When words fall short, crystals step in to speak the language of the soul.
These mesmerizing wonders of nature are not just ornaments that add charm to your display shelf; they’re powerful healers and unyielding conduits of the universe’s life force.
Crystals have the ability to engage with your mind, body, spirit, and soul. It gently guides you along the path of emotional, physical, spiritual, and psychological healing.
But how do these captivating stones manage to do all of that?
It’s their aura – an ever-vibrant, ever-engaging frequency – that wraps you in a soothing cocoon of positive energy, restoring equilibrium and sparking growth.
This is what makes them the perfect gift – a keepsake of well-being, a talisman of peace.
In this ultimate guide to Crystal Gifting 101, we’ll explore how to choose the right stone to make a gift as timeless as the universe itself.
Why Give Crystals as Gifts?
Gifting crystals is highly significant, as the unique healing frequencies they emit allow the receiver to level up.
Whether it’s on the soul planes or mentally, emotionally, or physically, crystals raise mood, inner vibration, and positive thinking.
There are many spiritual benefits of crystals.
For example, meditating with crystals allows you to receive their healing powers, properties, and metaphysical benefits.
Cleansing crystals in water and then charging them in sunlight is ideal for a number of purposes.
Cleansed and charged crystals can be placed on plants, in your home, and on your chakras for positive energy flow.
Chakra healing with rare gemstones is a powerful way to harmonize, balance, and remove blockages from your body’s energy system. Subtle energy flows through your body, just as it does crystals.
If you aren’t aware, a chakra is an energy wheel or energy portal linked to your subtle body. There are 7 main chakras, each with their own unique qualities and characteristics.
If doing a lying down meditation, perhaps with soothing and healing tones (music healing/sound therapy), you can place a cleansed and charged crystal on the relevant body part.
In addition, crystals can be used to cleanse negative energy from the environment, and heal animals!
Crystal Gifting and Astrology
One amazing way to make the most of crystals is to use astrology as a method for gemstone gifting.
You can become aware of your friend, lover, or recipient’s star sign and act accordingly.
Sun signs are the main way to use crystal gifting, but you can also gift based on Moon signs.
Here is a beginner guide to crystal gifting with astrology:
Zodiac Sign | Personality Traits | Best Crystals | Why They Match |
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Aries | • Headstrong • Willful, • Passionate • Expressive • Intelligent • Courageous • Charismatic • High energy • Enthusiastic • Bold & Direct • Confident | • Red Jasper • Bloodstone • Hematite • Carnelian • Garnet • Tiger’s Eye • Green Aventurine • Unakite • Clear Quartz | • Aries are strong and brave. • Red Jasper represents courage, • Carnelian resonates with their fiery passion, • Clear Quartz amplifies their innovative spirit |
Taurus | • Kind, • Generous, • Practical • Dependable • Compassionate • Friendly • Wise • Grounded • Tenacious • Sensual • Loyal • Patient | • Rose Quartz • Green Aventurine • Chalcedony • Tiger’s Eye • Sodalite • Red Jasper • Aquamarine • Black Onyx • Emerald | • Rose Quartz symbolizes love • Green Aventurine encourages patience and practicality • Emerald promotes wisdom and love |
Gemini | • Communicative • Witty • Intelligent • Curious • Outgoing • Playful • Adventurous • Friendly • Independent • Charming • Imaginative | • Clear Quartz • Jasper • Aquamarine • Black Tourmaline • Emerald • Topaz • Lapis Lazuli • Blue Lace Agate | • Clear Quartz enhances communication • Aquamarine encourages self-expression • Black Tourmaline provides grounding |
Cancer | • Sensitive • Empathic • Caring • Loyal • Creative • Compassionate • Loving • Insightful • Intuitive • Protective • Humorous | • Smoky Quartz • Citrine • Amethyst • Ruby • Chrysoprase • Rhodonite • Moonstone • Carnelian • Pearl | •Amethyst aids in balancing emotions, •Moonstone enhances intuition, •Ruby brings loving energy |
Leo | • Dominant, • Expressive • Passionate • Charming • Courageous • Noble • Protective • Creative • Sociable • Generous • Ambitious • Confident | • Sunstone, • Citrine, • Tiger’s Eye • Ruby • Carnelian • Labradorite • Black Tourmaline • Rose Quartz | •Sunstone and Citrine are both linked with joy and abundance, •Tiger’s Eye brings courage, •Ruby encourages passion |
Virgo | • Humble, • Modest, • Practical, • Reliable, • Kind, • Logical, • Caring, • Artistic, • Hardworking • Perceptive • Gentle • Intellectual | • Moonstone • Citrine • Sapphire • Lapis Lazuli • Agate • Fluorite • Jade • Amazonite • Sodalite • Unakite | • Moonstone supports intuition • Sapphire enhances mental clarity • Fluorite promotes balance and peace |
Libra | • Balanced • Fair • Witty • Intelligent • Artistic • Gentle • Wise • Romantic • Friendly • Diplomatic • Cooperative | • Opal • Topaz • Tourmaline • Jade • Labradorite • Citrine • Emerald • Rhonite • Amazonite • Lapis Lazuli | • Opal inspires love and hope • Jade balances emotions • Lapis Lazuli brings wisdom |
Scorpio | • Intuitive, • Compassionate • Loyal • Resourceful • Spiritual • Ambitious • Determined • Brave • Passionate • Independent | • Smoky Quartz • Citrine • Black Onyx • Turquoise • Lapis Lazuli • Amethyst • Labradorite • Sodalite • Selenite | • Black Onyx provides protection • Amethyst supports spirituality • Selenite brings peace |
Sagittarius | • Bold, • Independent • Passionate • Creative • Energetic • Wise • Confident • Philosophical • Humorous • Adventurous • Optimistic | • Topaz, • Sodalite • Labradorite • Amethyst • Turquoise • Citrine • Amazonite • Jade • Garnet • Malachite | • Topaz promotes love and good fortune • Labradorite stimulates imagination • Malachite encourages transformation |
Capricorn | • Hardworking • Honest • Sensitive • Kind • Loyal • Dependable • Ambitious • Determined • Patient • Practical • Organized | • Garnet • Onyx • Jet • Ruby • Rose Quartz • Agate • Malachite • Smoky Quartz • Tiger’s Eye • Sodalite | • Garnet is grounding and brings hope • Onyx provides strength and support during stress • Malachite encourages change |
Aquarius | • Humanitarian • Original • Innovative • Witty • Loyal • Optimistic • Intelligent • Open-minded • Independent • Assertive | • Labradorite • Amazonite • Hematite • Pyrite • Amethyst • Obsidian • Howlite • Jade • Turquoise • Angelite | • Labradorite enhances transformative abilities • Amethyst promotes peace • Angelite facilitates conscious awareness |
Pisces | • Empathic • Intuitive • Compassionate • Understanding • Sensitive • Spiritual • Wise • Artistic • Adaptable • Kind • Gentle | • Moonstone • Turquoise • Aquamarine • Pearl • Fluorite • Jade • Amethyst • Blue Lace Agate • Calcite • Sugilite | • Moonstone supports intuition, • Aquamarine promotes clear communication, • Amethyst brings calm and serenity |
Crystals Gifting 101: How to Choose the Right Crystal
The second main method for gifting crystals is to do so based on chakras. Crystals match the 7 main chakras in addition to the kundalini, which is also known as white light or the ascended, active, and vibrant awakened life force within.
When all chakras are unblocked, balanced, and harmonized, kundalini energy is stimulated.
This enables psychic, spiritual, creative, instinctive, intuitive, and longevity energy to flow freely. This is what creates a healthy mind, body, and spirit or whole person.
The following chart is a beginner, but equally essential guide to crystal gifting with the chakras.
Chakra | Color | Stones | Description |
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ROOT | Red, black, & brown |
• Garnet • Quartz • Brown Jasper, |
Associated with foundation and feeling grounded |
SACRAL | Orange & orange-red |
• Carnelian, |
Related to creativity and emotion |
SOLAR PLEXUS | Yellow & yellow-golden |
• Yellow Jasper, |
Tied to personal power and ability to channel |
HEART | Green |
• Rose Quartz, |
Connected to love and relationships |
THROAT | Blue (all shades) |
• Aquamarine • Lapis Lazuli • Amazonite • Sodalite • Blue Lace Agate • Angelite • Chrysocolla • Blue Chalcedony • Blue Kyanite • Celestie • Turquoise |
Linked with communication and self-expression |
THIRD EYE | Purple & indigo |
• Amethyst • Lapis Lazuli • Labradorite • Azurite • Sodalite • Iolite • Clear Quartz • Lepidolite • Purple Fluorite • Sapphire • Kyanite |
Corresponds to intuition and awareness |
CROWN | Gold, silver, transparent, opaque, & white |
• Clear Quartz • Howlite • Celestite • Angelite • White Opal • Selenite • Amethyst • Rainbow Moonstone |
Represents spiritual connection and enlightenment |
KUNDALINI | All colors | • Clear Quartz (The Master Healer) | Encompasses all chakras, promoting overall balance |
Art of Presenting Crystal Gifts
You should present your crystal in a beautiful box, bag, or wrapping that instill intention and a feeling of beauty in the recipient.
There are lots of crystal baggies available, as well as small boxes both in-store and online.
Use your intuition when gifting crystals. Trust in your instincts, such as if you feel like using a certain color baggie or box.
Always explain the crystal’s meaning, healing properties, and powers to your friend, family member, or lover.
Your friend/recipient needs to know what the healing properties are so they can use them properly.
Additionally, you might want to tell them the chakra that the crystal is for.
Top 10 Crystals to Gift and Their Meanings
1. Clear Quartz: The Master Healer
Clear Quartz is a master healer that can be used for your Crown as well as all other chakras. Clear Quartz removed negative energy, dispelling bad vibrations, while stimulating white light within.
Clear Quartz promotes healing, psychic abilities, clear vision, insight, intuition, spiritual wisdom, harmony, and positive energy flow. It’s excellent for harmonizing the chakras and aligning the subtle bodies.
2. Rose Quartz: The Stone of Love
Rose Quartz enhances self-love, motherly love, unconditional love, kindness, generosity, caring, and romance.
It’s ideal for friendship, romantic love, and platonic energy while being perfect for amplifying feelings of charity, selflessness, and altruism.
As a stone for the heart, this is a popular gift, as it increases empathy, compassion, devotion, nurturance, and harmony. This stone is also excellent for women due to the positive effects it has on fertility, pregnancy, and childbirth.
Rose Quartz is additionally great for grief, pain, heartache, sadness, loss, and trauma, moreover restoring trust and purity in relationships.
3. Amethyst: The Tranquil Stone
Amethyst is an ideal Third Eye chakra stone. It increases psychic abilities, clairvoyance, meditation, intuition, nobility, serenity, and peace and clarity of mind.
Positive transformation, alchemy, and spiritual awareness are part of Amethyst’s healing properties.
It’s a powerful visionary stone that can be used for enhanced dreams, subconscious contact, and drawing wisdom from the spiritual, ethereal, and astral realms.
Extrasensory perception and communication are amplified, as well as the mind, body, and soul-spirit connection.
Amethyst is a potent gemstone for protection and can be worn as jewelry as a protection amulet.
It promotes positive mental health coupled with the ability to put up boundaries against psychic attacks and negative energy!
4. Citrine: The Success Stone
Citrine is the ideal prosperity and success stone for the Solar Plexus chakra.
It is used for inner strength, confidence, success, truth, happiness, alignment, energy, and joy. Your friend will be able to align with their highest joy with Citrine.
This special gemstone increases self-expression, creativity, and capacity for abundance. Financial flow is believed to amplify.
Self-esteem, self-worth, and optimistic thinking are equally encouraged. Citrine has an energizing, balancing, and harmonizing effect.
5. Obsidian: The Protective Stone
Obsidian, a Root chakra stone, is a powerful crystal for transformation, practical awareness, grounding, inner stability, feelings of security, purification, and healthy boundaries. Manifestation powers increase, as does the ability to protect yourself.
Shielding yourself from psychic attack, negativity, and harmful energies in the environment comes under Obsidian’s realm.
It draws out mental stress, anxiety, and tension while bringing clarity and peace of mind. Perception and intuition are enhanced.
It can finally be used to help with traumas and wounds linked to being ungrounded (feelings of insecurity), sexual issues, and emotional imbalances.
6. Selenite: The Energy Cleanser
Selenite is an amazing crystal for serenity, meditation, universal consciousness, universal love, purification, psychic awareness and development, and positive thinking. It enhances purification, inner nobility, and integrity.
The Higher Self is activated with Selenite, which can lead to all sorts of spiritual, extrasensory, imaginative, and enhanced dream gifts.
It is primarily for the Crown chakra but sparks spiritual life force flow to all other energy centers and subtle energy bodies.
Selenite can unlock hidden portals to cosmic and higher consciousness, as well as angelic cords to the divine realm of heavenly inspiration.
Deep peace, releasing judgment and faulty belief systems, and working through blocks and wounds can be achieved with this crystal.
7. Lapis Lazuli: The Wisdom Stone
Lapis Lazuli aids in all aspects of dreaming, from lucid and shamanic dreaming to astral travel and projection. Also, enhanced dream recall coupled with vivid dreams. It promotes purification, intuition, and positive magic and alchemy!
Truth, higher awareness, ancient wisdom, self-knowledge, manifestation, purification, inner power, intuition, friendship, and depth are enhanced. It’s a stone of and for protection too, helping to protect the recipient from negative energy and psychic attack.
Honesty, morality, integrity, nobility, self-awareness, spiritual insight, fresh perspectives, objectivity, clarity, and emotional intelligence coupled with higher truth are further metaphysical healing powers.
8. Carnelian: The Motivation Stone
Carnelian is a beautiful gemstone for enhancing creativity, individuality, emotional warmth, sociability, courage, happiness, self-esteem, ancient wisdom, and past life recall. It stimulates sensuality, vitality, self-expression, motivation, and conscience to pursue passions.
Joy, self-empowerment, passion, and pleasure are all increased. It can give a ‘get-up-and-go’ attitude while amplifying desires for connection, friendship, and meaningful social bonds. All aspects of sexuality, creativity, and artistic gifts can be healed and enhanced.
Carnelian is very good for fertility, creative projects, and a lack of inspiration…
9. Tiger’s Eye: The Confidence Stone
Tiger’s Eye is perfect for issues in confidence, self-esteem, low energy and vitality, and a lack of courage and willpower. It is very stimulating, energizing, and balancing and promotes personal empowerment, clear thinking, and protection.
Practical awareness, responsibilities, social charm and grace, charisma, integrity, and emotional-psychological balance are increased.
Protection combined with powerful ambitions and determination to succeed and achieve is part of Tiger’s Eye healing properties.
10. Green Aventurine: The Stone of Opportunity
Green Aventurine is the stone of opportunity, independence, and calmness in all projects and endeavors.
It aids in creative and imaginative expression, financial flow, prosperity, career success, and decisiveness, as well as self-leadership skills.
Green Aventurine promotes compassion, empathy, mental clarity, warmth, friendliness, self-love, self-respect, self-preservation, calmness, and the balance of feminine-masculine energy balance.
It’s an excellent yin-yang stone for wholeness, harmony, and self-alignment.
How to Care for Your Gifted Crystal
There are three main methods of crystal care. These include cleansing, charging, and grounding or earthing.
Cleansing is the first main step, and this involves placing your crystal in a bowl of water or rinsing it under running water.
Cleansing is essential to remove psychic impurities. Crystals often pick up negative energy in the environment, which includes ill intentions, bad thoughts, and psychic impurities; bad energy and vibrations in the ether, in other words.
Water is the source of creation and the first main connection to the subconscious, spiritual, and subtle realms. This is where divine, inspirational, and imaginative energies flow. So, water cleansing is essential to the following care methods.
Charging in sunlight comes next. A cleansed crystal can be placed in sunlight for 6- 12 hours. This amplifies the healing qualities and properties of the gemstone.
Sunlight allows the healing properties and qualities to be energized, increased, and grounded in the crystal.
You can also use moonlight for crystals that may embody a more feminine energy, such as Moonstone.
Finally, grounding or earthing is burying the gemstone in the earth, directly in the ground, for 6- 12 hours. This is ideal for green crystals and crystals for both the Root and Heart chakras. This care method complements the main two very well.
It’s important to take care of crystals properly so they are kept recharged, cleansed of all negative energy, and ready for healing power and effect. Crystal maintenance should be applied in a cyclic manner, such as weekly or monthly.
Also, Eclipses coupled with other celestial events are great for crystal cleansing and charging.
Conclusion
Crystals are excellent gifts because they help to heal the mind, body, and spirit, in addition to calming and soothing, balancing, and unblocking the chakras. They energize positive energy flow while being generally easy to care for.
You find out your friend or lover’s star sign for the best guidance on crystal gifting. Remember to gift your crystal with love and intention!