Gemstone Properties

Agate

Promotes:

  • Love
  • Abundance
  • Wealth
  • Good luck
  • Longevity
  • Acceptance
  • Courage and strength
  • Protection, security and safety
  • Balance
  • Harmony
  • Generosity
  • Appreciation of nature

Agate is a wonderful gemstone for balancing the mind, body, and spirit as well as helping you to slow down and center yourself. It transforms negativity into positivity.  Agate enhances mental function, improves concentration, enhances perception and analytical abilities. It is a soothing and calming gemstone that heals inner anger, anxiety and helps in the strengthening of relationships. Agate instills security and safety.

Physically, Agate addresses visual, digestive and uterine functions. It cleanses the lymphatic system and the pancreas; strengthens blood vessels and heals skin disorders. It's also wonderful for those sleepless nights, because of its calming effects.

Amazonite

Promotes:

  • Trust
  • Sincerity 
  • Honor
  • Self-love
  • Communication
  • Eloquence
  • Integrity
  • Clairvoyance
  • Clarity

Amazonite is an amazing stone for stressful times and in assisting with the release of toxic emotions. It's a natural Xanax!

This is a stone that will inspire you to dig deep within yourself for truth and give you the courage to move past fear, judgment and past trauma. Amazonite will help you communicate, especially in setting boundaries and defining personal space in relationships. It will also allow you to see both sides of a situation. Use it during meditation and when you are in need of clarity. It's also wonderful for balancing Male + Female energies. 

Physically, Amazonite addresses nervous system functions. It is great for bone issues such as osteoporosis, calcium deficiency and tooth decay. It relieves muscle spasms.

Bloodstone 

Promotes:

  • Abundance
  • Alignment
  • Organization
  • Smooth energy flow
  • Generosity
  • Idealism
  • Good fortune
  • Purification

Bloodstone is an excellent blood cleanser and a powerful healing stone.  It heightens intuition and increases creativity.  It is grounding and protecting.  Bloodstone draws off negative environmental energy, helping to overcome influences.  It stimulates dreaming and is a powerful revitalizer.  Gives courage and teaches you how to avoid dangerous situations.  Bloodstone encourages selflessness and idealism.  Assists in acting in the present moment.  Bloodstone calms and revitalizes the mind, dispels confusion and enhances decision-making.  Assists in adjusting to unaccustomed circumstances.  Reduces irritability, aggressiveness and impatience.

Ideal for anemia, Bloodstone purifies and fortifies the blood. Bloodstone regulates and supports blood flow and aids in the circulation.  It reduces pus formation, neutralizes toxins and stimulates the lymphatic system, healing inflammations and infections. Bloodstone is also helpful in healing blood related cancers such as leukemia.

Howlite 

Promotes:

  • Inspiration
  • Creativity
  • Artistic expression

Howlite is an aid to insomnia, especially when caused by an overactive mind.  Formulates ambitions and aids in achieving them.  Howlite strengthens memory and stimulates desire for knowledge.  It teaches patience and helps to eliminate rage, pain and stress. Howlite calms communication, facilitates awareness and encourages emotional expression.

Howlite balances calcium levels in the body.  It aids teeth, bones and soft tissue. Helpful in cases of osteoporosis.

Jade 

 Promotes:

  • Stability
  • Longevity
  • Fertility
  • Serenity
  • Wisdom
  • Practicality
  • Tranquility
  • Balance
  • Peace & Harmony
  • Moderation
  • Perspective

Jade is a symbol of serenity and purity.  It signifies wisdom gathered in tranquility.  It increases love and nurturing.  A protective stone, Jade keeps the wearer from harm and brings harmony.  Jade attracts good luck and friendship.  It stabilizes the personality and promotes self-sufficiency.  Soothes the mind, releasing negative thoughts.  Stimulates ideas.  A “dream stone”, Jade brings insightful dreams.  It aids emotional release, especially of irritability.  Jade encourages you to become who you really are.

Jade aids the body’s filtration and elimination organs.  Jade removes toxins, rebinds skeletal and cellular systems, and heals stitches.  It assists fertility and childbirth.  Jade balances body fluids.

Jasper

Promotes:
  • Relaxation 
  • Contentment
  • Compassion
  • Nurturing
  • Consolation
  • Tranquility
  • Healing
  • Completion 

Jasper is known as the “supreme nurturer”.  It sustains and supports through times of stress and brings tranquility and wholeness.  Jasper provides protection and absorbs negative energy.  It balances yin and yang.  Jasper clears electromagnetic and environmental pollution, including radiation.  It encourages honesty with one's self.  Provides courage to assertively tackle problems.  Aids quick-thinking and promotes organizational abilities.  Jasper stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into action.  Prolongs sexual pleasure.  It supports during prolonged illness and re-energizes the body.

Lapis Lazuli

Promotes:

  • Inner truth
  • Inner power
  • Love
  • Purification
  • Intuition
  • Positive magic
  • Self-confidence
  • Manifestation
  • Friendship

A stone of protection that may be worn to guard against psychic attacks, Lapis Lazuli quickly releases stress, bringing deep peace.  It brings harmony and deep inner self-knowledge.  Encourages self-awareness, allows self-expression and reveals inner truth, providing qualities of honesty, compassion and morality to the personality.  Stimulates objectivity, clarity and encourages creativity.  Lapis Lazuli assists to confront and speak one’s truth and inspires confidence.  It bonds relationships, aiding in expression of feelings and emotions.

Lapis Lazuli boosts the immune system, purifies blood, lowers blood pressure, cooling and soothing areas of inflammation.  It alleviates insomnia and vertigo and overcomes depression.  Lapis Lazuli benefits the respiratory and nervous systems and the throat, vocal cords, and thyroid, cleanses organs, bone marrow and thymus.

Lava Stone

Promotes:

  • Dream work
  • Enhancing creativity
  • Communication
  • Cleansing negativity

Lava Stone is a grounding stone that strengthens one's connection to Mother Earth. It gives us strength and courage, allowing us stability through times of change.  It provides guidance and understanding in situations where we may need to "bounce back". A calming stone, it is very useful in dissipating anger. 

Lava Stone enhances fertility. In addition, Lava Stone is a wonderful aromatherapy essential oil diffuser.  Simply add a few drops of your favorite essential oil and enjoy the added therapeutic benefits it brings.

Mookaite 

 Promotes:

  • Nurturing
  • Grounding
  • Shielding

Mookaite is a nurturing stone that supports and sustains during times of stress. It brings peace and a feeling of wholeness.  Mookaite helps us with decision making, especially when we are having a difficult time.  It encourages versatility and helps us to accept change.  Mookaite provides us with emotional growth.  It helps us to discover all possibilities in a situation and to choose the right one.  Mookaite provides a protective shield against negative or dangerous situations, eliminating and blocking unwanted outside influences and distractions, and revealing what is concealed.  Mookaite promotes energy and new ideas, helping us gain enthusiasm and bringing the excellence of ourselves, bring kindness to ourselves and others.  Mookaite helps with contacting those who have passed on.

Mookaite stabilizes the general health of the whole body and strengthens the immune system.

Pearl

Promotes:

  • Purity
  • Honesty
  • Innocence
  • Integrity
  • Concentration
  • Focus
  • Meditation
  • Tranquility
  • Wisdom

Pearl signifies faith, charity and innocence.  It enhances personal integrity and helps to provide a focus to ones attention.  Pearl symbolizes purity and is known as a “stone of sincerity”.  It brings truth to situations and loyalty to a “cause”.  Inhibits boisterous behavior.

Pearl treats digestive disorders and the soft organs of the body.  It relieves conditions of bloating and biliousness.  Pearl increases fertility and eases childbirth.

Petrified Wood

 Promotes:

  • Good fortune
  • Stability
  • Security
  • Strength
  • Longevity
  • Grounding
  • Calmness
  • Wisdom

Petrified Wood is a stone of transformation.  It assists one to advance to ones highest chosen level.  Helps to make one feel safe and secure, calming down survival-based fears.  Petrified Wood assists in setting a pace and staying with that pace all day long.  It is useful for bringing patience to those in a process of slow inner transformation, and for bringing that change to fruition.  Petrified Wood strengthens one’s backbone, physically and in terms of self-will.  It is beneficial to the skeletal system, skin and hair.

Rose Quartz 

Promotes:

  • Unconditional love
  • Self-love
  • Mother love
  • Caring
  • Kindness
  • Friendship
  • Romantic love 

Rose Quartz is the stone of universal love.  It restores trust and harmony in relationships, encouraging unconditional love.  Rose Quartz purifies and opens the heart at all levels to promote love, self-love, friendship, deep inner healing and feelings of peace.  Calming and reassuring, it helps to comfort in times of grief.  Rose Quartz dispels negativity and protects against environmental pollution, replacing it with loving vibes.  It encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance invoking self-trust and self-worth.

Rose Quartz strengthens and balances the physical heart and circulatory system, and releases impurities from body fluids.  It hastens recovery, reduces high blood pressure, aids chest and lung problems, heals the kidneys and adrenals, and alleviates vertigo.  A good energetic support for those with leukemia.

Rhodonite 

Promotes:

  • Calmness
  • Self-confidence
  • Refinement
  • Gratefulness
  • Elegance
  • Delicacy
  • Courtesy
  • Tact
  • Inner path

Rhodonite is a stone of compassion, an emotional balancer that clears away emotional wounds and scars from the past, and that nurtures love.  It stimulates, clears and activates the heart.  Rhodonite grounds energy, balances yin-yang, and aids in achieving one’s highest potential.  It heals emotional shock and panic.  Rhodonite aids in cases of emotional self-destruction, codependency and abuse.  It encourages unselfish self-love and forgiveness.  Promotes remaining calm in dangerous or upsetting situations.  Builds confidence and alleviates confusion.

Rhodonite relieves insect bites and can reduce scarring.  It aids bone growth and the hearing organs.  Rhodonite stimulates fertility.  It treats emphysema, auto-immune diseases and stomach ulcers.  Eases inflammation of joints and arthritis. 

Shell 

Promotes:

  • Intuition
  • Sensitivity
  • Imagination

Shell stimulates intuition, sensitivity, imagination and adaptability.  It helps to enhance mental clarity and provides insight into decision-making.  Shell promotes cooperation between the self and others, as well as within the self.  It provides cohesive energy for groups.

Shell treats hearing disorders and calcium deficiencies.  It assists the healing of broken bones and general dysfunctions of the spinal canal and the nervous system.  Shell enhances the assimilation of vitamins A and D.

Snowflake Obsidian 

Promotes:

  • Balance during changes
  • Purification
  • Transformation
  • Fulfilment
  • Metamorphoses
  • Manifestation
  • Practicality

In addition to the generic healing properties of Obsidian, Snowflake Obsidian is calming and soothing.  It teaches you to value mistakes as well as successes.  A stone of purity, Snowflake Obsidian provides balance for body, mind and spirit.  It helps you recognize and release “wrong thinking” and stressful mental patterns.  Promotes dispassion and inner centering.  Snowflake Obsidian empowers isolation and loneliness, aiding surrender in meditation.

Snowflake Obsidian aids in disorders of the veins and the skeletal structure.  It improves circulation and alleviates muscular aches and spasms.  Treats joint pain (arthritis) and hardening of the arteries.

Sodalite 

 Promotes:

  • Logic 
  • Intelligence
  • Emotional balance
  • Intuition
  • Clarity
  • Truth
  • Perception

Sodalite brings order and calmness to the mind.  It encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuition, along with verbalization of feelings.  Sodalite brings emotional balance and calms panic attacks.  It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust.  

Sodalite balances the metabolism, boosts the immune system and overcomes calcium deficiencies.  It combats radiation damage by soaking up electromagnetic smog.  Sodalite treats the throat, vocal cords, larynx and helps with hoarseness and digestive disorders.  It cools fevers, lowers blood pressure and stimulates the absorption of body fluids.  Sodalite can also help to prevent insomnia.

Tiger Eye 

Promotes:

  • Protection
  • Clear thinking
  • Personal empowerment
  • Integrity
  • Willpower
  • Practicality
  • Grounding
  • Power
  • Courage
  • Grace

A stone of protection, Tiger Eye may also bring good luck to the wearer.  It has the power to focus the mind, promoting mental clarity, assisting us to resolve problems objectively and unclouded by emotions.  Particularly useful for healing psychosomatic illnesses, dispelling fear and anxiety.  Useful for recognizing one’s own needs in relation to the needs of others.  Balancing yin-yang and energizing the emotional body, Tiger Eye stabilizes mood swings, imbues us with willpower, purpose, courage and self-confidence, and releases tension.

Tiger Eye treats eyes, throat and reproductive organs, releases toxins, alleviates pain and is helpful in repairing broken bones and strengthening the alignment of the spinal column.

Unakite

Balances physical emotions and is grounding.

Unakite is a stone of vision.  It balances emotions with spirituality.  Unakite provides grounding when needed.  It facilitates rebirthing, gently releasing conditions that inhibit spiritual and psychological growth.

Unakite supports convalescence and recovery from major illness.  It treats the reproductive system and stimulates healthy pregnancies while facilitating the health of the unborn.  Unakite enhances weight gain, where required and aids the growth of skin tissue and hair.

Information is taken from charmsoflight.com