GEMSTONES MEANINGS

Tiger Eye helps you stay centered and calmly practical despite the ups and downs of life. It helps you balance polarities and accept contradictions, taking life as it comes and responding to the needs of the moment without judgment. It is a helpful stone for protracted difficult situations, as it lends endurance and keeps you in the best state of mind to deal with problems as they come without getting overwhelmed, hopeless, or reactionary.

Agates are earth stones. Overall, agates are gentle, nourishing, and strengthening. Working with them is less intense than many other gemstones and can be a stabilizing influence, but that doesn’t mean they are less effective. It does mean you may need to work with the stone longer to start to notice the effect, but the resulting changes can be deeper and more permanent. Agate meaning and uses for individual types of agate vary as they each have their own specific healing properties. Here are the meanings of a few of the common agate varieties used in metaphysical work. 

Hematite is the most powerful gemstone to use for grounding. It can help you clear away confusion and orient you toward practical action in the real world. It brings the energy of higher consciousness down through the chakras to your root, and helps you transform that energy into physical reality. Hematite bracelets are handy to have on hand when you are working with higher-chakra gemstones, to keep you grounded.

Howlite is calming because it encourages you to “live and let live”, letting go of attachments that are causing stress and encouraging you to enjoy your life as it is without worrying about what others are doing. This in turn promotes true rest, which is why it is known for helping with insomnia.

Lapis Lazuli is a stone with royal energy, in that it helps you uncover and access your inner noble and Divine nature. It activates psychic abilities and intuition, connecting you to spiritual guidance and visionary awareness. It helps you discern and speak the truth, as well as discover your truest inner Self.

Black Tourmaline can also help purify our mind and aura of negative thoughts and anxiety, making it useful for people with over-active minds. It is a powerful grounding stone, helping you get out of your head and into your body. It helps people feel connected to the Earth and have a sense of being at home in your body and on the planet.

Bloodstone assists us in facing the hard realities and challenges of Earthly life with courage and nobility. It does this by strengthening the root chakra, purifying the aura, and grounding one fully in the physical body. By bringing the subtle body into balance, it bolsters our inner vitality and gives us the heart to make necessary sacrifices, look at painful truths, or endure physical trials.

Black Onyx There is a lot of protective energy within black stones because there is no light within them.This protection will shield your aura from any negative energy surrounding you, particularly from those energy vampires, who always seem to drain you.

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. 

 

Pyrite It is used as a manifestation stone due to its support for taking action to create your dreams and goals. As an earth stone it is grounding and can be used alongside  hematite for this purpose.  

 Moonstone is a stone of feminine power and mystery. It assists in journeying inwardly and finding hidden truths in our unconscious and in past lives. It enhances intuition and encourages the wisdom and patience to trust Divine timing.

 Fluorite clears and clarifies mental clutter. If you are confused and distracted by too many ideas, or worries about the future, fluorite will put your mental mess in order, enabling you to focus on what really matters. It’s a support for work that involves making subtle distinctions, or a lot of decisions in quick succession.

Lava Rock This rock allow us to “root” scattered energy, find focus and bring balance to our center by embracing practicality. It offers us the possibilities of strength and shows us courage. From its unstable beginnings, it allows us stability through times of change. black lava is a very calming stone, useful in dissipating anger. It provides guidance and understanding in situations where we may need to revive our life.

Rose Quartz also inspires the love of beauty, in oneself and others, in nature, and especially that which stimulates the imagination - art, music and the written word. It speaks directly to the Heart Chakra, dissolving emotional wounds, fears and resentments, and circulates a Divine loving energy throughout the entire aura. Reawakening the heart to its own innate love, it provides a deep sense of personal fulfillment and contentment, allowing one the capacity to truly give and receive love from others.

Sodalite stimulates the mind and consciousness to create enhanced intuition, creativity, and powers of analysis and observation. It can enhance the ability to be an objective witness of your internal processes, therefore assisting in meditation and inner journeying. 

Red Garnets help you turn your visions into physical reality. They are stones of prosperity and pleasure, supporting you to live the good life.

  Amethyst Spirituality, transformation, protection, cleansing, promotes happiness and spiritual awareness, excellent for meditation, helps with sleep and absorbs negativity. In old times the Greek believed this stone helped against drinking and toxins. 6th and 7th chakras.

Obsidian Help understand other people’s deepest thoughts and self-understanding. Clairvoyance and contact with spiritual world. Acceptance of our sexuality. Repels negative thoughts. The new age stone.

Sunstone Activates the inner sun and allows a free flow of energy. Can be used to eliminate fears, stress, increase vitality, independence and originality.

Turquoise Relationship, self-knowledge. Improves meditation, circulation and spirit condition. Its color is said to change when the user has a health problem. It’s also said to act directly in the skin cells, softening and rejuvenating them. Sacred for the Tibetan Buddhists for whom it symbolizes the sea (depth of the soul) and the sky (unlimited ascension).

Smokey Quartz Protects against negative energies. Teaches that there is light in the dark. Provides security when there is fear of failure. Provides courage and self-acceptance in the learning process. Good against depression and negative emotions. Eliminates subconscious blocking. Excellent for meditation.

Jasper Intuition, calm, sensitivity, Promotes understanding. Good for disturbed homes.

Jade The “Jewel of Heaven” has been treasured for thousands of years for its beauty and durability. It’s said to help concentration and development of psychic potential. Helps achieve a high mysticism level and to discover obscure aspects of the personality.

Opal Works the energy of flow and movement. Promotes feelings of benevolence and friendship. It’s the gem of God, Love, faith and creativity. Blends feminine and masculine polarities of the conscious.

Amazonite Increases creative expression. Brings power, prosperity, balance and expression. Stone of the communicators and artists. Combines information received with intuition.