Believed Meanings of the Stones The Stones and What They are Believed to Symbolize MOSS AGATE+ Growth + Ambition + Gives One a pleasant disposition AGATE (GEODE) SLICE + Allows One the Freedom to Mold and Shape the Future + Assists in Mathematical Pursuits + Allows One See the Whole Picture Before a Decision is Made BLUE LACE AGATE + Helps One Reach High Spiritual Places + Inspirational Influence for Inner Attunement TREE AGATE + Provides Strength + Improves Ego and Self-Esteem + Brings you close to the Plant and Mineral Kingdoms AMAZONITE + Stone suggests Springtime. Freshness, New Hope, New Beginning AMBER + Transmutes Negative Energy into Positive Energy + Helps One to Choose and Be Chosen + Purifies Body, Mind & Spirit AMETHYST + Promotes Spiritual Attunement + Eases Fears and Guilt + Protects Against Over-Indulgence + Puts You in Touch With Your Intuition, Feelings and Values. AMMONITE + Fossilized Animal About 400 Million Years Old + Provides for Insight + Allows One to See the Whole Picture + Gives Stability and Structure to One’s Life + Promotes Longevity AVENTURINE + Increases Perception and Enhances Creativity + Calms Troubled Emotions + Brings Luck to Those Who Take Risks BLOODSTONE + Helps One to Live in the Present + Provides Guidance + Enhances Creative Efforts BONE + Hard and Durable + The Essence and Life Force CARNELIAN + Encourages Love of Self and Others + Dispels Indifference and Passivity + Instills Confidence + Provides Stabilizing Energy, Especially in the Home CINNABAR + Helps One to Succeed in Aspirations + Helps One Succeed in Business CITRINE + Removes Fears + Allows One to Sleep at Night + Smoothes Family Problems COPPER + Brimgs Energy and Combats Inactivity + Connects Physical and Astral Bodies + Induces Healing + Attracts Love + Draws Money DUMORTIERITE + Provides for Stamina and Patience + Helps Express Spiritual Ideals + Helps One Understand Reality and Illusion FOSSIL FISH + Fossils Symbolize Longevity + A Remnant From the Past + Heightens Accomplishments in Business + Fish Symbolize Abundance FLUORITE + the “Stone of Discernment” + Allows One to See Reality and Beyond Illusion + Allows for Objective Reasoning GARNET + Brings Strength & Endurance + Protects, esp. at night HEMATITE + Brings Balance to the Mind + Helps One Reason Clearly + Encourages One to Attain Goals + Provides Balance and Stability + Transforms Negativity HOWLITE + Calms Communication + Facilitates Awareness + Dispels Criticalness DALMATIAN JASPER + Worn by shamans to provide protection + The supreme nurturer + Facilitates safe travel (astral and otherwise). FANCY JASPER + Helps One to be More Care-free + Allows One to Celebrate Situations of Isolation LEOPARDSKIN JASPER + Reduces Insecurities, Fears and Guilt + Strengthens the Emotional Self + Eases Emotional Stresses RED JASPER + Protects Against External Stresses + Promotes Confidence and Grace + Protects Against Negativity PICASSO MARBLE JASPER+ Brings Hopes, Fears and Hidden Thoughts to the Surface for Better Understanding PICTURE JASPER + Brings Hopes, Fears and Hidden Thoughts to the Surface for Better Understanding + Helps One Better Understand the Past SILVER LEAF JASPER + Sustains + Keeps Energy High + Protects Against Negativity + Helps One to Balance the Physical, Emotional, Mental and Spiritual Bodies ZEBRA JASPER + Provides Protection + Heals + Green Soothes and De-Stresses JET + Fossilized Wood Millions of Years Old + Powerful Magical Stone + Magically Married with Amber + Strengthens Psychic Awareness + Guards Against Nightmares + Absorbs Negative Energies LABRADORITE + The “Cinderella Stone” + Appears Modest and Plain Until Caught by the Light + Symbolizes Hidden Beauty Found in Unlikely Places or the Spiritual Richness Which is Concealed in the Routine. LAPIS LAZULI + Helps Expand Awareness + Helps Stimulate the Creative Forces + Helps One Organize Her Life + Brings Joy and Success in Relationships LEPIDOLITE + Reduces Stress + Helps One Through Transitions + Prepares One for Change and Assists in the Transition + Aloows for Diplomatic and Clear Communication MALACHITE + Stone of Transformation + Assists One in Changing Situations + Protects Especially While Flying + Allows for Change and Advancement MOLDAVITE + Meteorite found in Czechoslovakia + 15 million Years Old + Extra-terrestrial Origin + Allows one to “see” more clearly + Carries One beyond the Illusions of Life MOONSTONE + Understanding Through Intuition + Stimulates Confidence and Composure + Helps One with Release MOTHER OF PEARL + Brings Wealth, Money and Riches + Protects Newborns ORDOVICIAN NAUTILOID + Fossil Which Symbolizes a Remnant of the Past + Helps One Dispense With “Old” Programming + Opens One to Fresh, Innovative Forces ONYX + Banishes Grief + Enhances Self-Control + Encourages Happiness and Good Fortune PEARL + Brings Truth and Loyalty + Enhances Personal Integrity + Attracts Spiritual Guidance PYRITE + Increases Psychism + Directs One to Successful Endeavors + Brings Luck PYRITE SUN + Found in the Coal Mines of Sparta, Illinois + Will Become Rare as Mines are Now Closed + About 350 million Years Old + Believed to be a Pyritized Fossil Replacement + Pyrite Enhances Psychic Abilities QUARTZ + Clarity + Insight + Enhances Psychic Abilities + Inspires Healing + Rejuvenates + Amplifies Energies BLUE QUARTZ + Offers Peace and Tranquility ROSE QUARTZ + Promotes Peace, Happiness and Fidelity + Attracts and Stimulates Love SMOKEY QUARTZ + Promotes Joy in Living + Improves Intuition TOURMALINATED QUARTZ + Helps to Get to the Root of a Problem or Situation + Assists in Astral Travel RHODONITE + Helps One Attain Calm Assurance & Full Potential + Dispels Anxiety + Stimulates and Opens the Heart Chakra RHYOLITE (Rainforest Jasper) + Provides Insight and Assists in Self-Actualization + Brings Closure+ Allows One to Process the Past and Open the Future SERPENTINE + Improves the Meditative State + Guards Against Poisonous Creatures (Handy when Travelling or Camping) SHELL + Provides Boundless Growth + Stimulates Intuition, Sensitivity, Imagination and Adaptability SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN + Volcanic Glass with White Inclusions Which Resemble a Snowflake + Helps One Recognize Unnecessary Patterns and Correct Them + Brings Both Purity and Balance to Body, Mind and Spirit SOAPSTONE + Emits Calming Energy + But Stimulates to Action + Provides Peace + Releases Old Routines and Creates New Loving Conditions SODALITE + Eliminates Confusion + Assists in Making Rational and Logical Decisions + Assists One in Finding their Purpose SUGILITE + Helps One Forgive Oneself + Increases Awareness, Psychic and Otherwise TAGUA NUT + A Product of the Rainforests + Symbolizes Humanity and the Essence of a Person + Looks Beyond the External TIGER EYE + Provides Insight + Assists in Attunement + Brings Optimism + Promotes Intuitive Impressions TIGER IRON + Prompts Artistic Abilities + Brings out Creativity + Stimulates Physical Vitality TRILOBITE + Elrathia King Trilobite (fossilized sea creature) from the Middle Cambrian Period . Allows One to Rule Lovingly and with Patience and Strength TURQUOISE + Promotes Spiritual Attunement + Acts as an Healer of the Spirit + Dissipates Negativity UNAKITE + Facilitates Re-Birth and Re-Newal + Helps Release Conditions Which Inhibit Growth + Helps One Understand the Cause of a Condition UNIVERSE STERLING SILVER BEADS + Deflects Negativity + Helps Keep Mind Open as to What is Universally Available to Us References for My Stories These are some of the books which I use for my “stories” and can be found at AMAZON.COM. CUNNINGHAM’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Crystal, Gem & METAL MAGIC by Scott Cunningham LOVE IS IN THE EARTH – A KALEIDOSCOPE OF CRYSTALS by Melody MICHAEL’S GEMSTONE DICTIONARY by Judithann H. David and JP Van Hulle THE BOOK OF SCARED STONES - FACT AND FALLACY IN THE CRYSTAL WORLD by Barbara G. Walker SIGNS OF LIFE by Angeles Arrien THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF SIGNS & SYMBOLS by Miranda Bruce-Mitford THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF SYMBOLS – A VISUAL KEY TO SYMBOLS AND THEIR MEANINGS by David Fontana MEDICINE CARDS by Jamie Sama & David Carson