🐚 Seashell Correspondence (masterpost!) 🐚
This is my near completed masterpost of shells which I tried listing up some common and uncommon shells for the past few days! I might add more shell info in the future💕
Disclaimer: This list is of associations collected from various sources around the internet and a mix of my personal ones!
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Abalone: love, healing, prosperity, luck, wealth, balance, peace, cleansing, meditation, psychic abilities, self-love, feminine energies, earth + water element
Angel’s Wing: determination, freedom, angelic energies, positive spiritual guidance, protection, aid in receiving and sending energies, air element
Auger: fertility, strength, courage, power, masculine energies, fire element
Ark Shell: safety, protection, finding strength in the outer world
Bear’s paw: power, strength, vitality, nurturing, protection, warmth, feminine + masculine energies, earth + fire element
(Banded) Tulip Shell: binding, friendships, relationships, social life, water element
Bonnet Shell: secrecy, the unknown, protection, mystery, trust, beauty, air element
Button Shell: connections, gatherings, friendships, spirituality, divination, air element
Bubble Shell: inspiration, creativity, happiness, curiosity, wished, intuitions, cleansing, psychic abilities, divination, air element
Carrier Shell: overcoming shyness, helps getting out of your shell, courage, protection, strength, escaping from negative thoughts
Cat’s eye Shell: protection against jealousy, gossips and negative energies
Cerith Shell: sexuality, fertility, masculine energies, fire element
Clam: purification, love, friendships, abundance, communication, healing, stability, vitality, protection, protecting emotions, truth, balance, peace, grounding, feminine energies, water element
Cockle: love, friendship, relationships, emotions, centering, gateway to a new life, new beginnings, feminine energies, water element
Conch: love, beauty, friendship, communication, feminine energies, truth, art , beauty, clarity, freedom grace, movement, speech, spirituality, strength summoning, trust, truth , vanity, feminine energies, air + water element
Cone Shell: protection, control, motivation
Cowrie: abundance, prosperity, fertility, love, wealth, pregnancy, growth, divination, sexuality, protection, beauty, menstruation problems, feminine energies, water element
Crown Conch: associated with crown chakra, meditation, divinity, intention, confidence, intuition
Drupe Shell: reflecting oneself, discover and being comfortable of who you are, self trust, confidence, bravery
Fig Shell: wisdom, creativity, peace, love, luck, fertility, divination, fortune, water + air element
Fighting Conch: aggression, defense, warding/shielding, protection, masculine energies, fire element
Frog Shell: moving forward, starting over, new beginnings
Harp Shell: secrecy, beauty, art, protection, feminine energies, water + air element
Helmet Shell: grounding, protection, strength, honor, masculine energies fire element
(Horned) Turban: protection, faith, trust
Horse Conch: beauty, freedom, grace, strength, progress, water + earth element
Jackknife Clam: (inner) strength, speed, warding, secrecy, masculine energies, air element
Janthina Shell: faith, peace, trust, moving forward, going with the flow, trust in the universe, air element
Jewel Box Clam: beauty, vanity, glamour, passion, (self) love, self care, feminine energies, water element
Jingle Shells: wealth, prosperity, cleansing, positivity, trust, intuition, earth element
Junonia Shell: strength, beauty, marriage, fertility, childbirth, feminine energies, named after the Roman goddess Juno/Hera (Greek)
Keyhole Limpet: finding a way in/out in a situation, meditation, unblocking psychic/divination abilities
Limpet: courage, confidence, strength, nurturing, self trust, peace, endurance
Left-Handed Whelk: making drastic / positive changes in life, transformation, air element
Lightning whelk: awareness, banishing, intent, trust
Lion’s Paw: strength, courage, protection, inner strength, victory, pride, masculine energies, fire element
Miter Shell: peace, spirituality, grounding + centering, calm energies, spiritual introspection, lunar magick, feminine + masculine energies, water element
Moon Shell: purification, peace, protection, meditation, clarity, vitality, rebirth, cleansing + charging energies, psychic awareness, cycles, progress, warding, lunar magick, feminine energies, water element
Murex: protection, defense, binding, masculine energies
Mussels: communications, friendships, luck, health, travel, abundance, dedication, determination, community, life giving stability, enduring life’s hardships, feminine enegies, water element
Nautilus: focus, intentions, clarity, wisdom, growth, peace, endings + beginnings
Olive Shells: healing, hope, love, friendship, hope abundance, opportunity
Oyster: love,luck, good fortune, prosperity, banishing, fertility, (hidden) beauty, vitality, passion, turning pain into beauty (pearls), lunar magick, feminine energies, water element
Oyster Drill: curses, warding/shielding, protection
Pearl Whelk: control, life, progress, trust, strength, manifestation, fire element
Pen Shell: beauty, confidence, creativity, self-love, art, love, inspiration, feminine energies, water element
Periwinkle: grounding, intuitions, focus, friendships
Purple Snail Shell: beauty, divination, psychic abilities, air element
Pyram Shell: determination, hope, strength, air element
Scallops: travel, love, friendships, movement, beauty, grace, change, fertility, peace, healing, travel, spirituality, happiness, communication, patience, diversity, openess, all-purpose shell, feminine energies, water element
Slipper Shell: balance, generosity, transformation, healing, peace, community, helping others, air element
Snail Shell (Garden Snails): fertility, sexuality, travel, protection, home, feminine + masculine energies, earth + water element
Spider Conch: maturity, responsibility, self-defense, maintaining your position, fire element
Spindle Shell: inspiration, meditation, fate, change, karma, destiny, vitality
Strombus Shell: truth, communication, divination, speech, trust, air element
Star Limpet: strength, growth, beauty, art, water element
Sundial Shell: hope, success, victory, the sun, fire element
Thorny Oyster: defense, creativity, intuition, focus, beauty, art
Tooth Shell / Tusk Shell: wealth, business, abundance, strength, aggression, masculine energies fire element
Top Shell: spiral energies, centering, helping energy flow, control, air element
Triton Conch: happiness, intentions, prayers, helps clearing your voice/intentions, use to seek help/attention, air element
Turkey Wing: freedom, happiness, emotions, lifts bad moods, change emotions, water + air element
Venus Comb Murex: vanity, beauty, glamour, love, feminine energies, water element
Wentletrap: creativity, inspiration, art, water element
Whelk: taking control, get a hold of a situation, life changes, good fortune, wisdom, guidance, control, positivity, understanding, spiritual development, air element
Whelk Egg Casing: abundance, new beginnings, faith, luck
Worm Snail Shell: tenacity, hope, life and death, creation, overcoming obstacles, hope, changes, earth element
❤ Note: Please use/collect your shells ethically! ❤
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