“Stone of Self-Mastery”

Chakra(s): Root, Solar Plexus and Third-Eye

Energy Vibration: 6

Energy:

Protection

Healing

Grounding

Protection:

Captures and Grounds Psychic Attack

Protects against Adversaries

Protects against Black Magick

Blocks negative influences.

Stimulates:

Grounding

All The Senses

Inner-Strength

Concentration

Self-Mastery

Self-Discipline

Intuition

Metaphysical Properties:

• Prevents the draining of personal energy
• Absorbs and transforms negative energy
• Fosters decision making
• Excellent stone for centering and alignment of the total person with a Higher Power.
• Used to end unhappy relationships
• Heighten one’s intuition and instinct
• Helps one to realize material goals
• Helps one become the master of their own future
• Encourages a healthy egotism
• Creates invisibility
• Fortifies self-confidence
• Balances the male and female polarities within each person
• Helps one regain emotional balance
• Anchors and stabilizes one to elevate fears and worries
• Protects against black magic, as well as defends against negativity directed towards the wearer
• Helps banish negativity or people from one’s life
• Provide the wearer with strength, both physical and mental.

Healing Properties:

• Past Life Issues/Old Wounds
• Teeth
• Bones
• Blood Disorders
• Epilepsy
• Skin Ailments
• Cell Damage
• Glaucoma

The Myth:

The myth of the origin of onyx says that the goddess Venus was resting on the banks of the Indus River. As she slept, Cupid used the point of one of his enchanted arrows to give her a manicure. The parings of her nails then fell into the waters of the sacred river. Since the nails were of heavenly origin, they sank to the river bottom and were metamorphosed into onyx.

In Ancient Times:

Onyx is a protective stone worn when facing adversaries in battles of conflicts of all kinds, or while hurrying down a dark street late at night. In classical ceremonial magic, the image of the head of the god Mars or a figure of the hero Hercules was engraved on onyx and carried for courage. Indians and Persians believed that wearing onyx protected them from the evil eye, and that placing onyx on the stomach of a pregnant woman in labor would reduce the labor pain and bring on earlier delivery.

Effects:

Onyx is not only used for protection, but also as defense against negativity consciously directed towards you. It has also been used to reduce uncontrollable sexual impulses. The close union and yet strong contrast between the layers of black and white in some varities of onyx may suggest its connection with romance. In India, Gemologists recommend Onyx as a protective measure for harmonious relationships, thus keeping away any probability of disturbances or differences between the couple. Onyx as a birthstone provides the structure and authority you crave. It can help you be the master of your destiny and strengthen your confidence. It provides support in difficult times and centers your energy in times of mental or physical stress. It also offers the gift of wise decisions.

Mystical Power of Onyx (general):

Throughout history, onyx has been thought to bring powers of protection, defensive magic, and the reduction of sexual desires. It has also been thought to reinforce the knowledge that there is no death, aiding in the understanding of the wheel of birth, death and rebirth. It brings about the knowledge that separation is an illusion and reunion will come. It aids psychic contact with those who have died, facilitates séances and mediumship, brings messages from the dead, and aids past-life and between-lives regression work. It helps future life progressions, and prevents and removes spirit possessions.

Contemporary authors say the onyx brings increased vigor, strength, stamina, and self control. It alleviates worry, tension, and nervousness and eliminates confusion and nightmares. It is used to provide glimpses of that which is ‘beyond’ and activates one’s memory of one’s roots and reality. Medicinal applications include the treatment of bone marrow diseases, teeth, foot, blood and bone problems, and soft tissue disorders. It is also believed to aid in ailments such as epilepsy or glaucoma and is known to have powers to rectify damage done to cells.

Mystical Power of the Black Onyx (specific):

The Black Onyx seems like a gift from the gods to us…  it can help you live a more fulfilling life!

The Onyx is a type of chalcedony that’s part of the quartz family. It was a popular stone for the Greeks. They believed that the Onyx stone came from the fingernails of the Goddess Venus.

It is a powerful stone with plenty of positive attributes. First, it is a grounding and centering stone. It will balance you mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. Second, it is a strengthening stone that will assist you in tasks where you feel challenged and weak. Third, it will ease your fears where they are the strongest. Fourth, it will banish negativity. Fifth, it will rejuvenate you when you have run out of energy. Finally, it will attract positive energy and bring you happiness.

When you wear a Black Onyx Bracelet, it will inspire self-control, confidence, fidelity to your partner. It enhances your meditation and dreams. It will give you confidence in your career, like in interviews and presentations. The Black Onyx will work according to your heart’s desire.

The Black Onyx is also believed to have healing powers and to heal teeth, bones, feet, and blood disorders. Place it on your body and feel the healing take place. Use the Black Onyx to charge water to treat skin ailments like fungal infections and sunburns, and also wounds and rashes. Just pat it on the affected area and use an Onyx water compress at night.

Here’s just some of the benefits you will get, when having the Black Onyx near you:

• Self Control
• Confidence
• Mental strength
• Protection from negativity
• A feeling of being grounded

If you use Hecate’s Eye constantly for chanting, protection and enhancements; or feel that your energies are constantly under attack… then, every week, you should discharge the Onyx by placing it under running water.

If you’ve used it for a long time without doing so, bury it in the earth overnight at least once a month to regenerate its energies (preferably inside a sealed wooden box and on dry days).

To conclude: wearing Hecate's Eye, placing it on your altar, or using it during rituals allows you access to all the benefits that have been mentioned here.

The Black Onyx is one of Nature’s gifts to us, showing us that all we ever need is already here on earth and provided for.

“The Blood Stone”

Hematite balances the meridians within the whole body, as it is great for physical healing, along with providing one with a mental and spiritual well-being. It stimulates the mind while protecting, grounding and balancing.

Chakra(s): All, Especially The Root Chakra

Zodiac: Aries/Aquarius

Birthstone: December/March

Planet: Mars/Mercury

Energy Vibration: 9

ENERGY:

• Love
• Protection
• Healing
• Grounding
• Balance

PROTECTION:

• Unwanted Entities
• Negative Energy
• Electromagnetic Smog

STIMULATES:

• Ascension
• Intuition
• Detoxification
• The Mind
• Absorption of Iron
• Concentration
• Focus
• Courage
• Confidence
• Stability
• Optimism
• Survivability
• Chakra Alignment

METAPHYSICAL PROPERTIES: 

• Balances the aura and aligns all of the chakras
• Are known to benefit Highly Sensitive People
• Dissolves negativity and prevents the absorbing of negativity from others
• Excellent stone to counter the ill effects of radiation on the energy body
• Helps Improve Relationships
• Assist in grounding high level spiritual energy
• Absorbs negative energies
• Protects and seals the Auric field from unwanted entities
• Calms one in times of stress
• Keeps one grounded
• Transforms negative energy into positive vibrations
• Helps one find their own unique gifts
• Ability to make one invincible
• Facilitates the integration of higher beings into our 3D Reality
• Carry Hematite when in need of balance and equilibrium
• Strengthens self-confidence and self-control
• Focuses energy and emotions for balance between the body, mind and spirit
• Open and activates the Root and Solar Plexus Chakras

HEALING PROPERTIES:

• Liver
• Blood
• Back Problems
• Improves Oxygen Supply
• Detoxification
• Stabilizes The Equilibrium (The Ethereal Nervous System and The Physical Nervous System)
• Helps Overcome Overindulgence (Compulsions and Addictions)
• Strengthens and Regulates The Blood Supply
• Anemia
• Kidneys
• Regenerates Tissue
• Leg Cramps
• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• Aids Spinal Alignment and Fractures

Hematite is a shiny, dark-coloured stone found all over the world. It is made mainly of iron, which gives it its metallic sheen. It also gives it an interesting quirk of naming – although the hematite that we see in our daily lives is dark grey, its name comes from a Latin phrase meaning “blood stone.” Why? Because, when it is found naturally, the iron content is covered in rust.

In Ancient Rome, hematite was a popular stone for decorative purposes. Jewellery, weapons, and even armour decorated with hematite were traded widely. The dark colour was thought to be especially intimidating or protective.

Hematite stones are opaque, not the strongest of stones (it has a 5-6 on the Mohs hardness scale), and they have a strong metallic lustre. When found in nature, it will be rough and red, but once polished, it takes on a beautiful, mirror-like sheen, which makes it extremely popular in semi-precious jewellery.

Just like Amethyst, this stone’s energy is earthy, and it is one of the best stones that you can use to harness the power of the element of earth to lend you strength and dispel negativity. If you are interested in learning how to use hematite’s power, simply read on!

Why Would You Use Hematite Crystals-Stones?

Hematite’s powerfully earthy energy means that it can be used for almost any project that involves the power of the element of earth. Earth is the element that rules the physical world, money, practical thinking, and decision making.

As I’m sure you can imagine, this makes the powers of earth extremely popular and beneficial!

Thinking in a solid, logical way that will also improve your material and financial life is a pretty positive way to go through life.

Specifically, hematite is a good stone for organizing one’s thoughts and developing logical thinking skills.

This is a useful stone for improving your skills in subjects such as mathematics, argumentation and debate, or problem-solving.

If you’re put off by the idea of a stone benefiting “logical” thinking, and worried that it might negatively impact your creativity, fear not! In fact, logical thinking is a prerequisite for creative thinking.

The most creative thinkers, from painters like Picasso to scientists like Einstein, or even young children, are actually the most ruthless appliers of logic. They apply logic so rigorously that they come very quickly to conclusions or ideas that other people would dismiss as “crazy.”

In other words, if you feel that your creative thinking is stagnant and you want some more, then applying hematite to improve your logical thinking skills is the best thing you can possibly do for yourself!

It also has strong emotional benefits, because, as many dark-coloured stones do, hematite dispels negativity and “purifies” the emotional realm.

It balances its user’s self-esteem and self-vision by sweeping away all the negativity that so often clouds our understanding of ourselves.

By using hematite, you make way for more positive energy to enter into your life.

Hematite’s main property could be described as “grounding.”

If you tend to have a “flighty” mind, prone to distraction, lack of focus, or anxiety, or even if you feel that you have a strong imagination, but that it’s impacting you negatively, this could be the perfect stone for you.

It won’t “kill” your imagination – quite the opposite, as described above! – but it will give you an increased ability to focus your mind in a productive way, rather than becoming psychically distracted.

How Will Hematite Help You?

Hematite can benefit you in multiple different fields of your life.

It is best known for its positive effects in business and career fields, but it can also be helpful in your romantic relationships, your family life, your spiritual development, and your general perspective towards yourself.

Hematite and Wealth

First, let’s tackle hematite’s role in your career. Because of its connection to the element of earth, this is one of the best stones you can use for its financial benefits. Remember, earth is the element that rules money – why do you think American money is green?

If you’re seeking a promotion, a raise, or maybe a whole different job that will benefit you from a financial perspective, hematite is a great stone to incorporate into your life. Its power will not only make people see you in a more positive way, but also give you the skills of strong logical thinking and practicality that are so rare and valuable in most career fields.

Hematite, Love and Relationships 

When it comes to interpersonal relationships – whether romantic, familial, or just friendly or social – this is the perfect stone for keeping you far away from “drama.” While some people seem to attract fusses like magnets, hematite will repel all that unnecessary, negative, attention-seeking behaviour.

From a spiritual and emotional perspective, hematite is a good stone for fostering gratitude for what you have. Appreciating what you have in the here and now is one of the single healthiest things that you can do for your mind and spirit.

Hematite and Healing

I would also be remiss if I didn’t mention hematite’s history as a physically healing stone. Hematite has been used for centuries in medicine for a very good reason – it contains iron! Iron deficiency is the cause of many health problems, so it’s only natural that an iron-containing stone would be touted for its healing properties.

Hematite has been said to have positive effects on the heart and the circulatory system. It can also ease symptoms that are exacerbated by stress or anxiety, due to its grounding properties.

Remember, however: crystology is never an acceptable substitute for professional medical attention! Never use any stone as a replacement for seeing a qualified doctor or medical professional.

Furthermore, it should be noted that, due to hematite’s iron content, any sort of healing process that requires you to consume any quantity of the stone should be regarded with extreme caution and skepticism. Iron is an important micronutrient, and if you’re an Ancient Roman, then taking a hematite elixir might be a great way to get it, but it can quickly become toxic if you’re literally eating the metal. Get your iron nutrients from spinach or red meat instead, and save hematite for spiritual nutrition.

How to Use Hematite Crystals for the Best Results

Because hematite is both very aesthetically pleasing and relatively inexpensive and common, hematite jewellery is quite easy to procure. As such, a nice range of hematite jewellery is a gery easy thing to collect.

When you are preparing for a difficult confrontation (especially one that has to do with money), put on your hematite like armour! This strong, protective stone will keep you emotionally and spiritually safe, and it should be thought of as having that purpose. When you put it on, think of yourself like a knight in a movie putting on his armour before going into battle.

This also applies if, for whatever reason, the “energy” of your house itself feels wrong. Many people who believe that their houses are haunted by traumatic memories would benefit from placing some hematite in the house to “suck out” the residual negative energies.

If you are suffering from nightmares (or have a partner or child who is), place hematite under your (or their) bed or pillow in order to keep the negative energies that cause nightmares at bay.

Whereas gold is the metal of the sun, silver is the metal of the moon. Like the moon and water, silver is reflective and used to mirror the soul bringing people calm and balance. Silver is used to 'draw down the moon' during lunar ceremonies, giving the wearer use of the moons energy and protecting them from negativity.

Silver's connection to the spiritual life is mostly seen in traditional cultures where people live in union and deep respect for the earth. For example, the Tibetans spiritual silver jewelry is often combined with gemstones and crystals which then resonate their healing vibrations more strongly. Another aspect of the silver natural healing belief is that wearing this jewelry brings the wearer more in tune with the vibrations and flow of the universe. It is the metal of emotions, love and healing. Silver's properties are strongest during the new and full moon.

Silver Metaphysical Properties and Silver Mystical Properties

• manifestation of wealth, riches, and health
• improves quality of speech and brings eloquence to conversations
• calming and balancing
• reflects away negativity and evil intentions
• brings the wearer more in tune with the flow of the universe
• like the moon and water, a mirror to the soul
• increases strength of perception
• awakens and increases psychic and intuitive capacities
• provides strong connection between physical and astral bodies
• increases the strength of gemstones and crystals, particularly Moonstone, Amethyst, Quartz, and Turquoise
• high malleability (ability to be shaped), enables the user/wearer to bend energies, creating vital energy centers
• placed on your forehead, activates and opens your Third Eye Chakra
• astrologically associated with Cancer and Aquarius, the element Water, and direction West
• increased Perception, increased intuition and increased Recovery.

Silver in Healing

Wearing silver jewelry is said to help heal and calm the mind, to help clear the lungs and throat, to increase circulation and purify the blood, to balance hormones and to slow the progression of degenerative brain diseases. Just wearing silver is said to help draw negative energy from the body to make way for positive energy.

Any stone used for healing will benefit from being set into silver.

Silver is a great conductor of energy, including magic. Any stone set in silver will be amplified and its energy more easily directed.

Zircon Crystals and Stones...

Bring Balance, Spiritual Grounding and Healing

Zircon crystals or stones have an intense energy that is highly spiritual.

They will help you to love yourself and others, and to recognize the spiritual aspects of yourself.

It will bring the spiritual energy down from the higher transpersonal chakras via the crown chakra, then move it to all of the lower chakras.

If you have problems that are causing you serious issues, and you need to take yourself out of the situation, meaning to distance your opinions and take guidance from spirit, they will help you.

It will ground this energy at the base chakra, then take the energy down to the earth star chakra and Mother Gaia.

While it is a spiritual stone, it is also a strong stone for grounding you.  These stones have beneficial metaphysical properties, that will work within all of the chakras to stimulate the movement of sluggish energy.

They help you to be more organized and to act more effectively to do what you need to do to achieve your aims.

Where Is It From? Zircon Meaning

Zircons are some of the oldest stones that have been used on the planet, and the meaning of their name dates back to an ancient Persian word. This name became part of the Germanic languages, and then was anglicized to the English word Zircon.

The finest and best deposits of Zircon stones come from Madagascar and Canada, but it has also been found in Sri Lanka, Ukraine, Australia, Canada and the USA.

The color of Zircon Crystals varies and may be red, orange, yellow, green and brown, but many of these have been heat treated to get these colors. The most common untreated stones are brownish red to brownish yellow.

The most beautiful and precious gem quality stones are commonly heat treated. This is to create lovely brilliant stones with an intense fiery brilliance. These are often yellow, green, blue or may be colorless.

Why Would You Use It?

Zircon crystals embody a strong healing energy and have an effective spiritual grounding vibration. They are known as a 'stone of virtue' as they help to balance the virtuous aspects within you.

These crystals are both common and uncommon at the same time. While they really are quite common stones, not all crystal shops carry them.

This is because the stones that are really beautiful are snapped up for the jewelry trade, while the rest may be overlooked, as many do not have the look that some people associate with a beautiful crystal.

They are chakra stones for all of the chakras, but they have a stronger effect within some specific chakras. Once you use Zircon crystals of any grade, you will appreciate their strong spiritual aspect. 

Heat treating makes it hard to ascertain the actual original color of the stone, but should not effect its metaphysical qualities.

After all stones are naturally heated in the earth over the millions of years it takes for them to form.

Any color of Zircon Crystals may potentially have an effect on your intuitive abilities  as well as aiding you to develop stronger psychic abilities.

They may both help you to develop your intuition, as well as stimulate your current level of intuition to increase.

The chakras that they affect the most may depend to some degree on the color of the actual stones, and whether they have been heat treated.

How To Use It 

This is an excellent stone to stimulate your strength of purpose, so it is a beneficial stone to use when doing a daily meditation with crystals.

This may be especially helpful if you desire to achieve a specific purpose from your meditation. 

Using them may also help you to develop your intuitive abilities more fully.

Their vibration also provides spiritual protection, so this is another reason why you might choose to meditate with them. These stones are known to help you to bring your visions into reality. 

To help you to discover your specific psychic communication ability more quickly, you may like to use your Zircon crystals in meditation, as this may  to aid the process.

They have a strong spiritual grounding energy so they will help you if you are prone to coming out of meditation feeling spacy or unbalanced.

They are known as a stone of balance, and this refers to both physical, emotional and spiritual balance.  The strong spiritual energy of these crystals will help you to love yourself and others.

They will help your way of thinking to become purer, and more in line with heart felt compassionate feelings. This may be because they stimulate the thymus or higher heart chakra. 

Zircon Crystals will assist you to manifest abundance and prosperity.

This may be particularly strong if the stones you have contain golden or yellow colors within them.

It is the power of your intentions that is involved when you do this, so you may choose to use any color of Zircon stones to aid you to manifest money.

This vibration is particularly strong within the solar plexus chakra, where many of the yellow stones have a very strong energy.

Who Should Use It? Use In Body Layouts 

You may use them at any of the chakras from the throat chakra up to enhance you ability to make contact with beings in higher dimensions.

It is known to help to combine the energies of the heart chakra, base and solar plexus chakra to create a more intense vibration within them.

It will enhance your thinking if used within the crown or third eye chakra.

As it clears blockages of sluggish energy, it will help to connect your higher spiritual aspects with Mother Gaia.

These are excellent stones for crystal healers to use in body layouts, as they will activate specific points in the etheric body and the chakra system.

Using them in a body layout is very effective to get sluggish energy moving again.

To specifically use them for a body layout you will need ten Zircon stones, one for each main body chakra and one to place at the earth star and soul star chakras.

If you do not have ten stones, use them with other crystals and choose the area you feel you most need to help to place these stones.

Zircon Crystals will ground you, taking energy down through the base or root chakra via the earth star chakra which will help to dissipate any excess of negative energy from within any chakra.

How Will It Help You?

They are strong stones to aid your spirituality and health, as they help to clear blocked and disharmonious energies from the physical body, that may be stopping you from moving spiritually to a higher level.

Use Zircon Crystals at the third eye to aid you to both find a solution more quickly and to help you to find a solution in alignment with what spirit feels you require.

Zircon of any color will have a positive effect both at this chakra and in all other chakras. These crystals are helpful to aid you to overcome prejudice of any type.

This includes racism and other types of discrimination that separates you from any segment of the community, including homophobia.

Wearing Zircons

Zircons are on the birthstone list by month as they are a September birthstone, if you are able to get a piece of Zircon jewelry, these are often extremely beautiful stones.

Jewelry made from Zircon gemstones will be powerful pieces to wear.

As they are a Virgo as well as a Leo and Sagittarius birthstone, they may be sold made into lovely Zircon birthstone jewelry.

Zircon crystals can be worn anywhere on the body, as this stone effects the chakras of the entire body.

They are also on the zodiac birthstones list, and even though some are heat treated they still have a powerful energy to aid you to move forward spiritually.

These stones are known to provide a shield of light around the body as protection from negative spiritual energy. Because of their strong spiritual protection energy, this makes them an excellent stone to wear on the body.

Stimulates Sluggish Energy To Move

They are known to aid muscle problems and dizziness, help increase bone stability and assist with the healing of broken bones.

They are spiritual stones that have a strong grounding action and is powerful because it works within all of the chakras.

They stimulate sluggish energy to move down from the higher chakras to the earth for grounding, clearing and energizing as it goes.

This may have a dynamic effect on your health. They may help you to let go of feelings of depression and anxiety and feel happier within yourself. Do not confuse them with Cubic Zirconia's, man-made stones with no healing attributes.

The Power of Colors:

Silver:

Feminine divinity, stability, psychic awareness, intuition, dreams, victory, meditation, communication, moon magick, gambling luck.

Develops psychic abilities to neutralize the situation, repels destructive forces, working with the powers of goddesses. The Moon rules silver. House and the immediate vicinity, imagination, memory, mental awareness / dreams, spirituality, meditation. For psychological purposes, meditative / hypnotic. The Moon rules silver. Silver rules the third eye.

Black:

Grounding, wisdom, learning, protection, safety, reversing, uncrossing, unhexing, repelling black magick, banishing negativity, releasing, shapeshifting, defense, scrying, pride.

Black absorbs and hides and creates confusion and chaos, new beginnings, knowledge of hidden things, is the container of light, one of the most powerful color. Use black for the self-control, time and patience. Black is also a good color to use to bring discord and confusion within the enemy. It can also be used for protection, wrap negative energy, breaking barriers and blocks, reverse and destroy negative thought forms. It’s better if applied to others. Black controls the base chakra, the planet Saturn, the earth element and the original religions, it means new beginning. Satanic alchemy, black represents the step into the void of meditation and transformation.