Rocks, Stones, Gemstones--Metaphysical Purposes

[Miss Scarlett]

Another stone for today is Unakite.

Unakite is stone with gentle but powerful energy. It can assist one in finding one's animal guide. It is also a stone that is helpful for gardening. Unakite is also a good protection stone. Unakite brings unconditional love of humanity, connection and reunion.

Unakite is a balancing stone. It is said to help unify the emotional, spiritual, and mental aspects of self and can help us feel more centered. This makes Unakite an excellent stone for people seeking a more well-rounded existence. Unakite can also help us to live in the present instead of dwelling in the past. It is said to help us release the mental or emotional blocks that can often stop us from moving forward. This in turn can help us cope with the stress of changing situations.

Placing Unakite in a room, either as a large piece or as several small tumbled stones in a bowl, is said to bring in a gentle calming energy. Carrying the Unakite gemstone as a companion stone will help you to maintain a balance between your spiritual and physical lives. Allowing them to join forces in assisting you to create the life you need. Unakite is excellent at removing obstacles to your personal growth. Whatever is draining your energy and holding you back. Meditations with this Unakite gemstone will aid in releasing pain and anger that you are having trouble letting go of.

You may use Unakite to build your self-confidence, as it strengthens your courage, assisting you in taking control of the aspects of your life that you can yield power over. Giving you confidence to transform anger and fear into positive constructive energies. Like love and compassion for yourself.

Unakite guides our intuition and allows us to get to the core of the underlying problem and begin to heal it.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Blue Lace Agate.

Blue Lace Agate is one of the rarest and most popular of the agates. It has a soft, soothing elegance; like sky-blue waters released from winter's grasp. Its graceful, circular design has a stimulating, positive effect on emotions and attitude. It is not a stone of protection, but rather of encouragement and support. Its circular flowing energy calms, uplifts and elevates.

This is a calming, uplifting stone. The blue color strengthens the function of the throat chakra and encourages peace. It can be used wherever there is a build up of painful or irritated energy.

Wear or carry Blue Lace Agate for peace and happiness. Place it in your hand when you feel the need to de-stress. If you find yourself in stressful situations at work or home, keep some Blue Lace Agate on your desk and simply gaze at it for relief.

Blue Lace Agate is a stone of communication, helping those who have difficulty being heard by others, or who need confidence and articulation to share their truths. It provides clarity of thought and unwavering intent in regards to what matters most. Blue Lace Agate is a Stone of the Diplomat, assisting communication in situations were angry words must be avoided, but clear understanding is necessary.

Blue Lace Agate inspires loyalty and trustworthiness. It is a support crystal for all caregivers, calming stress-related situations and overcoming communication difficulties. Carry or wear Blue Lace Agate if you struggle to express your emotions without getting upset.

Blue Lace Agate counteracts the repression and suppression of feelings caused by past fears, judgments, or rejections. It dissolves old blockage patterns and doubt, and permits new methods of self-expression and growth. Blue Lace Agate is especially beneficial in helping men realize and accept their feelings and sensitivities.

If you have been especially attracted to Blue Lace Agate, that is an indication that its subtle but powerful energies are the most needed balancing tool for your auric field.

This stunning gem is an excellent metaphysical stone that can help in inducing higher states of consciousness. It can be successfully used in some forms of light meditation. As part of the huge family of agate crystals and stones, Blue Lace Agate inherits some of the distinguished properties of agate.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Citrine.

In ancient times, Citrine was carried as a protection against snake venom and evil thoughts. Citrine is known as a "success" stone because it is told in folklore to promote success and abundance, especially in business and commerce.

Citrine is one of the only stones that dissipates negative energy and never requires cleansing or clearing. It emits a warm energy that promotes optimism. It attracts abundance and is known as "a merchant's stone" to be placed in a cash register or where one conducts business, to not only acquire positive wealth but to maintain it as well. It enhances the body's healing energy and opens the conscious mind to intuition. It helps one adjust and adapt to process changes, feeling confident and secure. Citrine's magnetic radiating energy can aid in voice projection, making this the perfect stone for actors and public speakers.

Assists in acquiring wealth and to maintain the state of wealth. Citrine is helpful for directing creative energy into the physical body. Some find it helpful in building self-esteem. This crystal is an invaluable aid to the digestion of all emotions, place it on the solar plexus in crystal healing layouts. Citrine is useful in combating decisiveness allowing one to make important decisions on a regular basis.

Citrine is worn at night to eliminate fear, to prevent nightmares and to ensure a good night's sleep.

Citrine may eliminate self-destructive behaviors or tendencies, and raise self-esteem. This stone should be used to align with the higher self and to protect your aura.

A member of the quartz family, Citrine can be used is most the same fashion as crystal/clear quartz. The benefit being that it's golden yellow color adds Sun energy to the work. When worn, it's vibrant shades help to lift the spirits if one is feeling down or perhaps dealing with mild depression.

Citrine is a good stone for scrying into matters pertaining to money and other forms of prosperity.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Golden Healer Quartz.

The Golden Healer is a powerful healing crystal as it allows the golden light of Universal Life Force to flow into body through the Crown Chakra. The energy then spreads its golden light throughout the body as it clears blockages and imbalances that ready the body for multi-level healing.

The Golden Ray energy of the Golden Healer may represent the Divine Spirit, Source and Creation. A Master Healer, the Golden Healer is of the highest vibration. Its energy is powerful, yet gentle and soothing.

Golden Healers can be used to raise the holder’s energy vibration or frequency, which will facilitate spiritual communications over a long distance, including between worlds and dimensions.

Hold a Golden Healer when meditating to connect with Source energy and to reconnect with the “One”. Place a Golden Healer cluster under a healing or massage table to fill the area with gentle, sustainable energy throughout your healing session. Highlight a Golden Healer on an altar or grid, to raise the frequency/vibration of your intent.

This is a powerful and amazing piece, which enhances joy, peace and the spirit of Oneness.

The Golden Healer's name is often attributed to the "Golden Ray" which is associated with Archangel Uriel and the spiritual process of Forgiveness.

A true Golden Healer is defined as a crystal or crystal cluster with an iron oxide coating under or in between layers of crystal. Colors will range from a pale, clear yellow to lemon to darker mustard. These crystals will have almost a greasy like, transparent coating, which may show a surprising rainbow or two when turned under a light source.

Unlike Tangerine or Limonite stained Quartz, the color of the Golden healer will not be affected by an acid bath due to the coating being “protected” by a thin layer or layers of crystal growth. In other words, this is not a crystal that has a dusting or stain on the outside, but instead it is included within the crystalline growth. Golden Healers can be super clear to milky and dense.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Celestite.

Celestite (also known as Celestine) is a very powerful stone. It emits a very high vibration and can be used to restore the inner balance. It helps to integrate instinct with consciousness.

To those on a spiritual path Celestite marks the direction, facilitates insight, and helps expand the mind. Celestite has not only the ability to clarify and center the mind, it also purifies the heart. It helps dispel worries, solve conflicts, and restore harmony in difficult circumstances. Relationships that are at the turning point may profit from this properties as the stone seems to create a perfect climate for reflection. It helps to find a creative solution to the conflict and facilitates communication. It helps to think and articulate clearly. Celestite also helps to analyze and comprehend complex concepts. Artists, writers, and musicians may find new inspiration as well as new ways to connect with the outside world.

Celestite is said to alleviate despair and worry, helping the intelligence to perceive things more optimistically. This is in part facilitated by its purifying action on the aura. It assists in bringing order to our higher vibrations. Celestite balances the yin and yang energies in the energy field of the individual.

It helps one experience the positive side of rationality, encouraging different methods of analysis and bringing fluency to communication. It helps establish balance in general, but especially between the masculine and feminine aspects of the personality.

Useful for those wanting to experience leaving the confines of the gross physical body - astral travel, both in the waking and dreaming state. As its name suggests, it can help forge contact with the angelic realms.

Celestite is an extremely popular tool for use in communication with angelic and other spirit guides. This is a crystal that will instantly life you above the mundane, once it has caught your eye.

Mediation with Celestite will open a clear channel of communication, allowing one to tap into the perfect power of the universe's total love. It will teach you the peaceful trust in acknowledging and accepting that each of us is part of the Divine Plan, and that it is the ebb and flow of ones life which propels you to where you need to be.

Use this stone to assist one in remembering dreams, keep a stone under your pillow and a dream journal beside your bed, each night request the aid of the crystal in remembering and each morning just as you awake, write what your memory brings. As dreams are tools to the subconscious uses to help the physical and the conscious heal and evolve, this stone will enhance the process through more lucid dreaming, keeping dream records and as a communication channel between the two realms.

Astral Travelers can use the crystal to improve accuracy in achieving pre-determined destinations.

Celestite is worn or often carried to aid in creating eloquence and to promote compassion for the earth and our fellow creatures. It has been used to relieve headaches as well as tension in the body, for it removes stress from the physical form.

Celestite should be cleansed in a bowl of tumbled hematites, if it has points, the points must be positioned so that the points always point towards the sky. These crystals will only need recharging occasionally, which should be done briefly in the sun. Be careful not to leave your stone too long in the sun, as it may cause discoloration of the Celestite.

Celestite that has been compressed for millions of years is known as Angelite.

[StrongButch]

In Native Culture we call stones the Old Ones.They have great healing powers.You can look up Medicine Wheel to learn more. This is a great post.

[Bit]

We went to an Art Market today (monthly sale upstairs in the art supply store) and met someone who sells crystals. She says she has some Golden Healers and a couple stones Gryph is interested in, so we're going to make an appointment to see what all she has. She does the darnedest thing with wooden boxes; she's made them so that the stones one puts inside get cleansed and recharged. Gryph bought one, plus some small stones including a lodestone. It feels like metal, extremely cold. I've never seen one before.

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by StrongButch

In Native Culture we call stones the Old Ones.They have great healing powers.You can look up Medicine Wheel to learn more. This is a great post.

Thank you StrongButch. For as long as I can remember I've been drawn to stones. My Mom was the same way. They are like old friends and bring me much peace.

I am very familiar with Medicine Wheels. Since I live in an apartment mine is in my dining room where a great number of my stones and feathers are. It's my sacred space.