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Amethyst – Is an extremely powerful and protective stone with a high spiritual vibration.  It is beneficial to the mind especially during meditation.  It calms, synthesizes, and aids the transition of neural signals in the brain enhancing memory and improving motivation.  It balances highs and lows and promotes emotional centering, alleviating sadness and grief.  It is one of the most spiritual stones promoting love of the divine and spiritual wisdom. 
 
Chalcedony – a powerful cleanser that fosters the maternal instinct, improves mineral assimilation, and lessens the effects of dementia and senility.  It increases physical energy and balances the body, emotions, mind and spirit.  It is a nurturing stone that promotes brother/sister hood, good will, and group stability.
 
Clear/Cherry Quartz – the most powerful healing and energy amplifying stone on the planet.  It absorbs, stores, releases and regulates energy and can be used to amplify both energy and thought.   It cleanses and enhances the organs, the soul, and the subtle bodies connecting the physical dimension with the mind.  It dissolves karmic seeds and attunes to the spiritual purpose, unlocking memory and bringing the body into balance.  Traditionally the natural quartz crystal was said to both harmonize and align human energies.  Wherever worn or carried, it also tends to cancel the harmful effects of radiation and radioactivity.
 
Citrine – a powerful cleanser and regenerator carrying the power of the sun.  It promotes creativity, never needs cleansing, and absorbs, transmutes, dissipates and grounds negative energy. It is a stone of abundance, teaching how to manifest and attract wealth, success and all good things. 
 
Fluorite - highly protective, shutting out psychic manipulation and undue mental influence, cleansing and stabilizing the aura, and drawing off negative energies and stress.  It cleanses, purifies, dispels and reorganizes anything within the body that is not in perfect order. 
 
Fresh Water Pearl – brings truth and loyalty.  It signifies integrity, charity, faith and innocence, inhibiting boisterous behavior and providing a reflection of one’s self that one may see how she/he appears to others.  
 
Garnet – a powerful energizing and regenerating stone it revitalizes, cleansing, purifies, balances and creates serenity or passion as appropriate.  It inspires love and devotion, and aids sexual potency.  It is a stone of commitment, strengthening the survival instinct, and bringing courage and hope. 
 
Jade – a symbol of purity and serenity, it signifies wisdom, increases love and nurturing, is protective, brings harmony and attracts good luck.  It brings insightful dreams and aids emotional release, encouraging the bearer to become who they really are.  It is also a cleansing stone, aiding the body’s filtration and elimination organs.  It treats the kidneys, supra-adrenal glands, skeleton, hips and spleen.
 
Jasper – unifies all aspects of life, reminds people to help each other.  It is the supreme nurturer, aligns the chakras, provides protection, absorbs negative energy and imparts determination to all pursuits. 
 
Lapis Lazuli -- stimulates enlightenment, enhances dream work and psychic abilities, stimulating spiritual power.   It teaches the power of the spoken word and brings deep inner harmony.  It is a powerful thought amplifier, stimulating the higher faculties of the mind and bringing objectivity and clarity.  It alleviates pain especially that of migraine headaches. 
 
Moonstone – strongly connected to the moon and intuition, this stone is reflective and reminds us of the cycles of change in our lives.  It calms the emotions, enhances psychic abilities and encourages other psychic gifts.  It has a powerful effect upon the female reproductive cycle and it elevates menstrual related disease and tension, balancing the hormonal cycle. 
 
Obsidian - provides a shield against negativity, transforming negative vibrations within an environment.  It is quite useful in healing, providing both the healer and subject with clarity with respect to both the cause and the amelioration of the disease.
 
Prehnite – a stone of unconditional love and one that heals the healer.  It enhances visualization processes and induces deep meditation to contact the Higher Self, putting the bearer in touch with the universe’s energy grid, and is said to connect with the Archangel Raphael and other spiritual and extraterrestrial beings.  It enhances precognition and inner knowing, enables the bearer to always be prepared, attuning to divine energies and showing the bearer the way forward for spiritual growth.  It alleviates nightmares and phobias and is beneficial for hyperactive children and the karmic causes of the condition.  It helps to de-clutter and organize.  It heals the kidneys and bladder, thymus gland, shoulders, chest and lungs, treating gout, blood disorders, repairing connective tissue. 
 
Red Jade – is the most passionate and stimulating form of jade.  It accesses anger and releases tension in a manner that becomes constructive.
 
Red Jasper - grounds energy, rectifies unjust situations, brings problems to light before they become to big, calms the emotions, helps dream recall, stimulates the base chakra, assists in rebirthing, provides insight, cleans and stabilizes the aura.
 
Rose Quartz – is good for the heart.  A stone of unconditional love and infinite peace, it purifies and opens the heart, bringing deep inner healing and self-love and promoting friendship.  It attracts love and loving relationships, drawing off negative energy, strengthening empathy and sensitivity, and enhancing positive affirmations. 
 
Smoky Quartz – grounds, anchors, and at the same time raises vibration during mediations.  A protective stone with a strong link to the earth, it is an antidote to stress that fortifies resolve.  It relieves fear, lifts depression and brings emotional calm, dissolving negative emotions.  
 
Snowflake Obsidian – teaches the value of mistakes as well as success and helps recognize and release stressful mental patterns. 
 
Tiger’s Eye - combines earth energy and sun energy, creating a high vibration state that draws the spiritual energy to earth and grounds simultaneously.  It enhances psychic abilities, protects and assists in accomplishing goals and recognizing inner resources. 
 
Turquoise - promotes spiritual attunement, enhance communications with the spiritual and physical worlds, explore past lives, clear electromagnetic smog. A stone of purification and strength, it helps dispel exhaustion, depression, panic attacks and pollutants in the atmosphere. 
 
Unakite – a stone of vision, it balances emotions with spirituality, provides grounding, and brings a calm and gentle energy.  It releases conditions that inhibit spiritual and psychological growth, reaching the root cause at whatever level.