What does that stone mean?

A list of the spiritual meaning and uses of crystals and stones found on fox&toad.

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AFRICAN TURQUOISE: 
African turquoise is a stone of wisdom that encourages growth. A conduit for opening the mind to new ideas and possibilities, it also helps brings structure, balance and prosperity. African turquoise is a stone that awakens you to your intended purpose for positive growth and gaining of wisdom.

AGATE
Agate is a prime promoter of inner stability, composure, and maturity as its warm protective properties encourage security and confidence. This stone also lessens or stops the desire for things we do not need. It helps writers express ideas, helps young children learn to walk and gain stability as they grow, and marital fidelity. Agate serves as a stone of protection while traveling.

AMBER
Absorbs pain and negative energy, helping to alleviate stress. Helps clear depression. Stimulates the intellect and promotes self-confidence and creative self-expression. Encourages decision-making, spontaneity. Brings wisdom, balance and patience.

AMETHYST
Relieves stress and strain, soothes irritability, balances mood swings, dispels anger, rage, fear and anxiety. Activates spiritual awareness, opens intuition and enhances psychic abilities. Strong healing and cleansing. It acts as a barrier against lower energies, psychic attack, geopathic stress and unhealthy environments. powers.

AMETRINE
Powerful combination of Amethyst and Citrine, connecting physical and spiritual realms. Very soothing stone, believed to be valuable for those with chronic, long-term diseases. Combines masculine and feminine energy and helps bring harmony with others. 

Citrine enhances abundance.

AMPHIBLE QUARTZ
Provides connection to the highest level of spiritual experience. Calls in your guardian angel, spirit guides, and higher beings. Brings harmony, and it is recognized as a stone of power.

ANGEL PHANTOM QUARTZ

ANDALUSTITE

ANGELITE

APACHE TEARS

APATITE
A dual-action stone, known for its positive use of personal power to achieve goals. Clears away confusion, apathy or negativity. Stimulates the intellect to expand knowledge and truth. May be used for personal growth or for the collective good.

APOPHOLLITE / STILBITE
Tendency to aid spiritual healing on a deep soul level. Helpful with easing depression, anxiety and stress related issues.

AQUAMARINE
Calming, soothing, and cleansing. Inspires speaking your truth, trusting and letting go.

Natural antibiotic powers. Known as the “Stone of Breath” as it can ease breathing related disorders. Helps ease issues with recurrent sinusitis as well as dry phlegm.

ASTROPHYLLITE
Astrophyllite is an energetically potent stone that infuses your entire system with light, and may assist you to recognize your purpose for being here as it illuminates your true self.

AVENTURINE

BLACK KYANITE / WITCHES BROOM
Energizer. Grounding, high-vibe energy protector. Dispels negative vibes. Helps enhance psychic abilities.

BLACK MOONSTONE

BLACK OBSIDIAN

BLACK SARDONYX

BLACK TOURMALINE
Black Tourmaline is a protective stone which repels and blocks negative energies and psychic attack. Black Tourmaline also aids in the removal of negative energies within a person or a space. Black Tourmaline will cleanse, purify, and transform dense energy into a lighter vibration.

BLOODSTONE

BLUE AGATE

BLUE ARAGONITE

BLUE CALCITE

BLUE CHALCEDONY

BLUE LACE

BLUE LAPIS

BLUE TIGER EYE

BRECCIATED JASPER

BRONZITE

BUMBLEBEE JASPER
Activates the Sacral and Solar Plexus chakras. Enables you to accept change, find new opportunities, increase your self-esteem. Helps you make decisions without relying solely on emotion.

CANDLE QUARTZ
It’s mediation crystal, that’s good for shadow work. It helps you illuminate the dark corners of your inner self.

CARNELIAN
Restores vitality and motivation. Stimulates creativity. Promotes courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy and motivates for success. Overcoming abuse of any kind. It helps in trusting yourself and your perceptions.

CAVANSITE
Stone of revelation, breakthrough, understanding, prophecy and spiritual enlightenment. Excellent for meditation. Assists with communicating information from spirit in all types of psychic work, including clairvoyance and clairaudience.

CELESTITE

CHOROITE
Charoite is a wonderful, spiritual stone teaching and guiding us on how to live in the "Now". It is a stone of acceptance and insight. Charoite provides healing on all levels- physical, emotional and spiritual. Physically, Charoite removes/transmutes negativity and overcomes obsessive/compulsive behaviors.

CHERRY QUARTZ
Cherry Quartz has all the qualities of quartz and is also great for the heart chakra. Helps fight anxiety about the future. Useful when you want vitality or courage to make progress. Can make you receive invisible energy easier. Cherry Quartz is great for concentration so is an excellent choice for anyone studying for exams.

CHEVRON AMETHYST

CHRYSOCOLLA
Foremost a Stone of Communication. Essence is devoted to expression, empowerment and teaching. Its turquoise-blue color discharges negative energies, calms, and allows truth and inner wisdom to surface and be heard.

CHRYSOPRASE

CITRINE

CLEAR QUARTZ

COPPER
Known as the lucky metal and the healing metal. Conducts spiritual energy back and forth between individuals, crystals, auras, the mind and the spirit world. Linked with the Divine and attributes to the Queen of Heaven.

Said to assist the body with repairing tissues, oxygenating the blood, easing arthritis, strengthening the female reproductive system and increasing vitality.

CRACKLE QUARTZ

DALMATION JASPER

DESERT JASPER / POLYCHROME JASPER
Crystal of exuberance, physical energy, vitality, and vibrance full of fire. Energy of heat, action, emotion and passion.

DRAGON JASPER

DUMORTIERITE

ELESTIAL QUARTZ
Extremely high-vibration stone. Great for spiritual growth as they are high vibe spiritual crystal and can regulate the spiritual energy of those around it.

EMERALD
The “Stone of Successful Love,” emerald opens and nurtures the heart and the Heart Chakra. Provides healing to all levels of the being, bringing freshness and vitality to the spirit. Stone of inspiration and infinite patience, it embodies unity, compassion and unconditional love.

EPIDOTE
Great stone for releasing negativity and raising your vibrational energy. Helpful for those stuck in modes of depression, hopelessness, or other negative thinking pattern. Can inject a sense of hopeful optimism into one's emotional body to  help bring the mind into a higher vibration.

EUDIALYTE
Lively, uplifting and energizing heart stone. Helps open the Heart Chakra, allowing you to receive and communicate love.

FIRE AGATE
Protective and grounding stone with a calming energy. Builds a protective shield around the body. Deflects ill-wishing and harm and reflects it back to its source.

FLUORITE
Fluorite is a highly protective and stabilizing stone. Useful for grounding and harmonizing spiritual energy. May increase intuitive abilities, links the human mind to universal consciousness, and develops connection to Spirit. Anchors intuitive insights into the physical plane, allowing mental and physical coordination. Popular stone among energy healers, can also clear the aura of mucky energies.

FOSSIL CORAL
Grounding stone good for bringing about change. Thought to be helpful with pancreatic disorders and improve blood and air circulation. Used for healing eye, skin and stomach illnesses.

GARDEN QUARTZ
Grounding stone that is used extensively in healing and meditation work. Known to be able to establish a clear path to removing negativity by passing it back into the Earth where it can dissipate naturally.

GARNET
Helps us feel grounded and connected to the present moment. Energy enhancer. Tied to heart and root chakras.

GOLD TIGER EYE

GOLDEN QUARTZ
Psychic healing. Balancing all chakras. Meditation and spiritual communication.

GREEN KYANITE
Used to make contact with the nature spirits, and is great to take along on hikes or camping trips. Improve potted plant growth when placed in soil. Facilitate astral travel, lucid dreaming, and other forms of dream work.

GREEN SARDONYX

HAG STONE / FAIRY STONE
Often worn or adorned on the bed to encourage fertility. Protection stone. Wards off unwanted spirits. Seeing into the realm of the fae. Preventing bad dreams. Healing magic.

HEALERS GOLD

HEMATITE
Strong grounding energy with calming effect. Helps fight off negative energies. Helps develop concentration and focus.

HEMATOID JASPER

HEMATOID QUARTZ
A calming stone for the mind. Good for success in legal disputes. A memory enhancer and an aid to clarity of thought and control of stress.

HERKIMER
Helps strengthen the mind. Vitalizes your energy. Helps ward off evil spirits. As a clear quartz, it is also a high energy amplifier of spiritual energy.

HONEY CALCITE

HOWLITE

JET

KAMBABA JASPER

KIWI JASPER

KUNZITE
Stone of Emotion, opening and connecting the heart to the mind. Stimulating a healing communion between the two.

KYANITE
For meditation and attunement. Won’t hold negative vibrations or energy, so never requires clearing. Aligns all chakras. Provides balance of yin-yang energy and dispels blockages. Moves energy gently through the physical body.

LABRADORITE
Useful companion through change, imparting strength and perseverance. 
Balances and protects the aura. Raises consciousness and grounds spiritual energies. Excellent for strengthening intuition.

LARIMAR
Larimar stone is an active throat chakra crystal. Assists with clear communication. Helps to dissolve emotional barriers. 

LAVA ROCK

LEOPARD SKIN

LEPIDOLITE
Brings deep emotional healing. Reduces stress and depression. 
Dissipates negativity. Activates the throat, heart, third-eye chakras which help in expand your mind, which can also lead to self-awareness in a universal sense.

LITHIUM QUARTZ
Said to gently relieve stress, anxiety, and tension, bringing relaxation and peace. Great for meditation and/or prayer.

MAHOGANY JASPER

MALACHITE
Stone of balance, abundance, manifestation and intention. Often called the “stone of transformation” and is used for deep energy cleaning. Brings healing and positive transformation to the wearer.

MANEFESTATION QUARTZ
The crystal of clarity, purest white light and guidance. Been used in meditation to help resolve underlying doubts, which may be blocking you from manifesting your goals.

MOOKAITE
Nurturing stone that supports and sustains during times of stress. Brings peace and a feeling of wholeness. Helps with decision making, especially when we going through a difficult time. Encourages versatility and helps you accept change. Good for emotional growth. 

MOONSTONE

MOROCCAN RED QUARTZ
Woman’s empowerment stone. Speak your truth in male dominated environments. Supports feminine power with grace.

MOSS AGATE
Stone of new beginnings. Refreshes the soul and opens your eyes to the beauty of the world. Reduces sensitivity to weather and environmental pollutants. Attracts abundance in wealth and improves self-esteem. 

NUUMMITE

OCEAN JASPER
Encourages feelings of joy and elevated spirits! A positive communication stone, that allows you to express your feelings in a loving way. Associated with the solar plexus chakra, which can help you enhance your personal power.

ONYX
A powerful protection stone. Absorbs and transforms negative energy, and helps to prevent the drain of personal energy. Aids the development of emotional and physical strength and stamina, especially during times of stress, confusion or grief.

OPALITE
Improves communication on all levels, and helps you verbalize your feelings more clearly to others. Removes energy blockages of the chakras and meridians. Also a transition stone so helps ease the effects of change.

ORANGE CALCITE

PEACH MOONSTONE

PETRIFIED WOOD
Calm the nerves and fears; encourages feelings of wellbeing, safety, and security. A great conduit for connecting with ancestors. Said to help restore physical energy, to strengthen the bones and to relieve hip, back and foot pain.

PIETERSITE

PINK MOONSTONE

PINK OPAL

PINK TOURMALINE / PINK TOURMALINE IN QUARTZ
For cleansing the emotional body of destructive feelings and old wounds accumulated over time. Helps release guilt, worry, depression and anxieties, and guides those emotions into self-love.

PRASIOLITE

PREHNITE
Considered a stone of unconditional love and the crystal to heal the healer. Enhances precognition and inner knowing. Helps alleviate nightmares, phobias and deep fears, uncovering and healing the dis-ease that creates them. Also a stone for dreaming and remembering.

PURPLE AGATE

PURPLE OPAL
Associated with love and passion, as well as desire and eroticism. A seductive stone that intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions. Also serves as an emotional stabilizer. 

PYRITE
Very protective stone that shields from negative energy of all kinds. 
Blocks energy leaks and mends auric tears. Promotes good physical health and emotional well-being.

RAINBOW FLUORITE

RAINBOW MOONSTONE

RAINFOREST JASPER / RHYOLITE

RHODOCHROSITE
Integrates physical and spiritual energies, stimulating love and passion while energizing the soul. Opens the heart, lifting depression and encouraging a positive and cheerful outlook. Helps improves self worth and soothes emotional stress.

RHODONITE

ROSE QUARTZ
Stone of universal love. Restores trust and harmony in relationships, encouraging unconditional love. Purifies and opens the heart at all levels to promote love, self-love, friendship, deep inner healing and feelings of peace.

RUBY
Stone of Divine Creativity. Boosts your energy levels and promotes high self-esteem, intuition, and spiritual wisdom. Symbol of good fortune, pure love, and loyalty.

RUBY FUSCHITE

RUBY KYANITE
Helps bring dreams into reality while releasing old patterns that are not for your highest good. A powerful heart stone, opening and activating the heart chakra. Protects against the loss of heart energy, and dissolves emotional blockages.

RUBY ZOISITE

RUTILATED QUARTZ

SCENIC JASPER

SCOLECITE
High vibration crystal. Strong communication stone especially with spirit. Resonates well with the chakras which can lead to deep inner peace and spiritual transformation.

SELENITE
Can provide protection by the angelic realm and also dispels negative energy. Used for good luck and protection. Can clear, open, and activate the Crown and Higher Chakras and is excellent for all types of spiritual work. Can clean environments and other stones.

SEREPHENITE
Spiritual enlightenment. Helps with gaining conscious awareness on many higher planes. It is excellent for accessing self-healing.

SERPENTINE

SHIVA

SHUNGITE

SKELETAL QUARTZ
Layers of a crystal built over time. Great for meditating to peel back the layers of any issues you are facing so you can gain better understanding.

SMOKY QUARTZ

SNOWFLACE JASPER

SODALITE

SPIRIT QUARTZ
High vibe stone as the tiny crystals on the surface reflect back at one another quantifying its energy. Community stone that helps with gathering energy. Great for team building and those in service industries like healthcare, teaching, etc. Comes in Amethyst, Citrine, Smokey, and White Quartz.

STILBITE
Highly creative stone that opens intuition with a loving and supportive vibe. Aids traveling into the higher spiritual realm while maintaining conscious memory of being there.

STRAWBERRY QUARTZ

SUNSTONE

SUPER 7
Made from a mix of 7 different gemstones: Amethyst, Clear Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Cacoxenite, Rutile, Geothite and Lepidocrocite. For awakening your energy. Believed its power brings out hidden potential. 
Used for self-development. May strengthen mental power.

TEKTITE

TIGER EYE (RED, BLUE, GOLD)

Gold: Protection stone. Brings good luck. Focuses the mind, mental clarity. Helps resolve problems objectively and unclouded by emotions. 

TOURMALINATED QUARTZ

TREE AGATE
Stone of inner peace and plenitude. Brings abundance and fullness to all areas of life, including business and agriculture. Can be used to enhance the yield of crops or to maintain the health of house plants.

TURRITELLA

UNAKITE

VANADINITE
Helps you to stop the thoughts that may interrupt you in meditation. Third-eye chakra stone that helps stimulate the pineal gland (where psychic gifts originate). Eye of Horus is shaped like the pineal gland.

ZEBRA JASPER