Stone Properties & Folklore

Agate

Agate's most noticeable properties overall are balancing yin/yang energy, courage, protection, healing, and calming. It enhances creativity and strengthens the intellect, making it a beneficial stone for both students and artists. It is also known as a good luck stone. As a stone of harmony. Agate increases energy. However, because it is a grounding stone, it does not increase energy at all times, but rather enables bursts of energy as needed.

Amethyst

Amethyst is a stone of psychic power. It enhances and strengthens the powers of the wearer and helps you to heighten intuition and to embrace your own intuitive wisdom.

Aventurine

Radiating a calming energy, aventurine is used in shielding the heart and in healing and balancing the emotions. stimulates creativity and independence. It enhances leadership qualities. It strengthens intuitive power and it is especially useful for healing and for good luck.

Carnelian

Carnelian aids in understanding the inner self and strengthens concentration. is said to assist in stimulating creativity. It seems to have a clearing effect, dispelling negative energies as it replaces them with positive ones. This can make it easier to find direction, and its grounding effects can make it easier for you to feel in control of your life.

Citrine

Citrine is known as a "success" stone because it is told in folklore to promote success and abundance, especially in business and commerce. It emits a warm energy that promotes optimism. It attracts abundance and is known as "a merchant's stone" to be placed in a cash register or where one conducts business, to not only acquire positive wealth but to maintain it as well. It enhances the body's healing energy and opens the conscious mind to intuition. It helps one adjust and adapt to process changes, feeling confident and secure.

Copper

Copper can combat lethargy, passivity, restlessness, excitability and non-acceptance of oneself. It stimulates initiative, optimism, diplomacy and independence. It allows one to recognize the barriers which are in the path of one's development.

Fluorite

Fluorite enhances concentration and allows one to cut through illusion to see the truth of the matter. An excellent stone for relationships and friendships, it helps people to work together for the greater good. It encourages purification, cleansing and elimination of negativity.

Garnet

Garnet helps with all aspects of commitment, devotion, love, stability and order.
It aides in an even flow of energy.

Jade

Sacred to both the Chinese and the Mayans, this stone is said to bless everything it touches. It invokes wisdom, peace, harmony and devotion to one's higher purpose. It aids the wearer in finding their life path and manifesting dreams into reality.

Jasper

Jasper is a very nurturing gemstone that helps to uplift you and support you during times of stress. It's beneficial in bringing tranquility and wholeness to you. Jasper helps to unite all aspects of your life and also helps others around you to open up to the idea of helping each other as well. It helps to protect you and ground your energy.

Labradorite

A sister to moonstone, labradorite grants inner knowing of Mystery. It enhances intuition and psychic perception. It helps the bearer to release judgment, and understand their destiny.

Pearls

Pearls enhance personal integrity and help clear the mind so that it can be a clean channel for wisdom and spiritual guidance. These Moon and water ruled “gems” enhance sincerity, truth and loyalty and bring calming reflection.

Peridot

The joyful and friendly energy of peridot helps to make and seal friendships. It clears the heart, releasing ego, jealousy and anger and bringing a sense of peace and quiet amusement.

Pyrite

Pyrite increases physical stamina, stimulates the intellect and helps
to transform thought into intelligent action.

Quartz

Crystal Quartz is a power stone that harmonizes and balances. It enhances energy and thoughts, and purifies the spiritual, mental, and physical.

Rose Quartz

The loving nurturing energy of Rose Quartz takes away fears, resentment and anger
and gently replaces them with a feeling of higher self esteem and
confidence. Wear this and open yourself to love.

Serpentine

Serpentine is an exceptional meditation stone, it will assist one in finding inner peace, as well as clearing the mind to become closer with oneself, but it should be reinforced with jade or chrysoprase to temper the energy. In ancient Assyria, it is told that this stone was carried to request of the gods and goddess to provide blessings.

Tourmaline
Tourmaline is used for inspiration, understanding, self-confidence and balancing.

Unakite

Unakite is particularly good for helping one stimulate and open their third eye for deeper visions and psychic work. Unakite helps to provide a gentle release of blockages that have been inhibiting your growth. Unakite is also awesome in connecting the lower and higher heart chakras, and brining healing and peace to the heart and circulatory system. It also can assist one in staying grounded through meditation and other work like that. It also helps pregnant women stay healthy and the female (and male) reproductive system, so unakite
would make a wonderful gift for someone expecting!

2011 Show Schedule:

L A Arts Spring Festival
Rescheduled: May 5th, 2012
Hilton Garden Inn-Riverwalk
Auburn Maine
Juried

School Around Us
Saturday July 2
the Village Green
Ocean Ave.
Kennebunkport Maine
Juried

Summer Solstice
July 9 & 10
Wells Elementary School
Rt. 109, Sanford Rd.
Wells Me.
Juried

Moore Park Show
August 13
Town of Paris Me.
33 Market Square
(207)890-9399
juried

School Around Us
Saturday Sept. 3
the Village Green
Ocean Ave.
Kennebunkport Me.
Juried

Laudholm Farms Nature Preserve
Crafts Festival
Sept. 10 & 11
342 Laudholm Farm Rd.
Wells Me.
Juried

Clay Hill Farms
Eco Fest
October 10
220 Clay Hill Rd.
Cape Neddick (York) Me
Juried

Harvestfest
October 15 &16
York Beach Me
Juried

Feztival Of Trees
Kora Temple
November 19,20,21,25,26
Rt.126 Sabattus St.
Lewiston Me
Juried

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