Crystal Encyclopedia
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Welcome to your all-in-one guide to crystals and their healing properties! Each crystal is listed by its main type, and then by sub type. For example, Blue Calcite is listed under βCalcite, Blueβ so you would find it in the βCβ section for βCalciteβ rather than the βBβ section for βBlue.β
Curious about how these crystals get associated with their given properties? Crystal meanings are rooted in history, intuitive insight, color energy, and more. Be sure to check out our article about where crystal properties come from with some additional information. I hope you find this crystal encyclopedia useful as you deepen your healing practice and knowledge of stones!
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TANZANITE:Β (Also known as Blue Zoisite) Use to enhance your intuition, to facilitate communication with your guides and ancestors, to help you create a deeper connection with the universe, to enhance your awareness, to bring peace, calming, and serenity, to promote deep states of meditation, to facilitate astral travel, and to promote spiritual growth.
TEKTITE, GOLDEN:Β See Libyan Desert Glass
TELEVISION ROCK:Β See Ulexite
TELEVISION STONE:Β See Ulexite
THOMSONITE:Β Use to cleanse & purify, promote wellbeing, and instill a compassionate attitude toward animals.
THOUSAND EYE STONE:Β See Shell Jasper
THULITE:Β Use to aid you when experiencing difficulty in social situations. Thulite in quartz is a relative of clinozoisite, and is known for its very gentle energy.
TIGER IRON:Β Use to aid in grounding, foster protection, instill creative energy in artists (especially for painters), bring your astral body back to earth after astral travel or dream work, provide strength during difficult times, boost your vitality and increase your life force energy, enhance self-confidence & will power, encourage inner-strength, aid in focus & concentration, and balance the influence of the elements on yourself. This stone is a composition of Golden Tigerβs Eye, Red Jasper, and Hematite, so the properties of these stones also apply.
TIGER'S EYE:
- TIGER'S EYE, BLUE: Click here to read the full article.
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TIGER'S EYE, GOLDEN: Click here to read the full article.
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TIGERβS EYE, RED:Β (Also known as Falconβs Eye, Dragonβs Eye, or as Ox Eye) Use to aid in grounding, increase psychic powers, encourage the rising of the Kundalini, bring protection, stimulate compassion, assist you in sorting through details & completing tedious tasks, help with removing negative habits, encourage happiness, promote sensible actions, increase vitality, and spark motivation. Tigerβs eye is a form of quartz in which the SiO2 crystals have grown together with asbestos fibers, giving it a distinctive silky sheen. Weβll talk here about the basic golden form, but there are several related stones. Tigerβs eye is a great stone for putting βpedal to the metal,β taking charge of what you want and bringing it into reality. Itβs also a traditional stone for warding off the evil eye. Since it contains asbestos, please donβt use it for elixirs.
TOPAZ:
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TOPAZ, BLUE:Β Use to facilitate communication with your Guardian Angel, connect with the water element and bodies of water, stimulate your intuition & psychic powers, help you go with the flow and be open to what the universe has to offer, help you to channel your creative energies in a positive manner, and promote wellbeing.
- TOPAZ, IMPERIAL GOLDEN: Click here to read the full article.
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TOPAZ, LEMON:Β Use to instill happiness & joy, help you embrace the light of the sun to foster contentment, harness inner strength & courage, and encourage wellbeing.
TOURMALINE:
- TOURMALINE, BLACK: Click here to read the full article.
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TOURMALINE, BLUE:Β (Also known as Indicolite or as Indigolite) Use to stimulate your intuition and bring clarity to your intuitive insights, help you stay in the present moment by encouraging conscious awareness, aid in the decision-making process, connect with the water element, facilitate positive communication by balancing your emotions (especially when communicating your psychic insights or βpredictionsβ to another person), promote compassion toward all beings (allowing you to put yourself in anotherβs shoes in order to better understand that personβs actions or behaviors), and keep yourself focused on one thing at a time so as to keep you from feeling scattered or overwhelmed with information.
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TOURMALINE, CUPRIAN:Β See Violet Tourmaline
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TOURMALINE, ELBAITE GREEN:Β (Also known as Verdite, Verdelite, Verdalite, Verdalite Tourmaline, Verdite Tourmaline, or as Verdelite Tourmaline) Use for protection and shielding you from negative energy (especially the emotional body layer of your aura), for purification, soothing the mind and spirit; instilling virtuous behavior, promoting personal and spiritual growth, energetically supporting you as you open your heart after grief or loss, balancing and aligning your energy body, and connecting with nature.
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TOURMALINE, ELBAITE PINK:Β Use to assist you in treating all with love and compassion, to encourage love, for emotional support, for balancing the mind and spirit, for enhancing friendships, for promoting feelings of safety and security, to instill joy, and to enhance enthusiasm.
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TOURMALINE, MOZAMBIQUE:Β See Violet Tourmaline
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TOURMALINE, RUBELLITE RED:Β Use to encourage love, promote emotional strength, align and balance the mind and spirit, enhance friendships, promote feelings of safety and security, instill joy, increase your enthusiasm for people or situations that may otherwise try your patience, assist you in releasing past life issues, banish negative patterns, and promote deep soul-level growth.
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TOURMALINE, UVITE GREEN:Β Use to attract wealth, prosperity, & abundance; help you in determining your appropriate career path, banish envy, deter greed, instill a sense of gratitude within yourself, enhance the feng shui in a room by moving chi (life force energy), and promote balance & harmony.
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TOURMALINE, VERDALITE:Β See Green Elbaite Tourmaline
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TOURMALINE, VERDELITE:Β See Green Elbaite Tourmaline
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TOURMALINE, VERDITE:Β See Green Elbaite Tourmaline
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TOURMALINE, VIOLET:Β (Also known as Mozambique Tourmaline or as Cuprian Tourmaline) Use to release karmic debts, cool the heat of anger, and balance your mind & spirit.
- TOURMALINE, WATERMELON: Click here to read the full article.
TURQUOISE: Click here to read the full article.
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TURQUOISE, SLEEPING BEAUTY:Β Use to protect your energy body, facilitate communication with your ancestors, stimulate astral travel, encourage journeying & growth while in the dream state, enhance your clairvoyant abilities (psychic sight), promote rest, and instill feelings of peace & tranquility.
T.V. ROCK:Β See Ulexite
T.V. STONE:Β See Ulexite