Crystals

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Crystals

Choosing your crystal

When it comes to choosing which crystals are right for you, many believe that you should look at what the crystal is capable of and see if it applies to you, I believe however that the correct way to choose your crystals is to follow your intuition, which ever crystals you are drawn to are more than likely the ones that can do you the greatest deal of good, I believe that crystals choose you as much as you choose them.

Cleansing your crystals

Crystals take out the negativity that surrounds us in every day life and therefore occasionally they will need cleansing to wash away all of the negativity, this can be done by just placing or holding your crystals under any form of running water.

Recharging your crystals

After cleansing your crystals, you may find that it needs charging for maximum benefit, this can be done by simply placing your crystals in sunlight when not in use during the day, or by placing them in the moonlight at night time.

Agate
Hardness = 7
Properties - A stone for good health and good fortune. Increases self esteem , banishes fear, calms and gives courage. Promotes marital fidelity. Aids perceptiveness and helps you to develop inner talents. Changes and banishes negative energies. Helps eye sight, reduces fever and thirst.
Origin - Brazil/ India/ Scotland/ Madagascar.

Blue lace agate
Hardness = 7
Properties - Along with those listed for Agate and Chalcedony. Helps you to attune to your inner self and brings spiritual awareness. A stone of movement and grace. Regulates nail growth and balances brain fluid. Will help to clear blockages in blood vessels and the nervous system. Good for digestion, pancreas, cell structure, strengthening and mending bones, arthritis and good for the eyes. Reduces inflammation and fever.
Chakra - Heart, throat, third eye and crown.
Origin - South Africa.

Botswana Agate
Hardness = 7
Properties - Helps to release repressed emotions and to deal with them. Aids creativity and the exploration of the unknown. Enhance concentration to the task at hand. Good for the nervous system, stress and the removal of toxins.
Chakra - Crown.
Origin - Botswana.

Moss Agate
Hardness = 7
Properties - Provides strength in all your endeavours and pursuits. Helps one in the acquisition of riches. Improves your ego and self-esteem. Strengthens your positive traits and balances your emotions. An early native American Indian 'power stone', used to balance the planet and the weather. Good for eyes, digestion and removing toxins from the body. Helps to treat dehydration. fungal infection, colds and flu symptoms.
Chakra - Crown.
Origin - India/ USA.

Turitella Agate
Hardness = 7
Properties - In addition to those listed for Agates. Protects in confrontational situations. Enhances survival instincts, giving insight into how to be a winner. Banishes Pompousness and removes the actions caused by a superiority complex. Aids Transition, helps you to blend the old and the new. Links the plant and mineral world to heal the Earth. Good for fatigue, the stomach and nutrient absorption.
Origin - Minnesota, USA.

Amazonite
Hardness = 6
Properties - Removes aggravation and negative energy, soothes the nerves. Enhances self-confidence, universal love and communication concerning love. Good for nervous system, metabolism, muscle spasms, teeth, osteoporosis and the assimilation of calcium. Balances all aspects of the bodies energies, carry or wear to promote good health.
Chakra - Heart and throat .
Origin - India/ Canada/ USSR/ Madagascar/ USA.

Amethyst
Hardness = 7
Properties - Soothes the mind, calms, brings contentment and peace. Raises the spirit, increases awareness and intelligence. Clears and balances the aura. Protects against negative vibrations. A stone for change. Aids the heart and channelling. Eases pain in healing and removes impurities from the blood. Good for meditation and assists in spiritual development. Good for heart, skin, nerves, hearing, bones, headaches, arthritis, insomnia and mental disorders.
Chakra - Crown.
Origin - Uruguay/ Brazil/ S.Africa/ India/ Australia/ Mexico/ Worldwide.

Ametrine
Hardness = 7
Properties - Bring understanding and cooperation by removing blockages in the emotional, mental and physical. Removes negativity from the aura and aids emotional and intellectual awareness. Balances yin and yang. Enhances meditation and attunement. protects and raises consciousness during astral travel.
Origin - Bolivia/ Brazil.

Aquamarine
Hardness = 7.5
Properties - A 'stone of courage'. Increases your intelligence, reasoning and abilities to learn and assimilate knowledge. It helps you to always be prepared, to be more tolerant and more responsible for ones actions. It expands the inner self and brings spiritual awareness. Good for glands, eyes and teeth. Chakra - Throat, stimulates, activates and cleanses. Aligns and balances.
Origin - Brazil/ Afghanistan/ Russia.

Aventurine
Hardness = 7
Properties - Dispels anxiety, stress and fear. Gives courage and good luck in love and sport. Brings good health, tranquillity and serenity. Enhances creativity, leadership and decisiveness. Inspires independence and well being. Purifies the brain, mental and emotional. Stimulates muscles, strengthens blood and alleviates skin disease. Good for heart, lungs, adrenal glands, eyesight, and hair problems.
Chakra - Heart.
Origin - India.

Azurite
Hardness = 3.5
Properties - A sacred stone used by the Native American Indians to help contact ones spiritual Indian guide, and by the Mayans to bring wisdom and knowledge. Enhances creativity and self-confidence, brings awareness. Aids meditation and relaxation. Removes indecision and worries. Helps to awaken psychic abilities. Good for the treatment of bones, circulation, growths and removing of toxins. Removes energy blockages.
Chakra - Third eye, Heart and sacral. Aligns and attunes.
Origin - USA/ Morocco/ Russia/ Namibia.

Black Tourmaline
Hardness = 7
Properties - Protects, gives inspiration and enhances understanding. Dispels fear and deflects negative energies. A powerful healer and highly electro-magnetic. Balances all your chakras.
Chakra - Root.
Origin - Brazil/ India/ Peru.

Bloodstone
Hardness = 7
Properties - Supports decision making, improves ones talents and abilities. A strong healing stone and a 'stone of courage'. Enhances creative efforts. Helps one to rebalance and overcome any distress or anxiety due to renewal. Purifies and stabilizes the blood, remove toxins. Good for Kidneys, spleen, bladder, liver and intestines, also in treating leukaemia. Aids eyesight, rashes and lungs.
Chakra - Heart, centres and grounds.
Origin - India.

Blue Sodalite
Hardness = 5.5
Properties - Enhances endurance and creativity. Refreshes and imparts youthfulness to its wearer. Calms removes depression, aids sleep and helps to bring joy to a heavy heart. Improves clarity of intellectual thought and rational thinking. Encourages self-esteem and trust. Increases sensuality, sexual attractiveness and interest. Good for digestion, balances glands, strengthens metabolism and helps lower blood pressure.
Chakra - Throat and third eye.
Origin - Bancroft in Ontario, Canada/ Romania/ Greenland/ Brazil.

Calcite
Hardness = 3
Properties - Reduces stress, expands awareness, smoothes anxiety and calms. An energy amplifier, enhances astral projection and balances. Aids intuition mental clarity and memory, (excellent for students of Arts & Sciences). Good for kidneys, pancreas and spleen.
Chakra - Grounds and clears.
Origin - Mexico, Derbyshire, Madagascar and worldwide.

Calcite Colours :-

Black Calcite: Good for foresight.
Blue Calcite: For healing emotions, unblocks energy and balances.
Green Calcite: For advancement, Healing allergies and detoxing.
Honey Calcite: Brings Joy, Truth and inner clarity.
Iceland Spar: Good for Communication.
Orange Calcite: Brings Happiness and balances emotions.
Phantom Calcite: For advancement.
Red Calcite: Used to clear negative emotions.

Carnelian
Hardness = 7
Properties - Enhances perceptiveness and family love, Protects against evil, emotional envy, rage and fear. Dispels sorrow, apathy, indolence and passivity. Stimulates analytical capabilities and precision. Used for cleansing negativity from other stones. Good for Colds, infections, hay fever, blood poisoning, muscle spasms and rheumatism. Aids spleen, kidneys, spine and pancreas.
Chakra - Sacral/ Spleen.
Origin - India/ Botswana/ Brazil/ Uruguay/ Worldwide.

Chalcedony
Hardness = 7
Properties - Enhances good will, generosity, responsibility, brotherhood and benevolence. A sacred stone of Native American Indians used during tribal ceremonies. Removes hostility and melancholy. Helps balances mind, body, spirit and emotions. Aids mental stability and mineral assimilation. Helps in cases of dementia and senility.
Origin - Morocco/ Brazil/ Madagascar/ China/ Worldwide..

Citrine
Hardness = 7
Properties - Helps you to clarify your thoughts and emotions. Balances Yin and Yang. Improves Confidence, self image and quality of life. Brings light, joy and wealth. Good for those in business and education, stimulates your mental powers, helps you to focus especially in problem solving and finding solutions. Enhances creativity, intelligence and decisiveness. A stone that never needs cleansing. Good for diabetes, digestion and blood.
Chakra - Sacral/ Solar plexus/ Aligns all..
Origin - Brazil/ India/ S.Africa.
Zodiac - 1st Capricorn (pc)

Fluorite
Hardness = 4
Properties - Helps to bring good health, intellectual and emotional well-being. Aids removal of negative influences. Increases your mental ability to concentrate and see through illusions. Balances the mind and increases your healing and prowess. It helps to absorb and alter negative energies, grounding, balancing and focusing. It is used to stabilize and bring a universal order to all systems.
Chakra - Crown.
Origin - Weardale and Derbyshire, England/ U.S.A/ Mexico/ China.

Garnet
Hardness = 7.5
Properties - A sacred stone used in ancient times. A stone for good health. Enhances creativity, courage, commitment, determination and patience. Attracts love, devotion and personal magnetism. Aids in past live and recalls dreams. Lifts depression and brings order to ones life. Aligns and balances your energy fields. Good for heart, lungs, spine, bones, cells, blood, arthritis and vitamin uptake.
Chakra - Root and crown, clears negative energies from chakras.
Origin - India/ Sri Lanka/ Canada/ Mexico/ Scotland/ Worldwide..
Zodiac - 2nd Virgo (pc)
ANIV - 18th.

Hematite
Hardness = 6
Properties - Enhances your mental capability, awareness and re-evaluation. Attracts 'kind' love. Imparts courage and endurance, helps reduce stress. Good for memory and mathematical problem solving. Grounds, brings emotional clarity and calm. Protects from danger. Balances Mind, body and spirit. Aids mental and manual dexterity. Enhances astral travel and projection. Aids in healing the spine and vertebrae, breaks and alignment. Good for fevers, blood disorders, circulation and insomnia.
Chakra - Strengthens heart.
Origin - England (Cumbria)/ Elba/ China/ Australia/ Worldwide.

Howlite
Hardness = 3.5
Properties - Very good for business people, will enhance ambition, awareness, reasoning, patience and stops hesitation. Helps to eliminate pain and rage. Aids emotional expression, communication skills, the memory and the desire to gain knowledge. Good for balancing calcium in the body, teeth, bones and tissues.
Chakra - Throat.
Origin - California, U.S.A.

Jasper
Hardness = 7
Properties - A sacred stone worn by Shamans, Priests and Kings for protection against negativity and witchcraft. Balances Yin and Yang energies, emotional, intellectual and physical. Grounds, gives you energy and soothes the nerves. Placed over the heart and navel for protection during astral travel. Aids mineral balance, cell regeneration, kidneys, liver, spleen and stomach.
Chakra - Base/ Solar Plexus/ Aligns all.
Origin - S.Africa/ Madagascar/ India/ U.S.A/ Worldwide.

Labradorite
Hardness = 6
Properties - An iridescent mystical stone. Reduces anxiety and stress. Aids clarity of mind, intellectual thought and intuition. Increases concentration, patience, inspiration and telepathic abilities. Balances and re-energizes. Helps you to work for long periods, make one more organised, productive and focused. Stabilizes sexual and other life forces.
Chakra - Crown/ Heart/ Throat.
Origin - Labrador/ Finland/ Madagascar.

Lapis Lazuli
Hardness - 5.5
Properties - Relaxes mind and body, helps you to release tension and anxiety. Lifts depression and brings hope and happiness to the wearer. Inspires self confidence, creative expression and to be more organised. Expands your awareness and intellectual capacity to universal wisdom and knowledge. Protects from evil, psychic attack and danger. Aids psychic ability and dreams.
Chakra - Third eye/ Throat/ Crown.
Origin - Afghanistan/ Chile/ Russia.

Malachite
Hardness = 4
Properties - Stimulates understanding and instinctive reasoning and to be more responsible for your actions. Reduces stress and tension. Good in business, helps you to attain your goals, maintaining loyalty and partnerships. Protects during air travel and users of computer monitors. Balances and helps fidelity in love and friendship. Aids sleep and eases child birth. Enhances psychic abilities and the immune system. Good for vertigo, asthma, arthritis, blood, bones and tissue regeneration.
Chakra - Heart and Throat.
Origin - Zaire/ Russia.

Obsidian
Hardness = 5
Properties -
Black - Enhances creativity. Calms, reduces anxiety, worry and fear. A powerful healing stone, used by shamans to remove negative energies from the body. Aids divination and vision work. Protects you from harm, physical and emotional.
Snowflake - Calms and balances those who move at a fast pace. Promotes change in your life to a more positive existence. Removes worry, fear, anxiety and negativity. Balances mind, body and spirit. Good for veins and skeleton.
Mahogany - Promotes intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual growth. Makes you feel sexier, increases your sexuality and sensuality. Provides vitality. Removes energy blockages and tension.
Sheen - Worn for protection. Promotes a healthy and active lifestyle. Enhances intuition and awareness. Balances and cleanses the mind. Promotes tolerance and patience. Aids gazing, astral travel, past lives and future telling. Good for spine, eyes, circulation and immune system.
Rainbow - Calms, relaxes and removes fear. Helps you to be more focused, organised, creative and move at a more leisurely pace. Good for mental and chemical imbalance, schizophrenia and manic depressives. Chakra - Root.
Origin - Mexico/ Russia/ Worldwide.

Snowflake Obsidian
Hardness = 5
Properties - Stops worry, fear, anxiety, and negativity. Helps you to see hidden subconscious truths and keep in touch with your inner psyche. Grounds balances and calms, to bring purity to the body, mind and spirit. Good for skeletal disorders. Aids divination and vision work. Enhances dreams.
Chakra - Root/ Base.
Origin - Mexico/ U.S.A.

Pyrites
Hardness = 6
Properties - is able to protect its wearer against negative energies on all levels, Used to help maintain good health. Especially useful when doing dangerous work, reflecting all negative vibrations away. Enhances the ability to recall facts and good for the memory. Aids one to attain top physical condition, by tapping into the universal energies. Good for lungs, bones, inflammation, fever, cell structure and cell regeneration.
Origin - Elba/ Peru/ Mexico.

Quartz
Hardness = 7
Properties - A stone of universal healing. Excellent for meditation and astral travel. Has piezoelectric and pyroelectri properties (when put under heat or pressure, quartz will become positive or negatively charged). Used to generate, transmit, receive, activate, locate, amplify, direct, modify or store energies.
Chakra - Crown and third eye
Origin - Brazil/ U.S.A/ Madagascar/ China/ Worldwide

Rose Quartz
Hardness = 7
Properties - Known as the 'Love Stone'. Promotes love, friendship and forgiveness in the surrounding. Enhances self-confidence and creativity. Soothes the heart, makes one more receptive to love and beauty. Helps clear stored anger, resentment, jealousy and guilt. Reduces stress and tension by removing negativity. Brings inner peace and harmony. Eases sexual and emotional imbalances and increases fertility. Aids kidneys and circulation.
Chakra - Heart.
Origin - S.Africa/ Brazil/ Spain.

Rutilated Quartz
Hardness = 7
Properties - Amplifies the energy of quartz. Helps you to find the root and remedy of a problem, situation or disease. Good for astral travel and insight of how your vision is linked to the physical. Helps you to project an aura of authority and confidence. Aids you to handle changes and adjustments. Aids healing, tissue regeneration and reduces bronchial problems. Used to rebalance different levels of consciousness.
Origin - Brazil/ Madagascar.

Smokey Quartz
Hardness = 7
Properties - Lifts worry and depression. Will unblock, purify and balance energy centres, changes negative for positive energies. A good luck talisman and protects from negative energies. Encourages survival instincts and makes you more discriminating and astute. Promotes creativity in business and enhances perception and learning. Helps to heighten sexual energies and increases fertility. Good for skin, muscles, kidneys, infection and addition.
Chakra - Root and Base.
Origin - Brazil/ U.S.A/ Scotland/ Australia/ Worldwide.

Strawberry Quartz
Hardness = 7
Properties - In addition to those listed for quartz. A 'stone of dreaming' and aids you to remember. Helps you to gain universal knowledge and answers to the universe and its beginning. Promotes a feeling and aura of a loving energy, helps you to enjoy every precious moment of life. Enhances a psychic connection between physical and astral bodies. Also Information as to your past, life and creation. Used in Atlantic and Lemuria for healing.
Chakra - Heart.
Origin - Brazil/ S.Africa.

Rhodochrosite
Hardness = 4
Properties - Good For Meditation and healing the earth. A stone for love and balance, Physical, metal and spiritual. Heals and stabilises emotions. Increases intellect and understanding. This helps you to face reality . This crystal contains a highly charged energy of the Universal love and light. Balances yin yang. Good for digestion, heart, thyroid and preventing illness.
Chakra - Energises, purifies and balances base, sacral and heart.
Origin - Argentina/U.S.A

Rhodonite
Hardness = 6
properties - Helps you to stay calm in active situations and to achieve your greatest potential. Enhances your more helpful and generous nature. Balances yin and yang removes anxiety. It's the stone of love it stimulates and clears the heart chakra to bring energies of unconditional love. good for joints, throat, heart, emphysema and arthritis.
Charka - heart
origin - U.S.A/Mexico/Brazil/Australia/S. Africa.

Sardonyx
Hardness = 7
properties - Attracts good fortune and friends. A 'stone of virtue'. Gives courage. Brings happiness, commitment, and belief in the family and home, to partners living together and the married. Removes hesitation and aids self-control.
Origin - Botswana/ Brazil/ India.

Selenite
Hardness = 2
Properties - Aids digestion and the absorption of minerals. Expands mental powers and helps to clarify your inner most thoughts. Soothes nerves. Is a powerful cleanser, charger of other stones and crystals. Very good channeller and transmitter of energies. A natural environmental record keeper and optic fibre light wand.
Chakra - Crown.
Origin - Morocco.

Tigereye
Hardness = 7
Properties - For Good luck, Simulates wealth and the ability to hold onto money. Protects from negativity, evil and witchcraft. Helps to eliminate the 'blues' to bring happiness and optimism. Brings calmness, Stability and clarity. Allow ones life to open and blossom. Good for asthma, brain, eyes, throat and sexual organs. Enhances psychic abilities, perception, awareness of your needs and others.
Chakra - Third eye and base.
Origin - South Africa.

This information was kindly provided by Silver Moons in Rochester. A wonderful environment to purchase any "New Age" Product. Check out their site: www.silvermoons.co.uk