Blue Lace Agate is a wonderful metaphysical healing stone that is great for activating and healing the Throat Chakra, and for balancing the brain.  Blue Lace Agate enhances verbal communication and expression.  It is both a grounding and a spiritual stone, allowing for one to bring their spiritual experiences into their everyday reality.

Agate is believed to improve mental functions and can help where issues of clarity and stability are concerned.  Agate is also helpful in overcoming negative emotions by bringing love into the chakras.  Although they work very slowly and deliberately, this gentle nature of Agate helps them to have a lasting impact.

It is said to be a very supportive stone, promoting the acceptance of one’s emotions.  This calming stone can help those who may be feeling depressed or worried, and is believed to bring peacefulness.  Blue Lace Agate is also used for dissolving repressive blocks that inhibit expression.  Writers can use Blue Lace Agate to help with articulating inspired ideas.  Put a piece of tumbled Blue Lace Agate in your pocket when speaking in public!

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Agate is the name for number of types of banded Chalcedonies, which is a variety of Quartz. Agates carry a quiet energy that works on the subtle bodies, and are great for achieving stability and balance in many aspects of one’s life. Agates tend to work behind the scenes on the cause, instead of the symptom, of an issue.

Specifically, Botswana Agate can help those who have repressed emotional issues that need to be addressed. Botswana Agate is thought to have an anti-depressant quality. Botsawana Agate can be helpful for those who are struggling to be genuine in their lifestyle, as it promotes an understanding of the need for deeper meaning.

Carry Botswana Agate to promote creative ability in any project or goal. Botswana Agate promotes creativity, and encourages one to find solutions rather than focusing on negative aspects of daily challenges. Crystal healers like to use Botswana Agate for it's soothing and calming qualities.

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Moss Agate is associated with nature and agriculture, and brings new beginnings.  Sometimes called Dendritic Agate because of its beautiful dendrite formations, Moss Agate is associated with nature spirits, bringing Earth energy into its healing.  Put Moss Agate around plants to foster better growth!  The gentle, nurturing energy of Moss Agate encourages the user to appreciate and enjoy each moment on Earth, and assists the planet in its healing as well.

Known by some as a “birthing” crystal that can assist midwives in their work, Moss Agate is a stone of new beginnings, and promotes release from old habits.  Moss Agate also attracts wealth and abundance, improves self esteem, and helps to release fear.  Moss Agate also comforts and soothes emotional wounds.  Use Moss Agate to balance the Heart Chakra when releasing stress.  Moss Agate helps with depression, especially when caused by brain imbalances.

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Considered to be a Talisman in some parts of India, rare Tree Agate is a stone of inner peace. This white stone with green dendritic inclusions is a cousin to Moss Agate. Gentle Tree Agate calms nerves, and can be combined with clear quartz to deepen meditation and prayer. Tree Agate brings our focus to the oneness of us all, dissolving egoism and arrogance. Use Tree Agate to ease relationship problems with children.

Also known as Dendritic Agate, Tree Agate is a highly supportive stone that boosts the immune system and regulates the balance of water in the body. Tree Agate is said to clear out energy blockages in the Nadis, to allow for a greater flow of this energy throughout the body. By opening up these pathways, Tree Agate can help one to connect to natural cycles in life, thereby opening one up to a flow of abundance and prosperity.

Having a deep connection to nature, Tree Agate can assist those involved with conservation project. Tree Agate is a healer of geopathic stress, by emitting it's calming and centering energies into the environment. Physically, Tree Agate can help ailments of the nerves and blood cappillaries, but is especially helpful to those with neuralgia.

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Amazonite is great for non-verbal expression.  Amazonite is a good energy filter, blocking geopathic stress as well as electromagnetic pollution emitted from computers, microwaves, or cell phones.  Amazonite soothes aggravation and emotional trauma, eases irritation, and calms all of the chakras.  Amazonite also assists the user in seeing different sides of the same issue, and balances masculine and feminine energy as well as different personality traits.

Use Amazonite on the Heart and Throat Chakras to enhance loving expression, or with the Third Eye Chakra to open intuition.  Amazonite can aid in a peaceful transition when it is time to leave this life.  A member of the Feldspar family, Amazonite aligns the physical and subtle bodies, and is a good stone for Virgo.  Amazonite aids in balancing the yin and yang, and male and female, energies, helping one to escape the illusion of separation from the Divine. 

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The fossilized resin of pine trees, Amber unites the energizing force of the Sun with the grounding, transmutive properties of Earth.  Amber has been used throughout time, including in the breast plates of the high priests, by Native Americans, and by Eastern Indians.

A powerful yet gentle healer and cleanser, Amber draws out and transmutes negative energy of all kinds on all levels.  Amber aids in physical self-healing, emotional healing of depression, and environmental clearing.  One of its most unique characteristics is that Amber never needs “clearing.”  Amber opens and cleanses all of the Chakras.

Highly protective, Amber also aids in the manifestation of ideas to reality.  The life force trapped within Amber promotes fertility, and its protective and environmental clearing properties make it a good stone to use to prepare a healing or birthing room.  Use Amber with the Solar Plexus Chakra to increase confidence, mental clarity, and creative self expression. 

Physically, Amber is said to help with the organs of elimination, including the liver, kidneys, bladder, and stomach.  Amber is said to ameliorate conditions such as kidney and bladder stones.  Also a stone of the Throat Chakra, Amber can help with laryngitis and goiter.

A traditional stone of good luck, Amber is associated with Leo and Sagittarius. 

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Amethyst is a popular purple-colored variety of quartz that contains manganese.  It is the manganese that produces Amethyst’s purple color, the iron content in the stone determines the relative darkness of the purple.

One of the most popular metaphysical stones, Amethyst is very powerful and protective.  Known as the “stone of sobriety,” Amethyst was used in ancient times to recover from both physical addictions as well as addictive relationships.  Amethyst can encourage inner strength and relieve stress.

The strong healing powers of Amethyst can transmute lower vibrations to higher frequencies, transforming negative energy to love energy.  Amethyst connects the physical plane with higher realm, making it a good choice when working with the Third Eye Chakra.  Amethyst provides a wonderful peaceful energy for meditations, and helps with developing intuition and psychic abilities.

Amethyst opens and activates the Crown Chakra as well, allowing easier access to the divine.  Amethyst enhances spiritual awareness and spiritual wisdom, promoting a higher state of consciousness.  Amethyst clears and repairs holes in the aura and draws in Divine energy, as well as aligning and fostering cooperation between the energy bodies.

Amethyst usually grows in geodes, which are hollow rocks with crystal-filled interiors.  The surface of the interior is called Druze, which is a term used to describe a natural layer of crystals formed on the crust of a mineral, like, for example, the inside of an Amethyst geode.  From the outside, Amethyst geodes often look like ordinary rocks.

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Chevron Amethyst is a combination of Amethyst and White Quartz, mixed together in a striped, chevron pattern. Chevron Amethyst combines the strengthening and enhancing qualities of Quartz with the stress relieving qualities of Amethyst. This symbiotic combination of minerals lends itself to a wonderfully spiritual stone which is great for gently removing the veils that obscure some of the hidden meanings in life.

Chevron Amethyst is one of the best stones to work with the Third-Eye, enhancing both intuition and physical vision on all planes of existence. Use Chevron Amethyst to help remove resistance to change, and to dissapate and repel negativity of all kinds. Chevron Amethyst creates a stong healing field around the user, and as such is a good choice to cleanse the aura and to enhance the immune system.

Crystal healers work with Chevron Amethyst for it's psychic energies and for it's ability to clear and strengthen the aura. Chevron Amethyst can amplify energies needed for manifestation and works well in grid work. Chevron Amethyst is also said to deepen the meditative state, enhancing the quality and frequency of visions and inspiration from higher realms.

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Vera Cruz pieces are beautiful, natural lavender Amethyst points.  Vera Cruz Amethyst has a very fine vibration, allowing for an excellent connection with spirit, and a protective energy surrounding the user.  Amethyst has often been used for combating addictions of all kinds, but especially alcoholism, and is known by many as the “sobriety stone”.

Amethyst is thought to work with the Third-Eye, Crown, and Etheric Chakras, while Vera Cruz Amethyst is believed to work with the Heart and Throat Chakras as well.  This allows for any information received through the Etheric and Crown Chakras to be processed and absorbed through the other three Chakras.  Using Vera Cruz Amethyst with the Heart Chakra can promote Universal Love within the self, for application in one’s daily life.

Vera Cruz Amethyst is said to produce an immediate “beta” state during meditation, and thus can help those who are having a difficult time achieving a deep meditative state.  This property can also help those trying to connect with angels or spirit guides during meditation.  Try mediating with a Vera Cruz Amethyst Point on the Third Eye Chakra for developing intuition and connecting with spiritual realms.

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Ametrine is a powerful combination of Amethyst and Citrine, connecting physical and spiritual realms. Metaphysically, it is good for opening the Third Eye Chakra. Ametrine combines masculine and feminine energy and helps bring harmony with others.

Ametrine is a very soothing stone, believed to be valuable for those with chronic, long-term diseases. The Amethyst part of Ametrine is thought to help one experience Divine Guidance, while the Citrine aspect allows for this guidance to be assimilated into one’s life.

Many people use Ametrine for stress-relief, and as such, it is optimally placed in areas where one would need it the most, i.e. in one’s office or cubicle, in the car, in a pocket, or wherever you find yourself under stress.

Ametrine is thought to enhance creativity and learning, and can therefore help those who use it to come up with creative solutions to difficult problems whether work-related or personal. Use Ametrine during mediation or any kind of energy work to induce a deeply relaxed state.

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Metaphysically, Apatite can help develop psychic gifts and connect the user to higher levels of spiritual guidance.  Use Apatite to deepen and maintain focus in meditation.  Apatite encourages openness and ease in social situations, a quality that makes it especially useful for autistic children.  Apatite enhances manifestation of ideas to reality and facilitates getting results, and has traditionally been associated with humanitarian efforts and teaching.  

Also a powerful Throat Chakra stone, Apatite enhances communication and self-expression on all levels.  Apatite can cleanse the aura of cluttered energies, bringing a renewed sensation to the body.  Apatite is a good stone for Gemini, and helps to balance the chakras, as well as the energies of yin and yang.  Apatite can help one to effectively work within the dream state to form solutions to perplexing problems.  Those who are overemotional can benefit from Apatite's ability to highlight logical solutions and induce calm states of mind.

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Carried by seamen in ancient times to protect against drowning, Aquamarine is a stone of courage and protection.  Used often with the Throat Chakra to evoke more spiritual communication and to clear communication blocks, Aquamarine promotes verbal self-expression.  Aquamarine is also used to align the all of the chakras and enhance the aura.  The metaphysical properties of Aquamarine make it an excellent stone for the spiritual initiate. 

Bringing clarity of thought, Aquamarine can aid in the assimilation of new knowledge, making it a great crystal for students of all kinds.  In this capacity, Aquamarine encourages intellectual growth and inner knowledge, opening one up to intuition and the superconscious mind.  Aquamarine can also bring peace to the overactive mind, making it a great aid for deepening the meditative state.

Its work with the Heart Chakra makes Aquamarine a calming stone, helping one to look at emotional situations from other perspectives.  Aquamarine can help overcome judgment of others and encourage tolerance.  Aquamarine can calm fear and worry, by opening the mind up to understanding the nature of Divine Perfection in the Universe.  By helping one to be more sensitive,  Aquamarine initiates a connection with the experience of a mass consciousness.  Going even further, Aquamarine helps to bring one into the flow of life, enhancing the experience of continuity during one's existence. 

Physically, Aquamarine helps to heal ailments of the throat, including the thyroid and pituitary, and can help to ameliorate diseases of the liver.  Aquamarine can also help with allergies by calming an overactive immune system, but it also helps with other autoimmune disorders. 

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Aragonite often forms in cross and star patterns.  Aragonite is a good Earth healer, and encourages conservation of Earth’s precious resources.  Use Aragonite when working with the Root and Earth Star Chakras, and for grounding and connecting to the Earth.  Aragonite can also be used for clearing blockages of energy in ley lines and for healing geopathic stress.  Aragonite acts as a stabalizing stone, and can be helpful for those who have focused solely on spiritual pursuits to the exclusion of other neccessary tasks.  Aragonite is also helpful to those who need to release issues from the past and attachments in the present. 

Aragonite promotes focus and concentration, and can be helpful for students and initiates.  Meditating with Aragonite can help to ground spiritual growth into the lower chakras, raising the overall vibration of the body.  Many crystal lovers enjoy Aragonite's centering energies, and work with it to help bring peace and serenity to volatile situations.  Aragonite can be a big aid for those who lack discipline and self-control, and can help one to overcome stagnation in their personal growth.

Aragonite is associated with Capricorn.  Physically, Aragonite's ability to raise vibrational energies of the body can assist with all types of healing.  Aragonite can bring calm to conditions involving nervous twitches or muscle spasms.  Aragonite can also be used to enhance the bones' absorption of calcium and to ameliorate pain and chills

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Blue Aventurine is good for opening and activating your Throat and Third Eye Chakras.  Use Blue Aventurine to help to overcome negative traits such as selfishness, childishness, and passive-aggression.  Blue Aventurine is helpful to those who find themselves stuck in an immature state of development, by clearing old, stagnant energies, and opening one up to inner growth and spiritual work.

Blue Aventurine is said to help with addictions, large and small, by allowing spiritual energies to come into the Third-Eye and Throat Chakras, to be processed by the subconscious mind.  This action enables one to understand that the addiction is a symptom of a deeper problem, and that it is an attempt to fill a void better soothed by spiritual development.

Blue Aventurine may help one to maintain inner peace despite chaos happening in one‘s environment.  Meditating with Blue Aventurine can help one to develop and work with intuition, and empathy, and to explore psychic abilities that may have been repressed in the past.  Placing Blue Aventurine in a pillowcase for weeks or even months can allow it to slowly pass it's higher vibrations into the subconscious mind of the user.  Blue Aventurine is also great for body-layouts on the Third-Eye and Throat Chakras.

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Green Aventurine comforts, harmonizes, and protects the heart, and can help attract love later in life.  Green Aventurine is good for working with the Heart Chakra and with the Water Elements.  Green Aventurine is known as the good luck stone and is often used in rituals with green candles, or kept in cash boxes or drawers to attract money. 

Aventurine is said to be an all around healing stone with benefits for the lungs, liver, sinuses, and heart.  Use Green Aventurine to loosen and release negativity and energy blockages, including disease.  Some wear or carry Green Aventurine to increase intelligence, perception and creativity.  Some even use Green Aventurine to improve their eyesight! 

Green Aventurine has a particularly soothing energy behind it, and is recommended for working through unresolved emotional issues.  You can also use Green Aventurine for gridding a home or workspace.  Green Aventurine is commonly known as a stone of personal growth, and offers opportunities for learning about oneself and one's place in the universe.

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Orange Aventurine is great when dealing with issues of self-worth.  Use Orange Aventurine to help you to clear blockages between the Sacral and Third-Eye Chakras.  Orange Aventurine can be used to enhance personal will by channeling energy through the Sacral Chakra for assimiliation.  This also helps one to be more discerning in their application of this will, so that one is aligned with the highest vibration.

Many use Orange Aventurine to encourage perseverance.  Meditating with Orange Aventurine can amplify and focus energies of creativity, vitality, and determination, thereby finding new ways to overcome challenges in one’s life.  Orange Aventurine is a powerful tool for focusing prana and raising confidence, and can be exceptionally helpful in the workplace.

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Azurite has been called the “stone of heaven” that aids in the “pursuit of the heavenly self.”  Metaphysically, Azurite is a lovely Third Eye Chakra stone, awakening psychic abilities and helping the user to recognize intuition and spiritual guidance when it occurs.  Helpful in relieving worries, phobias, and nagging negative thoughts, Azurite also helps one to recognize the areas in life needing attention.

Native Americans used Azurite as a sacred stone for communication with Indian Spirit Guides.  The Mayans are said to have used it for sacred, mystical communication via thought.

Azurite infuses intellectual logic with love, fostering compassion for oneself and others.  Used with the Throat Chakra, Azurite encourages communication from the heart and heightens awareness of Spiritual communication.  Azurite can help dissolve energy blockages, communication blockages, as well as blockages to one’s progress.  Azurite calms and relieves mental stress. Azurite is useful in meditation to clear the mind, promote deep introspection and visualization, and allow clear recognition of intuitive messages that are received.

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Legend says that Bloodstone was first formed at Christ’s crucifixion by drops of blood staining the stones at the foot of the cross.  Bloodstone is dark Green Quartz dotted with bright red spots.  Bloodstone is also known as Heliotrope.

Focusing on the lower chakras, Bloodstone is a powerful healing stone used for thousands of years for its healing properties.  Great at grounding negative energy and cleansing the body, Bloodstone brings Love into any situation and helps ground the negative energies surrounding that issue.  Bloodstone assists in enhacing the functions of the mind, bringing clarity and understanding to subjects that were unfamiliar.

Bloodstone has been used to increase energy and strength.  Hold Tumbled Bloodstone when you’re in need of an extra boost, or feel the need to detoxify.  You can carry Tumbled Bloodstone in your pocket to keep you feeling balanced, and to help you overcome fearfulness and worry.  Bloodstone is thought to enhance intuition and creativity, and can be used to combat fatigue, irritability and confusion.

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Calcite is a powerful energy amplifier and cleanser.  The purifying energy of Calcite cleans out stored negative energy from a room, the body, etc.  Use Calcite to clear out old energy patterns and to increase personal motivation and drive.  Calcite is also a good choice for distance healing work, because it amplifies the energy being sent.

Calcite is also know as the “stone of the mind”, heightening mental discernment and analysis, and increasing memory and learning abilities.  Calcite is THE stone for students and academics.  Calcite is also useful during times of mental adjustments and disagreements.  Calcite can show you a new way to look at a situation, easing you away from old, outdated thought patterns that may be in the way of new ideas.

Physically, Calcite has been associated with the bones and joints, and balances the amount of calcium in the body.  Calcite can also help to improve the body's absorption of important vitamins and minerals.

In addition to the general metaphysical uses of Calcite, there are additional traits associated with different types of Calcite.  The simplest forms of Calcite are pure white, but the presence of other compounds during formation can create beautiful colored Calcite.  A good Solar Plexus stone, Yellow Calcite helps with memory and stimulates greater intellectual capacity.

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Amber Calcite (sometimes called Honey Calcite) gently amplifies energy and psychic abilities.  Supportive Amber Calcite eases the challenges that sometimes come with change, and creates balance between the Sacral and Solar Plexus Chakras.  Amber Calcite has a soft and loving vibe about it that can calm the over anxious mind to help with meditation and sleep.  Physically, Amber Calcite supports a healthy immune system, and when worked with consistently, can help to counteract effects of immuno deficiency viruses or immuno suppressive medications.

Amber Calcite works with almost all of the chakras to encourage a greater flow of energy throughout the physical and subtle bodies.  Working with the Root Chakra, Amber Clacite can provide a vibration of vitality, enhancing one's ability to find jouy in the mundane.  Amber Calcite focuses on the Crown and Third-Eye Chakras to pull in Divine energy from the higher realms.  Between these areas, Amber Calcite sends energy to the Solar-Plexus Chakra providing emotional and physical support during trying times such as depression or illness. 

Calcite is a powerful energy amplifier and cleanser.  The purifying energy of Calcite cleans out stored negative energy from a room, the body, etc.  Use Calcite to clear out old energy patterns and to increase personal motivation and drive.  Calcite is also a good choice for distance healing work, because it amplifies the energy being sent.

Calcite is also known as the “stone of the mind.”  Calcite heightens mental discernment and analysis, increases memory and learning abilities.  Calcite is THE stone for students and academics.  Calcite is also useful during times of mental adjustments and disagreements.  Calcite can show you a new way to look at a situation, easing you away from old, outdated thought patterns that may be in the way of new ideas.

Physically, Calcite has been associated with the bones and joints, and balances the amount of calcium in the body.  Calcite can also help to improve the body's absorption of important vitamins and minerals.

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