Stones for Protection

Your best shield against negative influence in your life is your own attuned state with life.
Gemstones emit vibrations that can help you to become more attuned to those things that will make up a safe, secure environment.
 

Types of Protection
If one needs protection, the obvious question is "From What?" The need for protection assumes that there is some negative influence that has the capability to bring harm to your home, family, business, personal sense of security, happiness or quality of life. Identifying sources of harm or negative influences is an important step toward achieving a sense of security and protection.
Guarding against your inner negativity
Some people need to be protected from inner negativity. They need to be protected from themselves. These people are their own worst enemy by nurturing fear or greed or other undesirable characteristics that create a feeling of insecurity and vulnerability. For example, a man who is dishonest in his business dealings with others will distrust people and feel that he needs protection from being cheated by others. This person needs protection from his own fear and dishonesty. He needs to become more attuned to a higher ethical standard in order to be truly safe.
A person who is fearful of losing love may feel that he needs protection from being hurt by others. This can manifest itself as jealousy, or being overly possessive, or resisting any serious relationship. This person is not attuned to the other person, since their main focus is on themselves - whether they will be hurt - rather than on the person they love and what they can offer that person in the way of increased happiness. Their priorities are upside down - and such a person needs protection from their own harmful obsession with their own emotions.
They would enjoy heightened security by giving less importance to themselves and more to the people around them. As long as your attention is on YOU instead of your environment and the people in it, you are leaving yourself open to attack. This person should become more attuned to loving another as opposed to being loved.
Harm from exterior influences
There are sometimes real outside influences that mean to do us harm. Identifying people or ideas or groups who pose a threat to our happiness is vital in order to guard oneself. In this case, one would become more attuned to oneself - and notice if a particular person or environment leaves one feeling less cheerful or even 'down'.
I once worked at a job where the majority of people were mostly unhappy in their jobs. The CEO was unpredictable - threatening and dissatisfied one day and overly generous and kind the next. It kept the whole office in a state of fear. One never knew if they would have their job from one day to the next.
There was little that I could do about this situation besides leave the company (which was not realistic at the time). But I believed that I deserved security and should protect myself in some way...
A large fluorite ball on my desk did the trick to shield me from the generally disgruntled atmosphere where I worked. Fluorite makes a wonderful 'mental vacuum cleaner' - it clears the atmosphere of cluttered, confused thoughts and random negativity from varied sources. It assists in making subtle discriminations regarding the kinds of energies and people that you allow to enter your world. Though fluorite is not generally considered a protection stone, I used it effectively to guard against undesirable elements.
Often an employee (including the crazy CEO) would arrive in my office asking if they could just sit there for a minute to 'get away' from everything. My office was a little island of peace within a confused and fearful work place.
Protection from being hurt (by a lover, friend or associate):
A rhodonite sphere or stone brings reconciliation where two people have been hurting each other for a long time. It heals old wounds and scars and is sometimes called the "rescue stone". It helps to recover your unique gifts and opens your awareness to using these for the benefit of others. Classically considered a love stone, rhodonite has energy that is 'outward' focused, or the giving of love, rather than love flowing towards you (such as rose quartz or rhodochrosite).
If you feel weak...
Weakness can leave one open to attacks. When we feel weak, we are vulnerable, and the source of this is a reduction of our life force caused by a lack of self esteem, or being overwhelmed by people or situations around us.
Rhyolite fortifies your natural resistance. It will bring about an increased awareness of your own inner strength. Jasper is an excellent stone to enhance endurance and stamina. If you are working long and hard and feel you are being drained, and therefore at risk - jasper is a very effective protection stone.
When you feel the world is out to get you... If you get fearful watching the news, or feel anxious about the state of the world in general, you are probably out of harmony with yourself and your environment. Being out of harmony can leave you feeling unsafe. Things are out of balance when you see only the dangerous side of life. Because the truth is, there is much to be grateful for, and much beauty all around you.
Amazonite is the supreme harmony stone, both within oneself and with other people. It facilitates your ability to see multiple points of view on any situation. It allows you to find and know your inner truth - this in turn opens the door to finding a harmony and balance in your attunement to good and evil.
Another important balancing stone is moss agate. This stone has strong grounding energies that help you to stabilize and focus on constructive actions. It is an excellent stone for anyone recovering from an addiction as it offers protection from unstable states of mind (such as loss of self control).Know your gemstones
 
Get to know your gemstones and their various properties. Of course there are stones that are clearly protective - agate, jade, jaspers of all types, onyx, all the obsidians, turquoise, tiger eye. But you can get creative with using gemstones for protection by identifying the particular type of protection that you need and then finding a stone with the energy to combat a specific type of threat.
Protection from Evil : agate (especially Eye Agate), beryl, black tourmaline, blue chalcedony (especially evil magick), coral, garnet, herkimer diamond, malachite, pyrite, quartz, salt, sapphire, snowflake obsidian, tiger iron / mugglestone (mirrors evil & evil spells back to the sender), turquoise
 
Protection from the Evil Eye : agate (especially eye agate), cat's eye, carnelian (envious eye, evil eye), malachite, topaz
Protection from Negativity : black kyanite, black obsidian, black onyx, black tourmaline, bornite, celestite, citrine, elestial crystals, jet (absorbs negative energies), kunzite, peacock ore, quartz, smoky quartz (especially in healing)
Psychic Protection  amber (psychic shielding), amethyst (from negative psychic energy of all kinds), black obsidian, DT crystals, elestial crystals (esp psychic attacks), fluorite, jade (especially vs psychic attack), lapis lazuli, Lemurian seed crystal, moqui marbles / moki balls (esp during shamanic work), nuumite, prehnite, pyrite, ruby, seraphinite (serafina, chlinochlore), sugilite, tiger iron / mugglestone (especialy during shamanic work)
 
Protection During Channeling  Angelite, petalite
 
Protection During Astral Travel : brecciated jasper, kyanite, red jasper, yellow jasper
 
General Protection : agate, alum, amber (used extensively by Ancient Romans), apache tears, aventurine, banded agate, beryl, black agate, black kyanite, black obsidian, black tourmaline, calcite, carnelian, cat's eye, chalcedony, chrysoprase, citrine, chiastolite, coral, emerald, fire agate, flint, fluorite, fossils, gold, golden topaz, halite (rock salt crystal), heliodor (golden beryl), hematite, herkimer diamond, holey stones, honey calcite, imperial topaz, jade, jasper, jet, labradorite, lapis (lapis lazuli), lava, lepidolite, magnesite (lodestone), mahogany obsidian, malachite, marble, mookaite, moonstone, nuumite, ocean jasper, olivine, pearl, peridot, petrified wood, prehnite, pumice, pyrite, quartz, quartz crystal clusters, red jasper, ruby, rutilated quartz, salt, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, selenite, serpentine, shark teeth, snowflake obsidian, staurolite, sulphur, sunstone, tigers eye, topaz, tourmaline (red and black especially), tree agate, turitella agate, turquoise, yellow agate, yellow jasper, zircon (clear and red) 
Aura Protection (personal energy field) : fire agate, black tourmaline, labradorite, sunstone, tiger eye
Physical Protection: carnelian, agate, fluorite, peridot, sard, smoky quartz, zircon
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TURQUOISE – Turquoise in ancient Mexico was reserved for gods and not worn by mere mortals. The stone is believed to protect against demons and is thought to promote prosperity.
 
Bloodstone: Is green with red spots. Some are reddish brown with green spots .Its connected to the blood and is said to have the ability to stop bleeding. Protect against physical injury, and also can be carried for good luck and protection. It is said to help dispel demons and nightmares.
Peridot Protects entire body. Protects from demons.
 
Silver Protects from evil spirits.
Obsidian is a very shiny natural volcanic glass. When obsidian breaks it fractures with a distinct conchoidal fracture. Notice in the photo to the left how it fractures. Obsidian is produced when lava cools very quickly. The lava cools so quickly that no crystals can form.
When people make glass they melt silica rocks like sand and quartz then cool it rapidly by placing it in water. Obsidian is produced in nature in a similar way.
Obsidian is usually black or a very dark green, but it can also be found in an almost clear form.
Ancient people throughout the world have used obsidian for arrowheads, knives, spearheads, and cutting tools of all kinds. Today obsidian is used as a scalpel by doctors in very sensitive eye operations.
It reflects back to us those things we need to change, but in the most gentle and understanding manner.
reflects back to us those things we need to change, but in the most gentle and understanding manner. Snowflake obsidian, like black obsidian, is a truth-telling stone, but transmits the truth in a more gentle manner. This stone could be placed on the sixth (brow) chakra for discovering beliefs or held in the hand during meditation. Its patterns help us to recognize our own outmoded patterns of thinking and behaviors, and easily release them. Somehow, they just don’t seem so necessary anymore. As with all of the first charka stones, this is a grounding stone & is particularly protective when one is in the meditative state.Physically, it is said to strengthen the skeletal system, and the blood.
 
Crystals and stones have given their metaphysical energies to protect people forever. From amber which was used extensively for protection by the ancient Romans to golden amulets of the ancient Egyptians to modern good luck charms, many protection magic items have been made of crystals and stones of various kinds.
 
General Protection : agate, alum, amber (used extensively by Ancient Romans), apache tears, aventurine, banded agate, beryl, black agate, black kyanite, black obsidian, black tourmaline, calcite, carnelian, cat's eye, chalcedony, chrysoprase, citrine, chiastolite, coral, emerald, fire agate, flint, fluorite, fossils, gold, golden topaz, halite (rock salt crystal), heliodor (golden beryl), hematite, herkimer diamond, holey stones, honey calcite, imperial topaz, jade, jasper, jet, labradorite, lapis (lapis lazuli), lava, lepidolite, magnesite (lodestone), mahogany obsidian, malachite, marble, mookaite, moonstone, nuumite, ocean jasper, olivine, pearl, peridot, petrified wood, prehnite, pumice, pyrite, quartz, quartz crystal clusters, red jasper, ruby, rutilated quartz, salt, sapphire, sard, sardonyx, selenite, serpentine, shark teeth, snowflake obsidian, staurolite, sulphur, sunstone, tigers eye, topaz, tourmaline (red and black especially), tree agate, turitella agate, turquoise, yellow agate, yellow jasper, zircon (clear and red)
 
Protection from Evil : agate (especially Eye Agate), beryl, black tourmaline, blue chalcedony (especially evil magick), coral, garnet, herkimer diamond, malachite, pyrite, quartz, salt, sapphire, snowflake obsidian, tiger iron / mugglestone (mirrors evil & evil spells back to the sender), turquoise
 
Protection from the Evil Eye : agate (especially eye agate), cat's eye, carnelian (envious eye, evil eye), malachite, topaz
 
Protection from Negativity : black kyanite, black obsidian, black onyx, black tourmaline, bornite, celestite, citrine, elestial crystals, jet (absorbs negative energies), kunzite, peacock ore, quartz, smoky quartz (especially in healing)
 
Protection for Children : agate, jade, malachite (especially from evil eye and evil spirits), mother of pearl (newborn infants in particular), ruby (all family, including children)
 
Protection During Childbirth & Pregnancy : ammonite, chrysocolla (especially for preventing miscarriage), geodes, hematite, lepidolite, malachite, moonstone, picture jasper (during childbirth especially), rose quartz
 
Protection for Homes & Other Buildings : halite, salt, riverstone, quartz, ruby, witches fingers
 
Protection of Worldly Possessions : ruby, zircon (robbery)Protection Against Crime : Sardonyx
 
Physical Protection : carnelian, agate, fluorite, peridot, sard, smoky quartz, zircon
 
Protection During Physical Travel : amethyst, aquamarine (travel upon water), chalcedony, garnet, herkimer diamond, jet, malachite (esp when flying), moonstone (travel at sea), mother of pearl (on water), pearl (on water) rainbow moonstone, tigers eye, petalite, yellow jasper
 
Protection from Disease/Illness jade, cavansite, zircon, malachite chalcopyrite
 
 
Protection from Poison : diamond, serpentine (particularly snake venom)
 
Protection from Radiation : amber, rutilated quartz, star sapphire
 
Protection from Injury : turquoise
 
Psychic Protection : amber (psychic shielding) amethyst (from negative psychic energy of all kinds), black obsidian, DT crystals, elestial crystals (esp psychic attacks), fluorite, jade (especially vs psychic attack), lapis lazuli, Lemurian seed crystal, moqui marbles / moki balls (esp during shamanic work), nuumite, prehnite, pyrite, ruby, seraphinite (serafina, chlinochlore), sugilite, tiger iron / mugglestone (especialy during shamanic work)
 
Protection During Channeling : Angelite, petalite
 
Protection During Astral Travel : brecciated jasper, kyanite, red jasper, yellow jasper
 
Aura Protection (personal energy field) : fire agate, black tourmaline, labradorite, sunstone, tiger eye
 
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Obsidian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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