jasper

Powers & Magickal uses: Healing, Protection, Health, Beauty. Red Jasper: Energy type: Projective. Associated element: Fire. Used to return negative energy to the sender. Green Jasper: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Earth. Used as a health talisman, and to promote quality sleep. Brown Jasper: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Earth. Used for centring and grounding after magickal rituals. Mottled Jasper: Energy type: Projective. Associated element: Air. Used for protection against drowning. Jet Black fossilised wood, sometime called Witches' amber. Powers & Magickal uses: Protection, Anti-nightmare, Luck, Divination, Health. Energy type: Receptive. Associated elements: Earth, Spirit. Used to absorb negative energies, to prevent nightmares, and to aid divination. Witches sometimes wear it in a necklace of alternating amber (representing the Goddess) and jet beads. Lapis Lazuli Rare and expensive blue stone with gold flecks. Powers & Magickal uses: Healing, Joy, Love, Fidelity, Psychic, Protection, Courage. Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Malachite Powers & Magickal uses: Power, Protection, Love, Peace, Business success. Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Earth. Used to increase your sending power during rituals. Obsidian Powers & Magickal uses: Protection, Grounding, Divination, Peace. Energy type: Projective. Associated element: Fire. Often cut into polished flat sheets for use as a scrying mirror. Onyx Powers & Magickal uses: Protection, Defensive magick, Reducing sexual desires. Energy type: Projective. Associated element: Fire. Be wary of having too much onyx in the house as it can reduce your sexual desires to a dangerously low level, thus preventing the natural release of emotional energies. Quartz Powers & Magickal uses: Protection, Healing, Psychism, Power, Lactation. Pure (Clear) Quartz: Energy types: Receptive, Projective. Associated elements: Water, Fire. Used to unblock energy centres and aid the body's natural healing process. It is also used in the tips to wands, as a scrying tool, and as representations of the God & Goddess on the altar. There however hundreds of other uses for this versatile crystal. Blue Quartz: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Used to promote peace and tranquillity. Green Quartz: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Used to increase wealth. Rose Quartz: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Used to open the heart chakra, and to promote peace and harmony. Rutilated Quartz: Energy type: Projective. Associated element: Fire. Used to increase personal energy during rituals. Smokey Quartz: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Used for grounding, and to overcome depression. Tourmalated Quartz: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Used to aid astral projection if placed under the pillow at night. Ruby Deep red crystal, similar to quartz. Quality ruby is very expensive. Powers & Magickal uses: Wealth, Protection, Joy, Anti-nightmare. Energy type: Projective. Associated element: Fire. Can be used for scrying, attracting wealth, and promoting happiness. Sodalite Powers & Magickal uses: Healing, Peace, Meditation, Wisdom. Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Used to reduce stress levels and lower blood pressure. Sugilite Powers & Magickal uses: Psychism, Spirituality, Healing, Wisdom. Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Used during meditation to increase spiritual awareness. Tigers Eye Powers & Magickal uses: Money, Protection, Courage, Energy, Luck, Divination. Energy type: Projective. Associated element: Fire. Used to increase self-confidence, and to counteract stress related problems. Tourmaline Powers & Magickal uses: Love, Friendship, Money, Business, Health, Peace, Energy, Courage, Astral Projection. Pink Tourmaline: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. To attract lovers and promote friendship. Red Tourmaline: Energy type: Projective. Associated element: Fire. Used to increase personal energy during rituals, and to increase courage. Green Tourmaline: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Earth. Used to attract wealth and stimulate creativity. Blue Tourmaline: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Used to reduce stress. Black Tourmaline: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Earth. Used to absorb negativity. Watermelon Tourmaline: Energy type: Projective & Receptive. Associated elements: Fire, Water. Red and pink tourmaline encased in green tourmaline! Used to balance the energies within the body. Tourmalated Quartz: Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Water. Used to aid astral projection if placed under the pillow at night. Turquoise Powers & Magickal uses: Protection, Courage, Money, Love, Friendship, Healing, Luck. Energy type: Receptive. Associated element: Earth. Suggested further reading Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem, and Metal Magic Scott Cunningham Essential to any practising Wiccan Every time I'm preparing myself afor a spell I look through this book, triple checking that I have the correct stones for the job at hand. I also found the color section at the beginning very useful. The only bit of criticism I have is that there weren't very many actual spells in the book but if you're just looking for help with making your own spells then this is the book for you!

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you interested in growing crystals, but unsure where to start? This is a list of the best crystal growing projects for beginners or anyone seeking top crystals projects based on simplicity, safety, and great results.

1. Crystal Window "Frost"

Anne Helmenstine

This non-toxic crystal "frost" grows on windows (or a glass plate or mirror) in minutes. The project is easy and reliable and produces interesting results...... you interested in growing crystals, but unsure where to start? This is a list of the best crystal growing projects for beginners or anyone seeking top crystals projects based on simplicity, safety, and great results.

 

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candy crystals that you could eat

How To Grow Sugar Crystals - Make Your Own Rock Candy

Rock candy is made from crystals of sugar.

Laura A., Creative Commons

It's easy to grow your own sugar crystals! Sugar crystals are also known as rock candy since the crystallized sucrose (table sugar) resembles rock crystals and because you can eat your finished product. You can grow beautiful clear sugar crystals with sugar and water or you can add food coloring to get colored crystals. It's simple, safe, and fun. Boiling water is required to dissolve the sugar, so adult supervision is recommended for this project.

Difficulty: Easy

Time Required: a few days to a week

Here's How:

1. Gather your materials.
2. You may wish to grow a seed crystal, a small crystal to weight your string and provide a surface for larger crystals to grow onto. A seed crystal is not necessary as long as you are using a rough string or yarn.
3. Tie the string to a pencil or butter knife. If you have made a seed crystal, tie it to the bottom of the string. Set the pencil or knife across the top of the glass jar and make sure that the string will hang into the jar without touching its sides or bottom. However, you want the string to hang nearly to the bottom. Adjust the length of the string, if necessary.
4. Boil the water. If you boil your water in the microwave, be very careful removing it to avoid getting splashed!
5. Stir in the sugar, a teaspoonful at a time. Keep adding sugar until it starts to accumulate at the bottom of the container and won't dissolve even with more stirring. This means your sugar solution is saturated. If you don't use a saturated solution, then your crystals won't grow quickly. On the other hand, if you add too much sugar, new crystals will grow on the undissolved sugar and not on your string.
6. If you want colored crystals, stir in a few drops of food coloring.
7. Pour your solution into the clear glass jar. If you have undissolved sugar at the bottom of your container, avoid getting it in the jar.
8. Place the pencil over the jar and allow the string to dangle into the liquid.
9. Set the jar somewhere where it can remain undisturbed. If you like, you can set a coffee filter or paper towel over the jar to prevent dust from falling into the jar.
10. Check on your crystals after a day. You should be able to see the beginnings of crystal growth on the string or seed crytal.
11. Let the crystals grow until they have reached the desired size or have stopped growing. At this point, you can pull out the string and allow the crystal to dry. You can eat them or keep them. Have fun!
12. If you are having trouble growing sugar crystals, you may want to try some special techniques. A video tutorial showing how to make rock candy is available, too.

Tips:

1. Crystals will form on a cotton or wool string or yarn, but not on a nylon line. If you use a nylon line, tie a seed crystal to it to stimulate crystal growth.
2. If you are making the crystals to eat, please don't use a fishing weight to hold your string down. The lead from the weight will end up in the water -- it's toxic. Paper clips are a better choice, but still not great.

What You Need

• 1 cup water
• 3 cups table sugar (sucrose)
• clean glass jar
• pencil or butter knife
• string
• pan or bowl for boiling water and making solution
• spoon or stirring rod

 

how gem stones get there color

How Gemstones Get Their Colors Color is the most important characteristic of gemstones, though in the case of many diamonds it is the absence of color which is most important. But why do the different gemstones have different colors? What's responsible for the variation in color? Color is produced by the way a gemstone absorbs light. Light is an electromagnetic vibration at certain wavelengths, but the human eye can only perceive wavelengths between 380 and 750 nm. This is the field of the visible color spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet. If all the different wavelengths of light pass through a gemstone, it will appear colorless. On the other hand, if the gem material absorbs all light, it will be appear black. But if a stone absorbs all wavelengths except those in the red part of the spectrum, the gem will appear red. There are several different reasons why the various gemstone varieties absorb light differently. Some gemstones are said to be idiochromatic or "self-colored", meaning that they absorb certain wavelengths of light due to characteristics of their chemical structure. Peridot, which contains iron, is an example of an idiochromatic gemstone. However, idiochromatic gemstones are rare. Most gemstones are allochromatic, meaning that they are colored by impurities or trace elements in their crystal structure. For example, pure corundum is colorless. But corundum is typically red when traces of chromium are present; and blue when there are traces of titanium. We call the former ruby, and the latter sapphire. The most common trace elements in gemstones are beryllium (emerald), chromium (emerald, jade, chrome tourmaline, ruby and topaz), copper (paraiba tourmaline, turquoise, malachite), iron (yellow sapphire, aquamarine, green tourmaline, chrysoberyl, citrine, jade), lithium (green or pink tourmaline), manganese (pink tourmaline, morganite, kunzite, spessartite garnet), sulfur (lapis lazuli), titanium (sapphire) and vanadium (emerald, alexandrite, color-change sapphire). One thing you will notice from this list is that the relation between a chemical impurity and a gemstone color is not a simple one. In some cases, a similar color can result from different trace elements -- the green of an emerald can be the result of chromium or vanadium (or both). In other cases, a single trace element can produce different colors in different gem varieties. Thus chromium will produce a green color in emerald, but produce a red color in corundum. This is because there is a complex relation between the gem's crystal structure and the trace elements. This short survey would not be complete without mentioning another important way in which gemstones acquire color -- through human intervention in the form of gem treatments. Heat treatment, for example, is often used to change the chemical state of an impurity to deepen or lighten color, reduce a certain hue (such as the green tone in aquamarine), or improve clarity.

First Published: March-11-2008

How Gemstones Get Their Colors
Color is the most important characteristic of gemstones, though in the case of many diamonds it is the absence of color which is most important. But why do the different gemstones have different colors? What's responsible for the variation in color?
Color is produced by the way a gemstone absorbs light. Light is an electromagnetic vibration at certain wavelengths, but the human eye can only perceive wavelengths between 380 and 750 nm. This is the field of the visible color spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.
If all the different wavelengths of light pass through a gemstone, it will appear colorless. On the other hand, if the gem material absorbs all light, it will be appear black. But if a stone absorbs all wavelengths except those in the red part of the spectrum, the gem will appear red.
There are several different reasons why the various gemstone varieties absorb light differently. Some gemstones are said to be idiochromatic or "self-colored", meaning that they absorb certain wavelengths of light due to characteristics of their chemical structure. Peridot, which contains iron, is an example of an idiochromatic gemstone.
However, idiochromatic gemstones are rare. Most gemstones are allochromatic, meaning that they are colored by impurities or trace elements in their crystal structure. For example, pure corundum is colorless. But corundum is typically red when traces of chromium are present; and blue when there are traces of titanium. We call the former ruby, and the latter sapphire.
The most common trace elements in gemstones are beryllium (emerald), chromium (emerald, jade, chrome tourmaline, ruby and topaz), copper (paraiba tourmaline, turquoise, malachite), iron (yellow sapphire, aquamarine, green tourmaline, chrysoberyl, citrine, jade), lithium (green or pink tourmaline), manganese (pink tourmaline, morganite, kunzite, spessartite garnet), sulfur (lapis lazuli), titanium (sapphire) and vanadium (emerald, alexandrite, color-change sapphire).
One thing you will notice from this list is that the relation between a chemical impurity and a gemstone color is not a simple one. In some cases, a similar color can result from different trace elements -- the green of an emerald can be the result of chromium or vanadium (or both). In other cases, a single trace element can produce different colors in different gem varieties. Thus chromium will produce a green color in emerald, but produce a red color in corundum. This is because there is a complex relation between the gem's crystal structure and the trace elements.
This short survey would not be complete without mentioning another important way in which gemstones acquire color -- through human intervention in the form of gem treatments. Heat treatment, for example, is often used to change the chemical state of an impurity to