Amazonite. An opaque blue-ish green feldspar.  Self-expression, confidence, leadership and communication.  May enhance psychic skills.  Enhances loves and soothes tense emotions and situations.

Amber.  Fossilized tree resin over 4 million years old.  Can be brown, orange, yellow, green or red and may contain bits of debris from the bark of ancient pine trees.  Soothing, useful for correcting imbalances in the nervous sytem.  Gentle activation and energizing.  Reduces confusion and anxiety.  Romantic love, purification, wisdom, energy, balance.  Enhances patience and remembrance of past lives and ancient knowledge.

Amethyst.  Translucent purple quartz.  Healing and peace.  Helps mind become more organized and orderly.  Can aid restlessness and sleeplessness.  Meditation.

Aventurine.  One of the best overall balancing stones for the heart.

Carnelian.  A hard chalcedony with its reddish-orange color from iron particles.  Increases motivation and self-determination.  Useful for healing trauma and stress.  Has a gentle soothing energy, protects us from negativity feelings such as anger, jealousy and fear.  Calms fears about death and rebirth, brings serenity and acceptance about the cycles of life.  Creativity.

Cats Eye Quartz.  Serenity, peace, perspective, abundance, prosperity, healing, riches and love of nature.

Chrysocolla.  Blend of deep blues and greens.  Cools and calms, quiets the mind.  Regulates and directs psychic information and energy.  Clears emotional and spiritual blockages that cause confusion and failure.  Relaxation and balance.  Brings great inner strength, helps one get through stressful situations.

Citrine.  A pale translucent yellow stone.  A rarer variety of quartz.  Grounding, balancing, and supporting.  Warm and soothing.  Increases self-confidence and the achievement of personal goals.  Creates optimism.  Prevents anxiety, encourages creativity.  Clears thought and improves memory. 

Coral.  Provides protection and guards against violence, accidents and theft.  Calms emotion, restores harmony.  Helps with fever, colds, asthma and digestive problems.

Emerald.  Most precious stone in the beryl group.  Brings calm by removing hidden fears.  Helpful aid to medication.

Fluorite.  Helps integrate spiritual energies to the physical body.  Increases mystic visions, psychic energy, well-being, serenity and peace.  Encourages orderliness and structure.  Helps improve levels of physical coordination and mental agility.  Enhances intuition, creativity, concentration.  Helps release negative thoughts. 

Garnet.  Energizes.  Passionate love and enduring strength.  Inspires romantic love, passion, sensuality, sexuality, intimacy, positive thoughts, inspiration, past life recall, career success, social popularity and self-confidence.

Howlite.  Allows one to express emotions calmly and unoffensively.

Jade.  True jade comes as either jadeite or nephrite.  Linked to ancestor spirits and the gods.  Prosperity, longevity, fertility, serenity, wisdom, balance, moderation, perspective, stability.  Connects us to physical instincts and earth energies.  Increases sense of belonging.  Calms arrogance.

Jasper, Autumn.  Protects against negative energy.  Strengthening stone.

Jet.  Fossilized wood.  Lightweight, dark brown or black.  Grounding properties.  Supports and balances.  Protective and comforting.

Labradorite.  Grey-blue feldspar with blue or opalescent flashing.  Inspires energy and awareness.  Protects the auric field and prevents energy being drained by other people.  Provides clarity and insight into your destiny.  Helpful with dream recall and finding ways to use dreams in daily life. 

Lapis Lazuli.   Deep cleansing.  Helps shy or introverted people to communicate and express themselves.  Especially beneficial to those who use their voice, such as teachers, singers and sales people.  Communication, thoughts and memory.  Can reveal past errors and unresolved fears. 

Malachite.  Restores life, helps healing process.  Enourages true love.

Obsidian.  Volcanic glass.  Feldspar crystals create the white/grey patches in snowflake obsidian.  Iron contributes to the reddish brown color in mahogany obsidian.  Effective grounding stone.  Draws hidden imbalances to the surface and releases them.  Used in scrying.

Obsidian, Snowflake.  Assists in physical balance and physical safety.  Helps one to recognize unnecessary patterns in one's life.

Onyx, Black.  Translucent chalcedony.  Repels negativity, deflects negativity of others.  Keeps one safe from harm.  Aids in grounding.  Helps one make wise decisions.  Helps overcome feelings of loneliness and alienation.

Opal.  Emotional balance.  Helps stabilize mood swings.

Pearls.  Promotes sincerity, truthh and loyalty.  Soothes, calms and focuses attention.

Quartz, Crystal.  Helps bring balance.  Amplifies and increases the harmony of all energies it contacts.  Brings stability and calmness to the mind.  Focus or amplify energy.  Powerful healer.  Aids clarity of mind.

Quartz, Rose.  Reduces emotional stress and tension.  Encourages love, beauty and harmony.  Reduces aggression and promotes understanding and empathy.  Helps one to appreciate the joy of each new day and each new experience.

Rhodonite.  Promotes confidence and self-worth along with the awareness of others' feelings and needs.  Restores a sense of equilibrium.  Helps in making fine distinctions in people.  Brings love around you, helps you remain centered when in a relationship.

Ruby.  Balances the heart, enhancing circulation.  Improves confidence, security, self-esteem, and relationships with others.  Energizes.

Sodalite.  Intuitive knowledge, clears the mind and promotes understanding of ideas and concepts.  Useful for student and philosopher.  Strengthens communication and rational thinking. 

Sunstone.  Variety of feldspar, same family as moonstone.  Learning.

Tigereye, Red.  Enhances self-confidence.  Allows for clarity of thought.  Good for performers.

Tiger Iron.  Metaphysical power.

Topaz.  Encourages relaxation of physical or emotional strain.  Dissipates excess or negative energy.

Turquoise.  Protection.  Increases energy and protects the body from negativity.