HOWLITE

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this white colour today, you’re craving peace and inner calm. Howlite (‘the tranquility stone’) is super-calming, and will balance your emotions. It encourages open, honest, heart-to-heart communication with others.

Practical:

If you have a family member with no tact (like I do), slip them some white howlite – it encourages people to express their emotions calmly, patiently, discreetly and unoffensively, and improves their desire to be courteous and polite! It also aids critical or selfish behaviour, and is a soothing stone to have when dealing with conflict, as it relieves stress of all kinds. Place in your pocket to absorb your own anger (or another’s anger that is directed toward you).

Health:

This stone is an excellent antidote to insomnia caused by an overactive mind! You can also hold it near you to assist with breathing, flexibility, calcium levels, and aligning the spinal column – plus, it strengthens teeth and bones.

Cosmic:

Howlite is great for spiritual awareness. Focus on it to journey outside the body and gain insight from past lives, or meditate with it placed on your third eye to open memories of previous times and lifetimes.

APATITE

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this dark blue colour today, you’re feeling very powerfully psychic. You’re in an open mood for new spiritual information and aren’t afraid to begin exploring… Apatite is great for healing, communicating, balancing and teaching. It’s the key to inner wisdom, helping to discern the truths about ourselves within.

Practical:

This stone, with its super-uplifting energy, is great for powering through life. It enchances communication, creativity, intellect, extroversion and inspiration, and can readjust over- or under-activity, helping you get out there in the world! Great for clearing confusion, pop this crystal under your pillow if you can't find a resolution to a problem. It’s also a stone for acceptance, perfect for those in humanitarian pursuits.

Health:

Apatite relieves hypertension, arthritis and joint problems, and aids absorption of calcium, bones, cartilage, teeth, motor skills and acceptance of your weight. It has also been used as an appetite suppressor for centuries.

Cosmic:

Apatite awakens the inner self and aids psychic abilities and spiritual attunement. It allows you to see your past lives, and understand their influence in your present circumstances.

AMBER

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this orange colour today, you might need to make a choice, or feel a little creatively blocked. Amber can help you make choices, stimulate intellect and remove any self-imposed obstacles blocking your path. It will fuel you with self-confidence to follow your dreams.

Practical:

‘The good luck stone’, amber promotes luck, success and courage (Asian cultures call it the ‘soul of the tiger’). Use it for happiness, pleasure and a sunny outlook. It aids beauty and relaxation, too, by emitting soothing energy and purifying your environment, so pop some in your bath water!

Health:

Amber is a very strong healing stone which allows the body to heal itself. It assists with conception, stomach anxiety, kidneys, spleen, joints, gall bladder, babies’ teething pain, childbirth, headaches, heart problems, nerves, goitre, sore throats, nosebleeds, memory loss, arthritis and the central nervous system. It also offers protection from radiation (sun, X-rays, computers, aeroplanes) and others’ energies, and balances the electromagnetics in the body.

Cosmic:

Amber changes negative energy into positive energy, and draws yucky vibes out of the body. Use it for manifestation; rest it on your solar plexus during meditation.

ANGELITE

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AMETHYST

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this purple colour today, you’re feeling very intuitive and open to deeper spiritual learning. You can use this crystal to open your psychic awareness by placing it on your third eye during meditation.

Practical:

Also known as a dream stone, when placed under your pillow, amethyst can replace nightmares with sweet dreams. An uplifting stone, it will dissipate evil thoughts; keep clusters of them in your home for clean, positive vibes. It also has the power to focus energy and increase intelligence and creativity.

Health:

This crystal strengthens the endocrine and immune systems, relieves breathing problems,
fears, cravings, alcoholism, poisoning and insomnia, and encourages celibacy. It’s good for your pituitary gland and is a powerful blood cleaner and energiser. You can also use it to relieve headaches – just rub it over your forehead.

Cosmic:

Amethyst is a spiritual stone that quickens spiritual growth and healing work, and aids divine love and intuition. Wearing one on a necklace is said to save you from self-deception.

APACHE TEAR

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this black colour today, there’s something from your life you want to purge. What is hanging around bothering you? What needs to be released? What is a heavy, dark cloud in your life? Dark crystals, such as apache tears (obsidian) and hematite, are excellent for expelling yuckiness and protecting you from negative energy.

Practical:

Use this stone to cleanse deep sorrow, relieve grief and sadness, heal emotions we haven’t been able to release, release stored negativity and unlock old, rigid patterns. Keep it with you for comfort and strength in times of despair. It is said that if you give a friend or loved one an apache tear, they’ll never have a need to cry.

Health:

Apache tears purge toxins from the blood stream, alleviate muscle cramps and spasms, absorb emotional pain, and assist with giving up smoking, alcohol, unhealthy food or any other type of addiction.

Cosmic:

This is a very lucky crystal to own: a very personal and protective magic stone. It will assist with karmic issues, produce clear visions and increase your psychic powers.

CLEAR QUARTZ

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this stone’s transparency, you’re feeling overly stressed and buzzing like crazy! You need to calm down your hyperactivity and refresh with a calmer, clearer state of mind. Place this stone on your crown chakra when meditating and it will soak up all the interference and static swirling around your head from a busy day at work.

Practical:

Feeling sluggish or dreading a new project? This crystal motivates for action. It’s great for both business and meditation, assisting in clarity, self-esteem, and balancing chaotic emotions. Known as the mirror of the soul, quartz receives, activates, purifies and amplifies energy. Consider it a good overall health enhancer for the mind, body and spirit.

Health:

Holding a quartz each day helps to boost the immune system. It is also useful for convulsions, diarrhea, dizziness, exposure to radiation, hemorrhages, headaches, hypochondria, kidney diseases and general pain.

Cosmic:

Clear quartz crystal can hold a ‘memory’, so can be charged or ‘programmed’ for specific healing or clairvoyant activities. Use it to increase your insight and intuition, focus the mind and dispel negativities during meditation.

SPINEL

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this red colour today, you might have been a little lost in your head lately. It’s time to reconnect with the earth and your roots and get grounded. Plus, got any money worries? Spinel is great for attracting wealth!

Practical:

Spinel encourages you to persist on a chosen path. It offers encouragement in challenging situations, renews your vitality and energy, and releases fears of the future. Spinel contains lots of yang (masculinity), great for achieving successful endeavours, stimulating your imagination and overcoming obstacles and setbacks. If something’s been wasting away in your life, this stone brings you great renewal and hope!

Health:

As the “stone of immortality”, spinel can increase the duration of your life! It stimulates physical vitality, the base chakra and Kundalini, and provides strength. You can also use it for mental rejuvenation, ridding the body of emotional and physical toxins, alleviating stress and depression, and detoxing (including fasting and enemas).

Cosmic:

Its fiery red colour encourages love and passion, making this a great stone for assisting with relationships. Wearing spinel will help you become devoted to another person, let go of worry, reconcile differences and make amends. Aww.

JASPER

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this yellow colour today, you’re feeling a bit emotionally drained and need some support and stability. Place the stone on your solar plexus chakra while meditating.

Practical:

Carry this crystal when travelling for protection. It’s a very secure stone, good for sustaining and supporting you during times of stress, as it brings only positive energy to you.

Health:

Yellow jasper releases toxins, balances the vibrations of the body, and helps with digestion. It can also neutralise radiation and electro magnetic pollution, so pop one next to your computer. It channels positive energy, and will lift and calm your mood into a ‘sunny’ disposition.

Cosmic:

This is a strong protection gemstone, warding off negativity and things that aren’t good for you. It has long been popular in astral and shamanic work. Use it to guard you during your spiritual work.

AVENTURINE

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this light green colour today, you need a little healing. This stone will rebalance you and dissolve blockages, so keep one nearby during stressful periods.

Practical:

Aventurine is ‘the all-purpose healer’, good for healing on all levels – particularly emotional healing. If you’re feeling a little sensitive, place a heart-shaped aventurine on your heart centre when meditating, or on the solar plexus area where stress is internalised.

Health:

Looking for some hot lovin’? This stone is said to increase libido, so keep it beside the bed – or in your purse when nightclubbing! It also releases fear and anxiety and strengthens the blood and muscle tissues.

Cosmic:

Aventurine is said to increase confidence and gratitude and promote emotional tranquility and positive attitudes. Aventurine is a wonderful stone to use daily, especially during meditation and prayer.

ROSE QUARTZ

Miss Psychette says:

If you’re attracted to this pink colour today, you’re craving love or are suffering from low self-esteem. This stone assists in opening the heart chakra to heal past emotional hurts and grudges, aid forgiveness, and recharge you with divine love!

Practical:

Also known as the heart stone or love stone, rose quartz symbolises love and warmth. Place a heart-shaped rose quartz on your heart chakra during meditation, or wear one on a necklace that hangs over your heart.

Health:

This stone aids breathing problems, the spleen, circulation system, kidneys and fertility, and eases menstrual symptoms, sexual and emotional imbalances. Bathe with rose quartz in the water to release impurities from the body.

Cosmic:

Rose quartz is a channel for divine energy and is a super romantic crystal – use it to bring more love into your life and/or heal your heart.