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Crystals & Stones
Stone symbolism for grounding, clarity, love, confidence, and boundaries.
Carved meanings
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Clear Quartz
Clear quartz symbolises clarity, focus, amplification, and the clean lens of intention. Symbolically, its transparency asks what is being strengthened by your attention: a clear purpose, or confusion that has never been examined.
- clarity
- focus
- amplification
- intention
- precision
Rose Quartz
Rose quartz symbolises self-love, compassion, tenderness, forgiveness, and heart softness. Its symbolism is less about passive sweetness than about creating enough emotional safety for care, repair, and honest affection.
- self-love
- compassion
- tenderness
- forgiveness
- care
Citrine
Citrine symbolises confidence, optimism, abundance, creativity, and solar warmth. It represents the willingness to participate in opportunity with energy and self-belief, while cautioning against forced positivity or equating worth with material success.
- confidence
- optimism
- abundance
- creativity
- warmth
Obsidian
Obsidian symbolises protection, shadow, grounding, truth, and the mirror of what is hidden. Its dark reflective surface makes it a useful image for confronting what has been denied while maintaining strong boundaries around the process.
- protection
- shadow
- grounding
- truth
- boundary
Amethyst
Amethyst symbolises intuition, sobriety, dreamwork, spiritual study, and calm perception. Its violet symbolism points toward a quieter mind and reflective awareness, but also warns against using spirituality or fantasy to escape ordinary responsibilities.
- intuition
- dreamwork
- calm
- reflection
- discernment