Common Stones P to Z

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

 

Peridot

Periodot is associated with the heart chakra and can be used to balance and stimulate that chakra.  It is a stone of compassion. It has a friendly energy and is excellent for healing. It assists in rebirth and renewal of all kinds.

Peridot also brings abundance and prosperity.  It enhances the healing and harmony of relationships of all kinds, but particularly marriage.  Peridot can lessen stress in relationships, anger and jealousy, slow aging and heal ulcers and digestive problems.  It also assists in finding what is lost and strengthens ESP abilities.

It has been said to make a shield of protection around the body of any wearer of peridot.

 

  
Pyrite

Pyrite is a stone of intellect and protection. It enhances intelligence, mental stability, logic, analysis, creativity, memory and psychic development.  It can help you tap your own latent mental talents and abilities.

Pyrite is a powerful protection stone and is very grounding.

Pyrite is also known as Fool s Gold and Healer s Gold.

 

 

 
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Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz encourages compassion, self-love and self-acceptance. Used for creating and enhancing loving environments  such as to calm and sweeten nurturing areas within the home.  It is used to release negativity and replace it with gentle self-appreciation.

It will allow you to get to know your true self and to love that true self in all its beauty.  The Rose Quartz is also good for helping one to release childhood traumas, neglect, lack of love, self-esteem.   It helps us discover the ability to love ourselves and makes us more open to other people.  

It is of particular value in helping us to forgive ourselves, hastening self-acceptance.  It helps us realize that all change is important, even difficult change.

 
Ruby

Ruby is red corundum, red sapphire.  It brings integrity, devotion and happiness.  It also enhances generosity and brings prosperity.  Ruby brings and increases romantic love.

Ruby is a stone that has been known to be very protective of home, worldly possessions, children and psychic protection.  It is a stone of high energy and power that promotes healing on all levels. 

Ruby is associated with the root chakra and brings powerful energies of vitality and survival on the highest levels.

 

 
Ruby in Zoisite

Ruby in Zoisite is an energy amplification stone that can energize the entire field of one s body.  It is used for psychic ability and empowerment, as well as altered states of consciousness.

Ruby in Zoisite stimulates the crown chakra. 

Physically, it is beneficial for heart disorders and physical vitality.

 

 

 
Smoky Quartz

Smokey quartz is a grounding and stabilizing stone. It brings calm and centering, lifts depression, enhances practicality and generally removes negative energies, bringing happiness.  Smoky quartz is also a good luck stone.  It can also assist in tapping subconscious wisdom.

Smoky quartz is a protective stone, particularly for physical protection, protection from negativity and psychic protection.  Physically, smoky quartz is helpful for kidneys, abdomen, pancreas, reproductive organs, menstrual cramps, fertility issues, water retention.

Smoky quartz is associated with the root chakra.

 

 
Super Seven (Melody’s Stone, Sacred 7)

Super Seven, also known as Melody’s Stone or Sacred 7, is a very spiritual stone.  It is one of the few stones that retain their energy and clarity and never needs cleansing or energizing.  Also, a piece of Super Seven retains the properties of all the stones in the combination: amethyst, smoky quartz, clear quartz, rutile, goethite, lepidochrosite and cacoxenite, even if the piece does not visibly show all 7 minerals.

Super Seven is excellent for enhancing all types of psychic abilities and psychic skills including telepathy, clairvoyance, clairaudience, channeling, telekinesis and others.  It is a powerful stone for crystal healing and is excellent for healing mind, body and spirit dis-ease.

Super Seven is not associated with any one chakra, but is reportedly fantastic at healing, balancing and energizing all seven chakras.  This particular, powerful combination of minerals is found only in Espirito de Santo, Brazil and the mine is now closed, making them harder and harder to find.

 
Selenite

Selenite has a very fine vibration and brings clarity of mind, opening the crown and higher crown chakras and accessing angelic consciousness and higher guidance.  Selenite instils deep peace and is excellent for meditation or spiritual work.

Telepathy is enhanced by each person holding a piece of pure-vibration Selenite.  The purest translucent white Selenite has an ethereal quality and is said to inhabit the place between light and matter.  It can be used to form a protective grid around the house, creating a safe and quiet space that does not allow outside influences in-use internally in the corners of the house.

A large piece placed in the house ensures a peaceful atmosphere.  Selenite wands can detach entities from the aura or preventing anything external from influencing the mind.  It can be used for scrying to see the future or to ascertain what has happened in the past.

Selenite clears confusion and a powerful disperser and stabilizer for erratic emotions.

 
Sodalite

Sodalite is said to increase one’s confidence and to enhance creativity and to have a balancing effect on one’s emotions and mental state.  It is claimed to alleviate fear and bring clarity of mind and is a good stone for Psychic Protection.

Sodalite is believed to strengthen the metabolism and lymphatic system.  It is also said to enhance self expression and communication, to eliminate confusion, bring peace and to facilitate spiritual growth.

This mineral is said -like it’s sister stone Lapis Lazuli- to benefit the higher self.  It is most helpful for work in groups and stimulates thought.  It is a stone wonderfully beneficial for healing breaches in communication.  A stone of truth, it brings this to all communications.

It can help end arguments or other disagreements that have to do with communication or when communication has become an issue.   It is particularly useful for honesty of emotions.  It increases intelligence, knowledge and learning and will unite the logical with the spiritual.

 
Tiger s Eye, Golden

Tiger s Eye is a stone of protection that is also very grounding.  It enhances integrity, willpower, practicality and correct use of power.  It is a stone that enhances good luck and brings prosperity, often in the form of money.

Tiger s eye is also a very protective stone which is especially protective during travel.  It can also help one see clearly without illusion.

Tiger s eye brings a special boost to the solar plexus chakra and to one’s personal power.

 

 
Turquoise

Turquoise is sacred to both Native American and oriental traditions.  It is associated with the sky and bringing sky energy to earth.  It can help promote honest and clear communication from the heart.  It is also said to protect against pollution in the environment and to bring abundance.

Turquoise is said to also help speed the healing process and is known as a master healer stone.  It is very powerful for grounding and protection also.

Turquoise is associated with the throat chakra primarily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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