Crystal Encyclopedia

CALCITE: Use for clarity, creativity, and energizing.

• CALCITE, APPLE: Use to help you to resist temptation, promote general wellness, stimulate vitality, balance the male and female energies in your energy body, and allow you to become a clear and perfect channel for divine universal soothing energy.
• CALCITE, ANGEL WING: Use to promote higher consciousness, spiritual guidance, and a connection to angelic realms. A layered, milky white crystal with an etched shimmer.
• CALCITE, AQUA: Click here to read the full article.
• CALCITE, BLACK: (Also known as Master Shamanite) Use to facilitate shamanic journeying & meditation practices, promote powerful spiritual protection, aid in your grounding exercises, dispel negative energies, prevent psychic attacks, and assist with spiritual cleansing & purification.
• CALCITE, BLACK PHANTOM: Use to support spiritual awakening, self-reflection, and recognizing personal growth. Serves as a touchstone for past life work, Akashic record readings, and understanding pivotal life moments.
• CALCITE, BLOOD: See Sangre Calcite
• CALCITE, BLUE: Use to cool the flames of anger, enhance wellness, promote peace & tranquility, balance your emotions, encourage truth in communication, and instill happiness & joy.
• CALCITE, BLUE BANDED: (Also known as Blue Onyx) Use for emotional release, letting go of daily stresses, restoring calm, self-expression, clear communication, and gentle flow of emotions. A translucent, banded variety of blue calcite with tan or sandy stripes. Often used in meditation or as a calming touchstone. Also valued for carvings and art due to its softness and vibrant color.
• CALCITE, BROWN: Use to deepen communication with your inner self, instill a playful relationship with your inner child, balance your emotions, encourage joy & happiness, and help you recognize the love you deserve.
• CALCITE, BROWN TOFFEE: Use to instill joy, kindness, and calm amidst life’s stresses, encourage finding sweetness in everyday moments, maintain perspective, and create ripple effects of positivity in your life and surroundings.
• CALCITE, CARAMEL: Use for transformation and transmutation of old patterns, beliefs, or ways of being into something new. Works best when feeling “stuck” and seeking direction. Can be used during journaling, tarot, or Oracle readings, or other practices to gain clarity and guidance for personal growth.
• CALCITE, CARIBBEAN BLUE: Use for emotional clarity, calm, and gentle guidance. A soft blue-green variety similar to Aqua Calcite but with a paler, tropical hue. Supports relaxation, stress relief, and connecting with subtle energies.
• CALCITE, CHAMPAGNE: Use to enhance your self-confidence, allow your inner light to shine through, increase joy & happiness, bring prosperity & abundance, regulate your emotions and promote an “attitude of gratitude.”
• CALCITE, CHOCOLATE DOG TOOTH: Use to slow down, “chew things over,” practice discernment, carefully consider options before moving forward, support thoughtful decision-making, strategic planning, and regaining energy and confidence once a path is chosen. Named for its tooth-like shape, chocolate brown and opaque.
• CALCITE, CLEAR LIGHT: Use to support clarity, spiritual insight, and personal growth. Extremely transparent with an acid-washed, waxy texture, encouraging a sense of light and purity within.
• CALCITE, COBALTOAN PINK: Click here to read the full article.
• CALCITE, COLORLESS: (Also known as Optical Calcite, White Calcite, and Iceland Spar) Use to intensify visual imagery during meditation, astral travel, dreaming, and shamanic journeying; to provide clarity, reveal the veiled meaning in a situation, to cleanse yourself, your aura, and your environment of negative energies; to increase vitality, quicken your spiritual development, increase awareness, facilitate intuitive visions and psychic powers, aid in channeling, encourage motivation and dispel laziness, offer you a space for reflection, and stimulate your memory. PLEASE NOTE: This stone is only known as Optical Calcite or Iceland Spar when it is held up to images or words and creates a double-refracted image.
• CALCITE, EMERALD: (Also known as Emerald Green Calcite) Use to instill in yourself a sense of self-love, soothe your broken heart, enhance your grounding practices, bring protection, and shield your aura from outside energies.
• CALCITE, EMERALD GREEN: See Emerald Calcite
• CALCITE, GOETHITE-INCLUDED: Use for grounding, protection, and energy amplification. Features brown-black glittery needles on dog tooth calcite, supporting personal insight and dynamic energy work.
• CALCITE, GOLD: See Golden Calcite
• CALCITE, GOLDEN: (Also known Gold Calcite) Use to enhance self-confidence, let your inner light shine through and be seen by others, encourage wellness, increase joy and happiness, manifest prosperity and abundance, stabilize the emotional body, and deepen one’s “attitude of gratitude.”
• CALCITE, GOLDEN BANDED: Use to enhance self-confidence, inner strength, and radiance. Strongly associated with solar energy and summer solstice work. Features subtle golden bands.
• CALCITE, GREEN: Use to enhance vitality, promote wellness, diminish jealous behaviors, stimulate plant growth, enhance your connection with nature, and banish negative thought allowing you to have a more positive outlook.
• CALCITE, HONEY: Use to harness the energy of the sun, promote self-confidence, stabilize the emotional body, enhance feelings of warmth & soothing for restored wellness, instill joy & happiness, balance your male & female energies, aid in journeying work, facilitate meditation & conscious awareness, increase the effectiveness of breath-work and bring abundance & prosperity.
• CALCITE, INDIGO: Use for spiritual connection, guidance from higher self or spirit guides, clarity during uncertainty, facilitating insight, inner direction, and alignment with personal intuition. Deep, intense blue calcite with occasional banding and gem-like qualities.
• CALCITE, LEMURIAN AQUA: Use to connect with intuition, Akashic records, dream healing, divination, past-life exploration, enhance spiritual guidance, and connect with higher self or guides. Bright, light-to-medium blue calcite with occasional banding and subtle brown or sandy layers.
• CALCITE, LIME: Use to energize, uplift, overcome fatigue, boost motivation, and increase excitement or drive. Bright, lime-green calcite in rough or tumbled forms, varying in transparency.
• CALCITE, MANGANO PINK: Click here to read the full article.
• CALCITE, MARIPOSA: Use for transformation, rebirth, personal growth, connecting with ancestors, navigating liminal states, and supporting personal reinvention or new life steps. Named for monarch butterfly–like coloring, typically clear or transparent with orange phantoms caused by iron inclusions.
• CALCITE, OPTICAL: See Colorless Calcite
• CALCITE, ORANGE: Click here to read the full article.
• CALCITE, ORCHID: (Also known as Salmon Calcite) Use to embrace unique gifts, quirks, and individuality, cultivate self-acceptance, confidence, and authenticity, and amplify personal strengths. Soft pink-orange calcite, also called salmon calcite, with a warm, orchid-like hue.
• CALCITE, PHANTOM: Use for inner growth, personal journeys, self-reflection, understanding past cycles, and transformative experiences. Features internal growth “phantoms.”
• CALCITE, PINEAPPLE: Use to increase will and self-confidence, instill optimism, calm sarcastic, pessimistic and overly analytical personalities; alleviate anger and frustration, calm worries, soothe nerves, enhance wisdom, and facilitate transitional periods and adjustments.
• CALCITE, PINK: Use to nurture, heal emotionally, cultivate empathy, self-compassion, and loving-kindness; support emotional release; and soothe difficult days. Soft to vibrant pink calcite, sometimes intense magenta.
• CALCITE, PISATCHIO: Use to promote calm, grounding, emotional balance, self-care, nurturing, community connection, and harmonious relationships. Soft, muted green calcite from Afghanistan.
• CALCITE, POKER CHIP: Use to take calculated risks, foster personal growth, courage, decisiveness, and strategic action. Flat, stacked crystals resembling poker chips.
• CALCITE, PURPLE: Use for spiritual clarity, purpose, deepening connection to spirit, ritual, meditation, journaling, crystallizing insights, intuitive growth, and alignment with spiritual path. Rare amethyst-colored calcite.
• CALCITE, RAINBOW: Use to instill happiness and joy, promote positive thinking, and calm negative feelings from emotional trauma. This is a banded variety of Calcite that contains many varied colors. It holds the combined properties of any color of Calcite that is exhibited in the specific piece.
• CALCITE, RED: Use for energetic support, to promote inner strength, calm you when you’re feeling fear, assist you with problem-solving, help you attract love, and connect you with the fire element.
• CALCITE, RED CORAL: Use to instill emotional balance, promote vitality, connect with the energy of the water element, and encourage wellness & renewal.
• CALCITE, RED DRAGON’S TOOTH: Use to embody transformation, strength, willpower, courage, sacred rage, righteous empowerment, and fuel bold action. Striking illustrated red calcite with tooth-like crystals and red core with white cap.
• CALCITE, ROOTBEER: Use to enhance communication with your inner self, facilitate a playful relationship with your inner child, balance your emotions, bring inner joy and happiness, and remove feelings of self-hatred that may keep you from treating yourself with the love you deserve.
• CALCITE, SALMON: See Orchid Calcite
• CALCITE, SAND: Use for gratitude, manifestation, co-creation with the universe, aligning personal intention with universal energy, and spiritual growth. Rare, double-terminated variety shaped like a blimp or football, with rough, grainy texture resembling cement or sand.
• CALCITE, SANGRE: (Also known as Blood Calcite) Use to honor family roots and spiritual heritage, promote healing, vitality, strength, grounding, and renewal.
• CALCITE, SOMERSET CIDER: Use for celebration, community connection, joy, vitality, protection, nourishment, seasonal rituals, gathering, gratitude, and honoring natural cycles. Honey-golden calcite from Somerset, England, known for apple orchards and cider-making heritage.
• CALCITE, STRAWBERRY: Use to promote vitality, to enhance sexual and creative energies, to help you energetically remove stagnant emotional energies, to promote motivation, to instill willpower, to elevate the spirit, to dispels laziness, and to promote feelings of determination.
• Calcite, Tangerine
• CALCITE, WELSH: Use to enhance intuition, regulate emotions, connect with water energy, support deep healing, rituals or practices focused on water, sacred wells, or emotional cleansing, and cultivate calm, clarity, and intuitive connection. Soft, milky-white calcite from Wales resonating strongly with water element.
• CALCITE, WHITE: Use to uncover hidden potential, reveal inner truth, self-discovery, insight, clarity, refinement, and emergence of unseen qualities. Elegant white calcite resembling Italian marble used for sculptures.
• CALCITE, ZEBRA: Use to balance duality, support shadow work, emotional and energetic balancing, walk liminal spaces, and accompany rituals, spell work, or spiritual practices exploring light and dark energies. Signature banding with warm golden-orange tones.
  

CALLIGRAPHY STONE: See Coquina Jasper

CALSILICA, RAINBOW: Use to align the spiritual, emotional, and astral bodies, and to balance your energy.

CARBORUNDUM: See Silicon Carbide

CARNELIAN: Click here to read the full article.

CARTOGRAPHY STONE: See Coquina Jasper

CASSITERITE: Use to help keep you grounded while performing shamanic or dream work, as well as to assist with manifestation.

CATACLASTITE: See Cataclysmic Jasper

CATACLYSMITE: See Cataclysmic Jasper

CAVANSITE: Click here to read the full article.

CELADONITE: Use to facilitate a connection with the fairy realm, connect with your inner child, enhance your connection with the earth and with the plant kingdom; and provide clarity of thought, approaching a situation from the heart.

CELESTINE: See Celestite

CELESTITE: (Also known as Celestine) Use to enhance your intuition, to facilitate communication with your guides or with animal archetypes, to enhance feelings of peace and compassion, to stimulate hope, to help you overcome loss and work through grief in a healthy way, to enhance group communication and aid everyone involved in working toward a common goal, and to allow you to speak or express your highest truth. Celestite is an ore of strontium, the element used to produce brilliant red fireworks. But the mineral itself is a beautiful pale blue color, which is where it gets its “heavenly” name. It forms beautiful geodes, and in fact, the largest known geode is a 35-foot celestite. While it’s too fragile to use in jewelry, it’s a wonderful stone to use for prayer and meditation. Celestite is a brittle mineral and pieces of celestite geodes break off easily, so handle it carefully. It’s also best to keep it away from water and direct sunlight.

CERUSSITE: Use to help you to maintain a connection to the physical body and to the earth during spirit work or shamanic journeying; and enhance meditation.

CHALCEDONY:

• CHALCEDONY, BLACK MYSTIC: Use to stimulate intuition and psychic development, promote psychic self-defense and protection, “lock” your aura for protection against outside energies or planetary influences, help you see the bright side even in the darkest of times, bring balance to body, mind, and spirit, and allow you to acknowledge and then transform your shadow side and negative aspects for the good of all beings. The name chalcedony (pronounced “kal-SEH-dony” or “chal-SEH-dony”) is a blanket term for many varieties of cryptocrystalline (small-grained) quartz. Often when jewelers and gemologists talk about chalcedony, they mean the white-to-blue variety, but we’ve also seen lovely specimens of black mystic chalcedony, and other types exist in almost every color. In fact, many forms of quartz are technically also forms of chalcedony: jaspers, agates, onyx — even petrified wood! The reason for this is that when Earth’s geological activity break up her abundant supply of quartz, small crystals often morph into something new, picking up all kinds of minerals and other stuff in the process. Metaphysical uses: Chalcedony in a stone of balance, which can counteract any scattered tendencies, as when sometimes we want to have things both ways. Compromise and generosity, chalcedony’s gifts, encourage our better side. The stone fosters openness, agreeability, and personal charm. Its milky appearance suggests some of the properties historically associated with it; for example, Italian women traditionally wear chalcedony beads after childbirth for successful lactation.
• CHALCEDONY, BLUE: Click here to read the full article.
• CHALCEDONY, BLUE DRUZY: See Avalonite
• CHALCEDONY, HOLLEY: See Holley Blue Agate
• CHALCEDONY, HOLLEY BLUE: See Holley Blue Agate
• CHALCEDONY, HOLLY: See Holley Blue Agate
• CHALCEDONY, HOLLY BLUE: See Holley Blue Agate
• CHALCEDONY, PINK: Use to aid in recovering your positive childhood memories, help you to value all life (even the tiniest creature), instill compassion toward all living things, connect with the energies of the Goddess Kuan Yin, and balance your emotions. The name Chalcedony (pronounced “kal-SEH-dony” or “chal-SEH-dony”) is a blanket term for many varieties of cryptocrystalline (small-grained) quartz. Often when jewelers and gemologists talk about Chalcedony, they mean the white-to-blue variety, but we’ve also seen lovely specimens of Black Mystic Chalcedony, and other types exist in almost every color. In fact, many forms of quartz are technically also forms of Chalcedony: jaspers, agates, onyx — even petrified wood! The reason for this is that when Earth’s geological activity break up her abundant supply of quartz, small crystals often morph into something new, picking up all kinds of minerals and other stuff in the process. Chalcedony in a stone of balance, which can counteract any scattered tendencies, as when sometimes we want to have things both ways. Compromise and generosity, Chalcedony’s gifts, encourage our better side. The stone fosters openness, agreeability, and personal charm. Its milky appearance suggests some of the properties historically associated with it; for example, Italian women traditionally wear Chalcedony beads after childbirth for successful lactation.
  

CHALCOPYRITE: See Bornite

CHAROITE: Click here to read the full article.

CHERT, GREEN: Use to soothe emotions and promote mental stability. Green Chert is a dense, cryptocrystalline quartz mineral colored green by traces of oxidized iron.

CHIASTOLITE: (Also known as Cross Stone): Use to align and balance your energy body, to balance the body, mind, and spirit, to help you manage his or her responsibilities, to open your heart after you’ve been emotionally hurt, to more deeply instill your values and ethics and help to make them a priority in your life, to lift your spirit, and to promote group cooperation. Since Chiastolite is a variety of Andalusite, these properties also apply.

CHRYSANTHEMUM STONE: (Also known as Flowering Gabbro) Use to balance the flow of yin & yang energies, allow you to see your positive and negative aspects (to help in overcoming dependence on the ego), and aid you in growing into your spiritual self.

CHRYSOBERYL: Use for enhancing inner strength and resolve, encouraging you to seek mystical experiences, shifting your perceptions and opening your mind to new ideas, and grounding your spirit into the physical realm.

CHRYSOCOLLA: Click here to read the full article.

• CHRYSOCOLLA, DRUZY: (Also known as Gemmy Chrysocolla or Gem Silica) Use for strengthening your relationship with your parents or children, bringing emotional balance, kindling inner strength, and improving communication. Since this is a variety of Chrysocolla, properties such as promoting peace and compassion, deepening your connection to Earth, and supporting planetary healing, also apply. Druzy Chrysocolla is a natural formation, in which a fine layer of quartz druze forms over chrysocolla. Some of these pieces also have small inclusions of malachite and/or calcite. These pieces come from Peru. The name ‘Chrysocolla’ means ‘gold glue,’ because the ancient Greeks used it in soldering that metal. It’s one of a group of brightly colored minerals — along with turquoise, malachite, azurite and a few others — that indicates the presence of copper veins. Safety note: Since chrysocolla contains copper, please don’t use it to make elixirs.
• CHRYSOCOLLA, GEMMY: See Druzy Chrysocolla
  
  

CHRYSOPRASE: Click here to read the full article.

CINNABAR: Click here to read the full article.

CINNAMON STONE: See Hessionite Garnet

CITRINE: Click here to read the full article.

CLINOZOISITE: Use to aid with detoxification, promote clarity and ease stress. Clinozoisite is bicolored because it combines an epidote-based mineral with pink manganese silicate.

CONCRETION, FAIRY STONE: (Also known as Fairy Stone) Use to open portals to other worlds, to call on the fairies to help your wishes come true, facilitate communication with beings from the fairy realm (i.e. fairies, sprites, nymphs, ents, etc.), for grounding, bringing magic back into your love life, and encouraging a sense of peace and calming in yourself. These fascinating shapes formed in Canadian glacial lakes when calcium carbonate settled into glacial clay formations. We call them “fairy stones,” the English version of their Algonquian name, though their shapes have inspired many other whimsical names such as “mud babies.” After forming in lakes these concretions washed downstream, where curious people would pick them up and puzzle over their rounded, often human- or animal-like shapes. Another name for them is Harricana, meaning “river biscuit,” which is also the name of one main river where they’re found. Canadian natives collected the stones as protective amulets, both to carry and to place in the home, to protect against bad spirits and bring good luck. They were very lucky when given to others, so that an especially beautiful one might make a gift for a loved one. Though I’ve never seen any reference to them being used as toys, they look so much like people, animals and objects that it’s hard not to imagine Algonquian children collecting and playing with them.

COPPER: Use for aiding in motivation, increasing self-love, encouraging an optimistic attitude, enhancing confidence, overcoming negative thought patterns and conditioning, creating balance between the physical and ethereal bodies, stimulating telepathy, bringing in good luck, grounding and amplifying energy and intention. Copper is a metal sometimes found in a pure state, and sometimes as part of a variety of colorful ores, including chrysocolla, cuprite, azurite and malachite. It was the earliest metal discovered and developed by mankind. The human race began developing technology through this easy-to-find, easy-to-work metal, and it is still very important today. Pipes, electrical wiring, and the Statue of Liberty are made of copper. It’s also the key element in important alloys, such as bronze, brass and sterling silver. Copper was the earliest metal to come into common use all over the world. One of the reasons is that it’s often found in a relatively pure form, close to the surface. This natural formation of metal is called “native copper.” In the Midwest, we have our own native copper mines in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where Native Americans discovered copper nuggets. Over time, they learned to use stone mauls to hammer the metal out into a foil, using fire and water to make it less brittle. Once they had the pure foil, they could use it to form lots of useful, decorative and ceremonial objects. In various Native American cultures, native copper turned into beads, tools, rings, earrings, weapons, armor and bells. Europeans who had been cultured to believe Native Americans were “primitive” were amazed when they saw that, in reality, these people produced an amazing array of sophisticated metal items. Use care! While copper, in very small amounts, is necessary to the human body, in larger amounts it is toxic. Please don’t use it in elixirs, take care when handling it, and don’t let children put it in their mouths.

CORAL: Use for connecting with the energy of the water element, for going with the flow, and to enhance group cooperation.

• CORAL, FOSSIL: See Coral Fossil
  
• CORAL, RED: Use to increase vitality, aid in grounding, enhance spiritual devotion, promote wellness, foster protection from negative energy, and facilitate communication with your ancestors.
• CORAL, WHITE: Use to connect with the water element and to encourage communal tending of waterways and water sources.
  

CORUNDUM: Use for strength, courage, bravery, and for enhancing energetic protection.

• CORUNDUM, BLUE STAR: See Blue Star Sapphire
  
• CORUNDUM, RED STAR: See Star Ruby
• CORUNDUM, YELLOW: See Yellow Sapphire
  

COVELLITE: Use to enhance your intuition and psychic skills, provide guidance about your life path or soul journey, motivate you to accomplish your goals, foster protection during journey shamanic work, and enhance the energy of ritual or ceremony.

CREEDITE: Use to allow yourself to work through your emotions safely & naturally, connect with the element of water to wash away feelings & thoughts that need to be released, promote energetic cleansing and purification of the emotional body, shield and protect delicate or sensitive energies, aid you in recovering (mentally, spiritually, emotionally) after someone has invaded your space or depleted your energy (consciously or subconsciously), and assist you in learning how to deflect a psychic attack.

CROCODILE ROCK: See Kambaba Jasper

CROCODILE STONE: See Kambaba Jasper

CROSS STONE: See Chiastolite

CUPRITE: Use to promote feelings of safety, facilitate rites of passage, and support you as you work to soothe emotional wounds.

CYANITE, BLACK: See Black Kyanite

CYANITE, BLUE STAR: See Blue Star Kyanite

CYANITE, GREEN: See Green Kyanite