Crystal Gifting 101: How to Choose and Gift the Right Stone

Mariam Gudzuadze
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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 SignPersonality TraitsBest CrystalsWhy They Match
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

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
ROOT Red, black, & brown

Garnet
Hematite
Black Onyx
Black Obsidian,
Smoky

Quartz

Brown Jasper,
Black Tourmaline,
Bloodstone

Associated with foundation and feeling grounded
SACRAL Orange & orange-red

Carnelian,
Orange Calcite,
Citrine, Sunstone,
Amber,
Moonstone,
Pearl,
Shiva Lingam,
Tiger’s Eye

Related to creativity and emotion
SOLAR PLEXUS Yellow & yellow-golden

Yellow Jasper,
Sunstone,
Amber,
Citrine,
Tiger’s Eye,
Yellow Topaz,
Pyrite,
Peridot,
Yellow Chalcedony
Yellow Tourmaline

Tied to personal power and ability to channel
HEART Green

Rose Quartz,
Rhodochrosite,
Jade,
Green Aventurine, Rhodonite,
Chrysoprase,
Green Moldavite
Green Tourmaline
Amazonite
Emerald
Moss Agate
Kunzite

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 crystal

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 crystal

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

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 crystal

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

black obsidian crystal

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

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

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

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 crystal

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

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

how to care for your gifted crystals

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! 

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Mariam is a skilled writer with a strong interest in things beyond what we can see and touch, like supernatural abilities and unexplained events. She loves understanding how the universe works. After spending years learning about Tarot Cards, Crystals, Astrology, Numerology, and Palm Reading, she decided to use her writing to share what she's learned.