Common Stones K to O

This is just a basic understanding of some of the more common stones and their properties.
Stones starting with the letters K through O are featured here.

 

Kyanite

Kyanite is one of the most versatile and accessible of all healing crystals.  It aligns all chakras automatically and immediately.  It stimulates communication and psychic awareness on all levels.  

Kyanite is considered the “Earth Stone” due to its soothing blue tone as well as its grounding and tranquil nature.  Blue Kyanite is most effective when placed on the Throat Chakra in order to open the throat for communication and self expression.  On the Brow (Third Eye Chakra), it enhances psychic images, foresight, consciousness and meditation.  

Kyanite is used to answer questions, especially in imagery, such as in vision, dreams or written interpretations.  Kyanite enhances psychic imagery, foresight, consciousness and communication.  It helps with receiving information psychically and helps with manifesting things into reality via thoughts and visualization.

 
Labradorite

Labradorite is considered by mystics to be a stone of transformation.   It is said to clear, balance and protect the aura.  It is used to help provide clarity and insight into your destiny, as well as attract success.  It is used in metaphysics for dream recall and finding ways to use dreams in daily life.  Mystically, energies of stress and anxiety are reduced by labradorite.  

Labradorite is said to increase intuition, psychic development, esoteric wisdom, help with subconscious issues and provide mental illumination. It is said to dispel negativity and to bring clear understanding by enhancing clarity of thought and improving one’s ability to cooperate with others in harmony.  

Labradorite is associated with the solar plexus and brow chakras. 

 
Lepidolite

Lepidolite is a stone of calm, trust and acceptance.  It has a strong relaxing and calming effect.  It brings hope and is a stone of transformation in that it helps one get through transitions with trust that everything will ultimately turn out for the best.

It engenders and enhances self-love, patience and optimism. Emotionally, lepidolite is an excellent healer.  It greatly decreases stress, anxiety, depression, manic-depression, despondency, PTSD, anger and other traumas, panic attacks and addictions.  Psychically, lepidolite is used for dreamwork, rebirthing and is also good for dream recall.  Lepidolite is also a protective stone that brings success in business or career.  It can also bring a growing energy to gardening and agriculture.

Physically, lepidolite is helpful for healing of glands, immune system, skin, nails, hair, DNA, enzyme balance, addiction and alcoholism recovery, pregnancy, childbirth and general healing.  Lepidolite is related primarily to the heart chakra and also to the crown chakra. 

When combined with rubellite (pink tourmaline) it is an extraordinarily powerful agent for calming and healing, especially in the emotional areas.

 
Malachite

This powerful healing stone works to heal the heart as well as the body.  It is further used for money, love and for centering and balancing.  It enhances our ability to nurture all Life.  Use it to manifest prosperity into your life and to open your heart to others.

Malachite is one of the few stones that can be used to clear and activate all Chakras.  It has wonderful healing properties and because of the high copper content of the stone it has a very steady pulsing electromagnetic energy field.  It absorbs negative energy from the auric field cleansing it, thus balancing the wearer and protecting them from the effects negative energies.

It is great for increasing ones concentration skills and is quite beneficial to ones physical, as well as psychic, vision.  Malachite helps to find a balanced path between the desires of ego and of our higher Will, aiding us in removing blockages and inspiring us with ideas which will help to manifest those goals.

 
Moldavite

Moldavite is a tektite and is the only extraterrestrial  gemstone.  It is found only in the Moldau Valley in Czechoslovakia.  It is associated with the heart and third eye (brow) chakras, as well as the crown chakra.  Moldavite is also associated with the Star card of the Tarot.  It strengthens and enhances inner journeys, channeling, cosmic consciousness, crystal consciousness, expansion and contact with inter-dimensional or extraterrestrial forces.

It is a powerful stone and its energies can at first be intimidating for those that are not aware of its energy and tends to bring issues to the surface to be transformed, thus making it called  stone of transformation.   When wearing moldavite, it is best to be mentally prepared and be properly grounded.

Moldavite diminishes contracting or withdrawing energies.  Moldavite in any form increases the depth and clarity of inner journeys.  Moldavite has been said to raise the vibrational level of both the human race and the Earth.  Physically, moldavite works excellently with other crystals and stones to raise the vibrational level of all healing and also is said to help heal acid reflux, hair loss, fertility issues and promoting new cell growth.

  
 
Moonstone

Moonstone is associated with the heart chakra.  It can help calm responses and avoid overreaction; enhances feminine energies, sensitivity, intuition and psychic abilities.  Moonstone is a stone of protection, especially during childbirth, pregnancy and travel at sea. It is also associated with love of all kinds.

Physically it aids the pituitary gland and digestive system, obesity, water retention, hormonal problems, menstrual problems.  Moonstone is also used as a stand in for pearl, when pearl is not available.

   

  

  
Obsidian, Black

Obsidian is a very protective stone and is excellent for removing negativity.  It is also excellent protection against psychic attacks.  In particular obsidian protects the gentle from abuse.  It is a very grounding stone and very healing.

Physically it benefits the stomach; intestines, muscle tissue and can rid one of bacterial or viral infections.  It sharpens and focuses internal and external vision and helps get in touch with buried issues before they explode.  

Obsidian is related to the root chakra.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Crystals and Jewelry for much of the metaphysical information on this page.