Crystal Encyclopedia

BAMBOO STONE: (Also known as Bamboo Stone Jasper or as Bamboo Jasper) Use to promote personal growth, connect one with nature, encourage regeneration, instill a calm and centered state of mind, and enhance your meditation practice.

BARITE: Promotes softness and gentle energy rooted in strength, encourages personal growth, and facilitates personal journey work.

• BARITE, BLUE: Enhances your communication with guardian angels, promotes psychic sight and vision, bring clarity, and clears blockages on a Karmic level.
• BARITE, BROWN DESERT ROSE: See Brown Rose Barite
• BARITE, BROWN ROSE: (Also known as Brown Barite Desert Rose) Use to promote soothing emotional wounds of the heart, help your heart blossom into the rose of love, enhance feelings of sharing and communication (especially between you and your lover), and instill a sense of independence within yourself (especially when co-dependence has been a problem).
• BARITE, COLORLESS: Use to help you to see situations more clearly, rein in new opportunities, aid you in keeping your composure during difficult times, and provide you with mental strength.
• BARITE, GOLDEN: Use to promote happiness and joy, help you feel connected with Divine energy, instill a feeling of Oneness within yourself, and clear & dissolve spiritual blockages. 
• BARITE, PEACH: Use to enhance your feminine energy, aid in inner reflection, promote peace and calming, stimulate growth in plants, encourage healthy eating habits, and keep you grounded during times of turmoil.

BASALT: Use to assist with grounding, enhance vitality, increase motivation (especially when beginning new projects or journeys), and facilitate journey-work in order to soothe trauma in your ancestral line that is continuing to cause present-life conflicts.

BERYL: Imparts spiritual strength, facilitates heart-opening, encourages emotional balance and healing, and promotes strong foundations.

• BERYL, BLUE: See Aquamarine
• BERYL, COLORLESS: See Goshenite
• BERYL, GOLDEN: See Heliodor
• BERYL, GREEN: See Emerald
• BERYL, PINK: See Morganite
• BERYL, YELLOW: See Heliodor

BIOTITE, BLACK: See Black Biotite Mica

BISMUTH: Bismuth is a semi-metal. In nature, it is silver-gray and is not found in its crystallized form. Bismuth does not crystallize naturally, because there is usually not enough space for its crystals to form properly. With a little help from humans, it is melted and re-crystallized into a beautiful iridescent rainbow form. Bismuth is excellent for improving concentration during visualization, especially for use during meditation or journey work. It has also been known for its ability to lift one’s awareness to the celestial realm while maintaining grounding. Bismuth is a stone of transformation, moving things from chaos to order. In addition, Bismuth has been known to promote cooperation in group situations and also in relationships. Bismuth is a chemical element that usually combines with other substances into ores. But when it’s in a pure state and isolated from the outside environment, it can form little pyramids with an amazing rainbow sheen. The chemical element Bismuth is the active ingredient in Pepto-Bismol, and over-the-counter remedy for digestive complaints. Pepto-Bismol was originally formulated over a hundred years ago to deal with infant diarrhea, at the time the number one cause of death among babies in the United States. The original formula was a complex concoction, and no one really knew how it worked. Once scientists figured out that bismuth was the active ingredient, the useless parts were removed, leaving the pink liquid we know today. You wouldn’t ordinarily think to use a rock to settle your stomach, but the bismuth in Pepto-Bismol is used for just that! The mountains on Venus are covered with “bismuth snow,” a bismuth sulfide that condenses from the atmosphere and accumulates at higher elevations. A similar “snow” on Venus forms from a sulfide of lead.

BLOODSTONE: (Also known as Heliotrope or as Bloodstone Jasper) Use for energetic cleansing, to promote general wellness, to transform negative energy into positive energy, to aid in receiving and interpreting guidance from your inner self, for grounding, for energetic protection, to encourage intuitive dreaming, to increase your energetic vitality and vigor, to promote feelings of courage and confidence, to facilitate brave actions, to aid you in trusting your intuition and acting upon it when it suits you, to ease difficult matters of the heart. Bloodstone is a type of green jasper (a chalcedony) that contains flecks of red hematite, which has attracted the attention of magic users since ancient times. Pliny the elder claimed it was the stone of invisibility, and Damigeron believed it control weather and eclipses. Bloodstone was also called the “Stone of Babylon,” because the ancient Babylonians believed so strongly in its magic that they used it to make important artifacts like seals and amulets. It has also been used in various ways for divination. In modern times, some crystal workers have come to associate Bloodstone with doing well in competitive situations, such as legal battles and athletic contests. Bloodstone is also known as heliotrope, a name associated with some pretty remarkable beliefs about this stone that come down to us from ancient times. Heliotrope means “sun-turner,” and not only did they believe this stone had the power to turn the sun’s rays red, they believed this would initiate other magical happenings. At various times, people have believed this stone could make water boil, change the weather, and make an amulet that would render its wearer invisible, detect the presence of poison, and produce blood from water. This is only one of the ways it has been associated with blood. It was also used historically to stop bleeding, even hemorrhaging, in various cultures too far removed to have had any cultural exchange of this belief.

BOGWOOD, GREEN: See Gary Green Jasper

BOJI STONES: Use to connect with a feeling of Universal Oneness, enhance grounding, foster protection, remove the ego, facilitate a connection with nature, instill courage, promote a sense of lightness, and encourage wellness.

BORNITE: (Also know as Peacock Ore, as Peacock Rock, or as Chalcopyrite) Use to stimulate creativity, promote wellness, instill inner-strength, encourage happiness and joy, remove negativity, and increase vitality.

BRAZILIANITE: Use to bring soothing energy into the heart, aid in facilitating successful shamanic journeying, and promote wellness and recovery. 

BRONZITE: Use to balance your masculine and feminine energies, aid in grounding the astral body during astral travel, promote wellness and regeneration, enhance self-confidence, encourage inner-reflection, and instill radiance.

BUDDSTONE: (Also known as African Jade, as Plasma, or as Budstone) Use to foster balance, promote wellness & renewal, help in the speedy recovery of unhealthy plants, and enhance your connection with nature.

BUDSTONE: See Buddstone

BUMBLEBEE STONE: See Bumblebee Jasper

BUSTAMITE: Use to enhance the energy of other crystals, provide a feeling of being nurtured and supported, and encourage you to find and pursue your true calling in life.

BYTOWNITE: (Also known as Golden Labradorite) Use to instill Divine wisdom, connect with Angelic guides, enhance meditation, and promote safety during astral travel & dream work.