Copper is an essential mineral, meaning it occurs naturally in the human body and also in nature. It has the ability to ground and transfer a wide array of vibrational frequencies from the spiritual into the physical. It is linked to the Divine and associates with the attributes of the Queen of Heaven. Any stone paired with Copper, in or around it, is said to have its properties enhanced.
When copper mixes with skin sweat, it oxidizes and sometimes leaves a greenish hue on your skin. The acidic nature of human sweat and other chemicals on the skin, such as soaps, lotions and makeup, react with the copper. The reaction varies according to individual body chemistry and not everyone experiences this reaction. This is nothing to be alarmed about. The discoloration will resolve itself over a couple of hours.
Keeping your copper jewelry clean and shiny is pretty easy. Simply use a jewelry polishing cloth or you can wash your copper jewelry with warm water and soap, using a soft bristled brush to gently scrub away grime. Be mindful that not all crystals can be submerged in water.
Crystals are conduits for healing through their natural energy vibrations. They are found all over the world and provide protective and positive influence in our lives. Many people enjoy using crystals for healing, guidance, energy shifts, meditation, manifestations and emotional support. Below is information on a few of my favorite crystals to work with and use in ritual.
Agate promotes inner stability, composure, and maturity. Its warm, protective properties encourage security and self-confidence. Having a lower intensity and slower vibrational frequency than other stones, it is highly regarded as a stabilizing and strengthening influence. Called the earth rainbow, the concentric bands of Agate form in nearly every color the earth can produce, including a colorless form.
Amazonite increases self-esteem, especially in women, and reduces tendencies to self-neglect. It enhances the ability to communicate more effectively by identifying how one’s words have created the current reality, and how to change one’s vocabulary to reflect a higher, more aligned reality. It also empowers one to set appropriate boundaries, inwardly in self-discipline, and with others in establishing healthy relationships.
Amber is highly prized in the metaphysical world for its energetic and healing properties, and for the marvelous Life Force it carries. It is considered to be one of the most effective energetic healing substances, drawing off toxins, pain, and disease from the body and stimulating the immune system and the body’s other natural healing mechanisms to rebalance and heal itself. Amber stimulates the body’s own mechanisms to heal itself, increases vitality and aids tissue regeneration.
Amethyst is a remarkable stone of spirituality and contentment, it is known for its metaphysical abilities to still the mind and inspire an enhanced meditative state. Its inherent high frequency purifies the aura of any negative energy or attachments, and creates a protective shield of Light around the body, allowing one to remain clear and centered while opening to spiritual direction. Amethyst stimulates the Third Eye, Crown and Etheric Chakras enhancing cognitive perception as well as accelerating the development of intuitive and psychic ability. It initiates wisdom and greater understanding, and is a stone of comfort for those grieving the loss of a loved one.
Blue Aragonite is a stone of optimism. Gentle and purifying, it aligns all of your subtle bodies with the physical. This stone gets its delicate blue color from copper. It helps to make blue aragonite a powerful energy conduit that heightens and then grounds your spiritual communication. This stone helps you to find the source of problems occurring in your life and helps to turn them into opportunities for your growth.
Calcite amplifies energy and can clear, open and strengthen the chakras. It encourages stability and self-trust, and helps us to transform ideas into actions. It is a spiritual stone that facilitates the opening of higher consciousness and psychic abilities.
Chrysocolla is first and foremost a Stone of Communication. Its very essence is devoted to expression, empowerment and teaching. The serenity of its turquoise-blue color discharges negative energies, calms, and allows truth and inner wisdom to surface and be heard. A peaceful stone, it emphasizes the power our words and actions have on those around us, and encourages compassion and strengthening of character.
Carrying a Citrine is like carrying the power of the sun, it is warm and comforting, energizing and life giving. It stimulates the chakras like the sunlight of spring, clearing the mind and stirring the soul to action. Its frequency awakens creativity and imagination, and sustains the process of transforming dreams and wishes into tangible form. With its pure yellow energy, Citrine encourages fullness of life, fresh beginnings and new pursuits.
Clear Quartz acts as a deep soul cleanser, purifying and enhancing the body's internal structure and surrounding subtle bodies to connect the physical dimension with the mind. It focuses on inner negativity and stimulates positive thoughts and feelings in its place. With a better perception of the world, Quartz increases awareness and clarity in thinking, and provides enhanced energy, perseverance and patience, teaching one to live, laugh and love with all of humanity.
Dragon Blood Stone (often referred to as a Jasper) is an intensely healing stone, promoting courage, strength, and vitality while also supporting centeredness and grounding. This stone helps to balance and integrate mind, body and spirit. It opens our hearts and inspires compassion for others. It gives us the courage to face difficulties head-on, with honesty, determination, creativity, and practicality. With its unique coloring, it encourages the best possible combination of love and passion.
Called the “Stone of Successful Love,” Emerald opens and nurtures the heart and the Heart Chakra. Its soothing energy provides healing to all levels of the being, bringing freshness and vitality to the spirit. A stone of inspiration and infinite patience, it embodies unity, compassion and unconditional love. Emerald is also a stone of great vision and intuition, associated with the eyes and sight, long believed to foretell future events and reveal one’s truths. It is a stone of wisdom, enhancing memory and increasing mental clarity. It combines intelligence with discernment, and brings to the conscious mind what is unconsciously known.
Garnet is a powerful energizing and regenerative stone. It balances, strengthens and protects. Garnet balances energy, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate, and can inspire love and balance the sex drive. Garnet is considered a lucky stone, for love, success, and for business relationships. It helps you let go of old behavior patterns and boosts self-confidence.
Goldstone assists in the development of patience, reconciliation of differences, or seeking forgiveness. It helps us to change our lives to become more dependable and cheerful. Helpful in dealing with grief, letting go of the past, and curing guilt. Goldstone brings a good charm and abundance for the wearer. It evaluates the risk and enhances the confidence of the wearer.
Green Aventurine is known as the “Stone of Opportunity,” thought to be the luckiest of all crystals, especially in manifesting prosperity and wealth, or for increasing favor in competitions or games of chance. This beautiful stone, however, is not merely an attractor of luck, but one that aligns conditions so “opportunity” is inevitable. Green Aventurine releases old patterns, habits and disappointments so new growth can take place. It brings optimism and a zest for life, allowing one to move forward with confidence and to embrace change. It enhances one’s creativity and motivation, and encourages perseverance in maneuvering life’s obstacles. It also reinforces one’s decisiveness and amplifies leadership qualities, injecting a sense of humor and openness to the ideas of others.
The Hematite crystal healing properties stem from the stone’s high iron content, which gives it a heaviness and a weightiness that gives you the feeling of being anchored to the earth. With the simple act of bringing you back down to earth, Hematite calms a troubled mind and puts your spirit at ease so you can release any feelings of stress, tension, worry, or nervousness. The stabilizing effect of the Hematite crystal stone makes it a trusted companion to keep by your side everywhere you go. Not only do the Hematite crystal healing properties lend a sense of grounded-ness and stability, but they can also help you to feel energetically protected by guiding you to release any energies that may be destabilizing you.
Jade is an abundance stone, representing the flow of Divine energy into the reality of one's life. It brings harmony and happiness in business and family relationships, as well material abundance. It is a reminder to smell the flowers, touch the ones you love, and share your heart with others in affirmation of plenty.
Jasper is known as the “supreme nurturer”. It sustains and supports through times of stress, and brings tranquility and wholeness. Jasper provides protection and absorbs negative energy. It balances yin and yang. Jasper clears electromagnetic and environmental pollution, including radiation. It encourages honesty with one's self. Provides courage to assertively tackle problems. Aids quick-thinking and promotes organisational abilities.
Green Jasper balances obsessive tendencies and restores harmony to the emotional body, allowing one to gain control over thoughts.
Mookaite Jasper carries an invigorating frequency of strength and vitality, and increases Life Force within the physical body. Use Mookaite Jasper to connect with elemental Earth powers for increasing self-confidence, self-worth, and to realize one’s full potential. Press a Mookaite palm stone against the upper stomach to activate the Solar Plexus Chakra, the seat of will and personal power.
Ocean Jasper brings a spirit of peace and letting go, of breathing deeply and consciously, attuning to Nature and being physically and spiritually present in one’s surroundings. Like all Jaspers, Ocean Jasper alleviates stress and induces tranquility. Its cleansing effect eliminates negative energy and stabilizes the aura.
Red Jasper is the Stone of Endurance, a gentle, but vital, stimulator of chi, or Life Force, bringing physical strength and energy, stamina, focus and determination. Its steady frequency calms the emotional body creating a lasting, stable energy for improving health or overcoming illness, setting goals and following through to completion, facing unpleasant tasks and having the courage to rectify wrongs. Red Jasper activates the Base Chakra and stimulates the rise of the kundalini energy throughout the chakras, cleansing and strengthening the aura. It is a stone of passion, useful for restoring and rejuvenating the libido, and in manifesting creative ideas.
Kyanite is like a universal bridge, it is an extraordinary crystal of connection, opening the mind centers, enhancing telepathic and psychic abilities, bridging gaps in all communication efforts, and providing a link for transmitting or receiving healing energy. It immediately aligns the chakras and subtle bodies, bringing tranquility and a calming effect to the whole being. Kyanite inspires loyalty and fair treatment to others. It assists in working through disagreements and disputes, and can aid in repairing damaged relationships.
Lapis Lazuli is one of the most sought after stones in use since man's history began. Its deep, celestial blue remains the symbol of royalty and honor, gods and power, spirit and vision. It is a universal symbol of wisdom and truth. Lapis Lazuli is a crystal of truth in all aspects. It reveals inner truth, and promotes self-awareness and the acceptance of that knowledge. It provides for the relief of things that may have been suppressed and allows for them to surface, helping to diminish dis-ease or repressed anger, and allows for self-expression without holding back or compromising.
Known as the stone of transformation, the Malachite crystal meaning helps bring energy and focus to new growth while pruning off the brambles holding you back. Get a spiritual makeover with the Malachite crystal stone and use its healing properties to give a burst of fuel to the fiery passions of your heart. Whatever you're searching for--love, money, power--Malachite offers you the gift of wisdom to know the difference between abundance of the spirit and monetary wealth. Meditate with Malachite and feel all chakra centers being cleansed and purified, removing emotional blockages and opening your heart up to new experiences.
Morganite inspires joy and reverence for life, and increases the opportunities which allow one to experience the unconditional love of the Divine. It cleanses the emotional body of stress and anxiety, old wounds and hidden traumas, and enkindles lightness within the spirit, as if a burden has been lifted. It encourages loving thoughts and actions, consideration and responsibility, and being receptive to love from others.
Opals promote a sense of calm security, easing stress and depression, and encouraging one to stop brooding in order to better direct one’s thoughts and energies. They are antidotes to restless thoughts and racing minds that rehash the past or anticipate the future. A stone of protection, Opal is a marvelous shield to keep from absorbing other people’s negative thoughts and energies. It is a wonderfully supportive stone, dedicated to healing and strengthening the emotional body for those willing to peer honestly into the true self. Opal’s high internal energy brings thoughts and feelings to the surface for examination, and reveals what one’s emotional state has been in the past.
Phantom crystals contain ghost-like images of another crystal within them that is aligned with the outer crystal. Phantoms are meditation crystals and healing crystals used almost exclusively to get in touch with the inner self for purposes of self-knowledge. They are most specifically used to help in understanding our inner needs that when satisfied will bring us the happiness we seek - the true happiness of complete fulfillment.
Pyrite is often called “Fool’s Gold". Pyrite is a unique protector, drawing energy from the Earth through the physical body and into the aura creating a defensive shield against negative energies, environmental pollutants, emotional attack and physical harm. It also supports one with a spirit of boldness and assertive action when protecting others, the planet, or in standing up for important issues of community. It stimulates the Second and Third Chakras, enhancing will power and the ability to see behind facades to what is real.
River Rock, aka "Bones of Mother Earth", is one of the oldest continually-used crystals for strength and energy. They are formed when water and land come together, collaborating to create something beautiful, natural and auspicious. River rock stimulates wealth and provides protection, peace, prosperity, practicality, grounding and confidence.
The fair and lovely Rose Quartz, with its gentle pink essence, is a stone of the heart, a Crystal of Unconditional Love. It carries a soft feminine energy of compassion and peace, tenderness and healing, nourishment and comfort. It speaks directly to the Heart Chakra, dissolving emotional wounds, fears and resentments, and circulates a Divine loving energy throughout the entire aura.
Selenite is celebrated for the transparency and ethereal radiance its crystals provide. Like the moon, it reflects a pure beam of white light into any environment in which it rests, and is believed to contain the liquid Light of Spirit inhabiting the place between light and matter. Selenite inspires a profound peace, and carries a fine, high frequency and intensity of energy that surpasses nearly all stones for opening, clearing, and activating the Crown and Higher Crown Chakras. It is ideal for meditation, spiritual work, connecting to ancient wisdom and knowledge, and is one of the best crystals for accessing one’s spirit guides and the angelic realm.
Smoky Quartz works to connect you to the supportive energy of the Earth while also connecting you to a higher state of being, guiding you to move on from lower vibrational energies that may weigh you down or hold you back. Because of its powerful cleansing and detoxing properties, this stone is one of the most powerful stones to work with for releasing and letting go of any and all unwanted energies in your energy field.
Tiger’s Eye is a most ancient talisman, mysterious and powerful, revered and feared - an “all-seeing all-knowing eye,” thought to grant a wearer the ability to observe everything, even through closed doors. Tiger’s Eye is ever vigilant, bringing sharpness to one’s inner vision and better understanding of the cause and effect of each situation. It encourages one to use their powers wisely, and allows scattered information to be brought together to a cohesive whole. Tiger’s Eye supports necessary change in all aspects of one’s life, strengthening the will and clarity of intention in order to manifest at the highest level. It inspires creativity and utilizing one’s talents and abilities, and is superb for stimulating wealth and the good judgement needed to maintain it.
Black Tourmaline is devoted to grounding spiritual energies, bringing a clearer expression of Light into the world and into the lives of those drawn to its powers. It furthers the ability to remain radiant in the darkest of circumstances, and to maintain a spiritual consciousness while living among those who are not always in the Light and do not understand the love of the universe. Black Tourmaline is a stone of purification, cleansing the emotional body of negative thoughts, anxieties, anger or feelings of unworthiness. It increases physical vitality, replacing tension and stress with the ability to view the world objectively with clear, rational thought and neutrality. It inspires a positive attitude, no matter the circumstances, and stimulates altruism and practical creativity.
Tourmaline Quartz, Clear Quartz and Tourmaline, is a powerful combo that deflects all negative energy and unlocks all energy blockages in the body. It encourages a large amount of light to encircle your body, healing you on many levels. Tourmalinated quartz stones have a strong spiritual grounding energy as well as being potent psychic protection stones. Wearing a Tourmilated Quartz Pendant will act as a shield preventing negativity and promoting and amplifying positive energy for increased harmony in your life.
Turquoise is a most efficient healer, providing solace for the spirit and well-being for the body. It benefits the overall mood and emotion by balancing and inducing a sense of serenity and peace. Holding or wearing Turquoise helps restore depleted vitality and lifts sagging spirits. It relieves stress and brings focus back to the center heart. It is empathetic and balancing, helping one to recognize the causes of happiness and unhappiness, and to master them.
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