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Energetic, Healing* & Chakra Activating
Properties of Gemstones
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Gems have been prized since ancient times, both for their beauty and for their healing properties*.
Gemstones are elegant symbols, of creativity, healing and abundance. Different combinations can
be used to attract love and abundance, to combat depression, stress, and anxiety, to enhance
vitality, passion and sexual vigor, to inspire creativity, nurturing, and empathy, and increase insight,
intuition, and spirituality, and to bring peace.
And, bonus!, they are beautiful.
Gems with certain colors tend to activate specific chakras and to be associated with specific
qualities (many gemstones activate more than one chakra)
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Color Associations of Gemstones:
Black & Brown : Root Chakra ~ Grounding, Motivation, Calm, Abundance, Peace
Red : Root Chakra ~ Grounding, Motivation, Passion, Prosperity, Abundance, Vitality
Orange : Sacral Chakra ~ Creativity, Sensuality, Your-Inner Child, Nurturing, Empathy
Yellow : Solar Plexus Chakra ~ Inner-Strength, Empowerment, Courage, Joy, Sense of Self
Green & Pink : Heart Chakra ~ Love, Compassion, Abundance, Integration of Opposites
Blue : Throat Chakra ~ Communication, Self-Expression, Change, Creative Manifestation
Purple : Third Eye Chakra ~ Insight, Intuition, Spirituality, Healing, Wisdom
White : Crown Chakra ~ Tranquility, Oneness, Bliss, Peace
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Gemstone Properties in more detail...
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Amethyst – Activating the crown and third-eye chakras, it enhances intuition and psychic
gifts, and calms or stimulates the mind as needed. It balances the energetic bodies and
promotes emotional centering, balancing highs and lows, dispelling anger, fear and anxiety.
Amethyst aids in dealing with loss and heals the heart, alleviating sadness and grief. A
healing and protective stone, Amethyst cleanses the aura and transmutes negative energy
into love.
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Apatite – A stone of manifestation and spiritual attunement, it connects to a very high level
of spiritual guidance. It develops psychic gifts, opens the third eye and throat chakras, and
heals the heart. It draws off negativity and induces openness & social ease. By releasing
energy in the root chakra, it clears frustrations and guilt, and raises Kundalini. This builds up
energy and passion, increases motivation and combats depression.
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Black Garnet – Garnet is a powerfully energizing stone. Black garnet in particular is very
grounding. It activates other crystals, amplifying their effect, and clears negative energy. It
dissolves behavior patterns that are no longer serving you and helps you let go of old ideas. It
is particularly helpful in a crisis, strengthening the survival instinct and bringing courage. A
root chakra activator, it revitalizes and brings serenity or passion as appropriate.
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Blue Topaz – A mellow, empathetic stone that opens the throat chakra and third eye, blue
topaz directs energy where it’s needed most. It promotes truth & forgiveness and is excellent
for both meditation and inducing relaxation. It releases tension & cuts through doubt and
uncertainty. A stone of self-expression, it attunes you to your higher self and helps you
recognize where you have strayed from your own truth. It is very useful for those engaged in
the arts.
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Carnelian – By activating both your root and sacral chakras, it is excellent for restoring vitality
and motivation and for stimulating creativity and sensuality. A stone of manifestation and
abundance, Carnelian is full of life force. It promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy and
overcomes negative conditioning while dispelling anger, envy and resentment, and
replacing them with love of life. It also improves analytic abilities and sharpens concentration.
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Citrine – A powerful cleanser and regenerator, it transmutes negative energy. Carrying the
power of the sun, it is warming and energizing. By cleansing the solar plexus and sacral
chakras it raises self-esteem & confidence, encourages creativity and reduces sensitivity to
criticism. It activates your crown chakra, increasing intuition and promoting inner-calm so
that wisdom may emerge. A stone of abundance, it attracts wealth, prosperity and all good
things.
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Cubic Zirconia – Is a powerful healing stone with a perfectly aligned crystalline structure.
Energetically similar to quartz, it clears and balances your chakras, releasing blockages and
increasing energy flow. By aligning your physical and energetic bodies, it provides a sense of
balance and calm, relieving stress and promoting peace. It also cleanses and strengthens
your aura, raising your energetic vibration and creating a protective shield.
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Garnet – Garnet is a powerfully energizing stone carrying the energy of prosperity, stimulating
vitality, and clearing negative energy. It is particularly helpful in a crisis, strengthening survival
instinct and bringing courage. It dissolves behavior patterns that are no longer serving you
and helps you let go of old ideas. A root chakra activator, it stimulates the sex drive and
inspires love and devotion, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate.
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Green Amethyst – Opening the heart and crown chakras, it promotes intuition and
compassion coupled with love. This is helps create healthy relationships. A stone of
transformation, it transmutes negative energy to positive, without releasing it to the
atmosphere. It also cleanses the lungs and heart, and balances the endocrine system. On a
spiritual level, it is deeply and profoundly healing and connects the physical dimension with
the mind.
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Kyanite – A transmitter and amplifier of high-frequency energy, it is excellent for attunement
and meditation and stimulates psychic abilities. It is tranquilizing and stress-relieving. Kyanite
aligns your chakras and energetic bodies, clearing the energetic pathways. By opening the
throat and third eye chakras, it encourages speaking one’s truth dispels illusion and anger,
and reveals spiritual truth and one’s own part in creating emotional issues.
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Labradorite - Labradorite is a highly mystical and protective stone that raises consciousness
and connects with universal energies. It strengthens the aura, preventing energy leakage,
and forms a barrier to negative energy. It aligns the physical and energetic bodies and
accesses spiritual purpose. It is useful during change as it strengthens faith in the self and trust
in the Universe. It calms an overactive mind and enhances both rationality and intuitive
wisdom.
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Lemon Quartz – Lemon quartz is an empowering and healing stone. It activates your solar
plexus chakra. Your solar plexus is your center for inner-strength, empowerment and sense of
self. By activating your solar plexus, it increases self-confidence, energy, and extroversion.
With the helical spiral crystalline form unique to quartz, lemon quartz also clears and balances
your chakras. This releases energetic blockages and increases energy flow.
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Lemon w/Smoky Quartz – Activating your root and earth chakras, Smoky Quartz is one of the
most effective grounding stones and, at the same time, raises vibrations during meditation.
Lemon Quartz activates your solar plexus chakra strengthening your sense of self and helping
you realize your true power. This naturally occurring combination is very effective at removing
the fear of failure, relieving stress, lifting depression, enhancing sexual energy and virility and
increasing passion.
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Pearl – A very healing and nurturing gem, pearls heal and balance your second chakra. Your
second chakra is your center for creativity, sensuality and your inner-child. This makes easier to
see the good parts of yourself, to accept love and to more freely give love to others. Pearls
are a gem of feminine energy, enhancing fertility and sensuality. They enhance mental clarity,
intuition, sensitivity, imagination, adaptability, creativity and cooperation.
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Peridot – A powerful cleanser, it opens, cleanses and activates the heart & solar plexus
chakras, clearing away energetic baggage. It shows you how to detach yourself from
outside influences and look to your own higher energies for guidance. Releasing old energy
patterns, it enhances confidence and assertiveness without aggression, and relieves jealousy,
resentment and anger. It can greatly improve difficult relationships.
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Pink Topaz – A stone of hope, pink topaz gently eases out old patterns of dis-ease and
dissolves resistance to healing, opening the way to radiant health and a connection to the
divine. Pink topaz promotes love, forgiveness and directs energy where it is needed most. It
brings joy, generosity, abundance and good health. It is a stone of manifestation that helps
you discover your own inner riches and want to spread sunshine and share your good fortune.
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Pyrite – An excellent energy shield, it repairs and strengthens your aura and creates a barrier
to negative energy. It teaches you how to see behind a façade and protects all energetic
and physical bodies, deflecting harm and danger. By boosting self-worth and confidence,
pyrite helps people break free of inferiority complexes and feelings of inadequacy and is
helpful for overcoming melancholy and despair. It also increases energy to overcome inertia
& fatigue.
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Quartz – The most powerful healing stone and energy amplifier on the planet, it has a unique
helical spiral crystalline form. It clears and balances your chakras, releasing blockages and
increasing energy flow. By bringing both your physical and energetic bodies into alignment, it
provides a sense of balance and calm, relieving stress and promoting peace. It also cleanses
and strengthens your aura, raising your energetic vibration and creating a protective shield.
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Rose Quartz – A stone of unconditional love and infinite peace, it is the most important crystal
for the heart chakra, teaching the true essence of love. It purifies and opens the heart at all
levels and brings deep inner-healing and self-love. It is excellent for attracting romantic love,
healing existing relationships and processing grief. It strengthens empathy, aids the
acceptance of necessary change and encourages self-trust.
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Ruby – By activating both your root and heart chakras, ruby encourages “following your bliss”
and a passion for life. It imparts vigor and energizes while providing balance and motivation.
It heals the heart and promotes love while transmuting anger and negative energy.
Because it both energizes and balances the root chakra, ruby charges up passion,
enthusiasm, and sexuality while over-coming exhaustion, calming hyperactivity and
enhancing prosperity.
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Ruby Zoisite – Ruby & Zoisite are both stones of the heart chakra. While Ruby is a stone of
passion & creativity that amplifies any emotion, Zoisite provides a cooling and stabilizing
effect, softening Ruby’s qualities. This is very valuable when passion seems overwhelming or
for healing a broken heart. Zoisite is also helpful for channeling creative energies. When ideas
swirl around without coming to fruition, they need a stabilizing energy, which Zoisite provides.
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Rutilated Quartz – It has the perfect balance of cosmic light and is an illuminator for the soul.
It activates the crown chakra, facilitating contact with the highest spiritual guidance while
cleansing and strengthens your aura. This filters negative energy and provides a protective
shield. It shines light on the core of an issue promoting insight, and facilitating transition and
growth. Energetically, it relieves anxiety, lifts depression & promotes forgiveness at all levels.
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Serpentine – Clearing the chakras and stimulating the crown chakra, it opens psychic abilities
and helps you understand the spiritual basis of life. It corrects mental and emotional
imbalances and assists the conscious direction of healing energy. It is extremely cleansing
and detoxifying for the body. Promoting compassion and forgiveness for yourself, and
integrating energies from the past, present and future, it is especially useful for healing past
trauma.
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Smoky Quartz – One of the most effective grounding stones, smoky quartz also raises your
energy during meditation. This protective stone activates your root & earth chakras
grounding your spiritual energy & neutralizing negative vibrations. It is very effective at
relieving stress & removing the fear of failure. It also clears your root chakra, which lifts
depression, brings emotional balance, enhances sexual energy & virility, and encourages the
flow of passion.
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Spinel – Spinels activate both the heart and root chakras. By activating the heart, spinel
attracts love and helps one put ego aside in relationships. By activating the root, spinel
encourages passion, vitality, and life force. Black Spinel in particular is a protective stone. It
activates the root chakra, center for survival and tribal or family bonding. It is calming,
stabilizes mood swings and is excellent for exhaustion, depression and anxiety. It helps re-
establish relationships and relieve sadness.
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Topaz – A stone of clarity and cosmic awareness, clear topaz aids in becoming aware of
thoughts and deeds and the karmic effect these have. It assists in purifying emotions and
actions and removing stagnant energy. It dissolves resistance to healing and opens the way
to radiant health and a connection to the divine. Topaz helps you discover your inner riches,
making you want to spread good fortune and sunshine to those all around you. An excellent
aura cleanser, it releases tension and stress, inducing relaxation and calm.
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Turquoise – A healing and strengthening stone, it provides solace for the soul and well-being
for the body. It enhances communication between the physical and energetic realms and
opens the third eye, enhancing intuition and meditation. By opening the throat chakra and
releasing old inhibitions, it allows the soul to express itself. It is calming, stabilizes mood swings
and is excellent for depression and anxiety.
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