So what crystal do you favour? It can be for its magickal properties or it's appearence..

My favourite crystal is rose quartz and Amethyst. I love Amethyst because it just has alot of power to me, and in a cluster it is beautiful!

I love Rose quartz because of it's magickal properties and healing abilities. I use it for reiki/chakra healing all the time.

Blessed Be
Waterlily.

Oh, that's a hard question!!

Ok.....let's see, my number one, all time favorite is amethyst. It's so beautiful and I'm just so drawn to it. Always have been. I think it helps me focus and I too feel the power in it. I have many amethyst stones in the house.

My second fav is malachite. I absolutely love the color of it. I usually don't like green in any way, shape or form, but this is special! When I pick it up I feel so comforted and calm. For me, it's my relaxation stone.

Karen

CooL,

I favour Amethyst too. It's the best because of it's healing properties. I use it to heal my physical wounds and cure my headaches as well as ppl's headaches. Every time I put it under my pillow, i get good dreams and now i don have to suffer from insomnia anymore..

Now, i kinda like Jade. It's my second favourite. I found it in the cupboard and it had once belonged to my mum. That time i really need a gemstone cos i feel different without my amethyst ( I lent my amethyst to my friend) and i kept getting headache. So when i wore jade, it felt great. It help me feel more balanced and calm. It helps me to forgive my enemies and take away my headaches. I get nice dreams too when I put it under my pillow. ^^

Stones are just sooo AMAZING~

I actually have 2 favs Rose Quartz & Amythest!

I think my favorite is clear quartz, although I love amethyst and citrine, also. My most useful stone is a one inch piece of clear quartz with lithium. I send Reiki thru it, and make tiny clockwise circles around any painful spots and after 20 minutes or so, the pain goes away. My friends are always calling me up and asking me to crystal Reiki their bumps and bruises. I love pyrite, too, but that's not a crystal. And I have a rose quartz point that I use for animals. And fluorite, I love the beautiful color. I have a lot of favorites, I guess.

My favorites are amethyst, moonstone, tiger eye, and sapphire.. each one gives off a different vibe, whenever worn or used in magic.

Topaz-it reminds me of Autumn, my favourite season.

Wow reading thru everyone responses I'm suprised to see so many people are attracted to amethyst! It has always been my stone of choice. And if asked to pick a favourite colour I always gravitate to purple. I have a feeling that being an Indigo child had something to do with that.

I also was reading RaevynKiss's response and it didnt ever click to me that a gemstone and a crystal were different! Now I feel a bit stupid about my post on the astrology crystal board because it said that Aquamarine was the crystal of choice for aquarius and yet I always thoughht that Februarys birthstone was Amethyst, both of which are my birth month and sign. I wonder if there is a board posted to differentiate between the difference of a 'gemstone' and a 'crystal'?

Sorry that was an awful long post!

Lately I have been drawn back to amethyst, it was the first crystal I was drawn to and even now it has become an aid in my personal healing. I charged a set of beautiful amethyst earings that i will not leave the house without!

I favor aquamarine over all others, tho I go in stages where a certain stone calls to me....over the last few days I have been wearing a pendant of clear crystal that has a rainbow moonstone, garnet and peridot cabachon on it. It feels marvelous....that and I switch my pentagrams around VERY often....I have some that are ornate and some simple...

It all is what calls to me in the moment.....I have had aquamarine call to me far more than other stones tho...and it is so soothing and emotionally stabilizing for me....

I believe we all resonate to what we need in our lives in the moment...and whether it be a pendant, ring or a tumbled stone, they are all beneficial to our lives....they have their own life and energy and are all important in keeping us balanced.

Blessings Bright and Dark,

Spirit/faery quartz

[b][size=12] hhhhmmmm...how dare you ask such a question..huh?? LOL.... sorry I love them all, and use them at all times, I did a course on crystal healing, and they just fascinate me. I use the clear quartz most of the time, I have crystals everywhere in my home, even on my computer...

a little story... a while ago, back in 99, I went into a crystal shop with a friend of my mine, and was drawn to the Apache tears stone, for no apparant reason, I picked it up, it felt good, and I bought it, a small piece, of Apache tears, that I decided to place in my bra.. the strangest feeling of ovewhelming sdness would evolope me, I would feel grief, witout realising why.... one day I forgot to put the little crystal in my bra, and left it on the bathroom window... a week or so later, and I overcame this constant feeling of sadness... which surprised me.. anyway, I put the crystal back in my bra..and almost instantaneously, the sadness is there, so I decided it had to be the crystal, I went back to the little shop I had bought it from, and bought a book about thre meaning of the Apache Tears... then I understoon the reason behind this melancholic sadness....

There is a haunting legend about the Apache tear drop. After the Pinal Apaches had made several raids on a settlement in Arizona, the military regulars and some volunteers trailed the tracks of the stolen cattle and waited for dawn to attack the Apaches.

The Apaches, confident in the safety of their location,
were completely surprised and out-numbered in the attack. Nearly 50 of the band of 75 Apaches were killed in the first volley of shots. The rest of the tribe retreated to the cliff�s edge and chose death by leaping over the edge rather than die at the hands of the white men.

For years afterward those who ventured up the treacherous face of Big Pacacho in Arizona found skeletons, or could see the bleached bones wedged in the crevices of the side of the cliff.

The Apache women and the lovers of those who had died gathered a short distance from the base of the cliff where the sands were white, and for a moon they wept for their dead. They mourned greatly, for they realized that not only had their 75 brave Apache warriors died, but with them had died the great fighting spirit of the Pinal Apaches.

Their sadness was so great, and their burden of sorrow so sincere that the Great Father imbedded into black stones the tears of the Apache women who mourned their dead. These black obsidian stones, when held to the light, reveal the translucent tear of the Apache. The stones bring good luck to those possessing
them. It is said that whoever owns an Apache tear drop will never have to cry again, for the Apache maidens have shed their tears in place of yours.

Amethyst or Moonstone.....set together, even better!

I don't know if I have a favorite crystal... It would probably be amethyst. But my favorite stone is bloodstone.

Flourite is my favorite, both because of color and brightness and its properties.

I could name "second place winners" but they are too far away from Flourite at least in my case.

Blessings

Thor Merlin