Description Rose quartz Main properties: creativity, love, relationships, joy, empathy, physical healing, anxiety reduction, relaxation, calming-down, patience Chakras: heart chakra Zodiac signs: Taurus, Libra, Scorpio Numerology: number 7 Rose quartz is a stone of unconditional love and endless peace. It is the most renowned (and also the most important!) stone of the heart chakra, because it teaches the true nature of love. It cleanses and opens the heart to all levels, and brings a deep internal healing and self-love. Rose quartz aids in attracting love. By teaching us how to love and respect ourselves, it helps attract it even more through the inner love we exude. But at the same time, it’s wise to be cautious in attracting love as rose quartz has really effective magnetism that often needs the help of amethyst to bring the equilibrium. In established relationships, this crystal helps restore trust and harmony, and encourages unconditional love. Rose quartz removes negative energy and replaces it with the vibrations of love. It strengthens empathy and sensitivity, and helps come to terms with necessary changes. It promotes receptivity to all kinds of beauty. Health and Healing Emotionally, rose quartz is the most refined healer. By releasing heartache and emotions that have not been expressed, and transfiguring useless emotional states, it relieves inner pain and helps overcome loss. If you’ve never been in love, rose quartz opens up your heart so that you’d become receptive to romance. But if you’ve been in love and left broken-hearted, it brings solace and helps relieve the grief. Above all, rose quartz teaches you to love yourself. You can’t receive nor give love if you don’t know how to give it to yourself first. This stone helps in forgiving and coming to terms with yourself, and strengthens self-esteem and confidence. Physically, rose quartz strengthens the heart and blood circulation, and gets rid of impure bodily fluids. When placed on thymus, this stone aids in problems with chest and lungs. Heals kidneys and adrenals, and alleviates dizziness. Allegedly, it also enhances fertility. Heals burns and blisters, and corrects complexion. It is also helpful to people with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases as well as senility. Amethyst Main properties: protection, purification, spirituality, balancing, concentration, peacefulness Chakras: third eye, crown chakra, throat chakra Zodiac signs: Pisces, Aries, Sagittarius, Virgo, Aquarius, Capricorn Numerology: number 3 Amethyst can be found from lilac to dark purple colors. It’s an incredibly powerful protection stone of high spiritual vibration. It protects from psychic attacks by turning the attacking negative energy into love. As a natural sedative, it helps block out the energy coming from underground water springs and negative Earth lines as well as those of the environment. Amethyst has a strong force of healing and cleansing, and it boosts spiritual enlightenment. This stone supports temperance in everything life-related. For example, it used to be worn traditionally in order to prevent drunkenness, and against surplus thirst and physical passions because of its disillusioning effects. Amethyst helps overcome all types of addictions and blockages. It is incredibly useful to the mind as it soothes or invigorates according to need. During meditation, it steers thoughts away from mundane matters to peace and deeper understanding; opens up a new reality. Amethyst improves memory and boosts motivation; gives the ability to set realistic goals. Health and Healing Mentally, it helps you feel more wholesome as it contributes to concentration, and control over your abilities. Promotes reception of new ideas as well as connects reason to result. Makes it easier to decide. In case of insomnia caused by an overactive mind, it is helpful in calming it. Protects from recurring nightmares. Then again, this stone may help in remembering and translating dreams, and make the visualization process easier. Amethyst is one of the most spiritual stones. It advances divine love by granting the ability to realize its true nature, and improves selflessness and spiritual knowledge. Opens up intuition and enhances psychic talents. It is perfect for meditation and crystal divination. Emotionally, it balances excessive exhilaration as well as low-spiritness, and fosters emotional concentration. Decentralizes anger, rage, fear, and anxiety. Alleviates sadness and grief. Physically, amethyst strengthens purifying and excretory organs, and the immune system. Cleanses the blood. Soothes physical, emotional and psychological pain or stress, alleviates headache, and liberates from tension. Reduces bruises, injuries and swellings, and treats ear infections. In addition, amethyst heals lung and respiratory diseases, skin, cell disorders, and digestive system diseases. It’s useful to the bowel, because it regulates microflora in the intestines, eliminates parasites, and contributes to reabsorption of water. Alleviates insomnia. May also stabilize psychiatric conditions, but should not be used for paranoia and schizophrenia.
