A fine-grained variegated chalcedony, usually with colours arranged in stripes, blended in clouds or showing moss-like forms. It’s help to protect the wearer from danger, encourage boldness and stimulate success, it has been used as a cure for insomnia, to ensure pleasant dreams and to relieve stress.

Alexandrite

A variety of chrysoberyl that exhibits the colour green by sunlight and red-violet by artificial light.

Alexandrite, a rare gemstone, is thought to bring emotional and mental aspects into balance, to reinforce self-esteem and enhance one’s ability to experience joy.
Alexandrite is one of the birthstones for June, symbolizing health and longevity, and is Friday’s gem.

Amazonite

It’s is another of the sacred green stones that were valued by the ancient Egyptians. It’s very healing and is a good stone to carry or wear for looking after one’s general health. It’s also helpful for soothing the emotional processes and relieving worries and fear, amazonite soothes irritating and negative energy and helps with communications concerning love.

Amber

Amber was one of the first substances used by men for amulets, medicine and decoration.
Amber is considered to be healing, soothing and harmonizing and to exert a positive influence on the endocrine system, spleen and heart. From medieval days, it was burned to clear the environment of negativity. It is sometimes called the “Mindful One” because it not only remembers past centuries but helps with simple absent-mindedness!

Amethyst

Amethyst is a variety of crystallized quartz that occurs in colours ranging from deep purple to pale lavender. Amethyst is thought to bestow stability, strength and peace, to relieve stress, and to calm passion, emotional violence and anger. It is a powerful healing gem, having been used in treating disorders of the nervous system, digestive tract, heart stomach, skin and teeth. Amethyst can be placed under the pillow that can aid sleeplessness……placed on the centre of the forehead can relieve the pain of headaches.


Aquamarine

Aquamarine is a transparent variety of beryl that is blue, blue-green or green in colour. The blue variety is the most valuable and the darker the blue, the more valuable the stone.
It’s help to calm the nerves and reduce fluid retention, enhancing clarity of mind and aiding creative self-expression. Aquamarine emits a gentle and compassionate energy, helping judgemental people to be more tolerant. It can also help one who is overloaded with responsibility to restore order.

Aventurine

It’s a variety of mineral, usually quartz or feldspar which is spandled with bright particles of mica, haematite, etc. The most common colour is green.

Aventurine is said to aid in the release of anxieties and fears, promoting emotional tranquility and positive attitudes towards life. It is also thought to enhance leadership qualities and reinforce decisiveness.

Azurite

Azurite is a solid deep blue mineral consisting of basic carbonate of copper.

It can help to reduce indecision and bring relief from troubling thoughts and worries. The stone is said to improve creativity and promote self-confidence, as well as public speaking, teaching, oral examinations, etc.

Beryl

A very hard mineral consisting of a silicate of beryllium and aluminium, beryl occurs in a number of differently coloured stones of which emerald is one. It has also been used in the treatment of eyesight problems as well as mouth and stomach complaints.


Bloodstone

Bloodstone is a variety of quartz which occurs in massive formations. The colour is green with flecks of red, although in smaller pieces of the mineral the red may not appear.
It’s a powerful physical healer and reduces emotional/mental stress. It also stimulates the revitalization of friendships, love and other relationships. It helps one to demonstrate unselfishness and idealism, to improve ones talents and abilities, to enhance creative efforts and to support the decision-making processes.


Carnelian

Carnelian is a hard and tough translucent form of chalcedony that usually occurs in a uniform colour of red, orange or red-brown.

It protected the wearer from the tricks of the envious, it’s provides perceptiveness and awaken one’s inherent talents and skills and also protects against fear and rage. It helps to alleviate sorrow and can also be used to dispel apathy and indolence.


Cat’s Eye

Cat’s eye show a light-coloured line that changes position as the gem is turned, giving it a resemblance to the eye of a cat. This mineral is said to represent happiness and serenity and to amplify one’s “luck”. It can act to stimulate intuition and to enhance awareness and can also be used in the treatment of eye disorders or to increase vision responses during night-driving. In addition cat’s eye has been used to relieve headaches and pain associated with the nervous system as well as asthma and bowel cramp. Cat’s –Eye is Thursday’s stone.

Chalcedony

Chalcedony is a variety of quartz and can be transparent, translucent or opaque. This stone also promotes generosity, receptivity and responsiveness. Chalcedony is thought to bring relief from problems in the area of the throat and neck, both physical problems and those associated with using the voice, such as lecturing.

Chrysolite

The word chrysolite (greek for “gold stone”) applies to any gold-coloured stone, but historians agree that peridot, though green in colour, was the stone referred to as chrysolite.


Chrysoprase

Chrysoprase was called the “Stone of Venus” by the Romans. In the middle ages it was valued as a cure for restlessness, for making the wearer quick-witted and for imparting adaptability and presence of mind. Chrysoprase is said to be a very “inwardlooking” stone, helping with calming, balancing and inner mental healing while enhancing lightheartedness and joy.

Citrine

Citrine is a variety of quartz, the colour ranging from yellow to golden brown to burnt amber. It is said to be one of the stones used in the breastplate of the ancient high priest. It is thought to slimulate both mental focus and endurance.

Coral, the vacated housing of a marine animal, comes from the sea. The kind of coral traditionally used in jewellery is found in reefs in the tropical waters of Polynesia, off the coast of Japan and in the Mediterranean. Although red coral is most frequently used in jewellery, other colours include pink, white, black and blue.
Coral is said to quiet the emotions and bring inner peace as well as promoting intuition, imagination and visualization.

Corundum

The second hardest of all minerals, corundum consists of aluminium oxide and occurs in massive form and as variously coloured crystals, which include the ruby and sapphire. Apart from red and blue, the colour range includes orange, yellow, grey-to-brown, black, bronze with pearly luster, pink, green and purple.

Corundum is said to have been one of the stones used in the breastplate of the high priest. It enhances insight and intuitive awareness and moderates harsh and irritating attitudes. It is also thought to help calm the emotions and help one to release anger in a positive way.


Crystal

A Clear transparent form of quartz which has not been coloured by the presence of other minerals. Quartz crystals have been used for religious purposes since ancient times when priests used them to render negative energy impotent, to destroy black magic and to dissolve enchantments and spells.


Emerald

A green form of beryl emerald takes its colour from the presence of chrome in the stone and is probably the most valuable of all precious stones.

Emerald is known as a “Stone of successful love” and is said to promote domestic bliss and instill both sensitivity and loyalty in oneself as well as in others. Emerald is the birthstone for May, symbolizing love and success.

Garnet

A brittle and more or less transparent silicate mineral, the name covers a wide variety of chemically different stones of varying colours. The loving powers of garnet tend to reflect the attributes with the balancing of the sex drive and emotional disharmony, bringing love, compassion and enhanced imagination. Garnet has been known as a “Stone of commitment” to purpose, to others and to oneself.

Haematite

Haematite is a relatively common iron ore, occurring in thin, relatively brittle, crystals which are black or a dark iron-grey. Haematite has been called a “Stone for the mind” helping one to sort out troubling issues on one’s mind. Although this stone stimulates mental capability, it also produces a calming influence. Dispelling self-limiting concepts, it promotes the realization of one’s full potential.


Jade

Jade was used in ancient times for weapons, utensils and ornaments. Almost all Chinese wore a piece of jade in one form or another to protect the wearer from illness and accidental injury.

It is a soft, gentle stone and is believed to promote a long and prosperous life. It is good for flexibility and tolerance …a stone of friendship. Taken in a drink, jade can strengthen the muscles, harden the bones, calm the mind and purify the blood.


Jasper

Jasper is believed to bring good health as well as courage and wisdom in undertaking involving risk. The jasper containing a yellow colour was used to assist and protect during times of travel that containing the red colour was thought to induce health and rebirth.


Labraderite

Labraderite can also assist one to handle changes, promoting strength and perseverance. It has been known as the matriarch of the subconscious mind, facilitating the transformation of intuition into intellectual thought.


Lapis lazuli

It’s said to promote friendship and goodwill and to guard against oppression and evil. It is known as the stone of truth and integrity and is thought to enhance wisdom, inner vision and mental clarity. It can help one to overcome depression, enhancing feelings of serenity and self-acceptance and is said to bring success in relationships and cheer to the user. Lapis lazuli is one of the birthstone for December, symbolizing prosperity.


Magnetite

Magnetite is a black oxide of iron in the spinel group and is also known in the gemstone trade as lodestone. The colour range include iron black and pale brown and the stone is strongly magnetic.

Magnetite is said to promote tenacity, durability and endurance and to provide the answers required to get out of undesirable situation by enabling one to view things from a distance.


Malachite

Malachite is opaque or semi-opaque and always green. It is thought to stimulate instinctive and intuitive reasoning, promoting change that facilitates advancement. It is said to represent fidelity in love and friendship, loyalty in partnerships and practically and responsibility in business transactions.


Moonstone

Transparent or translucent feldspar of pearly. Once called the “traveller’s stone” moonstone was used for protection against the dangers of travel. It was also a talisman of good fortune and was said to keep that which was dear to one closer. It is a “feeling” stone, enhancing understanding via intuition and emotion rather than via intellectual reasoning.


Opal

Opal was believed to help women to relax during child birth. It is known as
“Stone of happy dreams and changes” it is thought to disperse infections and alleviate fever, purity the blood and the kidneys, regulate insulin production and improve eyesight. Opal is one of the birthstones for October (with tourmaline) symbolizing hope.


Pearl

Pearls are valued as gemstones although they are not actually minerals but organic gems. The pearl is though to signify faith, charity and innocence and to enhance personal integrity. The pearl is one of the birthstones for June (with moonstone and alexandrite), symbolizing health and longerity.


Peridot

The gem variety of the mineral olivine, usually green and yellow-green. It is thought to reduce stress, accelerate personal growth, stimulate the mind and open new doors of opportunity and abundance while banishing lethargy and laziness.

Peridot is one of the birthstones for August, symbolizing married happiness.


Pyrite

Because of its golden sparkle, pyrite was sometimes mistaken for gold by inexperienced prospectors causing it to become known as ”fool’s gold” around 1872.

Pyrite is thought to be a very protective stone, helping to ward off negative vibrations on the physical and emotional levels. This stone encourages the recall of warm and happy memories of love and friendship.


Rhodochrosite

It is called a “Stone of love and balance” and is thought to awaken a need to give and receive tenderness and love. It is said to be useful for those who wish to heal old emotional wounds and for stabilishing the heart and pulse rate.


Rhodonite

A rose-red manganese silicate, usually veined with streaks of black due to the oxidation of manganese. Rhodonite has been called a “Stone of love”. It is said to help me achieve their greatest potential, to dispel anxiety and to promote coherence during chaotic encounters.


Rose quartz

Rose quartz is said to produce a restful, cooling energy that will restore calmness, balance and clarity to the emotions and is considered excellent for healing emotional “wounds”


Ruby

A red form of corundum, second only to diamond in hardness. It was regarded as the “ lord of gems and the most precious of the twelve stones God created.”

It has been said that as long as one retains a bit of ruby, wealth will never depart, and that it will protect against unhappiness, distressing dreams and lighting. Ruby is the birthstone for July, as well as Wednesday’s gemstone and the zodiac gem for Capricorn.


Rutile

Rutile has been said to represent both the lovely hair of Venus and the “sweet-tipped” arrows of love. Rutile has also been helpful in stabilizing marriages and other relationship as well as emotional and physical imbalances.


Sapphire

Sapphire is said to be helpful in freeing one of unpleasant or unwanted thoughts and in bringing joy and peace of in mind by making are more receptive to beauty and intuition.

It is also said to have been the “Stone of Kings” worn to protect them against harm.

Sapphire is the birthstone for September, symbolizing clear thinking and the zodiac gem for Taurus as well as Tuesday’s gemstone.
Sardonyx

It is known as the “Stone of virtue”, thought to stimulate virtuous conduct throughout the many phases of one’s life. It has been used to encourage self control, to diminish hesitation and provide courage and to protect the wearer from poisonous snakes. It is said to bring happiness in marriages. Sardonyx is one of the birthstones for August, symbolizing married happiness.


Smoky quartz

The stone is believed to heighten survival instincts and to improve insight in “Challenging” activities as well as promoting creativity in business and enhancing perception and learning. It is a stone with strong healing powers being used to strengthen the skin and connective tissue.

Sugilite

It has been particularly helpful for those suffering from cancer. Sugilite can be used to eliminate hostility, anger, abrasiveness, jealously, and prejudice. It gives one a feeling of being free and encourages, confidence and inspiration.


Sunstone

In ancient Greece sunstone was thought to represent the sun god, bringing abundance to those who carried or wore it. Sunstone has been used to moderate fearfulness, to reduce stress, to enhance vitality and to encourage independence and originality.

In addition, it has even used to bring “luck” in games. Sunstone is the gemstone for Sunday.


Tiger’s eye

It is thought to help eliminate the “blue” and to bring brightness and optimism to the war. It has been used to stimulate wealth and to enhance the stability required to maintain it.


Topaz

The stone is believed to bring health and wealth and to protect the holder against danger.
Topaz is the birthstone for November, symbolizing fidelity, and the zodiac gem for Sagittarius.


Tourmaline

It has been used by shaman among the African, one’s thought to bring healing power to the user and to provide protection from danger.

Tourmaline can stimulate communication and co-operation between opposing forces and has been used to encourage self-confidence and reduce fear and nervousness by promoting understanding. Tourmaline is one of the birthstone for October, signifying hope.


Turquoise

It is a protective stone as well as a bestower of goodness and used it extensively to bring rain. The stone is believed to enhance creative expression, peace of mind, communication, friendship and loyalty, turquoise is one of the birthstone for December, symbolizing prosperity.


Verdite

When generally thought of as deep green in colour. Verdite is considered a good medium to assist in linking with the spiritual world. It is believed to cleanse the blood, reduce toxicity and improve oxygenation within the body.