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Ajoite Healing Energies

Ajoite aids connection to the higher Self and communication with the higher realms and beings. It is an excellent meditation tool. Ajoite releases negative energies from the physical, emotional, mental and etheric bodies thus removing unhelpful and out-dated emotions and blocks and bringing renewed sense of optimism and acceptance. It brings a sense of calm, inner peace and harmony.

Photo shows green Ajoite on matrix.

Alexandrite Healing Energies

Alexandrite aids spiritual development. It increases self-esteem and confidence. Alexandrite aids decision-making and getting the best from any situation. It is beneficial for the central nervous system, spleen and pancreas.

Photo shows Alexandrite rough rock.

Almandine Garnet Healing Energies

Almandine Garnet balances all aspects of the subtle bodies, clears the auric pathways and connects the energy centres. It is particularly helpful during a crisis when it encourages a positive attitude and confidence. Almandine Garnet energises the body; increasing motivation & determination almost to the point of stubbornness. It enhances the body's ability to regenerate, stimulates the metabolism and fortifies the immune system. It increases the formation of red blood cells. N.B. Do not use where tumours re present.
Photo shows an Almandine crystal in matrix.

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Amazonite Healing Energies and Mineralogy

Amazonite balances Yin and Yang energies and aligns the physical body with the subtle bodies, which strengthens the energies, making them more balanced and protective. It is helpful for students, as it assists clarity of thought, assimilation of knowledge and insight. It soothes the nerves. Amazonite relieves muscle spasms (it is very good for childbirth) and reduces the symptoms of osteoporosis and calcium deficiency.
Photo shows a Amazonite tumblestone.

Microcline has the chemistry KAlSi3 O8, Potassium Aluminum Silicate and belongs to the mineral class Silicates, subclass Tectosilicates and Feldspars group. Amazonite is deep green variety of Microcline and if it is striped or veined it is known as Perthite. The coloured stripes are Microcline and the white or clear stripes are Plagioclase Feldspars. Microcline is a polymorph of other minerals that share the same chemistry but have different crystal structures.
Microcline crystal habits include blocky or tabular crystals that have an almost rectangular or square cross-section with slanted dome and pinacoid terminations and twinning is common. Crystals are translucent to opaque, colour is usually off-white, yellowish, flesh pink, brown or green and lustre is vitreous to pearly (dull if weathered). Cleavage is perfect in one and good in another direction forming nearly right angled prisms, fracture is conchoidal and hardness is 6 - 6.5. Specific gravity is 2.5 and the crystal system is triclinic.
Minerals associated with Microcline include Quartz, muscovite and Plagioclase Feldspars. Notable locations include USA, Russia, Norway and Madagascar.

Amber Healing Energies

Amber aids connect with the Ancestors and to ancient knowledge. It soothes and heals imbalance in the aura, bringing the whole body back into balance & harmony. It enhances good luck and happiness, bringing trust, peace and success. It encourages spontaneity and a sunny, gentle disposition. It is motivational and reduces perceived obstacles. Amber is beneficial for stomach, spleen, kidney, liver, gallbladder and skin disorders. It eases painful joints, aids the healing of wounds and soothes teething pains.
Photo shows a polished piece of Amber.

Amblygonite Healing Energies and Mineralogy

Amblygonite clears and cleanses the chakras, meridians and aura through all levels. It aids the removal of blocked emotions; both releasing and transmuting negative energies, allowing you to move on in life free from the burdens of the past. It increases creativity in thought and deed. Amblygonite increases self-esteem, self-worth and self-confidence, whilst encouraging empathy towards others. It is helpful against depression and anxiety. N.B. Do not drink water in which Amblygonite has been placed.

Photo shows an Amblygonite rough rock.

Amblygonite has the chemistry of Lithium Sodium Aluminum Phosphate Fluoride Hydroxide and belongs to the mineral class Phosphates, Amblygonite group. It is a relatively common phosphate mineral, which is found in Lithium and Phosphate rich pegmatites as a primary mineral and as such is a source of Lithium and Phosphorus. In Amblygonite's chemistry, the Lithium and Sodium substitute for each other, however there is a greater percentage of Lithium than Sodium. The mineral, Natramblygonite has the same structure and chemistry as Amblygonite but has more Sodium than Lithium content. When powdered and placed in a gas flame, Amblygonite gives the flame a bright red colour, which indicates the presence of Lithium.
The colour of Amblygonite is generally white or creamy, but it may be colourless, pale yellow, green, blue, beige, grey or pink. The crystal system is triclinic, lustre is vitreous to greasy, fracture is uneven to conchoidal and specimens are translucent. Crystal habits commonly include anhedral masses and compact grains, however short prismatic, tabular or lath-shaped (equant) crystals occur sometimes. When twinning takes place elongated, flatten crystals are formed.
Its name is derived from the Greek word amblygonios meaning blunt angle. This refers to the fact that its cleavage angle slightly differs from 90°, thus distinguishing it from Scapolite, for which it was originally mistaken. Amblygonite has four different directions of cleavage at different angles from one another and with different qualities of cleavage.
Associated minerals of Amblygonite are many and include Lepidolite, Quartz, Albite, Elbaite, Topaz, Cassiterite, Apatite, Brazilianite, Beryllonite, Montebrasite, Lithiophilite and Spodumene. Notable locations include Minas Gerais, Brazil, France, Germany, Varutrask, Sweden, Sakangyi, Burma, Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada, as well as California, Maine, New Mexico, Arizona and South Dakota in the United States.

Amegreen Healing Energies

Amegreen combines purple Amethyst & green Prasiolite with white Quartz. As it connects to the Soul chakra, it greatly enhances psychic ability and meditation, bringing profound insight from connecting with higher realms. It encourages using intuition on a daily basis. It increases self-worth, self-esteem and confidence. Amegreen gently helps those with depression or experiencing grief or loss, whether recent or long standing. It lifts the mood and strengthens resolve. It aids recovery from physical traumas by speeding the healing of wounds. It is beneficial for the digestive system.

Photo shows a Amegreen tumblestone.

Amethyst Healing Energies

Amethyst facilitates communication with higher realms and connection to past lives. It opens perceptual awareness and aids meditation, intuition and clairvoyance. It encourages spiritual insight, honesty and inspiration. It offers protection, both physically and from psychic attacks. It supports and encourages those freeing themselves from addictions, particularly of alcohol, as well as helping to overcome phobias. It brings comfort during times of sadness, grief and loss. Amethyst reduces tension and relieves headaches. It helps lessen swellings from injuries and reduces symptoms of lung and intestinal dis-eases. It is an excellent pain reliever (physically, emotionally & mentally) and facilitates healthy sleeping patterns (great for insomniacs). It benefits those with chronic fatigue, fibromylagia and immune system deficiencies.

Photo shows a Amethsyt cluster from Uraquay with neat dark purple crystals.

Banded Amethyst Healing Energies

Banded (Chevron) Amethyst facilitates deep meditation, including connection to higher realms and the Ancestors. It heightens spiritual awareness, intuition and clairvoyance. It cleanses the aura and energises chakras. Banded Amethyst offers protection from psychic attack and repels negative energies. It reduces physical, emotional and mental pain, soothing and calming, even during the most challenging times, bringing a sense of peace and contentment. It helps those with depression and anxiety, as well as MS and other motor neuron dis-ease.

Photo shows a Banded Amethyst tumblestone.

Amethyst Flower Healing Energies

Amethyst Flowers have the energies of Amethyst plus the following. They encourage and enable the ability to be involved in many tasks, groups etc, whilst remaining centred and retaining a grip on what is important. They bring a calming, fluid energy to both individuals and the environment.

Photo shows an Amethyst Flower cluster.

Lavender Amethyst Healing Energies

Lavender Amethyst opens open the brow chakra (third eye), facilitating communication with other realms, including the akashic records. It aids deep and insightful meditation and strengthens intuition and psychic awareness, aiding tarot & rune readings. Lavender Amethyst is especially comforting during times of sadness, grief and loss. It reduces insomnia and nightmares. It offers gentle support to those giving up addictions.
Photo shows a Lavender Amethyst tumblestone.

Amethyst Mineralogy

Amethyst is a macroscopic member of the enormous Quartz (SiO2) family. It is recognised by its purple colour, which ranges from the palest, most delicate lilac to the deep almost black purples. It is found all over the world and the country of growth influences the colour differences. For example, in Uruguay Amethyst tends to be medium to dark in colour and to retain its colour throughout the piece, unlike those from Brazil. Amethyst from the Ural Mountains, Russia tend to be very clear and dark and are excellent to cut for top quality gemstones, natural uncut clusters are rarely available. Vera Cruz, Mexico is the site of one of the palest varieties. The crystals are clear and prismatic with many phantoms (having a clear quartz interior and an amethyst exterior) and some forming as sceptres.
Amethyst crystals are transparent, fine-sized to large and can occur as long prismatic crystals that have a six-sided pyramid at either end or they can form as druses, which are crystalline crusts of pointed terminations, usually found in cavities. The lustre is vitreous, hardness is 7 and the crystal system is trigonal. The colour and the shape of the crystals define the grade and therefore the price of a mineral specimen.
The name Amethyst comes from Greek and means not drunken. This is a reference to the ancient belief that if you were to drink alcohol from a goblet made of Amethyst you would not become drunk, and so avoid the side effect of a hangover!

Ametrine Healing Energies

Ametrine paids healing meditation and dreaming. It cleanses the aura, removing negative and unhelpful energies. It promotes optimism and hope, leading to considered action that brings a sense of resolution and harmony to previously difficult relationships or situations. It draws good luck and stimulates creative energy. It increases confidence and self-worth. Ametrine brings a sense of general well-being due its cleansing effects on the metabolism and tissues, and its support of the autonomic nervous system. Therefore it is beneficial following series illness, injury or operations. It ameliorates the symptoms of dementia.

Photo shows an Ametrine Buddha.

Ammonite Healing Energies

Ammonite (over 65 million years old) facilitates growth on your spiritual contractual path in a stable and manageable manner. It increases life force (chi, ki). It brings order from chaos on all levels, drawing in unhelpful energies and releasing them as positive energies. It attracts abundance and success. Ammonite is beneficial for those working in occupations where precision and analytical thinking is paramount. It aids those recovering from trauma as it builds up strength. It is beneficial for ear disorders. It eases symptoms of depression and helps with the birthing process.

Photo shows a spiney Ammonite.

Amphibole (Angel Phantom Quartz) Healing Energies

Amphibole (Angel Phantom Quartz) aids linking to the highest realms, particular with Angels. It aids past life recall and connecting to ancient wisdom. It awakens and integrates the Soul Star chakra, thus connecting you to your Higher Self. It expands the brow chakra (Third Eye) and deepens insight & understanding. Due to its make up of Quartz, Limonite, Kaolinite & Hematite it cleanses and links all the chakras, raising the vibration of each. It aids clairaudience (particularly the whiter stones Kaolinite). The more yellow stones (Limonite) aid the sense of oneness to the Earth. Also it enhances motivation, determination, the will to survive and perseverance. The redder stones (Hematite) offer protection, particularly against psychic attacks, dissolves negativity and provides grounding.
Amphibole comforts during times of stress & grief, gently easing emotional pain. It promotes harmony and co-operation, bringing a sense of peace & joy through its calm & gentle energy. As such, it aids good sleep patterns, as well as depression. It reduces glandular swellings & fevers. It is beneficial for the kidneys, liver, skin, ears, circulatory system, skeletal system, especially in aligning the vertebrae and the digestive system. It is helpful to those undergoing physical changes such as puberty and the menopause. It is assists those with M.E., fibromylagia, chronic fatigue syndrome & post traumatic stress syndrome.

Photo shows an Amphible (with Hematite) tumblestone.

Anatase Healing Energies and Mineralogy

Anatase facilitates connection with other realms as well as with the natural world on Earth. It aids psychic development and helps in understanding the concept of blending past, present, and future energies into the Now. Anatase both precipitates changes and supports you whilst undertaking any kind of changes in your life, particularly those that you consider most challenging. It enhances the retaining and assimilation of new knowledge and skills.

Photo shows an Anatase rough rock.

Anatase has the chemistry Titanium Oxide, TiO2, and belongs to the mineral class Oxides and Hydroxides. It is a polymorph with two other minerals, Rutile and Brookite, and is the rarest of the three. There are two distinguishable habits of Anatase crystals. The commoner occurs as simple acute double pyramids with an indigo-blue to black colour and steely lustre. The rarer one may have numerous pyramidal faces and the colour is honey-yellow to brown. It is found in veins and cavities in schists, gneisses, granites, syenites and other related igneous rocks.
It was named by RJ Haüy in 1801 from the Greek word anatasis, which means extension, due to its unusually elongated pyramidial formation. When strongly heated to about 915 degrees Celsius, Anatase will automatically revert to the Rutile structure.

Andalusite (Chiastolite) Healing Energies and Mineralogy

Chiastolite generates communication with the ancestors & indigenous peoples, particularly native Americans. It helps with finding direction when you feel 'lost' and facilitates a sense of connection with the natural rhythms of life. It centres, stabilises and grounds bringing a sense of peace, even in the most challenging times, whilst keeping a sense of reality. It strengthens analytical thinking and encourages letting go of anything that is no longer helpful. Chiastolite aids healing in all levels of the body, bringing the mind, body & spirit into balance. It alleviates rheumatism and gout and fortifies the nerves & immune system.
Photo shows Andalusite.

Chiastolite is a unique variety of Andalusite that contains black or brown inclusions of carbon or clay, which are arranged in regular symmetrical shapes. Usually these are cruciform (X) and only seen when the crystal is sliced. Andalusite has the chemistry Al2 SiO5, Aluminum Silicate and is a member of the mineral class Silicates, subclass Nesosilicates. It is a polymorph with two other minerals, Kyanite and Sillimanite. A polymorph is a mineral that shares the same chemistry but a different crystal structure with one or more other minerals.
Crystal habits include massive, granular and prismatic crystals terminated by a pinacoid. The colour ranges through white, red, brown, orange and green, lustre is vitreous and crystals are transparent to translucent. Cleavage is good in two directions and fracture is splintery to sub-conchoidal. Harness is 7.5 and the crystal system is orthorhombic. Andalusite is named after the Andalusia district in Spain, where it was first reported in 1789. Other locations include Austria, California, USA and China.

Andradite Garnet Healing Energies and Mineralogy (also see Garnet)

Andradite Garnet aids romantic relationships and an understanding of what is being sought and given to the relationship. It enhances male characteristics including power, courage and perseverance, whilst retaining magnanimity. Andradite Garnet opens creativity and assists in achieving goals. It draws success, particularly in business and careers. It benefits the heart and the heart chakra, releasing painful emotions.
Photo shows Andradite Garnet crystals in matrix.

Andradite Garnet has the chemistry Ca3Fe2(SiO4)3, Calcium Iron Silicate and is a member of the mineral class Silicates, subclass Nesosilicates, Garnet group. It is the Calcium Iron Garnet and forms in contact, or regional, metamorphic environments, possibly from impure siliceous Limestones. Grossular Garnet, the Calcium Aluminum Garnet forms in a similar environment. Andradite is named after the Brazilian mineralogist J. B. de Andrada e Silva (1763-1838) and Demantoid is named after its adamantine lustre.
Andradite has varieties based on colour, Melanite is the black variety, Demantoid is the green variety and Topazolite is the yellow variety. Crystals are transparent to translucent, lustre is vitreous and the crystal system is isometric. Photo is of Demantoid Andraite Garnet.
Minerals associated with Andradite Garnet include Micas, Chlorite, Diopside and Serpentine. Well-known locations for this mineral include Ural Mountains in Russia, Italy, California and Arizona.

Angelite Healing Energies

Angelite facilitates communication with angelic realms, encourages spiritual development and aids clairvoyance, astral travel and dream recall. It clears and aligns the higher chakras and refreshes the aura. It is an excellent stone for balancing the emotions, enhancing communication and overcoming challenges. Angelite helps protect against worries, and promotes courage and good fortune. It is good for relieving headaches and reducing infections. It reduces symptoms of throat infections caused by withholding verbal expression. It aids those with depression and anxiety.
Photo shows an Angelite tumblestone.

Anhydrite Healing Energies and Mineralogy

Anhydrite helps to break down out-dated thought and behaviour patterns. It releases stuck emotions and gently cleanses the heart chakra. It is especially helpful for those who feel burdened by responsibilities. Anhydrite encourages appropriate verbal expression. It lowers blood pressure and reduces tension.

Photo shows an Anhydrite rough rock.

Anhydrite helps to break down out-dated thought and behaviour patterns. It releases stuck emotions and gently cleanses the heart chakra. It is especially helpful for those who feel burdened by responsibilities. Anhydrite encourages appropriate verbal expression. It lowers blood pressure and reduces tension.

Anhydrite has the chemistry CaSO4, Calcium Sulphate and belongs to the mineral class Sulphates. It forms as a result of dehydration of the rock forming mineral Gypsum (CaSO4-2H2O). It is named from the Greek anhydras meaning without water, as opposed to Gypsum, which has a water content.
Anhydrite is commonly white, grey or colourless and sometimes blue to lilac-blue. The blue to lilac-blue Anhydrite is commonly known as Angelite, due to its angelic colour. Anhydrite crystal habits are usually are massive or granular, but may be fibrous, lamellar or tabular, often elongated in one direction forming a prismatic crystal. Crystals are transparent to translucent, lustre is vitreous and the crystal system is orthorhombic. It is a soft mineral, with its hardness measuring 3.5.
Minerals associated with Anhydrite include Calcite, Halite and occasionally Galena and Pyrite. Well-known locations for Anhydrite are Mexico, Peru, Germany and India.

Anthracite Healing Energies

Anthracite facilitates connection with ancient peoples and their wisdom; bring profound insights & deep understanding of the Self, life's purpose and the universe. It is grounding, enabling you to keep your head in the clouds but your feet on the ground. It dispels negative energies, both from the body & the environment. Anthracite encourages success in business & projects undertaken. It lessens physical & mental-emotional pain. It is beneficial for those with bowel dis-ease.
Photo shows an Athracite tumblestone.

Apache Tear (Smokey Obsidian) Healing Energies

Apache Tear supports through challenging times and gives considerable comfort at times of grief. It facilitates understanding, insight, acceptance and forgiveness both at the time and for long-held grievances. This leads to a sense of calm, peace & harmony. It removes blockages and toxins from the body, thus cleansing it and making room for positive changes. Apache Tear protects from any unhelpful energies, including psychic attack. It is a good protector for those working with energy fields. It is grounding and helps to keep the 'feet on the ground'. It releases tension in muscles and fortifies the body.

Photo show an Apache Tear rough rock.

Apatite Healing Energies and Mineralogy

Apatite aligns chakras and meridians. It promotes openness, extroversion and concentration (great for musicians, actors etc). It reduces apathy, exhaustion, irritability and aggression; easing anger and sorrow. It aids truthful communication. Apatite encourages healthy eating habits, great for weight loss! It stimulates growth of cartilage, bones and teeth and aids healing of broken bones. It lessens the effects of arthritis, rickets and joint problems.

Photo shows a Blue Apatite tumblestone.

Apatite has the chemistry Ca5(PO4)3(F,Cl,OH) Calcium (Fluoro, Chloro, Hydroxyl) Phosphate. It belongs to the mineral class Phosphates and group Apatite. Actually, Apatite is one of three different minerals, depending on the amount of fluorine, chlorine or the hydroxyl it contains. Individually these are formally known as FluorApatite Ca5(PO4)3F, ChlorApatite Ca5(PO4)3Cl and HydroxylApatite Ca5(PO4)3OH. There may be elements of all three in any one specimen and it is difficult to distinguish them, therefore usually they are considered together.
Commonly Apatite forms in all the primary rock types, although metamorphic rocks are the more like place for crystals to form. Usually the crystals are transparent to translucent, prismatic or tabular and are trigonal/hexagonal. Other habits include granular, compact, reniform and massive and the lustre is vitreous. The colour of Apatite is varied and ranges through colourless, white, yellow, brown, red, pink, purple, blue, green and multicoloured. Apatite is found worldwide, particularly in Sri Lanka, Brazil, Russia, Canada, East Africa, Sweden, Spain and Mexico. It is associated with Hornblende, Micas, Nepheline and Calcite. In the past Apatite was often confused with other minerals, for example Beryl and Olivine, which is why it was not named Apatite until 1786. The word comes from the Greek apatao, which means to delude or mislead.

Black Apatite Healing Energies

Black Apatite aids psychic development and intuition. It offers reassurance in times of crisis & grief and encourages personal growth and an outgoing personality. It increases motivation & determination and encourages staying focussed on a goal despite obstacles. Black Apatite promotes having a healthy lifestyle, especially diet. It stimulates growth of cartilage, bones and teeth. It lessens the effects of arthritis, rickets and joint problems and aids healing of broken bones.

Photo shows a Black Apatite tumblestone.

Apophyllite Healing Energies and Mineralogy

Apophyllite activates & expands the brow & crown chakras, facilitating communication with other dimensions & higher beings and also astral travel, bringing new & profound insight & wisdom. It enhances meditation, clairvoyance & intuition and augment tarot & oracle card readings. Apophyllite 'Tops' are ideal for healing grids. It encourages honesty & openness, reduces fears & anxieties and gently releases suppressed emotions. It removes energy blocks and negative thought patterns. It reduces the symptoms of allergies and respiratory problems, (particularly asthma) as well as stimulating the nerves.
Photo shows an Apophyllite top.

Apophyllite (Hydrated Potassium Calcium Silicate Fluoride) is a member of the Silicate class of minerals with the subclass Phyllosilicates. Usually Apophyllite specimens are found in ancient lava and basalt flows. The crystals grow in the now solid cavities (amymydules or vesicles) that were formed by air bubbles when the rock was molten.
Apophyllite has crystals that tend to peel or flake apart when they are heated, hence its name, which translated from Greek means to leaf apart. The flaking occurs because of the loss of water molecules. The crystals have a vitreous to pearly lustre and are often four sided prisms truncated with either a steep four-sided pyramid or a pinacoid termination or both.
Their structure is layered with alternating silicate sheets and the potassium, sodium, calcium, fluorine and water layers. However, unlike other Phyllosilicates, the Apophyllite Group silicate sheets are composed of interconnected four and eight-member rings, which have a four-fold symmetry. Only Apophyllite group members have this unique interconnected four and eight-member ring structure.

Aqua Aura Healing Energies

Aqua Aura (gold covered Quartz) enhances spiritual development particularly psychic skills and awareness, meditation, telepathy and dream-work. It aids distant healing work and protects from psychic attack. Aqua Aura enhances communications of all kinds and especially verbal. It attracts success and prosperity. It reduces symptoms of dis-ease of the throat, thymus gland, stress-related illness and immune system deficiencies.
Photo shows an beautiful Aqua Aura cluster.

Aqua Aura is Quartz that is gold infused by taking 12 hours to heat the quartz to 1600F while setting a vacuum equal to 2 earth atmospheres, then letting chemically purified gold vapours into the chamber when the temperature and vacuum are correct. This bonds the gold to the lattice of the crystal, forming a permanent bond to the surface of the quartz and giving it an electric blue colour.

Aquamarine Healing Energies and Mineralogy

Aquamarine encourages spiritual growth, foresight, mediumistic qualities and clairvoyance. It promotes honesty, dynamism, persistence and success, coupled with light-heartedness and a happy disposition. It clears confusion and brings unfinished business to conclusion. It encourages 'going with the flow'. Aquamarine regulates growth and hormones by harmonising the function of the pituitary and thyroid glands. It improves both long and short sightedness. It calms overreactions of the immune system and is effective for allergies, particularly hay fever.

Photo shows a Aquamarine tumblestone.

Aquamarine is the blue-green variety of the mineral Beryl, a Beryllium Aluminium Silicate. Other varieties include Emerald (green), Morganite (pink), Heliodor (yellow) and those that are referred to by their colour e.g. Red Beryl. Aquamarine is coloured by trace amounts of iron in the crystal structure.

Aragonite Healing Energies

Aragonite stabilises spiritual and physical developments that are moving too fast, allowing learning to be assimilated before proceeding. It is calming and brings a feeling of physical well-being. It enables flexibility of thinking and behaviour within boundaries. It promotes a connectedness with nature. Aragonite regulates the metabolism of calcium, strengthens the immune system and helps digestive disorders. It is good for the skeleton, particularly spinal problems and aids recovery from broken bones. It warms the body when chilled by colds or flu.

Photo shows an Aragonite 'sputnik'.

Banded Aragonite Healing Energies

Banded Aragonite aids intuition alongside psychic and spiritual development. It heightens awareness of the place of the Self within the Universe. It balances the subtle bodies, as well as the physical, bringing a sense of peace and well-being. Banded Aragonite encourages viewing situations from more than one perspective. It regulates the metabolism of calcium, strengthens the immune system & bone density and helps digestive disorders.

Photo shows a Banded Aragonite tumblestone.

Blue Aragonite Healing Energies

Blue Aragonite enhances intuition and psychic abilities and facilitates communication with other realms. It brings Yin Yang energies of the body into balance. It lifts the mood and increases thoughts of achievement (I can do it). It aids verbal communication and speaking from the heart. Blue Aragonite is helpful against respiratory dis-ease. It relaxes muscles and reduces tension, anxiety and stress.
Photo shows a Blue Aragonite tumblestone.

Aragonite Mineralogy

Aragonite has the chemistry CaCO3 Calcium, Carbon and Oxygen and is a member of the mineral class Carbonates, Aragonite group. It is found widespread around hot springs, forming in metamorphic and sedimentary rocks in limestone areas. Aragonite is a polymorph (having the same chemistry but a different structure) of Calcite in addition to having different symmetry and crystal shapes. It is unstable at normal temperatures and pressures, stable at higher pressures, but not at higher temperatures. If heated to 400 degrees C, it will spontaneously convert to Calcite if the pressure is not also increased. Vaterite, an extremely rare mineral, is a polymorph of Aragonite and Calcite also.
Perhaps Aragonite's best-known crystal habit is the twinned pseudo-hexagonal prismatic crystals that it produces (Sputniks), which is due to an error during the growth of the crystal. Another of Aragonites crystal habits is flos ferris, a delicate formation resembling coral, or twigs on a tree. In addition, it may be compact, granular, radially fibrous and massive. Aragonite is a constituent of many sea creatures' shell structures and occurs in Septarians (a fossilised sedimentary structure). Aragonite may be white, or colourless with shades of red, yellow, orange, brown, green and rarely blue. Crystals are transparent to translucent, the lustre is vitreous to dull and the crystal system is orthorhombic.
Aragonite is named after its type locality, Aragon province in Spain where it was discovered in 1788. However, it is found in many areas of the world including Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Mexico, Spain United Kingdom and USA. Among Aragonites, many associated minerals are Gypsum, Barite, Smithsonite, Malachite, Calcite, Celestite, Zeolites and Quartz.

Astrophylite Healing Energies and Mineralogy

Astrophylite aids astral travel and dreaming. It promotes self-awareness and self-confidence, creating optimism and a positive view of the Self, even during bleak times. It is grounding and protective. Astrophylite removes unhelpful thought and behaviour patterns, making it an ideal stone for those with ADHD, phobias or wishing to change addictive behaviours. It benefits the reproductive system and also regenerates at the cellular level. N.B. Do not use when tumours are present.

Photo shows an Astrophylite palmstone.

Astrophylite has the chemistry (K,Na)3(Fe,Mn)7Ti2(SiO3)8(O,OH)7, Potassium Sodium Iron Manganese Titanium Silicate Hydroxide. It is a member of the mineral class Silicates, subclass Inosilicates, Astrophylite group. It is a rare mineral found in some unusual granites and syenites. The crystal habits of Astrophylite include thin bladed, fine sized, stellate (spherical or radial in star-like aggregates and lamellar in massives. Crystals are translucent to opaque, the lustre is sub-metallic to pearly and the crystal system is triclinic. The colour ranges from brown through bronze to golden yellow. Minerals associated with Astrophylite include Quartz, Feldspars, Nepheline, Micas and Aegirine. Notable locations for Astrophylite include Russia, Greenland, Norway and Canada. Astrophylite was discovered in Norway in 1854. It is named from the Greek astron phyllon meaning star leaf.

Atacamite Healing Energies

Atacamite stimulates images via the brow chakra (third eye). It protects during astral travel and meditation. It heals and cleanses on many levels particularly from the heart, throat and brow chakras and the etheric body. Atacamite is beneficial for the kidneys & liver. It soothes the nervous system, helping with anxiety, stress & depression. It aids the functioning of the thyroid gland & endocrine system.

Photo shows microcrystalline and platy Atacamite on matrix.

Atlantisite Healing Energies

Atlantisite is a combination of Serpentine & Stichtite. It aids communication with ancient peoples, giving access to ancient records, including past lives, in order to further our own development for the greater good. It brings a sense of peace & TLC for the Self. It balances the subtle bodies & helps bring order to chaos in the mind or the environment. As such, it aids those with unwanted behaviours including ADHD, & addictions. It regulates the fluids in the body & is beneficial for those with hypertension, nephritis etc.

Photo shows an Atlantisite tumblestone.

Aurichalcite Healing Energies

Aurichalcite aids meditation. It facilitates regeneration of the nervous system, particularly in the brain. Aurichalcite calms and soothes both the physical and emotional bodies.

Photo shows Aurichalcite on Calcite matrix.

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