OBSIDIAN                                            Scorpio, Sagittarius    
Obsidian is truth-enhancing.  A strongly protective stone, it forms a shield against negativity.  It blocks psychic attack and absorbs negative energies from the environment.  Obsidian draws out mental stress and tension.  It stimulates growth on all levels, urging exploration of the unknown and opening new horizons.  Brings clarity to the mind and clears confusion.  Helps you to know who you truly are.  Obsidian dissolves emotional blockages and ancient traumas.  Promotes qualities of compassion and strength.Obsidian also aids the digestion and detoxifies.  It reduces arthritis pain, joint problems and cramps.  Warms the extremities.

AGATE                                            Gemini, Virgo
Agate is an excellent stone for rebalancing and harmonizing body, mind and spirit.  It cleanses and stabilizes the aura, eliminating and transforming negativity.  Agate enhances mental function, improving concentration, perception and analytical abilities.  It soothes and calms, healing inner anger or tension and creates a sense of security and safety.
Agate heals the eyes, stomach and uterus; cleanses the lymphatic system and the pancreas; strengthens blood vessels and heals skin disorders. . Agates carry a quiet energy that works on the subtle bodies, and are great for achieving stability and balance in many aspects of one’s life.  Agates tend to work behind the scenes on the cause, instead of the symptom, of an issue.  Agate is believed to improve mental functions and can help where issues of clarity and stability are concerned.  Agate is also helpful in overcoming negative emotions by bringing love into the chakras.  Although they work very slowly and deliberately, this gentle nature of Agate helps them to have a lasting impact.

JASPER:                                            Leo, Virgo, Scorpio,
is known as the “supreme nurturer”.  It sustains and supports through times of stress, and brings tranquility and wholeness.  Jasper provides protection and absorbs negative energy.  It balances yin and yang.  Jasper clears electromagnetic and environmental pollution, including radiation.  It encourages honesty with one's self.  Provides courage to assertively tackle problems.  Aids quick-thinking and promotes organizational abilities.  Jasper stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into action.  Prolongs sexual pleasure.  It supports during prolonged illness and re-energizes the body. Jasper helps to align the chakras and facilitate dream recall. It is a balancing stone that works to align the physical, emotional and mental bodies with the etheric realm. On a physical level jasper aids in sexual dysfunction and prolongs sexual pleasure by supporting and re-energizing the physical body. Jasper works on healing the digestive, circulatory, and sexual organs of the body and is especially useful because it does not over stimulate. Rather jasper presents the positive energy in amounts necessary towards facilitating well-being.
Placing jasper in a room helps to eliminate negative energies. It also helps one to accept responsibility and become more grounded in the stabilizing energies of the earth. Metaphysically jasper helps to balance the yin and yang energies and stabilize the aura. Jasper works to soothe any dysfunctional energy of the aura and keep one’s energy levels high. Jasper is a wonderful stone to give to people that either have been sick for a long time because it helps one’s energy to remain strong and consistent. ·Physically jasper helps with healing the kidneys, spleen, bladder, liver, stomach and work on assisting the deterioration of internal organs Jasper can also be used to soothe the nerves and treatment in the loss of sense of smell.

LEATHER                                            Capricorn, Gemini,
has high tensile strength, resistance to tear, high resistance to flexing and to puncture.  It contains a great deal of air, which is a poor conductor of heat which makes it a good heat insulator. Leather fibers can hold large quantities of water vapor which enables it to absorb perspiration, which is later dissipated; a significant factor in comfort. Leather is warm in winter and cool in summer; it can be molded and will retain its new shape. It has both elastic and plastic properties in wear. It is inherently resistant to heat and flame as well as wet and dry abrasion. It represents strength, longevity, and transformation that protects and promotes practicality. It helps one to maintain fluidity amidst opposing influences helping one to adapt to surroundings and maintain ones composure during unfavorable situations. Leather contains a great deal of air which is a poor conductor of heat and is inherently resistant to heat and flame as well as wet and dry abrasion. It represents one’s ability to get over anger or negative emotions quickly and to maintain ones chosen state of mind and remain peacefully grounded in the midst of turmoil.

SILVER                                        Pisces, Cancer, Aquarius
Silver is closely associated with the moon; it amplifies one psychic abilities, increases perception and regulate emotional and intuitive energies. it provides a very strong connection between the physical and astral bodies. Silver is a mirror to the soul enabling one to see themselves from outside of the body. It is able to attract and retain the qualities that are emitted by the stones in the arrangement and to provide a steadying, stabilizing influence. Medically, silver has been known to enhance the production of hormones and regulate the function of glands.

NICKEL                                                 Virgo, Gemini
Nickel is an extraordinary metal which extends into most dimensions, and has many levels of existence. It is extremely complex and when added to an alloy, increases the complexity of the mix by its very presence. It is therefore useful when additional information or energy is required, or when dealing with trying to solve problems, advance knowledge or a personal breakthrough or threshold shift is required. Nickel is a great metal for use in promoting psychological healing. Wearing nickel can act as a negative energy detoxifier and help drain away depression, fear and anger. If you're suffering from compulsive thoughts or dreams, nickel can help purge your mind of them. Wearing nickel encourages creativity and a lightness of spirit. Nickel is also a drawing metal, meaning it will either draw things to you that you desire, or it will draw things out/away from you that you do not desire.

COPPER                                                 Taurus, Libra
Copper, in spiritual alchemy, represents experiences with love, sympathy and affection. The world would be a harsh, bleak land without the refining influence of copper. There would be no appreciation of beauty, no knowledge of harmony; none of the softer shading of life that soothe the sting of adversity. Copper is the metal of peace and love which gives strength, endurance, and life to its wearer.  Creates a protective barrier between you and the negative electrical emissions from any electronic device by absorbing the radiation. It also provides a harmonic connection between the physical and astral bodies and has been used successfully to amplify and to transmit thought. Copper also is known to combats lethargy, passivity, restlessness, excitability, and non-acceptance of oneself. It stimulates initiative, optimism, diplomacy, and independence. It also advances and stabilizes the energies of intuition, sexuality, desire, and vitality - directing these energies toward the pursuit of one's path of evolution. Copper is also successfully used in the treatment of carpal tunnel to relieve pain and to strengthen when worn around the wrist. Helps to balance inner conflicts and harmonizes ones feelings jealousy, anger or arrogance. Strengthens intuition and the connection with one’s sense of higher powers and helps to promote self-determination. Refines radiance. Copper generally supports detoxification on all levels of body, mind and spirit. Helpful for all disharmonies, which may occur due to insufficient excretion and detoxification in the case of kidney problems, varicose veins, disturbed metabolism, hair loss, sexual weakness, hormonal disturbance, states of fear or tension.

BRASS                                                 Taurus, Libra
Flattens and grounds energy and can be used as a shield, reducing sensitivity and awareness. Brass is not generally used for healing; it is used for its ability to dull or block energy. It is a common alloy made by combining Copper and Zinc therefore containing the properties of both base metals. It’s recommended by healers as helpful to people who have unusually high levels of metal in their bloodstream, since it is a blood cleanser and detoxifier. Brass is also used for hair loss. It does however, attract health and wealth to its wearer.