Rocks, Stones, Gemstones--Metaphysical Purposes

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by claybaby

and.....is MY birthstone! <smiles>

That it is!

[Bit]

Have you done emerald yet, Miss Scarlett? I have a rough piece with a couple shades of green plus black; I suspect it is many small emerald crystals in a matrix.

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Bit

Have you done emerald yet, Miss Scarlett? I have a rough piece with a couple shades of green plus black; I suspect it is many small emerald crystals in a matrix.

Not yet...i love Emerald in matrix...i have several myself including one piece from right here in NC.

[Miss Scarlett]

Because Cath asked...

Emerald

Emerald is known as a stone of the heart. As such, it is less often linked to important outstanding personalities as it is related to universal love and mercy. Emerald stone is a gemstone of the Chinese goddess Quan Yin, representing universal love and inner beauty which is not tangible. This is a very powerful crystal, symbol of wisdom, and abundance.

Emerald is known as the "stone of successful love". It promotes partnerships and domestic bliss. When placed in ones environment it can help to assist in calming the emotions. It promotes unity, successful relationships and friendships. Emerald keeps balance in any partnership and if it changes color it is said to signal unfaithfulness.

Emerald is wonderful at opening the Heart Chakra and will also stimulate a slow moving chakra. Since it is a stone of regeneration and regrowth it can help to assist ridding yourself of negativity in your life. It is said to also bring prosperity into ones life but one should not wear it constantly because it can trigger negative emotions.

The Emerald is one of the most feminine representatives of the mineral kingdom: the Shakti, the divine mother, and the goddess. Thus the Emerald is able to teach us what it means to be a powerful woman, how to come into ourselves in all our roles and challenges as women: mother, passionate tantric lover, caring wife, and creative, successful, and fulfilled professional.

Ancient mythology teaches us that the Emerald was associated with the Mercury, who was known to be the messengers of the gods, and of travel. It thus makes perfect sense that the Emerald is commonly referred to as the Travelers Protection Stone.

A lesser known "odd" fact of the Emerald is that when subjected to heat, it will actually sweat or expel water. Ancient writings speak of this extraordinary phenomenon.

Focusing intention and raising consciousness, Emerald brings in positive actions, eliminating negativity and enhancing the ability to enjoy life to the fullest.

Emerald enhances psychic abilities, opens clairvoyance, and stimulates the use of greater mental capacity. It helps bring awareness of the unknown to conscious recognition, imparting reason and wisdom.

Emerald assists in inciting activity and focus in ones actions. It strengthens memory and imparts clarity of thought. It inspires a deep inner knowing, promoting truth and discernment.

Most effective on the Heart Chakra perhaps because Emerald access desires held deep within. Emerald provides inspiration and helps those in need of balance, healing, and infinite patience.

Lifts depression, helps with insomnia, knowingness of the heart and peaceful dreams. Emerald ensures physical, emotional and mental equilibrium, bringing harmony to all areas of ones life.

Do not wear an Emerald constantly. Emerald should only be worn when the wearer feels the need to have it near. They were used to strengthen memory, to aid in eloquence, and to reveal the truth or falsity of a lover's oaths.

[Bit]

Oh my! Thank you very much!

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Bit

Oh my! Thank you very much!

You're most welcome. The specimen in my post is from the Crabtree Mine in NC.

[Blue_Daddy-O]

For 20 years now I have daily worn rocks in my socks. Ok, now I have shared a secret not many know about me.

Most have found it peculiar, I find it soothing, except the occasional stone falling down into my shoe and under my foot and then the hoping and walking on one foot begins. I highly recommend it.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Pearl.

These Moon and Water ruled "gems" enhance sincerely, truth and loyalty. They bring centering and a calming reflection, as well as attune the wearer to the ebb and flow of life. They are told to give purity, promote faith, charity and integrity, especially personal integrity. Due to its watery and lunar elements, it is quite balancing for the emotions, especially to water signs.

Pearl signifies faith, charity and innocence. It enhances personal integrity and helps to provide a focus to ones attention. Pearl symbolizes purity and is known as a “stone of sincerity”. It brings truth to situations and loyalty to a “cause”. Inhibits boisterous behavior.

Pearls help one connect with the Goddess, the ultimate feminine energy. They are absorbing by nature and because of this they must be used with caution. If feeling excessively negative while wearing a pearl, it will hold that energy until it is worn again.

Being that a pearl is created by layer upon layer of substance produced to counteract irritation...it is very nurturing. If used properly, it can lessen stress and it's resulting maladies, such as hypertension, headaches, and exhaustion.

If using pearls with other gemstones consider diamonds to amplify and purify, or emeralds to bring the negative energy out and disperse it. Cleanse often to allow to recharge.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Angelite.

Angelite is an excellent balancer, polarizing and aligning the physical body with the ethereal network. Used to call your Angels for guidance and support, as well as a psychic connection to oneness with universe, and angelic realm. Angelite is know to assist in astral travel, as well as heightened sensory awareness. Helping one to see paths available to them to surmount challenges.

Each of the blue and blue-green stones is associated with particular forms of communication. Turquoise helps one to enroll people in partnership for the achievement of goals and dreams. Aquamarine helps us to express our deepest spiritual truths.

Angelite is believed to be helpful in telepathic communication. If two people wished to be connected in that way while they were physically apart, they could each carry pieces of angelite. (This connection would be even deeper if the stones were programmed for that purpose.)

Angelite brings inner peace, tranquility, calm and focus to the highest realms of heavenly light. It is one stone that truly holds the energy of the force we know as Karuna: compassion, pity and tenderness. It also implies devoted action to alleviate suffering.

Angelite aligns physical and etheric fields for healing oneself as well as others. It will regenerate and rejuvenate ill or depleted areas of the being. Providing a protective energy field around the area where it is placed.

Angelite is one of the light-blue stones associated with the healing of anger. When we think of anger as a disconnection from others, it makes sense that a communication stone would help to heal relationships, not only with others, but also with oneself. This is especially true during those days when everything goes wrong. Some people blame others, some blame themselves. In either case angelite helps to bring us back into inner and outer harmony, reuniting us with our sense of the Oneness of all life.

Angelite can be used to relieve pain, both physical and psychological, and combats cruelty and brutality. It has also been used to alleviate the pain of stomach ulcers and sunburn.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Elestial Quartz.

Elestial quartz crystals are a particular type of quartz that have natural terminations on the body and faces of the stones. These are often etched into the crystals, and many have key formations on a face of the crystal... an indented area going into the crystal. They form in layers that resemble clusters, but the crystals overlap and join together.

Elestial quartz crystals have an extremely high vibration and are powerful stones to aid your spiritual growth. These crystals are attuned to the vibration of the higher spiritual realms and they will help you to make a stronger connection to the beings there.

They are an excellent crystal to keep nearby as they continuously receive spiritual vibrations, which they regulate and attune to the energy of those who are nearby and receiving it.

This allows you to receive an infusion of the love and light from the higher realms at a comfortable frequency, the level required for your personal growth and healing, without it impacting you in a way that may be uncomfortable.

These are a stone for our times, as they aid attunement with the higher vibrations and open doorways to higher dimensions.

They are an amazing stone to aid change in your life, and provide a stronger connection to spirit and to the angelic realms.

They are an amazing catalyst for change and are powerful when kept in the room with you... so that they can work on helping to dissolve deep karmic issues, at the level that is comfortable for your own spiritual growth.

These high crystal energy stones will assist healing on a deeper soul and karmic level.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is North Carolina's own Hiddenite.

In nurturing shades of green, from pale and soft to sunny emerald, Hiddenite encourages growth. It is a Crystal of Evolution, helping individuals to grow spiritually, emotionally, and to be aware of their collective responsibility for the care of the Earth. It supports new beginnings and focusing on the present, relinquishing injustices of the past or anxieties for the future.

Hiddenite is the yellow-green to green variety of the silicate, Spodumene, and is named for William Earl Hidden who discovered it in 1879 in Alexander County, North Carolina, USA. The town there was later renamed Hiddenite, for the mineral, and its mines are still active today. Hiddenite, also referred to as Green Kunzite or Lithia Emerald, has a glassy transparency, and forms in prismatic crystals in pegmatite veins. It is highly pleochroic, shifting in color from near colorless to pale green or yellow-green to emerald green. Though its perfect cleavage makes cutting difficult, it can be faceted into beautiful gems.

Carrying Hiddenite awakens and attracts true love in the earthly sense as well as spiritual twin soul love. It provides a constant pulse of loving heart energy, and is a great gift to oneself and partner if love has gone stale in a relationship to help dissolve blockages in both hearts.

Hiddenite is an excellent crystal for those who have difficulty expressing their emotions or in proclaiming their love.

Hiddenite is a wonderful stone for children, easing their emotional distress, and can be used as a healing stone to treat members of the family, friends, or pets, especially when conventional treatments are traumatic or not working.

As a protective stone, Hiddenite dispels negativity, shielding the body's aura from unwanted energies and mental influences, and dispelling attached entities. It also works in the environment to block geopathic stress. Wear as a pendant or tape to a cell phone or other electromagnetic devices.

Hiddenite helps in healing deep psychic wounds of the heart and is an excellent crystal for recovery from addictions and abuse. It is particularly comforting for those who have lost someone dear, whether through bereavement, moving far away or because of estrangement. It also assists in coping strategies when dealing with the loss of something central to your life, such as a home or job. Besides its healing properties, Hiddenite is a crystal of renewal, providing hope in difficult circumstances.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Window Quartz also known as Seer Stones or Ema Eggs.

A river tumbled stone found in the Ema River in Southern Brazil, these amazing stones are created when river-washed crystals have a face cut off and polished so that you can see inside the crystal. The outside of these crystals look as if they have been sand blasted by the river.

These crystals are good for scrying/gazing and meditation. They allow access to the knowledge of ancient civilizations. You can also focus on a certain era and area to connect to this knowledge. These crystals allow you to remember what you were given to learn in this lifetime before you came into this body. It can also help you to see your soul's pathway after "death".

Place one upon your windowsill to ward off negativity and aid you in finding your strength, calm, and resolve.

In addition to clear quartz, these wonderful stones can also be found in Smokey Quartz, Rose Quartz and Amethyst.

[Bit]

Hiddenite and window quartz are just fascinating! Thank you for the info about them, Miss Scarlett!

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Eilat Stone.

The National Gemstone of Israel, Eilat Stone, aka King Solomon’s Stone, is a stone of various beneficial metaphysical properties. This is due to its unique mineral composition of Chrysocolla, Turquoise, Malachite, Azurite, Dioptase and Copper. This combination radiates a vibration that possesses special emotional and physical healing properties.

One will benefit greatly from wearing this stone, as its main priority is to assist one in attaining spiritual growth by stimulating the higher mind to access deeper wisdom. It clears and activates all Chakras, including the Thymus Chakra, aligns the subtle bodies, stimulates intuition and helps in the development of the psychic visions, aka clairvoyance.

Place this stone in any area to clear and energize the energy field. However, no matter where it is placed, the ‘force’ of the crystal stays attuned to the one to whom owns it.

Eilat Stone is used to embrace individuality, promote harmony, calm the mind and facilitate meditation by releasing one of any and all negativity. Another benefit of this stone is its grounding abilities. It doesn’t just attune one to Earth, but it aids in communicating with nature spirits. It, also, helps one attune to the perfection of the universe.

Links the mind, body and soul with the heart to attain growth towards deeper wisdom.

Can be used to create, store and conduct energy.

Bridges a link to the higher-self, which helps increase inspiration, creativity and imagination.

Clears the Throat for one to speak truth in their thoughts and emotions.
Integration of masculine and feminine energy.

Helps to confidently promote emotional boundaries within oneself, as well as with others.

[Bit]

Oh my WORD that stone is BEAUTIFUL!! It reminds me of the earth herself!

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Bit

Oh my WORD that stone is BEAUTIFUL!! It reminds me of the earth herself!

Yes it does. i love this stone...the Star of David i wear is inlaid with it...i rarely take it off and can definitely tell the difference if i take it off...

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Tantric Twin Quartz. It's one of my favorites and I am caretaker of several.

Tantric Twin Quartz is the name given to pairs of Quartz points growing together along their sides, with two separate terminations.

Tantric Twin Quartz assists to harmonize and balance the energies of two people involved in a relationship. When the two Tantric Twin Quartz crystals are of equal size, they act to attract one soul partner, if they are unequal in size, they act to build unconditional love and strengthen the bond between parent and child.

Tantric Twin Quartz can be used to stimulate healing of any disease, as its function is to harmonize the higher vibrational energies of the aura, light body or subtle body. It is believed that physical disease is a consequence of disharmony in the energies of the subtle body.

Tantric Twin Quartz assists one connect with and bring into balance ones life purpose with ones soul purpose.

Tantric Twin Quartz is also known as Soul Mate Quartz.

[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Selenite.

Selenite is a very peaceful, calming crystal that has the ability to clear away negative energy. If you feel stressed out, tired or angry, holding a Selenite crystal can help clear away the negative energy and leave you feeling more calm, and centered. Keep a large peace of Selenite in a room, to help ensure a peaceful atmosphere. Or, keep a Selenite crystal next to your bed to create a restful space and help you have a good night's sleep.

Getting its name from Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon, Selenite has properties that make it truly unique for spiritual and metaphysical purposes. It is related to peace, purity, and higher consciousness and is often used to assist with meditation, as well as astral projection.

Selenite is commonly associated with the seventh, or Crown, chakra which is the energy center that is located just above the crown of the head. This is the chakra of divine wisdom, Spirit and Unity. Just as the Root Chakra shows us of our connection with Earth, the Crown Chakra shows us our connection with our spiritual Source. Physically the Crown Chakra governs the brain, nervous system and pituitary gland. For these reasons, Selenite is helpful for bringing balance to the Crown Chakra, and help you feel a stronger connection with all of creation.

Because of its calm inducing properties, Selenite is an excellent crystal to use during meditation. Place one nearby while you meditate or hold a piece in your hand to help keep your mind clear, lucid and calm. Selenite also has the unique ability to filter out ego-based messages of the mind; those negative messages your mind tell you, that make you feel fearful, angry or victimized. Because of that helpful filter, Selenite can allow you to get in touch with your Higher Self, and expand the awareness of your mind and spirit.

Because Selenite is associated with Higher Truth and our relationship with the spiritual plane, it's not a crystal to be kept stored away in a drawer or used merely as a decoration. Good owners of Selenite will respect it, and work with its energy in a cooperative manner every day.

As you make contact with the higher realms, it is common to find that you will see quite strong colors, including lovely golden light. Selenite crystals can be used to grid the home to aid the removal of negativity, as long as you keep in mind that it should be kept dry.

[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.