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Dunwich's Guide to Gemstone Sorcery

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I have always had a fascination for gemstones, thanks in part to my Nana, who was a rock and mineral hound. I loved looking at her vast collection of rock and mineral samples, and her beautiful books filled with colorful gems and their attributes.

But it wasn't until I read this book that I really understood the history, power and importance behind gems.

This book teaches us about the lore and mythology of gemstones, as well as their current use in the magical life. Dunwich covers how to properly cleanse and charge your stones, how to identify what stones make the best amulets, the healing properties of each stone, how to create spells and rituals involving the use of gemstones, and so much more. She even includes numerous charts of gemstones and their various magickal correspondences, which serves as both a great guide for the beginning practitioner, as well as a wonderful reference for anyone already working with gemstones.

There is so much in this book that I didn't know about gems, including the many kinds of divination utilizing gemstones, many of which date back to antiquity. I also enjoyed reading about the curative powers of dozens of gemstones, and which ones to use for specific purposes of acquiring love, wealth, well-being and spiritual insight. There is a chapter on how to create your own spells and rituals, with many wonderful examples both ancient and modern, as well as lessons on making gemstone elixirs with powerful healing properties.

I was most fascinated by Chapter 9, CURSED STONES, in which the author tells about the Hope Diamond and the Koh-i-Noor diamond, and their legendary histories as dangerous objects of human desire. I also really enjoyed the following chapter, THE LORE OF GEMSTONES, where I learned something totally new and intruiging about each and every gemstone, many of which I own and now understand the magickal properties of. This book really made me go to my jewelry box with a whole new insight and understanding of what precious gems I did own, and how I could better utilize them to bring new prosperity and well-being into my life.

Dunwich's writing style is simple and easy to follow, and the author even goes the extra step to provide additional resources for seeking out more information on gemstones, witchcraft and magick, including a great bibliography. This book is really a fun read, and a priceless resource for any witch, pagan, or practitioner using gemstones in their magickal rituals, but it is also a lot of fun for people with a passing interest in gems that want to know more about these mystical objects.

Well, when I got the book I quickly jumped right into it. The beginning of the book was all about herself pretty much, stating how she got her first stone and blah blah blah. I liked the information about cleansing and preparing, but she missed a few stones that are my strong stones. Like tigers-eye, and hemetite. This is a good reference book for your library, but I would def get another one, that lists ALL the stones.

This is one of the best books on gemstone magick ever published. It covers everything from gemstone amulets to elixirs, and has a comprehensive table of correspondences, which I found extremely useful. Unlike similar books by Melody and Cunningham, it covers both the light and the darker uses of stones, and is also full of spells and wonderful pagan folklore. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the magickal aspects of gemstones!

This is by far the best book on gemstone magic that I've ever come across (and I've read quite a few of them in my time, including Cunningham's). Dunwich's Gemstone Sorcery contains a plethora of spells (both historic & modern), amulets, talismans, gem elixirs, info on demons and cursed diamonds, and lots of fascinating occult lore. It is enlightening as well as practical. The author (a practicing Witch with an impressive 2 dozen books to her credit) covers a lot of territory in this well-researched book -- including Solomonic Magick, divination, crystal skulls, stone altars, and various healing methods. This is a book that no Sorcerer or Witch should be without. I enjoyed reading it and was truly impressed by the amount of knowledge that I derived from it. I highly recommend it to beginners as well as to intermediate and advanced students of the Magical Arts !!!

If you love gemstones and wish you knew how best to work with them, you're in luck. GEMSTONE SORCERY describes the powers and benefits of gemstones in such a way that beginners and adepts will all learn something new. Tap into the wisdom of crystals for healing, and discover which stones to use and which to avoid when making elixirs. Learn the finer points of several different forms of divination with stones, including: crystal-gazing, lithomancy, pessomancy, margaritomancy, and Tarot reading with gemstones.

GEMSTONE SORCERY is delightfully readable because it's packed with fascinating stories about gemstones, such as the curse of the blue Hope diamond. It's rare to find a book that is as much fun to read as it is informative; GEMSTONE SORCERY is a rare gem, indeed!

-- Cynthia Sue Larson
author of AURA ADVANTAGE: How the Colors in Your Aura Can Help You Attain What You Desire and Attract Success

For a concise guide, I was still anticipating something more than this. It is great for beginners, and it has a Pagan view to working with stones. Thus, it definitely adds more folklore to the mix. This book discusses some of the famous 'cursed' stones, amuletic magick, and elixirs. Perhaps the best reason to add it to one's collection (if not the only one) is to use it for all of the tables of correspondences.

This is a good book to keep around for a quick reference guide or for constructing spells based upon stone magick. The tables are very useful, though there are other books with more comprehensive sections than this.

this book is nothing more that a collection of information gathered from other sources in an incomplete format. The author seems to talk about everythng from rehashed scott cunningham information, which I always found questionable, to goetic demons and their gemstone correspondances. If your looking for a good work on the properties of stones then read LOVE IS IN THE EARTH by MELODY.

A good book on gemstones and meaning. I just wish the author had gone more in depth in linking stones to deities.

The energy contained within stones is an old invisible power which can be tapped to create powerful magic: that's the message of Gerina Dunwich's Gemstone Sorcery, a guide to using precious and semi-precious stones to achieve Wiccan goals. Dinwich tells how to properly cleanse and charge stones, use them as amulets or healing aids, and how to make homemade gemstone elixirs. Gemstone Sorcery is a fine and recommended Wiccan guide with specific formulas and applications.

I adore the world of the stone people and usualy buy anything and everything on the subject when I come across it. That was the case here, I bought without really looking and learned a lesson. I just do not understand this book. It really does seem like the author just wanted to put a book out about stones and compacted a bunch of information together between a cover. I am sad to say that this book should not be included in your collection. What a shame that trees have been killed to publish this!