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Blue:
◊Amazonite
◊Angelite
◊Aragonite
◊Blue Apatite
◊Sodalite (Blue)
◊Shattuckite
◊Lapis Lazuli
Purple:
◊Amethyst points
◊Amethyst Rock
Green:
◊Fluorite
◊Green Aventurine
◊Jade (Green)
◊Malachite/Chrysocolla
◊Serpentine (NJ)
Healing Benefits: It is known as the “Hope Stone” and has a “go-with-the-flow” energy with a powerful connection to the Heart Chakra. The stone has long been revered for attracting hope to those who wear it and is an excellent manifestation tool. It helps to release toxic emotions and other negative energy from your heart space. It aids in communication. It is a stone that encourages kindness and self-respect and brings out balance especially for those with a harsh inner judge
Care: Activate Amazonite by leaving it in the sun for a few hours with an intention.
History: Amazonite, also known as Amazonstone, is a green tectosilicate mineral, a variety of the potassium feldspar called microcline. Its chemical formula is KAlSi3O8
Healing Benefits: Acknowledged for its calming properties, it has the ability to purify and transmute negative energies. It promotes peace-of-mind, purges addictions, and physically reduces swelling. Often used for protection and purification, the amethyst stone was worn throughout history by royalty to signify power. Amethyst is known to be an all-purpose stone. Amethyst is said to help children in the midst of a transition, such as parents going to work, a move, and even a death in the family. Amethyst has also been shown to help with nightmares or insomnia.
Care: One of the best ways to activate your Amethyst stone is to wear it. This is a gemstone that craves connection and healing so it will work in harmony with your body, mind, and soul. You can also activate your Amethyst by keeping it close or holding it during meditation.
History: Amethyst is a variety of quartz and its chemical makeup is composed of silicon dioxide (SiO2). Quartz is formed in lava, specifically when gas bubbles become trapped, allowing crystals to form inside the cavities created by the bubbles.
Healing Benefits: Angelite is thought to improve spirituality and spiritual awareness, with a peaceful energy that is calming and soothing. Many believe it promotes communication and self-express while dispelling fear, anger and anxiety. The Angelite crystal is a lullaby of light and love and leaping to higher consciousness. This is one of those stones that simply oozes spirituality and healing. With shades as soft as angel wings or the pale dawn sky streaked with a thousand promises, the Angelite Stone brings its blue color, its ethereal energy, and its messages from the other side straight to your heart.
Care: Being a soft stone, Angelite should be cleansed gently using sage smoke or brief immersion in spring water, and can be charged under the full moon or with crystal clusters
History: also known as anhydrite or angel stone, is a glacier blue- or lilac blue-colored soft stone that has a white center and snow-white flecks with occasional brown or rusty inclusions. A relatively recent discovery in the mineral and gem world, angelite was discovered in 1987 in Peru. It is a mineral with the chemical formula CaSO4. It is in the orthorhombic crystal system, with three directions of perfect cleavage parallel to the three planes of symmetry.
Healing Benefits: Blue Apatite is a dual-action stone, known for its use of personal power to achieve goals. It clears away confusion, apathy, and negativity. This healing gem stimulates the intellect to expand our knowledge and gain an understanding of truth, gifts which may be used for personal growth or for the collective good. Blue Apatite is a stone of manifestation and promotes a humanitarian outlook and service to others. It is excellent as a dream stone for creative problem solving, and for vertical vision, where it is possible to see multiple levels of consciousness operating harmoniously. It also helps rid the body of both toxins and negative energy. This can alleviate feelings of anger, grudges, and other negative attachments that may slow us down or distract us. In turn, wearers often feel more energized and focused.
Care: The best way to activate Blue Apatite for mental clarity and communication skills is by charging it with positive affirmations. For this, hold the crystal in your palm and chant into it.
History: It was first discovered in 1786 by A.G. Werner ,but it's name came from the Greek word meaning “to deceive” , due to many people mistaking it for other minerals such as Peridot and Beryl. The largest Apatite deposit is in Kirovsk, Russia but can also be found in Brazil, Burma, Madagascar, and Mexico. The basic formula for apatite is Ca5(PO4)3X, where X can be any one of several ions, including OH-, F-, Cl-, or a combination of these
Sodalite brings order and calmness to the mind. It encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuition, along with verbalisation of feelings. Sodalite brings emotional balance and calms panic attacks. It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust.The metaphysical properties of this stone are primarily its ability to provide you with the power to communicate effectively. It enhances your ability to speak the truth of your emotions, follow your intuition, to allow you to be objective, and it encourages rational thoughts. It is associated with water and air. It encourages and enhances your current relationships and enhances your ability to express yourself.
Care: There are a number of effective ways to cleanse and charge the sodalite stone. Direct sunlight charges the crystal by placing it outside in a sunny spot. Cleansing is best done by placing the sodalite crystal in direct moonlight at night, which will aid in returning the balance as well as giving it incredible power. Placing quartz in close proximity will aid in a quick cleanse.
History: Sodalite is a rare rock-forming mineral best known for its blue to blue-violet color. It has a chemical composition of Na4Al3Si3O12Cl and is a member of the feldspathoid mineral group.
Healing Benefits: A stone for royalty and spirituality, Blue Lapis is known to bring you clearer and higher intuition. To this day it is used to stimulate your immune system and to stabilize children that display psychic gifts early in life. This powerful stone helps instill self-acceptance of one's given gifts and encourages openness of one's own spiritual awareness. Also used as a pain reliever, lapis is an overall fantastic stone to wear. It bonds relationships, aiding in expression of feelings and emotions. Lapis Lazuli boosts the immune system, purifies blood, lowers blood pressure, cooling and soothing areas of inflammation. It alleviates insomnia and vertigo, and overcomes depression.
Care: One of the best ways to charge Lapis Lazuli is to leave it in the moonlight or to place it in a bowl with tumbled hematite, clear quartz, or selenite. You can also charge Lapis Lazulite by smudging it or holding it in your dominant hand and sending it a clear message of intention.
History: Lapis lazuli forms near igneous intrusions where limestone or marble has been altered by contact metamorphism or hydrothermal metamorphism. In these rocks, lazurite replaces portions of the host rock and often preferentially develops within certain bands or layers.Its formula is (Na,Ca)8(AlSiO4)6(S,SO4,Cl)1-2. Most lapis lazuli also contains calcite (white), sodalite (blue) and pyrite (metallic yellow). Other possible constituents are augite, diopside, enstatite, mica, hauynite, hornblende and nosean.
Healing Benefits: It absorbs and neutralizes negative energy and stress. An excellent learning aid, Fluorite increases our powers of concentration, self-confidence and helps us in decision-making. It encourages positivity, balances the energies, and improves balance and coordination, both physically and mentally.
Care: These crystals love moonlight for charging and cleansing. You can simply leave your crystal outside when the moon is fullest so that it is able to absorb lunar energy.
History: Fluorite, a calcium fluoride mineral with the chemical formula CaF2, forms in a variety of geological settings through both hydrothermal and sedimentary processes
Healing Benefits:
Green Aventurine is a comforter and heart healer. It neutralizes all sources of electromagnetic pollution, blocking out emanations from computers, television and other electronic equipment. Green Aventurine settles nausea and dissolves negative emotions and thoughts. It brings well-being and emotional calm. Also used to help strengthen eyesight. A good all-round healer. It encourages playfulness, hopefulness and luck.
Care: recommend placing it under the sun or the full moon for a minimum of four hours to activate.
History: It is a rare rock. It's not an actual mineral, as it is made when other natural minerals form in the quartzite during high grade metamorphism, which depends on the impurities present in the original quartz-rich sedimentary deposit. Aventurine's green tint is a result of shimmering inclusions of Mica.
Healing Benefits: A protective stone, Jade keeps the wearer from harm and brings harmony. Jade attracts good luck and friendship. It stabilizes the personality and promotes self-sufficiency. Soothes the mind, releasing negative thoughts.1. Being associated with the heart chakra, Jade is useful to treat stress, anxiety and disorders of blood circulation. 2. Being associated with the heart chakra and the sign of Virgo, it is the stone of love, power, and excellence.
Care: Placing under sunlight: Sun is the energy source of the universe and it is an abundant source of energy to reactivate the crystals. Place the healing stone in a bowl of clean water and place it in sun (terrace or window-sill). Remove after 3 hours.
History: belongs to the pyroxene family, and is composed of sodium-aluminum silicate, with the chemical formula NaAI(Si2O6). It is often brightly colored and translucent in appearance.
Healing Benefits: A stone of intuition, mediumship and psychic abilities. It offers clarity of the mind, heart and throat. It allows one to speak the highest truths. Allows one to speak directly from the heart and assists with public speaking and healing.
History: The chemical formula for shattuckite is Cu5(SiO3)4(OH)2. Shattuckite is a copper silicate mineral, meaning it contains copper (Cu), silicon (Si), and oxygen (O), with the addition of hydroxide ions (OH).
Healing Benefits: Serpentine is a stone that is said to have many healing properties, including physical, mental, and emotional healing. It is asscoiated with detoxifying the body, cellular regeneration, reducing stress and energy clearning. The word serpentine is associated with snakes due to its patterns and colorations.
History: The chemical formula for serpentine is Mg3Si2O5(OH)4. Serpentine is not a single mineral, but rather a group of minerals with similar chemical compositions, including antigorite, lizardite, and chrysotile
Healing Benefits: Chrysomalla is a combination of chrysocolla and malachite as they are often found together. Chrysocholla is often called the stone of wisdom or teaching. This crystal is known for its ability to calm the mind, reduce mental tension, and offer a sense of renewed strength, especially during times of change. Malachite has been used for its healing properties, both physical and emotional. It is said to aid in detoxification and promote overall physical well-being. On an emotional level, malachite is believed to help release repressed emotions and offer emotional healing
History: Chrysocolla and Malachite are commonly found together (Chrysomala). Malachite is a copper carbonate hydroxide mineral with the chemical formula Cu2CO3(OH)2. Chrysocolla is a hydrated copper silicate mineral with the chemical formula (Cu,Al)2H2Si2O5(OH)4·nH2O, meaning it is primarily composed of copper, silicon, oxygen, and hydrogen, with potential trace amounts of aluminum; it is characterized by its blue-green color and is often found as botryoidal masses or crusts in the oxidation zones of copper ore deposits
Healing Benefits: Aragonite increases energy, boosts self-confidence and feelings of self-worth as you learn to place trust in yourself. A wonderful stone for parents and people in tense relationships that test the nerves, aragonite relieves stress, emotional fatigue and anger, bringing patience.
History: The chemical formula for aragonite is CaCO3 (calcium carbonate). Aragonite is a mineral classified as a carbonate, and its chemical composition is identical to calcite, although they have different crystal structures making them polymorphs of each other.