Ammonite

Stone Effects:
Grounding, Protection, Self Power, Wisdom

now extinct, the ammonite mollusc was a shelled cephalopod, usually appearing in a coiled, spiral shape. The extinction of ammonites coincided with the extinction of dinosaurs. Ammonites inhabited the world’s oceans and now appear as fossils in marine rocks. Because of their rapid evolution and wide distribution, ammonite fossils provide a useful tool for indexing and dating rocks. It is said that the original discus used by the ancient Greeks in their Olympics was in fact a fossilised ammonite. In India, ammonite fossils are identified with the god Vishnu and are used in various ceremonies. They are mostly collected in Nepal, from the bed of the River Gandaki where it cuts through Jurassic sediments. These fossils are known as “shaligram shila”. The word ammonite is derived from Ammon, an Egyptian god who took the form of a ram. Ammonites are similar in appearance to a ram’s horn. Ammonite will bring about a circulation of energy, making you feel more stable, protected, and grounded in your life. It will also do the same to any space that this stone is placed.
Ammonite’s energies will provide you with a kind of stability that’s dynamic.
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Petrified Wood

Stone Effects:
Grounding, Growth, Mood Lifting, Nurturing, Self Power, Wisdom

Petrified Wood promotes inner harmony helping you to see the good and positive side of life. It helps relieve worries and provides a sense of well being, composure and calm allowing you to accept and external influences and use them to meet your own goals in life. Petrified wood brings embedded feelings in your subconscious to the surface to remove unnecessary limits on your potential. This fossilized wood assists you in letting go of these unhealthy emotions. Petrified wood can help you recognize and overcome limiting emotional patterns handed down through your ancestors. Often these emotional patterns were created as survival tools in order to deal with situations your ancestors encountered, but which are no longer appropriate. Petrified wood can help you identify which of these patterns are no longer needed, so such limitations can be cleared, freeing humanity from the destructive echos of the past, while still keeping the ancient wisdom that can help you return to balance.

Larvikite

Stone Effects:
Cleansing, Grounding, Growth, Meditation, Nurturing, Protection, Transformation, Trust

The energies of this stone will protect you in your day to day activities, and it will offer protection even when you are asleep, or even when you are travelling. Anything that’s harmful or no longer needed will be dispelled by this stone, and you will be able to enjoy a positive flow of energies. Larkivite is also an excellent stone to use during meditation because it will effectively still and focus your mind.

It will remove unnecessary thoughts, and it will sharpen your concentration. Larkivite will facilitate a powerful connection with the Earth’s energies and help you connect to the spirits of nature. This stone will stimulate your inner vision and enhance your psychic abilities. It will also allow you to see the past, which will give you a clear vision of your past life and how it’s influencing your life right now. You will not overreact at the smallest things, but you will also not be passive or unaffected just because you don’t want to overdo it. If you often find yourself wanting to be away from a place that feels off, or you simply don’t like the energy of a certain environment, Larkivite is a great stone to deflect the negative energies.

Black Tourmalated Quartz

Stone Effects:
Clarity, Grounding, Heal, Inner Strength, Protection

Tourmilated Quartz encourages a large amount of light to encircle your body, and this will heal you on many levels. The combination of clear quartz with its strong vibration enhances the energy of the black tourmaline, giving tourmalated quartz a strong spiritual grounding energy as well as being a potent psychic protection stone.

This distinctive stone has strands and streaks of Tourmaline in the body of the Quartz, and it likewise combines clarity and strength in one handy package. This crystal will amplify your natural energies to bring about your best self, but also allow you to reflect on yourself and your own needs and desires.

Through these discoveries, you will feel emboldened in following your life path with renewed passion. Tourmalinated Quartz encourages you to be independent, but also to know who you can rely on when you’re in a pinch.

Hematite

Stone Effects:
Courage, Energy, Grounding, Vitality

The metallic sheen of Hematite might well serve to strengthen your steely resolve, but this stone itself also reinforces your physical body. That means it can help you to get over sickness and injury, but also that it gives you greater resilience to illness and fatigue. Hematite is a stone that focuses the heart and mind on what is real, tangible, physical and attainable. If you’re finding your head in the clouds too often, or even if your dreams at night are so vivid that you wake up startled, this stone can give valuable grounding energy.

Hematite is a grounding and protective stone that energizes and vitalizes the physical body. It promotes optimism, determination, courage, self esteem and willpower, helping you to magnetize what you truly want and to strive for improvement. Hematite harmonizes the mind, body and spirit, helping to dissolve negativity.

Smoky Quartz

Stone Effects:
Grounding, Mood Lifting, Protection

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.

Black Obsidian

Stone Effects:
Cleansing, Communication, Grounding, Protection

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.

Fluorite

Stone Effects:
Cleansing, Grounding, Security

Fluorite promotes focus, intuition and understanding. It helps to bring chaos into order, promoting stability, free thinking and clear unbiased reasoning. Fluorite is excellent for the advancement of the mind, aiding in meditation and inter dimensional communication. It is a highly protective stone, especially on a psychic level and from outside influences. Fluorite draws away negative energy and stress, cleansing and purifying the body.The striking colors of Fluorite make it a popular stone in its own right, but it’s the relaxing properties of this stone that have made it so consistently popular with stress and anxiety seemingly always on the rise, this crystal is a welcome soothing balm to the soul.

Black Tourmaline

Stone Effects:
Cleansing, Grounding, Security

Black Tourmaline (Schrol) is a very supportive stone that protects us from external influences, dispersing stress, tension and negative energy. It grounds and anchors light energy within the physical body, promoting inner wisdom, mastery, individuality, stability, courage and patience being peace to the heart and mind. Black Tourmaline also protects against the negative effects of electromagnetic radiation and inharmonious energies. It grounds spiritual energy for increased radiance and light during dark times. It strengthens spiritual consciousness, making life among non-believers easier. Place a black tourmaline wand at the feet or knees with the pointed end pointing toward the toes. This will encourage negative energy to leave the body, in keeping with black tourmaline meaning.