KnowMastery Every red stone in the database, with what it is made of and what it is traditionally used for.
Red is the oldest colour in the amulet record and the one most consistently tied to blood, life and nerve. In modern practice red stones are used for drive, appetite and physical courage rather than for calm, and they sit at the root and sacral centres. Iron is behind almost every natural red, which is why so many of them are dense and hold their colour well in the light.
Chrysoberyl
Green in daylight and red under lamplight, which is why it became the stone of the two-sided life.
Worth knowing: Genuine alexandrite is rarer than diamond. Nearly everything sold under the name is lab-grown alexandrite or colour-change synthetic corundum.
Chalcedony · Mohs 7
Dark green flecked with red, an old warrior's stone tied to stamina and steady courage.
Chalcedony · Mohs 7
Burnt orange and associated with starting things. The stone of the person who keeps almost beginning.
Glass
Pink-red and cloudy, used for lifting the mood of a heart that has gone flat.
Worth knowing: Cherry quartz is manufactured glass, not a natural quartz variety. It is still popular, but it is not a mineral.
Garnet · Mohs 6.5–7.5
Deep red and tied to appetite: passion, commitment and the energy to chase something.
Chalcedony · Mohs 7
Opaque, earthy and patterned, valued for endurance rather than for any quick effect.
Carbonate · Mohs 3.5–4
Pink banded manganese carbonate, associated with tenderness towards your younger self.
Feldspar · Mohs 6–6.5
Warm orange with copper glitter, the daylight stone, carried for mood and confidence.
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.
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 →