Crystal & Their Meanings
Let's a take a look at some of the key crystals we use in our practice, alter spaces and homes. What they mean, their vibration and how you can use them to help your journey.
How Crystals Are Formed
Crystals are forged deep within the Earth over thousands to millions of years. They form under conditions of intense pressure and heat, as minerals bond together in repetitive patterns. This orderly molecular structure is what gives crystals their unique shapes and properties. Quartz, amethyst, and obsidian, for example, are formed through distinct geological processes that result in their specific characteristics and energies.
Each crystal’s origin story contributes to its vibrational frequency, with variations in color, clarity, and composition influencing its metaphysical attributes.
Crystals for Vibration
Crystals have been used for thousands of years in healing, energy work and are highly valued. They are made over millions of years, a masterpiece from nature to help us raise our frequencies and vibrations energetically.
Why We Use Crystals
Crystals are used in energy work because they resonate with specific frequencies that can influence our physical, emotional, and spiritual states. These vibrational properties make them powerful tools for:
- Healing: Crystals are believed to promote physical and emotional well-being by balancing energy centers (chakras) in the body.
- Manifestation: Many practitioners use crystals to focus intentions and manifest goals, as the energy within a crystal can amplify these desires.
- Protection: Certain stones are thought to repel negative energy and create energetic barriers.
- Meditation and Spiritual Growth: Crystals can deepen meditation practices and foster a stronger connection to higher consciousness.
The Science Behind Vibrations and Energy
While the metaphysical properties of crystals are rooted in ancient traditions, there is scientific merit to their vibrational nature. Crystals exhibit what is known as a piezoelectric effect, meaning they can generate an electrical charge under pressure. This property is why quartz is used in technology like watches and radios.
From a spiritual perspective, crystals’ consistent and stable vibrations can help bring our energy fields into harmony. While more scientific research is needed to fully understand these effects, countless individuals attest to their transformative experiences with crystals. You can feel the vibration in your hands with focus, just like all of nature has vibrations of energy.
Let's look at these key crystals and their vibrations.
ROSE QUARTZ
The quartz stone of the heart and a crystal of unconditional love. It carries a soft feminine energy of compassion and peace, tenderness and healing, nourishment and comfort.
Rose Quartz speaks directly to the Heart Chakra, dissolving emotional wounds, fears and resentments, and circulates a divine loving energy throughout the entire Aura. Reawakening the heart to its own innate love, it provides a deep sense of personal fulfillment and contentment, allowing one the capacity to truly give and receive love from others. Like most quartz stones, Rose Quartz is a healing stone that many people like to use for love in all it's forms, self love, loving those around you and creating peace and tranquility.
A beautiful stone for those grieving, healing from a broken heart and help low self esteem and moving into a more positive loving frequency.
Frequency - 350 Hz - Elevate and harmonise your heart energy.
AMETHYST
Amethyst is an extremely powerful and protective stone. It is also a stone of meditation and enhances spiritual awareness and stimulates the mind, psychic abilities, and one’s connection to your higher self.
A wonderful stone for connecting to your intuition, we tend to loose our connection to our gut feelings and knowing, which is such an important guide in life, Amethyst helps to strengthen your intuition when held in meditation and can help to listen for guidance in journalling and develop your trust within.
As you may well know - all matter vibrates. Each crystal has a unique vibration and purpose. Amethyst emits very strong vibrations at a frequency which can influence the human spirit to feel at peace, relaxed, content and soothed. The frequency of the vibration of purple light corresponds to the same frequency as the crown chakra. This effect means amethyst crystals are very effective for crystal healing and can help a wide range of health issues including relief from cancers, migraines, digestive problems and hormonal imbalance. Wearing Amethyst creates a balance of energy and well being.
Frequency - 963 Hz - ‘Frequency of the gods’ - Oneness and connection.
MOONSTONE
Such a beautiful, calming, soothing gemstone. Dreamy and ethereal, the stone of reflection - a great stone to calm the emotions and keep you centered and focussed, which is great for dealing with trauma. Helping you get into alignment and rich in Goddess energy, this stone is wonderful to get into meditation, connecting with our inner wisdom, the Moonstone is all prisms of light and psychic protection. Connecting to dreams, bringing sweet clarity, this stone is a cosmic connector. To help you calmly connect to your higher self, and listen for the guidance to move forward.
This stone helps to connect to the divine feminine and the cycles of the moon, wearing moonstone is said to be supportive for childbearing, pregnancy, hormone cycles and balancing your feminine side and energy.
Frequency - 210.42 Hz Moon Frequency
Rainbow Moonstone channels the white light of healing and the multi-color spectrum of the rainbow activating vibrational healing for all chakras. Rainbow Moonstone supports cycles on all levels and allows for the flow of information in life and experience opening one up to spiritual gifts and divine timing. Repels psychic attacks and helps calm an overactive mind as well as nuturing self-worth and good fortune, helping you to manifest your goals with positive and uplifting energies.
BLACK ONYX
Known as the lucky stone, a powerful protection stone, Black Onyx absorbs and transforms negative energy, and helps to prevent the drain of personal energy. Onyx is a stone that offers up powerful vibrations of strength, focus, and willpower. This stone helps propel you forward in life. By activating your root, solar plexus, and third eye Chakra's, one is able to fully ground themselves to Earth. Black Onyx aids the development of emotional and physical strength, especially when supporting in times of stress. This stone has a slow, grounding frequency - by aligning with the earth vibration, you can build the chakras to align and flow whilst deepening your connection to the self. Onyx can help to keep in line; stay focused and brings a significant gain in personal power for people with a lot of ideas.
Frequency - 396 Hz - Black onyx has a grounding, stable frequency because it is a crystal that took its time in formation, freeing us from fear and guilt.
HOWLITE
This beautiful light marbled stone is associated with inner calm, stress release, and calming an over-active mind. Howlite has extremely useful metaphysical properties that will aid you to deal with aggressive people. This calming stone benefits the third eye and crown chakra to assist your meditation and connect with ease. Often worn as a reminder of patience and peace, it is known to soothe the soul. Encouraging restful sleep, calm and healing. Howlite is an attunement stone, which links us to higher spiritual consciousness and is a lovely stone to use when we need to reduce anxiety, tension, or stress, whilst it can absorb anger and negative energy.
Frequency - 852 Hz - Higher Frequency for Crown Chakra vibration.
QUARTZ
Known as The Master Healer, and is one of the most versatile stones you can ever use. Quartz enhances spiritual growth, spirituality and wisdom.
Because it clarifies thought processes and emotions, it can increase inspiration and creativity. It can also help with concentration, studying and retaining what one learns. Clear Quartz stone is a sublime emotional aid and clears the energy of your home.
It is pure amplifier of thought and energy, making it a very potent stone for manifestation, healing, cleansing and clearing of negative energy as well. Since this amazing crystal vibrates incoherence with Earth’s electromagnetic field, it contains many benefits including connection with our Higher Selves, amplifier of sending prayers, enhancing meditation and amplifier of intentions.
Frequency - 32,768 Hz - Extremely high vibration
SELENITE
The translucent white nature of Selenite represents spiritual purity, light, and connection to the angelic realms. It is one of the most sacred crystals throughout history.
Used in cleansing rituals and excellent to help clear the mind, it is always in a light workers toolkit. Selene’s ethereal energy is embedded in this soft and powerful crystal. It is easy to feel the moon goddess’s energy envelop you as you gaze upon its brilliance and move it around your energetic body and auric field. Giving a calming and soft stillness to your space.
The spiritual meaning of Selenite is rejuvenation and divine feminine energy. It symbolizes the angelic realms and allows us to communicate with angelic beings.
Selenite is full of divine feminine energy. And as such, it also serves as a powerful ally during a woman’s moon cycle. It is a great stone for prtection, healing and health, this stone promotes mental clarity and clearing the mind.
Selenite can help you to see what needs your most attention in your life and attract the right people to open your path. By placing a Selenite crystal upon your forehead, you can feel the cleansing energy down upon you. By focusing on its power, you can begin to hear the guidance and protection of these heavenly beings.
Frequency - 244.5 Hz
APOPHYLLITE
It is a crystal that resonates with the Angelic Realm and can assist us in connecting with our Higher Selves or Spirit Guides. It embodies the vibration of Divine love and light and brings light energy, freshness and purity into any space or energy field. Calm the Mind & Raise your Vibration.
Apophyllite is an incredibly spiritual stone. Ever a clearer of negative energy and tumbled emotion, this crystal immediately gets to work and removes blockages, making sure that your heart and your head stay clear and connected and ever ready to overcome those mired feelings of stress and anxiety. Channeling thoughts and feelings that surpass our simple borders, Apophyllite is also known for its ability to tap into hidden psychic powers.
This is one of my favourite crystals it is powerful in communication and channeling, connecting to all.
Key Review Summary
Use the below as a quick reference guide to some of our favourite crystals and their properties...