Find your path
With the Stone of Transformation
Work with Spirit
For creative manifestation

I love working with malachite with its mesmerizing swirls of light and dark green.  This richly colored gem is a copper carbonate stone with a Mohs hardness of 3.5 to 4.  Some of the best deposits of malachite are in Zaire, but it is also found in Australia, Chili, South Africa, US, Russia, and The Congo.  The Egyptians were mining malachite 6000 years ago in the Suez and the Sinai.

This easily worked stone has been used for thousands of years for polishing, carving, and pigment.  Although it is no longer recommended because of its toxicity, the Egyptians used it as a cosmetic and a medicine.  The Greeks, Romans, and others used it for jewelry and stone carvings.  The Russians used it for ornaments, inlay work, and paneling.  Malachite is still a favorite stone for jewelry makers who shape and polish their own pieces.

Malachite has long been seen as the Stone of Transformation.  It is believed to absorb negative energies from the environment and electronic pollution.  It is used for deep energy cleansing and healing.  It can help you let go of old traumas and patterns, and flush out old toxic emotions.  But transformation also requires the courage to embrace change.  Malachite is believed to encourage the strength, confidence and courage to follow through.  This combination of breaking up old patterns and finding new options is the beginning of finding new and healthier paths.

Not only does malachite absorb negative energy, but it can also help you spot emotional abuse and manipulation.  When this is combined with malachite's tendency to encourage confidence, courage, wisdom, and will power, it may help you set healthy boundaries.

It may help with the maintenance of both emotional and spiritual balance and a sense of spiritual connection.  Malachite is  a gem that connects to both the heart and the mind.  It is a stone that can be used to connect to your heart's desire.  It also connects to your higher self and purpose.  This earth magic stone helps ground this spiritual and heart energy in the practicality of the here and now.  It may help your creativity, and focus and clarity.  this all comes together with intuition to help you co-create your deepest desires with the universe.

Whether you are looking for protection or strength, connection or to break up old patterns, spirituality or beauty, malachite has something to offer almost everyone.  I find that working with malachite to create jewelry is a meditative process.  The stone and I become one for a while.  When I meditate with malachite, following the patterns and swirls pull me into other worlds.  This truly is a beautiful gem, on all levels.

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Creative joy
And sunny bright
Manifest abundance
With Winter's delight

As we head into the dark days of the year in the northern hemisphere, it is the perfect time to talk about sunstone.  This bright and sunny orange to reddish-brown stone sparkles like drops of sunshine.  Sunstone is a type of feldspar with a Mohs hardness of 6 to 6.5 that contains particles of hematite and goethite to give this gem its bright sunny color and sparkle.  Deposits of this beautiful stone are found in India, Canada, Norway, Russia, Mexico, and USA.

Sunstone's golden orange color and sparkle is the perfect way to bring a bit of summer's warmth and joy into the dark and dreary days as we head into winter.  It is a symbol of joy and warmth.  It is the positive ray of the sunrise sparkling off the water.  It is a symbol of the sun god in many cultures, and a stone of leadership and authority.

It is a stone that reminds us to be joyful in the service of others and to have an adventuresome spirit.  Sunstone is believed to bring light to where the dark corners lie in our lives.  It brings warmth where the spirit is left cold.  It is seen as a stone that lightens the mood and encourages self-empowerment.  It is a stone that symbolizes leadership, abundance, confidence, intellect, and prosperity.

This might be a gem to turn to if you want to manifest good into your life.  It carries with it the energy of good luck and vitality.  It is believed to increase vitality and optimism.  Some people find it to increase motivation, self confidence, and creativity.  It might even help to clear out negative energy.

Sunstone may help you keep a positive and adventuresome outlook on life.  It may enhance creativity and help you focus your talents to create prosperity.  It encourages your leadership potential by showing your self-worth and empowering your courageous self-expression.

I often pair sunstone with moonstone when I am creating jewelry.  I find that it beautifully balances the feminine qualities of the goddess stone for harmonious energy flow.  Pairing the two stone balances intuition and the intellect, bringing  out the best of both.  When we balance knowledge with wisdom, and self-empowerment with service, the potential for greatness occurs. 

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Sunset stone of the warrior's spirit
Measures full courage and vitality
Confidently full of life's force
Boldly embraces fertility creativity
Manifests with passionate action
Grounded in today's reality

​Carnelian is a form of chalcedony with traces of iron oxide in the matrix.  This orange member of the quartz family is formed of fibrous layers of silicon dioxide.  This form of agate has a Mohs hardness of about 7 and is found in igneous deposits worldwide.  The highest quality carnelian is generally considered to come from India, Brazil, Egypt, and Uruguay.

This dramatic stone is also known as the sunset stone, the singer's stone, or the artist's stone.  This beautiful stone carries the warmth and drama of the autumn sunset into your jewelry or grid.  It encourages the passionate pursuit of creative endeavors.  It is believed to lend courage and strength to the channeling and expression of powerful and innovative ideas.

While carnelian is considered to be a grounding stone, it does so in a way that encourages us to know ourselves.  It is a gem that is believed to integrate all aspects of the self.  It promotes a connection to the cycles of life.  This makes it a good stone to promote healing on all levels of our being.  It also makes it a good stone to turn to for manifestation.

When you combine carnelian's potential to integrate and know yourself and its grounding in the here and now, you have a gem of manifestation.  It is a stone of passionate and creative pursuit of your true goals, desires, and dreams.  It encourages the courage, confidence, and empowerment of the warrior's spirit.  It promotes the clear perception and analysis that leads to positive life choices and positive and knowledgeable action.

All in all, carnelian promotes a balanced and practical approach to creating a life that you are passionate about.  Wear it as jewelry, carry it in your pocket, or put it in your spaces.  No matter where you put it in your life, carnelian is sure to bring with it the warmth, beauty, and passion of the bold fiery sunset.

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Ancient knowledge, ancient wisdom
Fossil resin from the old tree
Stone of earth, stone of sun
Healing, luck, and balance in thee

There are only a few organic gemstones.  Amber is one.  This beautiful gem is the fossilized resin from ancient trees.  In most fossils, the organic material has been replaced over the years by minerals.  Amber, on the other hand, is hardened and polymerized organic material.  Most amber is between 30 million and 100 million years old, but it can be older.  This gem can be found in a number of places world wide with some of the best deposits found in the Baltic states, Myanmar, and Sumatra.

Amber has a Mohs hardness of 2 to 3, and has been used for thousands of years by a number of cultures around the world.  And it is little wonder.  These beautiful drops of sunlight would wash up on the beaches and captivate those who found them.  It is easy to carve, polish, and drill.  Amber is found in a number of colors, including red, green, and blue.  However, golden, brown, yellow, and orange are the most common.  The special treat is when you find a bit of insect, feather, or plant embedded in the gem.

Amber is warm to the touch and for many, it carries the energy of the life that created it.  As with all fossils, it is a gem of ancient knowledge and wisdom.  It was grown in a tree of the earth and fueled by the energy of the sun.  This stone of earth, and stone of the sun balances the energies of both.  It works its wisdom through a sense well being and increased vitality.

Like a tree transmuting earth energies, solar energies, and carbon dioxide into vital and life giving nourishment and oxygen, amber is believed to transmute energy.  It is believed to absorb negative energy and transmute it to positive energy.  Some who use amber find that it dislodges stuck energy and helps to get it moving.  This ray of solid sunlight helps to transform negative feelings into feelings of well being.  Many believe that it helps to purify spaces and energy fields.
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I find that this gentle healer brings a subtle vitality and lift to my energy.  The red amber that I work with speaks to me of my ancient guides and guardians.  It helps me to ground their intuitive guidance into the creativity that I weave into my life and work every day.

Stone of prosperity and luck
Balance in the connection
The receptive heart of divine feminine
Love and powerful protection

Aventurine is a form of calcedony that was identified in 1837 by J. D. Dan.  When polished, it has a shimmering sparkle that is reminiscent of a sparkly Italian glass from the 1700's.  This silicon dioxide mineral with a Mohs hardness of 7 derives its name from the Italian term for chance, "a ventura".  Deposits of aventurine have been found in India, Brazil, Chile, and Russia.

The most common color of aventurine is green, but it is also found in blue, red, orange, grey, purple, yellow, and peach.  The common factor between them is their translucence and the shimmer of the gem caused by traces of mica and other minerals in the matrix.  The green comes from fushsite particles.  The red comes from hematite.  Blue comes from copper silicate.  However, no matter what the color is, this stone is considered to be both powerful and balancing.

First and foremost, aventurine is considered to be a stone of abundance.  It is believed that this lucky gem helps to attract wealth and prosperity into your life.  It is seen as a stone of abundance on all levels of life.  Many people use it as an aid to manifestation as it tends to help align opportunity, motivation, and perseverance with the achievement of goals.  This grounding stone may help release old patterns and habits that stand in the way of our deepest desires.

Many consider aventurine to be a stone of leadership and of the divine feminine.  It represents courage and confidence.  It is a stone of creativity, and the fierce protectiveness of the mother warrior.  The divine feminine receives, creates, and protects that which she has brought into the world.  Aventurine embodies all that, but it carries it in a balanced way.

The other side of aventurine is the energy of calm.  Yes, it is the fierce and protective mother energy, but it also helps soothe the emotional wounds and trauma.  It is believed to bring calming balance to the heart and emotions.  It is used to transmute anger, irritability, and stress into resilience, persistence, and hope.  It supports the life giving aspects of the heart when it is in balance.

My primary work with aventurine is in creating jewelry rather than in personal energy work.  That said, I find it to be a beautiful and calming stone in my hands.  While I am working with it, I find myself highly focused and steady.  It is as if the chaos of the world melts away for a while.  For this short period of time, I reside within my own heart and in connection with the earth.  The green aventurine that I work with inspires creations that connect the heart, mind, and earth.
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For a little more refined use of the energy of aventurine, choose a color that matches your desires.
GREEN - brings luck, wealth, abundance, calm and an open heart.
BLUE - brings spiritual guidance, intuition, truth, and clarity.
RED - is for manifestation, magic, life force, and creativity.

Youthful stone of laughter
Bring about Transformation
Energy of swirling lace
Encourage truthful communication

There are several different forms of Lace agate and depending on the source can go by several different names.  The Book of Stones and The Crystal Bible list Blue Lace as coming from South Africa.  Laughter Lace or Happy Lace was known to the Babylonians, Greeks, and Egyptians.  Mexican Lace comes from Chihuahua Mexico.  It, in general, is considered to be a young stone.  This chalcodony was formed around 65 to 90 million years ago when magma cavities filled with silica rich water.  This left silicon dioxide infused with other minerals in swirling layers that we now call crazy lace agate.  Crazy Lace agate has a Mohs hardness of 7.

Mexican Crazy Lace
I am going to split this article into two sections, starting with Mexican crazy lace.  This is primarily found in Mexico and is mostly creamy white with brilliant bands of black, grey, yellow, gold, brown, and red that are caused by traces of iron, aluminum, and other trace minerals.  This is a bright, happy, and optimistic stone.  This gem encourages mental agility, flexibility, and liveliness.  It encourages balance between the emotional energy, the physical energy, and the intellectual energy.  It gently grounds happiness, self-confidence, and joy in your life.  The lacy patterns in this stone encourage a flexible and circulating flow of energy in all aspects.It may help you gain endurance, courage, and self empowerment.  Its optimistic vibrations can help transform negative outlooks and habits into positive patterns.  It is, overall, a gentle and happy companion.

Blue Lace

Blue Lace is the form of crazy lace that was covered in my reference books.  This is primarily found in South Africa.  This is a stone of finding your voice and effective communication.  It is a calming and peaceful gem that connects to the higher dimensions.  When we understand that our words have the power to create our reality, it is important to use those words and thoughts widely. Blue lace is a stone of truthful and clear self-expression.  It may help with discerning truth from deception.  The lacy patterns in this gem may help dissolve old negative patterns so they can be transformed into positive habits that create a beautiful future.

Whether you choose Mexican Lace, or Blue Lace, you will find a stone of unique beauty and energy.

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Power found where the lines ley
With the Gaia connection
Ancient wisdom in Earth magic
​Mindful of conservation

Picture jasper is a micro-crystaline form of silicon dioxide with a Mohs hardness of 6.5 to 7.  These stones in the quartz family are usually petrified mud flows and contain a high level of inclusions of other minerals.  The most prevalent being iron.  The variations of minerals in the layers of flow create a "picture" of a beautiful "landscape" locked into the stone.  The most common color of this stone is in the brown tones, but it can be found in gold, red tones, black, blue, ivory, and green.  Picture jasper and closely related variations are found in many parts of the world.

The primary energy of picture jasper is that of ancient wisdom.  This earthy stone is a connection to Gaia, the Earth Goddess.  It is believed to be a portal to the stone records with hidden messages from the past.  It is believed to be the Earth Mother speaking to her children.  The stone encourages us to listen to the stories and the wisdom of the earth and the ancient past.

This stone of earth magic has been used by energy practitioners for a number of purposes.  Some use picture jasper to locate ley lines and power points of the earth. They use this information to set up ceremonial spaces and home locations.  It used to protect and ground shamanic journeys. It helps to absorb negative energy and transmute it to 
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Common gem and genius stone
Bring order to chaos
Fluorescence with black light
Clarity, balance, and focus

Fluorite is one of the more common gem stones available.  It is frequently found along side deposits of quartz, calcite, and barite that were formed in hydrothermal veins.  It is a relatively soft cubic crystal with a Mohs hardness of 4.  These calcium fluoride crystals are one of the sources of fluorite for industrial uses.  This beautiful gem comes in a number of colors used in jewelry including purple, clear, green, pink, red, blue, yellow, and black.

Fluorite is considered by some to be the genius stone.  There are a number of ways that this gem is believed to enhance your mental life.  It helps bring clarity of thought and bring order to the chaos in your mind.  It can enhance focus and concentration.  With its clarity and discernment comes the power of choice.

This is a highly spiritual gem with a strong connection to human energy fields and the spiritual realms.  Many find that it expands consciousness.  If you are seeking spiritual or psychic awareness, this may be a stone of enhancement.  It helps to harmonize the mind and spirit.  It can assist in the perception of the energy fields and the ability to shift this energy.

Fluorite tends to be a protective gem.  It tends to absorb negative and difficult energies and emotions.  It is often used to purify the space.  Many people find it helpful to have fluorite near electronic equipment.  It is also used for psychic protection and to clear old energy from the environment.

Fluorite is one of the more interesting gems that I work with.  It is one of the stones that fluoresces under UV or "black" light.  The term fluorescence comes from fluorite.  Not only have I played with my UV light, but during one particularly strong solar storm, I noticed that my fluorite palm stone was glowing.  This rainbow fluorite is quite heady to work with and seems to have the ability to connect to the energy fields.
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As for the specific colors:
CLEAR - enhances intuition, spiritual connection and clarity.
BLUE - aids communication of truth and rational thinking, focus, and growth.
GREEN - is the heart stone, connecting the heart to the mind.
PURPLE - encourages peace and spiritual connection.  It aids meditation.
YELLOW - connects the solar plexus to the mind and enhances psychic ability and intuition.
RAINBOW - connects to intuition, the spiritual realms, and alternate realities.

When the ocean turns to stone
The mermaids give up their treasure
The goddess of light and dark
Voices truth and wisdom in equal measure

Aquamarine is one of the birthstones for March.  This beautiful blue green gem is a beryl, the same family as emerald.  It is beryllium aluminum silicate with a Mohs hardness of 7.5 to 8.  The ocean blue of this gem comes from traces of iron.  The name aquamarine, comes from the Latin for "water of the sea".  Some of the best sources for aquamarine are Brazil, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Australia, Kenya, Madagascar, and the US.

This stone of ancient use was believed to be the treasure of the mermaids, giving protection to sailors.  It is also one of the stones of Merlin, opening the doors of magic and psychic ability.  According to tinyrituals.com , this "mermaid stone is a song from the deep and brings whispers of salt-water fables..."  It truly is a symbol of deep ocean, deep emotions, and deep spirituality and happiness.  

Aquamarine carries the energy of hope, compassion, and calm balance emotions.  It represents the Goddess and the divine feminine.  It honors the deep feminine, both the light and the dark.  This stone connects to deep ocean energy and the cycle of life.  It is a stone of self worth, courage, empowerment.

This magical stone is believed to enhance mental clarity and focus.  It is believed to give the person possessing it wisdom, increased intellect, and access to inner knowledge.  This is a good stone to use if you desire to increase your intuition or clairvoyance.  It can encourage emotional healing and the deep connection to the emotions and the truth found in your heart.  In doing so, it aids in speaking your truth in an honest and healthy way.

If you are feeling challenged, aquamarine can bring hope.  It is a stone of protection that shields from negative energy.  The Greeks believed that it protected sailors from drowning.  Some believed that it protected them from toxins.  It might even help release your negative patterns.

I encourage you to check out this little bit of ocean turned to stone.  Dive into the depths of this beautiful gem and get in touch with your sacred feminine.

Petrified wood is a gem that was formed when the ancient tree was killed and buried in a fine silt before it could decay.  The organic wood was slowly replaced by minerals as it slowly degraded.  In most places where petrified wood is found, the mineralization occurred 250 million to 65 million years ago with silicon dioxide.  Although this can vary, most petrified wood is agatized and has a Mohs hardness of 6.5 to 7.  Some of the most spectacular petrified wood comes from Morocco and the petrified forest in Arizona, USA.

Petrified wood symbolizes strength, stability, and patience.  This reflects the fossilization process itself, which takes thousands of years to replace the original wood with more stable stone.  This slow process of transformation and stabilization is one of balance and time.

Energetically, petrified wood is seen as the connection between the physical and the spiritual world.  It is the connection between life on earth and the earth herself.  Many believe that petrified wood gives access to ancient knowledge, ancient earth energy, and ancestral knowledge.  

It helps you connect to your inner wisdom and your psychic abilities.  It encourages thrust in your intuition and wisdom, and trust in the flow of life.  Petrified wood facilitates past life recall and the resolution of blockages.  This is a gem of transformation, encouraging change and growth.  It also lends its strength and stability during those changes.  It encourages integrity and endurance.

Whether plain or spectacular, petrified wood can ground you in the balance and wisdom of earth's cycles.
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