These earrings are designed using a variety of gemstones, pearls, shells, Swarovski glass crystals, corrals, and other unique beads. All earrings are wrapped with sterling silver wire. Over the centuries, many gemstones have been ascribed various healing and metaphysical properties. Below is a list of the stones you will find on this site as well as what they were traditionally worn for and the powers they were believed to posses.
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3686 Fresh water pearls, and assorted beads. Price: $8. |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3685 Lapis lazuli, and pearls $8 |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 0976 Amber, Turquoise, Orange Quartz, and Swarovski Crystals Price: $35 |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3663 Amethyst, Swarovski crystals, and grape beads. Price: $20. |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3655 Meditation beads, with read garnet Price: $15 |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3677 Pearls, malachite, and assorted smoky beads Price: $30 |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3659 Purple gold stone, with sterling silver chain Price: $20. |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3681 Quarts, Sardonyx, and pearls Price: $25 |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3661 Quartz, Coral, and Swarovski Crystals Price: $30 |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3638 Red coral, Swarovski crystals, and sterling sliver chain Price: $20 |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3682 Swarovski crystals, assorted beads Price: $25 |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 0979 Swarovski crystals with sterling silver chain Price: $8. |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 3664 Price: $12. Turquoise, amber, and pearls |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 0973 Price: $12. White Capiz Shell with floral print, and freshwater pearls |
 Click to Zoom SKU: 0991 White Capiz Shell with floral print, and Swarovski crystals $12.
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Folklore, Legend, and Healing Properties of Gemstones:
Agate: Agate is believed to discern truth, accept circumstances, and is a powerful emotional healer. Legend says that Agate improves memory and concentration, increases stamina and encourages honesty. Agate is said to be particularly beneficial to people born under the sign of Gemini as it helps them to remain calm and focused. It is believed to prevent insomnia and insure pleasant dreams, to enhance personal courage and protect one against danger. Agate provides a calming influence, improves perception, concentration and helps to develop and increase one's analytical talents. It is also good for gardening.
Amazonite: Enhances creative expression, aligns astral bodies, unity with life. Improves feelings of self worth. Amazonite is considered a soothing stone that offers confidence and works on the throat chakra. It is called the "hope stone" because it inspires confidence and hope. One source says it is useful to activate lazy teenagers. A semi-opaque stone that was used extensively by the Egyptians it is called the stone of courage and is said to be named after the Amazon women warriors.
Amber: Purifies body, mind, and spirit. Provides a positive, soothing energy. Spiritualizes the intellect. Powers attributed to amber include love, strength, luck, healing, and protection, calming for hyperactivity and stressed nerves, as well as promoting humor and joy. Legend says that Amber was believed to provide magicians and sorcerers with special enhanced powers.
Amethyst: Increases vivid dreams, relieves depression, promotes calm, and serenity. Helps relieve excess stress and tension, aids dream recollection, and is excellent for meditation. Throughout history amethyst has been used to guard against drunkenness and is thought to be helpful in overcoming addiction. It has been used for hearing disorders, insomnia, headaches and other pain. Some sources suggest it is used to stabilize mental disorders.
Worn to make the wearer gentle and amiable. Amethyst powers include: dreams, healing, happiness, peace, love, courage, and protection against thieves.
Aquamarine: Improves eyesight, sharpens the mind, calms and clarifies emotions Since early times, aquamarine has been believed to endow the wearer with foresight, courage, and happiness. It is said to increase intelligence and make one youthful. As a healing stone, it is said to be effective as a treatment for anxiety and in the Middle Ages it was thought that aquamarine would reduce the effect of poisons.
A legend says that sailors wore aquamarine gemstones to keep them safe and prevent seasickness.
Citrine: Helps digestion and aids in mental and intellectual functions. Increases self-esteem and energy. Balances and dissipates negative energy. This is a high positive energy stone that requires no cleansing. Citrine is a stone that is said to bring warmth, joy, and optimism. It is believed to help the heart, kidney, digestive tract, liver and muscles. It promotes creativity, helps personal clarity and eliminates self-destructive tendencies.
Coral: Helps in childbirth and adoption. Wards off bad thoughts from others and promotes a general sense of well-being.
Garnet: A highly protective stone. Garnet's powers include healing, strength, and protection and it is often worn to relieve inflammations of the skin. It is also believed to regulate the heart and blood flow and aid in curing depression. In earlier times, garnets were exchanged as gifts between friends to demonstrate their affection for each other and to insure that they meet again.
Jade: Jade’s powers include wisdom, mercy, humility, generosity, peace, and harmony. Protective and lucky when worn as jewelry. Place a bit under your pillow at night for restorative dreams. Thought to protect the kidneys, liver, spleen, heart, larynx, thymus, and thyroid. Ancient people thought that wearing jade would increase body strength and add longevity. Jade is an ancient symbol of love and virtue. In Chinese tradition a traveler was given a jade frog before embarking on a long journey to provide them protection and bring them back safely.
Labradorite: Strengthens the will, inner strength, and convictions. Aids in combating addictions. Represents the light of the universe, extra-terrestrial energy. Brings forth each person's strengths, originality, aids sleep, helps one relate to others.
Lapis Lazuli: This is an emotional healing high intensity stone which cleanses the spirit to bring out inner truth and peace. Strengthens total awareness, creativity, ESP, skeleton, thyroid, helps to expand ones viewpoint. It is believed to improve sleep and cure insomnia. During the Middle Ages, lapis lazuli was believed to maintain the skeleton in healthy condition while keeping the spirit free from the negative emotions of fear and jealousy.
Malachite: The powers of malachite are believed to be: protection, power, peace, love, and success in business. It is worn to detect impending danger, and is assumed to break into pieces when danger is near. It is the guardian stone of travelers. Promotes inner peace and hope, provides protection and security.
Moonstone: Moonstone is found in Brazil, Germany, India, Madagascar, Mexico, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and the United States. Moonstone was used in jewelry by the Romans who believed that the stone was formed from the light of the moon. Moonstone is considered a sacred stone in India. It is believed to bring good fortune, to enhance passion, and balance the yin and yang and is said to protect women and children. In early times, it was believed that one could see the future if the stone was held in the mouth during a full moon. According to legend, moonstone will ensure abundant crops. Moonstone's healing properties are said to promote digestion, to protect against epilepsy, to calm emotions, cure headaches and nose bleeds, and protect against sunstroke.
Obsidian: Dispels negativity. It said to help one to clearly see one's flaws and the changes that are necessary.
Onyx: Repels negativity, and helps overcome feelings of loneliness/alienation. Comforts in unfamiliar surroundings. Assists in the grieving process. Thought to increase regeneration, happiness, intuition, instincts. Also thought to decrease help change bad habits.
Opal: Aids inner beauty, faithfulness, and eyesight.
Peridot: Aids digestion and insomnia and increases psychic powers. It is thought to bring the wearer good luck, peace, and success,. Its powers include health, protection, and sleep. The advantages of Peridot are to attract love and calm anger while also soothing nerves and dispelling negative emotions
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Pearl: Enhances personal integrity. Cultured or freshwater pearls are considered to offer the power of love, money, protection, and luck. Pearls are thought to give wisdom through experience, to cement engagements and love relationships. They are thought to keep children safe. Early Chinese myths told of pearls falling from the sky when dragons fought. Ancient legend says that pearls were thought to be the tears of the gods and the Greeks believed that wearing pearls would promote marital bliss and prevent newlywed women from crying.
Quartz: Is often considered the greatest of all healing stones. Acts as an amplifier for psychic energy and aids meditation and visualization. Adds positive love energy to relationships. It is the stone of compassion and forgiveness. Helps clear stored anger, resentment, jealousy, and fears. Aids the kidneys and circulatory system, promotes release of impurities.
Ruby: Stimulates nurturing emotions and economic stability. Helpful for blood-related health issues, such as anemia, menstrual issues, and poor circulation.
Sapphire: Promotes light, pure emotions, purity of mind, serenity, joy, and peace. Opens the mind to beauty and love. Sapphire is believed to offer healing properties for rheumatism, colic, and mental illness. It is also considered an antidepressant and an aid to psycho kinesis, telepathy, clairvoyance and astral projection.
Tanzanite: Legend says that it was Masai cattle herders that first noticed this stone some 30 years ago after a fire caused by lightening burned areas in Tanzania. The herders noticed that brown Zoiscite crystals had turned a deep blue-purple due to the heat from the fire. Because this is such a new gemstone, there is little folklore or healing properties surrounding this stone.
Tiger’s Eye: Many legends about quartz say that wearing tiger's eye (which is a form of quartz) is beneficial for health and spiritual well being. Legend also says it is a psychic protector, great for business, and an aid in achieving clarity. Clears thinking, helps in manifesting will, courage, and confidence.
Topaz: Soothes physical pain, promotes peace and calms emotions, as well as promoting forgiveness. During the Middle Ages topaz was thought to heal both physical and mental disorders and prevent death.
The Greeks believed it had power to increase strength and to make its wearer invisible while the Romans believed it had power to improve eyesight. The Egyptians wore it as an amulet to protect them from injury.
Tourmaline: Promotes self-assurance and goodwill. Helpful with verbal, speech, and throat problems. Mental peace and patience. Ancient legend says that tourmaline is found in all colors because it traveled along a rainbow and gathered all the rainbow's colors. Tourmaline is believed to strengthen the body and spirit, especially the nervous system, blood, and lymph. It is also thought to inspire creativity and was used extensively as a talisman by artists and writers.
Turquoise: Attracts friendships, luck, and happiness. Releases shame and guilt. Turquoise attracts money, success and love. Its powers include protection, healing, courage, friendship, and luck. Relaxes the mind, and eases mental tension. Turquoise is sacred to many Native American's and was carved in the shape of animals and birds. These carvings were placed in the Indians tombs to attract beneficial spirits and to guard the dead. Turquoise was also used by medicine men for healing and by warriors who fixed turquoise to the end of their bows to insure accurate shots.