Like all of us, Mother Nature has her grey days. When this happens, she weeps. Sometimes her tears trickle down softly, but when she sobs, we feel her reign in a full-blown torrential downpour. We always know when Mother Nature’s spirits are high again because her smile is reflected through the sun, which peaks out from behind a cloud. Once the gloominess has dissipated and the sun colors the world once again, it’s hard not to be amazed at the beauty that surrounds us. You see that rainbow peak out of the clouds and fill the sky, bringing smiles, hope and an overwhelming sense of happiness. With rainbow crystals, you have the ability to make your own rainbow, and appreciate our colorful world on a daily basis. Every time you gaze down as your rainbow stones, all those feelings will reemerge to start your day off on the right foot.
Connecting with your Rainbow Crystals
Red: Connect with the Color of Fire and Action
Red gemstones are carry strong energetic currents and their rarity makes them a great stone for embracing one’s own individuality. The fiery color red is often associated with power, vitality, and warmth. Red gemstones can be used to garner your inner strength and rejuvenate your body and spirit. Red gemstones inspire your lust for life and should be used when one aspires to accomplish some goal or fulfill their heart’s desire. Red Jasper, Red Garnet, and Mookaite are our top picks for red healing crystals. Red Jasper promotes finding your purpose in life. Is is also said to harness a focused environment allowing you to work with a clear state of mind. Red Garnet is thought to surge new life into you accentuating your attractiveness and benefiting your romantic relationships. Mookaite is a balancing stone and useful for encouraging positive outcomes in through your communication abilities.
Orange: Connect with the Color of Creativity and Passion
Orange crystals are perfect for adding a little spice to your life. The blazing color ignites your passions and stimulates creativity. They are great stones to connect with when you are going through a period of change as they enhance your ability to go with the flow. Orange Calcite, Carnelian and Sunstone are some of the most powerful orange gemstones for sacral healing and courage. Orange Calcite ebbs positive energy throughout your body and gives off a warming sensation making it a vital healing stone for your body. For a gratifying boost of energy, carnelian is a stone of courage can give you that final push of confidence needed to perform in life. Sunstone instills a sense of optimism and also brings prosperity into your life.
Yellow: Connect with the Color of Light
Yellow gemstones hold the power of the sun and inspire self-motivation and willpower. These crystals are emblematic of your youthful invigoration for life and instill you with a jovial attitude. They bring guidance and clarity of mind keeping you focused and driven. We love Citrine, Tiger’s Eye, Yellow Jasper, and Sulfur Crystals for their uplifting properties and spiritual healing capabilities. Citrine illuminates the world through its charged energy from the sun. It is a great stone of manifestation and can be extremely insightful when one is manifesting their dreams and aspirations. Like its name suggests, Tiger’s Eye is a fierce stone that draws out your boldness and connects your to the spirit of a tiger. It also serves as a barrier from negative energy, so it is wise to carry around in your pocket to ensure you are only surrounded by positive vibrations, even in scary situations. Yellow Jasper works like a rush of adrenaline through your body. The high vibrations emitted from this stone replace depressive thoughts with a more joyous, sunny disposition. Sulfur is a powerful stone for embracing your inner self and going through metamorphosis. It raises your self-esteem and reinforces your spiritual power.
Green: Connect with the Color of the Earth
Green crystals represent the promise of a fruitful life filled with peace and serenity. In additions to the harmonious and balancing properties of these crystals, the color green is also associated with wealth and prosperity making them beneficial to promoting your future endeavors. Green Jade, Aventurine, Malachite, Emerald, and Chrysoprase are some of our favorite green gemstones to better our lives. Green Jade is a wisdom-enhancing stone that increases your luck and offers you protection from harm. Of all the green gemstones, Aventurine is said to be the luckiest making it the stone of opportunity, especially in the realm of wealth. Malachite is a soothing crystal for the heart chakra and aids emotional healing. Emerald is believed to be aligned with the goddess Venus, who embodies compassion and unconditional love. This stone alleviates feelings of jealousy or envy and allow one to grow more secure with themselves. Chrysoprase infuses the environment with positivity promoting your emotional well-being and growth.
Pink: Connect with the Color of Love
Pink crystals can be used to soothe the soul. Pink is the color of love, and it symbolizes tenderness and care. These crystals bring relaxation and nurturing energy into the environment. Rose Quartz, Pink Tourmaline, Rhodonite, Pink Opal and Rhodochrosite are some of our favorite pink gemstones that offer an abundance of love. Rose Quartz connects you to your heart chakra making it one of the most powerful crystals for opening your heart to love. Pink Tourmaline brings joy and provides emotional balance. Connecting to rhodonite allows one to tap into their compassionate side strengthening your ability to forgive. Pink opal is a calming crystal that promotes self-healing of the heart, especially in time of loss. A stone of passion, rhodochrosite is believed to instill confidence and raise your self-esteem by increasing the love you have for yourself making it an emotionally healing stone as well.
Blue: Connect with the Color of the Ocean
Blue gemstones are the ideal stones for spiritual awakening and serenity. The various hues of blue have ultra calming properties, which make them great for relieving stress and anxiety. Like the changing tides of the ocean, blue gemstones can be used to restore your energetic flow at times when you’re feeling blocked. In the same way that stones like aquamarine, sodalite, lapis lazuli, and turquoise are different shades of blue, they also carry different properties from one another. Aquamarine is an energizing stone that releases stress, worries and anxiety. The vibrating blue rays of Sodalite chase away fears and encourage self-expression. Used often in the ancient Egyptian culture, Lapis Lazuli is believed to enhance your intuition and a bring you a sense of clarity making it useful for meditation. Turquoise works as a master healer. This speckled stone allows you to see beauty in everything on Earth promoting healthy relationships.
Purple: Connect with the Color of Spiritual Growth
Like the calming energy of the evening, purple gemstones are great for meditation practices. They are tools for seeking spiritual fulfillment because they offer people peace of mind due to their soothing qualities. Our favorite purple stones for meditating are amethyst, fluorite, and lilac lepidolite. With a history rooted in ancient cultures, amethyst is one of the most attractive stones for spiritual guidance. It brings a spiritual light into your world even in times of uncertainty. A dimensional stone, Fluorite is said to hold the energy of a rainbow. It has a balancing energy and encourages one to live in the moment. Lilac Lepidolite fosters one’s ability to trust and be more accepting. The natural presence of lithium in this stone make it ideal for making one feel more relaxed boosting one’s level of concentration.
So the next time Mother Nature sheds a tear and the world goes dark for a bit, be sure to celebrate the different colors of the rainbow by connecting to your rainbow crystals and gemstones. Connecting to these colorful rainbow stones instills us with their radiating energy rain or shine.
Using your rainbow crystals or rainbow stones, you can also try our Rainbow Crystal Ritual for making wishes.
