Amethyst
Healing Overview
Key Attributes: Master Healer, Spiritual Growth, Balance, Harmony, Communication, Pscyhic Gifts, Unification, Dreams, Physical Healing, Transformation
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Amethyst is one of the best-known crystals and gems, along with diamond. It is a form of quartz that comes in a range of purple shades, from lilac to deep violet. The deeper and more vibrant the purple, the more valuable it is for gem and collection purposes. It forms in cave-like structures called geodes, as points and clusters of amethyst; it is also found in cavities within volcanic rocks and has a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale. Its colour depends on the region where it grew. For instance, most people associate deep, vibrant purple with amethyst sourced from South America, especially Uruguay and Brazil. Australian amethyst tends to be more lilac and lighter in colour, although very deep purple amethyst has also been discovered. Amethyst gets its colour from gamma irradiation and traces of iron during formation, as do other forms of coloured quartz. Egyptians, Greeks, Tibetans, and others have used it across the ages for both metaphysical benefits and aesthetic appeal. Amethyst is often marketed as ‘caves’ (a rock shape formation which, when broken open, exposes multiple clusters and points), ‘Clusters’ (a fragment of a geode that contains multiple amethyst points), and 'chevrons' (normally a toothlike singular ‘point’ which has a white or paler V-shaped band running through the point). The single points can be large or small and are suitable for carving so that they can be further processed into towers and jewellery (or animals), among other uses.
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Metaphysical Attributes
Metaphysically, Amethyst is both a Master Healer and Master energy conductor with a wide range of uses and applications. It pairs well with most (if not all) other crystals. It is popular as a tumbled stone and as crystal points, wands, and pendulums. It is believed to activate and escalate healing across the mind, body, and Spirit, and is popular with people who are in the process of activating their spiritual gifts. A deeply spiritual crystal that promotes and harnesses intuitive knowledge (claircognizance) and opens the mind to the unseen workings on the spiritual plane.
Spiritual
Absent Healing: Recommended for Metaphysicians and Spiritual Healers when conducting Distant Healing or Metaphysical activities such as Psychic services over the phone or email.
Abundance: Attracts all types
Astral Travel: Promotes Interdimensional travel and recollection, especially when in the sleep state.
Aura: Purifies and clears of negativity; shields and guards against negativity.
Blocks and Barriers: Helps break down limitations of energy, thought, and emotions to break through barriers and obstacles that leave people ‘stuck’ and unable to ‘shift forward’.
Business: When starting up a new business, place in the environment to attract customers and clients.
Ceremony and Ritual: Often used in ceremonial work or placed on an altar when conducting specific higher-energy rituals.
Chakras: Activates, opens and links the crown chakra with the brow chakra.
Communication: Connect with and communicate with Celestial and Light Beings, Guides and Guardians.
Dreams: Promotes dream recollection (especially prophetic or guided, or visitation from spirit). Place under pillow when sleeping.
EMF: Place on a cellular phone or beside a computer to transmute negative radiation.
Enlightenment: Raise the personal Vibration of the aura to higher levels.
Environmental: Protection when placed around the home (doors and Windows); calms and soothes friction within the home and offers balance and healing to unstable and volatile social gatherings when placed in shared spaces.
Higher Self: Supports connection and unfication of the Lower Self with the Higher Self.
Illusion: Cuts through illusion and delusion, and helps you discern mind chatter and scripting from genuine, authentic guidance and messages.
Intuition: Opens, activates and enhances.
Love: Fosters receptivity to Universal and Divine Love and encourages sharing that love with others.
Manifestation: Supports manifestation of wealth and abundance (or love).
Master Healer: Recommended for use for all health conditions, usually in tandem with other crystals.
Meditation: Helps to still the mind for more effective meditation and assists in ‘going into the meditative state ’; recommended to hold when doing transcendental meditation.
Negativity: Clears and transmutes negative, heavy energy into lighter, more loving energy.
Prophecy: Connects to Higher Beings to receive prophetic information.
Protection: Wear as an amulet to protect against unwanted energy transfer and Psychic Attack. Recommended for Metaphysicians and Healers (who can also place it in their healing rooms).
Purification: Purifies the aura and environment, and clears and recharges other crystals.
Psychic Gifts: Promotes and enhances the ‘Clairs ’ and understanding of messages.
Rebirth: Promotes a spiritual rebirth and new beginnings, especially when a person has been ‘stagnant’ or ‘stuck’ for a while.
Spiritual Awakening: Activates and motivates and awakens the 'soul'.
Spiritual Development: Motivates and promotes a desire to develop intuitive and psychic gifts and gain acess to Higher Wisdom.
Spirituality: Nurtures, nourishes, and sustains the energy body.
Symbolism: Promotes reliable interpretation of symbolism,
Tranquillity: Promotes peace and tranquillity; recommended for wear during high-stress times, and to calm energy in shared living spaces.
Transmutation: Transmutes negative and lower energies into higher, more positive vibrations.
Violet Flame: Use when anchoring the Violet Ray and when working with its properties, to energise and expand the flame.
Wisdom: Connects to Higher Self Aspect, to integrate higher knoweldge and guidance into practical application on the Earth Plane.
Workplace: To promote a positive work environment, transmute negative energy and EMF, and to attract wealth and prosperity.
Physical
Acne: calms and Soothes, and helps to protect against.
Addictions: for impulse control and reconstruction of neural pathways. Recommended especially for food addictions.
AIDS: Recommended for wear by sufferers as part of rebuilding their immune defence and protection; promotes purification of the cellular structure.
Animals: Multipurpose healer, especially when recovering from illness; place in drinking water. (Drinking amethyst-infused water is also believed to deter fleas). May help to deter excessive barking.
Anxiety and Stress Disorders: Calms, soothes, and promotes inner peace, and eases nervous tension.
Blood: Purifies and Oxygenates, and helps balance blood sugar. Acts as an antioxidant.
Brain: Neural function, including processing and pathways; recommended for people with neurological disorders, including Dyslexia.
Breath: Promotes healthy breathing and supports ease of comfort for the “Sacred Breath Activities.
Cancer: Use with Clear Quartz to activate Amethyst as a Master Healer treatment for Cancer and malignant tumours (recommended to be used in conjunction with GP-recommended treatments).
Childbirth: Wear or keep in birthing room as part of pain management.
Children: All-purpose healer for all health conditions. Wear as a Talisman to guard against headaches and growing pains. Place in bedroom to guard against night terrors (NOTE: sometimes it can prompt astral travel in children, in which case replace it with sodalite).
Chlamydia: Use in conjunction with other therapies to promote and fast-track recovery.
Detoxification: Purifies blood and acts as an antioxidant; wear as an amulet to guard against intoxication (when drinking) and to treat hangovers.
Diabetes: Recommended for Diabetics to stabilise blood sugar (wear as an amulet).
Ears: Recommended for people with Hearing Loss or disorders. May offer protection against swimmer’s ear (wear a tumbled stone – salt water and chlorine can damage your amethyst over a longer period of time).
Endocrine System: Promote healthy function, balance, and rejuvenation. Balance Hormone Production.
Eyes: Guard against eye strain when working on the computer (Place next to the computer).
Headaches: Wear or hold to relieve headache and migraine symptoms. People with frequent episodes of migraines or cluster headaches are recommended to wear as an amulet to guard against.
Healing: Master Healer for all ailments, associated with healing at the cellular and DNA level (and auric level).
Immune System: Promotes healthy immune function; recommended for people with thyroid dysfunction and to guard against bacterial and viral infections.
Infection: Promote healing and recovery, from bacterial or viral infections.
Metabolism: Promotes healthy metabolic function, including repair of cellular imbalances.
Mobility: Promote and relieve pain associated with mobility issues, including the skeletal structure and muscular system. Recommended for people with Multiple Sclerosis.
Nervous System: Promote healthy function of the neural pathways to limbs, muscles, and peripherals. Recommended for people living with Multiple Sclerosis.
Posture: Strengthens and supports the skeletal and muscular systems.
Protection: Wear as an amulet to guard against physical danger, or when travelling in high-risk and dangerous areas. If you work in a dangerous environment, you can also wear it as an amulet.
Revitalisation: Energise and revitalise, and overcome lethargy and procrastination.
Sleep: Promote healthy sleep, and protect against nightmares, night terrors and sleep apnoea when placed by the bedside.
Sleeping Sickness: Boost recovery by wearing as an amulet alongside GP-recommended treatments.
Thoughts/Beliefs
Alcoholism and Addiction: Motivates healing and recovery, and finding new healthy stress relief measures.
Anxiety and Stress Disorders: Develop a strategy to manage stress, calm the mind, and support cognitive development.
Burdens: Lift burdens with new ways of thinking and recognition that everything is perfect for here and now.
Clarity: Helps you see clearly when analysing problems, including the undercurrents and what lies beneath the surface.
Discernment: Helps distinguish between real guidance, truth, and honesty and the false or figmentary.
Focus and Concentration: Helps you focus and concentrate by stilling the mind. Recommended for students and teachers (or when learning anything new to embed as knowledge).
Goal Setting: Planning and implementation, particularly for manifestation.
Inner Child: Promotes recognition that reactions are rooted in childhood wounds, and any ‘errors’ are products of our environment. As adults, we can change.
Insight: Builds core understanding of motivations of self and others.
Karma: Builds understanding of karma and cycles of cause and effect, including when exploring current problems.
Learning: Integration of new information for practical application.
Meditation: Promotes the ability to sustain the meditation state and induces relaxation, peace, and calm.
Mind Chatter: Supports rescripting negative mind chatter and converting it to positive, beneficial for people working with affirmations.
Speech: Strengthens verbal articulation and oratory abilities. Recommended as a talisman when debating and exploring different sides of an argument.
Personal Development: Motivates the inner desire to maintain integrity—walking the talk.
Problem Solving: Opens the mind to new ideas, opportunities, and solutions.
Thoughts: Provides clarity through calming mind chatter and repatterning thinking and beliefs.
Trauma and Recovery: Heals emotional wounds.
Trust, Faith and Hope: Rebuilds after loss and betrayal and promotes acceptance and non-resistance to change.
Emotions
Addictions: Provides impulse control and helps manage cravings.
Anger: Calms and soothes, rebalances, and redirects to creative outlets.
Anxiety and Stress Disorders: Calms, soothes, and promotes inner peace.
Artists: Promotes creativity and helps break through creative blocks such as writer's block.
Behaviour: Supports impulse control and emotional regulation.
Compassion: Builds compassion for self and others.
Emotional Intelligence: Supports understanding emotions, responses, and reactions, and managing emotional reactivity in healthy and helpful ways.
Emotional Turmoil: Calms inner turbulence and allows problem resolution from a space of calm and love.
Fears: Transmutes irrational fears into positive ones of strength and resilience.
Guilt and Shame: Heals and puts into perspective.
Happiness: Attracts and promotes receptivity
Peace and Serenity: Instils feelings of harmony and peacefulness.
Perception: Expands sensory awareness and recognition of emotional state.
Self-Awareness: Understanding of self and any triggers to emotional state (and how to manage them).
Sleep: Promotes healthy sleep, which is emotionally restorative.
Self-Love: Opens to reclaiming the Inner child and motivates taking responsibility for feelings of self-love
Crystal Care
With a hardness of 7 on the Mohs Scale, Amethyst is well suited to carving and is found in a variety of shapes and forms dependent on the size of the crystal points (and can be massive- especially the ones from Brazil and Uruguay). Generally speaking, Amethyst carvings are very durable and can withstand a certain amount of scratching, although if you have amethyst jewellery, it is not recommended for wear in water. Amethyst is also heat-sensitive and can change colour with exposure to the elements. Left in the Australian sun, it will lose its colour and brilliance, and chemicals can also damage the crystal's structure. When exposed to heat, it turns brown or yellow and is sold on the market as Citrine. (Genuine citrine is pale yellow - not the burned orange colour). The biggest risk to amethyst is breakage of the points, often from mishandling or from placing crystals inside geodes or on clusters for cleansing and recharging. Clusters and open geodes can gather dust, and it's tempting to wash them or hold them under running water. This isn't helpful to the cluster because prolonged washing can cause points to fall off the main structure. A better option is to keep it protected from dust; if that isn't possible, use an aerosol air duster to blow it off and keep the points vibrant.
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