Aqua Quartz Healing Energies

Aqua Quartz reduces feelings of stress and calms the emotions. In times of challenge it gently offers reassurance and hope and brings to the surface that which needs to be expressed. It aids digestion, reduces inflammation of the intestines and ameliorates disorders of the throat.

Photo shows an Aqua Quartz heart.

Blue Quartz Healing Energies

Blue Quartz awakens the third eye and connecting to your intuition. It provides support and comfort during times of distress, and the motivation to complete long-standing tasks. It helps to build a positive view of self and increase confidence. It enhances communication and benefits throat disorders and circulation.

Photo shows a Blue Quartz Buddha carving.

Candle (Pineapple) Quartz Healing Energies

Candle (Pineapple) Quartz aids communication with higher and otherworldly realms when held during meditation. It holds knowledge and information that it will impart to the right person. Candle Quartz helps to retain control when many things are happening at once.

Photo shows a natural Candle Quartz point.

Chalcedony Quartz Healing Energies

Chalcedony Quartz helps balance energy on the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. It encourages goodwill; alleviating irritation, hostility and melancholy. It encourages assimilation of minerals, increases mental stability and reduces symptoms of dementia. Chalcedony Quartz provides energy, strength and vitality, particularly in connection with spiritual growth.

Photo shows a polished Chalcedony Quartz point.

Chlorite Quartz Healing Energies

Chlorite Quartz is a very powerful healing stone, having the combined properties of both Clear Quartz and Chlorite. It purifies, cleanses and balances the aura, chakras and meridian systems. It reduces anger and exasperation, bringing a sense of agreement and co-operation. Chlorite Quartz aids meditation and communication with higher realms. It increases assimilation of Vitamins A and E, calcium, iron and magnesium, eliminates toxins and reduces feelings of physical pain.

Clear Quartz (Rock Crystal) Healing Energies

Clear Quartz (Rock Crystal) can
Focus and amplify energy
Relieve and release stress
Amplify healers powers
Prevent burn-out and exhaustion
Simulate harmonious brain activity
Restore energy structure to the body
Stimulate healing, personal growth and spiritual development
Re-connect with inner levels of being and aura
Create carrier waves of pure energy
Stimulate energy flow of the meridians
Transfer intelligent encoded information to the bloodstream
Transmute unwanted information trapped in bones, tissues and unconscious
In fact, do almost anything!

Photo shows a double terminated Clear Quartz pendant point.

Harlequin Quartz (Lepidocrocite) Healing Energies

Harlequin Quartz (Lepidocrocite) aids communication with higher realms and beings and enables telepathic transmission on all levels. It enhances meditation and psychic awareness. It activates clears and energies the higher chakras. Harlequin Quartz lightens your outlook by bringing a sense of optimism and fun. It benefits blood circulation and strengthens the heart muscle.

Orange River Quartz Healing Energies

Orange River Quartz combines the energies of Quartz with that of Hematite. It helps in finding your life's path and facilitates acceptance this. It energises and refreshes at the same time as keeping a sense of realism. Orange River Quartz cleanses the lower chakras. It aids clear thinking and decision-making and offers support when making difficult changes. It is beneficial for the digestive system, especially irritable bowel syndrome.

Red Quartz Healing Energies

Red Quartz has a unique three-faced point. It provides strength, energy and motivation. It has a strong earth connection and enhances any work with herbs and the like. It aids the production of red blood cells and increases the circulation.

Photo shows a double terminated Red Quartz point.

Rose Quartz Healing Energies

Rose Quartz facilitates unconditional love of the Self and of others and develops self-esteem. It promotes and supports openness, empathy, sensitivity and honesty. Rose Quartz is an excellent crystal for relationships and romance. It stimulates blood circulation, fortifies the heart and increases fertility for those wanting a child.

Photo shows a Rose Quartz Angel carving.

Rutilated Quartz Healing Energies

Rutilated Quartz brings hope. It lifts the mood and has an anti-depressive effect; reducing feelings of anxiety and severe tension. It promotes expansive thinking and the removal of unnecessary restrictions. Rutilated Quartz aids respiratory diseases, particularly bronchitis. It stimulates the regeneration power of all cells, energy flow and body growth.

Photo shows a Rutilated Quartz polished point.

Smokey Quartz Healing Energies

Smokey Quartz protects from the effects of radiation (put next to your computer, T.V., mobile phone etc) and from other negative energies. It is beneficial during times of grief or challenges. It promotes a relaxed attitude, reduces the predisposition to stress, and encourages realistic choices. It aids concentration. Smokey Quartz reduces pain and cramps, particularly in the back. It fortifies the nerves and it treats all kinds of addictions (e.g. smoking, alcohol drinking and drug taking). It is very good for grounding and centring.

Photo shows a Smokey Quartz tumblestone.

Spirit Quartz Healing Energies

Spirit Quartz may be covered with tiny crystals of Amethyst, Citrine, White and Smokey Quartz. The healing energies radiate from each of the tiny terminations and shower the environment. In addition, unhelpful energies may be absorbed through each of these tiny crystals. Spirit Quartz aids the development of spirituality, insight and intuition. It facilitates access to, and understanding of, ancient knowledge. It cleanses the aura and removes blockages in the subtle bodies. It energises on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels. Spirit Quartz promotes peace and harmony for individuals and communities, as well as providing protection. It encourages abundance of whatever is needed. It reduces the symptoms of allergies that affect the skin, benefits the colon and detoxifies the physical body. It is beneficial to those with attention disorders or obsessive behaviour patterns.

Star Quartz Healing Energies

Star Quartz (Hollandite) facilitates connection and communication with other worlds and higher realms. It is an excellent stone for meditation. It brings a sense of Oneness and completeness.

Photo shows a Star Quartz point - note the black 'star'.

Tangerine Quartz Healing Energies

Tangerine Quartz facilitates both connection to and acceptance of, the Self. It encourages the Self-development and a deeper understanding of what is in the Self's best interests. It increases self-esteem and confidence and promotes motivation and determination to achieve one's goals. Tangerine Quartz aids all types of creativity. It is beneficial for reducing dis-ease of reproductive organs.

Tourmalated Quartz Healing Energies

Tourmalated Quartz (Schorl) encourages a sense of neutrality and a relaxed attitude; by discharging tension and reducing feelings of stress. It protects from negative thoughts (from the self and others) and stimulates clear, logical and rational thought processes. Tourmalated Quartz alleviates pain and encourages the formation of scars. It neutralises radiation energy. It is excellent to use for healing when you want to add some support or protection alongside the use of Clear Quartz.

Photo shows a Tourmalated Quartz sphere - note the Black Tourmaline inclusions.

Yellow Quartz Healing Energies

Yellow Quartz aids spiritual development. It projects inner positive energies to the external world and increases the ability to get on with others. It enhances self-confidence and self-acceptance. The paler Yellow Quartz increases enthusiasm, motivation and joy, while the darker colours increase ambition.

Photo shows Yellow Quartz tumblestones.

Quartz Mineralogy

Quartz has the chemical formula SiO2 Silicon Dioxide, is a member of the mineral class Silicates, subclass Tectosilicates, Quartz group. It is the most common mineral on the Earth's surface, being found in nearly every geological environment and is at least a component of almost every rock type. In addition, Quartz is the most varied in terms of varieties, colours and forms because of the abundance and widespread distribution of Quartz. This is due to the unique structure of Quartz, which involves corkscrew (helix) chains of silicon tetrahedrons that take four tetrahedrons in order for repetition (three turns). Each tetrahedron is essentially rotated 120 degrees. Quartz can produce both left and right-handed crystals depending on the direction of the rotating helix.
The larger crystals of Quartz are glassy to vitreous and transparent to translucent, however cryptocrystalline forms are usually waxy to dull, occasionally vitreous and can translucent or opaque. Quartz is piezoelectric which means that when a crystal is heated, compressed or vibrated a different electrical charge will form at opposite ends of the crystal; an electrical potential. Conversely, if an electrical potential is applied to the crystal, it will vibrate.
As you would expect crystal habits are extremely variable. The most common habit, and most familiar perhaps, is the hexagonal prisms terminated with a six-sided pyramid, in actually two rhombohedrons. This is the generator crystal formation. Crystal lined rock with just the pyramids showing, known as druse, is common, also. There are a multitude of possible massive habits including botryoidal, globular, stalactitic and crusts of agate as seen in vugs. Crystals frequently twin; a well known twinning habit is the Japanese twin, where two crystals contact at a 90º angle. Quartz crystals may also contain certain unusual growths. One is a sceptre, where the top of a crystal bulges out from the rest of the crystal, and another is a phantom, where one crystal forms over another, leaving a ghosted form inside.
Quartz can be almost any colour, with Clear Quartz being the most common, followed by Milky Quartz. The purple variety is known as Amethyst, pink as Rose Quartz, black-brown as Smokey Quartz and yellow-orange as Citrine. There are more variety names given to Quartz than any other mineral.

There are numerous minerals associated with Quartz including Amazonite, Tourmalines especially Elbaite, Pyrite, Rutile, Zeolites, Fluorite, Calcite, Gold, Muscovite, Topaz, Beryl, Hematite and Spodumene. Hematite forms an incrustation pseudomorph over Quartz crystals, which causes a crystal to become opaque and reddish brown, and occasionally gives the crystal a multicoloured, iridescent effect.
Quartz is an important mineral with numerous uses. Sand, which is composed of tiny Quartz particles, is the primary ingredient for the manufacture of glass. Clear Quartz has many electronic uses; it is used as oscillators in radios, watches, and pressure gauges. Quartz is also used as an abrasive for sandblasting, grinding glass, and cutting soft stones.

Quartzite Healing Energies

Quartzite is an excellent all-round stone (similar to clear quartz); however it has a softer and more fluid energy. It is particularly helpful in supporting during challenging times in order to facilitate move on. It encourages using the right brain to strengthen creativity, intuition and psychic awareness.

Photo shows a Quartzite tumblestone.