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On the next several pages we have listed most of the more common crystals, gemstones,
and shells that we use in our handcrafted jewellery along with
their metaphysical properties and uses for healing. Where possible we have
included an image of the gemstone for identification.
| ABALONE |
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Description: Provides for boundless growth in all areas of endeavor. Stimulates intuition, sensitivity, imagination & adaptability. Enhances mental clarity & insight; helping in decision-making. It brings an energy of continuity to the environment & instills a stable atmosphere (good for use in smudging). Helps to build & protect the heart muscle & aid in digestion. Works well with other crystals. Counter balances overly dynamic energies. |
| AGATE
(Blue Lace) |
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Description: Good for inflammation & strengthening the skeletal structure; useful for mending breaks & fractures. Helps with tension headaches by being a "de-stressor" & helps to remove blockages from the nervous system & capillaries. Also helpful in the treatment of disorders of the pancreas & gl&s associated with digestion. Increases awareness & good for quelling anger. Assists one to reach high spiritual spaces & inner attunement |
| AMAZONITE |
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Description: Helps with creative expression; particularly good for writing & speeches. Enhances communication concerning love & increases feelings of self-worth. Helps to treat disorders of the nervous system & dissipate energy blockages. Strengthens the heart & physical body while soothing all chakras; especially heart & throat. Helps with metabolism & growth. Improves thought processes. Balances energy, centers & gives stamina, faith & compassion. Helps with calcium deficiency. |
| AMBER |
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Description: Amber is technically not a gemstone or mineral, but fossilized sap from prehistoric trees that has aged over the course of millions of years. Amber is usually thought of as yellow golden in hue, but amber also can be found in shades of milky white, red-orange, green, black & even (very rarely) violet. Carried by travellers for protection; amber is the symbol of courage & helps to lift the heaviness of burdens & allow happiness. It brings a care free, sunny disposition, promotes good luck & success, dissolves oppositions, helps with stomach, spleen & kidney complaints, reduces joint problems, & alleviates teething pain in babies. Helps in decision-making & purifies body, mind & spirit. |
| AMETHYST |
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Description: Assists with stopping addictions. It is calming & provides protection from plagues. Assists with meditation & psychic awareness. Wear when asleep or awake to reduce anger, impatience & nightmares. Helps with headaches, eyes, scalp/hair, pituitary, pineal, & blood sugar balance. |
| AMETRINE |
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Description:(mix of amethyst & citrine quartz): Helps balance male/female aspects. Soothes & calms emotions & helps one stay rational under pressure. The amethyst (purple) helps you to visualize & the citrine (gold) helps to manifest your vision into the physical. It disperses negativity from the aura & fills the voids with energizing & stabilizing qualities of pure light energy. Penetrates & facilitates the release of blockages in the physical, mental, emotional & auric bodies, allowing for the release of tension & initiates proper functioning. Also used to help one to both recognize & accept changes to the body - e.g. during periods of growth from childhood through physical maturation & when one is provided with artificial organs, implants etc. Stimulates intellect. In meditation, helps bring peace, & cooperation. |
| APATITE |
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Description: This mineral can be used to stimulate the intellect & to promote realization that ones' strength occurs through both spiritual avenues & love. Hence it dissolves aloofness & negativity. The stone is attuned to healing, storing information, communicating, balancing energy & teaching. It can help to eliminate over activity, under activity, blockage or congestion from the chakras. It can be used to stimulate the development of clairvoyance, clairaudience & clairsentience. Helps with deeper states of meditation, self-insight, inner clarity, peace & oneness with the higher self. It is a stone of the future & will bring knowledge to those attuned to it by clearing mental confusion. Good for communication & misunderstandings. It is also helpful for fighting viruses. |
| ARAGONITE |
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Description: helpful in removing stress & anger. Improves patience, practicality & responsibility. Brings balance & empowerment to the turbulent emotions of youth & channels energies effectively. Strengthens immune system, helps with back problems. Aids in digestion, skin problems. Increases energy, especially of prayers, Increases self-confidence, self-worth. Helps with chronic fatigue. (3rd Chakra) |
| CALCITE |
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Description: energy
and thought is amplified. Aids kidneys, pancreas, and spleen. Balances
male/female polarities. Alleviates fear, reduces stress, and is
an emotional balancer; grounding excess energy.
Blue Calcite: Cleanses colon and liver as an
elixir. Also can be worn as a support when treating those areas.
Calms and is effective as a sedative after emotional trauma.
Green Calcite: Joy, clears the body of infection
and provides a barrier to diminish the effect of disease producing
micro-organisms.
Honey (Yellow) Calcite: Stimulates kidneys to remove
body toxins and assists with action.
Mangano Calcite: very hard to find. For love, understanding,
sickness, & fevers.
White Calcite: Improves memory and augments astral
travel. |
| CARNELIAN |
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Description: A stone of ambition & drive, Carnelian is a Power Stone! An excellent career stone, it is very helpful in making choices & decisions. A self-motivator, Carnelian is the most powerful action stone for focusing, realization & self-actualization. It reminds one to be "in the moment". Carnelian stimulates analytical capabilities & precision. It activates & energizes personal power; revealing or discovering hidden talents by stimulating your curiosity & inquisitiveness. Long revered for its healing, spiritual & creative qualities, it also protects the user from all negative emotions. A wonderful protective energy over rage, resentment, bad tempers, & anger in self & from others. It helps one banish sorrow or depression. It is also grounding, & stimulates curiosity & initiative; focuses attention to the present moment. Aids with absent-mindedness, arthritis, convulsions, creativity, impotence, infertility, menstruation, wounds, neuralgia, clear thought, strengthens voice, & is a mental- cleanser. It warms & cleanses the blood & kidneys. Stimulates appetite, emotions, passion, sexuality, & physical energy. For celebration, reproductive system, kidneys, gall bladder pancreas. Allergies, speech problems, blood problems--protection from envious persons |
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