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Calcite
Calcite's natural color is white or clear. All of the wondrous colors of Calcite (pink, green, blue, peach, gold, yellow, red, grey, and black) are Calcite which combined with other minerals as it formed. Any Calcite that is placed on the appropriate Chakra will not only clear and activate that Chakra but all other Chakras as well. Clear Calcite can be placed on any Chakra. Gold and clear Calcite work on the Crown Chakra, blue Calcite on the Throat Chakra, pink Calcite on the Third Eye Chakra and the Heart Chakra, yellow Calcite on the Solar Plexus Chakra, peach Calcite on the Navel Chakra, and clear Calcite on the Base Chakra. Calcite is an energy amplifier.

Emerald Calcite
4th chakra, heart. This is a very deep healing heart chakra stone. It is recommend for healing those Deepest tissues of the heart such as love of self and others. Cleansing of old stagnant and blocked energy. Breaking old relationship habits and patterns. Emerald Calcite allows you to surrender or to let go of those love issues which have stopped you from finding your true love or soul mate. Surrender to the Universe the 'need' to be in a relationship. Give yourself the gift of clearing out the old energy that you are projecting. If you project the energy of neediness or being a victim, you will only attract those who are not good for you. Use the Emerald Calcite to help you project an image of love and self-respect for yourself. This will allow your true energy to show and only then will you be able to mirror your soul mate. Emerald Calcite will show your heart the way, the way to a happy and healthy relationship. There is someone for each of us, we just need to heal our own heart first. To use this calcite hold it over your heart chakra and say this affirmation out loud. "I am in love with the Universe, Myself and with life". vibrates to the number 3, joy and creativity! Helps kidneys, spleen and the pancreas. Removes toxins from the body and alleviates mental fear. Aids mental clarity, soothes anxiety, calms turbulent energies. Expands awareness, aids intuition, links parallel realities. Good when undertaking mental change.

Honey Calcite
Honey calcite is a stone that gently amplifies energy. It also assists in the challenges associated with change. Honey calcite enhances psychic abilities, astral projection and higher consciousness. It also enhances intellect and memory. Honey calcite is associated with the sacral and solar plexus chakras.

Lime Green Calcite
Tranquility; soothes spiritual heart; helps us learn from lessons in each situation and new options. Clarifies visions, imagery, astral travel and recall. Helps us replace fears, old ways with healthier ones. Cleans toxins and fumes from body. Needs cleansing if sticky.

Yellow Calcite
Spine, bones. Detoxification of kidneys, pancreas, spleen. Decalcifying joints. Yellow calcite stimulates the intellect. It can help one organize intellectual thoughts and information. It is also good for psychic abilities. In the physical realm, yellow calcite benefits the stomach, upper intestines, upper back and upper spine.

Red Calcite
Red calcite brings stability to one's will, and increases inner strength. It assists with problem solving. It can also attract love. Physically red calcite is beneficial for genitals, reproductive organs, gonads, ovaries, hips, lets, feet, stiff muscles and joints.

Blue Calcite
Eases pain (especially back). Intuitive sources say that Blue Calcite activates the throat chakra, enhancing one's ability to communicate one's inner truth and helping one 'find the words' to eloquently express one's ideas and feelings. It is also said to help open the 'third eye' the seat of inner visionary experience.

Orange Calcite
Uplifting, joy, happiness, humor. Beneficial for the cleansing organs, bones, joints, and for sharpening mental clarity. Helps boost memory. Helps one draw more insight from books or personal experience by making important information easier to remember.

Mangano Calcite
Mangano Calcite possesses all the characteristics of Calcite and of Maganese. Mangano's energy is very female and will help call female guides and angels to you. Its energy is very soft and flowing, like its colors. It takes negative energy and transmutes it, spreading it out in a pool around it, the pool's ripples spreading out further and further. This stone offers soft feminine comfort and speaks best to the Heart and Crown Chakras. This gemstone is an excellent healing tool!

Optical Calcite
Optical Calcite possesses all the characteristics of Calcite. It also clears all the Chakras, the aura, and the outer bodies. It helps you in difficult conversations in the sense of being able to see both meanings of words if there are double meanings involved. Clearer vision & communication, wellness, general cleansing.

Carnelian
Chalcedony (jasper) qtz. Translucent. confidence, boldness, initiative, dramatic abilities, assertiveness, outgoingness. Precision, analysis, appetite, awareness of feelings. Orange and yellow Chakra. Warms and cleanses blood, kidneys, stimulates appetite, emotions, passion, sexuality, physical energy, celebration, reproductive system, menstrual cramps, arthritis, kidneys, gall bladder, pancreas. Historically also used to pull excess fever out through the feet. Comes in a variety of colors ranging from red to orange and, in some cases, even to dark brown. Helps you feel anchored and comfortable with your surroundings. Provides a connection to the past or to historical events. Strongly influences the reproductive organs. Purifies the blood and liver, and it is excellent for lower back trouble. Can improve motivation. Helps one achieve greater success in career or personal matters. Helps ground people who meditate.

Cancrinite

Cancrinite facilitates meditation and creates a protective shield of golden light and connection with the earth, and is therefore useful in astral travel, physically; it helps regeneration of connective tissue. It can be used within the field of the relevant Chakra, or better, directly upon the affected area
Chakra Alignment: Navel (sacral)

Cat's Eye
See Chrysoberyl.

Catlinite
Catlinite, also called pipestone, is traditionally used as a Native American ceremony stone, for making pipes and other totems. Catlinite has the quality of connecting the spiritual and the physical. It can be used to ground prayer and ritual into the physical, everyday life. It is also a very protective stone. Catlinite is also used for communication with spirits and the ancestors. Catlinite is related primarily to the root (base) chakra.

Cavansite
Cavansite is a stone that aids in many psychic areas. It can stimulate intuition greatly, heightens psychic awareness, stimulates the third eye, and enhances channeling abilities. It is especially helpful in psychic healing and protects the healer during psychic healing sessions. Emotionally, cavansite helps get rid of negative thoughts and beliefs, and inspires new ideas. It helps see what part of life need attention. It also helps one relax. Physically cavansite is helpful for sore throats, general healing, and diseases which it helps eliminate and keep from returning. Cavansite is related primarily to the throat and third eye chakras

Celestite. Angels Quartz
White, clear, or cool lt. blue cluster crystals. Gentle. .Celestite, also known as Angels Quartz, is said to have a direct link to the realms of heaven. It is said that celestite was given powers by angels to raise consciousness, and bring guidance from the angels. Intuitive and spiritual sources suggest keeping it is said to offer you a physical link to your guardian angel. Celestite is said to reduce stress and bring one to a state of inner peace, compassion, eloquence, healing, describe the message of this crystals. Placing this crystal on the soul star helps to activate the soul chakra. Helps Throat Chakra. Honesty, openness, stress, worry, hearing, thyroid, potassium/manganese deficiency, Central Nervous System, tiredness, fades in sunlight.

Cerussite
Clear/misty white to brown. Helps us be centered, confident, capable and versatile amidst life's challenges. Grounding to here/now and higher self. Graciousness, good listening/communication skills. Translate higher concepts to everyday language. Psychicness, clarity. Shows what we can/can't change. Letting go (stress, addictions..) Insomnia, Central Nervous System, coordination, general healing. Both grounds root chakra and opens crown (& Throat) Chakra. Plant growth , protection against bugs.

Chalcedony
A type of Quartz that heads a family which includes Agate, Carnelian, Jasper, Tiger's Eye, and Onyx. Gray is most common color but stone are found in shades of white, black, blue, and brown. Helps ease self-doubts, makes one more reflective. Eases bad dreams and problems related to the eye, gall bladder, bones, spleen, blood, and circulatory organs. Cleansing in nature and will promote healing of open sores. It needn't be cleaned afterward since it has such strong cleansing qualities of its own. Fosters teh maternal instinct and is said to aid lactation.

Blue Chalcedony
Blue chalcedony is a stone with a gentle energy that feels kind of dreamy. It fosters balance between mind, body and spirit. It is a stone of calm and peace that reduces or negates hostility, anger, and irritation. Blue chalcedony soothes and fosters mental and emotional stability and can engender emotional honesty. It also encourages and eases communication, particularly what would otherwise be emotionally charged communication. Blue chalcedony is excellent for the psychic work and skills of clairvoyance, intuition, and energy healing. It also helps reduce or eliminate bad dreams by getting rid of the influences that cause them. Blue chalcedony has a very protective property, which is evidenced in both the physical and emotional realms. Physically, blue chalcedony has been used for the eyes, open sores rapid healing, alzheimers, lactation, blood, circulation, bones, spleen, and gall bladder.

Carribbean Blue Chalcedony
Carribbean blue chalcedony is a stone related to the element of water. Although it is dyed to give it such a bright blue color, the coloring fits is basic "watery" nature. Carribbean blue chalcedony is very helpful in the emotional realm. It can calm anxieties and stress, and bring emotional healing in times of grief. It also assists with communication, particularly communications that are involved in emotional things. Physically, according to crystal healing and folk lore, Carribbean blue chalcedony can be used to heal menstrual cramps, PMS symptoms, and knee problems.

Blue Moss Chalcedony
Prevent accidents, Beauty, ease legal matters to go your way, Gain personal power, Releasing and Cleansing, Personal Acceptance, Truth and Anti-Illusion.

Chalcopyrite
Chalcopyrite has been used to treat disorders of the brain, to lessen the pressure from tumours and growths. It has also been used to treat bronchitis and disorders of the lungs. to lessen fevers, reduce inflammation and to promote hair growth. Strengthens the ability of perception. Helps you to get in touch with the ancient cultures of the universe so that information may be readily received. It is a stone whose own internal energy can clear energy blockages and totally open the crown Chakra. It is excellent for use in attaining the "no mind" state of meditation. Chalcopyrite allows you to meditate on the perfection of each and every piece of the universe. An excellent meditative stone.

Charoite
Purple, solid. Newly coming into greater use. Works with Indigo & violet Chakra to transmute/lift us out of emotions, fear. Seeing old patterns with new possibilities. Opens heart, inspiration, service, seeing clearly (mentally, physically, psychically), faster healing. Some find useful also for entity release work and alcohol/liver detoxification.

Chlorite
Chlorite is considered one of the most powerful healing stones. It cleanses and purifies the aura, chakras and other energy centers. It can remove negative energy of all kinds, including anger, hostility, illness, and others. Creatively, they promote a state of inspiration. Chlorite is also used to remove unwanted energy implants, healing the void left after the implants are removed. The energy that chlorite brings to healing and the environment are extraordinarily positive. Physically, chlorite is excellent for all healing as noted above, and is used to eliminate toxins from the body.

Chrysoberyl
Translucent Gold or Green Cat's Eye (often confused with qtz. Tiger's Eye, but rarer). Usually clear, green or green/brown, nongreasy. For acquiring more prosperity. Confidence, self-pride, healing. Amplifies other gems Some are irradiated to turn green trust your feeling with each stone.

Chrysanthemum Stone
Stone resembles blooming autumn chrysanthemum flowers. Allows one to drift through the blossoms of life. Stone of harmony and change. Enhances compatibility, renewal of relationships and unity. Fun loving and innocence, helps one to enjoy each moment. Removes obstructions from one's path; calms and provides confidence.

Chiastolite
The "Cross Stone". This crystal is a variety of Andalusite. It exhibits the axis and angle in a different color from the rest of the crystal forming a natural cross. It is used as a sign of devotion towards awareness and dispels negativity. It signifies both death and re-birth and helps one to understand the realization of immortality. It is used as a bridge for "crossing over". It helps one to assimilate during times of change. It provides insight to answers when problem solving. This powerful crystal balances one's perspective in both creativity and practicality. During illness, it helps to maintain spirituality, lessens fever, balances blood flow, increases secretion of milk in nursing mothers and repairs chromosome damage.

Chinese Writing Stone
This is a limestone matrix with andalusite crystals. It is also called Porphory. It received the name Chinese Writing Rock or Stone because of the crystaline structure resembling the Chinese characters of the written language. The stone is found in the Yangtzi River Valley of the Hunan Province of China and also it is known to be found in the Auburn, California region of the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. Chinese Writing Stone is a mineral that is used to help one access information from ancient texts and the Akashic Records. It is an excellent stone for dreaming, assisting one into a dream state. It is a stone of re-affirmation, re-alignment and re-commitment. It helps one to adjust to change, accept responsibility and stimulate originality.

Chrysocolla/Gem Silica
Solid Lt. blue/blue-green. Gentle, soothing, friendly. Excellent for Heart Chakra; flushes and heals heart blocks (loss, hurt, guilt, fear...) for allowingness, flexibility, self-forgiveness, peace of heart, patience. Keeps one in light, love, and healing daily. On Throat, expressing feelings, verbal and artistic creativity, thyroid. Also, heart bloodsugar, and emotional balance. High conductivity from copper draws out pain, heat (fevers, inflammations, arthritis...), Excellent therapeutic assistance for healing loss, incest, other traumas. Cleanses auric field. Dreams and Earth healing. A stone found in shades of blue or green. Resembles Turquoise and its properties are similar to it. Benefits arthritis and other bone diseases as well as the organs of the digestive tract, and ulcers become less problematic. Relieves hypertension and stressful conditions due to fear or guilt. Helps one feel more comfortable speaking the truth. Help develop personal confidence. Historically used by musicians, perhaps because of its reputation for having healing properties for throat and lungs.

Chrysoprase
Bright translucent green chalcedony. Uplifts heart Chakra. Greater flexibility, wisdom, generosity, self-confidence. Heals depression, excess self-focus, emotions/sexual imbalance. Placed on heart, neck, or on brow for meditation. A bright green crystal similar in color to green apples. Helps one achieve greater personal insight, feel more clam, become less egotistical, and more open to new surroundings and situations. Stimulates creativity and draws out unknown talents. Enhances fertility for both sexes. Helps guard against sexually transmitted diseases. Also helps gout, mental illness, and eye problems.

Cinnabar
Heals & purifies the blood. Imparts strength and flexibility to the physical body, stabilizes weight and enhances fertility.

Citrine
Clear yellow qtz. (Yellow from Iron.) For Solar Plexus Chakra. Mental and emotional clarity. Problem-solving, memory, will power, optimism, confidence, self-discipline, digestion. Reduces anxiety, fear, depression, stomach tension, food disorders, allergies. Detoxification: Spleen, kidneys, liver, urinary system, intestines. Electromagnetic. Citrine is one of two crystals which never have to be cleansed of negative energy. An energizing and highly beneficial crystal. Its color is usually a pale golden yellow, but can be found in darker shades as well, although some literature considers the darkest crystals to be Smoky Quartz. The Celtic people of Scotland call the dark Citrine crystals Morion and Cairngorm. They are invigorating and positive. Can surround and fill anyone with its brilliant color, energizing every aspect of life. Increases motivation and promotes physical activity, which in turn improves digestion and helps the cleansing organs. May also work as a detoxifier for the blood. Persons involved with education or business will especially benefit. Can guide you to harness and utilize your creative energy. Helps us analyze events and steer them in a positive direction. Develops inner calm and security, and makes us less sensitive and more open to constructive criticism. Can dispel negative feelings and help us to accept the flow of events.

Clinochlore

Clinochlore improves the circulation of the blood, assists with general "colds and chills" and can help with weight loss. It also reduces the appearance of liver spots on the skin and can be useful in helping to alleviate pain. Clinochlore is an extremely useful and very positive healing stone. It can help us to feel centered, and to see what changes we must make to bring peace and happiness into our own lives. It is a protective stone and one that also engenders Love. Clinochlore is good for positively enhancing relationships as it helps you to become more independent for your own good but still a diplomatic and loving friend within that relationship. It teaches us tenderness and care. Clinochlore can help us to bring order out of chaos and also teach us that we are neither simply helpless nor hopeless human beings. During meditation with Clinochlore this mineral can assist you in contacting the highest levels of angelic forces. It will help you to understand the various stages of your life and will also allow you to appreciate people and things that are growing spiritually.

Cobalt-Calcite
(Calcite, pink from Cobalt) Brings love, patience, gentleness, compassion. Soothes intensity of feelings. Mental and emotional balance.

Travertine Calcite
Bridging the known and unknown

Conichalcite
Conichalcite is helpful in treating skin problems, psoriasis, cancer, herpes, kidney and bladder problems and can eliminate toxins from the body. Conichalcite provides us with a mental link to the plant kingdom. It brings together the emotions and the intellect so that we may be better communicators. It increases our personal power so that we may direct this in a more loving manner. Conichalcite not only provides us with a measure of stability, but also gives us the strength to sway with any changes. It stimulates our intuition, our imagination and our adaptability. It helps you to realise just how boundless your own abilities really are. A helpful mineral for those just beginning meditation practices.

Copper
Excellent energy conductor! Sends and amplifies thoughts, healing, and gem electrical energy into wearer's energy field. Next to skin: Detoxes and soothes arthritis, rheumatism, other inflammation problems. 3rd chakra: stomach, intestines. Warms, releases resentment, anger. Built up in joints as arthritis. Exhaustion recovery, circulation, balances warm sun energy and cool lunar energy. Energize with sun. A plentiful metal ore that ranges in color from a soft red-brown to a deep brick red. Assists in the fight against inflammatory diseases such as arthritis and rheumatism, particularly when used in conjunction with other stones. Helps stabilize the metabolism and heightens the immune system. The blood also benefits from Copper. Beneficial for the lungs, improving the exchange of oxygen and filtering out pollutants. Soft tissue and mucous membranes retain more moisture and become less susceptible to irritation. An excellent aid for increasing your ability to express and accept true feelings. Balance personal reserve and confidence.

Coral
Calcium and calcite. Coral brings diplomacy and concurrence, quiets emotions, brings peace to innerself. Facilitates intuition, imagination, visualization, expedite, accelerate the transfer of knowledge. Strengthens both circulatory and bone structure in the body. Stimulates tissue regeneration and nourish blood cells. Helps with disorders of the spinal, alimentary canals, nervous system and thalamus.

Red and Orange Coral
Stimulates Root and Spleen Chakra for energy and warmth, fertility. Energizes emotions. Muscles, blood, heart, reproductive system; thyroid, metabolism; meridians; spine, bone and tissue regeneration. (Avoid if high blood pressure, fever, anxious.)

Pink Coral
Heart Chakra, increases sensitivity, caring, compassion. Assists in the search for the "inner child" and the need to bring key issues from the unconscious to a conscious state of awareness. Helps resolve conflict and clear the paralysis experienced due to the fear of making a move.

White Coral
Soothes; heals meridians, stress, smell ability, nerves. Strengthens self-esteem and assists with clearing judgement, frustration and resentment at being told what to do. Encourages you to affirm yourself and recognise the self within. Enhances intuition and calms the emotions. Aligns the chakras and connects us to our etheric body.

Black Coral
Creativity, repels lower energies. Black coral acts as protection against potential harm. Dispels negativity, fear of dark and unknown.

Blue Coral
activates and energizes the Throat Chakra. Also used to illuminate the Third Eye Chakra, enhancing psychic awareness and capabilities of the user. Facilitates the improvement/permanence in pursuit of commerce, improves communication abilities, treatment of throat ailments and cleansing of mucoid system. Different colors of Coral can be used alone, in combination, or all together. Sympathetic to both the skeletal structure and the circulatory system. Good stone for ailments of the bones and blood such as arthritis and anemia. Also benefits the cleansing organs and thymus. Helps battle mental illnesses. Has a true link with the past and can pass knowledge along.

Corundum
Second hardest mineral. Insight to the unknown. Intuitive awareness, stimulates ambition, confidence. Subdues and calms emotions, harsh and irritable attitudes, releases anger. Soothes and smooths the skin, eye disorders, brings peace to the body.

Covellite
Covellite is high energy stone that is excellent for psychic and intuitive work of many kinds. It can enhance intuitive and psychic abilities, and is a very good meditation stone. It strengthens the connection to the higher self. It can also help open to past life recall and ancient Atlantean and other knowledes. It is also used in rebirthing. Mentally it is useful in finding and seeing solutions to problems and ways to accomplish goals. Emotionally it relieves despondency, depression, and anxiety. Physically covellite has been known to be helpful with problems with the ears, nose, mouth, and sinuses. Covellite is related to the third eye chakra.

Creedite
A white stone found in the US and Mexico. Beneficial to the body's cleansing system. Useful for blood detoxification. Helps one discover how best to express themselves and intuitively understand other people. Will also benefit the nervous system by aiding in the transmission of nerve impulses.

Crocoite
Crocoite is a very rare and very fragile mineral. When a woman works with Crocoite it helps her to better gauge the best time for conception and allows the highest level of astrological planning to take place. Crocoite also allows women to readily asses males as potential mates and/or fathers. Disorders of the reproductive system respond well to Crocoite as does recovery from distress. Crocoite "improves" and/or "builds upon" our natural inborn qualities. It promotes fertility in women and allows women to fully realise all of their their feminine aspects. It stimulates intuition, creativity and sexuality. Crocoite is a transition stone from one state to another - be that physically or spiritually.

Cuprite
Deep wine red. (High copper content) Opens flow of Root and Spleen Chakras, Kundalini energy, will power. Also, with Heart Chakra. Strengthens thymus, heart, blood, and oxygen, metabolism, stamina and healing. Historically also heals relationship with father, the yang side of us, masculinity (for men) and confidence/security issues. Access past life. Beneficial for metabolical imbalances. Helps the heart and blood, muscle tissue, and skeletal system. Helpful for people having difficulty dealing with father or authority figures. Considered helpful in investigating past-life experiences.