Tag Archives: Minerals

About Stones: Hematite

Astrological Sign: Aries, Aquarius

Chakra: Root

Lore: Hematite is a stone for the mind. Enhancing memory and mental dexterity, hematite dissolves negativity and provides for smooth grounding, peace, and inner happiness. It attracts kind love and loving relationships.

Geology: Hematite occurs as a hydrothermal and replacement mineral, and in igneous rocks as an accessory mineral. Common habits are massive, fibrous, stalactitic and botryoidal. It is heavy and opaque with a dull metallic luster. Much of the hematite available in todays market is manmade.

Localities: Quebec, Venezuela, Brazil

About Stones: Gaspeite

Astrological Sign: Virgo

Chakra: Brow

Lore: Gaspeite brings spirituality to everyday living, attracting sanctity and enchantment. Used by Aboriginal tribes to gain visions, raise consciousness and communicate with spirits, gaspeite is thought to strengthen healing powers and provide protection from danger. Its energy can attract people in friendship or business “for the good of all.”

Geology: Gaspeite forms rich limey green masses as a secondary mineral in nickel sulfide deposits. Named for the Gaspe Peninsula where it was first discovered in 1966, it is known as “Allura” in Australia where it also occurs.

Localites: Quebec, Canada and North of Perth, Australia

About Stones: Elephant Jasper

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius

Chakra: Root

Lore: Elephant Jasper, a form of rhyolite, represents change, variety and progress. It helps us to enjoy our vast potential, lighting the fire of creativity within the soul. It is an excellent stone for meditation. Elephant jasper advances the search for the highest truth and encourages focus on each moment of time as it exists now.

Geology: Rhyolite is an igneous rock, usually fine-grained and often very colorful and boldly patterned. Rich in quartz and alkaline feldspar, rhyolite has the same general composition as granite. This brown variety of rhyolite called Elephant Jasper contains fossilized matter.

Localities: India

About Stones: Emerald

Astrological Sign: Taurus, Gemini, Aries

Chakra: Heart

Lore: Known as the stone of successful love, emerald supports sensitivity, loyalty and domestic bliss. It brings harmony to all areas of life, quieting the emotions and opening the heart. Emeralds help maintain rhythmic breathing for meditation. They bring a beneficial outcome to legal matters.

Geology: Emerald is a green beryl colored by chromium. They have been treasured since the time of Cleopatra. The most famous mines are those of Colombia. Emeralds of various localities can be recognized by their inclusions.

Localities: Colombia, Brazil, North Carolina, Russia

About Stones: Dalmation Stone

Astrological Sign: Gemini

Chakra: Heart

Lore: Dalmatian stone encourages playfulness and strengthens our lighter side. A good stone to share in relationships, it supports constancy, fidelity and devotion. It helps us disengage from outmoded behavior patterns. It is useful in the calming of animals.

Geology: Dalmatian stone is massive tan quartz microcline containing black tourmaline of volcanic origin scattered throughout. It was named based on its resemblance to a dalmatian’s fur.

Locality: Mexico

About Stones: Crazy Lace Agate

Astrological Sign: Aries

Chakra: Root, Solar Plexus

Lore: Crazy lace agate helps us to reach extremely high physical levels. Use to help recover from bio-rhythmic lows. It encourages laughter and provides insight into the many paths leading to awareness.

Geology: Crazy Lace Agate, or Mexican Lace Agate, is a variegated form of chalcedony displaying lace configurations or paisley patterns in a combination of red, white, gray and yellow.

Locality: Mexico

About Stones: Cobaltocalcite

Astrological Sign: Leo

Chakra: Brow, Crown, Heart

Lore: Cobaltocalcite is also known as sphaerocobaltite. It is used to enhance the peak of creative endeavors, supporting the realization that all things are possible. A gift of love, it helps in the formation of friendships.

Geology: Cobaltocalcite is a carbonate which occurs in a deep “hot pink” color as crusts and small crystals in cobalt ore locations. It is often found associated with malachite and dolomite.

Locality: Zaire, Germany

About Stones: Cowrie Shell

Astrological Sign: Pisces

Chakra: Sacral

Lore: The cowrie shell is an ancient symbol for creation, birth, and re-birth. It can help us actualize a spiritual re-awakening. Used for manifestation, it will bring good fortune and affluence. The cowrie can inspire the creativity of excellence. They are a favorite element of female adornment in the African culture, and are a symbol of power in the Fiji and Solomon Islands.

Biology: Cowries are snails in the family Cypraeidae. There are over 250 known living species.

Locality: Warm seas

About Stones: Copper

Astrological Sign: Taurus, Sagittarius

Chakra: Root, Sacral

Lore: Copper stimulates initiative, optimism, diplomacy, and independence. It can magnify the transfer of energy from other minerals or from a healer due to its ability to conduct electrical impulses. It is reputed to bring luck, especially in the recovery of property.

Geology: Copper is a native element forming in volcanic rocks and sulfide deposits. The usual habits are dendritic and massive, rarely crystaline in the form of cubes and octahedrons. Michigan’s native copper is used to form these interesting sculptures which are man made on the Keweenaw Peninsula. Molten copper at 2200 degrees Fahrenheit is poured into straw which is immersed in water. The straw is burned away and the copper solidifies. On New Years day, according to custom, early miners used lead in the same process as a method of fortune telling. Good or bad luck for the year to follow was determined by the shape and size of the sculpture formed.

Localities: Michigan, Arizona, Germany

About Stones: Chrysocolla

Astrological Sign: Gemini, Virgo, Taurus

Chakra: Throat, Heart

Lore: Chrysocolla eases emotional heartache and increases our capacity to love. Native American tribes used it as a healing stone for calming upset feelings. It helps re-build relationships and is purifying to the home and the environment.

Geology: Chrysocolla is formed in the oxidation zone of copper ore minerals where surface water containing acid dissolves copper out of the rock. A type of chrysocolla mined in Israel, called Eilat stone, is intergrown with turquoise and malachite.

Localities: Peru, Chile, Arizona, Nevada, Israel