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Tanzanite
Rare, Clear, blue-purple-violate Zoisite crystal. (Use clear ones for healing meditation.) Placed on brow, it powerfully opens brow plus Crown centers for clairaudience, visions, spiritual connectedness, protection, manifesting. Helps expand our physical and mental seeing, hearing, hair, skin. It was first discovered in Tanzania, which is how it got its name. This stone stimulates both the Throat chakra and the Third Eye chakra, and bring together all aspects of communication and psychic power. Tanzanite is a "stone of magic" that facilitates spiritual awareness and stimulates insight. It is also said to relieve depression. Tanzanite is known to both dispel and transmute negativity.

Tektite
Tektite is a type of natural glass, chemically and structurally unique, of meteoric origin. Tektites are found on earth within a narrow equatorial belt 80 degrees wide. They have been found in Thailand, Australia, Viet Nam and the Phillipines. Tektites usually have a heavily pitted surface. Many have the appearance of being stretched while in a molten state. They appear black, but when held up to the light, you can sometimes see a golden tint in translucent areas around the edges. Assists one in attaining knowledge and learning lessons throughout the travels of life. Balances the feminine/masculine, provides insight, strengthens one's energy field. Can stimulate thought transmissions.

Thulite
Thulite, sometimes called unionite or pink zoisite is a stone of nurturing in a deep and full way. It aids understanding and healing the pains and illnesses caused by a lack of nurturing, even abuse. Crystal healers and psychic healers will find thulite helpful when working with survivors of incest, physical abuse, emotional abuse, abandonment, and neglect. Survivors themselves often find thulite comforting and helpful in combating self-sabotage, low self-esteem, and other life-long symptoms of abuse and neglect. Others will find that thulite can help them too, by helping them nurture themselves and those they love. Thulite is helpful for bringing healing of eating disorders including anorexia and bulemia, loneliness. Thulite helps bring nurturing love and understanding of love to one's life, and can help bring harmony in relationships or communities. In addition, thulite is a stone for the central nervous system that enhances coordination, concentradion, and dexterity by bringing the mind and body into alignment together to work together at their highest capacity. Artists, craftspeople and others who work with their hands can find thulite extremely helpful. Athletes can also find thulite very helpful because of its boost of these qualities, which can improve their athletic performance. Thulite is usually related to the root chakra, particularly the darker shades, although it is also related to the heart chakra by many. 

Thomsonite
Color ranges include white, yellow, and pink, brown, green. Enables a stable connection between the emotional and intellectual bodies. Known for easing brashness and laziness; it helps "cleaning out the fog" for greater mental clarity. Can be used in treatment of high temperatures, cysts, and oral fungus; for stimulating the thymus.

Thunder Egg
These stones are said to have been thrown to earth by thor, the god of thunder. They are in fact volcanic bombs made of volcanic silica ash with star centres of agate, opal and jasper. Metaphysically they are said to aid in the reduction of anger and hostility. They are said to facilitate the right thoughts followed by the right actions. The energy of these stones is one of joy and peace. They teach us that within each person there is peace and beauty.

Tiger's Eye
Chalcedony Quartz Cat's Eye. Yellow-gold. Money, Protection, Courage, Luck Confidence, Willpower, Clear Thinking (and thus speaking), personal power in life. Yellow/Solar Plexus Chakra. Works on Mental plane: amplifies thinking and manifesting what you think about (careful)! will. Helps separate thoughts from feelings, so centered, less emotional. Digestion, stomach, anxiety, ulcers, bones. Rub with essential oil on Front. bottom for blood detox. Use with malachite or pearl for mental/emotional balance, understanding. Helps change anxiety, fear and obsessiveness into practicality, logic. Yang.Has the grounding energy of the earth, but is embellished with a glowing warmth.

Red Tiger's Eye
Strengthens your body force. Useful for enhancing physical vitality, this stone can help create healthy patterns in exercise and eating habits. It is grounding and offers a practical and optimistic outlook. It helps the wearer feel energetic, vibrantly healthy and passionate. It balances the yin-yang energy bringing awareness of one's personal needs as well as the needs of others. Other properties include: becoming practical and discreet of mind as well as more grounded; brings optimism eliminating 'the blues'; helps with internal mental battles; stimulates wealth. It also produces stimulating and soothing vibrations. Tigers eye has been used in the treatment of eye and throat disorder and also disorders of the reproductive system.

Green or Blue Tiger's Eye
See Hawk's Eye.

Tiger Iron
Tiger iron helps with creative endeavors and all types of artistic abilities. It is a stone of balance and particularly helps maintain the balance of white and red blood cells. It can increase the production of natural steroids in the body and is beneficial for the muscular structure.

Tiffany Stone
Tiffany Stone (aka Opalized Fluorite, Opal Fluorite, Bertrandite, Ice Cream Opalite, Purple Opal) is a highly energetic but subtle stone. Psychically it helps with communication and interpretation of psychically received information of all kinds, including telepathic, channeled, clairaudience, clairvoyance, and others. Energetically it is excellent for removing energy blockages of the meridians and chakras. Tiffany Stone is helpful emotionally by assisting transitions during changes of all kinds, engendering persistence and emotional strength, and verbalizing hidden or secret feelings. Tiffany Stone is also beneficial for business and business success. Physically, Tiffany Stone boosts the sex drive and can enhance sexual experience, and is an all-around healing stone. Tiffany Stone is associated primarily with the third eye chakra. 

Topaz
The stone of "true love and success in all endeavors". It can be used to manifest health and correct disorders within the body. They promote understanding, compassion, kindness and empathy. They open and heal the hearts of those who have closed them while also protecting the open-hearted from too much pain. Instrumental in visualizations for healing and attracting in meditation and projection. Helps one to creatively change personal world, enhance awareness, expansiveness and manifestation. Most common Topaz has a radiant yellow color, but can also be found in shades of green, blue, and brown. Sends out positive energy to all who need it. For those in crisis or in need of motivation. Recharges and increases the user's energy level. Benefits those who are problem solvers, such as those involved with the arts or science. An excellent stone for relaxation and comfort. Calms the nervous system and lessens tension. Also benefits the blood. Sheds light on the path to your goals. Those in tune with Topaz's positive energy will feel limitless and philanthropic. They will experience an increase in their personal abilities. 

Golden Topaz
The most powerful, electromagnetic of yellow/solar plexus gems. A strong, steady, high level gem for mental clarity, focus, perceptivity, high level concepts, confidence, personal power, stamina. Helps mood swings, insomnia, worries, fears, depression, exhaustion, nervous system stress, stomach anxiety. Also works somewhat with the Crown Chakra. Liver/pancreas detoxification, bloodsugar balance, tissue and backbone strengthener (physically and emotionally). Radiates warmth,sun/light energy, protection. Excellent for water signs, teachers, excess work stress, manifesting, higher-self connection. Brings emotions and thinking into balance.

Pink and Champagne Topaz
Works also especially with the heart for love, spiritual compassion.

Blue Topaz
Alignment with our higher self, creative expression, writing, focus on your path. An empathetic stone. Gives out its warm glow quite readily. Blue topaz brings leadership ability to anyone who wears or carries it. It also enhances and improves psychic knowledge, spiritual growth, and psychic insight. It also lends an air of tranquility in those endeavors.

Silver Topaz
Silver topaz is a stone of success and manifestion when directed toward the highest good of all. It promotes creativity and individuality. It replaces negativity with love and joy. It enhances healing and visualization, and aids in the healing of depression, wounds, and skin problems. It helps communication with animals and plants. Silver topaz is associated with the crown chakra, but will work with all chakras. Topaz is associated with the astrological signs Scorpio and Saggitarius.

Tourmaline
Tourmaline crystallizes in the form of vertically striated prismatic crystals, sometimes slender and sometimes needle-like. The colour range includes deep pink to red to red violet {rubellite}, blue {indicolite}, yellow {also known as " peridot of Ceylon" and schorl}, colourless {achroite}, bi-coloured, tri-coloured, and colourless. The energy of tourmaline relates to each of the chakras. Its acts to clear, to maintain, and to stimulate each of the energy centres of the body. It can be used to attract inspiration, to diminish fear by promoting understanding, and to encourage self-confidence. It provides for a balancing of the male/female energies within your body; it further provides for balancing of the mind, of the energy centres, and of the auric body, inducing the alignment of the mental processes and the chakras with the ethereal structure. Tourmaline has been used to stimulate balance between the left and right sides of the brain and to enhance cooperative efforts in the areas of creativity and healing. It further helps one to look within the depths of ones being with as much belief in the reality of the inner world as one maintains for the outer world. It helps one to release the concept of being the victim and to maintain fortitude and laughter while maintaining consciousness.

Black Tourmaline
Black tourmaline can be used to both repel and protect against negativity. It acts to protect one from being victimized by the negative energy of another. It has also been used as an energy deflector, being an excellent stone for those with potential for exposure to excessive amounts of radiation. It provides for an increase in ones physical vitality, emotional stability, and intellectual acuity, and can maintain ones " spirits" even in conditions which appear to emit the message of " gloom and doom". It acts to stimulate the reflex points associated with the lower back. It can be used in the treatment of arthritis, dyslexia, heart dis-ease, anxiety, and disorientation. It can also provide for both the stimulation and the balancing of the adrenal glands.

Blue Tourmaline
Blue tourmaline can be used to activate the throat chakra and the third-eye, strengthening the skills associated with communication and psychic awareness. It assists one in relating to others in a loving manner, bringing a true impression to the surface. It further helps one to live in harmony with ones environment {e.g., people, places, and things}. The energy of blue tourmaline activates the progression towards service, allowing one to recognise the rewards of serving humanity in the areas of expansion of knowledge and in helping all to realize the power of love. Blue tourmaline can be used in the treatment of disorders of the lungs, throat, larynx, oesophagus, thymus, and thyroid. Dark blue tourmaline can also be used in the treatment of disorders associated with the eyes and the brain. Neon blue has been used in diagnostic endeavours and in assisting in the recognition of causal factors.

Brown Tourmaline
Brown tourmaline can be used to clear aura and to stimulate the auric body to align the energy of the optimum self to the physical body; it does not provide for the alignment, as such, but opens the pathway to facilitate the alignment. It is a protective stone on the subtle levels, bringing the presence of the earth to the peace of the higher self. It can also be used in the treatment of disorders of the intestinal tract and to reduce spots on the skin. It has been used to stimulate the growth of plants.

Colourless Tourmaline
Colourless tourmaline aligns the energy centres and meridians of the physical body to the optimum energy centres and meridians of the ethereal body. It provides for a synthesis of the metaphysical and healing properties of the other colours of tourmaline. In addition it can be used to activate the crown chakra, instilling the concept of progress toward service. It is excellent in healing, combining the forces of all tourmaline properties.

Green Tourmaline
This mineral can help teach the user a way of "seeing with the heart" {i.e. opens the heart chakra}. It may be applied in endeavours of visualisation and to assist in the attunement of the energy between the third-eye and the heart. It can transform negative energy to the positive state without releasing it to the atmosphere. It also acts to inspire creativity, and to attract success, prosperity and abundance. It can be used in the treatment of disorders relating to the eyes. It can also be used to facilitate weight loss and to regenerate the heart, thymus, ductless glands, and the immune system. It has been used as a purgative. The energy of green tourmaline can also assist one in rectifying psychological problems associated with the father and/or other male forces in ones life.

Multi-Coloured Tourmaline
In addition to combining the properties of the respective colours, Multi-coloured tourmaline can be used as a "gate" to the inner self and to the higher self.

Neon Tourmaline
The neon tourmaline further enhances all the energies of the colour represented, it electrifies transmissions and enhances the properties of the minerals with which it contacts. It enhances the properties given above and has been used as a focal point for long distant contact and contact with other worlds via meditation and via journeying. It is indeed a powerful stone!

Orange Tourmaline
Orange tourmaline is very rare. The orange tourmaline stimulates the navel chakra and enhances creativity, intuition of the physical plane, and sexuality; it also provides for a levelling of emotions and a furthering of desire- the direction of the desire being facilitated by the intellect. It can be used in the treatment of disorders related to the reproductive system, to infertility and/or frigidity, and to intestinal disorders.

Light Pink Tourmaline
The energy of light pink tourmaline relates to creativity and to conceiving the "new" while allowing one to maintain the connection between the self and "all that is " and between the self and all which is part of "all that is ". It allows one to trust in the power of love. It can promote the feelings of joy and enthusiasm for life by releasing destructive tendencies. It is a stone to assist one in the attainment of peace and understanding, trust and awareness, and love. It is a special stone to give to one you hope will love you. It has been used to decrease the proclivity for falls and to assist in the release of disorders related to dysfunctional endocrine activities. It acts as a holistic medicament, bringing the body toward unification in order to treat a disorder. It has been used to treat disorders of the heart, lungs and skin.

Rubellite Tourmaline
Rubellite tourmaline strengthens the will to understand love and to inspire tactfulness in independence, promoting creativity in the various realms of loving aspirations. It can be used to stimulate the base chakra and to provide a direct pathway between the base chakra and the heart chakra; it can, hence, be used to direct and to intensify devotional proclivities. It further stimulates the healing qualities of the heart and associated attributes of loving consciousness. It can be used in the treatment of disorders of the digestive system, the heart, lungs, pancreas, and reproductive system. It has also been used in the repair of the reproductive system and to provide balance in the structure of the blood vessels and veins.

Watermelon Tourmaline
Watermelon Tourmaline is a configuration of tourmaline which exhibits green or blue rind and pink or red core. This is not the same as tourmaline which is bi-coloured, exhibiting both the pink and green or pink and blue colours. Watermelon tourmaline is the "super activator" of the heart chakra; providing for the stimulation, energizing and connection of the heart chakra of the higher-self. It encourages one to look past the seriousness of an experience or a situation and to recognise both the benefit of, and the humour in, the experience/situation. It helps one to allow oneself the experience of the beauty of nature, while diminishing emotionalism. It also enhances cooperative efforts and inspires tact in all situations. It has been used in the treatment of nervousness, disorders of the heart and lungs, and in dysfunctions of the emotional system.

Yellow Tourmaline
Yellow tourmaline stimulates the solar plexus, enhancing personal power and intellectual pursuits. It also relates to the cycles in ones life, helping one to bring to an opening , or a closing, that which would benefit ones personal growth. It Stimulates spiritual development by helping one to logically conclude that the pathway is open and inviting. It activates creativity and initiative in business and employment. It can be used in the treatment of disorders associated with the liver,spleen, kidneys, gall bladder, and stomach. A powerful, electromagnetic, striated gem. Strengthens body and spirit (and meridians), transmutes lower frequency thought/energy to a higher frequency of light and brings light/spirit into the physical. Radiates light protection for wearer. Clears higher frequency, effectiveness. Especially for nervous system; blood/lymph toxins.

Cat's Eye Tourmaline
Little information exists. It is suggested that it is a lesser healer because of its inclusions. Further suggested that derived benefits take place over a long period of time. Use this stone only if you are very drawn to it.

Opalized Tourmaline
Almost the reverse of Cat's Eye Tourmaline. The inclusion, resulting from water, heightens the effects of the stone. The additional refraction of light helps intensify the healing energy, accelerating its benefits. It is rare. A valuable addition to one's collection of healing stones. Forcefield, Protection Stone. Powerfully deflects/shields against unwanted or dark energies, especially for sensitive people. Grounds spiritual/light energy into Root Chakra, for centeredness amid chaos. Neutralizes fears, resentment, neurosis, obsessions, intestinal or spine energy blocks, toxins, constipation. Place at feet, knees, or base of spine for groundedness during/after healing. Radiation protection.

Tourmalinated Quartz
It provides an energy or " solving atmosphere". Used to actualize an innate strength in the body. It helps eliminating "crystalized " patterns in the body which have been destructive in a physical and mental manner in one's life. It also helps in adjusting imbalances throughout the body.

Trilobite
Fossilized sea creature. Promotes leadership and management skills. Allows one to rule with lovingness, patience and fortitude. Helps develop patience, strength and perseverance. Helps recognize course and to maintain path.

Turquoise
A good general healer for all illnesses and excellent conductor (high copper). Speech enhancer, Friendship, Communication, Healing. This gentle, cool, soothing stone is a Native American classic. It opens the Throat Chakra, for open communication, creativity, serenity, spiritual bonding, upliftment; Opens the Heart Chakra for giving/receiving. Symbolizes our source (spirit/sky) and spiritual love for healing, help. On brow: Psychic connection to great spirit. Strengthens and aligns all meridians, chakras, and energy fields. Like amethyst, it protects and detoxes from alcohol, poison, pollution, x-ray/sun radiation. Ancient absorber of "negativity"; protection from "evil eye." Brings wisdom. Helps anorexia, headache, fear, etc. Throat, lungs, asthma, infections, teeth, TMJ, hearing, high blood pressure, creativity block, depression. Dull, paler, weaker. Works well with Chrysocolla, best with Silver. Used for healing on every continent! Androgynous, balances yin/yang. Fades in sunlight, sweat, oil, dishwater...Avoid bleach/chlorine! Truly reflects the individual carrying or holding it. Tunes into the energies of the person and transmits them back into the world. Can also help you get more in tune with others. A popular stone with creative problem solvers. Meant for those who wish to communicate. Beneficial for the entire body. Has special applications for the respiratory and immune systems. If you are sick, Turquoise helps to put you at peace. Recommended for healers, those involved in negotiations, optometrists, veterinarians, and those who must rely on communications skills to get complex ideas across.

Turquonite
Turquonite is howlite that is dyed blue to resemble turquoise, and is often falsely sold as turquoise. It balances and evens out mood fluctuations and brings inner peace. Because the stone is actually howlite, it has the properties of howlite of decreasing an overly critical state of mind, selfishness, stress, pain, and rudeness; increases subtlety and tact. It helps bones, teeth, calcium levels and leg cramps. It also heightens creativity.

Time Link to Future Quartz Crystal
Similar to the Window Crystal, only instead of a regular diamond, the diamond slants to the left or the right. These crystals are used to shift awareness to different time, places and dimensions. Some say a parallelogram leaned to the right will reveal futures, while on e to the left will reveal the past. When a crystal has more than one parallelogram, each each acts as a doorway to a different level of reality. Time Link to the Future - A crystal with a rectangular face leaning to the right. It is believed the can be used to access information from the future. Time Link to Past Quartz Crystal Similar to the Window Crystal, only instead of a regular diamond, the diamond slants to the left or the right. These crystals are used to shift awareness to different time, places and dimensions. Some say a parallelogram leaned to the right will reveal futures, while on e to the left will reveal the past. When a crystal has more than one parallelogram, each each acts as a doorway to a different level of reality. Time Link to the Past - A crystal with a rectangular face leaning to the left. It is believed they can be used to access information from the past.

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