Meaning of Stones

          Gemstones are objects of desire, due to their beautiful colors, shapes, and commercial value. However, more and more, stones are sought after for their diverse properties, whether for healing, love, protection, health, professional success, peace, courage, or creativity; in short, the Power of Stones has been known for millennia. Used since ancient civilizations and peoples, the first reports of the use of crystals were by the people of the legendary Atlantis, later resurfacing in Egypt, South America, and Tibet. We find the common use of crystals and stones for the most diverse purposes among ancient civilizations and peoples such as: the Mayans, the Incas, the Egyptians, Celtic tribes, Druid priests, native Siberians and Africans, and North and South American natives.

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Below is a brief summary of the Crystals that make up the Vega For Stars collection - by Patricia Skryzpietz. Our entire collection is composed of natural stones and elements, inspired by the paradisiacal Azores Archipelago. Feel the magic and the Power of the Stones, exquisitely used in our jewelry.

 

AGATE: A grounding stone, a transmitter of emotional, physical, and intellectual balance. It comes in various colors, such as blue, orange, and brown. Agates are stones that have the power to harmonize yin and yang, the positive and negative forces that maintain the balance of the universe.

They invoke protection, friendship, justice, and vitality. These are stones of strength, courage, peace, vitality, healing, and protection. Agate is a stone that helps to activate and awaken mental gifts, thus bringing new ideas and strong vibrations. It has great healing power, works with the chakras, and acts according to the color of each type. It tones and invigorates the body, helping to awaken and open your inner self.

                                                                          

Blue-Green Agate: Improves mental flexibility and helps in decision-making.

Pink Agate: Promotes love among family.

Botswana Agate: Helps to seek solutions, explore unknown territories, and find your own creativity.

Blue Lace Agate: Contains wonderful healing powers. Its gentle energy relaxes and calms, providing peace of mind; it contains wonderful healing powers. It is one of the main stones for protection and support. It is useful for helping men accept their sensitive and sentimental nature. It helps release the fear of rejection and the suppression of feelings. Excellent for the throat chakra. Opens the path to experiences with higher realms. Transmits a deep peace.

Dendritic Agate: is known as the Stone of Plenitude, bringing abundance and fulfillment in all areas of life, including business. This crystal has a particularly strong connection to the plant kingdom. It deepens an individual's connection to the earth.

Moss Agate: A stabilizing stone with a strong connection to nature. An excellent stone for those who work with the earth or activities related to botany. Being a birth crystal, Agate is an excellent stone to assist in childbirth. Also known as the Stone of Wealth, it attracts abundance. It helps people access their intuition and channel energy in a practical way. It releases fear and aids self-confidence.

Zodiac Signs: Aries, Gemini, Cancer, Virgo, Aquarius, and Pisces.

 

ANGELITE: New Age stone, it helps you connect with the angelic realm and your guardian angels. A powerful stone for crystal therapists. It is formed from Celestine, with which it shares many attributes. Angelite is a gemstone of heightened awareness that focuses on peace, helps one have more compassion, and the understanding to accept what cannot be changed. It creates a protective environment for the body and mind, transmitting a deep feeling of peace and tranquility. It helps with the connection to universal knowledge, facilitates telepathic contact with minds, and increases consciousness.

                                                               

 

AQUAMARINE: It is a stone of courage and happiness. Its main property is the strengthening of self-confidence. It relaxes the body and calms the mind, connecting us with the unconscious. Aquamarine provides support to those who feel a heavy burden of responsibility; it reduces stress. It invokes tolerance of others. It forms an integrated, persistent, and dynamic personality. It promotes sensitivity, peace, courage, purification, magic, and wisdom. On a spiritual level, it sharpens clairvoyance and intuition. An excellent stone for meditation. It is also a symbol of fidelity and universal love, encouraging service to humanity. It cleanses and aligns the Chakras. It was used by sailors as a talisman against drowning.

 

                                                                                                           

AMAZONITE: An extremely relaxing stone, it calms thoughts and alleviates emotional trauma, worries, and fear. Promotes creativity and communication. Amazonite helps in the manifestation of Universal Love. It is a special stone that attracts good luck, strengthens the mind, and purifies energies. It blocks geopathic stress (electromagnetic waves), absorbs emanations from microwaves and cell phones. It provides peaceful sleep and is a powerful filter of harmful energies. It aligns the electrical and mental bodies. It balances masculine and feminine energies and many aspects of personality.

                                                               

AMBER: It is not a crystal; it is a tree resin that has solidified and fossilized. It has a strong connection with the Earth and higher energies. It absorbs negative energies and transforms them into positive forces. It helps you establish what you desire with the strength needed to achieve it. It stimulates the intellect and helps with depression; it promotes a positive mental state and encourages decision-making, being a useful aid to memory. It promotes altruism and transmits good sense.

                                                             

AMETHYST: Amethyst is a powerful stone of protection, vitality, and spiritual elevation. Known since antiquity, it was used by magicians and priests as a stone capable of protecting the spirit. Its energies purify environments, ward off shadow forces, and dissipate all negative energies. Excellent for meditation, it is very beneficial for the mind. Used at a higher level, it opens the path to other realities and develops gifts. A protector of the home, it blocks negativity. It wards off false friends. It is the Third Eye. It balances sleep and aids in understanding it; it facilitates out-of-body experiences. Realization of goals. It exerts a protective vibration for the aura. It converts negative thoughts into positive ones. It is recommended for overcoming challenges and renewal. It facilitates decision-making and imparts good sense. It aids intuition and concentration, helping one to be less distracted and more focused with greater power over one's faculties. Traditionally, it was used to avoid drunkenness and insomnia, and has a sobering effect on physical passions. Amethyst is excellent for balancing highs and lows, promoting spiritual concentration. It is beneficial in cases of migraines, paranoia, anxiety, and rage. Sleeping with an Amethyst facilitates out-of-body experiences and allows for intuitive dreams.

Zodiac Signs: Aries, Virgo, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius, and Pisces.                                                          

 

APATITE: It is a powerful crystal of illumination, motivation, and inspiration, psychic development, and spiritual evolution. It awakens our extrasensory abilities, increases intuition, strengthens mediumship, and helps expand our consciousness. Its super-high vibrations increase our power of manifestation; it is an extremely powerful spiritual crystal, capable of raising our consciousness, awakening our psychic abilities, and elevating our spiritual knowledge. Because it emits a light vibration in a special shade of blue, it activates and strengthens the Frontal Chakra, thus activating and strengthening mediumship and our spiritual vision. Its high-frequency energies elevate and balance Kundalini energy, protect our Aura, and disintegrate negative vibrations in any environment. It increases motivation and strengthens energy reserves. It eliminates both your own negativity and that of others. It encourages sociability and extroversion. Very useful for helping people who are easily distracted. It expands knowledge and truth, relieves pain, apathy, and anger.

                                                                 

AVENTURINE: A stone of health and vitality. Its vibrations energize and purify environments, neutralize the harmful effects of cell phone radiation, and attract prosperity and abundance to its wearer. It is a very positive stone of prosperity. It promotes compassion and empathy. It encourages perseverance. It stabilizes the state of mind, stimulates perception, and develops creativity. It presents alternatives and possibilities, uniting the intellectual body with the emotional. This stone is known for its strength in enabling emotional recovery and living according to one's own heart. It strengthens leadership qualities and decision-making ability. Beneficial for absorbing electromagnetic smog*. Aventurine promotes a sense of well-being.

                                                               

CHALCEDONY: A nurturing stone that promotes brotherhood, goodwill, and develops group stability. It can be used to assist in the transmission of thought and telepathy. This stone absorbs negative energy and dissipates it. Chalcedony brings harmony to the mind, body, emotions, and spirit. It stimulates memory and the ability to learn. It creates an open and enthusiastic person. A stone of creativity, it opens the mind to the acceptance of new ideas and promotes flexibility.

                                                           

                                                            

KYANITE: Excellent for meditation. It is a tranquilizer and a powerful transmitter and amplifier of energy. Intuition. It facilitates dream recall. It dissipates confusion and dissolves blockages, anger, frustration, and stress. It increases the ability for logical and linear reasoning. It encourages speaking the truth about oneself. This stone establishes a connection with spiritual guides. Kyanite is useful for those transitioning to death. It stabilizes the biomagnetic field and restores IQ. Kyanite makes a connection with Archangel Michael, bringing spiritual strength and protection against bad influences. It is the Stone of Divine Protection. Blue Kyanite is so powerful that the improvement in the person using it becomes immediately visible.

                                                                

CITRINE: It is the stone of success in all paths of life; it attracts prosperity. Citrine is a Stone of abundance, happiness, wisdom, and intellect. Carrying the power of the sun, it is an extraordinarily beneficial stone. It is a crystal that never needs to be cleansed. It absorbs, transmutes, dissipates, and grounds negative energy, thus being an extremely protective stone. It is associated with good business. Its vibration stimulates positive energy. It ensures joy and optimism. It strengthens self-esteem. It has the power to transmit joy to all who behold it. It signifies prosperity, self-esteem, and professional success; it is also linked to agriculture, protection, peace, and wisdom. It is a happy and generous stone; it encourages sharing what you have while maintaining your wealth. It helps you stay emotionally balanced, excellent for overcoming depression, fears, and phobias.

                                                               

CORAL: These are skeletons of organic marine living beings that inhabited all warm seas and had calcareous secretions. In its natural element, it is surrounded and constantly bathed by purifying saltwater. And since the Moon influences the seas, it reinforces the healing properties of Coral if left exposed to moonlight. It is highly recommended when there is a need for relationships and friendship, to be free from the influences of bad and envious people, to alleviate depression, to gain energy, to have joy and vitality, and to remove spiritual and mental blockages. Another unusual characteristic of Coral is its affinity with all signs of the zodiac. It is widely used in healing processes because its formation takes place in the water element, rather than earth.

                                                                

CARNELIAN: It is a stabilizing stone and excellent for restoring vitality and motivation, and for stimulating creativity. Strong connection with the earth. Endowed with high energy, it sharpens concentration and improves analytical ability. It keeps bad thoughts away. Carnelian is a powerful stone of protection against envy, anger, and resentment; it promotes a love of life. It dissipates apathy and motivates success in business and other areas. This stone helps in self-confidence. It represents vitality, joie de vivre, protection, peace, healing, courage, and sexual energy. It can be used to cleanse other stones.

                                                                     

ROCK CRYSTAL: Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy-amplifying crystal on the planet, due to its unique crystalline form, which is a helical spiral. Found all over the world, it absorbs, stores, releases, and regulates energy, and is excellent for unblocking. It is used in every technology we know. It brings energy to the most perfect state possible, moving back to the moment before the pathology set in. Clear Quartz acts on all levels of consciousness. They are like a spiritual library, storing information like a natural computer. It is the most effective receiver of programming. It is a master healer; it stimulates the immune system and brings balance to the body. Quartz harmonizes all Chakras. It receives, transmits, and amplifies energy. It brings luck in all senses. It absorbs negative energies and radiation. Excellent for meditation.

                                                                

CHRYSOCOLLA: It is a tranquil and supportive stone that dissipates all types of negative energy. It helps with meditation and communication. It can help one accept situations that are in constant change with serenity. It is beneficial for relationships that have become difficult, stabilizing and healing them. It transmits confidence and sensitivity. It develops personal power and inspires creativity. By helping to overcome phobias, it eliminates negativity and gives motivation to those who lack it. It promotes the expression of truth and impartiality, helping one realize when it is time to remain silent. It relieves guilt, fears, and insecurities and brings joy.

 

EMERALD: Known as the Stone of Prosperity and Celestial Love. It emits the energy of the Green Ray and opens our hearts to receive the gifts of the Universe. Its use tunes us into the vibration of abundance and makes us capable of attracting everything we desire and need. Emerald creates abundance by removing feelings of scarcity and limiting thoughts. It opens us to receive the joy and abundance of the Divine and helps us accept blessings with gratitude and happiness. A stone of successful love, it brings happiness and loyalty. It promotes unity, unconditional love, companionship, and friendship. It is a Stone of inspiration, infinite patience, and affirmation of life with great integrity. Emerald is a Stone of inner knowledge, truth, and discernment; it develops psychic abilities and brings clairvoyance. It ensures physical, emotional, and mental balance. It eliminates negativity. It instills strength and character to overcome the misfortunes of life. It is traditionally said that Emerald protects against enchantment and curses, and predicts the future. Extremely beneficial for the mutual understanding of a group, stimulating cooperation. It increases the ability to appreciate life at its best. It strengthens memory, inspires deep inner knowledge, and broadens vision. The Romans associated emeralds with the Goddess Venus, who represents fertility, kindness, and beauty. Due to its healing powers, it was believed to prevent epilepsy, hemorrhages, and also to lower fever.

                                                                

FLUORITE: It is an extremely protective stone; it helps you discern when external influences are acting within you and prevents the manipulation of undue forces. It cleanses the aura. It protects against electromagnetic energies from computers. It eliminates all types of negative energy. It is the best crystal for overcoming any type of disorganization and chaos. Fluorite brings stability to groups, linking them to a common purpose. This stone dissolves illusions and reveals the truth. In relationships, it teaches the importance of balance. It is an excellent aid in learning; it organizes and processes information, creating a link with what you already know and what you are learning. It promotes speed of thought. It is also an excellent healing instrument.

                                                               

GARNET: Stone of success in business and love. Known as a stone of energy and regeneration. It revitalizes, purifies, and balances energy, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate. Due to its high energy, garnet is capable of energizing other stones and crystals and also bringing success in business. It is known for being able to warn of approaching danger. Since ancient times, it has been used as a talisman of love and protection. It inspires love and devotion. It stimulates creativity and passion. Guardian of love. It brings success, courage, self-esteem, and stability. It increases energy wherever it is placed. It is a crystal to use in times of crisis. It helps you free yourself from obsolete ideas. It strengthens and reinforces the survival instinct, bringing courage and hope in seemingly desperate situations. They represent healing, protection, strength, vitality, creativity, boldness, and courage.

 

HEMATITE: A protective stone. It is particularly effective at grounding. Used in out-of-body travel, it protects the soul. It has a strong connection with Ying and Yang and balances the meridians. Hematite supports shy women and raises their self-esteem, sense of survival, increases willpower and honesty, and promotes confidence. It helps to face mistakes and accept them as learning experiences rather than disasters. It dissolves negativity and prevents negative energies from entering the aura. It raises self-esteem, removes self-limitations, and helps in expansion. It stimulates concentration and memory. It brings emotional balance and absorbs negative energy. Skilled negotiation. Restful sleep. It has the power to strengthen and purify the blood and can eliminate heat from the body.

                                                               

HOWLITE: An extremely calming stone, excellent for sleeping or meditation, it possesses vibrations that balance and elevate all the energies of our being. In meditation, Howlite can transport you to another time or dimension and opens the memory of past lives. Very useful for all those seeking to accelerate their spiritual evolution, as it helps remove negative feelings, undoes energetic ties—especially those originating from past lives—reduces the negative strength of the ego, and greatly strengthens our positive characteristics. It is a powerful antidote for insomnia (when used under the pillow), as it has the ability to calm the mind and emotions, in addition to helping reduce fear and anxiety. This stone allows communication to take place in a calm and deliberate manner.

                                                                

                   

JADE: A symbol of purity and serenity. It is a protective stone that keeps its wearer away from danger. It is believed to attract good luck and friendship. It allows for dreams that convey great knowledge. It ensures prosperity, longevity, and good friendships. It is a protective stone that keeps danger away. It is a stone that encourages you to become who you truly are, recognizing yourself as a spiritual being on a human journey. Jade stimulates ideas and makes tasks seem less complex, so they can be accomplished immediately.

 

JASPER: Known as the "supreme nurturer." It supports during periods of stress and brings tranquility and a sense of fulfillment. It provides protection and energy to the body. It connects with the Earth and balances Yin and Yang. It ensures stability, practicality, and strength. It evokes healing, spiritual protection, fame, success and recognition, health, beauty, and vitality of internal organs. It clears electromagnetic and environmental smog*, including radiation. Excellent for dowsing. It instills determination and conveys the courage necessary to deal with problems assertively. Jasper aids in quick thinking and promotes organizational skills and the ability to develop projects. Provides calm and well-being, creativity and reasoning, sexuality and fertility. There are several types of Jasper (red, star, precious, zebra-pink, striped, brown oceanic, and Indian).

Brecciated Jasper: Excellent for keeping your feet on the ground and achieving emotional stability. It eliminates excess energy in the head, promoting mental clarity.

Brown Jasper: This is linked to the Earth and encourages ecological awareness; as a result, it brings stability and balance. It facilitates meditation and past-life regression, revealing karmic causes. (see also Picture Jasper).

Mookaite Jasper: A stone that encourages versatility. It shows possibilities and helps you choose the right one. It encourages new experiences while providing security on how to proceed.

Picture Jasper: is known as Mother Earth speaking to her children, and for those who can interpret it, the Jasper contains a message from the past in its landscapes. It brings to the surface feelings such as guilt, envy, hatred, resentment, hurt, and love—thoughts left behind in past or present lives—helping to release this repression of feelings, showing that they should be understood as lessons for continuing your path. It comforts and alleviates fear, providing a sense of harmony and peace. (see also Brown Jasper).

Green Jasper: The Stone of Balance. Useful for helping to balance parts of your life that have become too important to the detriment of others. Stimulates the heart chakra.

Red Jasper: The Stone of Happiness and health. Red Jasper stimulates Earth energy and rectifies unjust situations, calming emotions. It brings light to problems before they become big and conveys knowledge in the most difficult situations. A very powerful stone against the evil eye and black magic spells, as it destroys the flow of these bad energies. It is also highly recommended to be used under the pillow because it helps eliminate nightmares and helps us remember good dreams. Stimulates the root chakra.

 

LABRADORITE: An extremely mystical and protective stone. Labradorite is an excellent companion during the process of change, providing strength and perseverance. A stone of transformation, it prepares the body and aura for the ascension process. It raises self-awareness, intuition, and connection with spiritual realms, spirit guides, guardian angels, and the Divine. It expands our consciousness, wards off non-beneficial energies in the Aura, activates clairvoyance, protects therapists, and connects us with the universal energies of Light. Its energies calm the mind and facilitate meditation. It is also an important stone for spiritual protection, as it removes negative thought forms attached to the Aura and creates a barrier against surrounding negative energies. It stimulates intuition and psychic gifts, bringing messages from our unconscious mind and facilitating their understanding. Labradorite eliminates fears and insecurities resulting from previous disappointments, including those from past lives. 

                                                         

LAVA: A very powerful protective stone. It protects the home in general and wards off negativity from the environment. Before Europeans discovered Hawaii, lava rocks were used to build centers of religious and magical activities. Volcanic rock is known for its calming and invigorating properties. It is used in various therapies and brings physical benefits, such as skin renewal and greater stability in blood pressure. It is recognized for its emotional balancing effect, with an excellent calming benefit on the negative energies of the user. Lava emerges from lava expelled by volcanoes that reaches the sea, cools through exposure to water, and eventually hardens; many stones are brought to the beaches by the force of the waves. This powerful and wonderful process shows nature's strength in creating (and recreating) things and turning the volatile into something solid.                                                     

LAPIS LAZULI: A protective stone that strengthens relationships of love and friendship, and helps to express feelings and the truth. It releases stress, bringing deep peace; it is the key to spiritual realization. It harmonizes physical levels and facilitates contact with guardian spirits. It opens the third eye and facilitates spiritual travel. Relieves stress. It teaches the power of the spoken word, helps express your opinions, and can reverse curses or pathologies caused by not having spoken in the past. It encourages taking charge of your life, confronting the truth wherever it may be, and accepting what it teaches you. It is a powerful amplifier of thought and creativity. Dissolves martyrdom. An excellent talisman. Cleanses and protects energy centers. Helps in painful situations or times of change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MALACHITE: A powerful stone, it connects the spiritual energies of the planet. Some experts believe that Malachite is still evolving and will be one of the main stones of this Millennium. It amplifies positive energies and absorbs negative energies, even protecting against radiation. It is an important protective stone. A crystal that provides abundance and favors growth, it is recommended to keep it near us and our projects. It can be used in scrying or to access other worlds, internal or external; it can help receive signals from the unconscious or messages from the future. It is a stone of transformation; life is lived with more intensity under the influence of this adventurous stone, which encourages risk-taking and change. It promotes the development of capabilities, stimulating the flow of ideas. It cleanses the body and undoes the accumulation of depression. Balances cerebral hemispheres. Used in the treatment of mental illnesses. This stone develops empathy, attenuates shame, and supports friendships. Helps in the process of rebirth.

                                                               

MOTHER OF PEARL: Also called nacre, it is used in the stimulation and regeneration of the skin. It represents protection and wealth.

 

SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN: It is a stone of purity and tranquility, which provides balance to the body and teaches one to value mistakes as well as success. It helps to recognize and release negative thoughts and turbulent mental patterns. It strengthens isolation and solitude, creating an excellent environment for concentration and meditation.

                                                                

TIGER EYE: A stone of protection against envy, jealousy, the evil eye, and curses, it combines the energy of the Earth with the Sun. It shows how to correctly use power and encourages integrity. Helps to achieve goals. Helps to distinguish between what you want and what you really need. Balances Yin and Yang and energizes the emotional body. Gives us confidence in financial matters. It is an excellent companion for tests and meetings. It is difficult to get the better of people who possess Tiger Eye.

                                                               

ONYX: A stone of strength, power, and energy healing. It provides support in difficult and confusing circumstances, and during periods of great mental and physical stress. Onyx helps to center your energy and align it with a higher power, as this stone has access to the Whole. Onyx acts like a magnet, attracting evil forces, negative vibrations, the evil eye, and envy, absorbing and dissolving them to prevent harm from reaching you. It is a secret stone that helps you follow your goals and has the great gift of intelligent decision-making. When in contact with a person, Onyx cleanses the energy field by transmuting the energy of the person carrying it. It provides strength and support in difficult times, and can be used to heal old pains or heartaches. Onyx helps absorb the energies of the Universe needed for healing or other purposes. It balances Yin and Yang.

 

OPAL: It is associated with intuition, love, passion, desire, and eroticism. It captures thoughts and feelings, amplifies them, and returns them to their source; it is a karmic stone that teaches you that what you do will be returned to you. It is a protective stone that, when properly programmed, makes you appear invisible; it can be used when venturing along dangerous paths and in shamanic work. Opal shows what your emotional state was in another life and helps you take responsibility for how you feel. It is a stone of seduction that intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions. It encourages the expression of positive emotions. Opal strengthens the will to live. Opal is highly spiritual, as it helps accelerate our evolution, attracts love, and provides a sense of profound peace. The vibration of Opal calms emotions, awakens intuition, and helps find ways out of all problems.

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SUNSTONE: A stone of luck and good fortune that inspires light. It promotes the joy of living and elevates intuition. It replicates the vitality of the sun in all its strength, brilliance, and intensity. If life has lost its joy, Sunstone helps to restore it and take care of yourself. Traditionally, this stone is linked to benevolent gods. It is extremely useful for removing ties to other people, whether mental or emotional, which can come from parents, children, possessive lovers, or "friends" who drain your energy. Keep a Sunstone with you if you are the type of person who doesn't know how to say no and is constantly making sacrifices for others. Sunstone assists in situations where decisions are preventing you from moving forward. It acts as a natural antidepressant; even the most pessimistic person will react to the powerful energy of the Sunstone. It eliminates phobias, anxieties, and nightmares, and favors the joy of living. This is a gem that brings optimism and dynamism. Tip: Using a Sunstone and a Moonstone together creates a powerful relational vibration. Useful for uniting and balancing masculine and feminine energies.

 

MOONSTONE: It is a stone of new beginnings; as its name suggests, it has a strong connection with the Moon and intuition. Its most powerful effect is calming emotions. It makes the unconscious conscious and promotes intuition and empathy. It has been used to develop clairvoyance and psychic abilities. Moonstone is filled with receptive, passive, and feminine energy. It is the perfect antidote for overly chauvinistic men or overly aggressive women. It stabilizes emotions, and Moonstone provides deep emotional healing.

 

PERIDOT: This is a powerful cleansing and protective stone. It releases guilt and obsessions, teaches that holding onto the past is counterproductive, helps you look at the past to find the gifts in your experiences, and shows you how to forgive yourself. Peridot teaches you to detach from outside influences and use your own higher energies to guide you. This visionary crystal opens new levels of consciousness and teaches you to understand your life's purpose on both the physical and spiritual planes. An excellent stone for improving difficult relationships. It develops confidence and assertiveness. It helps you take responsibility, especially when you believe that everything is "someone else's fault."

                                                               

PEARL: The pearl represents purity, innocence, integrity, and wisdom. Known for its healing properties for hundreds of years, the pearl has been a symbol of immaculate perfection. It is the oldest known gemstone and, for a long time, was considered the most valuable. For ancient peoples, the pearl was a symbol of the Moon and possessed magical powers. The Latin word for pearl literally means "unique," attesting to the fact that no two pearls are the same.

The pearl allows its wearer to open up and, in doing so, find the meaning and purpose of their "true self." It illuminates the mind, inspires humor, and helps develop self-love and love for others. Pearls are like a storehouse of goodwill and positive thoughts.

The only "precious stone" created by living beings (oysters), pearls make those born in June lucky to have such a special birthstone. Ranging from the most common white color to the rare black tone, pearls are wonderful gifts from the oceans. The name "pearl" derives from the Latin word "perna," the same word used in Portuguese, because of the similarity of the open mollusk shell to a lamb's leg. Today, pearls mainly come from Japan, China, Australia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Pearls have been very valuable since the time of Ancient Egypt. Since then, legends and myths have been created, calling these treasures tears of the moon, capable of bringing kindness, innocence, and faith. They were believed to have healing powers against different diseases, and even against insanity. Pearls are still used in medicine in Asia today. Pearls are a symbol of purity; they can be a great choice for an engagement ring, as they demonstrate the purity of feelings you have for your loved one.

                                                               

PREHNITE: Prehnite is considered the stone of dreams, memories, and unconditional love. It promotes peace. It teaches you how to be in harmony with nature and elemental forces. It is good for meditation because it helps you get in touch with your Higher Self and with elevated beings and Archangel Raphael. It stimulates foresight abilities and divine inspiration. It helps restore trust in the Universe, allowing the soul to believe in divine manifestation again. It elevates spiritual growth. It relieves nightmares and deep fears, bringing them to the surface to be healed. It helps you let go of old memories that are painful. Being a good Feng Shui stone, Prehnite is excellent for assisting in the release of possessions or love that you no longer need, and it helps you keep what is good for you in an appropriate way. Prehnite helps organize your thoughts and shows you what is really important. Traditional healers claim that Prehnite beads can increase the body's immunity. Very useful in crystal grids, as it calms the environment and brings peace and protection. It assists and protects therapists, attracts healing energies to the healer, protects our health, and helps heal fears and panic.

 

PYRITE: It is a stone of business prosperity; it attracts wealth. It is a very positive stone that helps overcome inertia and feelings of inadequacy. It relieves anxiety and frustration, and boosts self-esteem and confidence. It is an excellent shield against negative energy. Worn around the neck, it protects against danger. It is useful for people who feel inferior, as it strengthens self-confidence and your entire essence. It enhances intuition and creativity, stimulating the flow of ideas. It cleanses the body and breaks down the accumulation of depression, and is very useful for melancholy and deep despair. It is used in Crystal Therapy due to its great power in karmic healing.

                                                                 

CLEAR QUARTZ: Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy-amplifying stone on the planet due to its unique crystalline, helical spiral form. Found all over the world, it absorbs, stores, releases, and regulates energy, and is excellent for unblocking. It is used in all the technologies we know. It conducts energy to the most perfect state possible, returning it to the moment before a pathology was established. Clear Quartz acts on all levels of consciousness. They are like a spiritual library, storing information like a natural computer. It is the most effective receiver of programming. It is a master healer, stimulates the immune system, and brings balance to the body. Quartz harmonizes all Chakras. It receives, transmits, and amplifies energy. It brings luck in all senses. It wards off negative forces and radiation. Excellent for meditation.

                                                               

SMOKY QUARTZ: A talisman of good luck. It is one of the most effective grounding and anchoring stones. This stone is a magnificent antidote to stress; it helps you tolerate difficult moments with tranquility, strengthening the practical resolution of problems. Smoky Quartz teaches you to leave behind everything that no longer serves you. It promotes concentration and alleviates difficulty in communication. It cleanses the aura. It is indicated for new challenges, concentration, and progress. It helps with fear and depression. Useful for people who are sad and lack energy. It has regenerative capacity. When used in environments, it wards off all types of envious attacks and attracts very beneficial energies to the people in that place.

                                                               

ROSE QUARTZ: The stone of unconditional love and infinite peace. Friendship, a feeling of happiness, understanding, and trust. It is the most important crystal for the heart and heart chakra, teaching the true essence of Love. An excellent stone for relationships. It attracts the opposite sex. Placed on the body, it has calming properties. Tranquil sleep. Relieves tension and relaxes. Strengthens empathy and sensitivity; helps to accept necessary changes. Rose Quartz is the most perfect stone for crystal therapy; it releases emotions and emotional pain, alleviates inner pain, and heals the feeling of deprivation. It teaches you to love yourself, encourages self-forgiveness, acceptance, and invokes confidence and self-respect.

                                                               

RUTILATED QUARTZ: It is an effective energy integrator at any level. It has a perfect balance with cosmic light and illuminates the soul, promoting spiritual growth. This stone aids in astral travel and strengthens contact with higher guidance. Rutilated Quartz wards off negative energy and breaks down barriers to spiritual progress, releasing the past. It can be used in past-life healing, helping to understand previous actions that are affecting one's present life. It establishes a link between soul lessons and present-life missions. It alleviates and releases fears, phobias, anxiety, and depression. This stone promotes forgiveness at all levels.

 

TOURMALINATED QUARTZ: A powerful protective stone, it strengthens the body's energy field against external interference. Tourmalinated Quartz combines the properties of black Tourmaline and quartz—it is formed of needles—inclusions of black tourmaline—powerful protection—embedded in quartz—It unites the properties of Quartz and Tourmaline, a high-energy stone used to increase personal power. It is an excellent stone for protection, bringing balance and inner strength. It deflects negativity and reduces anxiety and depression.

 

GREEN QUARTZ: Harmonizes a space, emitting a constant vibration of calm and serenity. It is used for general health and represents physical, mental, and emotional healing. Green quartz signifies health and a connection with nature.

 

RAINBOW QUARTZ: Found in many quartz crystals, it stimulates awareness of Universal love, eliminates negativity, and directs healing energy to the body and mind.

 

 

RHODOCHROSITE: Stone of Love and Emotional Healing. Excellent for energy protection, purifying the Aura, elevating your spirituality, and increasing your personal radiance. It helps balance all Chakras and is great for purifying the Solar Plexus as it helps us bring repressed feelings to the surface. It inspires a dynamic and positive attitude, increasing self-esteem, reducing stress, and greatly favoring relationships. Physically, Rhodochrosite helps energetically with respiratory problems such as shortness of breath and asthma and also assists in improving vision.

                                                                   

 

RHODONITE: It is a powerful emotional balancer that inspires love and stimulates brotherhood among human beings. It has the ability to show both sides of an issue. This stone stimulates, purifies, and activates the heart and the Heart Chakra. It grounds energy, balances yin and yang energies, and helps in reaching our highest potential. It is said that this stone intensifies mantra meditation. Rhodonite is an extremely beneficial stone in cases of emotional self-destruction, codependency, and abuse. With its ability to promote self-love, altruism, and forgiveness, it helps eliminate projections that blame a partner for what is actually within oneself. Rhodonite is useful for ignoring insults and avoiding retaliation, promoting calm in desperate and dangerous situations. It balances and integrates physical and mental energies.

                                                              

RUBY: An excellent energy stone. It encourages a conscious passion for life and encourages one to follow their bliss. It is a powerful energy shield linked to the heart. It provides energy, passion, and motivates enthusiasm. It is a stone of sociability that attracts sexual activity, and grants confidence and vitality. An excellent energy stone, it encourages love for life. It balances the heart. A stone of passion, abundance, and wealth. Promotes dynamic leadership. Assists in concentration. Its protective effect makes it effective in times of litigation and controversy.

SARDONYX: is a very strong stone for protection. It also helps one to always seek meaning in life. The Sardonyx stone brings lasting and stable happiness, thus helping in friendships, dating, and marriages. Sardonyx helps improve willpower and strengthen character. Sardonyx is the fifth stone mentioned in the Bible. It is traditionally known for bestowing stability, self-confidence, and an attitude of hope. It encourages making changes and taking steps to resolve issues of mental stagnation. A stone of power and character. Sardonyx was worn by Roman soldiers as talismans; they believed the stone would make them strong and fearless in combat.

SAPPHIRE: It is known as the Stone of wisdom, with each of its colors possessing a specific wisdom. It centers the soul and the mind and frees them from unwanted thoughts and mental tension by bringing peace of mind and serenity. This stone helps with depression and mental and spiritual confusion and restores balance within the body. It brings prosperity and gifts of all kinds.

 

SODALITE: Stimulates intuition and intelligence. Strengthens body and mind. This stone instills a desire for truth and incites idealism, allowing you to be true to yourself and stand firm in your convictions. Emotional balance and self-confidence. Activates logical thought; it is excellent for the mind as it eliminates mental confusion. Indicated for possessive relationships or painful separations. Sodalite releases old, rigid mental conditioning, creating space to put new learning into practice. It is a particularly useful stone for group work, as it provides harmony and solidarity in intentions. It stimulates trust and companionship among group members. Known as a "power" stone as it awakens our higher capabilities and greatly strengthens the intellect.

TOURMALINE: Stone of Protection. Tourmaline cleanses, purifies, and provides a lighter energy vibration. It is traditionally used to discover the causes of problems and indicate the best path forward. It eliminates any feeling of victimhood. It attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. Beneficial for gardens and plants. It is a powerful mental treatment that balances and transforms negative thought patterns into positive ones. This stone aligns mental processes, Chakras, and the biomagnetic field, protecting against electromagnetic smog* and radiation. Useful in the treatment of paranoia, it helps coordinate clear and rational thoughts and assimilate information. Stimulates altruism and creativity. Stone of protection. Promotes security and resilience. Protects against all negative energies. Good in challenging circumstances.

                                                       

PINK TOURMALINE: Stone of love, joy, enthusiasm, and emotional healing. It helps attract loving and joyful people into our lives. Its vibrations increase our power of attraction, help improve relationships, attract true love, and strengthen sexual energy. It is also a stone of liberation, which came to planet Earth to help restore our emotional health, raise our self-love, and heal fears and traumas. Used for centuries as an aphrodisiac stone capable of attracting and maintaining true love. Its super positive energies increase our sense of happiness, awaken a love for life, and help harmonize family and marital relationships. It is also a powerful stone of emotional healing, as it promotes a feeling of peace and relaxation and induces more optimistic and spiritualized thoughts. It increases our power of attraction, reduces shyness, promotes inner peace, strengthens self-confidence, intensifies sexual energy, and helps to forgive and forget traumas and hurts from the past.

TURQUOISE:  It is a Protective Stone used in amulets since ancient times. According to various cultures, Turquoise unites sky and earth, masculine energies and feminine energies; it is a stone of harmony and empathy. It stimulates romantic love. It develops intuition and frees the soul. It explores past lives and shows how creating your destiny is a continuous process dependent on what one does in each moment. It is a purifying Stone that cleanses smog*, providing protection against environmental pollutants. It is a sacred stone for Tibetan Buddhists, considered one of the stones with the most effective healing powers, bringing comfort and well-being to the body. It balances and aligns all Chakras. It improves meditation, circulation, and peace of mind, having great healing power. Turquoise comes into contact with our inner energy and transmits it to the outer world, increasing our attunement with one another, and improving communication and expression. A Stone that helps calm nerves during public speaking. It is simply the "stone of Turkey" because, upon arriving in Europe, it had passed through this country, though it came from Persia. In Persia, it was used to protect against misery and to gain faithful friends. The Greeks named it "callaite." It was a sacred stone for the Egyptians, Persians, Tibetans, Indians, Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas. Since prehistoric times, it was thought to protect warriors and hunters, making them invincible as an emblem of courage, hope, and self-confidence, elevating the spirit to the heavens and governing bodily fluids. Found in Afghanistan, Argentina, Tibet, United States, Russia, Chile, Australia, Brazil, southwest Africa, China, Mexico, Tanzania, and Israel (in Sinai, where the mine was exploited in 4000 B.C.), the most beautiful ones come from Iran and Egypt (Sinai). Its sweet yet intense color unites the blue of the sky and the green of the earth, inspiration and the strength of the planet; it offers wisdom, helps express our ideas and reinforces the reach of our words, and improves stuttering. It has a regenerating action on the whole body and wards off nightmares. It warns of dangers. It is said that it decays along with the one who wears it, changing color, darkening, and breaking at the moment of death.

                                                          

UNAKITE: It is a vision stone that facilitates rebirth, bringing to light and integrating visions of the past regarding the causes of blockages, releasing them, and directing one toward spiritual growth; thus, it is very useful for past-life healing. A healing stone in all fields: emotional, physical, and mental. Unakite can be used in crystal scrying. It balances emotions with spirituality, and because it is a vision stone, it can be very useful after meditation.

 

ZOISITE with RUBY: Activates the crown chakra, creates an altered state of consciousness, and facilitates access to soul memories and spiritual learning. It can be extremely useful in soul healing and past-life therapy. Zoisite is an energizing stone that can easily dissipate lethargy and increase vitality, transforming negative energy into positive energy. It encourages the wearer to be themselves in order to enjoy their own uniqueness, guiding them to follow their own path rather than what "everyone else does." Zoisite increases creativity. It is a useful stone for when you have lost your creative spark, encouraging you to focus on what you truly enjoy and what you really want to do. It promotes trust in the universe and in the fundamental goodness of life, lifting your spirits and allowing you to be happy.

                                                              

SUPER SEVEN:

Crystal: Super 7 is a rare crystal with very strong spiritual energy. It brings together 7 highly important minerals, which gives it great power and a very high vibration for the energetic transmutation of the physical, mental, and spiritual body. It primarily promotes energetic revitalization for anyone feeling literally drained. Due to its high power, it has the capacity to increase and sustain the energy of other stones and crystals around it. The Super 7 contains a spiritual being tuned into higher forces, which greatly assists in the guidance and inspiration of the person who touches it. If used for meditation, it can generate celestial and revelatory experiences. Because of its high positive vibration, it protects and aligns its wearer’s Chakras, being a great crystal to carry on one's body.

1- Amethyst stone: The amethyst stone is one of the minerals that make up the Super Seven crystal. Purple in color, this stone has traces of aluminum and iron. Its main function is energetic renewal and the stimulation of spiritual growth. Those who wish to experience greater spiritual growth can use this type of stone.

2 – Quartz: Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy-amplifying stone on the planet, due to its unique, helical spiral crystalline form. Found all over the world, it absorbs, stores, releases, and regulates energy, and is excellent for unblocking.

3 - Cacoxenite stone: This mineral is very strong in the energetic cleansing process. Yellow-brown in color, this stone contributes to increasing the intelligence of whoever carries it. Another very important energy this stone offers is harmony and tranquility.

4 – Rutilated Quartz: The rutile stone has titanium oxide primarily in its composition. Originating mainly in quartz, this stone is an amplifier and conductor of energy. With a profound power on the human psyche, this type of stone increases the multidimensional states of the individual using it. See also – What are the stones of the zodiac signs? Check it out here! Many people report that after using this stone, clairvoyance and astral projections are frequent. Thus, using this stone can also increase your intuition.

5 – Smoky Quartz stone: Smoky quartz is present in the Super Seven crystal and it is what provides one of its main characteristics to this quartz. A grounding stone, its energy is completely telluric, meaning that through this energy, it is able to offer the person carrying it a deep energetic cleansing.

6 – Lepidocrocite stone: This stone plays a secondary role in this crystal. It gives it a reddish color and its main function is to allow and protect the spirit in the physical world.

7 – Goethite stone: The main composition of this stone is iron hydroxide mineral. It acts as a true energetic purifier, capable of deconstructing various negative beliefs and energetic patterns.

 

 

Sources:

Bibliography and References: The Crystal Bible, Author: Judy Hall, Publisher: Pensamento

Caminho das Pedras (Path of the Stones), Author: Antonio Duncan, Publisher: Nórdica