About Stones: Chiastolite

Astrological Sign: Libra

Chakra: Throat, Heart

Lore: Chiastolite gives us persistence in realizing our identity and our life’s task. It enhances conscious awareness and is used as a sign of devotion. It calms fears, nervousness, and feelings of guilt.

Geology: Chiastolite is an andalusite occurring in long prisms formed in carbonaceous clay slates. Growth occurs in layers with carbon deposited along the crystal edges as diagonal cruciform shapes are formed. It is also known as cross-stone.

Localities: China, Massachusetts

About Stones: Charoite

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius, Scorpio

Chakra: Heart, Crown

Lore: Charoite brings spiritual truths to dispel illusions and worst fears. Helps to cope with profound changes.

Geology: Charoite originates from Siberia where it was first discovered in 1978. Occurring as violet masses, charoite is formed in the zone of contact between magmatic and metamorphic rocks from the combination of alkaline magmatic solutions with mineral-forming substances of the surrounding rocks.

Localities: USSR

About Stones: Carborundum

Astrological Sign: Capricorn

Chakra: All

Lore: The silicon content in laboratory produced silicon carbide has similar properties to that of natural quartz. It has been employed for memory enhancement and to improve manual dexterity. Use to amplify positive feelings.

Geology: Carborundum, or silicon carbide is a man-made mineral invented in Pennsylvania by Edward Goodrich Acheson in 1890. The result of a failed attempt to create diamonds, carborundum was formed from electrically fusing a mixture of clay and carbon. Carborundum, used as an industrial abrasive, is hard enough to scratch glass. More recently it has been employed as a semiconductor. Silicon carbide, found in Arizona within a Canyon Diablo meteorite by Dr. Ferdinand Henri Moissan, has been named Moissanite. With a tetrahedral crystalline structure and an appearance similar to diamond, naturally occurring moissanite is rare. Gem quality moissanite is being manufactured and sold as a low cost alternative to natural diamonds.

Locality: Man made in Poland

About Stones: Bronzite

Astrological Sign: Leo

Chakra: Solar Plexus

Lore: Bronzite is the stone of courtesy. It is helpful in all facets related to service and assistance. It stimulates decisiveness and courage.

Geology: Bronzite, or ferroan enstatite, is a magnesium iron silicate. It forms stubby prismatic crystals and, more commonly, greenish-brown or bronze-brown compact masses with a submetallic luster. A member of the pyroxene group, its associated minerals are serpentine, magnetite, enstatite and olivine.

Localities: Germany, Austria, North Carolina, Arizona

About Stones: Botswana Agate

Astrological Sign: Scorpio

Chakra: Heart

Lore: Botswana agate encourages love. It stimulates exploration of the unknown, helps to release repressed emotions, and enhances creativity.

Geology: Botswana agate is composed of layers of finely fibrous quartz. It is found in the form of nodules, its thin parallel bands following the contour of the cavity where the silica gel solidified. The name is derived from the African country in which it is found.

Localities: Botswana

About Stones: Blue Lace Agate

Astrological Sign: Pisces

Chakra: Throat, Heart, Brow, Crown

Lore: Blue lace agate is a highly inspirational influence when used for inner attunement. Helps one reach high spiritual spaces and enter into high-frequency states of awareness. Useful for building confidence in public speaking. Encourages focus and calm centeredness.

Geology: A variegated form of chalcedony or microcrystalline quartz, blue lace agate displays a blue and white lace pattern.

Localities: Brazil, Uruguay, Mexico

About Stones: Bismuth

Astrological Sign: Aquarius

Chakra: All

Lore: Bismuth is a stone for transformation, allowing for orderliness and calm during the state of change. It stimulates cohesiveness in groups and relationships, supporting progression towards a common goal. Relieves feelings of emotional and spiritual isolation.

Geology: Bismuth is a silvery-white metal. Lab-grown “Hopper” crystals have a stairstep shape resulting from the edges growing more quickly than the crystal faces. Irridescent surface colors are due to surface oxides.

Localities: Laboratory grown in Germany

About Stones: Bertrandite

Astrological Sign: Pisces, Capricorn, Aquarius

Chakra: Root, Sacral

Lore: Bertrandite supports a smooth transition when undergoing change. It assists in the verbalization of hidden feelings. Beryllium Opal is reputed to enhance sexual energy.

Geology: This relatively new material, an opalized fluorite, is also called "Tiffany Stone" and Ice Cream Opalite. It occurs in a mixture of cream or white opalite with purple fluorite, traces of yellow bertrandite, along with other red or black mineral inclusions. Mineralized beryllium nodules altered by a fluorine-rich solution form in the sequence dolomite-calcite-chalcedony-opal/fluorite. The nodules are recovered from an area where the bertrandite rock is mined commercially for the recovery of beryllium used in the manufacture of satellites and aircraft. Bertrandite is beryllium silicate hydroxide.

Composition: Be4Si2O7(OH)2

Hardness: 6-7

Locality: Brush Wellman Beryllium Mine, Juab County, Delta, Utah

About Stones: Azurite-Malachite

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius, Capricorn

Chakra: Brow

Lore: Azurite-malachite encourages an interest in our
surroundings and fellow human beings. It encourages harmony between the intellect and feelings, and helps to release suppressed emotions.

Geology: Azurite-malachite is a rare alkaline copper carbonate formed by rainwater containing carbolic acid in the oxidation zone of copper ore deposits.

Localities: Arizona, West Germany

About Stones: Aventurine

Astrological Sign: Aries

Chakra: Solar Plexus, Heart

Lore: Aventurine enhances creativity and amplifies leadership qualities. It reveals what makes us happy or unhappy, stimulates dreaming, and helps make our dreams come true.

Geology: Aventurine is a massive green quartz that obtains its sparkling color from inclusions of fuchsite, a chromium mica. The name is from the Italian a ventura meaning randomly, a reference to the random deposits of mica contained within.

Localities: India, Brazil, Russia

About Stones: Apophyllite

Astrological Sign: Libra, Gemini

Chakra: Brow, Crown, Heart

Lore: Apophyllite helps create a conscious connection between the physical and the spiritual. It allows the recognition of truth and encourages tranquility, a calm attitude, and honesty. Facilitates astral travel.

Geology: Apophyllite is a sheet silicate that is formed hydrothermally. Tabular crystals are cubic or octahedral, sometimes dipyramidal or platy. May be colorless, white, or light shades of pink, green and yellow.

Localities: India, Mexico

About Stones: Apache Tear

Astrological Sign: Aries

Chakra: Root

Lore: Traditionally, the Apache tear is said to be one of the tears shed by Native American women in mourning for their warriors who were driven from a cliff by the U.S. cavalry. It is used for comfort in times of grief, providing insight and acceptance.

Geology: The Apache tear is a small black nodule of obsidian or volcanic glass. The main obsidian flow has been altered to a whitish porous rock called perlite containing unaltered transparent glassy nodules.

Localities: Arizona

About Stones: African Bloodstone

Astrological Sign: Cancer, Leo, Taurus

Chakra: Root, Sacral, Solar Plexus

Lore: Bloodstone is also known as heliotrope, Greek for “solstice,” referring to its powerful healing power. It aids in the renewal of physical and emotional states. A stone of courage, it helps to revitalize love relationships and friendships. Bloodstone has the capacity to clear scattered thoughts in preparation for meditation.

Geology: Bloodstone is a chalcedony, a microcrystalline variety of quartz. It is colored an opaque green with red spots caused by hematite and other iron oxides. African Bloodstone is sometimes called "Seftonite."

Localities: India, Africa, Australia

About Stones: Abalone Shell

Astrological Sign: Pisces

Chakra: Root, Solar Plexus

Lore: Abalone shells are used to enhance smudging activities. The shells, one of the earliest forms of wealth, were revered by ancient tribes as magical gifts from the sea. They stimulate fertility of mind and body, improving self-image and physical power.

Biology: Abalone are mollusks with one-piece shells. They belong to the genus Haliotis which means "sea ear." They are rounded or oval with a row of respiratory pores along one side.

Locality: Mexico, Philippines.