Crystal Power

With crystal power, you can improve your life in ways large and small. You’ve discovered the stones that are special to you, and how to fully utilize these birthstones and karmic crystals. You have received advice for crystal healing and stress-dispersing. You’ve heard how gems and statues positioned in strategic places around your home or workspace can help accelerate the positive vibrations you are activating in your life. Using what I have called crystal feng shui, you can place a crystal, geode, or appealingly shaped rock in the appropriate position in your home or workspace to facilitate change. Having different gemstones or crystals within easy reach can bring you clarity, patience, and inspiration when you need it the most.

Yes, through the power and positive energy of crystals, anything is possible. With the information in this book, I hope you can gather together the stones and crystals that sing the loudest to you and integrate them into your life. May this glittering and magical realm make you welcome, and may you and your loved ones enjoy the many blessings of these sacred stones!

Sacred Stone Shapes

• Ankh-shaped stones represent the key to life. Use this ancient Egyptian symbol to develop creativity, wisdom, and fertility.

• Clusters are among the most common natural crystal forms and bring balance and harmony into your life.

• Diamond-shaped stones bring the energy of wealth and abundance and are said to attract riches.

• Egg-shaped stones denote creativity and give new ideas to anyone wearing them.

• Heart-shaped stones bring love energy. They promote self-love and romance.

• Holes that form naturally in stones are very auspicious and magical. If you look through the holes by the light of the moon, you should see visions and spirits.

• Human body-shaped stones bring good energy to the body parts being depicted and strengthen those areas.

• Obelisks are four-sided, pyramid-topped shapes and are wonderful energy activators, or manifestors. Write your wish down on paper and place it beneath an obelisk to bring that hope into reality.

• Octahedrons, eight-sided stones, bring order to chaos and are great for analysis and organization. They are also terrific for healing. Carry an octahedron crystal in your pocket if you are unwell, so you can feel better soon.

• Pyramid-shaped stones carry energy upward, toward their pointed tips. I have a beautiful little malachite pyramid that I keep on my computer simply because I love to look at it. When the need arises, however, I can place a dollar bill underneath it and visualize positive money energy flowing up out of the stone.

• Rectangular rocks and crystals represent the energy of God. In addition to symbolizing male energy and the phallus, this shape is symbolic of energy itself and electrical current. It also denotes protection. Rectangular stones are great for love and sex spells.

• Round stones represent the universe and the Goddess. They are symbols of spirituality, connection to the universe, femininity, and, of course, pregnancy. Round crystals can be used in all love spells to cause attraction.

• Square stones represent the earth and are harbingers of plenty and prosperity.

• Triangular stones are guardian stones and protect the wearers.

Sacred Stone Shapes for Talismans and Amulets

Shape: Ankh-shaped stones
Use: Represent the key to life; develop creativity, wisdom, and fertility 

Shape: Clusters
Use: Bring balance and harmony into your life 

Shape: Diamond-shaped stones
Use: Attract riches; bring energy of wealth/abundance 

Shape: Egg-shaped stones
Use: Give new ideas to wearer; denote creativity 

Shape: Heart-shaped stones
Use: Promote romance, self-love; love energy 

Shape: Holes that form naturally in stones
Use: Can see visions/spirits if you look through the hole by moonlight

Shape: Human body-shaped stones
Use: Bring energy and strength to whatever body part they look like 

Shape: Obelisks
Use: Energy activators

Shape: Octahedrons
Use: Good for analysis, organization, healing; bring order to chaos

Shape: Pyramid-shaped stones
Use: Bring energy upward

Shape: Rectangular rocks and crystals
Use: Energy of God; symbolize male energy; protection; good for love/sex spells 

Shape: Round stones
Use: Universe, the Goddess; spirituality, femininity, pregnancy; used in love spells to promote attraction

Shape: Square stones
Use: Bring prosperity; plenty; represent the earth

Shape: Triangular stones
Use: Protect wearers; guardians

Moonstone—Prophecy and Passion

In olden times, it was believed that wearing a moonstone during the waning moon would offer prophetic abilities. The people of India have held moonstone as holy for thousands of years, but they had a superstition against displaying the sacred stone except on a cloth of yellow, the most spiritual color in their culture. The Indians also believed moonstone was very potent in the bedroom and not only aroused enormous passion but also gave lovers the ability to read their future together. The only problem was that they had to hold the moonstone in their mouths during the full moon to enjoy these magical properties.

Change Your Life with Sacred Stones

• amber for grounding
• aventurine for creative visualization
• bloodstone for abundance and prosperity
• carnelian for opening doors for you your family
• citrine for getting motivated and attracting money and success
• geode for getting through periods of extreme difficulty
• hematite for strength and courage
• jasper for stability
• rhodochrosite for staying on course with your life’s true purpose
• watermelon tourmaline for help with planning your best possible future

Abalone

Abalone is the beautifully iridescent lining of a seashell—a product of our oceans and the end result of a living thing. Abalone is fished in California and in the warm, tropical coastal waters of Japan, China, and South America. Abalone is used to heal the heart and the muscles tissue, and to aid digestion. Use abalone as a dish to hold your sage smudging-stick for clearing energy at home. This gorgeous organic gem is a beautiful and sacred token for your altar or shrine at home. Just looking at abalone gives a sense of inner peace.

Aquamarine—Seawater Stone

A favorite among sailors and mariners, this stone is said to keep them safe. Aquamarine is the signifier of the oceanic divinities, sea goddesses and sirens. The Egyptians loved this gem and gifted it to the dead as part of the treasure hoard to grant them safety in the next life. They also gifted it to the gods of the netherworld as a guarantee of safe passage. Egyptian high priests wore on their shoulders two aquamarine, or shoham, as they called them, engraved with the names of the six tribes of Egypt. This sacred stone was also one of the twelve sanctified gems used in the breastplate of the biblical King Solomon. Today, aquamarine can be a boon to a couple, as it helps maintain a long and happy marriage. And it defends against the devil! The sun is the nemesis of the blue gem because the color of the aquamarine fades if overexposed to sunlight.