Everlasting Treasures
Please note, no claims are made for the actual properties of the stones listed below. This information was gathered from a variety of sources, books, folklore, etc.
Gemstones for the day of the week
- Sunday - Topaz
- Monday - Pearl
- Tuesday - Ruby
- Wednesday - Amethyst
- Thursday - Carnelian
- Friday - Carnelian
- Saturday - Turquoise
Anniversary stones associated with the wedding anniversary year
- 1st anniversary - gold jewelry
- 2nd - garnet
- 3rd - pearls
- 4th - blue topaz
- 5th - sapphire
- 6th - Amethyst
- 7th - Onyx
- 8th - Tourmaline
- 9th - Lapis lazuli
- 10th - Diamond
- 11th - Turquoise
- 12th - Jade or Agate
- 13th - Citrine or Moonstone
- 14th - Opal or Moss Agate
- 15th - Ruby
- 16th - Peridot or Topaz
- 17th - Amethyst
- 18th - Garnet
- 19th - Aquamarine
- 20th - Emerald
- 21st - Iolite
- 22nd - Spinel, all colors
- 23rd - Sapphire
- 24th - Tanzanite
- 25th - Silver jubilee
- 26th - Star sapphire
- 30th - Pearl jubilee
- 35th - Emerald or coral
- 39th - Cat?s eye
- 40th - Ruby
- 45th - Sapphire or alexandrite
- 50th - Golden jubilee
- 52nd - Star ruby
- 55th - Alexandrite or Emerald
- 60th - Diamond Jubilee
- 65th - Star sapphire
- 75th - Diamond
Birthstones
Certain stones are considered lucky when worn by people born during a certain month or period.
By month
| Month | Gemstone | Color |
| January | Garnet | Dark red |
| February | Amethyst | Purple |
| March | Aquamarine or bloodstone | Pale blue |
| April | Diamond or rock crystal | Colorless or white |
| May | Emerald or Chrysoprase | Bright green or pale green |
| June | Pearl or Moonstone | Cream |
| July | Ruby or Carnelian | Red |
| August | Peridot or Sardonyx | Pale green |
| September | Sapphire or Lapis lazuli | Dark blue or deep blue |
| October | Opal or Pink tourmaline | Multicolor or pink |
| November | Topaz or Citrine | Yellow |
| December | Turquoise or blue topaz | Sky blue |
By Zodiac sign
| Aquarius | January 20 to February 19 | Opal, Garnet, Aquamarine |
| Pisces | February 20 to March 20 | Aquamarine, Moonstone, Opal |
| Aries | March 21 to April 20 | Ruby, Amethyst, Garnet, Topaz |
| Taurus | April 21 to May 21 | Aquamarine, Lapis lazuli, Rhodonite |
| Gemini | May 22 to June 21 | Agate, Pearl, Chrysoprase, Topaz |
| Cancer | June 22 to July 22 | Moonstone, White Coral, Pearl |
| Leo | July 23 to August 22 | Amber, Diamond, Garnet, Peridot |
| Virgo | August 24 to September 23 | Sapphire, Agate, Jade, Amber |
| Libra | September 24 to October 23 | Aquamarine, Moonstone, Peridot |
| Scorpio | October 24 to November 22 | Garnet, Aquamarine, Moonstone, Malachite |
| Sagittarius | November 23 to December 21 | Amethyst, Lapis lazuli, Labradorite |
| Capricorn | December 22 to January 20 | Amber, Amethyst, Garnet, Onyx |
Gemstone Meanings, Symbolism and Folklore
AGATE
- All: Agates in general are associated with grace, physical health and emotional balance. They are said to provides abundance. Agates soothe emotions, thus make a good worry stone.
- Black: Relieves stress, protects and increases courage.
- Blue: Provides perceptiveness and awakens inherent inner talents.
- Blue lace: Enhances lightheartedness, makes us more easygoing. It promotes hope, positive feeling and acceptance. It aids in meditation. Therapeutic properties: Digestive system, stress, circulation, infections.
- Crazy lace: Enables one to laugh at the world.
- Golden lace: Lifts depression and increases happiness.
- Moss & picture: The farmer's or gardener's stone. It is said to ensure a good crop. It is associated with prosperity, success, abundance, fertility of plants, protection, and the earth. It is helpful in starting new friendships. It is also said to help communication with animals and plants.
- Tree: Assists with introspection and relieves tension. It is also thought to ensure bountiful crops White: Relieves stress, gives protection and attunes us to our higher mind.
ALEXANDRITE
This stone is, like many green stones, associated with abundance. Alexandrite brings abundance of joy and hope and is associated with grace and purity.
AMAZONITE
This stone promotes clarity, balance and inspiration. It is soothing. It also promotes communication and confidence and can enhance creativity. It is believed to lessen self-defeating behaviors. In some traditions it is felt that touching this stone to one?s third eye will unlock psychic ability. Therapeutically it helps the nervous system, metabolism and relieves tension.
AMBER
In Norse tradition this stone was known as Freya's tears and warriors wore this stone to battle. This stone ( or fossilized tree sap) is cheering and soothing. Its powers include healing, good luck and protection. It is said to enable one to remember past lives and ancient knowledge. Therapeutic properties: Emotional distress, kidneys, bladder, throat.
AMETHYST
This stone is healing both mentally and physically and aids in positive transformation. It aids in creativity and protects against negative forces. It is said to protect the wearer from drunkenness and other addictions. Placed under one?s pillow it can protect against bad dreams and nightmares. Therapeutic properties: Addiction, stress, acne.
AMETRINE
This stone aids in meditation, relieves tension, disperses negativity and eliminates prejudice.
APATITE
Golden apatite enhances intellectual pursuits and aids in focus and learning. It also aids in clarity of concentration. It is said to promote unconditional love. The blue apatite has association with the ocean. All apatite is linked to harmony.
AQUAMARINE
This stone is said to promote safe travel on water. It aids in tolerance and clarity of mind and releases anxiety and fear.
ARGONITE
This stone aids in patience and centering. It uplifts the emotions and opens the mind.
AVENTURINE
This stone was known as the stone of heaven and was believed to aid in opening one?s inner eye and was believed to aid in divination. Folklore says that this stone attracts money and was known as the "gambler's stone." It is balancing and grounding, and aids in independent thinking. Therapeutic properties: Overall well being, eyes, headaches, blood, muscles.
- Green: Joy inside and out
- Peach: Aids decision making
- Red: Enhances creativity and the ability to see possibilities
AZURITE
This stone is associated with intuition and truth. The two colored blue and green bands are associated with the bond between the conscious and unconscious mind and aid in balance of the unified mind.
BLOODSTONE
The red spots in this stone were associated with blood and the green with money and fertility. In ancient Europe this stone was used to stop wounds from bleeding and was a charm for healing. It was believed to bring rain.
CARNELIAN
This stone promotes motivation, confidence, concentration, protection from negative forces such as anger, jealousy and fear. This stone reminds us to be "in the moment." It promotes acceptable of the cycles of life and death. Therapeutic properties: Menstrual problems, fertility, healing, infections,lungs, rheumatism, arthritis.
CHINESE WRITING STONE
This stone is thought to validate plans and help to execute them smoothly.
CHRYSANTHEMUM STONE
This is a stone of harmony and change. It promotes the renewal of old friendships.
CHRYSOBERYL
This stone is associated with wisdom, intellect and abundance.
CHRYSOCOLLA
This stone helps to release those who are overly concerned with material goods and wealth. It helps the wearer to know when to speak and when to stay silent. It gives the inner strength to get one through stressful situations.
CHRYSOPRASE
This stone promotes self-expression and courage. It is believed to dispel negative thoughts and irritability, thus bringing happiness. This stone is considered protective to the young as in children, young animals and seedlings. As with most green stones it is believed to draw money to the wearer.
CITRINE
This stone gives emotional control while making one more alert. It also stimulates mental and physical clarity, intuition and creativity. This is the merchant's stone. Placing it in one's cash box will generate more income for the merchant. Therapeutic properties: Circulation, liver, digestion, cellular repair.
CORAL
This stone increases sensitivity, caring and compassion. It protects against negative forces, violence, accidents and theft. It was and is still used in many cultures as a traditional baby gift to protect infants and beads were placed in teething rings or pins for their blankets. Sailors used this stone as a talisman against bad weather. Therapeutic properties: fever, colds, asthma, digestive problems.
DIAMOND
This stone has long been associated with fidelity, purity and innocence, thus its use in wedding jewelry. Diamonds are said to intensify the qualities of the wearer, be they good or evil.
DUMORTIERITE
This stone promotes organization, self-discipline and orderliness. It allows one to see and accept reality.
FLUORITE
This stone promotes wisdom, balance, awareness, inspiration, mental and physical healing. Therapeutic properties: Immunity, back problems, teeth, blood, bones.
- Blue: Promotes calmness
- Golden rainbow: Enhances creativity. It helps to release negative thoughts and give protection against them.
- Green: Promotes abundance.
- Lavender/purple: Increases spiritual balance, well-being and peace.
- Rainbow: This stone has long been associated with psychic energy. It is a soft stone and was often used for carving and was much valued by the ancient Romans.
- White: Symbolizes purity
GARNET
The stone of devotion, both to others and oneself. It is said to inspire romantic love and symbol of friendship. It increases courage and self-confidence, social popularity and positive thoughts. Garnets were used in charms to protect against thieves and a stolen garnet was said to bring the thief bad luck until returned to the rightful owner. Therapeutic properties: Energy, sex drive, heart, glands, blood.
- Hessonite: The stone of creativity. Allows us to let go of outworn ideas.
- Rodolite: Enhances intuition and inspires love
- Spessartite: Helps one to be content with where we are and put down roots. Also strengthens willpower and increases self-esteem.
GOLDSTONE
This stone is aventurine with copper inclusions and is said to lift the wearer's spirits.
HEMATITE
This stone promotes courage . The stone is felt to be a strong grounding stone and aids in the ability to concentrate and balances one. This stone is felt to aid in legal matters and carrying one in court helps one to prevail in legal matters. Therapeutic properties: blood, insomnia, heart, eyesight, spine.
HOWLITE
This stone is felt to be calming. Like most white stones it represents purity. It allows a person to express emotions calmly to say what is necessary in a manner that is not offensive to the listener.
IOLITE
A stone of power. It is also known as water sapphire. It promotes leadership ability, inner strength, and confidence. If Iolite is worn to bed, it is believed it will increase one's ability to dream and to remember and interpret those dreams.
JADE
This stone promotes good judgment. It is protective and considered a very lucky stone. It gives the wearer wisdom, confidence, fortune, and longevity. The Chinese believe that Jade brings prosperity and allows one to hold onto one's wealth. Therapeutic properties: kidney & bladder problems, spleen, heart.
- Black: Protects from negativity and promotes the wise use of one's power.
- Golden: Helps with understanding and empathy.
- Green: Believed to help gardeners and attract wealth.
- White: Promotes spirituality and its practical application.
- Yellow: Enhances energy and protects.
JASPER
Jasper provides balance and protection. It is a powerful protector. Therapeutic properties: sense of smell, vital organs, blood disorders, depression
- Autumn: Protects the wearer from negative energy. Promotes strength.
- Brecciated: Enhances organization. It is said to attunement and communication with animals. It brings happiness and a good outlook on life.
- Dalmatian: Increases patience, removes disillusionment. Promotes loyalty to one's partner, and is beneficial for long-term relationships.
- Fancy: The stone of gentleness and relaxation. It brings the wearer tranquility. It helps us to cease analyzing everything and enjoy life.
- Leopardskin: Assists and protects with and during physical and spiritual travel.
- Red: Promotes the remembrance of dreams. It assists in rescue from danger and helps balance unfair situations.
- Yellow: Aids in mental clarity and creativity.
JET
Jet is believed to repel negativity and protects the wearer against possession. It also protects against storms and lightening strikes.
LABRADORITE
This stone signifies the higher consciousness. It aids with mediation and telepathy. It provides clarity and insight into one's destiny.
LAPIS LAZULI
The stone of royalty. It stimulates emotional and physical purity, enhances perception and friendships. It protects against depression. Therapeutic properties: Depression, tension, nervous system disorders, vision.
LEPIDOLITE
This stone induces calmness and has a soothing effect against stress and negative emotions.
MALACHITE
This stone promotes fidelity, loyalty and endurance. It aids in removing inner obstacles and is the stone of transformation. It is calming, aids sleep and promotes inner peace. It aids in healing and in many cultures was felt to be a powerful healing stone. A traditional stone to draw money was to place a piece of malachite in each corner of a building or place a small piece in the business's cash box. Therapeutic properties: Rheumatism, Arthritis, inflammation, eyesight, asthma.
MOONSTONE
Because of its appearance this stone has long been associated with the moon. This is the traveler's stone and will protect one during travel. This stone is said to promote good fortune. It promotes sensitivity, caring, acceptance, perception, intuition. Therapeutic properties: Female reproductive problems, circulatory disorders, inflammation, lymphatic system.
- Rainbow: Helps with clearing and bringing in uplifting energies. It is thought to have the power to grant wishes.
MOTHER OF PEARL
The stone of sincerity. It brings truth to situations. It signifies faith. It enhances personal integrity and allows one to see how one appears to others.
OBSIDIAN
This stone promotes clarity, wisdom, and sensitivity. It is a grounding stone. Therapeutic properties: Digestive tract, stress, vascular. Mahogany: The mirror stone, it reflects one's shortcomings and allows them to be dealt with. It stimulates the growth physically, emotionally intellectually and spiritually and promotes a forgiving attitude.
- Snowflake: Helps with the integration of mental balance and physical balance. It is a stone of purity and helps one recognize unnecessary patterns in life.
ONYX
This stone promotes energy, strengthens concentration, instinct and gives guidance. It banishes grief and was traditionally used in mourning jewelry. It is also felt to encourage happiness and good fortune. Therapeutic properties: Bone and bone marrow, tissue, hearing, foot problems.
- Black: This stone is believed to repel negativity and to keep the wearer safe from harm. It is grounding and allows one to think and act wisely. It can also overcome feeling of loneliness.
- Sardonyx: This stone fosters friendship, good fortune, happiness and romance. It will protect the young and those who try new things. Sardonyx can help us to appreciate nature's wild places and inhabitants.
OPAL
Some believe that this stone is bad luck if worn by any whose birthstone it is not. However, this is a relatively new reputation for opal, as ancient tradition considered this a very potent and very lucky stone. This stone helps one to let go of anger. It can also magnify existing traits both positive or negative. It is considered the stone of imagination and will foster creativity and imagination.
PEARL
Pearls symbolize innocence and purity. Dissolved in wine they were thought to have tonic and curative properties. These are a highly feminine stone being associated with water and the moon. Therapeutic properties: Infections, childbirth, digestive problems.
PERIDOT
This stone helps one to find happiness and to eliminate anger and jealousy. It is used as a charm against jealousy and envy. Therapeutic properties: Bruises, insomnia, digestion, stress, anger.
PIETERSITE
This stone is said to be physically protective, especially for the eyes. It also helps the wearer to be able to see beyond the here and now into the spiritual realm.
PYRITE
This stone's resemblance to gold has associated it with wealth and money charms. It is also associated with the sun and wisdom.
QUARTZ
- Cat's eye (Hawk's eye): Promotes peace, healing and a love of nature.
- Crystal: Positivity, healing, direction & harmony. This is thought be a stone of power and brings the energy of the stars to the wearer. It aligns human energies, thoughts and emotions. This stone is also thought to amplify the powers of other stones and magical objects. Therapeutic properties: Circulation, vertigo, Digestion, infections, pain.
- Rose: The stone of gentle love. It brings peace to relationships. Universal love energy, a gift of love. Used in meditation it shows the opportunities for growth and stimulates the imagination. It is a good gift for those who need comfort.
- Rutilated: Eases depression, facilitates communication and transmutes negativity. Is said to be a great healer physically. It is associated with creativity and positive direction.
- Smoky: Promotes personal pride and joy in living. It can regulate creativity in business. It dissolves mental and emotional blockages, relieves stress. It can transform the negative emotions into positive ones.
RHODOCHROSITE
This stone is associated with harmony, comfort, compassion and love.
RHODONITE
This stone promotes courage, calmness, self-esteem, and peace. The stone of love. It helps one to achieve one's potential. This stone helps one to see all shades of gray in people, rather than just seeing things in black and white. It is a good stone to wear during negotiations. This stone allows one to see the love in all of life's experiences. Therapeutic properties: inflammation, infection, joint problems.
RIVERSTONE
This stone helps one to carry burdens which we feel incapable of bearing alone. It helps one to "go with the flow" and safeguards against worry and fear consuming one's mind.
RUBY
One of the most powerful of stones, it is said to make the wearer invulnerable. If one owns a ruby, it is said to bring contentment and peace. The ruby should be worn on the left hand so that the wearer can receive the life force and protection. If given as a gift is symbolizes friendship and love. Kept under one's pillow it will prevent bad dreams. Therapeutic properties: Aids in blood flow and circulation and cleans the blood of infection.
SAPPHIRE
Sapphire was felt to suppress wickedness and impure thoughts. Thus, it promoted tranquility and peace. This stone was felt to help people fulfill their dreams.
SERPENTINE
This stone promotes happiness and success. It can also help the wearer to achieve business and personal success.
SODALITE
This stone promotes courage and endurance, communication and self-esteem. It clears the mind and alleviates fear. This stone is said to call out the inner truths in one's self. Sodalite will clear the mind and allow one to think rationally rather than emotionally. Therapeutic properties: blood pressure, metabolism, digestion, insomnia.
STAUROLITE / FAIRY CROSSES
These twinned crystals are used as luck charms. Both Christian and pagan tradition link these to the mystic.
SUGILITE
This is a symbol of universal love and an understanding of higher things.
SUNSTONE
This stone helps the wearer to met their greatest potential. It will dispel phobias, decrease stress and lift depression. It increases leadership qualities in the wearer.
TIGER'S EYE
This stone is best suited to earthy people. It can stimulate and maintain wealth. It is calming to the unsettled and enhances stability. It will also enhance creativity. As with most eye stones, it was felt to be protective against the "evil eye."
TIGER IRON
This stone is believed to give one the power of the tiger. Therapeutic properties: Digestion, eyes, breathing, spleen.
TOPAZ
Topaz is associated with courage and overcoming obstacles. It is a traditional stone for aiding in higher thinking and soothing mental disturbance. Therapeutic properties: Sleep problems, healing.
TOURMALINE
The wearer of this stone motivates the wearer. It allows one to seek inner truths and overcome the natural inertia that we sometimes feel in seeking new directions.
TURQUOISE
Turquoise is a sacred stone in many cultures, such as native American and Tibetan. This stone will absorb negative energies. It is a stone of vision, intuition and clarity. It is healing and soothing. Legend holds that gazing at a waxing moon while holding the stone would bring the wearer wealth if worn until the money arrived. Therapeutic properties: general healing and well-being, headaches, recuperation, absorption.
UNAKITE
This stone enhances reasoning. It creates the clarity needed to make responsible decisions. It can help with feelings of abandonment and separation issues.
ZOISITE
This stone enhances creative empowerment. This stone is valued by many artists to boost creativity.