Did you know that the color of a crystal can tell you a lot about its properties? Vibrant colors energize and stimulate. Pale colors tend to be calming. Transparent crystals might be either energizing or dissipating. Dark colors transmute energy. Therefore, in crystal work or healing, it is important to choose the color of your pieces wisely.
Orange resonates with the sacral chakra of creativity, sexuality, emotion, and intuition. But different shades of orange provide different kinds of vibration. For example, a peach-colored crystal will energize you gently and promote the feeling of love, combining it with action. You can use them to help you move forward placidly in life.
On the other hand, a bright orange shade will help you activate and release energy quickly. They are helpful for building up energy. Many of them also attract abundance. They will help you be more assertive and creative. Also, you can use bright orange crystals to manifest projects into the physical world.
Orange crystals are particularly associated with creativity, motivation, and sexuality. They bring about inspiration and can be used as an aid to make art, explore sexuality, or seek pleasure in general.
They are good companions in times of major life change. They can help you open up to play and pleasure during trying times. Also, when you have some decision-making to do and you need to be quick, an orange crystal might give you an extra boost of energy and help you think more clearly.
1. Carnelian
Carnelian is a translucent orange, semi-precious variety of chalcedony. Its energy is optimistic, rejuvenating, and supports you in making positive changes. It promotes action by clearing away doubt and replacing it with enjoyment.
This is the crystal you want to have around during challenging times. If you find yourself paralyzed by fear, carnelian’s virtue will help you initiate movement. It dissipates resistance to change, boosting courage and openness to possibilities.
Its nature is fiery and obliterates those limiting beliefs that may keep you frozen or blocked. When you work with carnelian, you invite a fresh sense of motivation and commitment. If you are unsure or afraid of the future, carnelian can help you boost your confidence. It reminds you that inaction can never lead to change. The energy and confidence it inspires will help you lighten the mood when approaching obstacles, allowing you to move forward with creativity and passion.
Whenever you face challenging mental and emotional situations, carnelian can give you the courage to find the core issue and face it gracefully. It strengthens your commitment to the healing process.
As a therapeutic gemstone, carnelian works with self-image and self-worth. It is comforting and provides self-confidence, making you feel more comfortable in your own skin and melting insecurities away. It is also stabilizing and restores vitality and motivation.
Psychologically, carnelian helps you accept the cycle and pace of life. It can help you deal with the fear of death. It gives you courage and promotes positive life choices, motivating you to succeed in business and other aspects of life. This crystal helps you overcome negative conditioning and trust yourself and your perception.
Mentally, carnelian can provide a clearer mind. It can improve your analytical abilities and concentration. If you tend to daydream and struggle to get back into everyday reality, it can help you get rid of that mental lethargy. During meditation, you can use it to dissipate upsetting or intrusive thoughts.
Emotionally, this stone is a powerful protector. It shields you from envy, rage, and resentment. Not only from other people but also your own. It is soothing when you feel angry and it helps replace emotional negativity with love for life.
You can use carnelian to activate the base chakra, influence the reproductive organs, and aid fertility. In later stages of life, this gemstone can be used to promote the healing of lower back problems and sadness. It regulates bodily fluids, so you can keep it around to aid the absorption of vitamins and minerals, and improve circulation.
In everyday life, it is best used as a pendant or belt buckle. During meditation, it is advisable to place it near or on the sacral chakra, in contact with the skin. To invite abundance into your home and invoke its protection, place carnelian near your front door.
2. Orange Calcite
In its rough form, orange calcite is a chalky, light orange stone with white striations. When tumbled and polished, it loses this chalky appearance and has a high luster. The energy of this crystal helps you integrate your spiritual and physical bodies. It is connected to the sacral and solar plexus chakras, so it helps you enhance your self-esteem, boost creativity, and experience sexuality in a healthy way.
Orange calcite increases positive energy and works as a powerful amplifier and cleanser. It is an active crystal. This means that it aids personal development and growth, speeding up these processes.
Spiritually, this crystal is linked to higher consciousness and promotes the opening of higher awareness and psychic abilities. If you are into divination, this is a beautiful crystal to keep around. It works as a catalyst for channeling and out-of-body experiences. It accelerates spiritual development and allows the soul to remember past-life experiences.
Psychologically, it helps align emotions and intellect, promoting emotional intelligence. You can also use it to raise the energy level in times of lost hope or to fight laziness. Whenever you feel that fear and sadness are holding you back, orange calcite can help you deal with your emotions and move forward. It maximizes your potential to overcome your problem.
Mentally, orange calcite provides a mental soothing that allows for clearer discernment and analysis, so it is perfect for keeping near you when working or studying. It stimulates insight, boosts memory, and helps you decide which information is important and then, retain it.
Orange calcite helps you turn your ideas into action. It is stabilizing, it enhances self-trust, and helps you overcome setbacks. It is also a highly energizing and cleansing stone, especially for the lower chakras.
You can also use this stone to aid the healing of your reproductive system, gallbladder, and intestinal disorders.
It can be worn as a pendant near the solar plexus, or you can carry it in your pocket, near the sacral chakra. Keep it in areas of creativity and around your workspace.
3. Sunstone
Sunstone is a slightly translucent orange stone with small, sparkly pieces in it. Depending on the piece, it can be either opaque, milky, or clear. It promotes positive energy and optimism. It aids the transformation of negative thoughts into positive thoughts.
This is a joyful, light-inspiring crystal. You can use it to strengthen your affirmations when working on your self-worth. It helps you bring back your love for life when you lose motivation. It enhances intuition and lets you know how to nurture yourself. It brings in light and energy and helps your real self shine through on hard days. It invokes the regenerative power of the sun during meditation and in everyday life.
If you feel drained by other people’s demanding energy, you can use sunstone to work on setting boundaries. It will help you understand what relationships are worth working on, but it will also aid you in cutting ties when needed. It is useful for situations where you find it hard to say “no” and constantly find yourself making sacrifices for others. Keep sunstone around to dispel codependency and kick start a toxic-people detox.
This gemstone also boosts self-empowerment, independence, and vitality. If procrastination is holding you back, use a sunstone to overcome it.
Sunstone is amazing to lift dark moods. It is particularly effective for what we call seasonal depression, bringing back the sunshine on bleak Winter days. It will help you detach from heavy feelings and make you see your self-worth, especially after failure.
It encourages enthusiasm and dispels pessimism. It stimulates self-healing powers and regulates the autonomic nervous system. Working with the solar plexus, it can help relieve chronic throat and stomach aches.
Sunstone is best worn in bracelets and rings or carried in pockets. It is particularly beneficial when used in the sun. Place it on the solar plexus to lift out heavy or repressed emotions and transmute them.
4. Peach Moonstone
Peach moonstone is a beautiful, milky stone with swirling colors that shine depending on the light. It gets its shimmer from a property of gemstones known as adularescence, which is also found in labradorite.
This is another useful gemstone for divination witches, as it increases psychic abilities. It assists you when communicating with the higher self, other spiritual beings, or the Divine.
It helps you let go of old energy to give way to new beginnings. Therefore, it will support you in the fulfillment of your wishes.
This stone is linked to the crown and third-eye chakras. In meditation or divination work, keep it near these spots or hold it in your hands. Place it under your pillow to promote premonitory dreams. In jewelry, it is best worn in necklaces and earrings.
5. Orange Aventurine
Orange aventurine is a brownish orange or a pure orange stone with a light sheen. It is slightly transparent, and you may notice flecks of darker or lighter orange in it. It is a very positive gemstone that provides prosperity and luck.
It is energetically protective and has the ability to defuse negative situations and turn them around. It can also strengthen your leadership qualities. It encourages assertiveness and decisiveness, as well as compassion and perseverance. It strengthens your resolve and promotes adventurousness.
In trying times, when you find it hard to get through, orange aventurine will help you tackle the root cause of your discomfort. It brings understanding and stability, making way for clear perception and creativity. It opens your eyes to alternatives and possibilities and helps you rely on others and ask for help.
This stone promotes the union between your intellectual and emotional bodies. It calms anger and irritation and stimulates recovery.
Orange aventurine promotes the feeling of well-being and encourages regeneration. It protects the heart chakra from the draining energy of others. It relieves migraines and helps with skin eruptions.
Carry it in your pocket or wear it as a necklace pendant. In meditation, keep it on or near the sacral chakra or solar plexus.
6. Orange Tourmaline
Orange tourmaline, like other variations of this gemstone, is known to cleanse, purify, and transform dense energy into a lighter vibration. The striations along its sides promote the flow of energy, making it an especially effective healing crystal.
It is used to clear the aura, remove blockages, and disperse negative energy. It can help you point to solutions for specific problems and balance energy. It aids in understanding yourself and others and promotes self-confidence. It banishes fear and attracts creativity and prosperity.
This specific variation of tourmaline is beneficial for sexuality and for overcoming emotional dysregulation. It helps with the recovery of libido and with tension release. It balances the active and passive energies of your body.
7. Tangerine Quartz
Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy amplifier gemstone, due to its helical spiral crystalline form. It absorbs, stores, releases, and regulates energy and is excellent for unblocking it.
This crystal is called the “master healer”. It works at a vibrational level and adapts to the requirements of the person needing healing or undertaking spiritual work. It takes the energy back to a state of comfort after shock or trauma. Quartz also enhances psychic abilities and works according to your spiritual purpose.
Tangerine quartz, specifically, has added properties due to its color. It activates and harmonizes the sacral chakra. Therefore, it stimulates the flow of creative energy. Its energy will allow you to access a more positive vibration, even beyond your belief system. It helps you understand and face the trials and tribulations of life with more clarity.
In meditation, this orange gemstone is useful for past-life healing. It is beneficial when the soul feels it has made a mistake for which it must pay. Its energy encourages forgiveness, and it will help you overcome issues from the past with greater understanding.
8. Fire Opal
Opal is a delicate stone with a fine vibration. It stimulates originality and dynamic creativity and aids in finding and expressing your true self. It is an absorbent and reflective gemstone. It picks up thoughts and feelings, amplifies them, and returns them to the source.
As the orange-colored variety of this stone, fire opal works as an enhancer and activator of personal power. It awakens your inner fire and protects you against danger. It is a seductive stone that intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions.
Fire Opal is said to magnify thoughts and feelings, returning them threefold. Correctly programmed, it works wonders for goal manifestation. It facilitates change and progress and is excellent for business and career improvements.
You can work with it in situations of injustice and mistreatment. Fire opal will support you through the resulting emotional turmoil. If you are going through grief, this gemstone will help you release deep-seated sadness. It is wonderful for letting go of the past, but be careful: it can result in explosive reactions when releasing bottled-up emotions suddenly. Even when this is a stabilizing crystal, it tends to scatter energy, so you must be well-centered when working with it.
Fire Opal resonates with the abdomen and lower back. It aids in the healing of the intestines and the kidneys. It is also good for preventing burn-out and stimulating sexual organs. This is an excellent stone for reenergizing and warming.
9. Aragonite
Aragonite is a crystalline form of calcium carbonate which also occurs in coral, limestone, and other rock formations. Its energy aids grounding, it fosters acceptance, and generates emotional balance.
If you feel that your head is all over the place, or that you could use some organization, aragonite is the crystal you want to have around. It will provide a solid ground for you to build on. It is known as the gemstone of stabilization.
Aragonite will aid you in fighting stress and soothing anxiety. It is amazing to alleviate emotional fatigue and lingering negative emotions. Working with it will help you control your resentment and improve your concentration. It is also good for reconnecting with your self-worth and trusting yourself.
In meditation, place it on your root, solar plexus, or crown chakra. In grounding work, hold it in your hands for better results. If you feel stressed or anxious, you can carry it around in your pocket. If the cause of your stress is your job, keep it in your workspace.
Take special care when manipulating this stone, as it is a relatively soft mineral. Do not use water or salt to cleanse it.
10. Vanadinite
Vanadinite is formed naturally through an oxidation process. It is orange and contains transparent crystals in boxy clusters. It is an energizing gemstone with high bodily vibrations.
It boosts creativity and motivation and helps you maintain them for long periods of time. It is great for long study or work sessions where you need to be deeply focused.
It provides mental stimulation and is useful when you need to get down to business quickly. Vanadinite will also ease the mental process needed to move forward in life. Therefore, it is a useful crystal to work with to focus and achieve long-term goals.
In meditation, it works better placed directly on the sacral chakra. For long study or work sessions, you can place Vanadinite on your desk. It is particularly effective if you tape it to your seat to unleash your creativity.
11. Peach Amazonite
In its peach-colored variant, amazonite is a soft crystal with a slightly iridescent luster. It has an encouraging, empowering energy.
Working with peach amazonite will help you awaken your feminine warrior energy. A sensitive, manifesting energy that comes from within, moves from the shadows, and never loses touch with your emotions. An unstoppable, fearless war spirit that will help you speak out loud assertively.
Especially in the context of relationships and partners, peach amazonite encourages boundary-setting and clear, direct speaking. But this energy extends further to the creative realm. If you are going through a creative block, meditating with this crystal will help you embody your feminine warrior and create unapologetically and assertively.
Peach amazonite is best worn as a necklace pendant. During meditation, hold it on your non-dominant, receiving hand.
All of these orange crystals have amazing properties. Have you found the one that resonates with you the most? Let us know which one!
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