Crystal Encyclopedia

JADE:

• JADE, AFRICAN: See Buddstone
• JADE, AFRICAN (ALTERNATIVE): See Seriphos Quartz
• JADE, BLUE: Use to enhance group communication and cooperation, allow yourself to speak your inner truth, bring good fortune, enhance your creativity, stimulate success in your business endeavors, and bring peace and calming during chaotic situations. The term “Jade” can refer to several minerals, but its traditional properties correspond amazingly well. Chinese nephrite jade and ancient Mesoamerican jadeite were both held to be the most precious stones, and are associated with wealth and luck in life as well as good standing in the afterlife. In both cultures, burial practices included jade: in China, pieces of jade were pressed into the nine body openings of the deceased, while in Mesoamerica mourners placed a piece of jade on the deceased’s tongue to serve as his or her heart in the afterlife. It’s truly amazing to see this amount of correspondence between cultures who had no way of knowing about each other! Some forms of jade (jadeite) contain aluminum and iron, and therefore should not be used to make elixirs.
• JADE, CHYTHA: Click here to read the full article.
• JADE, GREEN: Use for gaining wisdom and insight through meditation, to bring love and compassion, for energetic protection, to bring your mind, body, and spirit into balance, to bring luck, to encourage new friendships, to instill independence, to stimulate creativity, to bring intuitive dreams, to promote peace and calming, to cleanse your energetic body, to assist you with manifesting wealth and prosperity, and for personal growth. The term “Jade” can refer to several minerals, but its traditional properties correspond amazingly well. Chinese nephrite jade and ancient Mesoamerican jadeite were both held to be the most precious stones, and are associated with wealth and luck in life as well as good standing in the afterlife. In both cultures, burial practices included jade: in China, pieces of jade were pressed into the nine body openings of the deceased, while in Mesoamerica mourners placed a piece of jade on the deceased’s tongue to serve as his or her heart in the afterlife. It’s truly amazing to see this amount of correspondence between cultures who had no way of knowing about each other!
• JADE, GREEN JADEITE: See Green Jadeite
• JADE, HUNAN: Use to aid in personal development and growth, assist in emotional soothing of the heart, promote inner peace, encourage compassionate attitudes, help you find stillness during meditation, and encourage Buddha-like attitudes. The term “Jade” can refer to several minerals, but its traditional properties correspond amazingly well. Chinese nephrite jade and ancient Mesoamerican jadeite were both held to be the most precious stones, and are associated with wealth and luck in life as well as good standing in the afterlife. In both cultures, burial practices included jade: in China, pieces of jade were pressed into the nine body openings of the deceased, while in Mesoamerica mourners placed a piece of jade on the deceased’s tongue to serve as his or her heart in the afterlife. It’s truly amazing to see this amount of correspondence between cultures who had no way of knowing about each other! Some forms of jade (jadeite) contain aluminum and iron, and therefore should not be used to make elixirs.
• JADE, NEPHRITE GREEN: (Also known as Green Nephrite) Use to bring wealth and prosperity, to facilitate a connection with nature, for energy support, to assist you as you grow your knowledge of plants and the plant kingdom (especially in skills such as herbalism), to encourage good health habits, and to promote good luck. As Green Nephrite is a type of Jade, the properties of Green Jade also apply.
• JADE, NEW: See Serpentine
• JADEITE, GREEN: (Also known as Green Jadeite Jade) Use to disintegrate negative energy, restore wellness, aid in manifesting spiritual abundance, to bring protection (especially of women an children), and remove obstacles on your path to enlightenment. As Jadeite is a type of Jade, the properties of Jade also apply. The term “Jade” can refer to several minerals, but its traditional properties correspond amazingly well. Chinese nephrite jade and ancient Mesoamerican jadeite were both held to be the most precious stones, and are associated with wealth and luck in life as well as good standing in the afterlife. In both cultures, burial practices included jade: in China, pieces of jade were pressed into the nine body openings of the deceased, while in Mesoamerica mourners placed a piece of jade on the deceased’s tongue to serve as his or her heart in the afterlife. It’s truly amazing to see this amount of correspondence between cultures who had no way of knowing about each other! Some forms of jade (jadeite) contain aluminum and iron, and therefore should not be used to make elixirs.

JASPER:

• JASPER, AFRICAN: (Origin – Africa) Use for grounding, centering, calming your energy, meditation, & working through difficult situations. You may also encounter African Banded Jasper, which shares the same qualities but also displays prominent banding.
  
• JASPER, AFRICAN BANDED: (Origin – Africa) Use for grounding, centering, calming your energy, meditation, & working through difficult situations.
  
• JASPER, AFRICAN TURQUOISE: Use for fostering great change and transformation, opening your mind to new possibilities, encouraging balance, increasing confidence, promoting self-development, expanding wisdom, clearing and focusing your mind and finding your higher purpose.
  
• JASPER, AUTUMN: (Origin – Unknown) (Also known as Confetti Jasper) Use for balancing your spiritual aspects, earth/nature connection, & honoring the earth. This material may be a trade name for a very low-grade of Unakite with additional Quartz.
  
• JASPER, AUTUMN LEAF: (Origin – Atlas mountains, Morocco) Use for grounding, enhancing mystery, stimulating your intuition, ancestor work, & personal journeys. This material is entirely different from the Autumn Jasper listed above.
  
• JASPER, BAHIA: See Judy’s Jasper
  
• JASPER, BAMBOO: See Bamboo Stone
  
• JASPER, BAMBOO STONE: See Bamboo Stone
  
• JASPER, BANDED AFRICAN: Use for grounding and centering, calming your energy, facilitating meditation, and coping with difficult situations. Jaspers are primarily quartz (silicon dioxide, or SO2) which has been broken down and reformed within the earth, often picking up traces of other minerals in the process. Red Jasper, for example, contains traces of hematite. More complex jaspers may even include veins or small pieces of other minerals. Some jaspers are actually agates, rhyolites, or… well, whatever. For the sake of this list, we’re just going to go by what they’re commonly called. In general, jaspers are associated with grounding and connection to Mother Earth. The heavily patterned ones are often also associated with creativity and mental focus.
  
• JASPER, BANDED TIGER: (Origin – Africa) Use for instilling compassion, inner-strength, self-confidence, intuitive insight, energetic protection, courage, peace and calming, and abundance. This material may be a trade name for a low-grade of Tiger Iron (a combination of Red Jasper, Hematite, and Golden Tiger’s Eye), where the Golden Tiger’s eye does not display any chatoyancy.
  
• JASPER, BAT CAVE: (Origin – Prineville, Oregon, USA) (Also known as Rim Jasper) Use for emotional support, gentle grounding, communication, trusting instincts, & helping you to see things clearly.
  
• JASPER, BIG BANG: (Origin – various) Use for pulling things together and cementing things into place. This name seems to be given to any conglomerate Jasper.
  
• JASPER, BIGGS BLUE PICTURE: (Origin – Oregon, USA) Use for creative expression, releasing things that no longer serve you, breaking old patterns, & reconnection with your authentic self. This is a variety of Biggs Formation Picture Jasper that displays additional qualities due to the blue color, but it also maintains all of the properties of Biggs Formation Picture Jasper.
  
• JASPER, BIGGS FORMATION PICTURE: (Origin – Oregon, USA) Use for creativity, release, nurturing, & emotional support.
  
• JASPER, BIRD’S EYE RHYOLITE: (Origin – Chihuahua, Mexico) Use for protection, dealing with changes, completion, understanding & listening to messages, creativity, motivation, grounding, & dispelling negative energy.
  
• JASPER, BLACK: (Origin – India) Use for grounding, protection, removal of the ego, honesty, & self-reflection.
  
• JASPER, BLOODSTONE: See Bloodstone
  
• JASPER, BLUE DREAM: (Origin – Nevada, United States) This is likely a similar material to Maligano Jasper, but with a different origin. It has similar properties to Maligano Jasper.
  
• JASPER, BOEKENHOUT (WITH SPIRIT QUARTZ): (Origin – Boekenhout, South Africa) Use for enhancing meditation, promoting cosmic consciousness, connecting you with your guides, and instilling feelings of oneness. NOTE: Melody listed this as a “Grand Formation” stone.
  
• JASPER, BOGWOOD: See Gary Green Jasper
• JASPER, BRAZIL: (Origin – Brazil) Use for promoting creativity, enhancing energetic protection while traveling, and for enhancing your dream work.
• JASPER, BRAZIL BANDED: (Origin – Brazil) Use for setting boundaries, walking the liminal spaces between realms, & spirit or ancestor communication.
  
• JASPER, BRECCIA: See Big Bang Jasper
  
• JASPER, BRECCIATED: (Origin – South Africa, Australia) Use to aid you in sorting through details, assist in pulling strands of your life together, strengthen friendships and family bonds, mend broken relationships, provide strength, bring mental clarity, remove negativity and unwanted energy, facilitate soul retrieval practices, and enhance journey work. This material typically consists of an aggregate of Red Jasper & other materials, but can be made from any type of Jasper.
  
• JASPER, BRECCIATED MOOKAITE: See Mookaite Jasper, Brecciated
  
• JASPER, BROWN: See Walnut Jasper
  
• JASPER, BROWN MARBLE: See Marble Jasper
  
• JASPER, BRUNEAU: See Bruneau Canyon Jasper
  
• JASPER, BRUNEAU CANYON: (Origin – Bruneau, Idaho) (Also known as Bruneau Jasper) Use for being in the flow of cosmic timing, reverence for spirit, completion of cycles, and for promoting balance and alignment in whatever ways you need it.
• JASPER, BUMBLEBEE: Click here to read the full article.
• JASPER, BUTTERMILK: (Origin – Mozambique) Use for inner strength & independence. NOTE: This material may be another trade name for Archaean Butterstone (a type of Serpentine).
  
• JASPER, CALDERA: See Gary Green Jasper
  
• JASPER, CAMOUFLAGE: (Origin – China) Use for promoting spiritual strength, attracting abundance, inviting in new opportunities, and for supporting you if you are struggling with performance worries.
  
• JASPER, CAPPUCCINO: (Origin – China or India) Use for supporting you as you find healthy ways to deal with stress, enhancing your grounding practice, and for energizing you when you are feeling drained.
  
• JASPER, CATACLYSMIC: (Origin – the ‘Diamond Region’ of Namibia, Africa) Use for promoting new beginnings, facilitating transformation, encouraging inner strength, and for instilling hope. This stone formed suddenly under intense pressure.
  
• JASPER, CHERRY CREEK: (Origin – China) Use for assisting you when making important decisions, to instill happiness, to provide you with insight as to your life purpose, and to help encourage or restore your passion or zest for life.
  
• JASPER, CHINESE PAINTING: See Scenic Jasper
• JASPER, CHIPBOARD RHYOLITE: (Origin – La Paz County, Arizona) Use for stimulating your awareness of important “to-do’s”, to help you determine what’s truly important so you can focus on easing your worry about unimportant things, to help you see the bigger picture in a situation, and to bring hidden things to the surface where they can benefit from your attention.
  
• JASPER, CHOHUA: See Scenic Jasper
  
• JASPER, COBRA: Use to bring clarity and peace, assist you in moving forward on your path, foster spiritual growth, instill confidence and the courage to grow and change, and help toddlers take their first steps emotionally.
  
• JASPER, CONFETTI: See Autumn Jasper
• JASPER, COQUINA: Click here to read the full article.
• JASPER, COSMIC: (Origin – Marovato Region of Madagascar) Use for expanding your way of thinking about a situation or about the world, to assist with astral travel, for promoting dreamwork, and to enhance dream recall and interpretation.
  
• JASPER, CROCODILE: See Kambaba Jasper
• JASPER, DALMATIAN DACITE : See Dalmatian Jasper
• JASPER, DALMATIAN: (Origin – Chihuahua, Mexico) Use for promoting a deeper connection with nature, enhancing animal communication and connection with your companion animals or familiars, and facilitating communication with your guides. This stone is sometimes incorrectly called Panther Jasper, not to be confused with the true Panther Jasper.
  
• JASPER, DENDRITIC: Use to bring focus and clarity, cultivate peace and calming, foster a connection to earth and plants, help you see the bigger picture, and aid in your writing endeavors.
  
• JASPER, DESCHUTES: (Origin – Biggs Junction, Oregon) Use for promoting rest & rejuvenation and for restoring balance between your mind and body.
  
• JASPER, DRAGON’S BLOOD: (Origin – South Africa) Use for instilling courage & bravery, for energetic support during times of emotional support, to increase inner strength, to enhance feelings of personal power that will support you, to bring luck, to enhance knowledge and wisdom, and for energetic shielding and protection.
  
• JASPER, DUNBOYNE: See Palagonite Jasper
  
• JASPER, DYNASTY: (Origin – Jalisco, Mexico) Use for promoting comfort, to help you get clarity surrounding the emotions you’re feeling, and to help you tap into your intuition for guidance about the most supportive way forward through a situation. This stone may be the same stone as Imperial Jasper under a different name.
  
• JASPER, ECLIPSE: (Origin – Indonesia) Use for bringing balance to light & dark and for supporting you during spiritual shadow work. Please Note: Since this is a form of Bumblebee Jasper, it also holds the energies of that stone.
  
• JASPER, ELEPHANT SKIN: See Coquina Jasper
  
• JASPER, EMPEROR: See Sea Sediment Jasper
  
• JASPER, EYE OF THE STORM: See Judy’s Jasper
  
• JASPER, FABRIC: (Origin – India) Use for encouraging you to nurture yourself, and to plant and grow the seeds of things you’d like to manifest. This may be an alternative name for Green Lace Jasper.
  
• JASPER, FANCY: (Origin – India) (Also known as Rainbow Jasper) Use to encourage inner peace and calming, promote group cooperation, aid in your grounding practices, assist with shamanic journeying and dreaming exercises, promote meaningful dreams, instill balance in the mind, body, and spirit; enhance emotional strength, activate creativity, and increase positive thinking. This is a low quality form of Ocean Jasper/Orbicular Jasper/Atlantis Stone so the properties of this stone also apply.
  
• JASPER, FIREWORKS: See Star Burst Jasper
  
• JASPER, FLOWER GARDEN: (Origin – New Zealand) Use for enhancing creativity and the flow of ideas, to facilitate change, to encourage progress, to facilitate your ability to find joy in the moment, clearing out past energies to make way for the future, and for guiding you on your personal life quests.
  
• JASPER, FOREST FIRE: (Origin – Africa) Use for enhancing motivation, for increasing passion for your hobbies or interests, supporting you as you start a new project or new path in life, connecting you with the fire element, facilitating release and ending old cycles, for transformation, and instill you with vigor and excitement for change. Please Note: Since this stone is predominantly a form of Red Jasper, it also displays the energies of that stone.
  
• JASPER, FREEDOM: See Gary Green Jasper
  
• JASPER, GALAXY: See Cosmic Jasper & Kambaba Jasper
  
• JASPER, GARY GREEN: (Origin – McDermitt, Nevada area on the Nevada / Oregon border, United States) (Also known as Green Bogwood, Green Larsonite, McDermitt Green Jasper, Gary Green Larsonite Jasper, McDermitt Green Larsonite Jasper, Green Larsenite, or as Green Larsonite Jasper) Use to absorb positive vibrations from the universe, aid you in feeling safe and protected by mother nature, help you maintain wellness, facilitate a connection with nature (especially with tree spirits and other members of the plant kingdom), help you to stay afloat while in troubled waters (emotional or spiritual), combine earth & water element energies for restoration and ritual, and soothe and balance your energy. It took ages for this stone to form so it encapsulates the idea that good things take time and reminds you that you must have patience
  
• JASPER, GARY GREEN LARSONITE: See Gary Green Jasper
  
• JASPER, GREEN LARSONITE: See Gary Green Jasper
  
• JASPER, GUINEA FOWL: Use to cultivate daily protection and guidance, guard yourself against evil, and promote renewed wellness and gentle endings.
  
• JASPER, IVORY: Use to stimulate good luck, promote compassionate attitudes, enhance group cooperation, and connect with strong, positive energies.
  
• JASPER, K2: Use to help you see the bigger picture, enhance your insight, intuition and higher awareness; promote clarity and grounding, and aid you in reaching higher consciousness.
  
• JASPER, KAMBABA: Use to deepen your connection with nature, facilitate a connection to beings of the Fairy Realm, enhance meditation, instill Lovingkindness and compassion, and promote peace and calming.
  
• JASPER, KING COBRA: (Also known as Spotted Agate) Use for grounding after intense spiritual work, facilitating deepened states of awareness during meditation, and removing unwanted or stagnant energy from the aura.
  
• JASPER, LEOPARD SKIN: (Also known as Leopard Stone, Leopard Skin Rhyolite or as Leopard Skin Rhyolite Jasper) Use to manifest restorative energies, cleanse and increase energy in the etheric body, restore and maintain wellness, increase your personal strengths, bring balance to mind, body, and spirit; banish negative energies, bring peace and calming, encourage a helping hand both to and from others, stimulate shamanic journeying and astral travel, bring protection, facilitate accurate pendulum dowsing sessions, bring will power, stimulate courage, increase organization of your environment, and stimulate cognition.
  
• JASPER, LEOPARD SKIN RYHOLITE: See Leopard Skin Jasper
  
• JASPER, LIONSKIN: Use to cultivate compassion, protection and self-confidence; aid in completing tedious tasks and sorting details; encourage success in tests & exams and encourage happiness.
  
• JASPER, MARBLE: Use to enhance wellness, bring balance & stability, instill attitudes of gratitude, promote sweet and kind outlooks of compassion, deepen your connection to the earth, center yourself, facilitate deep meditation, aid in past life regression and reveal karmic causes in this lifetime.
  
• JASPER, MARIAM: See Coquina Jasper
  
• JASPER, MARIYAM: See Coquina Jasper
  
• JASPER, McDERMITT GREEN: See Gary Green Jasper
  
• JASPER, McDERMITT GREEN LARSONITE: See Gary Green Jasper
  
• JASPER, MELARITE: Use to bring tranquility and wholeness. Known as the “Supreme Nurturer,” Melarite Jasper protects and absorbs negative energies, re-energizes, restores, and instills courage.
  
• JASPER, MIRIAM: See Coquina Jasper
  
• JASPER, MOODY GREEN: (Origin – La Paz County, Arizona) Use for promoting tranquility and feelings of wholeness, encouraging nurturing behavior, protecting you from outside energies, reenergizing, and for instilling courage. This green stone contains Epidote and is also known as Green Zebra Jasper (not to be confused with the more common black and white Zebra Jasper).
  
• JASPER, MOOK: See Mookaite Jasper
  
• JASPER, MOOKAITE: (Origin – Australia) (Also known as Mookaite, Mookite, Moukaite Jasper & Mookite Jasper) Use to instill creativity, for emotional balance, to encourage the healthy expression of your emotions through art and music, to encourage you to open yourself to positive new experiences, to promote inner-strength, for flexibility in your thinking, to help lift the fog that unwelcome doubt can sometimes cast over areas of your life, to encourage the presence of mind and overall awareness, to promote kindness, to assist you in getting clarity for decision-making, and to help ground you by connecting you to the earth’s energy.
  
• JASPER, MOOKAITE BRECCIATED: (Origin – Australia) This stone is a brecciated conglomerate rock that is transitional from sedimentary to metamorphic and combines the energetic properties of Brecciated Jasper and Mookaite Jasper.
  
• JASPER, MORGAN HILL POPPY: See Poppy Jasper
  
• JASPER, MOSAIC : (Origin – Brazil) Use for connecting with your ancestors, tapping into earth energies, and for recognizing and integrating important lessons learned from nature and the natural world. True Mosaic Jasper is black, tan, brown, and is mottled with white Quartz-y patches, but is often misidentified as Ibis Jasper. The name Mosaic Jasper is also used to describe Brecciated Jasper which has been dyed and used to make beads or costume jewelry.
  
• JASPER, MOUKAITE: See Mookaite Jasper
  
• JASPER, MOZAMBIQUE: See Buttermilk Jasper
  
• JASPER, MUGGLESTONE: (Origin – Africa) Use for protecting you from outside energies, promoting clarity of mind, helping you to see the truth in a challenging situation, enhancing your creativity, promoting strength, instilling courage, increasing your vitality, enhancing your willpower, and for bringing your energy field back into balance. Mugglestone Jasper is sometimes incorrectly used interchangeably with Tiger Iron, but they do differ slightly. Tiger Iron should include bands of Red Jasper, chatoyant Golden Tiger’s Eye, and Hematite, but Mugglestone (though it looks similar) usually lacks the chatoyant Golden Tiger’s eye and instead has more of a low-quality matte Tiger’s eye (or even possibly Yellow Jasper).
  
• JASPER, NAVAJO SPLASH: (Origin – Some sources identify the origin of this stone as Arizona, though most identify the correct origin as Durango, Mexico) Use for connecting you with the spirit of the land you occupy, enhancing grounding, promoting general wellbeing, enhancing your meditations by helping you access the inner landscapes of your mind, and promoting inner stillness and peace.
  
• JASPER, NET: See Spiderweb Jasper
  
• JASPER, NEW ZEALAND: (Origin – Birdlings Flat, Canterbury, New Zealand) Use for helping you relax and go with the flow, enhancing your connection to others, grounding, and for enhancing energetic stability and balance.
  
• JASPER, NGUNI: (Origin – South Africa) Use for enhancing energetic protection, promoting gentleness and kindness, connecting you with Mother nature, helping you to slow down and think things through, encouraging you to reflect and respond rather than react, unlocking hidden ancestral wisdom and magic, and walking between worlds. Zulu Moon Market says the “markings and patterns resemble the hide of the indigenous Nguni cattle from South Africa.”
  
• JASPER, NO NAME: (Origin – Exact origin unknown, but likely from the Western United States) Likely another name for Yellow Feather Jasper.
  
• JASPER, NOREENA: (Origin – Noreena Station, Western Australia) Use for enhancing creativity, birthing new things into the world, enhancing your inner strength, releasing the things that don’t serve you, promoting a sense of adventure, supporting you during times of growth and change, helping you to see things from a new perspective, and for encouraging intuitive dreamwork. Noreena Jasper is a silicified Mudstone estimated to have formed 2.6-2.7 million years ago. It is nearly identical to Pilbara Jasper, but Pilbara Jasper comes from the Pilbara region, while Noreena Jasper specifically comes from the type locality at the Noreena Station area.
  
• JASPER, NORENA: See Noreena Jasper
  
• JASPER, OCEAN ®: (Origin – Madagascar) Use for help you establish a connection with the earth and with the sea, for learning and integrating spiritual lessons, to help you connect you with your ancestors, to instill joy, to promote a positive outlook, and for balancing of the mind, body, and spirit. The name Ocean Jasper ® is the trademarked name for Orbicular Rhyolite Jasper from Madagascar. The trademark was originally owned by Richard Morris of the gem Shop in Cedarburg, Wisconsin, but it is now owned by Enter the Earth in North Carolina.
  
• JASPER, ORBICULAR: See Ocean Jasper
  
• JASPER, ORBITAL POPPY: See Poppy Jasper
  
• JASPER, OWYHEE: (Origin – Oregon, United States) Use for energizing, connecting with the land, shifting your perspective so you can see things from another point of view, uncovering things you may have overlooked, grounding (especially before readings and intuitive work), and for promoting creativity through activities like movement and dance. This stone is very similar in appearance to biggs Formation Picture Jasper (and may even include the shades of blue that are desirable in Biggs Blue Jasper.
  
• JASPER, PAINTBRUSH: Use for creativity & for artistic inspiration, helping you focus and finish projects all the way through, helping you to follow the natural ebb and flow of your creative energy, and assisting with communication & storytelling. This stone is also sometimes confusingly called Picture Jasper, but it should not be confused with the speckled brown Picture Jasper that is much more common.
  
• JASPER, PALAGONITE: (Origin – Round Hill area near the Marawhenua River, New Zealand) Use for connecting with earth energy, reflecting on the past, instilling perseverance, and for encouraging patience.
  
• JASPER, PANTHER: (Origin – Namibia, Africa) Use for nurturing and support of others, enhancing your intuition, promoting mystical experiences, encouraging you to set achievable goals, facilitating journeys in liminal space, opening a path forward, enhancing mental clarity, promoting rest when it’s needed, facilitating shadow work, enhancing imagination, instilling creativity in your artistic endeavors, encouraging mindful awareness, and for planning for the future.
  
• JASPER, PARROT WING: (Origin – Africa & Mexico) This stone is likely not a Jasper at all, but rather is probably a combination of Copper-based minerals like Chrysocolla, Malachite (and possibly others) in a Quartz matrix.
  
• JASPER, PEPPERMINT: (Origin – New Mexico, United States) Use for enhancing nurturing attitudes, connecting with mother earth, promoting compassion, inviting in new fresh energy when things have felt stagnant (in your space or in life), encouraging family connection, and for enhancing appreciation and gratitude for the people & things in your life. This stone contains traces of gold!
  
• JASPER, PICASSO: (Also known as Picasso Stone or as Picasso Marble) Use to stimulate your creative energies, promote inspiration to try new things & have new experiences, aid you in overcoming your current life challenges, facilitate communication (especially when expressing yourself about difficult situations or feelings), for inner harmony, and to aid you in the ability to receive divine insight.
  
• JASPER, PICTURE: (Origin – Kalahari Desert, South Africa) (Also known as Kalahari Jasper, Kalahari Desert Jasper or as Kalahari Picture Jasper) Use for aiding you in seeing the beauty in all things, stimulating your creative energy, enhancing visualization exercises, connecting you with the energy of a specific place or time, promoting mental clarity, enhancing meditation, and bringing inner peace and harmony. The name Picture Jasper is also sometimes incorrectly used to describe Paintbrush Jasper.
  
• JASPER, PILBARA: (Origin – Pilbara area of Western Australia) Use for enhancing creativity, birthing new things into the world, enhancing your inner strength, releasing the things that don’t serve you, promoting a sense of adventure, supporting you during times of growth and change, helping you to see things from a new perspective, and for encouraging intuitive dreamwork. Pilbara Jasper is a silicified Mudstone estimated to have formed 2.6-2.7 million years ago. It is nearly identical to Noreena Jasper, but Pilbara Jasper comes from the Pilbara region, while Noreena Jasper specifically comes from the type locality at the Noreena Station area.
  
• JASPER, POLYCHROME: (Origin – Madagascar) Use for balancing and aligning your energy body, stimulating creative energy (especially for painters), encouraging you to change and shift with your circumstances in order to produce a favorable outcome (rather than fighting the incoming energies), enhancing meditation, instilling a sense of tranquility, and inducing a peaceful state of mind.
  
• JASPER, POPPY: (Origin – Morgan Hill, California, United States) Use for for ancestor connection & reverence, for underworld journeys of descent & ascent, for reinventing the self, for grief & mourning a loss, for helping you cope with & release difficult emotions, ending of cycles so that something new may begin.
  
• JASPER, PORCELAIN: (Origin – Sonora, Mexico) Use for coping with stress, uplifting you when you feel low, encouraging love and compassion, promoting energetic balance, boosting your creativity, instilling joy and happiness, enhancing your wisdom and understanding, encouraging feelings of security, facilitating the completion of cycles or of important tasks, connecting you with mother earth, and supporting the energy body.
  
• JASPER, PURPLE COW: (Origin – McDermitt, Oregon) Use for promoting happiness & joy, enhancing loyalty, birthing something new, nurturing yourself, and for finding peace and beauty in everyday moments.
  
• JASPER, RAINBOW: (Origin – Africa) Use to enhance energetic protection, to help give you the courage to speak your mind, to promote personal independence, to help banish fear, and to assist you as you deal with emotional stress.
  
• JASPER, RAINBOW: See Fancy Jasper (Not to be confused with the genuine Rainbow Jasper of the same name)
• JASPER, RAINFOREST: Click here to read the full article.
• JASPER, RED: Click here to read the full article.
• JASPER, RED CREEK: See Cherry Creek Jasper
• JASPER, RED FOREST: (Origin – Peru) Use to enhance grounding practices, to encourage you to remember & interpret your dreams, to help you channel your passions in a focused direction, and to instill respect for all living things.
• JASPER, RED HEMATITE-BANDED: (Origin-Africa) This stone is a combination of Red Jasper banded with Hematite. It is often mislabeled as Mugglestone (but is missing the Yellow Jasper or matte Tiger’s Eye that Mugglestone should also contain). It displays the combined properties of both Red Jasper and Hematite.
  
• JASPER, RED POPPY: See Poppy Jasper
  
• JASPER, RED RHYOLITE: See Bird’s Eye Rhyolite Jasper
  
• JASPER, RIM: See Bat Cave Jasper
  
• JASPER, ROYAL SAHARA: (Origin – Eastern Sahara Desert – Northern Africa) This is a type of Picture Jasper that looks similar to a Biggs Jasper, but is from Norhtern Africa rather than Oregon, USA. Kpwoodenstone.com says these stones were “formed from hot mud flows approximately 35 to 40 million years ago when the North African Sahara Desert was a combination of volcanic regions, tropical forests, and saltwater seas.” This stone shares the properties of Picture Jasper.
  
• JASPER, SCENIC: (Origin – Indonesia & China) Use for enhancing creativity, banishing procrastination, aiding in manifesting abundance, and bringing hopes or ideas to fruition.
  
• JASPER, SEA: See Sea Sediment Jasper
  
• JASPER, SEA SEDIMENT: (Origin – Madagascar) Use for facilitating release, promoting emotional balance, enhancing intuition, and for connecting with the energetic aspects of the water element. Sea Sediment Jasper is most likely a low-quality variety of Ocean Jasper ® with additional Quartz pockets and not much variation in color. Most of the material is lacking in the prominent orbs displayed in most Ocean Jasper ®. This material should be confused with the brightly colored, manufactured “stones” used to make beads and costume jewelry. The majority of the sea sediment “jaspers” on the market are this man-made, dyed resin/polymer material (this resin-based sea sediment “jasper” is also called Impression Jasper).
  
• JASPER, SEA SHELL: See Shell Jasper
  
• JASPER, SEDONA RED: (Origin – Peru) – Use for grounding, enhancing dream recall, instilling feelings of compassion, and for making yourself & your life a priority when needed. This variety of Red Jasper is named for its similarity in appearance to the red rocks of Sedona, Arizona (which makes the fact that it comes from Peru a little confusing). This stone also has the properties of regular Red Jasper.
  
• JASPER, SEDONA SUNRISE: See Sedona Sunset Jasper
  
• JASPER, SEDONA SUNSET: (Origin – Some sources cite Arizona as the origin, but others say it’s from the Sonoran Desert in Mexico) This stone is actually not a Jasper at all, but is a combination of Red Cuprite with teal Chrysocolla, so it displays the properties of both. CUPRITE: Use to promote feelings of safety, facilitate rites of passage, and support you as you work to soothe emotional wounds. CHRYSOCOLLA: Use to connect with Goddess energy, allow you to speak from the heart, support a deep connection with nature, instill compassion, and provide inner strength during difficult times.
  
• JASPER, SESAME: See Lotus Jasper
  
• JASPER, SHELL: (Origin – China) Use for grounding, enhancing energetic protection, instilling inner strength, promoting energetic balance of your energy body, and for facilitating relaxation & tranquility. According to georarities.com, “Although Shell Jasper is marketed as jasper, it is actually marble, a metamorphic limestone”
  
• JASPER, SILVER LACE: (Origin – Mexico) Use for enhancing vitality, grounding, helping you stick with new habits & routines, enhancing your focus, and for encouraging you to lend or receive a helping hand in times of need. This stone is sometimes incorrectly called Silver Lace Agate or Silver Crazy Lace Agate.
  
• JASPER, SILVER LEAF: See Silver Lace Jasper
  
• JASPER, SNAKESKIN: See Coquina Jasper
  
• JASPER, SPIDERMAN : (Origin – near the Oregon/Idaho border in the Owyhee River Valley in Oregon, United States) Use for instilling determination when you’re facing challenges or obstacles and for remembering your inner power. According to terrasolace.com this stone “formed when iron seeped unto small cracks of hardened mud that was further solidified by volcanic activity during the Tertiary period, 60 million years ago.” Giftedworkshop.com adds “Spiderman Jasper is composed of volcanic ash and solidified under intense heat and pressure. This stone formed and then was broken by geologic stresses on the material, allowing rust-colored veins to evolve in the dark volcanic matrix.”
  
• JASPER, SPIDERWEB: (Origin – Mexico & the Southwestern United States) Use for enhancing energetic protection, driving away unwanted energy, encouraging present-moment awareness, promoting relaxation, helping you to create an environment of comfort and tranquility, enhancing your grounding practices, helping to facilitate gentle endings, an for enhancing interconnectedness of energies.
  
• JASPER, SPIDERWEB GREEN: (Origin – Oregon & Idaho, United States) Use for branching out, facilitating personal growth, and for promoting inner calm. This stone was discovered in the 1960’s.
  
• JASPER, SPIRIT: See Cosmic Jasper
  
• JASPER, SPOTTED: See King Cobra Jasper
  
• JASPER, SQUIRREL RHYOLITE: (Origin – Mexico) Use for enhancing focus and mental clarity, encouraging moderation, planning ahead, and enhancing ingenuity. This stone isn’t a Jasper at all, but is actually a Stronmatolite (algae) fossil.
  
• JASPER, SQUIRREL TAIL: See Squirrel Rhyolite Jasper
  
• JASPER, STAR BURST: (Origin – Mexico) Use for enhancing energetic protection, promoting intuitive dreaming, enhancing creativity and new ideas or perspectives, instilling tenacity, encouraging justice, and for facilitating astral travel. According to crystalmedicine.ca, “The starbursts form during the cooling of magma, as Crystals (feldspar?) aligned themselves into star-like patterns.” This stone is often confused for Coquina/Miriam/Mariyam Jasper, but although it displays similar colors, the patterns are quite different. The patterns in Coquina Jasper are more like organic squiggles whereas the patterns in Starburst Jasper appear more like fireworks (lots of lines in clusters radiating out from one central point).
  
• JASPER, STAR FOSSIL: See Star Burst Jasper
  
• JASPER, STARRY: (Origin – Australia) Use for connecting you with the energy of the sky and the heavens, helping you tap into the energy of the air element, facilitating astral travel, soothing on a soul level, enhancing feelings of hope, and for encouraging you to let your inner light shine. This stone is an aggregate of Brecciated Red, Black, and White Jasper with inclusions of Pyrite (therefore, it also displays the energetic properties of all of these stones as well).
  
• JASPER, TIGER: See Palagonite Jasper
  
• JASPER, TURQUOISE: (Origin – Africa) Use for stabilizing during times of Great change, encouraging transformation, opening your mind to new possibilities, promoting balance, enhancing confidence, encouraging self-development, promoting wisdom, clearing and focusing the mind, and for assisting you with finding your higher purpose and soul calling. This stone is often incorrectly sold as Turquoise, but it is just turquoise in color.
  
• JASPER, VOGESITE: (Origin – South Africa) Use for facilitating ancestor connection, enhancing your creativity, increasing your inspiration & motivation, supporting you energetically as you work through emotional issues, believing in yourself, releasing, and for facilitating movement out of stuck or stagnant energy.
  
• JASPER, WALNUT: (Origin – Egypt, it’s possible it may not be found in other localities as well) Use for grounding, instilling compassion, enhancing wit and wisdom, facilitating earth healing, and promoting courage. This stone looks a lot like Picture Jasper, but its coloring and patterns are a bit different. Some crystal workers classify this stone as a type of Picture Jasper (in which case, it would also share those properties).
  
• JASPER, WONDERSTONE: (Origin – Nevada & Utah, United States) Use for instilling hope, promoting a positive outlook, encouraging relaxation & calming, facilitating intuitive insight to help guide your next action steps, and for helping you to release unnecessary worries. This stone may be a type of Rhyolite.
  
• JASPER, YELLOW: (Origin – South Africa, India, Australia, & more) Use for instilling confidence, promoting inner strength, increasing vitality, manifesting abundance, aiding you with developing your talents and personal gifts, bringing happiness & joy (especially to children), enhancing energetic protection of the aura (the energy body), and for enhancing your creativity when you begin new projects.
  
• JASPER, YELLOW FEATHER: (Origin – Utah, United States) Use for facilitating earth healing, enhancing your connection with mother earth, instilling compassion, promoting unity, and for encouraging cooperation. According to Heathercanyon.com, “The ‘feathers’ are dendrites, manganese oxide of the mineral pyrolusite.” Rocktumbler.com adds, “The name ‘yellow feather’ was inspired by dark feather-like markings that cut across a yellowish background. The feathers are usually brown to black in color. The background colors vary, but they are usually in the range of yellow, orange, and tan. The background color of some pieces can be red or brown.”
  
• JASPER, ZEBRA: (Also known as Zebra Marble, Zebra Rock or Zebra Stone) (Origin – Kunnanurra in Western Australia) Use for bringing your energy body into balance, promoting harmony and tranquility, instilling your values, promoting love for your shadow side and helping to encourage the transformation of your shadow aspects, enhancing motivation, instilling a sense of calm, facilitating a connection with Mother Earth, revealing your inner nature, aiding with manifestation, instilling courage, and for helping you to avoid over-thinking things by bringing more present moment awareness.

JET: Use to balance the male and female energies within your body, connect with your ancestors, aid you in learning to appreciate nature and the plant kingdom, instill respect for all things ancient (as well as for the elderly), “sweep” negative energy that has come about from arguments or other negative interpersonal encounters, help soothe grief and calm fear by putting things into perspective, aid in self reliance to instill happiness, and boost your energy and overall vitality. Element: Earth Flower: Black Elderberry Essential Oil: Oregano Companion Stone: Amber. Jet is a living material: coal exposed to water. Burnt pieces of firewood washed out to sea may in time transform into Jet. The mineral’s most famous fan was no doubt England’s Queen Victoria, who favored jewelry made of Jet and hematite during her long years of mourning. Queen Victoria popularized the idea of wearing somber clothing and jewelry for mourning, but English Jet had already been used for centuries for rosaries and other religious artifacts. English monks and nuns found praying with a rosary of Jet particularly effective for combating delusions, bad dreams and evil spirits, and promoting happiness. Irish wives burned Jet to ensure the safety of their husband while the men were out at sea. This protective stone has also been worn in many places to counteract the evil eye. Jet originates from fossilized wood, and in nature is a dull, dark material. But it can be polished to a high shine, and so makes very nice jewelry. When compared to other black, polished stones, it is very light and feels almost “plasticky.” Jet has a little bit more of a silvery black appearance than just a straight black color. It’s also very lightweight because it’s carbon-based. You’ll notice its weight difference in comparison to other tumbled stones. It also usually has a very high polish on it depending on its place of origin. An exception to this rule about the highly polished surface is Tibetan Jet. This type of Jet can have an almost matte finish. Tibetan Jet is rarely seen in larger, rounded, tumbled stones. It’s typically found in flatter pieces because the nature of the material.