Crystal Description – Page T
Tektite
► Attributes: Black / dark brown, green (Moldavite). Glassy.
► Energy: Because of its extraterrestrial origin, Tektite is believed to enhance communication with other worlds.
► Spiritual: Encourages absorption & retention of higher spiritual knowledge. Forms a link between creative energy & matter. Helps release undesirable experience, remembering lessons learned & those conducive to spiritual growth. Takes you deep into the heart of matter, promoting insight into the true cause & necessary action. Placed on third eye, opens communication to other dimensions.
► Physical: Placed on chakras, Tektite balances the energy flow & may reverse chakra that is spinning the wrong way. Strengthens the Biomagnetic sheath around the body. Traditionally Tektite is worn as talisman for fertility on all levels. Balance male & female energies. Reduces fevers. Aids capillaries & circulation, Prevents the transmission of diseases.
► Elements: Silicon Dioxide (SiO2)
► Crystal Structure: Tetragonal
Tiger's Eye - Gold
► Attributes: Brown-yellow, pink, blue & red. Banded, slightly shiny.
► Energy: Combines the energy of the Earth & Sun, drawing high spiritual energy that is nevertheless grounded.
► Spiritual: Placed on the 3rd eye, it enhances the psychic abilities. Shows the correct use of power.
► Mental: Assists in accomplishing goals. Differentiates between wishful thinking & what you really need. Aids in collecting scattered information to make a coherent whole. Assists in resolving dilemmas & internal conflicts. Useful in healing mental disease & personality disorder. Supports an addictive personality in making changes.
► Emotional: Energizes the emotional body. Alleviates depression & lifts moods.
► Physical: Protective stone, wards off ill wishing & curses. Placed on naval, it is excellent for people who are spaced out. Anchors change in physical body. Treats eyes & aids night vision. Heals throat & reproductive organs. Helpful in repairing broken bones.
► Elements: Quartz in strips connected by layers of Asbestos & Hornblend - SiO2
► Crystal Structure: Tetragonal
Tiger's Eye (Blue Falcons Eye)
► Attributes: Brown-yellow, pink, blue & red. Banded, slightly shiny.
► Energy: Calming & releases stress; also invigorates the body.
► Spiritual: Soaring above the world, falcon’s eye aids vision & insight. It enhances psychic abilities such as clairvoyance. Placed in wealth corner in the house, it attracts abundance.
► Mental: Aids the overanxious, quick tempered & phobic. Particularly good for dissolving restrictive & negative thought patterns & ingrained behaviour. Negates pessimism & the desire to blame others for problems of your own making.
► Emotional: It also brings to the surface long concealed emotions & dis-ease from the present or past lives. Placed on the 3rd eye, it aids in traveling back to the source of an emotional blockage, assisting in past life regression.
► Physical: Clears the energy of all the chakras. Slows the metabolism, cools an overactive sex drive & dissolves sexual frustrations. It improves circulatory system, bowels & legs.
► Elements: Quartz in strips connected by layers of Asbestos & Hornblend - SiO2
► Crystal Structure: Tetragonal
Topaz
► Attributes: Golden-yellow, brown, blue, blear, red-pink & green. Transparent, pointed crystal.
► Energy: Mellow energy, directed to where it is needed most.
► Spiritual: Helps shed light on the path. Brings trust in the universe that enables you to ʺBeʺ rather than ʺDoʺ. Brings energy of joy, generosity & abundance. Can speed up spiritual development.
► Mental: Cuts through doubts & uncertainty. Extremely supportive of affirmations, manifestation & visualization. Makes you confident & philanthropic. Wanting to share your good fortune & sunshine all around. Promotes openness, honesty & self-realization & self-control. Makes you aware of the life lessons learnt.
► Emotional: Known to bring love & good fortune.
► Physical: It soothes, heals, stimulates, recharges, re-motivates & aligns the meridians of the body. Combats anorexia. Restores the sense of taste. Fortifies the nerves & stimulates the metabolism.
► Elements: Aluminium Fluosilicate - Al2SiO4(F,OH)2
► Crystal Structure: Orthorhombic
Tourmaline
► Attributes: Black, brown, green, pink, red, yellow, blue, watermelon, blue-green. Shiny / opaque, long striated or hexagonal.
► Energy: Cleanses & transforms dense energy into lighter vibes.
► Spiritual: Shamanic stone that brings protection during rituals.
► Mental: Aids in understanding oneself & others. Promotes self-confidence & diminishing fear. Attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance & prosperity. Balances the right - left hemispheres of the brain & transmuting negative thought patterns into positive ones. Helps to overcome paranoia & dyslexia.
► Emotional: Red, yellow & brown tourmaline are Beneficial for sexuality & emotional dysfunction that lies behind the loss of libido.
► Physical: Natural wands useful to clear the aura, remove blockages, disperse negative energy & point to solutions for specific problems. Has a strong affinity to the “Devic” energies & is extremely beneficial to the garden & plants. Natural pesticide.
► Elements: Iron, Aluminium, Magnesium Borosilicates.
Repeating Unit-(Al,Fe,Li,Mg,Mn)3 (Al,Cr, Fe,V)6(BO3)3(Si,Al,B)6O18(OH,F)4
► Crystral Structure: Rhombohedral - Trigonal (Most complicate silicate group–27 combinations)
Tourmaline Pink
► Attributes: Black, brown, green, pink, red, yellow, blue, watermelon, blue-green. Shiny / opaque, long striated or hexagonal.
► Energy: It works like an aphrodisiac that attracts love in the material & spiritual world.
► Spiritual: Inspires the trust in love.
► Mental: Teaches that it is important to love oneself before you can hope to be loved by others. Provides assurance that it is safe to love and share. . Attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance & prosperity. Aids in understanding oneself & others.
► Emotional: Assists in sharing physical pleasure. Disperses emotional pain & old destructive feelings through the heart chakra, which it cleanses & synthesizes love with spirituality. Connects one to wisdom & compassion & stimulates receptivity to healing energies
► Physical: Promotes peace & relaxation. Balances dysfunctional endocrine system & treats heart, lungs & Skin.
► Elements: Iron, Aluminium, Magnesium Borosilicates.
Repeating Unit-(Al,Fe,Li,Mg,Mn)3 (Al,Cr, Fe,V)6(BO3)3(Si,Al,B)6O18(OH,F)4
► Crystral Structure: Rhombohedral - Trigonal
(Most complicate silicate group–27 combinations)
Turquoise
► Attributes: Turquoise, green or blue. Opaque, often veined.
► Energy: Protective stone & historically been used as an amulet.
► Spiritual: Placed on the 3rd eye, enhances intuition & meditation. On the throat chakra, it releases old vows, inhibitions & prohibitions. Explores past lives & shows how the creation of your fate is ongoing & is dependent in what you do at each moment.
► Mental: Promotes self-realization. Assists in creative problem solving. Calms the nerves during public speaking. Dissolves martyred attitude or self-sabotage. Instills inner calm while remaining alert.
► Emotional: It is believed to change color to warn of danger of infidelity. Stabilizes mood swings. Stimulates romantic love.
► Physical: It is a purification stone, dispels negative energy & clear electromagnetic smog. Strengthens meridians of the body & subtle energy fields. Enhances physical & psychic immune systems.
► Elements: Hydrous phosphate of Copper & Aluminium - CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8·4H2O
► Crystal Structure: Triclinic