Below are listed the properties and energies believed to be linked to the various crystals and stones.
Agate: Stabilizes the aura, helps to transform and eliminate negativity. It is also used to provide inspiration from and connectedness with the entities in the spiritual worlds.
Alexandrite: This rare gemstone is regarded as having regenerative power. It enhances the rebirth of both the inner and outer self, providing impetus to expedite the changing of one's world while producing the qualities of expansiveness, creativity and awareness in the realm of manifestation. This mineral can assist one in centering the self, reinforcing self-esteem, and augmenting ones ability to experience joy.
Amazonite: It soothes all chakras and is particularly rejuvenating to the heart center and throat chakra; it enhances communications concerning love. It can balance the male/female energies, bringing forth the qualities of clarity, clear spirit, and balancing of the many aspects of ones personality.
Amber: It allows the body to heal itself by absorbing and transmuting negative energy into positive energy. It emits a sunny and bright soothing energy which helps to calm nerves and enliven the disposition. It helps one in the art of manifestation to bring that which is desired to the state of reality. It stimulates the intellect and opens the crown chakra.
Amethyst: It is a "stone of spirituality and contentment". It facilitates transmutation of lower energies into the higher frequencies of both the spiritual and ethereal levels. It bestows stability, strength, invigoration and peace. It is also a "stone of meditation", being excellent in conducting the energy of calm and peacefulness to help one to both enter and maintain the state. It is an excellent healing stone.
Ammonite: It is a fossilized animal, similar in structure to the snail. Ammonite is a protective stone, giving stability and structure to ones life. It also tends to encourage and supplement ones survival instincts.
Angelite: This mineral is both a sender and receiver; telepathic communication is enhanced, contact with other worldly beings is initiated, and communication with ones spirit totem is either introduced or the intensification of information is facilitated. It dispels anger, renews ones connectedness with universal knowledge, and initiates a parting-of-the-impediments during innovative pursuits.
Apatite: This mineral is related to service and to the developement of humanitarian pursuits - it is attuned to healing, storing information, communicating, balancing energy, and teaching. It is extremely useful in the expansion of knowledge. It can be used to stimulate the developement of clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and the awareness of the devic worlds. It can provide access to past-life insights and telepathy.
Aquamarine: It helps one to attune to more spiritual levels of awareness; for those who are involved in spiritual development, it provides emotional and intellectual stabiity and enhances the connection with the higher-self. It helps judgmental people to be more tolerant, and can help one who is "swamped" by responsibility to bring order to the process. Aquamarine stimulates, activates, and cleanses the throat chakra, facilitating communication of a higher quality than the mundane.
Aventurine: It is an excellent protector of the heart chakra providing a shield to block the entry from those who wish to "tap in" and use the energy of another. It reinforces ones decisiveness and amplifies ones leadership qualities.
Azurite: This mineral is known as a "stone of heaven". It stimulates the pursuit of heavenly self, providing for guidance via the third eye and allowing for precise verbalization of psychic experiences. It awakens the developement of ones psychic self and provides for insight into all areas of ones life. It enhances creative ability and helps eliminate indecision.
Excerpts from "Love is in the Earth" by Melody and reproduced with kind permission from Earth/Love Publications.
