Gator Goddess Defines our interpretation of the Healing Properties of Crystals and Minerals

Picture	Stone	Description
	Agate	Agate cleanses and stabilizes the aura, eliminating and transforming negativity. Agate enhances mental function by improving concentration, perception, and analytical abilities. It soothes and calms, healing inner anger or tension while creating a sense of security and safety. It can encourage quiet introspection and contemplation, aiding in spiritual growth.
	Amazonite	Amazonite is known to help you to see both sides, or perspectives, of an issue. This makes amazonite an excellent aid in problem-solving and settling disputes. Amazonite can soothe emotional trauma, which can alleviate worry and fear. Amazonite is known to dispel negative energy, aggravation and blockages within the nervous system. It works especially well when paired with rose quartz in assisting manifestation of universal love
	Amethyst	Amethyst is a natural tranquilizer, relieving stress and strain, soothes irritability, balances mood swings, dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety. Alleviates sadness and grief, and dissolves negativity. Amethyst also activates spiritual awareness, opening the intuition and enhancing psychic abilities.
	Ammonite Fossil	The Ammonite is the fossil of an ancient sea creature related to our modern day coleoids (i.e., octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish). These creatures lived between 240 – 65 million years ago, when they became extinct along with the dinosaurs. As fossils, the ammonite is a very powerful earth healing tool. Ammonites have a spiral shape, symbolizing continual change and evolution. Ammonite fossils have absorbed cosmic energy over eons of time, which allows them to help to stimulate your life force (Chi) within. Ammonites are often used for activating Kundalini and life path energies.
	Aventurine	The Aventurine stone is known in the gemstone world as one of the luckiest stones, which makes it a must-have for inviting good luck and prosperity into your life. Aventurine properties are linked with the heart plexus chakra, which makes it a powerful gem for calming negative emotions such as anger that often gets stuck in the heart center.
	Black Tourmaline	Black Tourmaline is an excellent grounding crystal for meditation and healing, and a small number of Black Tourmalines are double-terminated, ideal for body layouts. The linear flow of energies is enhanced equally in both directions along the crystalline form. Black Tourmaline soothes panic attacks, especially those caused by dark or confined spaces, or in places where the atmosphere is frightening. It also helps control fears of doctors or dentists. Wear this crystal for protection against moaners, whiners, complaining neighbors or emotional vampires who burden you with their problems but do nothing to improve their situations. In the workplace, hold Black Tourmaline for a few minutes when you need to wake up your mind or when you need full concentration. It provides an excellent shield against environmental pollutants, electromagnetic smog, and radiation associated with cell phones, computers, and other electronic equipment. It is a professional support stone for miners and telephone workers.
	Bloodstone	Encourages one to live in the present moment and enhances creative abilities. Unifies the energies of harmony, strength, and adaptability within the body.
	Blue Sodalite	Blue Sodalite encourages rational thought, objectivity, truth and intuition, along with verbalization of feelings. Blue Sodalite brings emotional balance and can calm panic attacks. It enhances self-esteem, self-acceptance and self-trust, and dispels mental confusion. These properties make it an excellent stone to activate your throat chakra.
	Calcite	Calcite is said to calm the mind, allowing you analyze better and inspires insight. By helping to create emotional intelligence, calcite can bring motivation and energy.
	Carnelian	A stabilizing stone, Carnelian restores vitality and motivation, and stimulates creativity. It gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy and motivates for success. Carnelian is useful for overcoming abuse of any kind. It helps in trusting yourself and your perceptions. It overcomes negative conditioning and encourages steadfastness. Carnelian improves analytic abilities and clarifies perception. It sharpens concentration and dispels mental lethargy. Protects against envy, rage and resentment. Calms anger, banishes emotional negativity and replaces it with a love of life. Carnelian boosts fertility and stimulates sexuality.
	Chevron Amethyst	Chevron Amethyst combines the strengthening and enhancing qualities of Quartz with the stress relieving qualities of Amethyst. This symbiotic combination of minerals creates a wonderfully spiritual stone. Chevron Amethyst is great to work with the Third-Eye, known to enhance both intuition and physical vision on all planes of existence. Use Chevron Amethyst to help remove resistance to change, and to dissipate and repel negativity of all kinds. It can create a strong healing field around the user, making it useful to cleanse the aura and to enhance the immune system. Crystal healers work with Chevron Amethyst for its psychic energies and for its ability to clear and strengthen the aura. Chevron Amethyst can amplify energies needed for manifestation and works well in grid work. Chevron Amethyst is also said to deepen the meditative state, enhancing the quality and frequency of visions and inspiration from higher realms.
	Citrine	Citrine cleanses the chakras and opens the intuition. Citrine attracts wealth, prosperity and success. It imparts joy, wonder, delight and enthusiasm. Citrine raises self-esteem and self-confidence. A premier stone of manifestation, imagination, and personal will.
	Desert Rose	A form of Selenite, desert rose carries a gentle, calming, rejuvenating energy that can help relieve stress while enhancing willpower. Excellent for mediation, as it can instill mental clarity and cleanse the energy of your body. Desert Rose is a very strong activator of your third eye, and can help enhance any clairvoyant gifts. The energies of desert rose will also strengthen your natural intuition.
	Fluorite	Fluorite absorbs and neutralizes negative energy & stress, while cleansing and stabilizing the aura. An excellent learning aid, Fluorite increases our powers of concentration and self-confidence while helping us in decision-making. It encourages positivity, balances the energies, and improves balance & coordination, both physically and mentally. A highly protective and stabilizing stone, useful for grounding and harmonizing spiritual energy. Can also increase intuitive abilities.
	Goldstone	Though man-made, goldstone is known as a master healer. Transmitting healing energy, goldstone increases one’s self-acceptance. Serves as an excellent learning aid.
	Hematite	The mineral form of iron oxide, Hematite grounds and protects us. It strengthens our connection with the earth, grounding us and making us feel safe. It enhances our courage, strength, endurance and vitality. A “stone for the mind”, Hematite stimulates concentration and focus, sharpening memory and original thought. It focuses energy and emotions for balance between the body, mind and spirit. Hematite dissolves negativity and dispels negativity of others. It can help to overcome compulsions and addictions, treating overeating, smoking and other forms of overindulgence.
	Jasper	Carry Jasper to alleviate stress and reconnect with Earth’s grounding energies. Its cleansing effect eliminates negativity and stabilizes the aura. It is an ideal worry or rubbing stone for soothing the nerves and restoring balance. Jasper connects you to the Earth and can stabilize and energize the physical body when placed over the Root Chakra. Laying it over each chakra in turn, will cleanse, boost and realign the chakras and aura, balancing yin and yang energies as well as aligning the physical, emotional and mental bodies with the etheric realm. When spiritual energies are out of balance, one may feel flighty, disconnected from reality, or distant. When the Base Chakra is in balance, the physical body regains its strength and stamina, and the spiritual energy is rekindled in the form of security and sense of one’s own power. It can guide one towards independence and spontaneous leadership.
	Lepidolite	It brings deep emotional healing, soothing and reducing stress and depression. An excellent tool for allowing one to process and overcome grief. Lepidolite dissipates negativity and insists on being used for the highest good. It activates the throat, heart, third eye chakras and the intellect. It opens the crown chakra, clearing blockages and bringing cosmic awareness.
	Malachite	Malachite is known to stimulate the liver, reducing toxins and enhancing the immune system. Further physical healing properties include lowering blood pressure and easing the symptoms of epilepsy, travel sickness, and vertigo. Malachite absorbs negative energies and electromagnetic pollution while opening even the most damaged heart to unconditional love.
	Moonstone	The stone for new beginnings, moonstone immediately encourages inner growth and strength by soothing stress, emotional instability, and encouraging overall calmness. Moonstone is known to also enhance both intuition and inspiration. It can even increase fertility. Overall, moonstone is an excellent stone to promote good fortune and success by first soothing those inner qualms.
	Morion	Morion is a rare, naturally irradiated, very dark brown to black Smoky Quartz. Morion also usually has Dolomite or other minerals attached which enhance its shielding and detoxifying properties. Morion gently heals emotional conditions and trauma, overcomes lack of trust, and supports one in coping with stress and strain. It promotes alertness and productivity, and helps one tackle important tasks with zeal.
	Obsidian	Obsidian is a truth-enhancing, strongly protective stone, forming a shield against negativity. It blocks psychic attack and absorbs negative energies from the environment. Obsidian draws out mental stress and tension, brings clarity to the mind, and clears confusion. It helps you to know who you truly are. Obsidian dissolves emotional blockages and ancient traumas. It promotes qualities of compassion and strength.
	Opalite	Opalite improves communication on all levels, especially the spiritual. It removes energy blockages of the chakras and meridians. Emotionally, Opalite helps by assisting during transitions of all kinds. It engenders persistence and gives us strength in verbalizing our hidden feelings.
	Quartz (Clear)	Quartz, also called Clear Quartz, is the most powerful healing stone of the mineral kingdom, able to work on any condition. Clear Quartz is known as the stone of power and amplifies any energy or intention. Clear Quartz protects against negativity, attunes to your higher self, and relieves pain.
	Rose Quartz	Rose Quartz is the stone of universal love. It restores trust and harmony in relationships, encouraging unconditional love. Rose Quartz purifies and opens the heart at all levels to promote love, self-love, friendship, deep inner healing and feelings of peace.
	Selenite	Selenite is the crystallized form of the mineral Gypsum and is very soft. It can easily be scratched with just a fingernail and should be protected from excessive water exposure. Selenite is a protective stone that can instill deep peace, making it excellent for meditation. It can evoke protection from the angelic realm, dispel negative energy, and even help one connect with their spiritual guardians. Selenite can also reverse the effects of free radicals, healing and repairing on a cellular level. Selenite is full of powerful, protective energy and wonderful for all types of spiritual work.
	Smoky Citrine Quartz	Smoky Citrine Quartz is a combination of Citrine and Smoky Quartz, characterized by dark brownish-yellow patches in clear crystal; excellent for removing blockages from one’s spiritual path, and for enhancing metaphysical abilities and grounding them into everyday reality. As a variety of Citrine, this crystal does not hold negative energy and never needs cleansing. It assists in re-framing vows taken in other lives, especially those of poverty and chastity, and lets go of old beliefs and thought forms that wear one down. Smoky Citrine Quartz allows one to move out of present circumstances or a stifling environment and opens the way to abundance.
	Smoky Quartz	Smoky Quartz is known to gently neutralize negative vibrations and is detoxifying on all levels. Smokey quartz can help prompt elimination of the digestive system and even protect against radiation and electromagnetic smog. Smokey Quartz is known to disperse fear, lift depression and negativity, while bringing emotional calmness, relieving stress and anxiety. It can even be a useful sleep aid, especially when placed in a windowsill near the bed.
	Tiger Eye	A stone of protection, Tiger Eye may also bring good luck to the wearer. It has the power to focus the mind, promoting mental clarity, assisting us to resolve problems objectively and unclouded by emotions. Particularly useful for healing psychosomatic illnesses, dispelling fear and anxiety. Useful for recognizing one’s own needs in relation to the needs of others. Balancing yin-yang and energizing the emotional body, Tiger Eye stabilizes mood swings, imbues us with willpower, purpose, courage and self-confidence, and releases tension.
	Tree of Life	The tree of life is a symbol of a fresh start on life, positive energy, good health and a bright future. As a symbol of immortality. A tree grows old, yet it bears seeds that contain its very essence and in this way, the tree becomes immortal. Used as a symbol of growth and strength.
	Turquoise	Turquoise is a purification stone. It dispels negative energy and can be worn to protect against outside influences or pollutants in the atmosphere. Turquoise balances and aligns all the chakras, stabilizing mood swings and instilling inner calm. It is excellent for depression and exhaustion, it also has the power to prevent panic attacks. Turquoise promotes self-realization and assists creative problem solving. It is a symbol of friendship, and stimulates romantic love.