WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER, 2005 |

Crystal A-L

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Amazonite

Amazonite is a lattice silicate, part of the feldspar family.

Amazonite has a charachteristic sky blue to green colour and is found in Russia and in Brasil.

These pieces are of Brazilian origin. Amazonite encourages us to take control

of our own lives and to be the creators of our own destinies.

In this way Amazonite asks us to live our dreams and to be more responsible for our actions.

Amazonite also improves healthy communication and brings balance to moods and dissolve sadness.

Peace through Balance.

Amethyst

Amethyst is a type of quartz, if not the most famous of that family.

Amethyst is often called the Master Healer and as such is a very useful in all manner of ways,

promoting wellbeing, calm and a healing environment. Amethyst is great for releasing old patterns

or habits and uplifts our perspective beyond expectations.

Amethyst encourages a healthy curiosity into the unknown and as such helps us to broaden our horizons.

Amethyst connects us to our intuition and our true inspiration.

Healing and Intuition

Aquamarine

Aquamarine is a type of beryl, beryllium Silicate, which brings the most beautiful vibrations

of peace and acceptance. Aquamarine brings our heart in touch with our actions.

Aquamarine works well to even out the breath and promotes free, harmonious and non-judgemental attitudes.

Aquamarine helps us to remain peacefully detached from situations and encourages peacefully living our dreams

in our own way, whilst gracefully accepting the dreams of others.

Peace and Acceptance

Aventurine

Aventurine,Green Quartz is another from the Quartz family, Silicon Dioxide.

Green Quartz often has the lustre of mica and occasionally comes with specks of pyrite.

Green Quartz brings a nurturing, balancing and stabilising energy.

Green Quartz helps to ground in the feelings of love and stimulates a healthy and loving way to treat ourselves.

Green Quartz loves the natural world and is loved by plants.

Green Quartz brings a positive perspective to life and embraces our dreams as possible realities.

Nurturing Love.

Bloodstone

Bloodstone is a type of chalcedony, consisting of green quartz and red jasper.

Another name for this stone is Heliotrope.

Bloodstone encourages healthy long term relationships by inducing a healthy self esteem and desire to be truly loving.

Bloodstone asks us to be good to ourselves and gives us the vitality to be that way.

Bloodstone works to strengthen the cardiovascular system and fortifies the blood.

Loyalty and Trust.

Blue Lace Agate

Blue Lace Agate is a type of quartz, which is often found growing near to amethyst.

This stone is a type of agate which is a type of quartz charachterised by

multi-coloured bands depending upon different mineral contents.

Blue Lace Agate is particularly calming and soothing. It releases the need for stress and

encourages a more accepting and magnaminous view of life.

Blue Lace Agate helps us to enjoy life with a positive attitude to all endeavours.

Nurturing and Expansiveness.

Blue Quartz

Blue Quartz is another member of the quartz family.

Blue Quartz has a powder blue colour and is excellent for enhancing clear communication.

This particular type of quartz is very good for clearing blockages, especially at the throat centre.

The energy of Blue Quartz seems quite soft and yet this stone has a sharp and precise energy.

A useful tool to help see straight through to the heart of matters and issues.

Precise Expression.

Botswana Agate

Botswana Agate is another form of quartz that is in the agate family.

This particular stone is a friend to all.

Botswana Agate helps us to understand that there are no rights and wrongs.

It helps us to see that each challenge is an opportunity to learn more through experience.

With this kind of attitude we naturally find more enjoyment in the process of life and learning.

There are no obstacles, only challenges that lead to a greater and more fulfilled sense of being.

Botswana Agate delivers these insights with a smile and a hug.

The soft gentle colours of pastel grey swirls and pinks are indicative of its gentle, loving energy.

These tumble stones are larger than most and are wonderful to hold on a daily basis.

Loving Wisdom.

Cacoxonite

Cacoxonite is a type of inclusion found in quartz, more often found in amethyst.

Cacoxonite appears as gold triangular needles, which are a rare form of Phosphate.

Cacoxonite releases feelings associated with dizziness and vertigo.

Cacoxonite increases our curiosity for the unknown and embraces mystery as an avenue for expansion and growth.

Cacoxonite teaches us to let go more easily and to enjoy new ideas, feelings and spaces with enthusiasm.

Embrace the Unknown.

Carnelian

Carnelian is also a form of quartz, found in the Chalcedony family.

Carnelian has a deep yellow to deep orange colour and is a wonderful energiser.

Carnelian works well with the Sacral chakra, activating our creative and sexual energies.

Carnelian helps us to deal with survival isuues and gives us the strength and the courage to become our own true selves.

Carnelian asks us to embrace our personal power and to focus our energy and by doing so,

we automaticalyy find that we are achieving more, more easily.

Creation and Action.

Charoite

Charoite is a type of metamorphic rock, produced when Limestone and Nephline Syenite

are infused into each other by the action of great heat and pressure.

This is how the beautiful swirls and patterns are created in its fabulously rich structure.

Charoite has the most striking appearance of lilacs,purples, creams and blacks.

The black is usually the presence of the mineral Manganese and yellow is often

due to the presence of the rare mineral Tinixite.Charoite works with our 3rd eye center and

links us to our source of inspiration and encourages to explore the mysteries of the universe

and beyond time and space. Charoite helps us to see our life as an opportunity to help others

and by doing so we invite majic and the beautifully unexpected freely into our lives.

Majic and Inspiration.

Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla is a Copper Silicate which forms in the region of copper deposits.

Chrysocolla has a bright and uplifting blue which and is often formed with and beside malachite formations.

Chrysocolla works wonderfully at the heart and throat centers, working particularly well with the lungs and sinuses.

Chrysocolla encourages healthy expression through our hearts and links love to acceptance.

Chrysocolla often has the appearance of mother Earth and in this respect,

Chrysocolla is an excellent stone for Earth healing and Earth meditations.

Loving Expression.

Chrysoprase

Chrysoprase is an apple green form of Chalcedony, and as such is a sedimentary member of the quartz family.

The beautiful green colour is formed by the action of nickel and silic acid.

Chrysoprase brings with it a remembrance of the greater whole and helps us to see the greater picture.

This knowledge helps us to understand more fully, our place in the greater scheme of things, bringing trust and security to our lives.

Chrysoprase then encurages to be more playfull and to enjoy our lives more.

Trust and Playfullness.

Clear Quartz

Clear Quartz is formed from Silicon Dioxide, and is the most useful of all the crystals.

Clear Quartz brings optimism, clarity, focus and positive energy to all users and environments.

Clear Quartz is the only crystal that can be programmed and is used by nearly all crystal therapists, if not all.

Some Practitioners only work with Clear Quartz.

This crystal transmutes negative energy into positive and clears all rooms of negatitvity.

This is a must in all crystals workers collections.

Clarity and Focus.

Citrine

Citrine is a member of the quartz family, Silicon Dioxide.

This particular quartz has a yellow to orange colour and is often called the cuddle stone or the merchant's stone.

Citrine has been used for centuries to attract abundance of all kinds, including happiness, self esteem and even money.

Citrine works on the solar plexus chakra, bringing enhanced joy and energy to our lives.

Citrine also works through our solar plexus to aid digestion of food and digestion of thoughts in our mental bodies.

This is a great stone to carry around with us or even to give as a gift of friendship.

Joy and Abundance.

Danburite

Danburite is a member of the Borosilicate family and can be found in prismatic crystals ranging from pale yellow to pale pink and colourless crystals. Danburite helps us to be strong enough in ourselves to begin to investigate the realms of possibility and even impossibility. Danburite increases our abilities to intuitively trust both people and new ideas. Danburite works with our crown, third eye, heart and solar plexus centres. In this way it allies both our intuition and our intellect through our inspiration and our hearts. This is a wonderful stone during times of change and to promote change. Danburite works to bring together the two hemispheres of the brain in a new way forward.

Exploration in Trust.

Emarald

Emerald is a member of the beryl family and forms in hexagonal crystals.

Emerald has a most beautful green lustre which comes from Chromium.

Emerald brings the feelings of love and roots them firmly in our existence.

Emerald works on the heart, the lungs and the upper torso.

Emerald asks us to enjoy life more and see the beauty that surrounds, by uplifting our spirits.

Emerald helps us to appreciate our own beauty and invites to experience our direct connection with the beauty of the world around us.

Integrates Love.

Fluorite

Fluorite is from the halide family, which includes salt and has a cubic structure.

The colours exhibited by fluorite range from clear, purple, blue, green through to yellow.

Fluorite is a great cleanser and is great for clearing blockages and also for clearing environments.

Fluorite embraces community and inspires truth and balance. Fluorite asks us to be our true selves

Cleansing.

Heliodor

Heliodor derives its name from its great colour, which resembles the bright yellow sun.

Heliodor is a type of beryl, golden in colour.

Heliodor fills us with the essence of life and brings about a dynamism and joy.

Heliodor helps us to be more goal oriented and increases our self esteem.

Heliodor continues to imbue light heartedness through balance and dissolution of stress with greater understanding.

Sun.

Hematite

Hematite is an Iron Oxide, which is the principal ore of Iron.

Hematite is an excellent grounding stone and brings focus , clarity and balance.

Hematite increases strength, stability, balance and practicality.

Hematite is great for strengthening the blood and is great for regulating blood flow.

It is especially good for the production of red blood cells.

Hematite reminds us to enjoy our physical existence and to respect our bodies.

Grounding and Clarity.

Imperial Topaz

Imperial Topaz is an island silicate which forms igneous crystals.

Imperial Topaz has an amazing gold to pink colour and bestows self-confidence and the awareness of our own importance.

Imperial Topaz is an excellent stone for those in or seeking to join the realms of public life.

Imperial Topaz assists us in the achievment of great plans and helps us to mentally understand the process

through which these plans can be realised.Imperial Topaz simply lifts spirits and amplifies charachter.

Completion and Self-Confidence.

Iolite

Iolite is a transparent form of Cordierite, also known as water sapphire.

This crystal is dichroic, as it exhibits two different colours depending on which axis you are looking through.

The two colours are primarily true Indigo and brown. Iolite is a fantastic crystal for stimulating the third eye.

Ioloite increases the occurence of dreams and intuition. Iolite introduces us to new realities and new perspectives to existing realities.

This stone is all about opening new pathways and understanding old ones.

Insight and New Perspective.

Jade

Jade is a type of chain silicate which has been looked upon as a good luck stone for thousands of years, especially in the Far East.

Jade encourages self-realisation and helps us to recognise ourselves as spiritual beings.

Jade enlivens dreams and visions and awakens hidden knowledge.

Jade stimulates the functioning of the kidneys and helps in the balancing of acid/alkali ratios in the body.

Dreamwork.

Jasper

Jasper is a form of silicate/oxide which is found in many regions throughout the planet.

These pieces come from Brasil. Jasper is an igneous stone, which is noticeable by its light weight.

Jasper is a very nurturing stone which through love and caring shows us how to look after ourselves.

Through nurture and care we are more capable of dealing with the situations that life presents to us.

Jasper also strengthens and increases our self-respect.

Care and Nurture.

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