Some time ago I spent about a month in Brazil. I traveled to Teofilo Otoni in Minas Gerais looking for minerals and crystals. I held the intention to find and purchase crystals and mineral specimens that possessed a strong energy for healing work. I also wanted this powerful healing energy embodied into an effective tool. Many of the crystals and minerals listed here are the result of my search. Regardless of its origin, each piece I offer is individually selected for its efficacy and power. If you have any questions, or want more information, please don’t hesitate to contact me. Enjoy!
Amethyst is a stone of spirituality and contentment. Amethyst bestows stability, strength, invigoration, and peace, the peace being the perfect peace which was present prior to birth. It is warm and cuddly as well as regal and ruling. It has been used to encourage and support sobriety. It is an excellent stone for one who is attempting to find freedom from addictive personalities (oneself or another). Calming, strong, protective qualities, healing, divine love and inspiration. Enhances one's psychic and creative abilities.
Aquamarine is a stone of courage. Enhances one's ability for rapid intellectual response. It provides a shielding for the aura and subtle bodies and the ability to always be prepared. Attunes one to higher spiritual levels and enhances the connection with the higher self. It stimulates, activates, and cleanses the throat chakra to universal truth and perfection.
Aragonite provides an ease of centering oneself during periods of stress and anger. Provides a self-acceptance of oneself, helping one to gain insight into the basis of problems that need solving. Used as a "spring tonic," it brings in unlimited possibilities with unconditional love and helps maintain a balance between work and play.
Azurite is known as a “stone of heaven”. It stimulates the pursuit of heavenly self, providing for guidance via the third eye, and allowing for precise verbalization of psychic experiences. It awakens the development of the psychic self and provides insight into all areas of ones life. It enhances creative ability and helps to eliminate indecisions and worries. It also enhances self-confidence, allowing for invincibility when required.
Black Kyanite promotes and enhances visualization, communication, psychic awareness, and clairvoyance. Like its sister, Blue Kyanite, it supports meditation. Black kyanite deflects negativity, removes blockages and affords powerful protection. This mineral engenders peace, stillness, serenity and calm. Black kyanite, as well as blue kyanite, does not accumulate negative energies; and therefore, it never needs cleansing.
Champagne (Golden) Calcite is excellent for meditation. It is a powerful amplifier of energy; it cleanses negative energies from the environment and heightens ones energy. It removes stagnant energy. It facilitates the opening of psychic abilities. Champagne (Golden) Calcite calms the mind, stimulates insights and boosts memory. Calcite alleviates emotional stress, replacing serenity, enhancing trust in oneself and ability to overcome setbacks.
Orange Calcite brings forth a feeling of "all is well." Brings the love of the mother to the inner child. Facilitates an awareness and appreciation of the creative forces of nature. Brings forth polarizing, prismatic energy to clear and activate all the chakras. Helps clear inner child pain from the emotional body. Also helps the body return to a perfect state of flawlessness.
White Calcite (Iceland Spar) fosters spirituality. It helps reduce fear and stress and balances emotions. It's also good for clearing and cleansing the luminous body. It's good as a focus of contemplation during meditation, strengthening intuition, mental clarity and expanding awareness.
Celestite integrates consciousness and instinct to provide clarity regarding problems or ideas; supports intellectual activities; aids in dream recall.
Citrine is one of the few minerals on the planet which does not hold and accumulate negative energy, but dissipates and transmutes it, working out problems on both physical and subtle levels. Citrine is one of the stones to be called merchants stone - placing citrine in ones cash box has produced more income for the merchant. Diminishes self destructive tendencies. Raises self esteem lightheartedness cheerfulness hope. Warming, energizing and attracts abundance, affects naval and crown chakras.
Chrysanthemum Stone fosters the unfolding of spiritual growth, supporting harmony within the transformational process. This stone helps us to perceive aspects of ourselves which obstruct our progress on the Path of Spirit; and assists us in releasing those hindering aspects as we shift, change and grow. It instills confidence and serenity.
Desert Rose - A form of Selenite, Desert Rose helps bring clarity of mind and mental competency, enhancing awareness of self and our surroundings. It increases flexibility and strength in decisions. It also helps us to consciously understand our deepest inner nature. Helps us to receive justice during disputes. It can be used to cleanse other gemstones and minerals.
Diopside stimulates the intellect, as well as treating physical weaknesses and psychological disorders. Helps one understand the duality within the self and stimulates the feminine side of the self. Helps eliminate muscle spasms. Can be used to calm pets.
Dolomite soothes hurt, loneliness, anxiety. Facilitates generosity, spontaneity, creativity. Dolomite helps relieve sorrow, and provides strength to work through difficult times. It fosters the awareness and recognition of the lessons to be learned from those arduous and painful life experiences. It helps encourage energetic and original thinking and manifesting those thoughts. It can help enhance the energy in a room.
Freeform cut and polished Quartz crystals with mesmerizing inclusions. Shamanic Dream Stones are dynamic, potent and effective allies for gazing, meditation and journeying. They are a portal; they support and enhance connecting to the Luminous World.
Green Fluorite renews spring-time energy to all the chakras. Transmutes negativity toward the light and love. Diminishes trauma to the emotional body. Imparts impartiality and discernment. Fluorite strengthens bone tissue, especially the teeth enamel; as well as stimulates the mucous membranes and lung tissue. Green fluorite also specifically acts toward disorders of the stomach and intestinal tracts.
Purple Fluorite is a third-eye stone bringing rationality to the intuitive qualities and assisting one in precise communication of that which is psychically presented. It also brings an orderly connection and conscious association to both psychic and spiritual growth. It assists quite well with disorders associated with the bone and none marrow, expediting suitable balancing within the body, bone, and cellular structures. It is excellent in helping to prepare the physical, emotional, intellectual, and/or spiritual realms of ones being for healing.
Fuchsite assists in personal interactions, wellness and productivity, enhancing knowledge and "right action," particularly in the fields of holistic medicine. It can help in bringing forth information concerning herbal and holistic remedies. Fuchsite is said to enhance the body's ability to heal itself, and to increase the effectiveness of other minerals that are being used in healing. Fuchsite enhances the power of other minerals and is a great stone to use during healing sessions. Assists during meditation, to access information regarding your life path. Fuchsite enhances your connection the nature spirits and love and appreciation of beauty in nature. Fuchsite is a healers’ stone, used by Shamans and Sages throughout the ages to find the root cause of disease within the body and to facilitate deep healing on many levels. The ‘sparkles’ in fuchsite helps one to achieve an altered state of consciousness, allowing one to connect with their innate intuitive abilities. Thus one becomes open to ‘seeing’ within the body and hence understanding the core issues and imbalances leading to ill-health. Not only does fuchsite aid connection with the healer within, it also guides one to the most effective healing remedy/s needed to restore full health. The minerals’ connection with the Earth elements opens ones conscious mind to the healing elements within nature. As you become more adept at using fuchsite, particularly through meditation, a whole new world of herbal medicine, aromatherapy and vibrational essences opens up before you. Fuchsite is an excellent crystal to have around the home, because it brings happiness, laughter and joy into a home’s heart. The mineral stimulates growth, awareness and increases the effectiveness of other crystals in your environment, as well as aiding the clearing and protection of each family members luminous body.
Garnet is the stone of health and contentment. Extracts negative energy and transmutes it to a beneficial state. Aids in sleep and dreaming and is very calming. Balances and stimulates the kundalini and adjusts the body's flow of energy. Strengthens the heart, liver, kidneys, and thyroid. Works to strengthen blood.
Geodes are rocks which contain a hollow cavity lined with crystals. Geodes begin as bubbles in volcanic rock or as organic material buried during the formation of sedimentary rock. Over time, the outer shell of the geode hardens, and mineral rich water precipitates crystal growth on the inside walls of the hollow cavity within the geode. The cave-like center holds energy and releases it slowly. Place small objects inside a geode to purify and energize. Geodes have the energy patterns that support fertility, creativity, meditation, protection, and grounding. They can be used to improve creativity, and bring harmony and intellectual insight. They are wonderful for protection, and help establish and enhance your connection with Pachamama (Mother Earth/Time/Cosmos). Geodes help to bring visions and altered states of consciousness and aid in spiritual growth and can assist you during journeying and meditation.
Goshenite encourages truth – in words and deeds. It can assist in maintaining composure and self-control when unexpected situations arise. Goshenite also facilitates creativity and originality. It is an excellent stone for stabilizing relationships as it opens and activates the crown chakra. Goshenite is a beryl that stimulates mental abilities, logic, and analytical thinking. It brings persistence, focus, determination, and loyalty to an individual or group. It is a stone of truth and calms the worried mind. It is also a stone of upliftment and inspiration.
Kunzite activates the heart chakra with the throat and third eye chakras. It produces loving thoughts and feelings of a powerful peace penetrating to one's very core. The infinite source of love, self-love, unconditional love and romantic love. Helps one remove obstacles from one's path with love and dissolves negativity as it rebalances and calms the user.
Moldavite is a translucent green gemstone associated with a meteor strike which occurred in the Czech Republic some 15 million years ago. Moldavite can accelerate the path of evolution & spiritual growth; it can cleanse & activate all the Chakras & initiate spiritual experiences. Helps manifest positive life changes, may be used with other crystals to amplify them.
Petrified Wood is a stone of transformation. Opens self to past life recall to help alleviate current problems. Helps with arthritis and rheumatism. Opens the heart chakra. Very grounding. It brings in the "Serenity Prayer" to change what you can and not worry about the rest. The heart, spleen, and thyroid are strengthened. Expands longevity in people.
Clear Quartz can bring the energy of the stars into the soul. Traditionally, the natural quartz crystal was said to both harmonize and align human energies, thoughts, consciousness, emotions - with the energies of the universe and to make these greater energies available to humanity. The natural tendency of quartz is for harmony, and is recognized as a Stone of Power. Stimulates brain function & power, aids clarity of mind. Dispels negativity in ones energy field and environment, aligns all chakras, a very powerful healer.
A Diamantina Laser Wand (from a region of Brazil called Diamantina) focuses, concentrates, and accelerates the energy passing through it. This wand cuts away deleterious energy of all kinds. Excellent for use in meditation, the Diamantina Laser Wand facilitates a deeper connection to the Luminous World, while providing powerful protection. Assists in the removal of detrimental attitudes, feelings and attachments. Clears energy blockages and dispels energetic patterns that have lost their usefulness.
Faden Quartz crystals are recognized by thread-like, feathery line running through them, perpendicular to the line of growth. Faden Quartz is excellent for transmitting energy and thought, and bolsters our connection to Pachamama (Mother Earth/Cosmos/Time). The Faden crystal holds the energy of interconnection and communication. It encourages and supports the exploration of the parallel dimensions. It strengthens our connection to the “Web of Life” and supports and protects during deep meditation and journeying. This crystal facilitates the attunement between one’s self and another individual, group, and world.
Himalayan Quartz Crystals are mined by hand, at altitudes of 10,000 to 18,000 feet in the Himalayan Mountains in India. A recent discovery, they are available in limited supply due to the harsh conditions under which they are extracted. Himalayan Quartz Crystals are stones of power, intensifying and focusing energy. They pulsate at an extremely high frequency; at the same time, these crystals hold a deep, grounding resonance. They are beneficial in work pertaining to self-knowledge, True Self and finding your Path. Provides strong assistance in meditation and journey work, allowing one to remain fully grounded, while connecting to the Luminous World. Clusters of Himalayan Quartz Crystal are rare. The size and quality of this Himalayan Quartz Crystal Cluster is exceptional. It is deeply attuned to Earth energies; encourages insight and wisdom concerning within and without; emanates powerful protection; and promotes healing at the highest and deepest levels.
Lemurian Quartz Crystals hold and transmit the energy of unconditional love, equality, and spiritual teachings. They support and enhance dream work and dream interpretation. Lemurian crystals hold a strong feminine energy; they are dynamic, energetic and effective crystals, yet with a gentle and peaceful energy. Very powerful tools for meditation and for healing on all levels. Excellent for clearing and balancing all chakras.
A manifestation crystal has a particular configuration where a small crystal has grown within a larger crystal. Manifestation crystals are quite rare and exceptional. The power of these crystals is to isolate a potentiality and to bring it into reality, that is, to manifest it. Manifestation crystals connect you to the energy of creativity. Additionally, manifestation crystals assist in releasing negative energies, trauma and experiences from one’s past. They nourish and strengthen all creative endeavors: the arts, business, spiritual development, science, and so on. Manifestation crystals are extraordinary stones. Meditation with one of these crystals informed me of the significance of their arrival at this time. We are experiencing a time of transformation. Old ways of being are collapsing; external - social, political, economic, as well as internal – spiritual, emotional, mental. The forms of the new ways of being are not as yet determined. This is where the manifestation crystals come in. Pachamama (Mother Earth/Time/Cosmos) has presented us with tools to influence the forms of the new ways of being. According to my Brazilian supplier, the supply of manifestation crystals fluctuates significantly. No manifestation crystals are found for long periods of time. Then, suddenly, they are plentiful. I feel it is no accident or coincidence that these powerful crystals have surfaced. We are called upon to work together to create our world.
Phantom Quartz - Excellent for deepening meditation and to assist you in meeting your spiritual guides and allies. Phantom quartz provides a burst of energy to initiate the healing process, especially for healing debilitating emotional and psychical conditions. The "phantom" is caused by a pause in the crystals growth, leaving a partial or complete "phantom" within the crystal after it continued to grow. This pause in growth can last for thousands of years. The phantom usually appears as a fine white veil. These amazing stones help us to see before, after, and the struggles in-between, as part of an evolutionary process. A valuable stone for the spiritual seeker, phantom quartz helps us to perceive how the inner is the foundation of the outer, spiritual the foundation of the material. In addition, their energy instills a sense of wonder in the world around us, and helps us to see old situations with new perspective. A wonderful crystal for the mystic and "seer".
Rose Quartz provides spiritual attunement to the energy of love and is an excellent healer of emotional wounds. It emits a calming, cooling energy to gently remove negativity and reinstate the loving, gentle force of self love. Helps release impurities of the body and rejuvenates with love.
Smoky Quartz penetrates, transforms and dissolves negative thought fields. Relieves anger and resentment. Provides a barrier that grounds and protects. Provides grounding at the base chakra and activates the kundalini and sexual organs.
Spirit Quartz – also called Cactus Quartz - is a very protective stone; transforms negative energy to positive energy; opens and stimulates the crown and 3rd eye chakras, enhances intuition and aids in lucid dream work, shamanic journeying and meditation. Brings peace by assisting the elimination of fears; can cleanse, activate and amplify other minerals.
Tibetan Quartz can create a field of protection around the user, blocking negative energy from entering. The purifying energies of Tibetan Quartz also make it an excellent stone for balancing the chakras and meridian systems. Tibetan Quartz Crystals can be used to enhance, amplify, and intensify transformation, releasing self-limitations, and blockages. Tibetan Quartz Crystals gather, hold and release a very high frequency energy. These crystals are an excellent enhancer and activator of other crystals. Tibetan Quartz crystals have the ability to receive or transmit energy and are used for alignment, patience, perseverance, protection, dreams and astral projection. Purifies the luminous body and environment. Excellent for healing work and meditation. Tibetan Quartz is a powerful teaching stone. It is mined in the Himalayan Mountains of Tibet, one of the most sacred areas on Earth. The energetic frequency of this highly spiritual area is imparted on the stones, making thousands of years of spiritual and healing knowledge more easily accessible.
White Head Crystals are unique and beautiful crystals from Bahia, Brazil. The name came about when Joe Neto, owner of The Underground Broker and Melody of ‘Love is in the Earth’ were pondering what to call the new crystal. Joe was inspired by Melody’s white hair, thus the name White Head Crystal was born. Melody wholeheartedly approved. INFO FROM MELODY ABOUT WHITE HEAD CRYSTALS (author of ‘Love is in the Earth’): "The White head Crystals bring smoothness into ones nature and personality. They have the ability to bring more enthusiasm, passion and spirit into ones being. They can be used to stimulate aptitude for intelligent communication (WE ALL NEED THIS ONE DURING MERCURY RETRO) both on the physical plane and etheric realms. This is a superior energetic stone for the crown chakra. In the etheric realms it has the ability to assist one in receiving information from ancient civilizations. When the crystal is used by a person with dominant energy (I would say most metaphysical people) it has been shown to provide success in the direction the energy is focused. It also has been shown to abate explosive outbursts. Clarity is promoted and calmness prevails. Burying the hatchet is birthed and all reasons for holding the grudge are dissolved. The general theme of the White Head Crystal Quartz is communication, intelligence, release and actualization. These crystals have the ability to brighten ones aura and physical appearance."
Selenite expands awareness of your true self and of your surroundings. Provides access to past lives, as well as future lives. Assists in the release of judgment, providing insight into understanding the energies at play. Promotes an awareness of and through your unconscious assumptions, and thereby can establish a re-connection between your conscious self and the mystic which lives within you, and with the super-consciousness.
Stibnite enhances psychic abilities. It facilitates connection to Soul, thereby imparting important knowledge regarding our True Self and our Path. Supports communication with and connection to the animal, plant and mineral worlds. Stibnite is a powerful aid to meditation; it reduces distractions and provides strong protection. It promotes grounding, centering and courage to reach out to the Luminous World. This mineral holds the energy of transformation and manifestation.
Tektite balances the feminine and masculine energies; strengthens energy field; encourages the pursuit of knowledge throughout one’s lifetime.
Tourmalinated Quartz is Clear Quartz riddled with needlelike pieces of Black Tourmaline. Tourmalinated Quartz shares the properties of its components – the grounding and deflection of negative energy found in Tourmaline, as well as the energy amplification and consciousness raising ability of Quartz. As such, Tourmalinated Quartz brings balance and luck.
Tourmaline helps to clear, maintain and stimulate all of the energy centers of the body. Helps inspire us, to help us to understand so we are less fearful and more self confident. Wonderful balancing stone, it helps balance the left and right sides of the brain, to help with our creativity and healing. Also provides protection from things on the physical plane.
Black Tourmaline, also known as Schorl, repels and protects against negativity as well as helps one from being victimized by the negative energy of another. Helps increase physical vitality, emotional stability and intellectual creativity. Help maintain our spirits in times of distress. Helps activate the first Chakra and connect it to the center of the earth. Helps protect us from the negativity of the physical and spiritual planes and also from the spirits that are not in the "light". Black tourmaline is associated with the root or base chakra, and is excellent for grounding excess energy. It is a well known as a purifying stone that deflects and transforms negative energy, and thus is very protective.
Green Tourmaline helps teach us to see with our heart. It has a masculine energy, which contains compassion, and helps us work with the plant kingdom, helping us to heal plants as well as helping in the study of herbalism. Helps transform negative energy to positive without releasing it to the atmosphere. Helps inspire creativity and attracts success, prosperity and abundance. Provides regeneration & rebirth of the physical body. Pushes out toxins from the body & brings in new energy. Brings in abundance & prosperity.
Tsavorite helps to stimulate the knowledge, within the inner self, that each person is the ruler of his/her own destiny, and that this ruling must be accomplished with love and compassion. It helps one to live within this concept and to reflect the eternal love to the outer world. It also provides for a connection with the higher planes, facilitating contact with the spiritual world, enhancing channeling, and helping to produce visions. The energy of Tsavorite helps one to feel the connection via the energetic, rather than to see via the physical. Tsavorite can be used to assist one in psychic communications and in pursuits relative to telepathic connections. Tsavorite is a stone of prosperity and abundance and all the positive aspects related to wealth which means the mental, emotional, physical and creative aspects related to wealth. Tsavorite assists in opening the heart chakra. It is a perfect stone for the tired and depressed since it can cleanse the heart chakra and aid in bringing a new zest for life. It helps in manifesting the desires of the heart and also inspires charity and benevolence in their truest and purest forms.
Vanadinite is soothing and comforting, and helps bring us to a deep state of meditation. With conscious direction it assists in emptying the mind and to obtain visionary answers to specific questions. Encourages emotional sensitivity. Supports the ability to surrender, allowing us to acknowledge and embrace lessons sent our way. It is a stone that can help thrift in spending, both of energy and money. It can help bring order to our lives, helping to define goals and to pursue them in an orderly manner. Vanadanite fosters spiritual insight. It encourages prayer, meditation, revelation and direct communication with the spirit world.
