Gemstone Meanings

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Malachite

Malachite is a stalwart protector and bolsterer of your strength and willpower. It helps you access your innate power and protects you from negativity as you take action in the world. It is a stone of balance in relationships and is said to protect the wearer from accidents. Malachite has been used to aid success in business and protect against undesirable business associations.

Moldavite

Moldavite used to bring good luck to those who wore it and help bring harmony to marital relationships. Also, it brings good fortune and protection and even helps increase fertility. As this stone helps counter cynicism. Moldavite is said to interact with the heart chakra, though it can also stimulate the third eye and crown chakras. Only around 275 tons of moldavite on earth will stay the same, barring another massive asteroid impact. Its very existence is a random chance encounter between the universe and our planet.

Mookalite Jasper

Mookaite is a nurturing stone that supports and sustains during times of stress. It brings peace and a feeling of wholeness. Mookaite helps us with decision-making. It encourages versatility and allows us to accept change. Mookaite provides us with emotional growth. It helps us to discover all possibilities in a situation and to choose the right one. Mookaite protects against harmful or dangerous situations, eliminating and blocking unwanted outside influences and distractions and revealing what is concealed. Mookaite promotes energy and new ideas, helping us gain enthusiasm and bringing excellence and kindness to ourselves and others. Mookaite helps with contacting those who have passed on.
Mookaite stabilizes the whole body's general health and strengthens the immune system. It helps you connect to animal instincts, revitalizes the body, and supports ancestral healing.

Moonstone

Moonstone represents inner clarity, cyclical change, and a connection to the feminine. It is a symbol of light and hope and also encourages us to embrace new beginnings. It assists in journeying inwardly and finding hidden truths in our unconscious and past lives. It also enhances intuition and promotes wisdom and patience to trust Divine timing. Moonstone is linked to themes of femininity, such as fertility, balance, softness, and intuition.

Morganite

Morganite is a heart chakra stone and carries the energy of Divine love and compassion. This stone specializes in unconditional love and is excellent for healing emotional trauma and grief and seeing its more significant meaning and purpose in your life. Morganite is your stone if you are ready to transform pain, trauma, or loss into wisdom and compassion. A member of the Beryl family, and siblings of Emerald, Heliodor, and Aquamarine, Morganite is the pink variety of Beryl.

Moss Agate (Green)

Moss agate is said to encourage tranquility and emotional balance. This stone is perfect for those who experience intense aggression or overly nurturing emotions, helping to balance male and female energies whenever they become too extreme. Moss agates are nurturing earth stones that help you feel and embrace the abundance of nature and are said to assist in finding hidden treasures and be a stone of prosperity.

Navy Goldstone (Blue Goldstone)

It is the stone of confidence and ambition, encouraging motivation and drive. It has a positive energy, making it an uplifting stone and promoting vitality. Its healing properties can help the user eliminate unwanted thoughts and toxic energy, creating a mindset ready to move forward courageously. Navy Goldstone is brimming with water energy, making it the perfect stone for connections to the spiritual dimension. Blue Goldstone is known to uplift, inspire self-confidence and bring a sense of harmony to anyone fortunate enough to partner with it.

Obsidian (Black)

Obsidian is a natural form of volcanic glass. Obsidian is a strongly protective stone, forming a shield against negativity. It grounds you to the earth through the base chakra, absorbs negative energies from the environment, and strengthens you in times of need. It is helpful to compassionate people, blocking psychic attacks and removing negative spiritual influences.

Obsidian (Golden Sheen) (Golden Obsidian)

By stimulating the Solar plexus chakra, Gold Sheen Obsidian can assist us in reclaiming our power and aligning with Divine Will, becoming co-creators with the Universe to manifest what is best for the highest good of all beings.

Obsidian (Snowflake)

In addition to the generic healing properties of Obsidian, Snowflake Obsidian is calming and soothing. When you feel hopeless, it can help you regain your courage to persevere and help you see opportunities you may have overlooked to improve your situation.

Ocean Jasper

Ocean Jasper provides calm, uplifting energy, feeding a more optimistic outlook. The stone aids in communication and enhances self-confidence as well as self-insight. It is helpful for people suffering from depression, as it gently lifts the spirits and helps one appreciate the present moment and the beauty of life. It can also dispel negativity and encourage a healthy atmosphere in the workplace or when you socialize.

Onyx (black)

Onyx Stone is strength-giving, supporting you during difficult or confusing times and enormous mental or physical stress. Some of its other healing meanings include centering your energy and aligning it with a higher power, helping you to access higher guidance, and taking you forward to view the future. It Imparts personal strength and allows you to be the master of your destiny, promoting vigor, steadfastness, and stamina. It helps you in learning lessons and imparts self-confidence and self-control. It allows you to be at ease in your surroundings. It is a secretive stone that will enable you to keep your own counsel, which also holds the memories of things that have happened to the wearer. It can be used for psychometry and past-life work to heal old injuries and physical trauma affecting your present life. Heals grief and old sorrows and recognizes and integrates the dualities within yourself. It also helps flighty people to have a more stable way of life. Alleviates overwhelming fears and worries. It allows you to make wise decisions. It balances the yin and yang energies within the body and is also beneficial for teeth, bones, bone marrow, blood disorders, and the feet.

Opal

The Opal stone represents amplification, a higher hope, and divine purity. These light-dancing gemstones boost those feelings of balance and peace, help you sift through your thoughts and feelings, and throw out what doesn't work. Opal is also about more profound spirituality. Opal's fire carries a spiritual energy that burns through attachments, wounds, and negative patterns. It can amplify your emotions, bringing semi-conscious practices to the surface of your awareness. Opal also strengthens joy.

Opalite

Opalite is emblematic of youthful optimism, playfulness, and resilience. Blue and white, often found in Opalite, are associated with peace, tranquillity, and purity. Opalite is for all-around healing. It aids sexual prowess, enhancing the sexual experience.

Orange Calcite

Orange Calcite brings feelings of positivity and stability. It helps us balance extreme emotions and encourages us to be more self-confident and self-sufficient. Also, an energizing stone that boosts your creativity and optimism and gets you moving in positive directions.

Pearl

The inner glow (orient) of pearls is to tap into inner wisdom and nurture love. Pearls signify innocence and faith. Practitioners use pearls to enhance personal integrity, bring the truth forward, grow sincerity, inhibit immodest behavior, and advance in wisdom. Their energy is feminine, meaning they are valuable tools if you have an excess of Yang or masculine energy in your meridian and chakra systems.

Peridot

Peridot is a positive energy stone. It vibrates with the energy of sunshine, showering you with blessings and abundance. It helps align the physical reality of your life with your true purpose and joy. It can help you release past hardships and enter a new reality of fruitful goodness. Some believe it is derived from the Arabic Faridat, meaning “gem,” or the Greek word Peridona, meaning “give in abundance.” It is why associated with prosperity and good fortune

Petoskey (Fossil Coral)
Petoskey Stone is a fossilized colony coral commonly found only in Michigan, USA. The coral lived 350 million years ago during the Devonian period when Michigan had a warm inland sea. The “eye” type configurations show, especially when polished. It is said to help stimulate the third eye and psychic awareness mystically. Petoskey Stone is also said to keep naughty spirits from channeling incorrect information or interfering with one’s life. In particular, concerning awareness, Petoskey Stone enhances understanding of emotions, which can be a boon for dealing with emotional issues. It is also said to clear out negative energies from the aura and the environment. Petoskey Stone also brings hope.
Additionally, it’s said to be a boon to the creative expression of all kinds. Traditional healing folklore and crystal healing lore purport that Petoskey Stone is said to be helpful for AIDS, Cancer, CFS, eyes, head, infections, infectious diseases, lungs, skeletal system, and tumors of all kinds. Petoskey Stone is related primarily to the third eye and crown chakra.

Petrified Wood

Many believe in using petrified wood to assist with atrophied muscles and vulnerable skeletal structures by stabilizing the body's defenses. It promotes balance and calmness, allowing the body to heal in a relaxed, de-stressed environment. As a product of once-living material, Petrified wood encourages openness to personal transformations. Regardless of metaphysical beliefs, the stone can represent or remind you to embrace change and uncomfortable feelings on your journey to new beginnings.

Picasso Jasper

Picasso Jasper is a charming, happy stone that reminds us to celebrate and enjoy life, bringing optimism and openness. It assists in the positive transformation of relationships, self-control, and clarity. It can aid and helps in meditation, mind expansion, and manifesting physical and material goals. Picasso Jasper helps with memory and recollection of dreams. The stone is also associated with protection, nurturing, stability, and strength. It can also help with viral infections.

Picture Jasper

Picture jasper is a like a window into the Earth, so some view this stone as a direct message, instilling a sense of proportion, bringing comfort, alleviating fear, and cultivating harmony. It facilitates inner journeying to specific places or times in the past and connecting to sacred sites. It is an excellent stone to use in ceremonies working with Earth energy, especially when working with dreams or visioning.

Pink Calcite

Pink Calcite is a gemstone that can help you relax and unwind. It will fill you with the energy of peace and happiness. This gemstone will enhance the power supply from the Crown Chakra to the Heart Chakra. Activates and improve the heart's way of knowing. It enhances empathy and helps release suppressed emotions.

Prehnite

Prehnite is considered a "stone of dreaming"; believed to increase the power of the dream state, strengthen lucid dreaming and promote communication with other planes of existence. Prehnite enhances life force and energy. It is also considered a "stone of prophecy," with extended use by indigenous peoples of South Africa.

Pyrite

Pyrite is often called "Fool's Gold," though there is nothing foolish about this mineral; within its gleaming beauty is a stone of hidden fire that can be sparked to life by striking it against metal or stone. It's a very protective stone, shielding the user from negative energy. Pyrite blocks energy leaks and mends auric tears. Carry Pyrite in your pocket to protect you from environmental pollution and physical danger. Pyrite also promotes good physical health and emotional well-being, increased confidence, assertiveness, creativity, and the ability to do what it takes to create what you want. Strengthens and activates the third chakra.

Quartz (Crystal Quartz)

Clear quartz crystal is the most valuable and versatile gemstone for metaphysical work. It has the unique property of being "programmable," meaning you can infuse it with your intention, and then it will amplify it, working on your behalf to manifest it in the world. Quartz also acts to amplify the energies of any other stone you are working with. Wearing quartz crystals has been associated with balance, clarity, and energy and is credited with benefiting overall health and spiritual well-being. Quartz attunes to the energy level of each individual's body, providing a cleansing and energizing effect. Quartz raises energy to the highest possible level, working on all levels – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. Quartz aids concentration and memory.

Red Jasper

Red Jasper is a stabilizing stone that strengthens the root chakra. It is an earth stone that can increase your vital energy, physical strength, stamina, and chi. Red Jasper also grounds energy, rectifies unjust situations, brings problems to light before they become too big, and provides insight into difficult situations. When placed under a pillow, it can calm emotions, help recall dreams, clean and stabilizes the aura, strengthen and detoxifies circulatory systems and blood, and liver dissolves blockages in liver or bile ducts.

Rhodochrosite

Rhodochrosite is a stone that integrates physical and spiritual energies, stimulating love and passion while energizing the soul. Rhodochrosite opens the heart, lifting depression and encouraging a cheerful outlook. It improves self-worth and soothes emotional stress. It helps you gently revisit painful childhood memories, heal the past, and reclaim the parts of yourself that you may have suppressed or disowned for emotional survival. Rhodochrosite encourages a positive attitude, creativity, and innovation and enhances dream states. Rhodochrosite regulates and stabilizes the heartbeat, balances blood pressure, and stimulates circulation, the kidneys, and reproductive organs. It alleviates migraines, skin disorders, thyroid imbalances, and intestinal problems. Rhodochrosite purifies the circulatory system and restores poor eyesight.

Rhodonite

Rhodonite helps you understand your gifts and supports you in using them in the world. This stone is about feeling loved by offering love through contributing to your community according to your life's purpose. It can also help you decipher inner visions of your destiny and purpose.
Promotes remaining calm in dangerous or upsetting situations. It builds confidence and alleviates confusion.

Rose Quartz

Rose quartz is the classic stone of love. It helps dissolve old hurts and open the heart to trust in love and have faith in the benevolence of the Universe. It melts mistrust and suspicion and reawakens the heart chakra to abundant love. It is an excellent stone to place in your home or workplace to increase the vibration of harmony and love in the environment.

Ruby

Ruby is an activator of passion, confidence, determination, and adventure. It helps you develop courage and face your fears, moving through them and experiencing renewed vitality on the other side. Stimulating enthusiasm, willingness to try new things, and the fortitude to see them through, ruby is a powerhouse of life-force energy; because of this, Ruby promotes loving, nurturing, health, knowledge, and wealth. As well associated with improved energy, concentration, creativity, loyalty, honor, and compassion. Use Ruby to protect your home, possessions, and family.

Ruby Zoisite
Ruby Zoisite is an energy amplification stone that can energize the entire field of one’s body. It assists in healing from abuse or trauma issues stemming from incidents or situations in this life or others. It is used for psychic ability, empowerment, and altered states of consciousness. Ruby in Zoisite stimulates the crown chakra as well as the heart chakra.

Sandstone (Gold Stone)

Sandstone is a stone of creativity. It helps to build and strengthen cohesiveness and solidarity within relationships. Encourages truth and promotes clarity in thought and sight. Sandstone balances one's reality and facilitates ease of movement and change. Also called the stone of ambition, goldstone helps to attain goals. Some consider goldstone a symbol of ingenuity, purpose, and drive. It is believed to reduce tension, revitalize the wearer and encourage a positive attitude allowing the user to use long-distance healing and restore one's energy field. Goldstone also has many of the metaphysical properties of copper.

Sapphire

Sapphire is the wisdom stone, stimulating concentration, enhancing creativity, and promoting purity and depth of thought. It is believed to focus, calm the mind, and remove unwanted reflections, depression, and mental tension. Also a stone of mental focus, order, inner vision, and psychic awareness, It can help open the third eye to receive wisdom and insight and the throat chakra to communicate that vision to others.

Sardonyx

Sardonyx is a stone of strength and protection. Use it to enhance willpower, integrity, stamina, and vigor. It attracts friends and good fortune. Sardonyx attracts friends and good luck. It brings eternal joy and peace to alliances. It supplements willpower and strengthens character. Also, an anti-depressant allows one to overcome hesitancy and improve perception. It alleviates depression and, overcomes hesitation, enhances perception. Sardonyx heals lungs and bones. It regulates fluids, and cell metabolism strengthens the immune system.

Selenite

Selenite is a powerful healing crystal that promotes peace, calm, mental clarity, and well-being. This crystal can also remove negative energy and help you connect to higher realms. Selenite is best known for being a clearing & purification crystal. Use it to clear the aura from negativity or stuck energy and to clear crystals by placing them on top of a flat piece of selenite.

Serpentine

Serpentine helps establish control over one's life. According to metaphysical beliefs, serpentine clarifies thought to facilitate meditation better. Serpentine connects with the resonance and vibration of the natural world, helping you embody your true nature. It supports transformation and shedding old habits & patterns so you can live your best life.

Shungite

Shungite is considered a potent stone by believers of metaphysical properties. Due to the old age of these gemstones, Shungite has to have powerful grounding properties and earth energies. It provides a powerful defense against destructive powers created by the electromagnetic frequencies of artificial electronic devices. It helps energize and ground your root chakra, allowing your body to become more receptive to energies in the higher chakras and deflecting away bad luck and other harmful energies. Water purified by Shungite carries some of the same vital earth energies; this may further bring your body into alignment and balance, boost healing, relieve stress, and amplify mental energies.

Smokey Quartz

Smokey Quartz's meaning is one of strength and power. Many claim it provides protection, healing, grounding, anxiety, stress, and negative emotions and radiates positive energy. It may increase concentration and focus, detoxify the body and energy field from lower vibrations, protect the body from radiation, and heal digestion issues.

Sodalite
Sodalite is a stone of logic, rationality, and efficiency. It helps work in groups and stimulates the mind and consciousness to create enhanced intuition, creativity, and powers of analysis and observation. Sodalite is a stone that is good for healing breaches in communication. It is a stone of truth and brings this to all communications. Sodalite can guide looking deeply inside to discover where you are on your life's path and where you need to go.

Sugilite

Sugilite is a purple gemstone thought to be a nurturing gemstone that offers release from worries. It also promotes positive emotions to help relieve stress and establish peace of mind and emotional healing. To metaphysical adherents, sugilite is a stone of forgiveness and instills the deep satisfaction of all-abiding freedom. It also helps with lucid dreaming and provides psychic protection.

Sunstone

Sunstone is a leadership stone, encouraging the wearer to be open, benevolent, and willing to bless others. Also known as a stone of joy, Sunstone restores the enjoyment of life and good nature and provides a sense of abundance.

Super Seven (Sacred Seven)

Super Seven, also known as Sacred Seven, is a very spiritual stone. It is one of the few stones that retains energy and clarity and never needs cleansing or energizing. Also, a piece of Super Seven contains the properties of all the stones in the combination of amethyst, smoky quartz, clear quartz, rutile, goethite, lepidocrocite, and cacoxenite, even if the piece does not visibly show all seven minerals. Super Seven is excellent for enhancing all types of psychic abilities and psychic skills. It is a powerful stone for crystal healing and is perfect for healing the mind, body, and spirit. Super Seven is reportedly fantastic at healing, balancing, and energizing all seven chakras. It is beneficial for individuals whose gifts include predicting the future, telepathy and astral travel, and reiki practitioners.

Tanzanite

Tanzanite is a powerful stone for activating compassion and increasing the ability to speak the truth in your heart by harmonizing and linking the heart and third-eye chakra. It is an integrating stone that helps awaken an enlightened consciousness based on wholeness. Detoxifying the body and improving vitality Tanzanite is an excellent stone when you need a calming or soothing presence.

Tiger Eye

Tiger eye balances the soul, alleviates anxiety, and restores confidence. It can help you stay centered, calm, and practical despite the ups and downs of life. It enables you to balance polarities and accept contradictions, taking life as it comes and responding to the moment's needs without judgment. Tiger Eye lends endurance and keeps you in the best state of mind to deal with problems as they come without getting overwhelmed, hopeless, or reactionary.

Tiger Eye (Green)

Along with having the same properties as Tigers Eye - It stimulates action, helps you make decisions with discernment and understanding, and is unclouded by your emotions. It is known for its energizing properties and for arousing motivation. More benefits include speeding up the metabolism, balancing the body's biochemistry, and even alleviating seasonal depression.

Tiger Eye (Red)

Along with having the same properties as the Tiger Eye - Red Tiger Eye is a stone of passion, stimulation, and power. Its properties are closely connected to the human sex drive, and it is often used to either increase libido or help a person deal with sexual frustrations and issues.

Tiger Iron

Tiger Iron combines Tiger Eye, Red Jasper, and Hematite, making it a powerful grounding stone. It increases stamina, strength, and determination. It is excellent for people needing support to create healthier habits—Tiger iron affiliates itself with the root, sacral, and solar plexus chakras.

Tourmalinated Quartz

Tourmalinated Quartz combines the properties of black tourmaline and clear Quartz. Tourmalinated Quartz protects the wearer from negative thoughts and emotions. It is said to be filled with energy that flashes through it and connects one with other energy fields. Tourmalinated Quartz balances yin/yang energies and releases negative patterns. It is used by some to treat disorders of the digestive tract and to detoxify the body. It is an excellent stone for the overall purification and balance of the energy system.

Tourmaline (Black)

Black Tourmaline keeps an electric charge, as it is pyroelectric (meaning it can generate electricity when heated) and piezoelectric (meaning it can store an electrical account), causing it to release negative ions and far infrared radiation – these are very beneficial for health. This incredible stone is associated with protection, grounding, health, happiness, luck, and positivity. Shamans and healers have used black tourmaline since ancient times for protection. Black Tourmaline is considered by many to be the most powerful protective stone, and it is one of the only stones that protects and heals on all levels – physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

Tourmaline (Watermelon)

It is used in emotional healing when someone needs to recover from emotional trauma, become more aware of the needs of their heart, and in efforts to improve one's ability to express love, joy, and peace. This crystal is also associated with the Heart Chakra.

Turquoise

Turquoise activates the throat chakra, helping us speak our wisdom and truth. The gift of turquoise brings an awareness that every part of us is an element of our Divine self and is to be understood and embraced. The heart of compassion knows that darkness and pain are universal human experiences, and only by integrating these aspects of existence can we become whole. Turquoise encourages us to accept ourselves, warts and all. Turquoise is also known for tranquillity and protection.

Unakite

Unakite supports the physical body by purging toxicity from old emotional wounds and attachments, anger and resentment, and bad habits like overeating. It gradually supports a healthy alignment of physical, mental, and spiritual bodies. Allowing the body to keep higher consciousness

**Note that healing crystal meanings are spiritual supports to healing and are not prescriptions or healthcare information.**