Common Stones F to J
This is just a basic understanding of some of the more common stones and their properties.
Stones starting with the letters F through J are featured here.
Fluorite
Fluorite is a powerful stone for producing order and stabilization in all the realms of being. It offers impartiality and unbiased reasoning and enhances the expansion of intuition and intelligence in a balanced and discerning way.
Fluorite enhances concentration and allows one to cut through illusion to see the truth of the matter. An excellent stone for relationships and friendships, it helps people to work together for the greater good. It encourages purification, cleansing and elimination of negativity. This stone allows us to mentally grasp our heart-based issues and begin to heal them.
Use this stone as a bridge to allow personal growth to happen in your life. It is very calming but at the same time it gives us the courage needed to expand our ideas and awareness.
Garnet
Garnet is a stone of romantic love and passion. Metaphysically it is used to enhance sensuality, sexuality and intimacy. It is said that garnet will bring positive thoughts and boost energy. It is an excellent stone for manifestation and can assist mystically with building one’s self-confidence as well as success in one’s chosen profession.
The Garnet is commonly known as the stone for a successful business. If your business is not as good as it should be, just put three or more garnets on your desk and improvement should be forthcoming. A garnet gemstone under a pillow is said to prevent bad dreams and wearing the gemstone in jewelry is told to help generate popularity amongst peers and help alleviate depression; it will also bring constancy to friendships.
Garnet is also a protective energy stone which is especially effective for protection from evil. It is also often used for gentle spiritual healing. Lore tells that garnet can heal the blood, heart and lungs.
Hawk’s Eye (Blue Tiger’s Eye)
Hawk’s Eye balances emotions and brings clarity and focus to the mind. It opens the circulatory system to a more uniform and consistent flow.
It has been said that Blue Tiger’s Eye offers protection during travel. It helps us to obtain goals by taking direct action and by learning when to act or wait. It is especially good for clear thinking and helps one to see a problem from a higher level when confused or emotionally affected.
Blue Tiger’s Eye promotes balance and strength to get through difficult phases of life.
Hematite
Hematite grounds and protects us. It strengthens our connection with the earth making us feel safe and secure. It endows us with courage, strength, endurance and vitality. A “stone for the mind”, Hematite stimulates concentration and focus, enhancing memory and original thought.
Hematite utilizes the magnetic qualities and assists in balancing the meridians within the body. It focuses energy and emotions for balance between the body, mind and spirit. It dissolves negativity and prevents you from absorbing the negativity of others.
Hematite is strong, boosting self-esteem, enhancing willpower and reliability and imparting confidence. It helps to overcome compulsions and addictions, treating overeating, smoking and other forms of overindulgence.
Herkimer Diamond
Herkimer Diamond Quartz is called the stone of attunement . While it is not actually diamond, it is quartz that often resembles the sparkling clarity of diamonds. It can be metaphysically programmed to attune one to an environment, a situation, a quality, or most anything.
It is said to assist with balance on the mental, emotional and physical levels. It can be used effectively to clear and open any chakra. It is professed to relieve tension and thereby promote peace of mind.
Psychically, it s useful for cleansing one’s aura and dream recall. Mystical lore says that physically it can be used to heal addictions and remove toxins. Herkimer Diamond is associated with the crown chakra.
Iolite
Iolite is one of the best stones to use in psychic, healing and spiritual activities. It can open one to psychic talents and expand them and is excellent for use on the third eye and crown chakras. It was used in thin sheets by the ancient Vikings as a lens to see during their ocean voyages, as the world s first polarizing filter and is often known as the Viking stone.
It is thus said that iolite can bring clear psychic vision. It can also enhance curiosity. It is also an excellent stone for meditation and astral travel. It helps one grow spiritually in a gentle fashion.
Iolite is considered a very strong Shaman stone and can stimulate visions. Iolite is very helpful when dealing with addictions, including alcoholism. It is also said to help build relationships of all kinds. It assists in detoxification as well as maintaining sobriety. In the physical realm iolite is used to help heal sore throat, varicose veins and blisters.
Jade
Jade is a stone of the heart. As such it is related to the heart chakra and has a beneficial effect on all heart chakra related issues so, of course, it can attract and enhance love of all kinds. It is also a stone of fidelity and generosity.
It is also considered to be good for the physical heart and for emotional balance and stability. Jade is also very helpful as a stone of abundance. Physically, jade is used to heal lung problems, kidney problems and immune system weakness.
Jasper
Jasper is a stone of gentleness and relaxation. It enhances one’s ability to relax and brings tranquility, comforting, wholeness, healing and gentle endings. It is sometimes called the nurturing stone for its nurturing and protective energies.
In the physical realm, jasper is used for the liver, gallbladder, soothing the stomach and balancing yin/yang energies. There are several types of Jasper (too many to list here). Metaphysically, it is purported to have a stabilizing effect and help one take all one’s energy and use it in a balanced manner.
It is also said to be a stone that helps in all areas of survival and is a very protective stone.
Thanks to Crystals and Jewelry for much of the metaphysical information on this page.