Semi-precious stones are pieces of mineral crystal found in various areas of the earth. Semi-precious stones are thought to have healing properties for various different reasons. When used in meditation semi-precious stones can help to increase your journey to a higher-consciousness, increase your focus and concentration and promote self-love, healing, calmness and centering.
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All of our suncatchers contain semi-precious stones. See the meaning of each stone below.
What are Semi-Precious Stones?
Garnet
Energizing Stone
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Garnet is thought to cleanse all of the chakras. It rejuvenates energy and inspires love and devotion. Garnet helps to bring courage and hope in seemingly hopeless situations. Crisis can be turned to challenge under Garnet's influence. Garnet is also said to bring success in business matters.
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Carnelian
Stabilizing Stone
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Grounds and anchors you to the present, restores vitality and motivation and stimulates creativity. If gives courage, promotes positive life choices, dispels apathy and motivates for success in business. It also protects agains envy, rage and resentment in both the wearer and people around them. It calms anger and removes emotional negativity, replacing it with love. It helps to stimulate the base chakra as well as metabolism.
Aventurine
Prosperity Stone
Protects against environmental pollution. Reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. Stabilizes one's state of mind, stimulates perception and enhances creativity. Protects the heart chakra helping to comfort and heal the heart.
Amythest
Protective Stone
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Helps to protect against negative energy, balancing out emotional highs and lows, promoting emotional centering. Amethyst helps to calm the mind or stimulate when appropriate. It is thought to help you focus and control your thoughts. It enhances the assimilation of new ideas.
Azurite
Enlightenment Stone
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Guides psychic and intuitive development. It urges the soul towards enlightenment. It cleanses and stimulates the third eye. Mentally it brings about clear understanding and new perspectives and expands the mind. It releases long standing blocks in communication and stimulates memory. It helps you to move into new realities and the unknown without fear, allowing you to reach deeper insights.
Amazonite
Soothing Stone
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Calms the brain and nervous system and aligns the physical body. It balances masculine and feminine energies. It assists in manifesting universal love. Amazonite heals and opens the heart and throat chakras to enhance loving communication.
Agate
Grounding Stone
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Soothing and Calming, they bring about an emotional, physical and intellectual balance. They aid in centering and stabilizing physical energy. It can harmonize yin and yang. Agate helps to remove negative energies and increase consciounsness. Pink agate can promote love and blue Lace Agate can heal the throat chakra allowing free expression of thoughts and feelings.
Lapis Lazuli
Enlightenment Stone
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Lapis Lazuli is thought to help open the third eye and balance the throat chakra, freeing communication. It stimulates enlightenment and enhances dream work and psychic abilities. It is thought to release stress and bring deep peace. It helps the wearer to discover their true purpose and brings deep inner self-knowledge.
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Jade
Serenity Stone
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Jade is thought to increase tranquility. It increases love and nurturing through the heart chakra. It is a protective stone that helps to keep the wearer from harm and bring harmony. It is believed to attract good luck and friendship. Jade encourages you to become who you really are. It assists in recognizing yourself as a spiritual being on a human journey.
White Jade specifically helps to increase your creativity and efficiency when doing tasks.
Green Jade is thought to create calmness and passion.
Chalcopyrite
Connection Stone
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Chalcopyrite is thought to help you achieve higher consciousness and is excellent to use during meditation for this reason. It has a positive vibration that is known to increase happiness, joy and belief in yourself. It is also a stone of abundance and prosperity.
Moonstone
The Stone of New Beginnings
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Moonstone is connected to the moon and to the intuition. It helps you to discover your inner desires and passions. It calms your mind and balances your energies to allow you to fulfill your life's purpose. Moonstone is thought to be filled with feminine energy and helps to balance instabilities and calms the emotions.
Onyx
Strength Stone
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Onyx is thought to be strength-giving. It provides support in difficult situations. It promotes vigour, steadfastness and stamina to assist you in fulfilling your life's destiny. It is fulfilling to help increase your self confidence and self-control and assist you in making wise decisions.
Quartz (Crystal)
Healing and Energy Stone
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It helps to absorb, store and release energy. It raises energy to the highest possible level. It is thought to increase psychic abilities and attunes you to your spiritual purpose. Used during meditation Quartz assists you in concentration, clarity and unlocking memories.
Rose Quartz
Love Stone
Rose quartz is the most important crystal for the heart and the heart chakra. It purifies and opens the heart at all levels and brings deep inner healing and self-love. It is calming, reassuring and helps to attract love in all avenues of your life.
Smoky Quartz
Protective and Grounding Stone
Smoky Quartz has a strong link with the earth and the base chakras, promoting concern for the environment. It helps to ground a person by removing stress and removes negative energy.
Turquoise
Protection and Healing stone
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Turquoise is one of the oldest protection stones and was worn often by Ancient Egyptians. It promotes self-realization, assisting in creative problem solving bringing calmness while also increasing alertness. It is often thought to be influenced by the wearer rather than influence the wearer, making it a perfect stone to incorporate into your mala. When you set an intention, the stone will absorb the intention and radiate it back to you while you wear it.