• Red symbolizes: action, confidence, courage, vitality
• Pink symbolizes: love, beauty
• Brown symbolizes: earth, order, convention
• Orange symbolizes: vitality with endurance
• Gold symbolizes: Wealth, prosperity, wisdom
• Yellow symbolizes: wisdom, joy, happiness, intellectual energy
• Green symbolizes: life, nature, fertility, well being
• Blue symbolizes: youth, spirituality, truth, peace
• Purple symbolizes: Royalty, magic, mystery
• Indigo symbolizes: intuition, meditation, deep contemplation
• White symbolizes: Purity, Cleanliness
• Black symbolizes: Death, earth, stability
• Gray symbolizes: Sorrow, security, maturity

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Red gem stone properties
Red gemstones can be used to strengthen the body, promote will power and courage, add vitality, overcome sexual dysfunctions. Carry or place red gemstones around your home or office to stimulate vitality and energy.

Red gemstones:

• Red Coral
• Bloodstone
• Garnet
• Red Jasper
• Ruby
• Red Calcite

Wearing Red
Wear a red accent piece when you want to present yourself as bold and dynamic. It can boost your confidence if you are attending a function or interview where you feel unsure of yourself.
If a woman wears a red dress it usually is associated with sex appeal.

Chakra associated with Red:
Red is the color associated with the Root Chakra at the base of the spine (animal or base nature). This chakra deals with life at the level of practicality. It is responsible for maintaining the body's heat and has a relationship with the circulatory system.
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Pink symbolizes: love, beauty

Pink Energy
Pink is a combination of red and white. The quality of energy in pink is determined by how much red is present. White is the potential for fullness, while red helps you to achieve that potential. Pink combines these energies. Shades of deep pink, such as magenta, are effective in neutralizing disorder and violence. Some prisons use limited deep pink tones to diffuse aggressive behavior.

Pink provides feelings of caring, tenderness, self-worth and love, acceptance.

Put some pink in your life when you want:

• calm feelings
• to neutralize disorder
• relaxation
• acceptance, contentment

Pink gem stone properties
Pink gemstones can be used to promote love, self-worth, order and protection from violence or aggression. Carry or place pink gemstones around your home or office to stimulate love and beauty.

Pink gemstones:
Rhodochrosite
Rhodonite
Rose Quartz
Pink Opal
Pink Tourmaline
Danburite
Pink Mangano Calcite
Stilbite
Morganite
Chalcedony
Petalite
Pink Sapphire

Wearing Pink
Wear pink when you want to present yourself as a peaceful, calm person who is not threatening. The softer shades are very feminine and darker shades will alleviate feelings of friction.

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Brown symbolizes: earth, order, convention

Put some brown in your life when you want:

• a solid wholesome feeling
• to blend with the background
• a connection with natural earth and the stability this brings
• orderliness and convention

Brown Energy
Brown can mix into many surroundings. It is a mixture of red, blue and yellow and has many shades and tones - each producing a different effect. Brown can be a stabilizing color. The red in brown gives it practical energy while the yellow and blue add mental focus energies. Too much brown can make a dull effect. Brown gives a feeling of solidity, and allows one to stay in the background, unnoticed.

Some shades of brown create a warm, comfortable feeling of wholesomeness, naturalness and dependability.

Brown gem stone properties
Brown gemstones act as a grounding force and promote stability and clear thinking.

Brown gemstones:

• Tiger Eye
• Petrified Wood
• Dravite (brown tourmaline)
• Chiastolite
• Aragonite

Wearing Brown
Wear brown clothing if you want to show no direction or attitude in particular. Brown is a disguise that can be used to effectively hide your true nature. Prior to the introduction of denim, brown was the color worn by manual workers. Warm browns can be worn to exhibit a 'down to earth' feeling.

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Orange symbolizes: vitality with endurance
Orange Energy
While red is associated with fiery heat, orange is associated with the benign warmth of the sun. A dynamic color to be sure, orange offers a more thoughtful control than explosive red. Curiosity is a driving characteristic of orange, and with it comes exploration of new things.

Put some orange in your life when you want:

• to spice things up when you feel time is dragging
• to become more involved in something
• to increase creativity
• relief from things becoming too serious

Orange gem stone properties
Orange gemstones contain some of the fiery energies of red, but are gentler with a more creative spirit. They are used to promote personal power and are useful for people who could use more self esteem. Carry or place orange gemstones around your home or office to stimulate creativity, mental quickness, ability to adjust to changes.

Orange gemstones:

• Carnelian
• Fire Opal
• Sunstone
• Orange Calcite
• Tangerine Quartz

Wearing Orange
Wearing orange during times of stress, or shock can help to balance your emotions. It can bring about the willingness to embrace new ideas with enjoyment and a sense of exploration and creative play.

Chakra associated with Orange:
Orange is the color associated with the Sacral Hara Chakra (sexuality and reproduction).

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Gold symbolizes: Wealth, prosperity, wisdom
Gold Energy
The tibetan Buddhist believes in 5 sacred stones: the crystal for light, turquoise for infinity of sea and sky, coral for life and form, gold for the golden ray of the sun, silver for the light of the moon. Gold is intimately linked with Divinity and those gods associated with the Sun. It symbolizes wealth and success.

Put some gold in your life when you want:

• increased personal power
• relaxation and enjoyment of life
• good health
• success

Wearing Gold
Wearing gold in everyday life increases personal power, and promotes courage, confidence and willpower. Gold chains worn around the neck preserve health.

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Yellow symbolizes: wisdom, joy, happiness, intellectual energy
Yellow Energy
Like the energy of a bright sunny day, yellow brings clarity and awareness. The shade of yellow determines its effect: Yellow-green can mean deceit, and creates a disoriented feeling. Orange-yellow imparts a sense of establishment. Clean light yellow clears the mind, making it active and alert.

Put some yellow in your life when you want:

• clarity for decision-making
• relief from 'burnout', panic, nervousness, exhaustion
• sharper memory and concentration skills
• protection from lethargy and depression during dull weather

Yellow gem stone properties
Carry or wear yellow gemstones to promote the ability to express yourself. They are excellent stones for writers and public speakers to increase eloquence. The yellow stones stimulate movement and mental awareness. They are used to enhance decision making skills.

Yellow gemstones

• Amber
• Citrine
• Imperial Topaz
• Lemon Quartz
• Honey Calcite
• Wearing Yellow

Wear yellow to present a cheery, uplifting effect. Use it around your office to help keep a clear your mind, and improve memory and decision making.

Chakra associated with Yellow:
Yellow is the color associated with the Solar Plexus Chakra. This chakra deals with identity.

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Green symbolizes: life, nature, fertility, well being
Green Energy
Green contains the powerful energies of nature, growth, desire to expand or increase. Balance and a sense of order are found in the color green. Change and transformation is necessary for growth, and so this ability to sustain changes is also a part of the energy of green.

Put some green in your life when you want:

• a new state of balance
• feel a need for change or growth
• freedom to pursue new ideas
• protection from fears and anxieties connected with the demands of others

Green gem stone properties
Green gemstones are used to attract money, prosperity and wealth. They are balancing stones that promote growth and fertility. Carry, wear or place green gemstones around your home or office to promote balance, change and growth.

Green gemstones:

• Emerald
• Malachite
• Aventurine
• Jade
• Peridot
• Moss Agate
• Chrysoprase
• Serpentine
• Green Calcite
• Green Tourmaline
• Dioptase
• Prehnite
• Infinite Stone
• Tree Agate
• Bloodstone
• Seraphinite
• Green Chlorite
• Green Irish Blessings stones

Wearing Green
Wear green when you want to overcome a sense of thwarted ambition. Green says growth - balance - harmony. It is a color of healthy relationships.

Chakra associated with Green:
Green is the color associated with the Heart Chakra. This chakra deals with higher consciousness and love.
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Blue symbolizes: youth, spirituality, truth, peace
Blue Energy
Blue gives a feeling of distance. Artists use it to to show perspective. This is a good way to understand the energy of the color blue - it allows us to look beyond and increase our perspective outward. It contains a cool vibration that is helpful to communication.

The vibration if blue can be used to open energy flow where it is blocked. Using blue to relax will encourage feelings of communication and peace.

Put some blue in your life when you want:

• calm and relaxation to counteract chaos or agitation
• to open the flow of communication
• to broaden your perspective in learning new information
• solitude and peace

Blue gem stone properties
Blue gemstones promote peace and are used to calm ragged emotions. They are used to provide relief to people who have difficulty sleeping or who have nightmares. They offer inspiration and enhance the quality of communication.

Blue gemstones

• Sodalite
• Turquoise
• Aquamarine
• Blue quartz
• Lapis Lazuli
• Blue lace agate
• Blue Calcite
• Blue Kyanite
• Blue Apatite
• Angelite
• Dumortierite
• Chrysocolla
• Sapphire
• Blue Aventurine
• Celestite
• Blue Aragonite
• Tanzanite
• Larimar
• Hemimorphite
• Blue Halite

Wearing Blue
Wear dark blues for a stable, calm conservative feeling. All shades of blue will help to make easy communication, whether it is with yourself or others. Use blue paper for notes when you want help in remembering a speech or other information.

Chakra associated with Blue:
Blue is the color associated with the Throat Chakra. This chakra deals with communication of how we feel and what we think.

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Purple symbolizes: Royalty, magic, mystery
Violet Energy
Violet is a combination of blue and red. Red is a focusing, dynamic and active energy while blue is cooling, calming and expansive. Violet brings a new dynamic to the expansion of blue and the activity of red. Red brings practicality to the undirected expansiveness of the blue, and allows more creative energy to emerge. For this reason, violet is associated with imagination and inspiration.

Violet is an important energy for those who use blue and indigo skills in the psychic field. The red in violet offers a grounding effect.

Put some violet in your life when you want:

• to use your imagination to its fullest
• to re-balance your life
• to remove obstacles
• to calm overactivity or to energize from depression

Violet gem stone properties
Violet gemstones are associated with mysticism and purification. They are used for meditation and to sharpen psychic awareness, connection with higher self, and to increase imagination and inspiration.

Purple gemstones
Amethyst
Fluorite
Sugilite
Lepidolite
Charoite
Purpurite

Wearing Purple
Wear purple when you want to encourage fantasy, mystery and imagination.

Chakra associated with Violet:
Violet is the color associated with the Crown Chakra. This chakra is the main co-ordination center of the body and ensures you are connected to universal sources of energy.
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Indigo symbolizes: intuition, meditation, deep contemplation
Indigo is the color of the deep midnight sky. It can have a negative effect when used during a depressed state, because it will deepen the mood. Indigo symbolizes a mystical borderland of wisdom, self-mastery and spiritual realization. While blue is the color of communication with others, indigo turns the blue inward, to increase personal thought, profound insights, and instant understandings. While blue can be fast, Indigo is almost instantaneous. Inventors use indigo skills for inspirations that seem to 'come out of the blue'.

Put some indigo in your life when you want:

• to focus on personal issues
• to develop intuition
• to step outside of everyday life for a new and interesting way of viewing a problem
• solitude and inner communication

Indigo gem stone properties
Indigo gemstones open the door to the subconscious, symbolizing the bridge between the finite and infinite. They are used as a guide to cosmic knowledge. The indigo stones are indigo, sapphire, and azurite.

Indigo gemstones:

• Azurite
• Iolite

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White symbolizes: Purity, Cleanliness
White Energy
Strictly speaking, white is not a color, but the manifestation of the presence of all color - the complete energy of light. It stands for wholeness and completion. In many cultures it represents openness and truth. White has a cold quality. It can provide clarity as its energy is complete.

White has purification vibrations and can be used to clear blocks from your path.
It holds the potential to move toward every other color and this makes it a good choice for new beginnings, and development in any direction.

Put some white in your life when you want:

• to clear clutter and obstacles away
• to start a fresh beginning
• to bring about mental clarity
• purification of thoughts or actions

White gem stone properties
White gemstones are ruled by the Moon and are associated with sleep and psychic energy. They are often used for good fortune, protection after dark. The crystal amplifies the powers of other stones. Some say that because white stones contain all the colors, they can act as substitutes for stones of any color.

White gemstones:

• Crystal quartz
• White Topaz
• White Calcite
• Howlite
• Scolecite
• White Selenite

Wearing White
Wear white to impart a pure, wholesome impression. Surround yourself with white if your surroundings feel cluttered and you want to refresh your mind.

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Black symbolizes: Death, earth, stability
Black Energy
Black is not a color, strictly speaking. It is the absence of all color. When people speak of opposites, it is usually in terms of black and white. Black, and its opposite white, represent polarities. Black absorbs all aspects of light. While white reveals, black conceals. It has come to mean hidden, fearful or bad experience. It is linked to the unknown or the unseen.

In times of fear and uncertainty black contains the energy of the threatening unknown. In a positive state, black is seen as a restful emptiness into which anything may emerge and disappear once again. It is also mysterious, providing a sense of potential and possibility.

Put some black in your life when you want:

• to become inconspicuous
• to open the door to mystery
• to prepare for the unknown
• a restful emptiness

Black gem stone properties
Black gemstones symbolize self control and resilience. Black stones have protective energies in the sense that black is the absence of light, and therefore, can be used to create invisibility.

Black gemstones:

• Black Tourmaline
• Obsidian
• Onyx
• Jet

Wearing Black
Dress in black if you want to become inconspicuous. Black is also used in clothing to make a bold statement of mystery and self control. Black clothing can say "Notice me but do not intrude."

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Gray symbolizes: Sorrow, security, maturity
Gray Energy
Gray is the true neutral color. Its energy imparts void, emptiness, lack of movement, emotion, warmth and identifying characteristics. Because of this, gray can be restful. It has a detached and isolated feeling. Gray can have a cooling effect when placed next to other more vibrant colors. It has a stabilizing effect, making vibrant colors stand out while muting their vibration.

Put some gray in your life when you want:

• to emphasize your willingness to comply
• a neutral, non-invasive feeling
• to reduce the intense energy of another color
• to feel detached or isolated

Gray gem stone properties
Gray gemstones are healing stones and can assist in improving relationships toward more stability.
 
Gray Gemstones:

• Hematite
• Galena

Wearing Gray
Gray clothing suggests efficiency and is often used for this in the business world. Gray can also suggest lack of imagination, so should be used carefully. Gray will emphasize neutrality. Too much gray, or the wrong shades will suggest lack of character, initiative and detachment. Add a hint of another color to gray clothing to express efficiency with personality.

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