Crystals are living beings at the beginning of creation - Nikola Tesla
A short guide to crystals and their vibrational properties
The true beauty of crystals resides in the vibrations they possess. Formed deep within Earth's embrace, over countless eons, each crystal variety holds a distinct healing resonance that we can work with to help facilitate our well-being.
Crystals hold an amazing potential as their vibrations can work together to create a more potent force when combined. It is vital to recognise that crystals collaborate with our inner-selves and therefore, engaging in internal contemplation enhances the profound effects of their healing properties.
It is best to allow your instinct to guide your selection, when choosing for yourself, choosing the crystal that most resonates with you and feels most aligned.
When creating a piece of custom jewellery, I attune myself to the energy of the client and select crystals most aligned to their unique energetic needs.
African Jasper Root and Heart Chakra - growth
African Jasper is known as The Stone of Evolution because it brings encouragement for growth, development and positive change. It helps to open the mind to new ideas and new possibilities. It also brings structure, balance and prosperity. Because of its ability to aid in manifesting a new life and healing from depression it brings with it a charge of energy giving a new sparkle to the spirit.
Amazonite Heart and Throat Chakra - courage
Amazonite, known as both The Stone of Courage and The Stone of Truth, emerges as a remedy to dispel worries, self-doubt, and frustrations. It empowers you to transcend the fear of judgment or confrontation, granting the courage to advance beyond these barriers. Aligning harmoniously with the Heart and Throat Chakras, Amazonite bathes them in tender, affectionate energy, enabling the release of past grievances. This enchanting gem amplifies loving communication on myriad levels, nurturing open-hearted expression.
Amber Solar Plexus Chakra - balance, healing
Coming from the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe, Amber boasts a unique attribute: it holds succinic acid, a natural analgesic and healing component. When Amber is nestled against the skin and warms, the skin absorbs the succinic acid, providing a soothing, natural alleviation of pain. Beyond pain relief, Amber contributes to strengthening the immune system and speeds up the healing of wounds. By absorbing discomfort and dispelling negative energies, Amber orchestrates an environment for the body to restore balance and initiate self-healing.
Amethyst Crown Chakra - protection
Exquisite amethyst displays a rich, deep purple hue. Among the most renowned healing crystals, amethyst plays a pivotal role. Its influence extends to detoxification, aiding in the process, and supporting individuals in grappling with various types of addiction, including food cravings. By purifying the mind and sweeping away negative thoughts, particularly the tumultuous waves of stress and anxiety, amethyst serves as a beacon of mental clarity.
This radiant gem is interwoven with themes of abundance, offering respite from stress and radiating a sense of prosperity. In regard to pressures of the workplace, it proves invaluable. Additionally, amethyst is a protective stone, with particular significance for those who travel. Its vibration resonates with the Crown Chakra, fostering a connection to higher states of consciousness.
February's birthstone, amethyst stands as a luminous embodiment of its month, bestowing its many varied gifts upon those who embrace it.
Ametrine Crown and Solar plexus Chakra - clarity, balance
A mixture of both Amethyst and Citrine, Ametrine enhances mental and spiritual clarity and unites masculine and feminine energies. The Citrine helps you to stay focussed whilst the Amethyst will help to provide inspiration. Ametrine crystals provide a connection between the higher energies of the crown (your knowing) with the energy of the physical in the Solar plexus.
Angelite Throat, Third Eye and Crown Chakra - calming, protection
Angelite brings the spiritual energies of power, healing, love and protection, both calming you and helping connection to your spirit guides and the angels. It holds the ability to sharpen your psychic and telepathic skills. It encourages forgiveness and aids with connecting you to your higher-self and with astral travel.
Aquamarine Throat Chakra - calm
Aquamarine carries a calming energy that reduces stress and quiets the mind. It helps to wash away stress and fear to leave room for peace and tranquility. It protects the psyche from taking on dark vibrations and negative thought patterns. Aquamarine has a smooth flowing energy promoting courage, peace and serenity. It also resonates with the Throat Chakra and safe travel over water.
Black Obsidian Root Chakra - grounding, protection, cleansing
Black Obsidian is a very powerful crystal. Created when volcanic lava cools quickly, it has a wonderful sheen and is often used for scrying. If your energy is feeling 'scattered' and all in your head, holding a piece of Black Obsidian in each hand can immediately help you to feel grounded. This is because Black Obsidian is a powerful cleanser of the auric field. Carry Black Obsidian with you if you feel that you need psychic protection but equally, meditate with Black Obsidian if you wish to go on a journey of intense self-discovery.
Black onyx Root Chakra - protection
Black Onyx absorbs and transforms negative energy and aids the development of emotional and physical strength and stamina. It helps you with balance, confidence and protection to take the next step. It carries a grounding energy which imparts stability.
Black Tourmaline Root Chakra - protection, grounding, stress relief
A powerful stone for protection against negative energy of all kinds, many believe that it is the best protection stone there is. It encourages positive attitudes, good luck and happiness regardless of the circumstances you find yourself in. It provides psychic protection, Electro Magnetic Field protection and is a strong spiritual grounding stone. It creates a ‘force-field’ around the aura.
Blue Goldstone Throat Chakra - soothing
A master healing stone, Blue Goldstone helps with wisdom and courage. A highly protective stone, it helps to deflect negative energies. It resonates with the Throat Chakra and so aids communication. It has been known since medieval times as the stone of success.
Blue Lace Agate Throat Chakra - calming, communication
A wonderful support crystal, Blue Lace Agate strengthens self-confidence and promotes self-acceptance and inner balance. It is calming and up-lifting and so is excellent for meditation. It helps you to achieve a strong sense of peace and serenity. As it resonates with the Throat Chakra, it can help with communication issues and help with expressing thoughts and feelings in an effective way. Botswana Agate Root Chakra - cleansing, grounding
Botswana Agate (Sunset Stone) evokes calmness and tranquility whilst its distinctive colours are reminiscent of the colours of Earth herself. It has the most striking colour bands of all the agates. Botswana Agate is only found in Botswana, Africa (as the name suggests) and there is a limited supply of this crystal! It is extremely stabilising and protective - absorbing negative energies and toxic influences thus paving the way for healthy, uplifting vibrations to flow. Botswana Agate can help to calm an over-active mind, helping you to see the bigger picture of life. Work with Botswana Agate to help maintain inner-balance and increase feelings of peace and tranquility.
Carnelian Sacral Chakra - creativity, confidence
A warm vibrant stone that boosts confidence and the power of true expression, Carnelian is also stabilising. It gives courage and promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy and motivates for success. Due to its colour, Orange Carnelian resonates with all three of the lower chakras, helping you to overcome negative conditioning and stimulating creativity.
Celestite crystal meaning comes from the Greek word heavenly and it is said to hold the wisdom of the ages. It holds a very high vibration meaning that it connects with the upper three chakras of the body, helping to activate your unique psychic abilities. Celestite provides soothing and calming vibrations so keep a piece of Celestine in the bedroom to help you sleep. In this way it also helps with mental clarity. Celestite has a strong connection to the divinity, heaven and angelic realms.
Citrine Solar Plexus Chakra - stimulating, abundance
Well known as the stone of abundance and manifestation, citrine assists in acquiring wealth and maintaining it! It is believed to raise optimism and energy in your life to such a point that you attract new possibilities, people and opportunities: prosperity and abundance will soon follow. Citrine resonates with the Solar Plexus Chakra and helps to increase self-confidence and a sense of ones own personal power.
Clear Quartz Crown Chakra - clarity, manifestation, focus, healing
Known as the ‘Master Healer’ Quartz will amplify the vibration of any other stone you put with it. It is one of the most abundant minerals in the world and also one of the most ‘programmable’. It’s amplification and ‘programming’ properties make it an excellent crystal to use for both manifestation and healing purposes. Quartz can also help to open up the mind and clear energy blockages. Clear Quartz has one of the most extensive ranges of metaphysical properties in the world of crystals.
Dragon Bloodstone Heart Chakra - balance, protection, creativity
Found only in Western Australia and being especially appealing to children, dragon bloodstone connects to the magical energy of the world and helps with connection to your own intuition and inner-truth. It helps to establish balance and helps to enhance your Chi energy, thus helping you to achieve your goals. Dragon bloodstone is also protective and assists with personal healing, helping to release blocks around past and present life emotional issues. It also helps to combat respiratory problems and boost the immune system. It was believed to give warriors the courage of a dragon and aid cellular regeneration, in the way that a reptile has the ability of regeneration.
Emerald in Fuchsite Heart Chakra - harmony, healing, balance
Emerald in Fuchsite is exactly as it sounds, two crystals bonded together. Both are green and so work in harmony with the heart chakra in promoting good health, well-being and rejuvenation. A stone of happiness and good luck, Emerald in Fuchsite will help to turn your focus what is most important in your life. It brings with it the vibrations of compassion, love and forgiveness whilst also being healing, restorative and bringing balance.
Flourite Heart, Throat and Third Eye Chakra - intellect, focus, protection
Flourite is excellent as a learning aid because it absorbs and neutralises negative energy and stress, helping to increase our powers of concentration. It encourages positivity, balances the energies and helps with decision-making. Flourite has a comforting and inspirational energy. It encourages you to reach for your dreams and see what is possible in The Universe. Not only does fluorite increase self-confidence, it is an immune system booster, stimulating the regeneration and restructuring of cells and DNA, with particular attention to the skin and respiratory tract.It also strengthens bone tissue, helping to alleviate conditions like arthritis and rheumatism.
Garnet Sacral Chakra - passion, creativity, strength
Garnet embodies the energy of fire which is the spiritual representation of transformation and transmutation. Garnet helps to increase the movement and vibrations inside your body which is required to break apart stagnant energies and transform yourself into the person you wish to become. It relates to the Sacral Chakra and so is an excellent crystal to increase creativity. It represents the strength of masculine energy. Meditating regularly with garnet helps re-align the chakras and helps with staying grounded.
Goldstone Heart and Crown Chakra - confidence
Goldstone is an ultra-grounding, protective warrior stone. It helps to boost drive and confidence and supports ambition. It is perfect for the times when you feel overwhelmed by toxic emotions and negative thoughts. Goldstone helps to restore balance to the Sacral Chakra, resonating with both creativity and sensuality. Use Goldstone to feel safely and securely connected to the Earth
Green Aventurine Heart Chakra - luck
Green Aventurine - known as the good luck stone(!), it is often used to attract money, (try popping a Green Aventurine crystal in the far South-Eastern corner of your home as per Feng Shui). It carries a soothing energy, comforts and protects the heart and can also help to attract love. Green Aventurine resonates with the Heart Chakra and graces the spirit with an easy sense of confidence.
Green Moss Agate Heart Chakra - abundance
A stone of wealth, it attracts abundance in all forms. Green Moss Agate is a cleansing crystal, useful for clearing your personal energy and enhancing mental concentration. It carries a strong connection with nature, bringing its healing and nurturing energy to you. Helping us to appreciate and enjoy each moment we have with the Earth, it is associated with the Heart Chakra.
Hematite Root Chakra - protection, grounding
Hematite is a protective stone that helps you to stay grounded in many situations. It works with the Root Chakra helping to transmute negative energy into a more positive vibration. It brings you out of your mind and back down to earth. Hematite can help you to find your own unique gifts and release self-imposed limitations. It strengthens self-control, helps to balance your equilibrium and maintain your focus.
Jasper Root Chakra - calming, grounding
Jasper has a healing, comforting and strengthening vibration, in tune with the Earth's electromagnetic energy and has earned the name 'Supreme Nurturer'. It imparts a sense of inner peace and the understanding that we are part of something bigger than ourselves. Jasper is grounding, balancing, soothing and stabilising. There are several types of jasper in various colours.
Kyanite Throat Chakra - connection
Kyanite aligns all chakras and subtle bodies immediately. It provides a balance of yin-yang (masculine-feminine) energies and dispels blockages, allowing energy to flow through the physical body unhindered. It does not retain negative vibrations and therefore, requires no cleansing. It has a tranquil blue colour (resonating with the throat chakra) with both a depth of colour and mesmerising sheen. It is an excellent crystal for transitioning to deep states of meditation, acting as a 'bridge' to The Universe and unlocking and enhancing psychic gifts. By connecting the Third Eye and Crown Chakras, it enables you to understand knowledge at different frequencies and expands your unique psychic abilities.
Labradorite Throat Chakra - healing, balance, transformation
A stone of transformation, Labradorite imparts strength and perseverance during change. As a protective stone, it will keep your energy body grounded, whilst allowing you to expand your consciousness. It connects to and heals all chakras, boosting both mental and spiritual power. Labradorite helps you to open up and and become self-aware enough to see what you want your true intentions to be.
Lapis Lazuli Third Eye Chakra - inner-truth, intuition
Resonating with the Third Eye Chakra, Lapis Lazuli brings wisdom and awareness to help facilitate your awakening. It has been regarded as a holy stone in the past and believed to possess magical powers. It promotes honest and effective self-expression and self-awareness. It puts you in touch with your spiritual and personal power and enhances the quality of friendships, encouraging compassion and uprightness.
Lava Stone Root Chakra - grounding
Lava Stone is a grounding stone that strengthens your connection to Mother Earth. It helps to provide confidence, stability and support. It lends you a calm, goal-orientated focus helping you to feel encouraged and motivated. It is a calming stone that helps to dissipate anger. Place one or two drops of essential oil onto Lava Stone to increase or support the properties that these stones provide.
Lepidolite All Chakras - soothing, healing
Lepidolite is a fabulous mood stabiliser and is good at easing feelings of anxiety. It contains a high amount of lithium which is also used in anti-anxiety medication. Its effects include a sense of calm and tranquility during times of stress and chaos. Work with Lepidolite to balance the mind and spirit, especially when you need to cool off fiery emotions. Lepidolite helps to dissolve energy blocks that keep you from true happiness, helping you to focus your energy into building something new and exciting and to have the courage to not be afraid of change.
Malachite All Chakras (particularly Throat and Heart) - cleansing, intention
Malachite clears and activates all Chakras. It especially resonates with the Heart and Throat Chakras and is used for deep energy cleaning. It provides emotional balance and encourages you to take action to enhance your transformational energy. A powerful stone, it brings healing and positive transformation to the wearer.
Moonstone Heart Chakra - intuition, balance
The stone of the Moon brings a nourishing and deeply feminine energy (we all know that the Moon is a lady right?). Moonstone has both healing and protective powers. It is a stone associated with the inner Goddess, a symbol of fertility, intuition and finding your own power. Moonstone has a milky radiance and an ethereal quality that reminds us to ‘go with the flow’ in the ever-flowing cycles of life. It resonates with the Heart Chakra, allowing us to be more receptive and in touch with our inner-feelings. Moonstone is the best stone for balancing hormones and providing support during times of hormonal change.
Mother of Pearl Throat Chakra - healing, balance, transformation Solar Plexus Chakra - wealth, success, protection
Mother of Pearl comes from the inner layer of shells that molluscs lay down for protection (known as nacre) and is both powerful (like the sea), yet protective. It is a stress relieving stone, calming and soothing the emotions to bring balance and harmony. It stimulates the intuition and imagination and helps us to adapt. These are also the characteristics of the water energy that Mother of Pearl embodies, and which is also very healing. It is believed that Mother of Pearl attracts abundance and prosperity - this could be because it brings the clarity needed for making decisions.
Peach Aventurine Sacral Chakra - creativity, balance
Peach Aventurine is a stone of good luck and has a gentle, healing energy which helps to relieve anxiety, worry, stress and shyness; boosting your self-worth and attracting success. It strengthens one’s sense of self and helps with looking at your life with a positive view. It can calm and balance the emotions, boost creativity and give you a sense of dignity. Peach Aventurine aligns with the Sacral Chakra and is a wonderful crystal to use in quiet meditation.
Petrified Wood Root Chakra - grounding
Petrified Wood is the result of a tree turning into stone. All the organic material of the wood have been replaced with silicate minerals whilst maintaining the wood’s original structure. The Earth energies present in this stone will calm nerves and ease fears filling you with feelings of security, stability and well-being and helping you to recognise the best solution to your problems.
Picture Jasper Root Chakra - grounding, healing
Picture Jasper is a stone of protection and a healing stone for the spirit. It helps you to understand the bigger picture and grounds your Base Chakra with its earthy energy. It is a stone of courage, providing you with the calm wisdom to dispel fears and and reflect on situations with wisdom. Picture Jasper also helps to enliven creativity and initiative.
Pyrite Solar Plexus Chakra - wealth, success, protection
A strong protection stone, it promotes physical well-being. It enhances strength of mind and will-power. Pyrite resonates with the ability to generate wealth through your own power, by showing you which behaviours are holding you back and therefore elevating your consciousness. It is an excellent stone of manifestation helping you to draw in high-frequency energy and utilise it to take action to create abundance.
Quartz Crown Chakra - Master Healer
Quartz is known as the "Master Healer". It amplifies energy and the effects of other crystals it is with. Quartz strengthens the underlying structure of the aura, the patterns of energy that hold your emotional body in place. It can also help to clear your mind in order help you think in a more focussed way. Quartz works with the Crown Chakra and helps physical symptoms such as headaches, vertigo and lethargy.
Rainbow Moonstone Crown Chakra - protection, healing, intuition
Beautifully iridescent and usually displaying either a blue or multi-coloured sheen, Rainbow Moonstone holds vibrations of feminine/Goddess energy. A stone of psychic protection, Rainbow Moonstone shields the aura from unwanted energies and deflects negative entities. A highly spiritual stone, it helps to facilitate spiritual growth and development, inviting good fortune and soul healing and enhancing intuition. Work with Rainbow Moonstone to help to dispel nightmares and improve lucid dreaming. Rainbow Moonstone works with the Crown Chakra but is technically a variety of Labradorite and so also holds a grounding energy. It is the colour refraction properties it holds that give it the name of Moonstone.
Red Carnelian Root and Sacral Chakras - grounding, creativity, passion
Red Carnelian is an important crystal to use for love and for the consummation of love. It can be used to help re-kindle passion that might have faded in an otherwise loving relationship. Red Carnelian will open and activate the Base Chakra which is the source of kundalini energy that assists I balancing all the other chakras. Carnelian grounds and anchors you. It is a stabilising stone with very high energy levels.
Rhodochrosite Heart Chakra - emotional healing, happiness
Found in only a small number of locations worldwide, rhodochrosite is a talisman of healing and happiness. It promotes self-worth, self-love and compassion for oneself. It helps in healing the physical ailments that emotional disharmony can impact on the body. It gives you comfort in your own strength and abilities and increases confidence to allow you to express yourself fully. It restores your sense of wholeness particularly after emotional upset.
Rhodonite Heart Chakra - healing, balancing
Rhodonite is a stone of compassion and an emotional balancing stone that helps to clear away emotional trauma and wounds from the past. It resonates with the Heart Chakra, stimulating and clearing the heart. It grounds energy and helps to balance the feminine and masculine (yin-yang) energies in the body. It can help you to stay calm in dangerous or upsetting situations.
Rose Quartz Heart Chakra - compassion, comfort
Rose Quartz resonates with unconditional love of both oneself and of others. It attracts new love, romance and intimacy and inspires a love of beauty in nature and the arts. This crystal aligns with the Heart Chakra, opening your heart to every kind of love that you need - self-love, familial love, friendship love, love of humanity or romantic love. It inspires compassion, happiness, forgiveness and peace and is known as “The Heart Stone’
Rutilated Quartz Crown and Root Chakra - expanding of consciousness
Rutilated quartz is an "illuminator", a connector of all the chakras of the body and the strands of rutile within the structure of the quartz crystal make it unique. The rutiles inside are titanium oxide. Rutilated quartz helps to promote harmony, creativity and originality. It brings positive energy and boosts confidence. Rutilated quartz can be used to enhance a meditative state and help recall of astral travel.
Sandalwood Root Chakra - anti-inflammatory
Aromatic Sandalwood has been used in holy incense in India since the beginning of time. It is considered to have a very high vibration, ideal for devotional and angelic magic. It has a calming, sedative effect which aids in meditation.
Selenite Crown Chakra - clearing, activating
Named from the Greek word Selene (moon), selenite is believed to contain the liquid Light of Spirit. It carries a high frequency and intensity of energy, surpassing nearly all crystals for opening, clearing and activating the Crown and Higher Crown Chakras. Selenite can be used to cleanse energetic spaces and other crystals and needs no cleansing itself.
Smoky Quartz Root Chakra - cleansing, grounding, balancing
Smoky Quartz is a powerful grounding and balancing stone - its exposure to radiation makes it one of the most powerful stones for clearing and purifying the environment from electromagnetic stress by neutralising it and returning it to the earth. It works to release negative emotions like jealousy, fear and anger, helping to bring you to a higher state of consciousness. Smoky Quartz is also an amplifier of any other stones you put with it.
Snow Quartz Crown Chakra - clarity, balance
Snow Quartz symbolises clarity and innocence. It resonates with the Crown Chakra and helps you to connect with your higher-self and Spirit Guides. Snow Quartz helps to dispel negative emotions and thoughts to gain a more positive and powerful perspective. It has a soft feminine energy which helps to balance yin and yang energies and align your chakras. It is also a stone of good luck that will help to open doors of opportunity for you.
Snowflake Obsidian Root Chakra - protection, soothing
A good protection stone, Snowflake Obsidian also stimulates growth, brings clarity and helps to clear confusion. Snowflake Obsidian provides balance for body, mind and spirit and is perfect to aid surrender during meditation.
Sodalite Throat Chakra - inner-wisdom, tranquility
Promotes peace and tranquility which works in helping to connect our physical selves with our spiritual selves. Sodalite helps to keep you in touch with your intuition and your creativity, to know yourself at a deeper level which, in turn, gives you a renewed sense of confidence and self-esteem. This gift of wisdom helps to shield you from negative forces.
Sunstone Root Chakra - vitality, abundance
Sunstone restores the enjoyment to life - it is the anti-depressant of the crystal world and it is known as a ‘joyful’ stone. Sunstone carries the energy of Ra, the Sun God whose energy brings all potential life from within the Earth. Sunstone helps you to feel alive and enthusiastic, increases vitality and is beneficial for occupations requiring high energy throughout the day. Sunstone provides a source of emotional strength, especially through grief and it helps to alleviate fearfulness and stress and protects against those who drain your energies.
Tigers Eye Solar Plexus and Sacral Chakra - clarity, focus
A stone of clarity and focus, Tiger’s Eye has been regarded throughout history as a stone of prosperity and good fortune. It teaches balance between extremes and resonates with confidence, willpower and good fortune. Connecting to both the Sacral and Solar Plexus chakras, Tiger’s Eye grounds you in the power you need to pursue your ventures.
Turquoise Throat Chakra - wisdom, strength
Possibly the oldest crystal known to man, Turquoise was prized as a symbol of wisdom and nobility. It is especially good for clearing the throat chakra allowing full self-expression and is seen as a good luck charm for health and abundance.
Unakite Heart Chakra - nurture, balance emotions
Unakite reminds us that happiness and success can go hand-in-hand. It is a highly nurturing stone and can help us through times of difficult choices. It helps you to balance emotions and perspective and give a clear-eyed view of situations. It is highly attuned to the earth (both the element and the planet). The pink (love and innocence) and green (nuturing and growth) colour of Unikite means that it resonates with the Heart Chakra. It infuses your energy field with powerful but gentle vibes that help you let go of the past enabling you to move forward.
White Howlite Throat, Third Eye and Crown Chakra - healing, clam, protection
White Howlite is a guardian, harmoniser stone. It is used for protection in both the physical and spiritual world. It is useful for travellers as it aids in protecting possessions and physical security. Howlite helps to give you the gift of wisdom and enlightenment and helps to focus your mind during meditation. It is also a powerful calming stone.
White Jade Crown Chakra - healing, inner-wisdom
White Jade has a calming, grounding energy that also protects the wearer from negative energies. It brings peace and harmony. It increases your luck and improves your human relationships. Use it to help you forge friendships or strengthen your connection to people. It increases your insight and helps you to act on intuition. White Jade is a crystal that can help the body to heal itself - it has the bright and positive power of light condensed inside. This positive energy of light helps to gently heal past traumas.
Yellow Calcite Solar Plexus Chakra - cleansing, inner-wisdom, study
Yellow Calcite brings with it joy, hope and optimism. Work with Yellow Calcite to cleanse and balance the solar plexus, increasing self-confidence whilst clearing self-doubt. It is known as the "mind stone" as it helps to increase memory and heighten mental discernment and the ability to learn quickly. It is, therefore, a useful crystal to have around whilst studying.Yellow Calcite is a very sunny stone - it is a powerful cleanser of negative energies (both in the environment and in the aura)and it helps to heal sorrow and grief: its possible even for this crystal to lift a depressive mind. It is also a wonderful crystal for meditation as it helps to clear the mind and helps to access inner-wisdom.