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Crystals and fossils

What are the properties of crystals and fossils?

Welcome to the wonderful world of crystals and fossils. The information on our site is here as a starting point for you on your crystal journey.

Crystals and gemstones have been part of our lives since the beginning of time. We encourage you to positively experiment with crystals and enjoy their special energies.

Learn more in the Crystal Learning Centre.

Astral Alchemy crystals and fossils

T
Tangerine Quartz
Tektite
Thunder Egg
Tigers eye (gold)
Tigers eye (red)
Tiger iron

U
Unakite

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Agate - Black agate

• enhances divining rods

• enhances communication

• alleviates distraction

• increases concentration

• helps predict future events

• helps ground and centre energies

• allows entry into meditative state

Star signs: Gemini, Sagittarius and Scorpio
Chakra: 1st - Base
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)
 

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Agate - Botswana eye

• helps depression and stress

• enhances creativity

• stimulates exploration of the unknown

• furthers quests towards an enlightened state

• helps to look for solutions

• releases suppressed emotional nuances

Star signs: Gemini and Scorpio
Chakra: 7th - Crown
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)
 

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Agate - Turritella

• a protective stone

• fossilised sea snails and creatures from the sea

• helps to feel safe

• provides information about healing the Earth

• provides the drive towards survival

• can help to win with ease

Star signs: Aquarius, Cancer and Gemini
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)
 

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Amethyst

• spirituality
• clears the aura
• protects against psychic attacks
• helps calm meditations
• contentment
• metamorphosis
• balances intellectual, emotional and physical energies

Star signs: Aquarius, Capricorn,  Pisces and Virgo
Chakra: 6th - Brow/third eye and 7th - Crown
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide) + Fe
 

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• clears the aura
• stimulates vision into unknown realms
• facilitates perception and interpretation of the aura
• dissipates negativity
• stimulates understanding
• releases resistance
• balances and harmonizes energies

Star signs: All
Chakra: 6th - Brow/third eye
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)+ Fe
 

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• Amethyst and Citrine combined
• enhances equilibrium
• balances male/female quality
• encourages high meditative states
• disperses negativity from the aura
• enhances compatibility
• assists flight in astral travel

Chakra: 6th - Brow/third eye
Star sign: Libra
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)

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• helps connect physical and spiritual realms
• helps to recognise truth
• helps to consciously astral travel
• brings light, energy and love
• enhances and stimulates intuition
• look through the natural pyramids to transverse space and time

Star signs: Libra and Gemini
Chakra: 7th - Crown
Composition: (K,Na)Ca₄Si₈O₂₀(F,OH) - 8H₂O Hydrated Potassium Calcium Silicate Hydroxide Fluoride
 

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Atlantisite (from Tasmania)

Serpentine

• enhances meditation

• stimulates and opens Kundalini

Stitchtite

• encourages flexibility

• opens opinions

• brings faithful promises

• emotional expansion and awareness

Star signs: Gemini (Serpentine) and  Virgo (Stitchtite)
Chakra: 4th - Heart

• reflects one’s flaws
• helps see necessary changes
• produces very blunt answers
• excellent grounding stone
• protective stone
• shields against negativity
• stabilizes energies
• used for gazing
• creativity
• helps remove disorders from the body

Star sign: Sagittarius
Chakra: 1st - Base
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide) and impurities
 

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Bloodstone

• stone of courage

• wisdom

• sensitivity

• balances and harmonizes the chakras

• dispels bewilderment and obscure thoughts

• used to cleanse the organs

Star signs:Aries, Libra and Pisces
Chakra: 1st - Base, 2nd - Sacral/Navel and 4th - Heart
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)
 

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Carnelian

• encourages creativity

• stimulates analytical skills

• helps with perception

• protects against envy

• protects against fear and rage

• cleanses negativity from other stones

• increase physical energy

• helps banish sorrow and submissiveness

Star signs: Cancer, Leo and Taurus
Chakra: 2nd - Sacral/Navel
Composition: CaCO₃ (Calcium Carbonate)
 

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• helps produce income
• stimulates mental focus
• accelerates the wakening of the mind
• balances yin-yang energy
• stimulates openness
• aligns the chakras with the ethereal plane
• helps education
• helps with business

Star signs: Aries, Gemini, Leo and Libra
Chakra: 3rd - Solar Plexus
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)
 

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• clears and activates chakras
• stone of power
• clarifies the mind and thoughts
• enhances communication
• purifies the physical, mental and spiritual bodies
• amplifies energies
• harmonizes and aligns human energies

Star signs: All
Chakra: 7th - Crown
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)
 

• helps to communicate with past masters
• accelerates the transfer of knowledge
• strengthens intuition
• strengthens imagination and visualisation
• helps understand and use the qualities of the mystic
• brings peace to within your self
• quiets the emotions

Star sign: Pisces
 

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Dumortierite

• manifests patience
• reduces excitability
• helps eliminate stubbornness whilst standing up for oneself
• stimulates verbalization of spiritual ideas
• provides mental stamina in harsh environments

Star signs: Leo
Chakra: 5th - Throat and 7th - Crown
 

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• increases concentration
• brings order to chaos within the mental, physical, emotional and spiritual plains
• supports impartiality
• encourages and sustains health
• intellect
• emotional well-being

Star signs: Capricorn and Pisces
Chakra: 7th - Crown
Composition: CaF₂ (Calcium Fluoride)
 

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• Facilitates astral travel
• Assists with mathematical thinking
• Helps with decision making
• Aids communication and associated skills
• Furthers one’s connection with higher forces.
• Stimulates the bridge of association with those like pursuits

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• the 'master healer'
• helps actualize potential
• balances energy fields
• helps eliminated ego conflicts
• combats depression
• attracts wealth & happiness
• helps to attune with nature and its healing forces

Star sign: Leo
Chakra: 3rd - Solar Plexus, 4th - Heart and 7th - Crown
Composition: Au (Elemental gold)
 

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• enhances memory
• original thinking
• uses magnetic energy to balance meridians
• balances yin-yang energies
• can help keep the body cool by dispelling heat
• try placing on the forehead to draw out heat from a fever

Star signs: Aquarius and Aries
Chakra: 1st - Base
Composition: Fe₂O₃ (Iron Oxide)
 

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• promotes psychic wisdom
• inspires love and light
• transforms intuition into intellectual thought
• relieves insecurity and apprehension
• connects the physical and ethereal
• clarifies the eyes
• temple of the stars

Star signs: Leo, Sagittarius and Scorpio
Composition: (Na,Ca)Al_1-2.Si_3-2O₈ (Calcium sodium aluminium silicate)
 

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• amplifies energies
• helps remember information during astral travel and channelling
• helps the body remember the state of dis-ease
• helps study arts & sciences
• assists communication during difficult conversations

Star sign: Cancer
Chakra: 7th - Crown
Composition: CaCO₃ (Calcium Carbonate)

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• enhances telepathy with past and alternate worlds
• helps business achievements
• instills quality and excellence
• dispenses old 'programming'
• helps bring openness, perception and innovation
• Age: Abt 350 Million years old (Devonian Age)
• Origin: Tindof Basin, Morocco

Star sign: Virgo
 

• a stone of transformation
• helps in changing situations
• clarifies emotions
• helps recognize and release negative experiences
• provides insight into disorders
• helps accept responsibilities
• protective for aviators

Star signs: Capricorn and Scorpio
Chakra: 4th - Heart and 5th - Throat
Composition: Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂ (Copper Carbonate Hydroxide)
 

• Native America ‘power stone’
• Improves self esteem & ego
• Balances emotions
• Strength in all endeavors
• smoothes dysfunctional energy
• stimulates analytical capabilities

Star sign: Virgo
Chakra: 4th - Heart
 

• helps you harmonise with the natural forces of the universe
• helps attune with the wilderness within
• balances the material and spiritual worlds
• helps to align self with the source of all wisdom

Star sign: Libra
Chakra: 1st - Base
 

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• grounds energies
• protection
• considered the supreme nurturer
• helps to prevent set-backs
• assists learning
• helps with progression
• helps remember dreams
• balances yin-yang energies

Star signs:Leo and Taurus
Chakra: 1st - Base and 3rd - Solar Plexus
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)
 

• dispels anxiety
• balances yin-yang energies
• stone of love
• helps remain calm
• helps achieve greatest potential
• dispels anxiety
• encourages generosity

Star sign: Taurus
Chakra: 4th - Heart
Composition: (Mn,Fe,Mg,Ca)₅(SiO₃)₅ (Manganese Iron Magnesium Calcium Silicate)
 

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• the crystal of love
• emits a calm, loving energy
• gently removes negativity
• reinstates the gentle forces of self-love
• balances yin-yang energy

Star signs: Libra and Taurus
Chakras: 4th - Heart and 7th - Crown
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)
 

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• encourages logic
• helps eliminate confusion
• stimulates intellect
• helps rational mental processes
• promotes purpose
• aids fellowship
• helps bring community within groups
• supports self-esteem
• helps trust oneself and others

Star sign: Sagittarius
Chakra: 5th - Throat and 6th - Brow/third eye
Composition: Na₄Al₃Si₃O₁₂Cl (Sodium Aluminum Silicate Chloride)
 

• a love stone or this age
• opens chakras
• provides pathway for Kundalini
• helps to forgive self & others
• helps memory to answer ‘why am I here?’
• helps one determine how to bring ones gifts to the world
• eliminates hostility and anger
• helps one to believe in self

Star sign: Virgo
Chakra: flows from crown to base
Composition: KNa₂Li₃(Fe, Mn, Al)₂Si₁₂O₃₀ (Potassium Sodium Lithium Iron Manganese Aluminum Silicate)
 

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• helps with psychic research
• enhances creativity
• intuition
• dispels isolation
• can help with fertility
• weight loss
• brings strength and loving essence to continue pursuits

Star signs: Leo and Libra
Chakra: 2nd - Sacral/Navel
Composition: SiO₂ (Silicon dioxide)
 

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• meteoritic glass from outer space
• helps to remember life lessons
• a talisman of great power
• strengthens ones energy field
• encourages the gathering of knowledge throughout life's travels

Tektites appear to have a concentrated, distinct spiral energy which envelopes the user proceeding to the afflicted area immediately. Its spiral energy becomes the spiral of moving Kundalini and the spiral of protection.

Star signs: Aries and Cancer
Chakra: 1st - Base
Composition: Rock, silicates
 

• Decreases anger and hostility
• Helps bring spiritually like minded people together
• Facilitates progress with stability allowing for right to follow right
• Assists one to listen with intention and in acting with intensity

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• helps stimulate wealth
• helps with psychic abilities
• brings optimism and insight
• produces soothing vibrations
• generates calmness to unsettled turmoil
• helps remove inhibitions

Star sign: Capricorn
Chakra: 3rd - Solar Plexus and 7th - Crown
 

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• helps stimulate wealth
• helps with psychic abilities
• brings optimism and insight
• produces soothing vibrations
• generates calmness to unsettled turmoil
• helps remove inhibitions

Star sign: Capricorn
Chakra: 1st - Base
 

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Tiger iron

• mathematical excellence
• assists in creative endeavors
• stimulates physical vitality
• premotes artistic abilities towards wondrous beauty
• reveals the ultimate in balance

Star signs: Leo, Capricorn, Taurus and Aries.
Chakra: 1st - Base, 3rd - Solar Plexus and 7th - Crown
 

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Unakite

• balances emotional body

• helps determine the root cause of symptoms

• facilitates re-birthing

• can be used to treat the reproductive system

• stimulates healthy pregnancies

• helps the health of the unborn

Star sign: Scorpio
Composition: Pink feldspar, green epidote and quartz
 

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