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Sand Dollars (skeleton of starfish or sea lily)
Legend says they represent the wounds of Christ. Looks like the star of Bethlehem, a symbol of peace. When broken open, five doves are set free to bring peace and goodwill to the world. Another legend is they are the coins of mermaids washed up on the shore after they have dropped them.

Sapphire
Known as the wisdom stone. Calms the mind and releases unwanted thoughts and tension. It aligns physical, mental and spiritual confusion. It can attract gifts of all kinds, brings prosperity.
Healing – Calms over active body systems, regulates glands. Heals eyes by removing impurities. Treats blood disorders, strengthens veins.
Blue – seeks spiritual truth with love and purity. Transmutes negative energies. Helps to express yourself by speaking your truth.

Sapphire Star
Has a star shaped formation in its depths. A very rare stone, it opens your intuition and centering thoughts and aids in knowing others intentions.
Healing – Calms over active body systems, heals the eyes, removing stress, treats blood disorders.

Sardonyx
Sardonyx is a stone of protection and strength. It promotes integrity and virtuous conduct especially in the pursuit of career goals. Sardonyx attracts friends and good fortune. It brings lasting happiness and stability to partnerships. Supplements willpower and strengthens character. Stabilises hormones and calms aggression.

Scapolite
Helps you to delve deep within yourself so you can find solutions to present and past problems. Encourages independence, strength to make changes, stamina and clarity to reach a goal.
Healing – Cataracts, glaucoma, dis-alignment of iris, dyslexia. Treats bone disorders and constriction of veins. Increases calcium assimilation.

Scolesite
Opens channels to other worlds and ancient civilizations. Enhances team spirit in groups and organizations. Helps to get to the basis of a problem so you can regain self control and create a preferred reality.
Healing – Spinal alignment, expels parasites from body. Heals disorders related to eyes, cortex and lungs. Dissolves blood clots, clears arterial walls and enhances circulation.

Selenite
Brings clarity of mind allowing to higher Angelic understanding. Calming stone installing deep peace. It pinpoints lessons and issues that are still unfinished and how to work on them. Clears confusion and helps you to see clearly. Non-judgemental is another one of its gifts.
Healing – Aligns spinal column promoting flexibility. Neutralises poisoning from dental amalgam. Excellent for breastfeeding

Selenite Fishtail (Angel Wings)
Brings about major transformation when everything feels too difficult. Helps with abundance on all levels. Reminds us we are only limited by our own perceptions and beliefs. Placed under your pillow, it will connect you to your higher self.

Selenite Orange
Encourages a friendly, productive atmosphere. Good for persuading children to do homework etc. Encourages people to buy. Helps you to feel secure at night. Encourages creativity, pride and pleasure in work and flexibility in the workplace
Healing – Assists with food obsessions, nausea, fluid retention, hormonal imbalance, prolapsed womb.

Septarian Nodule
(Crystalline Calcite, Clay Ironstone)
Enhances the gift of speaking to audiences or individuals, in a way that they stay interested for longer. Promotes patience, endurance and tolerance. It also supports the “always be prepared” motto, so that no matter what situation presents itself, you will be able to cope.
Healing – Promotes freedom of movement of the body. Also used to treat external tumours and growths, Degeneration of bones, teeth and muscular structure.

Seraphinite
Promotes living from the heart. Can assist with looking at your life and making the changes needed.
Healing – Activates the spinal cord, release muscle tension, overcomes chills and promotes weight loss.

Serpentine
Aids meditation, opens psychic abilities. Assists in the opening of new pathways and the awakening of wisdom from past. Corrects mental & emotional imbalances.
Healing – Eliminates parasites, aids calcium and magnesium absorption. Treats hypoglycaemia and diabetes.

Shattuckite
This stone heightens your vibration. Helps you to understand and communicate what you are seeing. Clears past life curses and commands. A strong protective stone. Can be used to develop physic abilities e.g. Automatic writing, telepathy, communication with extra terrestrials.
Healing – Good for tonsillitis, clotting properties of the blood. Clears blockages from cellular structures. Elixir general tonic.

Shiva Lingham (Jasper) Ganges River India
A stone of the Kundalini. It works on the spine moving and awakening energy centers from the base to the crown. Helps you to understand and flow with the moment as it unfolds rather than pushing the tide.
Healing – Balances fluid of the body, alleviates back pain and assists alignment of the spine. Increases fertility and relieves menopausal and prostrate disorders.

Shungite (Russia)
2 billion years old. A very positive stone, bringing with it a variety of blessings and a healthy life. It has Fullerenes which have powerful antioxidants. It cleanses water then infuses it with potent healing vibrations. It has been used in Russia for a long time and is well known for its healing miracles.

Smokey Quartz
Excellent stone for grounding and protecting, especially in time of stress. Eliminates & detoxes on all levels. Relieves fear lifts depression & brings calmness. Aids acceptance of physical body.
Healing – Excellent for treating radiation related illness of chemotherapy. Promotes pain relief. Good for ailments of abdomen, hips & legs, relieves pain, headaches. Dissolves cramps, strengthens back, fortifies the nerves. Aids assimilation of minerals, regulates liquid within the body.

Sodalite
Unites logic with intuition. Stimulates pineal gland & third eye. Installs a drive for truth so you can remain true to self. It cleans electromagnetic pollution caused by computers etc. Good for group work, bringing harmony & solidarity of purpose. Stimulates trust & inter-dependence. Eliminates mental confusion, calming the mind, allowing old mental conditioning to go, leaving space for new insights. Calms panic attacks releases negative emotions of guilt, fear, control issues.
Healing – Balances metabolism, calcium deficiencies, cleanses lymphatic glands, boosting immune system. Helpful for all throat conditions, digestive disorders. Cools fevers, lowers blood pressure.

Solar Quartz
Natural quartz that is sliced from stalactites. It is an energy enhancer that connects us to spirit and harmony. It brings emotional strength and uplifting with great power and energy. It has all the properties of Quartz.

Specularite (Hematite)
Reach for the STARS. Helps to release self-recrimination about your self worth. Very grounding, allows you to see the play of your everyday life. Can manifest the things that bring you joy.
Healing – Regulates the effects of electromagnetic fields. Keep on hand and near computers etc.

Sphene
Promotes contact with all heavenly bodies in our universe. A calming crystal, good for the garden to stimulate growth of plants.
Healing – Treats muscular strains, sprains and soothes the skin. Stimulates immune system, increases red blood cells and balances red & white blood cells. Protects the teeth and gum disorders.

Spinel
Connected with energy renewal and rejuvenation. Encouragement to keep going in difficult times. Enhances positive aspects of your personality. Helps you to accept success with humility.
Red – promotes strength and vitality, arouses kundalini.
Violet – spiritual development, astral travel.
Yellow – personal power, stimulates intellect.
Orange – creativity, intuition, balance emotions.
Green- love, compassion and kindness.
Brown – cleanses the aura, grounding, connects to physical body.
Blue- communication, channelling, calms sexual desire.
Black- insights into material problems, stamina, protection.

Vitorite/Spinel – Violet Spinel/Black Biotite/Snow Quartz
Spinel stimulates vitality, strength. Biotite helps to detox body and aura to release energies. Snow quartz gives stability and stamina. Vitorite activates all chakras, encourages rise of Kundalini power. Helps you to discover your lifes purpose. This unique combination gives your spiritual protection and direction.
Healing – Rebalancing the body. Excellent for convalescence and recovery from trauma.

Spirit Quartz
This quartz has an exceptional spiritual quality. This uplifting stone radiates on a very high vibration. Promotes self forgiveness. Pinpoints karmic connections and then helps you to realign the situation in this present life. Assists in the passing from our body to the other side and also helps the ones left behind to grieve. It cleanses other crystals and enhances their energy. Instills patience and helps overcome obsessive behaviour.
Healing – Realigns cellular memory. Beneficial for detoxification, skin eruptions and fertility.

Spirit Stone
(aka Yavapai Travertine) This is called Spirit Stone by the Navajo Native Americans, because they believe history is told in its layers. It is a highly spiritual stone giving access to the wisdom of past lives. It aids in the completion of emotional cycles and allows one to keep the lessons and release the drama and ego attached to those cycles. This semiprecious stone material is from the Paleozoic Period or about 320 million years old.

Star stone Quartz
Takes you to the oneness of all things and perfect stillness. Dissolves any karma that remains from ancient Egypt. Disperses tension and anxiety. Attunes you to the healing power of nature. Makes you more sensitive to your body and to the earth. Enhances all metaphysical abilities.
Healing – Works beyond the physical level of being.

Staurolite
Known as fairy cross. Believed to be formed from the tears of fairies. Enhances and strengthens rituals. Relieves stress, depression and addictions. E.g. Smoking (understanding how the use of nicotine keeps you from your spiritual path).
Healing – Treats cellular disorders & growths. Good for fevers.

Stellerite
Aids emotional stability, change and transformation. Helps to change your reaction to responses. Change can be confronting so this crystal helps to ease into change. Even though it looks a lot like Stilbite it has a different chemical structure, which gives it different energetic properties.
Healing – Aids autism, helps the person deal with their emotions. Treats blood issues, relieves stress, aids osteoporosis, also issues caused by overly alkaline state.

Stibnite
Used wisely, it can bring to you all you desire, just make sure it’s what you want. Helps you to recognize your gifts. Assists in tie cutting from relationships past and present. Gives you the courage to say no where you have always said yes. Lets go of rigidity.
Healing – Cellular memory, the oesophagus and stomach, cold sores and infections.

Stilbite
A powerful loving and supportive energy comes with this crystal. It gives you guidance and direction on your journey, no matter where the direction.
Healing – Helps laryngitis, brain disorders, strengthens ligaments, counteracts poisoning, by removal of toxins.

Stitchtite
Brings a calming peace to it’s surroundings promoting love and understanding. Provides openness of opinion, companionship and positive behaviour for children.
Healing – Treats hernias, regeneration & elasticity of the skin, gum disease and stability of the teeth

Stonehenge Preseli (Dolerite) Wales
This stone was used in the building of Stonehenge. The Druids used them in all their healing and magical rituals.

Strawberry Quartz
Stimulates the heart center by filling the person with feelings of love. Connects to the center of the universe and brings forth information about the creation of planetary form and the reason behind it all. Guides you to live in each moment. Helps you to see the actual reasons you have chosen your reality in this lifetime. Used in Atlantis and Lemuria in healing ceremonies.

Stromatolite (fossil, one of the earliest forms of life)
Aids in the past life recall (run index finger slowly over a highly patterned large piece). Placed in the home it encourages love of family and traditions. Can help adopted people to discover and value birth roots while not rejecting their adoptive family.
Healing – Assists memory, eye problems, throat, teeth and bones. Maintains health in the older generation.

Sugilite
Teaches us to live from our truth and reminds our soul the reasons for incarnating. Answers all our ? As to “why am I here”, “where did I come from”, “who am I” & “what do I need”. Protects the soul from shocks, trauma and disappointment. Aids forgiveness and group difficulties. Encourages positive thoughts, brings light into any dark situation.
Healing – Good for pain relief, clears headaches. Treats epilepsy, autism, schizophrenia and paranoia.

Sulphur
This stone absorbs negative energies & emotions. It removes obstacles. Good for feelings of violence anger & fevers. It opens & softens stubbornness, rebellious & disobedience, stops repetitive & negative thoughts.
Healing – Good for fevers, swelling, it reduces fibrous tissue growths. Alleviates joint problems when put in bath water.

Sunstone (all colours)
Brings joy & sweetness back into your life. It lets the sun shine again in times of darkness. This is a stone to help you to unhook past connections with family. It lets you say no, removing co-dependency. A good antidepressant it lifts dark moods. Increases self worth & self-empowerment.
Healing – Stimulates self-healing, harmonises all organs, relieves rheumatism, aches and pains.

Super Seven (Sacred Seven)
Combination of seven minerals, Amethyst, Cacoxenite, Lepidocrocite, Clear Quartz, Rutile and Smokey. It never needs cleansing. It is said to produce electromagnetic waves which provide self-luminous quality, similar to the holy light which can be seen around trees and church towers. Promotes peace and harmony to guide one’s being so that a new way of thinking and doing become clear.
Healing – Used to promote telepathy, clairaudience, clairvoyance and creativity, to further healing on all levels and for healing of Earth.