B | Stone Guide

Barite: Barite enhances friendship, harmony, and love. It can provide insight into the relationship connection. It also initiates independence and motivation; assisting one in attaining personal freedom from the requirements of others. It can be cathartic to the emotional self, allowing for release of trapped emotions and feelings; bringing calm and self-assurance to the inner state after removal of the pain. It can also be used to both stimulate and cleanse the throat chakra, to assist in renewal of the intuitive energies, and to provide for communication of new ideas and thoughts. It provides a strong, yet delicate, connection to the spiritual world, assisting one on the path toward the journey and the goal.

Basalt: Basalt can provide one with the strength to continue through difficult times and can produce solidarity in one’s life. It can be quite useful in dissipating anger and can provide understanding and guidance in situations which require one to bounce back. It is a mineral to help one through changes and to provide stability in one’s life. It also assists in diminishing the negative aspects of one’s character, promoting positive modifications of one’s behavior.

Beryl: Forms of beryl include aquamarine, bixbyite, emerald, goshenite, heliodor, morganite, and golden beryl. Golden beryl represents purity in all aspects of all planes of being. It provides initiative and independence in thought and action. It also supports the potential of the individual, instilling guidance from the source of all life. It opens and activates both the crown and solar plexus chakras, providing for synthesis between the intellect and spirituality, and inducing a wise intellect. It stimulates activity adaptability, and vitality.

Bismuth: Bismuth can be used to help one to transit from the physical plane to the astral state and/or to the spiritual realms. In this case, it provides for the opening for, and the continuity of travel with respect to, a pre-established travel plan. It relieves conditions of emotional and spiritual isolation, allowing one to feel the connected-ness with All That Is. It allows one to abide within serenity, regardless of one’s physical location, enhancing the state of the moment with the illumination of wisdom. Bismuth has been used as a stone of transformation; it directs the change to orderliness and calms the state of change, providing a supplemental physical vitality to the user.

Bloodstone: Bloodstone is a variety of Chalcedony. This mineral is an intense healing stone and a stone of courage. It can be used to awaken and to introduce uniformity within the vibrations of energy in the base, sacral, and heart chakras. It helps one to accept the change in energy fields, and to recognize the beneficial aspects of turmoil prior to perfection. It also provides one with the centering and grounding energy of the heart and is conducive to balancing the total body in order to help one to overcome any distress and anxiety which is associated with the re-alignment of the energies. The message that lies within bloodstone is to be present in the moment. It grants one the mastery of renewal of the physical, mental, and emotional. It also provides for the revitalization of love, relationships, and friendships.

Boji Stones: Boji stones align all the subtle bodies and both balances and aligns the chakras. It is useful for the removal of energy blockages. It is an excellent energy source, exhibiting an electromagnetic energy field, and providing for the transfer of energy from the etheric body to the physical. It also cleans, charges, and fills voids within the aura. It combines the qualities of initiative and independence with the furthering of the brotherhood of all, producing a circular energy which penetrates from the crown to the root chakra.

Bornite: Bornite, also known as "Peacock Ore", can facilitate synthesis of the chakras and ca be useful in the individual activation of the chakras. This mineral can bring freshness and newness to one’s life. It stimulates the inner spirit to seek further heights and substantiates one’s ability to enjoy happiness in the moment. It is an excellent stone for use during activities of rebirthing, helping one to integrate and to unite the existing separation of the emotions with the intellect. It helps one to release that which is no longer useful. It also promotes insight into the aspects of grief and relief allowing one to recognize and accept the differences.

Brucite: Brucite assists in breaking away from what is outgrown. Giving the mental flexibility to follow the twists of intuitive thought processes, leading to "Aha! moments" of great insight.