral travel. It is said to one see the truth
and then act on it, and is an energy stimulator. Folklore says
that It relieves tired eyes when placed on the eyelids. When
placed on the third eye chakra, it enhances clairvoyance and
mystical vision. Apophyllite is associated with the crown chakra.
AQUAMARINE
Aquamarine is metaphysically known as a stone of courage and
fortitude. It is said to assist with quick intellectual response.
It gives peace, and shielding for the aura. Aquamarine is reputed
to assist with calming communication issues. Mystical and folk
lore states that it is attuned to the sea, and protects travelers
on water, and sailors. Aquamarine is associated with the throat
chakra.
AZURITE
Azurite is called the "stone of heaven." It aids in developing
psychic awareness, psychic skills and abilities, enhances
intuition, and is said to guide you to be accurate in depicting
psychic experiences. It is also an excellent stone for meditation,
allowing you to enter a meditative state easily. It can enhance
prophesy and divination. Azurite is said to help control energy
flow and bring just the right amount of energy to any situation.
Physically, azurite is professed by folklore to be helpful for
healing in general, cancer prevention, liver issues arthritis,
joint problems, depression, sinuses, skin problems. Azurite is
most closely related to the third eye chakra, and can balance,
stimulate, and empower it. It will also work to align all of the
chakras.
CALCITE:
Calcite increases and amplifies energy. It can also be helpful in
astral travel and in channeling, as well as with increasing
intuition. All calcites are helpful in lessening of fear and
reducing stress. Calcite is a protecting, purifying, grounding and
centering stone, and can help bring inner peace. It also increases
creativity, imagination, and prosperity. Calcite is also a stone
of spirituality, wisdom and reconciliation. Calcite of different
colors is great for using to open and balance the various chakras.
Physically, calcites can heal back pain, increase physical
strength, heal teeth, and are generally good for healing. Green
calcites helps overcome addictions, heal joints, bones, kidney,
bladder, and the endocrine system, relieve pain. Green calcite
also helps with manifestation, abundance, and intuition. Blue
calcite is particularly good for channeling and increasing energy.
Yellow calcite is also particularly good for Shamanic work,
meditation, channeling, intuition, and amplifying energy. Orange
calcite reduces chronic fatigue, and increases psychic abilities.
Red calcite brings courage and inner strength and energy to handle
survival situations, and benefits sensuality/sexuality. Honey
calcite is also very good for increasing energy. Optical calcite
is beneficial for headaches. Pink calcite (manganocalcite) is a
stone of love and amplifies Reiki and other universal life force
energies. See extended calcite information including mineral
data.
A multi-use crystal, to increase the power and effectiveness of a
project about to be undertaken, for increasing one's psychic
protection, for meditation, to help unfocus prior to a psychic
reading.
CHRYSOCOLLA:
Lifts the emotions, balances, and eases emotional heartache,
attracts love and sweet dreams.
Chrysacolla (chrysocolla) is a stone of harmony, both on a
universal level and a very specific level. It can be used to
purify a place or remove negativity from a person. It is a very
gentle stone and its energy works in a gentle, harmonious way. It
can help ease fear, anxiety, and guilt. It is also used to
communicate with the spiritual forces of the Earth. Physically, it
is good for treating asthma, emphysema, TB, pneumonia, muscle
cramps, spasms, arthritis, headaches, particularly tension
headaches, and is used for protection during pregnancy and
childbirth. Chrysacolla is primarily related to the throat chakra,
although it can be used on the heart and solar plexus chakras.
CITRINE
Citrine is one of the minerals which does not hold and accumulate
negative energy, but dissipates it. It never need cleaning or
cleansing. Called the merchant's stone, placing a cluster in one's
cash box has produced income for merchants. Citrine illuminates
energy of the root chakra and is used for kidney and bladder
disorders.
CHALCEDONY:
Uplifting of the spirit, engages courage, level mindedness, return
to reality.
COPPER
Copper is considered a mineral of energy and mental agility. In
legend, copper is said to be the metal of the God Hermes, who
facilitates that mental agility, and quick wit. Copper is an
excellent conductor of energy, from electricity to the mystical
subtle energies emanating from higher planes, etc. Thus, copper is
said to enhance and transmit thoughts, even over long distances.
Physically, copper is used in traditional folk remedy and crystal
healing lore to bring in additional energies for all types of
healing, treatment of arthritis, relieving pain of broken bones,
sexual instability, and low energy.
EMERALD
Emerald is a stone of love and romance. It brings and enhances
joy, cleansing, clairvoyance, memory, and faith. It also benefits
intuition and communication, and promotes truthfulness. Emerald is
associated with the heart chakra.
FLUORITE
Fluorite promotes spiritual and psychic wholeness and development,
truth, protection, and brings peace. It protects psychically and
in the physical realm. It helps one meditate and learn to go past
the "chatter" that our minds tend to generate when first learning
to meditate. It can help get rid of mental blocks and similar
mental issues. Physically it helps general health throughout the
body's main skeletal and muscular systems. All colors are also
good for auric cleansing. Mixed colors bring enhanced protection
in the areas enhanced by all combined types. Clear fluorite guards
against psychic attack and strengthens consciousness. Blue
fluorite has the quality of protecting the emotions and restoring
emotional balance. Purple fluorite strengthens mystical insight,
psychic awareness, and can open the third eye. Green fluorite is
an excellent all purpose healing stone that promotes healing on
all levels. It also promotes self-love.
Assists the conscious mind and body in analyzing conditions and
situations in a rational and non-emotional manner, it enables
detachment of the mind from the emotions so that the thought
process can utilize the intuitive in achieving a higher level of
self understanding.
GARNET
Garnet is the stone of health, extracting negative energy from the
body. It is also know as the stone of commitment; to others, to
oneself and to any purpose one follows. Garnet discourages chaotic
and disruptive things from one's field. It can be used for
purification and elimination of that which is in disorder.
HALITE
Colorless, pink, red, yellow, green or blue. Salt crystal.
Enhances good will, elevates moods, diminishes negativity. Incites
initiative and thought; allows greater freedom to meeting
contingencies. Allows one to see deep within to find solutions.
HANKSITE
Hanksite provides information on trickery and illusion, sharpens
perception and adeptness and awareness with the surroundings. This
crystal enhances the solar plexus chakra, facilitates both a
melding into another and recognizes the self and the non-self.
Wonderful stone to use in meditation and advancement towards
spirituality. It has been called "the juggler's stone", dispels
introversion, utilizes creative forces and the creative forces of
the universe.
Hanksite has been used to provide a stabilizing effect on ambulatory activities, stimulate hair growth and ameliorate head colds.
JASPER
Jasper, a protective stone to help relieve pain. Whether worn or
carried it is said to promote mental processes and to enable
restraint against dangerous impulsive desires.
KYANITE
Kyanite never needs cleaning or clearing. It does not retain
negative energy. The energy of kyanite is unlimited in
application, making it a good attunement stone. It brings peace
and a calming effect to the body and facilitates meditation.
LEPIDOLITE
Induces calmness, a tranquilizing effect against stress and
negative emotions, helps to recognize one's need for making
changes in thinking and behavior patterns. Alleviates stress,
despondency, mood swings and anxiety. It is useful arrayed around
your environment to calm and bring stability to chaotic areas.
Lepidolite aids digestion and is used in the treatment of
tendonitis and muscle cramps. It aids in maintaining youthful
skin. Chakras :Corresponds to the third eye and activates throat,
heart and crown chakras.
MALACHITE
Malachite, the stone of transformation which helps with change and
spiritual evolution. It can clear and activate all chakras, as
well as balance them. Malachite is a stone that bridges the energy
of the heart and root chakras. It is particularly useful for
balancing and clearing the heart chakra. As such, it helps balance
pure love, romance, and one's own well-being. Malachite is a stone
of good fortune and prosperity/abundance, too. Malachite is also a
very protective stone, being especially helpful for general
protection, protection from evil, protection during pregnancy and
childbirth, and protection for children. It is also an excellent
protection stone during flying and other travel. Using this stone,
one can counteract self-destructive romantic tendencies and help
encourage true, pure love. Malachite is also good for enhancing
emotional stability and balance in general. It can decrease one's
tendency to radiation illness, asthma, arthritis, and tumors.
QUARTZ
Awaken psychic, ESP and mediumship qualities. Connecting with the
Universal source of knowledge.
Quartz amplifies energy and thoughts. It is used in healing with
other minerals and enables one to communicate with minerals,
plants, animals and other forces. Quartz has been shown to cancel
effects of harmful radiation. It provides for the purification of
the physical, mental and spiritual bodies.
QUARTZ CLUSTERS
Quartz Crystal Clusters are very healing for all chakras. Brings
light into the aura bodies, promotes spiritual expansion and
awareness, clears negativity on all levels, aids emotional
stability, speeds healing and brings goodness on every level.
Quartz can be used to facilitate both speaking with, and receiving
information from the spiritual and other worldly masters, teachers
and healers. Quartz crystal plates serve to bring group energy to
the surrounding environment, enhancing harmony in groups, in the
family, and in other social environments. Great to have in an
office environment when business meetings are frequent.
RHYOLITE
Associated with change, variety, creativity
and progress, it will assist in working toward goals and to gain
insight, strength and self-realization while aiding in resolving
things from the past keeping from your goal. Use it during
meditation to ultimately reach the profound, transcendental, and
joyous state of knowing.
ROSE QUARTZ
Rose Quartz is a calming, cooling energy which removes negativity
and reinstates the loving forces of self-love. Known as the true
love stone, it is great to have placed around the home for its
gentling energy. Rose quartz is also good to wear to support the
love of self and others.
THULITE
Thulite helps us to relearn what forgot, teaches us to understand
pain and suffering of abuse. You could say it is a new beginning
in the way you view, feel and relate to love! Thulite helps us to
have love and compassion for plant, mineral and animal kingdoms,
it is a stone of harmony and compassion bringing the community
together for the greatest good. It is wonderful for teaching
children to love in both mind and spirit. Love and beauty and the
capacity to create and express it.
TOURMALINE
Integrates and harmonizes left and right brain activity which
enhances the person's psychic and medium ship abilities. Aids in
balancing the whole person and the psyche.
TURQUOISE
Manifests spiritual qualities, healing, friendship & love,
luck & money. As the Master Healer, guards against pollution
from the environment, aligns and strengthens the body and protects
against disease. Also promotes the absorption of nutrients and
regenerates tissue, and is efficacious against eye disorders.
WULFENITE
Helps you to adjust to and accept life when it's not what you hope
for; helps a positive focus; integrates shadow energies, helps
heal past lives; used mystically to clear emotional blockages and
get blocked energy of all kinds moving again.
Wulfenite is
also used in white magic rituals of all kinds, and is said to
bring moving energy to this type of magic and is used for astral
journeying and communication with higher beings. In crystal
healing lore it is used for healing the reproductive system,
energizing and revitalizing the body systems encouraging healing
of all types.
YTTRIUM FLUORITE,
Yttrium Fluorite is an unusual, rare and beautiful form of purple
Fluorite. It does not cleave as other varieties of Fluorite and is
extremely dense. Fluorite is known for being a mental body stone,
but Yttrium is very different in that it is attached to the
physical world. Yttrium Fluorite assists in grounding ideas by
making things happen. Yttrium Fluorite will bring information down
through the physical plane to a level more easily understood.
1st Chakra
Base, Root
Located at the base of the spine
Color: red or black
Energy Focus: Security grounding, physical energy,
stability, will
Element: Earth. Physical body, survival, past
impressions
Stones: black obsidian, black onyx, schorl, bloodstone,
brecciated jasper, carnelian, cuprite, red garnet, hematite,
leopardskin jasper, red calcite, red coral, red spinel, ruby, ruby
aura quartz, thulite, tourmaline (rubellite), red zircon, Tigers
Eye
2nd Chakra
Sacral
Located below the navel
Color: Blue-green and orange
Energy Focus: Creativity, healing, sexuality and
reproduction, desire, emotion, intuition.
Element: Water. Physical vitality, earthly emotions and
sexual desire
Stones: amber, carnelian, crocoite, fire opal, golden beryl
(heliodor), honey calcite, orange calcite, orange spinel,
paraparadsha sapphire, peach aventurine, sheelite, sunstone
3rd Chakra
Solar Plexus
Located below breastbone, at solar plexas
Color: Yellow
Energy Focus: Protective, personal power, ambitions,
Intellect
Element: Fire. Emotions, personal power, perseverance,
will
Stones: amber, andalusite, chrysoberyl, citrine, golden
tiger eye, honey calcite, hanksite, rutilated quartz, yellow-brown
scapolite, sphalerite, sphene, sulphur, sunstone, topaz, yellow
aragonite, yellow calcite, yellow carnelian, yellow jasper, yellow
sapphire
4th Chakra
Heart
Located in the center of the chest
Color: Green, Pink
Energy Focus: Universal conscoiusness, emotional balance,
love and compassion, u.
Element: Air, Acceptance, surrender, balance, devotion,
love.
Stones: actinolite, cuprite (balances heart chakra with
root chakra), diopside, dioptase, emerald, fluorite, green
apatite, green calcite, grossular garnet, euclase, jade, kunzite
(spodumene) malachite, moldavite, moss agate, nephrite, pink
manganocalcite, peridot, pink optical calcite, prase, rose quartz,
rubellite, tourmaline (especially watermelon), variscite, zoisite
5th Chakra
Throat
Located at the neck above collar bone
Color: Blue
Energy Focus: Communication center, expression, divine
guidance.
Element: Ether. Communication, expression, higher will
Stones: amazonite, aqua aura, aquamarine, blue calcite,
blue lace agate, blue tigers eye, blue topaz, dumortierite (blue
quartz), euclase (stimulates), kyanite, lapis, opal, blue
smithsonite, sodalite, turquoise
6th Chakra
Third Eye
Location center above the eyebrows at medulla
Color: Indigo
Energy Focus: Intuition, psychic power, Spiritual
awareness, light
Stones: amazonite, amethyst, apatite, apophyllite, azurite,
chevron amethyst, charoite, indicolite, iolite, lapis, lepidolite
picture rock, purple fluorite, sapphire, scolecite, sodalite,
spinel (dark blue), sugilite
7th Chakra
Crown
Located at the top of the head
Color: Golden White and Violet
Energy Focus: Cosmic consciousness, enlightenment, energy,
perfection.
Subtle element: Intelligence. God consciousness, spiritual
intelligence
Stones: amethyst, apophyllite, chevron amethyst, clear
calcite, danburite, diamond, euclase, iolite, clear quartz,
herkimer diamond, lepidolite, moonstone, opal, rainbow moonstone,
scapolite (purple), scolecite, selenite, spodumene
All Chakras
Stimulation: garnet, quartz
Alignment: bloodstone, blue kyanite, calcite, dolomite
General Strengthening: boji stone, botswana agate,
chrysoberyl, chrysocolla, crocoite, cuprite, danburite, fluorite,
kunzite, kyanite, obsidian, quartz
Lower Chakras (Heart and Below): bloodstone, mookaite
Upper Chakras (Heart and Above): blue tigers eye
(protection)