Chalcedony: A nurturing stone that promotes good will and enhances group stability. The stone is used to assist thought transmission and telepathy. Absorbs negative energy and then dissipates it to prevent onward transmission. Chalcedony brings the mind, body, emotions, and spirit into harmony.

Chalcedony, Blue: Gentle ethereal energy. It promotes balance between mind, body and spirit. It is a stone of calm and peace that reduces or negates hostility, anger, and irritation. Blue chalcedony soothes and promotes mental and emotional stability and can encourage emotional honesty. Eases communication, particularly what would otherwise be emotionally charged communication. Blue chalcedony is excellent for the psychic work and skills of clairvoyance, intuition, and energy healing. It helps reduce or eliminate bad dreams by getting rid of the influences that cause them. Blue chalcedony has a very protective property, which is evidenced in both the physical and emotional realms.

Chrysocolla/Gem Silica: Solid Lt. blue/blue-green. Gentle, soothing, friendly, flushes and heals heart blocks (loss, hurt, guilt, fear...) for flexibility, self-forgiveness, patience. Keeps one in light, love, and healing daily. On Throat, expressing feelings, verbal and artistic creativity, thyroid. Also, heart bloodsugar, and emotional balance. High conductivity from copper draws out pain, cleanses auric field.

Citrine: a golden yellow form of quartz which takes its name from "citron", the French word for lemon. It is believed to symbolize happiness, aid digestion, remove toxins from the body, and to be useful in the treatment of depression, constipation and diabetes. This stone's is good for Upliftment and back problems. It is considered the stone of prosperity that attracts wealth and success. It energizes and invigorates by activating creativity. It is one of the few minerals on the planet which does not hold and accumulate negative energy, but dissipates and transmutes it, working out problems on both physical and subtle levels.

Coral: protects and strengthens one's emotional foundation. Not truly a stone, but a hard calcium-like substance formed from the fossilized skeletons of marine life. Coral comes in many different varieties and colors.

Copper: Believed to soothe arthritis, stimulates initiative and optimism. Releases restrictions. An excellent energy conductor, sends and amplifies thoughts, healing, and gem electrical energy into wearer's energy field. Touching skin it will detoxify and sooth arthritis, rheumatism, other inflammation problems. Warms, releases resentment, anger built up in joints as arthritis. Exhaustion recovery, circulation, balances warm sun energy and cool lunar energy. Energize with sunlight. Aids in increasing one's ability to express and accept true feelings, balance personal reserve and confidence.

Fluorite: These gemstones are important balancers and healers. Fluorite opens the heart and the mind, which assist in producing clarity.
Color: Blue, Chinese Rainbow, Clear, Purple, Yellow, Lavender, Green

Garnet: Unlike other gemstones, Garnets are believed to contain both protective and destructive elements. Said to be the "stone of health". It helps dissolve negative energy. It is a sacred stone and speeds up manifestation by bringing your creative energies to the forefront. Garnets have a loving energy and monitor the flow of energy to the psychic centers so that you will be balanced in your physical, emotional and spiritual bodies. Garnets are very cleansing and purifying. It activates other crystals and clears negative chakra energy.

Gold: Excellent all-purpose, high level gem amplifier and electrical conductor, especially when placed on the solar plexus and heart chakra. It strengthens meridians, nerve system, and digestion. Attracts prosperity, stores, amplifies thoughts, emotions, and energy. Gold is ruled by the Sun, a masculine planet, and therefore imparts a more assertive energy to stones that are set in it.

Yellow gold: purifying, healing, balancing. Attracts honors. Masculine energy. Represents spirituality and understanding. Attracts positive energy and promotes healing.

Goldstone, Brown or Blue: A man-made stone, it is said to have been originally created when alchemists were working towards creating gold. Because of the tiny glittering fragments of copper embedded in glass, goldstone has many of the metaphysical properties of copper, including easing arthritis pain and strengthening the circulatory system. Copper is a good conductor of energy, so goldstone helps to revitalize the mind and body. Goldstone is believed to store the energy of all those who touch it (which makes it a special gift for loved ones living far away).

Hematite: One of the most grounding of all stones. Pulls together feelings of being scattered, helps turn fuzziness into mental clarity, concentration, memory, practicality, helps study, bookkeeping, detail work, sound sleep. Confidence, will power, boldness. Also to calm hysteria and anxiety. To encourage survival, strengthen will, bestow vitality, and bring balance, grounding, common sense, level headedness. Hematite was also supposed to be able to stop bleeding, and was said to bring good fortune to those addressing kings, judges, and entering litigation. Additionally, hematite was once used to bring invulnerability to warriors. It is also said to have a good influence on the circulatory system. If placed in a bracelet, the stone is said to be a ward off depression and minor pains.

Jade: Jade is tougher than granite and more difficult to carve than solid steel. Jade is believed to bring good luck, health and fortune. It is good for relaxation being a health, wealth, longevity stone with a gentle, steady energy. It aids in remembering dreams, helps in realization of potential. It helps provide confidence and self-sufficiency. In ancient times it was viewed as a sacred stone and aids in attaining a meditation state quickly. Helps balance male and female energies, is a talisman of protection against the visible and the invisible.

Jasper: Chalcedony quartz. Jasper is known as the "Supreme Nurturer". It reminds us that we are not here on this physical plane just for ourselves but also here to bring joy and substance to others, assisting others to release the bonds of constraint. It is a stone that protects against negativity and helps one to be grounded to the stabilizing energy of the Earth. Use this stone when your energy feels low.

Lapis Lazuli: Unlike other gems it is a composite of several materials with sparkling flecks of pyrite, or fool’s gold, adding to its mystical allure. 

Some of the healing mystical properties attributed to Lapis Lazuli include: great healing, purifying and curative properties, points the way to enlightenment and aids in the opening of the Third Eye. It was also believed to confer ability, success, divine favor, and ancient wisdom. This stone is for understanding, higher guidance, intuition, connection to higher self, overview, decisions for good of all, organizes, quiets mind and is useful with self-expression, writing, creativity and dream insight.

Moonstone: Feldspar (contains aluminum). Popular with the Romans, who thought it was formed out of moonlight, and in India, where it is considered a sacred stone, moonstone is the most valuable variety of feldspar with an iridescent sheen known as adularescence.

Some of the healing mystical properties attributed to Moonstone include: is said to balance yin/yang, arouse tender passion, accentuates the wearer's nature, whether positive or negative, enhances intuitive sensitivity via feelings and less overwhelmed by personal feelings, increase greater flexibility and flow with life. Helps all be more comfortable with our gentler feminine/yin receiving side.

Mother of Pearl: Signifies faith, charity, and innocence, enhances personal integrity, and helps to provide focus to ones attention. The pearl has been known as a "stone of sincerity", bring truth to situations and loyalty to a "cause". It has been used to inhibit boisterous behavior, and to provide a reflection of the self such that one may see the manner in which one appears to others.

Onyx: This stone helps to change bad habits; it's also an excellent grounding stone. Balances and grounds. Absorbs and flattens emotional intensity.

Black: Grounding.

Green: Heart

Yellow: Seriousness, logic. The more translucent/clearer ones are more effective.

Pearls: Pearls are organic gemstones. They aid in physical healing, creativity and anger management. Fresh water pearls enables one to accept love and to see the good parts of yourself so you can love yourself and others. Known to many as a symbol of wisdom, wealth, faith, knowledge, and innocence. It has been said that if you wear a pearl next to the skin it will give off a vibration that has healing properties.

Pyrite: Increases memory, concentration, spiritual and psychic ability for students. This stone sharpens one's memory, attentiveness, spiritual and psychic abilities.

Quartz “Rock Crystal”: It is probably the most versatile multi-purpose healing stone. Easy to cleanse, store info/energy in, program or amplify energy and healing with. Can both draw and send energy. Use powerful clear ones for meditation, sending/receiving guidance. It stimulates natural crystals in body tissues and fluids to resonate at new healing frequency.

Blue (Or gray/lavender): A good healing stone to expand self expression and creativity, plus refining communication skill to new levels. Eases throat tension.

Pink: it is known for love, beauty, peacefulness, forgiving, lovingness, self-love, emotional balance. Gently soothes and warms heart center. Emotional healing, loss, stress, hurt, fear, low confidence, resentment, anger.

Clear Quartz: with metallic, golden rutile, copper or blue/gray titanium fibers that powerfully electrically conduct and amplify energy/thoughts/programming for healing. It is used for meditation, clairvoyance, telepathy, insight. 

Smoky Quartz: Smoky, root beer, or chocolate-colored clear crystals. It induces Alpha/deep meditation for higher guidance, deep relaxation, lovingness.

Black/brown: dull, solid/semisolidless Very grounding, opposite of other smokeys. It may feel dense, heavy, and nonconductive. Many were irradiated to turn them this flat, dark color with white edge of base. If so, they're not useful for conducting light/healing, thus less useful for wearing or healing.

Rose Quartz: Produces gentleness. It is known as the stone of "gentle love", bringing peacefulness and calm to relationships; promotes receptivity to the beauty of art, music and the written word. It represents a young, warm love and balances the yin-yang energy and is excellent for healing emotional wounds, removing negativity and restoring harmony after crisis situations.

Rainbow Calsilica is a newly-found, multi-colored, layered stone composed of calcium and silica. Rainbow calsilica was only recently found in Mexico or Northern South America. Some people theorize that this stone formed as a result of the runoff of mining or oil-drilling chemicals, and has only formed in the last 30 to 50 years.

Rhodonite: gemstones are used to stabilize the emotions. The gemstone sorts out any feelings that are scattered, imbalanced, or ungrounded and allows you to broadens your perspective and helps you become more balanced and mature.
Color: Pink with Black Inclusions

Silver: To provide hope, unconditional love, grounding and kindness while getting rid of negativity. It stimulates imagination. Energy conductor, eases stress and improves speech, feminine energy. Excellent for mental, emotional, and physical releasing and cleansing. Works on mind and emotions to see the big picture, emotional balance, patience. Like the moon's energy, it has gentle, cool, smoothing effect. Thus it reduces inflammation, fever, nervous system stress. Works best as a communicator. Helps balance the functions of both sides of the brain. Mental activity is clarified. An increase in your ability to approach intellectual problems. Also thought to lessen anxiety over problem-solving. Silver is ruled by the Moon, a feminine planet, and therefore imparts a softened emotional energy to stones that are in it.

Sodalite: Clears the mind of confusion so that rational thinking can occur. Good for people who are overactive or over sensitive.

Sugilite: Laced with Manganese, it often displays a variety of black, brown and blue lines and patches creating a unique mottled effect. It is an unusual deep purple stone from Southern Africa. Sometimes referred to as "Purple Turquoise" Sugilite is a rare gem type named for Ken-ichi Sugi, the Japanese geologist who discovered it in 1944. Metaphysically, Sugilite is said to emanate a protective energy, especially for gentle people and children who don't easily screen out the negativity of others. It is especially helpful to those who feel themselves to be gentle spirits who are shocked by the harshness of human interaction here on earth. For them Sugilite may provide a nurturing vibration which allows for the screening out of hostility, anger and fear.

Tiger's Eye: brings clarity and enhances psychic ability. It can help discipline sexual, emotional life and allows one's life to open and blossom. It is a stone to stimulate wealth and helps to maintain it. It brings protection, practicality, softens stubbornness and balances male/female energy. Protective stone, Aids in accomplishing goals and recognizing inner resources. It balances yin and yang energies; enhances psychic abilities. Allows one's life to open and blossom.

Tiger Iron: To enhance creativity through meditation, good for motivation on all levels.

Topaz: The word topaz is derived from the Sanskrit word "tapas".

Golden: The most powerful, electromagnetic of yellow/ solar plexus gems. A strong, steady, high level gem for mental clarity, focus, perceptively, high level concepts, confidence, personal power, stamina. It is said to help mood swings, insomnia, worries, fears, depression, exhaustion, nervous system stress, stomach anxiety. It radiates warmth, sun/light energy, protection and brings emotions and thinking into balance.

Blue: Alignment with our higher self, creative expression, writing, focus on your path. Removes arrogance and allows one to see all things as equally important in the overall scheme of life.

Tourmaline: The name tourmaline is believed to have derived from the Sinhalese word, "turmali", meaning "mixed". Many refer to tourmaline as the "muses' stone", for they believe that its imaginative colors contain inspirational powers which enable the mind of its beholder to bring forth illimitable vision and creativity.

Watermelon tourmaline: It blends from a beautiful green into a red or pink. This blending of Green and red/pink is advantageous when you are working with balancing your heart. This stone helps one to release the concept of being the "victim" and to maintain fortitude and laughter through the trials of life.

Black tourmaline: a strengthener for all emotional work. It repels and protects against negativity, especially for sensitive people. It neutralizes fears, resentment, neurosis and obsessions.

Green tourmaline: Balances love and passion. It helps one to see with the heart; strengthens will to live, life-force, prosperity, compassion and holds the essence of the plant kingdom Shows that we are one and responsible for maintaining the integrity of the planet. It strengthens body and spirit, transmutes lower frequency thought/energy to a higher frequency of light and brings light/spirit into the physical.

Turquoise: It is believed that Turquoise helps one to start new projects; can warn the wearer of danger or illness by changing color; and protects the wearer from falling - especially from horses. It is also believed to bring happiness, wisdom and good fortune to all. A master healing stone that promotes spontaneity in romance and stimulates the initiation of romantic love. It balances and aligns all chakras and subtle bodies and can bring all energies to a higher level. A highly spiritual stone, yet grounding, it brings soothing energy and peace of mind. It brings strength, wisdom, protection, and positive thinking. It opens the heart for giving/receiving and is an absorber of "negativity"; protection from "evil eye".


This information is not meant to heal or treat any condition or problem. This is for interest and informational purposes only.


References:

“The Meaning of Stones”. S. F. Heart website. Retrieved August 18, 2005 from http://www.sfheart.com/stones_2.html and http://www.sfheart.com/stones_3.html.