Warning: Some varieties of Actinolite are asbestiform. This means you must research the type of Actinolite you have and ensure it is safe to handle. Most polished Actinolite gemstones are safe but always research them properly before using them.

Actinolite nourishes the self and releases deep stress and weight on one's heart. This stone shields the user's aura and emotional body from negativity and toxic energy. It also promotes closure by purging buried emotions that need to be shed to achieve greater clarity of heart and mind. 

Adamite is a yellow to lime-green crystal that is sometimes used as a healing stone, with its powers said to be influenced by its color:

• Yellow adamite: Promotes joy, intellect, and hope, similar to other yellow gemstones
• Green adamite: Brings good luck, optimism, and liberation, similar to other green gems

Chakra: Root

This stone vibrates at a very high frequency. Its perfect for clearing and protecting, especially things, people or places that are filled with negative energies. This stone is perfect for those who lack self-love and appreciation. It will help you realize your inner strength and will help to attract positive energy. This is a great stone for mental health. It will assist in breaking you out of tireless daily routines filled with negativity. This is a perfect stone for anyone who is struggling with any kind of addiction. Working with this stone will bring out your strength from deep within. There are many stones that are a great pair with Aegirine. The best being Moldavite. The strength of both of these stones activates and aligns all of the chakras and is extremely powerful in banishing negative energies and entities. 

Aegirine can also be found within Nebula Stone, along with a combination of other minerals. Using Aegirine and Nebula crystals together will combine their powers for endless possibilities.

Chakra: Throat

This stone vibrates at a very high frequency, which can be felt immediately upon touch. People often report feelings of an energy rush to their Third Eye and Crown Chakra aligning them. These are our most potent chakras and this unified channel connects to higher energies and uses your body as a vessel to channel those energies down to Earth.

This stone is great for activating your psychic abilities to help one receive messages from your spirit guides and guardian angels. This stone helps you to become more conscious of the minor details all around us, and to understand the meanings behind the messages we are given. Our guardians are always with us, with the help of this stone, it will help you be aware of the path that has been laid out for you. Afghanite is here to help your consciousness execute it's desires and will use angelic energy to help accomplish its mission. 

The power of this stone can be overwhelming at times so give yourself time to become comfortable with its energies. Meditating with this stone placed on your Third Eye or in your pillowcase when you sleep will help you feel its full potential. Your mind will be more relaxed and it will allow your consciousness to transcend easier. This will help you to better connect with spirits to better understand the knowledge they wish to share.

Agate promotes inner stability, composure, and maturity. Its warm and protective properties encourage security and self-confidence. Agate stops the burning desires for the things we do not need and assists those who are juggling commitments or multiple jobs. It helps writers express ideas in marketable form. Agate is a useful talisman for protection while traveling and is effective against traffic accidents. Agate stabilizes the imagination and inspiration of artists, provides personal security for police, telephone workers, cooks, chefs and bakers and protection for construction workers. It provides strength and endurance for dancers and emotional endurance for educators.

Chakra: Root

Refer to Agate entry. More information coming soon!

Chakra: Sacral, Heart

This form of agate offers a nurturing energy. It can help to dispel fears, and helps you make peace with the death of someone close to you and other unknowns. Apricot Agate can help you make more mature spiritually and can provide a deep sense of peace and stability. Use this stone with matters that involve self-reflection, meditation, and contemplation of the world around us and helps with developing a stronger sense of reality, and is beneficial for those who have issues with self-confidence. This stone is helpful for parents and children, it can help to promote love and dissolve tension. This stone reminds us that our gifts need to be shared with others, and helps us to find those who need our gifts and vice-versa. This stone is perfect for those with issues with anger and bitterness, and helps us to let go of those resentments and start fresh. For anyone in a codependent relationship, this stone helps us to understand the difference between dependence, independence, and interdependence. 

While this stone offers a gentle and loving energy, it is a stone of logic and rationality. It helps 

Chakra: Root

This form of agate offers protection from negative energies and helps to dispel fear and anxiety and promotes stability within the environment. Bahia Agate is said to balance the Muladhara or the Root Chakra. Carry or wear this stone during stressful or emotional times to stay grounded. It is another stone that is useful to help control feelings of anger. This is a great stone to use when concentration is needed. This is a stone of simplicity and pragmatic thinking. This stone encourages introspection instead of taking action. This stone is helpful for those who act on impulse without thinking about what comes after. 

Chakra: Root

Black agate symbolizes consistency, perseverance, fortitude and calmness. This stone is believed to have close links with the world of metaphysics that help to protect from evil and give courage. 

Banded agate balances Yin and Yang energies, harmonizes emotional, mental and physical states. This stone is excellent for grounding and centering and raises consciousness leading to spiritual growth.

Chakra: Root

This is a great stone for exploring the unknown, and encourages us to take spiritual journeys. It helps us to seek truth in all aspects. This stone helps to energize the aura, and realize that love is one of the greatest constants of the universe. This is another stone that helps us to reach spiritual maturity. This stone helps us to break free from feelings of repression even more so in the world of art. This stone helps us to remember the child like wonder that we once had. Because this stone relates to the Root Chakra, it brings us back to earth and see things in the right perspective. This stone is great for manifesting goals that you may have. This stone is also beneficial for anyone who is looking to form new relationships either platonic or romantic

This stone is great for artists of any kind because it helps to inspire creativity and helps us to solve problems preventing the completion of a project. This stone helps us think outside the box, also allowing us to remain emotionally detached so we can use our intuition in a better compacity.  This is a stone that helps can help you to stay calm during times of stress. 

Chakra: Root, Earth

This stone is perfect during times of chaos it helps to keep us balanced and grounded. It transforms our impatience, anger and fear to a patient, cool and calm demeanor. You know that saying "That which we perceive cannot change"? Well with this stone, nothing could be farther from the truth. Condor Agate can help you to change your perceptions into powerful solutions, and the walls that once held us back will begin to crumble. This stone teaches us to fight and not be defeated by the obstacles that get in our way. 

This stone is both strong and gentle. This stone helps us to look inward, and to recognize the issues that are presenting a challenge in our lives, to understand them and change them once we are ready. 

Chakra: Throat

Enhydro Agate represents the power of water. It symbolizes emotional healing and purification and balance. Its characteristic of containing trapped ancient water connects us to the history of the Earth's life cycles which makes this a perfect crystal for wisdom and growth. With the strong connection to the element of water, this stone is extremely strong when it comes to stability and emotional balance. This is a wonderful stone when it comes to clearing negative emotions, and promoting self-love. This stone is an ally when it comes to personal growth and relationships by opening up channels for communication. Enhydro Agate represents the passage of time because it contains water from millions of years ago, and encourages introspection, reflection and the ability to learn from past experiences.

Chakra: Sacral

Thought to contain the essence of fire and is sacred to fire deities. It can encourage timid adults and shy children to speak up and not be ignored or bullied. It is a stone of integrity, encouraging high standards of behavior in self and others. It promotes passion in love and life. it is highly regarded as a stabilizing and strengthening influence. It awakens the lower chakras and lights one's inner fires of life force, creativity, sexuality and will. It brings focus to the Divine Blueprint of one's life purpose and increases the pleasures of life. It assists in taking decisive action and uncertain circumstances. It increases passion, emotions and reconnection to ones deepest desires and encourages one to take risks. It is ideal to banish the stupor of a humdrum routine. It can also stir the emotions of others, sometimes facilitating attraction between two mates. It can stimulate sexual energy and is helpful in treating sexual imbalances.

The intricate patters are thought to improve focus, and concentration. It can also help with productivity and decision-making. This is also a stone that helps with emotional healing, and boosting self-confidence.

Lace agate, also known as the laughter stone. This stone is said to promote happiness and inner stability. This stone is said to aid in self-confidence and absorb emotional pain and is also said to ward off the evil eye.  Lace agate is thought to increase energy and and the ability to concentrate, which is helpful for studies and staying on track to complete tasks. and it thought to be beneficial for those with ADHD. 

Chakra: Heart, Root

Moss Agate is a great stone for attracting abundance of all kinds. In the professional setting, this stone can be used for attracting wealth by bringing in new business and increasing prosperity over time. This is an important crystal for small business or those who are self employed. Moss Agate has been known to be used as a birthing crystal because it aids midwives. It is also known as the ''Stone of New Beginnings." With its steady energies it ins beneficial for those who are feeling unstable or ungrounded. This sone is great for those recovering from addictions. Moss Agate is useful when cleansing personal energy and environmental systems. It helps to bring new friendships and worn as jewelry or placed on the heart at night, it will help attract new love, or the re-growth of former love.  Native American Indians used this as a power stone and has been successfully used in cloud-busting.

Chakra: Third Eye, Throat, Heart

This stone is useful in matters of spiritual transformation. This stone will help you become more in touch yourself and you may soon begin to out-grow things or people that you thought were important in your life due to your enhanced reality. This stone can help you do discover your true purpose  in this incarnation. This stone holds a divine connection to other planes of existence and helps to bridge the gap and tune your spiritual body to these etheric planes while connecting you to your own source of being and personal guides. Now, you may not remember, but these are beings that you will have encountered many times in your dreams. Over repeated contact with your guides, you will start to awaken and start to move towards completing your soul contracts, and also total unification of your mind, body and spirit.

Chakra: Heart

This stone is great for tempering aggression, taming the irrational and stills the disquiet. It provides harmony and balance. It is also called the Stone of Courage and Truth. It empowers one to search the self and discover one's truths and integrity and to move beyond fear of judgement or confrontation with others. It provides the freedom to express one's thoughts and feelings and helps to set clear boundaries. It helps to align the physical body to the etheric. It enhances loving communication on all levels. It balances masculine and feminine energies and many aspects of the personality. It also awakens compassion by allowing one to see both sides of the problem.

Birthstone: February

Chakra: Third Eye

Amethyst can stimulate and sooth the mind and emotions. It carries the energy of fire and passion, creativity and spirituality. Amethyst is said to help control evil thoughts. It is a powerful psychic stone to protect from attacks of witchcraft and black magic. It provides a connection to the Divine as well as helping to still the mind and inspire an enhanced meditative state. Its high frequency helps to purify the aura of any negative energies or attachments and creates a protective shield of light around the body allowing one to remain clear and centered with spiritual work. It can help to enhance cognitive perception as well as accelerating the development of intuitive and psychic abilities, and is great for healing rituals.

This is a unique and extraordinary blend of Amethyst, clear and smokey Quartz in one exceedingly high-vibrational crystal. This stone is only found in Namibia, Africa and it is imbued with remarkable phantoms, enhydros and other rare formations and inclusions. This stone attunes to pure consciousness and is a potent talisman of healing and perfection with the capacity to restore one back to their etheric blueprint in order to realign with the Divine Source.

It mingles dark brown to yellow tufts of Cacoxenite, a phosphate mineral and major component in the Super Seven crystal with amethyst as the host. This combination brings a high level of creativity and new ideas to humanity by fostering thoughts that have never been thought before. It is a calming stone that is good in times of strife, and raises spiritual awareness of the creator essence in the beauty of nature and the kindness in people. Cary on the night of the crescent and full moon to transfer healing energy to the Earth and create and ethereal connection with all of the universe.

It gets its name from the V-shaped chevrons of deep purple and white quartz that form in beautiful layers. Chevron amethyst is one of the finest stones for the Third-Eye chakra, and it helps to stimulate vision within the self as well as the physical world, filtering the life force from the cosmos via the Crown chakra in its white layers and opening up spiritual and psychic channels through the purple. It has a strong, focused energy for dissipating and repelling negativity and is the perfect crystal for learning any spiritual healing. Hold one in each hand for powerful, but safe out-of-body travel, Shamanic journeying or pathworking. Hold one between the hands while praying or reciting mantras. 

This is a rare form of Amethyst which appears to contain Rutile, but is actually Goethite, an iron hydroxide mineral that is also found in the Super Seven crystal. Goethite is a stone for finding the link between the deep self and the Earth, and together with Amethyst it clears the earth and base chakras, and aligns the whole chakra system to the higher mind. It purifies the emotional body and is particularly helpful in grief work. It facilitates clairaudience, communion with the angels and connections with the other worlds. To program as a wishing stone or with intentions, messages, or prayers, simply hold the stone with the intent in mind. 

Ametrine is a combination of amethyst and citrine within the same crystal with a harmonious blend of the two energies. It brings spirituality into harmony with the intellect and inspires a profound flow of creativity, new ideas and insights. It is a remarkable healing stone, removing pain and tension while bringing energy and a sense of well-being to the mind and body. It brings greater focus in meditation, protection in astral travel and is a gateway crystal for opening angelic or spirit guide contact. Leave in natural light from noon on the day of a full moon and through the night to catch lunar rays then carry on the person to bring luck in money ventures.

Chakra: Crown

The Crown Chakra is your antenna to the divine, and Anchorite tunes it perfectly. 

There are old legends of Achroite being the crystallized tears of age-old gods or perhaps the solidified whispers of moonlight. This gem offers glimpses into hidden realms.

To sum up this stone, think about the innovative spirit of an Aquarius and then add the dreamy depths of a Pisces. For an Aquarius, this stone is a guiding star. It will help you dream bigger and bolder. If you are a Pisces, this stone is a guiding light in the dark, leading you through the vast ocean of your emotions and dreams

This stone will help you to think clearer thoughts as well as feeling a deeper connection to the cosmos. Place this stone in the East or Center of your space you will be inviting peace into your home.

Chakra: Throat, Crown

This stone is a link to the divine and spiritual realms and helps to connect us with angels and our guides and other beings of the divine to receive guidance, support, wisdom and clarity. This stone is also useful to help us find our life's purpose. The energies of this stone helps us reduce stress and promotes harmony. This stone also aids in communication allowing us to expand our voice and share our true feelings and self-expression and helps to repel fear and other negative energies.

Chakra: Throat, Third Eye

This stone is also known as the "Stone of Manifestation"  because this is one of the best stones for getting your thoughts and desires into the world. This stone can also be used when working with intuition and psychic abilities. This stone also works as a detoxifier for the spiritual body and is great for spiritual or energetic detoxification. This stone is said to increase willpower and is beneficial for new beginnings and change and it can also help with communication both written and verbal. This stone is great for emotional healing as it can sooth the mind. It is a great stone for those that have suffered trauma. This stone helps us to release negative feelings of past traumas and replace them with peace and happiness. 

Chakra: Crown, throat, Solar Plexus, Root. Corresponding Chakra depends on color variation. Aragonite can come in different colors, yellow, white, clear, blue or gray orange.

This crystal is believed to foster the truth and grant an unclouded perception of reality. This stone nurtures us by uplifting us out of feelings of stress and oppression. Aragonite helps us to understand the root of problems by increasing our tolerance and insight. This stone helps us to learn to be patient and be proactive helping us to avoid procrastination. This stone is also beneficial for teens, helping them to channel their energy constructively. This stone can help us to increase energies and boost confidence and self-worth. This is a great crystal for parents or anyone in tense relationships, and brings patience when it is most needed. Aragonite promotes reliability and discipline, and provides insight into difficult issues. This stone is great for the work place as it helps clear the mind of stress and stimulates motivation.

Asbestos, also known as Crysotile is a health hazard to work with, and due to the potential risk I will not be including any potential uses for this stone/mineral. Even though the information that I am providing here is for informational purposes, it is not worth putting someone at risk for health issues.

Asbestos is NOT a manmade product, but one of the worst minerals on the planet. Other minerals act as toxins through their chemistry and sicken victims of accidental poisoning, Asbestos conducts full scale mechanical sabotage on the human lung. Asbestos is a fully natural category of minerals composed of silica the most abundant of Earth’s hard elements, iron, sodium and oxygen. Asbestos deposits consist of aggregates of thousands of tiny, fibrous crystals that can become airborne and lodged in the human lung. Carcinogenic effects occur through persistent irritation of the lung tissues, leading to scarring. Asbestos formations can also be uncovered among any set of silica rocks, warranting caution when exploring. Strangely, natural weathering leads to natural distribution of asbestos in Earth’s atmosphere. As a result, many humans carry some asbestos fibers in their lungs.

Chakra: Throat

This stone enhances masculine energy and is a stone of self discipline and inner strength. This stone assists us with making clear decisions. It also calms fiery emotions and helps to prevents us from being affected by external influences. It reminds us to be at peace with ourselves. It empowers us to change what is not working in our lives and relationships. This is a stone for people in leadership roles like teachers or managers. This stone helps us to approach projects in a level headed manner and helps us to earn respect from those around us. It is also helpful with public speaking or performance events and encourages vision, inspiration and effective communication. This stone helps us to overcome selfishness, childishness and passive aggression. It helps us to clear stagnant energies so we can open ourselves up to inner growth and spiritual work. This is a great stone when overcoming habits that are self-harming like smoking, over indulgence or substance abuse. This stone helps us to perceive our spiritual gifts and attune ourselves to the higher realms for guidance and opens us up for receiving information from the Akashic record. 

Chakra: Heart

Green Aventurine is also known as the Stone of Opportunity and is thought to be one of the luckiest stone of all especially when manifesting prosperity and wealth. It can be used to boost one's chances in any situation like a first date, audit, landing a promotion and even gambling. It can help to release old patterns, habits and disappointments so new growth can take place. It can enhance creativity and motivation and encourages perseverance in maneuvering life's obstacles. It helps to reinforce one's decisiveness and amplifies leadership qualities. It carries a strong connection to the Earth and Delvic kingdom. It provides a better understanding and appreciation of nature and its vibrations upon the mind and body. It is also ideal for soothing quick-tempers or brutal tempers and can reduce the effects of domestic strife.

Chakra: Third Eye

Purple Aventurine deals with matters of the soul and spiritual body. Ancient Greek warriors would sew this stone inside their clothes to inspire courage. This stone was also used in shamanic cultures during medicine wheel rituals. This stone is especially beneficial for those who are having a crisis of faith because it help us to hold onto our faith and will help you tap into your inner wisdom and make the right decision going forward. This form of Aventurine gets its color from inclusions of Lepidolite, so this is essentially two stones in one and has the benefits of both. 

Lepidolite helps to relieve stress and anxiety, depression and helps to heal heart wounds. 

Chakra: Root

Red Aventurine is a grounding stone, and helps to relieve stress. It can also help with boosting self-esteem and confidence and motivation. Aventurine in general is a stone of opportunity. Red Aventurine encourages us to be more adventurous. This stone is associated with the sun and is said to boost vitality and good health. This stone is beneficial for creative endeavors, manifesting your desires as well as promoting love, compassion and empathy. 

Chakra: Sacral

This stone carries a soothing and uplifting energy that helps to repel negativity like stress, anxiety and depression. It helps to promote a positive outlook and encourage feelings of happiness. Yellow Aventurine enhances creativity and motivation. It helps to stimulate the mind by generating new ideas and solutions to issues. This stone helps us to feel more confident, and fills us with enthusiasm and determination. This stone promotes inner strength to overcome self-doubt.