KnowApophyllite
Phyllosilicate
Glassy clear pyramids that grow on basalt, kept for the sense of a room being aired out.
- Element
- Spirit
Crystal database · Colour
Clear Crystals
Every clear stone in the database, with what it is made of and what it is traditionally used for.
Clear stones hold no colour of their own, and that is the whole point of how they are used: as amplifiers and cleansers rather than as stones with a message. Clear quartz is the default, Herkimer diamonds are the bright end of the same mineral, and selenite is a different mineral altogether that happens to look similar and behaves very differently around water.
5stones listed
1safe in water
1keep out of water
4with a full guide
Fluorite
Fluorite · Mohs 4
Banded purple, green and blue. The desk stone, associated with order and clear thinking.
- Element
- Air
- Care
- 💧 Brief water only
Herkimer Diamond
Quartz
Doubly terminated quartz from Herkimer County, New York, so clear it was mistaken for diamond.
Worth knowing: A Herkimer diamond is quartz, not diamond. It sits at 7 on the Mohs scale rather than 10.
- Element
- Spirit
Selenite
Gypsum · Mohs 2
Translucent white gypsum, used to clear rather than to add. It dissolves in water.
- Chakra
- Crown
- Element
- Spirit
- Care
- 💧 Keep dry
Clear Quartz
Quartz · Mohs 7
The blank stone. It holds no agenda of its own, which is why it is used to strengthen whatever sits beside it.
- Chakra
- Crown
- Element
- Spirit
- Care
- 💧 Water safe
No guide on site yet What it pairs with
Why the colour matters
Colour is the fastest way into the correspondence system, because the chakra scheme is itself colour-coded, and most traditional associations follow the colour rather than the mineralogy. It is also the least reliable guide to how a stone must be treated: two stones of the same colour can be a hard silicate and a soft copper carbonate, and only one of them survives a rinse. Each card above carries its own verdict, and the safety checker has the full reasoning.
Other colour groups
Fact and tradition, kept apart
The mineral family, the Mohs hardness and the water verdict on each card are checkable physical fact, drawn from standard mineralogical and gemmological references. The chakra, element and purpose associations are tradition, published across the modern crystal-healing literature and offered here for reflection rather than as fact. Nothing on this page is medical advice. Browse the full database →