Crystals are beautiful objects, full of mystery and fascination. They hold a unique power that is said to uplift, protect and heal. All our crystals are carefully selected for their quality, radiance and energy. Each one has undergone cleansing and is ready for dedicating and programming

Crystals can absorb all sorts of energies from their surroundings; that is why they need to be cleansed before the can be dedicated. The simplest way is to hold them under running water. There is a wealth of information available in <books> and on the internet that can help you decide which is the best method for your type of crystal.

Light a candle then sit quietly. Perhaps play some relaxing music. Hold your crystal in your hands for a while. Picture a bright white light surrounding the crystal. State clearly that you will only use the crystal for the highest good of all. Take your time, when you feel ready the crystal is also ready for programming

To make a crystal work you need to attune its energy to your own frequency. This will make a huge difference to the effectiveness of the crystal. First of all choose a crystal that is suitable for the intention you have for it, perhaps healing, improving a situation or for protection, see crystal properties Hold the crystal in your hands and sit quietly allowing yourself to attune to its energy. When you feel ready state clearly and precisely what it is you wish to use it for. Try and spend a few moments each day with your crystal as this will help it work better for you.

Amethyst - A very powerful healer and protector, bestowing stability, strength, and peace. It has been used to encourage and support clear-headedness. An excellent stone for finding freedom from addictive personalities (oneself or another). Calming, strong, healing and inspiring. Enhances one's psychic and creative abilities. Relieves physical as well as emotional pain. Aids insomnia, hearing, digestive system, heart and throat chakra.

Amazonite - Soothes all chakras and is particularly rejuvenating to the heart centre and throat chakra. Enhances communications concerning love. It can be used in the treatment of disorders of the nervous system and to dissipate energy blockages, also beneficial in osteoporosis, tooth decay and other calcium deficiencies or deposits. It is a great stone for writers and other creative types that use voice or hands for a living.

Amber - A fossilized tree resin - allows the body to heal itself by drawing disease from the body. Brings wisdom and intellect. Cleanses mind, body and spirit. Aids depression, memory, decision -making. Eases stress and neutralizes negative energy.

Aventurine (red/orange) - Enhances creativity. Brings prosperity. It can help one look at a situation incomplete detail, helps to see alternatives and possibilities. Promotes growth in children and balances blood pressure.
Aventurine - (green) Cleanses the heart chakra. Enhances the ability to attract love, especially later in life.

Bloodstone - "The Stone of Courage" .Cleanses the lower chakras. Strengthens and oxygenates blood stream. Enhances physical/mental vitality. Strengthens heart, spleen, bone marrow. Aids in balancing vitamin deficiencies. Reduces emotional and mental stress. A powerful healer.

Blue Lace Agate - The energy of this mineral is most useful at the throat chakra, the heart, third eye, and crown chakras. It can be used in the treatment of arthritic conditions. Can also be used to strengthen the skeletal structure, useful to enhance the mending of breaks and fractures. It can help to remove blockages from the nervous system and from the capillaries of the body. Different types of agate have additional properties.

Carnelian - Protects against fear, envy, and rage. Stimulates inquisitiveness and perception. Can assist one in drama and pursuits related to theatrical presentations. Influences female reproductive organs, increasing fertility . Activates lower chakras. Heals lower back problems. Pink Carnelian - Promotes loves between parent and child.

Citrine - 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 and promotes inner calm. Raises self esteem light heartedness, cheerfulness and hope. Warming, energizing, affects naval and crown chakras. Treats digestive problems, thyroid imbalance and blood circulation.

Dioptase - Useful in opening the heart chakra and attaining spiritual attunement. Powerful physical and mental healing properties. Eases high blood pressure, pain including migraine. Is said to prevent heart attacks and heal other heart conditions.

Fluorite - Excellent for advancement of mind and psychic ability, greater concentration, meditation. Aids physical and mental coordination. Assists disorders of the bones and bone marrow. Yellow fluorite - enhances creativity.

Garnet - known as the "stone of health" - ridding the body of negative energies. Energises, revitalizes and inspires love. Treats spinal and cellular disorders. Red Garnet - represents love. Attuned to heart energy, revitalizes feelings and enhances sexuality.

Jade - Jade facilitates peace within the physical, emotional, and intellectual structures. A protective stone, brings harmony. Treats kidneys, removes toxins and helps heal stitches.

Green Tree Agate - Gardener's charm, relieves stiff neck, lends energy to the depleted; attracts riches, happiness and long life. Harmonizes physical, emotional and mental qualities. Different types of agate have additional properties.

Hematite - Slightly grounding, reduces stress, enhances personal magnetism, optimism, will and courage. Boosts

self-esteem. Stimulates attainment of peace, self-control, and inner happiness. Assists in balance between the body, mind, and spirit. Strongly effects the blood, therefore aids anaemia. Treats leg cramps, nervous disorders and insomnia.

Howlite - Calms communication, facilitates awareness, encourages emotional expression, discernment, memory, progress, eliminates hesitation, dispels criticalness and selfishness. Eliminates pain, stress and rage. Balances calcium levels in the body.

Jasper - A grounding stone, connecting the root chakra, the base of our sexual energies. This stone has been used to help mend tissues and connective tissues in the body, as well as for problems of the major internal organs. Brings tranquillity and wholeness, protection and grounding. Aids thought and ability to organize. Prolongs sexual pleasure. there are many different varieties each with additional qualities, a few listed below.

Blue Jasper - Said to connect to spirit world. Sustains energy, can be used to heal degenerative disorders. Naval and Heart chakras.
Green Jasper - Used for skin problems and dispels bloating.
Yellow Jasper - Protects, channels positive energy.
Red Jasper - Helps with dream recall, aids circulation.

Labradorite - Assists during traverse changes, attracting strength and perseverance. Promotes refinement of action and discernment in direction. It can assist in digestion, regulation and metabolism. Also used to clarify eyes and relieve stress.

Lapis Lazuli - Energizes the throat chakra. Augments strength, vitality, virility, mental clarity and illumination. Enhances psychic abilities and creative expression. It has also been used as a protective stone, sheltering the wearer/carrier from physical danger and psychic attacks. helps to expand awareness and intellectual capacity. Benefits respiratory system, throat, bone marrow and immune system. Alleviates insomnia and vertigo.

Malachite - Sometimes called "the stone of transformation" assisting one in changing situations. Draws out deep feelings of hurt and resentment. Clears and activates all chakras enhances psychic abilities. Protects against radiation and can be used in the treatment of asthma, swollen joints, tumours, growths, broken bones and torn muscles.

Moonstone - The energy of moonstone is balancing, introspective, reflective, and lunar. helps with the changing structures of life on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Once called the "travellers stone" it is used for protection against the perils of travel. Moonstone is also a talisman of GOOD FORTUNE. Powerful effect upon female reproductive cycle, conception, PMS, pregnancy and childbirth.

Obsidian - Can help protect against the negativity of others and has a grounding influence helping one to stay focused in the moment. There are many different types of Obsidian each with slightly different properties. Black - often used by shaman to remove physical disorders. Mahogany - Grounding and protecting, stimulating spiritual growth; relieves tension. Rainbow - Enhances love. Apache Tears - absorbs negative energy, comforts during grief. Snowflake - originating from volcanic lava, said to help strengthen the bones, hair, skin and nails as well as working on the intestines, bowels and digestive system as a whole. Known as "the stone of purity" helping to balance and purify the mind and body.

Onyx - Used to banish grief, enhance self-control, encourage happiness and good fortune. Good for grounding and can be used to deflect the negativity of others. Good for teeth and bones.

Peridot - also known as Olivine - emits a warm friendly energy, works on both the heart and solar plexus chakras, acts to provide a shield of protection around the body. Helps one to find happiness, over come anger and jealousy. Used for treating heart, lungs, spleen, intestines and ulcers.

Quartz (clear) - A powerful healing stone. Used to both harmonize and align human energies, thoughts, consciousness and emotions. Stimulates brain function & power, aids clarity of thought. Aligns all chakras. Soothes burns. Also said to reduce fuel consumption in cars.

Rhodonite - Activates and energizes the heart chakra. Dispels anxiety and promotes rationality. Treats inflammation of joints and arthritis.

Rhodochrosite - Improves feelings of self worth, expands consciousness, clears solar chakra, enhances dreaming. Provides balance and love on all levels. Aids asthma and respiratory problems, also purifies circulatory system and kidneys.

Rose Quartz - emits calming, cooling energy which can work on all chakras to gently remove negativity. Good to wear in a chaotic or crisis situation. Brings peace and love to relationships. Used for healing emotional "wounds". An excellent stone to give to express love and friendship. Also said to increase fertility.

Rose Opal - Similar qualities to Rose Quartz.

Rutilated Quartz- Enhances lifeforce, strengthens immune systems, and brain function. Eases depression. Facilitates communication, increases clairvoyance. A great physical healer.

Smoky Quartz - Cleanses base chakra. Can be used to dissolve negative energies and emotional blockages. It promotes personal pride and joy in living. Sometimes used for radiation related illness or chemotherapy. Alleviates nightmares.

Snow Quartz - This is more subtle quartz crystal, capturing feminine energies. This crystal is great to encourage confidence with breast feeding, and also to strengthen and promote the growth of the unborn baby. Enhances tact and cooperation.

Sodalite - Helps to stimulate communications and psychic abilities. Alleviates fear, calms and clears the mind, brings clarity and truth. Aids the pancreas, strengthens metabolism and lymphatic system. Boosts immune system and aids insomnia.

Sunstone - Sunstone this is a powerful stone for dispelling fears of all kinds. It brings leadership qualities to its wearer. Sunstone uplifts moods so aids depression. Turns negative energies into positive energies. Increases sexual energy.

Tigers eye - Protective stone, Enhances psychic abilities. It has been used to stimulate wealth and to enhance the stability required to maintain wealth. Energises the body.

Tourmaline - Cleansing and purifying. Grounding and protective. Clears chakras. Releases tension. Attracts inspiration, compassion and tolerance.
Turquoise - Helps strengthen entire body, aids tissue regeneration, circulation, lungs, respiratory system. Encourages creative expression, peace of mind, emotional balance, communication, friendship, and loyalty.

Unakite - Balances emotions. Reaches the root cause of disease. Can be used in the treatment of the reproductive system, and to stimulate healthy pregnancies.

Variscite - Gives hope and courage. Useful when dealing with illness and invalids. Treats nervous system and blood disorders, also helpful for male impotence.