Turquoise.

This stone is becoming increasingly rare and costly. It is an opaque mineral consisting essentially of phosphates and has a colour range from apple-green (Chinese & African) to the popular sky blue colour (the Americas). One of the first gemstones to be mined and utilized in healing, Turquoise has long been prized for its intense colours, which vary greatly, depending on the quantities of iron and copper that are found in it.

Turquoise is a complicated, pernickety gemstone. Just the right type of minerals must be in just the right place for a very long time (millions of years) before turquoise is finally created.

The Egyptians prized Turquoise as a Life Stone and it is highly revered in Tibet where it is carried throughout one’s entire life.

A truth stone, it symbolizes a time to be honest with yourself. This stone reminds you to walk your talk.

Turquoise is also a protective stone and has been used throughout the ages for protective amulets. Today it is believed to protect against unwanted outside influences and pollutants in the atmosphere.

Turquoise promotes self realisation. It assists creative problem solving and calms the nerves when speaking in public. It stabilises mood swings and brings inner calm. Turquoise is an excellent stone for overcoming exhaustion, depression or panic attacks. It helps us communicate clearly what we want, and to then be able to communicate our desires to others in a way they can understand.

Turquoise is good crystal to wear when you have decisions to make. Use to increase your creativity and speak your truth without fear, and to dissolve self-sabotage and allow for self-expression. Can also help you get more in tune with others.

Turquoise facilitates meditation and allows us to perceive information psychically. Turquoise centres and harmonises while revitalising. It aligns the chakras, brings peace of mind and creative expression and opens us up to loving communication.

One of the most versatile of the power stones, which is why Native Americans honor it. It strengthens and tones the entire body. It is an excellent healing and grounding stone that helps to develop your natural powers and is believed to bring wisdom and is said to truly reflect the individual carrying or holding it.

Turquoise is a Master Healer and can be placed on all the chakras.  Turquoise works at the throat Chakra enhancing communication skills and can be beneficial to the thyroid and the voice.

Enhances healing and immune function; it protects and detoxes, while it tones and strengthens the entire body. Aids muscle and tissue regeneration and relaxes cramps. It relieves headache and is beneficial for the circulation and respiratory systems. Fights viral infections and soothes stomach problems.

Topaz.

Topaz is a fluorine aluminium silicate found in a range of colours and the most valuable colour is a golden orange-yellow, called “Imperial Topaz”. Topaz is a gemstone that has been used in jewellery for centuries. It is said to have been one of the stones used in the breastplate of the High Priest. This stone is one of the hardest minerals, and is the hardest silicate mineral found in nature.

Topaz has a vibrant energy that encourages joy, generosity, abundance and good health. Traditionally known as a stone of love, success and good fortune, it brings successful achievement of goals. It is extremely supportive for visualization, and for affirmations and manifestation.

As a mellow and empathetic stone Topaz directs energy to where it is most needed. Its energy soothes, heals, stimulates, recharges and aligns the meridians of the body. This crystal promotes truth and forgiveness. Topaz brings about a trust in the universe that enables you to act from a state of being rather than doing, as it cuts through doubt and uncertainty. It throws light onto your path as it highlights goals and helps tap into inner recourses.

Excellent for cleaning the aura and for inducing relaxation, Topaz releases tension at any level and can accelerate spiritual development where it has been tough and slow. This stone sponsors openness and honesty, self control, self realization and the urge to develop inner wisdom. It helps you discover your inner riches, making you feel confident along with a desire to share your good fortune around.

Topaz is a highly energizing and warming stone.  It is used to stimulate the intellect; it aids abstract thinking and creativity from the mental level to concrete physical form.  It is a stone of trust and protection; it draws out negativity, exhaustion, and tension.  A golden Topaz placed in your home is said to protect against break-ins and fire.

Topaz can be used to manifest health. Is an aid to digestion and can be used to overcome anorexia, restore the sense of taste, stimulate the metabolism, and fortify the nerves. Topaz is said to increase blood circulation, and aids with liver and kidney disorders.  It is also said to relieve the pain associated with arthritis and rheumatism. An elixir is useful to correct dimness of vision.

Topaz makes an excellent emotional support, as it stabilizes the emotions and makes you receptive to love from all sources.

Opal is a hardened silica gel, containing between 4 -21% water by weight. Therefore it is non-crystalline, unlike most other gemstones.  There are two varieties; precious opal, which shows flashes or plays of colour or iridescence, and there is common opal which is often opaque and displays no iridescence. When common opal is found in association with precious opal it is known as potch. Opals occur in a great range of colours and varieties. It is amorphous in structure, (without form) with a trigonal crystal structure and has a chemical composition of SiO2.nH2O.

Opal is a stone of inspiration which enhances the imagination and creativity. It helps you release inhibitions and enhances the memory. It is also said to be a very spiritual stone, and can help you be “invisible” in situations where you don’t care to be noticed. It has been known to bring happy dreams, and also to ease the process of change.

Opal is a silicate containing water and correlates with the emotions; it clarifies by amplifying and mirroring feelings, buried emotions, desires (including love and passion). With this comes less inhibition, more spontaneity, free visualization, clearer imagination, and more vivid dreams.

The opal has developed a myth as a stone of sorrow, misfortune and bad luck. This though is a modern and false idea.  In fact Opal has a reputation for bringing good luck and fortune. The opal contains all of the colours as well as all of the qualities of all other stones and as such, may be programmed or dedicated for many purposes as required.

Use to facilitate astral projection as well as for protection. Opals are used to recall past incarnations, and are favoured by many to develop psychic and mystical powers.

Wearing opal will bring your inner beauty to the surface, and is said to bring loyalty, faithfulness and spontaneity. It encourages putting out positive emotions.

Opal is known to strengthen the will to live.  It is linked to the heart and is said to stimulate the glands and regulate the metabolism. Treats infections, fevers and strengthens the memory. It is beneficial to the eyes. Opal has a favourable effect on the human psyche, pouring a warm healing energy on broken hearts and restoring harmony.

For all those born in the month of September, your Birthstone is Sapphire.

Sapphire is a variety of corundum and comes in a variety of colours, (except red which is Ruby) with blue the most common. Sapphire means blue in Greek. The finest blue sapphires are a strong blue, and the ‘star sapphire’ is a very valued stone. Coloured sapphires are referred to as pink sapphires, yellow sapphires, violet sapphires, green sapphires, clear sapphires etc.

According to folklore, the Laws given to Moses were inscribed on Sapphire, making it a most sacred gemstone. The sapphire was one of the twelve stones on the Jewish high priest’s breastplate, located on the second row in the middle.

Peridot.

Peridot is a gem variety from the Olivine mineral group, – the bottle green color is usually called Peridot – the yellowish green colour is usually called Chrysolite – the olive green is usually called Olivine. In common usage all names are applied across the group.

Peridot is mentioned in many ancient texts as Chrysolite, and was believed to keep away evil spirits. Considered sacred by early Christians, today Catholic Bishops still wear a ring of Peridot and Amethyst as a symbol of purity and morality.

Peridot was believed to be a stone of springtime by ancients who considered it a gift from Mother Nature, it was also known as a stone of lightness and beauty.

For all those born in the month of July, your Birthstone is Ruby.

Ruby is a deep red transparent gemstone; it is a variety of Corundum and belongs to the Trigonal or Rhombohedral crystal system. Ruby is also seen in transparent to opaque gemstones with an orangey red through to a purplish red color.

Known as a stone of nobility, its energy is intense and vivid. This crystal encourages you to follow your bliss. It brings integrity, devotion and happiness, and also enhances generosity and brings prosperity. Ruby brings and increases romantic love, as well as confidence, loyalty, and courage.

Ruby is known to be very protective stone of your home, worldly possessions, children, and also to provide 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.

For all those born in the month of June, your Birthstone is Moonstone.

Moonstone is Feldspar, which is common in the earth’s crust. Moonstone is an opalescent variety of orthoclase and albite, with a blue or white sheen known as adularescence.

Known as a soul stone, it is considered to be excellent for expressing and attracting love and kindness. It is also said to bring happiness into its environment.

It was once called the ‘traveler’s stone’ providing protection against the perils of travel. Moonstone is also a talisman of good fortune and is beneficial to those involved in agriculture.

Moonstone is a stone of new beginnings and as its name suggests it is strongly connected to the moon and also to intuition. It reminds us that everything is part of the cycle of change, just as the moon waxes and wanes and encourages us to pay attention to the cycles of our lives.

Moonstone helps to cool and soothe the emotions and calm over-reactions to emotional and personal situations. It encourages intuitiveness and perception. Moonstone enhances the feminine nature and balances male-female energies. It also soothes instability and stress.

Has a powerful effect on the female reproductive cycle and alleviates menstrual tension. Linked to the pineal gland it balances the hormonal system and stabilizes fluid imbalances. Handy in cases of shock and can be used to calm hyperactive children.

Moonstone assists the digestive, elimination and reproductive systems; it enhances the assimilation of nutrients and assists in the elimination of toxins and fluid retention. It alleviates degenerative conditions of skin, hair, eyes and fleshy organs like the liver and pancreas. It is excellent for PMS, conception, pregnancy and childbirth. Useful in the treatment of circulatory disorders, water related imbalances like swelling and insect stings and bites.

Carnelian

It is said to be one of the stones used in the breastplate of the high priest and in biblical times was used in soldiers breastplates to protect and fortify them against fear. In ancient times it was used to protect the dead on their journey to the afterlife. Carnelian conveys an understanding and acceptance of the cycle of life and overcomes the fear of death.

Carnelian is a stabilising and grounding stone and anchors you to current reality. It enhances analytical abilities, perceptiveness and awakens hidden talents and gifts. Inspirers creativity in all forms of art particularly drama and theatre. It awakens curiosity and bolsters courage, especially for shy people. Wearing Carnelian is said to provide courage and eloquence to public speakers.

Carnelian promotes positive life choices, helps overcome fear and doubt, it dispels apathy, indolence and passivity and motivates for success. It allows you to take control of your life and choose the most advantageous direction, while assisting you to embrace change and transformation.

This stone is a protector against envy, fear, rage and resentment and helps to expel sorrow and emotional negativity, by replacing it with a love of life.

It helps meditators to feel settled and secure and it clears the mind of extraneous thoughts. It also sharpens concentration and dispels mental lethargy.

Carnelian lends vitality and energy to the physical body. It helps to purify the body and prepares it as a temple of the soul. It is an excellent support for detoxifying and breaking negative or hurtful negative habits and generally improving overall health.

It stimulates the metabolism and improves the absorption of vitamins and minerals and ensures a good supply of blood to the organs and tissues. Carnelian regulates bodily fluids and the kidneys. It also accelerates healing in the bones and ligaments and staunches blood flow. It is especially helpful in balancing and healing the sexual organs and it is also believed to enhance and stimulate sexual activity.

For all those born in the month of May, your Birthstone is Emerald.

Emerald is a type of Beryl which assists the development and appreciation of spiritual gifts. Bliss is a keyword for Emerald. It is a stone of inspiration and infinite patience and it also calms the mind and the emotions.

Known as the ‘stone of successful love’ it enhances domestic bliss, bringing unconditional love and loyalty, along with unity, partnership and promotes friendship and peace.

Emerald gives you the strength of character to overcome life’s misfortunes. It is a stone of regeneration and recovery and can heal or calm negative emotions, also lifting depression and providing peace.

Use it to enhance memory and to stimulate greater mental capacity and to inspire inner knowingness and broaden vision. Useful for recovery after infectious illness and in treatment of disorders of spine, lungs, heart, muscles, sinuses and is soothing for the eyes. It is also said to improve vision.

For all those born in the month of April, your Birthstone is Diamond.

Diamond is the hardest natural substance and no naturally occurring material can cut or even scratch it. The Diamond has remarkable optical characteristics and mechanical properties, and these combined with well-organized marketing, have made the diamond such a popular gemstone. Diamond has an isometric crystallography. It is most common and popular in its clear variety, but also occurs in many other colours, called fancies, which are rarer and more expensive.

Diamond was used during ancient times as a talisman against cowardice and was recognized as a “stone to enhance invulnerability”. It rallies strength with age and maintains the energy to stimulate unity and love of oneself and others.

This gem is said to be one of the stones used on the breastplate of the high priest.

Intensity is a key word for diamond; it emanates more energy for its size than any other crystal. As an energy amplifier, it works well with any other stone, enhancing its power for healing. It is one of the few stones that never needs recharging. This mineral is known as the “King of Crystals,” it reflects all colours of the rainbow and chakra system. It is a stone of clarity, commitment and communication that enhances prosperity, love and spirituality.

Unsurpassed as a symbol of wealth for thousands of years, the Diamond is a stone of manifestation, attracting abundance. It is also a symbol of purity and is said to bond relationships, bringing love, constancy and clarity into a partnership. It is seen as a symbol of commitment and fidelity, and is the stone traditionally chosen for engagement rings.

It enhances creativity by stimulating inventiveness and imagination. It will bring clarity of mind and aid enlightenment. It reminds you of your soul’s aspirations and assists its’ spiritual evolution.

Diamond may be used to clarify and stimulate sight, to benefit the brain, as a metabolic balancing agent and has been used traditionally to counteract the effects of poisoning.