Crystal Guide for Beginners
Get your chakras aligned!
I first started getting into crystals a couple years ago, when I ventured into Ele Keats Jewelry located on Montana Avenue in West LA. I have now grown my collection to 20+ crystals, and am always excited when a new crystal chooses me. Yes, you heard that right. I used to go digging through drawers and asking for meanings of various different kinds of crystals, unsure of which one to pick. Then I realized my intuition was normally right; I started to pick a crystal at random that would always be exactly what I needed at the time only revealing the meaning card after checkout. And so that’s where they say, you don’t choose the crystal, the crystal chooses you! But if you are not feeling so adventurous, you can take a quiz to figure out the right crystal for you here. If you live in Los Angeles, I recommend a visit in-store so you can physically look through the drawers of crystals and pick the perfect one(s) for you!
Below I have included summaries of Ele Keats Jewelry’s meaning cards for different crystals I have purchased and which chakra they align to. You can keep them around your home, use them during your meditation practice, and/or hold a certain kind when you need some extra love and specific energy. You can clean and recharge your crystals by not actually spraying with cleaning product, but putting them in rice overnight, leaving them out in the moonlight (especially during an eclipse), soaking in saltwater, smudging with sage, or bringing to a sound bath for sound healing. They can be stored in wood, selenite bowl, fabric pouch, or abalone shell.
This guide is not meant to replace any medical attention, so use it only for the purpose of enhancing mindfulness practices, support, and energy alignment!
* Credit: Summaries based off of meaning cards provided by Ele Keats Jewelry with crystal purchase
Amethyst
Chakra: Third Eye & Crown
Properties: Protective, healing, purifying, adaptive, calming
Creates a shield of wellness
Adaptogen; provides what one needs
Aids in communicating with spirit guides
Howlite
Chakra: Crown
Properties: Calming, soothing, healing, creativity
Calms upset states of mind and emotions
Quiets critical voice
Helps to embrace who they truly are
Healing stone for insomnia
Heightens creativity and ability to express one’s self
Citrine
Chakra: Crown, Sacral, Solar Plexus
Properties: Abundance, prosperity, success
Ultimate stone of abundance, prosperity, and success
Carries the power of the sun
Never needs cleansing - absorbs, transmutes, dissipates, and grounds negative energy
Awakens higher mind and promotes inner calm
Lepidolite
Chakra: Heart & Third Eye
Properties: Balancer, calming, stress-reliver
Clears the aura
Allows one to be in the present moment
Aids insomia
Helps people going through life transitions
Angelite
Chakra: Throat, 3rd Eye, Crown
Properties: Calming, soothing
Stone of angels
Provides protective shield of area
Helps open to meditative state
Represents peace to the world
Enhances creativity and psychic ability
Trolleite
Chakra: Throat
Properties: Powerful, love, compassion
Connects deeply on cellular level
Perfect companion stone for healers, energy workers, intuitives
Guides towards highest good
Rhodochrosite
Chakra: Heart & Solar Plexus
Properties: Healing, joyful, playfulness, lightness
Heals the heart
Encourages self-love
Connects to happiness of a child
Boosts the mind, encourages positive attitude
Soothes emotional stress
Kunzite
Chakra: Heart
Properties: Love, joy
Stone of universal love
Opens heart to energies of love
Helps listen to inner voice and follow intuition
Teaches joy and celebration
Eases stress
Blue Lace Agate
Chakra: Throat
Properties: Healing, cooling, calming
Brings peace to the mind
Teaches that words create our reality and are a reflection of our highest self
Centers spirit
Assists with positive verbal expression
Ocean Jasper
Chakra: Solar Plexus, Heart, & Throat
Properties: Joyful, harmony, balance
People living, working, and being together in harmony
Perfect for homes and offices
Allows to appreciate blessings in life
Encourages to speak and act in positive, balanced way
Jade
Chakra: Heart
Properties: Purity, serenity, wisdom, tranquility, stabilizer
Powerful healing stone
Prized in the East
Stabilizes mind and integrates the mind with the body
Zoisite
Chakra: Third Eye, Heart, & Root
Properties: Growth, healing, enjoyment, freedom
Helps see the gift that is every breath
Powerful healer of emotional body
Alleviates the pressure from negative thoughts and feelings
Brings mind, heart, body, soul, and spirit into perfect harmony
Brings freedom so true self can come through
Ruby
Chakra: Root
Properties: Fiery, multi-tasker, passion, love, strength, adventurous, healer
Fieriest of them all
Valued above diamonds at one time
King of Precious Stones
Attracts love, ignites passion, encourages strength, incites adventurous spirit, heals the heart, and grounds the soul
Lapis
Chakra: Third Eye
Properties: Royal, activator, magnifier
Used by Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt on their tombs
Stone of royalty
Activator of psychic centers, enhances intuition and access to spiritual guidance
Magnifies intellectual ability - better learner and teacher
Angel Aura Quartz
Chakra: Crown
Properties: Alchemy, synergy, healing
Artificially enhanced, but uses ancient powers of alchemy and synergy
Expands consciousness
Heals physical and spiritual body with high vibration
Sweet energy
Allows one to receive help from angel guides
High levels of spiritual energies beneficial to one’s aura
Pyrite
Chakra: Solar Plexus
Properties: Grounding, intellect, logic, creativity, memory, protective
Career and protection stone
Encourages to overcome fears and take action
Strong masculine energy
Brings good luck and good fortune
Hematite
Chakra: Root
Properties: Grounding, balancing, manifester
Derived from Greek word for blood
Most effective at grounding oneself in the body and physical world
Balances auric field and aligns chakras
Aids in manifesting dreams out of fantasy to reality
Clear Quartz
Chakra: All
Properties: Clarity, calming, abundance, love, light, harmony
Provides sense of calm and clarity
Clears mind of judgements
Makes room in head and heart for abundance and love
Enhances positive thoughts and feelings towards light, love, and harmony; teaches to live, laugh, love
Rose Quartz
Chakra: Heart
Properties: Love, peace, purifier, healing, self-love
Stone of unconditional love and peace
Purifies/opens heart for inner healing and self-love
Bathes body, mind, and spirit in healing, high frequency bright light
Encourages self-forgiveness, acceptance, self-trust, and self-worth
Fluorite
Chakra: Heart
Properties: Protective, healing
Protective and healing stone
Known as the genius stone; increases concentration, clears mental fog, improves decision-making
Reveals soul purpose and sacred path
Pink Opal
Chakra: Heart
Properties: Love, compassion, strength, self-worth
Crystal of love and compassion
Allows one to channel their inner strength, and realize self-worth
Heals emotional heart; provides feeling of loved ones embrace
Aqua Aura Quartz
Chakra: Throat
Properties: Success, abundance, prosperity, communication, healing
Success and abundance stone
Can bring prosperity and wealth
Enhances communication, and helps access truth of emotions balance emotional extremes, aligns and clears emotions
Aligns etheric body with emotional body, activates soul energy, soothes and heals aura
Herkimer Diamond
Chakra: Third Eye & Crown
Properties: Clarifying, cleansing, purifier, creativity
Full chakra cleanser of spiritual channels
Promotes creativity and spiritual vision
Allows to connect to past lives and karmic patterns
When two lovers each have one, their souls can communicate even oceans apart
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