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Here is some information about the properties of most commonly used gemstones.
Agates: Balancing physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual energies; perceptiveness, strength, inspiration, awakening talents.
 Amazonite: Success, joy, self-expression, awakening heart, soothing, harmony, balancing.
 Amber: Soothing, calming, cleansing.
 Amethyst: Contentment, spirituality, dreams, healing, peace, happiness, love, intuition.
 Ametrine: Intellectual stimulation, attunement, releasing, dispelling tension, connecting.
 Apatite: Intellect, achieving results, healing, insight, humanitarianism, meditation, balance, creativity.
 Aquamarine: Courage, purification, peace, intuition, self-expression, balance, preparedness.
Aventurine: Healing, money, mental agility, visual acuity, peace, opening heart, motivation, leadership.
 Azurite: Intuitive energy, dreams, healing, insight, tilling the mind, concentration, self transformation.
Bloodstone: Courage, intense healing, renewal, strength, victory, intuitive decision making.
 Calcite: Purification, peace, calming, memory, awareness, appreciation of nature.
Carnelian: Precision, analytical capabilities, physical energy, verbal skill, peace, spirituality.
 Celestite: Verbal skill, healing, compassion, calming, growth, intuition, hope.
Chrysocolla: Easing heartache, stamina, wisdom, peace, love, communication, vitality, inner strength.
Chrysoprase: Balancing male-female energy, love, grace, compassion, clemency, personal growth.
 Citrine: Intuition, comfort, protection, creativity, physical energy, wealth, mental awakening.
Coral: Diplomacy, quieting emotions, visualization.
Crystal Quartz: Intensifying energy, spiritual development, healing, raising consciousness.
 Diamond: Courage, strength, healing, protection, spirituality, mental abilities.
Dumortierite: Self-reliance, stamina, patience, recognition of potential, understanding, communication of ideas.
 Emerald: Love, domestic bliss, sensitivity, loyalty, memory, mental capacity, harmony, focus, eliminating negativity.
 Fluorite: Stability, impartial reasoning, responsibility, concentration, health.
Fossil Stone: Accomplishments, improvement of one’s environment, communication, innovation.
 Garnet: Health, removing negativity, awareness, commitment, regeneration, order, insight.
 Hematite: Mental attunement, memory, calming, balance, focusing energy and emotions, peace, inner happiness, transforming negativity.
Howlite: Awareness, calm, emotional expression, observation, patience, eliminating negativity.
 Iolite: Intuition, spiritual growth, healing, balance, releasing discord, awakening to inner knowledge.
 Jade: Fidelity, dreams, realization of potential, peace, accord, resourcefulness, accomplishment.
Jaspers: Protection, nurturing, joy, awareness; balancing of physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual energies.
Labradorite: Alignment, spiritual connection, transformation, clarity, peace, progression, discernment.
 Lapis Lazuli: Wisdom, intuition, awareness, objectivity, clarity, creativity, expanded consciousness, dreams, purity, courage, serenity.
 Lepidolite: Hope, stress reduction, birth, peace, spirituality, physical strength, luck, protection, emotional balance.
 Malachite: Transformation, insight, clarifying emotions, fidelity, loyalty, practicality.
Marble: Charitable actions, original thinking, alleviation of sorrow.
Moonstone: Introspection, reflection, beginnings, insight, tenderness, harmony, peace, travel.
Mother of Pearl: Mental clarity, intuition, sensitivity, imagination, adaptability, cooperation.
Obsidians: Clarity, deflecting negativity, protection, healing.
Onyx: Self-control, decision making, intuition, recognition of personal strengths.
 Opal: Creativity, spontaneity, relationships, memory, happy dreams and changes.
 Pearl: Purity, faith, charity, innocence, integrity, focus, wisdom, spirituality, sincerity, fertility.
 Peridot: Warmth, friendliness, understanding, openness in love and relationships, regulation of cycles.
 Pyrite: Defense, prevention, protection from negativity, physical wholeness, memory.
 Rhodocrosite: Love, emotional balance, cleansing, renewal, relaxation, expansion of consciousness.
 Rhodonite: Peace, generosity, attention to details.
 Rhyolite: Change, variety, progress, creativity, transcending barriers.
 Rose Quartz: Love, peace, happiness, gentleness, healing emotional wounds.
 Ruby: Nurturing, spiritual wisdom, attainment of values, economic stability, protection from distress.
 Sapphire: Joy, peace, beauty, intuition, prosperity, fulfillment of dreams.
 Serpentine: (see Jade)
 Smoky Quartz: Dissolving emotional blockage, clearing the mind, cooperation, personal pride, joy in living, attentiveness to the moment, protection.
 Sodalite: Wisdom, logic, calmness, healing, stress reduction, companionship, self-esteem.
Sunstone: Alleviating fears, energizing, cleansing.
 Tanzanite: Communication, intuition, protection, symmetry, decision-making, spirituality.
 Tiger Eye: Practicality, peacefulness, clarity, intelligence, intuition, new experiences, financial stability, calmness, releasing inhibitions.
 Tiger Iron: Artistic endeavors, beauty, vitality.
 Topaz: True love, success in endeavors, understanding of interrelationships, expression of ideas, trust, health, personal expansion and growth.
 Tourmaline: Energizing, soul-searching, releasing.
 Turquoise: Spiritual attunement, cleansing, healing, protection, valor, soothing, peace of mind, guidance through the unknown, romantic spontaneity.
Unakite: Balance, re-birth, foresight, emotional balance
Zoisite: Dispelling laziness, facilitating advancement.
Birthstones
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Mystical Birthstones: |
Ayurvedic Birthstones: |
| January - Garnet |
January - Emerald |
January - Garnet |
| February - Amethyst |
February - Bloodstone |
February - Amethyst |
| March - Aquamarine |
March - Jade |
March - Bloodstone |
| April - Diamond |
April - Opal |
April - Diamond |
| May - Emerald |
May - Sapphire |
May - Agate |
| June - Pearl, moonstone |
June - Moonstone |
June - Pearl |
| July - Ruby |
July - Ruby |
July - Ruby |
| August - Peridot |
August - Diamond |
August - Sapphire |
| September - Sapphire |
September - Agate |
September - Moonstone |
| October - Opal, Tourmaline |
October - Jasper |
October - Opal |
| November - Yellow Topaz, Citrine |
November - Pearl |
November - Topaz |
| December - Blue Topaz, Turquoise, Tanzanite |
December - Ruby |
December - Ruby |
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1995 - The leader of a Japanese religious cult was arrested and charged with murder and attempted murder in the March nerve-gas attacks in a Tokyo subway that killed 12 people and injured more than 5,000.
2005 - Newsweek, after a public apology, printed a retraction to a story that accused interrogators at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay of flushing a copy of the Koran down a toilet. Riots in Afghanistan that followed publication of the story claimed 16 lives.
1988 - Surgeon General C. Everett Koop described nicotine as addictive as heroin or cocaine and called for the licensing of tobacco product vendors.
1991 - 13 of the 15 Soviet republics agreed on an emergency economic plan to ban strikes while increasing wages and worker productivity.
2003 - Suicidal terrorists set off five bombs simultaneously in Casablanca, Morocco, killing 41 and injuring about 100.
2005 - A U.S. Senate panel said high-ranking Russian politicians made illicit multi-million dollar oil transactions with Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein under the U.N. oil-for-food program.
1804 - The French Senate declared Napoleon Bonaparte emperor.
1969 - The unmanned Soviet spacecraft Venus-5 landed on the surface of Venus.
1871 - U.S. Marines landed in Korea in an unsuccessful attempt to open the country to foreign trade.
1996 - U.S. Navy Adm. Jeremy Boorda, chief of naval operations and the highest-ranking officer in the U.S. Navy, shot himself to death after learning that Newsweek magazine wanted to question him about the propriety of wearing combat medals.
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