For centuries, flowers,
plants, birds, animals, colors, and gem stones have been used as symbolic and/or
practical tools in one way or another. One example would be where color has been
used is black to signify mourning or death, whereas white or red, depending upon the
culture, would signify a celebration of some kind. Similarly, gem stones have
been used in some capacity or another throughout time dating back to ancient
civilizations, and because of this, there are certain properties associated with
the stones.
Some of the gem stone properties included
are form/structure, vibration, grade/quality, ray/color, astrological association (i.e.
common day birthstones), meaning/uses, history, and so on. Listed below are just
some of the properties that are are taken from Melody's fabulous book,
Love Is In The Earth, A Kaleidoscope of Crystals Updated:
The following gem stones have been
specifically selected due to their use in the
jewelry designs that you may wish to select from.
Amber GO |
Moonstone |
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Amethyst |
Pearl |
Coral |
Quartz: Clear |
Fluorite |
Quartz: Rose |
Garnet |
Tanzanite |
Iolite |
Topaz |
Lapis Lazuli |
Turquoise |
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Amber: |
COLORS: usually golden to yellow-brown, at times may contain red, blue or green hues |
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MEANING/USES: allows body to heal self by transmuting negative energy into positive energy; ray calms nerves enlivens disposition; manifestation stone; stimulates intellect, activates unconditional love; purifier of mind, body, spirit; treatment of throat diseases, kidneys, bladder |
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HISTORIC USES/REFERENCES: brings good luck to warriors; sacred to Native Americans and Eastern Indians - used in fire ceremonies of ancient healers; one of the stones in the breastplate of the high priest; used as a penicillin -type remedy when ground and ingested or soaked then taken orally |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Leo and Aquarius |
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Amethyst: variety of quartz, either crystalline or massive form TOP |
COLORS: ranges from deep purple to pale lavender. |
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MEANING/USES: stone of spirituality and contentment: represents a complete metamorphosis and invites the perfect state of peace prior to physical manifestation enhances cooperation and is said to help businesses prosper |
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HISTORIC USES/REFERENCES: one of the stones in the breastplate of the high priest; Amethyst has been used to encourage and support sobriety and to help find freedom for addictive personalities. |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Pisces, Virgo, Aquarius, Capricorn |
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Coral~Red: sea, vacated housing of marine animal TOP |
COLORS: pink, red, white, blue, and black |
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MEANING: represents diplomacy and concurrence; also calms emotions and brings peace to within the self, adaptability; facilitates intuition, imagination and visualization; and enhances clarity Red coral brings harmony within and provides for practicality with respect to one's invocation. |
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HISTORIC USES/REFERENCES: Revered by ancient tribes throughout the earth as a magical gift from the sea, one that can be used for fertility purposes and for protection. It's ancient uses were for treatment of hiccups, colic, depression, and heartburn. Also used to stimulate the metabolism and for disorders of the cellular structure of the kidneys, bladder and parathyroid. |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Pisces - Elemental |
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Fluorite: crystallizes in form of masses, grains, columns, cubes, octahedra and rhombdodecahedra crystals TOP |
COLOR: every shade of pink, blue, green, yellow, purple, magenta, red, black and colorless. |
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MEANINGS/USES: stone of discernment may bring energies of intuition, representing the height of mental achievement; has been associated with both psychic and spiritual growth; said to sustain perfect health, intellect, and emotional well-being |
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HISTORIC
USES/REFERENCES: It has been used to dispel colds, flu, staph and strep infections, infectious cankers, herpes, ulcers, and similar infections. It has been used to heal many other conditions. |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Pisces and Capricorn |
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Garnet: crystallizes in the form of dodecahedral and trapezohedral crystals, combo of both aforementioned, masses, granules, and plate-like layers TOP |
COLOR: The color of Garnet depends upon the type it is associated with. |
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MEANING/USES: stone of health transmutes negative energies to energies that are the most beneficial. stone of commitment the loving powers that the stone brings attributes of devotion |
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HISTORIC
USES/REFERENCES: The Aztecs, Mayans, Native and South Americans, and African tribal elders have long considered Garnet to be a sacred stone. In this respect, it has been said to bring about change with great speed enhancing personal magnetism and cooperation under these circumstances. |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Leo, Virgo, Capricorn, Aquarius |
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Iolite: crystallizes in the form of masses, grains, and short prismatic crystals TOP |
COLOR: brown, blue, yellow, dark violet, grey, and green; also exhibits qualities where the X-axis shows clear yellow, Y-axis shows dark violet, blue or brown, and Z-axis shows clear blue, and in some cases shades of grey-green, green-grey, and brown-grey |
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MEANINGS/USES: called the "violet stone", used for healing, during meditations, helps to change one "painlessly"; strengthens and aligns balances male/female aspects of a person, bringing harmony to self and eliminating destructive relationships also is said to enable one to enjoy each moment eliminates debts, excellent in assisting one in all endeavors of managing money |
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HISTORIC
USES/REFERENCES: shamanic healing ceremonies to influence the spirits - the iolite ring of the shaman is worn to assure accuracy within the vision and is known to shamans as powerful "medicine" said to defy physical orders |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Libra, Sagittarius, and Taurus |
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Lapis Lazuli: crystallizes in masses, cubes, dodecahedral crystals TOP |
COLOR: deep blue, combination of minerals, primary lazurite and calcite, pyrite (prized Afghanistan lapis) |
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MEANING/USES: stone before "time was born": gains access to sacred scripts and wisdom of such info; promotes connection between earth and celestial kingdoms; provides for unification for all energy centers of body stone of total awareness: expands awareness and intellectual capacity; aids in psychic endeavors; provides objectivity, physical purity, clarity, and mental endurance; total unification with "All That Is" furthers connection between male and female attributes and balances yin-yang energies protective stone |
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HISTORIC
USES/REFERENCES: was used by Hebrews to adorn their ceremonial robes (legend: King Solomon was assisted by an angel who gave him a special ring of lapis which enabled him to control the legions of demons he used to build the temple) |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Sagittarius |
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Moonstone orthoclase (adularia) and albite minerals (feldspar group) TOP |
COLOR: silvery translucence, milky-sheen, or the exhibition of such traits on a portion of the specimen, rainbow moonstone is neutral white with opalescent flashes of blue, also shimmery peach, cream, and silver tones |
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MEANING/USES: stone for feeling: balancing, introspective, reflective, and lunar; helps in changing structures of all personal levels; brings flashes of insight; stimulates intuitive recognition; enhances perception and discernment stone for hoping and wishing cleanses negativity from chakras provides for advancement towards actualization as a perfect being; releases and removes obstacles; provides for guidance along the way talisman of good fortune; rejuvenates and alleviates many degenerative conditions; sustains body |
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USES/REFERENCES: once called a "traveler's stone": protection against perils of traveling |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Cancer, Libra and Scorpio |
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Pearls product of pearl oyster, both sea and fresh water TOP |
COLOR: white, black, gray, pinkish-white, yellow white, bluish gray, etc. |
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MEANING/USES: signifies charity, faith, innocence enhances personal integrity; provides focus symbolizes purity: provides a clear channel for advancing states of wisdom, and clean channel for receipt of spiritual guidance stone of sincerity: brings truth to situation and loyalty to a cause |
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HISTORIC USES/REFERENCES: non listed |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Cancer and Gemini |
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Quartz: Clear as silicon dioxide, crystallizes in the form of masses, grains, druses, and prysmatic hexagonal crystals Rose/Pink: masses, druses, granular structures, grains, veins, and crystal structures (rare) TOP |
COLOR: clear, red, strawberry, raspberry, rose (soft pink to golden white), rutilated, smoky, may have what is called phantoms within the crystal that may be colored or white |
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MEANING/USES: balances energy fields; traditionally thought to harmonize and align human energies (thoughts, consciousness, emotions) with universal energies and was believed to synchronize the individual and total consciousness with heavenly, advanced life-forms stone of power: connection between physical dimension and dimensions of the mind, may be used to facilitate communication between us and the celestial masters, teachers, healers calmness and clarity in all situations; clears and activates energy centers of body; purifies physical, mental and spiritual bodies; enhances flow of love and harmony on planet; used in all healing stone of gentle LOVE: calming, cooling energy; harmony; clarity; balances yin-yang energy; used for spiritual attunement to the energy of love; attunes chakras to proper frequency of energy vibration; promotes receptivity to beauty of art, music, written word; rejuvenates physical body and emotional state; powerful, loving energy |
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HISTORIC USES/REFERENCES: used by Native Americans, the African tribal systems, ancient Egyptian culture, the Mayans and the Aztecs, the Australian Aborigines, the Romans, Scots, Celts, Tibetan Buddhists, Brahmans, and many others of ancient times; it has been used by these cultures in diagnostic healing, in raising the consciousness toward the enlightened state, in communicating with the spirits and with those from other worlds; has been used for religious purposes since ancient times; one of the seven precious substances of Buddhism; said to be a stone used in high priest's breastplate ancient priests: used quartz crystals for dissolving spells, to destroy black magic, to remove all negative energies Romans: for glandular swelling, to reduce fevers, to reduce pain Scottish Highlands: for kidney diseases Medieval Times: held against tongue to assuage fever and diminish thirst |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: ALL Taurus and Libra |
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Tanzanite: crystallizes in the form of masses, grains and striated prismatic crystals TOP |
COLOR: ranges from colorless to blue or purple |
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MEANING/USES: brings together all aspects of both communication and psychic power stone of magic: produces perfect symmetry of personal power and actualization; brings understanding of the existence of other planes; unlimited time and space |
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HISTORIC USES/REFERENCES: used by ancient Celtic chiefs to aid in decisions concerning successor-ship; used to facilitate the vision which would determine the rights and privileges of those who were being considered for the position. facilitated communication with spiritual world of the ancient tribal communities which were located throughout the world |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Sagittarius, Gemini, and Libra |
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Topaz crystallizes in the form of water worn pebbles and prismatic crystals, sometimes vertically striated and sometimes with well, developed terminations TOP |
COLOR:
pink, green red, gold, yellow, blue, white, red-yellow, brown, grey, and colorless |
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MEANING/USES: stone of true love and success in all endeavors can promote creativity; replaces negativity with love and joyfulness removes doubts and promotes reasoning abilities; ethereal magnetic effect; ends and facets of stone provides both negative and positive currents (differs from quartz), linked to forces of manifestation which attraction and desire are actualized for the highest good of all, transcending all time and space crystal of potency: instrumental in visualization, meditation, and projection; enhances awareness; induces expansiveness and manifestation allows for conscious, succinct, and clear verbalization assists in bringing body, mind and spirit into union with the forces of perfection of the universe |
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HISTORIC USES/REFERENCES: breast plate of high priest; considered quite precious by the African bushman, being used in ceremonies for healing and for connecting with the spirits of the dearly departed and considered to bring wealth and health to the holder |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Sagittarius - Elemental Blue Topaz: Sagittarius and Virgo |
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Turquoise crystallizes in the form of masses, stalactites, veins, crusts, and rarely in short small and brilliantly colored, prismatic crystals TOP |
COLOR: Sleeping Beauty Turquoise is intense, medium blue, perfectly clear (bright, vivid color referred to as "Persian color"), Hubei turquoise was discovered in China and ranges from bright blue to bluish green to green |
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MEANING/USES: "brings the blue of Father Sky to the Earth and melding together the energies of the heavens with the consciousness of Mother Earth" strengthens and aligns all chakras, meridians and subtle bodies; brings any and all energies to a higher level; brings communication skills to emotional issues, to creativity, and to intuition with love for every issue spiritual to physical attunement, for healing and cleansing; valor and protection on spiritual level; stone of earth grounding; improves meditation and furthers peace of mind balances male/female aspects of a person's character, providing for mental and spiritual clarity helps one in developing psychic powers; assists in communication activities, wisdom and understanding, enhancing trust, kindness, and the recognition of beauty; stimulates initiation of romantic love Master Healer": anti-negativity stone |
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HISTORIC USES/REFERENCES: esteemed by Tibetan shaman, as holding both a spiritual and protective property; used in shamanic ceremonies; considered by Native Americans to be both a protective stone and a bestowal of goodness - used by Native American shaman to initiate rain ancient times: used to heal eye problems (cataracts), strengthen work animals, helpful in the amelioration of all diseases and disorders |
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ASTROLOGICAL SIGNS: Sagittarius, Pisces, & Scorpio |
Melody's wonderful book also lists
metals as well as gem stones.
The two metals I work with are listed below with some of their properties.
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Silver: |
brings one advantages throughout life; used in communication; can be used as mirror to the soul; nonjudgmental; regulates intuitive energies; used extensively with gem stones because it is able to both attract and retain those qualities emitted by the stone and provides a stabile influence for the jewel; energizes other stones; conducive to causing energies to bend and even become circular so that vital energy centers can be concurrently opened, stimulated, cleared and activated; draw forth negativity from body while transferring the positive forces of the other mineral: balancing agent Astrological Signs: Cancer and Aquarius |
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Gold: |
color ranges from
golden yellow, silver-white, to orange-red symbolizes the purity of the spiritual aspect of "All That Is"; symbolic of spirituality and development in the realm of complete understanding; allows beauty to come forth from the inner being; improves one's character; actualizes the intrinsic potential of the self; balances the energy fields, helps to assuage overburden of responsibility; calms and soothes; used in development, purification and balancing for the amplification of thought forms; preserves higher thought forms for later retrieval said to attract honors, wealth, happiness, alleviate stress; amplifies positive feelings; assists one in attuning to nature and its healing forces Master Healer: purification of the physical body; clears negativity from chakras and energy fields of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies capable of attracting and maintaining those qualities which are inherent within the additional stones it is used with Astrological Sign: Leo |
Gem Price Ranges:
Amber: moderate to expensive
Amethyst: moderately priced
Coral: moderate to expensive
Fluorite: moderately priced
Garnet: moderate to expensive
Iolite: moderate to expensive
Lapis Lazuli: moderate to expensive
Moonstone, Rainbow: expensive
Pearl: moderate to expensive
Quartz: moderate to expensive
Topaz: expensive
Tanzanite: expensive
Turquoise: expensive
Silver: expensive
Gold: expensive
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