GEMSTONES
AQUAMARINE: Greenish-blue beryl.
- Planet:
Neptune
- Month: October
- Zodiac: Gemini
- Virgo - Scorpio
- For:
tranquility - compassion - scrying - soothing the heart
DIAMOND: Crystallized carbon
- Planet: Uranus
- Day: Friday -
Saturday
- Month: April
- Zodiac: Aries
- For: courage -
love - invisibility - strength - joy - hardness -
fearlessness - purity - manliness - spiritual ecstasy -
mental illness - the impassivity of fate
- Drives away:
panic - pestilence - enchantment
- Symbolizes:
truth - innocence - justice - faith
- Makes:
courageous - magnanimous - bold and daring in
transactions - strong and firm against enemies
- Turns spells
and enchantments back upon their maker
- Grants victory
in court or in war if your cause is just
- Impels toward
good
- Drives away:
ghosts - nightmares - calamities
- Preserves
from: strife - riot - sorrows - enchantments -
sleepwalking - phantasies and illusions of wicked spirits
- Bind it to the
left arm for victory - to overcome: enemies - madness -
brawling - invasion of fantasies
- The most power
is in a diamond that was received as a gift, not
purchased or coveted
- The power of a
diamond is multiplied by being paired with a lodestone
- Said to help
those possessed by the devil
- Loses its
power according to the sins of its possessor
- Antidote to
poison when worn on a ring - diamonds are said to sweat
in the presence of venom or poison
- Keeps limbs
whole - for indigestion
- Tames wild
beasts
- It was once
believed that diamonds could only be broken by goats'
blood
- Diamond powder
preserves against lightning
EMERALD: Bright green precious
stone, a variety of beryl.
- Planet: Venus
- Element: Earth
- Day: Wednesday
- wear emeralds on Friday for good luck
- Month: May -
June
- Zodiac: Taurus
- Cancer - Libra
- Heart stone
with magical, talismanic and medical properties
- It is an ill
omen when an emerald falls from its setting
- Sacred to:
Mercury - the goddess Sudurjaya - Venus - Vishnu
- Christians
hold it sacred to St. John
- For: love -
harmony - prophecy - balance - improved memory - success
in love affairs - increased understanding
- To remove:
anger - folly - foolish fears
- Strengthens
friendship and constancy of mind - comforts and saves -
augments riches - combats lust - sends evil spirits
howling into space - preserves the chastity of women -
shatters to disprove chastity - breaks apart in despair
if it is unable to render you metaphysical assistance
- Changes its
appearance when: your lover is faithless - someone bears
false witness
- Charm against:
disturbances - nightmares - stupidity - eye problems
- Stops bleeding
- preserves against decay - improves liver function -
aids in childbirth - stops dysentery - restores sight and
memory - heals bites of venomous creatures - cures plague
- An emerald
ring: turns away foolish fears, folly and anger -
strengthens the memory - prevents giddiness
- Place it under
the tongue for prophecy
- An emerald
necklace: expels fears - is a charm against epilepsy
- Blinds
serpents who look upon it
- Demons and
wicked spirits are believed to guard emerald mines
- According to
some myths, the Holy Grail was a chalice carved from a
single emerald
MOONSTONE: Pearly, opalescent
feldspar stone of bluish or silvery color that is used as a gem.
- Planet: Moon
- Day: Monday
- Zodiac: Cancer
- Held sacred in
India
- For: passion -
good fortune
- Sacred to the
Goddess
- To: strengthen
psychic abilities - enhance the feminine - increase
sensitivity to natural cycles
- Its luster is
believed to mirror the lunar cycle
- Considered
ominous and malignant
GARNET:
Hard,
brittle, crystalline stone. The red variety is used as a gem.
- Planet: Mars -
Pluto
- Month: January
- Zodiac: Aries
- Scorpio - Capricorn - Aquarius
- Preserves
health and joy - makes faithful and true - helps channel
kundalini energy
- For depression
- aids circulation - stops spitting up of blood - quiets
heart palpitations
Fire
garnet:
- Element: Fire
- Letter: F
- Day: March 18
- Hebrews held
it sacred to Judah, the lion's whelp
- Promotes: joy
- discord between lovers
- Preserves
health - resists depression - quiets heart palpitations
Carbuncle:
Cabochon-cut garnet
- Has occult
properties similar to the ruby
- For depression
- Bright stones
are male, duller ones female
- Said to enable
one to see in the dark when worn as a necklace
- Noah is said
to have hung one up to light the ark
- For: plague -
heart palpitations
Blood-red
carbuncle:
- Letter: S
- Planet: Sun
- Station: April
15 - Kadkod, the month of the raiding party
- Hebrews held
it sacred to Gad, a robber band
- Considered
malignant
OPAL: Quartz gemstone of various
colors that is usually milky and iridescent. Harlequin opals are
rainbow-tinted; wood opal is opalized wood.
- Planet:
Mercury
- Month: October
- Zodiac: Taurus
- Cancer - Virgo - Libra
- The stone of
Hercules
- Inspires hope
- improves eyesight
- For:
invisibility - victory against adversaries - linking
physical to higher bodies - access to cosmic
consciousness
- Believed to
contain the virtue of every stone whose color it contains
- Considered:
bewitching - mysterious - unlucky - the embodiment of the
evil eye
- Linked with
misfortune
- "The Opal
is fatal to love, and sows discord between the giver and
receiver."
- Carrying an
opal wrapped in a bay leaf was said to confer
invisibility and blind nearby persons.
- Sharpens the
sight - for eye disease
Fire
opal / Girasol:
RUBY: Red corundum
- Planet: Mars -
Sun
- Day: Sunday
- Month: July
- Zodiac: Aries
- Cancer - Scorpio - Capricorn
- Occult stone
that has a psychic, magnetic influence on sensitive
persons who wear it
- For:
leadership - prudence - compassion - health - healing
your relationship with your father
- Corresponds to
the heart chakra - makes cheerful - restrains lust -
averts nightmares and danger
- Banishes:
sadness - sin - vice - wicked spirits - foolish or evil
thoughts
- Wards off
plague and pestilence - disperses infections - protects
against poison - keeps the body safe
- Hebrews held
it sacred to Reuben
- A ruby is said
to: become dark red and cloudy when evil is about to
befall its wearer - turn dark when peril threatens its
wearer or the one who gave it as a gift
- Touch all four
corners of a house, garden or vineyard with a ruby to
preserve it from: lightning - tempests - worms
Spinel
/ balas ruby: lighter red stone than a true ruby
- Protects
against lightning - restrains passion and fiery wrath
SAPPHIRE: Blue corundum
- Planet:
Neptune
- Quality: cold
- dry - astringent
- Day: Saturday
- Wednesday
- Month: April -
September
- Zodiac: Taurus
- Virgo - Sagittarius - Pisces
- Pale blue
stones have male energy, dark blue stones female energy
- Prevents
wicked and impure thoughts - maintains power and manly
vigor in the body - confirms the soul in good works
- Makes:
peaceful - friendly - pious - devout - melancholy people
cheerful
- Frees from:
enchantment - captivity
- For:
prosperity - depression - pacifying enemies - spiritual
understanding - procuring favor with princes
- Impels toward
goodness - sharpens the intellect - dispenses sorcery -
sets captives free - quells enemies - assuages the wrath
of god - make safe and devout - prevents bites of
venomous creatures
- Amulet against
fear - associated with sacred things
- Sacred to:
Apollo - Prometheus
- Christians
hold it sacred to St. Andrew
- Buddhists
believe that it: has sacred magical powers - reconciles
man to god
- Promotes:
chastity - the flow of animal spirits
- Heals sores -
brings down fevers - remedies defective vision -
strengthens and refreshes the heart - invigorates body
and soul - for: bleeding - sore throat
- Kills noxious
and venomous creatures
- Apply it: to
the forehead to stop nosebleeds - inflammations to reduce
them
- The high
priest of Egypt wore a sapphire called Truth on his
shoulder.
- Sapphires were
worn when questioning the oracle of Apollo at Delphi.
TOPAZ: Corundum; gemstone that may
be white, clear, pink, wine, pale blue, pale green, brown, or
yellow, which is the most precious.
- Planet: Uranus
- Mercury
- Element: Air
- Month:
November
- Zodiac: Gemini
- Leo -Sagittarius - Scorpio
- The power of a
topaz is believed to increase and decrease with the Moon
- its energy is affected by heat, pressure and friction
- Charm against:
grief - lunatic passion - covetousness - sexual excess -
bad dreams
- Link between
higher and lower consciousness - obtains the favor of
princes
- Has an inner
radiance that dispels darkness - is said to lose its
color in the presence of poison
- Set in gold
and worn as a necklace, or as a bracelet on the left arm
, it: is a charm against all sorcery and magic - cures
cowardice - dispels night terrors - calms anger and
madness - brightens the wit
- Christians
hold it sacred to James-the-Less
- Prevents
sleepwalking and hemorrhage - cures inflammations - bind
it to wounds to stop bleeding - apply to the nose to stop
nosebleed
- The stone we
call topaz is not the topaz of the ancients
blue
topaz:
- Planet: Uranus
- For:
inspiration - focus - clearing the mind - assimilation of
abstract knowledge
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