✨Healing Crystals 101: Elemental Energies 🗻💧🔥💨

David Stuhlman
Feb 1
3 min read

Updated: Feb 2

In the study of alchemy, four base elements were used as a metaphor for the building blocks of life. They represent archetypal aspects of the human experience and the world in which we live. Ayurvedic medicine uses a similar conceptual system to understand human health and prevent disease. To help differentiate minerals of similar color rays, we can assess the energy profile that the stone exhibits. On a basic level, Earth, Water, Air, and Fire represent four key pillars of existence: physicality, emotionality, sexuality, mentality, and spirituality. If you desire to channel focused healing intention into one of these aspects of your life, choose stones that resonate with the congruent elemental energy type! Let's break these different energy types down...

Earth Element

Association: Physicality

Chakra: Root

Zodiac: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn

Examples in the Body: Muscular/Skeletal systems, Sense of Smell

Examples on our Planet: Earth's Crust/Tectonic plates

Provides: Comfort, Safety, and Stability:

a source for all grounding, helping to regulate high-frequency and unstable energies.
reintegration of the natural state of health into our bodies and daily routines.
focus and presence within our physical form.
stability through life-changing experiences, and a strong foundation to build upon.
awareness of the shifts needed to bring life back into balance and harmony.

Water Element

Association: Emotionality

Chakra: Sacral

Zodiac: Cancer, Scorpio, Pieces

Examples in the Body: Circulatory/Lymphatic systems, Bodily fluids, and Sense of Taste

Examples on our Planet: Bodies of water - ocean tides, rivers, springs

Provides: Flow, Purification, and Vitalization:

a channel for nutrients to enter and toxins/excess to exit.
allowance for the release of the past as we move towards the future.
aid in the communication of feelings and inner truth.
alleviation of depression, hyperactivity, and mood swings.
purification: a release of that which no longer serves us.

Fire Element

Association: Sexuality

Chakra: Solar Plexus

Zodiac: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius

Examples in the Body: Reproductive/Digestive/Endocrine systems, and Sense of Sight

Examples on our Planet: Volcanoes, Geothermal Activity

Provides: Ambition, Passion, and Transformation:

fuel for creation and manifestation.
a boost to willpower, creativity, and sexual expression.
a governor for our energy exchange, how we experience energy and put our energy into the world.
aid in embracing anger and fears.
fuel for action to be taken, acting as a catalyst for manifestation.

Air Element

Association: Mentality

Chakra: Heart

Zodiac: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius

Examples in the Body: Respiratory system and Sense of Touch

Examples on our Planet: Wind, Gases, Atmosphere

Provides: Clarity, Communication, and Movement:

a doorway to the world of spirits and the subtle energies around us, amplifying our natural intuitive abilities.
access to information from the spirit realm.
a channel of life force energy. (Prana/Chi/Ki)
a fantastic frequency for meditation, breathwork, studying, puzzles, and projects.. encouraging a sharp mind.
enhancement to psychic abilities.
assistance in expressing inner knowing.

Ether Element

Association: Spirituality

Chakra: Throat

Zodiac: All

Examples in the Body: Biofield, Sense of Sound

Examples on our Planet: Lightning, Thunder, Aurora Borealis

Provides: Communication, Connection, and Space:

integration of shadows on a conscious level, by bringing up buried subconscious beliefs.
transformative cleansing, giving balance.
change, within and without ourselves.
dramatic shifts in old patterns.
a space for all other energy types to manifest.

My Top Mineral Choices:

	Earth	Water	Fire	Wind	Ether
1.	Petrified Wood	Aquamarine	Fire Agate	Danburite	Pietersite
2.	Septarian	Larimar	Spessartine Garnet	Blue Tourmaline	Phenacite
3.	Jet	Blue Lace Agate	Obsidian	Amethyst	Herkimer Diamond
4.	Prase Quartz	Opal	Sunstone	Tanzanite	Fulgurite
5.	Amber	Blue Chalcedony	Red Tiger's Eye	Purple Fluorite	Moldavite
6.	Jadeite	Amazonite	Tangerine Quartz	Apophyllite	Tektite
7.	Mookaite Jasper	Pink Tourmaline	Ruby	Celestite	Astrophyllite
8.	Moss Agate	Moonstone	Yellow Sapphire	Cavansite	Mystic Merlinite
9.	Hematite	Morganite	Heliodor	Charoite	Iolite
10.	Epidote	Blue Calcite	Cobaltoan Calcite	Purple Scapolite	White Sapphire