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  • Metaphysical Properties of Crystals and Stones used by Puppy Love Jewelry

    11:55 AM PST, 7/23/2008

    Well, Puppy Lovers, here is an exhaustive list of all the different stones I use and the metaphysical properties I list on their cards!  Feel free to browse through them (in alphabetical order) if you are wondering about your favorite stone.
    People frequently use the "ask seller a question" feature to ask me what stone or crystal might be good for a certain issue they are working on--feel free to do that!  I'll do my best with what's in my brain and hit the books if I don't know!
    Please know that this information come from the highly respected work of "Melody" and can be found in her book "Love is in the Earth", as well as "The Michael Gemstone Dictionary" by JP Van Hulle, and my own experiences with the stones and 'Michael'!
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    Metaphysical Properties of Gemstones and Crystals Commonly Used by Puppy Love Jewelry:
    Agate: Grounding stone, bringing about balance to the emotional, physical and intellectual. Soothing and calming (similar to jasper in this way). Agate is known for overcoming negativity and bitterness of the heart. Enhances ones sense of security.
     
    Amazonite: Soothing to those who have suffered emotional trauma (works upon the heart chakra). Helps the wearer to notice and change self-destructive behavior, as well as reducing worries and fears. Raises self-confidence and bestows a feeling that it is possible to attain any goal.
     
    Amber: A healing and cheerful “stone” (all amber is fossilized tree sap). Excellent to wear when feeling depressed.   Encourages development of trust and sharpens intellectual function. Cleansing to all chakras. Amber allows the body to heal itself by changing negative energy into positive energy.
     
    Amethyst: Stone of spirituality and contentment. Was also the stone of sobriety in ancient times, carried to ward of drunkenness. Considered a “natural tranquilizer” because of its calming effect and serene nature. Aids in meditation. Helps with insomnia. Encourages selflessness and freedom from ego. Balances the wearer’s energy, cleanses the aura and provides a sense of peace. Opens and activates the crown chakra. One of the highest spiritual stones.
     
    Angel Aura Quartz: Also called Opal Aura Quartz. These crystals have a magical rainbow sheen to them imparted by a thin layer of platinum alchemized to the surface of quartz crystal. The finished stone has new properties, inspiring joy and angelic connection. Bestows the wearer with hope, optimism and a sense of connection to the Divine Consciousness. Purifies and energizes all chakras.
     
    Angelite: Known as one of the “stones of awareness” for the New Age as it was discovered around the time of the Harmonic Convergence. Angelite is actually celestite that has been compressed in the earth over millions of years! It possesses the same wonderful energy of angelic connection. It is also thought to promote out of body experiences. It is a throat chakra stone facilitating truthful but compassionate communication and offers strength in the face of cruelty.
     
     
    Apophyllite: A crystal with high water content, imparting excellent conduction of energy. This stone creates a conscious connection between the physical and spiritual, facilitating psychic insight and rapid personal growth. Helps the wearer to access the Akashic Record (Universal knowledge) and connect with discarnate friends.
     
    Aqua Aura Quartz: This beautiful enhanced crystal is made when a layer of gold is alchemized to the surface of the quartz crystal. The gold itself is believed to change the inherent properties of the quartz. Frees the wearer from limitation and allows new beginnings. Also resonates with the throat chakra, giving birth to self-expression. Soothes the aura and instills profound peace during meditation.
     
    Aquamarine: The stone of courage and confidence. It allows the wearer to always be prepared and appear competent and in control of difficult situations. Excellent for aligning all chakras but particularly useful for the throat chakra. This stone is also known for increasing spiritual awareness and tolerance.
     
    Aventurine: A heart chakra stone, aventurine amplifies compassion and empathy. It is also known to attract prosperity and instill excellent leadership qualities and decisiveness. Very healing and calming to the wearer.
     
    Azurite: This “Stone of Heaven” facilitates guidance from ones third-eye and psychic self. Eliminates indecision and worry. A very sacred stone to Mayan and Native American civilizations. Also good for promoting a thoughtless state of meditation. Resonates with the third-eye, sacral and heart chakras.
     
    Azurite/Malachite: Azurite guides psychic and intuitive development while malachite is known as the most powerful balancing/grounding stone. When found in formation together, they can enhance ones ability to visualize by opening the third eye (the sixth chakra). This combination is also thought to be very healing to ancient past life wounds and old thought patterns. It assists in dissolving egocentric characteristics, dispelling arrogance and vanity, while instilling individuality.
     
    Black Onyx: A strength-giving stone. Helps the wearer center their energy, heal from grief and gain greater self control. Also good for calming primal fears, enabling one to feel stable and secure.
     
    Black Pearl: Pearl is the stone of sincerity and purity. Black pearl is additionally thought to promote abundance and prosperity. Allows the wearer to readily receive spiritual guidance. Enhances wisdom and personal integrity. Balancing and healing to all chakras.
     
    Black Tourmaline: An extremely powerful stone for protection against negative energy. Excellent grounding properties. This stone is wonderful for sensitive people who tend to resonate with others, thereby inevitably encountering damaging negativity. Healing to the base chakra, promoting physical vitality and passion for life.
     
    Bloodstone: An excellent protective stone, banishing negativity. Calms ones thoughts, dispels confusion and helps in the decision-making process. Grounds the heart chakra, reducing irritability and impatience. Also thought to promote prosperity and abundance.  This mineral is an intense healing stone and a stone of courage. It has been used in accessing the principles of mysticism, providing for insight into the immediate spiritual intuition of truths which transcend ordinary understanding. The message of the Bloodstone is "be here now".
     
    Blue apatite: Stone of acceptance.   Helps the wearer connect to a very high level of spiritual guidance. This gem resonates with the throat chakra, facilitating better communication and expression. Also very healing to the heart chakra.
     
    Blue Lace Agate: A highly inspirational stone for inner spiritual attunement. Helps dissolve old patterns of repression learned in childhood—encourages free expression of true self in the wearer. Resonates with the throat, heart, third-eye and crown chakras! Bestows physical grace and has a cooling, calming energy which can help soften ones stubbornness.
     
    Blue Opal: Stimulates creativity, communication and courage to voice the difficult. Gives the wearer the self-assuredness to speak freely as well as discernment regarding who will be most receptive to ideas. Resonates with the throat chakra and energizes the third eye. Also said to have a very soothing energy for those who are stressed, often promoting deep and comforting sleep.
     
    Blue Sapphire (Blue Corundum): Known as the stone of prosperity, it inspires enthusiasm for life, eliminates frustration , and helps fulfill the dreams and desires of the consciousness. Also promotes insight into the unknown and resonates with the throat chakra, facilitating ease of communication.
     
    Blue Topaz: All topaz promotes truth, forgiveness and empathy. Blue topaz is wonderful when worn on the ears or neck to stimulate the throat chakra and third eye. Helps the wearer better understand their own personal truth, to recognize and change repetitive patterns from the past. Also facilitates ones leadership abilities and allows one to appear competent and confident.
     
    Botswana Agate: A catalyst for transformation, this stone helps the wearer focus on solutions, not problems. Stimulates the crown chakra, energizing the aura. Enhances creativity and stimulates exploration of the unknown. Helps release repressed memories and emotions.
     
    Carnelian: Softens self-deprecation. Stimulate inquisitiveness, initiative and precision. Sharpens analytical capabilities. Helps the wearer to trust in themselves. Protects against envy, fear, and rage, and helps to banish sorrow. It can help to increase physical energy, personal power, creativity and compassion.
     
    Celestite: A very spiritual stone providing connection to angelic realms and bestowing the wearer with a euphoric feeling. Considered a stone of hope in times of despair, allowing the wearer to access the higher self and other spiritual guidance. Soft blue celestite (from Madagascar) transmutes pain and chaos into light and love. Inspires beautiful dreams and whimsical imagination. A truly wonderful stone!
     
    Charoite: This stone connects the crown chakra with the heart chakra. It opens the heart and enhances giving nature, allowing the wearer to easily give and receive unconditional love. Enhances one’s appreciation for beauty. Facilitates full acceptance of others and their shortcomings without judgment. Promotes living in the moment by revealing the present moment as perfect. Powerful transmuter of negative energy.
     
    Chevron Amethyst: Exhibits the deepest purple of any amethyst. Has been shown to enhance the aura with Kirlian photography. Dissipates negative energy. Magnifies love and warmth. Promotes personal development and problem solving.
     
    Chrysacolla: A tranquil stone of acceptance and serenity. Healing to all chakras, but especially so to the heart chakra. Promotes healing of heartache as well as forgiveness for others and insight regarding their behavior. 
     
    Chrysoprase: This stone imparts hope and allows the wearer to feel their connection to the universal whole. Helps one to recognize ego-driven motives and correct them. Minimizes judgment of others. Emotionally, this stone brings a sense of security and trust. It can reduce both inferiority and superiority complexes. It resonates with the heart and sacral chakras.
     
    Citrine: Thought to attract abundance and prosperity. Also a powerful cleanser, good for dissipating negative energy. Has a calming effect on nervous, high-energy people. Resonates with the solar plexus chakra.
     
    Coral: A stone of diplomacy which quiets the emotions and brings inner peace. Enhances visualization and opens doors of understanding to metaphysics. Thought to bring the wearer into direct communication with ascended spiritual masters. Also possesses a passionate energy which encourages a flirtatious and playful nature.
     
    Diamond: Stone of excellence promoting the mastery of self and environment. A symbol of romantic love and fidelity as well as wealth and abundance, this gem attracts both. Instills trust in relationships. Resonates with the crown chakra.
     
    Dioptase: Has a high vibrational energy that is excellent for healing the heart. Promotes living in the moment. It supports a positive attitude and enables the wearer to fulfill their potential. Helps one to connect with their inner child and heal hidden wounds. Has been known to calm the nerves and soothe physical pain.
     
    Emerald: A stone of patience and successful relationships. Life-affirming stone for regeneration and recovery. Excellent for providing focus at a crossroads of life where one is trying to decide where to go, enhancing the wearer’s intelligence and discernment. Resonates with and opens the heart chakra.
     
    Fire Opal: Contains an energy of progress and change. Encourages reflection upon life’s mysteries. Brings hope for the future and faith in oneself. Like other opals, it is an energizing stone good for those experiencing “burn-out”. Increases personal power and bestows charisma.
     
    Fluorite: A highly protective stone, good for aura cleansing and blocking others’ negative energy. Brings order to chaos increasing ability to concentrate and focus. Has a very clean and uplifting energy. Heightens intuitive powers and opens the door to the subconscious.
     
    Garnet: “Stone of commitment”, fostering devotion between people and soothing fears of abandonment. Excellent for times of crisis, promoting courage and survival. Also said to enhance productivity and prosperity. The stone of health, Garnet extracts negative energy and transforms it to a beneficial state. Its loving powers bring devotion, warmth, and understanding. It also discourages chaotic, disruptive, and disorganized growth.
     
    Green Tourmaline:  A very powerful stone for opening the heart chakra and encouraging compassion. Aides in visualization and connection between the third eye and heart chakras.  It inspires creativity and attracts success, prosperity, abundance.  Also facilitate one's ability to communicate wisdom and truth in a charismatic way!
     
    Hematite: Hematite is known to be one of the excellent balancing and grounding stones, good for drawing unwanted negative and chaotic energy away from the body and transforming it. It is also said to be a “stone for the mind” thought to clarify and sharpen disorganized thoughts, aiding in technical thinking and the stillness of thought required for successful meditation. Hematite can helps us grasp the idea that all is limitless--limits are only man-made concepts that can melt with our beliefs. It also promotes self evaluation and the ability to learn from our lives.
     
    Hemimorphite: Decreases self-centeredness while enhancing self-respect without ego. Aids in the creation of a happy reality and personal transformation.   Soothes irrational emotions. Increases the wearer’s assertiveness and maximizes character strengths. Promotes practicality and sensibility. Dispels anger.
     
    Herkimer Diamond: A stone of new beginnings. Promotes vivid dreaming as well as recall and understanding of those dreams and past lives. Very similar to opal, as an amplifier of energy, spontaneity and productivity. Helps eliminate stress and tension from the body.
    It allows one to recognize that there is nothing to 'become' - that one is that which one has been seeking.
     
    Holley Lavender Agate (or Chalcedony) : This pretty creamy lavender colored stone is a variation of the famous Holley blue chalcedony from Oregon, mined in the same region. It shares the same properties of rapid spiritual connection and intuitive growth. It is known as a hallmark stone of spirituality, opening the crown chakra and promoting discrimination in your spiritual path, allowing you to best choose that for your highest good. It is said that that the Holley Agates help us to learn and teach the ultimate truth that only love is real!
     
    Howlite: An extremely calming and grounding stone. It encourages the birth of both spiritual and material ambitions, and aids in their realization. Howlite also teaches patience and dispels feelings of anger.
     
    Indicolite (Blue Tourmaline): Facilitates harmony in one’s life, enabling true impressions to come to the surface, skilled communication to take place, psychic awareness to thrive, and the power of love and commitment toward service to triumph! Activates the third eye and throat chakras to facilitate clear vision and better expression. Carries a wonderful humanitarian energy! Enables the wearer to move closer to the experience of “agape” or unconditional love, to invite others into their heart and to practice tolerance.
     
    Imperial Gold Quartz: Quartz crystal with titanium and iron alchemized to its surface, imparting a beautiful golden sheen and enriched metaphysical properties. Gives off a sovereign, charismatic energy, enhancing one’s powers of co-creation and manifestation!
     
    Infinite: This mixture of serpentine and chrysotile from South Africa is often called "the healer's stone". It is thought to ease chronic pain and help heal physical injuries. Infinite is soothing and calming. Imparts strength through gentleness and tenderness. It helps to evolve one's sense of self-control, allowing one to release control over others in order to better maintain control over one's own life. It is helpful when someone is grieving. Also aids in the connection to the Angelic realms.
     
    Iolite: A third-eye and crown chakra stone, iolite stimulates confidence, deeper meditation, healing and spiritual growth. It is known to stimulate sacred visions—shamans wore iolite rings for this purpose. Helps release discord from ones life, brings harmony within the self and eliminates disruptions in relationships. Enhances ones leadership skills.
     
    Jade: A symbol of purity and serenity. A heart chakra stone, good for increasing love and nurturing instincts. Aids emotional release and soothes irritability. Enables the wearer to be tranquilly accepting of difficult aspects of life that must be handled. Allows one to find inner peace more easily.
     
    Jasper: A powerful healer and calmer. Very soothing. Brings tranquility, wholeness and a humanitarian spirit. Protective against negative energy of others. Useful to align all chakras. Thought to provide nurturing energy to the wearer. Excellent stone for high-stress, nervous people.
     
    Kunzite (pink): An extremely spiritual stone with high vibration. It is the stone of surrender and acceptance. Radiates peace and connects the wearer to universal love. Encourages humility and willingness to be of service to others. Extremely healing to the heart chakra, promoting the clearing of old emotional debris.
     
    Kyanite: Powerful facilitator of meditation. A stone of the throat chakra (enables good communication) and third eye (promotes deep meditation and increased intuition). Connects the wearer to spiritual teachers on higher planes of existence. 
     
    Labradorite: Unites the personal self with the understanding required to achieve your true destiny. Relieves insecurity and apprehension, while enhancing self-reliance and universal harmony in ones life.
     
    Lapis Lazuli: This stone is a good stress releaser, bringing a state of deep peace. Excellent for soothing emotions in turmoil and promoting better understanding of those emotions. It resonates with the third eye chakra, promoting deep meditative states and also the throat chakra, strengthening communication.
     
    Larimar (Blue Pectolite): Also known as "dolphin stone" or "Atlantis stone". This rare gem is found only in the Dominican Republic. Edgar Cayce proclaimed that a blue stone with amazing healing properties would be discovered in this exact region (mining began in the 1970's). It is said to emit love and a sense of peace to the wearer. It is also said to help the wearer realize their self-imposed bondages of this world and facilitate freedom and deeper understanding of the self.
     
    Lavender Spirit Quartz: Lavender quartz is a variation of rose quartz with a lovely lavender color. It shares the rose quartz energy of universal and self love, activating the heart chakra. In addition, it is thought to open the third eye and promote clairvoyance, clairsentience and clairaudience. The spirit quartz formation consist of a core quartz nodule covered with a beautiful sparkling drusy formation. It facilitates intellectual and emotional advancement, eliminating illusion in one’s perception This special formation resonates with the highest of all chakras, the crown chakra, and has the wonderful ability to transmute the negative into the positive! 
     
    Lepidolite: Stone of transition, helping to reorganize negative old patterns of behavior and facilitate smooth change. Combats and dissipates all negative energy. Connects the wearer to higher planes of spiritual awareness. Sometimes forms in a transparent six sided plate-like mica which is considered a much more potent form of the stone and activating to the heart and crown chakras!
     
    Malachite: Extremely powerful grounding and balancing stone. Also a “stone of transformation” facilitating change in ones life and spiritual evolution. Stimulates the heart chakra, increasing the wearer’s loving tolerance of others. Promotes willingness to relate to others and communicate ones feelings. Balances and heals all chakras.
     
    Moldavite: This beloved “stone of transformation” fell to earth as a meteorite over 15 million years ago. As it carries with it extra-terrestrial energy, it is thought to help someone see past the physical reality they take for granted and facilitate rapid spiritual growth and personal transformation. Helps the wearer tap into other dimensions of existence and transcend the mundane. It has a very high frequency energy which helps aligns chakras and can promote connection with ascended masters during meditation. This stone has such power it is thought to sometimes cause the first time wearer to have a flushed appearance (“moldavite flush”).
     
    Moonstone: Known to many as the “stone of new beginnings”. It soothes emotional instability, stress and strong reactions to situations. It also can eliminate tunnel vision and open the mind to a variety of positive possibilities. Has a very feminine, empathetic energy.
     
    Morganite: This rose pink form of beryl (as emerald is green beryl and aquamarine is blue beryl) is known to be a cleanser and activator for the heart chakra. It attracts love into the wearer’s life while facilitating equality between the sexes and in relationships! It also facilitates access of wisdom from ones guides and helps in issues of self-control. Morganite can help us to listen with and speak with our hearts!
     
    Ocean Jasper: Mined by the oceanfront of Madagascar. Very soothing. Brings tranquility, wholeness and a humanitarian spirit. Ocean Jasper is a stone of joy and high spirits. It opens awareness to the benevolent aspects of life and lifts the mood with its positive vibrations. This stone helps lift a veil of negativity which many of us wear over our eyes, promoting gratitude for life’s gifts.
     
    Opal (Australian): A very energizing stone. Increases productivity and spontaneity. Helps awaken your intrinsic psychic and intuitive abilities. Also good for inspiring creativity and releasing inhibitions. This stone assists in enhancing mental clarity, emotional security, physical well-being, and spiritual progression toward the perfect state.
     
    Pearl: Stone of sincerity and purity. Allows the wearer to readily receive spiritual guidance. Enhances wisdom and personal integrity. Balancing and healing to all chakras.
    Believed to keep a person balanced in love and relationships.
     
    Peridot: Emits a warm and friendly energy. Assist in recognition of detrimental patterns in ones life and promotes a deeper overall understanding of self. Helps remove burdens, guilt and obsessions. Opens the wearer to adventures, growth and new challenges. Lessens anger and jealousy while promoting a happy, enlightened state. Resonates with the heart and solar plexus chakras.
     
    Phenacite: This crystal is an extremely powerful activator of all chakras within the body, known to stimulate healing and energy flow by first acting upon the third eye and the higher crown chakras. It is thought to purify the bodies energy centers, help raise vibration and to be of particular use to those practicing the healing energy arts. In addition, Phenacite promotes deep meditation and a state of “inner knowing” that goes beyond intuition. It has also been said to help free the wearer from bad habits emotionally, physically and mentally. It is considered a hallmark stone for the New Age!
     
    Pink Opal: A stone for new beginnings, assisting in the release of old, unwanted patterns. Helps facilitate renewal between the self and the universal all. It is also a stone of spiritual awakening, excellent to wear at times of important shift in our lives. It is also thought to carry a message of non-violence to humanity. Resonates with the heart chakra.
     
    Pink Tourmaline (Rubellite) :  A heart chakra stone that promotes a state of universal love and going with the flow of life. Also stimulates creativity and openness to new concepts.  It is a stone to assist one in attainment of peace and understanding, trust and awareness, and love.
     
    Purple Sage Agate (Lurelite): A beautiful stone discovered in Arizona over recent years, this agate resembles the famed Holly Blue Agate in color and energy. Activates change in one’s life through encouraging self-love. “Stone of Completion” helping the wearer to realize that which has been initiated and attain all that they truly desire. Promotes empathy and the practice of being true to oneself. Resonates with the throat and crown chakras. A wonderful stone!
     
    Prehnite: A stone for dreaming and remembering. It enhances one's ability to prophesy, bringing the aid of the divine for inspiration. Promotes calm. Alleviates nightmares and phobias. Also known as an excellent stone for aiding in connection to non-physical entities (loved ones who have crossed over, spirit guides, higher beings). Can provide the wearer with strong protective energy with a simple intention.
     
    Quartz Crystal: Most powerful healing and energy amplifying stone. Cleanses the aura and raises the wearer’s energy to the highest vibrations. Enhances psychic abilities and attunes you to your spiritual purpose. Helps clarify perceptions which might be clouded by human emotion.
     
    Channeling crystals are very special!  They are recognizable by their 7 sided faces on the front, and their 3 sided faces on the back.  They provide for a conscious connection to the higher wisdom which is available from higher-self and  to the wisdom of experience and enlightenment which is available from the other realms.
     
    Scepter quartz crystals can be recognized by their wider and sometimes opaque base with a more slender and clear crystal extending outward, having a scepter appearance!  It is thought to bring accelerated spiritual development and to focus energy to the wearers heart as well as the the "heart" of any matter being focused upon.
     
     
    Red Amber: Natural Red Amber is mined close to the earth’s surface in Chiapas, Mexico and was originally discovered by the Maya Indians.   An oxidation process changes the color from gold to red over 25-35 million years.  Amber is a healing and cheerful “stone” (all amber is fossilized tree sap). Excellent to wear when feeling depressed.   Encourages development of trust and sharpens intellectual function.   Red amber in particular is noted to promote healthy intellect and curb rampant emotions, resonating with the base chakra. 
     
    Rhodochrosite: Stone of selfless love and compassion.  An excellent stone to heal the heart chakra and promote joy and balance in relationships.  Thought to attract ones soul mate.  Also thought to improve memory and enable the wearer to easily be in the moment. In addition to its heart chakra resonance, this stone also resonates with the solar plexus and base chakras. Said to be a stone of healing for mother earth and helping to connect us to her in her time of need.
     
     
    Rhodonite: A variation of rhodochrosite. It is a stone of love, resonating with the heart chakra and maximizing the wearer’s ability to give love unconditionally. It also helps one to tune into the spirit of brotherhood/sisterhood present in humanity. Bestows a calm and collected appearance during the most challenging situations. Known to soothe emotional wounds from the past.
     
    Rose Aura Quartz: Formed when platinum is bonded to the surface of quartz crystal by a special technique, creating a pretty raspberry-rose color and enriched metaphysical properties. Rose aura quartz works upon the heart chakra transmuting deeply held doubts about self worth. It instills a firm connection to universal love, imparting a strong sense of self love and self esteem.
     
    Rose Quartz: Stone of unconditional love and self love. Resonates with the heart chakra. Brings peace and calm to relationships. Excellent for healing emotional wounds. Soothing and calming to the emotions. Encourages ones loving nature.
     
    Ruby (Red Corundum): Known as the stone of nobility, Ruby assists one in the attainment of integrity and ultimate values.  An excellent stone for caregivers, it promotes the joy of unconditional giving and protects against feelings of victimization and martyrdom. 
     
    Ruby in Fuchite:  Known to aid in intuitive work, making it a great stone for those who wish to develop their psychic abilities. Also brings awareness of various life problems such as emotional stress, social issues, lifestyle or physical health, and use this awareness to find solutions. Said to help one understand Love at a Higher level and Ruby in Fuschite be helpful when used in groups of multiple stones for crystal healing to amplify the healing energies of the stones.
     
    Ruby and Kyanite in Zoisite: The occurrence of these stones together yields powerful and magical properties! The mixture is thought to powerfully align the chakras and stimulate the throat, heart and base chakras simultaneously often producing vocalization and resolution to obstacles in the wearer’s life. Also said to awaken the Kundalini energy, aid in astral travel, stimulate inherent psychic abilities and facilitate utilizing all talents of the mind. The combination of ruby and zoisite energy serves to open the crown chakra.
     
     
    Seraphinite (Clinochlore): A stone for spiritual enlightenment and accessing self healing. Given its name due to its reputation for providing connection to the highest orders of angels during meditative states. Opens the crown and higher crown chakras. Also acts upon the heart chakra and facilitates one to live from their heart while providing protection for the emotionally sensitive.
     
    Smokey Quartz: Extremely grounding stone, and considered an excellent antidote to stress. Helps soothe fears and alleviate depression. Resonates with the first chakra, promoting passion for life. Also helps the wearer be more discriminant about what they want in their life and the choices they make.
     
    Snowflake ObsidianThis grounding stone allows the wearer to recognize  unnecessary patterns present in their life and to shift away from them.  It is the stone of purity and balance to the body, mind , and spirit. Very balancing stone for high energy, nervous type people.
     
    Sunstone: Inspires a state of joy and good nature. Allows the true self to shine through. Fosters self-nurturing and peace. Removes codependency while facilitating independence and self-empowerment. Increases self-worth and confidence.
     
    Tangerine Quartz: Found in Brazil and Madagascar, these crystals have natural mineral deposits which impart their beautiful orange color. Resonates with the second chakra. This stone is about giving and receiving, emotions, change, movement, acceptance and ability to understand new ideas, health, working in harmony with others, co-creation and creativity. Enhances ones sensuality.
    Tanzan Aura Quartz: This beautiful crystal is created when quartz crystal is alchemized with a fine layer of indium, gold and niobium creating a beautiful indigo sheen and imparting new properties to the stone. Stimulating the third eye and crown chakras, this stone is very helpful to those who wish to develop their psychic abilities and intuition. Promotes strong connection to spirit.
     
    Tanzanite (Lavender-Blue Zoisite): Tanzanite is a "stone of magic and manifestation", producing the perfect symmetry of personal power and actualization. It brings the will to the aid of manifestation. Helpful to those who are highly focused and driven in life, but tend to go about their goal in a chaotic disorganized manner. Stimulates the throat, third eye and crown chakras. 
     
    Tiger’s Eye: An extremely grounding gemstone. In ancient times, it was considered protective against the ill wishes of others. Can increase the wearer’s flexibility and ease in working with other people. Encourages one’s stability and dynamic beauty! Helps increase self-worth and lessen self-criticism.
     
    Topaz (Golden Imperial): Topaz is the crystal of personal power. It helps one to absorb that which is needed from the universe. It promotes creativity while providing confidence and trust in one's decisions. Golden Topaz acts as a repository stone which stores information, as well as energy, thoughts, and love. This stone can be used like a battery to recharge one with energy. Golden Topaz is also used to enhance relaxation, to create lightness of spirit, and to stimulate feelings of peace.
     
    Tourmalinated Quartz: Promotes problem solving. Considered to have double the power of the clear Quartz, the Tourmaline works to balance energy opposites. It aids in dissolving stoic patterns which are, or have been, destructive in nature and in one’s own life.
     
    Tourmaline: A sacred stone used by shamen in African, Native American and Aboriginal tribes. Green Tourmaline is a very powerful stone for opening the heart chakra and encouraging compassion. It inspires creativity and attracts abundance. Black tourmaline is a very grounding stone and one of the best stones for repelling the negative energy of others (excellent for very sensitive people). Pink tourmaline facilitates the synthesis of love and spirituality (also a heart chakra stone). It releases destructive tendencies and helps the wearer feel connected to the universal all.
     
    Turquoise: A stone with strong healing and purifying properties. It is said to dissolve an attitude of self-sabotage and instill inner calm. Helps one realize unconditional love towards all. Resonates with the throat, heart and naval chakras. Induces wisdom and understanding while enhancing trust and kindness.
     
    Unakite: Enables the wearer to live in the moment and help move past emotional blockages of the past.  Especially helpful for those undergoing counseling and working on issues from their earlier life.
     
    Variscite: An empowering stone of encouragement and hope that will boost self-confidence and allow the wearer to easily see solutions. Good for overcoming states of deep despair. Resonates with the heart chakra.
    Vanadinite: Promotes an experience of an exalted inspirational space for connection with the Universal Consciousness. Quickly facilitates mediation, allowing the mind to be entirely void of course.  Also promote order in ones life helping to define ones goals and to pursue these goals in an orderly manner.
     Vera Cruz Amethyst: A very special variety of Amethyst found in Mexico. As with other amethyst, it stimulates all chakras, particularly the crown, but also the throat.  It also provides a calming effect- stimulating the heart chakra, then providing a calming effect; It is said that stroking the crystal upon the forehead brings about an immediate state of beta meditation!