Amber
Fossil resin · Mohs 2–2.5
Fossilised tree resin, warm to the touch, worn for protection and vitality for millennia.
- Chakra
- Solar Plexus & Sacral
- Element
- Fire
- Zodiac
- Leo
- Care
- 💧 Brief water only
The stones assigned to fire in the five-element scheme this site follows.
Fire stones are the ones that push. In the four-element scheme they carry drive, courage, appetite and heat, and they are what tradition hands you when the problem is inertia rather than overwhelm. They are also the group to be careful with in combination: two intense fire stones together are traditionally read as too much of the same thing rather than as double the effect.
Fossil resin · Mohs 2–2.5
Fossilised tree resin, warm to the touch, worn for protection and vitality for millennia.
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.
Quartz · Mohs 7
Warm yellow quartz tied to money and nerve, and the most commonly treated stone in the trade.
Worth knowing: Most commercial citrine is amethyst that has been heat-treated to turn yellow. Natural citrine is paler and much rarer.
Garnet · Mohs 6.5–7.5
Deep red and tied to appetite: passion, commitment and the energy to chase something.
Iron sulfide · Mohs 6–6.5
Brassy gold cubes, fool's gold, traditionally the stone of nerve in money matters.
Feldspar · Mohs 6–6.5
Warm orange with copper glitter, the daylight stone, carried for mood and confidence.
Quartz · Mohs 7
Golden banded quartz with a moving stripe of light, tied to nerve that keeps its eyes open.
The elements are a balancing scheme rather than a ranking. The traditional advice is to pair rather than to stack: an air stone with an earth stone so that clear thinking has somewhere to land, a fire stone with a grounder so that drive does not become agitation. Two intense stones of the same element together are read as too much of one thing. The pairing checker applies that rule to any two or three stones you name.
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 →