Can someone give me any information on gemstones and their physical and metaphysical effects? Their effectiveness? Some sort of history behind them?

Also can anyone validate through experience that hematite rings absorb negative energy and break for that reason.

I baught some gemstones, had some guy i met make me a good combination, and felt some changes within once they were in my aura. Pretty neat stuff i just wonder if anyone is knowledgable here on the topic.

Any help is appreciated.

Blessings to all.

Ugh i wish this thread wasnt moved its getting no light here.

Originally posted by 4stral4pprentice


Also can anyone validate through experience that hematite rings absorb negative energy and break for that reason.

It probably breaks because it is made of stone.
I consider gemstones to have a good placebo effect but as far as anything tangibly useful (apart from apparent beauty) I'm afraid it's all in the mind.

This is my opinion.


Take the sugar pill if it pleases you, but realise that you don't need these crutches, just your mind

Maybe some oil would help with breaking cracking issues? other than that ... stones are stones.

Gemstones can have a placebo effect. I think so, anyway.

Where I used to work people came in asking for stones for certain things. People have decided which stones are good for some things, which are bad for others.

I know most of that stuff, just because I worked with it.

But I wouldn't like... use gemstones to help a problem without actually trying to fix the problem myself.

Yup, stones are stones. Or maybe not... I have read some interesting stories about moldivite and honestly wifey won't allow it in the bedroom at night (strange dreams). Any hermatite brought into this house has broke. It is fragile, to be sure. But there is also a lot of negative in this house full of teenagers

Certain stones/gems have "felt" good to me. That's all I know. I wear an unfaceted moldavite tektite. I like it. I don't know why, I just know that I don't like being without it. Nothing bad happens on the rare occasion I take it off.

When I lived in the U.S. I had a job for money and a job for fun. I used to make jewelry and set semi-precious stones and gems. Much of it was not custom, just stuff I made and sold. Most people (this was in California) seemed to prefer silver over gold, and malachite, lapis lazuli, amethyst were very popular.

I think there might well be something to the resonating power of various minerals; I also think it's likely that I can only glimpse it.

Originally posted by aorAki

Originally posted by 4stral4pprentice


Also can anyone validate through experience that hematite rings absorb negative energy and break for that reason.

It probably breaks because it is made of stone.
I consider gemstones to have a good placebo effect but as far as anything tangibly useful (apart from apparent beauty) I'm afraid it's all in the mind.

This is my opinion.


Take the sugar pill if it pleases you, but realise that you don't need these crutches, just your mind

Or maybe since you think its impossible that rocks cant be more then just rocks that it causes a placebo effect where you don't feel anything? Or your just not sensitive to subtle energies?

I've been reading books on auras recently and it talks of how everything in our aura will effect us. I believe this to be true as i can feel when certain objects enter my auric field, such as stones. It helps to be concentrated and really relaxed.

Oh yeah! Why I didn't think of adding this experience as it happened a week or two ago I have no clue! Either way my hematite rings, which are said to absorb negative energy and break, BROKE straight off both my hands as I was walking to my homies house. O_O I was stressed for days straight during this time.

i know this thread hasn't been touched in a couple months, but OP, i just saw it on your page. and i was so disappointed that so many overlook the very real energy of crystals and minerals!

since i began working with crystals and gemstones i've made leaps in self-awareness and emotional healing. something that years of medication and therapy couldn't compare to.
this is in addition to the physical, day-to-day uses i find for them. as well as meditation, introspection, creating a stronger link between my SELF and I. yes, crystals/minerals/rocks/stones/gems/whatever you wish to call them are a big assist in my life and my S.O.'s life.
i guess my first experience with labradorite didn't hurt my acceptance of stone energy...i held it in my hand and immediately muscles in the middle of my palm (where the stone was placed) started twitching wildly! since then, i've been a believer.

i agree that the placebo effect goes both ways.
for example, hypnosis can have very real, measurable effects on a person in many ways...but it depends solely on the persons belief.
its easy to say that the placebo effect contributed to the POSITIVE results...but since there are real effects and the only real results to someone that doesn't believe it will work are that it doesn't. no effect. so which is the placebo effect? perhaps both?

and as far as stones breaking, i may be superstitious but i believe that it can mean many things and can the meaning can only be examined or known by you. i've had stones break that i viewed as a catalyst or maybe a warning of a somewhat traumatic situation and i've had stones break where i feel that they just gave all they could or wished to give.

Speaking of gemstones... Have any of you ever heard of the gem moldavite? It's some pretty interesting stuff.. or so I hear. I wish I had something to elaborate on, however, I have never experienced it personally. Perhaps someone else could.