The Meaning of Crystals - Common Crystals Guide

Find the meaning and healing qualities of your crystal.

Agate

Agate is good for creating harmony between the spiritual self and the physical self. It can be used for grounding and clearing away negativity. It is useful during and after traumatic events, as it helps calm regret and bitterness, encouraging mental recovery.

Amazonite

Amazonite is good for removing toxins from the body and for clearing negativity. It also shields from electromagnetic pollution from devices. Associated with the throat and heart chakras, it helps with communication skills and strengthens bonds between relationships.

Amethyst

Amethyst is a stone of protection. It enhances psychic powers and assists with connecting to your spiritual self and raising your spiritual awareness. Wearing this stone while you meditate will enable to achieve a deeper meditative state. Amethyst will also assist with memory problems and issues with cognitive function and mental health.

Black Agate

Black Agate diffuses negativity. It is useful to wear during stressful times to protect against negative energy. It will also calm bitterness and regret during and after traumatic experiences. It will assist with cognitive function and help to make wise life choices. It is also associated with connecting to the higher self and supporting psychic ability.

Black Obsidian

Black Obsidian enhances psychic ability and powers of prediction. It will shield the body from negative energy and will also cleanse your aura of harmful attachments. It will pacify long standing resentment, calm irritability and allow you to look at your problems more objectively, taking away unnecessary worry.

Bloodstone

Bloodstone is good for health. It will cleanse the toxins from the blood and promote good circulation. It will also cleanse the body of harmful energy and protect from disease.

Blue Agate

Blue Agate is grounding and promotes a positive aura by clearing away negativity. It is a good crystal to wear during and after a difficult time as it will aid in healing regret and feelings of bitterness. It is associated with the throat chakra.

Blue lace Agate

Blue Lace Agate is an excellent crystal to use for healing. It brings serenity and peace and works well for anxiety. It is also very good for creating calm for meditation, to help reach a deeper state. It is associated with the throat Chakra and will bring comfort and clarity to an overactive or stressed mind.

Blue Howlite

Blue Howlite is good for insomnia and for calming an anxious mind. It can promote positivity and enable better communication. Use Blue Howlite to diffuse an angry situation or decrease irritability. Blue Howlite is associated with the throat chakra.

Blue Opalite

Blue Opalite increases psychic connection with the spirit world. It opens your third eye and focuses intuitions. It will enable intentions with more clarity and strength of purpose. With this crystal you feel stronger and more self confident. This is man-made crystal displaying the properties of natural opalite.

Carnelian

Carnelian is a healing crystal that can help with fertility problems and issues related to the metabolic system including assisting with weight loss. It also promotes creativity, improves balance and stability, and relieves lethargy. Carnelian is also a cleansing crystal. Place a carnelian stone with your other crystals and it will cleanse them.

Citrine

Citrine is a powerful stone with energy transferred from the sun. It energises the aura and reduces lethargy. It provides motivation and is good to use when starting a new project or new job. It is also good for boosting cognitive function and for sporting activities.

Clear Quartz

Clear Quartz is a balancing crystal. It grounds unstable energy and opens channels for blocked energy. This crystal will help the wearer achieve a calm and stable disposition. and enable clarity of thought, leading to wiser decision making.

Coppernite

Coppernite is a very old mineral. It is a stone of protection, shielding from negative forces. It clears pathways of blocked energy and enhances psychic ability. It also enables improved communication and understanding with animals. Coppernite brings forth a gentle nature from within.

Dalmatian Jasper

Dalmatian Jasper is an energy enhancing stone, providing vibrancy and a sense of youthfulness. It will help improve parent – child relationships, provide balance for children, and enhance the bond between friends. Dalmatian Jasper can also be used to help pacify animals in distress. It can ease the anxiety of a pet who does not like to be groomed or a visit to the vet.

Dragon Stone

Dragon Stone provides protection from negative forces such as overwhelming grief. It increases psychic power and confidence and is good for testing work situations, such as giving presentations, debates and discussions. It gives strength of purpose and patience to achieve goals.

Goldstone

Goldstone is has many health benefits. It improves skeletal conditions such as osteoporosis and arthritis. It also boosts blood circulation resulting in improved general organ function. Goldstone is also useful for empowerment when pulled into uncertain situations.

Green Aventurine

Green Aventurine is a calming crystal that pacifies irritability. It is good for mental health issues and also protects against harmful electromagnetic energy arising from electrical devices.

Green Agate

Green Agate diffuses negativity. It is useful to wear during stressful times to protect against negative energy. It will also calm bitterness and regret during and after traumatic experiences. It will assist with cognitive function and help to make wise life choices. Green stripe Agate is associated with the heart chakra.

Hematite

Hematite has protective qualities and promotes strength and self confidence. It will assist with coping during stressful situations and will pacify anxiety. Negativity energy is reflected and transformed into positivity by this crystal. It is associated with the root chakra.

Lapis Lazuli

Associated with the throat chakra, Lapis Lazuli enhances psychic ability and helps the wearer achieve a deeper level of meditation and higher spiritual state of enlightenment. It is said to assist in opening the third eye.

Malachite

Malachite is a stone of protection. It is good to wear when travelling or when faced with physical difficulty. It also provides confidence, stability and clarity of mind. It will enable wise business or money related choices leading to success in current and new ventures.

Mookaite

Mookaite is a stone of empowerment, enabling a shy person to put themselves forward. It also has a balancing aspect, whereby it embraces new beginnings while still providing grounding. It is good for starting a new career path or project and for socialising.

Morganite

Morganite is associated with the heart chakra. It attracts true enduring love and encourages long term affection. It provides comfort and reassurance for the wearer and empowers their compassionate and empathic abilities. It also aids and heals bonding between family members, such as parent child relationships.

Opal

Opal is known to enhance your spiritual, psychic and physical energy, making you stronger and more easily able to connect with the spirit world. It will encourage your intuition ability. It is also good to have near when meditating as it is linked with opening the third eye and will enable achieveing a deeper level of meditation.

Pink Zebra Jasper

Pink Zebra Jasper is a beautiful stone that absorbs and balances energy and redistributes it in a more auspicious manner, which in turn helps to alleviate mood swings. It is good for reducing the symptoms of rosacea and other skin conditions, and also kidney and bladder problems. It is associated with the root chakra.

Polychrome Jasper

Polychrome Jasper is a grounding crystal enabling stability and balance. Its connection with the fire element enhances passion and vivacity, making it good for improving relationships. It is also good for boosting creative energy and artistic ability.

Rainbow Fluorite

Rainbow Fluorite is good to use when learning a new skill or sport as it enhances focus, coordination and stability. It encourages confidence and creates a sense of calm clarity. It also clears the aura of negative energy and attracts positive energy.

Red Agate

Red Agate is also referred to as fire Agate and has multiple healing functions, including reducing lethargy by increasing energy levels, aiding with cognitive function, especially decision making skills, and enhancing self-confidence, determination, patience and courage. It will enable the wearer to take control during uncertain times. It can also bring desire and attraction. Red Agate enhances the meditative state by aiding the mind to reach a deeper level of consciousness.

Red Aventurine

A gentle fire colour, red aventurine assists with fighting fatigue. It will help with building physical stamina and strength and improve energy levels. It also enhances and enables the manifestation of intentions.

Red Jasper

Red Jasper balances the physical self and spiritual self enabling the two to be in harmony. It is also a good crystal for healing nervous disorders and mental health issues. It pacifies irritability and provides stability.

Rose Quartz

Rose quartz is the stone of love. It is delicate pink and is thought to attract love. It can also help reduce anxiety and stress, calm irritability and envy, and help heal issues relating to the heart.

Selenite

Selenite is crystal for protection from negative energies. It also attracts positive vibrations into your life, giving rise to good opportunities and beneficial circumstances. It is associated with the Crown Chakra and enhances spiritual ability. It also aids cognitive function and helps with memory problems.

Serpentine

Serpentine is a protective stone that can provide a strong shield against negativity affecting the wearer. It can help to connect to memories of past lives and assist with cognitive and memory problems. It will also increase cognitive function and direct the wearer towards wiser decisions. It will direct healing to damaged parts of the body and promote recovery.

Snow Quartz

Snow quartz is the feminine divine. This stone aids cognitive function and clarity, enabling the easier mastery of a new skill or fulfilling purposeful intent. It is also good for memory problems. It enhances awareness of the natural world around us and allows us to focus on its beauty.

Sodalite

Sodalite is a powerful crystal for enhancing thought processes and cognitive function. It is useful to keep it in close proximity during exam times and interviews and times when you are being tested. It also increases spiritual awareness and intuition.

Strawberry Quartz

Strawberry Quartz provides calm peace of mind and support. It encourages self-love and self-belief and is good at removing negativity. It will enhance spiritual awareness and an openness to new ideas and opportunities.

Tigers Eye

Tigers Eye is good for fatigue. It promotes physical activity and a feeling of wellness, prompting self-belief, confidence and achievement. It provides the wearer with strength of purpose and stamina.

Tourmaline Quartz

Tourmaline Quartz is part Black Tourmaline and part Clear Quartz, which makes it multi-purposeful. It brings good fortune and has strong protective qualities by shielding against negative energy. It also provides stability and grounding and is good for anxiety, to help calm the mind, especially during stressful times.

Unakite

Unakite is a good crystal for opening the third eye and prophecy. It can increase psychic power and make dreams more vivid when sleeping. It will provide stability and focus while meditating.

White Howlite

White Howlite is known to help with insomnia, settling a busy mind, and also with relaxing the muscles and releasing muscular pain. It can be very grounding, promoting confidence in the self, by removing self-doubt and negativity.

White Labradorite

White Labradorite is a perfect crystal for enhancing a creative nature and giving confidence to follow through a project. It shields you from negativity and attracts light into your life, making it good for protection. It also increases courage and empathic abilities, and can help with insomnia as it helps settle a racing mind.

Zebra Jasper

Zebra Jasper can absorb and unite positive energies and re-direct them to where they are needed in the body. It is good for skin problems such as rosacea and also bladder and kidney issues. Zebra Jasper is associated with the root chakra and assists with grounding.

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