Crystal Encyclopedia

AGATE: Use for grounding, enhancing protective energy and shielding practices, promoting inner strength, encouraging flexibility, and helping you surrender and go with the flow.

• AGATE, BAHIA: Use for promoting feelings of safety and security, facilitating feelings of nurturing support, enhancing self-love, and for encouraging you to create and stick to a healthy self-care routine.
• AGATE, BEAN: Use for promoting general health and wellness, encouraging self-reflection and inner work, and for cleansing energy.
• AGATE, BERBER: Use for promoting creativity, facilitating a connection with your ancestors, and accessing the meaning of important spiritual lessons.
• AGATE, BLACK: Use for grounding, calming, protection, channeling your inner strength, keeping your body in balance, assisting in clear decision-making, promoting mystical experiences, connecting with liminal spaces and energies, accessing ancestral knowledge and wisdom, facilitating journey work, enhancing protection, promoting grounding via Earth connection, helping when doling out tough love and maintaining peace in stressful households.
• AGATE, BOTSWANA: Use to embrace water element energy and for help reminding you to go with the flow.
• AGATE, BLUE LACE: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, BOTSWANA APRICOT: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, BOTSWANA BROWN: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, BOTSWANA PINK: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, BRAZILIAN BANDED: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, BUBBLEGUM: Use for energetically supporting you during inner child work, appreciating beauty, encouraging playfulness, assisting you as you work to not take life so seriously, facilitating self-care.
• AGATE, CRAZY LACE: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, DAY AND NIGHT: (May be the same stone as Sardonyx) Use to promote balanced energy among the body, mind and spirit, facilitating shadow work, and encouraging personal growth.
• AGATE, DENDRITIC: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, DENDRITIC MANGANESE: See Dendritic Agate
• AGATE, DRAGON’S EYE: Use to facilitate a connection with the energy of the Fire Element, promote personal growth and transformation, transmute stagnant energy, support you as you release bottle up emotions and energy in a healthy way, connect with your inner wisdom, and facilitate your clairvoyant skills and psychic sight.
• AGATE, DRYHEAD: Use to promote grounding, assist you in finding your roots, aiding and supporting you as you set boundaries, and discover your soul purpose.
• AGATE, FIRE: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, FLOWER: Use to find hope during times of difficulty, for encouraging you to explore new ways of thikning, for personal growth, to instill compassion, for enhancing nurturing attitudes, and to enhance creative expression.
• AGATE, GOBHI DESERT: (Also known as Wind-Worn Gobhi Agate) Use to balance elemental energy (in your energy field or in your space) and to bring the light of the Sun into your life to promote feelings of happiness and joy.
• AGATE, GOETHITE-INCLUDED: See Fire Agate
• AGATE, HOLLEY BLUE: (Also known as Holly Blue Agate, Holly Agate, Holley Agate, Holly Blue Chalcedony, Holley Chalcedony, Holly Chalcedony, or as Holley Blue Chalcedony) Use to facilitate communication with your ancestors or those who have crossed over, promote cooperation amongst family, enhance your psychic awareness, strengthen communication with beings from the animal, mineral, and plant realms; access your higher consciousness, banish feelings of shame, foster protection during astral travel, promote lucid dreaming, and enhance shamanic journeying or vision quests. Element: Air Flower: Blue Bellflower Essential Oil: Blue Tansy Companion Stone: Pink Calcite As Holley Blue Agate is a form of banded Blue Chalcedony, these properties also apply.
• AGATE, HOLLY BLUE: See Holley Blue Agate
• AGATE, IRIDESCENT: See Fire Agate
• AGATE, LAKE SUPERIOR: (Also known as Lakers) Use for grounding, enhancing your connection to the physical realm, connecting you with the energy of the water element (the life-giving source), helping you draw what you need from the limitless Universal energy that surrounds you, and aiding you in supporting the Earth’s bodies of water.
• AGATE, LANDSCAPE: See Dendritic Agate
• AGATE, LIMONITE-INCLUDED: See Fire Agate
• AGATE, MANGANESE OXIDE-INCLUDED: See Dendritic Agate
• AGATE, MARBLE: Use to facilitate communication with angels, promote clarity & clear memory, strengthen your intuition and aid in clarifying difficult situations.
• AGATE, MEDICINE BOW: Use to aid in journey work, ritual or ceremony; gain wisdom and insight from ancestors, instill a sense of courage and bravery, energetically repair the aura (especially any holes or leaks in your energy field), and promote soothing on all levels.
• AGATE, MONTANA: Use to bring peace and tranquility to yourself, encourage quick and successful grounding, promote feelings of inner peace, instill ecological consciousness, and promote caring for the earth.
• AGATE, MOSS: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, MUSHROOM: Use to energetically support you as you work through upsetting news or changes in plans, transmute unwanted or negative energy into energy that will be supportive of you, help you shift your perspective to see the gifts in a challenging person or situation, and encourage eco-consciousness and a love for the Earth.
• AGATE, OREGON EYE: Use to encourage you to step out of your comfort zone and be a bit more outgoing and to facilitate weather magic (when it is for the highest good of all).
• AGATE, PAINTED: Use to enhance your creativity and creative expression, facilitate your energy work practice, and promote happiness and joy.
• AGATE, RAINBOW: See Fire Agate
• AGATE, RED: Use to promote vitality, facilitate grounding, support you as you work to release pent up emotions in a healthy way, encourage you to openly communicate about your emotions.
• AGATE, RED BANDED: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, RIVER: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, SCENIC: See Dendritic Agate
• AGATE, SHIVA’S EYE: Use to connect with the energies of Lord Shiva, enhance the power of prayer, deepen meditation and promote present moment awareness, facilitate karmic upliftment (by removing karmic obstacles), connect you with source energy and enhance feelings of oneness, facilitate energetic cleansing and purification of the aura, aid in the development of your psychic skills, and promote balance and harmony.
• AGATE, SNAKESKIN: Use to encourage transformation through the shedding of what no longer serves you, bring peace & calming, enhance self-love & relationships, initiate the clearing of energetic pathways within the energy body, help camouflage yourself in crowds or situations, improve self-esteem & self-awareness, energetically support you as you experience grief, aid in finding lost items, soothe stress and ease worries.
• AGATE, SOUTH DAKOTA: Use to shed new light on a subject of contemplation, heighten your senses, connect yourself with the energy of ancient peoples, channel guidance from your ancestors, and instill an appreciation for the land.
• AGATE, SPOTTED: See King Cobra Jasper
• AGATE, SWEETWATER: Use for enhancing your connection to the Plant Kingdom, encouraging gratitude, and promoting an appreciation for the good things in your life.
• AGATE, TEEPEE CANYON: Use to aid you in the process of recapitulation after journey work, instill a sense of energetic safety and security, encourage harmony with nature, and to promote independence.
• AGATE, TREE: Click here to read the full article.
  AGATE, TURRITELLA: Click here to read the full article.
• AGATE, WHITE: Use to invoke protection & strength, promote positive dreams, minimize stress, guard against energy drain, encourage energetic cleansing and purification, to facilitate distance healing work, and clear the obstacles in your life.
• AGATE, WIND-WORN GOBHI: See Gobhi Desert Agate
• AGATE, YELLOWSTONE RIVER: Use to assist you with energetic healing of the waters of the planet (rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, oceans, etc.), for instilling eco-consciousness, and to promote feelings of oneness and community.

ALEXANDRITE: Click here to read the full article.

AMAZONITE: Click here to read the full article.

AMBER: Click here to read the full article.

• AMBER, BUTTERSCOTCH: See Honey Amber
• AMBER, HONEY: (Also known as Amber, Butterscotch) Use to promote feelings of divine love, promote wellness and regeneration, help you recognize and appreciate all of the sweet things in life, enhance your motivation and drive toward success, and encourage a compassionate attitude toward all beings. Since this is a type of Amber, the general properties of Amber also apply.

AMETHYST: Click here to read the full article.

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• AMETHYST, BRANDBERG: Click here to read the full article.
• AMETHYST, CHEVRON: Click here to read the full article.
• AMETHYST, INDIAN: Click here to read the full article.
• AMETHYST, GREEN: See Prasiolite
• AMETHYST, OAXACAMER: Click here to read the full article.
• AMETHYST, RED-CAPPED: Click here to read the full article.
• AMETHYST, THUNDER BAY: Click here to read the full article.
• AMETHYST, URUGUAYAN: Click here to read the full article.
• AMETHYST, VERA CRUZ: Click here to read the full article.

AMETRINE: Click here to read the full article.

ANGELITE: Click here to read the full article.

ANYOLITE: See Ruby-Zoisite

APACHE TEAR: (Also known as Brown Obsidian or as Apache Tear Drop) Use for instilling joy and banishing sadness, encouraging strong bonds between family and friends, spiritual protection, instilling inner strength during difficult experiences and enhancing courage. Apache tears are a natural form of volcanic glass — mainly obsidian, often with a dusting of perlite. The name “Apache tears” comes from a combination of history and legend. In the 1870s, a band of Apache warriors was hiding from the US Cavalry in the rugged mountains of Arizona. They believed their hiding spot was too remote for anyone to find, but the soldiers managed to track them, taking them by surprise with overpowering numbers. Fifty Apache men were killed in the ambush; the rest escaped only by running their horses off a cliff and falling to their deaths. For years afterward, people found their bones among the stones of the Pacacho Canyon. They also found the globules of dark, volcanic glass we now know as Apache tears. The legend arose that these were the tears of the Apache women, frozen into stone so their grief might never be forgotten. A later addition to this legend claims that anyone given an Apache tear as a gift will never have to cry again, because the Apache women shed enough tears to last forever, for all the people of the world. People carry them now as a reminder of the cleansing power of grief.

APACHE TEAR DROP: See Apache Tear

APATITE: (Also known as Pyroguanite or as Augusite) Use to cultivate inner strength, for clarity and focus, and to enhance your connection to the land.

• APATITE, BLUE: Click here to read the full article.
• APATITE, GOLDEN CAT’S EYE: (Also known as Golden Cat’s Eye Pyroguanite, Golden Cat’s Eye Kietyogite, Golden Cat’s Eye Fluocollophanite, Golden Cat’s Eye Estramadurite, or as Golden Cat’s Eye Agustite) Use to bring the light of the divine into your heart, enhance inner strength and will power, facilitate a connection with the earth and with the sun, aid you in recognizing the importance of the planetary and other astrological influences, and remove the ego from delicate situations.
• APATITE, GREEN: Click here to read the full article.

APOPHYLLITE: (Also known as Fish-Eye Stone) Use to amplify energy, for assisting you when connecting with your guides and angels, for promoting inner peace, to enhance meditation, and to aid you in uncovering your past lives.

• APOPHYLLITE, COLORLESS: (Also known as Fish-Eye Stone) Use to facilitate astral travel and lucid dreaming, assist in dream healing, enhance energy healing practices, purify or cleanse your aura or energy environment, bring spiritual progress, aid you in changing karmic patterns and release you from karmic cycles, open yourself to universal energy and divine wisdom, and help you to realize your perfect nature. Apophyllite is a name that refers to several related minerals, mostly clear-to-green. We often see it in the form a four-sided, very clear pyramid with the top tip squared off. But it also comes in crystal clusters, ranging in color from white to pale green, and more rarely in other colors. It’s a very high-vibration stone, great for bringing inner light and pure, positive energy. Apophyllite can also help create links between the physical and spiritual realms, making it a favorite for meditation and energy healing. The name “apophyllite” comes from a Greek root word that means “It flakes off,” which refers to its tendency to break off in little scales if it gets dried out due to heat, so store this mineral in a cool place out of direct sunlight.
• APOPHYLLITE, GREEN: (Also known as Fluorapophyllite or as Green Fish-Eye Stone) Use to facilitate astral travel and lucid dreaming, assist in dream healing, enhance energy healing practices, open your heart and allow you to receive angelic love and protection, purify or cleanse your aura or energy environment, connect you with nature and to the fairy realm (including all of its creatures), open yourself to universal energy and divine wisdom, and help you to realize your perfect nature. Apophyllite is a name that refers to several related minerals, mostly clear-to-green. We often see it in the form a four-sided, very clear pyramid with the top tip squared off. But it also comes in crystal clusters, ranging in color from white to pale green, and more rarely in other colors. It’s a very high-vibration stone, great for bringing inner light and pure, positive energy. Apophyllite can also help create links between the physical and spiritual realms, making it a favorite for meditation and energy healing. The name “apophyllite” comes from a Greek root word that means “It flakes off,” which refers to its tendency to break off in little scales if it gets dried out due to heat, so store this mineral in a cool place out of direct sunlight.

AQUAMARINE: Click here to read the full article.

ARAGONITE: (Also known as Iron Bloom) Use for grounding, to help you concentrate, and for emotional support. Aragonite is a form of calcium carbonate, the same material as calcite but in a different structure. It is the material that makes up sea shells. We often see it in two main color patterns: a brown/golden/white variety, which sometimes appears striped; and an eye-catching robin’s egg blue. The little brown-sugar colored clusters called “sputniks” are especially popular, maybe because they give off such a friendly vibe — sort of like a little mineral pet. Rarer forms of aragonite appear as clusters of colorless spikes or needles, or blue coral-like masses. This abundant mineral is found all over the world. Some forms of aragonite may contain lead or other dangerous elements, so do not use aragonite directly to make elixirs.

• ARAGONITE, BLUE: Click here to read the full article.
• ARAGONITE, BROWN: Click here to read the full article.
• ARAGONITE, GOLDEN RAY: (Also known as Golden Ray Iron Bloom) Use to bring inner joy that shines forth and affects those around you, facilitate a connection with the divine, help you achieve a feeling of oneness with all beings, promote feelings of gratitude and love, and help you overcome life’s most difficult obstacles.

ASTROPHYLLITE: Use to allow universal healing energy to flow in and cleanse your mind and spirit; soothe past life trauma, encourage you to reach for your goals, serve as a reminder to be in the present and to live in the moment, and instill feelings of gratitude for what you have in life.

ATLANTISITE: (Also known as Atlantis Stone, as Stitchitite-Serpentine or as Serpentine-Stitchitite) Use to aid in connecting you with the ancient civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria and help soothe past life trauma stemming from incarnations there, enhance your connection with nature and the plant kingdom, expand your knowledge and wisdom of how to use herbs and soothing plants, and stimulate your clairvoyant gifts (psychic sight).

ATLANTIS STONE: See Ocean Jasper

AUGUSTITE, GOLDEN CAT’S EYE: See Golden Cat’s Eye Apatite

AUSTRALIA STONE: See Noreena Jasper

AURALITE-23: Use to activate higher levels of conscious awareness, enhance meditation, energize the Merkaba Energy Body, and for Lightbody Activation.

AVALONITE: (Also known as Blue Druzy Chalcedony) Use to facilitate a connection with your guardian angels, help you to resist temptation, foster protection, enhance meditation, promote wellness, stimulate vitality, balance the male and female energies in your energy body, create a portal for connecting with those on the other side, and give you strength.

AVANTURINE: See Aventurine

AVENTURINE: (Also known as Adventurine or as Aventurine) Use for shifting your perspective, to spark new ideas, for grounding, and to instill a sense of wonder and magic.

• AVENTURINE, BLUE: (Also known as Blue Avanturine, or Blue Adventurine) Use to promote communication with spirit, for enhancing mystical experience, to connect you with the energy of the cosmos, to enhance the practice of astrological divination, and for enhancing intuitive insights.
• AVENTURINE, GREEN: Click here to read the full article.
• AVENTURINE, ORANGE: Click here to read the full article.
• AVENTURINE, RED: Click here to read the full article.
• AVENTURINE, WHITE: (Also known as White Quartz, White Avanturine, or White Adventurine) Use to promote purification of mind and spirit; instill a high standard of values, morals, and ethics; cleanse any negativity from the aura, and repair any voids within the energy body.

AVENTURINE GLASS: See Goldstone

AVVENTURINA: See Goldstone

AZEZTULITE: Use to enhance meditation and prayer (especially for world peace), stimulate the merkaba energy body, aid in the interpretation on sacred geometrical patterns in everyday life, assist with the creation of energetic vortices, and bring a feeling of peace and calming.

AZURITE: Click here to read the full article.