Crystal Encyclopedia

QUANTUM QUATTRO SILICA: Click here to read the full article.

QUARTZ:

• QUARTZ, ACTINOLITE-INCLUDED: Use to help you more deeply understand the role that water plays in all life here on Earth and appreciate the differences each organism contributes to the cosmic dance of existence, to aid you in going with the flow, facilitate the release of that which is no longer serving you, assist you with centering and learning to be in the moment, and enhance your psychic skills.
  
• QUARTZ, AJOITE-INCLUDED: Use to enhance communication (allowing yourself to speak form the heart), facilitate a connection with your guardian angels, enhance meditation, aid you in working through karmic obstacles, enhance your knowledge gained from shamanic journeying, and foster emotional balance & stability. Since this is a variety of Quartz, these properties also apply.
  
• QUARTZ, AMETHYST AURA: (Also known as Lavender Aura Quartz) Use to bring about feelings of spiritual wholeness, instill happiness & joy, enhance meditation practices, give yourself a sense of child-like wonder, and connect with nature spirits & beings of the Faery Realm. Since this is a variety of Quartz, these properties also apply.
  
• QUARTZ, ANGEL AURA: Click here to read the full article.
• QUARTZ, ANGELIC AMPHIBOLE PHANTOM: Use for instilling harmony and serenity, boosting confidence, overcoming obstacles, cultivating joy, abundance, love, empathy and integrity; amplifying energy, facilitating selfless light work, promoting restful sleep, enhancing lucid dreaming, and aiding in clear decision making.
  
• QUARTZ, ANGEL ROSE: Use to bring angelic energies into your heart, allow yourself to see the divine nature in all other beings and to truly experience the oneness of all, and foster protection of children & animals. As this is a form of Rose Quartz, these properties also apply.
  
• QUARTZ, ANGEL (RUTILATED): Use to facilitate contact with the angelic realm and to enhance communication with your angels and guides, to help remove barriers interfering with spiritual growth, to open you to the Divine energy of the Universe, to soothe and repair the aura, to promote spiritual growth, to bring the light of the divine down to earth for restoring nature, to enhance the protective energy that your angels may provide you.
  
• QUARTZ, APPLE AURA: (Also known as Emerald Aura Quartz) Use to purify your energy body, promote wellbeing, bring about necessary change, break old patterns or belief systems, instill courage, and help you to appreciate the beauty in life’s everyday happenings. Since this is a variety of Quartz, these properties also apply.
  
• QUARTZ, AQUA AURA: Use to open yourself to psychic insight, allow yourself to speak your inner truth, help you to grow and evolve as a spiritual being, promote astral travel, and facilitate shamanic journeying. Since this is a variety of Quartz, these properties also apply.
  
• QUARTZ, AZURE AURA: See Cobalt Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, BLUE: Click here to read the full article.
  
• QUARTZ, BLUE JOY: See Fluorite-Included Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, BLUE TARA: (Also known as Olenite-Included Quartz, as Indicolite-Included Quartz, as Indigolite-Included Quartz, or as Blue Tourmaline-Included Quartz) Use to promote Buddha-like attitudes, connect with the water element, spark change, facilitate a connection with the energy of the spiritual centers of Tibet, foster protection (especially of women and children), and banish anger and replace it with compassion. Blue Tara Quartz is a variety of Tourmalinated Quartz, so these properties also apply.
  
• QUARTZ, BLUE TOURMALINE-INCLUDED: See Blue Tara Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, CACTUS: See Spirit Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, CELADONITE-INCLUDED: Use at the heart or over sensitive organs for protection and shielding when performing deeply penetrating energy work. This stone has a very gentle energy and is one of just a few stones that assists with these delicate forms of energy work.
  
• QUARTZ, CELESTIAL AURA: See Tanzan Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, CHAMPAGNE: Use to bring Universal energy into the body for supporting all aspects of the self (this stone is especially supportive when worked with during your Shadow Work practice), to aid in spiritual growth, to connect you with divine wisdom, to open you up to new experiences, and to stimulate your present-moment awareness.
  
• QUARTZ, CHLORITE-INCLUDED: Use to energetically support general wellness, and to connect one with nature and with mother earth herself.
  
• QUARTZ, CLEAR: Click here to read the full article.
  
• QUARTZ, COBALT AURA: (Also known as Royal Aura Quartz, Steel Blue Aura Quartz, or as Azure Aura Quartz) Use to help dissipate feelings of anger, to aid in developing a state of non-attachment, to enhance meditative states, to facilitate a connection with the emotional body, and to provide the opportunity to learn from the water element (connected with intuition and the emotions).
  
• QUARTZ, COPPER AURA: Use for grounding, to allow you to see your shadow side in order aid in self-growth and self-evolution, to aid in past-life work, to balance the emotions, and to enhance vitality.
  
• QUARTZ, DIAMANTINA: Use to balance and align the energy body, to bring in restorative energy from the universe, and to project universal healing light into the universe for the highest good of all beings.
  
• QUARTZ, DREAM: (Also known as Epidote-Included Quartz) Use to aid in dream healing, to facilitate astral travel, to enhance lucid dreaming practices, to help restore ailing house plants to health, and to help bring calming vibrations to distraught children.
  
• QUARTZ, DREAMCICLE: See Melon Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, DUMORTIERITE: See Dumortierite
  
• QUARTZ, EDENITE-INCLUDED: Use to balance masculine and feminine energies, to help couples with working out relationship problems, to aid in banishing temptations that are not for your highest good, to bring order out of chaos, to aid in returning to your roots, and to assist with channeling (especially when communicating with your ancestors).
  
• QUARTZ, ELECTRIC BLUE AURA: Use to enhance communication with your angels, guides, animal archetypes or familiars, or with your higher self; to promote spiritual growth; to instill peace and calming; to ease worries; to remove stagnant energy from the energy body; and to calm stress caused by putting pressure on oneself by helping you minfullty recognize when this is happening.
  
• QUARTZ, EMERALD AURA: See Apple Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, EPIDOTE-INCLUDED: See Dream Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, FADEN: (Also known as Thread Quartz or as Tube Quartz) Use to enhance psychic energy, to gain spiritual insight, to enhance meditation, and to aid in facilitating a connection to and communication with your inner self or with your higher self. You may align the Faden “line” with your spine to support and balance the energy body. Align the Faden “line” between two people to enhance the energetic connection and enhance the ability to sense each other’s energy.
  
• QUARTZ, FAERY: See Spirit Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, FAIRY: See Spirit Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, FERTILITY: Use to promote fertility of ideas, for increasing prosperity and abundance, to stimulate creative energies, and to balance divine masculine and feminine energies.
  
• QUARTZ, FIRE: (Also known as Harlequin Quartz) Use to enhance vitality, to promote healthy sexual energy, to connect you with the energy of the fire element (transformation and action), to burn away feelings of shame or guilt by promoting self-forgiveness, to help soothe past life wounds by putting an end to repeating detrimental patterns, and to promote confidence and self-reliance (by banishing co-dependent habits and behaviors).
  
• QUARTZ, FLAME AURA: See Rainbow Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, FLUORITE-INCLUDED: (Also known as Blue Joy Quartz or as Purple Fluor Spar Included Quartz) Use to connect you with the energies of the air element (clarity and swift action), to help you overcome challenges and obstacles by providing reassurance and allowing you to see that there are no impossibilities, to help you eliminate detrimental behavioral patterns, to promote clarity of mind, and to aid with memory.
  
• QUARTZ, GIRASOL: (Also known as Girasol or as Opalized Quartz) Use s a way to stay connected with your inner self during times of turmoil and great change, to support you during times of personal growth, to aid in discerning unclear or clouded intuitive messages, to facilitate a connection to the angelic realm, to aid you in seeing the hidden meaning behind a situation, to protect your energy body with universal white light energy, to allow you to live your life for yourself (but not in a way that centers the ego), for spiritual awakening, for supporting the body, mind, and spirit, by way of divine energy, and to assist with channeling.
  
• QUARTZ, GLACIAL (PINK): See Nirvana Quartz (Pink)
  
• QUARTZ, GLACIAL (WHITE): See Nirvana Quartz (White)
  
• QUARTZ, GOLDEN: Use to bring in success, aid in spirit cleansing, promote self-confidence, help you see your spiritual purpose, increase focus and creativity, facilitate spiritual communication over long distances, enhance psychic abilities and assist in meditation.
  
• QUARTZ, GOLDEN ANGEL HAIR: See Rutilated Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, GOLDEN HEALER: Use to enhance the flow of Universal energy during healing work, to assist you in staying grounded while performing energy healing or during meditation, to facilitate a connection between an energy healing practitioner and their client, to promote inner strength, and for helping you to feel energized and revitalized if you’ve been feeling burnt out.
  
• QUARTZ, GOLDEN VENUS HAIR: See Rutilated Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, GRAPHITE: Use to send restorative & calming energy to others, break unneeded or unwanted bonds, cultivate independence, calm anger, facilitate channeled writing, and foster connection to the ethereal plane. Graphite Quartz is known for being a strong energy conductor.
  
• QUARTZ, GREEN-GOLD: See Ouro Verde Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, HARLEQUIN: See Fire Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, HEDENBERGITE-INCLUDED: See Seriphos Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, HEMATITE INCLUDED: Use to cleanse and purify the energy body, to stimulate vitality, for protection, to instill courage and bravery, for grounding after intense spiritual work, for guidance on one’s career path, for encouraging deeper states of meditation, to dispel negative thinking or to remove unwanted energy from the aura, and to enhance intuitive wisdom.
  
• QUARTZ, HEMATOID: Click here to read the full article.
  
• QUARTZ, HERKIMER DIAMOND: Click here to read the full article.
  
• QUARTZ, HIMALAYAN: See Tibetan Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, HIMALAYAN (PINK): See Nirvana Quartz (Pink)
  
• QUARTZ, HIMALAYAN (WHITE): See Nirvana Quartz (White)
  
• QUARTZ, HOLLANDITE: (Also known as Spider Quartz or as Star Quartz) Use to enhance your connection to the Divine, to open yourself to new spiritual ideals, to awaken your higher self, to enhance meditation, and to balance your mental and spiritual aspects.
  
• QUARTZ, ICE (PINK): See Nirvana Quartz (Pink)
  
• QUARTZ, ICE (WHITE): See Nirvana Quartz (White)
  
• QUARTZ, IMPERIAL GOLD AURA: See Melon Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, INDICOLITE-INCLUDED: See Blue Tara Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, INDIGO AURA: See Tanzan Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, KIWI AURA: Use to instill a deep appreciation for nature, to connect you with nature spirits and beings of the Faery Realm, to ease energetic blockages caused by emotional wounds, to instill courage and bravery, to promote feelings of comfort and safety (especially when in strange places), and to encourage self-love and forgiveness.
  
• QUARTZ, LAVENDER AURA: See Amethyst Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, LEMURIAN: See Lemurian Star Seed Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, LEMURIAN (PINK): See Lemurian Star Seed Quartz (Pink)
  
• QUARTZ, LEMURIAN SEED: See Lemurian Star Seed Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, LEMURIAN SEED (PINK): See Lemurian Star Seed Quartz (Pink)
  
• QUARTZ, LEMURIAN STAR SEED: (Also known as Lemurian Seed Quartz or as Lemurian Quartz) Use for drawing in Universal energy and gridding it here on the Earth, to connect you to ancient wisdom, to communicate the idea of oneness and love to all other crystals on the planet, and to transmit energy from the stars to the Earth. Lemurian Seed Crystals come from a specific mine in Brazil that some people believe to be located on the site of the ancient Lemurian society. They are typically very clear and have 6 sides (which commonly alternate between smooth and horizontally striated/grooved sides.
  
• QUARTZ, LEMURIAN STAR SEED (PINK): (Also known as Pink Lemurian Seed Quartz or as Pink Lemurian Quartz) Use to bring Universal healing energy into the energetic bodies, to open energy channels that have closed due to emotional wounding.
  
• QUARTZ, LITHIUM-INCLUDED: Use to banish sadness, to balance the energy of the mind, to promote tranquility and peace, to ease worried thinking, and to promote emotional easement (especially related to emotional wounding or grief).
  
• QUARTZ, LODOLITE-INCLUDED: See Shamanic Dream Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, MELON AURA: (Also known as Tangerine Aura Quartz, Imperial Gold Aura Quartz, Dreamcicle Aura Quartz, or as Orange Mist Aura Quartz) Use to stimulate compassion, to promote forgiveness (of oneself and of others), to soothe the emotional body, to repair damaged relationships between parents and children, and to instill happiness and joy.
  
• QUARTZ, METAMORPHOSIS™: Use to bring about necessary change in your life, to rebalance the energy body, to connect with the emotions and with the water element (which is connected to the intuition and the emotions), to increase your knowledge of crystals and crystal healing, and for transformation for the highest good of all beings.
  
• QUARTZ, MILKY: (Also known as White Quartz, Snow Quartz, or as Quartzite) Use to stimulate creativity, to overcome intuitive blocks, to shield the psychic body, to bring inner peace and tranquility, to aid in deepening your meditation practice, for keeping you grounded during astral travel, and for use during prayer or ritual. When a crystal is milky or cloudy at the base, and clear toward the termination, it’s a metaphor for your own personal growth (in life we all start out a little cloudy and unsure, but as we move down our life path, we find clarity).
  
• QUARTZ, NIRVANA (PINK): (Also known as Pink Ice Quartz, Pink Himalayan Quartz, or as Pink Glacial Quartz) Use to open the heart center, for protection (especially of mothers and children), to promote love and compassion for Mother Earth and all her children, for aiding in earth healing work and to encourage proper care of the earth, to enhance Lovingkindness meditation, to instill a sense of the importance of eco-friendly practices, for promoting spiritual growth, to enhance the love between partners, and to promote peace and harmony.
  
• QUARTZ, NIRVANA (WHITE): (Also known as White Ice Quartz, White Himalayan Quartz, or as White Glacial Quartz) Use to energize you during healing and meditation work, to promote astral travel, to enhance the effects of healing work, to connect you with the knowledge of your ancestors, and to promote balance within the energy body.
  
• QUARTZ, OLENITE-INCLUDED: See Blue Tara Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, OPALIZED: See Girasol Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, ORANGE MIST AURA: See Melon Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, OURO VERDE: (Also known as Green-Gold Quartz or as Gold-Green Quartz) Use to bring spiritual illumination, to remove obstacles on your path to enlightenment, to enhance your inner knowing and self-confidence, to remind you of your soul lessons and lay your path before you, and to help facilitate astral travel for the purposes of growth or gathering information.
  
• QUARTZ, PAPAYA: Use to help with stilling the mind during meditation, and to facilitate general energetic health and wellbeing.
  
• QUARTZ, PECOS: See Pecos Diamond Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, PECOS DIAMOND: (Also known as Pecos Valley Diamond, Pecos Valley Diamond Quartz, or as Pecos Quartz) Use for stimulating creativity, to enhance your intuitive guidance, to aid in the spiritual growth process, to stimulate sexual energy, to balance the emotional bodies, and to promote feelings of happiness and joy.
  
• QUARTZ, PECOS VALLEY DIAMOND: See Pecos Diamond Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, PHANTOM: Use for inner growth and enhanced intuition. Phantoms are identified as faint crystal images found within crystals. They are created when a crystal stops growing, is covered with another mineral substance, and then resumes growth. The thin mineral layer becomes trapped and creates a “phantom” crystal image of a particular growth stage.
  
• QUARTZ, PINEAPPLE: See Spirit Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, PURPLE FLUOR SPAR-INCLUDED: See Fluorite-Included Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, RAINBOW AURA: (Also known as Flame Aura Quartz) Use to create a connection with the divine, to enhance your psychic insight, to facilitate a spiritual connection with nature, to aid in seeing and reading auras, to promote lucid dreaming and dream recall, and for promoting positive self-reflection.
  
• QUARTZ, RAINBOW MAYANITE: Use to aid in raising your spiritual vibration, deepen your connection with ancestors, and enhance shamanic healing work.
  
• QUARTZ, RASPBERRY AURA: See Rose Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, RED WINE: Use for powerful grounding and fostering balance during chaotic or even dangerous times. Red Wine Quartz is a hematite-bearing form of quartzite.
  
• QUARTZ, ROSE: Click here to read the full article.
• QUARTZ, ROSE AURA: (Also known as Raspberry Aura Quartz) Use to instill a sense of Lovingkindess; to help soothe emotional wounding; to aid in enhancing forgiveness; and to help you find a tactful way to communicate in difficult situations.
  
• QUARTZ, ROSE (ELESTIAL): (Also known as Rose Skeletal Quartz or as Rose Jacare Quartz) Use to facilitate a connection between yourself and your ancestors, for protection during astral travel, to connect you with your angels, to aid in emotional balance, to promote feelings of safety and security, to balance the body, mind, and spirit, to aid in the spiritual growth process, to aid you in the realization that all is full of love, and to enhance healing meditations of all kinds.
  
• QUARTZ, ROSE (LAVENDER): Use for allowing you to realize that all is full of love. This stone harmonizes the energies of Rose Quartz and Amethyst. Therefore, the properties of both stones apply.
  
• QUARTZ, ROSE (JACARE): See Rose Quartz (Elestial)
  
• QUARTZ, ROSE (SKELETAL): See Rose Quartz (Elestial)
  
• QUARTZ, ROYAL AURA: See Cobalt Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, RUBY AURA: Use to instill vitality, to aid in energetic cleansing, for motivation, to help warm the spirit, to aid in moving stagnant energy throughout the body, and to promote balance of body, mind, and spirit.
  
• QUARTZ, RUTILATED: (Also known as Golden Angel Hair Quartz or as Golden Venus Hair Quartz) Use for increasing vitality, to balance body, mind, and spirit, to cleanse the aura, to manifest spiritual abundance, to facilitate astral travel, for scrying divination and channeling sessions, to remove barriers interfering with your spiritual growth, to open you up to receive the Divine energy of the Universe, for protection from outside energy vibrations, to aid in past life work, to aid in acceptance, to facilitate positive change, to encourage forgiveness and compassion, to remove sadness, to soothe and repair the aura.
  
• QUARTZ, SERAPHOS: See Seriphos Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, SERAPHOS (GREEN): See Seriphos Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, SERIPHOS: (Also known as African Jade, Prase, Prasem, Hedenbergite-Included Quartz, Seraphos Quartz, Seraphos Green Quartz, Seriphos Green Quartz, Seraphos, or as Seriphos) Use for aiding in the realization that all is full of love, to aid you to feel comfortable in yourself, to enhance your connection with nature and with the Earth, to promote a sense of ego-less pride, to enhance intuitive wisdom, to aid in manifesting prosperity and abundance, to balance the emotions, and to promote peace and calming.
  
• QUARTZ, SERIPHOS (GREEN): See Seriphos Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, SHAMANIC DREAM: (Also known as Lodolite-Included Quartz or as Shamanic Dream Stones) Use to aid in spiritual spiritual journeying, to connect you with the intuitive aspects of the water element, to enhance your conscious awareness, to deepen states of meditation, to promote meaningful astral travel, to induce ecstatic states of existence (as during spiritual experiences, etc.), to heighten your intuition and psychic powers, and to protect you during spiritual work. Shamanic Dream Quartz has the ability to stimulate amazing spiritual journeys and assists with pulling the astral body back down to the earth plane when you’re ready.
  
• QUARTZ, SHOCKED: See Cataclysmic Jasper
  
• QUARTZ, SICHUAN: See Tibetan Quartz
• QUARTZ, SMOKY: Click here to read the full article.
  
• QUARTZ, SMOKY-CITRINE: Use to aid you in putting down new roots after times of turmoil or change, to help you to step outside of yourself to see problems caused from another perspective, to bring universal spiritual support into your day-to-day life, and to instill a sense of gratitude for what you already have in life (to banish excessive desire for unnecessary material things).
  
• QUARTZ, SNOW: See Milky Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, SNOWCAP: Use for communicating with faeries and nature spirits, to bring more playful energy into your life, to amplify positive thoughts, to cleanse the energy body, and to enhance any type of spiritual work.
  
• QUARTZ, SPIDER: See Hollandite Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, SPIRIT: (Also known as Fairy Quartz, as Faery Quartz, as Pineapple Quartz, or as Cactus Quartz) Use to facilitate a connection with your Guides, animal archetypes, familiars, or with beings from the Faery Realms, to promote feelings of safety and security (especially after emotional wounding), to connect one with your inner child, to facilitate spiritual growth, to aid in meditation, to promote psychic phenomena, and to open you to accept the restorative & powerful energy of the universe.
  
• QUARTZ, SPIRIT (SUNSHINE AURA): Use to instill a sense of happiness and joy, to banish the blues, to enhance your self-esteem and personal power by providing a balanced emotional place from which to act, and for spiritual grounding. Sunshine Aura Spirit Quartz is a natural formation, where a coating of iron forms over spirit quartz, giving it a warm tone somewhere in the golden-to-amber range.
  
• QUARTZ, STAR: See Hollandite Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, STEEL BLUE AURA: See Cobalt Aura Quartz
• QUARTZ, STRAWBERRY: Use to aid one in seeing the good in all beings, to encourage you to take time for the sweet things in life and to appreciate them, to enhance generosity by yourself or from others, and to connect you to your inner child.
  
• QUARTZ, TANGERINE: Use to aid in finding balance after a challenging experience, to facilitate past life healing, for emotional release and balance, to enhance your creativity, to work through self-limiting beliefs, to remove outside energy from the aura, to aid in manifesting prosperity and abundance, to aid in receiving accurate outcomes in divination practices, and to assist with channeling.
  
• QUARTZ, TANGERINE AURA: See Melon Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, TANZAN AURA: (Also known as Tanzine Aura Quartz, Tanzanite Aura Quartz, Celestial Aura Quartz, or as Indigo Aura Quartz) – Use to connect you with the angelic realm, to facilitate astral travel, for dream healing work, to ease feelings of grief, to aid in connecting you with your ancestors, and to enhance intuitive guidance and the gift of foresight.
  
• QUARTZ, TANZANITE AURA: See Tanzan Aura Quartz
• QUARTZ, TANZINE AURA: See Tanzan Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, TANZINITE AURA: See Tanzan Aura Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, THREAD: See Faden Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, TIBETAN: (Also known as Himalayan Quartz or as Sichuan Quartz) Use to enhance your connection to your ancestors, to increase your knowledge and understanding of the occult, to facilitate astral travel, for energetic protection and shielding while traveling, to facilitate an understanding of your spiritual beliefs and ritual practices, to facilitate a divine connection, to connect you to the element of water for emotional support, to dissolve the ego consciousness and gain an understanding of non-attachment, and to aid deeper states of meditation and of conscious awareness.
  
• QUARTZ, TUBE: See Faden Quartz
  
• QUARTZ, TOURMALINATED: Click here to read the full article.
  
• QUARTZ, WHITE: See White Aventurine
  
• QUARTZ, WHITE (ALTERNATIVE): See Milky Jasper
  
• QUARTZ, WITCH’S FINGER: Use for enhancing the power of crystal layouts or grids, for protection, to balance the body, mind, and spirit, to enhance meditation, to aid in the channeling process, and to enhance any spellwork or other magical workings.

QUARTZITE: See Milky Quartz