Jasper: This is a great stone to protect against negativity and helps one to be grounded to the stabilizing energies of the Earth. It stabilizes the aura and eliminates negativity.

Picture Jasper: This stone can stimulate creative visualization and can be used to further the development of business pursuits and to provide for coordination of activities leading to increase. Picture jasper helps bring hidden thoughts, griefs, fears, and hopes to the surface so that one may face the cause of disorders.

Red Jasper: This stone has been used to assist one in rectifying unjust circumstances. The energy communicates the message that all choice is singularly ones responsibility. Red jasper can help one to remember dreams which could be consequential in ones life.

Kunzite: This mineral activates the heart chakra and aligns this chakra with the throat chakra and third-eye. Just holding the stone produces the feeling of a powerful peace, gently penetrating the inner core of ones being. Kunzite can be used to remove obstacles from ones path. It emits a wonderfully powerful, yet gentle, loving energy.

Kyanite: This is one of the few minerals which never needs clearing or cleansing. It will not accumulate or retain negative energy or vibrations. It automatically, and immediately aligns all the chakras. It brings tranquility and a calming effect to the whole being, with particular focus on the throat chakra and third-eye. It stimulates communication and psychic awareness on all levels. It dispels anger and frustration and induces one to persevere in activities and situations which would, generally reduce ones strength.

Labradorite: This mineral is a type of feldspar. It protects ones aura and helps to keep the aura clear. It helps one to reflect and to facilitate transformations which are beneficial. It also enhances patience and and inner knowing of "the right time".

Lapis Lazuli: It is a stone said to have existed before "time was born". It promotes the connection between the physical plane and the celestial kingdom. Lapis helps to expand awareness and intellectual capacity. It can assist one in the organization of ones life and in the routine day-to-day activities in which one is involved.

Lepidolite: This stone is used for stress reduction and to alleviate despondency. The energy of lepidolite is refreshing and almost sentimental. It is recognized as a "stone of transition", helping one through situations of variability in this life and assisting in the restructuring and reorganization of old patterns. It is an excellent stone for business pursuits.

Magnetite: This mineral is used to dispel grief, fear, anger, and attachment. Magnetite provides for a connection between the user and the nurturing aspects of the Earth. The grounding cord, usually running from the base of the spine to the core of the Earth, is strengthened; hence, all manners of situations are afforded protection, and the environment of a healer during healing situations is provided further protection and stability. Magnetite is a "stone of stability" and can be used to attract love. It has been quite instrumental in activities of manifestation, allowing one to secure that which is desired.

Malachite: This mineral is a "stone of transformation", assisting one in changing situations and providing for the transfer of sacred information leading to spiritual evolution. It is helpful in stimulating the heart and throat chakras. Is is an excellent stone for clarifying the emotions and for allowing for both the recognition and release or negative experiences which one cannot recall. It also represents fidelity in love and friendship, loyalty in partnerships, and practicality and responsibity in business transactions.

Manganite: This mineral can help one to dispense with attachment and control, and to recognize that one is responsible for ones actions and not for the actions of another. It also enables one to desist in relationships which are controlled by another, and to respect oneself sufficiently to "release the grief".

Excerpts from "Love is in the Earth" by Melody and reproduced with kind permission from Earth/Love Publications.