Meaning of Stones

Agate.  Fosters love, creates an appreciation of nature, provides abundance and soothes emotion.

Agate, Black.  Relieves stress, gives protection, increase courage.

Agate, Blue Lace. Creates hope, harmony, optimism, positive thinking, joy and truth. Encourages energy flow, communication and expression. Calms the mind.

Agate, Crazy Lace. Enables one to laugh.

Agate, Golden Lace.  Helps lift depression, increase friendliness and happiness.

Agate, Moss.  Helps relieve tension.  Calms feelings of confinement and confusion. Increases confidence and optimism, allowing us a greater connection with the natural world. Prosperity, abundance, success, congenioality, compatibility, healing, rain, restoration, fertility of plants, protection of the earth, strength.  Helps us communicate directly with animals and plants.  Wear when starting new friendships or seeking a significant other.

Agate, Tree.  Assists with introspection, relieves tension.  Brings abundant crops.

Agate, White.  Relieves stress, gives protection, increases courage.

Amazonite. relax nerves and boost creativity.

Amethyst. Healing and peace.  Helps mind become more organized and orderly.  Can aid restlessness and sleeplessness. Meditation.

Aragonite. Fosters truth, stability, understanding and clear perception.  Nurturing stone, lifts your feelings.

Aventurine. One of the best overall balancing stones for the heart.

Aventurine, Red. Enhances creativity and ability to see possibilities.  Brings prosperity, lessens negativity.

Bloodstone (Heliotrope). Beneficial effects on the heart and circulation.

Botswana Agate. Cleansing. Aids attention to detail and exploring the unknown.

Bronzite. Give a sense of certainty when goal-setting and help one take control of his decisions. It is used to encourage good behavior and help dispel restlessness.

Carnelian. Increases motivation and self-determination. Useful for healing trauma and stress.  Has a gentle soothing energy, protects us from negativity feelings such as anger, jealousy and fear.  Calms fears about death and rebirth, brings serenity and acceptance about the cycles of life.  Creativity.

Copper. Eases emotional turbulence or irritability. Helps the flow of energy between all systems of the body. Brings stability and flexibility that protects against stress.

Coral.  Provides protection and guards against violence, accidents and theft.  Calms emotion, restores harmony.  Helps with fever, colds, asthma and digestive problems.

Fluorite.  Helps integrate spiritual energies to the physical body.  Increases mystic visions, psychic energy, well-being, serenity and peace. Encourages orderliness and structure.  Helps improve levels of physical coordination and mental agility.  Enhances intuition, creativity, concentration.  Helps release negative thoughts. 

Garnet. Energizes. Passionate love and enduring strength. Inspires romantic love, passion, sensuality, sexuality, intimacy, positive thoughts, inspiration, past life recall, career success, social popularity and self-confidence.

Rhodolite.  Facilitates meditation, enhances intuition, inspires love.

Hematite. Energizes the physical body. Grounding stone.

Howlite. Allows one to express emotions calmly and unoffensively.

Jade.  True jade comes as either jadeite or nephrite.  Linked to ancestor spirits and the gods. Prosperity, longevity, fertility, serenity, wisdom, balance, moderation, perspective, stability. Connects us to physical instincts and earth energies.  Increases sense of belonging.  Calms arrogance.

Jasper, Brecciated. Relaxation, sense of wholeness. Encourages attunement and communication with animals, helps with animal allergies.  Brings happiness, creates positive outlook on life, eases stress.

Jasper, Fancy. Gentleness, relaxation. Brings tranquility, comfort and wholeness. Nurturing and protective. Increases our enjoyment of life.

Jasper, Iron Zebra. Brings strength, and artistic creativity.

Jasper, Rain Forest (Rhyolite). Helps the reclusive by allowing others into their life, to listen without distorting the speaker's message, to balance emotions, and to free creativity.

Kyanite. Effective energy conduit. Stillness and trainquility, good for meditation.

Labradorite. Inspires energy and awareness.  Protects the auric field and prevents energy being drained by other people.  Provides clarity and insight into your destiny. Helpful with dream recall and finding ways to use dreams in daily life.

Malachite.  Restores life, helps healing process.  Enourages true love.

Onyx, Black.  Enhance “steadfastness and determination”. A grounding stone that is valuable during difficult or confusing times. Extremely helpful to people who are in the process of “letting go” or releasing past attachments to people, places and things.

Opal. Emotional balance.  Helps stabilize mood swings.

Pearls. Promotes sincerity, truthh and loyalty. Soothes, calms and focuses attention.

Peridot.  Helps one find internal happiness and to overcome anger and jealousy.

Quartz, Crystal. Helps bring balance.  Amplifies and increases the harmony of all energies it contacts.  Brings stability and calmness to the mind.  Focus or amplify energy.  Powerful healer. Aids clarity of mind.

Quartz, Rose. Reduces emotional stress and tension. Encourages love, beauty and harmony.  Reduces aggression and promotes understanding and empathy.  Helps one to appreciate the joy of each new day and each new experience.

Quartz, Smoky. Quiet, calming energy. Effective grounding stone. Removes imbalances and negativity. Brings emotional calm and clarity of mind. Stimulates higher awareness in meditative states.

Rhodochrosite.  Helps alleviate anxiety and tension.  Encourages positive self-perception.

Rhodonite. Promotes confidence and self-worth along with the awareness of others' feelings and needs. Restores a sense of equilibrium. Helps in making fine distinctions in people.  Brings love around you, helps you remain centered when in a relationship.

Riverstone.  Helps relieve worry and fear, helps us carry our difficult burdens.

Rutilated Quartz.  Excellent energy shifter, helps remove energy blocks. 

Sardonyx.  Fosters luck, friendship, happiness, good fortune, romance, marriage.  Protective of the young and those who try new things. Assists in appreciation of nature's wild places and inhabitants.

Serpentine "Jade" (New Jade). Promotes good luck, happiness and success.  Helps people reach their business or personal dreams and desires, inspires respect for the elderly.

Sodalite.  Intuitive knowledge, clears the mind and promotes understanding of ideas and concepts.  Useful for student and philosopher. Strengthens communication and rational thinking.

Tiger’s Eye. Promotes balance and strength to get through difficult phases of life; relieves doubt and bestows decision making with vision and clarity.

Turquoise. Protection.  Increases energy and protects the body from negativity.

Unakite. Unconditional love of humanity, connection and reunion. Helps with abandonment and separation issues.

Zoisite. Creativity.