Crystals

Why use them

Because they work whether you want them to or not.
 

How to choose one and where

When choosing a crystal, you don't have to pick the prettiest one there, unless you really want
to, of course. Pick one that calls out to you, feels good in your hand. It could be warm and comforting or invigorating, you'll just know that this is the one you need at that particular time.
 

Charging Crystals

To get the best from your crystals, you should always cleanse them,  just by running them under a cold tap, or hold them in a stream for a few seconds. They should be re-charged at least once a month, do this by cleansing and then leaving them to dry on the windowsill, for a night and a day. Another way of cleansing is to dissolve a teaspoon of sea or rock salt into a pint of water (not in anything metal). Put your crystals in the salty water for a few hours and then rinse them under a running tap. You will feel when your crystals are cleansed. Put on the windowsill to dry for a night and a day. Some crystals re-charge by sunlight and some by the moon. Always cleanse and charge before wearing your crystal and cleanse after using them for healing. Take some time to get to know your crystals.
 

Using Crystals for Healing

Healing, using crystals, has been around since the Egyptians times and probably a long time before. Physicians used to grind the crystals into a powder and mix with liquids to form medicine.

The electro-magnetic work on the body to encourage it to heal itself. Some crystals work on specific parts of the body, while others, such as rock crystal work on all parts.

All crystals work in harmony with prescribed medicine, therefore will not interfere with anything being taken, so anything prescribed should be continued, until advised by the doctor.
 

Click on the links below and find out a little about them
 
Agate : Quite a powerful stone, which comes in many types and colours. Works well on the colon and boosts physical energy. Agate reduces fever and helps combat illness . It is often used in fire magic.
Alabaster : Friendship and victory spells are where alabaster is commonly used but the white colour gives it a home with snow magic . 
Alexandrite : Many air spells require alexandrite and if you are making any new ones, it should be considered. 
Amber : A fossilized tree resin, which varies in colour from lemon yellow to a rich orange brown, including a deep red and green. It has a beneficial effect on the nervous system and self healing process. Works very well on the chest area and on conditions such as asthma, coughs and chest infections. It is said to work well on forgetfulness.
Amethyst : A wonderful crystal which works well on the immune system, It is good for headaches and migraines and as a hangover tonic. It enhances psychic and spiritual development, especially when used for meditation. You can re-charge your other crystals on a rough bed of amethyst, Amethysts are noted for their ability to insure a husbands love, prevent  and also to quicken the intellect. It is used in sleeping spells and to insure victory. Both air and water spells can involve Amethysts.
Amazonite : Calms and balances the emotions and helps sore throat and lung problems.
Aquamarine : Aquamarine is a blue variety of beryl. It stimulates the healing properties of the body. It improves confidence and the ability to stand your ground, and helps to release the flow of communication.  It is thought to promote love, quicken the intellect, and protect it's wearer during battle and in lawsuits. Very good for those who suffer from their nerves, will bring inner peace and harmony. Also helpful for water retention and and for cleansing the body of impurities. Water spells often have some use for Aquamarine.  
Aventurine : Is an excellent heart balancer. It is gently expansive, allowing for an easy expression of feelings. Stimulates muscle tissue, works well on all heart conditions and helps to equalise blood pressure problems. Helps people lose their anxiety and fears.
Azurite : is most commonly seen as small round nodules but can also form shiny crystals. It will free up difficult and long-standing blocks in communication and will reveal those structures that are stopping us from using our full potential. It stimulates memory and recall. Earth magic is where azurite is often used. 
Bloodstone : This is a green quartz with flecks of red jasper, giving it an active balance of energy and calm. It stimulates emotional growth and is of benefit to the heart and circulation.
Blue Fluorite : Water spells have added force when Blue Fluorite is used in some part of the spell or ritual. 
Blue-Lace Agate : is a beautiful, banded variety of quartz that gently cools and calms. It can be used for lightening thought and works well with rose quartz. .Works wonderfully on all arthritic conditions.
Blue Tourmaline : Blue Tourmaline is a source of water magic and is quite powerful in some air spells. 
Black Onyx : Black onyx is an excellent source of transformation magic. 
Calcite : Comes in many colours. Orange calcite is smooth and lustrous. it is ideal for the delicate encouragement of potential, and because of its softness and watery feel, is good at melting away problems. It is very good for digestion problems or excess acid. Also helps to balance out our male/female side and our emotions.
Carnelian : Carnelian is one of the more unique and popular orange gemstones, characterised by a sense of warmth and a gently energising effect. it is commonly found on beaches. It will nearly always be of benefit in healing. It's attributed with the power to tighten loose teeth, grant happiness, cure tumors, restrain anger, give dignity, strengthen the voice and also ensuring courage and tranquility. Works well on the kidneys, liver gallbladder and spleen. Some people use it in fire spells. 
Chalcedony : Chalcedony is a component of many spells for physical strength.
Chrysophase : Helps ease sexual frustration and enhances personal insight. A good mental healer.
Cinnabar : Cinnabar is often used in conjunction with the "alchemist's magic" but is commonly used as a symbol of immortality. Of course this means that your work or beliefs will be immortal. Despite all of our natural power, all things have an end. 
Citrine : Dark citrine is orange and browny-orange, is  a balanced stimulator that will bring out practical creative skills. It can be used as a gentle grounding and supporting stone.  Good for tiredness and digestive problems. Prevents self-destructive tendencies and improves the quality of life. :
Coral : Coral is not a gem or jewel but it's going to be placed here anyway. It is one of the strongest protective objects known. When you find a piece on the beach it is a sign of great luck and blessing. 
Crystals : Crystals are used mostly to cleanse bad spirits from a home or work site. They also have roots in air magic.
Diamonds : Diamonds tend to have varied abilities. Some feel that they are the symbol of the sun and innocence while others say that it is the gem of sin and sorrow. Either use is valid in spell casting, so long as you maintain a strict view in your mind's eye as to what it is being used for. They can allegedly cure leprosy, insanity and nightmares. It is a gem of courage, strength, destiny and victory in court or war. It repels poison, witchcraft and counter magic. If That last part will make it hard to undo a diamond spell so be cautious and make sure that you really desire the end results. 
Emerald : is the green variety of the mineral beryl. It helps to find personal direction in activity. It brings clarity and calm to the heart and emotions. The unconditional love stone. Strengthens the heart and immune system.
Fluorite : comes in a wide variety of colours, though violet is one of the most common. It can be used to great effect with the upper chakras where it enables subtle energies to integrate better with normal consciousness, increasing the practical use of ideas and inspirations. Fluorite also helps with co-ordination, both physical and mental.  A very powerful healer. Strengthens teeth and bones and is also good for blood vessels. Calm the over excitable and brings greater concentration. A wonderful stone to meditate with.
Garnet : In it's red forms, is one of the speediest energisers. It will increase energy wherever it is placed. It will also activate other stones when placed close by. The garnet was thought to bestow invulnerability upon all who touch it. It regenerates the whole body, particularly the blood stream. Wonderful for depression or S.A.D. It is very good for heavy menstrual flow and helps with lack of sexual drive.
Heliotrope : Heliotropes bring fame and public acknowledgment. 
Hematite : A good grounder, for people who tend to keep their head in the clouds. very good for people with anaemia as it contains a lot of iron. Also helps the blood to oxygenate.
Herkimer Diamond : is a clear, bright variety of quartz excellent for all detoxificationprocesses and for cleansing imbalances fromt he subtle bodies. It will amplify the qualities of the stones placed near to it. Clarity of mind and vivid recall of dream states are commonly induced. A wonderful crystal for bringing back fun and joy when life gets you down. Very good at reducing stress.
Iolite : is also called water sapphire, but is no relation. It has a subtle violet translucence that increases the imagination and all aspects of intuitive creativity.
Iron Pyrite : Known as Fool's Gold, helps to cleanse and strengthen. It calms the digestive system.
Jade : Jade is a protective stone. Said to increase longevity. Good for eye disorders. A very good inspirer when looking for answers. It also bestows charity, modesty, justice, wisdom, and courage.
Jasper : A dark or brick red quartz is commonly found on beaches. it is a useful stone to place near to the base chakra. It is grounding and gently activating to the functions of the body. Both earth and fire magic involve jasper.. 
Jet : Jet is an excellent gem for general sorcery and binding spells. 
Kunzite : This is a pale pink and violet stone. Having a striated crystal structure it is an excellent shifter of emotional debris, and also helps self-expression.
Lapis Lazuli : A beautiful blue stone flecked with pyrite (fool's gold). It has a powerful effect, stimulating the rapid release of stresses to enable a greater peace to be experienced, it also stimulates the higher faculties of the mind and understanding. Works well on the thyroid area. Good for meditation and for relaxation. Inspires creativity and expression. Lapis is common in water spells
Lodestone : Lodestone is famous for it's magnetic charge but many people add it to sleeping spells for enhanced performance and guided dreaming.
Malachite : will dig out deep feelings, hurts and resentments and will break unwanted ties and patterns of behaviour. Helps the pancreas and the spleen. very good for teething children. Its high copper content is very good for rheumatism. Also amplifies how you are feeling, so don't use it when you are feeling low.
Moonstone : is a milky white, creamy or pearly in colour. It has a characteristic soft luminescence from which it gets its name. It is an excellent stone for clearing tensions gently fromt he emotions and from the abdomen, where it can help the digestive system. Very much a feminine stone. Wonderful for period pain and P.M.T. It is said to reduce pain at childbirth and to speed up delivery. Also very good a balancing mood swings.
Moss Agate : is ideal for supporting the lungs and easing breathing difficulties, as well as feelings of being emotionally stifled. It brings in the energy of the natural world.
Obsidian : A good grounder, Works well on the intestines. Obsidian is a very powerful gem for transformation spells. 
Onyx : A very good grounder and protector, but also works on strengthening bone marrow. Earth spells use commonly use onyx, while black onyx has properties better suited for transformation magic.
Opal : Helps enhance psychic ability, but be careful with teenage girls. Opal is supposed to restore eyesight and prevent disaster. It is commonly used in spells of hope, victory against adversaries and general bewitching. It is rumored to turn pale near poison. 
Pearl : Water magic is where it is used mostly but sea and power spells also work well. It may not be an actual gemstone but it many feel that it will protect against all evil. Quite a tall order for a piece of sand. 
Peridot : is a vivid green stone associated with volcanic activity. It is one of the best cleansers of the subtle bodies and will help to motivate growth and necessary change. Very good for epilepsy and brain wave disturbances. Reduces stress, stimulates the mind and reduces lethargy and laziness. Peridot is meant to give full reason and a merciful disposition. It is at it's most powerful when set in gold. Earth spells are commonly associated with it. 
Pyrite : Helps digestion, improves circulation and brings about a more positive outlook.
Quartz : One of the best and most powerful of crystals, which brings coherant energy. Wonderful for all parts of the body, removes all negativity, good to put near any electrical appliances. Good to leave in glass of water overnight and the water to be drunk in the morning for extra energy. Quartz is a popular stone for purification rituals as well as earth and fire spells.
Rhodochrosite : This is a delicate banded stone of pink, yellow and orange. Good for someone recovering from a nervous breakdown or emotional trauma. It will help to improve self image and self worth, especially when problems in this area are preventing action. it is excellent for balancing the functions of the second and third chakras.
Rhodonite : When polished, is a salmon pink often flecked with black. Good for improving the memory and calming the mind. This works with the practical aspects of our feelings, and has a greater grounding effect than other pink stones.
Rose Quartz : This is the best known and favourite of the pink stones. Brings back a feeling of self worth and self love, especially when life takes over and we tend to forget about ourselves. It has a calming and reassuring effect. However, it can also be a powerful releaser of unexpressed emotions where they might be thwarting personal growth. Friendship spells will often require or prefer the rose quartz over other versions of the gem. 
Royal Azute : Royal azute is another outlet for earth magic and spells. 
Ruby : It is a variety of the very hard mineral corundum. it works with the energies of the heart centre and the circulation within the subtle anatomies. It is energising but balancing in its effects. Rubies are rumored to remove evil, stop the bloodflow and turn cloudy near poison. Fire magic works best with it. 
Rutilated Quartz : is a clear or smoky crystal containing fine threads of golden or orange rutile crystals. It is excellent for moving healing energy from place to place, and works well with broken or damaged tissues. A very powerful healer, some people find that this crystal takes time to get used to, as it may give you a headache at first. Cuts through mental and emotional blockages.
Sapphires : csn be expensive when it possesses the correct depth of colour, otherwise you can find good sized crystals at a reasonable cost. It relaxes and improves the mind. it balances all aspects of the self by releasing tension and promoting peace of mind. Sapphires grant pure thoughts and protection from both dark spirits and poison. Some claim that it restores eyesight, saves the wearer from envy and the fury of enemies. It brings health, wealth, and strength. An old belief says that it will kill any poisonous reptiles in the area but don't try it. Plain and starred sapphires are considered lucky and have been used by witches for enchantments as well as a way to break enchantments. 
Sea Salt : Sea salt is a perfect tool in purification rituals and spells. Also great in the bath.
Selenite : named for its moonlight quality, is a type of gypsum. Do not place this stone in damp or wet - the thin slices of crystal will slide apart and disintegtrate. Selenite is a good stone for removing emotional turmoil or confusion. It clarifies awareness and heps to reach new states of consciousness. Can help with loss of the sex drive and can enhance fertility. It is said to enhance the skin, bringing a more youthful look. A very gentle healer and wonderful to meditate with.
Snow Quartz :
Snowflake Obsidian :
Sodalite : can look very similar to Lapis, though it usually of a less vivid blue and has cloudy veils of white running through it. It calms the mind and allows new information to be received. Works well on the throat area, not only physically, but also emotionally, you will be able to explain yourself better and not allow people to walk over you.  Sodalite is used in transformation and water spells. 
Tiger's Eye Quartz : is a variety of quartz with a velvety sheen that looks like a sweet. The packed fibres and bands of browns, golds and reds speed up energy flow and anchor subtle changes onto the physical body. Wonderful for the entire digestive system, brings about the courage to face situations to come. Good for grounding and sexual problems
Topaz : With it's elongated crystal form and parallel striations running its length, is an excellent clearing stone that can be used to direct energy around the body. Detoxifies the body, works well on all glands and organs. Soothing, peaceful and tranquilising. Topaz represents loyalty and is often used in air magic. 
Tourmaline : The new Age Stone. Brings with it acceptance to come, opens your mind to the aquarius age. Also brings sensitivity and comprehension. A powerful healer of mental disorders. When hot it has an electrical charge that was originally attributed to witchcraft. It is a symbol of power and is used often in Earth magic. 
Turquoise : has been used for centuries as a supportive and protective stone. It strengthens all the subtle bodies and the fine communication systems of the body, such as the meridians. Used by Native Americans to bring inner peace and all over healing. Helps with absorption of minerals and vitamins. Also a good protector from harmful negativity. Turquoise brings good fortune, prevents harm and disagreement, brings people closer to their Gods and Goddesses. The best spells for it involve happiness, friendship and manifestation magic. 
 
 
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