This Crystalpedia is one part of our larger mission here at Earthly Abundance, to share information and our knowing of crystals (and other materials) based on our own experiences that will inspire others to work with some of these elements and perhaps develop their own knowing based on their own experiences as we have. Read more about C’s designing and making our jewelry within our webshop with these beautiful materials in a blog post here.
African Turquoise
Technically a form of jasper, African turquoise is a stone of transformation and evolution, boosts overall well-being, serenity, calm, wholeness. It assists in attracting friendship and love, courage, wealth, and success, and also works to awaken you to your soul’s higher purpose.
Agate
Releases negativity, Self-confidence booster, reduces worry, improves courage and concentration and inner-stability, promotes fidelity in relationships, aura-stabilizing, and increases self-awareness, balances yin and yang energies, boost creativity and general protection.
Agate – Black
Helps to attract good fortune, is calming, connects you to Source, boosts protection and confidence, may reduce menopausal hot-flashes as well as breast tumors.
Agate – Blue
Helps with emotional stability, calming, focus, grounding, works to even out dualities and encourage balance in mind, body, and soul.
Agate – Green
Heals and protects the heart chakra and increases connection to the earth and nature. This is a great stone for those who are stuck in the city and unable to get out to explore nature more.
Amazonite
Stone of truth, calms the nervous system, quiets the mind, enhances self-expression, gets rid of negative energy, and boosts loving communication and compassion, also helps to relieves menstrual cramps.
Amber
Dissipate negative energy, assists with integrating light energy within the physical and soul space, and helps the body balance itself, feels warm and happy.
Amethyst
Amethyst offers protection against psychic attacks, big boost of creative thinking, and is an all-around healing and balancing stone. It’s said to enhances passion and creative endeavors, and is excellent healing stone for tension, emotional pain, nightmares, and negativity.
Angelite
Attunement to the angelic realm, boosts compassion and living your truth, reduces physical pains, heightens perceptions.
Apatite
Boost for self-expression and creativity, reduces hypertension, clears the aura, suppresses the appetite, and improves memory.
Aqua Aura Quartz
A natural quartz point that has a very fine layer of natural platinum, gold, or silver permanently bonded to the surface through a high-heat treatment. It’s a very high vibration crystal and is a great master healer for the spiritual and physical body. As a calming blue stone, it helps with throat chakra issues such as communication difficulty. Aqua aura quartz helps heal tears in your auric field, and activate all chakras. It is a crystal for blocking psychic attacks, blocking negative energy, and attracting wealth and success.
Aquamarine
The mermaid stone, increases the calm of the relaxing sea, protection while traveling over waterways, boosts the desire to be of service and create the element of healing humanity. May be useful to alleviate symptoms of respiratory and sinus issues and chronic allergies, and reducing inflammation.
Atlantisite
Assists in removing old fears, old outdated ways, and old muck. Offers protection, clearing, balance, and helping to reignite your soul’s spark. Supports healthy heart and lung functions, stronger connections with the earth’s energy, and helping find better balance in heart-mind, body, and soul through turbulent times, supporting calm and balanced actions and reactions.
Aventurine
Reduces fears and anxiety, considered the luckiest stone, a stone of opportunity and good luck, helps manifest wealth and personal growth, releases old disappointments so new growth can take place, boosts optimism, increases connection to nature, beneficial for fertility issues and renewing emotional calm.
Black Moonstone
Supports new beginnings, setting new intentions, and encourages forward momentum when making shifts in our personal life. Similarly to rainbow or white moonstone, it’s a protective stone, especially with your inward journeys, and brings our emotional wounds to the surface to be acknowledged, nurtured, and healed. Helpful for shadow work.
Black Tourmaline
Psychic shield, defending against negative energies, turns negative into positive, boosts self-confidence, grounding, increases connection between earth and spirit, aligns the chakra energy system in the body, helpful in alleviating panic attacks, calming fears relating to doctor visits, and strengthens the immune system.
Calcite – Blue
Soothing, calming, clears negative energies, guides us towards understanding how we attract what we communicate, both verbally and what we think, helps clear chest congestion, boosting intuition and awareness, assists us with letting go of the past, increases self-acceptance, confidence, and optimism.
Calcite – Green
Removes old patterns and energy blocks, assists with manifestation, helps release that which no longer serves you, removes negativity, helps with mental and emotional stability, a stone of health and wellness.
Calcite – Yellow
Increasing energy, self-confidence, joy and optimism. Stimulates the solar plexus chakra.
Carnelian
Joy, warm energy, excellent motivation, associated with ambition, organization, and drive, increasing fertility, is a high-energy stabilizing stone said to reduce procrastination and boost motivation.
Celestite
Communication with the divine realm. An excellent stone for meditation, helps quiet outside chatter and bring angelic energy to the focus of your meditation. It’s the go-to stone for cleansing and clearing auras. It’s a top stone for those with public speaking engagements. Celestite gives a boost of hope and helps to calm anxiety and worry and is emotionally balancing. A cluster on your bedside table helps with calm, peaceful sleep, whole being healing at a cell level, and waking up feeling more refreshed and peaceful.
Chalcedony
More commonly known as blue lace agate, this is an excellent stone for clear public speaking, encourages calm, stillness, and tranquility, has incredible ability to absorb negative energies and dissolve them, promotes generosity and compassion, enhances meditations of a ceremonial nature, and great for travel with children.
Charoite
Deep emotional and physical healing, grounding excessive energy to prevent soul or spiritual burnout, the perfect stone for a professional healer. It’s one of the best stones for dreamwork, as a talisman for being fully present in the here and now, for letting go of the past, and for overcoming adversity. It speeds up decision-making which is of great help to Libras. It’s a powerful stone for the transmutation of dis-ease and illness into health and well-ness. It may assist in eliminating migraines, muscle cramps, and body aches and pains, aligns the heart and mind, and increasing positivity in outlook, action, words, and thoughts.
Chrysocolla
Tranquility, peace of mind, increasing communication, the Goddess stone (feminine energy empowering), emotionally calming, peaceful heart and mental state, clearer view of current state of being, boosts stability in the home, helps with digestive problems and arthritis.
Citrine
Alleviates negativity/gloom, may help you achieve personal goals, has a positive effect on money and money flow, transmutes negative energies, never needs to be cleared or cleansed.
Dumortierite
Boosts self-confidence, removes fear, increases contact with the angelic realms (angels, archangels, and spiritual beings), heightens peace and lifts depression, lowers stubbornness, said to be beneficial for weight loss and amplifying psychic abilities. Helpful for increasing a positive attitude, nurturing your inner child.
Fluorite
Boosts intuition and mental clarity, cleanses auras, protection against psychic maladies, attunement to the spirit realm, internally, it brings order to chaos. Relieves anxiety, stress and clears brain fog.
Freshwater Pearls
Helps with frequent headaches, reduces stress, soothes emotional imbalance from life’s stress, boosts flexibility to better go with the flow, connects to the goddess energies of life, nurturing and healing, and opens the heart chakra.
Garnet
Helps remove blocks in the creative process, revitalizes and energizes, and helps increase passion.
Glass
Transformation, rebirth, communication, attunement to all 4 of the elements of earth, air, fire, and water.
Hematite
Very grounding and inspiring, a stone of reflection, decreases general negativity.
Howlite
Stone of awareness, boosts creativity, dissolves emotional pain from current life and past lives as well as replaces the pain with peace, helps increase self-expression, helps lessen anxiety, self-criticism, selfishness, and stress, and super helpful for insomnia. It balances all chakra centers of the body, especially the crown chakra. It’s a great stone for calming frazzled situations and diffusing tense conversations. When you can’t make it to the spa for an hour of calm and relaxation, hold a piece of howlite!
Iolite
Encourages doing it differently, self-reflection, healing. Vision stone. Supports a healthy wealth mindset.
Jade
Jade is a stone of the heart, amping up heart chakra energy, balancing the emotional and physical aspects of the heart, is a catalyst for a love boost, helpful in romantic relationships by promoting fidelity, balances the parasympathetic nervous system functions, and is considered a stone of infinite blessings. It is a stone for dreaming and protection from negative influences. It is a stone of very good fortune in life, friendship, and business.
Jasper
Nurturing, grounding, increases comfort, boosts stability and inner calm, strong protection in both the spiritual and physical realms, keeps negative energies away, and removes toxins from the physical body. Green jasper soothes the spirit, peaceful sleeping stone.
Jasper – Green
Heart chakra healing and strengthening, helps with upset tummies and digestive struggles.
Jasper – Red
Increases stamina, increases chi, and boosts strength and endurance, is an excellent stone for travel by car helping to alleviate road rage and help guard against accidents. Also a strong stone for healing past traumas.
Kyanite
Blue Kyanite is the fairness stone, boosts communication, psychic ability, is a powerful meditation stone and chakra alignment stone, creating new paths that previously did not exist. It never needs to be energetically cleansed as it doesn’t hold on to negative energy.
Labradorite
Stone of destiny, removes fears, relieves stress, awakens psychic abilities, protects against negativity, brings innate magical powers to the surface, and enhances clairvoyance, and boosts patience and wisdom.
Lapis Lazuli
Stress-releasing, increases inner peace and calm, a stone of wisdom and truth, increases memory and intellectual abilities, enhances compassion, blocks psychic attacks.
Larimar
Balancing the elements of fire and water, cools hot tempers and reduces hot flashes, very calming and soothing, minimizes anxiety, brings deep-rooted wisdom to the surface, minimizes fears and heals past traumas with gentle easiness. Connects to Goddess or divine feminine energy, dolphin healing energy, mermaids, the sea, and the lost city of Atlantis.
Larvakite
Grounding, protective, removing and repelling negative energy from both the physical and ethereal body.
Lava Stone
Calming and grounding, a stone of emotional or spiritual rebirth, booster for dream work, increases emotional clarity, very strong energy as lava stone contains all the energy of the elements.
Lepidolite
Calming and balancing, great for emotional healing by reducing anxiety and lifting depression as it naturally contains lithium.Helpful for insomnia and PTSD.
Malachite
Removes negativity, brings harmony, a highly protective stone, works to end a cycle of bad or unhealthy or unfulfilled relationships by boosting pure self love and encouraging only healthy, loving relationships, it absorbs negative energies in and around the body, is emotionally healing of past traumas.This is a stone of mega transformation, helps alleviate anxiety, and lovingly clears and energetically activates all chakra points and since it’s such a loving, transformational stone, it’s perfect for healing heart chakra issues.
Moldavite
Originating from meteors, moldavite has extremely powerful energy, a stone of big changes, boosting telepathy, increasing rejuvenation and spiritual renewal.
Mookaite
Helps to increase intuition and focus, brings increased stability.
Moonstone
Emotionally balancing, calming and soothing, increases psychic abilities and spiritual awareness, is the talisman of the journey inward and inner visions, boosts self-expression, is a stone of protection for travelers, especially night time travels, symbol of love and fertility, brings emotional issues to the surface to be dissolved.
Moss Agate
New beginnings, abundance in all forms, helps with balancing both sides of the brain, lessens mood swings.
Obsidian
Obsidian is a natural glass with volcanic origin – rapidly cooled lava has no crystaline structure and becomes obsidian. It is full of protective and transformative fire, and is very grounding. It’s a reflective stone in that it reflects your shadow self and your deepest secrets and darkest truths. When working with your shadow self, also known as shadow work, it may be complex and difficult to really see and radically, fully accept the darker parts of who we are, but in becoming whole and living our fullest and most authentic truth, it’s a vital part of the growth process. Obsidian supports your growth and transformation into wholeness while you are energetically ‘walking through the fire’ to get there.
Onyx
Strength and support during tense and difficult circumstances, eases worry and fears, boosts self-control and ability to feel comfortable within your own skin. Protects from negative energy and thought.
Peridot
Courage, confidence, similar to sunstone. Compassion, good health, restful sleep, balancing head-heart. Honoring Lakshmi the goddess of fortune and abundance. Stimulating a sluggish liver. Helps with learning new things, boosting self worth and sun-energizing motivation. Banishing lethargy.
Pink Opal
A stone of love, kindness, opening the heart to great love and generosity, and increasing empathy. It supports a growth mindset by encouraging you as you do the work to think, speak, and take action to be of service to others from a place of complete calm and unconditional love.
Prasiolite
Prasiolite is a stone for self-acceptance, self-worth, and self-expression. It helps to open the mind’s eye, developing the self-reliance and courage to deeply honor yourself and look inward and figure out how to heal. Prasiolite is a natural amethyst that has been heat-treated, and is also known as green amethyst or green quartz (as amethyst is a purple quartz). (Prasiolite photo coming soon)
Pyrite
Associated with protection, assertiveness, and vitality. May be helpful for colds and flus, fungal infection, and reducing inflammation.
Quartz
All around positive energy stone, particularly for good health as it is a master healer, increases spiritual growth, supports manifestation. Amplifies metaphysical properties of other stones.
Rhodochrosite
Lifts depression, boosts positivity and peace, may be helpful for migraines and mild asthma.
Rhodonite
Emotionally soothing and healing, boosts compassion and healing, helpful for dissolving emotional scars.
Rose Quartz
Sweet pale pink rose quartz is the stone of unconditional love and forgiveness. It supports your efforts to love yourself more and actively practice the art of self-love and self care. Rose quartz offers a supportive boost of compassion, peace, and comfort. It’s said to be helpful for emotional and mental healing as it is good at calming emotional upsets, easing emotional traumas, increasing restful sleep. Rose quartz helps your heart with reawakening to its own innate love and may even work as an aphrodisiac for some.
Selenite
Truth, harmony, mental clarity, honesty, inner peace, flexibility, removes negativity, removes energy blocks, charges and cleanses other stones, increases protection, opens connection with Christ Consciousness, is very calming and tranquil.
Serpentine
Helps form a spiritual shield of serenity to deflect malicious intention and bad luck while ushering positive energy and helping you focus on attracting more good in your life. Helps with clearing blocked chakras, Kundalini awakening, improving financial/career situation, and improving overall relationships.
Shell
Reconnecting us with our emotional body, intuition, sensitivity, and our divine feminine, increasing Goddess energy.
Shungite
Shungite is said to block harmful EMF exposure and reduce inflammation in the physical body. It’s a grounding, cleansing, and protecting stone, helping to neutralize energies and spaces, and keep your body flowing smoothly and functioning properly.
Smoky Quartz
Emotionally grounding, helps block negative energy, dissolves unhappiness and bad moods, is both amplifying (since it is a quartz) and grounding, reduces electromagnetic pollution from the environment, improves health and spiritual wellness.
Snowflake Obsidian
A stone of clearing and balancing the light and darkness within and around you to assist in staying grounded in the present moment and focused on the project, task, or action at hand.
Sodalite
Stone of rational thought and clear and calm emotions. Sodalite brings joy to a heavy heart, boosts harmony, balances emotions, and may be helpful for encouraging more restful sleep and reducing or alleviating occasional insomnia. May also be helpful for reducing high blood pressure.
Stone
Harnessing the magnificent power of Gaia (mother earth), water to move, tumble, and smooth the jagged exterior, generic stone helps soften a rough, tough exterior, also heightening awareness of all the individual minerals of emotion that make up the magnificent heart and heart languages. Stone supports you on your path of self-discovery as you are re-membering and appreciating that you too are made of a multitude of minerals and all that you have experienced over time has shaped you into who you are today. Stone is a life coach to sit with you through it all and remind you to be patient with yourself and be patient with the process as transformation, healing, and growth are not end points to your journey, they are part of your journey ongoing and you’re exactly where you should be and need to be at this point and time.
Sugilite
All about love, love, love! Nurturing and a strong protector and shield for extra sensitive souls and souls who feel out of place or not belonging. It boosts devotion and spiritual wisdom, assists with dream work and helping a soul understand its purpose for the current incarnation, alleviates mental and emotional stress before it turns into dis-ease in the body. It’s also very beneficial for those who have or are experiencing big illnesses. It increases love and light and optimism and helps with dream recall.
Sunstone
A stone of leadership, light, and abundance. It helps in balancing all the chakra energy centers of the body. Aligns the head and the heart, boosts emotional independence, helps to alleviate seasonal bouts of depression. It’s a stone that increases confidence, giving you strength to push back when needed and exercise your sacred NO. It’s a powerful stone of joy, enthusiasm, optimism, and helps remove fear, negativity, and doubt. It’s thought to be more of a masculine stone (vs Moonstone for example, which is a feminine, goddess stone). Guides those who are called to living a life of being of service. Sunstone is also powerful for cutting cords with people who still try to have their hooks in you.
Tiger’s Eye
Protection from negative interactions with others or negative intensions, grounding, uplifting, boosting self-worth and ability to value your own talent and skills, brings prosperity and luck to all aspects of businesses, increases steady flow of monetary wealth.
Tiger’s Eye – Blue
Also known as Hawk’s Eye, good for reducing stress and anxiety, boosting clear communication, keeping nightmares away, enhance connection with the entirety of the cosmos to expand your mind and heighten psychic ability.
Tiger’s Eye – Red
Also known as Bull’s Eye or Ox Eye, increases enthusiasm and inner strength, excellent protection against bullying, increases all around motivation, boosts passion/sex drive.
Tourmalinated or Tourmalated Quartz
As a quartz its amplifying and with black tourmaline (schorl), it’s protective and grounding, transmutes negativity into positivity, helps with letting go of fear/worry.
Turquoise
Turquoise is the master healer stone of truth and wholeness. Its ocean hues are calming and it helps to support a more balanced mood. It’s intentions are to heal, to balance, to alleviate exhaustion, depression, and panic attacks, to help support the work you’re doing to increase accepting and forgiving your self. Turquoise enhances communication between the spiritual and physical worlds, supporting your deepening spiritual practices and connections with other realms (such as the angels, the mermaids, different star groups, the fairies, etc.)
Unakite
Balances the emotional body, helpful for overcoming addictions (food, alcohol, drugs, etc.), uplifting, cancels out electromagnetic energy, aids in successful conception, nurturing, great for boosting heart health and is a heart chakra stone, and excellent for rebalancing the heart chakra. Helps increase self-love and balances mental, emotional, and spiritual energies.
Wood
The element of natural wood is in the Eastern position, opening, growing, expansive, brighter, and energetic like the eastern sunrise. Gives clear ideas a clean boost.