Gemstone of the Day

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Stones: Their Colors & Their Magickal Meanings

Just like in candle magick, crystals and stones may be grouped together by their colors. Here is a straightforward listing for you to peruse and to work your earth magick with.

Red— Red stones and crystals are definitely projective ones. Typically related to the planet Mars and the element of fire, they are forceful powers. Red stones such as carnelian promote courage and bravery, while red jasper promotes valor and banishes fatigue. Red crystals and gems also give the body a burst of energy, both for athletic prowess or for sex. Red stones may be incorporated into healing rituals and spells. Try these for drawing out the heat of skin irritations or minor burns.

Orange— Orange crystals and stones are thought to be a gentler version of red ones. They are also projective and associated with the sun, such as the orange-colored stone citrine, which can grant you a positive outlook on life. These sunny stones and crystals are perfect for shedding some light on a subject or for a little creative illumination. Orange stones are linked to personal power. They can boost your self-confidence and self-esteem. This is a successful color. Work with it to pump up the volume on your own vitality, creativity, and energy.

Yellow— Yellow gemstones and crystals are projective. These will fall under the influence of the sun, the planet Mercury, and the element of air. And what a surprise: they are worked into magick for communication, visualization, and perception! These are the stones to work with when you need to get the old brain kicked into high gear. If you need help expressing yourself, whether it’s in public speaking or writing, work with yellow stones and crystals. These babies will make you more eloquent while you are speaking and or writing, plus your thoughts will flow more freely.

Green— Green stones, gems, and crystals reflect the colors of life, nature, and fruitfulness. Green is a receptive color and may be worked into spells for healing, gardening, grounding, good luck, and prosperity. A mystical green crystal to try is malachite. This stone encourages success, draws cash, and can even protect its bearer from danger. Any green-colored gemstone or crystal may also be incorporated into spells that work with the faerie kingdom or the elementals. As you’d expect, this color of stone is tied to the element of earth.

Blue— Blue gems and stones are receptive and often linked to the element of water and the planet Neptune. These crystals promote peace and soothing emotions. They can be used to promote a good night’s sleep and may keep away bad dreams. A good blue stone to try is the blue lace agate. This stone has all of the qualities listed above. As blue is a healing color, blue stones are often incorporated into healing rituals, charms, and spells.

Purple— Purple crystals are receptive and also spiritual. These gems and stones correspond with Jupiter and Neptune. Purple is the color of magick, royalty, and the gods. Purple or violet gemstones such as amethyst promote spirituality, protection, and peace. Purple stones can alleviate tension headaches and help reduce stress and anxiety. Displaying a cluster of amethyst crystal points makes negative energy dissipate, provides balance, and restores harmony in your home.

Pink— Pink stones and crystals are also receptive stones and bring warm, fuzzy feelings. They are linked to the planet Venus and are used to promote love, happiness, and friendships, as well as soothe frayed nerves and tempers. Stones such as the rose quartz can help encourage relaxation of both the mind and the spirit. They also can help end the spat between a feuding couple by magnifying loving feelings and relieving anger. Given as a token between friends, pink stones can gently link one magickal friend to another.

White— White stones and crystals fall in the receptive stone category and are governed by the moon. These stones have the magickal qualities of promoting safe travel, a good night’s sleep, psychic abilities, intuition, and, of course, moon magick. White stones such as the moonstone are traditional stones used to open up psychic receptors and to encourage empathy. The moonstone is a popular magickal stone and is often worked into Goddess magick and rituals.

Black— Black stones are also receptive and sometimes projective. As the color black absorbs light, so, too, will a black stone absorb negativity, despair, and anger. These ebony-colored crystals and gems are ruled by the planet Saturn. Black stones are perfect for protection work, for grounding, and for removing negativity. Some black stones, like jet, can actually help you gain influence over obnoxious or difficult people. These stones are people. These stones are talismans for security, self-control, and power.

—Ellen Dugan, Natural Witchery: Intuitive, Personal & Practical Magick

Energies of the Stones: Projective and Receptive

There are two types of energies inherent in crystals, gems, and stones: projective and receptive. Projective energies are sometimes described as electric, hot, day, physical, bright, summer, masculine, and active. Receptive energies are often described as magnetic, cold, night, spiritual, dark, winter, feminine, and inert. It is important to know that one type of energy is not superior to the other, for they each have their place in magick, and they both bring balance to our lives.

Projective stone energies are able to get in touch with the conscious mind. They are associated with the sun and the planets Mercury and Mars. They are also linked to the masculine elements of air and fire. These stones tend to fall in the color range of red, orange, yellow, gold, clear, and sometimes black. They can be utilized to fight disease, and can attract good luck. Projective stones bring vitality and health, and they also may impart courage and success to their bearers. These projective stones are powerful tools to fight off negativity, boost your physical energy levels, and grant you a strong sense of grit and determination. A few projective stones to try for these purposes are amber, banded and brown agates, carnelian, citrine, garnet, hematite, onyx, quartz crystal points, red agate, red jasper, tiger’s-eye, topaz, and zircon.

Receptive stones have the opposite sort of energies. These are associated with the moon and the planets Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Neptune. They are associated with the feminine elements of earth and water, and they are often cooler colors, such as green, blue, purple, grey, silver, pink, and black. These receptive stones are wonderful tools for soothing and calming situations and people. They promote grounding, may assist in meditation, and can help folks search within to find the answers they seek.

Receptive stones and crystals can also promote spirituality and wisdom, as they encourage peace and psychic abilities. A few receptive crystals and stones to work with include amethyst, azurite, blue and green agates, chalcedony, green jasper, lapis lazuli, malachite, moonstone, opal, peridot, rose quartz, sapphire, tourmaline (black, blue, green, or pink), and turquoise.

—Ellen Dugan, Natural Witchery: Intuitive, Personal & Practical Magick

Gemstone of the Day

Garnet

 

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Gemstone of the Day

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Obsidian

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Topaz

(Clear, blue, brown, orange, gray, yellow, green, pink and reddish pink)

CRYSTALS AND GEMSTONES FOR HEALING

AGATE – Good for transmutation; helps with the emotion of acceptance; gives a mellow, blended aspect; beneficial in stomach area.

AGATE/BOTSWANA – Use with high-pressure oxygen therapy; smoke inhalation.

AGATE/FIRE – Master healer with color therapy; enhances all essences; grounds and balances; sexual & heart chakra binder; burns energy.

AGATE/MOSS – Emotional priorities; mental priorities; colon, circulatory, pancreas & pulses; blood sugar balance; agriculture.

AGATE/PICTURE – L & R brain imbalances; i.e. epilepsy, autism, dyslexia; visual problems; blood circulation to the brain; apathy is eased.

ALEXANDRITE – Low self-esteem & difficulty centering imply need; central nervous system disorders; spleen & pancreas.

AMBER – Memory loss; eccentric behavior; anxiety; inability to make decisions; thyroid, inner ear & neural-tissue strengthener; activates altruistic nature; realization of the spiritual intellect.

AMETHYST – Headaches; blood sugar imbalance; L brain imbalances; edginess; facilitates healing; inner peace; psychic insight; stimulates third eye; aid for meditation, spiritual opening & internal surrender

ANHYDRITE – Heavy metal maism is alleviated.

AQUAMARINE – Fluid retention; coughs; fear; thymus gland; calms nerves; problems with eyes, ears, jaw, neck, stomach, teeth; Mental clarity; meditation.

ATACAMITE – Genitals; VD; thyroid; parasympathetic ganglia.

AVENTURINE – Eliminates psychosomatic ills, fear; skin diseases; nearsightedness; positive attitude; creative insight.

AZURITE – Arthritis & joints; surfaces psychic blocks that form physical blocks; helps one let go of old belief systems; dissolves fear & helps transform it into understanding.

AZURITE-MALACHITE – Skin diseases; anorexia; calms anxiety; lack of discipline; powerful healing force to physical body;emotional release.

BERYL – Laziness; hiccoughs; swollen glands; eye diseases; bowel cancer.

BLOODSTONE/HELIOTROPE – Circulation; all purpose healer & cleanser; stomach & bowel pain; purifies bloodstream; bladder; strengthens blood purifying organs.

CARNELIAN – Grounding; stimulates curiosity & initiative; focuses attention to the present moment; use with citrine on lower 3 chakras; digestion.

CHALCEDONY – Touchiness; melancholy; fever; gallstones; leukemia; eye problems; stimulates maternal feelings & creativity. release.

CHRYSOCOLLA – Emotional balance & comforter; alleviates fear, guilt & nervous tension; facilitates clairvoyance; arthritis; feminine disorders; eases labor & birth; thought amplifier.

CHRYSOLITE – Inspiration; prophecy; toxemia; viruses; appendicitis.

CHRYSOPGRASE – Gout; eye problems; alleviates greed, hysteria & selfishness; VD; depression; promotes sexual organ strength.

CITRINE QUARTZ – Heart, kidney, liver & muscle healer; appendicitis; gangrene; red & white corpuscles; digestive tract; cleanses vibrations in the atmosphere; creativity; helps personal clarity; will bring out problems in the solar plexus & the heart; eliminates self-destructive tendencies.

CLEAR QUARTZ – Transmitter & amplifier of healing energy & clarity; balancer, channeler of universal energy & unconditional love; all purpose healer; programmable.

DIAMOND – All brain diseases; pituitary & pineal glands; draws out toxicity, poison remedy.

DIOPSITE & ENSTATIATE – organ rejection; heart, lung & kidney stimulation; self-esteem.

ELIAT STONE – Tissue & skeletal regeneration; detoxification; antidepressant; karmic life acceptance.

EMERALD – Radiation toxicity; all mental illness; circulatory & neurological disorders; transmits balance, healing & patience; increases psychic & clairvoyant abilities;meditation; keener insight into dreams.

FLOURITE – Bone disorders; anesthetic; hyperkenesis; ability to concentrate; balances polarities; 3rd eye
center; mental capacity & intellect.

GARNET/RHODOLITE – Capillaries; skin elasticity; protection from pre- cancerous conditions.

GARNET/SPESSARTINE – Bad dreams; depression; anger; self esteem; hemorrhages; hormone imbalances; inflammations; sexual disease.

HEMATITE – Blood cleanser & purifier; self esteem; augments meridian flows; aids in astral projection.

HERKIMER DIAMOND – Enhances dream state; helps alleviate stress; draws toxicity from physical form; balances polarities; increases healing ability; develops ability to “give”.

JADE – Kidney, heart, larynx, liver, parathyroid, spleen, thymus, thyroid & parasympathetic ganglia healer; strengthens body; longevity.

JASPER/GREEN – Constipation; ulcers; intestinal spasms; bladder, gallbladder & general healer; clairvoyance; balances healer’s auric field.

JASPER/PICTURE – Skin, kidneys, thymus & their neurological tissues; betters the immune system; past life recall; overactivity in dream state & hallucinations show a need for it.

JASPER/RED – Liver; stomach troubles & infections.

JASPER/YELLOW – Endocrine system tissue; thymus; pancreas; sympathetic ganglia stimulation; etheric body alignment.

JET – Feminine disorders; teeth; stomach pain; glandular swelling;fevers; hair loss; alignment of lower spine.

KUNZITE – Alcoholism; anorexia; arthritis; epilepsy; gout; headaches; colitis; retardation; memory loss; schizophrenia & manic-depression; phobias; emotional equilibrium; thyroid malignancy; gums; pain; self-esteem.

LAPIS – Neuralgia; melancholy; fevers; inflammations; penetrates subconscious blockages; throat chakra; sore throat; energy focuser for teachers, lecturers & speakers, mental & spiritual cleanser; used on 3rd eye for meditation;eliminates old & negative emotions; use with other healing stones; thought form amplification; helps in creating mantras.

LAZULITE – Frontal lobe stimulation; hypertension; liver diseases; immune system.

MALACHITE – Draws out impurities on all levels; balances L & R brain functions; mental illness; co-ordination and vision; radiation eliminator; evil eye protector; all purpose healer, especially in solar plexus & good for healers.

MOONSTONE – Soothes & balances the emotions; helps eliminate fear of “feeling”; encourages inner growth & strength; aids peace & harmony & psychic abilities; aligns vertebrae; digestive aid.

ANITE – Larynx; lungs; thyroid; parasympathetic nervous system; major muscle tissues.

NATROLITE – Color; lower intestines; thyroid; sciatic nerve; parasympathetic nervous system.

OBSIDIAN – Protects the gentle from being abused; stabilizer; stomach, intestine &I general muscle tissue healer; bacterial & viral inflammations.

ONYX – Objective thinking; spiritual inspiration; control of emotions & passions, help eliminate negative thinking, apathy, stress & neurological disorders; also used as a heart, kidney, nerve, skin, capillary, hair, eye and nail strengthener.

OPAL/CHERRY – Red corpuscle & blood disorders; depression; apathy; lethargy; intuition & joy.

OPAL/DARK – Reproductive organs; spleen & pancreas; filters red corpuscles & aids white corpuscles; bone marrow; depression, esp. of sexual origin; balances; amplifies creative & intuitive thought; grounds radical emotional body.

OPAL/JELLY – Spleen & abdominal diseases; cellular reproductive problems; helps absorb nutrients; minimizes wide mood swings; mystical thought amplifier.

OPAL/LIGHT – Balances L & R brain hemispheres for neural disorders; stimulates white corpuscles; helps bring the emotions to mystical experiences; aids abdomen, pituitary & thymus problems.

PEARL – Eliminates emotional imbalances; helps one master the heart chakra; aids stomach, spleen, intestinal tract & ulcer problems.

PERIDOT – Protects against nervousness; helps alleviate spiritual fear; aids in healing hurt feelings & bruised egos; incurs strength & physical vitality; aligns subtle bodies; amplifies other vibrational energies & positive emotional outlook; helps liver & adrenal function.

PYRITE – Helps purify the bloodstream and upper respiratory tract; upper intestines; digestive aid; nervous exhaustion; grounding.

QUARTZ/SOLUTION – Lymphatic cancer & circulatory problems; helps the psychologically inflexible.

RHODOCHROSITE – Narcolepsy & narcophobia; poor eyesight; extreme emotional trauma; mental breakdown; nightmares & hallucinations; astral body; kidneys; clears solar plexus of blocked energy; unconditional love & forgiveness; evil eye protection; helps one utilize the creative power of the higher energy centers.

RHODONITE – Inner ear; alleviates anxiety; confusion & mental unrest; promotes calm, self worth, confidence & enhanced sensitivity.

RHYOLITE – Balances emotions; self worth; enhances capacity to love; aligns emotional & spiritual bodies; stimulates clarity of self statement.

ROSE QUARTZ – Heart chakra opener; love & self-acceptance healer for emotional wounds; dissipates anger & tension.

ROYAL AZEL (SUGALITE or LUVALITE) – L & R hemisphere balance; opens crown chakra; heart statement; increases altruism, visions & general understanding; protects against negative vibrations; helps one gain power to balance the physical body

RUBY – Heart chakra; balances love & all spiritual endeavors; self-esteem; strengthens neurological tissues around the heart; prevents miscarriages.

RUTILE – Alleviates blockages within the psyche from childhood pressures.

SAPPHIRE – Spiritual enlightenment; inner peace; colic; rheumatism; mental illness; pituitary; metabolic rate of glandular functions; anti- depressant; aids psychokinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance & astral projection; personal statement; also for pain.

SARDONYX – Mental self control; depression; anxiety & especially for grief.

SMITHSONITE – Eases fear of interpersonal relationships; merges astral & emotional bodies; balances perspective.

SMOKY QUARTZ – Stimulates Kundalini energy; cleanses & protects the astral field; draws out distortion on all levels; good for hyperactivity & excess energy; grounding.

SODOLITE – Oversensitivity; helps intellectual understanding of a situation; awakens 3rd eye; cleanses the mind.

SPINEL – Leg conditions, when worn on solar plexus; powerful general healer; detoxification aid.

TIGER’S EYE – Mind focuser; helps purify the blood system of pollution & toxins; psychic vision; grounding.

TOPAZ – Balances emotions; calms passions; gout; blood disorders; hemorrhages; increases poor appetite; general tissue regeneration; VD; tuberculosis; reverses aging; spiritual rejuvenation; endocrine system stimulation; releases tension; feelings of joy.

TOURMALINE- Dispels fear & negativity & grief; calms nerves; concentration & eloquence improve; genetic disorders, cancer & hormones regulated; raises vibrations; charisma; universal law; tranquil sleep.

TOURMALINE/BLACK – Arthritis; dyslexia; syphilis; heart diseases; anxiety; disorientation; raises altruism; deflects negativity; neutralizes distorted energies, i.e. resentment & insecurity.

TOURMALINE/RUBELLITE – Creativity; fertility; balances passive or aggressive nature.

TOURMALINE/GREEN – Creativity; opens heart chakra; immune system; psychological problems with the father; blood pressure; asthma; balancer; eliminates conflict within.

TOURMALINE/BLUE (INDICOLITE) – Lungs, larynx; thyroid; parasympathetic nerves.

TOURMALINE/WATERMELON – Heart chakra healer; imparts sense of humor to those who need it; balancer; eliminates guilt; nervous system; integration, security & self-containment.

TURQUOISE – Master healer; protects against environmental pollutants; strengthens anatomy & guards against all disease; improved absorption of nutrients; tissue regeneration; subtle body alignment & strengthening; eye disorders.