Gem Stone Pendulum

From LoveToKnow Feng-Shui

A gem stone pendulum can be multi-faceted or smooth.

Feng Shui Uses: Gem Stone Pendulum

Historically, certain properties have been assigned to gemstones based on cultural and spiritual beliefs. Many cultures revere certain gemstones as a means to communicate with the spirits of those who have died or to draw specific energies to an individual. The art of feng shui often uses gemstones to activate certain chi energies. You can use a gemstone pendulum as a feng shui enhancer in various sectors of your home. Often gemstones help attract energies that can restore the proper balance between yin and yang energies.

Gemstone Properties

Many believe that gemstones can receive, contain and even transmit certain energies that you can tap into and even use for healing. Many who work with gemstones in metaphysical fields claim that individuals are often attracted to a certain gemstone. Practitioners believe this kind of instinct is governed by the individual's chi (energy) and serves as a barometer to pick up the kind of energy best suited for the balancing of auras and charkas. Below are some of the most popular gemstones and the common properties associated with each.

Sodalite

Blue in color, usually a royal blue hue
Some varieties sensitive to UV light and may change colors or fade
Calms and enables you to analyze situations and circumstances
Best area of home for feng shui placement: knowledge sector

Amethyst

Purple quartz once prized as valuable as diamonds
Enhances spiritual energies to use during meditations
Best area of home for feng shui placement: knowledge, marriage and helpful people sectors

Agate

Quartz stone available in wide array of colors and patterns
Used as talisman in ancient time for power and to relieve stress
Best area of home for feng shui placement: meditation and relaxation or any area in need of relieving tension

Topaz

Pale yellow to deep smoky yellow
Healing of emotions and finances
Best area of home for feng shui placement: wherever balancing yin and yang energies needed

Jasper

Prominent color red with varying veins of yellow, brown, white, and hematite
Used in dowsing and divination and healing bodywork
Best area of home for feng shui placement: restoring balance of yin and yang chi

Citrine

Yellow to golden orange sometimes with dark specks or streaks of iron
Treasured Greek stone from fourth to first centuries B.C.
Bestows happiness, aids fighting addictions, improves mind
Best area of home for feng shui placement: knowledge, family/health and other sectors

Amber

Yellow to red colors, most popular honey brown, cherished gem for jewelry by Greeks and Romans
Brings luck and healing
Best area of home for feng shui placement: health/family and wealth sectors

Aquamarine

Pale blue, blue-green, dark blue
Assists newlyweds adjusting and revives older marriages
Best area of home for feng shui placement: marriage sector

Emerald

Range of green colors
Dated uses from 2,000 B.C.
Used as talisman for healing and protection against enemies
Best area of home for feng shui placement: helpful people and health/family sectors

Garnet

Wide range of rainbow colors with varying hues - pink, red, brown most popular colors
Ancient Egyptian favorite gemstone
Energy balancer and romance enhancer
Best area of home for feng shui placement: marriage sector

Hematite

Shiny and silver
Used in Egyptian tombs as ornaments
Protection and grounding
Best area of home for feng shui placement: to balance yin yang any sector

Lapis

Blue often with speck of yellow pyrite or white calcite
Treasured by ancient civilizations of Egypt and Babylon
Used for mental clarity by seers
Best area of home for feng shui placement: knowledge and career sectors

Peridot

Pale green to dark green hues
Used for protection and fame
Best area of home for feng shui applications: fame, career, children health/family, marriage sectors

Turquoise

Color range from blue to green
One of oldest valued gemstones usage dating to 4,000 B.C.
Gem of health and wealth given as gifts
Best area of home for feng shui placement: wealth, health/family and career sectors

Shopping for Gemstones

There are hundreds of places where you can purchase gemstone pendulums. There are many gemstones in addition to those listed above that you can purchase. Each gemstone has specific properties and meanings associated with them that have been handed down from one generation to another. You can even use gemstones in your feng shui application to draw these specific energies into your home and to you.