Garnet
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Birthstone: January
Chakra: Root
Properties of Garnet are thought to include:
- Unites our heart with our sexuality
- Stimulates creative expression of love and passion
- Helps to energize and bring the circulation level to normal if deficient.
- Gives energy and courage, aids the imagination and protects against depression and impure thoughts.
- Thought to help with cases of rheumatism and arthritis
- Resolves anger & encourages serenity.
- In the middle ages it was considered gem of faith and truth.
- Worn for protection from wounds.
Garnet is the name given to a group of differently colored red minerals with similar chemical composition found around the Globe. This stone has a hardness ranging from 6.5 to 7.5.
Garnet is known to be the "stone of health and passion" – Once cut and polished, it is thought to be activated. Once activated, garnet stimulates, revitalizes and regenerates bodily systems and is able to transmute negative energy.
