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SOME CRYSTALS AND THEIR USES
By SpiritLady Yve

Agate Balances ying-yang energy, stabilizes the aura. Imparts strength and courage. Opens one to innate creative talents.

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 Calming energy. Encourages spirituality and contentment. Stone of stability, strength, and peace. Excellent for meditation. Enhances psychic ability.

Aventurine Independence, leadership, creativity. Balances male and female energies. Aligns intellectual, physical, emotional, and etheric bodies.

Aquamarine Courage, intellect, protection. Assists spiritual awareness and actualization.

Azurite Awakens psychic ability, insight, and intuition. opens the third eye. Excellent for clearing the mind for meditation.

Amazonite Balancing energy, harmony, fosters Universal love.

Bloodstone imparts strength, courage, and the self confidence needed to succeed in business and legal affairs. Attracts wealth, sexual potency, insures victory.

Calcite Energy amplifier, excellent for clearing and cleansing.

Carnelian Carnelian is ahealing stone that counteracts feelings of apathy, fear and rage. Fosters peace within and without, imparts self confidence, and inspired verbal and written communication.

Celestite Excellent stone for dream recall and astral travel.

Chrysocolla Strength and balance. Promotes harmony and attunement to the Earth. Purifies one's environment.

Citrine Dissipates negative energy. Warmth, joy, and optimism.

Diamond Purity, perfection, abundance, and inspiration.

Emerald Loyalty, sensitivity, harmony, and tranquility. Assists in memory retention and mental clarity.

Fluorite Stability, order, discernment, and concentration. Helps one to understand and maintain ideals.

Fucite Fosters loyalty, emotional sensitivity, harmony, and tranquility. Assists in memory retention and mental clarity. Attracts balance, abundance and prosperity.

Garnet Commitment, devotion, love, stability and order. Even flow of energy.

Hematite Excellent for the mind, and grounding.

Jade Harmony, peace, fidelity, confidence. A great dream stone.

Jasper Protection, awareness, insight, and grounding.

Kunzite Communication, love and peace. Protects and dissolves negativity. Excellent for meditation.

Kyanite Never needs cleaning or clearing, aligns all chakras. Tranquility, communication, and psychic awareness. Excellent for meditation and dream recall.

Labradorite Represents the light of the Universe, extra-terrestrial energy. Intuition and illumination.

Lapis Lazuli Knowledge, wisdom, perfection, protection, and creative expression.

Lepidolite Honesty, stability, hope, acceptance. Assists in change and transition. Facilitates astral travel.

Lodestone Lodestones are natural magnets, and for many centuries, have been used to charge spell items, primarily to attract things to the one using them- good luck, healing, money, love.

Malachite Transformation and spiritual development. Clears the way to attain goals.

Moldavite Clarity and eternity. Extra-terrestrial and interdimensional access.

Moonstone Lunar female energy. Emotional and intuitive. Rhythms, cycles, and 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, and intuitive guidance. Assists in the grieving process.

Opal Creativity, inspiration, and imagination.

Peridot Healing and protective. Allows one to understand changes in one's life, regulates life cycles.

Petrified Wood Grounding, provides strength. Stone of transformation.

Pyrite Shields from negative energy, good stone of protection. Enhances intellect and memory. Symbol of the sun.

Clear Quartz crystal Universal crystal, clarity of consciousness....The quartz crystal can be programmed to help clear away negative energy from the aura and re-align the chakra energy centers of the body.

Rhodochrosite Love energy. Excellent stone for balance in all areas.

Rose Quartz Empowers and attracts the energies of love, happiness and peace. Encourages healing on all levels.

Ruby Love, nurturing, spirituality, wealth, and protection.

Ruby Zoisite Facilitates trance states and a connection to the divine. Good for facilitating communication with angels and Divine Beings. Deepens an understanding of the esoteric and unseen.

Rutilated Quartz Intensifies energy. Stimulates the brain. Inspiration and clairvoyance.

Sapphire Beauty and prosperity.

Shiva Lingam "Crypto Crystalline Quartz", said to contain the loftiest vibration of all stones on Earth. They emanate a vibration that will purify your temple or home. The stone represents both the male energy of knowledge & the female energy of wisdom.

Smoky Quartz Dissolves negativity, grounding, and balancing. Excellent for meditation.

Sodalite Logic, efficiency, and truthfulness. Enhances group communication.

Sugilite Spiritual love, perfection, inspiration, confidence. Alleviates negative/destructive emotions.

Tigereye Earthy, grounding. Represents sun and earth. Optimism, insight, personal power.

Topaz Success, true love, individuality, creativity, and joy.

Tourmaline Inspiration, understanding, self-confidence, balancing.

Tourmalinated Quartz Strength and balancing. Combines attributes of tourmaline and quartz.

Turquoise Spiritual attunement, strength, and grounding. Excellent for astral travel.

Zircon Virtue, unification, continuity, and purity.

HOW TO WEAR GEM STONES
By SpiritLady Yve

1. Each finger of your hand is associated with a certain element:
The Index finger is connected to the element of Fire, indicating strong will and authority;
The Middle finger is connected to the element of Earth, indicating relentless pursuit of one's goals;
The Ring finger is connected to the element of Air, indicating social contacts and communication;
The Little finger is connected to the element of Water, indicating importance of emotions and intuition;
The Thumb is connected to one's spiritual self.

YANG-stones (transparent and translucent) are worn on index or ring fingers.
YIN-stones (not transparent or covered with specks) have their place on the middle finger or on the little finger.

However, exceptions exist for some stones:
Sapphire is worn on index or ring fingers.
Opals are worn only on the middle finger.
Emerald and Moonstone are worn only on the little finger.

2. To improve the compatibility with a stone, it is necessary to consider also the following relation of each finger to a certain planet:

The Thumb is related to Venus
The Index finger is related to Mars
The Middle finger is related to Jupiter
The Ring finger is related to Saturn
The Little finger is related to the Sun

3. If you need to counteract and weaken the energy of malicious(**) and powerful planet, you will need a specific metal (not a stone) of the opposite Zodiac sign to accomplish that.
For example, to weaken the Moon energy, you have to use a metal related to Saturn, which is titanium.

Here is the list of metals and their relationship to planets:

Gold - Sun
Silver - Moon
Cooper - Venus
Iron - Mars
Lead - Saturn
Tin - Jupiter
Silver-Tin Alloy - Mercury

(**) “Malicious” planets – Mars, Saturn

4. It is advised to carry stones in a silk purse, suspended on a silk string.
It is also preferable to have the stone placed between Vissuddha and Anahata Chakras (3-4 fingers below jugular dimple).
If you carry a stone in the pocket, you should observe the following rules:
Carry the stones related to “friendly”(*) planets on the “happy side” (for men – right side, for women – left side). Stones of “malicious”(**) planets have their place on the opposite side. Carrying stones below the belt is not recommended, unless you want to recover from diseases such as barrenness, impotence, difficult labour, cramps, paralysis, etc.

5. Transparent stones of clear color are preferred in a brighter half of year - spring and summer. Motley and opaque stones are better suited for winter and autumn.

6. In every person both female and male essences are present. Female energy in the man brings forward his feelings and intuition. Male energy in women stimulates creativity and activity. Often, one of the two is blocked. If you will carry a crystal on the left side of a body, it will stimulate Yin forces – a perceiving, emotional, listening part of your personality. A crystal on the right side of a body will boost your energy, self-confidence, vigour, ability to act according to your desires. If you wish to understand the essence of something – carry a crystal on the left side of your body; if you need to express your own essence - carry it on the right side. When you need to learn, study and remember something, hold a crystal in your left hand.

7. To clean stones from negative energy they have absorbed during days and weeks of being worn, submerge them in water on the last day before new moon (on 29th and 30th day of the lunar month). Use water from thawed ice. This rule does not extend to the amulet stones and to Amber.

(*) “Friendly” planets – the Sun, Jupiter, Venus
(**) “Malicious” planets – Mars, Saturn
(***) “Neutral” planets – The Moon, Mercury