Crystal Metaphysical Meanings

Posted by Johnna White · April 08, 2022

Abalone: To enhance feelings of peace, compassion and love. Helps support communication, cooperation, commitment and compromise. Leads to harmony and balance.

Agate--Banded:Stability, peace, good look and wealth. All agate stones are protective.

Agate--Blue Lace :Nurturing, supporting neutralizes anger. Throat chakra stone. Assists in quarrels and speaking truth in a gentle way.

Agate--Botswana: Used for grounding and centering during meditation and rituals. Eases transitions.

Agate-- Fire: Protective and grounding stone. Deflects ill-wishes and reflects back to the source. Stimulates life force. Calming energy.

Agate--Moss: Tranquility and emotional balance. Helps alleviate anger.

Agate-Tree: Inner peace, calming, relaxing for heart, mind and spirit.

Amazonite: Soothes emotional trauma, worries and fear. Dispels negative energy and helps you to see other sides of a problem or point of view.

Amber: heals, cleanses the body, mind and spirit. Alleviates stress. Thought to be a natural pain reliever.

Amethyst: Opens intuition and psychic abilities. Helps stop obsessions and addictive behavior. Calms, soothes the mind, and balances mood.

Amethyst--Chevron: Raises energetic vibration, assists you in gaining clarity and insight. Promotes spiritual and personal growth.

Ametrine: A balance of the properties of amethyst and citrine. Relieves tension, stimulates creativity, balances mental stress and enhances self-confidence.

Amphibole: Brings us closer to higher realms. Used in meditation and by those seeking enlightenment.

Angelite: Aids you in connection with your angels and spirit guides. Stimulates psychic gifts.

Apache Tear: Transmutes negative energy from within. Cleanses aura, absorbs negative energy and protects the energy body from unwanted energies, vibrations or entities.

Apatite: A stone of manifestation. Balances chakras, physical, emotional and spiritual bodies. Deepens meditation and aids communication and self-expression.

Apophyllite: High vibration. Connects to spiritual plains. Clears the heart and mind of fear and anxiety. Taps into hidden psychic abilities and deepens spiritual practice.

Aragonite: Stone of nurturing. Uplifts feelings. Provides trust, insight and understanding.

Astrophylite: Amplifier of truth. Helps us accept our shadow side and find wholeness. Assists us in finding light in the darkest corners and expressing our own light to the world.

Aventurine: Optimistic, energetic energy. Stone of good luck. Enhances creativity, motivation and perseverance.

Black Spinel: A protective stone that repels negativity and grounds the user. Evokes inspiration and empowerment. Dispels sadness. Commonly made into jewelry.

Bloodstone: Increases courage, motivation and creative energy. Beneficial for removing blocks that are keeping us stuck. Thought to aid blood related illnesses.

Calcite--Golden: Leadership and responsibility. Assists in overcoming obstacles, learning new skills and developing new talents.

Calcite--Blue: Stone of the mind. Good for students. heightens mental discernment and analysis, increases memory and learning abilities. Soothes frayed nerves and lessens anxiety.

Calcite--Green: Green Calcite increases success, prosperity, business, and fertility of all kinds. Stone of manifestation. Commonly used as a luck charm or by gardeners to make garden grow well.

Calcite--Honey: A truly happy stone that radiates joy and positivity wherever it is placed. It is a healing crystal to help us see the bright side and become optimists in any situation.

Calcite--Mangano: Mangano Calcite emits gentle healing vibrations, , is an ideal talisman for Reiki healers, therapists, and counselors. It is a crystal of peace, prosperity, and deep healing.

Calcite--Orange: helps integrate the spiritual realm with the physical body, enhances creativity, and is helpful with emotional issues. Use Orange Calcite to energize and cleanse the Sacral and Solar Plexus Chakras and to bring positive energy into the areas of the will and sexuality.

Carnelian: Symbolizes bold energy and warmth. Stone of courage, endurance, motivation and creativity. Sacral chakra stone.

Chiastolite Cross: Used to ward off the evil eye and curses. Root chakra. Grounding stone. Protection for travelers. Balance and harmony.

Chrysocolla: stone of communication. Its very essence is devoted to expression, empowerment, and teaching. It discharges negative energies, calms, and allows truth and inner wisdom to surface and be heard. Emphasizes the power of our words and actions. Chrysocolla is a feminine energy stone, teaching that genuine power is best expressed through gentleness. It is the stone of forgiveness, peace, and the strengthening of emotional bonds. It encourages compassion and acceptance, the true mark of inner strength.

Chrysoprase: Symbolizes enterprise, prudence and happiness. Improves emotional health and offers a lust for life.

Citrine: Stimulates self-worth and invites abundance into one's life. A Solar Plexus stone, Citrine is a stone of willpower and reminds you of your own self-worth and abilities. Its frequency is ideal for artists of all kinds, as it strengthens the sparks of creativity and imagination, and transforms dreams and wishes into tangible forms.

Dumortertite: Brings calm, relaxation and harmony. Reduces stubbornness. Supports standing up for yourself and staying true to your own beliefs.

Emerald: Brings prosperity and abundance to those of us who use it, by strengthening our resolve to follow our dreams and provides the logic and willpower to manifest our goals into reality. Enhances unconditional love and promotes friendship.

Fluorite: A highly protective and stabilizing stone, useful for grounding and harmonizing spiritual energy. When working with the upper Chakras, Fluorite increases intuitive abilities, links the human mind to universal consciousness, and develops connection to Spirit. Assists in cutting ties to the past.

Garnet: Known as the "warrior stone"because warriors wore it into battle for protection from injury. Highly protective. Good for travel. Assists in achieving goals.

Hag Stone or Fairy Stone: Hag stones are formed when water (over many years) erodes a hole within otherwise solid rock, giving them unique and peculiar features. Believed to be objects of protection from night hags, witches, and evil spirits. Legend says that if you peer through the hole in a hag stone, you can see into the fairy realm.

Hematite: Grounding stone. Helps with shyness, self-esteem and increases willpower. Helps with addictive behaviors and compulsions. Hematite grounds and balances us through the Root Chakra and opens us to opportunities, strength, clarity, and focus. It is an ideal stone to use in meditation to enhance our manifestations.

Howlite: Used to facilitate awareness, encourage emotional expression and assist in the elimination of pain, stress, or rage. Howlite will calm and soothe the emotions, slow the overactive mind, and bring about a night of deep and restful sleep. Howlite can help to access and retrieve wisdom during the dream state.

Hypersthene: Protection, clarity and grounding. Hypersthene is a stone of clarity, creating a calming, grounded energy for all in its presence. It offers guidance in making decisions, and it is a great resource for meditations focused on deep personal discovery.

Infinite: It will activate kundalini and remove the negativity from your physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual bodies. It will also heal and safeguard your auric field. The frequencies of Infinite Stone are connected to the heart, solar plexus, sacral, and base chakras. It’s a stone that will cleanse your energy fields of any negative blockage or energy, facilitating a free flow of energy and an increase in your vibrations.

Iolite: Iolite is an excellent crystal for astrologers, tarot readers, mediums and other intuitives, and for shamanic journeying. It increases the vividness and detail of inner visions, and brings forward the symbols locked within our psyche that illuminate the issues we must face for continued growth. It strengthens the resonant link between the mind and the heart.

Jade: Jade, also known as both Jadeite and Nephrite depending on its composition, is a widely revered gemstone, utilized by cultures around the world for its beauty, strength, luck, and healing properties.

Jasper--Fancy: Brings wholeness and healing to an environment or situation. It is said to intensify and lighten feelings of well-being, helping you to lighten up and enjoy yourself more. It can also relieve fear, guilt and frustration, building inner strength and confidence.

Jasper--Kambaba: Facilitates peace and tranquility. Kamababa Jasper is a gentle, nourishing healer, and enables us to find clarity, honesty, confidence, and removes blockages and eases worry.

Jasper-- Leopardskin: A dynamic stone that can help achieve ambitious goals. Leopardskin Jasper is closely associated with strength and vitality, and bringing stability to chaos. Leopardskin Jasper encourages harmony by connecting us to all sentient beings.

Jasper--Ocean: activates and aligns our solar plexus, heart, and throat chakras. This highly energetic channel allows one the ability to combine their will with their emotions, pushing one to achieve joy, happiness and emotional stability.

Jasper Picture -- A powerful grounding stone that promotes connection to the earth. Some view this stone as a direct message from the Earth itself, instilling a sense of proportion, bringing comfort, alleviating fear and cultivating harmony.

Jasper--Red: Root chakra stone. The steady frequency of Red Jasper calms the emotional body to create lasting, stable energy for improving health or overcoming illness, setting goals and following through to completion, facing unpleasant tasks, and having the courage to rectify wrongs.

Jet: Balance and Grounding. Formed the wood of ancient trees. Jet connects us to the energies and knowledge of the Earth. Jet converts negativity into pure, usable energy. An excellent grounding and protection stone, Jet can also be used in any cleansing practice and removes energy blockages.

Kyanite--Black: Black Kyanite encourages self-expression, speaking our truth, and helps to open the lines of communication between individuals. Kyanite is an excellent meditation tool and can help us to come up with important insights resulting from the exploration of the subconscious mind. It clears and calms us in preparation for meditation, and assists in receiving intuitive and psychic thoughts, as well as dream recall.

Kyanite--Blue: Blue Kyanite's light to deep blue energy stimulates, activates, opens, and heals the Throat and Third Eye Chakras. Kyanite encourages self-expression, speaking our truth, and all types of connection. Kyanite is a wonderful crystal to help easy communication.

Kyanite--Green: activates your entire chakra column, however it resonates deeply with one's heart. As restorative energy is channeling from Mother Earth and imbuing your aura, one becomes more aware of their emotional needs. This can also help you develop the strength to let negativity move away from you.

Labradorite: Stone of mysticism. The gemstone creates a shield for auras and protects against negativity of the world. Labradorite is said to temper the negativity within ourselves as well. Stone of transformation. Strengthens intuition and psychic abilities.

Lapis Lazuli: Protection from psychic attacks, brings deep peace, harmony, reveals inner truth, honesty, compassion, and self-awareness. The Sumerians believed that the spirit of their gods lived within the stone, while the ancient Egyptians saw it as a symbol of the night sky. Since the earliest of times, lapis lazuli has been associated with strength and courage, royalty and wisdom, intellect and truth.

Larimar: Said to enlighten and heal in a physical, emotional, mental and spiritual way. It stimulates the heart, throat, third eye and crown chakras facilitating inner wisdom and outer manifestation. It represents peace and clarity, radiating healing and love energy. Water energy.

Lava: Used to hold scents for aromatherapy. A grounding stone that strengthens one's connection to Mother Earth. It gives us strength and courage, allowing us stability through times of change. It provides guidance and understanding in situations where we may need to "bounce back".

Lepidolite: Stone of emotional healing. Vibrates the energy of lithium which has been used for decades to elevate mood. Nurturing and calming properties. Lepidolite aids in overcoming emotional or mental dependency and helps treat addictions and all kinds conditions, including anorexia. It is also thought to help those with bipolar disorder because of its mind-balancing properties. Lepidolite is believed to alleviate feelings of stress or nervous conditions while opening the mind and calming the higher self.

Lodestone: Lodestone is a strong stone for attracting abundance and prosperity. Its energies will support you in drawing in all that you desire, such as wealth, abundance, business success, or love. It's also a supportive and nurturing stone that will ground and stabilize you when things are not going as expected.

Mookaite: A nurturing stone that supports and sustains during times of stress. It brings peace and a feeling of wholeness. Mookaite helps us with decision making, especially when we are having a difficult time. It encourages versatility and helps us to accept change. Mookaite provides us with emotional growth.

Moonstone--Black: Psychic protection. New Moon energy, or the beginning of things. This is a great stone to bring out at the start of any new endeavor, new relationship, or a new pregnancy. Black moonstone is also very protective, deflecting negative energy, and transforming them back to light. More grounding than other Moonstones, it has a much gentler energy than other Root Chakra crystals like Black Tourmaline. Black Moonstone is especially suitable for New Moon Rituals.

Moonstone--Coffee: Inner growth, soothes stress, inner growth, success and good fortune.

Moonstone--Rainbow: thought to bring balance, harmony and hope while enhancing creativity, compassion, endurance and inner confidence. Rainbow moonstone is believed to help strengthen intuition and psychic perception, especially offering us visions of things that aren't immediately obvious. A stone of protection, hope, and spiritual purity, Rainbow Moonstone reacts with a person's own light body to help deflect any negativity and allow the person to sleep peacefully.

Mystic Merlinite: AKA Indigo Gabbro. This crystal has been found to be extremely grounding as well as having the ability to connect you with your higher consciousness. Indigo Gabbro crystals can also locate energy blockages in the body and align all the chakras.

Nuumite: Nuummite works towards bridging the spiritual and physical realms together, providing a channel for higher knowledge and transformative energy to grow and prosper. This stone helps unlock one’s third eye and activate your own unique psychic abilities. Inner vision of one's past lives, as well as messages from your guardian angels and spirit guides coming through to you during dreams or intense meditation sessions are fairly common when initially working with Nuummite.

Obsidian-- stone for power, protection, and grounding. It is a root chakra stone which means that it keeps you tethered to the her and now. Offers strength and inner confidence. It also keeps negative energies at bay and gives you the courage to face your inner truths.

Obsidian--Snowflake: stone of purity. It symbolizes the need to regularly clear your body, heart, mind, and spirit of toxins that can prevent the free flow of positive energies. The healing energies of this stone will help you achieve a balance in your body, mind, and spirit.

Onyx: powerful vibrations of protection, willpower, focus and strength. Many believe that the onyx is there to drive motivation and to continuously push you forward in your life. It activates your root and solar plexus, as well as your third eye chakras.

Opal: represents amplification, higher hope, and divine purity. These light dancing gemstones are here to boost those feelings of balance and peace and to help you to sift through your thoughts and feelings and throw out what doesn't work. The Opal is also about deeper spirituality.

Opal--pink: compassionate and nurturing stone, encouraging one to be their authentic self, without worrying what others think. Pink Opal can calm anxious nerves, balance and center emotions providing a sense of of peace and tranquility.

Opalite: Opalite improves communication on all levels, especially the spiritual. Opalite helps by assisting during transitions of all kinds. It encourages persistence and gives us strength in verbalising hidden feelings. Man-made stone.

Peacock Ore: Peacock Ore (Chalcopyrite) is a stone of happiness and joy. It is believed that this crystal is capable of healing, channelling energies within the human being and also removing all that is negative from our body and mind.

Peridot: Known as the stone of compassion, peridot is believed to bring good health, restful sleep and peace to relationships by balancing emotions and mind. This friendly bright green stone also has the uncanny ability to inspire eloquence and creativity; it also brings delight and good cheer.

Petrified Wood: Petrified wood can assist anyone who is feeling stuck or experiencing being frozen in time. It helps to create balance and offers a foundation from which to launch new goals or undertake a different path. Petrified wood is also a wonderful grounding stone. It helps to calm scattered energies.

Pyrite: Also known as fool's gold. Pyrite has long been valued as a strong protection stone that shields the wearer from negative energy as well as environmental pollutants. Thus, this stone helps promote physical well-being as well. Stimulating the second and third chakras, pyrite enhances strength of mind and willpower.

Quartz Clear: Clear quartz has the ability to enhance mental clarity, so it can help with emotional stability, and it is popular in meditation and restorative work. It's also often used for manifestation and can help create more focus and clarity around a desire. It is a protective stone and can be used to amplify psychic abilities as well as any kind of desired energy.

Quartz -Aura: Clear quartz enhanced with metallic aura.

Quartz-Golden Healer: Golden healer quartz connects us with source energy. Golden healer can fill an area with gentle, sustainable energy throughout the healing session. Golden Healer on an altar or grid will raise the frequency or vibration of the grid's intent. This is a powerful piece that enhances joy, peace, and oneness.

Quartz-Rutilated: Rutilated Quartz is an illuminator for the soul, promoting spiritual growth. It cleanses and energises the aura. Draws off negative energy and disease, letting go of the past. Rutilated Quartz gives protection against the ill thoughts of others. It helps to reach the root of problems and facilitates transitions and a change of direction. Soothes dark moods and acts as an antidepressant. Rutilated Quartz relieves fears, phobias and anxiety. Promotes forgiveness at all levels.

Quartz--Smoky: Protection stone. Smoky quartz properties help lift the veil of depression and bring emotional calm to your spirit and soul. Smoky quartz helps you to release, purify, and shed negative energies. Free of these emotional toxins, you'll vibrate at a higher frequency with the harmony of your mind, body, and spirit.

Quartz--Strawberry: Powerful stone for self-love and self-confidence. Helps release negative thoughts and emotions so that you can learn how to think positively instead. It's a great crystal to have on your desk or around the house so that you can be surrounded by its healing vibrations.Good to have when you're going through a period of low self-esteem or feelings of unworthiness. Just holding strawberry quartz in your hands can be a very grounding experience, and over time it can help to heal your spirit.

Quartz --Tourmilinated: Powerful protection stone. Restores balance and well-being and 'washes' one's aura, assisting one to identify stagnant emotional patterns and then clearing them. The Black Tourmaline is purifying whilst the Quartz serves to amplify this. It aids clarity and can help one feel grounded and enlightened.

Quartz--Tangerine: Stimulates the joyful energy of the inner child, encouraging playfulness and curiosity, allowing us to learn and grow. It activates passion on all levels, from sexuality to creativity. It helps to encourage self acceptance and overcome limitations.

Rose Quartz--Rose quartz is known as a healing crystal and the stone of unconditional love. It's believed by some to emit strong vibrations of love. Supports emotional and relationship healing. Inspires compassion and boosts feelings of peace and calm.

Rhodochrosite--Rhodochrosite is a stone that integrates physical and spiritual energies, stimulating love and passion while energizing the soul. Rhodochrosite opens the heart, lifting depression and encouraging a positive and cheerful outlook. It improves self worth and soothes emotional stress.

Rhodonite: Rhodonite is a stone of compassion, an emotional balancer that clears away emotional wounds and scars from the past, and that nurtures love. It stimulates, clears and activates the heart. Rhodonite grounds energy, balances yin-yang, and aids in achieving one's highest potential. It heals emotional shock and panic.

Ruby: Associated with improved energy and concentration, creativity, loyalty, honor and compassion. Ruby is thought to be protective of home, possessions and family. Ruby is said to stimulate heart chakra and bring spiritual wisdom while shielding against psychic attacks.

Ruby in Zoisite: Offers the energy of happiness, appreciation, abundance, vitality and growth. It stimulates the heart and helps one to open to divine love. Zoisite helps to alleviate grief, anger, despair and defeat, and it is a powerful stone for deep healing by activating the body's defences and healing mechanisms. Assists in psychic development.

Sardonyx: Used as a stone of strength and protection since ancient times, sardonyx is associated with courage, happiness and clear communication. It brings lasting happiness and stability to marriage and partnerships.

Selenite: Energy Clearing Stone. Selenite provides for clarity of the mind, expanding ones awareness of the self and of ones surroundings. It opens the crown and higher crown chakras and accesses angelic consciousness and higher guidance. It can be used to access past lives as well as future lives. Selenite is a calming stone that instils deep peace and is excellent for meditation or spiritual work. It assists judgement and insight. It clears confusion and aids in seeing the deeper picture.

Septarian: Nurtures and grounds the wearer, bringing about feelings of happiness and understanding. This versatile stone is also a speaking stone that is said to improve communication skills of the holder. Healing and protective.

: Promotes living from the heart. Seraphinite harmonizes easily with the vibrations of other high-energy crystals for healing, meditation, and attunement with the angelic realm and nature.

Serpentine: Helps protect the heart and emotions. Serpentine help with all levels of healing, mental, emotional, and physical. Serpentine is a very protective stone. Serpentine is also a great stone for new beginnings, resilience and flexibility.

: Raises aspects of fertility, sexuality, confidence, and balance stabilization. The symmetrically rounded ends of the Shiva Lingam emit energy stabilization, increased memory, and the expansion of your overall consciousness. Through a leveling out effect, we are able to look at things more clearly and have a better understanding of what the true meaning of life really is.

Shungite: Said to be around two billion years old. The energy embodied within this ancient stone is said to absorb and eliminate anything that is a health hazard to human life. Use Shungite for EMF protection and for grounding as they are strong grounding stones that helps the release of negative energy.

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.

Stromatolite: Believed to create new hopes, enhances grace and lightheartedness and attune positive thinking, optimism expands the perspective from the heart.

Sugalite: Thought to be a nurturing gemstone, sugilite offers release from worries. It also promotes positive emotions to help relieve stress, establish peace of mind and emotional healing. To metaphysical adherents, sugilite is a stone of forgiveness and instills the deep satisfaction of all-abiding freedom.

Sunstone: Luck and good fortune. It clears and energises all the chakras. Sunstone instills good nature, heightens intuition and allows the real self to shine through happily. It dissipates fearfulness, alleviates stress and increases vitality.

Tektite: Associated with worlds other than our own. Believed to facilitate communication with otherworldly realms and encourage spiritual growth. Thought to increase fertility in both women and men.

Tigers Eye is good for growing your confidence and strength and it is known as the stone of courage. It is a root and sacral chakra stone which means it helps you to get grounded, build a safe and strong foundation, and find your motivation once more. It's also good at warding off negative energy.

Topaz--Blue: Associated with compassion and communication, it's a preferred stone to wear for "building bridges" between people. Blue topaz, in particular, is believed to promote truth and forgiveness, relaxing the spirit as well as the body. Blue topaz opens hearts that are closed and assists in protecting hearts that are too open.

Topaz--Lemon: Soothes, heals, stimulates, recharges, re-motivates and aligns the meridians of the body – directing energy to where it is needed most. It promotes truth and forgiveness. Topaz brings joy, generosity, abundance and good health. It is known as a stone of love and good fortune.

: A premier talisman of protection, a psychic shield deflecting and dispelling negative energies, entities, or destructive forces.It guards against radiation and environmental pollutants, and is highly useful in purifying and neutralizing one’s own negative thoughts and internal conflicts, and turning them into positive, usable energy. Black Tourmaline is also a powerful grounding stone, electrical in nature, providing a connection between Earth and the human spirit. Its supportive energy aligns the energy centers of the body and channels healing light throughout the system.

: Green Tourmaline is a stone that warms the heart and helps one rejuvenate vital life force energy. It's vibrations help one tap into their emotional body to understand the emotions they feel.

: Used to induce feelings of love, joy, happiness, calm, relaxation, and restore a sense of wholeness in the heart. It also relieves stress, anxiety, worry, depression, and fear. Pink tourmaline helps heal broken hearts.

: Combines the best qualities of pink and green tourmaline. This stone offers up light, love, and rejuvenation to help keep ones heart and mind imbued with joy, general happiness, being more adventurous, having increased daily energy, self-love and confidence are all brought out when wearing or carrying Watermelon Tourmaline.

: Revered as a master healer. It dispels negative energy and can be worn to protect against outside influences or pollutants in the atmosphere. Turquoise balances and aligns all the chakras, stabilising mood swings and instilling inner calm. It is excellent for depression and exhaustion, it also has the power to prevent panic attacks.

Unakite: Unakite is said to be a stone of vision, opening the third eye and useful for scrying. It is also believed to be a stone of balance, grounding the self while bringing emotions and spirituality together. Among crystal healing practitioners, unakite is used to support convalescence from illness. Thought to be good for fertility and pregnancy.

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