KnowMastery The stones traditionally chosen for abundance & money, what each one is used for, and how to look after it.
The money stones are the yellows and the greens, and the tradition around them is unusually practical: citrine and pyrite in a till or a wallet, jade and aventurine for steady rather than sudden fortune. Citrine's nickname, the merchant's stone, is centuries old. Note that most commercial citrine is heat-treated amethyst, which changes nothing about the tradition but is worth knowing before you pay for a large piece.
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.
Beryl · Mohs 7.5–8
Green beryl, the stone of loyalty and the long view of love rather than the first spark.
Jadeite / Nephrite
Carved for four thousand years in China and in Mesoamerica as the stone of a well-lived life.
Worth knowing: Jade is two different minerals: jadeite and nephrite. Both are genuine jade. Serpentine, aventurine and dyed quartz are frequently sold as jade and are not.
Quartz (chalcedony)
Clear chalcedony with green mineral growth inside that looks like moss. The gardener's stone.
Worth knowing: The green is not plant matter. It is chlorite or hornblende that grew in dendritic, plant-like shapes.
Quartz · Mohs 7
Green quartz flecked with mica, carried for luck of the ordinary, unspectacular kind.
Iron sulfide · Mohs 6–6.5
Brassy gold cubes, fool's gold, traditionally the stone of nerve in money matters.
Tradition is more specific about method than most articles let on. Grounding and protection stones are held or placed rather than worn. Sleep stones go on the nightstand, not under the pillow where they get lost. Throat stones are worn at the neck. Money stones go where the money is handled. Pick one rather than a handful: the consistent instruction across the literature is that a single stone with a stated intention beats a pocketful without one.
If you would rather describe the feeling than pick from a list, the crystal finder starts from what you need and works backwards to the stone.
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 →