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Friday, August 23, 2013

Symbolic Meaning Behind Gem Stones

Symbolic Meanings of Gem Stones








Agate – Courage, symbolizes 3rd Eye, gives a spiritual love of truth, banishes fears, hardens tender gums.

Alexandrite – Inner and outer regeneration, works on the crown chakra, brings general good fortune.
Amazonite – Strengthens the nervous system, used in ancient Egypt
Amber – Grounds and stabilizes, healing agent, acts as a filter, radiates light and heat.
Amethyst – Protection, spiritual attunement, gives visions or opens spiritual and psychic centers, reduces mental tension, induces pleasant healing dreams, prevents over indulgence and encourages transformation and breaking of bad habits.
Apatite – Clears confusion in the mental stratas
Aquamarine – Gives one direction in life and spiritual visions, lifts ones spirit, calms the nerves, protection at sea.
Azurite – jewel of wisdom, revitalizes damaged tissue, good use in hypnosis, stimulates thought, gives mental control.
Carnelian – Gives feeling of well-being, recycles past-life experiences, speeds up law of karma.
Cat’s Eye – Insight into one’s own faults, treats the eyes
Celestite – Communication with cosmic beings and beings of light.
Chrysoprase – Tranquilizer.
ChrysacoIla – Helps alleviate personal fears and guilt, gives clear-seeing, aids in Cancer therapy.
Citrine – Cheerfulness, control over emotions, clear thought, overcomes mental blocks.
Coral – Good for keeping thoughts in control for visualization and while meditating, helps arthritis.
Diamond – Respiratory problems, attunement to higher forces, best worn with other stones, opens Ajna and Crown Chakra.





Emerald – Meditation, healing, business success, it totally rejects evil; gives power to foretell future events, a link with spiritual forces.

Fluorite – Grounds, holds, directs excess energy for highest efficiency and to be used when needed, centering tool.
Garnet – Aids in remembering dreams, for going backwards in time, attracts profound love, gives persistence, cures depression, works on liver to relieve toxins in the body.
Hematite – Bestows wisdom, idealism and unselfishness on wearer, strengthens stomach and intestines when worn on solar plexus, helps stop bleeding.
Jade – Peace, tranquility, soothes the eyes and emotions, for going backwards in time, wisdom, universal attunement, gives long-life and a peaceful death.
Jasper – Improves sense of smell, strengthens one’s will to do good, balances the emotions
Kunzite – Balances emotional and mental bodies.
Laboradorite/Spectrolite – Symbol of opened Third Eye, gives one desire to perfect self balance and aura.
Lapis Lazuli – Stone of friendship, helps one to be more kind and helpful, spiritual attunement, connects us to our resonating star, it is a stone of fidelity.
Malachite – Prosperity, treats the eyes and abnormal blood sugar levels, treats circulatory diseases.
Moonstone – Calming, good for meditation, spiritual guidance and protection while traveling, prophecy, love stimulator, brings happy experiences to those who are sensitive.
Onyx – Stone of separation, can be used for purpose of release, to end a bothersome relationship.
Opal – Divination and prophecy, balances chakras, used for centering self, aids in channeling and teaching truths to others, psychic journeys, anchor of hope, stone of cupid.
Padparadsch – Knowledge of human nature, helps one to see through false friends, brings honor, wealth and friendship
Pearl – Associated with the ministry, wisdom through experience, quickens the law of karma, brings engagements and love relationships.
Peridot – Gift from the Sun, helps us open our inner sight to the spiritual Sun, develops inner vision and the ability to look into the future, frees one of jealous thoughts and counteracts negative emotions.
Quartz Crystal – Raises one’s vibration, bridges the material world with other realms, it has the ability to store and transmit energy, excellent for healing on all levels and for meditation.
Rhodochrosite – Rescue remedy stone, holds force fields with the aid of the Devic Kingdom, inspires forgiveness and heals emotions, attracts love into our life.
Ruby – Spiritual wisdom, focuses mental concentration on a specific thing, confidence – stone of life and energy.






Rutilated Quartz – Rutile in quartz magnifies the basic energy of the quartz and aids in the healing process.
Rose Quartz – Brings more love into the life, skin rejuvenation, kidneys. Sapphire – Treats mental illness, it attracts good people into the life, calms the nerves, suitable for meditation, gives pure insight and God truth, stone of chastity.
Smokey Quartz – Helps one get more in touch with nature, excellent for meditation and healing on the mental and etheric levels, carries an ultra sound frequency which enables one to develop clairaudience and mediumship.
Sodalite – Balances glands and metabolism, good for competitive sports, gives courage and endurance.
Staurolite – Protection, a sweet stone.
Topaz – For contacting astral beings, develops psychic abilities, gives glimpses of the beyond, overcomes fear of death, restores sense of taste, stimulates appetite, calms emotions, relieves tension, restores physical protection from falls and drowning.
Tiger Eye – Purifies the system after over-indulgence, protective stone, treats diseases of the eyes.
Tourmalinated Quartz – A light bringer, breaks up existing habits and conditioning standing in the way of one’s spiritual and physical progress.
Tourmaline – Balances and Protects.
Watermelon Tourmaline – Balances emotions, good for relationships and for those who are counselors, balances the metabolism.
Green Tourmaline – Business success, soothes the nerves, brings the brow and crown chakras into balance.
Pink Tourmaline – Works on the heart chakra, increases the will to love and to sacrifice.
Black Tourmaline – Very protective, good for those who have to deal with negativity.
Turquoise – Reminds us of our spiritual nature, gives protection, stone of friendship.







Zircon – Gives the ability to read images and symbols, a stone for communicating with the angels, gives safe passage wherever one travels and assures a warm reception.

Color of Stones Meanings
White Stones – Purifies physical, emotional, mental or etheric bodies.
Pink – Love, self-respect and self-worth.
Red – Energy, sex, courage.
Orange – Cheerfulness, frees one from too many responsibilities.
Yellow – Mental awareness, nerves.
Green – Healing, abundance, balance self-control.
Turquoise – Flashes of intuition, encounters from the past.
Sky Blue – Increases spiritual awareness.
Dark Blue, Indigo – Protection, strength, occult work, calms
Violet, Purple – Transformation, elevates the soul.
Gold – Wisdom, self-confidence, strengthens the heart.
Brown – Practicality, stabilizes.
Black – Abstract thought, protective, material world.

BIRTH STONES By Sign
Aries – Ruby, Jasper – Red Stones
Taurus – Emerald – Green Stones.
Gemini – Diamond, Herkimer, Quartz – Yellow
Cancer – Moonstone, White Coral – White Stones.
Leo – Peridot, Gold Quartz, Citrine, Gold or Orange Stones.
Virgo – Sapphire, Carnelian, Agate – Dark Blue Stones.
Libra – Opal, Aventurine, Tourmalines – Pink Stones.
Scorpio – Garnet, Beryl, Topaz – Deep Red Stones.
Sagittarius – Topaz, Zircon, Turquoise – Sky Blue Stones.
Aquarius – Lapis Lazuli, Drusy Chrysacolla – Electric Blue.
Pisces – Aquamarine, Amethyst – Purple, Blue-Green Stones.

Birth Stones By Month 
January – Garnet
February – Amethyst
March – Aquamarine
April – Diamond
May – Emerald
June – Pearl
July – Ruby
August – Peridot
September – Sapphire
October – Opal
November – Topaz
December – Turquoise


The Starfish Story: Meaning and Symbolic Jewelry

You may have heard this one, but I find that it doesn't hurt to be reminded of it every once in a while.  First let me tell you the story, and then we can talk about it. 


Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach every morning before he began his work. Early one morning, he was walking along the shore after a big storm had passed and found the vast beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions. 
Off in the distance, the old man noticed a small boy approaching.  As the boy walked, he paused every so often and as he grew closer, the man could see that he was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea.  The boy came closer still and the man called out, ”Good morning!  May I ask what it is that you are doing?”

The young boy paused, looked up, and replied “Throwing starfish into the ocean. The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return to the sea by themselves,” the youth replied. “When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”
The old man replied, “But there must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference.”

The boy bent down, picked up yet another starfish and threw it as far as he could into the ocean. Then he turned, smiled and said, “It made a difference to that one!”

Adapted from The Star Throwerby Loren Eiseley (1907 – 1977)
 



Perseverance against great odds and against the criticism of others is the very hallmark of value-based idealism, as is refusing to accept failure. The understanding that we hold in our hands the power to change a life, a mind, or a circumstance today – right now – is a powerful insight and motivator. At the same time, idealistic acts, even highly symbolic ones, have the power to inspire others to act, and sometimes in numbers significant enough to make a major or even complete impact on the problem at hand. Perhaps most inspiring of all is to witness the idealistic power of children and young people in action. The idealism of youth is a powerful force for leading change in the world. Often it is our youth who put into action values that we have instilled in them – but have failed to act on ourselves. The world, therefore, depends on the idealism of youth to lead the way.


When I first read this story it touched me greatly. It is simple but has such meaning to it. It reminded somewhat of "The Life of Pi" and so I decided to incorporate the story into a blog post about "Starfish Jewelry".


When I was a little girl and was excited or passionate about something I would celebrate by drawing a picture, collecting all the things that had to do with it, buying items that had something to do with it and so on. Throughout the years and deep within the sadness and struggle I lost a lot of those feelings and brushed them away by saying "what's the point"? This story made me realize there is a point. If I like something and it means something to me then it's mine to cherish even if it's just for a short amount of time. Star fish are so unique, maybe that is why I find them so attractive. If I take my likeness of it and there is a deeper meaning to it and maybe even a lesson or great story or memory behind it and wear something with a starfish on it, perhaps a "starfish ring" then I am not only wearing something that is attractive but when I look at it there is a meaning and a story to tell. 



It seems like something like is common sense, and maybe it is but a lot of people these days get lost. Lost in their career, school,  family, or struggle with addiction or mental illness. Take some time in your life to remember the things you love and why you love them. Look at old pictures, maybe the spouse you have been fighting with for so long, who you stopped admiring, can be re-evaluated by remembering the love and what brought the 2 of you together. 



Wearing a piece of jewelry, like a starfish ring can be your private promise you make to yourself. Maybe you spend your days in a hostile work environment, and instead of picking up chocolate or candies or harboring negative feelings inside you can look down at your ring and remember your promise and acknowledge that other people's bad attitudes and negative demeanor is not at all about you and maybe they just need a starfish ring.






OR maybe you just love starfishes and can't get enough of them because they look like a star but not quite entirely and since you're like a shining star you needed a starfish ring because you're FABULOUS!