ANCIENT MAGICK

Crystals and Gemstones

CRYSTAL MEANINGS

AGATE: Balances the physical, emotional and intellectual bodies. Balances and cleanses aura. Eliminates negativity. Stimulates analytical abilities and perception. Has been reported to strengthen sight and promote marital fidelity.

AGATE - BLUE LACE: Can help one to reach extremely high spiritual places. It contains the qualities of flight, air, movement and grace. It is a highly inspirational influence when used for inner attunement.
AGATE -BOTSWANA: Enhances creativity and helps one to release the emotional nuances which have been repressed. It also helps one to look toward the solution, rather than dwell on the problem.

AGATE-MOSS: Helps to improve ego and self-esteem, providing emotional balance and strengthening of positive personality traits. Can be used to communicate between plant and mineral kingdoms.

AGATE-TREE: Similar to moss agate. A stabilising stone strongly connected with nature. Said to refresh the soul and enable you to see the beauty in all you behold. Extremely beneficial for anybody associated with agriculture.

AMAZONITE: Brings peace and eliminates aggravation. Soothes emotions, worries and fears. Soothes nerves and dispels negative energy. Soothes the chakras. Enhances communications concerning love.

AMBER: Actually fossilised tree resin, cheering and joyful, repels spiders and is a powerful healer. It stimulates intellect, purifies birthing rooms (when burned). Used to assure vows and promises.

AMETHYST: Stone of spirituality and contentment. Provides a clear connection between the earth plane and other worlds, clears the aura, brings peace, stability and strength. Excellent for meditation, releasing addictions and migraines.

ANGELITE: - Blue Anhydrite - Discovered in Peru at the time of the Harmonic Convergence and is a symbol of the verbalization and communication of love and light to the world. It provides a protective shield around the physical body and environment and enhances telepathic communication.

APACHE TEAR: Obsidian - A variety of obsidian (volcanic glass) traditionally considered to be the tears of Native American women. It has been used to comfort in times of grief; it "sheds" the tears for one in times of sorrow.

APATITE: is attuned to healing, storing information, communicating, balancing energy, and teaching. Can stimulate intellect and dissolve negativity. Use apatite with other crystals to enhance results.

APOPHYLLITE: Has been used to facilitate astral travel and connection to the higher dimensional life forms. Used as a 'gazing' tool to look into the future. Can stimulate intuitive vision when placed on third eye.

AQUAMARINE: Stone of "courage". Accelerates the intellectual reasoning processes. Provides shielding for aura and subtle bodies. Was used to guard against injury in battle. Aligns chakras. Assists judgemental people to become tolerant.

ARAGONITE: Provides for ease of centering oneself and is especially helpful during periods of stress and anger, or during the preparation for the state of meditation.

ASTROPHYLLITE: The crystalline structure exhibits the properties of facilitating astral travel, of providing a method to view one from the outside, and increasing self-esteem. It allows for the recognition that one has no limitations.

AURORA QUARTZ: Activates and enhances the pineal and pituitary glands. Helps one transcend the sense of separateness; dissolving personal boundaries and assisting in the alignment with the Divine Source. Emotional balancer. Raises self-esteem. Receives, activates, transmits and amplifies energy.

AVENTURINE: Clears, activates and protects heart chakra. Balances the male/female energies. Amplifies decisiveness, motivation and leadership qualities, augmenting the "pioneer" spirit. Protects energy from others 'tapping in'.

AVENTURINE - RED: Reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. Promotes passion and empathy and encourages perseverance. Protects the heart chakra from losing energy to people who are energetic vampires.

AZURITE: Known as a 'stone of heaven'. It stimulates the pursuit of the heavenly self, providing for guidance via the third-eye and allowing for precise verbalization of psychich experiences. Excellent for stimulation of third eye.

BLOODSTONE: Intense healing stone. Grounds lower chakras. Renews and revitalises not only physical, mental and emotional bodies, but also renews friendships, love and relationships. Used to neutralise toxins and purify blood.

BLUE CALCITE:* A gentle stone for recuperation and relaxation. Gently soothing the nerves and lifting anxieties, it releases negative emotions. Used on the throat chakra, it aids communication, especially where there is dissent.

BLUE QUARTZ: Activates the throat chakra and promotes the speaking of that which is on the mind. It assists one in removing trhe fear of reaching out to others and brings stimulation to new relationships.

BOJI STONE: Primarily pyrite, with traces of palladium, an excellent healing mineral. Use to balance the male and female sides of the body, remove blockages and assist in grounding. Facilitates the growth of plants and aid telepathic communincation with plants and animals (Use as elixir as they will disintegrate in the garden)

BRONZITE: A stone of 'courtesy' promoting loving equitability and unprejudiced discernment within the user. It also provides the stimulus for decisiveness of that which has not been resolved in one's life. Provides one with the courage to 'do'.

CALCITE: An energy amplifier and useful in multi-directional energy distribution. Calcite also helps the mind to remember information gathered during astral traveling and channeling, and the body to remember a natural state of flawlessness.

CARNELIAN: Stimulates analytical capabilites and precision. Protects against envy, fear, and rage, and helps to banish sorrow from the emotional structure. Increases physical energy, personal power, creativity and compassion.

CAVANSITE: Used to stimulate the intuition, to instill second sight and to activate the channeling abilities. Excellent stone for psychic healing and to provide protection during same, such that the dis-ease will not have the ability to return.

CELESTITE: A stone for balance, acting as an equilibriant to outside forces, stabilising the yin-yang values within one's energy field. It is good for mental activities, and can provide fluency in communication.

CHALCEDONY was used as a sacred stone by the Native American Indians, promoting stability within the ceremonial activities of the tribes. It is a stone to encourage "brotherhood" among all.

CHALCOPYRITE: Can be used to help one find 'lost objects' - it often 'disappears' to accumulate information. Can be used to enhance one's abilities of perception and to strengthen ones contact with the ancient cultures of the universe.

CHAROITE: is a stone for this age. It provides for a synthesis between the heart and crown chakras and combines the higher spiritual dimensions with unconditional love from the physical plane.

CHIASTOLITE (aka Cross Stone): The "Cross Stone" in yesteryear was associated with deflection of the "evil eye". It is now used as a sign of devotion, especially, devotion towards awareness, which can in itself dispel negativity.

CHRYSANTHEMUM STONE: A 'stone of harmony and change', encouraging one to understand the correlation between the two. It enhances compatibility, is excellent for renewal of relationships, and helps one to progress toward unity.

CHRYSOCOLLA: Purifies the home and environment, promotes harmony, and can work to eliminate negativity from within a person. It imparts an energy conducive to stabilizing the home and re-building relationships.

CHRYSOPRASE: Instills compassion and provides for non-judgemental attitudes, acceptance of others and self. It can reduce superiority or inferiority complexes and can confer fluency of speech with presence of mind.
CINNABAR: The name is said to be derived from the Eastern Indian word for "dragons' blood". Known as the 'merchants stone'... place in a cash box to produce more income. Excellent in extracting energy blockages, aligning energy centres and eliminating aggression.

CITRINE: One of two minerals on the planet which does not hold and accumulate negative energy, but dissipates and transmutes it, working out problems in the physical and subtle levels. Assists in aquiring wealth and balancing chakras.

COPAL: Enhances contact with the etheric bodies and stimulates the crown chakra towards spirituality. It can also create altered states of consciousness and can serve as a vehicle for both reaching and utilizing the talents and abilities of the mind.

CORAL - BLACK: Reported to both absorb and transform negativity when worn, carried, taken as an elixir, or placed in ones environment. It can dispel fear of darkness and can bring hidden matters to the forefront.

DANBURITE: Encourages you to 'let your light shine', and helps people get along. A powerful intellectual activator. Assists in the removal of toxins from the body.

DIOPSIDE: Can stimulate the intellect and assist in mathematical and analytical pursuits. I allows one to understand the duality of the self and stimulates the retrieval of the feminine side of nature. A good stone for those who will not allow themselves to cry.

DIOPTASE: Can be used to clear the aura and to stimulate the auric body to align the energy of the optimum self to the physical body. It is a protective stone on the subtle levels, bringing the presence of the Earth to the peace of the higher self.

EMERALD: - form of  Beryl -The stone of successful love. It is said to provide for domestic bliss and to instill both sensitivity and loyalty within the self and within others. It can be used to open, activate and stimulate the heart chakra, while helping to quiet the emotions. A stone to bring harmony to ones life.

FLUORITE: Brings order to chaos. Aligns mental, physical, emotional and spiritual bodies. Grounds out excess electrical energy bringing calmness. Helpful dissipating and protecting from colds, flu and infections. Helps one to see the truth.

FUSCHITE: Assists one, during meditation, to access information regarding physical health, daily routine, environments and career, and facilitates the transfer of energy from other minerals.. Used in channeling, Fuchsite can bring information concerning herbal remedies and holistic remediation.

GARNET: Stone of health - extracting negative energy from the chakras, and transmuting the energy to beneficial use. Stimulates both base and crown chakras to allow kundahlini flow. Protective and calming. Commitment to a purpose.

GIRASOL (Blue Opal): Can be used to stimulate communication skills and to assist one in voicing thoughts and information which one has not been courageous enough to voice in the past. It provides one with both the freedom to speak freely, and the wisdom to recognize those with whom this free speech will be accepted.

GOLDEN HEALER QUARTZ: A quartz crystal which is partially or totally covered with a transparent golden-yellow mineral (possibly iron hydrate). This mineral has been used to assist one in attaining and maintaining contact with the spiritual worlds and to incite healing on all levels.

HEMATITE: Excellent for grounding. Mental attunement, memory enhancement, original thinking and technical knowledge. Aligns subtle bodies, meridians and spine. Can be used to treat leg cramps. Dispels heat from fever (on forehead).

HERKIMER DIAMOND: Powerful amplifiers for energies and other stones. Helps one to 'be' - enhancing spontaneity. Stone of 'attunement' used by healers to attune to clients. Can store information for later use.

HOWLITE: Can be used to calm communication, to facilitate awareness and to encourage emotional expression. Dispels criticism, coldness, selfishness, bringing strength and innocence to immediate confrontations. Discourages rudeness.
IDOCRASE: (See Vesuvianite)

IOLITE: Called the "violet stone". It is one of the major stones for use in the third eye/crown area during healing, during guided meditations, and during astral travel adventures.

JADE: Known as a 'dream stone' and 'stone of fidelity'. It improves ones' remembering of dreams and assists in 'dream solving'. Used to release suppressed emotions during dreamtime. Assists in accessing the spiritual world.

JASPER- RED: The 'supreme nurturer'. Often worn by shamen for protection, it protects against negativity and helps one to be gounded to earth. Worn by priests and kings it assisted the ancients in safe astral travelling.

JASPER- OCEAN: Jasper protects against negativity and helps one to be grounded to the stabilizing energies of the earth. It balances the yin/yang energies and the subtle bodies.

JASPER - DALMATIAN: Melody's book gives no separate description for this variety of Jasper. It is a pretty, friendly stone which looks like a speckled egg. In my own use of it, I have found its' energy to be joyful and attuned to the element of air.

JASPER - ZEBRA: Balances the yin / yang energies, aligns the chakras, and aligns the physical,emotional and mental bodies with the etheric realm. It clears electromagnetic and environmental pollution.

JET: Can be used to dispel fearful thoughts and can be used to protect against illness and violence. It also protects one during the pursuit of business and enhances the stability of ones finances. It awakens kundahlini and helps dispel depression.

KUNZITE: Activates the heart chakra and aligns the heart chakra with the throat chakra and third eye. It helps the expression of self-love, unconditional love and romantic love.

KYANITE: Never needs cleaning. It will not accumulate or retain negative energy. One of the very best attunement stones. Aligns all chakras automatically. It brings a tranquility and calming effect to the whole being. Facilitates meditation.

LABRADORITE: Protects one's aura, and helps to keep the aura clear, balanced, protected, and free from energy leaks. Assists in the alignment of subtle bodies, enhancing the connection between the physical and ethereal realms.

LAPIS LAZULI: Used by ancient Egyptians. Said to exist 'before time was born'. Stone of 'total awareness'. Assists in access to esoteric planetary knowledge. Place on third eye to assist understanding dreams. Protects from psychic attack.

LARIMAR (aka Pectolite): Can assist one in recognising the "chains" that have been self-imposed and assists in their release. It helps one to admit guilt, when guilty, and emits a love for the user that brings a sense of peace in truthfulness.

LEPIDOLITE: Activates the chakras. Used for stress reduction and to alleviate despondency. A 'stone of transition', assisting in the restructuring and reorganization of old patterns. Use for calming and self-love.

LODESTONE: is Magnetite with the added property of polarity. This additional property enables one to recognise and distinguish the dualities in one's environment. It balances the male/female aspects of ones body, mind and emotions. It also balances the meridians of the physical body with the etheric body.

MAGNETITE: Temporarily aligns the chakras, subtle bodies, and the meridians of the physical and etheric bodies. It can be used to dispel grief, fear, anger and attachment.

MALACHITE: A 'stone of transformation' assisting one to change situations, and providing for the transfer of sacred information leaing to spiritual evolution. Used to facilitate insight on disorders of the body, mind and spirit.

MANGANO CALCITE:* A heart crystal in contact with the Angelic Realm. A stone of forgiveness - it realeases fear and grief that keep the heart trapped in the past, bringing in unconditional love.
MOLDAVITE: One of the rarest varieties of tektite formed over 15 million years ago and is the only known "gem quality" stone of extra-terrestrial origin. It holds the potential for accessing higher dimensional galactic energies.

MOOKITE:* An Australian variety of Jasper, Mookite (or Mookaite) provides a useful balance between inner and outer experiences. It imparts both a desire for new experiences and a deep calm with which to face them.

MOONSTONE: Balancing, introspective, reflective and lunar. The energy relates to 'new beginnings'. A stone of hoping and wishing that allows one to absorb that which is needed from the universe. A stone of feeling, emotion. Travel protection.

NEPHRITE JADE: Can enable one to balance the male / female energies and to provide balance between the self and a partner. It helps to integrate universal energies into the body, balancing the intneral and external worlds of ones' reality.

OBSIDIAN - BLACK: Obsidian is volcanic glass. An excellent grounding stone, shields against negativity and disperses unloving thoughts. Focuses ones inner vision, and gives blunt answers on the course of action to take.

OBSIDIAN - SNOWFLAKE: Allows one to recognise the unnecessary patterns that remain in one's life and to change the thought that makes those patterns. A 'stone of purity' for the mind, body and spirit.

OKENITE: Can be used to stimulate the opening of oneself to the experience of channeling and to facilitate the channeling of information relative to ancient sacred writings. Provides a feeling of 'going home'.

ONYX - BLACK: Can be used to banish grief, to enhance self-control, to stimulate the power of wise decision-making, and to encourage happiness and good fortune. It helps one to absorb, from the universe, those energies which are needed.

PECTOLITE: (see Larimar)

PERIDOT: Emits a warm and friendly energy. It can be used to cleanse and stimulate the heart and solar plexus chakras, bringing openness and acceptance in matters of love and relationships. It also helps to regulate cycles in one's life - physical, mental, emotional, intellectual and life.

PETRIFIED WOOD: A "stone of transformation", assisting one to advance to ones highest chosen level, to commence ascension to a higher aspect of the self, and to recognise that all actions bring one to ones ultimate purpose.

PYRITE: Possesses a defending quality and shields one from negative energy on physical, etheric and emotional levels. Protects one from physical danger and pollutants. It encourages health, intellect and emotional wellbeing. Assists one in seeing behind facades.

QUARTZ: Excellent for giving and receiving energy, amplification, focussing, storage, transfer and transformation of energy. Brings the energy of the stars to the soul. A 'stone of power'. Used for communication with the non-physical worlds.

RHODOCHROSITE: A stone of love and balance for all bodies. It emits the power of love and heavenly energies and assists in creating new worlds of love and dreams for the user. Can balance the emotions. Used for earth and personal healing.

RHODONITE: Activates and energises the heart chakra and conveys the resonance of unconditional love to the physical plane. Displels anxiety and promotes coherence, observational abilities and attention to detail.

ROSASITE: Will stimulate recall of ones 'special' mantra; using the stone in meditation, the mantra will be given. It further assists one in recognizing, accepting, and acting on personal insights which originate beyond the realm of normal human consciousness.

ROSE QUARTZ: Brings gentle, soft feelings of self-love. Especially helpful for crown and heart chakras. Excellent for healing emotional wounds and treating the emotional body. Its' calming energy helps all chakras bringing love, peace and harmony.

RUBY: is the stone of Nobility, gathering and amplifying energy while promoting and stimulating mental concentration. An excellent shielding stone, protecting on all levels and safeguarding one's consciousness from psychic attack.

RUBY ZOISITE: The zoisite and ruby combination is quite magical. It can create altered states of awareness. All of the psychic abilities can be stimulated and amplified by using these energies. Used by healers in Asia.

RUTILATED QUARTZ: Intensifies the power of the quartz crystal. It combines quartz and rutile. It assists one in getting to the root of the problem and provides access to the reason for disease or discomfort so one can remedy the situation.

SCEPTRE QUARTZ: Used in Atlantis and Lemuria in healing ceremonies and were a symbol of the power of the realm; those who carried or wore a sceptre crystal were in the positin of "high priest/priestess". It is an excellent configuration for transmission of directional energy.

SELENITE: Provides clarity for the mind, expanding one's awareness of the self. Can be used to access past-lives as well as future lives probable at this time. Assists in aquisitions for business and to promote justice in disputes.

SERPENTINE: Useful in the rise of the kundahlini. It stimulates an opening in the pathway though which the kundahlini may travel by placing mineral on crown chakra. Can be used to clear cloudy chakras and enhance the medatitive state.

SHIVA LINGUMS: One of the 7 sacred holy places of pilgrimage in India. The stones are "Crypto Crystalline Quartz", said to contain the loftiest vibration of all stones on Earth. They eminate a vibration that will purify your temple or home. only found at the Narmada River high in the mountains of Mandhata, The stone represents both the male energy of knowledge and the female energy of wisdom.

SMITHSONITE: Provides energies of pleasantness, charm, kindliness and favourable outcomes. It can be used to activate each of the chakras, and can enhance physical energy when placed on the body. Strengthens psychic abilities.
SMOKEY QUARTZ: Transforms negative emotions and energy patterns. Dissolves anger, resentment and emotional blockages. An excellent grounding stone, aids meditation and stimulates higher awareness. Provides protective barrier around wearer.

SODALITE: Assists rational mental processes and logical thinking. Excellent for groups, providing fellowship, solidarity and commonality of purpose. Encourages self-esteem, self-trust and trust in others. Allows one to verbalize their true feelings (place on throat).

SPIRIT QUARTZ: (aka Fairy Quartz or Cactus Quartz) has a smooth head and crystals on the shaft. Mostly amethyst but also found in clear quartz. Excellent for meditation, it also enhances harmony and peace in groups, family and other environments. Very good in healing and spiritual issues.

STAUROLITE: "Fairy Stone" or "Fairy Cross"  A talisman of good luck. and is used in ceremonies of white magic and can facilitate the action of the rituals.

STRAWBERRY QUARTZ: was originally used in Atlantis and Lemuria in healing ceremonies and to stimulate recall of the "beginning". This mineral stimulates the energy centre of the heart, adding energy to the quartz and filling one's total person with the feeling of love. Note: this is a man-made version of the stone.

SUGILITE (Luvulite): Represents the perfection of the spiritual love of "All That Is" and facilitates the manifestation of this energy on the Earth plane. It has been used in the treatment of all forms of "dis-ease" and attracts healing power. It has surfaced now to bring special healing powers to humanity.

SUNSTONE: Can be used to both clear and energise the chakras, giving a 'squeaky clean' feeling. Assists removing 'hook-ups' to energy centres, returning them to source.

TANZANITE: Stimulates the throat, third-eye and the crown chakras, allowing for communication and psychic power, allowing the user to adequately communicate visions.

TEKTITE: A form of meteoric glass from outer space. Many believe that it is a piece of our moon or Mars. It has been esteemed in the Orient as a talisman of great power. It acts to balance the feminine and masculine properties of one's character.

TIGER EYE: Brings together the vibrations of sand and sunlight - the energies of the sun and the earth, bringing stability with dynamic beauty. It is helpful for those seeking clarity or dealing with 'details'. Used to enhance psychic abilities and attune third eye.

TIGER IRON: A combination of Tiger Eye, Jasper and Hematite. Used to assist creative endeavours, prompting artistic abilities. Helps one to find havens of refuge when danger is perceived.

TOPAZ: Acts through the laws of attraction and manifestation. Topaz acts as a conductor of thought or desire, sending a message to the ethers. This mineral is the "crystal of potency", instrumental in

visualization (for healing/attracting), in meditation, and in projection.

TOURMALINE: Clears, maintains and stimulates each chakra of the body. Attracts inspiration and diminishes fear. Balances the male/female energies in the body, as well as the mind and chakras. A 'teller' stone providing insight to shamen.

TOURMALATED QUARTZ: Combines the qualities of quartz and tourmaline. Assists in releasing patterns destructive to one's life. Gives one the strength to solve unhealthy relationships and situations.
TURQUOISE: Strengthens and aligns all chakras, meridians and subtle bodies. Brings communication to emotional issues, creativity and intuition. Protection during astral travel. Used for spiritual attunement, healing and cleansing the chakras and physical body.

UNAKITE: Can be used to enhance visions on the etherial plane. It balances the emotional body and helps release those conditions that have been inhibiting ones' growth.

VARISCITE: Can be used to connect the etheric nervous system with the physical nervous system. Stimulates the heart chakra to bring love, and helps in dealing with the invalid - to provide the courage to continue.

VANADINITE: Can promote thrift in spending; either conserving ones energy or ones money. A good stone for those who overspend. Can provide a deep state of meditation and provide order to one's life.
VESUVIANITE (aka Idocrase): Can be used to promote patriotism and loyalty to mankind. It represents cooperative effort and is wonderful for newlyweds, business acquaintances, and friends. Helps to clear negative thought patterns.

ZIRCON: is known as a 'stone of virtue', bringing one's virtuous nature back into the balance with the universal forces. It combines the properties of the first, third, and fourth chakras, raising them to a higher level of intensity.