Tourmaline Quartz, also known as Tourmalinated Quartz is a variety of Clear Quartz with naturally occurring needle-like inclusion of Black Tourmaline also known as Schorl.

Color-: Clear or milky with black needles.

Hardness-: 7 to 7.5 on the Mohs scale.

Zodiac Sign-: Capricorn, Libra and Scorpio.

Occurrence-: Worldwide, the vast majority is mined in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Metaphysical Properties-:

• Grounding excess energy.
• It is a well-known purifying stone that deflects and transforms negative energy.
• It can transform and remove negativity from an individual or an environment.
• It is often used as an aura cleanser, and can help one attain higher levels of awareness.
• Used for repelling and protecting one from black magic.
• Used to deflect radiation energy from TVs and computer monitors.
• Emotionally, excellent for dispelling fears, obsessions, neuroses, bringing emotional stability.
• To strengthen the immune system, help with heart diseases, arthritis, and gout.

Care and Cleaning-:

• Tourmalinated Quartz is generally best cleaned using warm soapy water and  a soft brush.
• It should be kept away from household chemicals and from prolonged exposure to extremes of heat as this can cause damage or permanent changes in coloration.
• It should be kept in a fabric-lined box away from other Jewellery items in order to avoid scratching.

Pietersite was first discovered by Sid Pieters in 1962 while prospecting farmland. He registered the find in mineral records of Britain, which was published in 1964 naming the material Pietersite. 

It is often called the Tempest stone (connection to the storm element) Eagle’s Eye, and said to truly be a mix of blue and gold tiger eye quartz which has then been folded in the earth.

Color-: Brown, Gray, Red, Swirlied Blue, Yellow.

Hardness-: 5 on the Mohs scale with the trigonal crystal structure.

Availability-: Rough or Polished slabs, tumbled, flat or calibrated cabochons.

Zodiac Sign-: Leo, Sagittarius.

Occurrence-: China and Africa.

Metaphysical Properties-:

• It is believed to hold the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
• It links daily consciousness to be spiritual.
• Used as a stone of vision, it works well during meditation to assess higher levels of awareness, stimulating the third eye and increasing your inherent intuition.
• It will help calm animals during a storm.
• It can be used to help lessen the chaotic living conditions of most teenagers.
• It has a very positive effect on growth hormones and will have to regulate blood pressure and temperature.
• It is an excellent stone for anyone having to move house or relocate because of work.
• Support your willpower.
• Strengthen inner guidance.
• Recognise truths.

Gorgeous Jackson Pollock style Jasper has poles of streaky colors layered across each other creating a hatching effect across its surface.

Color-: Shades of grey, beige, red, mustard, dark brown with some black and white, usually colored by Iron oxide.

Hardness-:7 on the Mohs scale.

Luster-: Silky.

Astrological Sign-: Virgo, Libra, Scorpio.

Occurrence-: Wodgina, Pilbara Region, WA, Australia.

Metaphysical Properties– :

• Stone of selflessness; it is the mother of all stones bringing about Love of all mankind.
• Red jasper assists in transmuting pain, especially menstrual pain.
• To draw away focus from pain, back to the centre.
• For emotional, mental and physical pain, it is a grounding and healing stone.
• Jasper makes its effects known slowly and gradually, just like nature.
• It’s considered an emotionally calming stone.
• It can be an excellent stone for either those who are hypersensitive to crystalline energy and find it difficult to work with or for those who like change to be a gradual and unfolding process.

Origin-: Rhodonite is derived from the Greek word rhodon for rasy, although there is also a reference that credited a celtic word the rhod, which means wheel.

Color-: Pinkish red to brownish red but may be pink grey or yellowish. Transparent material can be a vivid red to orange red.

Hardness-: 6 on the Mohs scale triclinic crystal structure.

Streak-: White.

Transparent-: Transparent to translucent.

Zodiac Sign-: Taurus, Scorpio.

Lustre-: Vitreous, Greasy.

Occurrence-: Russia, Australia, Japan, Madagascar, Sweden, Brazil, Peru, USA at New Jersey.

Metaphysical Properties-:

• It is a calming stone.
• It will decrease anxiety and increase attention to detail.
• It can increase language skills and raise self-esteem.
• The pinkish hue of rhodonite is said to enhance passionate love, while the black inclusions keep the wearer grounded.
• It helps to restore physical energy after a trauma, improves the sense of hearing, helps with emphysema, ease joint inflammation, decreases sensitivity to light and even helps with strep throat.

Origin-: Named after the Dutch Colonel H. Von Prehn (1733-1785).

Color-: Pale green, Lemon/Lime green, Yellowish grass green, Grey, White or colorless sometimes with needle like inclusions of Epidote.

Streak-: White.

Hardness-: 6 to 6.5 with an orthorhombic crystal structure.

Luster-: Vitreous and Pearly.

Transparency-: Transparent to translucent,.

Zodiac Sign-: Libra, Virgo.

Occurrence-: Karoo dolerites,Cradock District, Eastern Cape province, South Africa, USA ,Canada, Austria, Germany, China, Scotland, France and India.

Metaphysical Properties-:

• Protective stone.
• It strengthens the life force and generally increases and stimulates energy.
• It aids spirit communication through meditation or visualisation out-of-body travel.
• Prehnite is also known as the stone of prophecy which stimulates inner-knowing .
• Prehnite is helpful in the healing of anemia, gout and kidney problems.
• It also works well in crystal grids, magnifying the purpose of the grid.
• This crystal is useful for dreaming and remembering those dreams.
• It also helps develop your intuitive senses.
• The Prehnite crystal can sometimes give off water when stone is heated.