Agate is a very powerful healing stone that emits energy of strength, power and courage. It has a cleansing and stabilizing effect on the body and has been used for decades as a protective stone and has the effect of balancing energies. A stone of harmony, Agate also and by bringing the elements of one’s being into harmony it greatly enhances healing. Agate also enhances creativity and stimulates the intellect. Agate is considered a stone that brings good luck.

Amazonite has a powerful filtering action. It absorbs microwave and cellphone emanations and protects against electromagnetic pollution. This is an extremely soothing stone. It calms the brain and nervous systems, and dissipates negative energy and blockages within the nervous system. Also assists in manifesting universal love.

Amethyst is a stone of spirituality and contentment, and is connected to divine guidance. It increases psychic awareness, enhances intuition, encourages peace and is excellent for meditation and relaxation. It has the ability to absorb negative energy while emitting positive energy and is a good stone to have in your surroundings because of its cleansing and energising properties. The most powerful stone for activating the crown chakra.

Now extinct the Ammonite Mollusk was a shelled cephalopod appearing in a coiled spiral shape. Ammonites inhabited the world’s oceans and now appear as fossils in marine rocks. This gemstone promotes the flow of Qi throughout the body, enhancing well-being and reducing the body’s toxicity. Ammonite’s rich colours stimulate creativity, energy, wisdom, intellect and wealth. When the stone is placed in the home, it promotes a happy family, and when it is placed in the office, it promotes good business dealings.

Keeping Apophyllite in one’s environment provides an atmosphere of purity and spiritual presence in the home, meditation area or work space. Angels are attracted to the light and high vibrations emanated by clear Apophyllite and one may use these stones to help contact guardian angels or spirit guides. Regarded as the stone to assist reiki healing as it facilitates taking the patient into a deeper state of relaxation and receptiveness.

Black Tourmaline Crystals are ideal for psychic protection and can help keep one’s auric field clear of imbalance. It has the ability to transmute and purify negative energy turning it into usable energy and it can protect one’s energy field. It is especially useful for those who experience high levels of stress in their work or home lives, worry or obsessive behaviour. Black Tourmaline is one of the most effective stones to use for creating a grounding circuit with the earth’s energetic field.

Blue Lace Agate allows for the gentle opening of the throat chakra and the speaking of thoughts, belief and truth. It helps you to find the words to share your highest truth with others, and it assists in building the confidence necessary to stand up and speak in all situations. Also offers energetic support for those who constantly use communication in their work. It is an excellent stone for workshop presenters, lecturers, teachers or for anyone who must consistenly speak in a clear and intelligible manner.

A very powerful protective gemstone widely used for general healing. Agate calms, strengthens and tones the body and mind and promotes inner peace. It has a balancing and stabilising effect and enhances self-esteem and promotes self-confidence manifesting in truthfulness, promptness and dependability, as well as assisting physical and emotional security. Banded Agate instils courage and extra strength to face life’s challenges. Used as a cure for insomnia, it ensures pleasant dreams. Assisting in banishing fear, it also improves vitality and eloquence.

Calcite is a powerful amplifier and cleanser of energy. Simply having Calcite in the room cleans negative energies from the environment and heightens your energy. Within the body it removes stagnant energies. This is a spiritual stone linked to the higher consciousness. All forms of Calcite are excellent for removing blockages. Calcite occur in a wide variety of forms and colours - blue, green, yellow, orange, clear, pink, grey, red.

Carnelian is a stone with high energy which is excellent for restoring vitality, motivation and stimulating creativity. It gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy and motivates success in business and other matters. Carrying or wearing Carnelian activates the first, second and third chakras, bringing an influx of life force, sexual and creative energies, and assertive will. Carnelian stimulates the metabolism and improves overall health.

Celestite is inbued with divine energies. It takes you into the infinite peace of the spiritual and contacts the angelic realms. This beautiful crystal promotes purity of the heart and attracts good fortune. Mentally Celestite calms and sharpens the mind, dispersing worries and promoting mental clarity. It’s soothing influence relaxes muscle tension and calms the mind.

Citrine is known as “the success stone” because it promotes success, prosperity and abundance. It particularly promotes success in business, earning it the nickname “merchant stone” and is said to bring business if put into one’s cash box or purse. It helps to manifest abundance in many ways and also increases creativity, mental clarity and sensuality to the one who carries or wears it. It is stone of happiness, light, optimism and fresh beginnings. Also excellent for clearing the solar plexus and helping to clear away stagnant emotional issues.

Crystal wands are slender crystals that taper towards a narrow point. They can be used in communication with the crystalline world and, during meditation, with other worlds and inner self. When held it will form a protective energetic barrier around the user. As the termination is smaller than the shaft the energy of the crystal wand is very focused. It can be used to clear negativity and to direct healing energy to ones self or others. They should be used with care and the energy directed to flow around the auric field.

A mineral, usually Agate, that has replaced the wood of ancient fossilized trees, retaining their shape, texture, & even their growth ring patterns. Trees symbolize the deep and ancient beginning of all things.When trees are “turned to stone”, the knowledge and understanding of these beings is preserved in the energy patterning of the stone that has taken their form, reminding us of the knowledge that we carry deep within ourselves & assisting with new beginnings.

Fuchsite is known as the stone of health and can help to channel information regarding herbal treatment and holistic remedies. It suggests the most holistic remedy to take and guides you on health matters and well being. Fuchsite can also help one bounce back after emotional or physical problems. It is said to speed deep healing by assisting with recovery and immunity.

Has a vitreous translucency which looks like light passing through a thin veil.This is a stone of gentle yet powerful energies considered to be a feminine lunar energy. It can enhance and mirror feelings which makes it ideal for visualization, dreamwork, or any spirit journeys. Girasol enhances all aspects of creativity as well as communication skills including helping one express thoughts which you have been holding back. It allows on to look at things and gain clarity thereby allowing us to make wise choices. For healing it is helpful for metabolic disorders and fatigue.

Blue kyanites have a high vibration and create very rapid transfers of energy. Kyanite initiates psychic ability and can be used to open the third eye during meditation or healing sessions. Its structure and vibration make it an ideal transmitter of energy from one being to another. Promotes speaking the truth and clear communication. Kyanite also amplifies and transmits energy, helping to clear any emotional blockages. If you suffer from a lack of vitality aftera demanding time this stone can boost your energy field and bring its flow back into balance.

Labrodorite is a chameleon like stone, ranging from the dullest of greys to peacock iridescence as it catches the light. This mystical stone works on your third eye chakra: your intuitive centre increasing your psychic abilities. It is also a crystal that attracts success & helps one visualise and manifest a positive future. Labrodorite banishes fears and insecurities and strengthens faith in the self and trust in the universe. It also energies the imagination bringing up new ideas.

An important protection stone. It absorbs negative energies and pollutants easily, picking them up from the atmosphere and the body. Malachite facilitates childbirth and is also excellent for arthritis, fractures and swollen joints. Placed on the heart it brings balance and harmony. This stone has a strong affinity with nature and the devic forces. Can assist in restoring strength and vitality after illness and repairing tissue after surgery.

A translucent white crystal in which Elestial crystals circle the shaft of the main crystal. There are also caramel coloured specimens of this mineral. The colour is caused by the inclusion of limonite or iron oxide. Candle quartz is a light bringer, aiding in transforming despair to hope and clarifying issues. From a Metaphysical perspective it is considered to help us to look inwards and discover our truth and our path. A stone of insight sometimes used for scrying, it also dissipates feelings of oppression. It increases confidence and sensitivity whilst promoting tranquillity.

A mineral consisting of iron disulphide found in blocks, gravel and crystals, Pyrite is a pale golden yellow colour with a metallic lustre. Plates of polished Pyrite have been found in old Inca Caves, and although assumed by some to be mirrors, these plates may have been used for their mystical powers. Pyrite is a very protective stone, helping to ward off negative vibrations on the physical and emotional levels. Simply having a piece of Pyrite in one’s possession can shield one from physical danger.

Generally, clear quartz assists in meditation. Amplifies effects of other crystals, amplifies thought energy (like prayers, wishes and positive visualisations). Promotes emotional clarity and purity. Aids in promoting harmony and love. Accelerates spiritual awakening and transformation and awakening the higher consciousness. The energy of Quartz Crystal shatters stagnation in your life - your thoughts and attitudes. It opens every cell of your body into its higher patterns of automatic response initiating you to higher awareness.

Called the Inca Rose because the Native Americans believed it contained the blood of Ancestral great rulers. It is a powerful healing stone especially for problems that result from emotional causes. It alleviates irrational fear and paranoia. Intuitive sources say that Rhodocrosite is a 'stone of love and balance', which can assist one in attaining an ecstatic state during meditation. Carrying the stone is said to bring the vibration of joy into one's daily life.

A stone of love & peace that helps to open the heart chakra and connect you to the energy of love. Its soothing vibrations are a balm to the emotions, assisting in helping one to remain present, calm & peaceful. It promotes the release of tension and is rejuvenating to both the physical & emotional body. Placing Rose Quartz in the home or wearing it will surround one with its gentle peaceful energy.

Selenite can grow naturally as wands, and is named after Selene, the greek goddess of the full moon. This transluscent stone has a fine vibration and brings clarity of mind, opening the crown and higher crown chakras to access angelic consciousness and higher guidance. A piece of Selenite placed in the house ensures a peaceful atmosphere that is excellent for meditation and spiritual work. A stone of fertility, pregnancy and motherhood, Selenite protects the health of the would be mother and the unborn child.

Septarian is a geode that is a combination of yellow calcite, brown aragonite and grey limestone. They were formed between 50 and 70 million years ago in an ancient sea floor during the cretaceous period. Septarian nodules dried out & cracked forming hollow interiors. The interiors become either partly or completely full with other minerals such as calcite giving it its unusual features. Septarian has a nurturing & calming energy, reminding us to nurture ourselves, others & ideas. They can also remind us to stop & give thanks to mother earth.

Shiva Lingam’s originate at the Narmada river in Western India, one of India’s 7 holy sights. The egg shape of the stone symbolizes both the male and female as well as the cosmic egg of which all creation is said to have emerged. The effect of the stone is one of union and the activation of the sacred kundalini energy that rises up the spine activating the chakras & bringing enlightenment & vitality. Perfect for purification purposes as these stones have one of the highest frequency vibration rates. Only found in India, they are regarded as being sacred and holy stones.

An excellent stone for the third eye chakra, Sodalite brings clarity and truth, increases spiritual awareness and deepens meditation. Sodalite helps one in being focused on the moment without being distracted by past or future concerns. It removes one from the pressures and worries of life and allows one to sink deeply into the subconscious and unconscious minds. It also reduces stress and anxiety by allowing one to see one’s reality fro a higher, more serene perspective.

Mined only from one location in the world, Magaliesberg, South Africa, Spirit Quartz has an astonishing sparkle and is characterized by the tiny crystals that envelop the shaft of the main crystal. Emotionally it is said to remove fear, bringing emotional peace & happiness. Spirit quartz works very well with other minerals and can boost their energy as well as cleanse and activate them. Spirit quartz is associated primarily with the crown chakra, but will work to align and balance all chakras together.

PICTURE JASPER (also known as World Map Jasper) This unusual type of Jasper comes from a remote spot in Madagascar, the colour formation comes from iron oxides that seep through the sandstone, causing unusual shapes and patterns that appear to depict landscape paintings. Picture Jasper is regarded as a stone representing global awareness and earth consciousness. It helps to create an air of harmony and aids discovery of messages whether through dreams, meditation or readings. Mystics consider Picture Jasper to contain vistas and messages from the past.