I'm a crystal geek...these are the stones I keep in a leaf shaped dish on my tarot table when I read away from home...
Tarot Stones
Aquamarine- intuition, psychic awareness, clairvoyance.
Moonstone- for developing psychic abilities in a safe gradual way.
Sodalite- opens the third eye to see spiritual visions and the throat to tell of them. Manifestation stone.
Amethyst- psychic enhancer.
Citrine- distinguish prophetic voice from mind chatter, automatic writing, manifestation stone.
Rutilated quartz- telepathy, clairvoyance, manifestation stone.
Lapis- psychic protection, prophetic dreams.
Rose quartz- grounding after psychic work.
Amazonite- connecting with nature spirits, increase clairvoyance and telepathy.
Snow flake Obsidian- clairaudience, protection, good fortune.
Tiger Eye /Brown- increases clairvoyance, prosperity, shields from psychic drain or attack.
Tiger Eye-/Red- increases clairvoyance, protective, money and luck stone.
Blue Lace Agate- clairaudience, will make even the most difficult reading positive and uplifting.
Green Aventurine- increases clairvoyance.
Onyx- sends back any form of negativity directed at you. Protective, grounding.
Blue Chalcedony- telepathy, instills sense of calm, heightens listening skills, enhances generosity, responsiveness, and receptivity.
Hemitite- helps you avoid becoming to involved in the problems of others, psychic self defense.
Apache Tear- stone of prophecy.
Larvikite- magic and psychic abilities.
Selenite- mediumship, clairvoyance, past lives, dreams, psychic communication.
Chrysoprase- helps one see the unexpected in a reading, keep a piece with your tarot cards.
Prehnite- prophesy stone, place next to tarot cards to increase prophetic abilities.
Apatite- meditation, increasing clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, past life recall.
Orange Calcite- calms a nervous first time client, allows intuitive insights to flow freely.
Red Jasper- protection against physical threats and psychic attack.
Yellow Jasper- psychic barrier against gossip and bitchy colleagues.
Howlite-visualization
Blue quartz-seeing higher realms
Fools Gold- keeps fools away from your table.
Yes, I let people hold them and ocassionaly I give one away when I find someone is in need.
Sometimes I hold them or play in the dish as I'm talking...very useful stones are...
I don't like to be without them, but like I said I'm a crystal geek.