Guest guest Posted November 3, 2001 Report Share Posted November 3, 2001 About .com has a good feature this week suggesting stones for gifts http://healing.about.com/library/weekly/aatp_gemstones.htm which I thought I would share with you . Gemstones are delightful to give or receive as gifts. They are mother nature's natural healers. Gifting someone with a crystal is the same as offering a healing. There are literally hundreds of different types of stones to choose from. Listed here are ten popular gemstones that you can't go wrong with.They each have wonderful healing energies. 1) Rose Quartz This gemstone has a gentle energy and is a heart healer of physical heart ailments as well as emotional heartbreaks. Rose quartz is a timely gift to offer someone who desires to learn self-love. Rose Quartz It is the most powerful for dealing with affairs of the heart. It opens up the heart for both giving and receiving love. It soothes negative influences. This stone is good for dealing with issues on an emotional level. A stone from the heart and for the heart. It helps one to be able to love themselves. A good stone for dealing with a " broken heart " . The rose quartz is also good for helping one to release childhood traumas, neglect, lack of love, self-esteem. The best stone for opening the 4th chakra....forum post from stones Pink quartz (rose quartz) allows you to be in touch with your basic self. It will allow you to get to know your true self and to love that true self in all its beauty. It can also allow you to communicate internally with your spirit guides, which means you may or may not be aware of them but they are teaching you all the same. This is a good stone for someone who has trouble loving themself or accepting love from another because they do not believe that they are worthy of being loved. It loves soft running river water to clean and recharge and moonlight....forum post from whitehorse woman 2) Fluorite This crystal comes in a variety of colors. Fluorite is a beneficial stone to help guard one against picking up negativity or negative energies from those nearby. Basically, the stone absorbs any negativity, keeping it at bay. It is important to cleanse it at least once a week when you are using it as a protective helper. Fluorite comes in many colors. It carries an energy that can bring a calming to chaos. It helps to restore a balance within the 4 levels that make us human; the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual. It helps you to be unbiased and to look at a situation from all sides. Fluorite increases the ability to concentrate. .....forum post from stones Fluorite is used to prevent others from making unwanted energetic attachments. It is kinda like a sheild of energy that wards off undesired energy others may project towards you......forum post from whitehorse woman 3) Turquoise Turquoise is a teaching stone can be used to help one learn spiritual lessons through meditation and/or dream visions. My first turquoise was a stone set in a silver ring my grandmother gave me as a souvenir she picked up for me when she vacationed in Arizona. It's little wonder that my grandmother has served as one of my spiritual advisors from the other side since her transition from the physical realm. The ones with the black lines in them is called Navajo turquoise and helps you to stay in a place of love and connectedness with others. By doing this it can make you feel at " home " no matter where you are. It is a combination of turquoise and sard (sard being the lines). turquoise by itself keeps one in the feeling of unconditional love and connection to all that is while sard by itself keeps one in the state of emotional attachments to family, home, their roots (the good memories of childhood) it also assist in digestion of proteins both animal and vegetable....forum post from whitehorse woman One of the main compounds of the Turquoise stone is copper. This is what gives it the blue, green, blueish-green colors. It also is often combined with the Azurite stone as well. Turquoise is wonderful for drawing out negative vibrations from a person. It is best to place it at the feet or worn inside the sock for this. It dissipates negativing as it draws from the body. It allows the negativity to go back into the ground. A good stone for helping one to bond with the spiritual. It offers much uplifting. Also helps open the heart chakra for giving and receiving. Sometimes dyed howlite is often mistaken for turquoise. And the howlite stone has more of the " black " lines than the actual turquoise stone. But by finding the copper traits in a piece of turquoise, it assures you of true turquoise. This stone does best with water cleansing and should not be cleansed with the sun. It should be kept out of the sun as much as possible. Carries the moon's energy or female energy. It is bet set in the silver metals, also carrying the moon's energy....forum post from stones 4) Kyanite This blue colored stone is best worn near the throat chakra. It helps facilitate channeling and will open communications centers to enable contact with your guides and angels. Kyanite is probably best known for its balancing properites that align the chakras. There is no need to cleanse this stone, it clears itself automatically of negative energies. Kyanite will help you understand lessons as they appear in your life and to be better able to learn from your teachers, human, animal, mineral, bird, plant, insect, fish, or spirit. This stone can be used to help you connect to these teachers, one way is by placing it on your forehead as you meditate or putting at the head of your bead as you sleep or my favorite sticking it inside of your pillow case on the down side as you sleep above it....forum post from whitehorse woman It aids in creative expressions such as art, dance, writing, etc. It strengthens the truth in a person and makes one more reliable. It brings to one serenity. Kyanite is wonderful when used as a shield. It does not retain negative vibes and they bounce off. A good stone for aligning all of the energy centers but is particularly good for the 5th chakra or throat chakra. It is a powerful stone to access the Universal Energy during healing. You said yours was sky blue, the blue relates to your spiritual side. It helps you to attune while searching for inner peace....forum post from stones 5) Yellow Topaz Birthstone for November/Scorpio. Yellow topaz is a stone of optimism and mental clarity. Wonderful healing stone for anyone who is easily distracted, confused, or prone to depression. Wonderful stone to help one with their individuality. It also stimulates creativity as well. It gives you the ability to trust the decisions that you have made. It replaces negativity with joy and love. It allows you to cut through uncertainty. A crystal of potency. Also good for helping one to visualize. A good stone for meditations. It allows the energies of the Universe to come to you and encourages a willingness to act in making the desired changes in your life. It carries the sun's energy or male energy. It is good for opening and balancing the 3rd chakra. Because it has the brown colors in it as well, it indicates that " down to earth " feelings. A wonderful stone for having the Earth's energies as well. It also brings with it a sense of appreciation for natural beauty. If you haven't decided on which metal to have the stone set in, you may look at whether the person receiving the gift would need more of the sun's energies, or the moon's energies. The sun's energy being male, the moon's energy being female. This stone does great with either metal....forum post from stones Topaz helps one have a practical outlook in ones life and methods of doing things. Helps one to know what will work best in any situation. Helps them to go from point a to point be then on to point c without wasting time....forum post from whitehorse woman 6) Lapis Egyptian energy. Lapis is a stone that has been said to unlock mysteries as it helps one move through confusion and emotional blocks and dig through fog/muck to the root of problematic issues. Lapis (the deep blue kind) allows you to perceive emotional issues more clearly. Now, that does not mean it helps calm them or affect the type of emotions. It allows you to see them for what they are, clearly. Kinda like putting on glasses when one cannot see. It takes away the blur.....forum post from whitehorse woman A stone good for the 5th chakra. It helps to open the 6th chakra during meditations. It brings a higher guidance and intuition. It helps you to connect to the Higher Self. It helps to organize and quieten the mind and also brings self expressions, helps with dream insights, writing and creativity. It's a cooling stone, by this I mean it helps to draw fevers out of the body. It calms the nervous system, helps with anxiety and insomnia. It can sooth autism. It also aids with speech and hearing difficulties. Works best with a water cleansing or the moon......forum post from stones 7) Hematite Grounding stone. This silver-gray metallic gemstone is often used as a grounding tool to aid those who tend to avoid worldly tasks/events by out-of-body flight. 8) Amethyst This highly spiritual/healing stone is associated with The Christ Consciousness and the Violet Flame of Transmutation. Amethyst helps one tune into a higher awareness of knowing. The amethyst is a powerful stone for healing. It carries many healing properties. It also aids in psychic awareness and helps with imagery. It is a stone to help quieten the mind. If worn while sleeping, it helps you to interpret dreams, and to ward off nightmares. It enhances intuition and inspirations. Gives you clarity and insight. An excellent stone for meditations. Good for the upliftment of the spirit. Should never be cleansed by the sun. Carries the energy of the moon, female energy. Does best with water cleansing or the moon. Smudging works for all stones. The best stone for the 6th chakra....forum post from stones Amethyst I use to keep me in touch with my spiritual side and connected to what is going on with myself as well as others. It allows me to act for the best of all instead of self even when it may not be what I would consider to be what is best for me. It keeps me calm and allows me to feel that I have enough time to do what I need to do even when time is limited. It allows me to work slowly even when I am feeling the need to rush and this allows me to do things right the first time instead of having to redo things because I rushed through them. It does not like the sunlight at all but likes the moonlight, sea water and cold (loves being under snow or in the freezer as a way of cleaning it and recharging it) it is a good stone for a creative person to have around because it does work so well at calming them....forum post from whitehorse woman 9) Snowflake Obsidian All varieties of obsidian are good utilized as grounding and potective agents - The snowflake in particular helps us surrender or let go of negative habits or past pathways that no longer the present condition. It will bring about opportunity for change, serenity, and clarity. 10) Jade This stone teaches acceptance. Carries serene and calming energy. It helps a person become less critical of self and others. Jade is a good rock for parents to carry as it helps to calm one down even when many kids running through the house. It helps you to accept things that are difficult in your life and makes things appear to go much smoother than they really are. It keeps you from disconnecting from your inner peace as quickly in bad situations than you would if you did not have it....forum post from whitehorse woman It is a stone that helps you to realize the needs of others. It is also good for helping you to understand what is of prime importance for you to do on this day. It brings confidence and self-assuredness, self-sufficiency and to be self-reliant. An elixir made with jade is good for smoothing the skin. It works best with a water cleansing....forum post from stones -- Huna, Angels, Crystals, fairies, the aura, Reiki manuals, spirituality} http://www.geocities.com/solarraven/index.html Sparrows Fairyland} art http://www.geocities.com/pjentoft/index.html Spirited emotion} http://members.tripod.com/~sunsparrow/index.html Heretic Sanctuary http://people.we.mediaone.net/skygreen/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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