Gemstone Properties
Gemstone use dates back to prehistoric and ancient civilizations — Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, and Greece — where stones served as amulets, status symbols, and remedies recorded in lapidaries and medical texts. Throughout medieval and Renaissance Europe and in indigenous traditions worldwide, gems retained spiritual and protective roles tied to astrology, religion, and local cosmologies.
In modern times gemstones re-emerged in the New Age movement and alternative wellness practices, with people using crystals for chakra work, meditation, and ritual. These practices emphasize symbolism, ritual, and personal meaning rather than standardized medical treatments; gemstones are often used as tools for mindfulness, confidence, and stress reduction.
AGATE
Enhances mental function improving concentration, analytical ability and perception. Overcomes negativity and bitterness, healing inner anger and gives one courage to start again. Dissolves inner tension, builds self-confidence and acceptance. Awakens ones inner talents. Strengthens the eye sight.
SIGN: Gemini
AMETHYST
A stone of spirituality and contentment. It bestows stability, strength, invigoration and brings a sense of deep peace. It can help one maintain a calm temperament by clearing away any unkind or unproductive vibrations. It helps overcome an addictive personality and dispels fear and anxiety. It can be used to open ones intuition and psychic ability.
SIGNS : Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, Virgo
APATITE
A stone that enhances humanitarian pursuits and teaching. It enhances communication abilities, storing information and creativity. Removes blockages and congestion from the chakras. Brings knowledge by clearing away confusion. It truly awakens the finer inner self.
SIGN: Gemini
BLUE TOPAZ
This stone stimulates the throat chakra, allowing one to become conscious of and then to verbalize exactly what it is you wish to manifest or communicate. It allows one to see all things as equally important in life and to be unburdened by arrogance. It promotes individuality and creativity and replaces negativity with a love and joyfulness for life. It is a potent crystal to use for manifestation work, helping one to absorb from the universe what is needed.
Signs: Sagittarius & Virgo
CARNELIAN
Banishes feelings of sorrow, fear, envy and rage. It banishes all forms of emotional negativity replacing them with a love for life. Brings out ones inner talents, gives courage and promotes positive life choices. Helps sharpen concentration, improves motivation and dispels mental lethargy. Helps you to trust yourself and your perceptions. SIGNS : Taurus, Cancer & Leo
CHALCEDONY
Chalcedony is a powerful "Stone of Harmony" known for promoting mental stability, inner peace, and calm, nurturing energy. It is highly regarded for enhancing communication, particularly by strengthening the throat chakra, while also acting as a protective stone that absorbs negative energy.
CHRISOPRASE
This beautiful stone is said to promote the love of truth. It enhances compassion, a non-judgemental attitude, acceptance for yourself and others and fidelity. It can help to reduce superiority or inferiority complexes and will help bring a sense of security and trust. It stops you speaking out in anger, prevents nightmares ( especially in children ) and helps draw out the best of your talents and creativity. Aids relaxation and a good sleep.
SIGN : Libra
CITRINE
A warming, creative and highly energizing stone, it is one of the few stones which never needs cleansing.
It is known as the stone of abundance attracting wealth, success, prosperity and all good things. A truly joyful stone it has the power to impart this joy to all who behold it. It helps raise self-esteem, self-confidence and removes destructive tendencies. It enhances individuality, self-expression and motivation.
SIGNS : Gemini, Aries, Leo & Libra
EMERALD
This stone ensures physical, emotional and mental equilibrium. It is said to bring positivity, strength and integrity. A stone for 'successful love' enhancing unity and bliss in partnerships. Helps improve visioning alleviates rheumatism.
SIGNS: Taurus, Gemini, Aries
FLUORITE
A highly protective stone, especially against psychic attack. It helps cleanse and stabilize the aura and is very good at clearing the electromagnetic smog caused by computers, mobile phones etc. It cleanses, purifies and brings everything into perfect alignment within the body. It increases concentration, promotes quick thinking and can ground nervous or excess energy. It helps you to understand the effect the mind has upon the emotions and the body.
SIGNS : Pisces & Capricorn
GARNET
Known as the stone of health this is a highly regenerative and energizing mineral. It can help you to alleviate emotional disharmony. It bestows confidence and shows you how to open your heart. It is a stone of commitment, instilling love and devotion. It is good to turn to in times of crisis as it activates and strengthens ones survival instincts. It can help you let go of old ideas or behavioural patterns that no longer serve you.
SIGNS : Capricorn & Aquarius
HEMATITE
This is a great stone to ground you if your head is constantly in the clouds and to offer you protection. It dissolves negativity and prevents negative energies from entering your aura. A strong stone, it supports people of a timid nature, boosting self-esteem and imparting confidence. It removes self-limitations and aids expansion. It is a stone which can help you overcome mistakes and accept them as learning tools in your life.
SIGNS : Aries & Aquarius
IOLITE
Iolite was used for its historical use in navigation. It represents intuition, self-discovery, and inner vision, often used in jewelry to enhance creativity and spiritual awareness, acting as a guide to one's life purpose.
SIGNS: Sagittarius, Libra, and Taurus, Capricorn, Aquarius
IDOCRASE / VESUVIANITE
Vesuvianite, often called Idocrase, is spiritually recognized as a stone of transformation, higher self-connection, and emotional liberation. Its energy is primarily focused on aligning the human will with the desires of the heart, helping individuals pursue their true path while releasing the ego’s restrictive control.
JADE
Jade is a durable, typically green, mineral (jadeite or nephrite) prized for centuries as a "Stone of Heaven" in China, symbolizing virtue, purity, wisdom, and longevity. It is used for jewelry, carvings, and protective amulets, and is associated with bringing good fortune and prosperity.
SIGNS: Taurus, Libra, Gemini, and Pisces
JASPER
Known as the 'supreme nurturer', it helps support one during times of stress by giving strength and tranquility. A protective stone shielding one from all forms of negativity. It is said that this stone brings courage, determination and imagination.
SIGN: Leo
KYANITE
This is another of the few stones that never needs cleansing as it doesn't absorb any negative vibrations. It is a stone that encourages one to speak and live their own truth without fear. It helps bring clarity and strength and will give one extra energy to those tasks which normally drain us. It instantly aligns the chakras and with conscious direction can open them. It can stimulate psychic abilities and intuition and stimulates the higher mind.
SIGNS : Taurus, Aries & Libra
LABRADORITE
This stone helps banish fears and insecurities and removes the " psychic debris " left behind from previous disappointments. It strengthens faith in self and trust in the universe. It deflects unwanted energy from the aura making it highly protective and will prevent energy leakages from the aura. It helps calm an overactive mind whilst at the same time stimulating the imagination.
SIGNS : Sagittarius, Scorpio & Leo
LAPIS LAZULI
Can stimulate enlightenment, psychic abilities and spiritual power. It quickly releases stress bringing a sense of peace. It possesses enormous serenity which is the key to spiritual attainment. It protects against psychic attack, returning the unkind thoughts to the sender. It encourages taking charge of your life, revealing inner truth, self-awareness and encouraging self-expression without holding back or compromising. It brings honesty and compassion.
SIGN: Sagittarius
MALACHITE
A highly protective stone that shields you from all kinds of negative energies, pollutants, radiation. Helps you to see the root cause of disease and clears and activates the chakras. Facilitates deep emotional healing and transformation. Encourages self-expression.
SIGN: Capricorn and Scorpio
MOONSTONE
Moonstone is a great stone to soothe emotional instability and stress. It helps stabilize the emotions and can improve ones emotional intelligence. It can draw out emotional patterning which has not served you so that you may understand it and then dissolve it. It provides for deep emotional healing and heals disorders of the upper digestive tract that are related to emotional stress.
SIGNS : Cancer, Libra & Scorpio
ONYX
A strength giving stone offering support during difficult times, times of great mental confusion and times of stress. It promotes stamina, centres your energy and helps you access higher guidance. Onyx can be used to heal old griefs and sorrows. It helps us to have more stability in our life and imparts self-control. It gives us the gift of making wise decisions. It is a good stone to help us overcome overwhelming fears and anxieties.
SIGN : Leo
PERIDOT
This stone is a powerful cleanser. It helps remove and neutralize toxins, purifies the subtle and physical bodies and helps one release old vibrations and negative patterns. It enhances confidence and helps you to find the gift in your experiences and will motivate you to grow. It helps you take responsibility for your own life, and helps you to see mistakes you have made and to move on from them. It sharpens the mind and brings us to new levels of awareness. It shows us how we can detach from outside influences and trust in ourself.
SIGNS : Virgo, Leo, Scorpio & Sagittarius
QUARTZ
Quartz will raise your energies to the highest level possible. It cleanses and enhances our whole body and deeply cleanses the soul. It absorbs, releases, stores and regulates energy and is great to unblock stagnant energy. It can be programmed to work on any ailment or issue. It clears and activates all the chakras and strongly energizes them. It can help you clear inner negativity and stimulate positive thoughts and feelings.
SIGNS : All
ROSE QUARTZ
This stone is calming, reassuring and brings deep inner healing. It will aid you in times of heartache or crisis. It brings you confidence, self-esteem, self-worth and self-love. It purifies and opens the heart chakra on many levels. It gently removes negative energy away from you replacing it with love. It helps balance the emotions and makes you receptive to love, as well as attracting love into your life. It encourages you to be forgiving and accepting.
SIGNS : Taurus & Libra
RUBY
This stone Energises and implants vigour to life. A stone that encourages 'following your bliss.' A powerful shield against psychic attack. It encourages removing negative influences in your life. Brings about a positive state of mind. Detoxifies the body, blood and lymphatic system.
SIGNS: Sagittarius & Scorpio
SAPPHIRE
Sapphire's spiritual properties center on wisdom, divine favor, and mental clarity, believed to calm the mind, dispel negativity, and align spiritual planes, making it a stone for self-expression (throat chakra) and higher consciousness (third eye).
SIGNS: Taurus, Virgo, Libra, and Sagittarius
SMOKY QUARTZ
Removes negative vibrations and is strongly protective. Relieves fear, brings emotional calmness and helps lift depression. Helps you to accept yourself and stay positive. A good stone to use for grounding you when your head is in the clouds. A superb antidote to stress.
SIGN: Capricorn and Sagittarius
TANZANITE
It is one of the most valuable of all metaphysical crystals for spiritual exploration, bringing together all aspects of communication and psychic power. Its high vibrational energy invites protection and safety in linking with higher realms, and allows for deep profound meditation. It is particularly helpful in uniting the mind and heart, teaching one to live from a compassionate heart with an illumined mind.
SIGNS: Sagitarius, Libra, Scorpio
TIGER'S EYE
This stone brings out integrity and shows you the correct use of power. It helps you recognize your own needs as well as the needs of others. It is a good stone to banish the blues, bringing brightness and optimism to the wearer. It helps one to be practically minded and to have clarity. It is a peaceful stone with soothing vibrations. It can be used to stimulate intuition and psychic ability to those who are grounded and earthy in nature.
SIGN : Capricorn
TOURMALINE
This stone repels negativity directly away from you. It strengthens your body's energy field against any unwanted pollutants. It is a good stone to help keep you grounded and can help you dissolve old patterns which may have been destructive in your life . It helps release tension, keeps us positive and awakens our altruistic nature. It increases physical vitality and emotional stability
SIGN : AllSIGNS : Sagittarius, Pisces & Scorpio.
TURQUOISE
Used since ancient times as a stone of protection. Turquoise is a very good healer and will bring you a sense of well-being. It enhances your communication abilities and helps you in living and speaking your own truth. It dispels negative energy, stabilizes ones moods and instills inner calm. It is an excellent stone to use when you are exhausted or depressed. It strengthens the body, mind and spirit. It shows us how the creation of our very own fate is actually ongoing and depends upon your actions at each moment.
SIGNS : Sagittarius, Pisces & Scorpio.
UNAKITE
Unakite is a powerful stone of balance, emotional healing, and gentle transformation, bridging the heart and root chakras to foster harmony between emotions and spirituality. It promotes self-love, releases deep-seated negative emotions, and acts as a grounding stone to support patience and spiritual growth.
SIGNS: Scorpio, Taurus, Capricorn, Libra, and Virgo