Crystal Encyclopedia

PAPAGOITE: Use to support other energy healers, aid in manifesting abundance, instill an “attitude of gratitude,” remove any energetic blockages from the etheric body, liberate yourself spiritually, assist you in seeing the truth, work through feelings of grief, help in understanding and respecting the sacredness of all things and the oneness that connects them; enhance the power of crystal healing, enable you to understand crystal energies more fully, and facilitate the recollection of your past life memories.

PEACOCK ORE: See Bornite

PEACOCK ROCK: See Bornite

PEARL, WHITE: Use to foster cooperation, provide a connection with Goddess energy, stimulate a nurturing attitude, and promote peace. A symbol of the mermaid; use Pearl for cleansing the energy body.

PEGRATITE: See Spiderweb Jasper,

GREEN PERIDOT: Click here to read the full article.

PETALITE: Use to establish a connection with your guardian angels, enhance purification, shield yourself with white light when in negative energy environments, promote protection (especially of children or animals), help soothe the spirit, remind you of your divine nature, help babies and children (or after a near-death experience) to ease the transition from the other side into the physical world, and serve as constant reminder of the light and of your spirit when one is distracted by your ego-self.

PETOSKEY STONE: See Coral Fossil

PETRIFIED WOOD: Click here to read the full article.

PHENACITE: Click here to read the full article.

PICASSO MARBLE: See Picasso Jasper

PICASSO STONE: See Picasso Jasper

PICTURE STONE: See Picture Jasper

PIETERSITE: Use to stimulate your intuition and psychic abilities, to increase vitality, to facilitate astral travel, for spiritual growth and exploration, to stimulate creativity and artistic vision, to enhance guidance received during meditation, to instill will-power and determination, and to aid in developing lucid dreaming skills.

PINOLITH: Use to maintain energy and put it to constructive use. Pinolith got its name because the dolomite in magnetite looks like pine nuts. It is a particularly great stone for work.

PLASMA: See Buddstone

PRASE: See Seriphos Quartz

PRASEM: See Seriphos Quartz

PRASIOLITE: (Also known as Green Amethyst, Praseolite, or as Amegreen) Use to facilitate a connection with your inner self, establish a connection with nature and with nature spirits, soothe your mind and spirit, and instill compassion and empathy. As this is a type of Amethyst, the properties of Amethyst also apply.

PREHNITE: Use to establish a connection with Earth energies and with nature, promote feelings of peace, aid in spiritual enlightenment, increase happiness, facilitate dematerialization and the letting go of worldly goods, encourage a feeling of spiritual fulfillment, enable communication with nature spirits such as faeries, sprites, gnomes, & elves; stimulate earth healing, instill compassion and empathy, and guide you down your life path.

PRESELI BLUE STONE: (Also known as Stonehenge Rock or as Stonehenge Stone) Use to promote altered states of consciousness, connect with extra-terrestrials, enhance ritual and ceremony, and connect you with the energy vortex at the Stonehenge site.

PROPHECY STONE: Use to enhance meditation, to enhance the connection between your conscious mind and your intuition, to instill a sense of wonder and mystery, to strengthen your connection to your spirituality, for mental clarity, to facilitate a successful divination session, and for enhancing ritual (especially for ancestor connection or ancestral healing). This stone is a pseudomorph of Goethite after Marcasite found in the Sahara Desert (some sources say it’s from Egypt’s White Desert).

PSILOMELANE: (Also known as Merlinite) Use to strengthen the etheric cord that connects the energy bodies to the physical body, dissolve blockages in the energy field, overcome self-limiting beliefs, banish outworn patterns & systems, and transmute negative thoughts into positive thoughts.

PURPURITE: Use to connect with the energy of St. Germaine and his violet flame of spiritual cleansing, clear karma & karmic patterning, and remove negative karma from your ancestral line.

PYRITE: (Also known as Fool’s Gold, as Inca’s Gold, or as Inca’s Mirror) Use to increase vitality, to give you energetic support as you work to conquer vices or bad habits, to assist you in building confidence, for energetic protection, to aid in business endeavors, to promote group cooperation, to help you remove unwarranted worries from your mind, to increase vitality, to balance the energy body, to enhance your grounding practices, to encourage creativity, to aid in focus and concentration, and to help you manifest abundance and prosperity. Pyrite is a metallic iron that naturally forms into geometric shapes. Because its smooth surfaces are naturally shiny, pyrite has been used since ancient times for mirrors both mundane and magical. Along with obsidian, pyrite can be used as a natural scrying mirror — a way to stimulate psychic abilities by gazing at a slightly distorted reflection. But while the iron in pyrite makes it shine, it’s the other element in it — sulfur — that causes it to make a spark when you strike two pieces of pyrite together (or strike a piece with another stone). This is very similar to the way a modern lighter works. Stone Age people could hit pyrite with a hammer close to some very dry kindling to get their fire started. In fact, the word “pyrite” means “fire stone.” Which sounds a bit more dignified than its nickname: Fool’s Gold! Still, because of its resemblance to gold, and because the two metals are often found close together, pyrite is often used to attract wealth. Chemical Formula: FeS2 Safety and care: Water can damage pyrite. Since it contains sulfur, it should not be used for preparing elixirs.

• PYRITE, ISIS & OSIRIS: Use to balance male & female energies and correct other types of energetic imbalances, strengthen your personal power without using the ego, embrace the restorative energies of the sun & moon, enhance your relationship with your partner, and facilitate astral travel & dream healing.
  
• PYRITE SAND-DOLLAR: See Pyrite Sun
• PYRITE SUN: (Also known as a Pyrite Sand-Dollar) Use to bring the warmth and light of the sun into your etheric bodies, radiate confidence and will-power to all aspects of your self, promote joy and happiness, and aid in manifesting abundance. Since this stone is composed of Pyrite, the properties of this stone also apply. These formations are found in only one location, and it’s not a very exotic one: Illinois coal mines, where they formed millions of years ago between layers of coal shale. Also known as pyrite dollars or miners’ dollars, these formations are found hundreds of feet beneath the Earth’s surface. Because the coal shale forms in sheets, pyrite (an iron-based mineral) caught between the layers has no room to expand into its usual angular shape. Instead, it fans out from the center into a round formation, which looks so much like a sand dollar that people originally thought they were fossils. Miners would carry specimens out in their lunchboxes as a curiosity to share with family and friends. The mines that produced these treasures are shutting down one by one, with the last scheduled to close soon. When this happens, these fool’s gold dollars may very well grow in value.

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

PYROMORPHITE: Use to instill in yourself a sense of child-like wonder, allow yourself to see beings from the fairy realm, assist in creating a relationship with & an appreciation for nature (down to the tiniest of beings), aid in walking a simple path in life, and help you to find balance in life between the natural world & the modern world (and to aid you in eventually realizing the oneness of these “separate” things).