When we had our retail store years ago, we found that Amethyst clusters were always among our top-selling items. Their rich purple color, attractive form and their reputation for facilitating self healing made them perennially popular. In the Crystal Ally Card guidebook, Naisha writes of Amethyst: " Amethyst is one of the most beautiful members of the Quartz family. Its clear purple ray has been admired for its beauty and power for centuries. Purple is the ray of the Divine mind, and royalty have traditionally used the color purple to symbolize their role as the embodiment of the will of the Divine. Amethyst is the ally that represents the higher mind and its manifestation in Divine guidance.

Amethyst facilitates connection to your guides and angels. allowing the sixth and seventh chakras to become open and energized. It stimulates psychic abilities and mental functions; it also energetically counteracts the spiritual effects of drugs and alcohol, gently aiding one in rejecting self abuse in all forms. This ally encourages conscious connection with the higher self and higher guidance, allowing understanding of the spiritual lessons of the situations one has created".

Radha adds: "Amethyst is a purifying force which banishes negative energies. For this reason, it was believed by the ancients to be a remedy for drunkenness. However, its application is much greater, in that it purifies its surroundings of all negative influences. It is highly recommended that healers and meditators keep Amethyst clusters in their sacred spaces."

For a more indepth information, click here to see Robert Simmons article on Amethyst in the Book of Stones