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PROPERTIES OF STONES AND COLOURS

GEMS & STONES AS PERFORMANCE AIDS & AS ATTITUDE BALANCING AIDS.

Protection, safety, detrimental habit release or professional advancement,

are all positive performance uses for your gemstones. These can be used in

spell work, set in jewelery or carried in bags / putsi's. If the specimen is

large enough it can be placed on your altar, shrine, desk at work, in your

car, next to your bedside etc.

TO DEVELOP SPIRITUAL ABILITIES:

AMETHYST for intuitive awareness.

LAPIS LAZULI for wisdom & truth.

MOONSTONE for divination, humanitarian love & sensitivity.

OPAL for spirituality, humanitarian love & service.

TO BREAK DETRIMENTAL HABBITS SUCH AS SMOKING, DRINKING & DRUGS.

Drinking: Amethyst, Crystal. [ programmed.] Emerald.

Drugs: Crystal [ programmed.] Emerald, Jade.

Smoking: Crystal [ programmed.] Kunzite.

TO PROTECT TRAVELLERS FROM BODILY HARM.

AQUAMARINE for marine travel.

DENDRITE & SPECKELED AGATE for air travel.

INDIA AGATE for car travel.

FOR SAFTY IN THE OPERATION OF MACHINERY: Jaspers.

FOR EFFICIENCY IN HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT: Seashells, Fossils, Corals &

Petrified Wood.

FOR PRODUCTIVITY & CAREER & PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT.

AGATES for physical & emotional balance.

EMERALDS for creativity & problem solving.

RUBY for mental balance & stamina.

FOR SOCIAL INTERACTION, TO STIMULATE GOOD HUMOR & AID RELAXATION.

CHRYSOCOLLA for mental relaxation.

GREEN JADE for practicality & wisdom.

CARNELIAN for balance of energies & fun.

CITRINE for speach, joy & laughter.

SODALITE for release of subconscious fears & guilts.

AMBER for lighter mood.

TURQUIOSE to calm & aid relaxation.

GEMS & STONES AS ATTITUDE BALANCING AIDS.

Energy from gems & stones like colours, can positively affect our attitudes &

give us emotional support. Listed below are the common stones & their

attitude balancing focus for aiding oneself.

AGATE; Relate to the physical & emotional attitudes.

BANDED AGATE attracts strength & courage & which promote protection.

BLUE LACE AGATE offers emotional tranquility.

CARNELIAN provides & increase protection & endurance.

DENDRITE AGATE the travellers stone, aids security & endurance.

EYE AGATE counteracts negative thinking & offers protection.

INDIA AGATE offsets physical & emotional weakness.

LACE AGATE stimulates happiness.

MOSS AGATE [green] balances discordant emotional energies.

MOSS AGATE [red] increases physical stamina.

PLUME AGATE decreases fear in job hunting or direction finding.

SPECKELED AGATE another travellers stone gives protection.

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ALEXANDRITE stimulates sexual gratification & love of life.

AMAZONITE encourages faith & hpoe.

AMBER lifts the spirits.

AMETHYST stimulates intuitive awareness.

AQUAMARINE calms the nerves.

AVENTURINE stimulates opportunity, change & motivation.

BLOODSTONE removes emotional blockages & limitations.

CATS EYE & TIGERS EYE stimulates clear thinking & discernment, & offers

psychic protection.

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COPPERSTONES & GEMS.

AZURITE stimulates mental powers.

CHRYSOCOLLA calms emotional stress.

MALACHITE stimulates mind power.

TURQUOISE aids mental relaxation & calms emotions.

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CORAL promotes sense of well being.

CRYSTALS elevate thoughts & can be programmed to release bad habits, aid one

& so on.

PINK QUARTZ [ Rose ] increases feeling of self worth.

YELLOW QUARTZ [ Citrine] expands mental clarity.

GREEN QUARTZ promotes healing.

DIAMOND reflects light & thought, both positive & negative.

EMERALD stimulates truth & perception.

GARNET decreases willfulness.

GREEN JADE stimulates practicality & wisdom.

IVORY promotes spiritual protection.

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THE JASPERS

BROWN JASPER gives emotional security.

GREEN JASPER promotes a positive mental attitude.

RED JASPER protects against external stresses.

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JET prevents deep depression.

LAPIS LAZULI stimulates higher wisdom & truthfulness.

MOONSTONE refines & stimulates all the senses, on all planes.

OBSIDIAN [ Apache Tear] provides protection for the super sensitive.

ONYX & SARDONYX stimulates self control & the ability to share.

PEARL stimulates feminine & maternal qualities, for men it enables them to

contact the Goddess within.

PERIDOT balances physical energies to ward off emotional stress.

PETRIFIED WOOD gives emotional security.

RHODOCHROSITE a love rescue stone, balances trauma & stimulates forgiveness.

RHYOLITE alleviates emotional stress.

RUBY protects sensitive natures & prevents schizophrenic attitudes.

SAPPHIRE relieves mental depression, promotes peace & happiness & stimulates

motivation & goal orientation.

SHELLS increases domestic organization, calms & promotes efficiency.

SODALITE dispels guilt & promotes wisdom.

TOPAZ calms the emotional & protects against external stresses.

TOURMALINE promotes attitudes of success & accomplishment.

ZIRCON reduces emotional negativity & promotes positive attitudes.

Taken from Stone Power.D L Mella & Amalthea.

BLESSED BE.

COLOUR PROPERTIES OF GEMSTONES

Colour is a vibrational form of energy & has an effect on mind, body & spirit

Your gemstones absorb & reflect this colour energy. As you become more

familiar with your stones, it wil become clearer as to why stones of the same

gem family have different influences due to their indevidual colours.

For example, you can compare the action of different Quartzes, of different

Tourmalines, of different Agates, Corals Jades etc.

To help you see how colour & gems go hand in hand in every reaction here is a

general guide to colour action.

This is a strong physical & emotional colour, generally red gems & Jaspers

may be used for those of you that need additional physical energy.

Red Agates or red Amber can be used by anyone to reduce shyness, weakness &

physical sensitivities.

Red Corals influence support for the body & aid healing of respiratory

infections.

They also act as a good preventative for colds.

This is a nurturing & soothing colour & is a wonderful colour stone for self

rescue or self enhancement. Pink stones such as Rhodochrocite & Rhodonite

influence self esteem, while Rose Quartz is always good to enhance your self

image.

Pink Pearls can promote your loving instints while [ink Coral promotes a

loving attitude.

ORANGE.

This is an energy focused colour & is very stimulating for motivation, goal &

direction focusing as well as for promoting better organizational habits.

Orange stones particularly the Carnelians, are good aids for training, for

co-ordination of physical exercises programes & for balancing body energy

levels.

Carnelians & Brazilian Agates can be used as apetite stimulants for children

& to prevent a listless attitude when you are not feeling well or as bubbly

with energy as you would like to.

YELLOW.

This is a communication colour. Topaz, Citrines, Yellow Zircons help to

stimulate conversation, a cherry atitude & one's ability to share. You can

always depend upon yellow Amber to prevent shyness, protect you sensitivity

or even as an aid to allevi ate many old fears & guilt. A specimen of Yellow

Quartz on your desk can aid in stimulating better communication, open sharing

& honesty in work.

This is the major balancing colour & can act as an emotional soother. Most

green gems & stones, such as Malachite, & Chrysocolla are wonderful aids to

reduce mental confusion, even over anxiety & will react to some forms of

hyperknetic fatigue & most importantly will soothe over emotional reaction

to stresses, internal & external.

This is the major intellectual, wisdom & memory colour.

Lapis Lazuli can promote understanding, creativity, mental control.

intellectual astutness & wisdom.

The Blue Lace Agate calm the mind while supporting creative inducement.

Blue gems are popular because of the aid & calm both mind & body.

Sodalite & blue Sardonyx will aid intellectual independence.

The rich Blue Sapphire can give self assertiveness, even desires for higher

goals as well as increase personal responsibilities over ones life.

VOILET & PURPLE.

This is a most sensitive & intuitive colour.

Amethyst will open receptivity & introspection of one's mind or spirit.

You who are extremely sensitive are encouraged not to wear Amethyst alone but

wear other gems of yellow, green or dark blue along with your Amethyst, the

addition of these colours will balance & protect your sensitive nature or

control mental fatique .

The Mexican Lace Agates, which have a voilet hue, can act to secure you

emmotionally & to promote inner happiness.

BROWN.

This is the basic security colour. All brown Agates, Woods or Jaspers can

promote & influence security & give you a feeling of ease & stability.

Brown stones can also prevent fears & stresses. for they act as stabilizers

to the emotions.

Brown Banded Agates are particularly good for self protection & inner

security.

This is the strongest disciplinary or protection colour.

Black stones such as Jet, Onyx & Obsidian strengthen, protect & support.

The black stones will fortify other colour gems such as Diamond.

Black gemstones always combine easily with other multi colour gems such as

Pearls, Moonstones, Clear Quartz & Diamonds to offer protection to sensitive

personalities. Wear these black beauties to keep invading or intruding

energies out of your space.

BLESSED BE.