Amethyst is a ver popular crystal that is considered to be one of the most powerful and protective stones. It’s often used in jewelry and for healing purposes. It’s a crystal that is sought out for its stunning colors and ability to stimulate the mind and emotions. Amethyst is viewed as a semi-precious crystal in today’s time. The beauty of this stone is in its natural state, cut, or polished. Amethyst is known as a birthstone for February and Pisces. It’s also known for being the 6th anniversary of marriage gift.
Amethyst is by far my favorite crystal and I love to work with it. It was my very first crystal I purchased for myself as an adult. I actually have a few amethyst crystals on my desk and on a shelf above my desk. Its just a beautiful stone all together and one that is easy to work with.
Amethyst Healing Properties
Amethyst is known for spiritual awareness, helps with sleeping, and is used to help open your crown and third eye chakras. It has much more benefits than whats listed above.
1. It relieves stress and anxiety, soothes irritability, balances moods, helps with anger, fears, and rage.
2. It has healing and cleansing powers and helps by opening up intuition and enhancing psychic abilities.
3. Helps with sobriety. Amethyst does this by producing a calming effect to the mind and stimulating the body to help that person stay focused and aware of their surroundings.
4. Helps with insomnia and also helps with remembering and understanding dreams.
5. It helps with boosting the immune system. It will help with purify blood, emotional and psychological pain or stress.
6. Protects you from psychic attack and from those who wish to do harm on your spiritually.
Emotional Healing
Amethyst helps you maintain an emotional balance since is centers your emotions. It will give you the ability to deal with both high and low emotions. It’s helpful for the ones who experience anxiety, fear, grief, loss, sadness, and range. Amethyst also helps relieve stress by calming you. It enhances your psychic abilities and helps protect you. Since amethyst helps open up your crown and third-eye chakras, it will also stimulate new ideas and help with creativity.
Amethyst Properties
Characteristics
Colors: Violet to deep purple, green and yellow when heat treated
Structure: Hexagonal | Trigonal
Hardness: Good | 7
Energy: Amplifies and enhances
Works Well With: Tourmaline, Rose Quartz, Aquamarine, and Citrine
Correspondences
Birth Month: February
Zodiacs: Pisces and Aquarius | Also works with Virgo, Sagittarius, and Capricorn
Element: Air
Plant: Uranus
Chakras: Crown and Third-Eye
Magical Properties
Intuition, insight, insomnia, traveling, connecting to higher self and divine, creativity, manifestation, stress and anxiety, addiction, transmuting negativity, spiritual awareness and protection, emotional healing, meditation, and communication
Care & Charging
Care: Keep out of direct sunlight and keep away from strong heat. Clean with mild soap and water. Use a soft-bristled brush to clean. Air dry stone by placing it in a dry area. You can use an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner to clean your amethyst.
Charging: Moon, Water, Salt, Smoke, Sound
Sourced From
Guerrero and Vera Cruz, Mexico | Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, Bahaia, Brazil | Thunder Bay, Canada | Uruguay | North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Colorado, USA | Ural Mountains, Russia
Origin: Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, China, India, Madagascar, Mexico, Tanzania, Uruguay
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