The Magickal Properties of Gemstones

For many centuries the Wise have known that gemstones and crystals could enhance the power of their workings. These pages explore some of the magical and healing properties of the stones that we use in creating our magickal works of jewelry art.

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Sapphire

Stimulating the throat and third eye chakras, sapphire enhances the intellect and expands psychic ability. It brings peace and calm. A guardian of love, it promotes fidelity between lovers, and can strengthen friendship relationships as well. It can be used in wealth magicks and helps the magus to tap and send power. A protective stone, legend has it that sapphire can protect its wearer from capture, as such it is useful in legal matters.

See also Black Star Sapphire.

Selenite

Selenite resonates with energy, shimmering like a full moon. It helps to connect with our High Self, and to become aware of our own divinity. It brings mental clarity, expanding awareness and strengthening judgement. Selenite removes blockages, promoting flexability and flow.

Silver

Drawing the light of the Moon into the wearer, silver is considered a psychic metal. It enhances and empowers the psychic abilities and intuitive perception. Silver is protective, calming, and has money-drawing vibrations. This metal is associated with feminine energies. Its relaxed, reflective energy can enhance and empower stones that are placed with it. While gold radiates energy outward, silver's action changes the person from within.

Silver Moonstone

Invoking the reflective, intuitive power and Goddess energy of the waning moon, this silver-grey stone eases frustrations and lends a greater ability to flow and move in harmony natural tides of life.

See also Moonstone.

Smokey Quartz

With a gentle, sustaining and stabilizing energy, smokey quartz works to dissolve and release negativity and emotional blockages. It helps the wearer to ground and clears both the emotions and the mind, helps the wearer to ground. Lifting depression, smokey quartz provides clarity and enhances positive energies and attention to the moment.

See also Quartz.

Snowflake Obsidian

The energy of this volcanic rock is restful and serene. Snowflake obsidian can help the wearer recognize and transmute negative patterns and modes of thought. It helps to transform negativity into a positive and brings peace and balance to mind and body.

See also Obsidian.

Sodalite

Sodalite strengthens our ability for rational thought and helps us recognize our inner truth and to express that to others. A wonderful stone for communication, it aids the wearer in finding trust and mutual esteem with others. It opens access to understanding of our place in the Universe and our journey of life, so that we may face our learnings with intelligence and a calm understanding.

Sugilite

Sugilite assists in connecting the spiritual to the physical. It stimulates the crown chakra and aids in opens all the chakras and allows for the movement of Kundalini energy. It enhances belief in self, eliminating hostility, anger and other negativity, and provides loving comfort from the Universe. It aids in understanding of the spiritual reasons for the lessons we encounter, helping us to follow our dreams and to become our higher selves. It is a wonderful stone for meditation and dreaming and helps us to manifest the love of the Universe into the earth plane.

Sunstone

This bright and enlivening stone clears the chakras to a state of "squeaky clean." It increases vitality and courage and promotes a sunny outlook, enhancing any solar oriented workings. Sunstone teaches leadership skills. It offers clarity when making decisions and an ability to act in accordance with our higher wills and to make sure that our decisions affect others in positive ways. Sunstone strengthens the wearer's abilities of self-discipline, humility and desire for service to the greater good.

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