Properties of Stones
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Agate is good to hold to calm and to refresh the body. Helps it heal minor health problems, Though any type of agate maybe worn for the above uses, these particular stones have traditional energies:
Banded Agate: Protection. Restores bodily energy and eases stressful situations.
Black Agate: Another protective stone. Wear for courage and successful competitions.
Black and White Agate: Worn as an amulet, this stone guards against physical dangers.
Blue Lace Agate: Wear or carry for peace and happiness. Place in your hand to de-stress. Lay one on your desk or other work station and gaze at it when in stressful situations. In the home, a blue lace agate surrounded with flaming, light blue candles calms the psychic atmosphere and reduces household or family quarrels.
Brown or Tawny Agate: Used for success in any undertaking. It’s also a wealth talisman.
Crazy Lace Agate helps one stay centered and focused. Brings certain spiritual planes closer to earthly planes. Conveys strength and courage, helps discern truth and accept circumstances. Grounding but energetic.
Green Agate: Worn to improve the health of the eyes.
Moss Agate: A gardener’s talisman. It is worn to relieve a stiff neck, to lend energy to the depleted, and for healing purposes.
Red Agate/Blood Agate: Was worn in ancient Rome to guard against insect bites, to heal the blood, and to promote calm and peace.
Alexandrite is rare and expensive. When worn, draws luck and good fortune.
Amazonite is worn by gamblers to attract money luck. It is also used by anyone taking a chance to ensure success.
Amber is not a stone, but fossilized resin of coniferous (cone-bearing, like modern pine) trees of the Oligocene epoch. Amber necklaces are protective. Witches, wise women, and shamans wear amber beads to strengthen their spells. Amber worn around the neck is a general protector of health and to relieve or cure existing conditions. A ball of amber held in the hand reduces a fever. It is worn to increase strength, stimulate the flow of money. Amber worn, carried or looked through is said to strengthen the eyes.
Amethyst helps to drive off insomnia and nightmares, produces peaceful sleep, pleasant, healing and prophetic dreams and helps wearer not oversleep. It is a stone of peace. Is said to help in overcoming alcoholism and curbs overindulgence and helps to bestow good judgment.
Apatite is used to stimulate the intellect and enhance creativity. It is a stone of the future and will bring knowledge to those attuned to it by clearing mental confusion. It awakens the finer, inner self. It can help to integrate, co-ordinate, and balance the emotional, intellectual, physical, and etheric bodies.
Aquamarine is useful in soothing and calming emotional problems. It is a stone of peace, joy and happiness, especially in relationships. Also used as a protective amulet while sailing or flying over water. As a charm this stone is worn to ensure good health, to halt fear so as to strengthen the courage hiding behind it, and for alertness of the mind.
Aventurine is worn to strengthen eyesight. Worn, carried or used in spells designed to increase perception, to stimulate creativity and to enhance intelligence. Useful in calming troubled emotions and in speeding healing. Is an all-around luck stone.
Azurite-Malachite helps one to meditate, assists in dissolving egocentric characteristics, dispelling conceit, arrogance, and vanity, while instilling individuality. It gives comfort by calming anxiety associated with “dis-ease”, and allows the thought process to follow its course, while facilitating the stability of the intellect to produce rationality.
Beryl is worn while on the water for protection against storms. Also guards its wearer against drowning and seasickness. During study, wear beryl to increase your conscious mind’s retention of information. If you feel lazy, hold or wear a beryl and let its structured, low vibrations enter you.
