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17 Agu 2014

Unakite



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Unakite, also called epidote, derives its name from the Greek epidosis, meaning "growing together". It is a combination of red jasper and green epidote solidly bound together. From this we get the meaning that what comes together belongs together.
Unakite is said to lift your spirits when you are feeling down - this is the gemstone to help you to see the beauty in life. It is also used to uncover deception.

13 Agu 2014

fluorite

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Formerly called fluorspar, fluorite has a wide range of colors including yellow, blue, pink purple and green. It is an interesting and beautiful stone because often more than one color occurs in a single stone. The ancient Egyptians used flourite to carve statues and scarabs, the Chinese have used it in carvings for over 300 years.
Fluorite is said to absorb and neutralize negative vibrations. It makes one more receptive to the vibrations of other stones.
Fluorite is known as the "Genius Stone".
  • increases concentration
  • helps in decision-making
Fluorite may be used with other stones. It helps to open the way for the power of other stones to be effective. It can be used as a meditation stone to help energize the body and raise the power of concentration.
Locations where fluorite is found include Canada, USA, South Africa, Thailand, Peru, Mexico, China, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Norway, England, and Germany.

11 Agu 2014

agate



meanings.crystalsandjewelry.com/agate :

Crystal Meanings of Agate

Keywords: Protection, Strength, Harmony
The  Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore of any specific type of  agate depend to some extent on the color of the agate, but all agates have certain things in common.
Agate enhances creativity and strengthens the intellect, making it a beneficial stone for both students and artists. It is also known as a good luck stone. As a stone of harmony, one of the things agate does is balance yin/yang energy. Agate increases energy. However, because it is a grounding stone, it does not increase energy at all times, but rather enables bursts of energy as needed. In this way, agate is a conservation stone,  and enhances longevity.
Emotionally, agate gives courage, emotional strength, self-confidence, and dispels fears. It can also lessen feelings of envy by grounding the emotions. In the same way, it assists with acceptance of all things. It can be very beneficial for self-examination as well as examination of the circumstances one finds oneself in. These qualities make agate superior for easing anxiety and stress.
Because of the harmonizing qualities of agate, and its emotional energies of removing and releasing resentments and bitterness, it is also considered by many to be an excellent stone for helping to heal and improve relationships.
Agate can cleanse and stabilize the aura by removing and/or transforming negative energy.
Agate is said to strengthen the body and the body's connection to the earth.
Chakras: All  agates can remove blockages from any chakra. Agate also relates  to specific chakras according to the stone color.
Rock Lore & Tidbits: Agate is a variety of chalcedony which is a microcrystalline quartz. Agate is a more translucent microcrystalline quartz and technically is striped, though many stones named agates are not striped, whereas jasper is more opaque. There are many, many different types of agates in many different color combinations, and they are found all over the world. Different types are known fr different appearances and/or properties.

7 Okt 2013

Chakra Bracelet Healing Crystal

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 Each Color represents and stimulates your Chakras for :

♥ Abundance ♥ Wealth ♥ Money ♥ Love ♥ Beauty ♥ Truth ♥ Consciousness ♥ Aura cleansing ♥ Intellect ♥ Protection ♥

1st Chakra- Red- Carnelian- Strength, Peak Performance, Boldness, Courage
2nd Chakra- Orange- Rutilated Quartz- A very Lucky Stone, draws good fortune to wearer
3rd Chakra- Yellow- Citrine- Success, money, prosperity, money
4th Chakra-Green -Flourite - boosts immune system and protects against negative energy and stress
5th Chakra- Light Blue- Sodalite - This stone assists in self-discipline and developing inner strength
6th Chakra- Indigo- Amethyst - Meditation enhancer, connects wearer to their third eye
7th Chakra- Clear- Crystal Quartz - for the crown Chakra, calming, intuition, encourages you to follow your instincts

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15 Sep 2013

Amethyst

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Amethyst is a violet variety of quartz often used in jewelry. Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz (SiO2) and owes its violet color to irradiation, iron impurities (in some cases in conjunction with transition element impurities), and the presence of trace elements, which result in complex crystal lattice substitutions. The hardness of the mineral is the same as quartz, thus it is suitable for use in jewelry.

Amethyst occurs in primary hues from a light pinkish violet to a deep purple. Amethyst may exhibit one or both secondary hues, red and blue. The best varieties of Amethysts can be found in Siberia, Sri Lanka, Brazil and the far East. The ideal grade is called "Deep Siberian" and has a primary purple hue of around 75–80%, with 15–20% blue and (depending on the light source) red secondary hues.
Green quartz is sometimes incorrectly called green amethyst, which is a misnomer and not an appropriate name for the material, the proper terminology being Prasiolite. Other names for green quartz are vermarine or lime citrine.

Of very variable intensity, the color of amethyst is often laid out in stripes parallel to the final faces of the crystal. One aspect in the art of lapidary involves correctly cutting the stone to place the color in a way that makes the tone of the finished gem homogeneous. Often, the fact that sometimes only a thin surface layer of violet color is present in the stone or that the color is not homogeneous makes for a difficult cutting.

The color of amethyst has been demonstrated to result from substitution by irradiation of trivalent iron (Fe3+) for silicon in the structure, in the presence of trace elements of large ionic radius, and, to a certain extent, the amethyst color can naturally result from displacement of transition elements even if the iron concentration is low. Natural amethyst is dichroic in reddish violet and bluish violet, but when heated, turns yellow-orange, yellow-brown, or dark brownish and may resemble citrine, but loses its dichroism, unlike genuine citrine. When partially heated, amethyst can result in ametrine.
Amethyst can fade in tone if overexposed to light sources and can be artificially darkened with adequate irradiation.


Amethyst Gemstone meaning

Crystalline quartz in shades of purple, lilac or mauve is called amethyst, a stone traditionally worn to guard against drunkeness and to instill a sober mind. The word amethyst comes from the Greek meaning "without drunkenness" and amethyst is believed to protect one from poison.

Power Stone

It is used as a dream stone and to help insomnia. Put an amethyst under your pillow to bring about pleasant dreams, or rub it across your forehead to offer relief from a headache.

Protection Stone

Ancient Egyptians used the amethyst guard against guilty and fearful feelings. It has been worn as protection from self-deception, as well as a protection against witchcraft. The amethyst has long been used to open the spiritual and psychic centers, making it one of the power stones. It is also used as a meditation aid when worn as a necklace.

Wisdom Stone

The amethyst is known as the Bishop's Stone and is still worn by Catholic Bishops. The amethyst symbolizes piety, humility, sincerity and spiritual wisdom. It is thought the amethyst is the perfect stone to symbolize The Age of Aquarius.

Healing properties of Amethyst

Amethyst is a gemstone often worn by healers, as it has the power to focus energy. A healer will usually wear several pieces of jewelry with amethysts set in silver, especially an amethyst necklace. The person to be healed will have an Amethyst to hold while the healing is being done. The healer will place another piece of Amethyst on the area of the body in need of healing, the heart or lungs usually.

Amethyst is used for problems in the blood and in breathing problems. Amethyst crystal clusters are used to keep the air and life force in the home clean and positive.
Amethyst clusters, points or several tumbled Amethysts placed in a window that receives sun most of the day are very beneficial to use in healing and to heal negativity in the home. Place Amethyst clusters, points or several tumbled Amethysts in moonlight and everyone in the home will be feeling calmer. Using an Amethyst as a meditation focus will increase the positive spiritual feelings. Amethyst helps overcome fears and cravings. It also helps relieve headaches.


A large number of further miraculous powers are attributed to the amethyst in all sorts of cultures. It was said to protect crops against tempests and locusts, bring good fortune in war and in the hunt, drive out evil spirits and inspire the intellect. A little study of the works of Pliny will reveal that this gemstone, if worn round the neck on a cord made from dog's hair, affords protection against snakebite. Later, Hieronymus even reported that eagles placed an amethyst in their nest in order to protect their young from the selfsame danger. Apart from these powers, gemstone therapists say that the amethyst has a sobering and cleansing effect. Amethyst has also been said to quell excessive stomach acid and, according to Hildegard von Bingen, served to combat insect bites and beautify the skin. But the amethyst not only had a firm niche in medicine; it was also esteemed as a stone of friendship. And since it was thought to put the wearer in a chaste frame of mind and symbolise trust and piety, the amethyst came to occupy a very prominent position in the ornaments of the Catholic clergy over the centuries. It was the stone of bishops and cardinals; we find it in prelates' crosses and in the so-called Papal Ring (Italian, 15th century) in the Jewellery Museum in Pforzheim.

However, the most beautiful of all crystal quartzes also posed one or two riddles for the scientists, and indeed they still haven't been completely solved to this day. The amethyst has its hardness (7), its moderate refraction and its weight in common with the other quartzes, but the crystal structure is different, and it is most unconventional. The construction is stratified, as a result of which areas and lamellae of varying colour intensity often come about. This explains why there are relatively few large cut amethysts of an evenly distributed dark colour, in spite of its having been found so abundantly in all parts of the world. It is only in the last few years that scientists have been fairly certain of having found the real cause of the colour. It is now attributed to certain iron constituents in connection with natural radioactive radiation.

One thing that has been known for a long time, on the other hand, is the fact that the amethyst changes its colour on being heated. Smoky stones are transformed at temperatures of as little as 250 degrees to a shining yellow to brownish-red, whilst clear ones, i.e. those with a high degree of transparency, become yellow or colourless at 400 degrees. Now and then Nature gives us a surprise by having created bicoloured stones, like the ones recently found in Bolivia in the form of causticised crystal nuggets. This variety is known as ametrine, for in its formation certain energy states of iron introduce violet areas to the yellow citrine. At best, flat jewellery with a three-spoked star can be cut from it. However, the highlight for esoterics is that the energy fields can in fact be made visible in polarised light. The Henn Brothers of Idar-Oberstein even supply the photos to go with it.

Some amethysts pale almost to colourlessness in daylight. The reason for this has not yet been discovered, but it is possible to re-colour them by means of radium radiation. The fact that these stones can lose their colour makes it obvious that amethyst jewellery should not be worn while sunbathing, in a solarium or in a discotheque with black light. Sudden changes of temperature can also be harmful to the stone.

The deposits with the greatest economic significance are in various states in southern Brazil and in neighbouring Uruguay. The third major export country is Madagascar. However, this gemstone is spread all over the world. Good specimens were found in Aztec graves, though the deposits from which they were extracted are no longer known today. On the Canadian side of Lake Superior in North America, there is a place named Amethyst Harbor. The violet quartz is found there in ample quantities, though rarely in gemstone quality. The fame of Idar-Oberstein, the German gemstone centre, is based on domestic amethyst finds. In earlier times, raw material was delivered there from the Zillertal Alps. When these nearby deposits ceased to yield, the old cutters' tradition was able to be preserved thanks to supplies organised by German emigrés in South America. Russian amethysts, which were mainly mined in winter in the Urals, were once famous for their particularly beautiful colour, which shone magnificently even in artificial light. In Tibet there were amethyst rosaries, for there the gemstone was dedicated to Buddha and was said to promote clarity of mind. In Sri Lanka, stones which have rolled down on their own are found in debris.

13 Sep 2013

glass beaded



Tess.glass beaded,vintage beaded,romantic bracelet. Tiedupmemories

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$28.00 USD

features,assorted vintage glass beads,rhinestone bead,freshwater pearl,
recycled vintage pink flower
It measures 7 1/2" and closes with a lobster claw. 

Batu Opal / Kalimaya

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Batu opal mempunyai nilai keras 5.5-6.5 berdasarkan daftar keras Mohs, mereka menempati di urutan ke delapan. Komposisinya pun agak sederhana yaitu kiezelzuur dan air dan bermacam-macam logam yang menyebabkan batu opal memantulkan beraneka ragam warna. Dari segala macam variasi warna, batu opal yang berwarna merah dan hitam adalah yang paling langka dan warna putih dan hijau adalah yang paling umum. Batu opal yang mempunyai dasar background hitam lebih berharga daripada yang putih. Tapi dari semua itu batu opal yang memantulkan beraneka ragam warna adalah yang paling tinggi nilainya. Karena salah satu komposisi dari batu opal itu adalah air (3-10% bahkan ada yang sampai 20%) maka hati-hati jangan biarkan batu ini menjadi terlalu kering karena akan mudah retak, juga jangan terbentur terlalu keras oleh karena itu. Batu opal juga merupakan batu nasional dari negara Australia. Batu opal juga banyak disukai oleh para raja dan bangsawan.

Permainan warna pada permata opal disebabkan oleh butiran-butiran halus silica yang tersusun sangat rapi dan berfungsi membelokkan cahaya serta memancarkannya, sehingga menyebabkan warna-warna pelangi bermunculan saat dilihat dari sudut berbeda.
Terdapat beberapa jenis opal yang dikenal masyarakat umum seperti:
Opal biasa (common opal): Opal yang tidak menunjukkan permainan warna sama sekali.
Opal putih (white opal): opal berwarna putih, abu-abu, putih susu, hanya memiliki sedikit permainan warna atau tidak ada sama sekali.
Opal hitam (black opal): opal berwarna agak gelap kehitaman atau kecokelatan dengan permainan warna, sehingga membuatnya lebih kontras.
Boulder opal: opal yang masih menempel pada batuan.
Matrix opal: opal yang masih menempel pada batuan sebagai garis atau bercak-bercak warna.
Fire opal: opal tembus pandang atau sedikit tembus pandang berwarna merah, oranye, kuning atau kecoklatan dengan sedikit permainan warna atau tidak ada sama sekali.

Kegunaan atau manfaat
Mungkin batu opal adalah salah satu batu yang dipercayai mempunyai pengaruh buruk dan pengaruh baik buat si pemakai, selain batu intan seperti The Hope atau Koh-i-noor. Kepercayaan yang berlawanan ini sering membuat orang bingung manakah yang benar. Salah satu kepercayaan sebagian orang yaitu batu opal tidak baik dan hanya menimbulkan nafsu birahi saja buat si pemilik, membuat pikiran kacau, menggoncangkan urat syaraf. Perempuan yang alim jika memakai batu ini dalam beberapa bulan bisa menjadi perempuan genit dan suka “nakal”. Orang Cina juga menganggap batu ini dapat merusak keharmonisan rumah tangga, dan memberi dampak buruk terhadap kesehatan.
Namun ada juga sebagian orang yang percaya bahwa memiliki batu opal ini dapat membahagiakan pemakai (umumnya bercahaya jika pemiliknya sedang bahagia dan tidak bersinar jika pemiliknya sedang murung), menyembuhkan penyakit mata, lemah zakar atau impotensi, dan meningkatkan daya ingatan. Opal berwarna hitam katanya tidak boleh sembarang orang memilikinya, jika tidak cocok maka batu opal itu akan membawa bencana dan jika cocok maka akan membawa kebahagiaan buat si pemiliknya.

Dalam dunia astrology atau perbintangan batu opal dihubungkan dengan zodiac Libra dan Scorpio.


Jenis batu-batuan lainnya antara lain:
Batu Garnet (Batu Biduri Delima) Batu Amethyst (Batu Kecubung Kasihan) Batu Aquamarine (Batu Biru Laut) Batu Intan (Berlian) Batu Zamrud Batu Mutiara Batu Mirah (Ruby) Batu Peridot Batu Safir Batu Opal (Batu Kalimaya) Batu Topaz (Batu Ratna Cempaka) Batu Pirus (Turquoise) Batu Giok Batu Darah Batu Biduri Bulan (Moonstone) Batu Chrysoberyl Batu Yakut (Zircon) Batu Tourmaline Batu Amber (Barnsteen) Batu Spinel Batu Jenis lain-lainnya.

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7 Sep 2013

foto citrine

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Citrine Tumble stone 8x5 - 12x6mm

Citrine chips
 


 



foto amethyst

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Cape Amethyst round 10mm


Cape Amethyst Tumble stone 10x8mm





Lavender Amethyst Drop Cut
Size: 8x5mm - 9x5mm

 
Lavender Amethyst Oval 14x10mm



Amethyst Pointed drop 6-7.5mm

Amethyst Oval 10x8mm

  Amethyst Oval 20x15mm / 5pc
Sometimes this is called "Lace Amethyst" or "Marble amethyst", because there is a Natural white stripe on it's surface.
  

Amethyst tube 10x4mm
 

Amethyst Flower carving 9.5-11mm
 
 

6 Sep 2013

Green Apatite

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Meaning and Uses of Green Apatite

Apatite is a dual-action stone, known for its positive use of personal power to achieve goals. It clears away confusion, apathy or negativity, then, stimulates the intellect to expand knowledge and truth, which may be used for personal growth or for the collective good. It is a Stone of Manifestation, promoting a humanitarian outlook and service to others. [Raphaell, 163][Melody, 126][Hall, 62]

Green Apatite is a connection crystal of the heart. It communicates wisdom of the mind with the emotion of the heart, balancing one to the other, and is helpful in overcoming difficulties when bringing one's vision to reality. Green Apatite stimulates the flow of energy on the physical plane and can be used as an abundance stone, for spiritual and financial manifestation, as well as connecting with the electromagnetic field of the planet. It allows one to replenish energy for the physical heart and to channel healing energies back to the Earth. [Simmons, 42][Ahsian, 42-43]

Green Apatite may be green, yellow-green, or sea-green tinged with blue. The name Apatite is derived from a Greek word meaning "to deceive" because the variety of colors and formations in which this stone occurs makes it easy to mistake for other minerals. It may be yellow, blue, green, brown, gray or colorless, but the Apatite stones used for metaphysical purposes are primarily higher-quality crystal pieces in blue, green and gold. [Simmons, 41]

Apatite is the stone associated with animal conservation, because it is composed of the mineral phosphate that makes up the teeth and bones of all vertebrate animals, as well as their horns, antlers or tusks. Green Apatite is called "bones of the Earth" and is one of the best crystals used to heal the earth. 


Green Apatite Uses and Purposes - Overview

Apatite enhances creativity and awakens the finer, inner self. It is a stone of the future and brings knowledge to those attuned to it. It may be used as an interface point between consciousness and matter to translate our humanitarian aspirations into healing, information, communication and teaching. [Melody, 126]

Green Apatite encourages good eye-hand coordination in children, and when carried or worn, especially as earrings, makes adults less clumsy. [Eason, 251]
A great stone for healers, Green Apatite assists the practitioner by maintaining a positive, clear energy field and a heart-centered focus. [Ahsian, 42]

Green Apatite helps combat listlessness and promotes a lively, sociable attitude. [Gienger, 15] Use Green Apatite near a computer or printer when sending out invitations for a social event, or for a local gathering over an environmental issue. [Eason, 251]

In the workplace, Green Apatite may re-awaken an enthusiasm for a personal long-term project. It may also refocus co-workers who spend too much time on non-work emailing or phone calls. [Eason, 251]

Green Apatite is reputed to increase psychic and telepathic communications with animals and birds, especially pets and local wildlife. It is also beneficial in animal healing.

Green Apatite Healing Therapies - Overview

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Green Apatite Physical Healing Energy

Green Apatite encourages the formation of new cells and aids in the absorption of calcium. It helps heal bones and teeth, repairs cartilage, and may help alleviate growth problems in children. [Eason, 251][Gienger, 15]

Green Apatite is associated with healthy eating, and tempers yo-yo dieting and binge eating followed by bulimia. It is generally supportive in healing all glands, meridians, and organs, and reduces hypertension. [Hall, 63][Eason, 251]

Green Apatite stimulates the heart and is beneficial in recovery from heart attack, heart surgery, or other heart disease, especially if those illnesses are based in stress or habits driven by scarcity-mindedness.


Green Apatite Emotional Healing Energy

Green Apatite has an uplifting energy that brings vitality and freshness after long illnesses, adversity, or emotional pain. It stimulates hope and renewed courage. [Ahsian, 42]

Green Apatite helps overcome self-consciousness and alienation, and promotes openness and social ease. It is beneficial in easing sorrow and anger, heartbreak in love, and the inability to move on from a relationship that did not last or develop.


Green Apatite Chakra Healing and Balancing Energy

Green Apatite provides over-all healing properties, and enhances the effects of other crystals. It is an excellent central stone in a healing crystal layout, or as the Heart Chakra crystal in a full chakra crystal healing. [Eason, 251]

Apatite helps eliminate over-activity, under-activity, blockages and congestion in all of the chakras. It is excellent for balancing yin-yang, and for raising kundalini energy. [Melody, 126] Green Apatite stimulates the Heart Chakra.

The Heart Chakra is located near the center of the breastbone. It regulates our interaction with the external world and controls what we embrace and what we resist. It gives us the balancing ability to be ourselves within the environment.

When the heart chakra is out of balance you may feel either controlling or controlled in a relationship, and become critical of the little foibles of others. You may well find yourself having inappropriately strong emotional responses to everyday external stimuli. Green crystal energy is used to resolve blockages and to re-balance the heart chakra, helping us understand our own needs and emotions clearly.  We can deal with the ebbs and flows of emotional relationships, understand their cyclic nature, and accept the changes.



Green Apatite Spiritual Energy

Green Apatite can awaken heart knowledge, allowing one to understand the emotional nature and karmic basis for one's current experiences, and to release and heal old patterns with roots in other lifetimes. It is a joyful stone, encouraging a general sense of emotional well-being, and letting go of illness and disease to embrace the hope of vibrant good health, energy and happiness. [Ahsian, 43]

Apatite is an aid to stimulating clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, and awareness of the devic worlds. It can provide connection to UFOs, and access to past-life insights and telepathy.



Green Apatite Color Energy

Green Apatite is a "growth crystal" - a powerful conduit of the earth's Life Force of birth, development, and creation, and of the power of nature's constant renewal. It is a potent aid in nurturing, whether of fledgling family relationships or a new business venture. Green Apatite is perfect for keeping a venture on course, a project on schedule, and life on track. Lighter Green crystals promote spiritual growth and renewed commitment to a higher purpose. Those of a darker hue are talismans of physical growth and strength, and safety in travel.

Yellow-green or Olive Apatite combines the green rays of growth with the yellow rays of pure sunshine, a crystal of development, strength and maturity. It enhances our receptiveness to new meanings and ideas, and lights the path to wisdom and understanding. It is a talisman of the search for knowledge and enlightenment. In lighter shades, Olive Apatite provides the perseverance needed in our quest for understanding the natural universe, efforts that require deep concentration, determination, and endurance for mental challenges. In deeper tones, Olive Apatite is a "Study Stone," aiding us in the long quest for a higher state of understanding or awareness. It is excellent for achieving goals that need deep constancy and long-term purpose; not wild, exuberant growth, but the slow, steady development and deep caring of a life's calling.


Meditation with Green Apatite

With spiritual discipline, Apatite encourages the development of deeper states of meditation and reflection. It provides an inner clarity, peace, and oneness with the higher-self. Used with other crystals, Apatite facilitates end results with greater ease.


Green Apatite Divination

he Divinatory meaning of Green Apatite: Open yourself to new friendships and connections to regain your old love of life.