Metaphysical Properties
The following chart provides a brief listing of selected stones and their metaphysical properties. For more information, we highly recommend the book Love Is In The Earth by Melody.
| Agate | Balances ying-yang energy, stabilizes the aura. Facilitates discernment. Imparts strength and courage. Opens one to innate creative talents. (There are many forms of agate, each with specific properties.) |
| Amber | Purifies body, mind, and spirit. Balances electromagnetics of the body and allows even flow of energies. Provides a positive, soothing energy. Spiritualizes the intellect. |
| Amethyst | Sedative energy. Facilitates spirituality and contentment. Stone of stability, strength, and peace. Excellent for meditation. Enhances psychic ability. |
| Aventurine | Independence, leadership, creativity. Balances male/female energies. Aligns mental, physical, emotional, and auric bodies. |
| Aquamarine | Courage, intellect, protection. Assists spiritual awareness, actualization. |
| Azurite | Awakens psychic ability, insight, intuition. Third eye. Excellent for clearing the mind in meditation. |
| Amazonite | Balancing energy, harmony, universal love. |
| Calcite | Energy amplifier, teacher. Optical Calcite is excellent for clearing and cleansing. |
| Celestite | Excellent stone for dream recall and astral travel. Hope and harmony. Communication. |
| Chrysocolla | Strength, balance. Promotes harmony and attunement to the earth. Purifies one’s environment. |
| Chrysoprase | Balances yin-yang energy. Acceptance of self and others. |
| Citrine | Positive energy - stone needs no cleansing . Dissipates negative energy. Warmth, joy, optimism. |
| Cobaltian | Creativity, harmony, and dispels negativity. |
| Copal | Excellent for strengthening the abilities of the mind, and altered states of consciousness. Amplifies one’s energy field. |
| Danburite | Powerful intellectual activator. Aids with communication and relationships with others. Helps remove toxins from the body. |
| Emerald | Loyalty, sensitivity, harmony, tranquility. Assists in memory retention and mental clarity. |
| Epidote | Enhances perception and personal power. Excellent for attunement in all aspects of awareness, improvement, abundance, and healing. |
| Fairy | Good luck, protection against evil spirits, and brings health and prosperity to the home. |
| Fire | Spiritual flame, perfection. Protects and dispels fears. Progression, advancement, inspiration. |
| Fluorite | Stability, order, discernment, concentration. Helps one to understand and maintain ideals and the perfection of the universe. |
| Fuchsite | Aids in the assessment of personal issues, enhances knowledge and decision making. |
| Garnet | Commitment, devotion, love, stability and order. Even flow of energy. |
| Hematite | Excellent for the mind. Grounding. |
| Herkimer | Awareness, attunement, clairvoyance, telepathy. Good for information retention. |
| Howlite | Memory, knowledge, and progress. Encourages reasoning, observation, discernment, patience, and tact. Can eliminate pain, stress, and anger. |
| Kunzite | Communication, love, peace. Protects and dissolves negativity. Excellent for meditation. |
| Kyanite | Never needs cleaning or clearing, aligns all chakras. Tranquility, communication, psychic awareness. Excellent for meditation and dream recall. |
| Labradorite | Represents the light of the universe, extra-terrestrial energy. Intuition, subconscious. Illumination. |
| Lapis | Knowledge, wisdom, perfection, protection, creative expression. |
| Lepidolite | Honesty, stability, hope, acceptance. Assists in change and transition. Facilitates astral travel. |
| Lingam | Stone of the Kundalini. Awakens the major energy centers of the chakras, from the base to crown. Balances male (yang) energy. |
| Malachite | Transformation, spiritual development. Clears the way to attain goals. Fidelity, loyalty, reasoning ability. |
| Moldavite | Clarity, eternity. Extra-terrestrial, interdimensional access. |
| Moonstone | Lunar, female energy. Emotional, intuitive. Rhythms, cycles, destiny. |
| Obsidian | Dispels negativity. Grounding, healing, protective. Helps one to clearly see one’s flaws and the changes that are necessary. |
| Onyx | Centering, self-control, intuitive guidance. Assists in the grieving process. |
| Opal | Creativity, inspiration, imagination. |
| Peridot | Healing, protective. Allows one to understand changes in one’s life, regulates life cycles. |
| Petrified | Grounding, provides strength. Stone of transformation. |
| Prehnite | Stone for dreaming and remembering. Facilitates contact with non-physical entities and extraterrestrials. Good for use in grid work. Inspiration and prophecy. |
| Pyrite | Shields from negative energy, good stone of protection. Enhances intellect and memory. Symbol of the sun. |
| Quartz | Universal crystal, clarity of consciousness….see the quartz crystal page for complete info. |
| Rhodochrosite | Love energy. Excellent stone for balance in all areas. |
| Ruby | Loving, nurturing, spirituality ,wealth, protection. |
| Rutilated | Intensifies energy of the crystal. Stimulates brain. Inspiration, clairvoyance. |
| Sapphire | Joy, peace, beauty, prosperity. |
| Selenite | Clarity of consciousness, awareness, insight, good judgement. Aids in accessing past/future lives. |
| Silver | Mirror to the soul. Eloquence. Connects physical and astral bodies. In jewelry, it provides a balanced setting that retains the qualities of the stone it holds. Lunar energy. Cleansing, balancing. |
| Smoky | Dissolves negativity, grounding, balancing. Excellent for meditation. |
| Sodalite | Logic, efficiency, truthfulness. Enhances group communication. |
| Staurolite | Known as a talisman of good luck. Aids relief of stress and depression. Provides connection and balance between the physical, astral, and extra-terrestrial planes. |
| Stromatolite | These stones hold the energy of the most ancient life on earth. Promotes perseverance, strength, stability, connection to life. |
| Tanzanite | Protection, safety. Perfect symmetry of personal power and actualization. Brings together all aspects of communication and psychic power. Can be used to stimulate visions of higher spiritual realms. |
| Tigereye | Earthy, grounding. Represents sun and earth. Optimism, insight, personal power. |
| Topaz | Success, true love, individuality, creativity, joy. |
| Tourmaline | Inspiration, understanding, self-confidence, balancing. Electrical. |
| Tourmalinated | Strength, balancing. Combines attributes of tourmaline and quartz. |
| Vanadinite | Facilitates mental processes, allows for a deep state of meditation. Promotes thrift in spending and order to one’s life. |
| Zircon | Virtue, unification, continuity, purity. |
This information is provided for your inspiration and reference. In no way is it meant to replace proper diagnosis or treatment by a qualified therapist or physician.