Semi-Precious
Stones: Myth, Legend and Lore
(click stone to see larger version) Please Note: All Stones are Natural And May Vary In Color Shown. The color of the stones in the pictures may vary from lighter to darker for any stone. Each stone has its own unique characteristics. The best known Myth, Legend, and Lore is the Diamond: Expresses commitment, brings on last relationship, purity, strength etc.... |
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 Red Jasper (click Picture for larger view) |
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Luck,
marital love, devotion, protection, and defense. Used for protection for
thousands of years. Roman athletes used jasper to protect them from
injury. Alleviates fear and anxiety. Wards off evil spirits.
Color may vary to a darker red. |
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 Rose Quartz (click Picture for larger view) |
Health, protection, love, and purity. Traditionally used to heal a broken heart. Enhances all forms of love: self love, mother love, caring, kindness, platonic and romantic love. Opens our hearts and encourages us to be tender, peaceful and gentle. Emanates unconditional love and nurturance and helps us attract positive, gentle love into our lives. Teaches forgiveness and tolerance. "Stone of warmth and love." Heals emotional pain with it's gentle calming salve. Balances Yin and Yang. Opens the heart to the beauty within and without. Cherubic energies are attracted to the user, protecting, and dissolving negativity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Black Onyx (click Picture for larger view) |
This stone promotes increased vigor, strength, stamina, constancy, steadfastness, permanence , tenacity, firmness, durability and self-control. Balances and grounds. Androgynous. Can't conduct or retain healing energy very well. The more translucent or clearer ones are more effective. Self mastery. Balances Yin and Yang. Reveals one's own duality. Helpful in treating glaucoma, epilepsy, and cell damage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Carnelian (click Picture for larger view) |
In Roman times used to protect against envy, fear and rage. The stone gives courage to speak boldly. Promotes motivation. It is used as a charm for public speakers and actors. Promotes love between parents and children. Relieves lethargy, depression, low self-esteem, fear, and anxiety. In medicine, used to treat neuralgia, gall stones, kidney stones, pollen allergies and colds. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Tiger Eye (click Picture for larger view) |
Enhances protection, clear thinking, personal empowerment,
integrity, willpower, practicality, grounding and integration of spirit
with worldly energy. Also associated with the correct use of power,
courage, grace and the ability to see clearly and without illusion.
Integrates male and female energy within us. Confidence, willpower,
clear thinking (and thus speaking), personal power in life. Harmony.
Grounding. Stability. Practical wisdom. Helps heal wounds, bruises, eyes
and throat. Attracts beauty and abundance. Enhances instinctive, psychic
abilities. Creates order out of chaos. |
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 Lapis (click Picture for larger view) |
Lapis Lazuli is associated with truthfulness, openness, inner power, love, purification, intuition, a sense of wonder and mystery, positive magic, self-confidence, virility, manifestation, an appreciation of mystery, psychic ability and tranquility. This stone is also considered strengthening to mind and body. Helps us contact our spirit guardians. Used by ancient Egyptians to access sacred knowledge. Strengthens the immune system. Lapis allows us to tap our own inner power while purifying the soul and the thoughts Self-expression, writing, creativity dream insight. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Jade (click Picture for larger view) |
Brings peace and agreement to help reconcile lovers. Protects pregnant women, relieves pain in groin area, various ailments of the mid-section, and gastric pain. Ancient belief by "many" that it cures kidney stones. Brings peace, self confidence, and encourages harmony. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Rhodonite (click Picture for larger view) |
Attracts the "perfect" love to the user with the intention to learn how to love. The most vibrant stone to heal the heart. Healing, comfort, harmony, amity and friendship. Promotes smooth energy flow, emotional expressiveness, kindness, tolerance, compassion and self-love. Helps us live our spiritual beliefs. Also for loneliness, loss, heartache, fear, insecurities, inner-child issues and abuse. Helps self-forgiveness, deservingness and trust issues, spiritual and self-love, desire to live, and purpose. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Sodalite* (click Picture for larger view) |
Encourages objectivity, rational thinking, logic, intelligence, emotional balance, intuition, higher knowledge, clarity, truth and perception. Increases spiritual awareness, balances metabolism, aids sleep, prolong physical endurance. Promotes harmony between conscious and subconscious. Help you "lighten up." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Formed by rapid cooling volcanic magmas. This stone is a natural glass. Keeps us balance during times of change, assists in focusing energy and making a clear path of action when tough decisions need to be made. Helpful in dealing with digestive and intestinal problems. In ancient times, obsidian was made into mirrors. |
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 Turquoise (click Picture for larger view) |
Protect the wearer from harmful accidents and injury.
Pueblo people used it as a charm to bring good luck. Preserves sight.
Protective stone for horses, camels, mules and their riders. Apache
warriors believe a turquoise affixed to a gun or bow makes it more
accurate. Eases rheumatism, arthritis, and protection from all diseases.
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 Amethyst (click Picture for larger view) |
Romans believed that wearing amethyst would help retain the affections of their spouses and aid in the protection in battle. When worn by men, it attracts love and affection of a women to them. The stone of spiritually and contentment. In ancient Greece and Rome it was used to resist drunkenness. Treatment for insomnia, pain relief, and to treat arthritis. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Citrine (click Picture for larger view) |
Highly polished, golden-yellow stone. Known as the merchants stone. It is said to bring wealth, prosperity, and abundance to its owners. When worn, the wearer is protected from the dangers of traveling. Dissipates negative energy. As with other yellow gems, it is used to treat digestive disorders, kidney and bladder diseases, and imbalances in the thyroid gland. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Moonstone (click Picture for larger view) |
It calms emotions, balances oversensitivity, arises passion between lovers. Give lovers the ability to see their future together. Increases fertility, promotes pregnancy and relieves menstrual discomfort. Used to treat digestive conditions, degenerative conditions of the skin, hair, eyes and fleshy organs. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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