Gemstones and Their Uses

First column: Name of Gemstone
Second Column: Physical Description
Third Column: Powers

Rose Quartz Really cute light pink color. Translucent. Attracts love, heals broken hearts, eases emotional stress, promotes self confidence. Warm, peaceful, nurturing.
Moonstone Moon-colored (duh.) Whitish or yellowish, transluscentish. Easily scratched/chipped. Protective for women and babies, used in charms for women's health, attracts love, strengthens Third Eye, good fortune. Good for the sign Cancer.
Agate Comes in a lot of different colors. If polished, it's glassy-looking. Good for gardening, disorders of the blood/skin/intestines. Increases courage, self-confidence. Protection for children. Truth and remembering.
Blue Aventurine Color of medium-blue jeans. Opaque. Gets rid of negative emotions and calms. Reduces pain when held. Source of purification and harmony.
Green Jasper Opaque green. Calms stress and protects against negativity. Great for healing digestive troubles and the eyes. Prevents headaches.
Leopard Skin Jasper Light brown or tan or red spotted all over with dark brown or black. Opaque. Protection! against sorcery/possession. Gives strength and courage. Contacts your animal/spirit guides. Life's goals.
Zebra Jasper Tan with smudgy stripes of brown. Opaque. Assists in rectifying unjust circumstances and dangerous situations. Reduces stress. Enables enjoyment. Stimulates imagination. Stops worry.
Carnelian Agate Orange to yellow color. Clearish. Helpful for shy people. Gives courage and dispels depression, fears, envy, rage. Helps one get a positive outlook. Increases male sexual desires.
Hematite Dark silver, metallic black. Beautiful stone. Solid and opaque. Strengthens the body and mind to stress. Calming and soothing. Reduces inflammation and bleeding, draws out illnesses. Fights stress and insomnia. Psychic.
Green Aventurine Really pretty medium green color, slightly translucent. Promotes leadership, positive attitudes, increases libido, perception, creativity, gratitude, sense of well-being. Good luck stone. Gambler's talisman. Draws money.
Amethyst Transluscent lavender. If better quality, darker purple. promotes calm, serenity, spirituality, peace of mind. Good for meditation. Under pillow, prevents insomnia and nightmares. Controls evil thoughts, increases psychic and the intellect.
Sodalite Dark blue with strings of black tied around it. Opaque. Stills the mind and relaxes body when held. Deep thoughts, healing and meditation. Dispels guilt, anger, fear. Brings out wisdom and clarity.
Clear Quartz If it's of good quality, completely clear and glassy. Amplifies the power of other stones. Great healing, purification. Aids meditation, visualization, psychic energy. Toothaches, fevers, headaches.
Snowflake Obsidian Blackest black with snowflake-like white spots all over. Balance. Protects against bad luck, nightmares, emotional draining. Helps psychic focus inward for information. Creativity.
Blue Lace Agate Very slightly transluscent light blue. Striped. Dainty like fine china. Peace, tranquility, health, long life. Powerful charm for Virgo signs and Junes. Eases arguments at home, eases stress and depression.
Fluorite Smoky gray, striped, translucent. Green and purple stripes and blotches. Calms depression, anger, desperation, and detaches mental from emotional to strengthen analytical abilities and organize thoughts. Amplifier.
Citrine Golden yellow. Clear, but with little teeny gold cracks inside, like lil mirrors. Stimulates memory, creativity. Protective. Increases self-esteem and confidence. Prevents nightmares, gives a good sleep. Good luck, generosity, money. Happy.
Tiger's Eye Gold, brown and amber glinting stripes. Not clear. Protection, luck, attracts money. When you wear it in a necklace or hold the stone, it gets energy flowing around your body, so it's useful for weak and fatigued people.
Blue Gold Stone Indigo with glittering gold or silver. Not clear. Uplifting, gives you energy.
Zebra Serpentine Dirty green color with cracky-looking patterns of black, gray and brown. Don't know yet. I think it's for stamina and athletic stuff like that.
Red Jasper Dark red, sort of a nice brickish color. Opaque. Good protecting and grounding stone. Strength, courage.
Picture Jasper Light tan with bands of darker tan and teeny specks of brown all over. I can't find much info on this one, but it's good for balancing, stablizing, and meditation.


Helpful links for more info:
++http://www.celticcallings.com/resources/meanings/gemstone_meanings.htm++
++http://www.annemeplon.com/meaning.htm++

Here's a really good link if you want to know what gemstone colors stand for, which stones are good for which astrological signs, and all kinds of handy interesting stuff. http://www.sacredcircle2k.com/correlem.html



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