Goddess's Earthly Treasures

Stone's Healing Capabilities List

Since the beginning of human history, mankind has displayed an affection and reverance toward the power of crystals. Below is a list of the metaphysical properties which belong to each of the types of crystal stones that Snyder Jewellery usually carries.

Amber - Truly not a crystal or stone, amber is actually tree sap which has hardened over time. However, due to its deep connection with vegetation and the earth in general, it still stores within it a great deal of power from Gaia. Amber can be used as a sort of filter for that which may otherwise cause harm. It absorbs disease or toxic impurities from the body, and turns negativity into optimism. More than this, it may be used as a tool for grounding one's energy, and as a support to link one's consciousness to one's higher self.

For the Mind, it can:
- Heal addictions

For the Spirit, it can:
- Bring prosperity & fortune
- Promote intuitive dreams
- Stir courage within oneself
- Dispel Grief

For the Body, it can:
- Help with headaches
- Cure insomnia
- Correct blood sugar imbalances

For the Mind, it can
- Heal addictions

For the Spirit, it can
- Bring prosperity & fortune
- Promote intuitive dreams
- Stir courage within oneself
- Dispel Grief

For the Body, it can
- Help with headaches
- Cure insomnia
- Correct blood sugar imbalances

Aquamarine - Because of its properties,  it could be described as a stone which could embody the spirit of water. If one feels stress from unpleasant worries from criticism or indecisiveness, Aquamarine may give the help that is needed. It soothes the emotions, quiets the mind, and gives subtle encouragement to its user. It has the ability to bestow a cool and collected attitude which may make all the difference in everyday life. Its natural affinity to the throat chakra may also aid one's self expression, further untangling any stress from confusion in communications. During meditation, one may feel sharper yet more relaxed while holding a piece of aquamarine.

For the Mind, it can:
- Calm anxiety
- Bolster reasoning
- Clear the mind & help focus

For the Spirit, it can:
- Release negativity
- Aid creativity and self expression
- Refresh and uplift one's spirit

For the Body, it can:
- Improve sight
- Strengthen bone structure
- Cool fever and sunburn

Black Onyx - Everlasting, protective, and wise. Black Onyx acts as a shield and sword for those who are battling with strife in their life. It is a guardian and support for those who need to weather a rough night. It grants stamina, perseverance, and raw determination to help one succeed in achieving their objective. It helps its user to get from one step to another and to overcome past grief. Black Onyx is a stone that is perfect for helping one to move on.

For the Mind, it can:
- Sharpen the wits

For the Spirit, it can:
- Stave off negative thought
- Promote spiritual inspiration
- Strengthens phsycic contact
- Facilitates channeling
- Grant wisdom

For the Body, it can:
- Fortify the kidneys & heart
- Protect against neurological disorder
- Improve eyesight
- Aid sleep
- Strengthen bones & teeth

Blue Chalcedony - One of the varieties of chalcedony, Blue Chalcedony can, itself, vary from dark to light blue. From its color alone, one can feel a sense of bubbly happiness emanating from this stone. Blue Chalcedony can give back a child-like happiness and fascination for all things in life that one may have lost in earlier years. It can provide mental dexterity, facilitate learning, and create an environment that is overall more conducive to learning in one's mind. Because of its joyful and bubbly energy, it may help one to get along with others, become more talkative, and build friendships.

For the Mind, it can:
- Improve memory
- Improve self perception
- Facilitate learning

For the Spirit, it can:
- Attract friendships
- Grant optimism

For the Body, it can:
- Relieve inflamation
- Lower blood pressure
- Enhance the immune system
- Help relieve Alzheimer's disease

Blue Topaz - One of the many varieties of topaz, Blue Topaz is often seen as a lighter blue stone. This form of topaz in particular can aid one in being true to oneself. It gives one the courage and strength to break away from the crowd, release the roles that society has given them, and be their own person. It is a stone of both wisdom and truth, and in having those, it releases its wearer from feelings of having to live up to others' expectations. Along with these characteristics, it also retains many properties which are true to other topaz varieties.

For the Mind, it can:
- Stave off eating disorders
- Promote self control
- Aid problem solving skills
- Aids communication skills

For the Spirit, it can:
- Direct energy where it is needed the most
- Bring joy and abundance
- Make one more receptive of love
- Encourage honesty and openness

For the Body, it can:
- Energizes metabolism
- Fortifies the nerves
- Amplify or return taste

Citrine - A brownish, orange form of quartz, Citrine retains very different properties from others in the quartz family. It has qualities which have often been attributed to properties of the sun and sunlight. It has an invigorating energy which helps one to grow while avoiding negativity and other obstacles. If one is feeling brought down by the troubles of life, Citrine can help to take those negative energies and break them down. It not only absorbs negative energies, but it literally breaks them down and releases the harmless remnants into the environment. Its natural affinity to the crown chakra can make Citrine a great tool to unleash one's inner wisdom.

For the Mind, it can:
- Enhance mental clarity, confidence and will power
- Promote honesty and creativity
- Relieve anger and depression

For the Spirit, it can:
- Clear the aura of negative energies
- Aid in dream recall and dream work
- Warn one when problems are arising
- Promote one's intuition

For the Body, it can:
- Help with digestion
- Alleviate nightmares
-Remove toxins and fight addictions
- Relieve constipation
 

Peridot - It is a common stone mentioned often in ancient traditions and cultures. Peridot cleanses toxins in the body by facilitating the heart and solar plexus chakra. It also strengthens one's metabolism and the body's natural ability to heal itself. Lesser known is peridot's ability to help one cope with change. Peridot itself is a stone of change and of movement. The ancient knowledge stored in peridot instructs us to let go of past events, release our negativity, and move on to our destiny.

For the Mind, it can:
- Reduce stress
- Induce relaxation
- Ward away negativity
- Guard from illusions of the mind

For the Spirit, it can:
- Ward away evil
- Aid friendship
- Dissolve enchantments

For the Body, it can:
- Neutralize toxins in the body
- Benefit skin condition
- Strengthen metabolism
- Aid healing of skin

Clear Quartz - One of the most commonly found stones on earth, quartz is actually the best conductor of energy in the crystal kingdom. Energy work is made easier and one's energy levels are taken to new heights through the use of clear quartz's natural ability to absorb, amplify, and store energies. Because this stone is so vibrant and fluent with energy, it can be used for general purpose needs of the mind, body, and spirit. It has a natural ability to balance the chakras and can help the body naturally fight disease and ailment.

For the Mind, it can:
- Clears away negativity from the mind
- Purify thoughts
- Retrieve information deep within the mind
- Improve mental stamina

For the Spirit, it can:
- Grant clear visions
- Bestow spiritual clarity and awareness
- Facilitate healing energy
- Channel universal energy

For the Body, it can:
- Speed healing from disease or wounds
- Treat general pain
- Fortify physical endurance

Emerald - An emerald is a symbol of hope, love, and patience. Its energies are natural proponents of relationships and will help to soothe hurting or broken relationships. Its relaxing energies also help to calm the storms of personal struggles, and it can also aid one in soul searching since it facilitates understanding. The natural wisdom that pieces of Emerald store within themselves make them powerful tools when developing psychic ability. It can also bestow wisdom upon its user by granting them an open mind and larger perspective on circumstances in life.

For the Mind, it can:
- Assist understanding with changes and new directions
-Help with decision making
- Provide positive thoughts

For the Spirit, it can:
- Rid oneself of negative energies
-Enhance focus and reflection during meditation
-Enhance psychic ability
- Grant wisdom & understanding

For the Body, it can:
- Aid with sleep difficulties
- Aid recovery from disease
- Stave off epilepsy

Garnet (red) - Among the varieties of Garnet, Red Garnet can be described as a stone of passion, fire, charisma, energy. It has an uplifting, and refreshing energy which renews and invigorates. Those who wear Garnet can feel the energy of passion coming from this beautiful, deep red stone. Igniting old flames and bringing about a rise in sexual drive, this crystal can help one to enjoy life and cherish their significant other. Besides helping one to bring back the zest in life, Garnet can also bring courage and support to one in time of need.

For the Mind, it can:
- Protect against depression 
- Guard against impure thoughts
- Combat lethargy 

For the Body, it can:
- Assist with blood deficiency diseases
- Relieve rheumatism and arthritis pain 
- Cure fever and promote good health 
- Protect whilst traveling
- Stimulate sexual drive

For the Spirit, it can:
- Give Energy and Courage
- Enhance it's wearers imagination

Iolite - Often called "water sapphire", Iolite is often seen as a dark blue stone, although it may come in yellow, gray, and violet. Iolite provides guidance and wisdom. It's connection with the third eye chakra makes it a useful path-finder in life. It gives direction to those who feel as if they are meandering through the confusing mazes of their lives. This is a stone of intuition, and it awakens our innate wisdom buried beneath the conscious thoughts which often get in the way.

For the Mind, it can:
- Help with financial management
- Enhance leadership ability
- Help discern truth

For the Spirit, it can:
- Increase confidence and self esteem
- Bring vision and prophecy
- Facilitate clairvoyancy
- Make visions more accurate
- Aid in astral travel

For the Body, it can:
- Protect from disease
- Eliminate chronic disorders
- Remove toxins from the body
- Energize the body

Labradorite - It is a stone which shimmers a beautiful cats-eye effect. The light it reflects can represent much of what Labradorite does when used. It shields us from negative energy by reflecting it away from our auras when those energies stray too close to us. Quite often, Labradorite can shed light on psychological problems and traumas buried deep in our minds. It can also help to bring out the truth of what one thinks and may aid one in speaking their mind. An excellent specimen when searching within oneself, Labradorite can be used to explore the deepest recesses of one's mind.

For the Mind, it can:
- Relieve anxiety
- Rid one of negative thought
- Grant clarity of thought
- Bring focus

For the Spirit, it can:
- Inspire enthusiasm
- Enhance intuition
- Grant inner knowing
- Grant calmness

For the Body, it can:
- Treat eye and brain disorders
- Strengthen bone structure

Larimar - A relatively newly discovered stone, Larimar is one of the latest additions to crystal healing. Also known as the Atlantis stone, Larimar can take one to deep meditative states and help one to develop mentally as well as spiritually. It can create a mental environment of perfect discerning and tranquility. Fantastic for the mind, it can also break bad habits and psychological patterns which bond addicts and obsessive compulsive individuals. It can also help to dissolve energetic blockages around the heart and solar plexus chakra, and also help one to ground energy and balance it with the earth's.

For the Mind, it can:
- Rid the mind of mental blocks
- Calm the mind
- Facilitate creativity

For the Spirit, it can:
- Allow one to connect with their feminine side
- Counteract energy imblances
- Help attract one's soulmate
- Balance the physical body with the "spiritual body"
- Release guilt

For the Body, it can:
- Promote healing
- Draw pain out from problem areas
- Facilitate blood circulation

Lapis Lazuli - Lapis Lazuli is a stone which brings one closer to one's inner self, and which also brings one closer to others. It helps one achieve peace, understanding, and wisdom by balancing one's energies and by facilitating the third eye chakra. Because of this, psychic ability is also made easier, and one can use Lapis Lazuli to develop psychic skills.

For the Mind, it can:
- Encourage self awareness
- Make the mind prone to objectivity
- Encourage creativity
- Ease communication

For the Spirit, it can:
- Enhance psychic ability
- Guard against psychic attack
- Reveal inner truth
- Inspire confidence
- Promote honesty

For the Body, it can:
- Benefit the respiratory and nervous system
- Cleanse the organs
- Ward away physical attack

Lemon Quartz - This is a type of quartz turned yellow by the presence of oxidized iron. Lemon Quartz is often referred to as Lemon Topaz, but don't be fooled. There is no such thing as Lemon Topaz; there is only Lemon Quartz. The color yellow often conveys feelings of hope, optimism, happiness, and light. These are the same type of energies given from a piece of  Lemon Quartz. This stone can be used to treat negative thoughts and depression, and is perfect when fighting those sinking feelings which bring us down in our day.

For the Mind, it can:
- Relieve anxiety
- Help the mind to focus
- Aid verbal communication

For the Spirit, it can:
- Protect from negativity
- Amplify our happiness
- Facilitate spiritual energy
- Strengthen psychic power
- Bring fortune
- Encourage creativity

Malachite - Malachite is a wonderful green stone with bands of light and dark green. It is very often referred to as the "Mirror of the Soul", and with good cause. Malachite can be used as a diagnostic tool to see what is making you feel so depressed, or why one's spiritual growth is stunted. It brings out the truth of what one is feeling, the reasoning behind one's actions, and can shed light on the psychological reasons for the things we do. It also helps one to deal with change, and can make one more outgoing and willing to try new things.

For the Mind, it can:
- Ward away nightmares
- Clear past negative influences
- Identify buried problems in the subconscious
- Promote creativity
- Help focus

For the Spirit, it can:
- Assist in one's spiritual journey
- Absorb negative energy
- Break down psychic barriers
- Stimulate psychic vision

For the Body, it can:
- Provide protection during child birth
- Provide protection during travel
- Reduce radiation illness, asthma, arthritis, tumors

Mystic Topaz - A stone with vibrant color which can be seen in purple, green, blue, or a mix. Because it is heat treated White Topaz, its use in energy medicine is controversial . Despite gaining its color through that process, Mystic Topaz still retains useful energy which can be employed during healing. Mystic Topaz releases energy that feels similar to White Topaz, but it also has added properties from the titanium which has been bonded to Mystic Topaz. When one is feeling as if their energy is blocked or at a stand still, it can help to bring about a release of the blockage and can get energy flowing again. An excellent manipulator of energy, Mystic Topaz can help one direct and guide energy as well as ground and balance it. It can also bring fortune, good luck, and a renewal of energy.

For the Mind, it's believed to:
- Relieve nervous tendencies
- Help one to cope with change

For the Spirit, it's believed to:
- Release calming energy
- Enhance remote viewing
- Attract friendship
- Facilitate financial gain

Prehnite - It is a stone of intuition, healing, and uplifting love. It naturally induces a sense of kindness and love, and can help one to forgive the mistakes of the past. Its capability for healing is tremendous as it can help one to visualize more easily, and it can help one to connect to their higher self. It can help to protect one from the negative energy that may bombard us during the day, and can channel divine energy to us in times of need. It also helps to provide a spiritual connection between the earth, the universe, and oneself. Prehnite is another stone which is perfect for use when meditating.

For the Mind, it can:
- Encourage analytical thought
- Help teach to let go of possessions
- Dispel phobias
- Ward away nightmares
- Facilitate memory of dreams

For the Spirit, it can:
- Enhance inner knowning
- Connect the will and heart
- Promote spiritual communication
- Facilitate astral travel

For the Body, it can:
- Find root causes of an illness
- Treat blood disorders

Rainbow Fluorite -This is a stone made versatile because of the energy given off by its three different colors. Rainbow Fluorite can help protect against negative energy and deliberate psychic attacks. In stressful times it can help to quiet the mind and allow calm discernment in stressful situations. A great stone for balancing energy in relation to oneself and the earth, it can also rid one of negative energy which block energetic pathways. It also helps one to sense when powers are at work in the general vicinity and can also heighten physical senses.

For the Body, it can:
- Assist in physical healing
- Detoxify the body
- Defend against viral infections

For the Mind, it can:
- Increase Concentration, heighten intuition
- Strengthens analytical abilities, allows one to grasp new concepts easily
- Helps with insomnia and depression

For the Spirit, it can:
- Promote grounding and peace
- Clear the mind making it good meditation tool
- Bring oneself to higher states of reality

 

Rainbow Moonstone - A stone renowned for facilitating psychic ability and for its fascinating cat's-eye shimmer, Rainbow Moonstone is a fantastic choice when developing your skills in working with energy. In overview of all the ways its energy can affect its user, Rainbow Moonstone is a stone of intuition and of spiritual growth. It can help to make channeling easier, telepathic communication more fluent, and can facilitate one's growth spiritually. 

For the Mind, it can:
- Inspire creativity

For the Spirit, it can:
- Increase psychic ability
- Enhance intuition
- Soothe and balance emotion
- Balance Yin and Yang
- Encourage lucid dreaming

For the Body, it can:
- Heal reproductive disorders