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AGATES All agates are energising, increase courage and strengthening both mind and body. They are beneficial to the skin, circulatory and lymphatic systems, the colon and the pancreas. Agates balance, stabilise and protect.
	BLACK AGATE Wear for courage and success in competitions. Reputed to prevent falls and stumbling. Used in protection rituals. It is said to be especially effective against possession, sorcery and demons.
	BLUE LACE AGATE For peace and happiness. Calms the mind. and helps to relieve stress. Heals fiery emotions, helps to relieve stress, headaches, palpitations, hysteria and insomnia. Aids meditation and relaxation.
	GREY AGATE Helpful to those wishing to give up smoking. Soothes depression. Encourages intellectual interests and pursuits and promotes creative, abstract thinking.
	GREEN MOSS AGATE Relieves stiff necks and restores depleted energy. Stimulates removal of toxins from the body. Cleanses and strengthens immune system. A good grounding stone, protects from environmental pollution and radiation.
	ORANGE-RED AGATE For vitality, energy and confidence. Enables one to be more adventurous and take on challenges. A grounding stone. Helps to improve physical and emotional balance.
	PINK AGATE For physical and emotional security. Calming and soothing, helps to bring peace, happiness, joy and laughter into your life. Helps relieve stress , relaxing mind and body..
	TREE AGATE A very powerful healing stone - can be used anywhere on the body. Helps to balance and calm highly energetic people. A beneficial stone to wear or carry when gardening.
	TURRITELLA AGATE Like all agates, turritella agate improves natural vitality and energy. Helps one to adjust to changes in ones life especially combining old and new factors. Helps one to understand and overcome instinctive fears.
	YELLOW AGATE Increases vitality, energy and confidence and is of particular benefit to those taking examinations - or anyone needing an instant burst of mental or physical energy. Stimulates imagination and creative thinking.
	AMAZONITE Soothes the brain and nervous system and gives relief to those suffering from emotional disturbances. Enhances masculine properties and useful to anyone involved in the arts. It is worn to attract luck and especially to attract money.
	AMBER Amber is the fossilised resin of trees. It is helpful for throat infections, asthma, bronchial disorders. Amber absorbs negativity, protects against negative magick and helps to strengthen the aura. Amber is used to increase the effectiveness of all magickal rituals and spells.
	AMETHYST Amethyst is a purple form of quartz. It cleanses and strengthens the aura. Protects against psychic attack. Aids psychic development, intuitive dreams. Relives insomnia and headaches. Reputed to protect against drunkenness and hangovers!
	AMETRINE Ametrine is a combination of amethyst and citrine. It possesses all the properties of both amethyst and citrine. It brings harmony and balance to all areas of life. It facilitates the release of negative conditioning and helps you to see through deception. Ametrine enables access to higher planes of thought while preventing you from getting carried away.
	ANGELITE Angelite is a stone of the heavens. Cool and calming, one of the most powerful healing stones available, can be used to heal any part of the body. Angelite helps to promote spiritual ways of life as well as grounding the divine energy so that it can be used practically in every day life. Promotes communication and creativity. Use it to connect with angelic energies.
	APACHE TEARS A translucent form of obsidian - a natural volcanic glass. Apache Tears are reputed to be the tears of the Apache as they were driven from their native lands to the reservation. The stone of the Shaman and those seeking the knowledge of the Web of Wyrd. Use as a good luck charm for protection and grounding.
	APATITE Benefits the muscles, helps relieve high blood pressure, and restores clear thought. Encourages positive use of your potential. Promotes unconditional love. A useful stone if one must work with or accept difficult people or situations.
	AQUAMARINE Aquamarine helps to stabilise and harmonise unsettled surroundings. It is reputed to calm the nerves, release fears, increase courage and confidence. It increases mental alertness and clarifies perception. An excellent study stone.
	ARAGONITE Beautiful rainbows can be seen when a piece of tumble-polished aragonite is held up to the light. Aragonite increases emotional perception and intellectual clarity. Prevents one from being over emotional or over intellectual. Enhances psychic perception and helps one to see the truth
AVENTURINE Helps to relieve migraine, soothes the eyes and skin irritations. Useful when feeling limited, inhibited or confined especially within one’s own thoughts.
	GREEN AVENTURINE Enhances self esteem. An all round good luck stone. Brings luck in games of chance, money. Opens the heart chakra helps one to give and receive love. Facilitates communication.
	ORANGE AVENTURINE Stimulates creativity and enhances personal power. Attracts love, money and prosperity. Enhances intellectual powers and promotes communication.
	AXINITE Axinite is especially beneficial for those going through personal growth and transformation, allowing one to gracefully make the change required for personal growth. Axinite helps to bring out ones positive characteristics. Axinite is believed to aid friendships, helping to bring two people closer together than ever. Physically, Axinite is believed to be beneficial for disorders of the adrenal glands.
	BERYL Helps relieve throat and liver complaints. Strengthens the circulatory and pulmonary systems. Used to relieve stress and calm the mind. Worn or carried to prevent psychic manipulation or persuasion.
	BISMUTH Bismuth is not a stone but a metallic element. Metallic bismuth is rarely found in nature but is can be readily crystallised into beautiful multicoloured crystals in the laboratory. Bismuth stimulates creativity and imagination. An excellent stone for storytellers.
	BLOODSTONE Helps relieve depression, psychosomatic illnesses, emotional pain. Soothes the mind. Helps to purify the blood and detoxify the liver, kidneys and spleen. Reputed to increase physical strength, win competitions and promote long life.
CALCITE CALCITE boosts the memory and sharpens mental clarity. Has a calming effect on the mind helping you gain more insight from books and personal experience by making important information easier to remember. It is beneficial to the cleansing organs, the bones and joints. Popular with athletes, it aids bones and joints that become stressed or injured during practice or competition.
	BLUE CALCITE A powerful healing stone also used in purification rituals. Balances, heals and unblocks all chakras. Removes blocks so that emotions can flow more easily.
	GREEN CALCITE Useful for children of all ages having difficulty adjusting to the challenge of education. Attracts money and prosperity. Clears toxins from the body and the surrounding atmosphere.
	ORANGE CALCITE A protective and energising stone. Heals the throat. Absorbs negativity. Reduces scepticism . Promotes the feeling that everything is alright in the world. A happiness stone.
	RED CALCITE Stimulating, energetic and motivating. Calming, centering and grounding. Facilitates the release of negative emotions. Used in love magick.
	CARNELIAN Stops bleeding, eases menstrual cramps, nosebleeds, infections. Energises and motivates. Strengthens the voice, increases courage, self-confidence and eloquence. Often used to counteract doubt and negative thoughts.
	CHALCOPYRITE Helps one to feel that one is a worthwhile and useful member of society. Raises self esteem. Encourages eccentricity by helping one to be accepting and comfortable with one's eccentricity.
	CHAROITE A useful stone for teachers, leaders and speakers - aids communication of wisdom and truth, helps one to project an aura of authority and confidence. Increases one's perception of beauty and refinement.
	CHIASTOLITE (Fairy Cross Stone) A very powerful stone. Carried or placed upon your altar to increase magickal power during rituals of all kinds. Particularly useful in elemental magick. Often carried as a general good luck stone.
	CHRYSOCOLLA Beneficial to the digestive organs, ulcers, high blood pressure, throat and lungs. Alleviates stress, particularly when associated with fear or guilt. It is worn to increase confidence and makes one more comfortable when speaking the truth.
	CHRYSOPRASE Improves memory, reduces nervousness, stimulates creativity and insight. Helps draw out undiscovered talents. Assists in making sound judgments in emergencies and stressful situations. An excellent stone for those taking tests or examinations. Reputed to enhance fertility (for both sexes).
	CITRINE Improves poor circulation, emotional control. Enhances logic, intuition, communication and creativity. A useful stone to place on your desk. An energising stone, increases motivation and physical activity.
	COPPER Copper is a reddish orange metal. Copper is traditionally used for general healing and for preventing illness. Copper is extremely energising and can be used to remove energy blocks. Magickally it is used to attract love, money, luck , to promote healing and for protection.
	DUMORTIERITE Helps one to set priorities and become more organised. Increases efficiency and promotes a business-like attitude.