These are some interpretations of some of our favorite crystals Our collection is ever expanding so stay tuned for updates and new additions!
Amethyst:
Amethyst is known to be a very powerful and protective crystal, and is a first choice of many metaphysicians. Amethyst was used in ancient times to recover from both physical addictions as well as addictive relationships, and became known as the “stone of sobriety”. A natural stress reliever or relaxation piece, Amethyst can encourage inner strength.
The strong healing energy of Amethyst can transmute lower vibrations to higher frequencies, transforming and transmuting negative energy back into love energy.
Amethyst connects the physical plane with higher realms, making it a wonderful choice when working with the Third Eye Chakra. Amethyst also provides a wonderful peaceful energy for meditations, and helps with developing intuition and/or psychic abilities.
Amethyst opens and activates the Crown Chakra as well, allowing easier access to the divine or connection with creator. Amethyst enhances spiritual awareness and spiritual wisdom, promoting a higher state of consciousness and understanding. Amethyst clears and repairs holes in the aura and draws in Divine energy, as well as aligning and facilitating cooperation between the energy bodies and helping to align the chakras.
Aquamarine:
Aquamarine resonates with the energy of water, helping the holder to connect with the nature spirits of flowing water. Sailors carried Aquamarine in ancient times to promote safe travel on the water and to protect against drowning. The soothing energy of Aquamarine makes it a perfect crystal for calming fears and phobias.
Aquamarine is sometimes referred to as a “Stone of Courage and Protection”. Used often with the Throat Chakra, Aquamarine can be used to promote all types of verbal self-expression. It is often used to enhance spiritual communication and can be used to clear away any and all blockages of the throat chakra. Aquamarine is also used to align all of the chakras of ones being and enhance their aura. The metaphysical properties of Aquamarine make it a superb stone for the spiritual initiate.
Physically, Aquamarine helps to improve or heal ailments of the throat, including the thyroid and pituitary, and can help to ameliorate diseases of the liver. Aquamarine is also though to help with allergies by calming an overactive immune system, as well as assisting with other autoimmune disorders.
Aquamarine in Smoky Quartz:
This combination stone is all about "Breaking Through". It grows in such a way that as it grows it breaks through and away from the host rock (smoky quartz).
Bloodstone is known to be a powerful healing stone and has been used for thousands of years for its healing properties. It is often used to purify and detoxify ones body. It can both ground negative energy and cleanse the body of energy blockages. It also brings love into any situation and helps ground the negative energies surrounding said issue. Bloodstone assists in enhancing the functions of the mind, bringing clarity and understanding to subjects that were otherwise unfamiliar.
Bloodstone has been used even to increase energy and strength by creating smooth and constant energy flow throughout ones body. Physically, Bloodstone is an energy cleanser, purifying ones blood and detoxifying the liver, kidneys and spleen. It benefits all blood rich organs and in crystal healings has been used to regulate blood flow. Bloodstone cleanses lower chakras and energizes them.
Was once used in ancient times to protect the dead in their journey to afterlife. Carnelian helps to calm the fears about death and rebirth, bringing about serenity and acceptance of the great cycle of life. Carnelian is known to be a powerful Sacral Chakra Stone. It increases personal power and physical energy, gives courage, and facilitates creativity and compassion. Wearing or carrying Carnelian can even enhance vitality and will, providing higher energy needed when approaching new projects and dreams.
Mentally, Carnelian focuses analytical capabilities, and aids meditation by allowing deeper concentration and keeping out the usual interrupting thoughts. Carnelian is useful in making decisions by keeping us focused on the here and now and not on past experiences or getting lost in potentiality. Carnelian calms anger and grounds you in reality, while keeping you aware of the unconditional Love permeating the Universe. Carnelian encourages initiative, drive, direction, and determination.
Physically, Carnelian increases personal power, personal drive, and physical energy. Carnelian potentially can even ease PMS and menopausal symptoms as well as assisting in the areas of fertility and potency.
Extremely popular metaphysically, Clear Quartz is considered the most versatile healing stone among all crystals. Quartz is the most powerful healing stone of the mineral kingdom, able to work on just about any condition. Clear Quartz is known as the stone of power and amplifies any energy and/or intention. Clear Quartz protects against negativity, attunes to your higher self, and can assist in relieving pain.
Clear Quartz has been shown to enhance and/or strengthen the aura. As gifts from our Mother Earth, Clear Quartz comes to us with all sorts of information for the higher self to assimilate in the process of one's spiritual growth. Clear Quartz is often used to cleanse, open, activate, and even align all of the chakras. Since Clear Quartz absorbs energies very easily, it is important to clear these stones on a semi-daily basis.
In natural form, Clear Quartz Points radiate their energies outward, into the surrounding area. Clear Quartz can be programmed with intention and kept in a central place to emit its helpful/programmed energies. Quartz Points naturally form into a 6-sided (hexagon) shape. The Sacred Geometry of a 6-sided Clear Quartz Point contributes to its ability to magnify or enhance energetic vibrations. Quartz Points are wonderful crystals to use with any type of meditation or energy work, including Reiki, table work, and even Energy Grids.
Citrine, merely by being placed in the sun, warms and energizes and particular space it happens to be in. Citrine surprisingly never needs to be cleared, making it a great tool for transmuting negative energy. Citrine is often used as a MANIFESTATION Stone, it will connect to your power centers and bring your into action or burn what is stopping you. Often known as an Abundance stone, Citrine helps feeling abundant which facilitates the manifestation of the desires. Citrine can assist in heightening one’s self-discipline, attracting professional success and wealth. Most often associated with the Solar Plexus Chakra, Citrine can also be used to cleanse and clear all Chakras. Citrine will help support the energy of a family environment whether you have it at work or at home.
Physically, Citrine can support and enhance healing for the spine, the digestive and elimination organs, and even the metabolism. Citrine can facilitate detoxification and can even stimulate circulation. Often used for chronic fatigue, Citrine has a reputation of being able to increase one’s energy and drive. This property can also help those who are trying to lose weight, by encouraging one to be optimistic about accomplishing their goals.
NOTE: There are two varieties of Citrine on the market. The first, most common variety is heat treated in order to obtain a brighter golden yellow/orange color. Heat-treated or "enhanced" Citrine is known to be a very popular and useful stone. The intensity of the color brings about an additional intensity to the stone within itself.
The second type of Citrine is naturally occurring Citrine. This Citrine has not been enhanced in any way; in fact, it is the same color as it was coming out of the earth. Natural Citrine, which is a pale, golden color, is not as abundant as its "enhanced" brother stone. Natural Citrine provides for powerful healing on many different levels and carries a cleaner, more fluid/smoother vibration.
Fluorite is known to be a highly protective and stabilizing stone, useful for grounding and harmonizing spiritual energy. When working with the upper Chakras, Fluorite can assist in increasing intuitive abilities, linking the human mind to universal consciousness, and developing connection to Spirit. Fluorite further anchors intuitive insights into the physical plane, allowing for both mental and physical coordination. A popular stone among energy healers, Fluorite can also help clear the aura of mucky energies.
Fluorite heightens mental abilities, assisting in rapid organization and processing of information and can bring mental clarity and stability to an otherwise chaotic situation or mindset. Fluorite absorbs negative energies from the environment and is effective at both Auric and Chakra cleansing. Fluorite can also help shield the user from psychic manipulation. Due to its powerful ability to absorb negative energies, Fluorite should be cleared or cleansed often.
Physically, Fluorite is also known to strengthen bones and teeth, and ameliorate the pain associated with arthritis. Fluorite is also used to enhance or facilitate mental functions by balancing the chemistry in the brain.
In addition to the general metaphysical uses of Fluorite, there are unique properties associated with the different colors/varieties of Fluorite. Rainbow Fluorite is known to exhibit a combination of these properties:
Green Fluorite can assist in accessing ones intuition. Green Fluorite can even ground and absorb excess energy, including environmental energies. Use Green Fluorite to cleanse and renew ones chakras. A wonderful healing stone!
When used with the Third Eye Chakra, Blue Fluorite brings about spiritual awaking and clear communication between the physical and spiritual planes. When used with the Throat Chakra, Blue Fluorite aids in orderly communication of intuitive insights. The calming, serene energy of Blue Fluorite brings inner peace.
Purple Fluorite can even help stimulate the Third Eye Chakra and help connect one with their psychic intuition. Use Purple Fluorite when you want to really focus solely on the expression of Spirit, and communicate precisely its messages. Vibrates to the Master Number 77.
Yellow Fluorite brings about understanding and manifestation to intuitions. A stone of unity, Yellow Fluorite harmonizes group energy and enhances ones creativity. It’s an excellent detox stone!
Use Clear, colorless Fluorite with the Crown Chakra to bring about a merging of personal and spiritual energies. Clear Fluorite aligns all of the chakras, and helps you see what is holding you back in your spiritual evolution.
Garnet:
The flash and fire of Garnet inspires a sense of lightness and brightness, illuminating dark places and even dark souls. Garnet is a good stone for depression, bringing joy and hope to its user, and helps lessen anger, especially when it is directed towards oneself. Garnet’s fire stimulates the survival instinct, bringing willpower and courage to the forefront. Garnet will quickly “light a fire” under you, bringing those internalized ideas and feeling you have to the surface to be acted upon rather than letting them go to waste via procrastination and laziness.
Powerful Garnet can be used to cleanse the chakras of negative energies and re-energize them. Use Garnet to balance the Sacral Chakra and sex drive, and to aid in the controlled rise of ones Kundalini energy. Garnet inspires love and passion, devotion and even loyalty. A stone of commitment, Garnet encourages personal relationships of all kinds, and is a useful relationship aid regardless of if it is used in the home or the workplace.
Green Aventurine comforts, harmonizes, protects the heart, and can even help attract love later in life. It is one of the premier stones to attract luck, abundance and/or success. Green Aventurine has a particularly soothing energy behind it, and is recommended for working through or on unresolved emotional issues.
Green Aventurine is a great piece to use when working with the Heart Chakra and/or the element of water. Green Aventurine is known as the good luck stone and is often used in rituals with green candles, or kept in cash boxes or drawers to attract money or wealth.
You can also use Green Aventurine for gridding a home, office, or workspace. Green Aventurine is commonly known as a “stone of personal growth”, and offers opportunities for learning about oneself and for learning about one's place in the universe.
Physically, Green Aventurine is an all around healing stone with benefits for the lungs, liver, sinuses, and even the heart. Use Green Aventurine to loosen and release negativity and energy clogs, including disease. Some wear or carry Green Aventurine to increase intelligence, perception and/or creativity. Some have even been known to use Green Aventurine to improve their eyesight!
Known as a gentle healer, Green Fluorite will detoxify and energize all of the chakras, especially when placed on or over the Heart or Throat chakra. It allows us to heal from heart-based issues, whether they be emotional or physical. It enhances intuition and can help bring order out of chaos. Green Fluorite dispels negative energy, especially from the environment, such as electromagnetic smog from computers, televisions, etc. It then reenergizes the area.
Green Fluorite, like all the Fluorites, keeps you on track and focused on the job at hand, whether it is work related or even if used to help with studying for exams. Keep it with you if you find your mind wandering often. It can even gently encourage struggling students.
The color of growth and renewal, Green Fluorite can enhance personal growth and insights in your day to day life. Use Green Fluorite to connect to nature spirits, especially those of the water. It can enhance the garden and attract butterflies and sometimes even hummingbirds. Use it to enhance the environment where pollution and decay are most commonly found and/or present.
Physically, Green Fluorite enhances the immune system, increases cell regeneration and assimilates vital nutrients into the body. It helps bones and teeth, and can even ease arthritis. Green Fluorite heals scars, both emotional as well as physical ones. It can assist or help with sore throats, ulcers, stomach upsets, and insomnia.
Kyanite, Black:
Black Kyanite aids in the manifesting ones vision and clairvoyance. Full of healing energy, Black Kyanite is a favorite among energy healers, and is especially helpful in grid work when utilized in body layouts. Black Kyanite can be placed on any chakra to send healing energy to any tears or holes in the chakras or in the aura of an individual. Its fan shape can help to sweep away any unwanted, perhaps even congested energies.
Black Kyanite can also facilitate the repairing of bridges of communication between people. Keeping a piece with you can help out in situations of conflict, confusion, or misunderstanding.
Black Kyanite can be used for grounding during a chakra alignment or meditation. It tends to work with all Chakras, but tends to be the most useful when used over or on the Root Chakra. Many crystal healers like it because it can be both a great grounding stone but also an energizing one at the same time. Meditating with Black Kyanite can help one to come up with important insights resulting from exploration of the inner workings of the subconscious mind. Often used to explore past-lives, Black Kyanite can also help one to approach new situations with a wisdom of the old, as to not falter when faced with challenges one has already conquered before, even if it appears to be something foreign or new.
In general, Kyanite is a popular metaphysical stone, which will not hold onto negative energy, and thus never needs to be cleared. Kyanite aligns all of the chakras, and can be used to open and even energize them as well. Kyanite also aligns all the layers of the aura. This makes Kyanite an excellent choice for any variety of balance or energy work.
Kyanite brings about a calming, tranquilizing energy to the body. Kyanite clears and calms you in preparation for meditation, and assists in receiving intuitive and psychic thoughts, as well as recollection of ones dreams. Kyanite restores Qi (or Ki) to the physical body, and balances the energies of ones yin/yang.
Kyanite, Blue:
Blue Kyanite is a great stone for working with the Throat Chakra and communication issues. Blue Kyanite helps to speak one’s truth with clarity, making it a great stone for diplomats, singers, public speakers, and even teachers. Blue Kyanite is also useful for healing ailments of the throat and voice. Blue Kyanite also facilitates an alignment of all the subtle bodies, creating a larger and a more balanced aura.
Blue Kyanite is ideal for the third eye chakra. It can pull very high vibrations in through this chakra to be processed as messages from other realms or planes. It can also transfer a high vibration, allowing for an opening of psychic abilities, especially when one meditates. Blue Kyanite can also be used to promote lucid dreaming, out of body experiences, and astral travel.
In general, Kyanite is a popular metaphysical stone, which will not hold negative energy, and thus never needs to be cleansed or cleared. Kyanite aligns all of the chakras, and can even be used to open all of them as well. Kyanite also aligns all layers of ones aura. This makes Kyanite an excellent choice for practically any type of balance or energy work.
Kyanite brings about a calming, tranquilizing energy to the body. Kyanite clears and calms you in preparation for meditation, and assists in receiving intuitive and psychic thoughts, as well as recollection of ones dreams. Kyanite restores Qi (or Ki) to the physical body, and balances the energies of ones yin/yang.
Lemurian Seed crystals connect with both the crown and solar star chakra. These are master crystals found within the crystal kingdom. It is believed that in the last days of Lemuria, special seed crystals were placed where crystalline growths were expected to form within the Earth, enabling them to transmit frequencies to other crystals that were created within the Earth. These crystals resonate with energies of love, unity, connectedness, and equality. They align themselves and are attracted to those who are endeavoring to anchor energies to help the planet now.
These crystals are programmed and infused with the Lemurian consciousness vibration. Working with these stones facilitate the feelings of the emotional and spiritual awareness of the Lemurians. Connecting with these crystals can open up the heart and create a deep emotional healing that will allow you to connect more to your true self.
Lemurian Seed crystals generate a very feminine or what can be perceived as yin energy. They act to open the energy of the soul and provide a bridge to higher frequencies and higher realms, creating a higher level of consciousness. They instill feelings of harmony, connectedness, and ease. The energies they emit are of pure love, helping you feel at one with your inner self and others.
Holding a Lemurian seed crystal in your right hand while you walk around and encircle an individual, property or and object is known to create a circle of light and protection. They sooth and nurture and can benefit everyone and are great helpers for healing work. They can help you attune to those higher energies and higher planes of existence.
Known as a stone of transition, Lepidolite can help shift and restructure old energy patterns, bringing light and hope to any situation. Use Lepidolite to reduce stress associated with changes. Lepidolite brings about balance and inner peace, helping one to see reasons behind any negative experiences, so they can improve on them. Lepidolite promotes spiritual transcendence and/or cosmic awareness particularly assisting in the course of meditation and/or prayer.
The soothing energy of Lepidolite can even be used to help those suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Lepidolite can even be an ally to a parent of a child with ADHD, or hyperactivity. Sleep disorders, such as insomnia can be greatly reduced by utilizing or using Lepidolite. Ameliorating ailments involving the nervous system, Lepidolite can help those with both Alzheimer's and even epilepsy. Lepidolite contains trace amounts of Lithium, which explains why it is can helpful for achieving emotional balance. Due to its Lithium content, Lepidolite carries the benefit of clearing away depression after the emotion has served its purpose in one's personal growth and development.
Lepidolite is good for helping to absorb electromagnetic pollution and is said to work best for this when it is placed next to the computer.
Pyrite is known to be a very protective stone, shielding the user from negative energy of all kinds. Pyrite blocks energy leaks and mends auric tears in ones field. Carry pyrite in your pocket to protect you from both environmental pollution and emotional storms. Used on the Third Eye, Pyrite strengthens both mental abilities and awareness of higher forms of knowledge. Pyrite also promotes good physical health and emotional well-being when used.
Traditionally, Pyrite is known as a stone of luck, helping to attract abundance, wealth and prosperity to the user, through its creative energies of manifestation, and its encouragement of following one's dreams. This quality makes Pyrite superb for grid work and rituals. Pyrite not only deflects negative energies, but also helps to release negative pent up energies and inhibiting patterns of behavior. Pyrite can enhance one's will during challenging times and supports the action necessary for personal growth, development, and success. Meditation with Pyrite can encourage greater frequency in moments of inspiration, and its grounding action allows these higher frequencies to be grounded and tethered into the physical world.
Pyrite is also known to promote good physical health and emotional balance. Pyrite is helpful for any type of infection and can purify the systems of the body and help return them to their optimal states. Pyrite can be used to bring a feeling of increased vitality during times of emotional friction or work related stress. Pyrite is also a great tool for balancing one's energetic fields. If you are feeling overworked lately, with no end in sight, then Pyrite might be just right for you! Pyrite also makes for a great gift for those in convalescence.
Rose Quartz is known as the stone of unconditional love. It is one of the most important stones for working with the Heart Chakra. Rose Quartz opens the heart to all types of love - love of self, love of family, love of friends, love of the inner and the outer, and can even work with romantic love. Because it is a type of quartz, Rose Quartz does have a high energy, but its vibe is also both calming and soothing.
Rose Quartz opens the heart to compassion for self and for others, and can help raise ones self-esteem. Rose Quartz eases guilt and balances emotions, lowering stress levels and bringing about peace. Use Rose Quartz to enhance or enliven positive self-affirmations.
The soothing energy of Rose Quartz fosters empathy, reconciliation, and forgiveness of others and even of the self. Lowering stress and tension in the heart, Rose Quartz clears out anger, jealousy, and resentment of others, and allows healing of heart issues and dis-ease associated with holding on to negative emotions.
Known as a romance stone, Rose Quartz can be a good facilitator for attracting love (because it first comes from within). Put a piece of Rose Quartz by your bedside table, or in the relationship corner of a room or home to attract new love or to add trust and re-commitment to already existing relationships. Rose Quartz can bring about new love in a relationship, bringing calm and peace. The comforting and soothing energy of Rose Quartz can also help heal a broken heart, allowing the release of pent-up emotions and grief. Rose Quartz can also help release unexpressed feelings to and/or about others.
Rose Quartz allows the user to open to and accept love from others, and to recognize and connect with the unconditional love of the Universe. Use Rose Quartz to bring calm and harmony during times of increased stress. Rose Quartz may also be used to balance all of the chakras and/or to remove negative energy and replace it with love energy.
Physically, Rose Quartz is used to heal or alleviate ailments of the thymus, heart, and lungs. Rose Quartz is also known to help heal breast cancer and is a superb support stone for most other types of cancer as well.
Ruby:
Ruby is a powerful heart stone, and can be used for opening and activating the heart chakra. Ruby protects against the loss of heart energy, and dissolves emotional barriers. A powerful heart healer, Ruby heals and balances emotions, making the holder more emotionally aware, as well as improving their ability to connect with others. The intense and vivid energy of Ruby stimulates loving emotions, helps with the expression of love, and can even facilitate states of passion and bliss.
Ruby helps us to see the true nature of love, and shows to us the Divine Love in every thing in the Universe. Using Ruby can help you open up to and receive this Divine Love, as well as facilitate the change of becoming a vehicle through which Divine Love can flow to others. Ruby helps to gather and amplify energy, aiding in opening the doorway to other realms or planes of spiritual knowledge. Ruby is a wonderful stone for students as it stimulates a deeper level of mental concentration.
Ruby is considered to be a very helpful tool to use when shielding against, and protecting from, unwanted energies such as emotional or psychic intrusions. Ruby is also a stone of abundance and success, and is often utilized in the workplace for this reason.
Tigerseye:
Combining Earth energy with that of the Sun, Golden (Brown) Tiger Eye (Tiger's Eye, Tigereye) both draws in energy from above while reaffirming your connection to the very earth beneath you. Sunny Tiger Eye brings brightness and optimism to any situation, and shines insight onto current dilemmas. Known as a stone of protection, especially for travelers, Golden Tiger Eye has been known to bring about good luck and prosperity to the user. The Ancients used Tiger Eye as a talisman against bad luck, misfortune, and curses. Tiger Eye attracts abundance and can also stimulate the rise of ones Kundalini energies. Tiger Eye is a must for practically anyone’s crystal healing kit.
Golden Tiger Eye is a powerful Solar Plexus Chakra stone, helpful to manifest ideas into reality and giving courage in times of doubt or change. Use Golden Tiger Eye with the Solar Plexus Chakra to increase your personal connection to the earth or even your own power. Tiger Eye is said to bring awareness to ones psychic abilities and balances the lower Chakras. Earthy people will find success increasing their psychic abilities using Tiger Eye when working with the Third Eye Chakra or by merely meditating with a piece of Tigerseye. Use Golden Tiger Eye with the Sacral Chakra to facilitate spiritual grounding.
You can pocket a small piece of Golden Tiger Eye when you need a boost of creative energy, or when dealing with issues involving power, will, control, and/or concentration. Golden Tiger Eye can provide balance to those experiencing extremes, and as such, can be helpful to those with manic depression, anger issues, or even bipolar disorder.
Physically, Tiger Eye offers strength and vitality, and is believe by some to encourage the proper function of the endocrine system.
Tourmaline, Black :
Black Tourmaline is a highly protective stone which repels and blocks negative energies and even wards off psychic attack. Black Tourmaline also aids in draining an area or a person of negative energy, as if when holding a piece of Black Tourmaline ones body is run beneath a waterfall of purification. Black Tourmaline will cleanse, purify, and transmute dense energy into a lighter vibration.
A popular metaphysical stone, Black Tourmaline is also one of the greatest stones for grounding. It balances, harmonizes, and protects all of the Chakras, which then enables one to be grounded. Use Black Tourmaline to protect against electromagnetic "smog" (i.e. cell phones, computers, etc), radiation, noise sensitivity and other such energetic disturbances. Black Tourmaline can be used as an aid to remove fear from oneself and in it’s place boost self-confidence.
Black Tourmaline has a calming effect when needed, grounding flighty or scattered energies down into the earth. Those who face challenges from negativity, frequent worrying, and/or OCD can work with Black Tourmaline to help improve or even heal these issues. Meditation with Black Tourmaline can enhance the integration of insights and visions into one's daily life and with extended use can possibly even enable better spatial awareness or a sharpening of ones peripheral vision.
Physically, Black Tourmaline helps to strengthen the immune system by balancing the left and right hemispheres of the brain and detoxifying the body. Black Tourmaline has also been known to be very helpful when dealing with illnesses of the lungs such as bronchitis, emphysema, pneumonia and Pleurisy. Black Tourmaline is a must for any healers’ medicine bag and is superb for body layouts.
Crystal Connection website nor team dispense any medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical or medical ailments without the advice of your physician. Our purpose is only to share information on the stones to help you in your emotional and spiritual growth and well-being.
The information is based on meanings given in several books such as Melody's 'Love is in the earth', Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian 'The Book of Stones', Judy Hall 'Crystal Bible 1-2-3' 'New crystals and healing stones' and Soluntra King 'Crystals - Gateways of light and unity', unless otherwise stated. Included with some of our own interpertations of the stones energies.
We thank them for bringing to Light their understanding of crystal kingdoms and beings.