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Your Favorite Gem Stone Meaning

Stones meaning luck, courage, strength, balance, wisdom, harmony, peace and more.
See below for properties and meanings of our natural gem stones.

Amber ~ Improves Decision Making
Fossilized tree resin from ancient forests. Usually transparent, though sometimes translucent. Most valued pieces contain preserved insects. Warriors once carried amber charms for luck in battle; associated with sensuality, love and wealth.
Amethyst ~ Stone of Spirit
Amethyst is a stone of the mind; brings calmness and clarity; helps you to get in touch with your intuition, your feelings, or your values; aids sobriety, alcohol, food, and other addictions. Eases compulsive/obsessive behavior.
Aquamarine ~ Arouses Good Feelings
Arouses feelings of sympathy, trust, harmony and friendship. According to legend it originated in the treasure chest of mermaids. Steeped in old tradition, it promises a happy marriage and is said to bring the woman who wears it joy and wealth into the bargain.
Blue Topaz ~ Divine Goodness
Associated with courage and overcoming fears, obstacles; traditional stone for writers, scholars, artists, and intellectuals; used for aiding higher thinking and soothing mental trouble, eager love, fidelity, friendship, gentleness, and integrity.
Citrine ~ Dissipates Negative Energy
Warm energy, promotes optimism. Also attracts abundance, and is known as the “merchants’ stone”, to be placed where one conducts business, to not only acquire positive wealth, but to maintain it. Good for mental focus, endurance, and self-esteem.
Coral ~ Protection
Skeletal remains of small marine animals (no harvested living coral used in our jewelry). Symbolizes attachment; believed to aid against natural disasters, disease, bad luck and jealous friends; Eases depression, dispels nightmares.
Garnet ~ Success in Business
Helps to become motivated and productive, attracts good luck in business ventures. The stone of passionate devotion – to your family, your friends, yourself, and your purpose or goals. Stimulates the senses, and increases vitality and stamina.
Goldstone ~ Renews Strength
Enhances contemplations; lifts the spirit; physical stimulator; renews strength, balances energies. Not for the shy and self-effacing; keeps your feet grounded by not allowing you to become overwhelmed or bigheaded with newfound fame.
Hematite ~ Grounding & Stabilizing
Egyptians believed cured hysteria and anxiety; a strong "grounding" stone to help people feel calm and centered; increases the ability to concentrate. Reputed to be calming and soothing, which makes it a good choice for "worry" stones.
Jade ~ Fidelity
Aids in healing and renews hope; the ultimate symbol of serenity, wisdom and balance; alleviates anxiety and fear based emotions; known for good luck and prosperity. Traditional charm for gardeners; reputed to ensure bountiful harvests.
Jasper ~ Supreme Nurturer
Power and protection. Gives one courage to speak out and have personal independence; stone of the earth; a very "grounding" stone; once considered a Warriors Stone, it knows of loyalty, inner strength, and standing up for personal beliefs.
Kyanite ~ Bridge Mind and Matter
A powerful stone of manifestation toward reaching your hopes, dreams and desires. A calming stone, it helps to quiet the mind, dissolving emotional, mental, or spiritual confusion, and letting go of anxiety. Particularly good at dissolving anger and frustration.
Labradorite ~ Power Stone
Allows you to see through illusions and determine the actual form of your dreams and goals. It's excellent for strengthening intuitions. Use to stimulate imagination, develop enthusiasm and thus, new ideas, and to see more clearly in meditation.
Lapis ~ Understanding the Mind
Balances the mind and brings wisdom, awareness; known as the "Stone of the Teachers"; represents friendship, truth; reputed to bring about harmony in relationships. Stone in the biblical 'Breastplate of Judgment' of Aaron (Exodus: xxviii, 15-30).
Malachite ~ Transformation
Brings harmony, peace into your life; stone for recognizing and releasing negative experiences, especially ones difficult to recall; powerful healing stone. Believed to warn the wearer of impending danger; associated with wealth.
Mother of Pearl ~ Sincerity
Signifies faith, charity, and innocence; enhances personal integrity, helps to provide focus to ones attention; brings truth to situations and loyalty to a "cause"; used to inhibit boisterous behavior; brings protection known like a mother's love.
Rose Quartz ~ Love and Harmony
Known as the stone of "gentle love", brings peacefulness and calm to relationships. Excellent for healing emotional wounds, removing negativity and restoring harmony after crisis situations. Promotes appreciation of art, music and the written word.
Sodalite ~ Balance of Head and Heart
Eliminates fear and guilt better than any other stone; alleviates insomnia; clears up mental confusion and re-establishes inner peace; excellent stone to enhance communication skills; wonderful stone for creative types.
Tiger Eye ~ Self-Discipline
Aids sleep; promotes balance and strength for difficult phases of life; relieves doubt, bestows decision-making. People in emotional turmoil and transitional states find it grounds them as soon as they are in it. Long been associated with wealth.
Turquoise ~ Awakening/Sacred Knowledge
Protection, healing, good luck and longevity. Book of Exodus refers to it as one of the stones in the Breastplate of the Hebrew High Priest Aaron. Versatile POWER STONE that Native Americans honor. Protects and blesses the user.
Unakite ~ Balances Physical & Emotional Well-Being
Connects you with universal energies; helps to enhance situations you focus your mind on (interviews, money making, finding a partner); helps you to move on in life and become "unstuck" as well as attracting friendships.
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