Amazonite
Suggested Chakra: Heart
Color: Light To Dark Green With White Lines
Prosperity Stone, Great Over The Door To Bring In New Business
Folklore & Uses:
- Known to some as the lucky gambler's stone, Amazonite is a great stone to draw money.
- Use it over the door of a business to attract new customers, place it by an answering machine or telephone to bring in new business.
- Keep with your checkbook to improve the balance or in your wallet with the bills to grow money.
- A great stone for a money mojo or spell box money spell.
- For centering oneself, getting back to balance. Re-focus and stabilization. Called the Writers stone. Enhances communications concerning love. Can be used as a treatment in disorders of the nervous system, dissipate energy blockages. It is a good stone for creativity.
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Amber
Suggested Chakra: Solar Plexus
Color: Transparent golden (amber) resin ¬ (Fossilized Tree Sap)
Past-life work, brings beauty and may help with weight gain
Folklore & Uses:
- Do not use in an elixir as it may become jelly-like. Place on Solar Plexus while meditating to reach past-life memories. The scent of Amber incense in the air can amplify this stone’s energies, allowing you to reach that memory more clearly. It can also be used in a mojo bag as an effective treatment for Anorexia.
- Amber to enhance and balance moods, obtain mental clarity, confidence, purify, calming/soothing, protection, breaking spells, dispel negativity, allows the body to heal itself by absorbing and transmuting negative energy into positive energy. It stimulates the intellect and opens the crown chakra.
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Amethyst
Suggested Chakra: Third Eye
Color: Deep Dark Purple To Almost Clear With A Light Translucent Hue Of Purple
Release Addictions, Remember Dreams, Awaken 3rd Eye Chakra
Folklore & Uses:
- Amethyst is a quartz and a must have for completing a crystal collection.
- It is a good healing stone and helps one to release past hurts as well as release addictions or soften an addictive personality.
- Said to be the stone for Pisces, amethyst is a great dream stone to help you remember your dreams.
- I suggest combining it in a dream mojo with a Herkimer Diamond and some lavender under your pillow. You may want to begin a dream journal. Add a piece of aragonite if you are prone to nightmares.
- The purple color awakens your Third Eye Chakra and helps you to be more psychically aware. It is a good meditation stone and can help you break through to your guides.
- Amethyst the healer from antiquity, healing for the soul, body and mind, it has the universal vibration and enables the holder of the crystal to be connected to it. Can also be used to dispel anger, overcome addictions, gain patience, overcome nightmares, protection, breaking spells, dispelling negativity, and meditation. It is a stone of spirituality and contentment. Enhances one’s psychic and creative abilities.
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Chevron Amethyst
Suggested Chakra: Solar Plexus
Color: Deep to Light Purples with Strong White Veining
Releases tensions and helps one to journey into one’s self
Folklore & Uses:
- This is a wonderful crystal for anyone who is on a voyage of self-discovery, regardless of whether you’ve traveled many seas or you’re just setting out. Chevron Amethyst is particularly useful in being able to help you understand how to achieve a positive outcome for just about any situation imaginable.
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Ametrine
Suggested Chakra: Third Eye & Solar Plexus
Color: Transparent shades of purple & gold
Aligns insight and willpower
Folklore & Uses:
- A combination of Amethyst and Citrine, this stone is perfect for balancing the energies of your Third Eye and Solar Plexus Chakras. Charge the stone while visualizing your goal (for example, losing weight); see yourself at the ideal weight, fit and healthy, then carry the stone and draw upon its positive energy to enhance your willpower.
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Andalusite
(Fairy Cross Stone)
Suggested Chakra: Base or All
Color: Dark Browns To Black With Lighter Browns To Tan Lines Out From The Middle In The 4 Directions
Draws Elementals To You. Represents The Medicine Wheel Or 4 Directions. A Protection Amulet
Folklore & Uses:
- This stone grows in a tube like fashion and slices of the tube look like a medicine wheel or equal armed cross.
- It is a popular stone among Pagans. It is used to represent the 4 elements and can be worn as a protection amulet.
- Shamans also revere it as a healing and protection stone due to the medicine wheel exhibited.
- It is said to draw elementals or fairy folk to a gathering or sacred space and would make a good offering combined with milk, honey or beer for the elemental folk.
- Andalusite (Fairy Cross) - Used to encourage one to look at issues rationally by helping one to see the various sides to a problem or situation. It also helps one to realize the self-sacrifice is okay, but never required.
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Angelite
Suggested Chakra: Throat
Color: Powder Blue
Calls your Guardian Angels; a great crystal for Spirit Guide work
Folklore & Uses:
- This stone is so inviting to hold. It seems to bring in a calming energy allowing one to reach their spirit guide or do channeling. It can be used to help contact Angels, Spirit Guides or Ancestor Spirits.
- Angelite Used to dispel anger
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Ruby & Zoesite (Anyolite)
Suggested Chakra: Heart
Color: Green & Black with Ruby colored swirls
Enhances personal awareness. Releases mental blocks and stimulates personal talents
Folklore & Uses:
- A great stone for a performance artist to have on their person for successful auditions. I would also suggest wearing it to make the most of your creative thoughts. In esoteric group work it enables the user to be mindful and not take over the energies meant for the group.
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Apache Tear
(an Obsidian)
Suggested Chakra: Base
Color: Smokey Black, but Transparent when held to light
Releases past hurts. Can be used for scrying
Folklore & Uses:
- Legend has it that during an attack on braves in their village, the Apache women were pushed to the edge of a cliff where they wept over their tremendous losses. The tears they shed are said to be captured in time and have become these beautiful obsidians. Use this stone to capture your hurts so that you can release them by cleansing the stone. You can also use Apache Tear to contact Spirit; hold it in front of a candle flame and gaze into it to receive messages.
- Apache Tear Good luck, an aid in overcoming negative emotions. Grounding.
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Apatite
Suggested Chakra: Throat
Color: Blue to Very Deep Blue with Occasional White Veining and Translucence
Aids with Weight loss. Helps deepen meditation
Folklore & Uses:
- A great appetite suppressant, we would have to list this stone as the #1 ingredient for a weight loss Mojo or Elixir.
- It also helps awaken the throat Chakra, bringing creativity and possibly helping to find the answers as to why you are over-weight.
- Releases the need to suffer and helps restore a feeling of self-worthiness.
- This stone can be used to make an elixir.
- Apatite - It can help to integrate, co-ordinate, and balance the emotional intellectual, physical, and esthetic bodies. It can further the connection with UFOs and can provide access to past - life insight and telepathy. Apatite enhances creativity. It is a stone of the future and will bring knowledge to those attuned to it by clearing mental confusion. It truly awakens the finer, inner - self. Wearing or carrying apatite has successfully produced hunger suppression: an elixir made of the material has also produced the same results.
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Aquamarine
Suggested Chakra: Throat
Color: Translucent, Light Greenish Blue
Opens Communication Calms And Soothes Situations
Folklore & Uses:
- Aquamarine is a type of beryl.
- You may have guessed by its name, that it has a strong association with the sea or sea goddesses.
- It can be used to attract water elementals.
- Aquamarine stimulates the throat chakra and awakens creative thought or the process of making daydreams into realities.
- It stimulates communication and allows one to speak calmly in a not so calm situation.
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Aragonite
Suggested Chakra: Spleen
Color: Ranging From Completely Clear Through Honey To Reddish Brown Color. Generally Transparent.
Anti Nightmare, Centers One During Times Of Stress
Folklore & Uses:
- Aragonite clusters can be used to help one focus, remain calm and centered in times of stress.
- A great desk crystal for someone working in a busy office.
- The honey and reddish tumbled pieces are good for the bedroom as they ward of nightmares and help one to get a restful nights sleep.
- If troubled by nightmares of dark spirit energies place a cluster over each window and door to the room as well as one under the bed.
- Never keep clutter under the bed it is very bad for chi energy flow and could be part of why your sleep is troubled in the first place.
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Blue Aventurine
Suggested Chakra: Throat
Color: Ocean Blue with Mica Flecks
Opens up creativity. Great for public speaking
Folklore & Uses:
- Hold this Aventurine when writing a speech or preparing a presentation to awaken your creative flow. Then have it at hand when making your presentation or speech to ensure that it is well received and understood
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Green Aventurine
Suggested Chakra: Heart
Color: Shades of Green with Mica Flecks
Helps poor eyesight also a good prosperity stone
Folklore & Uses:
- Use in a medicine or mojo bag along with Eyebright to enhance your vision. This crystal can also be used as a powerful prosperity talisman.
- GREEN AVENTURINE - Good luck and good fortune, and yes, it is said to attract money. Also, for increasing ones perception and creativity.
- Aventurine (green) - It reinforces ones decisiveness, amplifies ones leadership qualities, and is a willing participant in instinctive action. Emotional tranquility, positive attitudes towards life, brings one into alignment with their center. Independence, health and well being, heals the heart chakra.
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Orange Aventurine
Suggested Chakra: Spleen
Color: Orange with Mica Flecks
Relieves physical pain and muscle aches
Folklore & Uses:
- Use this crystal to build physical body strength and to ward off sore muscles or aching joints that can occur from excess exercise. Actually hold the crystal on the affected area and let it absorb the discomfort. Cleanse after each use.
- Aventurine (red/orange) - This material provides reflective qualities so that one can recognize the flaws of humanity and can remain in the heart space to continue to love this same humanity. It can help one look at a situation incomplete detail, magnifying those aspects of importance. It provides for self-reflection, and allows one to recognize that in each person you see but the reflection of that which you choose to have that person be. It can be used when fasting, to reduce hunger.
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Peach Aventurine
Suggested Chakra: Spleen
Color: Peach with Mica Flecks
Purifies and Balances the feminine energies and hormones
Folklore & Uses:
- Use this crystal to soften the stress of PMS or hormone imbalances. Carry in your pocket or in a mojo to ease menstrual cramps. Particularly effective if used with Evening Primrose
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Azurite
Suggested Chakra: Third Eye
Color: Medium Blue sometimes with White and/or Teal swirls
Psychism, insight, dreams, wisdom & healing
Folklore & Uses:
- A very versatile folklore indeed! Though through my experience of crystals, this stone’s energies are best used for psychic insight or to bring prophetic dreams. Meditate upon the High Priestess tarot card while holding this stone and keep a journal of your visions or dreams. Do not use this stone to make an elixir.