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Gem

Name and Attributes

Element

 

Gem

Name and Attributes

Element

Aventurine - A good luck stone, especially in financial matters. Stimulates creativity, intelligence and perception. A great healing stone, giving a sense of mental and emotional well-being. Treats fevers, nervous system, migraines, eye ailments

Wood

 

Amazonite - Promotes kindness and practicality. Helps balance the emotions and gives physical stamina. Lucky for all your hopes and dreams

Wood

Amber - Protection from negativity. Uplifting, soft warm, joyful, lightens the burdens of life, aids memory loss, stress relieving

 

Earth

 

Amethyst - increases vivid dreams, relieves depression, promotes calm, serenity, and spirituality. Helps with addiction and stress.

Fire

Aquamarine - improves sight, sharpens the mind, calms and clarifies emotions.

Water

 

Botswana -sometimes called the "change stone" because of its property of helping one handle change in a positive way. Helps relieve depression or grief. 

Fire

Bronzite - Enhances the ability to make decisions and choices about our life path, and promote change in a harmonious way. As with all iron bearing gemstones, bronzite is considered protective. Brings grounding and boost self-esteem

Earth

 

Carnelian - general healing stone. Stills the blood, calms temper, assists getting mind out of mental rut, powerful tool in decision making, helps take control of life, invokes joy, laughter, warmth and helps opens the heart

Fire

Cats Eye - stimulates awareness and intuition, protects wearer. Increases physical strength, radiance, stamina, happiness, wealth 

Earth

 

Citrine - helps digestion and aids in mental and intellectual functions. Increases self-esteem and energy. Balances and dissipates negative energy.
 

Earth

Coral - Wards off bad thoughts from others and promotes general well-being.  Strong talisman against bleeding, used to build emotional foundation, gives wisdom. Helps in childbirth and adoption

Fire

 

Garnet - balances your natural energy. A highly protective stone. Increases confidence and security. The Garnet is associated with the thyroid and spleen. Assists speech and self-expression

Fire

Hematite - Enhances the creative flow. Good for stress, will, and determination. Inspires optimism, courage and personal magnetism. Great stone for grounding. Calms and soothes, reducing stress and blood pressure.

Metal

 

Howlite - Howlite - reduces stress and anxiety. Quietly soothes and calms to bring gentleness and patience.

 Metal

Jade - Jade - wisdom, mercy, humility, generosity, peace, and harmony. Protective and lucky when worn as jewellery. Promotes long life and peaceful death,. Eases eyestrain and aids liver 

Wood

 

Lapis Lazuli - emotional healing and stability. High intensity stone which cleanses the spirit to bring out inner truth Very spiritual, self-acceptance, impart ancient knowledge and wisdom 

Water

Moonstone -  Draws love and helps in interpersonal relationships.. Counteract negative emotions, brings insight and encourages you to trust intuition, inspires flexibility, nurturing and wisdom 

Metal

 

Onyx - good protective stone. Banishes grief and old habits. Protects against panic attacks. Enhance self control and helps wise decision making. Overcome feelings of lonliness. Good for nails, hair and skin. 

Water

Opal - Awakens and helps understanding of psychic intuition and mysticism. Stone of hope, positive actions, achievements, love, romance, personal happiness 

Metal

 

Pearl - symbolises love, success, happiness, marital bliss, 

Water

Peridot - balances your emotional mind and calms emotional storms. Aids digestion and insomnia and increases psychic powers.  

Wood

 

Prehnite - stone of unconditional love. Connects the will and the heart. Used as a stone of vision during meditation to access higher levels of awareness, stimulating the third eye chakra. Wear prehnite to strengthen your intuition and recognize truths.

Wood

 

Quartz - the greatest of all healing stones. Acts as an amplifier for psychic energy and aids meditation and visualization.

 Metal

 

Rainforest Jasper -  all jaspers are strong securing, stability stones. A powerful protection against things that are not good for you and eases emotional stresses,

Wood

Sardonyx -  a stone of strength and protection. Use it to enhance willpower, integrity, stamina and vigour.  It is believed to bring lasting happiness and stability to marriage and partnerships. It attracts friends and good fortune.

Water

 

Septarian - a beautiful calming nurturing energy. It also nurtures ideas while helping with the motivation to put those ideas into action.

 

Earth

Smoky Quartz - national gem of Scotland . A grounding stone which helps reduce depression and negative emotions. Helps turn wishes, dreams and desires into reality. Improves abdomen, kidneys, pancreas, sexual organs. Promotes clarity of thought, improves intuition.

 Earth

 

Sodalite - purifies your aura and protects you from negative energy from people around you.

Water

 

Sunstone - gives extra energy when you are ill or under stress, stimulates sexual arousal and energy, increases self-healing power, promotes harmony among the organs functions . Sunstone stimulates your personal power of attraction 

Earth

 

Tiger's Eye - clear thinking, helps in manifesting will, courage, and confidence. Gives protection during travel, promotes balance and strength to get through difficult phases of life.

Earth

Topaz - soothes physical pain, promotes peace and calms emotions, as well as promoting forgiveness. Promotes individuality, self-confidence, and creativity. Counteracts negative emotions.  

Earth

 

Turquoise - healing stone. Attracts friendships, luck, and happiness. Releases shame and guilt.

Water

White Agate - Agates attract strength. Agate is a protection from bad dreams. It also protects from stress and energy drains. Agates have been thought to be good to harden the gums. 

Metal

       

Last Updated 1/09/2008

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