Love, love, love. As a species, we are obsessed with love. We crave companionship, which is a necessity of our biology; from tribal groupings to modern societies, our desire for each other hasn't waned.
Crystals have been utilized as a high-vibrational tool of love and attraction in spiritual practice for thousands of years, dating back to the ancient Egyptians, who were among the first to mine for precious stones and metals as early as 4000 BCE.
This collection of 15 crystals for love aren't just for attracting love alone, for there are so many more facets to relationships than gaining them. These crystals can ignite passions, heal heartbreak, faciliate healthy communication in relationships, ease jealousy, and promote forgiveness of the self when navigating rough emotional terrain.
Jewelry for each love crystal has also been selected, for those who prefer pretty adornments to altar pieces, and because most of these stones are more effective when consistently worn on the body.
May this selection guide you toward love that is honest, open, and pure 💜
1. Rose Quartz
The quintessential stone of love, Rose Quartz, emanates unconditional compassion, self-acceptance, emotional healing, and inner peace by purifying and opening the heart.
Placing Rose Quartz in your bed is a simple way to attract love, while in relationships, it will restore trust and harmony.
- Best Form: Tumbled for self-work; polished hearts or spheres for relationship altars.
- Planet: Venus
- When to Use: During Fridays or the New Moon to attract new love or nurture intimacy.
- History: Rose Quartz jewelry has been found in Mesopotamian tombs, while the Egyptians carved it into facial masks to preserve youth. In Rome and Greece, it was believed to be a gift from Aphrodite and Cupid, crystallized from divine compassion.
- Best Love Grouping: Rose Quartz + Rhodonite + Amethyst for healing, forgiveness, and spiritual calm.
- Position: Wear over the heart.
2. Rhodonite
A stone of forgiveness and emotional restoration, Rhodonite teaches compassion after conflict by revealing both sides of an issue. It helps couples rebuild trust and release resentment, clearing away emotional wounds and scars from the past by promoting forgiveness and reconciliation.
- Best Form: Palm stone or worry stone
- Planet: Mars & Venus
- When to Use: Waning Moon or after arguments to clear emotional residue.
- History: Named after the Greek rhodon (“rose”), the crystal was treasured in 18th-century Russia, where it adorned palace floors and was gifted to newlyweds as a symbol of unification.
- Best Love Grouping: Rhodonite + Rose Quartz + Morganite to forgive, soothe, and reopen the heart.
- Position: As appropriate. Wear over the heart to heal emotional wounds.
3. Garnet
Known as the stone of passionate devotion, Garnet stimulates sensual energy and loyalty. It revitalizes, purifies, and balances energies, bringing serenity or passion as need be.
Garnet inspires love, balances the sex drive, and lessens the effects of emotional upheaval. Use it to revive the spark in long-term relationships and empower your self-worth.
- Best Form: Polished or jewelry-grade faceted stones
- Planet: Mars
- When to Use: Around Beltane or during a waxing Moon for rekindling passion.
- History: Crusaders wore Garnet for fidelity and safe return, while Hindu tradition saw it as a lamp of passion that illuminated the soul’s path. The Victorians exchanged garnet jewelry as tokens of eternal affection.
- Best Love Grouping: Garnet + Ruby Zoisite + Carnelian for fiery love, grounded trust, and endurance.
- Position: Earlobes, finger, or over the heart.
4. Amethyst
The spiritual counterpart to passion, Amethyst promotes balance, clarity, and higher love. It purifies attachment and invites soul-level connection with its high spiritual vibration.
Amethyst is a natural tranquilizer and can be useful when relationships become rocky, dispelling negative energies and promoting calmness and serenity.
- Best Form: Cluster or geode for bedrooms to transmute tension and anxiety
- Planet: Jupiter & Neptune
- When to Use: During meditation, before sleep, or when emotional calm is needed.
- History: Once considered a royal stone, Amethyst adorned Egyptian crowns and Greek goblets alike. The name comes from amethystos, “not intoxicated,” believed to protect against both wine and infatuation. Medieval clergy used it to symbolize spiritual chastity and divine connection.
- Best Love Grouping: Amethyst + Rose Quartz + Danburite for divine connection and peaceful union.
- Position: Wear over the throat or heart.
5. Emerald
Emerald, the stone of faithful love and infinite patience, strengthens commitment and emotional honesty, bringing domestic bliss and loyalty. Unity, unconditional love, partnership, and friendship are all enhanced by Emerald.
The crystal can also be utilized as a tell-tale sign of infidelity, which would manifest in the way of the Emerald changing color. It aligns hearts to truth rather than fantasy.
- Best Form: Faceted or set in gold to stabilize long partnerships
- Planet: Venus
- When to Use: On anniversaries, or Full Moons in Taurus or Libra.
- History: Called “the Jewel of Kings,” Cleopatra was infatuated with Emerald, who claimed every mine in Egypt for her personal use. The Incas and Aztecs revered it as the stone of eternal spring and truth in love. In medieval Europe, it symbolized faithfulness and was thought to reveal a lover’s honesty.
- Best Love Grouping: Emerald + Chrysoprase + Dioptase for devotion, forgiveness, and renewal.
- Position: Wear on the little finger, ring finger, or over the heart. Do not constantly wear the stone, as it can trigger negative emotions.
6. Morganite
This soft pink beryl opens the heart to universal love and self-value. It dissolves bitterness and helps one receive affection freely by providing energies of pure love and compassion.
Morganite is a relaxing stone, meant to cleanse the heart chakra of negative energy. This crystal aims to impart the courage and confidence to face these feelings and conquer them. Hold this stone in your hands during moments of emotional distress to be reminded of your heart's inner strength.
- Best Form: Polished oval cabochons
- Planet: Venus
- When to Use: After heartbreak or therapy work, especially during new relationships.
- History: Discovered in Madagascar in 1910 and named for financier J. P. Morgan. Esotericists view it as the “heart healer of the modern age,” bringing emotional balance in turbulent relationships.
- Best Love Grouping: Morganite + Pink Tourmaline + Kunzite for compassion, healing, and emotional rebirth.
- Position: Held in hand or worn over the heart.
7. Pink Tourmaline
A potent heart activator that attracts love in both the spiritual and material worlds, this stone channels emotional catharsis and gentle release. It’s the go-to for those healing from betrayal or grief, making way for the ability to love and to be loved again.
Pink Tourmaline promotes peace, relaxation, connecting you to wisdom and compassion, while stimulating receptivity to healing energies.
- Best Form: Raw or wand-shaped crystals
- Planet: Venus & Pluto
- When to Use: Waning Moon or Scorpio season: the times for deep emotional purging.
- History: Ancient legend claims Tourmaline journeyed along a rainbow and gathered every color, hence its name from the Sinhalese turmali (“mixed”). Pink Tourmaline, prized in Renaissance Europe, was considered an aphrodisiac crystal that rekindled fading desire.
- Best Love Grouping: Pink Tourmaline + Rhodonite + Kunzite for the courage to feel, forgive, and love again.
- Position: Place on the heart.
8. Kunzite
A high-vibration crystal of empathy and divine affection, Kunzite bridges heart and spirit, producing loving thoughts and communication. It teaches vulnerability as a sacred strength and can easily induce mediation for those who find the practice difficult.
This is a crystal of protection: from negative energies, attached entities, and mental influences from others. Clear up any emotional debris with Kunzite, heal heartache, and lift your mood from stressed to relaxed.
- Best Form: Faceted or pendant-cut
- Planet: Venus & Neptune
- When to Use: During rituals for emotional expression or marriage blessings.
- History: First discovered in 1902 and named for gemologist George Frederick Kunz of Tiffany & Co., Kunzite became known as the “evening gem” because of the lilac hue it glowed under candlelight.
- Best Love Grouping: Kunzite + Morganite + Danburite for emotional grace, angelic comfort, and peace.
- Position: Wear as a pendant over the heart
9. Ruby Zoisite (Anyolite)
A vibrant union of Ruby’s fire and Zoisite’s calm, symbolizing balanced passion. It aligns desire with purpose and stabilizes relationships under strain.
While Ruby stimulates the heart chakra and balances the heart, Zoisite transmutes negative energies to positive, assisting in manifesting your true feelings without influence of others. Together, Ruby Zoisite is a powerful stone for aiding communication in relationships.
- Best Form: Palm stone or raw combination piece
- Planet: Mars & Earth
- When to Use: During couple’s rituals or grounding meditations.
- History: A 20th-century Tanzanian discovery. East African artisans saw it as proof that opposing forces can coexist in harmony, much like lovers learning equilibrium.
- Best Love Grouping: Ruby Zoisite + Garnet + Smoky Quartz for passion, trust, and protective grounding.
- Position: Heart, finger, and ankle
10. Chrysoprase
This gentle green stone brings hope, renewal, and forgiveness; ideal for letting go of jealousy or self-sabotage. Chrysoprase promotes the love of truth and the revelation of personal insights, as well as encouraging fidelity in relationships.
Chrysoprase is an excellent stone for becoming familiar with oneself and your motives, bringing a sense of security and trust to relationships, healing codependence, supporting independence, while all encouraging commitment.
- Best Form: Tumbled or small cabochons
- Planet: Venus & Mercury
- When to Use: New Moons for reconciliation or Spring for emotional rebirth.
- History: The ancient Greeks linked this apple-green chalcedony to Aphrodite, and Alexander the Great allegedly wore it in battle to ensure victory and charm. During the Middle Ages it was carved into talismans to mend jealousy and encourage faithful love.
- Best Love Grouping: Chrysoprase + Emerald + Amazonite for forgiveness, honesty, and compassionate dialogue.
- Position: Wear on the heart or throat.
11. Rhodochrosite
A mesmerizing stone of divine compassion and selfless love, Rhodochrosite soothes the wounds of abandonment, betrayal, and lost innocence, teaching that intimacy begins with the self, radiating outward into partnerships that mirror one’s healed heart.
Practice with Rhodochrosite for the heart and relationships, especially if you feel unloved. This stone is also excellent for encouraging healthy expression of passion and erotic urges, as well as healing trauma from sexual abuse.
- Best Form: Polished slices or palm stones that reveal its rosy banding
- Planet: Venus & Pluto
- When to Use: During the Waxing Moon or after major emotional breakthroughs; perfect for new beginnings following heartbreak.
- History: Known as Inca Rose Stone, legend says it formed from the blood of Incan lovers whose hearts fused into crystal. It was rediscovered in Argentina’s Capillitas Mines in the 13th century and remains sacred in South American folklore as the stone of love reborn.
- Best Love Grouping: Rhodochrosite + Rose Quartz + Morganite for healing, self-acceptance, and the courage to love again.
- Position: Wrist, heart, or placed on solar plexus
12. Dioptase
Emerald-green Dioptase is the crystal of karmic heart healing through cutting cords of resentment and revealing the lesson within heartbreak. It dissolves grief, betrayal, and sorrow, patching up the heart and the pain of abandonment.
Dioptase works to turn negative to positive in all areas of life, overcoming any sense of personal lack and enables fulfilling potential. This stone can heal the emotional black hole left behind from a past relationship that is desperate for love by enhancing self-love.
- Best Form: Small raw clusters
- Planet: Venus & Pluto
- When to Use: After profund loss, therapy breakthroughs, or relationship endings.
- History: Its brilliant emerald hue captivated ancient Egyptians, who ground it for use in sacred art. In metaphysical lore, Dioptase cleanses karmic heart wounds and was used in Atlantean healing temples (according to Theosophical tradition) as a stone of renewal.
- Best Love Grouping: Dioptase + Chrysoprase + Eudialyte for release, renewal, and aligned attraction.
13. Danburite
A serene, high-frequency crystal of angelic love and emotional purification, clearing the heart channel for unconditional empathy.
Danburite is an excellent stone for stimulating significant change, leaving the past behind, and starting a path in a new direction, which is perfect for moving beyond past relationships.
- Best Form: Clear, terminated points
- Planet: Neptune
- When to Use: Before sleep or prayer; Full Moons for cleansing love wounds.
- History: Discovered in Danbury, Connecticut in 1839, this transparent, prismatic crystal bridges earth and ether. 20th-century healers recognized it for its angelic frequency that purifies emotional burdens and strengthens spiritual intimacy between partners.
- Best Love Grouping: Danburite + Amethyst + Kunzite for serenity, spiritual harmony, and unconditional love.
- Position: Over the heart
14. Petalite
Called the Angel Stone, Petalite instills calm detachment and healthy boundaries. It supports empaths and sensitive lovers.
This light pink crystal is an excellent aid during tie-cutting as it brings the higher selves of each person into the process and eliminates manipulation at any level.
- Best Form: Raw blades or polished slices
- Planet: Uranus
- When to Use: During retrogrades or emotionally charged transitions.
- History: Named in 1800 from the Greek petalon (“leaf”), Petalite is the quiet guardian of empaths. Indigenous shamans of South Africa and Australia used it to commune with ancestor spirits and to protect the heart during emotional upheaval.
- Best Love Grouping: Petalite + Kunzurite + Selenite for clarity, protection, and elevated intimacy.
- Position: Wear as a pendant, earrings, or on the finger
15. Eudialyte
A powerful yet lesser-known stone of aligned love and self-integration, Eudialyte merges passion with purpose. It attracts partners who mirror your true vibration.
Eudialyte balances survival instincts with the heart’s deeper desires, linking the root and heart chakras to help manifest what one truly longs for. Emotionally, it nurtures self-love, forgiveness, and healing from fear or resentment, guiding one through inner transformation during major life shifts.
- Best Form: Raw matrix or palm stone
- Planet: Mars & Venus
- When to Use: During manifestation rituals or when calling in soulmates.
- History: A rare Russian mineral from the Kola Peninsula, Eudialyte’s crimson veining earned it the title “stone of the true heart.” Russian nobility prized it for rekindling passion after grief, while modern healers see it as an anchor for authentic, soul-aligned love.
- Best Love Grouping: Eudialyte + Dioptase + Garnet for authentic attraction, emotional release, and vitality.
- Position: Over the heart
May this selection aid you in your quest to honest, open, and pure love, whether that is love from someone else or love towards yourself.
Remember to cleanse your crystals of stale energy regularly, practice with them often, and thank them for the aid they provide.
~ With Love, Beatrix Devine
