Connect to Spirit, connect to divine
Read the records of the past line
Find access to universal knowing
Empowering abilities and lucid dreaming

Stellar Beam Calcite is a form of calcium carbonate that forms into crystals with sharp termination points.  This form of calcite from Tennessee is usually clear with an amber or yellow color.  Like most calcites, it has a Mohs hardness of 3.  All calcites carry the energy of connection and stability.

Stellar Beam Calcite takes this a step further by connecting the person to the spiritual realms.  It facilitates a connection to a higher level of knowledge and wisdom.  It helps you connect to your higher self and divine will.  It can connect you to higher dimensions of consciousness for guidance in your highest purpose, spiritual path, and service.  This might come from your spirit guides or it might come from ancestors, or angels.

Stellar Beam Calcite can help you connect to your Akashic records and other interdimentional records.  It can help you explore your past lives and your connections to other civilizations and dimensions.  It's believed to enhance your psychic abilities and talents.  It may facilitate interdimentional travel and dream work.  These altered states help you see and create visions of your future with intention and clarity.  It can help you clear negative energy so that you maintain a state of focused and creative calm.

This is a stone of manifestation.  When it is used in ritual or meditation, it can help you maintain a calm and focused altered state.  It expands your abilities and helps you bring your desires into your life.  It helps you break old patterns and facilitates spiritual growth.

Sources:
thecrystalcouncil.com
crystaldgest.cm
healing-crystals-for-you.com
sagecrystals.com
The Book of Stones by Simmons and Ahsian
The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall

Grounded in the heart of Mother Earth
Are the patterns and connections
See the harmony, calm, and wisdom
of nature's spirits and the sacred feminine

Diopside is a gem that is frequently found near volcanic sites.  It can be either igneous or metamorphic, as it forms where both heat and pressure are present.  Diopside is primarily green, but black, white, brown, yellow, and grey can be found.  Green and black are the forms most frequently cut for jewelry.  This gem is a form of calcium magnesium silicate with a Mohs hardness of 5.5 to 6.  Diopside has been found in Siberia, China, India, the  U.S., South Africa, and Brazil.

Doapside is a stone with deep connections to Gaia and the heart of Mother Earth.  It represents connections with other people, the other beings on the planet, and the Earth herself.  It represents universal love and integrity.  It is the heart stone of the spiritual seeker.

This gem carries with it Gaia's energy and the energy of the nature spirits.  It may help you create garden magic and connect to plant magic.  It facilitates communication with other energies on this planet, including animals, plants, minerals, Fey, and other humans.  Diopside attracts nature spirits and encourages positive action towards stewardship.  It may help you to see the patterns and connections that play out in nature and the universe.

With this connection to Earth energies, diopside is a good aid to anyone who works with Earth energies.  Garden magic and plant magic are just the beginning.  This connects the energy worker to the heartbeat of Mother Earth and can be an aid to dowsing and ley line work.

Diopside does work on a personal level as well.  It can help you feel grounded, centered and balanced.  Its feminine energy can help you connect to your emotions and release past trauma and blockages.  This can help you connect to your true self and find love, compassion, and forgiveness for yourself and others.

On a spiritual level, diopside has been used to bring enlightenment and healing.  Its connection with deep Earth energies facilitates past life exploration and the healing of the spirit from past life trauma.  It can be an aid to psychic ability, intuition, and clarity.  It is believed to integrate the spiritual and physical aspects of life.

This is a beautiful stone for both jewelry and energy work for those who take the time to seek it out.

Sources
thecrystalcouncil.com
moonrisecrystals.com
crystaldigest.com
mycrystals.com
The Book Of Stones by Simmons and Ahsian

Lord Shiva's Cosmic Egg
Giving birth to all
Elemental energies of creation
Connecting you to all

The Shiva Lingam stone is a shaped stone from the quartz family.  This special stone is gathered in its rough form from the Narmada River in western India.  the villagers then shape them into the classic Shiva Lingam stone.  The Shiva Lingam stones are created for spiritual practices that honor the Lord Shiva.

The Narmada River is one of the seven sacred sites of India which gives the stones collected from the river special significance.  They have been used for thousands of years in the Hindu temples.  Even the name of the stone is ancient, being derived from the Sanskrit word for sign or symbol, Shiva, and the word for cosmic egg, Lingam.  It is believed to be a blending of both the divine masculine and the divine feminine in the cosmic egg.  In Hindu cosmology, all physical reality of space and time is born from the Cosmic Egg.

The Shiva Lingam stone is believed to align the chakras of the body and activate the Kundalini energy.  It is said that this stone supports fertility and sexuality.  It is a stone of confidence, balance, and stability.  It is a stone of the elemental energies and the divine forces of creation that connect the Earth energies to the cosmic energy.

These stones are believed to improve memory and expand consciousness.  They may help you find clarity in thought and purpose.  They help release notions of sin.  The Shiva Lingam stone breaks up self limiting beliefs and helps you live joyously as you strive for your highest potential.

This is a stone of deep connections.  It connects the masculine and the feminine.  It connects the cosmic with the Earth.  It connects all of the elements.  It helps you connect to your body as a sacred temple.  And, maybe most of all, it is believed that every Shiva Lingam is connected to every other Shiva Lingam throughout all space and time.

What a wonderful reminder of the divine connection of all beings this stone is.

Some of the sources of information for this article are:
thrcrystalcouncil.com
crystalvaults.com
moonrisecrystals.com
and 
The Book of Stones by Simmons and Ashian

Pink, green, and quartz
Metamorphized for balance and harmony
Gentle stone of the heart
Loosens that which creates blocks

Even though it is sometimes classed as a jasper, unikite is a metamorphic, or altered granite that contains pink orthoclase, green feldspar, and quartz.  This beautiful gem was first found and identified in the Unaka Mountains of North Carolina in the United States.  Unikite is also found in New Jersey, Virginia, Tennessee, and as a wash around the Great Lakes.  In other parts of the world, unikite is found in Brazil, South Africa, China, Zimbabwe, and Switzerland.

This is a favorite gem for fine jewelry.  It is also used as a decorative element for buildings and carvings.

Unikite is most often considered to be a stone of the heart and the heart chakra.  It has a tendency to promote emotional balance and stabilize the emotional swings.  It gently heals grief and deep emotional wounds.  It is a stone that may help release stagnant emotions and help you find inner peace.  As a heart stone, it helps to strengthen harmonious relationships.  It is a gentle stone of understanding.

This gem is as powerful as it is gentle.  It is a stone of deep earth grounding, bringing equilibrium.  It breaks up disempowering habits, thoughts, and life patterns.  It dissipates toxic energy and realigns the emotional body with the higher spirit.  Unikite is a stone of tolerance.

Taken all together, unikite gently loosens stuck energy and removes the blockages that keep you stuck.  It connects you to both Earth and to your higher self. When you loosen the grip of the toxic aspects of social dictates and defined roles, you are free to go after your dreams and ambitions.

You may want to nurture your spirit with beautiful and nurturing unikite.

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Some of the sources for this article are:
mycrystals.com
thecrystalcouncil.com
sagegoddess.com
​crystalvaults.com

Heavy stone helping ground
Bring balance and harmony
Lending strength and protection
Shielding from negativity
Grinding gives pigment red
For the warrior and artistry

Hematite is a common stone that most people are familiar with.  This iron oxide stone is usually black to grey and polishes to a metallic black.  Occasionally samples of hematite are found that are reddish brown.  Hematite is one of the sources of iron ore for industrial use.  It is also used as a pigment for artist's paints, warrior's paint, face paint, and adornment.  It has been shaped and polished to serve as mirrors for both seeing the face and seeing the past and the future.

When it is shaped and polished, hematite makes beautiful jewelry and rings.  It can be magnetized and is often used for healing.  This healing can take place on a physical level, or it can take place on a metaphysical level.

Hematite is primarily a stone of grounding and protection on a metaphysical level.  It is a stone that will help you keep your feet on the ground and to focus your thoughts on what needs to be done to manifest your dreams.  It lends confidence, courage, and strength to your life.  It helps transform negativity and toxic influences to bring more positivity into your life.

This stone of the root lends its stability to your life.  It promotes feelings of security, safety, and calm.  It is believed to be a stone of high self-esteem, will power, and tenacity.  If you are looking to stop the endless loop of the toxic emotions, thoughts, and habits, hematite may help.

For anyone looking to support the healing of the body, hematite may help.  If you are looking to support your mental clarity, hematite may help.  If you are looking to release limitations and manifest your greatest desires, hematite may help.

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Rose of the desert
Of sand and gypsum
Carved by the warrior
Protecting the homeland

Beautiful, delicate, and mystical, the desert rose can be found in most of the worlds deserts, including Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Tunisia, and Afghanistan.  Most of these stone formations are fairly recent being formed when selenite, or gypsum, interacts with sand, wind, and water.  These interactions form these beautiful but fragile stone rose formations.  The desert rose of Oklahoma is similar except that they were formed 250 million years ago when the land was covered by a shallow sea.  While beautiful, these stones are easily damaged by rough handling or excessive moisture.

According to one Native American legend, the desert rose is carved by the fallen warriors that have returned from the world of spirit.  They then spread these roses around the world to protect the spirit's homeland.

According to another legend, each desert rose contains a guardian spirit.  When one of these roses finds its way into your life, it is believed that this spirit was sent to guard you.

These beige to ivory stones are believed to hold a number of other qualities besides protection.  They are known as a cleansing stone that can cleanse your auric field and cleanse and charge other crystals.  Their high energetic vibration is believed to remove blockages and clear the environment of negativity.

Some practitioners find that the desert rose promotes mental clarity and focus.  It is an aid to self-expression and stamina.  It is sometimes used as an aid for meditation, grounding, and manifesting your desires.  It may help you regain your balance and understand the events of your life.

This is a highly spiritual stone that connects to your inner consciousness.  It has been known to enhance spiritual powers.  It is used as an aid to remembering past lives and it may enhance third eyes perception.  Desert rose is a good stone to dissolve self-imposed negative patterns and release old patterns.

My first experience with the desert rose was on a family trip round the South West of the United States when I was young.  I was immediately captivated by the mysterious and mystical formations.  I had to take one home with me.  I ended up handling it so much that I eventually eroded the floral formation.  Now I know why I was so captivated by this stone.

While I don't wrap the desert rose, here is a link to my other wrapped stones.
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Harmonize the body and the chakras
Channel the universal energy
Earth's connection in the Healer's Stone
Good luck, creativity, and prosperity

Out of the south west of the United States comes a stone that is believed to have great healing power.  Healer's Gold is a combination of pyrite and magnetite.  This stone has a Mohs hardness of 5.5 to 6.5 and is a mix of black and gold in color.  As it has a high iron content, it is both magnetic and one of the most dense gem stones available.  This stone from Arizona and New Mexico is sometimes called Apache Gold and is a stone popular for jewelry.

This stone has a history of healing used by the medicine people of the United States and has become a popular stone around the world for this purpose.  For the energetic or spiritual healer, Healer's Gold is a stone of positive energy that tends to harmonize the energy flow in the body, and balance the chakras.  It is believed to be a channel for universal and earth energies so that the healer and energy worker is not drawing on their own energy.

The overall positive and uplifting energy of Healer's Gold is believed to have a general beneficial effect for the person using the gem.  It is believed to promote clear and confident decisions.  It enhances creativity and good luck, helping with the manifestation of wealth and prosperity.  The general positive energy of the stone encourages motivation and optimism.  Like iron, this stone lends inner strength that helps you trust your intuition.

Healer's Gold is believed to help dissipate negative energy.  This protects the body and the Spirit from life's negative influences and helps guard against anger, attachments, fear, and exhaustion.  It can help act as a protective agent for psychic development and spiritual work.

Other sources that I used are:
thecrystalcouncil.com
rockidentifier.com
crystalgemstones.net

Process the grief born of tragedy
Strengthen the resilience of the human spirit
Stone of fire, Stone of the Earth
Into the now, ground the spirit

Legendary Apache Tear derives its name from an 1870's battle from the American "Indian Wars".  During one of the battles, the Apache warriors were overwhelmed and trapped in the mountains of Arizona.  After a brave battle, instead of being captured, the warriors rode their horses over the cliff.  After the battle, the families of the warriors discovered the tragedy that had unfolded.  According to the legend, the bitter tears shed by the families became the Apache Tears.

These globules of black to brown obsidian are found in the volcanic perlite deposits of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Northern Mexico.  This silica rich natural glass is translucent to opaque and has a Mohs hardness of 5 to 5.5.  Natural Apache Tears are usually coated with a white deposit of the perlite where they are found.  Much of what is sold as Apache Tear has been shaped and polished.

Because of this association with the legend, Apache Tear has a primary energy of processing grief.  Whether recent or ancient and suppressed, this stone will tend to bring the grief to the light of day.  When these difficult emotions surface, Apache Tear helps process the grief, loss, and tragedy so that healing can occur.  As a part of the healing process, the difficult emotions are released and transmuted so that balance and resilience can be regained,  It can also help process ancestral grief and loss.

Apache tear helps to process and release other difficult emotions as well.  When the emotions get stuck as energy patterns in the subconscious or they develop into deep wounds or grievance, this gem can help transmute that energy, process it and release it.  When the wounds are generational, Apache Tear might also help.  It can help calm fear and panic and bring comfort to the broken heart.

Apache Tear is a stone of Earth and fire that helps ground you into the here and now of the physical plane.  It provides protection from negative energies and psychic attack.  It helps provide stability and strength.  It may promote spiritual growth and introspection guiding you to a deeper truth.

I love working with natural Apache Tear.  The soft polish that develops from my hands as I create jewelry from this stone is luscious.  It is one of the stones that tends to calm and focus my spirit as I work with it. I do keep a few for my personal use.  I have a pair that live in my pillow to act as protection and an anchor as I sleep.

This is a stone of unique energy that I encourage you to check out.
You can find Apache Tear pendants and other stone pendants for sale in my gallery.
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Stone of the Goddess, Stone of Wise Women
Soothing tranquility to calm the mind
Aligning the voice to the heart
Empower truthful communication

Watery blue green chrysocolla is a soft stone with a high copper content.  This hydrous copper silicate is usually found in veins with malachite and azurite.  While green and blue green are the most common colors, it can also be found in blue, brown, or black.  This stone with a Mohs hardness of 2 to 4 can be found in Chili, Zaire, Mexico, Russia, and the U.S.

Chrysocolla is seen as the Stone of the Goddess.  It is believed to carry the energy of water and of the sacred feminine.  It is believed to empower feminine wisdom and knowledge.  It teaches strength through compassion and self-awareness.

This gem is often seen as a stone that helps soothe chaotic emotions.  It is believed to help one find inner tranquility and peace and forgiveness when the emotions put us on a roller coaster.  It helps us find the mental calm that encourages meditation and healing.  It is an aid to the ability to see higher knowledge and inner truth.

Chrysocolla is seen as a stone of communication and self-expression.  It is a stone that teaches the power of words and creativity.  When we seek first wisdom, truth, and our center, then chrysocolla teaches us to use our words with the power of wisdom and purpose behind them.  This power of the word and creative communication and expression creates the world in which we will live tomorrow.

Whether you are looking for the calming energy so you can settle into your space, or want to honor the Earth energy of the Goddess, chrysocolla may be the stone you are looking for.  If you are looking to connect to your inner truth and wisdom, or higher knowledge, chrysocolla may facilitate that connection.  If you are looking to support creativity and self-expression, chrysocolla has that potential.  The gentle energy of this stone is said to support all of this.

Sources for this article are:
crystalvaults.com
tinyrituals.com
mycrystals.com
thecrystalcouncil.com
sagegoddess.com

Ancient knowledge ancient wisdom
From the civilization beneath the waves
Goddess connection through the heart
Written within the stone's lines

Lemurian quartz or Lemurian seed crystal is a clear quartz from Brazil.  This is a special form of quartz that is etched with lines that are believed to hold recorded information.  Like most quartz, this silicon dioxide crystal has a Mohs hardness of 7.  It has all of the basic characteristics of a quartz wand point and some special characteristics as well

Lemuria is believed to be an ancient civilization that some people say existed in the Pacific Ocean.  Others locate this civilization elsewhere.  This ancient civilization is believed to have been destroyed by a disaster that sank it into the sea.  Legend has it that this civilization knew that it was facing a disaster.  One of the steps that this culture took as its time was drawing short was to record their knowledge and wisdom in a way that could be retrieved later.  This record is believed to be the Lemurian quartz.

The Lemurian quartz is believed to impart higher knowledge of spiritual connection to anyone who can listen.  This is the knowledge of the heart that connects to intuition and all of the energies of the universe.  It is a spiritual connection that is believed to impart ancient wisdom and the intuitive healing that is possible.

The legend of the Lemurian crystals, and the lesson of this quartz is one of listening and connection.  The message is to connect to the heart, the Spirit, and the higher purpose.  It is a connection to the sacred feminine and all of the beings and energies of the universe.  The Lemurian crystals say to listen to the guidance that is available to everyone from the energies that surround us.  This is a balancing guidance that speaks of connection and oneness when times of turmoil tend to drive us apart through fear and anger.

Additional sources for this article:
littlelemuria.com
sagegoddess.com
​crystalvaults.com