MoonCave Crystals shares Metaphysical Properties on a variety of crystals from L to O

Labradorite: This stone gives us strength of will and a feeling of inner worth. It strengthens and protects our aura and aids us in communicating with our highest self and with the creator. "…It is said to represent the 'temple of the stars', assisting one in sustaining and maintaining, while providing for the understanding of the destiny one has chosen. It facilitates the transformation of intuition into intellectual thought such that one can implement the instructions provided. It assists on to traverse changes, attracting strength and perseverance. It also symbolizes the moon and helps one to advance, without constraint, through the cycles of progression, heralding the arrival of ascension.

Golden Labradorite: Represents the sun, providing for vitality and for a sense of 'self' during transitions. It allows for recognition that humanity represents the 'Being of Light', transcending the limitations of the past and the thoughts of the future, and embracing the infinite possibilities of the moment." Reduces anxiety and stress, assists in the elimination of addictions and can aide in digestion, regulation and metabolism.

Lapis Lazuli: Lapis is associated with the throat chakra and speaking our truth. It is also wonderful for assisting in openness, inner power, love, purification and intuition. It helps one to open up to their psychic abilities. It is considered to strengthen ones mind and body. It allows us to tap in to our own inner power while purifying the soul and thoughts. It assists one in contacting our spirit guardians.

Larimar: Aids one in the process of using power and knowledge wisely. Encourages one to speak their inner truth. Enhances the process of bringing through and manifesting one's creative impulses. Assists overly-critical people in opening their heart and mind so that they may adopt a more accepting perspective of self and others. Clarifies one's perception of those things in life, within and without, that need to change. Facilitates meditation and inner journeys. Helps lighten depression and apathy. Enhances calmness, serenity and purity. Used most often with the throat and heart chakras.

Larvikite: Larvikite is a mineral that comes from Norway and is also known as Labradorite Feldspar. It has flecks of blue and silver fire throughout. It is said Larvikite is wonderful for use in meditation and can assist one in true compassion.

Lazulite: Called a "stone of heaven", bringing in clarity and purity of energy from the omnipresent forces of the universe. Excellent for meditation as it promotes calming and enhances sanctity in ones being. Inspires tranquility, self-esteem, assists in alleviating stress.

Lepidochrosite in Amethyst: Used to enhance communication with those of the angelic realm. Serves to advance astral travel and to maintain the connection between the self and the astral body, so that there is no need for concern with respect to returning to the physical domain. Stimulates awareness with respect to spontaneity, recognition and focus further allowing one to understand the path of the energy and to recognize the voluntary increase in energy. It also acts to stimulate and to cleanse all chakras, bringing a purity of energy to the areas where the energy is directed. Has also been used during Reiki treatments to promote the transfer of energy to the area of need.

Lepidolite: Activates the throat, heart, third eye and crown chakras, brings cosmic awareness. Stimulates the intellect, reduces stress, relieves despondency and overcomes insomnia. A stone of transition, it can assist in releasing and reorganizing old patterns and inducing change. Lepidolite contains trace amounts of Lithium, which explains why it is so helpful for achieving emotional balance. It promotes spiritual transcendence, cosmic awareness, meditation and prayer. It is considered to be very helpful for insomniacs. Restructures DNA, excellent for menopause and protects against electromagnetic pollution.

Limonite: Limonite can assist in altering ones life towards stability and comfort. Protects one from psychic attack and furthers accuracy in the intuitive processes. Assists in the protection of detrimental thoughts, towards ones self or others. Provides the strength and virility of youth. Limonite is grounding and centering, assisting with all blood and balance issues.

Linarite: Used to stimulate the psychic center and to promote astral travel. Also used to facilitate telepathy. Linarite is highly energy specific. It is great for meditation and dream support. It grounds energetic awareness on the psychic level. It deepens the psychic processes especially in investigative work, as it will support the ability to distinguish highly subtle energetic clues in the environment.

Lithium: Lithium is found in every cell of the human body and greatly contributes to the balance and well being of the body/mind. Assists opening the third eye, accelerating the unfolding of human/divine potential. Excellent balancer, extremely calming. Acts as a catalyst, helping to release and remove emotional trauma stored in the body structure. Vitalizes the immune system and enhances the life force. Used to soothe and smooth, calm and put at ease. Lithium is great for depression, bi-polar, manic depression, alcoholism, and drug addiction. Many healers use this as one of their laying on stones. Also works well for those who suffer from insomnia.

Lodestone: "Lodestone is actually magnetite but with the additional property of polarity. This property enables one to recognize and distinguish between the dualities which exist in ones environment. It enhances receptivity and helps one to rejoice in all of the circumstances which enter into ones life. It balances the male/female aspects of body, mind and emotion. Lodestone stimulates consciousness for each moment. It assists in relieving burdens and in bringing to fruition that which is 'wanted'. It encourages 'holding fast' to ones purpose, eliminating confusion of purpose and balancing unexpected occurrences. It promotes motivation and confidence while eliminating insecurity and dependence. It assists in the removal of energy blockages which are present in disease, inducing the free flow of the strength of the body to renew itself. It also aligns and activates the chakras and the etheric body with the subtle bodies. This is not a permanent state however." Melody's Love is in the Earth ** This is not a type of magnet that will stick on your fridge :)**

Magnesite: Assists in visualization and imagery. Instills peace during meditation, grounds the intellect and assists in producing the opening of the crown chakra. Stimulates passion and heart felt love. Enhances the purification of the cells. And yes, ladies, it DOES assist in lessening the symptoms of PMS :) Also helpful with bones and teeth.

Magnetite is magnetic and has a powerful positive/negative polarity. It can be used in magnetic therapy, working with the body's own biomagnetic fields and meridians. It can also be used in a grid, with that of the planet, for earth healing. It acts as a grounding stone, aids in telepathy, meditation and visualization. It provides for a balanced perspective and trust in your own intuition. Use Magnetite to attract love, abundance, commitment or whatever you choose to manifest. Magnetite can be used to alleviate negative emotions and bring in positive qualities. Balances the intellect with the emotions to bring an inner stability.

Malachite: Malachite is a stone of abundance as well as purification, healing dreams, and drawing out negative energies. It is a protector, lending balance, healing and positive transformation to the wearer, assisting one in changing situations and providing for the transfer of sacred information leading to spiritual evolution. It assists in clearing and activating all chakras and quite helpful in the stimulation of the heart and throat chakras. It is a wonderful equalizing and balancing agent. It is said to protect against radiation and has been used in the treatment of asthma, arthritis, swollen joints, broken bones and torn muscles.

Manganese: A mineral of bonding, Manganese brings others closer, activating the energies of cooperation in group efforts. Stimulates spontaneity and produces a grounding effect which can help to balance the emotions and the physical body. Enhances Positivity and inspires creativity. Acts to bring a connection between the conscious self and the angelic realm.

Manganocalcite: Has a female, receptive vibration and promotes connection to female guides and angels. Transmits mother energies of giving life, nurturing and love. It represents the undifferentiated being, spiritual perfection and purity. Best cleansed with moonlight and sound.

Meteorite: Meditation with a Meteorite helps the holder to connect with other planet past lives and possible present extraterrestrial associations. Meteorites enhances communications and telepathy. They can assist in decreasing chaos and restoring focus and order. Meteorites will be very helpful for the activation in the consciousness shift.

Mica: "…Provides reflective qualities so that one can recognize the flaws of humanity and can remain in a heart space to continue to love this same humanity. Used to facilitate clarity in visions. Provides for self reflection, and allows one to recognize that 'in each person you see but the reflection of that which you choose to have that person be.' Enhances flexibility in physical, emotional, and intellectual situations. Provides for growth in all areas of pursuit and can be used to diminish anger, tantrums, and nervous energy."

Mochi Balls aka Shaman Stones aka Maqui Marbles: (Mochi Balls is a copywrited name) These iron and sandstone concretions come from the Southwestern area of the US. They are said to be named after a tribe of Native Americans who lived in the area of the Moqui Desert and used them in gaming-a game similar to marbles. They have been used for contact with the extra terrestrial, for visioning, and for journeying. These specimens were sacred among the Shamanic members of ancient tribes.

According to Melody in Love is in the Earth, "…They need no special care-they are lovely to hold and act to protect when placed in ones environment. They adapt to all environments, the energy being like a 'good friend'. Manifested by nature, enjoyed by mankind, the Mochi Ball brings the synthesis of male/female, duality, and the actualization of singularity, allowing on to recognize and to understand the self, and the independence and liberty of ones nature.

Mochi Balls can be used to align the energy centers, to relieve blockages, to stimulate the CHI, to ground and center, and to provide protection. The journey with the Mochi allows one to live to the fullest while understanding the sanctity of, and performing healing for, the Earth. In addition, they bring feelings to surface such that one recognizes impositions and encroachments upon self and assists one in activating a 'non-selfless-ness'. "

Moldavite: Excellent for helping one to adapt/acclimate to rapid acceleration, assisting one in moving through mental, emotional, and spiritual shifts with greater ease. The "green light" that says go forward into your acceleration/progress, breaking through being held back by the strong gravitational pull of mass consciousness. Offers one a high-frequency, vibrational perspective, assisting/easing the release of heavier thought forms that can keep one bound to material reality. Said to assist one in remembering their connection to other worlds.

Mookaite (Moukaite): This type of Jasper comes from Australia and assists one in dealing with negative situations and provides a shield of uncompromising strength when one confronts danger. It also helps one to grow emotionally, with change. Assists in decision making at times when one may be experiencing dilemma. Promotes balancing of ones needs with the requirements of the day, allowing one to recognize and to care for that which is of prime importance to well being. Provides for flexibility and openness in opinions and for faithfulness in promises. Further assists in being kind to ones self. It also stimulates contact with loved ones who have passed over/ascended and in communication with animals.

Moonstone: Moonstone fosters happiness, good fortune, nurturing, unselfishness, humanitarian love, hope, spiritual insight, easy childbirth, safe travel on water, new beginnings, abundance and ancient wisdom. This stone gets in touch with our feelings and is linked to the moon. It is best to attune its energies to the moon's phases. Moonstone is protective of women and nature, and is a sacred stone of the moon goddess.

Rainbow Moonstone is sometimes called the "Stone of New Beginnings" and is connected to both the moon and intuition. It soothes and calms overreactions and the propensity to be overly emotional. Powerful effects upon the female reproductive cycle, biorhythmic clock, and fluid imbalances. Used to ease PMS and childbirth. Feminine stone associated with psychic abilities and cleansing.

Green Moonstones stimulates confidence and composure, sustains and supports, promotes growth and supplements energy. Brings tenderness within the self and happiness to the environment in which it is put. Cleanses negativity from the chakras and alleviates emotional tension. Provides for spiritual nourishment and a loving compassion to assist one in all changes.

Morganite: An activator, cleanser and stimulator for the heart chakra. Helps to bring love into ones life and maintain that love as it continues to grow. Brings the actualization of gain to ones life-gain and supplementation of that which is required to cultivate the spirit and to allow one to consciously align the personality with the ethereal soul. Stimulates the transmittal of interpersonal wisdom from ones guides. Stimulates creativity in issues of self control, assisting one to act from love. Opens the door to those vital currents which activate and energize loving thoughts and actions. Powerful love stone.

Moss Agate is a wonderful cleansing stone! Cleanses the circulatory system and the elimination systems of the body. Eliminates depression caused by brain imbalances. Helps those who are more "thinking" to access their "feeling" or intuitive side.

Mtorolite: A natural support stone for all practices involving Homeopathy and plant cultivation. It is especially useful as a stone which helps to "weather the storm," providing a sense of lucidity in crisis and the strength to endure. It supports the heart chakra. (The Crystalline Communion 2000)

Nephrite: is one of only two true Jades (Jadeite being the other). It is composed of both jade and Actinolite, so both these properties will also apply. Used to balance the male and female energies, it assists in the exchange of energies to further provide for balancing between the self and a partner. Also used as a talisman of protection, providing an invisible barrier against attack and illness (by New Zealand tribal groups).

Jade: Augments longevity, fertility, serenity, wisdom, practicality, tranquility, balance, peace, harmony, moderation, perspective, equilibrium and stability. . Brings one emotional relief at any stage of grief, loss, mourning, emotional crisis or pain. Choosing jade to calm the heart chakra, in any of these events, is similar to emergency intervention when one is ill. Jade emits a feminine vibration of safety and healing energies. Revered as the stone of luck, wisdom and longevity. Jade is an auric healer and cleanser.

Actinolite: Actinolite is an immensely important tool! It is a phenomenal shielding device and expands the energy bodies. This expansion provides for a connection to "All That Is" and facilitates the "brotherhood" of all. Provides a familiarity with all of those who one encounters, withholding all aspects of that which cause the familiar smile, action or being, to appear objectionable. By focusing this mineral on an unwanted condition, lessening is both facilitated and enhanced.

Nuummit: Recognized as the oldest living mineral, formed over three billion years ago. Can be used to open, activate and integrate the chakras. Provides for grounding, via the chakras, to both the Earth and the ethereal body. Aligns all subtle bodies and both balances and aligns the chakras. Assists in the removal of energy blockages. It is also an excellent energy source, exhibiting electro-magnetic energy field and providing for the transfer of energy from the etheric body to the physical. Can remove the "muddy" areas in the auric field. Very protective and shielding piece!! Also will help against the negative vibrations of pollutants, can relieve pain associated with headaches, purifies the blood and kidneys and is an excellent stone for the stimulation of the triple-burner meridians. (Melody, Love is in the Earth.)

Obsidian: This is an excellent grounding stone and provides for a connection from the base of the spine to the heart of the Earth. It is also a wonderful protection stone providing a shield against negativity and transforming negative vibrations within the environment. Carrying or wearing Obsidian assists in dispersing those unloving thoughts which arise from within the self or are directed toward ones physical form. It is very useful in healing, providing both the healer and the subject with clarity in respect to both the cause and the amelioration of the dis-ease.

Mahogany Obsidian with its deep dark mahogany color and black splotches is very earthy!! Grounding and protecting, Mahogany Obsidian brings strength in time of need and vitalizes purpose. It eliminates blockages, relieves tension and stimulates growth on all levels.

Snowflake Obsidian: A stone of purity, balancing body, mind and spirit. Recognizes and releases wrong thinking and ingrained patterns. Brings about inner centering. Treats veins and the skeleton. All the properties listed in Obsidian below also apply.

Golden Sheen Obsidian: In addition to the properties of Obsidian, Golden Sheen Obsidian is also used for gazing and acts to provide information concerning the root of a problem or situation. The energy seems to pierce the outer layers of a problem, allowing for the heart of the problem to become evident. Also assists in producing a definition of the bases for ones path of action. Used frequently by those advanced in the Shamanic and healing arts. Allows communion with the source of all being, emitting energy to prompt one to allow beauty to come forth from the inner being as one travels in and through the world of experiences accessed via this obsidian. Balances energy fields and can assist in the elimination of ego conflicts and feelings of futility.

Rainbow Obsidian: Used for gazing, especially in the Shamanic or healing arts. Brings one more toward an enlightened state and assists in seeing beyond the immediate reality. It also brings light and love (rainbow obsidian) to ones life, allowing for the recognition of the spiritual side of ones nature. It is a "stone of pleasure" bringing gratification and enjoyment to ones life.

Green Sheen Obsidian is very powerful and provides for the cleansing of the heart chakra area removing not only the "muddiness" and other matter, but also the "hook up" cords of others as well as protecting from future attempts of others to "hook up." Used in the treatment of disorders of the heart and gall bladder. An excellent grounding and protecting stone. It shields against negativity and may help the wearer further disperse unloving thoughts which may arise from within the self or those directed toward ones physical form.

Purple Sheen Obsidian, "..Enhances the growth of the spiritual self and provides for spiritual awareness during participation in the activities which occur on the Earth plane. Stimulates clairvoyance and encourages introspection. Provides for a connectedness between the intellect and the intuition, allowing for adequacy in communication of that which is experienced. Opens and activates the crown chakra while providing grounding via the innate connection to the center of the Earth, thus producing a euphoric energy during the meditative state."

Onyx: Onyx is wonderful at assisting to provide wonderful frequencies for meditation and dreaming. When using this for either of these purposes, it is recommended one use a grounding stone for protection in concert with the Onyx. Onyx promotes strength, stamina, tenacity, and self control. It is valuable in difficult or confusing times in ones life. It can be used to banish grief and encourages happiness and good fortune. It helps one to become master of their own future.

Blue Onyx is strength giving. It provides support in difficult or confusing circumstances and during times of enormous mental or physical stress. Aligning your energy with a higher power, accessing higher guidance can be assisted by the use of Onyx. Use Onyx to heal old grief or sorrow. Onyx can hold the physical memories of the wearer, making it extremely useful in the areas of past life work and healing trauma. Onyx recognizes and integrates dualities within the self. It can be used to alleviate overwhelming fears and anxiety.

Opal is a delicate stone with a fine vibration. It enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions. Opal is both absorbent and reflective, picking up thoughts and feelings, amplifying them, and returning them to source. Enhances self worth, and brings lightness and spontaneity. Other properties include: strengthening memory, instilling faithfulness and loyalty with respect to love, personal affiliations and business relationships. Known as the stone of happy dreams and changes; the happy dreams arising from the understanding of personal higher potentials coupled with the glad acceptance of ones inherent perfection. The happy changes emanate from those events and situations, which allow ones aspirations to surface. Awakens both the psychic and the mystical qualities, helping one to understand the powers of intuition and mysticism and to utilize them to enhance personal understanding in the realms of the sacred aspects of being.

Boulder Opal can only be found in Queensland, Australia and is a combination of opalized ironstone with gem opal intermixed. Boulder Opal assists in bringing mental and emotional balance. It is a wonderful piece to use in the areas of progress, expansion and/or development. Use to clear the Aura, access spirit or animal guides, or to ground in order that one may receive information accurately and precisely.

Fire Opal: can open one to new impressions and encourages the same in others. A mood enhancing stone, it alleviates emotional burden (often through crying) and liberates feelings. Detoxifies and regenerates the liver and relieves feelings of constriction from heart and chest.

Peruvian (Andean) Opal: Blue/Green Opal is used for spiritual journeying to protect, to assist in selection and location of said journeying. Has been used to induce the hypnotic state and facilitate divination. Instills a knowledge of right action and dispels reaction. This type of Opal does not contain "fire".

Rosy Pink Andean Opal can be used to activate the heart chakra while providing both centering and grounding. Instills knowledge of right action and dispels reaction. Pink Opal is a stone of renewal that can renew the sacred relationship between Self and "All That Is". Guides one in the journey of life. Teaches love and assists in the releasing of old patterns which are no longer useful or necessary. This type of Opal does not contain "fire".

Lemon Opal: "has been recognized as a constant source of brilliant light for the crown chakra." When held or carried, the energy surrounds the body, forming a protective barrier. Has been used to clear the aura of negativity and to transfer healing energy to the self or another. This particular opal is the type that does not contain "fire".

Okenite provides a feeling of "going Home" and can act as a beacon for the soul to return to when completing its dream time wanderings. It assists in purifying the chakras, and the physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual bodies. It can be used to halt obstacles in ones path, clearing the way. Keep this one under glass or protected from the elements, inside and out. The Okenite is very soft and tends to absorb odors and airborne particles such as smoke, grease, incense, etc.

Orbicular Sea Jasper aka Ocean Jasper: This type of Jasper is extremely healing in nature. Orbicular Jaspers can be used to support pursuits based upon service. It helps one to accept responsibility and to increase the attribute of patience. It has been used to facilitate continuity in circular breathing during healing and/or meditative states. It is particularly helpful in assisting in the elimination of toxins. Also improves the digestive processes and affects the nutritional stabilization within the body.