Flint
Description: Flint is a variety of chalcedony, which occurs in gray, smoky-brown, and brown-black colors. Flint is also a term vaguely applied to varieties of opaque quartz. Flint has many folk names including: Thunderstone, elf-shot, fairy-shot, elf-arrow, and adder stone.
Location: Flint is found in all countries around the world.
Astrological Sign: Scorpio and the planet Mars
Spiritual Uses: Flint is an excellent choice for use in activities related to thought transference, helping its user to transfer ideas, information, and loving emotional messages to another and to receive, in return, the touching interpersonal experiences of the energy of the universe. It can assist one in viewing the unknown, providing for insight into the methods by which to oppose contrary forces. It can enhance its users abilities towards meticulous judgment concerning the manifested character of others. It has also been used as a tool for psychic surgery.
Physical Uses: Flint is beneficial to the entire body, helping all tissue (internal or external), but especially the cardiopulmonary and cleansing systems. It can be used to help one feel more whole and healthy, giving a strong boost to one’s mental state. It is extremely helpful for those who have been afflicted by degenerative diseases. The stone can help to promote both intimate and personal experiences and to relieve shyness. It can also assist one in severing the emotional ties through which one is attached to problems and distressful situations. It can be helpful in money management. Flint is uses a protective amulet and is thought to be particularly potent when placed above the door. It has also been used in the treatment of kidney stones, calcium deposits, skin lesion, lung and liver disorders, and digestion, and to prevent nightmares. To help in the diminishment of superficial growths and to enhance the integrity of the skin, it can be used as an elixir.
History: The stone has been revered for its ability to produce protective energy and to dispel negativity, by ancient tribes of this planet. It was used by ancient Europeans (and probably Native Americans) to make blades. Ancient flint knives, found throughout Europe, were and still are used as protective amulets. The Irish set flint knives in silver and carried them to guard against mischievous fairies. Flint knives were sometimes honored as family “gods” in Scandinavia. Flint is used in modern-day Brazil in diving gold, water, gem stones, and other undergrounds treasures.