Libra: 24th September to 23rd October

The stones of the zodiac sign for Libra are tourmaline, rose quartz, smoky quartz, coral, opal, jade and aquamarine. The properties of these stones are varied and fascinating…

Tourmaline

This stone is a powerful all round healer, with colours ranging from clear to black. Depending on its colour, it can be used on all the charkas.

Tourmaline helps to strengthen the body, spirit and meridians. It increases happiness, compassion serenity and understanding. Here are some of its key properties:

Clear: It’s mainly beneficial to the nervous system, the blood, the lymphatic system, and for the removal of toxins.

Black: This stone has high levels of protection, shielding against unwanted or dark energies and from radiation. Placed at the feet, knees or base of spine, it has a grounding effect.

Blue: Also known as indicolite, blue tourmaline is good for channeling and to align with the higher self. It encourages insight, vision, intuition and mental peace. It can be used on the third eye to aid clarity, on the throat to clear soreness and to balance the thyroid.

Green: Also known as verdelite, this beautiful stone is for the heart chakra, to open and heal blockages and promote compassion.

Pink: It aids both emotional and spiritual love, and is a great healer of emotional fear, helps with self love and aids in the release of old hurts. It’s very powerful in combination with kunzite or rhodochrosite.

Water melon: It’s a combination of the colours red/pink and green, and helps to open up and to express matters of the heart. It brings together compassion, passion and balances the yin and yang.

Rose Quartz

Rose quartz is a stone of unconditional love, compassion, beauty and is nicknamed the “Love Stone”. It opens the heart chakra to all forms of love and brings gentleness, forgiveness and tolerance. Rose quartz helps to heal emotional traumas and is sometimes useful for dream recall.

Rose quartz lifts depression, helps to rid addictions, controls weight loss and is even said to reduce wrinkles!

Smoky Quartz

Smoky quartz has many grounding properties and is therefore associated with the root (base) chakra. It helps you stay calm and centred. It is an excellent stone for the removal of negative energy.

Smoky quartz is also considered as a good luck stone, bringing abundance and prosperity to its wearer. It is said to help to focus on business goals and to make wishes come true.

It also helps eliminate water retention, imbalances with the kidneys, fertility issues and aids menstrual cramps.

Coral

Like smoky quartz, coral attracts love and prosperity - particularly red coral, which is a stone of passion.

Red and orange coral have warm energies, aiding the reproductive system, bones and spine, and promoting tissue regeneration. This stone is not to be worn if you have high blood pressure. 

Pink coral: Increases sensitivity and compassion.
White coral: Reduces stress, balances the meridians and aids the skeletal system.
Black coral:Repels lower and negative energies and is a stone for protection.

Opal

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Jade

Its colour varies from solid green to translucent. It’s a stone of the heart, and of fidelity and generosity. It also helps with abundance.

Jade is calming and aids relaxation if you are over-worked. The ancient Chinese also used jade for courage, health, wealth, wisdom and longevity. 

Jade draws impurities from the body and is a good stone to be worn during pregnancy and childbirth.

Aquamarine

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