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Agate		Agate is considered a good protective energy stone, especially for children, and very calming and soothing. It is purported to help strengthen the body's connection to the earth and give courage, energy, strength, and dispel fears, all of which increase self-confidence. Agate is also used in crystal emotional healing for overcoming resentments and is believed to be a stone of harmony that greatly enhances healing. Agate also enhances creativity and stimulates the intellect and is considered a good luck stone. It works with chakras according to stone color.
Amber		Amber is noted in metaphysics to be both calming and energizing. It is said to help manifest desires and heighten intellectual abilities, clarity of thought, and wisdom. It is reputed to draw out negativity, and relieve physical pain. It is used mystically to bring the energies of patience, protection, sensuality, purification, balance, healing and calm. It is considered a good luck charm for marriage and is excellent in crystal healing for inner child work and past life work. It is associated with the solar plexus chakra and sometimes the sacral chakra.
Amethyst (Chevron)		Amethyst has long been called the "sobriety stone." It is said to assist with healing addictions of all kinds. Amethyst brings energies in mystical realms of stability, peace, calm, balance, courage and inner strength. Amethyst is said to help open psychic abilities. It is thus an excellent stone for meditation or dream work, and past life work. Amethyst is also used as protection for travelers. Physically amethyst is said by spiritual healers for general healing. Amethyst is associated with the brow and the crown chakras.
Aquamarine		Aquamarine is metaphysically known as a stone of courage and fortitude. It is said to assist with quick intellectual response. It gives peace, and shielding for the aura. Aquamarine is reputed to assist with calming communication issues. Mystical and folk lore states that it is attuned to the sea, and protects travelers on water, and sailors. Aquamarine is associated with the throat chakra.
Carnelian		Carnelian is an agate class of chalcedony that is a stone of creativity, individuality and courage. Like all agates, it has protection energies. It can aid memory, including recall of past lives. It can assist one in finding the right mate. It is also a stone of protection from anger, jealousy and fear. It is said to help with manifestating desires, and bring good luck. Carnelian can help ease or remove sorrows and stabilize energies in the home. Carnelian is associated with the root and sacral chakras.
Citrine		Citrine is known as a "success" stone because it is said in folklore to promote success and abundance, especially in business and commerce. Its lore also says that it enhances mental clarity, confidence, happiness and will power. It is said to alleviate depression and self-doubt, and diminish irrational mood swings. Most commonly referred to as a gemstone that brings happiness, hope and cheer to its wearer, it is associated with the solar plexus chakra.
Coral		Coral is a stone of organic origin. Coral can be used to reconnect with nature and its variety of wonders. Coral also attracts love and prosperity, particularly red coral, which is a stone of passion. Creativity and optimism are also qualities that coral brings out. Emotionally, coral brings inner peace, strength, and understanding of purpose.
Crystal Quarz		Quartz is a power stone that harmonizes and balances. It enhances energy and thoughts, and purifies the spiritual, mental, and physical. It is also a powerfully protective stone, bringing the purified energy in. Historically this crystal has been used to counter black magic, to perform diagnostic healing, and to communicate with spirits and other worlds. Clear quartz, as opposed to colored quartz, is associated with the crown chakra, but also works well on all chakras.
Garnet		Garnet is a stone of romantic love and passion. It is used in metaphysics to enhance sensuality, sexuality, and intimacy. It is said to bring positive thoughts and boosts energy, and be excellent for manifestation. It can also assist mystically with success in one's career and building one's self-confidence. It is also a protective energy stone which is especially effective for protection from evil, and is used for gentle spiritual healing. Garnet is associated primarily with the root chakra.
Jade		Jade is a stone of the heart. As such it is related to the heart chakra and has a beneficial effect on all heart chakra related issues. So, of course, it can attract and enhance love of all kinds. It is also a stone of fidelity and generosity. It is also considered to be good for the physical heart and for emotional balance and stability. Jade is also very helpful as a stone of abundance.
Lapis		Lapis brings truthfulness, openness, inner power, intuition, creativity, virility and manifestation. It strengthens the mind and body as well as increasing awareness and spiritual connection/evolution. It can help organize daily life as well as organizing and quieting a busy or restless mind. Lapis is also used to contact guardian spirits. Lapis brings spiritual love and is also known for enhancing love and fidelity in marriage. Lapis is also said to help one overcome shyness. It is associated with the throat and brow chakras and can help to say the right thing, as if by magic.
Moss Agate		Moss agate is sometimes called the "gardener's stone" due to its mystical properties of helping ensure a full crop. Moss agate is generally said to bring abundance, success, and prosperity. It is also said to help one gain peace with extreme or excessive duties in life and brings self-confidence and higher self-esteem. It is said to reduce the difficulties associated with overcoming addictive behaviors. Moss agate is associated with the heart chakra, which indicates stone of compatiblity and friendship.
Mother of Pearl		Mother of Pearl has both traditional and New Age metaphysical and healing lore. It is said to attract prosperity. It is used in mystical work to heighten intuition, psychic sensitivity, and imagination. It is purported to protect from negative influence, and transmute negative energy. It is said to be highly protective and a potent stone of protection for children. A traditional lore use of Mother of Pearl is to purify environments.
Opal		Opal is a stone of inspiration which enhances imagination and creativity. It helps one release inhibitions and enhances memory. Opal is also a very spiritual stone, and can help one be "invisible" in situations where they don't care to be noticed. Opal brings happy dreams. It also eases the process of change. Opal is an important gemstone in subduing an over-active 7th or crown chakra. Natural healers use it to promote visions, enhance prophetic dreams and intuition.
Onyx		Onyx is associated primarily with the root chakra. It assists with challenges in life, especially those caused by a drain of energy. It prevents the draining away of personal energy and can be used for protection from such. It also helps with grounding and controlling or eliminating excess or unwanted energies.
Pearl		Pearls attune the wearer to ebb and flow of life. They are calming and centering. They give purity and promote faith, charity, and integrity, truth and loyalty. They especially enhance personal integrity. They help one connect with the Goddess, the ultimate feminine energy.
Rose Quarz		Rose quartz is a stone of unconditional love. It opens the heart chakra to all forms of love: self-love, family love, platonic love, and romantic love. Rose quartz has excellent protection energies during pregnancy and childbirth. The elevated energy of quartz gives rose quartz a property of enhancing love in virtually any situation. It also brings gentleness, forgiveness, and tolerance. Rose quartz is also said to be helpful with weight loss. Rose quartz is associated with the heart chakra.
Silver		Silver is a mineral that is said to mirror the soul, strengthen the connection between astral and physical bodies, and enhance intuitive and psychic energies. Silver is mystically considered to improve speech, bring eloquence. It is also purported to attract, enhance and store the energies of gemstones, as well as draw out negative energies. Silver is related to the moon, and moon energies.
Tiger Eye		Tiger's Eye is a stone of protection that is very grounding. It enhances integrity, willpower, practicality and correct use of power. It brings good luck, and prosperity. Tiger's eye is also a very protective stone especially during travel. It can help one see clearly without illusion. Tiger's eye brings a special boost to the solar plexus chakra and to one's personal power. The golden variety is important for the 3rd chakra or Navel chakra; the blue/gray variety aids forgiveness without crippling emotions, vibrating to the 6th chakra and above; while red tiger eye is said to improve the ability to speak or orate, vibrating to the 5th or throat chakra.
Turquoise		Turquoise is sacred to both Native American and oriental traditions. It is associated with the sky, and bringing sky energy to earth. It can help promote honest and clear communication from the heart. It is also said to protect against pollution in the environment, and to bring abundance. Turquoise can also help speed the healing process, and is known as a master healer stone. It is very powerful for grounding and protection also. Turquoise is associated with the throat chakra primarily.

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