gemstones

Amethyst

Physical characteristics: A purple or lavender colored variety of quartz.
Attributes: The healing powers of Amethyst date back as far as the ancient Greeks, who believed that Amethyst protected from the intoxicating effects of alcohol. The Greek origin of the word "amethyst" is translated as "amethystus," meaning not drunken. A powerful healing stone, Amethyst promotes emotional centering. Beneficial for the environment or personal energy field, Amethyst promotes love, reduces stress, and enhances spiritual awareness.
Notable Occurrences: Brazil, South Korea, United States, England, Canada, Mexico, Russia, East Africa, Siberia, India.

Azurite

Physical characteristics: Azurite is a soft, deep blue copper mineral produced by weathering of copper ore deposits. Specimens tend to lighten in color over time due to weathering of the specimen surface into malachite. Azurite crystals, when large enough, appear as dark blue prismatic crystals.
Attributes: Azurite guides psychic and intuitive development and urges the soul toward enlightenment. It raises consciousness and emotional clarity. Mentally, Azurite brings out clear understanding and new perspectives. It clears stress, worry, grief, and sadness. In addition, it enhances inspiration, creativity, and intuition.
Notable Occurrences: United States, Australia, Chile, Peru, France, Russia, Egypt.

Black Tigers Eye

Physical characteristics: Tigers eye is known for its chatoyancy, an optical reflectance effect caused by very thin, closely spaced filaments in parallel arrangement within the stone. It is often cut en cabochon, meaning it is shaped and polished to reveal this shiny band of light across the gemstone.
Attributes: Tigers Eye combines earth energy with the energies of the sun to create a highly vibrational state. It is said that Tigers Eye offers protection while traveling, helping to focus the mind and ground the spirit. This very warm stone is beneficial for resolving conflicts, strengthening convictions, and clarifying intentions. It is known for its grounding effects, for stimulating creativity and providing motivation. It also increases sex drive.
Notable Occurrences: Mostly found in South Africa.. Also, Mexico, the United States, and India.

Chlorite

Physical characteristics: A green or purple translucent variety of Quartz. Often exhibits phantom crystals, a ghost-like crystal encompassed within the translucent stone.
Attributes: Chlorite assists in the elimination of toxins in the body as it cleanses and purifies the aura, chakras and other energy centers. Worn with Amethyst, it removes negative energies and wards off psychic attack. Phantom crystals symbolize universal awareness. Chlorite enhances meditation and aids in recovering repressed memories and putting the past into context. It also encourages positive healing and self-realization.
Notable Occurrences: Russia, United States, Germany.

Labradorite (Spectrolite)

Physical characteristics: A grayish blue stone that refracts a colorful play of iridescent light across cleavage planes and in sliced sections called labradorescence. When held in certain light, reflected colors range from blue and violet to green, yellow, and orange. Some rare specimens display all these colors simultaneously.
Attributes: A mystical and protective stone, Labradorite is a "bringer of light." It deflects unwanted energies from the aura and prevents energy leakage, while stimulating intuition. Labradorite calms an overactive mind and clarifies thoughts in meditation. It invigorates the imagination and inspires new ideas.
Notable Occurrences: Labrador, Canada and Scandinavia, Italy, Russia.

Orbicular Jasper (Ocean Jasper)

Physical characteristics: Orbicular Jasper contains variably-colored orbs or spherical inclusions visible as polka dots, wavy lines, and multi-colored floret patterns. The colors vary widely - including white, green, pink, red, black, blue.
Attributes: Orbicular Jasper assists you in accepting responsibility and instilling patience. Circular markings resonate with circular breathing, which it facilitates. Ocean jasper has a soothing and nurturing effect on emotions. It helps lift negativity and provides protection from unwanted energies.
Notable Occurrences: Orbicular Jasper is an unusual jasper found at a remote location on the coast of Madagascar that can only be mined at low tide.

Pietersite

Physical Characteristics: Pietersite is an iridescent stone, often small, golden-brown to gray-blue, and with a shiny metallic luster.
Attributes: Known as the "Tempest Stone" or "Storm Stone", Pietersite is known to connect you to the storm element, helping you to predict incoming storms. It links everyday consciousness to the spiritual, dispels the illusion of separateness, promotes intuition, inner guidance, and truth. It also has the power to aid in processing old conflicts and suppressed feelings. This magical stone aids in strenthening your convictions and walking your own truth.
Notable Occurrences: Namibia.

Pyrolucite

Physical Characteristics: Pyrolucite is an amorphous appearing mineral with strong manganese content. It often appears to have a granular, fibrous, or columnar structure. It can be black, silver, gold, or dark gray and often has a shiny metallic luster.
Attributes: With the capability to change and restructure energies, Pyrolucite can heal energetic disturbances and disease. It helps keep you true to yourself and your convictions, promotes confidence, optimism, and determination. It also has the power to transform and stabilize relationships.
Notable Occurrences: England, Brazil, India, the United States

Red Jasper

Physical characteristics: Red Jasper is an opaque patterned stone in pink and red, striped or banded with white and black veins.
Attributes: Gently stimulating, Red Jasper grounds energy and rectifies unjust situations. It brings problems to light before they get overwhelming and provides insights into difficult life questions. It also calms emotions, eases emotional stresses, helps to cleanse and detoxify. Notable Occurrences: Found worldwide.

Serpentine

Physical characteristics: Colors range from olive green, yellow or golden, to brown or black, and are often streaked or veined with white and grey. Most serpentines are opaque to translucent and are composed of a variety of minerals including brucite, nickel, chromium, and cobalt.
Attributes: Serpentine aids with meditation and spiritual exploration. It corrects mental and emotional imbalances. Physically, it is cleansing and detoxifying for the body and ensures longevity. It stimulates the crown chakra and assists in the retrieval of wisdom.
Notable Occurrences: Found worldwide; New Caledonia, Quebec, Northern California, Afghanistan, Cornwall, Russia, Norway, and Italy.

Snowflake Obsidian

Physical characteristics: Obsidian is a naturally occurring glass formed when lava (rich in minerals) extruded from a volcano cools without crystal growth. Iron and magnesium typically give obsidian a dark green, brown or black color. In snowflake Obsidian, the inclusion of small, white, radially clustered bits of cristobalite (similar to quartz) in the black glass produce a blotchy or snowflake pattern.
Attributes: Snowflake obsidian can provide balance during times of change. It aids in self-reflection, shedding light on ingrained patterns of behavior. It is a stone of serenity and purity and can shield against negativity. A calming stone, it provides balance for body, mind, and spirit. It also aids in meditation and gives protection from physical and emotional harm.
Notable Occurrences: Found in areas which have experienced volcanic activity, namely in scattered locations in the United States, Armenia, Turkey, Italy, Mexico, Iceland, Greece and Scotland.

Turquoise

Physical characteristics: Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral whose color is derived by high concentrations of copper and aluminium. High iron levels mean greens and yellows predominate. It is rare and valuable in finer grades and has been prized as a gem for thousands of years owing to its unique hue.
Attributes: In the world of crystal healing, Turquoise is known as the most powerful, versatile, and efficient healing stone. It provides solace for the spirit and well-being for the body. Associated with the throat chakra, Turquoise is a stone of communication, aids in public speaking, purifies, and calms. It also enhances openness and connections between friends and strengthens convictions, courage and self-assurance. It is great for stabilizing moods by curing exhaustion, depression, and panic attacks.
Notable Occurrences: Iran, Egypt, Arabia, the United States, China, Peru