Amethyst Meaning and Benefits

Amethyst is a beautiful purple stone. This photo of a tumbled amethyst is from my collection of crystals that I have accumulated for years. As you can see in the photo, amethyst represents many things that may be useful to your life.

Amethyst benefits include:

• Clarity
• Clearing negativity
• Nobility
• Purification
• Healing
• Addictions

We could all use a little clarity in our lives. Amethyst clears away confusion and brings the clarity you need. Sometimes it's so hard to see the big picture. Have you ever been in trouble and just didn't know which decision was the right one? It can be frustrating. Sometimes that rut of confusion can last months, where you just wish you knew what to do. I completely understand that situation.

If you need to be creative, use amethyst to help stimulate your imagination so that you can come up with new and interesting ideas. Amethyst is great for use in careers that are centered around art and creativity. If you are any sort of creative person, you should have an amethyst stone in your work space.

Amethyst can clear away negative energies. Amethyst is good for you if you feel negativity from time to time. Amethyst brings a soothing healing energy and can really help to heal you from addictions. If you feel you have unhealthy habits or addictions, wear an amethyst stone.

Amethyst is a stone for soul connections. It can encourage deeper spiritual connections between two people. Amethyst is a highly spiritual stone, and is used in many spiritual practices such as meditation and prayer.

Obviously purple is a color of royalty. It has represented nobility for centuries. You may be drawn to the color purple if you feel like you have a bit of royalty in you.

Amethyst is a nice stone to be put on displays. If I had an amethyst cathedral, I would totally have a picture of it up here, but those things are usually several hundreds of dollars. The cheapest amethyst cathedral I've ever seen was $500. But man are they a gorgeous sight to see.

Amethyst is not super rare. You can generally find amethyst anywhere crystals are sold. There is an overabundance of it. But even though it's quite common to come across, amethyst remains to be one of the greatest crystals you can find.

Amethyst has been used in jewelry for centuries. Many ancient civilizations considered amethyst to be very valuable, and often wore amethyst on them. It was a stone of luxury. Certainly it's purple color gives you a feeling of royalty when you are near it.

Amethyst is associated with the month of February. If you were born in February, you may feel an even more special connection to this purple stone, and you most definitely should add an amethyst stone to your collection.

Amethyst is a stone of healing, and is often used in crystal healing and reiki healing sessions.

Amethyst is a stone of stress relief. It can be used at the end of the day to help you unwind and de-stress yourself from the busy day you had. It can help you leave all the worries behind. Lavender scent is used for relieving stress as well. Lavender flowers and amethyst stones are both purple, and can be used together to amplify it's stress-relieving effects.

Amethyst can be found in various shades of purple. There is very light amethyst, which is often called lavender amethyst, and there is very dark purple amethyst that looks almost black, plus all the shades of purple in between. You can also find rainbow amethyst, which is amethyst that has rainbow inclusions. There is banded amethyst and chevron amethyst as well, which is amethyst mixed with quartz crystal.

Since amethyst is purple and the crown chakra is purple, amethyst has been a symbol for the crown chakra. It is used in crown chakra healing.

Amethyst helps to bring abundance anywhere it is used. Wealth and abundance go hand in hand, so it can be used to increase your material wealth.

Amethyst has also been a symbol of purity, so it was common among the Church. Amethyst is still used for purification to this day.

Amethyst is thought to help prevent you from immature acts. It encourages wise decisions and thoughtful approaches to problems you are facing. If you are often indulging in the party life, amethyst may not be the stone for you unless you are ready to give up that life of overindulgence and intoxication.

Amethyst is a major stone of protection. It has been used for protection amulets for centuries. You can acquire your own amethyst protection amulet by simply getting an amethyst necklace. This will give you added protection against negative energy and negative thoughts.

Amethyst can protect against illness, accidents, black witchcraft, negative thoughts, and all harm. Amethyst protects against a wide range of negative emotions including anger, grief, sorrow, resentment, etc.

Amethyst is known to cure drunkenness and promote sobriety. If you are struggling with that, wearing amethyst can surely help you with your goal to remain sober.

Being sober means to be aware, and amethyst brings awareness with it. Amethyst can increase your spiritual awareness.

Amethyst stimulates thought and intelligence. Amethyst is a stone that procrastinators can use to help keep them motivated and active. If you are often dragging your feet, not completing tasks on time, use amethyst to help you get the job done.

Meditation with amethyst can amplify all of it's benefits. If you want any said benefits of amethyst, the best way to achieve them is to hold amethyst in the palm of your hand while you meditate daily. If you only have one amethyst stone, place it in your left hand. If you have more than one stone, then place them in both hands.

Alternatively, you can meditate while laying down, placing an amethyst stone above your head or under a pillow. Placing amethyst under a pillow is a great way to get rid of nightmares. If you have recurrent bad dreams, you can sleep with an amethyst stone to help you.

Amethyst is used in meditation because it's a very calming stone, so it can help you reach the meditative states that you desire to reach.

Amethyst is a stone for intuition. It can help you develop your intuition and open up your crown chakra to receive messages from guides.

If you are trying to cleanse and charge your amethyst, be careful not to leave it in sunlight. It's best to cleanse your amethyst in the full moon because amethyst's color will fade in the sun.