Crystal Encyclopedia

SALT, HIMALAYAN: Click here to read the full article.

SAPPHIRE:

• SAPPHIRE, BLUE: Click here to read the full article.
  
• SAPPHIRE, BLUE STAR: (Also known as Blue Star Corundum) Use to open yourself to your intuitive powers, psychic awareness and divine healing energies; clear your energy field of attachments or imbalances, and connect with the wisdom of the universe and the Akashic Records. Since this is a form of Blue Sapphire, these properties also apply.
  
• SAPPHIRE, YELLOW: (Also known as Yellow Corundum) Use to enhance spiritual illumination, aid in instilling feelings of oneness, promote self-love, strengthen concentration & memorization, soothe your inner child, foster protection, and allow you to speak your mind.
  

SCHIST: Use to encourage a sense of child-like wonder in yourself, help you to appreciate the beauty in all things, soften harsh personalities, encourage you to connect with your emotional side, and help you to shed old patterns & behaviors and to change and grow for the good of all beings.

SCOLECITE: Click here to read the full article.

SELENITE:

• SELENITE, DESERT ROSE: See Desert Rose Gypsum
  
• SELENITE, GOLDEN: (Also known as Golden Gypsum) Use to bring the divine light of the universe into your body for powerful restorative experiences, cleanse and purify your body, mind, and spirit; instill a sense of ultimate compassion in you, promote karmic evolution, enhance meditation, and facilitate astral travel. Selenite is a pearly-white form of gypsum named after Selene, the Greek goddess of the full moon. Both the full moon and selenite purify energy, which is why selenite is one of only two stones that are energetically pure enough to clear quartz. (The other is apophyllite.) Gypsum’s otherworldly tendencies continue today in the white sands of New Mexico, which are so bright they can be seen from space. A crystal ball made of selenite can represent the full moon at times when the moon is in another phase or the night is cloudy. Since selenite has a reputation as a scrying stone and a record-keeper (from Atlantis, no less), this fits right in with this beautiful stone’s still-developing tradition. Selenite dissolves in water, so please don’t cleanse it in water or use it in an elixir. Small pieces may also come off in needle-like slivers, so handle it carefully.
  
• SELENITE, PEACH: Use to balance the emotions, protect your energy (especially for highly sensitive people), encourage energetic purification of your aura and your environment, remove negative thinking when it’s not serving you, soothe emotional wounds left from past lives, promote communication with your ancestors, guides, or angels, instill inner peace and harmony, and tune you into divine guidance.
  
• SELENITE, WHITE: Click here to read the full article.

SEPTARIAN NODULE: Click here to read the full article.

• SERAPHINITE, BROWN: Use to remove thought patterns, lift yourself up on Angel’s wings during difficult times, foster protection from your guardian angels, promote inner strength, enhance psychic insight, bring order to chaotic situations & times in your life, connect with nature & the elements, and bring harmony & balance to your life. Brown Seraphinite is a recent find from Russia and is quite rare. If you are lucky enough to have this stone enter your life, it should be kept close and held dear.
• SERAPHINITE, GREEN: Use to soothe your mind & spirit, promote a connection with the angelic realm, and instill a feeling of completion. Companions Include: Crystal: Angelite; Oil: Wintergreen; Flower: Pink Anemone; Elements: Earth, Air; Zodiac Signs: Pisces, Gemini, Capricorn

SERAPHOS: See Seriphos Quartz

SERIPHOS: See Seriphos Quartz

SERPENTINE: (Also known as New Jade) Use to aid you in meditation, to enhance your psychic abilities, to clear your energetic pathways, to aid in past life healing work, to help create balance between the mind, body, and spirit, to cleanse the energy body, to facilitate a connection with the angelic realm, for transformation (of thinking, habits, energies, etc.), and to promote compassion.

• SERPENTINE, INFINITE: See Infinite
• SERPENTINE-STITCHITITE: See Atlantisite

SHAMANIC DREAM STONES: See Shamanic Dream Quartz

SHAMANITE, MASTER: See Black Calcite

SHATTUCKITE: Use to enhance your intuition, for connecting you with the cosmos to help you find your place in the universe, to assist you in learning new things and integrating the wisdom to be found in them, and for protection of your energy body during astral travel and journeying. SHELL: See Pacific Cat’s Eye Shell

SHELL:

• SHELL, ABALONE: Click here to read the full article.
• SHELL, EAR: See Abalone Shell
  
• SHELL MARBLE: See Shell Jasper
  
• SHELL, PACIFIC CAT’S EYE: (Also known as Shiva’s Eye Shell or as Turban Snail) Use to facilitate creativity, promote self-expression (verbally or through the arts), connect with Lord Shiva, enhance your masculine energy, and amplify the positive energy in your environment and surroundings.
  
• SHELL, PAUA: See Abalone Shell
  
• SHELL, SHIVA’S EYE: See Pacific Cat’s Eye Shell
  
• SHELL, TURBAN SNAIL: See Pacific Cat’s Eye Shell

SHIVA LINGAMS: See Shiva Lingam Stones

SHIVA LINGAM STONES: (Also known as Narmada River Stone, Lingham Stones, as Lingam Stones, as Shiva Linghams, as Shiva Lingams, as Shiva Lingham Stones, as Lingams, or as Linghams) Use to increase vitality, bring balance between the male & female energies of the body, enhance your feeling of personal power & control over your life situations, worship and praise Lord Shiva, increase personal strength & will-power, and stimulate sexual or creative energies.

SHIVA LINGHAMS: See Shiva Lingam Stones

SHIVA LINGHAM STONES: See Shiva Lingam Stones

SHUNGITE: Click here to read the full article.

SILICA, GEM: See Druzy Chrysocolla

SILICON CARBIDE: (Also known as Carborundum, Moissanite, or Spectropyrite) Use to put the breaks on a situation in which you are dealing with accelerated karma (similarly to how this man-made stone has been used to make break pads in automobiles), and to slow things down so that they are more manageable. PLEASE NOTE: This stone is only referred to as Moissanite when found in nature (not man-made/synthetic).

SILVER: Use to enhance intuition, connect with the water element, aid in enhancing female energy, create emotional balance, allow you to look at situations objectively, aid you in the ability to return to your physical body after astral travel, connect with lunar energies, and open and clear your energetic meridians.

SILVER ANGEL HAIR: See Silver Rutile

SILVER VENUS HAIR: See Silver Rutile

SODALITE: Click here to read the full article.

SONORAN SUNRISE: See Sedona Sunset Jasper

SONORAN SUNSET: See Sedona Sunset Jasper

SPINEL, PINK: Use to enhance vitality, deepen passion for your partner, promote wellness & recovery, and help you to feel the oneness among all beings in the universe.

SPECTROPYRITE: See Silicon Carbide

SPESSARTITE: See Spessartine Garnet

SPODUMENE, GREEN: See Hiddenite

STAUROLITE: (Also known as Fairy Cross or as Fairy Tear) Use to create balance (emotional & spiritual), encourage healthy grieving, establish a connection with the divine, promote emotional growth & stability, soothe childhood trauma, and facilitate a connection with earth spirits (fairies, sprites, nymphs, etc.).

STELLERIA: See Goldstone

STIBINITE: See Stibnite

STIBNITE: (Also known as Stibinite) Use to foster protection, draw up energy from the earth when you are feeling energetically depleted, allow yourself to recognize your fears and provide insight in how to overcome them, and shield and protect your aura.

STICHITITE: (Also known as Stichtite) Use to connect with the Divine cosmic energy, enhance meditation, tap into the knowledge of ancient cultures & peoples, and aid in holding the intention to act for the highest good of all.

STICHTITE: See Stichitite

STICHITITE-SERPENTINE: See Atlantisite

STILBITE, PEACH: Use to help soothe emotional problems of the heart, aid you in working through the grieving process, and to instill a sense of self-worth and self-love.

STONEHENGE ROCK: See Preseli Blue Stone

STONEHENGE STONE: See Preseli Blue Stone

STROMATOLITE, SQUIRREL TAIL: See Squirrel Rhyolite Jasper

SUGALITE: See Sugilite

SUGELITE: See Sugilite

SUGILITE: (Also known as Sugelite, Sugalite, Lavulite, Luvulite, and Royal Azel) Use to aid in opening yourself to divine energy and spiritual love, enhance meditation, promote astral travel, stimulate lucid dreaming and dream healing, assist in learning and understanding shamanic practices and rituals, communicate with one’s ancestors or spirit guides, and facilitate working with the Violet Flame of St. Germaine. Sugilite was named for Ken-ici Sugi, the Japanese petrologist who discovered it. Its rich pink-to-purple color comes from the combination of metal elements within it, including iron, manganese and aluminum. It’s uncommon, and usually comes in small pieces. It can be a very helpful crystal to use at work and in other situations where group cooperation is needed, because it can help clear away “negative vibes” that remain after discussions, competitive situations, and other uncomfortable interactions. Even if there are no special problems in your workplace, Sugilite can help maintain a harmonious, cooperative environment. Sugilite is also helpful for many spiritual purposes, including shamanic work and personal transformation. You can make a spray mister to take to work to clear away negative energy and promote harmony. Just put a small piece of polished sugilite at the bottom of a glass spray bottle, and fill it up with purified water. If you plan to have it sitting around for awhile, you can add a little witch hazel or vodka to keep it fresh. Adding a couple drops of a purifying essential oil will make it smell nice and add an extra dimension of effectiveness; we suggest common garden sage, or an evergreen oil of some type.

SUPER 7: See Super Seven ^TM

SUPER SEVEN ^TM: (Also known as Melody’s Stone or as Super 7) Use to promote Lovingkindness, enhance your intuitive abilities, aid in astral travel, help with cleansing cords, remove negativity, assist with increasing your psychic awareness, and aid in channeling the universal knowledge of the healing properties of crystals & minerals.