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Transforms negative energy into postive action. It helps to integrate intuition and inspiration with the needs of logic and pattern. It brings balance and connection with our higher self. According to lore, agate also inspires fidelity, strengthens eyesight and helps to relieve thirst.

Amazonite

A soothing and calming stone, it aids us in releasing worries and fears so that we may communicate from the heart and break through our boundaries. Bringing clarity of thought, it helps us to deal with chaos and find a place of centered harmony.

Amethyst

Cool and relaxing, amethyst is a stone of psychic power. Wearing this form of quartz helps promote meditation, peace, tranquility and oneness with your spiritual goals. It enhances and strengthens the powers of the bearer and helps attune with the higher self, dispelling fears, heightening intuition and helping to embrace your own intuitive wisdom. Amethyst is a "negative ion", which attracts poisonous "positive ions" to it, thus clearing the air around the wearer and helping to make it more breathable. Amethyst is also said to be a stone of sobriety, and can help the wearer become free of addictive tendencies

Ammonite

Offers stability, structure and protection, transforming negativity into calm, smooth flow. It aids the survival instinct and can help us to create a world capable of surviving beyond us.

Aquamarine

Evokes the sea in both its name and its color. The ancients saw this as a stone of courage and felt that carrying it would help them return safe and prosperous from sea voyages. It aids in compassion, and tolerance, and facilitates communication both with others and with the deeper self.

Aventurine

Radiating a calming energy, aventurine is used in shielding the heart and in healing and balancing the emotions. Aventurine further stimulates creativity and independence. It enhances leadership qualities allowing the wearer to act decisively, and strengthens intuitive power. It is especially useful for healing and for good luck.

Azurite

Awakens the Higher Self and stimulates the third-eye, strengthening psychic perception and intuition as well as the ability to verbalize the messages of Spirit. It releases stress, worries and indecision, enhancing creativity and problem solving. It facilitates and integrates the meditative state. Azurite brings a loving energy and creates a feeling of self-confidence, helping the wearer to communicate with compassion and from the heart.

Azurite & Malachite

This natural amalgam of minerals helps the wearer to renew and re-member their connection to the All. It freshens the outlook and allows us to touch our core self without fear, letting us touch our child within and be reborn into the light. Soothing to the soul, Azurite / Malachite releases stress and helps the wearer to make new beginnings.

Black Tourmaline

A stone of purification, black tourmaline deflects and grounds negativity, releasing psychic and emotional debris. It reduces anxiety and depression, and opens the wearer up to renewal and increased vitality.

Bloodstone

Enhances courage and brings understanding of the benefits behind each hard-won victory. It helps us to revitalize and open our hearts, tempering strength with compassion. It is a protective stone, and in ancient times was thought to slow bleeding. (Most likely this was caused by the pressure of the bloodstone on the wound, not the stone itself.) This stone is often used by athletes to give them both courage and physical vitality. It is also a prosperity stone, helping to manifest wealth.

Blue Aventurine

Used in healing and balancing the emotions, and helping us to communicate clearly and creatively. Blue Aventurine stimulates creativity, intellect and independence. It enhances leadership qualities allowing the wearer to act decisively, with strong intuitive power.

Calcite

Amplifies energy, boosting creativity and memory, overcoming fear and increasing joy. Specific colours have particular properties: Green to soothe the heart chakra and reduce anxiety; orange to uplift the spirit and bring joy; pink for giving and receiving love; yellow for enhancing intuition; and golden for use in times of transition. Calcite is useful for aiding the kidneys, pancreas and spleen, and for decalcification. Green calcite fights infections, yellow strengthens the spine and bones, whilst blue combats back pain. Chakras: Calcite clears and activates all chakras, and particular colours can be matched to the appropriate chakra.

Celestite

Fosters spiritual development, enlightenment, empathy, prayer, openness, innocence, truth, clarity of thought and pureness of heart. This stone helps us contact our guardian angel.

Chalcedony

Balances the energy of the body, mind, emotions and spirit. Encourages brotherhood among all. Eliviates hostility, irritability, and melancholy. Enhances generosity, responsiveness and receptivity.

Charoite

A high frequency stone which aids the wearer in walking their dharma, their path of service in this lifetime. It instills a sense of peace and harmony with the divine flow of life and destiny. Chariote is a stone of spiritual transformation, allowing us to understand and heal the lessons we have brought upon ourselves and opening us to see the god in others and to recognize our connection with the All.

Chrysocolla

Relieves stress, replacing it with strength and balance as it eases the heart. Its joyful energy helps the bearer to express themselves and to get things moving in positive direction. Chrysocolla invokes the power of affirmation, which allows us to know what is in our hearts and make it so with our words, prayers and sacred songs.

Citrine

Brings our thoughts into being on the physical plane, helping us to realize our dreams. It is especially useful for desires involving happiness, wealth, success and communication. Helping to balance the solar plexus chakra, it brings clarity to the difference between the needs of ego and our divine, higher Will, and to fill our lives with joy.

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