Fancy Jasper Gemstone Properties

Natural Fancy Jasper

• Fancy Jasper is known as the “supreme nurturer”
• Sustains and supports during times of stress
• Gives courage to handle problems assertively
• Encourages honesty with yourself
• Aids quick thinking

Fancy 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. Fancy Jasper reminds people to help each other.

Fancy Jasper facilitates shamanic journeys and dream recall. It provides protection and grounds energies and the body. It absorbs negative energy and cleanses and aligns the chakras and the aura. Balancing yin and yang, Fancy Jasper aligns the physical, emotional and mental bodies.

Psychologically, Fancy Jasper imparts determination to all pursuits. It brings the courage to get to grips with problems assertively, and encourages honesty with yourself. It supports during necessary conflict. Mentally, Fancy Jasper aids quick thinking and promotes organizational abilities. It stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into action.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Camel Agate Gemstone Properties

Natural Camel Agate 

• Camel Agate is a grounding stone
• Harmonizes yin and yang energy
• Works slowly but brings great strengths
• Aids in seeking hidden truths
• Useful for any kind of emotional trauma

Camel Agate is a grounding stone, bringing about an emotional, physical and intellectual balance. They aid in centering and stabilizing physical energy. Camel 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, Camel Agate works slowly but brings great strengths. It aids in seeking hidden truths.

Psychologically, Camel Agate gently facilitates acceptance of one’s self, building self-confidence. It also aids self-analysis and perception of hidden circumstances.

Emotionally, it overcomes negativity and bitterness of the heart. It heals inner anger, fostering love and the courage to start again. It is useful for any kind of emotional trauma. It creates a sense of safety and security by dissolving internal tension.

Spiritually, Camel Agate encourages quiet contemplation and assimilation of life experiences, leading to spiritual growth and inner stability.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Peach Aventurine Gemstone Properties

Natural Peach Aventurine

• Peach Aventurine is a stone of prosperity
• Increases success and luck in gambling, career and love
• Helps defuse negative situations
• Reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness
• Brings together the intellectual and emotional bodies

Peach Aventurine is a very positive stone of prosperity, increasing success and luck in gambling, career and love. Other than its wealth prospect, Peach Aventurine also helps to defuse negative situations and turn them around. This is especially helpful in bringing malignant situations under control.

Psychologically, Peach Aventurine reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. It promotes compassion, empathy and encourages perseverance. Mentally, Peach Aventurine stabilizes one’s state of mind, stimulates perception and enhances creativity. It sees alternatives and possibilities, especially those presented by other people. This stone brings together the intellectual and emotional bodies.

Emotionally, Peach Aventurine is an all-round healer, bringing in well being and emotional calm. It is a comforter, heart healer and general harmonizer. Peach Aventurine calms anger and irritation. It stimulates emotional recovery and enables living within one’s own heart.

Spiritually, Peach Aventurine protects the heart chakra, guarding against psychic vampirism of heart energy. 

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

White Opal Gemstone Properties

Natural White Opal

• White Opal is a stone of reflection
• Aids in accessing and expressing one’s true self
• Helps you understand your full potential
• Encourages an interest in the arts
• Intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions

White Opal is a delicate stone with a fine vibration. It enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions. Stimulating originality and dynamic creativity, it aids in accessing and expressing one's true self.

White Opal is absorbent and reflective. It picks up thoughts and feelings, amplifies them, and returns them to source.

Psychologically, White Opal amplifies traits and brings characteristics to the surface for transformation. Enhancing self-worth, it helps you to understand your full potential. Mentally, White Opal brings lightness and spontaneity. It encourages an interest in the arts.

Emotionally, White Opal has always been associated with love and passion, desire and eroticism. It is a seductive stone that intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions. It can act as an emotional stabilizer, but the stone may scatter energy and the user needs to be well-centered before using White Opal to explore or induce feelings, or to have other stones standing by to aid integration.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Blue Aventurine Gemstone Properties

Natural Blue Aventurine

• Blue Aventurine is a stone of prosperity
• Increases success and luck in gambling, career and love
• Helps defuse negative situations
• Reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness
• Brings together the intellectual and emotional bodies

Blue Aventurine is a very positive stone of prosperity, increasing success and luck in gambling, career and love. Other than its wealth prospect, Blue Aventurine also helps to defuse negative situations and turn them around. This is especially helpful in bringing malignant situations under control.

Psychologically, Blue Aventurine reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. It promotes compassion, empathy and encourages perseverance. Mentally, Blue Aventurine stabilizes one’s state of mind, stimulates perception and enhances creativity. It sees alternatives and possibilities, especially those presented by other people. This stone brings together the intellectual and emotional bodies.

Emotionally, Blue Aventurine is an all-round healer, bringing in well being and emotional calm. It is a comforter, heart healer and general harmonizer. In particular, Blue Aventurine is a powerful mental healer. Blue Aventurine calms anger and irritation. It stimulates emotional recovery and enables living within one’s own heart.

Spiritually, Blue Aventurine protects the heart chakra, guarding against psychic vampirism of heart energy. 

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Merry Christmas from Ornate Oriental!

Times flies, I can't believe we are already reaching the end of the year! Without the 21 Dec apocalypse happening, we can rest our minds and look forward to having a great Christmas! It's the time to celebrate the festive season with your family, friends and loved ones.

Ornate Oriental wishes everyone a very merry Christmas, and a wonderful New Year! I know I'll be waiting for Santa Bear to fill my stocking tonight! ;-)

P.S. Look out for our New Year announcement on what new gemstone goodies Ornate Oriental will be bringing in for 2013!

Iolite Gemstone Properties

Natural Iolite

• Iolite is a vision stone, facilitating visualization and intuitive insight
• Aids in understanding and releasing the causes of addiction
• Helps you to express your true self
• Releases discord within relationships
• Overcome codependency in your partnership

Iolite is a vision stone. It activates the third eye and facilitates visualization and intuitive insight when all the chakras are in alignment. It stimulates connection to inner knowing. It is used in shamanic ceremonies and assists in journeys out of the body.

Psychologically, Iolite aids in understanding and releasing the causes of addiction and helps you to express your true self, freed from the expectations of those around you. At a mental level, Iolite clears thought forms, forms created by strong positive or negative thoughts that can affect a person's mental functioning.

Emotionally, Iolite releases discord within relationships. As it encourages taking responsibility for yourself, it can overcome codependency within your partnership.

Healing-wise, Iolite creates a strong constitution. It mitigates the effect of alcohol, and supports detoxification and regeneration of the liver. Iolite aids sinuses, the respiratory system, and alleviates migraine headaches. It also kills bacteria.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Amber Gemstone Properties

Natural Amber

• Amber has strong connections with the earth
• Helps counteract suicidal or depressive tendencies
• Stimulates the intellect and creative self-expression
• Brings balance and patience
• Encourages peacefulness and develops trust

Strictly speaking, Amber is not a crystal at all. It is tree resin that solidified and became fossilized. It has strong connections with the earth and is a grounding stone for higher energies. Amber is a powerful healer and cleanser that promotes tissue revitalization. It also cleans the environment and the chakras. It absorbs negative energies and transmutes them into positive forces that stimulate the body to heal itself.

Psychologically, Amber brings stability to life but also motivates by linking what is wished for to the drive to achieve it. Its warm, bright energies translate into a sunny, spontaneous disposition that nevertheless respects tradition. It can help counteract suicidal or depressive tendencies.

Mentally, Amber stimulates the intellect, clears depression and promotes a positive mental state and creative self-expression. It brings balance and patience and encourages decision-making, being a useful memory aid.

Emotionally, Amber encourages peacefulness and develops trust. Spiritually, Amber promotes altruism and brings wisdom.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Ruby Gemstone Properties

Natural Ruby

• Ruby is an excellent stone for energy
• Encourages a passion for life
• Stimulates the heart chakra and balances the heart
• Powerful shield against psychic attacks
• Brings about a positive and courageous state of mind

Ruby is an excellent stone for energy. Imparting vigor to life, it energizes and balances but may sometimes overstimulate in delicate or irritable people. Ruby encourages passion for life but never in a self-destructive way. It improves motivation and setting of realistic goals.

Ruby stimulates the heart chakra and balances the heart. It encourages "following your bliss". This stone is a powerful shield against psychic attacks and vampirism of heart energy. It promotes positive dreams and clear visualization. Ruby is one of the stones of abundance and aids retaining wealth and passion.

Psychologically, Ruby brings up anger or energy for transmutation and encourages removal of anything negative from your path. It promotes dynamic leadership. Emotionally, Ruby charges up passion and fires the enthusiasm. Ruby is a sociable stone that attracts sexual activity.

Mentally, Ruby brings about a positive and courageous state of mind. Under the influence of Ruby, the mind is sharp with heightened awareness and excellent concentration. Given this stone's protective effect, it makes you stronger during disputes or controversy.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Pink Opal Gemstone Properties

Natural Pink Opal

• Pink Opal is a stone of reflection
• Aids in accessing and expressing one’s true self
• Helps you understand your full potential
• Encourages an interest in the arts
• Intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions

Pink Opal is a delicate stone with a fine vibration. It enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions. Stimulating originality and dynamic creativity, it aids in accessing and expressing one's true self.

Pink Opal is absorbent and reflective. It picks up thoughts and feelings, amplifies them, and returns them to source.

Psychologically, Pink Opal amplifies traits and brings characteristics to the surface for transformation. Enhancing self-worth, it helps you to understand your full potential. Mentally, Pink Opal brings lightness and spontaneity. It encourages an interest in the arts.

Emotionally, Pink Opal has always been associated with love and passion, desire and eroticism. It is a seductive stone that intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions. It can act as an emotional stabilizer, but the stone may scatter energy and the user needs to be well-centered before using Pink Opal to explore or induce feelings, or to have other stones standing by to aid integration.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Charoite Gemstone Properties

Natural Charoite

• Charoite is a stone of transformation
• Provides deep physical and emotional healing
• Helps you accept the present moment as perfect
• Can be used to overcome compulsions and obsessions
• Assists in overcoming a sense of alienation or frustration
 
Charoite is a stone of transformation. It is the soul stone that overcomes fear. Charoite stimulates inner vision and spiritual insight and aids in coping with enormous change at a spiritual level. It provides deep physical and emotional healing, and helps you to accept the present moment as perfect.
 
Psychologically, Charoite integrates "negative qualities" and facilitates acceptance of others. It releases deep fears and is particularly useful for overcoming resistance or putting things into perspective. It bestows drive, vigor, and spontaneity and is able to reduce stress and worry.
 
Charoite can be used to overcome compulsions and obsessions. By balancing the crown chakra, it assists in overcoming a sense of alienation or frustration.
 
Mentally, Charoite stimulates perceptive observations and analysis and applies these to facilitate a fast decision. It helps anyone who is driven by other people's thoughts and programs rather than their own. Spiritually, Charoite grounds the spiritual self into everyday reality. It can bring insightful visions of past lives and suggests ways to redress karma on a personal and collective level.
 
Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Emerald Gemstone Properties

Natural Emerald

• Emerald is a stone of inspiration
• Keeps a partnership in balance
• Gives strength of character to overcome misfortunes in life
• Helpful in cases of claustrophobia
• Calming effect on the emotions

Emerald is a stone of inspiration and infinite patience. It is a life-affirming stone with great integrity. Known as the "stone of successful love", it brings domestic bliss and loyalty. It enhances unity, unconditional love, and partnership and promotes friendship.

Emerald keeps a partnership in balance. If it changes colour, it is said to signal unfaithfulness. Emerald opens the heart chakra and has a calming effect on the emotions. Traditionally, Emerald was said to protect from enchantment and the ploys of magicians, and to foretell the future.

Psychologically, Emerald gives the strength of character to overcome the misfortunes of life. It is a stone of regeneration and recovery and can heal negative emotions. It enhances the ability to enjoy life to the fullest. It is helpful in the cases of claustrophobia.

Emerald imparts mental clarity, strengthens memory, inspires a deep inner knowing, and broadens vision. It is a wisdom stone, promoting discernment and truth, and aiding eloquent expression. It helps bring to the surface what is unconsciously known.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Tree Agate Gemstone Properties

Natural Tree Agate

• Tree Agate is a useful earth and environmental healer
• Enhances your connection with nature
• Instils a feeling of safety in the most challenging of situations
• Protects against negativity in yourself or others
• Restores vitality and imparts strength

A useful earth and environmental healer, Tree Agate is an effective support for plants and trees of all kinds. Placed around a growing nature area, it improves germination and fertility.

Making a powerful connection to the nurturing energy of nature and nature spirits, Tree Agate enhances your rapport with living things, facilitating communication with trees or plants. Keep one in your pocket to enhance your connection with nature in the raw and keep you safe in the wilderness.

Psychologically, Tree Agate instils a feeling of safety in the most challenging of situations. Imparting strength and perseverance, it helps in facing difficult circumstances with equanimity and in identifying the gift or lesson behind them. This stone encourages a positive sense of self and unshakeable self-esteem.

Emotionally, Tree Agate affords protection against negativity in yourself or others. Physically, by restoring and reviving vitality and imparting strength, Tree Agate supports the immune system.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 2, Judy Hall, 2009.

Prehnite Gemstone Properties

Natural Prehnite

• Prehnite is a stone of unconditional love
• Enhances precognition and inner knowing
• A good feng shui stone
• Helpful for “decluttering” your possessions and life
• Alleviates nightmares, phobias and deep fears

Prehnite is a stone of unconditional love. It is a crystal to heal the healer. It enhances the visualization process and induces deep meditation in which the higher self is contacted. It is said to connect to the archangel Raphael and to other spiritual and extraterrestrial beings.

Prehnite enhances precognition and inner knowing. It is a stone that enables you to always be prepared, no matter what. Attuning to divine energies, Prehnite enhances prophecy and shows you the way forward for your spiritual growth.

A good feng shui stone, Prehnite is helpful for "decluttering", helping you to let go of possessions you no longer need, and to organize what you keep in an appropriate way. It aids those who hoard possessions, or love, because of an inner lack.

Psychologically, Prehnite alleviates nightmares, phobias, and deep fears.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Kyanite Gemstone Properties

Natural Kyanite

• Kyanite is excellent for attunement and meditation
• Stimulates psychic abilities and the intuition
• Facilitates dream recall and promotes healing dreams
• Encourages self-expression and communication
 • Increases capacity for logical and linear thought

Kyanite is excellent for attunement and meditation. It is tranquilizing and a powerful transmitter and amplifier of high frequency energies, stimulating psychic abilities and the intuition. This crystal connects to spirit guides and instills compassion.

Grounding spiritual vibrations, it brings spiritual integrity and maturation. It facilitates dream recall and promotes healing dreams. Kyanite is helpful for those making the transition through death. As Kyanite does not hold negativity, it never requires cleaning.

Psychologically, Kyanite encourages speaking one's truth, cutting through fears and blockages. Opening the throat chakra, this stone encourages self-expression and communication.

It cuts through ignorance and opens to spiritual and psychological truth. Kyanite slices through confusion and dispels blockages, illusion, anger, frustration and stress. It increases capacity for logical and linear thought, and stimulates the higher mind.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Chrysocolla Gemstone Properties

Natural Chrysocolla

• Chrysocolla is a stone of tranquillity
• Aids meditation and communication
• Draws off negative energy of all kinds
• Imparts confidence and sensitivity
• Reduces mental tensions and helps you keep a cool head

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

Chrysocolla calms, cleanses, and reenergizes all the chakras and aligns them with the divine.

Psychologically, Chrysocolla encourages self-awareness and inner balance, and imparts confidence and sensitivity. It enhances personal power and inspires creativity. Overcoming phobias, it draws out negativity and supplies motivation for those who lack it.

Mentally, Chrysocolla reduces mental tensions and helps you to keep a cool head. It promotes truth-telling and impartiality. Emotionally, Chrysocolla alleviates guilt and brings in joy.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Blue Lace Agate Gemstone Properties

Natural Blue Lace Agate

• Blue Lace Agate is a wonderful healing stone
• Neutralizes anger, infection, inflammation and fever
• Counteracts repression and suppression of feelings
• Activates and heals the throat chakra
• Assists with verbal expression of thoughts and feelings

Blue Lace Agate is a wonderful healing stone. Its soft energy is cooling and calming, bringing peace of mind. It is particularly effective for activating and healing the throat chakra, allowing free expression of thoughts and feelings. It opens the way to experience of the higher energies. This is one of the great nurturing and supportive stones. It will neutralize anger, infection, inflammation and fever.

Psychologically, Blue Lace Agate counteracts the repression and suppression of feelings that stem from fear of being judged and rejected. Judgment is often present in the parent-child relationship, both in childhood and adulthood. As a result, feelings are held back and the lack of self-expression blocks the throat chakra and may affect the chest - the feeling of suffocation.

Blue Lace Agate gently dissolves the old pattern of repression and encourages a new mode of expression. It is useful for helping men to release and accept their sensitivity and feeling natures.

Mentally, Blue Lace Agate assist with verbal expression of thoughts and feelings and counteracts mental stress. Emotionally, the peaceful energies exuded from this stone neutralizes feelings of anger. Spiritually, this is a stone that links thought to the spiritual vibration and brings in deep peace.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003

Sapphire Gemstone Properties

Natural Sapphire

• Sapphire is known as the wisdom stone
• Focuses and calms the mind
• Traditionally associated with love and purity
• Facilitates self-expression and speaking the truth
• Releases frustration and depression

Sapphire is known as the wisdom stone. It focuses and calms the mind and releases unwanted thoughts and mental tension. Bringing in peace of mind and serenity, Sapphire aligns the physical, mental and spiritual planes and restores balance within the body.

Blue Sapphire is a seeker after spiritual truth, traditionally associated with love and purity. It is extremely effective for earth and chakra healing. This tranquil stone helps you to stay on the spiritual path and is used in shamanic ceremonies to transmute negative energies. It opens and heals the throat chakra and the thyroid, and facilitates self-expression and speaking your truth.

This stone releases depression and spiritual confusion and stimulates confusion. It brings prosperity and attract gifts of all kinds. Placed on the throat, Sapphire releases frustration and facilitates self-expression. 

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Prasiolite Gemstone Properties

Natural Prasiolite

• Prasiolite is a stone of transformation
• Bridges the frequencies of earth and higher realms
• Useful for contact with your higher self
• Grounds and manifest your spiritual purpose
• Supports those who require an inexhaustible energy source

Most Prasiolite is created by heat-treating Amethyst. A stone of transformation, Prasiolite acts as a bridging stone between the frequencies of earth and those of higher realms so that energy passes in either direction into the heart and soul of the wearer.

Spiritually, this stone is useful for contact with your higher self, meditating with it assists in embodying that energy and projecting it into everyday life, grounding and manifesting your spiritual purpose.

Emotionally, this stone protects the spleen chakra from energy depletion, reversing a 'put-upon' or martyred disposition or a feeling that you have to give your all to someone or something else, deeply depleting your energies in the process.

Prasiolite supports those with a needy disposition to find an inexhaustible energy source and confidence within themselves through their connection to the earth.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 2, Judy Hall, 2009.

Phosphosiderite Gemstone Properties

Natural Phosphosiderite

• Phosphosiderite is known as the “Stone of Healing and Hope”
• Assists with finding balance and stability
• Used to stimulate past life memories
• Aids lucid recollection of distant memories
• Smooth the temperament and decrease anger

Phosphosiderite is a new orchid-colored crystal which has been found in Chile and Argentina. Phosphosiderite is an excellent healing stone, so it's often called the "Stone of Healing and Hope".

It is used to assist with finding balance and stability, which can help one in everyday life as well as in healing. Phosphosiderite is also used to access and work with past life memories, and the third eye chakra. 

Phosphosiderite connects you to subtle aspects of 'self' like daydreaming or lucid recollections of distant memories. Phosphorite is said to have been used to stimulate past life memories allowing one to gain information regarding both good and bad times without having to re experience the emotion associated with them. It can smooth the temperament to bring a joyful feeling and decrease and transmute anger.

It has also been used for the treatment of disorders of the skin and to strengthen the hair.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 2, Judy Hall, 2009.

White Agate Gemstone Properties

Natural White Agate

• White Agate is a grounding stone
• Harmonizes yin and yang energy
• Works slowly but brings great strengths
• Aids in seeking hidden truths
• Useful for any kind of emotional trauma

White Agate is a grounding stone, bringing about an emotional, physical and intellectual balance. They aid in centering and stabilizing physical energy. White 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, White Agate works slowly but brings great strengths. It aids in seeking hidden truths.

Psychologically, White Agate gently facilitates acceptance of one’s self, building self-confidence. It also aids self-analysis and perception of hidden circumstances.

Emotionally, it overcomes negativity and bitterness of the heart. It heals inner anger, fostering love and the courage to start again. It is useful for any kind of emotional trauma. It creates a sense of safety and security by dissolving internal tension.

Spiritually, White Agate encourages quiet contemplation and assimilation of life experiences, leading to spiritual growth and inner stability.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Unakite Gemstone Properties

Natural Unakite

• Unakite is a stone of vision
• Promotes visualization and psychic vision
• Useful for meditation or psychic work
• Brings a calm gentle energy
• Negates the effects of electromagnetic pollution

Unakite is a stone of vision. Placed on the third eye, it opens and promotes visualization and psychic vision. This stone also provides grounding when needed and can be useful after meditation or psychic work.

Placed in the environment, Unakite brings a calm gentle energy and can negate the effects of electromagnetic pollution from electronic objects by placing it on or near the object.

Unakite facilitates rebirthing, bringing to light and integrating insights from the past about the cause of blockages, and gently releasing conditions that inhibit spiritual and psychological growth. It is also helpful in past-life healing for going back to the source of a problem and reframing it. Unakite can be held or placed on the third eye for this purpose.

Regarding issues that arise in the far or near past, Unakite reaches the root cause of it and brings it to the surface so that it can be transformed.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Turquoise Gemstone Properties

Natural Turquoise

• Turquoise is a stone of purification
• Used for amulets since time immemorial
• Calms the nerves when speaking in public
• Assists creative problem-solving
• Stabilizes mood swings and brings inner calm

Turquoise is a most efficient healer, providing solace for the spirit and well-being for the body. It is a protective stone and has been used for amulets since time immemorial. It is believed to change colour to warn of danger of infidelity.

Turquoise promotes spiritual attunement and enhances communication with the physical and spiritual worlds. It explores past lives and shows how the creation of your “fate” is ongoing and depends on what you do at each moment.

Turquoise is a purification stone. It dispels negative energy and clears electromagnetic smog, providing protection against pollutants in the environment. A promoter of self-realization, it assists creative problem-solving and calms the nerves when speaking in public.

Psychologically, Turquoise is a strengthening stone. It dissolves a martyred attitude or self-sabotage. Mentally, Turquoise instills inner calm while remaining alert, and aids creative expression. Emotionally, Turquoise stabilizes mood swings and brings inner calm. It stimulates romantic love.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Tourmalinated Quartz Gemstone Properties

Natural Tourmalinated Quartz

• Tourmalinated Quartz is a symbol of unity
• An effective grounding stone
• Effective problem-solver
• Has liberating power against negative energy
• Balances yin and yang energies

Tourmalinated Quartz combines the properties of Tourmaline and Clear Quartz. Tourmaline purifies one’s own energies and protects from negativity, while Clear Quartz amplifies energies focused through it. This combination makes Tourmalinated Quartz a powerful shield-stone that, depending on the desired intent of the wearer, can amplify and return negative energy, like a mirror spell, or can convert the negative energy into positive energy for the wearer.

An effective grounding stone, Tourmalinated Quartz strengthens the body's energy field against external invasion and deflects detrimental environmental influences. It is often seen as a symbol of unity and is an effective problem solver. It eliminates crystallized patterns which are, or may have been, destructive in one’s own life and releases tension at any level. Its liberating power against negative energy can be used to assist us to actualize the strength needed to alleviate negative or hostile relationships and situations.

Tourmaline Quartz balances yin and yang energies. It harmonizes disparate and opposite elements and polarities, and turns negative thoughts and energies into positive ones.

Psychologically, it helps to integrate and heal the shadow energies, alleviating self-sabotage. It harmonizes the meridians, the subtle bodies, and the chakras.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Topaz Gemstone Properties

Natural Topaz

• Topaz is a stone of love and good fortune
• Promotes truth and forgiveness
• Cuts through doubt and uncertainty
• Its vibrant energy brings joy and good health
• Makes you receptive to love from every source

Topaz is a mellow, empathetic stone that directs energy to where it is needed most. It soothes, heals, stimulates, recharges, remotivates and aligns the meridians of the body. Topaz promotes truth and forgiveness. It helps shed light on the path, highlights goals, and taps into inner resources. This crystal brings about a trust in the universe that enables you to "be" rather than to "do". It cuts through doubt and uncertainty.

Topaz's vibrant energy brings joy, generosity, abundance, and good health. It has traditionally been known as a stone of love and good fortune, bringing successful attainment of goals. It is extremely supportive for affirmations and manifestation, and for visualization.

Psychologically, Topaz helps you to discover your own inner riches. It makes you feel confident and philanthropic, wanting to share your good fortune and spread sunshine all around. Negativity does not survive around joyful Topaz. This stone promotes openness and honesty, self-realization, self-control, and the urge to develop inner wisdom.

Mentally, Topaz aids problem-solving and is particularly useful for those engaged in the arts. It helps you to become aware of the influence you have and of the knowledge you have gained through hard work and life experiences. Topaz is an excellent emotional support - it stabilizes the emotions and makes you receptive to love from every source.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Tiger's Eye Gemstone Properties

Natural Tiger's Eye

• Tiger’s Eye is a stone of protection
• A talisman against ill wishing and curses
• Shows the correct use of power
• Assists in accomplishing goals
• Helpful for solving dilemmas and internal conflict

Tiger’s Eye is a protective stone that was traditionally carried as a talisman against ill wishing and curses. It shows the correct use of power and brings out integrity. It assists in accomplishing goals, recognizing inner resources and promoting clarity of intention. Placed on the third eye, it enhances psychic abilities in earthy people and balances the lower chakras.

Mentally, Tiger’s Eye integrates the hemispheres of the brain and enhances practical perception. It is helpful for solving dilemmas and internal conflicts, especially those brought about by pride and willfulness. 

Psychologically, Tiger’s Eye heals issues of self-worth, self-criticism and blocked creativity. It aids in recognizing one’s talents, abilities and also faults that need to be overcome.

Emotionally, it balances yin-yang and energizes the emotional body. It alleviates depression and lifts moods. 

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Sunstone Gemstone Properties

Natural Sunstone

• Sunstone is a joyful, light-inspiring stone
• Instills good nature and heightens intuition
• Useful for removing “hooks” from other people
• Facilitates self-empowerment, independence and vitality
• Increases self-worth and confidence

Sunstone is a joyful, light-inspiring stone. It instills good nature and heightens intuition. Traditionally, Sunstone is linked to benevolent gods, luck and good fortune. This is an alchemical stone that brings about a profound connection to light and the regenerative power of the sun during meditation and in everyday life.

Spiritually, Sunstone clears all the chakras and allows the real self to shine through happily. It is also useful for removing “hooks” from other people, whether located in the chakras or the aura. These hooks can be at the mental or emotional level and may come from possessive parents, children or lovers which have the effect of draining your energy.

Mentally, it facilitates self-empowerment, independence and vitality. If procrastination is holding you back, Sunstone will help overcome it. Removing inhibitions and hung-ups, Sunstone reverses feelings of failure and increases self-worth and confidence.

Emotionally, Sunstone acts as an anti-depressant and lifts dark moods. It detaches feelings of being discriminated against, disadvantaged or abandoned. Sunstone encourages optimism and enthusiasm. Even the most incorrigible pessimist cannot help but respond to it.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Snowflake Obsidian Gemstone Properties

Natural Snowflake Obsidian

• Snowflake Obsidian is a stone of revelation
• Heals festering emotions or trauma
• Identifies and releases outdated behavioural patterning
• Balances the mind, body and spirit
• Aids meditation

Snowflake Obsidian is a stone without boundaries or limitations. It works extremely fast and with great power. Nothing can be hidden from Snowflake Obsidian. Snowflake Obsidian can facilitate in going back to past lives to heal festering emotions or trauma that has carried forward to the present, but it needs careful handling and is best used under the guidance of a qualified therapist as it can bring negative emotions and unpleasant truths rushing to the surface.

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

Mentally, Snowflake Obsidian brings clarity to the mind and clears confusion and constricting beliefs. Once this has been cleared, it expands consciousness, entering the realm of the unknown with confidence and ease. It is a stone of purity, bringing balance for the mind, body and spirit. 

Psychologically, Snowflake Obsidian helps you to know who you truly are. This stone also helps you to identify and release “wrong thinking” and outdated behavioral patterning. With the aid of Snowflake Obsidian, isolation and loneliness become empowering, aiding surrender in meditation.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Smoky Quartz Gemstone Properties

Natural Smoky Quarz

• Smoky Quartz is a grounding and anchoring stone
• Assists elimination and detoxification on all levels
• Relieves fear and lifts depression
• Alleviates suicidal tendencies
• Facilitates clearing the mind for meditation

Smoky Quartz is one of the most efficient grounding and anchoring stones and at the same time raises vibrations during meditation. This protective stone has a strong link with the earth and base chakras, promoting a concern for the environment and ecological situations. This stone is a superb antidote to stress. It assists in tolerating difficult times with equanimity, fortifying resolve.

Grounding spiritual energy and gently neutralizing negative vibrations, Smoky Quartz assists elimination and detoxification on all levels. It teaches you how to leave behind anything that no longer serves you. 

Psychologically, Smoky Quartz relieves fear, lifts depression and brings emotional calmness. It alleviates suicidal tendencies and ambivalence about being in incarnation. This crystal alleviates nightmares and manifests your dreams. When it comes into contact with negative emotions, it gently dissolves them. 

Mentally, Smoky Quartz promotes positive, pragmatic thought and can be used in scrying to give clear insight and to neutralize fear of failure. It dissolves contradictions, promotes concentration and alleviates communication difficulties. Smoky Quartz facilitates clearing the mind for meditation.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Shattuckite Gemstone Properties

Natural Shattuckite

• Shattuckite is a highly spiritual stone
• Stimulates the third eye and throat chakra
• Brings clear psychic vision
• Can clear past-life curses
• Helpful during channelling

Shattuckite is a highly spiritual stone that heightens vibration. It stimulates the third eye and throat chakra, bringing them into harmony and alignment. It brings clear psychic vision and aids in understanding and communicating what is seen. It is particularly useful in cases where past-life experience has closed down metaphysical abilities.

Shattuckite removes hypnotic commands and edicts against using psychic vision. It can clear past-life curses and commands to secrecy. 

Shattuckite is helpful during channeling, as it is strongly protective, ensuring that the entity does not take over the physical body. It reaches a high vibration, ensuring that the purest source is contacted. It can be used to develop psychic abilities such as automatic writing and telepathy and to facilitate clear communication with extraterrestrials.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.

Rutilated Quartz Gemstone Properties

Natural Rutilated Quartz

• Rutilated Quartz is an effective integrator of energy
• Cleanses and energizes the aura
• Facilitates contact with the highest spiritual guidance
• Promotes insight into events in past lives
• Relieves fears, phobias and anxiety

Rutilated Quartz is an effective integrator of energy at any level. It heightens the energetic impulse of Quartz and is a very efficient vibrational healer. Rutilated Quartz can be used in past-life healing to draw off problems from the past and to promote insight into the events in past lives that affect the present. It draws off negative energy and breaks down the barriers to spiritual progress, letting go of the past.

Spiritually, Rutilated Quartz is said to have a perfect balance of cosmic light and to be an illuminator for the soul, promotion spiritual growth. It cleanses and energizes the aura. This stone aids astral travel, scrying and channeling. It facilitates contact with the highest spiritual guidance.

Psychologically, Rutilated Quartz reaches the root of problems and facilitates transitions and a change of direction.

Emotionally, Rutilated Quartz sooths dark moods and acts as an anti-depressant. It relieves fear, phobias and anxiety, releasing constrictions and countering self-hatred. This stone promotes forgiveness at all levels.

Extracted from: The Crystal Bible Volume 1, Judy Hall, 2003.