Garnet

** Garnet **

Healing Properties :

♥ Passion ♥ Sensuality ♥ Sexuality ♥ Romantic love
♥ Intimacy ♥ Positive thoughts ♥ Energy ♥ Past life recall ♥ Inspiration ♥ Success ♥ Social popularity
♥ Self-confidence

Garnet is a 2nd Anniversary gemstone.

Chakras - Base Chakra, Heart Chakra
Birthstone - January
Zodiac - Aries, Leo, Virgo
Planet – Mars
Element – Fire
Typical colours - Most often seen in red, but available in virtually all colours, including: pink, green, orange, yellow, brown and black

Garnet cleanses and re-energises the chakras. It revitalises, purifies and balances energy, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate. Inspires love and devotion. Garnet balances the sex drive and alleviates emotional disharmony. It activates and strengthens the survival instinct, bringing courage and hope. Stimulates past-life recall. Sharpens perceptions of oneself and others. Garnet removes inhibitions and taboos. It opens the heart and bestows self-confidence.

Garnet regenerates the body and stimulates the metabolism. It treats disorders of the spine and spinal fluid, bone, cellular structure and composition. Purifies the heart, lungs, blood and regenerates DNA. Garnet boosts the immune system and energy levels.

In addition to the generic healing properties of Garnet, specific colours have additional attributes:

Red Garnet :

Chakras - Base Chakra, Heart Chakra

A stone of commitment, Red Garnet represents love. It revitalises feelings and enhances sexuality, bringing warmth, devotion, understanding, trust, sincerity and honesty to a relationship. Red Garnet controls anger, especially toward the self.

Prasiolite / Green Quartz - VDO

** Prasiolite / Green Quartz **

Healing Properties :

♥ Love ♥ Intuition ♥ Creativity

Prasiolite is also known as Green Quartz.

Chakras - Heart Chakra
Typical colours - Mint green, olive, transparent

In addition to the generic healing properties of Quartz, the Green Quartz or Prasiolite variety, opens and stabilises the heart chakra. It promotes an intuitive capability which is coupled with love. Prasiolite is a stone of tranformative energies. It transmutes negative energy to positive without releasing it to the atmosphere.

Prasiolite inspires creativity, attracting success, prosperity and abundance.

Prasiolite aids the endocrine glands, helping to keep the body balanced.

Prasiolite / Green Quartz

** Prasiolite / Green Quartz **

Healing Properties :

♥ Love ♥ Intuition ♥ Creativity

Prasiolite is also known as Green Quartz.

Chakras - Heart Chakra
Typical colours - Mint green, olive, transparent

In addition to the generic healing properties of Quartz, the Green Quartz or Prasiolite variety, opens and stabilises the heart chakra. It promotes an intuitive capability which is coupled with love. Prasiolite is a stone of tranformative energies. It transmutes negative energy to positive without releasing it to the atmosphere.

Prasiolite inspires creativity, attracting success, prosperity and abundance.

Prasiolite aids the endocrine glands, helping to keep the body balanced.

Hematite

** Hematite **

Healing Properties :

♥ Focus ♥ Concentration ♥ Willpower ♥ Reliability ♥ Courage
♥ Confidence ♥ Optimism ♥ Trust ♥ Balance ♥ Stability
♥ Protection

Hematite, also spelled Haematite, is the mineral form of Iron Oxide.

Chakras - Base Chakra
Zodiac - Aries, Aquarius
Planet – Mars
Element – Fire
Typical colours -Black to steel or silver-grey, brown to reddish brown, or red

Hematite grounds and protects us. It strengthens our connection with the earth, making us feel safe and secure. It endows us with courage, strength, endurance and vitality. A "stone for the mind", Hematite stimulates concentration and focus, enhancing memory and original thought.

Hematite utilises the magnetic qualities of our yin-yang energies to balance the meridians within the body and to provide a stable equilibrium between the ethereal nervous system and the physical nervous system. It focuses energy and emotions for balance between the body, mind and spirit.

Dissolves negativity and prevents you from absorbing the negativity of others. Haematite is strong, supporting timidity, boosting self-esteem and survivability, enhancing willpower and reliability, and imparting confidence. It helps to overcome compulsions and addictions, treating overeating, smoking and other forms of overindulgence.

Haematite restores, strengthens and regulates the blood supply, aiding blood conditions such as anaemia. It supports the kidneys and regenerates tissue. Stimulates the absorption of iron and formation of red blood cells. Treats leg cramps, anxiety and insomnia. Hematite aids spinal alignment and fractures.

Howlite - VDO

** Howlite **

Healing Properties :

♥ Inspiration ♥ Creativity ♥ Artistic expression

Howlite is a calming stone.

Zodiac - Gemini
Typical colours - cream or white, with fine grey or black veins in a web-like pattern

Howlite is an aid to insomnia, especially when caused by an overactive mind. Formulates ambitions and aids in achieving them. Howlite strengthens memory and stimulates desire for knowledge. It teaches patience and helps to eliminate rage, pain and stress. Calms communication, facilitates awareness and encourages emotional expression.

Howlite balances calcium levels in the body. It aids teeth, bones and soft tissue.

Howlite

** Howlite **

Healing Properties :

♥ Inspiration ♥ Creativity ♥ Artistic expression

Howlite is a calming stone.

Zodiac - Gemini
Typical colours - cream or white, with fine grey or black veins in a web-like pattern

Howlite is an aid to insomnia, especially when caused by an overactive mind. Formulates ambitions and aids in achieving them. Howlite strengthens memory and stimulates desire for knowledge. It teaches patience and helps to eliminate rage, pain and stress. Calms communication, facilitates awareness and encourages emotional expression.

Howlite balances calcium levels in the body. It aids teeth, bones and soft tissue.

Idocrase / Vesuvianite - VDO

** Idocrase / Vesuvianite **

Healing Properties :

♥ Higher self ♥ Inner security

Vesuvianite is also known as Idocrase. It is a silicate mineral.

Zodiac - Sagittarius, Capricorn
Typical colour - Green, brown, yellow, rarely blue or red
Origin - Mt Vesuvius, Italy

Vesuvianite brings us closer to the higher realms and provides an easier link to our sense of higher self. It facilitates the seeing and the understanding of things on this earth that have no substance. Psychologically, Vesuvianite (Idocrase) releases feelings of imprisonment and restraint, dissolves anger and alleviates fear and negativity. It helps to create a sense of inner security, opens the mind and stimulates inventiveness and the urge to discover, linking into creativity. Vesuvianite banishes depression and clears negative thought patterns so that the mind can function more clearly.

Physically, Vesuvianite (Idocrase) strengthens the tooth enamel and restores the sense of smell. It also assists in assimilating nutrients from food.