Metaphysical Properties of Stones, Gems and Metals

ABALONE SHELL: This is a truly loving and peaceful material. It is linked to calming the spirit, bringing peace to troubled thoughts and relationships. Worn near the heart, it can stabilize and emotionally charged environment, protecting the wearer from the chaos of negative energies.

AGATE: This lovely red/orange semi-precious stone is known for its inspirational powers for the artistic and creative person. Bursts of energy and power emanate from this stone, imparting inspiration and drive to complete a project. It promotes eloquence of communication and is worn by those who speak publicly to enhance their presentation. It promotes wellness, good health, prosperity, and good fortune.

AMBER: Amber is lovely in its warmth and depth of orange, yellow and brown hues. Often inclusions of insects can be found encapsulated within. It is a purifier of body, mind, and spirit, bringing spiritual focus and understanding. It is a balancer of the energies within the chakra. Physically, it is thought to calm the nervous system.

AMETHYST: This lovely semi-precious stone of purple or violet color is vitally linked to the higher lever chakras of the “throat and third eye”. It is associated with improving meditation and spiritual awareness, developing insight and vision, inner peace, and inspiring personal transformation and health. It has wonderful positive energies in jewelry and ideal for the spiritually minded individual. It is attributed to physically strengthen the immune and circulatory systems.

AVENTURINE: This lovely stone is noted for its creative inspiration. Yin and Yang are balanced and leadership qualities are developed. It aids in the alignment of spiritual and auric energies. It is associated with the “third chakra and fourth chakras” and aids in clearing, cleansing, and motivating. It promotes calm awareness and clarity as well as aids in one’s ability to accurately assess and evaluate truth in business, friendships and in love relationships.

AQUAMARINE: Cool blue and calming. Self actualization is inspired and the intellect is stimulated. Intuition is sharpened. Its energy is positive, promoting compassion, emotional stability, and communion with nature. At the same time, it is a gem of protection, making it a perfect semi-precious gem for both personal growth and protection.

CARNELIAN: A personal favorite, wonderfully colored in reds and creamy oranges. It imparts joy, love, open mind and heart and makes one approach the world openly without fear. It is associated with the male aspect of “Spirit”. One feels powerfully motivated to leave anger, hate, resentment, and depression behind for the good life in the present. Ones desires are manifested in hopeful anticipation. Grief, envy, and loneliness are banished. Great things are attracted by carnelian. It works at the lower chakra levels, but inspires the strength to joyfully bound through life! Physically, it is a purifier of the liver and circulation. It is excellent for lower back pain.

CITRINE: This joyous and blessed semi-precious gem is a transformative one. It is both beautiful to wear and powerful in its ability to guide and develop one who is on a life path towards abundance, freedom, liberty, happiness, joy, and prosperity in all areas of life. It is a gem that promotes the flow of personal energies, eliminating clouding and blockages, prompting a new focus, and guiding one to a pathway of love in relationships with friends, family, and love partners. Citrine has a positive energy to promote and maintain wealth and positive relationship to one’s world. It is attributed with physically aiding the digestive system.

COPPER: This balancing and grounding metal is noted for its stabilizing properties. It is noted for stimulating optimistic and positive flow of ideas, fighting fatigue, passivity, and nervous anxiety. With high energy stones and gems, it grounds and stabilizes stray and chaotic energies. Physically it is thought to reduce fatigue and combat arthritis.

FLUORITE: This is a diverse and beautiful semi-precious stone. As its colors are varied from green to purple, it has a multi-tiered effect for the individual wearer. It promotes enlightenment and growth on the mental, spiritual, and emotional levels. It promotes a positive healing flow between all levels of the chakra and establishes the wearer in a grounded a protective manner. Energy leakage is halted and the aura is protected. It physically is associated with arthritis relief and increasing sexual energies.

GARNET: This is a powerful “root chakra” stone. It promotes vitality of the sexual and reproductive organs and energies. It is a semi-precious gem of great sensuality, passion, courage, vitality, and stability. The wearer can leave behind issues of abandonment and leap confidently into positive, loving, and stable relationships. Material wealth and good fortune are attracted to garnet, but not at the expense of peace. The wearer of garnet experiences emotional health and tranquility and lives life physically healthy and vitally. Physically, the circulatory and reproductive organs are healed and strengthened. It is also noted for strengthening the heart, lungs, and spine.

GOLD: It is an attracter of positive energies. Long valued for its beauty and energy. It aides in attuning oneself to the environment, and inspires wisdom and spirituality.

GOLDSTONE: A wonderful man-made stone originally created by alchemists seeking to reproduce gold. The creation of gold may not have been achieved, but a powerful attracter of positive energy has been created that is attributed to transmit energy and light. It is energizing and encourages a positive mental outlook.

IOLITE: This is another stone associated with the “third eye” or “crown” chakra, attributed to promoting “vision”, insight and intuition. Ayurvedics utilize this stone for healing. Leadership, professional success and career goals are exceeded. Inner strength and self-confidence is nurtured.

JADE: Jade is a semi-precious stone used for centuries by many for the qualities of clarity, courage, justice, wisdom and modesty. It is very calming and protective for physical and psychic well-being as well as assuring a long, successful life. The “heart” chakra is balanced in the areas of love and relationships and energies are brought into balance and harmony. Many feel a calm, serene energy when in physical contact with jade. Physically it is associated with healing of the genito-urinary systems and aides in the removal of toxins. Green jade, the most common of jade colors, is thought to calm the nervous system.

JASPER: This is such a nurturing and healing stone that many find great calm and peace being in close contact with it. Some of its many varieties are Red, Leopard, Ocean, and Picture Jasper. Worn on the body, it induces serenity, tranquility, and a sense of wholeness. “Healers” use it to banish depression and lethargy, especially red jasper. It is a grounding stone and helps in maintaining a positive outlook. Jasper works in the lower and “third” chakra areas. Physically it is thought to aid in healing disorders of the “gut” such as digestion, gallbladder, liver, and pancreas.

LAPIS LAZULI: This may be one of the most powerful semi-precious gemstones. It is a very highly charged stone for the crown chakra or “Third Eye”, stimulating insight, spiritual revelation, wisdom, and psychic development and growth. Its high energy can be overpowering and worn wisely, often needing to be balanced by calming, loving, gentler stones and metals.

MALACHITE: While powerfully inspiring alignment with God’s will, calm and positive assertion of one’s own self can be expressed rather in contrast to the exhibition of aggressive demands. It is associated with the “heart chakra”.

MOONSTONE: This pale and lovely stone is associated with the higher chakras. Ones energy is opened to a positive and peaceful flow. Intuition, enlightenment, and wisdom are enhanced.

MOTHER OF PEARL: Attracts prosperity, protects against negativism, and grounds chaotic energies. It increases intuitive and sensitive thoughts and stimulates creative instincts.

MOSS AGATE: Dark and rich in color. This form of agate is earthy and balancing. It aides communion with nature and the natural world. It is a stone of prosperity.

OBSIDIAN: This stone, like jasper has many varieties. Common are Black, Mahogany, and Snowflake Obsidian. Mahogany provides grounding, courage and strength. It helps remove negative energies and promote the flow of healing in the “root” chakra. Snowflake Obsidian aids in the transformation of hidden secrets into open freedom and clarity. It is accomplished in a loving and gentle manner.

MAHOGANY OBSIDIAN: Stimulates the internal spiritual center, promotes the flow of energies between the chakras, and provides strength and protection. It is associated with the “root chakra”, hence providing a source of grounding and stability.

ONYX: This is a fabulous semi-precious stone for grounding of energies and the repelling of negative energies with its low vibrational level. It is a wonderful balancer for jewelry when used with other high energy stones and gems. It is associated with the “Base” or 1st Chakra. Its luster is rich, elegant, and comforting. Physically it is said to support the teeth and bones.

PEARLS: Pearls are female or Goddess linked. The feminine energies of love, peace, calmness, enlightenment, hope, maternal commitment, protection, serenity, and purity are linked with pearls. They are lovely and warm with a strong vibration power of love, truth, and peace. Material success and prosperity are attracted by pearls and good health is maintained. It is very stabilizing. Physically, they are attributed to calm the gastro-intestinal systems as well as aid in fertility and childbirth.

PERIDOT: This lovely semi-precious green stone is full of joy and love. Anger and jealousy is banished by the power of peridot. The “heart and solar plexus” chakras are cleansed and stimulated by peridot. It helps the wearer to view conflict openly and honestly, aiding in the transformation of relationships. Renewal, purification, personal growth, emotional healing and rebirth are inspired by peridot. It protects and shields the aura. Physically it aids sleep, reduces tension and anger, aides in healing due to its calming effects, and aids digestion.

QUARTZ: This is probably the most energy focusing stone in existence. It amplifies energy and aids in the focus, direction, transmission and storage of energies. It opens up psychic centers, enables deeper levels of meditation, and frees the mind to explore boundless joy and purposeful living. The inner self is nurtured and covered in love and positive energy. One is motivated to release anger, hate, bitterness, resentment, and fear of failure and incompetence. Psychically it is thought to clear the aura, energize the air, and protect against negative vibrations. Physically it is thought to aid those who suffer from chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, arthritis and joint disorders, and gastro-intestinal problems.

ROSE QUARTZ: Associated with the “Heart” chakra, this lovely pink form of quartz is very loving and self healing. One experiences self-forgiveness, healing from grief and sorrow, and the enhancement of all loving relationships. All relationships from platonic, to family to the intimate are enriched. It is ideal for opening the heart to beauty, love, kindness, and the joy that comes after grief and sorrow. Physically, it can be helpful to the circulation, pregnancy, and to relieve migraines and other headaches.

RHODOCHROSITE: This high energy and vibration stone is lovely pink. It is a stone that promotes love and devotion for oneself and others. It helps one to resolve depression and create a mood of peace. Physically it is thought to aide the digestive system and respiratory system.

RHODONITE: Another lovely pink stone with tinges of black running in veins running through it. It too is associated with the development of love for oneself and others. It is an aid to harmonious communion and communication with others, helping the wearer to “see” all aspects of issues. It is associated with the “Heart” or 4th Chakra. Physically, it is thought to aid in inflammatory disorders of the joints and with the respiratory system.

STERLING SILVER: Negative energies are dispelled and the connection and flow of the positive energies of stones are enhanced. The spiritual energies of the wearer are opened and connections are promoted between the astral energies and physical bodies.

TIGER EYE: A stone of protection, good fortune and luck, and a great balancer of energies. The wearer is strengthened in wisdom, open mindedness, and instructed on the wise use of power. It is a booster of personal power and associated with the “third chakra”.

TOURMALINE: This is a multi-colored gemstone with wonderful properties. It can be black, green, purple, watermelon, or pink. When it is green, it supports enlightenment and inspires creativity as well as attracts success and abundance. Pink tourmaline connects the “Crown” and the “Heart”, uniting love and spirituality, maintaining joy and harmony amidst changing seasons of one’s life, and assists in the manifestation of giving and receiving unconditional love.

TURQUOISE: This is a mystical stone of great power and protection. It is used powerfully in healing and aiding in inspiration. It unites the mind and heart, promotes integrity, honesty, and clarity of vision, integrating the whole person. It is associated with grounding and balancing. Legend claims that the stone is capable of changing color when illness or danger is present and returning to it original color when the danger or illness has passed.

UNAKITE: This green, rust, and brown stone, associated with the “heart” chakra, is very protective and powerful to aide in the development of the individual’s self-awareness and personal growth. While strong, it is also gentle and loving, accomplishing the work of transformation at a peaceful pace. It aides one to pause and remain balanced, encouraging one to live in the present, rooted and well, grounded. It has been used for protection in pregnancy and childbirth.