The ‘Stone of Removal’, helps greatly in the removal of illness, disease, unhealthy bacteria and virus from the being and environment. As well as helping to remove unnecessary self attributes of the being, encouraging kindness overall.
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Featured crystal – Trummer Jasper
Featured crystal – Lavender Quartz
Lavender Quartz
The ‘Stone of Spiritual Support’, helps the being to get through difficult and challenging stages in life, as well helping to heal emotional, mental and spiritual upset.
Quartz overall is a high vibrational stone with a very pure and self-adjusting energy. It works on the whole of the being, the whole of an atmosphere and widely strengthens the energy output of other crystals and minerals. It is a stone mainly in its clear pure form that can be called upon when seemingly all else fails, or when there is confusion of what other crystal or mineral to connect with. In its different forms it does have differing offerings, yet with the same undertones.
Lavender Quartz is a very beneficial stone to keep close by in times of turmoil, stress, upset, anxiety and worry. It helps to ease away the effects that come with such happenings and feelings, as well as bringing an air of peace and stability.
This stone encourages the being to become more balanced in all areas of life. It is a stone that instils inner strength and feelings of hope when they are most needed.
Lavender Quartz envelopes the mind, body and spirit with protection and tranquillity. This is a stone that encourages the being to listen to the inner voice, as well as to open and allow communication from spirit guides and angelic beings.
Where their is uprooting and change, Lavender Quartz can be of support by bringing feelings of stability, security, calm and inner strength. This is also a stone that can be placed in areas that need to feel more comfortable, homely and welcoming, to bring an air of peace and tranquillity.
Lavender Quartz makes a very good guide and support when the being is at a new stage in life. This stone helps to fade away any of the old that is no longer needed, while bringing encouragement and strength to better the present and the future.
A stone that helps greatly in the healing of the emotional, mental and spiritual self. Lavender Quartz works directly in the areas that are most calling, while gently guiding the being to also help themselves in other positive ways.
This is also a stone that can be called upon for support and healing if the being has rushed themselves into spiritual learning without solid direction, or where there has been negative experience and confusion while getting involved with spiritual matters. Keep Lavender Quartz close by at all times in such cases.
This stone will work well as a talisman to any being, but can be especially helpful to those who work closely with spirit and other types of energy channeling, such as healing. Lavender Quartz wards of negative energy forces while also protecting the being from energy vampires, and false psychic activity.
Lavender Quartz overall makes a very good stone for those who are noticeably spiritually aware, and to those who are beginners in working and living with the spiritual world.
Lavender Quartz resonates well within the Heart, Throat, Third eye and Crown energy centres. It is a stone that will work closely within these areas where it is called upon most, and will also work well alongside other methods to balance and heal the resonating centres.
This is a stone that can ease away bodily pain, headaches, tension, distress, stress and relaxes the muscles. Alongside this, Lavender Quartz also sooths before sleep and can help combat sleeping difficulties that are especially related to stress, anxiety and worry.
A stone that is also beneficial in the strengthening, correcting and healing of heart complaints, and after heart surgery. Lavender Quartz can also help to lower blood pressure, regulate the heart rate, ease and prevent epilepsy, ease depression and encourage healthy bones and teeth.
This stone can be called upon in times of crisis, or where there is chronic illness, for support, comfort and ease.
Lavender Quartz can be very helpful to the female of any age, who is affected by changing hormone levels and what that can bring, as well as girls who are growing up, becoming young women. This stone will give support, comfort and soothing during such times.
A stone that replaces anger with reasoning, and brings out the more calm, caring and fair self. Lavender Quartz will also often bring out the self that is more open-minded, and that seems to have suddenly been touched by an Angel.
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Featured Crystal – Brookite
The ‘Stone of the Ancient Planets’, a very in-depth and intriguing energy that brings the being closer to the knowledge and wisdom that is contained within many planets, as well as the knowledge and wisdom that has been created by lost, forgotten and ancient civilisations.
Brookite sets off a channel of thought and energy that is direct to such planets and civilisations. It awakens a part of the being that heads towards finding such knowledge, heads towards the creation of communications in order to turn found knowledge into wisdom. Read more ›
Featured crystal – Sapphire
Sapphire commonly derives its name from the Greek name of ‘Sappheiros’ which means ‘Blue Stone’ and is a gemstone variety of the minerals Corundum and Aluminium Oxide when it is a colour other than red or dark pink, in which case the gem would then be called Ruby, which is considered as being a different gemstone. It is from small amounts of other elements such as Iron, Titanium or Chromium, that can give Corundum a blue, yellow, pink, purple, orange or a greenish colour. Pink-orange Sapphires are called ‘Padparadscha’. Pure Chromium is the distinct impurity of Rubies. However, a combination of e.g. Chromium and Titanium can give Sapphire a colour distinct from red.
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Featured crystal – Yellow Jasper
The Physical Attributes
Jasper in its numerous formations is a very well known and documented stone. It has a very historical past and has numerous different mentions even as being used in creations of ceremonial and decorative objects in what is now known as France, as far back as 20,000 BC. The ancient Egyptians, contemporaries of the Israelites, have arguably contributed the most Jasper artefacts known to the modern world, and had respected it as a treasured material.
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Featured crystal – Datolite
The Physical Attributes
Datolite is a mineral that has differing formations, and is often found on show as a colourless crystal with a touch of green hue throughout its body. There is actually only one place in the world where a certain type of Datolite can be sort, where it can seemingly outshine any other form of this mineral from other parts of the world because of how unusual it is ! That place is Michigan, and here they can be found in a full spectrum of colours and are known as Datolite nodules. It is noticed how this such Datolite formation is more desired than any other formations because it comes in many colours, from Red to Black and can be cut and polished into cabs. Read more ›
Featured crystal – Garnet
The garnet group includes a group of minerals that have been used since the Bronze Age as gemstones and abrasives. The name “garnet” may come from either the Middle English word gernet meaning ‘dark red’, or the Latin granatus (“grain”), possibly a reference to the Punica granatum (“pomegranate”), a plant with red seeds similar in shape, size, and color to some garnet crystals.
Six common species of garnet are recognized by their chemical composition. They are pyrope, almandine, spessartine, grossular (varieties of which are hessonite or cinnamon-stone and tsavorite), uvarovite and andradite.
Properties
Garnets species are found in many colors including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, brown, black, pink and colorless.
Garnet species’ light transmission properties can range from the gemstone-quality transparent specimens to the opaque varieties used for industrial purposes as abrasives.
Almandine
Almandine, sometimes incorrectly called almandite, is the modern gem known as carbuncle (though originally almost any red gemstone was known by this name). The term “carbuncle” is derived from the Latin meaning “live coal” or burning charcoal. The name Almandine is a corruption of Alabanda, a region in Asia Minor where these stones were cut in ancient times. Chemically, almandine is an iron-aluminum garnet the deep red transparent stones are often called precious garnet and are used as gemstones (being the most common of the gem garnets). Almandine occurs in metamorphic rocks like mica schists, associated with minerals such as staurolite, kyanite, andalusite, and others. Almandine has nicknames of Oriental garnet, almandine ruby, and carbuncle.
Pyrope
Pyrope (from the Greek pyrōpós meaning “fire-eyed”) is red in color and chemically a magnesium aluminium silicate though the magnesium can be replaced in part by calcium and ferrous iron. The color of pyrope varies from deep red to almost black. Transparent pyropes are used as gemstones.
A variety of pyrope from Macon County, North Carolina is a violet-red shade and has been called rhodolite, from the Greek meaning “a rose.” Pyrope is an indicator mineral for high-pressure rocks.
Spessartine
Spessartine or spessartite is manganese aluminium garnet, Its name is derived from Spessart in Bavaria. It occurs most often in granite pegmatite. Spessartine of an orange-yellow is found in Madagascar.
Grossular
Grossular is a calcium-aluminium garnet, though the calcium may in part be replaced by ferrous iron and the aluminium by ferric iron. The name grossular is derived from the botanical name for the gooseberry, grossularia, in reference to the green garnet of this composition that is found in Siberia. Other shades include cinnamon brown (cinnamon stone variety), red, and yellow. Because of its inferior hardness to zircon, which the yellow crystals resemble, they have also been called hessonite from the Greek meaning inferior.
One of the most sought after varieties of gem garnet is the fine green grossular garnet from Kenya and Tanzania called tsavorite. This garnet was discovered in the 1960s in the Tsavo area of Kenya, from which the gem takes its name.
Uvarovite (Uwarowit)
Uvarovite is a calcium chromium garnet .This is a rather rare garnet, bright green in color, usually found as small crystals associated with chromite in peridotite, serpentinite, and kimberlites. It is found in crystalline marbles and schists in the Ural mountains of Russia. Uvarovite crystals are generally too small to facet and are left attached to a matrix and incorporated into jewelry as seen below.
Rhodolite
The name rhodolite derives from the Greek words rhodo and lithos, respectively meaning rose and stone. Garnet’s history dates back to the Bronze Age. It was first popularized between the reign of Alexander the Great and the conquest of Rome and is still today considered as a classic gem to possess. In the mid 60’s the best quality rhodolites were discovered in northeastern Tanzania ’s Umba River. The deposit is still exploited but only during the dry season when the water level recedes and deeper portions of the Umba Valley can be accessed.
For its beautiful and intense colors (from pink to purplish red), rhodolite is one of the most popular gemstones, and is considered by many as the “Queen of Garnets”.
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Featured crystal – Pyrite
Pyrite – Gold for the Mind
Because pyrite is a bright, shiny crystal it has often in the past been mistaken by inexperienced prospectors for gold; thus, it is often nicknamed, “fool’s gold.” Those who work with it, though, find that it yields its own treasures.
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Featured crystal – Turquoise
Turquoise transports you to an exciting, tropical paradise while offering a sense of protection and healing in stressful times.
Turquoise, combining the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of wellbeing.
“In many cultures, Turquoise occupies a very special position in the world of colour,” explains Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Colour Institute. “It is believed to be a protective talisman, a colour of deep compassion and healing, and a colour of faith and truth, inspired by water and sky. Through years of colour word-association studies, we also find that Turquoise represents an escape to many – taking them to a tropical paradise that is pleasant and inviting, even if only a fantasy.”
Whether envisioned as a tranquil ocean surrounding a tropical island or a protective stone warding off evil spirits, Turquoise is a colour that most people respond to positively. It is universally flattering, has appeal for men and women, and translates easily to fashion and interiors. With both warm and cool undertones, Turquoise pairs nicely with any other colour in the spectrum. Turquoise adds a splash of excitement to neutrals and browns, complements reds and pinks, creates a classic maritime look with deep blues, livens up all other greens, and is especially trend-setting with yellow-greens.
In fashion, Turquoise makes a statement that can look elegant and dressy in fine silk and gemstones, or casual and fun in cotton and athletic apparel. Because of its versatility, Turquoise is a great accent colour in jewellery, purses, shoes, hair accessories and even nail polish for women, and ties, shirts and sportswear for men.
Physical Healing
As a healing stone, Turquoise is among the crystal healing master stones. According to followers of the New Age, its powers can benefit the whole body, with special strengths in healing ailments of the immune, respiratory, waste and skeletal systems. Crystal healers recommend it for detoxification of alcohol, poison, pollution or radiation in the body, treatment of high blood pressure, asthma, infections, TMJ and dental problems.
In the world of crystal healing, Turquoise is known to be a stone of communication. Healers recommend it for people who have a fear of public speaking. They believe it has the ability to make a speaker more eloquent, loving, creative and honest. But it is also improves the mental state overall by increasing all of the following positive mental characteristics: serenity, creativity, empathy, positive thinking, sensitivity, intuition, happiness wisdom all of which result in a calmer state that leads to greater self-realization. It is also considered a stone of friendship. As a communication stone, it is suggested that it opens up the connections between friends and allowing love to flow in those communications, which strengthens the friendship bond. Further, it has the power to strengthen convictions, courage and personal power.
The Navajo and Hopi in Arizona value Turquoise as an attractor of prosperity and fertility of the soil. It is used all over as a great protector and provides strength during vision quests.
Because Turquoise is so effective on the etheric planes and because healing first takes place at the etheric levels. From headaches to repairing physical damage to the body, Turquoise works to reduce disease and disorders. In ancient times, it was used for eye problems, especially cataracts. Due to the copper content it is powerful for arthritis and rheumatism.
Turquoise can be used to increase circulation to the muscles for torn ligaments or tendons. Whenever stress builds toxins in the muscles or there is a lack of oxygen, Turquoise can be useful.
Turquoise contains a high amount of phosphorus which is used in Homeopathy for lung problems. Even the ancients advised Turquoise for lung and breathing difficulties.
In addition to being the Master Healer, Turquoise is treasured as a powerful success and good luck stone.
Overall, Turquoise is said to open all chakras, allowing the stone’s powers of love and communication to flow through the entire being. However, healers associate it primarily with the Throat or 5th chakra. This Chakra is the center of communication, creativity, serenity and spiritual bonding. Turquoise can also benefit the operation of the Heart Chakra by opening it up for giving and receiving love. On the brow Chakra, it strengthens the connection to great spirit. The blue color has come to symbolizes the spirit or sky source for spiritualists.
African Turquoise
African Turquoise is not turquoise at all. It is a type of jasper found in Africa and is often dyed to achieve a turquoise-like colour. Enhancing its role as a turquoise substitute is its matrix, which also resembles turquoise matrix.
African turquoise is beautiful in its own right. We have this for sale on the web site. The problem arises when it is sold as genuine turquoise. It is suggested that one-half of the sites on the Internet selling “African Turquoise” do not acknowledge that the item is actually a turquoise substitute. Turquoise is rare; jasper is abundant. One should expect to pay up only for the former .
So then, what is jasper? Jasper is a form of chalcedony. Another form of chalcedony is agate. The differences between jasper and agate is that jaspers (there are many of them) have less regular patterns and are more opaque. Jaspers are opaque because they contain microscopic grains of crystalline quartz, whereas the quarts in agate are more fibre-like. Jaspers take on varying colours depending on the other minerals present at the site of formation. One advantage of African jasper is that it is harder than turquoise.
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Featured crystal – Zincite
The ‘Hierarchy Stone’, working beneficially using different levels of energy and area within the Mind, Body and Spirit.
Zincite depending on its colour formation, works within an area of the body’s Energy Centres, as well as where there may be upset or dis-ease needing healing and easing.
Zincite is a zinc oxide with a hardness of 4 and a hexagonal crystal system. In nature Zincite crystallises very rarely, however in the 1990′s Zincite crystals were grown accidentally in the vents of an antiquated Zinc smelting plant in Poland. They formed where the conditions became just right within large smoke stacks at a Zinc smelting facility, forming these fantastic crystals which grow attached to the insides of the smoke stacks. It is the result of an incidental breakage of the zinc smelter walls. Significant changes of temperature and air pressure inside the furnace created conditions supporting spontaneous growth of these crystals in air vents and chimney channels. Zincite crystals of this quality only come from the Zinc smelters of Poland. These vents have now been replaced and Zincite is very hard to obtain.
Zincite is varied in colour from . green, orange and red.
Red Zincite Crystals are unique and very scarce.
Zincite can help to bring together those of like mind; it is useful in promoting the group effort and is also beneficial to furthering relationships on the physical plane.
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