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
Pyrite
Serpentine
Tiger's Eye
Tree Agate
Crystals to help relieve anxiety
Blue Lace Agate
Moonstone
Crystals to help bring emotional balance and grounding
Agate
Bronzite
Epidote
Hematite
Obsidian
Onyx
Rhodonite
Smoky Quartz
Tree Agate
Crystals to bring inner peace and calmness
Angelite
Aquamarine
Blue Lace Agate
Celestite
Danburite
Flourite
Howlite
Lepidolite
Moonstone
Crystals to help stimulate inspiration and passion
Apatite
Carnelian
Emerald
Crystals to help with moving on and closure
Aquamarine
Danburite
Flint
Rhodonite
Rhodochrosite
Crystals for change and new beginnings
Chrysocolla
Danburite
Emerald
Kunzite
Malachite
Moonstone
Moss Agate
Phantom Quartz
Rhyolite
Crystals to help attract love and happiness
Garnet
Mookaite
Ocean Jasper
Pink Opal
Rhodochrosite
Rhodonite
Crystals to help bring hope and joy
Ocean Jasper
Peridot
Pink Opal
Rhodochrosite
Sunstone
Topaz
Unakite
Crystals to help you heal from negative habits or connections
Crystals to help bring clarity
Celestite
Clear Quartz
Diamond
Phantom Quartz
Rutilated Quartz
Crystals to aid in communication
Angelite
Blue Lace Agate
Chrysocolla
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
Crystals to help heighten your intuition
Celestite
Clear Quartz
Howlite
Moonstone
Crystals for protection and cleansing
Amber
Black Kyanite
Black Tourmaline
Bronzite
Calcite
Danburite
Hematite
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
Smoky Quartz
Crystals to help alleviate stress
Jasper
Morganite
Tanzanite
Moonstone
Crystals to guide you on your travels
Mookaite
Moonstone
Crystals to strengthen friendships
Emerald
Topaz
Amazonite
Crystals to help motivate you
Amber
Apatite
Crystals to help with spirituality
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
Lapis Lazuli
Onyx
Ruby
Unakite
Crystals to help with acquiring knowledge and wisdom
Azurite
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.
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
Attracts wealth and abundance
Resonate with neurotransmitters, adrenal glands, intestines
Balance your mind and emotions
Calming and associated with the heart, eyes, and thymus gland
Brings forth luck and abundance
Resonate with subtle levels of being and opens psychic abilities
Emanates a calming energy
Resonates with the pituitary
Regulates metabolism
Regenerating the body
Opens to higher awareness
Black and Brown
Detoxify ground energy
Protecting the body from harm
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:
White Light Visualization
Using sounds from Tibetan singing bowls
Charge them under moonlight or sunlight
Smudge them using palo santo or sage
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:
Place in strategic points in your house based on Feng Shui
Make a crystal grid for manifesting your dreams
Incorporate it in a crystal bath
Use them during daily meditations
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.