SPIRITUAL CIRCLE OF LEARNING
Lesson / Discussion Materials
Topic:
Metaphysical Properties of
Calcite
Leopard Skin Jasper
Manganite
Onyx
Rutilated Quartz
Smokey Quartz
Sodalite
Tiger’s Eye
Yellow Jasper
December 12, 2008
Presented by:
Janie M. Lancaster
Tigers Eye
Tiger's Eye draws upon the best qualities of a Tiger allowing you to absorb them into your being to get the most benefit from them.
1) Patience: A tiger can wait patiently for hours or even days until the right opportunity presents itself. In business, patience is a virtue. Often we run head long into a project without doing the proper research or learning and we find ourselves having to backtrack. Listen to the tiger and bide your time is the message tigers eye gives.
2) Focused: A tiger will stay focused on the object he desires for as long as it takes. In business, if we allow ourselves to lose focus, we allow our competition to gain a foothold and we miss opportunities to grow and increase our businesses. Tigers eye warns to stay focused on your goal.
3) Determination: A tiger is totally determined to get what he wants and needs. You must be also to be successful in your business. If you are not determined to succeed, it will not happen. Learn from the tiger. Listen to the message tigers eye brings and stay determined to reach your goal.
Tigers Eye prevents abuse of power
Tigers Eye assures the correct use of power, courage, grace and the ability to see clearly and without illusion. All of which clears the way before you to allow your success to enter your life.
Too often, those that come into money after a long lack of money in their life, tend to become abusive with the power that money brings. They tend to shun those they knew most of their life and tend to be obnoxious to servants. Tigers Eye prevents the abuse of power, leaving you better able to get along with everyone involved, which makes relationships with those that work for us much smoother.
Excellent healing stone for adults with ADD or any type of emotional disorder as it gives strength, restores balance, relieves doubt and helps you make decisions with vision and clarity. Especially helpful if you're feeling drained, overwhelmed, or unfocused.
Tigers Eye attracts money
Stimulates wealth by attracting money into the life of the wearer but at the same time, it helps you keep the wealth you have and it prevents you from becoming abusive with your money or greedy.
Take a Tigers Eye out on the night of the full moon, hold it to the moon and ask that she Bless it to draw money into your life. Allow it to sit in the moonlight as long as possible, then take it in an keep it in your pocket or purse along with your money to draw more into your life.
Tigers Eye healing stone calms the mind
Tigers Eye creates harmony in your life and is especially suited for anyone seeking peace and calm in their life.
Does your mind flit from one thought to another, making it hard to concentrate, impossible to meditate. Use Tigers Eye to ground yourself. It stills the mind and help you move deeper into meditation.
Tigers Eye healing stones Chemical Composition and metaphysical meaning
Chemical Composition: A Silicate. (Tectosilicates). A variation of Quartz
Hardness: 7
Astrological Sign: Capricorn
Vibrates to number 4
http://gemstone-dictionary.com/tigers-eye.php
Smokey Quartz
Smokey Quartz helps to calm behavior others would categorize as headstrong or willful. It gently balances and brings harmony into your life and is the perfect gemstone to help calm the thinking mind that tends to interfere with meditation.
My favorite Quartz Crystals
This is a great healing crystal to share between people in a personal relationship or any relationship that is working toward a common goal.
Having problems with anger and resentments? Then Smokey Quartz can transform those negative energies into positive ones and bring you back to the here and now.
Smokey Quartz crystals set around the office help your employees to work better together and keeps tempers under control.
A healing cyrstal to attract money
An excellent money crystal by helping you manage your money wisely and choosing those purchases that are best for you.
Keep a few smokey quartz crystals around the desk where you pay your bills to ensure everything gets paid and you don't overspend.
Smokey Quartz Crystals around the bed
A smokey quartz crystal point placed one at each of the 4 directions around your bed with the points pointing toward the center of the bed, will help with marital communication problems and help prevent back pain.
It clears up communication difficulties, and helps to dissolve mental and emotional blockages that can get in the way of perception or learning.
Aids healing of back pain or any ailments of the hands and feet. Shields you from harm by absorbing negative energies sent your way. Helps transform your wishes, dreams and desires into a reality. Opens up our psychic senses.
Quartz Crystals chemical, astrological and metaphysical properties
Chemical Composition: Silicon Dioxide
Hardness: 7
Vibrates to the numbers 2 and 8
Astrological associations: Capricorn & Sagitarrius
Quartz, Smoky
Smoky (or smokey) quartz is a grounding and stabilizing stone. It brings calm and centering, lifts depression, enhances practicality, and generally removes negative energies, bringing happiness. Smoky quartz is also a good luck stone. It can also assist in tapping subconscious wisdom. Smoky quartz is a protective stone, particularly for physical protection, protection from negativity, and psychic protection. Physically, smoky quartz is helpful for kidneys, abdomen, pancreas, reproductive organs, menstrual cramps, fertility issues, water retention. Smoky quartz is associated with the root chakra.
Calcite
Calcite comes in many colors and each color has some of it's own attributes, however, overall calcite is known as an energy amplifier. It clears and activates all the chakras and helps you remember information you learned during Out of Body experiences and during Astral Travel.
Black Calcite helps you predict and prevent problems in your life.
Blue Calcite helps you balance your emotions and remove emotional blockages that have haunted you from your past. Opens, heals and unblocks all chakras.
Brown Calcite gives you insight into truths that may have been hidden from you and opens mind to Universal wisdoms of the ages.
Green Calcite is believed to help heal bones and ligaments usually found in sports injuries or arthritis patients and is the perfect stone for osteopaths and chiropractors. It promotes healing and balances the mental energies. A good stone for persons with allergies. Also attracts prosperity and aids in growth.
Gold Calcite opens the connection to Universal energies and improves your ability to astral project, channel, communicate with your Spirit Guide and increases your psychic abilities.
Gray Calcite promotes a feeling of peace and calm in your life and allows you to see all sides of the problem from a detached point of view so you can make decisions based on logic rather than emotion.
Orange Calcite brings feelings of safety and happiness into your life.
Red Calcite is a great grounding stone and very effective at draining negativity. Gives you and overall sense of being protected, loved and emotionally connected to those around you.
Violet Calcite helps you be at peace with the universe and those around you.
White Calcite (also called Iceland Spar) improves your connection to the Universe by awakening feelings of love, faith and hope within you. Boosts your self esteem and is a great protective stone for it not only helps protect you it also increases your feeling of being protective. Place a piece on your Altar or wear while performing a magickal act will double the power of your work.
Yellow Calcite helps you learn your Life's Purpose and promotes happiness in your life.
Rutilated quartz (Angel Hair)
Rutilated quartz is a form of quartz with strands of titanium dioxide which take the appearance of strands of straw/hair within the quartz. It is a very unusual stone, when used in jewelry the unique appearance of each gemstone help make each item individual. It shares its healing properties with quartz and can be used universally.
Mystical Lore Keywords: Moves Energy
Rutilated quartz, is a type of quartz with needlelike rutile (a titanium dioxide mineral), embedded in it. The rutile needles can be reddish, which is what rutile means in Latin, or they may be golden, silvery, or on very rare occasions, greenish.
Rutilated quartz is reputed to be an energizing stone that helps get energy moving on all levels. Intuitive sources say that it assists with mental focus. It is also said to attract love and stabilize relationships. Rutilated quartz said to be particularly effective for getting things moving energetically. It can help slowed chakras return to normal spin and balance.
Emotionally, rutilated quartz is said to be very helpful in uncovering the causes of mental issues and hang-ups. It is reputed diminishes fears and be excellent at assisting with decision-making processes. It is said that it can also ease loneliness and relieve guilt thereby bringing happiness. It is used metaphysically to help one get out of a rut with their life as well as for stabilizing emotional and mental processes, clarifying thought patterns and emotional reactions. Rutilated quartz is also said to increase one's self-reliance and ability to find one's own way.
In the psychic and spiritual realms, rutilated quartz is used for meditation, spiritual communications, and dream work. It is particularly good for seeking higher spiritual experiences and meditation on feminine ideas. Rutilated quartz is also used metaphysically to deflect negative energies and unwanted energetic, psychic, and magickal interferences.
Physically, rutilated quartz is said to be beneficial for food disorders, the immune system, regeneration of tissue, fatigue, depression, respiratory illness, stability of all physical systems and general health, and absorption of nutrients from food. It is also reputed by intuitive sources to be helpful for getting energy moving in meridians and areas where the physical energy is sluggish. Rutilated quartz is also a mystical crystal "diagnostic tool" which can help discover the true cause of an ailment.
Rutilated quartz is associated with the solar plexus chakra, and is sometimes considered a link between the root and crown chakras.
Quartz, Rutilated
Rutilated quartz is said to assist with tissue regeneration, assimilation of nutrition, and slow the advancement of aging. It is also said to boost the immune system and treat respiratory illness. Rutilated quartz is also a mystical crystal "diagnostic tool" which can help discover the true cause of an ailment. Rutilated quartz is also purported to enhance mental and physical stability, self-reliance, and meditation on feminine ideas. It is reputed by intuitives and folklore to diminish fears, depression and issues with decision-making. Rutilated quartz is associated with the solar plexus chakra.
Dispels unwanted interference from both the physical and spiritual worlds.
ONYX
For those who follow the Wicca, New Age or believe in the Spirit World, Crystals, Minerals, Rocks, Semi-Precious Stones and metals can have powers for Astral Travel, Aura Cleansing, Channeling, Cosmic Awareness, Crystal Healing, ESP, Meditation, Psychic Communication, Psychic Energy and Transcendental Meditation. They also believe a crystal can have crystal magic that gives it the ability to connect to spirits, spirit guides, spiritual energy and help with channeling spirits and increase cosmic awareness.
With its powers effective in all Chakras, Onyx is a very spiritual stone. Its primary function for spiritualists is as a grounding stone that strengthens the connection of the person with the earth during meditation and astral travel to provide guidance. They also say that it can make powerful memorial jewelry that can heal the spirit during mourning. It is in tune with the Earth’s energies, balances Yin and Yang, but does not respond well to energy programming.
Mental Healing
Onyx has served as a worry stone and material for rosary beads for centuries. Crystal healers believe that it has the ability to soothe fears and worries, to control to overwhelming emotions. They say it can help a person maintain a positive outlook while awaiting the result of a source of anxiety. They also recommend it for improving concentration and devotion, calming sexual tension and ending marital disputes. The stone is also reputed to have bad mental consequences that can include depression, nightmares and losses in legal matters.
Physical Healing
New Agers use Onyx for treating glaucoma, epilepsy, hearing problems, heart trouble, ulcers and cell damage. They also recommend it for athletes, who should wear it on a necklace that reaches the Solar Plexus to increase vigor, strength and stamina. It also works on the structural and epidermal systems including bones and teeth, bone marrow and aching feet, and soft-tissues fingernails, skin and hair.
Protection-The spiritualists believe it can protect against venomous snake and insect bites, divine the future through dreams and offer general protection in times of conflict. It is a defensive magick stone.
Hebrew- Onyx was one of the twelve stones in the Hebrew High Priest Aaron’s breastplate. It is associated with the Gad Tribe of Israel and the guardian angel Gabriel. Onyx is also the Hebrew stone for July.