What are the gemstone properties of your favorite stone?
Every gemstone, whether precious or semi-precious, will have certain qualities and energies to them. These are call the gemstone properties. Below you can find a list of some of the different qualities assigned to different gemstones.
Click on the letter to be taken to the alphabetical list of stones.
A good luck stone, especially in financial matters. Stimulates creativity, intelligence and perception. A great healing stone, it gives a sense of mental and emotional well-being. Promotes physical health and heart balancing.
Agate
general protection and healing, increases courage, self-confidence, and energy and promotes longevity. Also good for gardening.
Alexandrite
renewal and regeneration, openness to higher self. Brings love, joy, and luck.
Amazonite
helps clarify and improve thinking.
Amber
healing, protection from negativity, attractiveness and energy.
Amethyst
increases vivid dreams, relieves depression, promotes calm, serenity, and spirituality. Helps with addiction and stress. Known as nature's tranquilizer, it aids in sleep and in peaceful dreams.
Angelite
helps one to communicate with angels and other nonphysical beings. Aids in long-distance communication. Assists with dissolving anger.
Apatite
helps stuttering and hypertension. Rids one of guilt and grief.
Aquamarine
improves sight, sharpens the mind, calms and clarifies emotions. Aids with tranquil self-expression.
Aragonite
grounding and centering, facing truth and reality. Has a calming and stabilizing effect, especially on emotions such as anger and stress.
Azurite
increases psychic ability and aids in meditation. Relieves arthritis and joint pain. Aids in consciously recognizing old programmed beliefs and dissolving them.
amplifies energy. Aids with memory. Clears and activates the chakras. (The gemstone properties of Calcite are added to, and enhanced by, the different colors of Calcite listed below.)
Clear Calcite
brings spiritual understanding to problems on the earth plane.
Golden Calcite
helps to integrate new energies and beliefs. Aids in personal empowerment, in relationships and business.
Green Calcite
eases old, limiting beliefs (especially those based on fear) from the mind so that new ideas can flourish.
Pink Calcite
release old and hurtful emotional patterns so that the heart can be open to receive and give unconditional love.
Carnelian
general healing stone. Restores the natural energy flows of your body. Associated with creativity and decision-making.
Celestite
calms the over-active mind and teaches one to be receptive.
Chrysocolla
soothes nervous tension. Aids in soothing and calming. Aids in self-confidence of personal expression.
Charoite
aids in dissolving fears, both known and unknown.
Chrysoprase
soothes heartache and helps depression, promotes emotional balance, wisdom, and peace.
Citrine
helps digestion and aids in mental and intellectual functions. Increases self-esteem and energy. Balances and dissipates negative energy. Manifests abundance and balances the use of will.
Coral
helps in childbirth and adoption. Wards off bad thoughts from others and promotes general well-being.
a mind stone. Enhances memory, promotes clear and quick thinking, and right action stemming from right thought. Promotes the spiritual aspects of love.
aids in viewing ones life as if with aerial vision.
Hematite
great stone for grounding. Calms and soothes, reducing stress and blood pressure. This stone helps you set protective boundaries when you feel others are intruding into your private space.
Howlite
reduces stress and anxiety. Quietly soothes and calms to bring gentleness and patience.
wisdom, mercy, humility, generosity, peace, and harmony. Protective and lucky when worn as jewelry. Place a bit under your pillow at night for restorative dreams.
Jasper
calms a troubled mind. Helps with digestive problems and other ills. (The gemstone properties of Jasper are added to, and enhanced by, the different colors of Jasper listed below.)
Red Jasper
helps with conflict and aggression. Promotes grace and perseverance. Connects us to the flowing energies of the earth.
Leopard Skin Jasper
aids in finding and achieving life's goals. Picture Jasper - stabilizing, balancing stone. Aids in visualization and meditation.
strengthens the will and inner strength and convictions. Aids in combating addictions.
Lapis Lazuli
emotional healing and stability. High intensity stone which cleanses the spirit to bring out inner truth and peace. Aids in discovering hidden beliefs and bringing them to the surface.
Larimar
enables one to communicate with others that which is deeply felt.
good protective stone. Also releases old relationships and keeps away general negativity.
Opal
Awakens and helps understanding of psychic intuition and mysticism. Encourages living authentically in feeling and action, with faithfulness and loyalty. Helpful for eyesight and during childbirth.
the greatest of all healing stones. Acts as an amplifier for psychic energy and aids meditation and visualization. (The gemstone properties of Quartz are added to, and enhanced by, the different colors of Quartz listed below. Although, some types of Quartz do have entirely different gemstone properties.)
Rose Quartz
great for attracting love. Promotes unconditional self-love and heals emotional wounds as well as promoting peace, forgiveness, and nurturing.
Rutilated Quartz
aids in adding enhanced creative energy to our dreams.
Smoky Quartz
a grounding stone which helps reduce depression and negative emotions.
love drawing stone. Helps release past psychological issues. Helps eyesight. Assists in deep breathing which helps relieve anxiety and tension.
Rhodonite
self-affirmation and self-love. Fosters ability to remain calm in arguments and resolve disagreements in a loving way. Promotes patience.
Ruby
stimulates nurturing emotions and economic stability. Excellent for shielding from psychic attacks and gathering and amplifying energy. Helpful for blood-related health issues, such as anemia, menstrual issues, and poor circulation. It is known as the stone of passion and enhances sensory awareness.
increases psychic abilities and enhances spiritual connectedness.
Tiger's Eye
clear thinking, helps in manifesting will, courage, and confidence. Helps you feel secure about physical existence. Aids with learning good timing of acting on dreams.
Topaz
soothes physical pain, promotes peace and calms emotions, as well as promoting forgiveness. Promotes individuality, self-confidence, and creativity. Counteracts negative emotions. (The gemstone properties of Topaz are added to, and enhanced by, the different colors of Topaz listed below.)
Blue Topaz
aids in fearless communication of ones beliefs. Stimulates creativity.
Tourmaline (multicolor)
calm, protection, focus, and balance. Promotes self-assurance and goodwill. (The gemstone properties of Tourmaline are added to, and enhanced by, the different colors of Tourmaline listed below.)
Black
strong protection from negative energies. Reduces fears, obsessions, neurosis, and panic.
Pink
promotes compassion, love and healing of emotional pain.
Green
cleanses and detoxifies the spirit, brings prosperity. Opens the creative elements of the heart by adding an emotional depth to one's creations.
Blue
helpful with verbal, speech, and throat problems. Mental peace and patience.
Watermelon
heals old emotional pains and brings emotional understanding.
Turquoise
healing stone. Attracts friendships, luck, and happiness. Releases shame and guilt. Assists in asking and allowing others to help in the manifestation of ones desires.
promotes balance and emotional stability. Transforms negative emotions into positive ones. A grounding stone. Aids in releasing conditions which have been inhibiting personal growth.
These gemstone properties are in no way a complete accounting of all of the stone’s qualities. These are just some basic gemstone properties and qualities of some of the more popular gemstones. A more complete description of the gemstone properties, and many more stones and crystals, can be found in the book “Love is in the Earth” by Melody.
