(continued from Stones As Symbols Part 1)
Blue stone: healing powers, holy stone
Black stone: defeat, restraint, unfavorable decision
Conical stone: masculine principle, sun emblem, sun worshipped by the Romans as Elegabalas in the form of a black conical stone
Five stones: five powers of perfection or wisdom
Round stone: sun
Soft stone: symbol of adversity, enemy, evil
Square stone: deity image, masculine principle
Stone giant: supernatural being of the Yaghan Indians, who is vulnerable except for his feet, he was overcome by a hummingbird; Pueblo Indians have two stone giants symbolizing the morning sun and the evening sun, and the summer sun and winter sun
White stone: favorable decision, liberation, revelation, victory, virtue
After the telling of a venture in which she carried a stone from Iona to the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza, Alice Howell was asked if she was suggesting that the stone from Iona was magical. She replied, "No, not at all! The power of the stone was what I projected into it. It was all it meant to me, the meaning I gave to it. I could throw it back into the ocean and it would roll around there for thousands of years both special and unspecial like any other stone. In fact, the alchemists said something to the effect that the Philosopher’s Stone could not be bought for any price… The power of the stone really lay in the alchemist himself. The transmutations, I suspect, are the very liftings of the meaning of life from one level to another, both outwardly and inwardly in the psyche. Such transmutations are everywhere in nature, but discovering the hidden process requires a certain kind of symbolic thinking that puts two and two together – which, by the way, is what symbolus means."
Howell, Alice, The Dove in the Stone, Finding the Sacred in the Commonplace, Quest Books, Illinois, 1998