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Abalone – Although Abalone is a shell, not a crystal, it does boast metaphysical properties of its own. It helps to stimulate psychic development and intuition. It resonates with all the Chakras, although more so with the Third Eye, Heart and Solar Plexus Chakras. It is associated with releasing feelings of fear and sorrow.

Aegirine – facilitates integrity and boosts self-esteem, while encouraging an understanding of one’s true self. It works to heal relationship problems and to turn negative energy into positive. This is an exceptional stone to use when one needs to feel revitalized, requires mental stimulation, or to concentrate healing energy for other stones to obtain unified effort / effect.

Agate – Agate is known for strength, harmony, courage, energy, protection, healing, and calming. Wearing Agate is believed to cure insomnia and is thought to ensure pleasant dreams. All agates have some commonality.

Some ancient civilizations believed that Agate gave them strength in battle and wore it as part of their armor. It is also considered a stone of protection and a good option for using in crystal medicine bags or personal amulet pouches. It is also used to clear all chakras from blockages.

Agate has also been known to promote marriage and relationship fidelity.

Agate, Blue – possesses all the attributes of agate (above). An excellent stone for protection, especially of children. Promotes marital fidelity and harmony. It also dispels fears and anxiety and by grounding the emotions, lessens feelings of envy.

Agate, Blue Lace – Can help one to reach extremely high spiritual spaces as this stone facilitates connection to elemental and angelic realms. Blue Lace Agate inspires loyalty and trustworthiness and is good to have when one is experiencing stressful life events or situations. The energy of this stone is most useful when used at throat, heart crown or third eye chakras.

Activating these chakras, it helps one to enter high~frequency states of awareness.

Helps to reprogram your thoughts & patterns into positive and calm thoughts and reactions as it is very good for centering and calming the user. Legend has it that agate guarded the wearer from all dangers and endowed the wearer with a bold heart. – stone of communication, calming, uplifting

Agate, Botswana – Stimulates the Crown chakra and enhances creativity. Helps one to see the “full picture” and assists in approaching problems with a positive outlook. – ameliorates stress and depression –

Agate, Brazilian – This is an Astral Travel Stone. Facilitates during, meditative states or astral projection, a path to or visitations to places that have meaning for the user. Provides protection during astral travel that can be considered to be a protective shield. Enhances and promotes success in finding lost items when used for dowsing and is a highly attractive stone to use for divining. It is cleansing and stabilizing to the “aura”. –strength, courage, calmness and critical thinking ability, enhanced concentration, confidence and an overall feeling of composure.

Agate, Crazy Lace – This agate helps bring laughter into ones life and to find fun in life and in the world. Assists one in seeing understanding and contemplating the numerous avenues available to reach extraordinary heights of awareness. A great crystal to bring ones physical state to extremely high levels and assists during bio-rhythmic lows to enhance ones physical energies. These tumbled stones have beautiful colors and pretty patterns that make these crystals very inviting to hold!! These are very popular among collectors, crystal healers and practitioners of Meditation with Crystals due to their wonderful metaphysical properties and lovely color variations!

Agate, Dark Red – Stabilizes the aura, balances the yin-yang energy and balances the physical, emotional and intellectual bodies with the etheric. bodies. In balancing the aura, it provides for a cleansing effect. which acts to smooth dysfunctional energies and to transform and eliminate negativity, Agate can be used to stimulate analytical capabilities and precision. It provides perceptiveness to situations and awakens ones inherent talents and adroitness. It is also used to produce inspiration from and connectedness with the entities
residing in the spiritual worlds. – harmony, strength, protection, perception –

Agate, Dendritic (aka Tree Agate) – Encourages one to be gentle, and to remain centered and calm during times of stress and chaos. Enhances a rapport with living things. Known for both opening and activating the Chakras. Dendritic Agate assists in gaining a connection with Nature. It is used in crystal grids for prosperity, self-discovery and good fortune. It it known for promoting inner stability, marital fidelity, and strengthens family connections. Tree Agate is also carried for safe travel. – prosperity, self-discovery, good fortune –

Agate, Fire – considered to be grounding stone, one of Fire Agate’s attributes is its ability to function as an excellent stone of protection creating a powerful shield around the body. This strong protective function, quite unlike other protection stones, enables Fire Agate to provide a protective shield that for those sensitive to it, which can be almost palpable and is quite spiritual in nature.

It is also said to send negative energy back to its origin. Its fiery energy encourages one to take action, rather than live life on the sidelines, which encourages one to strive to be the best they can be. Even though it resonates with a high vibration it has the ability to make you feel grounded and calm. It is actually credited with being quite calming, while offering feelings of safety and security. It helps you to appreciate that life is worth living and to live it to the fullest. It is also credited with stimulating sexuality and creative abilities.

Fire Agate stimulates a zest for living, awakens the lower Chakras and inspires sexuality and will. It is many times used in crystal grids addressing fear of intimacy issues and impotence. Using Fire Agate in combination with Citrine is excellent for manifesting prosperity. – progression, protection, grounding, security, action, advancing one’s inner self –

Agate, Gray – Like all agates, this stone is said to make one lucky! It also is said to bring abundance, help one to have a clear head and peace of mind while relieving stress and upset.

Agate, Moss – Helps one to experience their higher self, Nature and unconditional love. Like most green stones it also helps to increase prosperity, abundance, and healing. It is often worn or used in crystal meditation to help one to communicate with nature spirits. It helps to heal the “inner child”. – brings abundance in all forms, self-confidence, protection, cleansing –

Agate, Zebra – Hindu mystics believe that agate can help children overcome their fears learn to walk earlier and maintain their balance. This agate teaches you take action towards reaching your dreams and goals. It is known for helping you to manifest your desires and some crystal healers use this stone to help with anxiety, depression and to overcome laziness. – uplifting, aura protection, motivating, stimulates physical activity

Agatized Coral – This type of coral is a fossil in which chalcedony (a form of agate) has, over a long period of time (over 20 million years), replaced the original coral. It is a soothing and grounding stone that can bring calm and insight into areas where you sense something is not quite right but you can’t clearly bring the problem or the answer into focus. It helps one to soften negative feelings towards others and also to quiet the mind.

Amazonite – helps with logic and heals emotional trauma. Extremely soothing, and calms the mind and provides harmony and balance. This is a stone for prosperity, which is also excellent for the Heart and Throat chakras. Also credited with opening the Third Eye and enhancing intuition. Amazonite is said to attract money and luck and has been long placed over doorways of new businesses to help ensure success. This is a strong stone for communication and helps you speak the truth and communicate truth more clearly. It is also said to be especially good for using when saying affirmations as it may bring extra manifestation energy to your affirmations. Amazonite is considered to be a stress reliever, while at the same time giving the user a feeling of being energized. – soothes all chakras, integrity, enhances communication concerning love, honor, prosperity, luck –

Amber – Amber is the fossilized resin (not tree sap) from ancient forests. It is said to help one feel joy and happiness and to lighten the burdens of life. It is considered to represent a link between the plant and mineral kingdoms. With grounding energies that are also harmonizing, it easily shares its subtle vibrational powers with those working with it. Amber is said to draw out negative energies, promoting physical, emotional, spiritual and good health. Amber’s subtle energies promote patience and bolster self-esteem. Amber‘s grounding and stabilizing properties make it a calming stone that can facilitate energy balancing and cleansing. Healers often use amber to shield them and prevent them from taking on the pain of those they heal. It has also been said to bring good luck to warriors. – joy, happiness, fertility, healing, purification, soothing energy, peace of mind, patience

Amegreen – a gemstone that contains both purple Amethyst and Prasiolite (aka Green Amethyst), in a base of snow-white Quartz May assist with dreams and having a relaxed sleep. Inspires self—reliance, originality and gives one the courage to dare new things. Brings appreciation, approval and acclaim to the user. Promotes recognition of ones accomplishments and furthers the completion of it. Excellent for assisting one in expressing emotions and in facilitating accuracy and ones powers of observation.

Amethyst – Third Eye and Chakra activator, calms and soothes the mind, enhances meditation, protection from psychic attack, promotes tranquility and serenity. It is called a Stone of Contentment and is used extensively in crystal healing and has a wide range of metaphysical uses. Also used for insomnia and dream recall and can also help with homesickness. Stress reliever, and used to dispel anger, sooth irritability, balance mood swings and reduce rage, fear and anxiety. Alleviates sadness and grief, and dissolves negativity. Amethyst activates spiritual awareness, opens intuition and enhances psychic abilities. It is also called a “stone of meditation” as it assists in helping to enter a peaceful state of meditation and maintain a sense of calm and serenity. It has the reputation of being advantageous when one is embroiled in legal and financial issues. Once these issues are resolved one has a clearer path to prosperity and abundance.

One of its most popular properties has to do with indulgence. It has long been called the “sobriety stone” and the ancient Romans used to use it in wine decanters to prevent drunkenness. It is said to help with not only alcohol related issues, but also any kind of addictive behavior.

Another popular metaphysical use for amethyst is it’s ability to help one develop their psychic abilities, such as telepathy and to open communications with the Angelic Realm. A popular crystal for promoting happiness. – bestows stability, inner strength, sobriety, invigoration, calm, stability, homesickness, courage and peace –

Amethyst, Chevron – Chevron Amethyst combines the properties of White Quartz and Amethyst giving it the wonderful strengthening and enhancing qualities of White Quartz with the stress relieving qualities of Amethyst. It is known to repel and dissapate negativity of all kinds and to help with removing ones natural resistance to change.

Crystal Healers use Chevron Amethyst for its ability to create a strong healing field around the user and it’s characteristics of enhancing the immune system. It is excellent for crystals grids as it can amplify the energies necessary for manifestation, it deepens the meditative state, and increases the likelihood of visions and inspiration from the spiritual realms.

Ametrine – Ametrine is a fairly rare crystal which is a combination of Amethyst and Citrine. This combines in one stone the master healing properties of Amethyst with the happy, joyous, abundant properties of Citrine. The energy from the Citrine energy encourages that wonderful feeling of well-being and also stimulates mental focus. This is a good crystal for someone who needs encouragement to make the decisions necessary to to take control of their life. It is also used in crystal grids when making decisions on how to move forward in your personal life and what career steps to take. It is considered to be very helpful in lessening feelings of depression and encouraging feelings of inner peace and tranquility.

The combination of the Citrine with the Amethyst make this a powerful abundance stone and it is considered a good crystal to use for those seeking higher psychic awareness and spiritual enlightenment.

Andalusite – also known as “cross stone, fairy’s cross and chiastolite. This is a stone of protection, it turns dissension into harmony and is helpful when in a state of change. It can balance one’s perception and is considered an astral travel facilitator. Helps you make decisions when at a crossroads. Deflects evil eye, stimulates past memories, realignment and centering of self. – a good luck talisman, aids insight, scrying, protection stone –

Angelite – Hailed as a “stone of awareness”, angelite emanates serenity, goodness and benevolence. This crystal is said to facilitate conscious contact with the Angelic Realm. Functions as a connection for receiving love, guidance and help from those who surround on on the higher planes. Excellent for quieting one’s mind, and thoughts assisting us to embark on a peaceful meditation, deepening perception, lucid dreams and inner vision. Polarizes and aligns the physical body with the ethereal network. Provides a protective field around the environment in which it is placed. It is both a sender and receiver; telepathic communication is enhanced; helps in spiritual journeys and in astral travel, allowing for the experience of flight to be second nature.

Facilitates communication with Angels and Spirit Guides. – serenity, dispels anger, angelic communication & contact, inner peace, lucid dreaming

Apache Tears – *see also the metaphysical properties of Obsidian – Apache Tears are a variety of Obsidian, and actually are a volcanic glass. Apache Tears have traditionally been considered to be one of the tears of Native American women, mourning for the warriors driven by cavalry off a cliff It is considered to be a stone of comfort and it can be used in times of mourning and in times of sorrow, allowing one to have a true understanding of distressing situations in order to provide insight and acceptance. It is a very grounding and protective stone, and it is credited with encouraging forgiveness. It is wonderful to carry this stone to ward off all types of negative energies and they are said to bolster the immune system.

Apache Tears can also credited with enhancing your logical thinking skills, this is turn can open new doors for success. It is used many times in grids for business success also. They are also said to facilitate spontaneity in many different areas in life.

Apatite, Blue -Using apatite enhances the experience of working with other crystals as it will facilitate results with greater ease. A good crystal to use when you need to take charge, are looking for inspiration, for new ideas, and for the ability of keeping focused so you can stay on task and accomplish your goals. This crystal is excellent for reaching deeper states of reflection and meditation and amplifies ones insight and powers of manifestation. It works to eliminate blockage or congestion from any of the chakras. It has been said to further the connection with UFO’s and can provide past life. It is frequently used in grids that deal with weight loss or other issues. Brings an excellent powerful energy to manifestation and meditative work and enhances the properties of your other crystals when used with them in pouches, grid work or meditating. – clairvoyance, telepathy, appetite suppression –

Apatite, Green – Green Apatite helps one to gain insight into your current circumstances and to assist with improving communication within relationships. It can bring a feeling of gratitude and the feeling of abundance flowing into one’s life. This in turn can help bring more abundance into your life as it helps to manifest the intent and vision necessary to bring abundance to you. It also assists in maintaining a clear energy field and helps one to replenish their energy level. Green Apatite is a joyful stone that can bring a sense of emotional well-being, energy and good health.

Apophyllite, Green – These crystals are referred to as “flowers” as the “tops” have pretty small sparkly crystal formations that resemble the tops of a flower cluster. The sides are smooth for the most part and light reflective with a pale green color. Apophyllite has a very appealing energy and helps one to recognize truth. It has been used to create a conscious connection between the physical form and the spiritual realm. It facilitates attunement to ones body as well as to the higher dimensional life forms. It allows one to both recognize and also to act upon the truth in all situations. – facilitates astral travel, removes jinxes, abundance, heart chakra –

Aragonite, Brown – Wonderful for healing and a really great crystal to use to help develop a more patient outlook. It is grounding and also credited with helping with focus and concentration as well as insomnia.

Astrophyllite – helps one to become more aware of, and in tune with, those around them. It opens your eyes to those things that are no longer necessary in your life and facilitates the “letting go” of these things that have now become unnecessary to your personal and spiritual growth. It also helps you to see and appreciate your full potential.

Atlantisite – (also known as Tasmanite) gets its lovely green color from Serpentine in combination Stichtite. This stone only comes from a a small hilltop in Zeehan, Tasmania and also includes chromite and magnetite. It can be used in a crystal grid or medicine bag to bring joy, bring inner peace and to balance mood swings. It promotes a sense of calm and balance to any space it is brought into and helps one to inspire confidence and flexibility in ones thinking.

Auralite 23 – is a powerful healing crystal. It enhances intuition, heightens awareness & provides insights into truth.

Aventurine, Green – It is considered to be a stone of Luck and Chance. It clears and activates heart chakra so this stone is used in areas pertaining to love. Calms irritation and anger. Shields against those who would “tap-in” and use the energy of another. Reinforces ones decisiveness and amplifies ones leadership abilities, and is excellent for clarity and peace of mind. Aventurine is also a grounding and shielding stone, helps to bolster ones “decisiveness” while assisting you to see previously unseen possibilities and alternatives.

Facilitates in balancing the alignment of the intellectual, emotional, physical and auric bodies. It enhances prosperity and career success. Facilitates clarity in visions and mysticism. Can diminish anger, tantrums and nervous energy. – insomnia reliever, love, appetite suppression –

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Barite – Barite is all about love, friendship, harmony and can be helping in identifying areas where a relationship may need some work. It can release painful feelings and emotions allowing for calm and self-assurance to follow. It is said to help one recover from addictions, remove toxins from the body and to enhance intuition. It is a great crystal to have in a group setting as it facilitates the concept of teamwork.

Native American folklore says that spirit warriors would return at night and carve and scatter barite roses.

Bloodstone – considered to be a healing stone. During the Middle Ages bloodstone was thought to have the ability to bring rain, greater consciousness, harmony and serenity. It is sometimes call the Stone of Courage. It is a stone of renewal – mental, physical and emotional and is said to aid in repairing of relationships. It is also considered to be a prosperity stone. Helps overcome anger, enables forgiveness. –prosperity, sharpens telepathy, abundance, wealth, eases emotional and physical stress, promotes safe journey –

Bronzite – Known as the ‘Stone of Courtesy’, bronzite is said to enhance your state of assertiveness yet strengthen non-judgmental discernment. Bronzite is known to aid in situations where decisive action is needed in your life. Bronzite is said to aid in seeing ‘the big picture’ and empowering you to make difficult choices where you may normally feel reluctant, non-objective, or even powerless to do so otherwise.

Buddstone – is also commonly referred to as African Jade. Buddstone is said to allow us to connect with the nature spirits especially with those associated with trees and plants. Helps one to strip away illusion and recognize flaws in self and others.

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Cacoxenite – Known as a Stone of Ascension, Cacoxenite is believed to raise the spiritual awareness of the human race and to provide a loving and ethereal connection between all of the universe. It encourages awareness of the significance in random events to guide us on the right path, and in sensing the essence of the Creator in the beauty of nature and the kindness of people

Cacoxenite is said to be a mineral for bringing good to one’s life. It encourages one to see the positive, beneficial and constructive forces in all events and situations, and to use discretion based on wisdom and discernment. Cacoxenite is also a major mineral in the Super Seven crystal, also known as Melody Stone or Sacred Seven.

Calcite – A calming stone, its influence is said to help you look within to determine if some of the aspects of your life are in need of change. Calcite can help you make the transitions between a stagnant or negative situation to a more positive one. Calcite is an aid to perception, allowing you to see things more clearly and to see reality in a new way. Its subtle energies help balance the spiritual and physical aspects of yourself, promoting a more harmonious way of life.

Calcite has long been believed to aid memory. By helping you remember important information at critical times, it can allow you to gain more insight from your personal experiences, and often prevent you from repeating mistakes. This crystal is an excellent aid for meditation by promoting a peaceful state of mind. It is also used to facilitate astral projection and other forms of non-physical exploration. Calcite is strongly recommended for those in the healing profession. – Clarifies imagery, vision, recall, astral travel, meditation, harmony, sharpens mental clarity, memory booster –

Calcite, Blue – is for healing and purification, soothing nerves and lifting anxieties. It is credited with strengthening communication, soothing the emotions and creativity. If you have a sensitive nature, blue calcite is a good choice to protect you from stronger emotions and currents around you. Calcites are a good general stone for all types of healing. Blue Calcite is especially good for issues relating to the Throat Chakra. – healing, emotional protection, creativity, recalling and enhancing dreams, gentle, soothing, relaxing –

Calcite, Green – Is a mental healer that restores balance to the mind. It aids in communication and encourages a negative situation to have a positive outcome. Good for motivation and dissolves rigid beliefs and restores balance to the mind. – abundance, fertility, prosperity –

Calcite, Orange – helps to integrate the spiritual realm with the physical body, enhances creativity. Use to energize the Root and Sacral Chakras. These crystals will bring positive energy to sexuality and will, and also happen to be helpful with emotional issues. Orange Calcite balances the emotions, is used to overcome depression, to release fear and enhance creativity. Using Orange Calcite in combination with Citrine is excellent for manifesting prosperity.

Calcite, Pink Mangano – This crystal is an energy amplifier. Its energy when directed inward clears and activates all of the chakras. In addition to the metaphysical properties of others calcites, Pink Calcite helps to nurture love and compassionate feelings in ourselves and in others around us. – love, romance, companssion, Chakra clearing –

Calcite, Tri-color – Considered to be a purifying stone, it is excellent for keeping negativity at bay, both in oneself and in your space. Wonderful for clarity, focus, learning, making this a wonderful piece for a home office or student, or to keep at work. Calcites with the color green are associated with prosperity, and all calcites can be used in healing grids. This is a wonderful crystal to boost your intuition and bring a feeling of peaceful calm.

Calcite, Yellow – This is a joyful, agile and expansive calcite. It activates the solar plexus chakra, which aids mental clarity and concentration. It will balance your will power and bring wisdom, honesty and expansion to the thought processes. Its energy is penetrating and cleansing. It is a very uplifting and joyful stone that stimulates the will.

Calligraphy Stone (Maryam Jasper) – is a mixture of fossilized shells, hematite and iron, and is helpful in contacting your spiritual guides and angels. Helps you to keep calm during chaotic situations and find solutions to seemingly impossible circumstances. It is said to help one in the practice of automatic writing and when meditated with can assist with accessing the Akashic Records. Doing so can help one with past-life recall and healing.

Chalcedony – Considered to be a nurturing stone, chalcedony is great for helping to build ones self confidence, It promotes cooperation or a feeling of teamwork with groups of people and Blue Chalcedony is wonderful for public speaking as it helps one to reflect and weigh their words before speaking them.

Charoite – found in an area of Siberia, this crystal is considered to be a Stone of Transformation, Stone of Connection and a support stone. It helps with bonding of relationships under difficult circumstances. It is also a healing stone that works to heal on physical, emotional, and spiritual healing. It is also believed to sooth nerves, help one to overcome obsessive and compulsive tendencies, and to help with insomnia. It helps one to see the good in situations and to release fears and negativity, and helps one to move forward, especially with regard to relationships as it opens the heart. – acceptance, insight, releases fear, letting go –

Chrysoberyl (Cat’s Eye) – This crystal exhibits unusual markings due to fibrous inclusions which create a lovely chatoyancy and a similarity to a cat’s eye! A good choice if you are looking for a stone to stimulate your intuition. It is also considered to be a luck and good fortune stone. It is said to help one to see through situations to gain an understanding of both sides of a disagreement to help come to the best solution possible.

Chrysocolla – Also known as Gem Silica. At the heart chakra it can help to ease emotional heartache and to give renewed strength and balance; It further increases the capacity to love. helping to sustain one during stressful and/or long-enduring situations. It allows for self forgiveness and furthers ones understanding of others.

Purifies the home and the environment and can work to eliminate negativity from within a person. It imparts energy conducive to stabilizing the home and rebuilding relationships. Instills confidence when you are paralyzed by fear in new or difficult situations. It calms your heart with when the “fight or flight” response kicks in. – tranquility, serenity, peace, subconscious wisdom, intuition, forgiveness, patience, nurturing, acceptance, tolerance, unconditional love, calmness, meditation, honesty, hope, intimacy, gentleness, sensitivity

Cinnabar – is called a Stone of Manifestation and is sometimes referred to as the Merchant’s Stone. It is considered to be a great talisman to create wealth, especially with regard to businesses. It is also used to help one overcome feelings of anger, fear and jealousy. It enhances intuitiuon and facilitates meditation. Pure Cinnabar contains mercury. Wash your hands after handling and keep in a place safe from children. Cinnabar in White Quartz is safer but it does remind us to respect the elements in the stone. It also should be kept out of sunlight.

Citrine – was a prized stone among the Celtic and Scottish people. This is a must have crystal for anyone who is a crystal healer or who creates grids for meditation. It is a great choice to keep in a personal amulet pouch or crystal chakra or medicine bag! It increases motivation and relieves feelings of inertia.

Raises self-esteem and brings about a cheerful demeanor and heightened perception. Citrine enhances creativity, promotes harmony, encourages kindness and brings wisdom. Develops inner calm and security. It has a positive influence on education, business, family, and interpersonal relations.

Helps achieve one’s destiny. It is a stone of success, Citrine attracts abundance and promotes wealth and is known for optimizing the body’s healing energy. Using Citrine in combination with Orange Calcite or Fire Agate is excellent for manifesting prosperity. – energizing, invigorating, cleansing, calming

Copper – is an excellent energy conductor! Copper is known as the “Lucky Metal” and also as the “Healing Metal”. This metal promotes channeling, and is excellent for cleansing. luck, prosperity, purification, self-esteem, communication and energy. It is also considered to be beneficial for the mind, body and spirit. It sends and amplifies thoughts, healing and gemstones’s electrical energy. This crystal is often used as the shaft of crystal wands because it facilitates the flow or energy.

Copper is believed to be very useful by Shamans and Healers as copper is a metal that balances the body’s polarities. In this way it can remove harmful blockages which are responsible for imbalances or illness. It is used to amplify and transmit healing energy and thought. Copper when used with other stones and crystals aids in the alignment of the stone’s individual energy fields and individual properties. By doing this, it enhances the properties of any crystals in, and or around it. By combining the crystals with the copper you are creating a unique balance of energy, which makes the stones’ metaphysical properties that much more available to the user.

Copper is said to conduct spiritual energy in both directions between stones, crystals, people auras, the mind, the higher realms, and spirit world. It can assist in combating fatigue and lethargy, restlessness and non-acceptance of ones self. – relieves exhaustion, cleanses, relieves exhaustion, luck, prosperity, purification, self-esteem, communication and energy, charges, builds confidence –charges, builds confidence