Gemstone Meanings
For centuries, semi-precious stones have played a large role in the healing process, protection, good fortune and mental well being of people throughout the world. Alone, or combined together, these stones can enhance a person’s natural energy and work with their aura to create a clarity that is found in the meaning for wearing each particular stone. In our Gemstone Guide, you can learn more about your birthstone, the different healing properties each gem contains, and how to access those properties within yourself and your relationships. Gemstones are meant to strengthen and ground you, so find which stone speaks to you most because here at dana blair designs, we can custom make our jewelry and tailor to your specific needs or desires.
Aquamarine
Chakra: Throat Chakra Color: Blue Birthstone: March
Aquamarine helps enhance communication skills, light-heartedness, spiritual awareness, and confidence. It releases anxiety, fear, and restlessness.
Healing Properties: Supports the throat, heart, immune system, and thymus lymph nodes. Excellent for eyes and improving vision.
Agate
Chakra: Throat Chakra Colors: White, Blue, Moss Green, and Eye Agate (concentric circular bands of different colors)
Blue Lace Agate helps you reach high levels of spirituality through patience and peace.
Healing Properties: Helps treat arthritic conditions and supports the mending of breaks and fractures.
Amethyst
Chakra: Third Eye & Crown Chakra Color: Purple, Violet, or Green Birthstone: February
Amethyst symbolizes sobriety, intelligence, and peace. It calms the mind and dissolves anxiety.
Healing Properties: Cleanses, purifies, restructures, and renews body, mind, and spirit. Reduces anger, impatience, and nightmares.
Apatite
Chakra: Throat & Third Eye Chakra Colors: Yellow, Green, Brown, Violet, or Blue
Apatite is said to enhance insight, learning abilities, and creativity, while giving increased self-confidence. It's also believed to help achieve deeper states of meditation and facilitate results when working with other minerals.
Healing Properties: Said to improve coordination, strengthen muscles, suppress hunger, and ease hypertension.
Adventurine
Chakra: Heart Chakra Color: Translucent Green
Aventurine provides balance for female and male energies. It protects the heart chakra, shielding you from others stealing your good energy.
Healing Properties: Heals emotional pain, fear, and imbalance by dissolving blocks in your heart. Draws out heat in fevers and inflammation, and eases nervous system stress. Used for disorders of the heart, lungs, and adrenal glands.
Carnelian
Chakra: Sacral Chakra Color: Pale Orange, Red, or Brown
Carnelian balances creativity and mental process. It stimulates analytical capabilities and precision, and protects against rage, anger, and fear. It symbolizes that the love you give returns to you.
Healing Properties: Helps relieve trauma and supports the healing process.
Chalcedony
Chakra: Throat Chakra Colors: Blue-white, buff, light tan, gray, yellow, brown, or green (Agate, Carnelian, cat's eye, and Onyx are types of Chalcedony)
Used as a sacred stone by Native Americans, Chalcedony promotes stability within ceremonial activities.
Healing Properties: Said to augment emotional balance, vitality, stamina, endurance, kindness, charity, and friendliness. Believed to alleviate hostility, irritability, and melancholy.
Citrine
Chakra: Solar Plexus Chakra Color: Yellowish-Orange
Citrine symbolizes happiness, upliftment, mental focus, and warmth.
Healing Properties: Aids digestion and helps remove toxins from the body. Also used in treating depression, constipation, and back problems.
Hessonite
Chakra: Sacral Chakra Color: Cinnamon-type color (orange-brown-red) — Hessonite is a type of Garnet
Hessonite is believed to help bring speedy success to endeavors in less time than expected, and protects the wearer from sudden misfortune. Associated with vitality, wealth, happiness, and year-round prosperity.
Healing Properties: Believed to increase appetite and support good health; associated with stomach ailments.
Jade
Chakra: Heart Chakra Color: Dark Green
Jade symbolizes good luck, health, and fortune. It's a longevity stone with gentle, steady energy — good for relaxation.
Healing Properties: Assists in childbirth and protects infants from disease. Helpful to the lungs, heart, thymus, nervous and immune systems, kidneys, and blood detoxification.
Fresh Water Pearl
Chakra: Crown Chakra
Colors: White, silvery white, pink, salmon, red, copper, bronze, brown, lavender, purple, green, blue, cream, and yellow
Birthstone: June
Garnet
Chakra: Root Chakra Color: Dark Red Birthstone: January
Garnet is believed to give protection from wounds and poison. It symbolizes truth, compassion, fidelity, and prosperity, enhancing creativity, strengthening willpower, and increasing self-esteem.
Healing Properties: Helps treat infectious diseases, blood poisoning, and heart and lung disease.
Jasper
Chakra: Root Chakra Colors: Yellowish, Reddish, or Brown
Known as the "Supreme Nurturer," Jasper reminds us we're here not just for ourselves but to bring joy and substance to others. It protects against negativity and helps ground you to the stabilizing energies of the earth.
Healing Properties: Used during long periods of hospitalization and when your energy feels low.
Jet
Chakra: Root Chakra Color: Black
Jet is used to dispel fearful thoughts and protects against illness and violence due to its calming properties.
Healing Properties: Used to treat migraines, stomach pains, and colds.
Labradorite
Chakra: Third Eye Chakra Color: Gray to Smokey Black
Labradorite raises consciousness and helps clarify dreams. It balances and cleanses the aura, supporting deep thought and inspirational ideas.
Healing Properties: Supports stress management.
Lapis
Chakra: Third Eye Chakra Color: Dark Blue
Lapis has an intriguing history — the Romans believed it a powerful aphrodisiac, and in the Middle Ages it was thought to keep the soul free from envy, fear, and error, and to keep limbs healthy. Until the 19th century, it was used in Europe to paint sky and seascapes. Lapis is believed to aid in opening the third eye, leading to understanding, higher guidance, intuition, writing, creativity, dream insight, and connection to the higher self.
Healing Properties: Believed to help with anxiety, autism, shyness, the nervous system, speech, hearing, head pain, and inflammation.
Moonstone
Chakra: Crown Chakra (also associated with the Sacral & Third Eye) Color: Milky white to silver-blue
A symbol of the third eye, Moonstone is said to balance yin/yang and helps people feel more comfortable with their gentler side.
Healing Properties: Believed to protect against female epilepsy, sunstroke, headaches, and nosebleeds; supports female hormone balance, emotional balance, and stress relief.
Onyx
Chakra: Root Chakra Color: Black
Black Onyx has grounding properties and helps change bad habits.
Healing Properties: Absorbs and flattens emotional intensity.
Opal
Chakra: Crown Chakra Color: Milky white, iridescent, yellow
Opal encourages confidence, harmony, and is a symbol of hope. Used to shield against anxiety and worrisome thoughts — a good stone for emotional healing.
Peridot
Chakra: Heart Chakra Color: Green
A stone of lightness and beauty. The very spiritual wear it in a necklace with the stone at the base of the throat to feel its soothing effect. Worn as a necklace, Peridot is a protector against negative emotions.
Healing Properties: Known to have a healing effect on the gall bladder and liver.
Quartz (Clear)
Chakra: Crown Chakra (considered a "master healer," amplifying all chakras) Color: Clear
Used for meditation, clairvoyance, telepathy, and insight.
Healing Properties: Stimulates energy, thought, and programming for health rejuvenation.
Rose Quartz
Chakra: Heart Chakra Color: Light Pink
Rose Quartz produces gentleness by bringing peacefulness and love to relationships. Promotes receptivity to the beauty of art, music, and writing.
Healing Properties: Helps alleviate emotional wounds by removing negativity and restoring harmony, especially after a crisis.
Smokey Quartz
Chakra: Root Chakra Color: Smokey Brown
Enhances deep meditation for higher guidance, deep relaxation, and lovingness. Alleviates fear, anxiety, and depression.
Healing Properties: Stimulates meridians and Kundalini energy; associated with fertility, PMS, and reproductive balance.
Tiger’s Eye
Chakra: Solar Plexus Chakra Color: Brown
Brings clarity, allowing your sexual and emotional life to open and blossom. Balances male/female energy, strength, and willpower. Stimulates wealth and helps maintain it.
Healing Properties: Associated with asthma relief and general health and healing. Boosts physical energy.
Sapphire
Chakra: Third Eye Chakra Color: Blue, Yellow, Pink
A stone for wisdom, truth, and communication, used in ancient times by priests, mystics, and royalty. Used to free creative energy and boost spiritual intuition.
Healing Properties: Thought to ease headaches and migraines.
Tourmaline
Chakra: Heart Chakra
Balances love and passion. Strengthens the will to live, prosperity, and compassion. Reflects that we are all one and responsible for maintaining integrity on the planet, and radiates protection for the wearer. Healing Properties: Energizes the central nervous system.
Pink Tourmaline Chakra: Heart Chakra
Helps create trust through emotional and spiritual love, healing loss and emotional pain.
Green
Balances love and passion. Strengthens will to live, prosperity and compassion. Shows that we are all one and are responsible for maintaining integrity on the planet. Radiates protection for the wearer. Healing Properties: Energizes central nervous system.
Pink
Helps to create trust through emotional and spiritual love in healing loss and emotional pain.
Black Spinel
Chakra: Root Chakra
A strengthener for emotional work, Black Spinel protects against negative energy — especially helpful for sensitive people.
Healing Properties: Believed to neutralize resentment, neurosis, obsessions, and internal toxins, and to ease intestinal and spine energy blocks.
Turquoise
Chakra: Throat Chakra
Referenced as far back as the Book of Exodus, where it was worn by the High Hebrew Priest Aaron, Turquoise continues to hold importance across cultures and generations.
Healing Properties: Contains high amounts of copper, making it an excellent conductor. Used by Native Americans to help heal all illnesses; works especially well with asthma, infections, teeth, high blood pressure, and depression. Also said to support detox from alcohol, pollution, and radiation.
EMERALD
Chakra: Heart Chakra Color: Green
Cherished for over six thousand years as a symbol of eternity, growth, and unconditional love, Emerald is considered the stone that most represents an open, activated heart.
Healing Properties: Said to heal heartbreak, nourish the aura with hope and gentleness, balance partnerships, and support mental focus and memory.
PYRITE
Chakra: Solar Plexus Chakra (also associated with the Sacral) Color: Metallic gold
Nicknamed "Fool's Gold" for its metallic shine, Pyrite is associated with attracting wealth, abundance, and good luck.
Healing Properties: Believed to boost confidence and willpower, sharpen focus, and shield against negative energy.
RUBY
Chakra: Root & Heart Chakra Color: Red Birthstone: July
A stone of nobility, passion, and vitality — historically tied to wealth and royalty, once believed by warriors to guarantee victory in battle.
Healing Properties: Said to help heal grief and heartbreak, strengthen love and compassion, and improve circulation.
PERUVIAN OPAL
Chakra: Heart Chakra (Pink); Heart & Throat Chakra (Blue) Colors: Pink, Blue
Known as the "stone of spiritual awakening," this gentle gem is thought to clear heart-centered blockages and help heal emotional wounds. Pink Peruvian Opal fosters emotional balance and self-love; Blue Peruvian Opal supports open, easy communication and restful sleep.
Healing Properties: Promotes relaxation, emotional healing, and intuitive awareness.