Blue Lace Agate
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Healing Properties : Blue lace agate helps to focus on the inner source of love within you that transforms and heals all wounds. It is a great crystal for cleansing the body and increasing longevity and often referred to as ‘the fountain of youth’. It's also known to promote courage and power for the wearer. Blue Lace contains the qualities of flight, air, movement and grace. Highly inspirational when working with the inner self.
Colour: Almost transparent light blue with white ribbons and swirls
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Moss Agate
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Healing Properties : Moss Agate connects the wearer to nature and helps to improve and strengthen positive personality traits.
Colour: Deep green to light green with inclusions of minerals that look like moss
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Tibetan Agate
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Healing Properties: Tibetan Agate is an all-round healing gemstone. It is known for healing the mind body and spirit, and healing and organising surrounding environments. It has a stabilising effect on the body, cleansing at the physical and emotional level. This agate in particular produces strength, power and courage, enhances truthfulness and brings forth understanding.
Colour: Ranges from brown to black/gray with inclusions and swirls of white
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Amethyst
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Healing Properties: is a spiritual stone that focuses and channels the combined energies of all the stones into the perfect healing balance for the present moment. Amethyst calms or stimulates the mind depending on whichever is needed to bring balance to the moment. In this way it also soothes nightmares, bringing insight necessary for harmony and balance. It focuses attention on the spiritual intent of dreams. It has the ability to cleanse negative energy and emit positive energy to the wearer. It is also a protective gem against physical harm. Amethyst provides common sense and flexibility in decisions. Amethyst has the power to increase psychic abilities, imagery and mind quieting. It is also frequently used in opening the Crown Chakra or Sahasrara.
Interesting Fact: Known as the 'prize gemstone' since the days of ancient Egypt. Amethyst also holds an honoured place in the Crown of Jewels of England, frequently know as the “Rose de France”
Colour: Deep Violet to Pale Lavender
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Aventurine
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Healing Properties: Aventurine brings abundance, good luck, prosperity/money, joy, balance and clarity. It also is known for stabilising ones state of mind and aids in clearing the body of stress, fear and anxiety. Aventurine brings a positive outlook to the wearer. Red Aventurine (which is more orange in colour) is effective and used to balance the Sacral or Svadhisthana chakra (the lower abdomen), whilst Green Aventurine is used to open and blossom the heart chakra or Anahata.
Interesting Fact: A member of the quartz crystal family
Colour: Aventurine can come in a number of colours from Green, orange, brown, yellow to gray with a glistening effect in each gem.
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Black Ebony
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Healing Properties: Handmade under the sacred and blessed vibration of the most sacred Swedagon pagoda in Burma. This is a balancing and grounding rare and sacred wood. The Black Ebony wood with a fine hand carved centre helps on channel and create prosperity.
Interesting Fact: Used in tradition Buddhist Malas
Colour: Dark brown/black
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Bloodstone
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Healing Properties: This gemstone represents endurance, courage and strength. It is also attributed to longevity, attracting wealth, increasing the wearer’s confidence and physical strength. As the name suggests Bloodstone is also good for blood and circulation, it is an immune stimulator and energy cleanser. Bloodstone is good crystal for people trying to lose weight.
Interesting Fact: Named ‘The Martyr’, due to the legend of the gem being at the foot of the cross and stained by the drops of blood from Jesus
Colour: Deep green with specks of red sometimes little red is noticeable depending on the origin of the crystal.
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Bodhi Seed
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Healing Properties: represents spiritual promise and possibility, a sense of dedication and faith. Bodhi seeds are rich in tradition and have and still are used in prayer malas. It was under a Bodhi tree that Buddha sat before his enlightenment.
Interesting Fact: A sapling of the tree in which Buddha sat under was carried to Sri Lanka, some three centuries later by a female monk called Sanghamitta- the great tree that grew from that sapling still stands today.
Colour: The bodhi seed varies greatly in colours from a clean white, a white with brown speckles through to brown.
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Carnelian
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Healing Properties: Carnelian is an excellent gemstone for restoring vitality, motivation and taking action. It encourages confidence and action and is a gemstone that strengthens self worth, enthusiasm and energy. On a physical level it influences female reproductive organs and increases fertility improves absorption of vitamins and minerals and ensures a good supply of blood to the organs and tissues. Ancient Egyptians wore Carnelian to bring good luck and opportunity as well as courage and positive life choices.
Interesting Fact: Pharaohs carried Carnelian on and about their bodies as a source of constant renewal and vitality
Colour: Ranging from red to orange
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Chrysoprase
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Healing Properties: This gemstone allows greater flexibility, wisdom, generosity and self-confidence. Heals depression, excess self-focus and emotional/sexual imbalance.
Interesting Fact: This gem was a favorite of Frederick the Great
Colour: Green with golden-brown ‘drops’ of colour throughout
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Citrine
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Healing Properties: Attracts wealth and prosperity and is known as “the merchant stone” or “The golden stone of wealth”. Citrine is known to hold the power of the sun. This gemstone attracts a happy disposition to the wearer. It has also been effective for mental and emotional clarity, problem solving, memory issues, will power and optimism. Citrine is one of the rare crystals which never have to be cleansed of negative energy, as it not only doesn’t hold negative energy it dispels it.
Interesting Fact: Engraved Citrine figurines were given in Rome as gifts.
Colour: Pale yellow to yellow/brown or sometimes gray brown almost translucent pale yellow
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Clear Quartz
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Healing Properties: The gemstone of power and manifestation. It is a highly energising gem and master healer. Clear Quartz can assist in the creation of power, clarity of thinking, meditations, cleansing, clearing the aura and healing. It will unblock specific areas or organs blocked from transmitting or receiving the flow of energy throughout the body. It can also be used in conjunction with any other gem for specific physical problems.
Interesting Fact: Quartz crystals are so highly programmable and receptive to giving and receiving energy they are used in watches, clocks and radios.
Colour: Transparent/Clear
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Fluorite
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Healing Properties: Fluorite is a very good energising gemstone it is said to access the universal energies that activate all that is good for your body. Fluorite can help heighten your intuition and concentration. Fluorite assists in fighting mental disorder and gaining spiritual awakening and harmony.
Interesting Fact: Before being called fluorite it was called Spatum Vitreum
Colour: Fluorite comes in an amazing array of translucent colours including purple, pink, clear, blue and yellow.
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Garnet
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Healing Properties: Garnet symbolizes, faith, love, devotion and trust. Garnet assists you to remember your dreams by energizing and stimulating you to flow with them. Like your dreams, it also works to purify your being. Garnet is famous for balancing our emotional states and is therefore great at soothing emotional stress and balancing anger.
Interesting Fact: Persians considered Garnet the ‘Royal Stone’ carving the faces of their kings in the stone
Colour: Ranging from Black, orange-brown, green and purple-red.
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Hematite
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Healing Properties: The gemstone of the mind. Hematite condenses scattered feelings, turns fuzziness into mental clarity, enhances concentration, memory, practicality, helps those who study, do bookkeeping, detailed work and helps with sound sleep.
Interesting Fact: Hematite is associated with the spleen, blood and cleansing. The iron in this gemstone has a strong effect on the blood
Colour: Silver gray metallic
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Jade
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Healing Properties: Considered the wealth, health, wisdom and longevity gemstone. Jade has been used for centuries to attract good luck and friendship. Jade has also been known as as a "Dream Stone", it improves ones remembering of dreams and assits in the 'dream solving' process.It is renowned to attract courage, wisdom, justice, mercy, emotional balance and love. It is a very protective stone that keeps its wearer out of harm’s way.
Interesting Fact: Ancient Chinese revered Jade and its healing and attracting properties for centuries. It still remains a very auspicious stone for modern Chinese
Colour: Ranging from light green to a deep green (as well as colours listed below)
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Red Jade
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Healing Properties: Red Jade depicts passion for life and manifests abundance and good luck. It encourages the wearer to become who they are destined to be and live true to themselves. Red Jade can be used to ‘blow of steam’ and release tension; it can sometimes extract feelings of anger and agitations and help deal with them.
Colour: Ranging from bright red to deep red
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Jasper
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Healing Properties: Is the gemstone of mother earth. Jasper is a methodical and meticulous worker of practical, down to earth solutions. It is nurturing and its energy is used for grounding and protection. Each colour of Jasper has specific qualities in addition.
Interesting Fact: Native American traditions use jasper for connecting with the spirit world and for protection when travelling.
Colour: Ranging from Brown, Green, Red, Yellow, purple and blue-yellow
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Green Jasper
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Healing Properties (in addition to above): Green Jasper is especially suited to tempering aspects of your life that have taken on too great an importance.
Colour: Green often with inclusions of brown
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Red Jasper
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Healing Properties (in addition to above): Red Jade is effective gem used to open up the Root or Muladhara chakra and facilitates the the rememberence and deep understanding of ones dreams. Red Jasper is much like Bloodstone in its link to the circulatory system. Red Jasper is also used to bring the wearer for courage and energy.
Colour: Earth red clay colours
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Lapis Lazuli
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Healing Properties: Is a powerful and beautiful gem to encourage a quietness of the mind and state of serenity. It is also a very strong gem that is worn to promote awareness, honesty and ease of communication. Lapis Lazuli has been useful in overcoming depression, releasing stress, insomnia, and problems associated with eyes and ears. Lapis Lazuli is also used to open the Third Eye Chakra or the Anja.
Interesting Fact: Lapis Lazuli made it into the Egyptians book of the dead (their instructions to the afterlife). It sates that Lapis in the shape of an eye, set in gold was an amulet of great power
Colour: Medium blue to dark blue with flecks of gold
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Larimar
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Healing Properties: Helps soothe, heal and enlighten. Larimar is also a very good stimulator for health and healing sickness as well as rejuvenating your body. Larimar is also effective in opening the Throat Chakra or Visuddha.
Interesting Fact: Is often confused with Turquoise because of its sea blue colour
Colour: Bright ocean blue with white veins and swirls
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Malachite
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Healing Properties: Is a powerful healing gemstone. It magnifies positivity, and is useful in inspiring and uplifting the wearer. The gemstone is also known as ‘the stone of truth’. Malachite is used for relaxation and neurological disorders as well as tissue regeneration.
Interesting Fact: Pharaohs often had their headdresses lined with malachite in the belief that it helped them rule wisely
Colour: Darker and lighter green swirls/rings
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Moonstone
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Healing Properties: The gemstone of new beginnings. Moonstone is most famous for balancing our emotional states; it helps sooth emotional stress and anxiety. It encourages a lust for life, a youthful attitude and helps us become comfortable with transitions to new stages in our life. Moonstone effect upon the menstrual cycle and reproductive system is powerful. Its power can help to correct infertility and PMS.
Interesting Fact: Arab countries would offer moonstone to families to encourage fertility. To this day it is sewn into a women’s nightgown or given to carry in their front pockets to promote fertility and smooth menstrual flow.
Colour: A semi-translucent white gem with swirls of solid white (similar to the moon- where it got its name)
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Obsidian
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Healing Properties: Obsidian is a strong grounding stone and is known as ‘the protector’ and ‘gem of truth’, it is said to mirror one’s soul. It absorbs and dissolves negativity anger, criticism, and fear. Obsidian also promotes qualities of compassion, honesty and strength. It is a gemstone without boundaries or limitations. It has also been known to increase the wearer’s sexual attraction.
Interesting Fact: Obsidian is actually a natural glass that is formed when hot lava is submerged in water
Colour: There a many different obsidian colours the most traditional is black-smoky, with Snowflake Obsidian having the inclusion of a snowflake-like pattern on its surface. Some Sanctus Stones pieces also include the more rare Mahogany Obsidian, which is a brownish red with black fleck throughout.
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Onyx
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Healing Properties: The gemstone of self-mastery. Onyx is a strength giving and empowering gemstone. Onyx is also worn to absorb and flatten emotional intensity, enhance self-control, wise-decision making, and also brings the wearer good fortune. Onyx is a good gemstone for athletes or people under extreme mental and emotional stress as it brings grounding and strength of mind.
White Onyx also protects and supports the wearer, from physical and emotional harm. It is particular supportive in times of stress and confusion.
Interesting Fact: The shapes or patterns that Onyx holds inside it have led some to suggest that Onyx has a picture in it that tells a story or carries a lesson.
Colour: White, Black, red, yellow or blue
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Padauk Mala
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Healing Properties: A traditional medicine bead carved from padauk wood. Considered to a medicinal wood and is cooling to the body and can be used as an antiperspirant.
Interesting Fact: Used as prayer beads in China and India
Colour: Brown
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Pearls
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Healing Properties: also known as the STONE OF SINCERITY, symbolises purity, innocence and new beginnings. Pearls light the way to beautiful, wise, new beginnings and connect the wearer to their emotions. For women, especially pregnant women, pearls are a symbol of pure heart and mind, innocence and faith.
Interesting Fact: Pearls are crushed and used in herbal remedies for healing
Colour: From black, gold, pink and white/cream with an ocean like sheen.
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Peridot
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Healing Properties: Is famous for healing health, attracting wealth, and protecting the wearer. Peridot also alleviates depression, anger, fear, jealousy, and anxiety. It releases toxins and brings them to the surface.
Interesting Fact: Used by Egyptians, Aztecs, and Incas to gently cleanse and heal the physical heart, lungs, lymph and stomach.
Colour: Rich vibrant green
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Picasso
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Healing Properties:brings the galactic evolved energies from other worlds to the earth plane. This energy facilitates the transformation of intuition into intellectual thoughts. It assists one in adjusting to changes, attracting strength and perseverance. It has been known as the master of the subconscious mind reduces anxiety and stress. It promotes peak states of meditation and total recall of dreams.
Interesting Fact: Picasso is apart of the marble family
Colour: Range from a combination of black, rusty brow, yellow and white
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Prehnite
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Healing Properties: is the Stone for Dreaming and Remembering. It protects your aura, bringing warm, friendly support as your dreams reveal your destiny and purpose. It also brings coherence, helping you to express your dreams and record them in your journal. And it sharpens your intuition, helping you to prepare for unknown situations, in advance, through your dreams.
Interesting Fact: Used by Egyptians, Aztecs, and Incas to gently cleanse and heal the physical heart, lungs, lymph and stomach.
Colour: Ranges from pale to dark green, yellow and white
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Rhodonite
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Healing Properties: The gemstone of emotional balance. This gem grounds energy, balances yin and yang and teaches self-love. It heals emotional shock, and clears away emotional wounds of the past, promoting love and forgiveness of ones self and others. It also builds ones confidence and alleviates confusion
Interesting Fact: Rhodonite gets its name from the Greek word ‘rhodon’ which means rosey
Colours: Pink or red mottled often with black fleck
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Rose Quartz
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Healing Properties: Rose Quartz is the gemstone for love, beauty, and peacefulness. Rose Quartz not only attracts external love but also encourages unconditional internal love. It is often used to promote forgiveness and healing past loves.
Interesting Fact: Throughout time Rose Quartz has been used to attract love, it is also believed by Egyptians to prevent aging
Colour: Very pale pink to light pink
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Smoky Quartz
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Healing Properties: Is used to transform fear, anger and other negative emotions into positive energy thus having a comforting and calming effect over you. It is also said to provide clarity of thought, improve intuition and enhance survival instincts, and to stimulate higher awareness. Smoky Quartz is also said to increase fertility, to help remove toxins from the body, and aid in proper functioning of the kidneys, adrenals, pancreas and sex organs.
Interesting Fact: In modern times, it was the first crystal used in radio transmission and reception and was essential in the development of computers.
Colour: Transparent brown-gold
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Sodalite
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Healing Properties: This gemstone is most recognised for balancing, healing, meditation and bringing forth wisdom. This is a good gem for general communication, intuition, creativity and spirituality.
Interesting Fact: Is often used in Feng Shui in the East for community, in the Southwest for relationships, Northeast for wisdom, North for career improvement and South for success
Colour: Medium blue to dark blue with white veins throughout
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Sterling Silve
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Healing Properties: Since the dawn of civilisation people have used silver because of its unusual strengths. Silver stimulates energy flow to itself- When silver jewellery is worn on your body, it helps accumulate more energy. It is also known to help with avoiding lethargic tendencies and as a result of wearing it you will feel re-vitalized and stronger.
Interesting Fact: Ancient cultures engraved prayers on silver stones or silver plates to deliver a strong message to the other worlds.
Colour: Reflective silver
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Tiger’s Eye
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Healing Properties: Is a protective gemstone that is good for promoting courage, strength, confidence and personal power and self-discipline. It is also thought to bring luck, money and material things to the wearer. Tiger’s Eye is also worn to encourage stability and balance in times of stress. Tiger’s Eye is a good gemstone to use in conjunction with other gemstones for losing weight, increasing fitness and taking on new ventures.
Interesting Fact: Roman soldiers wore tigers eye for protection in battles
Colour: Resembles a tiger’s eye with the golden colour and deep brown stripe throughout. This is where Tiger’s Eye got its name.
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Topaz
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Healing Properties: The gemstone of true love and success in all endeavours. It can be used to manifest health and correct disorders with the body. Recharges or increases the wearers energy.
Interesting Fact: The birthstone of Sagittarius
Colour: Clear (once was confused as a diamond), Yellow, Green, Champagne and Blue.
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Turquoise
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Healing Properties: The gem of healing and health. The most efficient and master healing gemstone that provides solace for the spirit and wellbeing for the body. It is an all-round healer for illnesses in the physical body and mental and emotional illness. It is an ancient absorber of negativity and protection from evil. It is also said to bring wisdom and truth.
Interesting Fact: The Chinese, Tibetans and Hindus used Turquoise for healing and good luck, whilst the Egyptians used it for adorning tombs.
Colour: Bright ocean blue and greens
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Unakite
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Healing Properties: Unakite is the gemstone of vision and focus. It is very effective in releasing old emotions that have been held in. It is also believed to release conditions, which have been inhibiting personal growth.
Interesting Fact: Also called epidosis, meaning “growing together” in Greek
Colour: Mossy greens with shade of pink
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Labradorite
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Healing Properties: Is renowned for being a highly protective gemstone that deflects unwanted energy. It is known to banish fear and insecurities and strengthens inner faith and trust in the universe. It is also calming for an active mind whilst invigorating new ideas and inspiration.
Interesting Fact: Is a member of the Feldspar crystal family and relates closely to the moonstone
Colour: Iridescent grey-black with blue and yellow inclusions (similar effect to mother of pearl)
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Tourmaline
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Healing Properties: The gem of growth. Tourmaline strengthens body and spirit and does not absorb negative energy. It repels it. A valuable gem in times of crises as it also helps you let go of pain.
Interesting Fact: Ancient legend says that tourmaline is found in all colours because it travelled along a rainbow and gathered all the rainbows colours.
Colour: Black, Cat’s Eye, Brown, Blue, Green, Pink, Red and Watermelon.
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