If you occasionally have trouble disciplining yourself or are a procrastinator, black tourmaline is the answer for you. This is the most helpful of all black stones and brings forth the inner strength to attend to anything. This stone will make you serious, self-controlled, and stable. Wear black tourmaline when you need staying power.
Chiastolite is a mineral that assists with the mental faculties—critical thinking and analytic abilities. It is greatly valued as a creativity stone and is held dear for the way it aids in combining originality with practical thinking. This crystal will take a notion and give you the impetus to make the dream real. As is fitting for a crusader’s stone (think Knight Templar!), chiastolite will bring answers to mysteries. It is used by metaphysicians to support astral travel. It is also a symbol of transmutation, death, and rebirth; this is very much a stone of change. Healers believe it can reduce fever and even repair any material! This significant stone is held in immense regard, perhaps due to its cross marking, which makes it like no other rock in the world.
It is a testimony to the earth that we are still discovering new crystals and gems. Charoite is a fairly recent discovery in the West, which became aware of its existence in 1978, although the Russians unearthed it in 1947 in the Chara River valley in central Siberia. Indeed, the wavy patterning of this purple stone rather resembles a running river. Charoite is found exclusively in the part of Russia at the northern tip of Lake Baikal. Charoite is an intense purple. Since this is such a relatively recent discovery, we are still learning a lot about charoite, but what we know now is that it is a stone of cleansing and purification. It is also rapidly gaining a reputation as a stone of deep transformation. Charoite is being used for chakra healing, uniting the crown and heart chakras. An aura purifier, charoite grounds and integrates. It may be helpful for treating general aches and pains and issues relating to the heart, liver, eyes, and pancreas. This beautiful purple crystal can create the proper atmosphere for unconditional love. To use charoite effectively, you should place it over your heart.
Two stones that benefit artists and musicians the most are amethyst and aquamarine: absorption of the color rays or vibrations of these crystals stimulates the centers of the cortex that create.
Ever since the famous photograph was taken from Apollo 8 in 1968 of Earth juxtaposed with the Moon, blue lace agate has gained an unprecedented popularity for its resemblance to Earth as seen from space. This stone is relatively new, discovered just forty years ago. Most agates are common, but the blue stones are rarer. Formed from liquefied silica and crocidolite, this stone gets its lace pattern from fractures and layers caused by centuries of heating and cooling. there is one great source for this pale blue treasure in Angus, Scotland, and it occurs rarely in North America.
This cool blue stone is a calming agent and can be used in meditation to achieve higher consciousness. It is believed to be able to open the third eye and therefore promote greater spirituality and attunement of the crown chakra as well as the throat and heart. It can also assist in disorders of the pancreas, capillaries, and nerves. In powdered form, in an elixir, it can help with bones, too, and can be worn to heal fractures and breaks more quickly and relieve symptoms of arthritis.
In Egypt, a scarab carved from lapis lazuli was double the power of any other, as both the stone and the beetle represented infinity. Longevity and an illuminated mind come to the owner of a lapis scarab.
The more obscure gems are fascinating. According to the University of California, in Berkley, California, benitoite is found only in California, but in my research, I discovered that it has also been found in part of the American Southwest in Belgium. I’m inclined to go with the word of the esteemed university’s claim that is it a California-only gem; it has, in fact, been California’s state gem since 1907. It was first discovered close to the headwaters of the San Benito River and comes in an array of shades of blue. At first, it was thought to be a form of sapphire due to the lovely, lustrous dark blue in the initial discovery. Interestingly, X-ray findings revealed that the internal structure of the crystal was unlike any other crystal on Earth. Benitoite is also fluorescent, issuing a pale blue glow under ultraviolet light.
This mysterious stone is linked to red-black neptunite, white natrolite, and yellow-brown joaquinite in that all these stones were formed in the cracks of serpentine rock under hydrothermal liquid containing iron, cesium, titanium, barium, and manganese. Specimens such as a beautiful blue benitoite and red-black neptunite embedded in white natrolite are among the rarest on Earth and are found only in the part of California called the San Benito River valley.
With such a rare stone, much remains to be discovered about its properties, but a beneficial effect on the pituitary has been identified, and it is a stone useful to herbalists, botanists, and gardeners.
