Rock Specks

Color: Black

Type of stone: Basalt aka Lava Rock

Hardness: 2

Chakra: Crown and Higher Crown Chakras

Element: Fire & Earth

Planet: Earth

Numerological Number: 1

Astrological: Taurus & Cancer

Magickal Uses: Dream work, Enhancing Creativity, Communication, Cleansing Negativity

Volcanic Lava Rock 

Mother Earth has indeed gifted us with many treasures. But there’s one stone that stands tall, simply because it’s a part of the earth’s womb, itself. And that is the volcanic lava stone. Once it arises to the surface and cools it is used and designed for fashion and spiritual use. The black lava stone has been around for centuries and various indigenous tribes and communities have used black lava stone beads. Although not as attractive as jewelry made from precious stones, a volcanic stone bracelet makes up for their earthy appearance with their spiritual mystique.

So, you may still ask yourself, what is lava stone? To break it up to you, lava stone or volcanic beads as we use them are precious stones that now a day are mostly used either as volcanic rock jewelry or as talismans, and are quite popular as accessories.

There’s a special bond between the black lava rock beads and our beloved planet. Knowing the fact that it comes directly from Earth’s core, the lava beads meaning is of grounding and connecting with nature. Native Americans would wear a piece a lava mineral before war for where it is believed lava rock energy would bring them courage and strength. Thus why, it’s more common to see mens lava stone bracelets.

Lava Rock Properties

It’s believed that emotional and spiritual lava healing properties can be obtained by each person that wears a real lava stone bead bracelet, because of their strong association with the Earth. Due to this earthly connection, volcanic rock beads are seen as symbols of fertility, endurance and strength. From a spiritual perspective, a lava gemstone is great for grounding the root chakra and starting your day off with a slight pump into some mindfulness meditation. For better absorption of their lava stone healing properties, it is recommended to wear volcanic lava beads close within the skin.

Moreover, they are considered as healing stones to bringing peace into the mind and spirit. It’s believed that wearing an authentic black lava stone bracelet will allow the wearer to access energy freely, allowing a clear flow and use of lava stone healing to nurture themselves physically as well as spiritually. Furthermore, some cultures also believe that lava stone energy offer stability and courage during troublesome times, since they strengthen the wearer’s relationship with that of the planet.

Lava Stone Benefits

Traditionally, lava bead jewelry is said to have lava rock healing properties and they keep people warm in cold climates. These volcanic stones have made their journey, straight from the earth’s core, they are associated with spirituality and universality. However, they offer more than just an aesthetic lava bead bracelet beauty; this stabilizing effects of a real black lava stone bracelet extends into the emotional and spiritual spheres by eliminating strong negative emotions, providing clarity and offering hope during difficult and emotional times.

Most people use these lava stone bracelet benefits for their anxiety and mood swings, lava rock beads really help each person ground themselves and control their excessive thinking.

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.