Chalcedony Crystals and Their Healing Properties

What is Chalcedony?

Chalcedony is a natural form of silicon dioxide and a cryptocrystalline variety of Quartz.  Known for its nurturing and harmonising energy, Chalcedony is widely used in healing jewellery and crystals to promote emotional balance, vitality, and physical well-being.
 

Chalcedony Associations

• Chakras:  Sacral Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra
• Zodiac:  Cancer, Virgo, Sagittarius, Aquarius
• Numerical Vibration:  9
• Typical Colours:  White to grey, greyish-blue, or brown ranging from pale to nearly black.  Chalcedony has a waxy lustre and may be semitransparent or translucent.
   

Healing with Chalcedony

Chalcedony promotes:

♥ Emotional Balance ♥ Vitality ♥ Stamina ♥ Endurance ♥ Energy ♥ Intensity ♥ Hardiness ♥ Nurturance ♥ Generosity ♥ Liveliness ♥ Kindness ♥ Charity ♥ Friendliness

Chalcedony is a nurturing stone that encourages brotherhood and goodwill.  It absorbs negative energy, bringing mind, body, emotions, and spirit into harmony.  This stone instills benevolence, alleviates hostility, transforms melancholy into joy, eases self-doubt, and promotes openness and enthusiasm.  Chalcedony also absorbs and dissipates negative thoughts, emotions, and bad dreams.
 

Physical Benefits:

Chalcedony improves mineral assimilation, combats mineral buildup in veins, and lessens the effects of dementia and senility.  It boosts physical energy and supports healing of the eyes, gallbladder, bones, spleen, blood, and circulatory system.
 

Colour Healing with Chalcedony

Specific colours of Chalcedony also have additional attributes:
 

Blue Chalcedony

• Chakras:  Throat Chakra
• Planet:  Moon
• Element:  Water

Blue Chalcedony is a creative and communicative stone, enhancing mental flexibility, verbal dexterity, and memory.  It supports language learning, improves self-perception, and encourages optimism.  It aids regeneration of mucus membranes, strengthens the immune system, has anti-inflammatory effects, lowers temperature and blood pressure, and supports lung and respiratory health.

Other Varieties of Chalcedony

• Agate (concentrically banded varieties)
• Onyx (flat layered/banded varieties)
• Bloodstone
• Blue Lace Agate
• Botswana Agate
• Carnelian
• Chrysoprase
• Dendritic Agate
• Jasper
• Mookaite
• Moss Agate
• Petrified Wood
• Sardonyx
• Tiger Eye