Simple guide of Magickal Stones...

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Simple guide of Magickal Stones...

There are two things to remember when you go exploring new stones: 

1) Almost everyone has at least one stone that does something very different for them than that type does for most people.  You may find that a “grounding” stone works as a battery for you, or vice versa.  Expect the unexpected.  
2) Almost everyone has at least one stone they can’t stand.  A mundane person might simply dislike it; a Pagan sensitive to magickal energy often discovers that such stones “bite” or “burn” when handled.  Avoid those.

Agate:  (All colors, usually shades of red, brown, gray, and white; often banded or spotted.)  Grants courage and reduces fear; quickens metabolism, alleviates insomnia, strengthens body and mind; conveys longevity & courage; reduces fear.  Individual types of agates can have their own qualities, such as moss agate for gardening magick.

Alexandrite:  (Green to yellow; also known as chrysoberyl.) Attracts luck.  Aids regeneration; heals ailments of nervous system, spleen, and pancreas.

Amber:  (Almost always yellow to orange, but rarely red or pale green.)  Enhances fertility and attractiveness; conveys protection and longevity, guards health; used for connecting with the element of Spirit.

Amazonite:  (Light bluish-green.)  Soothes nervous system, strengthens heart and body; promotes honor and integrity, helps express inner truths, aids in identifying and removing flaws.

Amethyst:  (Lavender to deep purple.)  Controls harmful behavior, encourages sobriety, calms addictions & harmful behavior; enhances awareness of divinity; brings sleep and pleasant dreams; eases headaches; excellent all-around healing and magickal stone; aids right-brain activity.

Anthill Stones:  (Usually black or brown to white.)  Enhance memory, clear emotional baggage; best filler material for rattles used in healing rituals.

Aquamarine:  (Pale blue.)  Cleanses and purifies; promotes peace, especially in relationships; enhances psychic abilities; conveys courage and alertness; ideal for connecting with the element of Water.

Aventurine:  (Rich green.)  Brings tranquility and opens opportunities; cleanses mental, emotional, and etheric bodies; speeds healing and promotes growth; boosts creativity and intelligence; good general healing stone.

Azeztulite:  (Clear to shimmery white.)  The stone of guardian angels – or the guardian angel of stones – this one raises vibration, stimulates consciousness, and helps project an aura of positive energy.  Perfect for maintaining high spirits in the face of a daunting diagnosis.

Barite:  (Most often white to gray; or shades of yellow, brown, blue, or red.)  Controls and preserves energy.  Aids in understanding natural energy flows; generates sense of warmth to alleviate shivering due to fever or chill.  Lifts depression and brings inspiration.

Beryl:  (Clear, blue to green, pink to red, or yellow.)  Quickens mind, sends energy into body, & relieves laziness.

Bloodstone:  (Dark or bright green with crimson flecks.)  Speeds clotting & treats blood ailments; aids conception, prevents miscarriages, & eases childbirth; grants endurance & longevity; removes physical & emotional blockages; activates potential; excellent general healing stone.

Calcite, Blue:  (Pale to medium blue.)  Opens chakras, dissolves emotional & energetic blockages, encourages spontaneity; use in rituals with blue or purple candles.  Other colors of calcite have their own properties.

Carnelian:  (Typically orange, but anywhere from yellow to red.)  Promotes concentration, boosts self-esteem and leadership, stimulates action; counteracts doubt and negative thoughts; relieves sexual tension, soothes unresolved anger and hatred, addresses death and rebirth, enhances creativity; boosts self-esteem and leadership, strong healer; ideal for processing passionate emotions of all kinds; also perfect for connecting with the element Fire.

Catlinite (Pipestone):  (Brick to pinkish red.)  Used to make the sacred pipe used in powerful Lakota ceremonies for healing & purification; beads or figurines used for similar purposes in other cultures.

Charoite: (Streaky lavender to deep violet.)  Treats sleep disorders by preventing nightmares and facilitating REM sleep with pleasant dream content.  Disperses negativity, aids in releasing old fears and recalling past lives.

Chrysoprase:  (Pale apple-green.)  Disperses stress, greed, envy, and selfishness; promotes happiness, luck, success, protection, and friendship; brings tranquility, heals heartbreak.

Coral:  (Typically pale to dark pink, sometimes red or white.)  Attracts love; grants protection; guards against accidents, poison, theft, sterility, and violence; dispels foolishness, panic, and depression; regulates menstrual cycles.

Diamond:  (Many colors including smoky brown, pink, and blue; usually clear.)  Supports meditation and spiritual growth; builds confidence in dealing with members of the opposite sex, ensures fidelity, and reconciles arguments between lovers; aids brain function and alignment of cranial bones; grants strength, daring, and endurance; dissolves blockages in personality or crown chakra; promotes attention, discernment, receptivity, and faith; conveys physical invulnerability; widely useful in magical pursuits; good for connecting with the element of Air.

Dioptase:  (Brilliant green.)  Vitalizes body & mind; grants conviction & courage; promotes forgiveness, creativity, prosperity, and health; use with healing affirmations.

Emerald:  (Deep to milky green.)  Brings success in financial and business matters; attracts love; strengthens memory; controls nocturnal emissions in men; relieves tired or sore eyes.

Flint:  (White to gray, brown to black; rarely bluish or reddish.)  Cures headaches; flint arrowheads protect against stroke; encourages boldness, loyalty, self-reliance; use to light fires/candles for magical rituals; also used in some shamanic rituals.

Garnet:  (Usually rich burgundy, rarely brilliant green.)  Grants strength and endurance; aligns subtle bodies; provides extra energy for ritual purposes; stimulates all passions, so avoid using this stone when angry.

Granite:  (White to gray, or pink to red.)  A sophisticated stone of great durability; its hardness and use in monuments give it correspondences to strength, endurance, and memory.

Hematite:  (Dark metallic gray or black.)  Aids neutrality and coping with indefinites; boosts resistance to stress; concentrates energy; strengthens physical and etheric bodies; draws illness out of body; powerful stone for grounding, focusing, and stabilizing; also good for scrying or connecting with the element of Earth; energizes root chakra.

Holy Stone:  (Any color; usually brown or gray.)  An otherwise ordinary rock with a natural hole through it, formed by bubbles or rubbing against other objects.  Ideal for grounding; peek through the hole to see faeries or other invisible creatures.

Howlite:  (Marbled white to gray.)  Deepens sleep, brings a sense of safety and peace; soothes agitated babies; very gentle.

Jade:  (Most often pale to deep green; also white, yellow, black, or red; sometimes streaked or spotted.) Conveys longevity, wisdom, and practicality; quiets mind; promotes prosperity and attracts wealth; improves gardening success; draws love; aids childbirth; prevents disease; helps body heal itself by working through underlying causes of illness; good general stone for physical and mental well-being.

Jasper, Green:  (Dark green.)  Represents Earth, grants luck in monetary trades.  Use with green candles to promote healing or prevent illness; enhances empathy & compassion; comforts grief; powerful in amulets; ideal healer's stone for counselors and therapists.

Jasper, Red:  (Rich earthy red to orange.)  Good for grounding, strength, and communion.  Energizing & aggressively protective; good for women's health in general; carry during healing spells.

Kunzite:  (Pink to purple.)  Activates heart chakra, aligns chakras, and deepens meditation.  Encourages emotional maturity and sensuality, mends emotional and spiritual damage.  Powerful relaxant.

Lapis:  (Medium to dark blue, often with white streaks and/or golden flecks.)  Relieves depression and grief; opens soul and stimulates gentleness; strengthens psychic awareness; activates throat & third eye chakras; brings vitality, courage, self-knowledge, virility, and insight.

Lava Rock:  (Any color; usually black or earthy red.)  Rough chunks of solidified lava, these rocks make a perfect representation of the element Fire.  Good for endurance, secrecy, and passion.

Limestone:  (Usually white to gray, sometimes yellow to brown or black.)  This type of rock appears in many ancient and modern henges, dolmens, and other stone monuments.  Relatively durable, it’s not too hard to work, but is subject to chemical weathering from acid rain.  Limestone honors the Ancestors and fosters community spirit.

Malachite:  (Banded pale, medium, and dark green.)  Guards against physical dangers, especially falls; provides extra energy during magical rites; expands wearer’s ability to love and thereby attracts love to wearer; relaxes and calms turbulent emotions, brings sleep; draws customers to a business; ideal salesman’s stone.

Marble:  (Normally white, often patterned; can be black, green, or yellow to brown.)  The quintessential artist’s stone, it is ideal for outdoor statuary; it inspires creativity and love of beauty.  Also good for dealing with change.

Moldavite:  (Dark green.) Quiets the senses; allows deeper levels of conscious awareness, good for biofeedback; balancing and healing for mind/body; facilitates transformations, radical growth, and personal evolution; cleanses all chakras; reputed "Stone of the Holy Grail;" superlative stone for healers.

Moonstone:  (Usually opalescent white; sometimes pale pink, orange, green, blue, or gray.)  Nurtures, comforts, and brings sleep; mends disputes between partners; improves gardening success; regulates female cycles; gently protective; use for hypnotherapy & other trancework, reprogramming habits, and divination/diagnosis; best for working with lunar or women’s mysteries.

 

Obsidian, Black:  (Translucent or opaque gray to black.)  Calms and comforts; aids grounding and centering; conveys protection; another good stone for connecting with the element of Earth.

Obsidian, Snowflake:  (Black with white spots.)  Aids decision-making and helps connect mind & emotions; gentle grounding and centering, seals aura against outside influences; excellent for all kinds of balancing and polarity work.

Onyx:  (Black, white, or shades of brown; may be solid or banded.)  Grants protection, useful in psychic self-defense; controls sexual impulses.

Opal, Precious:  (White, black, or orange with flecks of multicolored fire.)  Brings luck; enhances and reveals inner beauty; conveys invisibility and aids astral travel; enhances recall of past lives; wear in earrings or barrettes to keep hair healthy; useful in all healing work, especially for diagnosing problems as the colors fade when stone passes over a troubled spot on body or aura; fragile, cracks if hit or if wearer is in danger; easy to program for various purposes; resonates with all chakras; can be programmed for any magical purpose or element.

Pearl:  (Usually white, but occasionally pink, blue, lavender, bronze, even black.)  Spreads loving vibrations and encourages a happy marriage; attracts wealth and luck; guards against shark attack or fire; lengthens life; promotes fertility, health, and courage; excellent for lunar workings or for connecting with the element of Water.  Black pearl teaches "enough is plenty."

Peridot:  (Light green.)  Calms anger and attracts love; protects against enchantments, illusions, and night terrors; stimulates growth, soothes nerves, and absorbs stress; heals insect bites; bestows recuperative powers, helping recover from physical, emotional, or spiritual trauma; aligns subtle bodies; strong receiver and transmitter of healing energy; especially good for healing the healers, treating burnout; promotes financial success.

Pietersite:  (Streaky blue, gold, and brown.)  Powerful energizer enhances strength, courage, and willpower.  Purifies the body and personal energy by balancing all the Elements in the dynamic “storm” formation.  Banishes lethargy.  Repairs damaged boundaries.

Quartz, Citrine:  (Pale yellow to deep brown.)  Removes fear, brings peaceful sleep, prevents nightmares; facilitates psychic awareness.

Quartz, Clear:  (Clear to faintly milky, often with veils or other internal features.)  Brings clarity, quickens mind, opens & clears third eye; facilitates psychic powers; removes physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual blockages; used in divination, especially for diagnosis; most versatile stone, the "blank disk" of magical gems; dedicated amplifier; receives, stores, focuses, transmits, and boosts energy.

Quartz, Rose:  (Pale to medium pink.)  Calms emotions, enhances empathy, and heals emotional wounds; releases stored anger, fear, jealousy, guilt, resentment; brings forgiveness; promotes peace, happiness, and fidelity in established relationships; relieves sexual and emotional imbalances; emits unconditional love; ideal warm-fuzzy beginner's stone, very safe and gentle.

Quartz, Smoky:  (Pale to dark gray or brown.)  Soothes nerves, mildly relaxing, fosters gentle detachment from emotions; heals ancestors and problems rooted in distant past; grounding, centering, and stabilizing; opens lower world of soul and accesses subconscious mind.

Rhodocrosite:  (Pink.)  Boosts energy; reconciles upper & lower chakras and integrates personality aspects for greater harmony; excellent for "inner child" healings.

River Rock:  (Any color; usually brown or gray.)  Smooth rocks taken from a river can be used as rune stones or representations of the element Water.

Ruby:  (All shades of red, sometimes pinkish or purplish.)  Attracts wealth and love; protects against sadness, enemies, negativity, hostile entities, plague, famine, and wounds in battle; strengthens wearer’s own psychic defenses; brings joy, willpower, and confidence; star rubies are especially good for protection and divination.

Sandstone:  (Cream, yellow to brown, gray to black.)  A sedimentary rock, usually rather soft.  Aids concentration, fosters sense of community, encourages the building of resources over time.  Ideal for synchronicity and coincidence control.

Sapphire:  (Usually dark blue; rarely clear, yellow, or pink.)  Dispels confusion; promotes chastity and positive social interactions; stimulates third eye and psychic awareness; banishes envy and promotes congenial relationships between lovers, friends, or even enemies; soothes by cooling the inner heat; returns negativity to sender; protects wearer from captivity; banishes fraud and supports in legal matters; star sapphires are more potent for magical applications.

Seraphinite (Chlorite):  (Dark green streaked with white.)  Strengthens connection to physical body; repairs dysfunctional patterns; accesses & decodes DNA energy patterns; use for sensing & treating energy disorders, blockages, & separations; best stone for curing physical disease related to alternate lifetimes.

Sodalite:  (Deep blue veined with white.)  Clears & deepens thought; activates third eye; slows emotional reactions, allowing time for thought; absorbs shock, mildly grounding; aids meditation and brings wisdom.

Sugilite:  (Medium to dark purple.)  Increases awareness of spiritual realms, enhances psychic and intuitive abilities; reduces stress; heals painful emotions, tames instincts, releases old habits; stimulates crown chakra and third eye.

Tiger’s Eye:  (Typically gold banded with brown and black; occasionally blue or green banded with black.)  Defends against all forms of danger; strengthens convictions and grants courage; promotes energy flow and warmth in the body; strong attractor of money and success; powerful solar stone.

Topaz, Gold:  (Pale to deep yellow.)  Focuses Will and aids manifestation; guards against intrigue, injury, sudden death, negative magic, and accidents; relieves disturbing emotions; aids weight loss; opens navel chakra; warming and stimulating.

Topaz, Blue:  (Pale to medium blue.)  Enhances mental processes and verbal skills.  Wards off enchantment.  Dispels sadness.

Tourmaline, Blue:  (Pale to dark blue.)  Relieves stress, aids sleep; soothes discord and doubt, purifies emotions, aligns subtle bodies; opens throat chakra; strong electromagnetic field.  Other colors of tourmaline have their own qualities.

Tourmaline, Watermelon:  (Pink and green combined, ideally the former inside the latter.)  Balances projective/receptive and male/female energies; attracts love; soothes situations of extreme conflict; promotes tolerance; opens root and heart chakras.

Turquoise:  (Sky blue, sometimes with a greenish tint; may have brown streaks or spots.)  Bestows health and happiness on the receiver when given as a gift; attracts new friends and promotes marital harmony by encouraging two people to blend with each other; guards against snakes, violence, poison, accidents, and falls; promotes empathy, removes boundaries, restores faith & wholeness, and aligns chakras; use in meditative rituals with blue candles; good for connecting with the element Air.

Vivianite:  (Deep blue or green to black.)  Aids memory and understanding of deep time.  Grants patience; gives energy to see a long task through to completion.  Relieves negative mental/emotional states; lifts depression.  Prevents mind from damaging body.

Zincite:  (Deep red to orange, sometimes yellow or brown.)  Stimulates lower chakras, enhances vitality, creativity, and personal power.  Facilitates higher brain functions.

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