Book of Crystals

Agate

Agate has the power to harmonize yin and yang, the positive and negative forces that hold the universe in place. A soothing and calming stone, agate works slowly but brings great strength.

Amazonite

This is an extremely soothing stone. It calms the brain and nervous system and aligns the physical body with the etheric, maintaining optimum health. It is a stone that helps you see both sides of the problem or different points of view.

Amethyst

Amethyst is an extremely powerful protective stone with a high spiritual vibration. It guards against psychic attack, transmuting the energy into love. Its serenity enhances higher state of consciousness and meditation. Amethyst has strong healing and cleansing powers, and enhances spiritual awareness.

Aquamarine

Aquamarine is a stone of courage. Its calming energies reduce stress and quiet the mind. It harmonizes its surroundings and protects against pollutants. In ancient times it was believed to counteract the forces of darkness and procure favor from the spirits of light.

Aventurine

Aventurine is a very positive stone of prosperity. This crystal defuses negative situations and turns them around. It promotes compassion and empathy and encourages perseverance. Aventurine stabilizes ones state of mind, stimulates perception, and enhances creativity.

Carnelian

Carnelian grounds and anchors you in the present reality. A stabilizing stone with high energy, it is excellent for restoring vitality and motivation, and for stimulating creativity. Carnelian has the ability to cleanse other stones.

Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla is a tranquil and sustaining stone. It helps meditation and communication. Within the home it draws off negative energy of all kinds. It can help you to accept with serenity situations that are constantly changing, invoking inner strength. It is beneficial to relationships that have become rocky, stabilizing and healing both the home and personal interaction.

Citrine

Citrine is a powerful cleanse and regenerator. Carrying the power of the sun, this is an exceedingly beneficial stone. It is warming, energizing, and highly creative. This is one of the crystals that never needs cleansing.

Fluorite

Fluorite is highly protective, especially on a psychic level. It helps you to discern when outside influences are at work within yourself and shuts off psychic manipulation and undue mental influence. This stone cleanses and stabilizes the aura.

Garnet

Garnet is a powerful energizing and regenerating stone. It cleanses and reenergizes the chakras. It revitalizes, purifies, and balances energy, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate. Garnet inspires love and devotion; it is a stone of commitment.

Hematite

Hematite is particularly effective at grounding and protecting. It harmonizes mind, body and spirit. Used during out of body journeying, it protects the soul and grounds it back into the body. This stone has strong yang element and balances the meridians. It dissolves negativity and prevents negative energies from the aura, restoring peace and harmony to the body.

Howlite

Howlite is an extremely calming stone. Placed under the pillow, it is an excellent antidote to insomnia, especially when this is caused by an overactive mind. Howlite stills the mind and is excellent for sleep or meditation.

Pyrite (Fools Gold)

Iron Pyrite is an excellent energy shield. It blocks out negative energy and pollutants at all levels including infectious diseases. It is a very positive stone. It overcomes feelings of inadequacy. It facilitates tapping into abilities and potential, stimulating the flow of ideas.

Jade

Jade is a symbol of purity and serenity. Much prized in the east, it signifies wisdom gathered in tranquility. Jade is associated with the heart chakra and increases love nurturing. It is a protective stone, which keeps the wearer from harm and brings harmony. It is believed to attract good luck in friendships.

Jasper

Jasper is known as the “supreme nurturer”. It sustains and supports during times of stress, and brings tranquility and wholeness. Used in healing, it unifies all aspects of your life. Jasper reminds people to help each other.

Labradorite

Iridescent Labradorite is a highly mystical and protective stone, a bringer of light. It raises consciousness and connects with universal energies. Labradorite deflects unwanted energies from the aura and prevents energy leakage. It forms a barrier to negative energies shed during therapy.

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli opens the third eye and balances the throat chakra. It stimulates enlightenment and enhances dream work and psychic abilities, facilitating spiritual journeying and stimulating personal and spiritual power. This stone quickly releases stress bringing great peace.

Moonstone

Moonstone is a stone of new beginnings. As its name suggests, it is strongly connected to the moon and intuition. Like the moon, the stone is reflective and reminds us that, as the moon waxes and wanes, so everything is part of a cycle of change. Its most powerful effect is that calming of emotions. It encourages lucid dreaming, especially at the time of a full moon.

Snowflake Obsidian

Placed on the sacral chakra, snowflake obsidian calms and soothes, putting you in the right frame of mind to be receptive before bringing to your attention ingrained patterns of behavior. It teaches you to value mistakes as well as successes.

Onyx

Onyx is strength giving. It provides support in difficult or confusing situations. Centering your energy and aligning it with a higher power, accessing higher guidance, is facilitated by onyx as is connection with the whole.

Opal

Opal is a delicate stone with fine vibration. It enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions. Stimulating originality and dynamic creativity, it aids in accessing and expressing ones true self. Opal picks up thoughts and feelings, amplifies them, and returns to the source.

Quartz

Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet because of its unique helical spiral crystalline form. Found worldwide, it absorbs, stores, releases, and regulates energy and is excellent for unblocking it.

Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz is the stone of unconditional love and infinite peace. It is the most important crystal for the heart and heart chakra. Teaching the true essence of love, it purifies and opens the heart at all levels, and brings deep inner healing and self-love.

Rhodonite

Rhodonite is an emotional balancer that nurtures love and encourages the brotherhood of humanity. It has the ability to show both sides of an issue. The stone stimulates, clears, and activates the heart.

Sunstone

Sunstone is a joyful, light inspiring stone. It instills good nature and heightens intuition. If life has lost its sweetness, sunstone will restore it and help you to nurture yourself. Bringing light and energy, this stone allows the real self to shine through happily.

Tiger’s Eye

Tiger’s eye combines the earth energy with the energies of the sun to create high vibrational state that is nevertheless grounded, drawing spiritual energies to earth.

Turquoise

Turquoise is a most efficient healer, providing solace for the spirit and well-being for the body. It is protective and purification stone. Turquoise is an excellent stone for exhaustion, depression and panic attacks.