Sunstone

Few crystals can really charge up your creative side quite like Sunstone. More than this, this crystal can enhance your ideas with grounded thinking that means that when you do come up with exciting new directions to take in life, you don’t feel stumped in how to pursue them. Better yet, this is an excellent stone for confidence. Ever had an amazing idea, only to abandon it because everyone seemed to talk it down? Sunstone will encourage you to perhaps stick with those bright ideas a little more. You never know what astonishing progress you might make if you allow yourself to flourish like this!

With the radiance of the sun and the fire of the solar ray, Sunstone carries the energy of Ra, the sun god, whose energy brings all potential life from within the Earth. It is a Stone of Leadership – of personal power, freedom, and expanded consciousness.

Selenite

The essence of light and illumination makes Selenite a key crystal for anyone wanting to see the spiritual truth in things. This crystal can help to open your third eye chakra, and because of that, can lead you to some fascinating spiritual insights. This is a crystal of cleansing, both yourself and your surroundings. Many people look to place Selenite in their home or office to keep negative emotions and low vibration energies at bay. By keeping light and airy, you are often able to be your best self.

It Enhances clarity of the mind and concentration, expanding ones awareness of the self and of ones surroundings and having a positive effect on the brain. It soothes the nerves and enhances willpower.

Tigers Eye

Stone Effects:

Befitting the name, leave it to Tiger’s Eye to be the stone you need when it’s time to feel courageous. It awakens a braver side of you, but it does so in a way that isn’t superficial.

That’s because self esteem and a deeper insight into yourself – your strengths and your weaknesses – is the kind of energy that Tiger’s Eye offers. Confidence comes from just these kinds of insights, and so it’s only natural you’ll be braver for coming to terms with these sides of yourself. Tiger Eye brings confidence, strength, courage, protection and good luck. It sharpens the senses, promotes intuition and helps one to be practical, cent red and grounded. It enhances personal power, allows clarity, good judgement, clear perception and insight, aiding in good decision making. Tiger Eye can be used to stimulate wealth and maintain it.

Sodalite

Sodalite unites logic and intuition together, bringing information from the higher mind to the physical level. This stone help in the seeking of truth making it possible to remain true to yourself and stand up for your beliefs. It can help clear electromagnetic energies from computers and other electronic equipment. Sodalite can also bring emotional balance and can be helpful in times of stress or panic. It helps to release our fears that hold us back from being who we truly are, promoting self esteem, self acceptance and self trust.

Smoky Quartz

Stone Effects:

If you have been feeling as though your progress in life has been obscured from sight thanks to negative feelings, Smoky Quartz can help to heal that, as well as overcome the pain. Smoky Quartz is a crystal that helps you to reconnect to the wonders of being alive. Each day begins to feel like a new opportunity under this energy, and the positive vibrations you will welcome from this crystal can help you to see the opportunities before you. Smoky Quartz helps you to find emotional balance, and it also brings you into greater harmony with those around you – ideal if you have been confused by someone’s behavior of late.

Opals

Stone Effects:

Opal is an emotional stone and reflects the mood of the wearer.  It intensifies emotions and releases inhibitions.  Encourages both freedom and independence.  Opal enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions.  It stimulates originality and creativity.  Helps to release anger and claim self worth, aiding in accessing and expressing one’s true self.  Opal strengthens memory.  It encourages an interest in the arts.  Wearing Opal brings loyalty, faithfulness and spontaneity. Opal strengthens desire, eroticism and sexuality. It makes us emotional, seductive, unconventional, in love with life and enhances optimism. The high water content of opal assists you to shift your emotions through to self awareness. This stone also helps protect you from too easily absorbing other people’s energy, feelings, or thoughts. Because opal produces its colours through interference and diffraction, allow this stone to run interference for you when encountering challenging people, places or things that affect your emotions or hurt your feelings.
​Opal stimulates originality and dynamic creativity, it helps in accessing and expressing your true self. Opal is absorbent and reflective. It picks up thoughts and feelings, amplifies them and then sends them back. Opal is a karmic stone sending you the message “what you put out here comes back to you three fold”.

Clear Quartz

Stone Effects:

Look no further than the very name of this crystal to understand its secret healing power. In other words, Clear Quartz works by bringing clarity to all around you, letting you see into the truth of things. Luckily, when those truths are a bit ugly or hard to handle, this crystal also has soothing energies that prevent you getting too hurt.

Clear Quartz is able to heal the body and the mind with equal fluency, but its specialty is vision – both physical and spiritual. If you have been suffering brain fog, or have a scrambled mind due to stress you have endured, this crystal can really straighten things out for you, giving you a broader perspective on what to do.Clear Quartz works on all areas of the mind and body, awakening, amplifying and transmitting energy and clarifying thought processes. It is an excellent stone for meditation, directing energies with more intensity. It connects to the higher self, removes negativity and allows access to your spirit guides. Clear Quartz provides clarity in thinking and awareness. Improving your memory and providing clarity of mind.

Pyrite

Stone Effects:

Pyrite is known as a stone of protection, it wards of negativity energy and physical danger as well as stimulating the intellect. Pyrite helps to nourish the mind and body, promoting good health. It enhances the emotional body strengthening the will and helps create a positive outlook on life.

You likely already know that Pyrite is often called Fool’s Gold, but don’t let its comparative lack of monetary value fool you! In fact, this crystal is an excellent companion for helping you to find your own fortune, and to embrace the ideas you need for that. Pyrite also encourages self reflection though, and by spending time with the stone, you will come to learn the traits about yourself that aren’t serving your higher cause. If you are looking to end bad habits or overcome what is holding you back, Pyrite is definitely your friend.

Jade

Stone Effects:

Jade is a powerful emotional balancer, nurturing and bringing peace and purity into your life, removing negative thoughts and energy. It radiates the divine, promoting unconditional love, serenity, clarity of mind, courage and wisdom. Jade is believed to be stone of luck, prosperity and friendship. It can enhance your dreams, allowing you to awaken hidden knowledge and become who you really are. It is a protective stone that keeps you from harm.

Jade offers wisdom and abundance to those willing to work with its energies, and it can open your eyes to the innate duality of life.

Black Obsidian

Thanks to its black color and overall luster, Obsidian is a crystal that is very evocative and mysterious. However, as with many black crystals, the principle energies at work in this stone are protective ones.

If you often feel bowled over by the strong personalities of others, or otherwise have a difficult time overcoming boisterous people, this crystal can not only keep you safe, but also help you to speak your mind. However, Obsidian is also a stone of self reflection, and it will coax you to examine and work on the imperfections within you that you’d otherwise not face up to.