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Clear Quartz — These are the most common and can be used for any type of scrying or gazing. Their electrical properties awaken spiritual insight and vision. A good general purpose ball.

Amethyst — the spiritual and healing stone. Amethyst is from the quartz family and is known for both its healing properties (mental, emotional, spiritual, psychic, and physical) and its ability to channel in the violet ray of highest spirituality. It’s associated with the moon, feminine energy, creativity and intuition. It’s very calming — also very expensive and harder to gaze into than clear quartz, but one of the best spheres for communication with spirit guides. They can give important information into dream activity.

Rose Quartz — the love stone. These are very loving and gentle stones to work with, good for any issue of the heart. Rose quartz will help energize and open you to the wisdom, ecstasy, and equanimity of your open heart. It’s used to help you be vulnerable, to let your distance down between people, and to feel safe. Whenever you feel the need for forgiveness in your readings, use rose quartz. One drawback in gazing with rose quartz is that it can make you feel so emotional that you can’t see past your emotions, especially if you are tired.

Smoky Quartz — the grounding and calming stone. The darker the smoky quartz, the deeper the grounding. It’s a good sphere to use with people who are overemotional or negative, or who have a tendency to throw up blocks consciously or unconsciously to psychic activity. It’s a good ball to use for clarity of dreams and for revealing an individual’s spiritual path and the best way to follow it in the physical. It’s very expensive, though.

Obsidian — Obsidian is a powerful mirror of the soul, one of the most effective for revealing what is truly reflected in the souls of others or yourself. Its blackness helps us go into the hidden places of our own minds and bring out hidden light. The stones often have concentric circles that, when focused upon, can reveal the pattern of our spiritual path and the patterns we much overcome to attain mastery. The images and visions awakened with these spheres are often blunt and always intense. They can be used for great penetration. Use an obsidian ball at Samhain for contact with your ancestors. Not considered a gazing tool for beginners.

Malachite — useful in revealing past-life connections and where present activities and patterns of behaviour are leading to the future. Also for healing issues and relationships. Good for those wishing to establish a strong connection with the earth. It can reveal the best ways of attuning to the beings and creatures of the natural world. (This includes totems, nature spirits, and devas). It can also provide insight into creativity and artistic expression. It’s a very soft stone and can be quite expensive.

Lapis, Sodalite, and Dumotierite — the psychic stones. These stones energize the third eye, the center of intuition and psychic attunement. Used for astral journeys. Lapis was so prized for these abilities that the ancient Egyptians considered it sacred. Sodalite and dumortierite have much the same feeling as lapis, but are a touch more grounding.

Yellow tiger-eye, yellow Citrine, Topaz, Ametrine, and Amber — the sunshine stones. The power of the sun is represented by all yellow stones. They can be used to reveal the brighter side of an issue, charge the reading with energy, or warm your heart.

Yellow tiger-eye — charges with sun qualities and grounds

Yellow citrine — strengthens and disperses clouds in readings

Yellow topaz — charges and lightens things up

Ametrine — mixture of amethyst and citrine, acts as a bridge to join spiritual realities with earth realities

Amber — energizes and helps in birthings, stimulates transformations, warms the heart and draws away from colder mental energies

Green Aventurine, Green Calcite, Emerald, Peridot, and Green Tourmaline — nurturing, prosperity, and abundance. Green is traditionally associated with your heart center. Rather than deal with the emotional part of the heart, green stones are used for the nurturing part of our heart, the part that relates to mother earth and all creation. Whenever you have issues in your readings having to do with money matters, or whether something will thrive, use a green sphere. Green tourmaline is useful in transforming energy states or one emotion into another. Light green spheres are useful for cooling off heated situations.

Aqua Aura, Blue Topaz, Turquoise, Blue Calcite, and Light Blue  Flourite — the sky stones. Because of their lightness and heavenly colours, the sky stones are good for lightening up anything. Use sky-stone spheres to help you uncoil tight knots of anger, lift the heavy feeling of depression, and release you from unhappiness. Unsticks readings, gives balance. Helps in communicating higher truths and visions that come from higher spirit.

Turquoise — absorbs negativity stirred up during a reading