There are a few things that you should remember when working with stones and gems. All gems and stones should be cleansed and empowered. note: empowered simply means to instill some of your own energy into the stone. This means sit with it in your hand and envision what you wish from the stone or what you will use the stone for at some point.

To cleanse the stone it is best to either place the stone in a stream of natural water from a lake or simply hold them under a faucet. Moonlight and sunlight are the best cleansers. Wear gems and stones as close to the body as possible. Place them in a pocket or wear them on a string around your neck close to your heart. Always remember the size of the stone is not important.

Gems and stones can also be placed on magickal tools, as well, with glue or wire. Some beautiful pieces can be made such as goblets, Tarot boxes, wands, baskets, and herb containers.

Below is a list of Stones, Minerals and Gems for you to reference.

• AGATE - Good for transmutation, helps with the emotion of acceptance, gives a mellow, blended aspect, beneficial in stomach area. Colors vary.

• AGATE/BOTSWANA - Use with high-pressure oxygen therapy, smoke inhalation. Typically white with green.

• AGATE/FIRE - Master healer with color therapy, enhances all essences, grounds and balances, sexual & heart chakra binder, burns energy. Typically white with red.

• AGATE/MOSS - Emotional priorities, mental priorities, colon, circulatory, pancreas & pulses, blood sugar balance, agriculture. Typically white with moss inside.

• AGATE/PICTURE - L & R brain imbalances, i.e. epilepsy, autism, dyslexia, visual problems, blood circulation to the brain, apathy is eased.

• ALEXANDRITE - Low self-esteem & difficulty centering imply need, central nervous system disorders, spleen & pancreas.

• AMBER - Memory loss, eccentric behavior, anxiety, inability to make decisions, thyroid, inner ear & neuro-tissue strengthener, activates altruistic nature, realization of the spiritual intellect. Typically yellow or orange. Amber is excellent for stress.

• AMETHYST - Headaches, blood sugar imbalance, brain imbalances, edginess, facilitates healing, inner peace, psychic insight, stimulates third eye, aid for meditation, spiritual opening & internal surrender. Typically transparent or purple.

• AQUAMARINE - Fluid retention, coughs, fear, thymus gland, calms nerves, problems with eyes, ears, jaw, neck, stomach, teeth, mental clarity, meditation.

• ATACAMITE - Genitals, VD, thyroid, parasympathetic ganglia.

• AVENTURINE - Eliminates psychosomatic ills, fear, skin diseases, nearsightedness, promotes positive attitude, creative insight. Typically green.

• AZURITE - Arthritis & joints, surfaces psychic blocks that form physical blocks, helps one let go of old belief systems, dissolves fear & helps transform it into understanding.

• AZURITE-MALACHITE - Skin diseases, anorexia, calms anxiety, lack of discipline, powerful healing force to physical body, emotional release. Azurite-malachite is blue and green.

• BERYL - Laziness, hiccoughs, swollen glands, eye diseases, bowel cancer.

• BLOODSTONE/HELIOTROPE - Circulation, all purpose healer & cleanser, stomach & bowel pain, purifies bloodstream, bladder, strengthens blood purifying organs. Typically very dark green with red and orange streaks.

• CARNELIAN - Grounding, stimulates curiosity & initiative, focuses attention to the present moment, use with citrine on lower 3 chakras, digestion. Typically translucent red or orange.

• CHALCEDONY - Touchiness, melancholy, fever, gallstones, leukemia, eye problems, stimulates maternal feelings & creativity. release. Typically a reddish color.

• CHRYSOCOLLA - Emotional balancer & comforter, alleviates fear, guilt & nervous tension, facilitates clairvoyance arthritis, feminine disorders, eases labor & births, thought amplifier.

• CHRYSOLITE - Inspiration, prophecy, toxemia, viruses, appendicitis.

• CHRYSOPRASE - Gout, eye problems, alleviates greed, hysteria & selfishness, VD, depression, promotes sexual organ strength.

• CITRINE QUARTZ - Heart, kidney, liver & muscle healer, appendicitis, gangrene, red & white corpuscles, digestive tract, cleanses vibrations in the atmosphere, creativity, helps personal clarity, will bring out problems in the solar plexus & the heart, eliminates self-destructive tendencies. Typically a reddish yellow.

• CLEAR QUARTZ - Transmitter & amplifier of healing energy & clarity, balancer, channeler of universal energy & unconditional love, all purpose healer, programmable.

• DIAMOND - All brain diseases, pituitary & pineal glands, draws out toxins, poison remedy. Clear or milky white.

• DIOPSITE & ENSTATIATE - Organ rejection, heart, lung & kidney stimulation, self esteem.

• ELIAT STONE - Tissue & skeletal regeneration, detoxification, antidepressant, karmic life acceptance.

• EMERALD - Radiation toxicity, all mental illness, circulatory & neurological disorders, transmits balance, healing & patience, increases psychic & clairvoyant abilities, meditation, keener insight into dreams. Dark green.

• FLOURITE - Bone disorders, anesthetic, hyperkenesis, ability to concentrate, balances polarities, 3rd eye center, mental capacity & intellect. Varied, green, blue, purple, or blue-green.

• GARNET/RHODOLITE - Capillaries, skin elasticity, protection from pre- cancerous conditions. Red.

• GARNET/SPESSARTINE - Bad dreams, depression, anger, low self esteem hemorrhages, hormone imbalances, inflammations, sexual disease. Red.

• HEMATITE - Blood cleanser & purifier, low self esteem, augments meridian flows, aids in astral projection. Typically Silver.

• HERKIMER DIAMOND - Enhances dream state, helps alleviate stress, draws toxicity from physical form, balances polarities, increases healing ability, develops ability to "give". dart-- hematite, which is an iron ore, is THE grounding stone, and will rarely help with projection.

• JADE - Kidney, heart, larynx, liver, parathyroid, spleen, thymus, thyroid & parasympathetic ganglia healer, strengthens body, longevity. Green.

• JASPER/GREEN - Constipation, ulcers, intestinal spasms, bladder, gall bladder & general healer, clairvoyance, balances healer's auric field.

• JASPER/PICTURE - Skin, kidneys, thymus & their neurological tissues, betters the immune system, past life recall, overactivity in dream state & hallucinations show a need for it. White, Yellow-brown.

• JASPER/RED - Liver, stomach troubles & infections.

• JASPER/YELLOW - Endocrine system tissue, thymus, pancreas, sympathetic ganglia stimulation, ethereal body alignment.

• JET - Feminine disorders, teeth, stomach pain, glandular swelling, fevers, hair loss, alignment of lower spine.

• KUNZITE - Alcoholism, anorexia, arthritis, epilepsy, gout, headaches, colitis, retardation, memory loss, schizophrenia & manic-depression, phobias, emotional equilibrium, thyroid malignancy, gums, pain, self-esteem.

• LAPIS - Neuralgia, melancholy, fevers, inflammations, penetrates subconscious blockages, throat chakra, sore throat, energy focuser for teachers, lecturers & speakers, mental & spiritual cleanser, used on 3rd eye for meditation, eliminates old & negative emotions, use with other healing stones, thought form amplification, helps in creating mantras. Blue or green.

• LAZULITE - Frontal lobe stimulation, hypertension, liver diseases, immune system.

• MALACHITE - Draws out impurities on all levels, balances L & R brain functions, mental illness, co-ordination and vision, radiation eliminator, evil eye protector, all purpose healer, especially in solar plexus & good for healers. Blue or green.

• MOONSTONE - Soothes & balances the emotions, helps eliminate fear "feeling", encourages inner growth & strength, aids peace & harmony & psychic abilities, aligns vertebrae, digestive aid. Varied, pink, white, blue, or green.

• MORGANITE - Larynx, lungs, thyroid, parasympathetic nervous system, major muscle tissues.

• NATROLITE - Color, lower intestines, thyroid, sciatic nerve, parasympathetic nervous system.

• OBSIDIAN - Protects the gentle from being abused, stabilizer, stomach, intestine & general muscle tissue healer, bacterial & viral inflammations. Black.

• ONYX - Objective thinking, spiritual inspiration, control of emotions & passions, help eliminate negative thinking, apathy, stress & neurological disorders, also used as a heart, kidney, nerve, skin, capillary, hair, eye and nail strengthener. Black.

• OPAL/CHERRY - Red corpuscle & blood disorders, depression, apathy, lethargy, intuition & joy.

• OPAL/DARK - Reproductive organs, spleen & pancreas, filters red corpuscles & aids white corpuscles, bone marrow, depression, esp. of sexual origin, balances, amplifies creative & intuitive thought, grounds radical emotional body. Typically Red. Cherry Opal is reddish, also Fire Opal. there is also a white opal :) dark opal is kinda blue as well as black, kinda mixed.

• OPAL/JELLY - Spleen & abdominal diseases, cellular reproductive problems, helps absorb nutrients, minimizes wide mood swings, mystical thought amplifier. Typically Orange.

• OPAL/LIGHT - Balances L & R brain hemispheres for neuro disorders, stimulates white corpuscles, helps bring the emotions to mystical experiences, aids abdomen, pituitary & thymus problems. Typically Yellow.

• PEARL - Eliminates emotional imbalances, helps one master the heart chakra, aids stomach, spleen, intestinal tract & ulcer problems. Typically White or cream.

• PERIDOT - Protects against nervousness, helps alleviate spiritual fear, aids in healing hurt feelings & bruised egos, incurs strength & physical vitality, aligns subtle bodies, amplifies other vibrational energies & positive emotional outlook, helps liver & adrenal function. Typically Green.

• PYRITE - Helps purify the bloodstream and upper respiratory tract, upper intestines, digestive aid, nervous exhaustion, grounding. Gold.

• QUARTZ/SOLUTION - Lymphatic cancer & circulatory problems, helps the psychologically inflexible.

• RHODOCHROSITE - Narcolepsy & narcophobia, poor eyesight, extreme emotional trauma, mental breakdown, nightmares & hallucinations, astral body, kidneys, clears solar plexus of blocked energy, unconditional love & forgiveness, evil eye protection, helps one utilize the creative power of the higher energy centers. Pink and white.

• RHODONITE - Inner ear, alleviates anxiety, confusion & mental unrest, promotes calm, self worth, confidence & enhanced sensitivity.

• RHYOLITE - Balances emotions, self worth, enhances capacity to love, aligns emotional & spiritual bodies, stimulates clarity of self expression.

• ROSE QUARTZ - Heart chakra opener, love & self-acceptance healer for emotional wounds, dissipates anger & tension. Pink.

• ROYAL AZEL (SUGALITE or LUVALITE) - L & R hemisphere balance, opens crown chakra, heart expression, increases altruism, visions & general understanding, protects against negative vibrations, helps one gain power to balance the physical body.

• RUBY - Heart chakra, balances love & all spiritual endeavors, self-esteem, strengthens neurological tissues around the heart, prevents miscarriages. Red.

• RUTILE - Alleviates blockages within the psyche from childhood pressures

• SAPPHIRE - Spiritual enlightenment, inner peace, colic, rheumatism, mental illness, pituitary, metabolic rate of glandular functions, anti- depressant, aids psychokinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance & astral projection, personal expression, also for pain.Blue.

• SARDONYX - Mental self control, depression, anxiety & especially for grief. Deep blue. Rhodonite is also excellent at maintaining phy, strength.

• SMITHSONITE - Eases fear of interpersonal relationships, merges astral & emotional bodies, balances perspective.

• SMOKY QUARTZ - Stimulates Kundalini energy, cleanses & protects the astral field, draws out distortion on all levels, good for hyperactivity & excess energy, grounding.

• SODOLITE - Over sensitivity, helps intellectual understanding of a situation, awakens 3rd eye, cleanses the mind. Deep blue.

• SPINEL - Leg conditions, when worn on solar plexus, powerful general healer, detoxification aid.

• TIGER'S EYE - Mind focuser, helps purify the blood system of pollutions & toxins, psychic vision, grounding. Honey-brown.

• TOPAZ - Balances emotions, calms passions, gout, blood disorders, hemorrhages, increases poor appetite, general tissue regeneration, VD, tuberculosis, reverses aging, spiritual rejuvenation, endocrine system stimulation, releases tension, feelings of joy. Typically orange or blue.

• TOURMELINE - Dispels fear & negativity & grief, calms nerves, concentration & eloquence improve, genetic disorders, cancer & hormones regulated, raises vibrations, charisma, universal tranquil sleep.

• TOURMELINE/BLACK - Arthritis, dyslexia, syphilis, heart diseases, anxiety, disorientation, raises altruism, deflects negativity,neutralizes distorted energies, i.e. resentment & insecurity.

• TOURMELINE/RUBELLITE - Creativity, fertility, balances passive or aggressive nature.

• TOURMELINE/GREEN - Creativity, opens heart chakra, immune system, psychological problems with the father, blood pressure,asthma, balancer, eliminates conflict within.

• TOURMALINE/BLUE (INDICOLITE) - Lungs, larynx, thyroid, parasympathetic nerves.

• TOURMELINE/WATERMELON - Heart chakra healer, imparts sense of humor to those who need it, balancer, eliminates guilt, nervous system, integration, security & self-containment. Yellow

• TURQUOISE - Master healer, protects against environmental pollutants, strengthens anatomy & guards against all disease, improved absorption of nutrients, tissue regeneration, subtle body alignment & strengthening. Baby blue, with some green.

• UNAKITE - green w/pink emotional balancer; finds root of disease

• WATERMELON TOURMALINE - red & green encourage self-confidence; diminish fear; seeing with your heart; allows one to trust in the power of love.

Birth Stone Chart

• January Garnet
• February Amethyst
• March Aquamarine
• April Diamond
• May Emerald
• June Pearl
• July Ruby
• August Peridot
• September Sapphire
• October Opal
• November Topaz
• December Onyx

COLOR SYMBOLISM OF STONES