Properties of Stones
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Jade can be used to prevent disease and health troubles. It strengthens the mental faculties and helps reasoning. Worn to attract money and while gardening to improve the health of the plants. This stone is also protective, guarding against accidents and mishaps.
Jadeite is a form of jade. The Mayan and Aztec cultures used Jadeite as a stone of magic. It can be used to induce the cohesiveness of groups, allowing for understanding between the members and facilitating cohesiveness in the recognition and actualization of purpose. It has been used to diminish and to prevent recurrence of cramps and “Charlie horses”, promoting stabilization of the muscular arrangement and smoothing of the tissues.
Jasper is worn or carried to promote mental processes and to restrain dangerous desires or whims which could lead to hazardous situations. It is also a protective stone, against both physical and nonphysical hazards.
Red: A protective stone, it is used in defensive magic, for it sends negativity back to the original sender. Also carried or worn during healing and health spells.
Green: A healing amulet and health talisman. Wear to halt hallucinations and to promote restful sleep. Also worn to be more sympathetic to others’ emotional and mental states.
Brown: Worn for centering and grounding. If you tend to live with your head in the clouds to the point of endangering your physical life, wear a brown jasper.
Mottled: Wear for protection against drowning.
Picture: Helps to bring hidden thoughts, grief, fears, and hopes to the surface so that one may face the cause of disorders. Also used to stimulate the proper functioning of the immune system and in the treatment of skin and kidney problems.
Fossil: Reduction of stress and enhancing good practical common-sense, and also with contributing to a longer life.
Jet is actually fossilized wood, millions of years old. . It is a black, glasslike stone. It absorbs energies, especially negativity. This makes it a protective substance. It is said to guard against nightmares by wearing it or putting it under your pillow. Also said to strengthen psychic awareness.
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Kyanite helps to dispel anger and frustration. It induces one to persevere in situations which would generally reduce ones strength. It also assists in dispelling confusion arising from emotional, spiritual, and intellectual issues. Kyanite facilitates meditation.
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Labradorite is said to bring clarity of inner sight and progression. It helps protect the aura keeping it clear, balanced protected and free from energy leaks. It helps transform intuition to the intellect helping you to use inner messages. Labradorite is said to help you realize and achieve your destiny in this life while enhancing faith and reliance in your self. Labradorite has been used in the treatment of disorders of the brain, to stimulate mental acuity, and to reduce anxiety and stress. Also it can assist in digestion, regulation, and metabolism.
Lapis Lazuli is healing and soothing. Touching the body with Lapis improves your mental, physical, spiritual, psychic and emotional condition. Useful for relieving depression and promoting spirituality. It has also been used as a protective stone, sheltering the wearer/carrier from physical danger and psychic attacks.
Lava is a potent protective amulet. It is also used for healing.
Lepidolite is a calming stone, suitable for relieving the stresses of everyday living. It soothes anger, hatred or any other negative emotion. To promote a restful sleep, free of nightmares, place near headboard. Also carried to attract good luck.
Lodestone/Magnetite
Lodestone is actually magnetite with an additional property of polarity. [Please note that the configurations of magnetite do not normally possess the polarity attribute.] Magnetite is strongly magnetic and possesses polarity attributes in the form called Lodestone. Magnetite is used to dispel grief, fear, anger, and attachment. Enhances desire for, and facilitates the attainment of, those ideas and “things” which can bring growth to ones spirituality. One can feel the connection to the universal energy during meditation with magnetite. Enables one to project ones mind and to view things from a distance. Magnetite is a “stone of stability” and can be used to attract love. Assists in balancing the emotions with the intellect, in encouraging the trust of ones intuition, and in producing mental clarity. Helps one to “attract” the healing energies necessary for recovery from disorders. Now Lodestone, which has the same properties and uses as magnetite, assists in relieving burdens and bringing to fruition that which is “wanted”. It also promotes motivation and confidence, eliminating insecurity and dependence. It assists in the removal of energy blockages present in disease, inducing the free flow of the strength of the body to renew itself.
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Malachite is worn to guard against negativity and physical dangers. Worn near your heart, touching your skin, draws a love to you. Gazing at or holding in your receptive hand relaxes the nervous system and calms stormy emotions. Promotes tranquility, ensures sleep and dispels depression. Malachite draws business, customers, good deals and sales. It is the salesperson’s stone.
Malaysia “Jade” These vibrantly colored beads are commonly mistaken for fine quality jade. They are actually translucent quartz, well-polished and permanently dyed.
Moldavite is a tektite which is found in Czechoslovakia and was formed during meteoritic action which produced a “strew field” of the beautiful green stone. It is one of the rarest varieties of tektite. It is believed to serve the inhabitants of this planet. It stimulates cooperation between those of extra-terrestrial origins and those who are experiencing life on Earth.
Mookaite, also spelled Moukaite, is a stone of the "here and now." It can help one balance the internal and external and acceptance of change. It helps with living meditation, where one makes a meditation of any act one does. It is a very protective stone, and is particularly good as an emotional protector. In the physical realm it stabilizes health and fortifies the immune system.
Moonstone is good to wear or carry moonstone to bring a love into your life. Place this stone beneath your pillow or wear beads to bed for a restful sleep. Wear during planting or watering or bury a small moonstone while visualizing your garden bursting with fertility. The moonstone is the traveler’s protective charm. Use moonstone to lose weight.
For Balance and Healing in your life
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