Gemstones | Birthstones

Gemstones | Birthstones

Learn about your favorite gemstones and birthstones, plus other less familiar stones spiritual meanings and symbolism.

These beautiful crystals have been used through the centuries for healing, magic, and offers to the gods.

Today, we are using crystal healing once again often as a compliment to traditional medicine. Or by those people who prefer more natural methods of healing.

So read on for more on your favorite gemstones and birthstones spiritual meanings and symbolism.

Birthstones / Birthday Gemstones

What does your birthstone stand for?  Strength and power, kindness, loyalty, spiritual calm…

• Birthday Month
  • January – Garnet
  • February – Amethyst
  • March – Aquamarine
  • April – Diamond
  • May – Emerald
  • June – Pearl, Moonstone
  • July – Ruby
  • August – Peridot or Sardonyx
  • September – Sapphire
  • October – Opal or Tourmaline
  • November – Citrine or Topaz
  • December – Turquoise, Zircon or Tanzanite

Gemstones Spiritual, and Healing properties

Agates: Balancing physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual energies; perceptiveness, strength, inspiration

Amazonite: Success, joy, self-expression, calming, harmony, balancing. 

Amber: Soothing, calming, cleansing. 

Amethyst: Contentment, healing, peace, happiness, calming 

Ametrine: Releasing, dispelling tension, connecting. 

Apatite: Healing, meditation, balance, creativity. 

Aquamarine: Courage, purification, peace, balance. 

Aventurine: Healing, peace, opening heart, motivation, leadership. 

Azurite:  Dreams, healing, insight, concentration. 

Bloodstone: Courage, renewal, strength, victory

Calcite: Purification, peace, calming, memory, awareness, appreciation of nature. 

Carnelian: Precision, analytical capabilities, physical energy, peace, spirituality. 

Celestite:  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, personal growth. 

Citrine: Intuition, comfort, protection, creativity, physical energy, wealth

Coral: Diplomacy, quieting emotions, visualization. 

Crystal Quartz: Intensifying energy, spiritual development, healing. 

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, harmony, focus, eliminating negativity. 

Fluorite: Stability, impartial reasoning, responsibility, concentration, health. 

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. 

Jasper: 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. 

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, chastity, innocence, integrity, modesty, spirituality, sincerity. 

Peridot: Warmth, friendliness, understanding, openness in love and relationships

Pyrite: Defense, prevention, protection from negativity, physical wholeness, memory. 

Rhodocrosite: Love, emotional balance, cleansing, renewal, relaxation, expansion of consciousness. 

Rhodonite (Garnet family): Peace, generosity, attention to details. 

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. 

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. 

Topaz: True love, success in endeavors, understanding of interrelationships, expression of ideas, trust, health, personal expansion and growth. 

Tourmaline: Energizing, soul-searching, releasing. 

Turquoise: Health, good fortune, protection, valor, soothing, peace of mind, . 
Unakite: Balance, re-birth, foresight, emotional balance.