Here's a list of my favorite books on Crystals and Stones.
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| My Top Two Favorite Crystals Books |
• My new favorite book is
Crystals for Energy Healing by Ashley Leavy.
This is an excellent book for getting started with working with crystals and stones. The book is divided into 3 sections: Crystal Basics, Crystal Healing, and Crystal Sourcebook (crystals for emotional healing, for spiritual healing and guidance, and for shielding and protection).
There is an editing error on page 83, the
Blue Lace Agate entry. The information given under the Attributes and Powers is actually for
Aquamarine, which is named in the paragraph several times. Below is the actual entry for Blue Lace Agate, from the author.
"Attributes and Powers: Blue Lace Agate is a stone of forgiveness, helping you accept what has happened and release it. It encourages you to heal your emotions and find balance. Blue Lace Agate allows you to feel empathy and compassion for the person requiring your forgiveness and ensures that any energetic attachments are healed. It is a stone of positive communication, promoting assertiveness and personal power."
• My second favorite book for working with crystals and stones is
The Essential Guide to Crystals, Minerals, and Stones by Margaret Ann Lembo.
She gives an introduction to choosing and working with the stones, followed by the entries for individual stones arranged in alphabetical order. The pages are glossy and the pictures of the stones are gorgeous.
Each stone's entry has a few keywords, some correspondences for each stone (colors, chakras, planets, numbers, elements, mohs scale, astrological sign), and then gives an affirmation, spiritual uses, mental uses, emotional uses, physical uses, divine guidance, and a basic geological description of the stone.
• I'd also like to mention
The Book of Crystal Spells and
The Second Book of Crystal Spells by Ember Grant. These two books are about the metaphysical properties of crystals, stones, and minerals for spellwork, ritual, and magick, as opposed to crystal healing. While similar and even somewhat overlapping, there are differences between crystal healing and crystal magick.
In
The Book of Crystal Spells, the chapters are organized by style, including cleansing/charging/dedicating stones, jewelry/talismans/amulets, home and garden, glass and sand, elixers, rituals/meditations/affirmations, and grids.
In
The Second Book of Crystal Spells, the chapters are organized by style (grids and Tarot) as well as by type of stone (quartz points, chalcedony, special rock and mineral formations, quartz crystal points, even salt). There are also chapters for Sabbats/Esbats and stones for enhancing intuition. This book has a bit more of a Wiccan/Witchcraft practitioner focus.
Both books have an appendix with entries and lists of metaphysical correspondences and associations.
• I also love my good old stand-bys,
The Crystal Bible Volumes 1, 2, and 3 by Judy Hall.
These books are well known to be must-haves if you are at all interested in working with crystals and stones. Volume 1 has many of the most commonly found crystals and stones. I consider it an absolute must-have. Volumes 2 and 3 contain additional stones, as new crystals and stones are being found all the time. There is NO duplication of entries between the different volumes. They each contain different stones. Be sure to start with volume 1.
The books are arranged in alphabetical order by the name of the stone. So you need to know the name of the stone you're looking for to find the correct entry. Each entry lists attributes of each stone and psychological, mental, and emotional attributes and uses, and a section on physical healing uses as well as recommendations for positioning.
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The Encyclopedia of Crystals by Judy Hall is another great reference to keep on hand. This book is organized by crystal color, which is enormously helpful if you're not sure of the name of the crystal or stone you have. The revised and expanded edition was released in 2013. The entries are quite similar to The Crystal Bible entries. I personally feel that the pictures in this book are a bit nicer and clearer than in the Crystal Bible volumes.
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The Crystal Healer by Philip Permutt is another book arranged by crystal color. The pictures are wonderful and each stone's entry gives information for physical and emotional/spiritual uses. There are fairly extensive listings of remedies for physical ailments and emotional ailments. I personally don't resonate with many of the remedies recommendations in this book, but that's just me. I mostly use this book for helping me to identify crystals and stones.
**What's your favorite crystals/stones book? Feel free to reply in the comments.
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