If you are interested in learning about Crystals, such the notion behind their magical properties and various ways to use them, check out my blog post Crystals 101! Below is not a complete guide of all the different crystals that you can use. These are just some of the most popular ones listed in alphabetical order. For each entry, I put a brief description of the Crystal’s basic uses and purpose along with their specific healing properties. Have fun window shopping and see if any speaks to you!
Amazonite (Amazon Stone)
Uses & Purposes: The “Hope Stone,” assists in mental and emotional feeling of hope and inner peace.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Balances thyroid issues, assists in cell regeneration. Helps absorb calcium, building bone density and vitality, assists hair grow healthy, strong, shiny. May help skin conditions, psoriasis, acne, if rubbed on the skin, helping it appear more healthy, clear, and vibrant.
- Mental/Emotional: Provides a soothing, comforting, calming feeling. Keeps you relaxed, peaceful, hopeful. Helps with anxiety and healing past trauma. Builds self-esteem when feeling rock-bottom, assists with self-neglect habits and encourages to put oneself first.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Builds connection and balancing the Heart Chakra and Throat Chakra. Taps into one’s intuition, wisdom, and intellect. Invites one into world of light, away from darkness. Guides one to embrace personal truth of the heart and one’s authentic Soul.
Amethyst
Uses & Purposes: Healing, protection, purification, enhancing inner strength and willpower.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Headaches/migraines and encourages deeper sleep. Boosts immune system and helps rid of physical manifestations of sadness, stress, grief.
- Mental/Emotional: Assists in balancing emotions. Helps rid mind of negative thoughts, sadness, stress, grief. Brings sincerity, courage, humility, spiritual wisdom, tranquility, and calm. Promotes healthy decisions, willpower, focus, and decision-making.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Helps demystify dreams and opening/balancing your Third Eye. Promotes/strengthens spiritual awareness, intuition, inner power, emotional calmness/stability and strengthening psychic abilities.
Angelite (Blue Anhydrite)
Uses & Purposes: Invites angels/spirit guides with higher realms of being and health.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Helps eliminate throat infections and correct thyroid imbalances. Aids in relieving physical manifestations of nervousness, anxiety, and stress. Renews blood vessels and keeping heart clear and strong. May help with headaches and weight loss.
- Mental/Emotional: Aids in relieving nervousness, anxiety, and stress. Reminder that you are supported and loved. Helps with forgiveness, a sense of surrender, and sending positive, serine vibes.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Invites angels/spirit guides to comfort and give you support in the form of strengths in clarity and wisdom. Works with the Throat Chakra, Third-Eye Chakra, and Crown Chakra. May assist in the dream world, welcoming lucid dreams with messages from the Universe.
Aquamarine (Blue Beryl)
Uses & Purposes: Associated with serenity, tranquility, clarity, calmness, and harmony. Represents rebirth and transformation.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Eye-related problems. Reduces physical manifestations of fear, tension, stress.
- Mental/Emotional: Reduces fear, tension, procrastination, laziness. Boosts courage, creativity, artistic abilities. Promotes balancing emotions and encouraging kindness, empathy, kindness, peace, and trust.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Helps in expressing your personal truth and communicating openly from the heart. Aids in personal development and accessing inner wisdom. Promotes youthfulness, purity, vitality, hope, and loyalty.
Azurite (Chessylite)
Uses & Purposes: Builds confidence and inner-power in physical, mental/emotional, and spiritual ways while greatly increasing opportunities to tap into secret psychic abilities.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Joint pain, arthritis, headaches/migraines. Promotes cell regeneration and detoxing. Supports clear, solid flow of oxygen to the brain and throughout the body.
- Mental/Emotional: Emotional cleanser providing softness and support. Assists in decision making, inner strength, and standing up for oneself. Encourages facing fears/phobias and inner-reflection to the underlying root causes of those fears.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Helps clear psychic/spiritual blockages. Encourages looking at “the big picture,” making sound decisions, and speaking your truth with courage and inner-strength. Builds connection with the Heart Chakra, Throat Chakra, and Third-Eye Chakra.
Black Tourmaline (Schorl)
Uses & Purposes: Protection, eliminating negative energies, and provides a sense of grounding and security.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Supports blood circulation, weight loss, and a healthy immune system. Helps reduce bloating and physical manifestations of stress/anxiety.
- Mental/Emotional: Eliminates dark emotions/feelings and supports the end of obsessive thoughts/behaviors. Reverses anxious vibrations into positivity and a healthy mood. Gives sense of protection and security, allowing you deep-seated inner confidence. Encourages embracing who you are and speaking personal truth.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Absorbing and dispelling negative/polluting energies. Controls any electromagnetic interference at a distance, away from where you practice magic. Protection from outside, unwanted energies. It will keep you safe/secure while practicing magic session and calling upon spirit guides/divine beings. Keeps you grounded during intense spiritual/psychic sessions.
Bloodstone
Uses & Purposes: Promotes blood-related physical health and stabilizes mood and mental health.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Circulation, blood-related ailments, menstruation issues, hormone imbalances, PMS symptoms. Supports healthy bone marrow, connects to iron levels, and supports a healthy immune system. Helps with childbirth (especially encourages mother’s courage, vitality, and strength).
- Mental/Emotional: Mood stabilizer and encourages the spread of positive energy and ideas. Promotes creativity, idealism, optimism, selflessness, generosity, and emotional resilience. Reduces aggressiveness, irritability, impatience.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Wards off negative environmental energies and keeps one anchored/grounded. Focuses on Root Chakra, Sacral Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra, and Heart Chakra.
Blue Lace Agate (Chalcedony, Sapphirine)
Uses & Purposes: “Stone of Articulation,” building strong sense of self enveloping in positivity.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Stomach-related and digestion issues. Boosts metabolism, physical energy and strength. Helps with sleeping problems and strengthening blood vessels.
- Mental/Emotional: Encourages effective communication and boosting self-confidence, inner-strength, courage. Supports decision-making and mental functions. Sense of feeling safe/secure in yourself and helps letting go of past traumas.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Keeps Throat Chakra open/active, encourages speaking of your personal truth. Clears body of negative/toxic energy while being soaked in positivity.
Calcite
Uses & Purposes: Amplifies energy and building connections with spiritual world.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Kidneys, bladder, skeleton/bones, blood circulation, immune system, physical strength. Helps absorb calcium and break down calcification, such as in arthritis. Keeps organs regulated and detoxed.
- Mental/Emotional: Builds emotional intelligence and motivation. Balanced, shaper, serene mind. Stabilizes thoughts/feelings to you can understand your inner dialogue. Eases communication.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Builds spiritual strength and balances chakras. Clears out negative energy and cleans the mind. Assists in preparing for higher planes of thinking. Guides in finding your life purpose and reconnecting with the soul. Creates connections with spiritual world and encourages utilizing any hidden psychic abilities.
Carnelian (Cornelian)
Uses & Purposes: “The Sunset Stone,” healing, energy, fertility, creativity, and encourages spiritual connections.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Heart, lungs, digestive system, stomach, liver, bladder, adrenal glands, immune system, blood infections/diseases. Helps heal skin conditions/disorders, appetite, and throat issues. Promotes fertility, the reproductive system and heals the body. Releases physical manifestations of stress and combats fatigue. Stabilizes blood sugar, balances blood pressure and cleanses circulatory system and blood.
- Mental/Emotional: Releases stress and heals the mind/heart. Enhances self-esteem, confidence, intelligence, sexuality, creativity. Helps regulate emotions and impulsivity. Thwarts fear, anger, guilt, resentment and promotes optimism. Improves creativity and motivation. Helps with depression, anxiety, inactivity, memory issues, learning difficulties.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Enhances flow of life force and spiritual connection with the physical body. Encourages wellbeing, willpower, awareness, spiritual growth. Heals the Heart Chakra and cleanses a person’s energy field. Assists in finding one’s destiny, life purpose, talents. Helps in making new friends and letting go of any fear of the unknown.
Citrine (Yellow Quartz)
Uses & Purposes: “The Sunshine Stone,” promotes successful outcomes, abundance, money, and raises self-esteem.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Kidneys, liver, heart, muscles. Assists the thyroid and brings energy.
- Mental/Emotional: Boosts self-confidence, courage, and inner power. Allows mental reasoning/logic/objectivity to balance with intuition. Sparks creativity, wonder, enthusiasm, joy, drive, focus, and concentration. Enhances concentration, optimism, motivation, and warmth. Helps release negative emotions, such as anger, tension, self-doubt, fear.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Strengthens mindfulness qualities and clarity. Connects to Sacral Chakra and Solar Plexus Chakra. Maintains distance away from negative energies.
Clear Quartz (Rock Crystal)
Uses & Purposes: Master healer, can be used for almost any purpose depending on how you wish to activate/program it. Oftentimes paired with others (e.g., Rose Quartz) to further enhance/strengthen their abilities.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Clears toxins, stimulates immune system.
- Mental/Emotional: Helps in having focused, straightforward answers to questions. Helps you mentally move from one point to another when doing Readings. Aids in memory and concentration. Stimulates brighter feelings.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Supports/balances entire energy system and amplifying personal energy, power, strength, psychic abilities. Helps thwart negative, unwanted energies. Amplifies intention/goals of receiving guidance and support from your magic-practice equipment. Helps you connect and communicate with your higher self. Connects all chakras, opens/aligns Third-Eye and Crown Chakras so you understand the information you’ll be receiving while practicing magic.
Chrysocolla
Uses & Purposes: “Stone of Communication,” “The Teaching Stone,” for communication, teaching, and transformation.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Soothing nervous system, keeps lungs clear, helps with digestion, helps with fevers and infections. Lowers blood pressure and regulates blood sugar. Supports female-related issues, such as encouraging pain-free, easier periods and harmonious, healthy pregnancies.
- Mental/Emotional: Releases feelings of guilt, anxiety, depression with calmness. Builds self-awareness, confidence, motivation, and manifesting healthy communication. Helps with heartache, grief by guiding you to find joy in life.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Assists in speaking the truth, wisely, and using silence when most appropriate. Connects to Throat Chakra and Heart Chakra. Brings inner balance for one’s Soul while allowing personal, inner-power to blossom in free expression. Helps with “going with the flow” of life changes.
Fluorite
Uses & Purposes: Builds mental confidence to make good decisions, brings positive vibes.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: An antiviral Crystal: good for stopping early symptoms of viruses and infections. Bones, joints, arthritis, rheumatism, tissue issues, and supports mobility.
- Mental/Emotional: Eases stress and builds confident mindset to help you “go with the flow.” Helps with making balanced and wise decisions. Guides in thinking outside the box, being creative mentally, and tuning into your heart.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Bids goodbye to any stagnate negative energy. Protects you, sacred space, and magic-practice equipment from unwanted energies. Aligns chakras depending on the correlating color of the Crystal (example: Green Fluorite for Heart Chakra, Blue Fluorite for Throat Chakra, Clear Fluorite for Crown Chakra, etc.)
Garnet (Almadine)
Uses & Purposes: Supports health, creativity, passion, and building inner-power.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Low libido, physical intimacy issues. Helps with flushing out bodily toxins and absorbing nutrients/minerals. Strengthens circulation and balancing metabolism. Helps with skin elasticity and helps guard against cancer.
- Mental/Emotional: Strengthens commitment in relationships and aids in times of self-doubt. Soothes emotions, provides confidence, boosts self-esteem, creativity, and passion.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Clears out negative energies, balances Root, Sacral, and Solar Plexus Chakras. Stimulates inner power. Helps prevent nightmares.
Hematite
Uses & Purposes: “Stone for the Mind,” protection and grounding.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Encourages circulation, balanced blood pressure, physical strength, and nervous system. Assists with heavy menstrual periods. Helps with physical manifestations of addictive behaviors.
- Mental/Emotional: Mental/emotional strength. Boosts self-esteem and builds sense of security. Pushes out addictive thought patterns and being too much of a people-pleaser.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Secures your personal aura, keeps out negative energy. Supportive for astral projection and balances yin-yang energy. Connects to the Root Chakra and Solar Plexus Chakra.
Herkimer Diamond
Uses & Purposes: Mined in Herkimer County, New York, U.S.A, powerful metaphysical traits and supports clarity.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Assists with bodily imbalances, cellular disorders, migraines, motion sickness. Speeds up healing, detoxing, encourages physical healing circulation.
- Mental/Emotional: Helps with emotional healing, clearing away repressed fears, negative/toxic thoughts and feelings. Invites serenity and relaxation. Encourages clarity and better understanding of motives/direction.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Supports spiritual leaping and self-actualization. Connects with Heart Chakra, Third-Eye Chakra, and Crown Chakra. Helps bring spiritual energy into focus, welcoming positive energies, and keeping sacred magic-practicing space clean. Taps into clairaudient abilities with opportunity in learning past life lessons and future pathways. Creates dimensional doorways and connects to the Divine.
Jade
Uses & Purposes: “Dream Stone,” known for luck, prosperity, abundance, longevity.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Bladder, kidney, spleen issues. Assists with detoxing organs, balancing bodily fluid systems, fighting infections, lowering fevers, increasing libido. Encourages body to heal itself.
- Mental/Emotional: Helps with inspiration, wisdom, ambition, drive, hard work. Builds courage, confidence, personal acceptance, self-esteem, self-sufficiency. Encourages mental purity, clarity, and calmness of the heart.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Connected to the Heart Chakra, which supports love, trust, compassion, relationships, and self-love.
Labradorite
Uses & Purposes: “Stone of Mysticism, Transformation, and Courage” one of the most helpful crystals when feeling stumped or self-doubt while practicing magic.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Digestion, gout, rheumatism issues, and supports metabolism regulation. Clears respiratory system and blood circulation, helps with bronchitis, alleviates anxiety. Eases pain/tension associated with mensural periods and PMS. Encourages complete physical health/wellbeing.
- Mental/Emotional: Boosts confidence, consciousness, artistic energy, creativity, and imagination. Stimulates mental clarity and being concise in making decisions. Stabilizes moods/emotions. Assists with depression symptoms, building motivation and commitment.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Strengthens intuition/inner guidance, stimulates inner eye. Encourages use of one’s powerful voices and clear communication. Helps with tapping into different states of consciousness and utilizing psychic powers. Connected to Throat Chakra and Third-Eye Charka.
Lapis Lazuli (Lazurite)
Uses & Purposes: “Wisdom Stone,” for mental/emotional self-care and spiritual growth.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Throat, thyroid, fever, depression, insomnia, vertigo problems. Lowers blood pressure, boosts immune system, soothes inflammation. Helps nervous and respiratory system.
- Mental/Emotional: Releases you from melancholy. Encourages relationships bonds, self-expression, self-awareness, self-knowledge, self-worth, and speaking truth. Reminds those to not be afraid for beyond limitations are opportunities of growth and success.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Amplifies thought and meditation experiences. Enhances inner vision and wisdom. Guides you in awakening your divine purpose deep within you. Helps with understanding meanings brought about through magical practice. Connected to Throat Chakra and Third-Eye Chakra.
Malachite
Uses & Purposes: “Stone of Transformation” for embracing change or “The Midwife Stone” for helping with female body-related pain.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Good for menstrual cramps, labor pain for expectant mothers, lowers blood pressure. Supports quick healing, especially for torn muscles, broken bones, and joint issues.
- Mental/Emotional: Releases deeply stored emotions, helps alleviating symptoms of mental illness. Provides sense of protection while building inner power, confidence, and supports embracing change. Supports you stepping out of comfort stone, moving forward, and keeping calm, centered, grounded, and approach decisions smoothly and easily.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Connected to Solar Plexus Chakra, Heart Chakra, and Third-Eye Chakra. Encourages one to look inward, releases blockages from showing love and compassion, and supports sense of vitality and being grounded. May help with higher spiritual experiences, manifesting magic, and psychic visions.
Magnetite (Iron Ore, Lodestone, Magnetic Hematite)
Uses & Purposes: Magnetic stone that both attracts and repels qualities, promotes good luck, health, and metaphysical traits.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Helps with asthma, blood/circulatory system, and has benefits for skin and hair. Has anti-inflammatory traits and relieves muscle aches/pain. Repels physical manifestations of nervousness, anxiety, doubt, confusion. Stimulates under-stimulated organs and relaxes overactive ones.
- Mental/Emotional: Helps keep your mind clear and away from distracting emotions. Repels nervousness, anxiety, doubt, confusion, grief, fear, and anger. Strengthens commitment/dedication and intellect. Attracts love, loyalty, commitment, endurance, and tenacity.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Aligns the chakra, both attracts positive energies and repels negative energies. Assists in trusting your intuition, strengthens visualization. Helps with mediation, telepathy, and visualization.
- *NOTE: Magnetic jewelry is typically not recommended to be worn by women who are pregnant or those who have defibrillators or pacemakers. Please consult your medical physician beforehand.*
Moonstone (Adular, Albite, Belomorite)
Uses & Purposes: “Stone of New Beginnings,” supports good fortune and success.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Digestive system. Soothes physical manifestations of stress/instability when starting new adventures or beginning something new.
- Mental/Emotional: Promotes positive thinking. Soothes and balances emotions. Soothes mental/emotional manifestations of stress/instability when starting new adventures or beginning something new. Helps you successfully moving forward.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Promotes inspiration, psychic intuition, inner power, personal strength and growth. Helps open/balance your Third-Eye Chakra. Encourages inner harmony and peace.
Obsidian (Volcanic Glass)
Uses & Purposes: Master protector and healing stone that supports the mind, spirit, and body.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Viral and bacterial infections/invasion, digestive and gallbladder issues, circulation blockages, encourages deep tissue healing. Comforts physical manifestations of fear. Promotes physical strength and protection.
- Mental/Emotional: Helps face and understand deepest fears, experiences, and emotions. Assists with letting go, moving forward with any emotional baggage, and seeking truth. Shields against emotional negativity. Promotes compassion, mental/emotional strength, and courage.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Protection from spiritual forces, promotes clarity. Helps detox negative energy blockages. Guides you in finding your true sense of self and may provide mirror-like qualities in seeing into other spiritual/metaphysical realms. Connections to Root Chakra and Solar Plexus Chakra.
Opal
Uses & Purposes: “Stone of Amplification” and a “Hope Stone,” supporting purity, light, and health.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Reduces fever, helps with infections, renewing skin cells, and eye health. Relieves constriction in chest/respiratory system. Assists as a companion for long-term or chronic illness.
- Mental/Emotional: Balances mood swings, harmonizes emotions, strengthens creativity. Shines light on negative, shadowy thoughts/feelings. Assists in letting go of old patterns, no longer needed connections, and old mental/emotional wounds.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Enhances mystical experiences and higher communication. Connects to the Chakra with its associated color: Black/Boulder Opal for Root Chakra, Fire and Ethiopian Opal for Sacral Chakra, mostly yellow Opal for Solar Plexus Chakra, mostly green/pink Opal for Heart Chakra, mostly blue Opal for Throat Chakra, mostly violet Opal for Third-Eye Chakra, and White/Common Opal for Crown Chakra.
Pyrite (Fool’s Gold, Iron Pyrite)
Uses & Purposes: Protection and defense from unwanted/negative energies and provides a “flame” of revived passion and motivation.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Blood-related issues, fights viral infections, reduces fevers, improves asthma, lung/breathing-related ailments. Builds stamina, physical strength, immune system, respiratory system. Promotes masculine energy, stimulates endocrine function, assists in fertility.
- Mental/Emotional: Boosts inner-confidence, sense of security within oneself. Assists in overcoming anxieties, stresses, and fears. Rekindles lost motivation, drive, passion.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Symbolizes the sun by promoting being strong in the “light” and away from darkness. Protects from negative energy and builds spiritual/metaphysical awareness. Clears blockages in Sacral Chakra and Solar Plexus Chakra.
Rainbow Fluorite
Uses & Purposes: Sends positive vibes, creativity, and connects to intuition.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: An antiviral Crystal: good for stopping early symptoms of viruses and infections. Bones, joints, arthritis, rheumatism, tissue issues, and supports mobility.
- Mental/Emotional: Positive mindset. Promotes focus and sharp/sure decision making. Sends positive vibes and pushes away worries, anxiety.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Supports clarity in the mind and connects to intuition. Elevates and grounds the Soul.
Red Jasper
Uses & Purposes: Supreme nurturer, comforting during stressful times, protects from negative vibes, and reignites life mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Helps alleviate physical manifestations of stress. Assists with balance, strength, stamina, endurance, and keeps blood circulation strong. Harmonizes sexual energy: relaxes overactive sexual energy and stimulates underactive sexual energy.
- Mental/Emotional: Promotes courage, confidence, focus, and quick thinking. Helps with logical/rational thinking when addressing important issues. Fine tunes mental/emotional strength, sparks creativity. Encourages emotional stability and sparking passion and life.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Empowers the spirit and provides comforting support during times of stress, anxiety, and nervousness. Protection from negative vibes and can rouse the Kundalini Serpent (which speaks to the energy at the base of the spine and can cause deep spiritual awakenings from creating revived, upward moving energy). Connected to Root Chakra, Sacral Chakra, and Solar Plexus Chakra.
Rose Quartz
Uses & Purposes: “Stone of Love”, supports/encourages trust, compassion, and love in all forms.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Supports and increases fertility and recovery. Dissipates physical manifestations of anger or hate.
- Mental/Emotional: Gentle, powerful reminder to stay compassionate, kind, respectful, empathetic. Comforting, calming, nurturing during times of difficult life events. Encourages trust and self-worth.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Supports and enhances communication from the heart during Reading session. Helps bring balance/harmony and trust in relationships. Replaces negative energies with loving energies. Opens people up to self-forgiveness and trust.
Ruby
Uses & Purposes: Supports sensuality, sexuality, compassion, protection, perseverance, and associated with wealth, status, and leadership.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Strengthens heart, ventricles, muscles, circulation, and menstrual pain. Assists with issues relating to sexuality, fertility, and reproductive organs. Helps with detoxing and treating kidneys, lymph, and adrenal glands.
- Mental/Emotional: Promotes sensuality and sexuality. Supports intellectual pursuits, balances emotional/mental sensitivity. Helps rebuild trust, overcome old wounds involving love or the heart. Reignites passion, creativity, drive, motivation.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Restores energy levels and vitality. Brings about self-awareness and truth recognition. Connects to Root Chakra, Sacral Chakra, and Solar Plexus Chakra.
Sapphire
Uses & Purposes: Master healer, supports entire energetic system, one of royalty, wisdom, peace, happiness, and prosperity.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Supports physical rest, balances thyroid, helps alleviate insomnia, headaches/migraines, eye-sight issues, inner-ear problems, balance/vertigo, and reduces fevers. Detoxes and prepares the body for physical changes. Helps reduce physical manifestations of anxiety and stress. Helps calming fight-flight responses and boosts immune system against illness/disease.
- Mental/Emotional: Promotes positive mood, creating joy, release from negative thoughts/feelings. Encourages deeper understanding of oneself, knowledge, wisdom, and living in personal truth.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Opens the mind to intuition, beauty, and clear seeing. Supports communicating with inner truth and linking to the Divine/Heavens. Promotes focusing on staying on personal, spiritual path. Helps with recalling dreams, past life experiences, astral projection, and linking to angelic realms. Connected to Throat Chakra and Third-Eye Chakra.
Selenite (Crystalline Gypsum)
Uses & Purposes: “Stone of Purification” or “The Goddess Stone,” good for having sacred magic-practice space maintain clean, clear energy.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Helps with skeletal issues: healing and strengthening bones/spine. Builds physical flexibility. Boosts cell regeneration and healing cell structure damage. Encourages healthy, youthful skin, hair, and eyes.
- Mental/Emotional: Helps eliminate stress, anxiety, worry. Provides mental clarity and guides you to see the beautiful blessings surrounding you. Encourages purity, honesty, liberation, forgiveness, and letting go. Supports you stepping up with peak inner-power to heal from emotional challenges.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Keeps area clean, free from stagnant and unwanted outside energy. Connects with angelic realms. Encourages looking inward to your Soul for proper judgment and insight. Works with Third-Eye Chakra and Crown Chakra.
Smoky Quartz
Uses & Purposes: Great absorber and protector, helps with staying grounded with solid foundation.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Alleviates tension headaches, improves restful sleep quality, assists with cell healing, enhances fertility. Absorbs electromagnetic (EMF) smog, blocks geopathic stress.
- Mental/Emotional: Calms nervous thinking patterns, stress, anxiety, fear. Strengthens focus and survival instincts. Absorbs negative thoughts/feelings and helps with personal growth.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Amplifies connection to earth’s energy while using psychic/intuitive powers. Shields you from outer, polluting energy while keeping your energy secure. Encourages balanced, clear Base Chakras: Root Chakra for staying grounded and protected and Solar Plexus Chakra for personal transformation and power.
Sodalite
Uses & Purposes: “The Poet’s Stone,” brings peace, communication, benefits for the Soul.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Strengthens physical power, immune system. Helps with vocal cord, larynx, throat, and lymphatic system issues. Lowers blood pressure, fevers, and helps body absorb fluids. Helps eliminate physical manifestations of nervousness, anxiety, and stress.
- Mental/Emotional: Enhances self-esteem, inner trust, and courage to speak inner-truth. Helps ease nervousness, anxiety, stress, including panic attacks. Clears the mind for positive, logical thinking and decision-making. Helps with seeing life’s beauty and communicating creatively.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Connects to the Throat Chakra, Heart Chakra, and Third-Eye Chakra. Builds trust in one’s intuition, encourages having deep, personal wisdom/knowledge, and improves communication skills. Strengthens spiritual connections, provides gateways to enlightenment, helps connecting with one’s psychic abilities.
Tiger’s Eye
Uses & Purposes: Stability, good for career goals/aspirations and matters of the heart.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Provides more physical energy, speeds up recovery time, increases libido and sexual performance. Boosts strength in bones and muscles, reduces blood pressure, regulates digestion and metabolism. Helps eliminate physical manifestations of anxiety, nervousness, fear.
- Mental/Emotional: Provides courage, determination, motivation, drive. Helps getting rid of anxiety, fear, and self-doubt. Improves mental clarity and assists in deliberate, clear decision making. Encourages one to consider one’s own needs first.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Guides you to balance and harmony, including your yin and yang. Heightens inner power and integrity. Connected to Root Chakra for building a solid foundation.
Turquoise
Uses & Purposes: Healing, attracts good luck, great for those working in cities, one of friendship, love, wisdom, purification, and balance/harmony.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Skeletal/bones, immune system, and respiratory system. Has detoxifying and anti-inflammatory properties, heals ailments involving the ears, nose, throat, and lungs. May help guard against environmental pollutants and disease, improves symptoms of allergies, migraines.
- Mental/Emotional: Provides sense of comfort, support, and encourages seeking truth. Helps soothes and balance emotions, including calming fears and exhaustion brought about by daunting life scenarios.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Supports being grounded spiritually and aligning chakras. Protects against surrounding external influences. Connected to Throat Chakra and helps with communication with both oneself and the rest of society.
Yellow Jasper
Uses & Purposes: Supreme nurturer, protection, stone of intellect popular among scholars, scientists, poets, and physicians.
Healing Properties:
- Physical: Stimulates pancreas, endocrine system. Helps with physical manifestations of stress, anxiety, and tension.
- Mental/Emotional: Keeps mind focused and clear, boosts inner confidence, courage, sense of completeness/wholeness. Relieves stress, provides sense of inner peace, attracts positive mental/emotional energy. Helps with building stronger relationships and creating new ones.
- Spiritual/Metaphysical: Helps align energy meridians, provides protection when traveling astral planes, recalling dreams, and shamanic journeying. Connected to Solar Plexus Chakra and absorbs negative energies.
So what do you think? Any particular Crystals that you seem drawn to? If you use Crystals, which one(s) do you use and why? I know I didn’t list all Crystals available out there, so please share in the comments if there are any that you think are well deserving to be mentioned or even added to this list! Thank you, my friends, for reviewing this Glossary and I look forward to learning and sharing more with you soon.
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- Rolled stone angeline. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user PicksArt; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Aquamarine (blue Beryl) gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- various Azurite (chessylite) gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- collection of various black Tourmaline (Schorl) gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- geological collection of natural samples of natural rocks with polished Heliotrope (Bloodstone) gem stones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of Sapphirine (Blue Lace Agate, Chalcedony) gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various natural mineral decorative calcite stones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Carnelian (Cornelian) gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- collection of various Citrine (yellow quartz) gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- natural mineral gemstones – various natural rock crystal (clear quartz) mineral stones and tumbled gems and isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Chrysocolla gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Fluorite (fluorspar) gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of natural mineral stones – specimens of garnet (almandine) tumbled gemstones and rocks isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Hematite rocks isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- Herkimer diamonds isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user Bjoern Wylezich; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- collection of various tumbled green jade mineral stones (nephrite and jadeite) isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Labradorite gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of blue lapis lazuli (azure stone, lazurite) mineral gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Malachite gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Magnetite (iron ore) rocks isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- collection of various moonstone gemstones (moonstone, adular, albite, belomorite ) isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- collection of various Obsidian (volcanic glass) natural mineral gem stones and samples of rock isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various opal natural mineral stones and gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Pyrite (iron pyrite, fool’s gold) crystals isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various fluorite crystals, rocks and gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- collection from specimens of red jasper gemstone isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Rose Quartz gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- ruby and crystals ,rough natural gemstone for jewelry, stone high quality. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user photo-world; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- ruby and crystals ,rough natural gemstone for jewelry, stone high quality. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user photo-world; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- rough blue sapphire and diamonds gemstones crystals raw amethyst tanzanite white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user photo-world; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- Blue sapphire isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user Byjeng; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Gypsum rocks isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Smoky Quartz gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Sodalite gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Tiger’s eye gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- set of various Turquoise gemstones isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- yellow jasper with agate from Italy isolated on white background. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user Bjoern Wylezich; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- natural mineral gemstone – one yellow jasper gem stone isolated on white background close up. Image courtesy of Shutterstock user vvoe; not for commercial use. Signed property release on file with Shutterstock, Inc.
- References (in alphabetical order):
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- Chee, Chermaine. “Gemstones & Crystals.” Truly Experiences Blog, https://trulyexperiences.com/blog/luxury-lifestyle/stuff/gemstones-and-crystals/.
- Ladin, Brittany. “How to Use Healing Crystals for Your Health.” Healthline, Healthline Media, 18 Apr. 2019, https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/healing-crystals.
- Murray, Becki, and Bridget March. “A Beginner’s Guide to Using Crystals.” Harper’s BAZAAR, 20 June 2022, https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/beauty/fitness-wellbeing/a43244/crystal-healing-beginners-guide/.
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- Van de Car, Nikki. Practical Magic: A Beginner’s Guide to Crystals, Horoscopes, Psychics, and Spells. Running Press, 2017.