Agate

Courage and strength for body and mind. Facilitates perceptiveness and precision. Balances the yin-yang energies.

Star sign: Gemini

Amazonite
Calms nerves, soothes emotions and aids creative expression. Aligns and balances the physical with the etheric body.

Star sign: Virgo

Amber 
Harmonious, soothing, cheering. Absorbs and turns negative energy into positive energy. Cleanses and purifies.

Star sign: Leo & Aquarius

Amethyst 
Amethyst is the stone of spirituality and contentment; it bestows stability, strength, inner peace. It is a great stone for meditation and enhancing your intuition and psychic abilities with its calming and peaceful energy. Amethyst provides clarity and enhances conscious perception and understanding.

It assists in calming the mind, reduces insomnia and allows restful sleep, reduces stress, eases headaches, helps with hormone production, strengthens the immune system, cleansing organs and respiratory system, reduces bruising and swelling. Assists in the function of the pineal and pituitary glands.

Chakras: Third Eye & Crown
Star sign: Pisces & Aquarius

Ametrine
Has the combined properties of Amethyst and Citrine. Balances the yin-yang energies.

Star sign: Libra

Angelite
Angelite is formed from celestite that has been compressed for many millions of years.

Angelite is a stone of heightened awareness, with special focus on peace. It gives protection in the environment around your body. Promotes compassion and understanding. Helps you speak the truth when it’s difficult. Alleviates psychological pain. Increases telepathy and facilitates contact with angels.

Chakras: Throat, Third Eye and Crown.

Apatite 
Enhances creativity, balances the emotions and stimulates the intellect. Enhances and develops clairvoyant abilities.

Star sign: Gemini

Apophyllite 
Aids in the connection and attunement with higher dimensions. An excellent stone to use for astral travel.

Star sign: Libra & Gemini

Aquamarine 
Aids self-expression, calms nerves, dispels intolerance, helps banish fears, doubts and phobias. A stone of courage.

Star sign: Gemini & Pisces

Aragonite
Calms nerves, reduces stress and cools hot tempers. Enhances reliability, instills patience and encourages sensibility.

Star sign: Capricorn

Astrophyllite
Increases self-esteem and assists you to see the way forward facilitating development and progress.

Star sign: Scorpio

Aventurine  
Balances the yin-yang energies. Motivates positive attitudes and feelings of independence. Relieves fear and anxiety.

Star sign: Aries

Azurite 
Cleanses the mind and soul. Awakens psychic abilities. Enhances creativity, self-confidence and inspiration.

Star sign: Sagittarius

Black Tourmaline
Black Tourmaline is very supportive stone that protects us from external influences, dispersing stress, tension and negative energy. It grounds and anchors light energy within the physical body, promoting inner wisdom, mastery, individuality, stability, courage and patience being peace to the heart and mind. Black Tourmaline also protects against the negative effects of electromagnetic radiation and inharmonious energies. 

Chakras: Base

Bloodstone 
Revitalises and enhances both body and mind. Instills wisdom and sensitivity for inner guidance. A stone of renewal.

Star sign: Aries & Pisces

Blue Lace Agate
An exceptionally inspirational stone.  Allows one to reach high spiritual places and enter states of higher awareness.

Star sign:  Pisces 

Blue Quartz
Blue Quartz works well with the organs and functions of the upper body.  It can detoxify, cleanse and repair.

Blue Quartz purifies the mental, emotional and physical bodies. It helps calm the mind, allowing expression of the individuals will and assists in reaching out to others. It stimulates intuitive insight and enhances communication and creative expression.

Chakra: Throat & Third Eye

Calcite 
Alleviates fear, clears and balances. Aids in remembering astral travel experiences, promotes an awareness of nature.

Star sign: Cancer

Carnelian  
Aids concentration and memory. Enhances attunement with the inner self. Stimulates inquisitiveness and dispels apathy.

Star sign: Taurus & Leo

Celestite 
Celestite has a gentle, calming and uplifting energy, bringing harmonious balance and alignment into your life, revealing the truth and helping to resolve conflict. It promotes purity of heart and attracts good fortune Celestite is an ideal crystal to place in your bedroom or healing room as an environment cleanser and source of soft positive energy. It helps you to access the angelic realm as well as urging you towards spiritual development and enlightenment

Chakras: Throat & Crown
Star sign: Gemini

Charoite 
A stone of transformation. Brings about an acceptance of others, allows you to see with love and openness.

Star sign: Sagittarius & Scorpio

Chiastolite
Dispels negativity, assists creativity and aids in attaining harmony. Provides a bridge to higher awareness.

Star sign: Libra

Chlorite  
Emits positive energies, calms and balances on all levels. Purifies and cleanses the aura and charkas.

Star sign: Sagittarius

Chrysocolla
Balances the emotions and eases heartache and tension. Brings out inner strengths. Promotes harmony & vitality.

Star sign: Gemini & Virgo

Chrysoprase  
Balances attitudes and actions. Helps clarify problems and brings out hidden talents. Instills a state of grace.

Star sign: Libra

Citrine
Citrine carries with it the power of the sun, is an energising stone that provides happiness, courage, hope and warmth. It is said to hold the energy of the sun, enhancing our self-esteem, self-expression and creativity. Citrine is a powerful cleansing and revitalising stone, invigorating and awakening the mind, body and soul.

 Place in your home or office to attract abundance and prosperity.

Chakras: Solar Plexus & Crown
Star sign: Gemini & Leo

Clear Quartz 
Clear Quartz works on all areas of the mind and body, awakening, amplifying and transmitting energy and clarifying thought processes. It is an excellent stone for meditation, directing energies with more intensity. It connects to the higher self, removes negativity and allows access to your spirit guides. Clear Quartz provides clarity in thinking and awareness. It is also a powerful healing stone for any condition.

Chakra: Crown
Star sign: All

Fluorite
Fluorite has a wide range of colours including yellow, blue, pink purple and green. It is an interesting and beautiful stone because often more than one colour occurs in a single stone.

Fluorite promotes focus, intuition and understanding. It helps to bring chaos into order, promoting stability, free thinking and clear unbiased reasoning. Fluorite is excellent for the advancement of the mind, aiding in meditation and interdimensional communication. It is a highly protective stone, especially on a psychic level and from outside influences. Fluorite draws away negative energy and stress, cleansing and purifying the body.

Chakra: Third Eye
Star sign: Capricorn & Pisces

Fuchsite
Fuchsite allows one to use the gifts of the mind, guided by the heart. When used by healers, it amplifies the energies of crystals and speeds up the healing process. Benefits of Fuchsite include: decreases insomnia, improves self-worth, relieves emotional shock and increases resilience.

Chakra: Heart

Garnet 
Strengthens, purifies and balances the body’s energy field. Aids love and compassion and enhances the imagination.

Star sign: Capricorn & Virgo

Girasol 
Aids communication skills. Gives the courage to speak up for one’s self. Stimulates creativity and ingenuity.

Star sign: Taurus

Golden Calcite
Golden Calcite is excellent for meditation and attuning your mind to the higher planes and induces a deeper sense of relaxation. It enhances digestion and metabolism, strengthens the teeth, bones and joints, helps the organs to eliminate toxins, heals connective tissue and skin.

The frequency of Golden Calcite connects to the solar plexus and third eye chakras. It helps with one's personal power and it's correct use, to integrate one's sense of self-worth and confidence for one's highest good and to bring abundance into one's life.

 It stimulates the third eye chakra allowing for one to clear one's mind of self-limiting patterns and to receive guidance allowing one to move forward in a confident and positive manner with clarity of thought and understanding.

Hematite  
Enhances mental capabilities and reduces stress. Strengthens and energises, dispels negativity and encourages optimism.

Star sign: Aires & Aquarius

Howlite 
Reduces stress and encourages patience, discernment and refinement. Aids communication and expression.

Star sign: Gemini  

Jade 
Balances the emotions and encourages wisdom. Peaceful, nurturing and stress relieving. Aids in remembering dreams.

Star sign: Aries & Libra

Jasper 
Protective and grounding, balances on all levels. Sustains the physical body, balances and aligns the chakras.

Star sign: Leo

Kunzite
Generates loving thoughts and energies. Dispels and protects against negative energies. Stimulates sensitivity and sensuality.

Star sign: Leo, Scorpio & Taurus

Labradorite  
Encourages patience and perseverance and an understanding of inner knowing. Protects and balances the aura.

Star sign: Sagittarius & Scorpio

Lapis Lazuli 
Expands awareness and intellect and enhances psychic abilities. Protects and encourages creative ability.

Star sign: Sagittarius

Lepidolite
Reduces stress and lifts the spirits. Encourages openness, honesty and self love. Facilitates astral travel and re-birthing.

Star sign: Libra

Malachite
Balances and revitalises, clarifies the emotions and helps clear subconscious blocks. Stimulates intuition and instinct.

Star sign: Capricorn, Scorpio

Mookaite
Soothes and calms the agitated mind allowing focus and clarity.  Good for meditation and grounding.

Star sign: Aries & Leo          

Moonstone
Stimulates confidence and balances the emotions. Encourages intuitiveness and perception.

Star sign: Cancer & Libra

New Jade
New Jade assists in overcoming crippling fears of physical danger, such as heights, elevators and unfamiliar places.  Hold before going to sleep and immediately on waking for clear dream recall and insight into the meaning of dreams.

Chakra: Heart

Obsidian  
Grounds, protects, shields against and absorbs negativity. Aids in understanding and clearing subconscious blocks.

Star sign: Sagittarius

Ocean Jasper 
Balances the positive and negative. Heightens intuition, aids concentration and psychic protection.

Star sign: Capricorn & Pisces

Onyx 
Balances the yin-yang energies. Reduces stress, encourages happiness, good fortune and higher inspiration.

Star sign: Leo

Peridot 
Inspires happiness, strengthens and regenerates body and mind. Protects, purifies, and reduces anger and jealousy.

Star sign: Virgo & Leo

Pyrite
Pyrite is known as a stone of protection, it wards of negativity energy and physical danger as well as stimulating the intellect. Pyrite helps to nourish the mind and body, promoting good health. It enhances the emotional body strengthening the will and helps create a positive outlook on life.

Chakras: Base, Solar Plexus & Heart

Star sign: Leo

Red Jasper
Red Jasper represents the earth and is a grounding stone that promotes stability and balance in life. It warms and enlivens the will and enhances courageous and dynamic energy that sustains and supports in times of stress. Red Jasper brings tranquillity and wholeness into your life, gently stimulating your energy, helping you to face your problems, taking away your worries and calming the emotions.

Chakra: Base

Rhodochrosite
Balances and heals the emotions on all levels.  Assists in attunement with the higher self.

Star sign: Scorpio & Leo

Rhodonite
Aids self-esteem and confidence and maximising potential. Reduces anxiety and inspires greater understanding.

Star sign: Taurus

Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz has a gentle vibration of love for the owner. It gives inner peace and helps in all matters pertaining to love in all its forms.  Rose Quartz promotes unconditional love, forgiveness, infinite peace and compassion. It creates harmony in relationships and teaches us about the true essence of love. It purifies and opens up the heart allowing us to express our emotions. It reduces stress and tension, allowing us to express love, sensitivity and compassion towards ourselves and others. Rose Quartz brings a deep inner healing, enhancing self-love, self-trust, self-worth and self-confidence. It can be used to attract love into your life and maintain happy loving relationships.

Chakras: Heart
Star sign: Taurus & Libra

Ruby Zoisite 
Stimulates the body’s energy field. Enhances and amplifies psychic abilities and can create altered states of consciousness.

Star sign: Gemini

Rutilated Quartz  
Enhances insight and understanding of problems. Assists in communication with the higher self and guides.

Star sign: Gemini & Taurus

Selenite
Selenite assists in grounding white light into the physical body. Can be used for cleansing, clearing auras, energy and crystals.  It is also great for meditation as it aids in concentration and clarity.

It makes a wonderful protection stone. Place a selenite sphere at the corners of your home to create a peaceful, safe environment that will not be disturbed by outside influences.

Chakras:Third Eye & Crown
Star sign: Taurus

Shiva Lingam
Shiva Lingams are only found in India and are said to represent the Hindu God Shiva. They serve to activate the movement of the sacred energy which is slumbering in all of us, raising and controlling the kundalini. Use Shiva Lingams for: charging the entire chakra system, activating kundalini energies, to boost vitality, enhance inner transformation and to break up old patterns and open the path for new life.

Chakras: Base & Sacral

Shungite
Sometimes referred to as a "Wonder Stone" it has been described as the most powerful healing stone ever discovered. 

It is estimated by scientists that Shungite is almost 2 billion years old. It's appearance reminds one of coal, it is found in very ancient layers of the Earth’s crust that were formed before life forms existed on Earth.

Shungite is found at one location - at the Zazhoginskoye deposit near Lake Onega in the Shunga region of Karelia, North West of Russia.

Shungite is a stone of rejuvenation
This mineral is hailed as containing a healing power incomparable to any other. Shungite purifies, protects, normalizes, induces recovery and promotes growth in living organisms.

Shungite is considered an excellent source of protection from harmful electromagnetic radiation from computers, microwave ovens, TV sets, mobile phones, etc.

Healing properties of Shungite
Healers use Shungite to alleviate a wide variety of physical complaints such as heart difficulty, allergies, skin diseases, arthritis, hair and skin rejuvenation.

Sources of Shungite.

Smoky Quartz
Smoky Quartz is one of the most efficient grounding and anchoring stones and at the same time raises vibrations during meditation. Psychologically Smoky Quartz relieves fear, lifts depression, and brings emotional calmness. Mentally, Smoky Quartz promotes positive, pragmatic thought and can be used in scrying to give clear insight and to neutralize fear of failure.

Chakras: Base & Sacral
Star sign: Capricorn & Sagittarius

Snowflake Obsidian  
Brings purity and balance on all levels. Encourages understanding and realignment of thought patterns.

Star sign: Virgo

Sodalite
Sodalite unites logic and intuition and opens spiritual perception. Helps one be true to oneself. Stimulates the Third Eye. Brings harmony and solidarity to groups. Calms the mind. Clears mental confusion encourages rational thought, objectivity and truth.

Sodalite brings inner peace. Keep Sodalite in your pockets and in every room of your house, so its peaceful properties will flow all around you.

Chakras: Third Eye & Throat
Star sign: Sagittarius

Sugilite 
Calms and balances the emotions. Enhances the understanding of life and spiritual awareness.

Star sign: Virgo

Tibetan Quartz
Tibetan Quartz is found in the Himalayas of Tibet, one of the most sacred places on earth, they are regarded as being amongst the most powerful stones of spiritual protection ever found. Carrying or wearing one of these crystals creates a bubble of light around the body allowing only positive energy to penetrate your aura. Tibetan Quartz purifies and cleanses negative influences its energy can activate and balance the chakras and meridian system.

Tibetan Quartz makes an excellent meditation crystal and are quite beneficial in activating the third eye. Tibetan Quartz also brings rapid expansion of consciousness.

The frequency of Tibetan Quartz connects to all the Chakras, activating, aligning and balancing one's energy centres and energy fields. It cleanses one's energy fields of negativity, purifying and energizing the whole of one's being.  Its connection to the upper third eye and crown chakras opens and awakens one's consciousness to the higher dimensions and to the vibratory energy of one's higher self, helping to ground this energy via the Earth star.

 Chakras: All Chakras

Tiger Eye
Brings cheerfulness and optimism. Softens stubbornness and balances the yin-yang energies. Stimulates wealth.

Star sign: Capricorn

Tiger Iron
Assists in all creative pursuits and artistic endeavours. Stimulates vitality, helps one to find refuge if in danger.

Star sign: Leo

Topaz 
Enhances individuality, creativity and awareness. Aids confidence in decision making and discourages negativity.

Star sign: Sagittarius

Tourmalinated Quartz 
Aids in balancing extremes and eliminates destructive influences. Energises and protects.

Star sign: Libra

Tourmaline 
Wards off fear and negativity and protects on all levels. Enhances inspiration, encourages self-confidence.

Star sign: Libra

Turquoise 
Brings peace of mind, wisdom and understanding. Enhances psychic abilities and communication. Heals the spirit.

Star sign: Sagittarius & Pisces

Unakite 
Balances the emotions and gives an understanding of subconscious blocks. Can facilitate in the rebirthing process.

Star sign: Scorpio

This crystal guide is adapted from the crystal guide by Brilliant Spheres Crystals.