With a wide range of colours on offer each variety of Kyanite offers particular benefits, though in general, its strong vibrations assist in opening the psychic channels and stimulating mind centres, helping to cut a purposeful path through your life. 

This crystal will also enhance the process of lucid dreaming and for advanced users, astral travel.

Kyanite is also helpful in downloading messages and ideas from the higher planes.
Kyanite does not require cleaning, is a wonderful mediator between other crystals and fosters loyalty, tranquility and honesty. 

Black or grey- root. Orange- sacral. Yellow- solar plexus. Green- heart. Blue- throat or third eye. Write- crown.

Origin: Brazil.
Energy: None.
Colours: Black, blue, grey, green, orange, yellow, white.
Works with: All Kyanite colours, facilitates movement of energy between any two crystals.
Helps with: Creating smooth transitions, clearing blockages, breaking habits, clear communication, memory, grounding, balance, harmony.
Usage tip: Use Kyanite between other crystals in a grid to allow better flow of energy. Place Kyanite under your pillow to improve your ability to recollect dreams. Carry Kyanite to help with Chakra alignment in your energetic body. 

Labradorite is a stone of self-discovery and protection on magical journeys. It is best for those intent on seeking higher awareness, those wanting to discover their magical abilities or to expand those innate gifts. This crystal can be used to help uncover new possibilities or solutions.

This crystal is also often associated with having a sharper mind, and is very good in clearing mental confusion and indecision. 

Origin: Canada, Finland, Italy.
Energy: Amplifies.
Colours: Blue or grey with multiple flashes of colour.
Works with: Clear Quartz, Sodalite, Amethyst.
Helps with: Uncovering magical qualities, negativity, detoxifying negative thoughts and addictive substances, trusting intuition, calming an impulse or recklessness, clear thought, decision making.
Usage tip: Hold a piece of Labradorite to connect more easily and powerfully to the higher realms during meditation. Wear Labradorite to enhance your creativity and intuition. Sleep with a piece of Labradorite under your pillow to clear the blocks in your decision making. 

Highly prized as a stone for royalty, this powerful stone can help to awaken the inner power and majesty in all of us. Lapis Lazuli will greatly aid in uncovering hard truths, both within yourself and the motivations that drive your habits and behaviours. Thus, this powerful communication stone helps to shine a light on those blockages hindering the flow of positive energy through you, especially those buried deep within you.

Acknowledging and speaking your truth are far easier with Lapis Lazuli, as is any kind of speaking or public performance.

Associated with the third eye, this stone is also a wonderful channel to new ideas, greater intellect and knowledge. Whether on a higher plane or simply in high school, Lapis Lazuli is an excellent nurturer of the love of learning. 

Bright Lemon Calcite give you the power to solidify new interests and new relationships from a space of deep relaxation and spirituality. This stone can be an effective aid in efforts to move towards enlightenment and adding clarity to your life.

Lemon Calcite is very good at bringing concentration and determination to your personal will and life path, helping you to enliven your energy whilst adding zest, optimism, and meaning to your life and relationships.

Self examination and discovery go hand in hand with Lemon Calcite.

Belonging to the mica group, Lepidolite is enhanced with a high lithium content making it an excellent crystal to aid in promoting calm, independence and concentration. In particular, this stone is well known for its use in stabilising mood swings, addictions, self-esteem issues and bi-polar disorders. Lepidolite is also an excellent dream and sleep saver, helping you drift off into peaceful slumber. 

Lepidolite is an uplifting stone to carry in your crystal collection for its stabilising properties in general.

Joy and calm emanate from the stone, clearing and balancing your energy and wellbeing from frazzled to calm and clear.

How amazing is that? Malachite soothes the heart and brings peace into your life. It is also an incredible confidence boosting stone, enabling you to confront fears and energy blockages stifling you. We would recommend giving this to anyone who is constantly working on themselves.

Since Medieval times, Malachite has also been used to alleviate minor aches and pains in the body.

Users of Malachite must take care though: as a powerful absorber of negative energy, it does not however release that negativity. Cleanse your Malachite piece very regularly, especially if you are using it daily.

Not only a healing stone, Mookaite utilises energies to invigorate and connect our physical body with the Earth. In this way, this stone will help ground your mind, heart, and soul, allowing you to connect with what is truly important both within you and in the physical realm.

Deep meditation with Mookaite is a powerful way of communing with Mother Earth, nature and the ability to find true beauty in every moment.

Rejuvenating, calming and powerfully grounding, Mookaite is the perfect stone for those looking to a greater connection with the world around them. It is also said to have anti-ageing properties, both on a physical and mental level.

Working with upper Chakras, this stone’s energy allows for greater connection to and engagement with your intuition, allowing your true self to grow, strengthen and transform. It is also deeply connected to the cycles and rhythms of Mother Earth, and greatly assists in soothing and calming the emotional state. Possessing a stable feminine energy, Moonstone balances the emotions and enhances our sensitivity to the divine.

This stone helps us connect to the higher realms.

Here, you will have the knowledge you seek, be shown eternal, universal planes and develop an enlightened consciousness.Moonstone is also well known for its protection during night time travel and travel over water, its glimmering sheen lighting the way.

A direct product of our planet’s most primal elements, Moss Agate is heavily associated with Mother Earth, healing, grounding and transformation.  Moss Agate is considered one of the most powerful of medicine stones, with anti-inflammatory properties and the ability to heal wounds, ward off self-induced anger, bitterness, and other negativity.

It’s connection to Mother Earth encourages us to re-establish the bond with our inner child, where happiness, fun and carefree joy was abundant.

Moss Agate encourages us to re-connect to our inner purpose, to live with joy and light. This stone works on the same principles as a lovely long walk through a cool forest on a hot day, providing relief, sanctuary and renewed purpose.

Usually black in colour, Obsidian is actually volcanic glass that is squeezed out as the lava cools. Coming violently from the Earth, it is believed this stone is very powerful in bringing hidden emotions to the surface. This makes Obsidian an excellent energetic clearer, cleaning up the auric field as well as blockages within your energetic flow.

Obsidian is also very good at clearing negative energies within the user and the environment surrounding them.

Origin: All over the world.
Energy: Amplifies.
Colours: Black, black with white
Works with: Clear Quartz, Selenite.
Helps with: Grounding, clearing energetic blocks, releasing anger, cleansing aura, protection against negativity.
Usage tip: Keep Obsidian by your bed to help release blockages from past experiences. Meditate with Obsidian to gain greater insight into your true self. 

Put simply, Peach Moonstone allows us to acknowledged our true being, to love our true self. Self-love emanates from this stone and fosters the connection with our untainted self, the one who arrived on this Earth before we were moulded and shaped, pulled and pushed.

In this, I believe Peach Moonstone is one of the most important crystals to use on the journey to trusting our intuition and loving ourselves.

Coupled with the same soothing, nurturing energies as traditional Moonstone, this is an excellent crystal to help you fall in love and connect with your beautiful self.

Stones which are pink in colour are often associated with gentle feminine energy, and when combined with the amazing protective, enlightening and purifying capabilities of the Amethyst, create a powerful crystal.

Pink Amethyst is wonderful for those who have felt lost emotionally, spiritually and in their relationships in the past, and are now ready to move into a future where they can embrace love for both themselves and others. 

This crystal will provide clarity into your inner being, and help to clear any blocks surrounding those destructive emotions you might have about love and your self-worth. A Pink Amethyst crystal will help you see yourself as you actually are, whilst helping to understand and acknowledge how others see you also. This is highly beneficial for anyone on their spiritual journey who is ready to seek truth, love and happiness.
This is also a highly protective crystal and will help you avoid further emotional turmoil.  

Origin: Brazil and Uruguay
Colours: Pink
Helps with: Inner inquiry, protection against emotional and spiritual upheaval, love, understanding, seeking truth, inner work, increasing happiness
Usage tip: If you are regularly in conflict with another person, hold a Pink Amethyst for protection, but also speak to it and ask for clarity on the situation. Meditate with Pink Amethyst for greater insight and enhancement of spiritual guidance. 

Sometimes called Mangano Calcite and often referred to as the Reiki Stone, Pink Calcite is a powerful crystal which can assist with all ailments of the heart chakra.  

As a promoter of inner peace, pure love and joy, Pink Calcite is the ultimate self-healing stone, and is able to push through any lingering trauma or pain residing within the heart.

This stone will then allow for a greater discovery of self and spirit, gradually developing your confidence, self-assuredness and acceptance of the ‘real’ you. Clear emotional blocks within the heart chakra, ‘reset’, balance and uplift yourself so you are free to love without fear with Pink Calcite.

Yes, it’s that good!! Pistachio Calcite enhances your vitality, can bring abundance and helps us to grow both physically and emotionally. When suffering heartache, this stone will allow your joyful energy to grow and for you to accept and move purposefully into new beginnings, nourishment and health.

Calming Pisatachio Calcite will help you unwind after a hard day at work or an emotional experience, relieving the pressures and strain which have built up in your centre: the heart.

Pistachio Calcite can also help dissolve rigid, unhelpful belief systems which no longer serve you on the path you wish to follow. This powerful stone instead leads the mind to a more positive frame, helping with manifestation, abundance and intuition.

The energy of heat, action and emotion helps to ignite your ideas and concepts, facilitating and activating your inner balance. Polychrome Jasper will feed that heat, passion and life giving energy force within you, revitalising your purpose and inner being.

This stone will help create safe, secure and happy energy within you, has great healing properties and is a powerful tool in manifestation.

Origin: Madagascar.
Colours: Red, brown.
Helps with: Energising and rejuvenating, manifesting desires, calming, security, attracting love, actioning dreams and goals, protection.
Usage tip: Feeling a little blah? Hold a sphere of Polychrome Jasper in your hand and feel its energy enliven your spirit. Attract love and emit a sense of vibrancy by carrying Polychrome Jasper with you at all times.

Also referred to as ‘Fools Gold’ this iron sulphide mineral has been used in protection talismans and jewellery throughout the centuries, whilst Native Americans used it as a powerful meditation and ceremonial tool. This is a very strong determination stone, and coupled with its connection to the Solar Plexus (personal will) is an excellent aid in activating your purpose, action and confidence.

Pyrite helps to manifest your heart’s desire by enhancing those energies needed to achieve them.

As an enhancement stone, Pyrite helps to build on our success and achievements, whilst providing protection from negative energies. Inspiring you to remain focussed and determined during challenging times, this stone is excellent for anyone who struggles to remain grounded or on task. As an added bonus, Pyrite promotes energy, vitality and confidence.

Enhancing positivity, mental clarity and thinking and increasing emotional brightness are this stone’s superpowers! Considered the most versatile of the Fluorite range because of its many colours, this stone is a fantastic addition to any collection.

Rainbow Fluorite assists with energy flow amongst the upper body chakras.

Moving energetic blocks here assists in an overall sense of connection between the mind, body and spirit, allowing for clear focus and calm emotions.

Providing protection against jealousy and anger whilst promoting generosity and nurturing feelings of love, Rhodonite is a beautiful crystal with extraordinary healing properties.

Associated with bringing balance to the heart and root chakras, this crystal radiates love for self and self-worth by ‘holding space’ for the user.

This is not simply a ‘love stone’ radiating acceptance and love, but a crystal to bring relief to those suffering from emotional distress, depression or anxiety. Rhodonite pulsates with love, producing kindness, joy and understanding in those who wear or use it.
Rhodonite can also assist with personal intuition or with inner clarity, especially when interpreting dreams or in the aftermath of an intense meditation.  

Origin: Russia, India, Mexico, Sweden, Madagascar, Brazil, and USA.
Colours: Red, pink.
Works with: Rose Quartz, Emerald, Garnet.
Helps with: Acceptance of self, dream interpretation, conflict, emotional upheaval, self-love, relationships, negativity.
Usage tip: If you have teenagers or a house full of bickering children, place Rhodonite in communal areas to promote positive energies of love and acceptance. Sleep with Rhodonite under your pillow to help with the interpretation or dreams and enhance your psychic abilities. 

I absolutely adore Rose Quartz and it is one of Shiny Storm’s most popular crystals. Despite the heart chakra being green in colour, rose quartz, with its pink hues, also holds a deep association with this chakra. Unsurprisingly, it also helps with forgiveness and emotional healing.

This is a beautiful crystal for self-healing, especially with love-based emotional upsets such relationship breakdowns, betrayal, or the loss of a loved one. 

Rose Quartz is a hardworking yet nurturing and gentle crystal which restores a sense of calm and peacefulness to your life, helping you feel connection to others and empower your sense of joy and self-love. For those feeling emotionally depleted or with poor self-image, Rose Quartz will help you to realise and appreciate the amazing worth you bring to the world!

Origin: Brazil, India, Japan, USA.
Energy: Amplifies.
Colour: Pink.
Works with: Clear Quartz, Amethyst, Prasiolite, Peridot.
Helps with: Love, nourishment, self-love, compassion, forgiveness, kindness, emotional healing, joy, peace, playfulness.
Usage tip: Place Rose Quartz around your home to promote love, balance and positive relationships. Carry Rose Quartz with you after emotional upheaval with a loved one to help initiate healing. Rub Rose Quartz on your forehead at night for a restful and rejuvenating sleep.  

With strong protective qualities, this crystal does not need to be cleaned since it does not absorb or collect energy. It is used heavily as a cleansing stone for other crystals.

Selenite helps to open and clear the crown chakra, opening the gateway to the highest levels of self, aiding in spiritual growth.

As a protective stone, it will help dispel negative energy and keep outside forces from entering your space. Selenite will also amplify the power in all your other crystals, helping to gain the most out of your stones.  

Origin: Chine, France, India, United States.
Energy: Amplifies.
Colours: White.
Works with: All stones.
Helps with: Protecting against and cleansing negative energy, cleaning other crystals and auras, intuition, forgiveness, connection with the Divine.
Usage tip: As a soft stone, great care must be taken to ensure your piece is not scratched or chipped. Never expose Selenite to water or salt. Cleanse your auric field by leaving Selenite by your bed. Place Selenite at the corners of your home to create a peaceful and safe space, free from the influence of outside forces. 

As a purifier, Shungite will aid you in cleansing, healing and detoxing your mind, body and spirit. This crystal will also help with problematic and overwhelming emotions, as well as any form of anxiety or depression, filling the body with light and suppressing negativity. Whilst this may highlight some of the more unpleasant aspects of our personality, Shungite will also help us clear what isn’t needed, and allow us to embrace those aspects which are more positive and beneficial to our wellbeing.

An excellent aid in clearing the body of toxins, this crystal supports the immune and lymphatic systems, whilst cleansing and rejuvenating the chakras. 

Containing electrical conducting properties, Shungite is also a naturally occurring inhibitor of electromagnetic radiation. 

Origin: Russia.
Colours: Black.
Helps with: Clearing, cleansing, invigorating the chakras, suppressing negativity, clarity, strengthening the mind, body and soul.
Usage tip: Placing Shungite at the base of any electronic in your home, and on the back of your phone can significantly reduce the radial output without interfering with its performance.
Use Shungite as an elixir by placing a piece in water for a brief period of time to purify; drink the water to detoxify the body and aid in cell growth.

It is known as a stone of tranquillity, and can help in gaining clarity, connecting with the Earth and becoming more grounded as well as opening you up to your inner being.

Perhaps its greatest quality is the ability to dispel and transmute negative energy around it. 

Smoky Quartz will absorb and store this energy, especially when surrounded by confusion, intense or destructive activity. In this way, it is an incredibly powerful stone of strength, and one that has been used as such since the Celts discovered it thousands of years ago.
Smoky Quartz is associated with the lower chakras and helps to anchor you to the natural world. This in itself relieves anxiety, stress and negative thinking. This is also an excellent crystal for those who would like to reign in their wandering mind and concentrate with more clarity and focus.  

Origin: All over the world.
Energy: Amplifies.
Colours: Light grey to brown.
Works with: Clear Quartz, Citrine, Amethyst.
Helps with: Transmuting negative energy into positive energy, magnifying positive energy, concentration, breaking habits, grounding, detoxifying, connecting all the chakras to balance energies, connection to higher guidance.
Usage tip: Smoky Quartz is very useful in balancing the energy of the home and I almost always carry one with me: its effects are just so powerful in creating positivity! Sprinkle chips of Smoky Quartz all around the perimeter of your home to charge the area with positive energy. Carry a piece with you and announce your intentions to it daily: this will allow the universe to hear the path you would like to take.  

Dive deep into your subconscious with Sodalite for an authentic evaluation of your self, your strengths, weaknesses and true desires. It balances intellect with intuition, allowing you to see things clearly.

Called the logic stone, Sodalite has a high vibration frequency and helps to heal the inner self, whilst maintaining a calm and reflective state.

This means it is perfect for anyone mastering their creativity, boosting mental performance and enhancing intuition and insight. For those seeking intellectual clarity or needing to focus on difficult concepts, Sodalite can help with concentration. 

Strawberry Quartz attracts the power of new love and romance in all its forms while having a soothing and calming effect.

This crystal also promotes connection to others and open communication. 

Amplify your intentions to love and be loved, to appreciate and be appreciated and to feel generous to yourself and others.
Strawberry Quartz will also radiate these feelings of love outward which in turn, attracts more joy and happiness toward you.  Smoky Quartz is associated with the lower chakras and helps to anchor you to the natural world. This in itself relieves anxiety, stress and negative thinking. This is also an excellent crystal for those who would like to reign in their wandering mind and concentrate with more clarity and focus.  

Origin: Kazakhstan, Mexico, Africa.
Colours: Pink
Works with: Thulite, Rose Quartz, Rhodocrosite, Peridot, Carnelian, Orange Calcite, Mahogany Obsidian, Orange Millennium, Kunzite, or Lapis Lazuli
Helps with: Self-love, self-awareness, clarity, love, generosity
Usage tip: Wear a pendant of Strawberry Quartz to attract and open your heart to new love. 

A powerful manifestation stone, this is a wonderful crystal to help uncover and empower the self and enhance creativity.
Tiger’s Eye gives off vibrations of strength, clarity and inspiration whilst energizing the body. Creative energy is greatly enhanced, with the stone helping to overcome tiredness and despair so that the user can carry out action to completion. 

Tiger’s Eye is also a stone of mental clarity and balance, sharpening the mind and thoughts.   

Origin: Brazil, Canada, South Africa, India.
Energy: Absorbs.
Colours: Red, yellow, blue.
Works with: Citrine.
Helps with: The self, self-esteem, self-expression, self-love, self-worth, defining the self, self-criticism, manifestation.
Usage tip: Unpolished Tiger’s Eye contains asbestos, so using polished stones is safest. Meditate with Tiger’s Eye with a specific problem in mind to gain greater clarity and confidence. Place Tiger’s Eye around you to promote the courage to embrace new beginnings.  

Promoting balance and inner strength whilst bringing protection against external forces, Tourmalinated Quartz is useful for anyone looking to repel negativity and promote calm. It is also an excellent stone for cleansing your immediate environment.

With the ability to neutralise and harmonise negative and positive thoughts, this is an effective troubleshooting stone which will help to counteract adverse habits and thought patterns.

Most importantly, Tourmalinated Quartz helps fight depression and anxiety. 

Origin: Brazil.  
Colours: Clear with black or green inclusions.
Helps with: Protection, grounding, lifting depression, anxiety, clearing negativity, attracting positivity, meditation, healing, clearing blocks. Usage tip: When facing a day filled with conflict or negativity, wear Tourmalinated Quartz to help build a protective circle of light around you. Use this stone during meditation to aid in clarity and encourage you to let go of negative thoughts.

Turquoise is associated with the throat chakra, relieving stress and awakening higher knowledge.
Turquoise has deep symbolism for many nations and has been in use in the world’s most ancient societies for thousands of years. Historically, this sacred stone of shamans and warriors has been used to promote clear vision, spirituality and spiritual power. For you and I however, Turquoise is an excellent aid in activating the throat chakra, making it easier for us to voice those thoughts and opinions we might not normally have the courage to speak.

This in turn helps with balance, alignment and promotes peace and serenity. 

Be careful: some vendors sell dyed howlite, which has similar veining as turquoise and can easily pass for this powerful stone, but without the healing benefits. This is so cruel: everyone deserves to be able to trust they are receiving only the best, genuine crystals! I will always ensure you are only ever purchasing real turquoise.

Origin: All over the world.
Energy: Absorbs.
Colours: Light blue to deep turquoise.
Works with: Clear quartz, onyx.
Helps with: Communication, spiritual power, luck and prosperity, relieving anxiety, safe travel, voicing personal truths and creative ideas, protection against theft, promoting ambitions and empowerment, absorbing excessive energy, balancing.
Usage tip: If a relationship is under stress, place turquoise in your home, bedroom, workplace or wherever you spend significant time with that person. Wear Turquoise around your neck during interviews or events where you must think and speak nimbly.