Attributes-Amethyst:

Is an extremely powerful and protective stone with a high spiritual vibration. Its serenity enhances higher states of consciousness and meditation and enhances spiritual awareness. It is a natural tranquilizer and blocks negative environmental energies. It has strong healing and cleansing powers and is extremely beneficial to the mind. During meditation, it turns thoughts away from the mundane into tranquility and deeper understanding. On the mental level, it helps one feel less scattered and more focused. It helps assimilate new ideas, connects cause with effect, and facilitates the decision making process bringing in common sense and spiritual insights and helps put them into practice. It helps in motivation and enhances memory making one more able to set realistic goals. It can help one remember and understand dreams and facilitates the visualization process. It helps balance highs and lows promoting emotional centering, dispels anger, rage, fear, and anxiety. It supports coming to terms with loss. Because Amethyst is one of the most spiritual stones, it has the ability to promote love of the divine giving insights into its true nature, and encouraging selflessness and spiritual wisdom. It enhances intuition and if sleeping with an Amethyst, it can facilitate out-of-body experiences and intuitive dreams. It transmutes lower energies to the higher frequencies of the spiritual realms.

Healing-It boosts production of hormones and tunes the endocrine system and metabolism. It strengthens the immune system and the cleansing and elimination organs. It is a great cleanser of the blood. It eases headaches, relieves emotional, physical, and psychological pain, reduces bruising, injuries, and swelling and treats hearing problems. Amethyst has the ability to heal diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract, skin conditions, cellular disorders, regulates intestional flora, removes parasites, and encourages reabsorption of water. It treats insomnia helping bring restful sleep. It balances and connects the physical, mental, and emotional bodies linking them to the spiritual. It cleanses the aura, transmutes negative energy, and stimulates the throat and crown chakras. Amethyst is helpful for people about to make the transition through death. It can stabilize psychiatric conditions but should not be used in cases of paranoia and schizophrenia.

Placing an Amethyst point toward you will draw in energy while placing it away from you will draw off energy. It is very beneficial to wear Amethyst jewelry over the throat and heart. Placing this stone under your pillow helps insomnia and nightmares.

Violet-Lavender Amethyst-This stone has a particularly high vibration. Double terminated lilac crystals take you into beta brain waves. They can stimulate and then calm the throat and heart chakra.

Amethyst is the Birthstone for February. It is also the Zodiac stone for the constellation of Pisces.