Carnelian

Carnelian is full of vitality and life force, it is a grounding and stabilising stone with a high energy and anchors you in the present day reality. Carnelian stimulates creativity, motivation, courage, dispels apathy and promotes positive life changes.It gives motivation for success in both business and personally.

Carnelian increases personal power, helps to overcome negative conditioning and any kind of abuse. It helps you trust yourself and your perceptions, aids your concentration and drives off mental lethargy.

Carnelian is powerful at protecting against resentment, envy and rage from you towards others and from others towards you. It calms anger and dispels emotional negativity replacing it with a love for life.

Carnelian assists in accepting the cycle of life by helping to remove the fear of death, it brings comfort, happiness and builds self-esteem.
Carnelian is helpful with allergies, detoxifying your body, weakness, infections, the intestines, ovaries, gallbladder, your memory, scoliosis and oedema.

Carnelian increases fertility, stimulates the metabolism and healing of bones and ligaments. It heals lower back issues, depression, neuralgia, rheumatism, arthritis, impotence, frigidity, the kidneys, the bladder and regulates body fluids. Carnelian stimulates sexuality, a good supply of blood to tissues and organs and assists in the absorption of minerals and vitamins within the body.

When meditating with Carnelian you are better able to keep interrupting thoughts at bay and deepen your concentration. It is a powerful Sacral Chakra stone and can be used on the Base Chakra. Spiritually it brings balance, serenity and protection.

Carnelian cleanses other stones

Placement

Place in your surroundings as desired or hold or wear anywhere on the body in contact with your skin particularly as a pendant.
Placing Carnelian by your front door brings protection and abundance into your home or place.

Colour Variations Of Carnelian

In addition to the above generic properties of Carnelian, colour variations have extra and specific properties.

Red Carnelian

Red Carnelian is especially useful to invigorate you physically and mentally and overcomes sluggishness, it is a warming and energising stone.

Pink Carnelian

Pink Carnelian assists in restoring trust after manipulation or abuse of any kind, it also improves the parent-child relationship.

Cleansing or Clearing

Many say that Carnelian doesn’t need regular cleansing or clearing, but every now and then it may be nice to cleanse your crystal and recharge it. Giving a crystal that is used frequently or continually ‘time off’ so to speak to allow it to recharge just seems like a good idea.
For information on cleansing please read the page ‘Cleansing your crystals’