Healing Crystals Guide: Essential Crystals For Healing & Thriving

In the pursuit of new beginnings, love, balance, wealth, or luck, crystals have been at the forefront of alternative healing to materialize these manifestations into full bloom. Crystal healing is, in fact, an ancient art discovered by different cultures at different times.

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia and the Egyptians have employed these stones and crystals to ward off negative energies, heal physical ailments, and imbibe various intentional healing.

The Greeks and Romans utilized crystals as talismans and incorporated it in their armors as well as during their auguries. Shamans used it as guides in their otherworldly journeys. Thus, crystals have been as old as Mother Gaia herself.

Annie Dillard aptly described their ancient and otherworldly beauty, "Crystals grew inside rocks like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood."

While crystal healing may be an age-old craft, this practice's resurgence has been more evident today and a leading precursor to the growing Occulture, as stated by the New York Times. In this "New Stone Age," call forth the frequencies of these transformative stones and crystals, channel your intentions to them, and may they empower you upon your journey, no matter the destination or end goal.

But first, what can crystals do for you?

Crystals are multifaceted literally and metaphorically. Each has its own set of healing properties that are unique but also complementary with other crystals. You don't necessarily have to acquire all of them; instead, you just have to pick the right one to aid you at the right time of your life.

The first thing you need to know before delving into the world of crystals is assessing where you are currently in your life and what you want to manifest? What dreams do you want to achieve? What parts of yourself do you want to heal or amplify? What do you want to attract?

Every goal begins with an intention that can propel you towards the future you desire. What's yours?

Below is a complete list of healing crystals for thriving and healing based on your intentions.

Crystals to bring abundance and luck

• Aventurine

• Citrine

• Jade

• Pyrite

• Serpentine

• Tiger's Eye

• Tree Agate

Crystals to help relieve anxiety

• Amethyst

• Blue Lace Agate

• Moonstone

• Labradorite

Crystals to help bring emotional balance and grounding

• Agate

• Aventurine

• Bronzite

• Epidote

• Hematite

• Obsidian

• Onyx

• Red Jasper

• Rhodonite

• Smoky Quartz

• Tree Agate

Crystals to bring inner peace and calmness

• Amethyst

• Angelite

• Aquamarine

• Blue Lace Agate

• Celestite

• Danburite

• Flourite

• Howlite

• Lepidolite

• Moonstone

Crystals to help stimulate inspiration and passion

• Amethyst

• Apatite

• Carnelian

• Emerald

Crystals to help with moving on and closure

• Aquamarine

• Aventurine

• Danburite

• Flint

• Rhodonite

• Rhodochrosite

• Rose Quartz

Crystals for change and new beginnings

• Chrysocolla

• Danburite

• Emerald

• Kunzite

• Labradorite

• Malachite

• Moonstone

• Moss Agate

• Phantom Quartz

• Rhyolite

Crystals to help attract love and happiness

• Amethyst

• Garnet

• Mookaite

• Ocean Jasper

• Pink Opal

• Rhodochrosite

• Rhodonite

• Rose Quartz

Crystals to help bring hope and joy

• Citrine

• Ocean Jasper

• Peridot

• Pink Opal

• Rhodochrosite

• Rose Quartz

• Sunstone

• Topaz

• Unakite

Crystals to help you heal from negative habits or connections

• Amethyst

• Citrine

• Garnet

• Iolite

• Malachite

• Morganite

• Peridot

• Rutilated Quartz

• Selenite

• Serpentine

• Spirit Quartz

• Turquoise

Crystals to help bring clarity

• Celestite

• Clear Quartz

• Diamond

• Phantom Quartz

• Rutilated Quartz

Crystals to aid in communication

• Angelite

• Blue Lace Agate

• Chrysocolla

• Labradorite

• Lapis Lazuli

• Sodalite

Crystals to bring courage and confidence

• Amazonite

• Bloodstone

• Goldstone

• Hematite

• Kunzite

• Mookaite

• Sunstone

• Tiger's Eye

Crystals to help spark creativity

• Carnelian

• Iolite

• Rhyolite

Crystals to aid in bringing fertility

• Cinnabar

• Moss Agate

• Moonstone

• Carnelian

• Tiger's Eye

• Red Jasper

Crystals to help heighten your intuition

• Amethyst

• Celestite

• Clear Quartz

• Howlite

• Labradorite

• Moonstone

Crystals for protection and cleansing

• Amber

• Black Kyanite

• Black Tourmaline

• Bronzite

• Calcite

• Citrine

• Danburite

• Hematite

• Jade

• Red Jasper

• Kunzite

• Lapis Lazuli

• Moonstone

• Obsidian

• Onyx

• Pyrite

• Selenite

• Shungite

• Smoky Quartz

• Turquoise

Crystals to help bring strength and vitality

• Agate

• Amazonite

• Bloodstone

• Carnelian

• Cinnabar

• Garnet

• Opal

• Red Jasper

• Smoky Quartz

Crystals to help alleviate stress

• Amethyst

• Jasper

• Morganite

• Tanzanite

• Moonstone

Crystals to guide you on your travels

• Red Jasper

• Mookaite

• Moonstone

Crystals to strengthen friendships

• Emerald

• Topaz

• Amazonite

Crystals to help motivate you

• Amber

• Apatite

Crystals to help with spirituality

• Labradorite

• Lapis Lazuli

Crystals to help with truth

• Angelite

• Apophyllite

• Blue Lace Agate

• Iolite

• Opal

• Sapphire

Crystals to help you release pent up emotions

• Apophyllite

• Aragonite

• Labradorite

• Lapis Lazuli

• Onyx

• Ruby

• Unakite

Crystals to help with acquiring knowledge and wisdom

• Azurite

• Jade

• Ruby

• Turquoise

Crystal Meanings & Healing Properties Directory

Each crystal is unique, and while it may have different complementing intentions, each can stand on its own. For easy digestion, most of these meanings are only keywords that touch on their specific healing properties. Dive right in and be informed with what crystal can aid you in your current goals.

A

Agate - grounding, support, strength, stability to the physical body, promotes mental concentration.

Amazonite - fluidity, hope, strength, fortitude, and the power of friendship, integrates masculine and feminine energies in seeing both sides of a problem before seeking a resolution, courage to move forward and break codependency.

Amber - protection, and renewal, motivate you towards success, dreams into reality, protects you from negativity.

Amethyst - peace, intuition, spirituality, allows restful sleep, provides sobriety and clarity

Angelite - understanding, calm, comfort, truthful communication

Apatite - inspiration, satisfaction, motivation

Apophyllite - uplifting, joy, purify, release suppressed emotions, deep relaxation, illumination and clarity to any situation, honesty, brings the truth gently to the surface you are afraid to confront

Aquamarine - fluidity, soothing, go with the flow, brings closure, helps you overcome judgmental tendencies and take accountability

Aragonite - releases anger, breakthrough, patience, reliability, increases energy and paradoxically, slows processes that are out of control, helps you be more gentle and forgiving of yourself

Aventurine - good luck, healing, manifestation, emotional balance and identifies toxic relationships or energy vampires, suitable for moving on, leadership

Azurite - expansive, empowerment, wisdom

B

Black Kyanite - cutting cords, removes negativity

Black Tourmaline - protecting yourself and your home against electromagnetic stress, negativity, and psychic attacks, good for sensitive people that are prone to attract toxicity

Bloodstone - courage, vitality, energizing, dispels mental confusion, helps you determine when it's time to withdraw from a situation

Blue Lace Agate - anxiety relief, soothing, calming, enhances communication and eloquence, creativity, focuses the mind

Bronzite - grounding, protection, stabilizing, helps you be more assertive, teaches your forgiveness if you're hard on yourself, and brings back your power

C

Calcite - openness, cleansing, purity

Carnelian - creativity, vitality, passion, courage, action, dramatically transform your life when you think it's impossible

Celestite - sweet dreams, soothing, calming, clears your confusions, fears, and worries

Chrysocolla - starting fresh, heartfelt communication calmly and fluently, detoxifies and prevents nightmares, helps you move away from your ego

Citrine - abundance, happiness, light, invigorates the body and strengthens immune system, helps you let go of doubt, guilt, and fear, amplifies your manifestation aside from abundance, self-cleaning crystal

Cinnabar - enhances fertility, purifies the blood, increases strength and vigor, heightens assertiveness without inducing aggression

Clear Quartz - manifestation, gaining clarity

D

Danburite - dissolves heartbreak, and helps you be more receptive to love and acceptance, deep change, and inner peace, purifies the emotions from negativity

Diamond - drives baseless fears from the mind, protection and brings clarity to what needs to be transmuted or transformed, overcomes pride and brings harmony

E

Emerald - rebirth and brings inspiration, promote friendship and unconditional love, brings harmony in relationships

Epidote - emotional healing, heart-opening, trust

F

Flint - balances masculine and feminine to create the sacred inner marriage, assists detoxification and releases pain, cuts through blockages, past-life ties, and relationships that you have outgrown, and sets you free from the past

Flourite - peace, wishes, calming, absorbs EMFs from gadgets, relieves muscle and joint pain, helps disorganized people to think straight and get their lives back on track

G

Garnet - passion, energy, health, heal heart problems and revitalize the entire body, brings faith in romantic relationships, lets you realize self-sabotaging tendencies

Goldstone - confidence, light, empowerment

H

Hematite - grounding, focus, protection, overcome weakness or timidity of any kind and enhances self-esteem, strengthens personal power and magnetism, bringing out your latent charisma

Howlite - soothes and calms, develop intuition, inspires ambitions

I

Iolite - eliminate debt, break patterns, overcome fear, creative expression, takes responsibility when you are caught up in a codependent relationship, releases you from expectations of others, and lets you express your true self

J

Jade - wealth, success, wisdom, luck,

Jasper - sustains and supports during stress and conflict, honesty, courage in facing problems, protection, diminishes selfishness,

K

Kunzite - cleanse and shield your aura, assists transition, helps people who put on a brave face, encouraging them to accept support from others

L

Labradorite - limitless potential, communication, new beginnings, intuition

Lapis Lazuli - taking charge of your own life, harmony, clarity and objectivity, communication, releases pent up emotions, protection

Lepidolite - peace, tranquility, restful sleep

M

Malachite - transformations, openness, love, help you outgrow patterns, blockages, and ties that must be dissolved

Mookaite - beauty, adventure, grounding

Morganite - alleviates stress, helps you recognize the escape routes you do to avoid issues, change your victim mentality into power

Moonstone - divinity, emotional balance, calmness, change, and new beginnings, fertility (for women), protection in water travel

Moss Agate - brings vitality to your plants, stone of new beginnings, helps you birth new projects and abundance

O

Obsidian - self-reflection, protection, growth, stability/grounding, release ego and eliminate conflict, empowers you

Ocean Jasper - prioritizing yourself, finding joy,

Onyx - protection, release, calm, grounds, stimulates thinking and logic

Opal - strengthens the power of your thought, teaches you that the energy you put out returns to you, helps you identify deception, enables you to stand in truth

P

Peridot - effervescent, joy, happiness, puts away melancholy, brings confidence and contentment, helps you admit your mistakes and overcome lethargy

Petalite - helps you cut ties from relationships that only deplete your energy, dissolves feelings of abandonment or alienation, and brings you to your soul family

Phantom Quartz - growth, transformation, evolution, gives clarity, helps in speeding up recovery

Pink Opal - hope, love, emotional healing

Pyrite - wealth, success, protection from negative energies and environmental pollutants enhances will power, improves memory

R

Red Jasper - grounding, vitality, nurturing, protection

Rhodochrosite - worthiness, love, compassion, helps you release relationships that no longer serve you

Rhodonite - forgiveness, love, emotional healing, helps you control your responses, emotional maturity, emotional balance

Rhyolite - change, positivity, creativity, awareness of your own strength

Rose Quartz - unconditional love, forgiveness, compassion, peace, self-love, dissolves guilt and bitterness, attracts new love

Ruby - passion, wisdom, and to follow your bliss, encourages you to release pent up emotions, transmutes aggressions into assertiveness and compassion

Rutilated Quartz - clarity, strength, energy, helps in healing phobias and anxiety, purifies constrictive or toxic thoughts, excellent manifestation crystal

S

Sapphire - innocence, constancy, truth, purity, encourages you to seek spiritual truth, and helps with sight

Selenite - cleansing yourself and your space, cleanses the aura, emotional stabilizer and helps in preventing mood swings, expansion of consciousness

Serpentine - regeneration, luck, healing, helps you to be more persuasive, transforms negative qualities into positive gifts, and assists in breaking your patterns

Shungite - EMF protection, detox, neutralizing, absorb negative energy

Smoky Quartz - letting go, surrender, grounding, natural warrior against negative energies, cleanses other crystals, environmental healing, restores vigor

Sodalite - communication, harmony, trust, helps to let go of rigid beliefs

Spirit Quartz - releases dependence on material things, detoxifies the body, pulls diseases or negative energy out from the aura

Sunstone - taking pleasure in the things you do, helps you cut ties with previous sexual partners, brings back optimism, helps you become independent in your relationships, self-empowerment

T

Tanzanite - encourages stressed-out people to take a pause, teaches compassion, illuminates the mind

Tiger's Eye (The Shape Shifter) - building courage, attracting wealth, dissipates fear and anxiety, strength, focus, encourages fertility, brings logic in your decision making

Topaz - gentle nature, fidelity, friendship, keeps a beloved safe, helps in eye diseases, overcomes nervous exhaustion, brings joy, and helps you live out your truth

Tree Agate - grounding, spiritual roots, abundance

Turquoise - health, protection, wisdom, intuition, helps in focusing on solutions rather than succumb to the past or self-sabotage, dispels negative belief patterns

U

Unakite - release, positivity, openness

Every color of the crystals and stones also has healing properties that resonate with different areas in your life.

Below is a list of different crystals and what they can bring into your life based on their colors. This list is especially helpful for crystal beginners and has difficulty remembering each crystals' healing properties. These can be incorporated for meditative healing and crystal grids that you can display at your home so that an intention can be amplified.

Pink and Peach

• Promotes emotional balance

• Gently energizes your system

Red

• Brings vitality, passion, and strength

• Resonate with the reproductive system

• Aids blood-related and inflammatory conditions

Orange

• Stimulates creativity and inspiration

• Brings forth enthusiasm and zest for life

Yellow and Gold

• Attracts wealth and abundance

• Resonate with neurotransmitters, adrenal glands, intestines

• Balance your mind and emotions

Green

• Calming and associated with the heart, eyes, and thymus gland

• Brings forth luck and abundance

Blue-green

• Resonate with subtle levels of being and opens psychic abilities

• Emanates a calming energy

Violet and purple

• Resonates with the pituitary

• Regulates metabolism

• Regenerating the body

• Opens to higher awareness

Black and Brown

• Detoxify ground energy

• Protecting the body from harm

Combination Stones

• Synergize the effects of the colors and constituents

How To Use Crystals

Now that you know most of their properties based on intention, individual strengths, and color, it's finally time for you to use these healing crystals for your life.

First and foremost, you have to empower and cleanse your crystals. This is an essential aspect because your crystal won't effectively harness its healing properties without this.

There are various ways to cleanse your crystals, but for the most part, these are the ideal processes:

1. White Light Visualization

2. Using sounds from Tibetan singing bowls

3. Charge them under moonlight or sunlight

4. Smudge them using palo santo or sage

5. Soak them in running water (this isn't ideal for every crystal, though, since it can cause them to fade or crack)

After purifying them, it's now time to program your crystals. This is done by projecting your intentions. You might wonder, though, why should you program your intentions to your crystals when it's already stated that it's their purpose in the first place right?

The thing is, crystals don't just have one healing property, it's faceted, and if you don't give it the right nudge to the intention you want to access, you'll just end up having a scrambled and overwhelming result from them.

Once you've successfully programmed your crystals, you can now carry them with you as a totem. Other uses of crystals can be the following:

1. Wear as jewelry

2. Place in strategic points in your house based on Feng Shui

3. Make a crystal grid for manifesting your dreams

4. Incorporate it in a crystal bath

5. Use them during daily meditations

6. Place them in specific parts of your body with ailments

Crystal healing is an ancient art that is rooted in the premise of promoting well-being. But in the 21st century, this is now more accessible than ever, and you don't have to be a shaman or reiki practitioner to benefit from it. Anyone can harness a crystal for healing and thriving.

Do you want to discover what kind of crystal is fit for you? Head on to our shop and choose the crystal collection that calls to you. There's a high chance that this is what you need in your life right now.