Cancer birthstone Healing Crystals A-Z

There’s a theory that your birthstone crystals can be more effective at helping you to heal than other crystals so if you want to take this approach try the following:

Amber

  • Promotes personal power and confidence. 
  • Is a good choice if you are looking to find the motivation to start a new relationship.

Aquamarine

  • Calms and focuses the mind, soothes fears and helps you to interpret your feelings. 
  • Is a stone of courage, promoting inner strength and resilience while encouraging you to embrace change. 
  • Helps you to break free of self-defeating habits.

Blue Aventurine helps to soothe an overactive mind, alleviating stress by promoting mental clarity and inner peace.

Blue Calcite soothes the nerves and releases negative emotions like anxiety. 

Blue Chalcedony is helpful if you are looking to cope with grief because it has a calming effect on intense emotions.

Brecciated Jasper is a grounding stone that can help you maintain self-discipline.

Carnelian

  • Brings acceptance of the circle of life and death and the emotional strength you need to bear the weight of grief or loss. 
  • Will give you the bravery you need to face big challenges. 
  • Encourages self-acceptance and stimulates courage and motivation.
  • It can help you to be less fearful of death. 

Chalcedony is a nurturing stone that has a calming effect on intense emotions.

Chrysocolla

  • Calms the mind and helps you to make sense of your thoughts, offering a sense of renewed strength, especially useful during times of change. 
  • Can bring order, calm and tranquillity and help you to accept changing situations. 
  • Encourages you to face up to the truth about yourself, drawing out any feelings of guilt and any negative emotional programming. 
  • Encourages self-awareness and inner balance and bestows confidence and sensitivity.

Chrysoprase promotes acceptance of yourself and others, encourages hope and openness to new situations.

Emerald

  • Provides a sense of clarity and supports you to overcome adversity, encouraging you to enjoy life to the fullest. 
  • Aligns the chakras, bringing balance and contentment. 
  • Opens the heart to both giving and receiving love, promotes unconditional love, compassion, romance, kindness and forgiveness.

Fire Agate

  • Has a calming, grounding energy that will help you to feel safe and secure. 
  • Dispels fear and promotes deep inner security, supporting you at difficult times. 
  • Can help with cravings, impulses and destructive desires.

Green Aventurine is a heart healer, dissolving negative emotions and encouraging you to feel more in control.

Green Calcite can help you to stabilise your mind, enabling you to concentrate on one thing at a time instead of paying minimal attention to competing thoughts.

Howlite

  • Calms anxiety, relieves stress and reduces extremes, soothing an overactive mind.  
  • Helps to quieten the inner critic, bringing compassion and patience, reducing stress and other negative emotions.
  • Calms turbulent emotions and cuts the ties to past experiences so they are no longer triggers. 
  • Promotes trust, love and understanding.

Jasper

  • Sustains and brings tranquillity and a sense of wholeness. 
  • Helps you to feel safe and stable and bestows the gift of self-confidence.

Leopardskin Jasper overcomes guilt, fear and emotional stress, bringing calm and tranquillity. 

Mookaite

  • Encourages a desire for new experiences and bestows the calm you need to face them.
  • Provides support and comfort during stressful times bringing a sense of inner calm.
  • Aids in decision—making, helping you to see all the possibilities and choose the right one.

Obsidian will help you to feel safe and protected, encouraging you to recognise your own strength and power.

Opal

  • Promotes balance and harmony. 
  • Brings a sense of protection to those who find they are lost to people-pleasing anxiety.

Peach Calcite soothes emotional wounds and tension, promoting acceptance, peace and tranquillity.

Pearls

  • Soothe and calm the mind, reducing stress and anxiety. 
  • Carry a nurturing energy that encourages emotional stability and a gentle sense of calm.

Picture Jasper strengthens the resolve to give up smoking.

Pink Aventurine is associated with the Heart chakra, bringing emotional calm and a sense of well-being and comfort.

Pink Calcite (Mangano Calcite)

  • Releases fear and grief so that your heart is not trapped in the past. 
  • Encourages self-worth and alleviates tension and anxiety.

Pink Opals support emotional healing by calming the heart and dissolving stress.

Red Jasper

  • Builds courage, endurance, and strength, helping you to get to grips with problems and to act with determination. 
  • Promotes thought before action, helping you to understand the consequences of your behaviour. 
  • Brings the balance, stamina and courage needed for self-discipline. 
  • Boosts self-confidence and self-esteem, encouraging you to adopt a positive outlook on life. 
  • Encourages you to have strong boundaries and to nurture yourself first so that you can give love to others.

Rhodonite

  • Is calming, reducing anxiety, fear, and panic – helpful if you suffer from panic attacks. 
  • Promotes unconditional love, compassion, peace and forgiveness making building and maintaining healthy, loving relationships easier. 
  • Brings clarity of thought and promotes self-love, boosting self-confidence.
  • helps to balance the Heart chakra, helping you to process and then, when the time is right, to let go of the emotional pain and trauma tied to loss.

Rose Quartz

  • Is known as the crystal of universal, unconditional love, helping you to find self-love and self-worth and open your heart to others. 
  • Is an emotional healer, calming, reassuring, especially in a crisis.
  • Soothes and calms and reminds you to be kind to yourself - particularly helpful during the bargaining stages of grief when you can experience guilt and self-blame. 

Ruby

  • Can help to heal your heart when it has been deeply wounded. 
  • Supports confidence, passion, and courage, increasing motivation and emotional strength. 
  • Is good for releasing blocked emotions and deepening existing love.

Silver Leaf Jasper will help you to overcome any tendency of putting other people’s needs above your own. It will encourage you to express your needs so that as well as providing support to others, you can receive the nurturing that you need.

Snowflake Obsidian

  • Is a grounding stone that supports you to overcome fear so that you can take action. 
  • Brings balance during times of stress, helping to quiet the mind and release negative thought patterns. 

Sunstone

  • Encourages optimism and enthusiasm, reversing feelings of failure and improving self-esteem and self-worth. 
  • Encourages independence and improves self-esteem, supporting you to say ‘no’ when you mean ‘no’, without fear of consequences.

Tourmaline (Pink)

  • Helps you to understand that it’s necessary to love yourself before you can attract love from others. 
  • Inspires trust in love, re-assuring you that it is safe to love.
  • Promotes peace and relaxation.

Turquoise

  • Is a stone of peace and serenity, promoting inner calm even at difficult times.
  • Encourages clear thinking and life-affirming behaviour patterns.
  • Gifts you the courage to own your voice. 
  • Dissolves self-sabotaging patterns or feelings of victimhood. 

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