Garnet: This mineral is a "stone of health" extracting negative energy from the chakras, and transmuting the energy to the beneficial state. It enhances ones internal fire, bringing the creative powers to the stage of implementation. It allows one to recognize inherent responsibility with respect to personal freedom and patience, inciting personal magnetism and cooperation in instances of change. It is also known as a "stone of commitment" - to purpose, to others, and to oneself.
Goethite: This mineral can teach one to enjoy the journey in life while enhancing progession toward the goal. It helps attune to the ethereal realms and enhances communication with "the angels". It also facilitates clairaudience and enhances communication on the physical plane. It can strengthen the connection with other worlds and beings in other worlds.
Granite: Granite can help one to "see the big picture". It helps one to maintain balance in relationships and cooperative efforts, facilitating diplomacy and discretion in all matters of import. It also enables one to "nip" disagreeable situations at the onset, defeating negativity with ease. It has been reported that granite also brings one an increase in money.
Heliodor: This mineral can be used to activate the third chakra, the location of personal power and intellect. It enables one to communicate on a higher level and improves communication, via thought waves, between one and those at a distance. It also serves to enable one to both expertly and sympathetically contend with delicate issues. It assists one in exhibiting both sympathetic and compassionate understanding.
Hematite: This mineral can be called a "stone for the mind". It helps to "sort things out" in ones mind, and can be used for mental attunement, memory enhancement, original thinking, and technical knowledge. Although this stone enhances mental capability, it provides for a calming atmosphere concurrently. It also assists in the dissolution of negativity and is a wonderful grounding stone.
Hemimorphite: This mineral allows one to take responsibility for happiness or unhappiness, for creating ones personal reality, and for recognizing and utilizing the powers of self concept. It can further enhance ones self-esteem when one maintains the honesty of ones relationship to reality. It is an excellent stone to assist in growing toward an egoless sefl-confidence and self-respect. It can relieve feelings of hostility and anger, and assists in smoothing emotional irritations. Hemimorphite can help to understand and utilize the powerful ancient techniques of healing.
Herkimer Diamond: The herkimer diamond provides an energy of delicate harmony. It helps one to begin again in this lifetime and assist one in clearing the body-mind system of unconscious fears and repressions. It stimulates clairvoyance and clairaudience and can assist in telepathic communication. It can accept and retain information which can be stored prior to giving the stone to another - the reason for the gift ranging from healing facilitation to thougths of love).
Howlite: Howlite can be used to calm communication, to facilitate awareness, and to encourage emotional expression. It can be used to eliminate pain, stress, and rage. It can help to lessen rudeness and boisterousness and can provide for a reflection of the offender to the offender. It assists in eliminating hesitation with respect to action.
Iolite: This mineral is called the "violet stone" and is one of the major stones for use in the third eye/crown area during healing. Iolite helps one to change "painlessly", the change being toward spiritual growth. The energy of iolite helps release discord from ones life.
Excerpts from "Love is in the Earth" by Melody and reproduced with kind permission from Earth/Love Publications.
