#properties

Today we will be looking at Tiger Eye

Tiger Eye Associations

• Chakras- Sacral Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra
• Zodiac- Capricorn
• Planet - Sun
• Element- Fire, Earth
• Typical colours - golden-brown, blue, red

Meanings- Protection, clear thinking, personal empowerment, integrity, willpower, practicality, grounding, power, courage, grace

A stone of protection, Tiger Eye may also bring good luck to the wearer. It has the power to focus the mind, promoting mental clarity, assisting us to resolve problems objectively and unclouded by emotions. Particularly useful for healing psychosomatic illnesses, dispelling fear and anxiety. Useful for recognizing one’s own needs in relation to the needs of others. Balancing yin-yang and energizing the emotional body, Tiger Eye stabilizes mood swings, imbues us with willpower, purpose, courage and self-confidence, and releases tension.

Tiger Eye treats eyes, throat and reproductive organs, releases toxins, alleviates pain and is helpful in repairing broken bones and strengthening the alignment of the spinal column.

Different Types

• Blue Tiger Eye. Throat Chakra, Air. Blue Tiger Eye is calming and releases stress. It aids the quick-tempered, overanxious and phobic. Slows the metabolism, cools an overactive sex drive and dissolves sexual frustrations.
• Red Tiger Eye. Base Chakra, Fire. A stimulating stone, Red Tiger Eye overcomes lethargy and provides motivation. It speeds up a slow metabolism. Red Tiger Eye increases a low sex drive.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Tanzanite

Tanzanite Associations

• Chakras- Throat Chakra, Third Eye Chakra, Crown Chakra
• Birthstone- December
• Zodiac- Gemini, Libra, Sagittarius
• Typical colours - blue-violet

Meanings- Composure, poise and harmony, helps us to slow down

Tanzanite stimulates the throat chakra, third-eye chakra, and crown chakra. It activates our psychic abilities and vibratory rate, facilitating communication with the higher spiritual dimensions.

Tanzanite is a stone of transformation that can help dissolve old patterns of disease and karma. It enables us to move forward with optimism and inspiration, giving us a sense of direction and allowing us to manifest our powers for the highest good.

Tanzanite enhances healing at all levels, as well as protecting those who are doing the healing. Physically, Tanzanite alleviates skin disorders, clears the throat and lungs, and can be used to treat disorders of the ears and eyes. It boosts the immune system, speeding up recovery after an illness, and detoxifies and regenerates cells and tissues. Tanzanite is also helpful in treating spinal problems and diseases of the reproductive system.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Sunstone

Sunstone Associations

• Chakras- Sacral Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra
• Zodiac - Leo, Libra
• Element- Fire, Air
• Typicalcolours- grey, green, yellow, brown, orange, pink, peach, red

Meanings- Freedom, originality, sensuality, romance, sexuality, independence, luck

Sunstone is linked to luck and good fortune. It clears and energises all the chakras. Sunstone instills good nature, heightens intuition and allows the real self to shine through happily. It dissipates fearfulness, alleviates stress and increases vitality. Encourages independence and originality. Especially helpful to those who have difficulty saying “No” to others. Sunstone facilitates self-empowerment and independence. It acts as an antidepressant. Increases self worth and confidence. Encourages optimism and enthusiasm. Stimulates self-healing powers.

Sunstone treats chronic sore throats, reduces stomach tension and relieves ulcers. It treats cartilage and spinal problems.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Sugilite

Sugilite Associations

• Chakras- Heart Chakra, Third Eye Chakra, Crown Chakra
• Zodiac- Virgo
• Planet- Pluto
• Element- Water
• Origin- Japan, South Africa
• Typical colours - Violet pink to lavender to purple

Meanings- Awareness, spirituality, positive thoughts and feelings, channeling ability

Sugilite is today’s “love stone”, representing spiritual love. It opens the chakras and brings them into alignment with the flow of love. Sugilite enhances the development of spiritual awareness, promotes channeling ability and teaches to live from our truth and to believe in our sixth sense, or intuition. It encourages positive thoughts, alleviating sorrow, grief and fear.

Sugilite is excellent in relieving pain and discomfort at all levels.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Strawberry Quartz

Strawberry Quartz Associations

• Chakras- Heart Chakra
• Typical colours - strawberry pink-red

Meanings- Love, healing

In addition to the generic healing properties of Quartz, Strawberry Quartz stimulates the heart energy center, filling ones total person with the feeling of love and with the euphoria of the true loving environment.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Sodalite

Sodalite Associations

• Chakras- Throat Chakra, Third Eye Chakra
• Zodiac- Sagittarius
• Planet- Moon
• Element- Water, Air
• Typical colours - Rich royal blue, green, yellow, violet: mottled with white veins or patches

Meanings- Logic, intelligence, emotional balance, intuition, clarity, truth, perception

Sodalite brings order and calmness to the mind. It encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuition, along with verbalization of feelings. Sodalite brings emotional balance and calms panic attacks. It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust.  

Sodalite balances the metabolism, boosts the immune system and overcomes calcium deficiencies. It combats radiation damage by soaking up electromagnetic smog. Sodalite treats the throat, vocal cords, larynx and helps with hoarseness and digestive disorders. It cools fevers, lowers blood pressure and stimulates the absorption of body fluids. Sodalite can also help to prevent insomnia.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Snowflake Obsidian

Snowflake Obsidian Associations

• Chakras- Base Chakra
• Zodiac- Virgo
• Typical colours - Black with white patches

Meanings- Balance during changes, purification, transformation, fulfillment, metamorphoses, manifestation, practicality, physic ability

In addition to the generic healing properties of Obsidian, Snowflake Obsidian is calming and soothing. It teaches you to value mistakes as well as successes. A stone of purity, Snowflake Obsidian provides balance for body, mind and spirit. It helps you recognize and release “wrong thinking” and stressful mental patterns. Promotes dispassion and inner centering. Snowflake Obsidian empowers isolation and loneliness, aiding surrender in meditation.

Snowflake Obsidian aids in disorders of the veins and the skeletal structure. It improves circulation and alleviates muscular aches and spasms. Treats joint pain (arthritis) and hardening of the arteries.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Smokey Quartz

Smokey Quartz Associations

• Chakras- Base Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra
• Zodiac- Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn
• Element- Earth/Air
• Typical colours - Brown to grey

Meanings- Serenity, calmness, positive thoughts, calms fear, lifts depression, stability, practicality, intuition, pride

In addition to the generic healing properties of Quartz, Smokey Quartz is an excellent grounding stone. It gently neutralizes negative vibrations and is detoxifying on all levels, prompting elimination of the digestive system and protecting against radiation and electromagnetic smog. Smokey Quartz disperses fear, lifts depression and negativity. It brings emotional calmness, relieving stress and anxiety. Promotes positive thoughts and action, and alleviates suicidal tendencies. Dispels nightmares and manifests your dreams. Smokey Quartz aids concentration and assists in communication difficulties.

Smokey Quartz dissolves cramps, strengthens the back and fortifies the nerves. It is particularly effective for abdomen, hips and legs. Relieves headaches, back pain, eases muscular spasms. Smokey Quartz benefits the reproductive system, the heart, muscles and nerve tissue. It regulates liquids within the body and aids assimilation of minerals.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Silver

Silver Associations

• Zodiac- Cancer, Aquarius

Silver assists in increasing perception and helps to regulate emotional and intuitive energies. It provides for a very strong connection between the physical and astral bodies.

Silver can be used as a mirror to the soul, one to stimulate seeing oneself from outside of the body.

Silver, when used with gemstones, is able to both attract and retain those qualities which are emitted by the stone. The silver provides a steadying influence. It performs a balancing act by drawing negativity from the body while transferring the positive energies of other minerals.

Silver is known to enhance the powers of the moon and is excellent for use in energizing other stones during the full and new moons.

Silver helps to cleanse the body via the pores and to eliminate toxins at the cellular level. It can be used in the treatment of hepatitis, to increase the assimilation of Vitamins A and E, and to ameliorate disorders associated with unstable vision.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Shell

Shell Associations

• Zodiac- Pisces
• Typical colours - Multi

Meanings- Intuition, sensitivity, imagination

Shell stimulates intuition, sensitivity, imagination and adaptability. It helps to enhance mental clarity and provides insight into decision-making. Shell promotes cooperation between the self and others, as well as within the self. It provides cohesive energy for groups.

Shell treats hearing disorders and calcium deficiencies. It assists the healing of broken bones and general dysfunctions of the spinal canal and the nervous system. Shell enhances the assimilation of vitamins A and D.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Serpentine

Serpentine Associations

• Zodiac - Gemini
• Element - Earth, Air
• Typical colours - Green, black-green, brown-red, brown-yellow, white.

Meanings- Longevity, remembrance of past lives

An earthing stone, Serpentine also opens new pathways for the Kundalini energy. It aids in meditation and enhances spiritual exploration. Serpentine assists the retrieval of wisdom, helping to regain memory of past lives. It clears the chakras and stimulates the crown chakra, opening psychic abilities. Serpentine assists the conscious direction of healing energy toward problem areas. It corrects mental and emotional imbalances, helping you to feel more in control of your life.

Serpentine treats diabetes and hypoglycemia. It eliminates parasites within the body, and aids in the absorption of calcium and magnesium. Serpentine is extremely cleansing and detoxifying for the body and blood.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Seraphinite/Serafina

Seraphinite Associations

• Chakras- All Chakras, especially the Heart Chakra
• Zodiac- Sagittarius
• Origin- Russia
• Typicalcolours- blackish green, bluish green, yellowish green, or olive green: containing feathery inclusions of iridescent silver in intricate patterns

Meanings - Spiritual enlightenment, self healing, spirit communication

Seraphinite is a stone of spiritual enlightenment. It is said to be among the most important stones discovered for connecting and communicating with higher energies. It facilitates conscious awareness on many higher planes. It is excellent for accessing self-healing. Seraphinite promotes living from the heart. It cleanses the aura, strengthens, activates and balances all chakras. Causes old patterns of disease or imbalance to fall away, thus creating space for new patterns of well-being to form.

Seraphinite is healing for nerves and brain cells. It activates the spinal cord and its links to the etheric body (aura). Seraphinite releases muscle tension up into the neck. It overcomes chills. Can help in promoting weight loss.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Selenite

Selenite Associations

• Chakras- Crown Chakra
• Zodiac- Taurus
• Typical colours - White, Grey, Green, Orange, Brown

Meanings- Serenity, purification, peace, meditation, universal consciousness, clarity of thought, purity of heart, universal love, integrity, spirituality, psychic development, forgiveness, positive thoughts

Selenite provides for clarity of the mind, expanding ones awareness of the self and of ones surroundings. It opens the crown and higher crown chakras and accesses angelic consciousness and higher guidance. It can be used to access past lives as well as future lives. Selenite is a calming stone that instills deep peace and is excellent for meditation or spiritual work. It assists judgement and insight. It clears confusion and aids in seeing the deeper picture.

Selenite aligns the spinal column and promotes flexibility. It corrects deformities of the skeletal system and can stabilize epileptic disorders. It is used to improve disorders associated with metal poisoning due to teeth fillings and can reverse the effects of “free radicals” in the cell structure. Effects that can be overcome include cancer, tumors, age spots, wrinkles and light sensitivity.

Different Types

• Orange Selenite. Sacral Chakra.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Sardonyx

Sardonyx Associations

• Chakras- Base Chakra
• Birthstone- August
• Zodiac- Aries, Leo
• Typical colours - black, red, brown, clear

Meanings- Luck, friendship, happiness, good fortune, romance, marriage, stamina, vigor, energy, creativity

Sardonyx is a stone of protection and strength. It promotes virtuous conduct and integrity. Sardonyx attracts friends and good fortune. It brings lasting happiness and stability to partnerships. Supplements willpower and strengthens character. Sardonyx increases stamina, vigor and self-control. It alleviates depression and overcomes hesitancy. Improves perception.

Sardonyx heals lungs and bones. It regulates fluids and cell metabolism, strengthens the immune system.

Different Types

• Black Sardonyx. Absorbs negativity.
• Brown Sardonyx. Grounds energy.
• Clear Sardonyx. Purifies.
• Red Sardonyx. Stimulates.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)

Today we will be looking at Sapphire

Sapphire Associations

• Chakras- dependent on colour (see below)
• Birthstone- September (blue Sapphire)
• Zodiac- Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius
• Planet- Saturn
• Element- Water
• Typical colours - Blue, yellow, black, pink, white, indigo, green

Meanings- Creative expression, intuition, meditation, luck, wisdom, optimism, friendliness, generosity, love, loyalty, independence, centering, balance, self-appreciation, spiritual development, intellect, study, knowledge, memory

Known as the “wisdom stone”, each color of Sapphire brings its own particular wisdom. It releases mental tension, depression, unwanted thoughts and spiritual confusion. Sapphire restores balance within the body, aligning the physical, mental and spiritual planes, bringing serenity and peace of mind. It stimulates concentration, brings lightness, and joy. Sapphire is also known as a “stone of prosperity”, attracting gifts of all kinds and fulfilling dreams and desires.

Sapphire treats blood disorders, combating excessive bleeding and strengthening the walls of the veins. It is used for cellular disorders, regulates the glands and calms overactive body systems.

Different Types

• Black Sapphire. Base Chakra, Sagittarius. The Black Sapphire provides centering, protection and grounding. It helps you to achieve confidence in your own intuition.
• Blue Sapphire. Throat Chakra, September Birthstone, Gemini. The Blue Sapphire is traditionally associated with purity and love. It assists you to stay on the spiritual path, releasing blockages and providing strength. Blue Sapphire facilitates self-expression, assisting in communication and expressing your truth and beliefs. It opens and heals the thyroid and the throat chakra and has a calming and balancing effect on the nervous system.
• Green Sapphire. Heart Chakra, Gemini and Libra. Green Sapphire is known as the “stone of fidelity”, stimulating the heart chakra and bringing loyalty and integrity. It improves internal and external vision and helps you to remember dreams.
• Indigo Sapphire. Third Eye Chakra, Sagittarius. The Indigo Sapphire enhances psychic awareness. It eliminates negative energies from the aura.
• Pink Sapphire. Heart Chakra. Pink Sapphire clears emotional blockages bringing peace and unconditional love.
• White Sapphire. Crown Chakra, Libra. White Sapphire is extremely protective, removing all obstacles and helpfully encouraging the pursuit of one’s life purpose. It provides focus and supports morality and justice.
• Yellow Sapphire. Solar Plexus Chakra, Leo, Jupiter. Yellow Sapphire attracts wealth and brings prosperity to the home. It stimulates the intellect and improves overall focus, enhancing wisdom. Yellow Sapphire assists in bringing fulfillment of ambition. It aids in eliminating impurities from the body and stimulating the lymphatic system. Treats liver and gallbladder problems as well as disorders of the spleen and stomach.

(Note: This being said, if you are suffering from a condition or are in pain please consult a doctor or mental health professional.)