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SAPPHIRE: Attracts good people into life, calms nerves, insight. SARDONYX: Forgiveness, care, neck, hearing. SATINSPAR: Insight, calm, disputes, anger, spine. Ideal for a family or meeting area giving a tranquil feel to the location to minimise aggression and impart cordiality. When worn or carried by a person the stone helps in all physical activities. See SELENITE SCAPOLITE: Achievement, strength, athleticism, veins. SEFTONITE: Relationships, learning, circulation. SELENITE: Clarity of mind, activates spiritual insight, mental power, recalling past life. SERPENTINE: Meditation, enlightenment, stomach, PMT. SILVER: Aligns astral and physical; frees memories from subconscious. SMITHSONITE: Consideration, harmony, vitality, digestion. SOAPSTONE: Loyalty, cultivation, back. SODALITE: Courage and endurance, emotional balance, logic, meditation, assertion, blood pressure, sleep, chest. Gives confidence to those who are shy or introvert, allowing assurance and free expression when with others. It is therefore particularly suited to teachers, actors and performers. Also a meditation stone. Can be used near screens of computers and TVs to absorb harmful emissions. SPHALERITE: Integrity, career, nerves, eyes. SPINEL: Energy, intellect, stress, depression, skin, dieting. SPODUMENE: Comes in many colors, including white, colorless, gray, pink, lilac, violet, yellow and green. Two varieties are popular, as follows: STAUROLITE: Focus, personality, spine, whole body, forgetfulness. Sometimes known as 'Fairy Cross' it represents the four elements, 'bringing everything together'. It gives a focus and understanding to life and nature, thus helping in education and related areas. STILBITE: Creativity, understanding, toxins, sensory organs. SUGILITE: Inspiration Co-ordination Headaches, Inflammations, Toxins Frequently used by healers to draw out pain and make aggressive feelings subside. Brings peace of mind and new spirit allowing inspired thoughts and actions. SULPHUR: Projective. Element: Fire. Solid/clear yellow. Rejuvinating, especially if one does a great deal of thinking/mental work and little physical exercise. Mental clarity, focus, analysis, understanding, willpower, discipline, confidence. Used in Egypt and modern hot springs/baths for arthritis, pain, rheumatism, swelling, lymph, cysts, hemorrhoids. Traditionally very healing for wounds, cleansing and healing skin, sinus, pancreas, liver, syphilis, appendix, indigestion, insomnia, depression, etc. Strengthens endocrine glands. Found in garlic, mustard, chives, onions, horseradish. Repels garden bugs. Helps to eliminate negative thoughts and emotions. Good for flashes of inspiration and as aid to self-growth and perfection. Used in protective rituals or in home as a general magickal "ward". SUNSTONE: Insight, travel, eyes, depression. TANZANITE: Vitality, athletes. bones, worries. Helps expand our physical and mental seeing, hearing, hair, skin. Clear, blue-purple-violet Zoisite crystal. (Use clear ones for healing meditation.) Placed on brow, it powerfully opens brow plus crown centers for clairaudience, visions, spiritual connectedness, protection, manifesting. Helps expand our physical and mental seeing, hearing, hair, skin. THULITE: Dexterity, meditation, hands, tendons, concentration. Brings the mind and body together clear the mind and enhance dexterity and speed of movement. Good for craftspeople, artists and anyone involved in detailed work. TIGEREYE: Insight, integrity, hypochondria, asthma, limbs, purifies system after over indulgence; protection; good luck; will power. The changing hues of this stone indicate its quality of insight, to look beneath the surface and reveal the truth. It is allied to good fortune and bravery and used as a talisman to overcome deceit and duplicity. TOPAZ: Develops psychic abilities, calms emotions, precognition. TOURMALINATED QUARTZ: Breaks up existing habits and conditioning that get in the way of ones spiritual and physical progress. TOURMALINE: Balances and protects; striations allow energy to travel more quickly and efficiently; lymph glands; meditation. TURQUOISE: Reminder of our spiritual nature; protection; stone of friendship; meditation. A good general healer for all illnesses and excellent conductor (high copper). This gentle, cool, soothing stone is a Native American classic. It opens the throat chakra for open communication, creativity, serenity, spiritual bonding, upliftment; opens the heart chakra for giving/receiving. Symbolizes our source (spirit/sky) and spiritual love for healing, help. On brow: Psychic connection to Great Spirit. Strengthens and aligns all meridians, chakras, and energy fields. Like amethyst, it protects and detoxes from alcohol, poison, pollution, x-ray/sun radiation. Ancient absorber of "negativity"; protection from "evil eye". Brings wisdom. Helps anorexia, headache, fear, etc. Throat, lungs, asthma, infections, teeth, TMJ, hearing, high blood pressure, creativity block, depression. Works well with Chrysocolla, best with Silver. Used for healing on every continent! Androgynous, balances yin/yang. Dull, paler=weaker stone. Fades in sunlight, sweat, oil, dishwater. Avoid bleach/chlorine! ULEXITE: Insight into self and others; seeing solutions to difficulties. Somewhat 3rd eye opening. Some find it helpful for amplifying dreams, imagination, imagery, fantasy states for creativity (not recommended if addictive or escapism tendency). May fall apart if soaked in water. UNAKITE: Stability, enhancement, muscles, back-ache, feet. Gives strength and stability, both physical and mental for those times when everything gets 'too much' and a firm base is needed. A foundation stone which can enhance the effect of other stones kept with it. VARISCITE: Solid cool, pale green. Eases depression, fear, worry, anxiety, impatience, stress of a hectic/pressured day by bringing calm and stillness to even the most busy/talkative mind, thus a good meditation stone. Works on astral and etheric level for healing via the central nervous system and at DNA level. Centers the solar plexus and heart chakras. Also slightly helpful for intuition center. Skin and blood vessel elasticity, impotence/male reproductive healing. WULFENITE: Relationships Invigoration Female reproductive, digestion Translucent yellow to red, mostly orange crystal. Invigorates and harmonizes emotions, passion, appetite. Warms and grounds. Helps us get in touch with feelings. Used for healing and warming reproductive chakra (especially women's). Spleen and yellow chakras, and digestion/nutrition assimilation. Cleanses and uplifts emotions, muddiness, stuckness or imbalance in spleen chakra. Reduces confusion in relationships. Overcomes limitations. A stone of transition. ZEOLITE: Independence, clarity, addictions, toxins. ZIRCON (All colors): Clear, colorless, natural form-Works with the crown chakra and transpersonal point (and pituitary and pineal) for Universal Truth, intuition, durability, steadiness, integrity and connection with "All That Is." Eases depression, insomnia. Also historical poison detoxifier. Man-made (cubic Zirconia or "CZ") is not nearly as strong/effective as natural. "Pink Ice" is pink CZ. ZOISITE: Green with red streaks of ruby. For trust in the universe, releasing fears. Strengthens heart, energy/adrenals and reproductive chakra. General health. SpiritKeep Home | Crystals & Gemstones Index Copyright © 2001-2002 SpiritKeep, All Rights Reserved. |
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