GEMSTONE ROMANCE AND MYSTIQUES

SILVER: The moon’s metal of protection, love, invocation, dreams, peace, travel and money. Silver enhances psychic gifts. Silver is the "body" of Jaipur Love Jewelery. The gems the "soul". Anniversary metal for the 25th year.

AMETHYST: Clear lavender color gemstone. Considered the healer of soul, mind and body. The India variety the most precious. The stone of spirituality and royalty. A calming stone that promotes contentment, meditation. Peace, stability, strength, insight and prosperity. A stone of the mind bringing calmness and clarity. Helps one get in touch with their feelings and values.Aids in learning all things spiritual, mystic and psychic.Stress: It is very good for overworked, over stressed, or overwhelmed mental states.*Addictions: Amethyst comes from a Greek word, amethysts, meaning not drunk. Aid in overcoming addictions, especially alcohol.Protection: Amethyst is a crystal of protection, because it repels more the attracts.

Spirituality: Amethyst fosters healing and selflessness, and is associated with increased nobility, spiritual awareness, meditation,balance,psychic abilities, inner peace and positive transformation. Boosts production of hormones, calms nervous system, insomnia and headaches

BLACK ONYX: Black opaque stone. Releases sorrow and grief. Helps end unhappy,bothersome relationships. Repels negativity, gives protection and privacy. Used for grounding, centering oneself in meditating. Good for digestive problems, increases energy, helps with stomach and headaches. Onyx was very popular with the ancient Greeks and Romans. The name comes from the Greek word 'onyx', which means nail or claw. The story is that one day the frisky Cupid cut the divine fingernails of Venus with an arrowhead while she was sleeping. He left the clippings scattered on the sand and the fates turned them into stone so that no part of the heavenly body would ever perish. True, black isn't normally the colour one associates with fingernails. (Did Venus wear Vamp, perhaps?) But in Greek times, almost all the colours of chalcedony from fingernail white to dark brown and black were called onyx. Later, the Romans narrowed the term to refer to black and dark brown colours only. Onyx which is reddish brown and white is known as sardonyx. Sardonyx was highly valued in Rome, especially for seals, because it was said never to stick to the wax. The Roman general Publius Cornelius Scipio was known for wearing it a good deal. So if you would like to add a little black magic to your jewellery design, why not consider onyx?

BLUE TOPAZ: Clear light blue gemstone. A wonderful stone that draws love and good luck to the wearer. Boosting personal charisma , wisdom, honesty and self realisation. Helps makes wishes come true, bestowing angelic dreams. Combine with Tiger's Eye for wealth and money. Aids in vision, hemorrhages and nervous exhaustion.  It is a fluorine aluminium silicate and comes in yellow, yellow-brown, honey-yellow, flax, brown, green, blue, light blue, red and pink. The topaz has been known for at least 2000 years and is one of the gemstones which form the foundations of the twelve gates to the Holy City of the Jerusalem. These so-called apocalyptic stones are intended to serve in protection against enemies and as a symbol of beauty and splendour. The Romans dedicated the topaz to Jupiter In mysticism, the topaz is attributed with a cooling, styptic and appetising effect. It is said to dispel sadness, anger and nocturnal fears, to warn its wearer of poisons and protect him or her from sudden death. It is reputed to make men handsome and intelligent and sterile women fertile and happy. However, it is probably better not to rely too much on its magical powers, since it was also claimed that you could immerse your hand in boiling water after a topaz had been thrown into it and retract it again unharmed!

CITRINE: A clear light yellow gemstone known as the *lucky merchant*s stone* It gives joy and love to the wearers. Promotes mental and emotional clarity, manifestation and alignment with one's self. Lift's spirit and soul. Optimizes memory, understanding, prosperity, recovery, growth, hope, will power, confidence and reduces stress. Great for mental clarity, indigestion, endocrine systems, cleanses and purifies toxins from the body. Citrine is a happy stone, full of joy and sun energy. The stone of success! One of only two minerals on the planet which do not hold negative energy, but dispels and transforms it. The lucky "Merchants Stone". Good for people starting new businesses, great for public speakers. Negates narrow mindness, fixed ideas, reduces anxiety and depression. Promotes self confidence and personal power. A happy stone with yellow energy. Promotes communication in all types of relationships.

GARNET: A clear red gemstone, the stone of passion, love, strength, and compassion. Promotes new beginnings,sexuality, ends crisis, helps one cope with daily problems. Feminine strength, courage, attraction and compassion. Repels negativity by building a defense aura. The Stone of Love and Devotion,Friendship / Fellowship: This stone makes you very attractive to other people by bringing out your best qualities. Garnets can attract new friends who really like you for who you are.

Balance. It provides a stable, balanced connection between the physical, spiritual and the nervous system. Monitors and adjusts the flow of energy, providing a balanced energy field around the physical body.

Garnet is the stone of passionate devotion. To your family, your friends, yourself,your purpose and goals. Garnet stimulates the senses and will increase your vitality and stamina.

Stimulates life force, (and negates stubbornness).

Spiritual: Helps to stabilize the connection between the spiritual and physical. Brings spirituality to relationships. Helps in the transition from romantic love to a deeper spiritual commitment to each other. Sparks Creativity: Enhances and Awakens the "inner fire" of creativity.

Luck: Garnets are lucky stones: lucky for love, lucky for success, and goals in business. Helps us become more motivated, productive

WATER SAPPHIRE (iolite): A dark clear gemstone encourages simplicity, imagery, peace, higher awareness, aligns the aura and stimulates spiritual well being. Aids in areas of addiction and sobriety .Helps one find life and issue direction. Also known as Water Sapphire and Viking Compass. When Leif Eriksson and the other legendary Viking explorers ventured far out into the Atlantic Ocean, away from any coastline that could help them determine their position, they had a secret gem weapon: iolite. The Viking mariners used thin pieces of it as the world's first polarising filter. Looking through an iolite lens, they were able to determine the exact position of the sun, and navigate their way safely to the New World and back. The property that made iolite so valuable to the Vikings is its extreme pleochroism. Iolite has different colours in different directions in the crystal. A cube cut from iolite will look a more or less violet blue, almost like sapphire, from one side, clear as water from the other, and a honey yellow from on top. In the past, this property led some people to call iolite 'water sapphire', though the name is now obsolete. Pleochroism may have been helpful in navigation but it certainly makes life difficult for the cutter. If iolite is not cut from exactly the right direction, no matter what the shape of the raw crystal, its colour will not be shown to its  best advantage. The name iolite comes from the Greek 'ion', which means violet. Iolite is usually a purplish blue when cut properly, with a softness to the colour that can be quite attractive.

LAPIS LAZULI: An opaque speckled and veined blue stone, a powerful meditation stone. The stone of truth, enhancing the 6th sense abilities to gain secret knowledge, visualisation. Wisdom, awareness, dreams and protection. Mind expansion, creativity and helps to organise the mind. Use the lapis for visions, higher spiritual vibrations, vitality and strength. Anxiety, restlessness, insomnia, shyness,nervous systems, speech, hearing, pituitary, inflammation and pain. Lapis lazuli is regarded by many people around the world as the stone of friendship and truth. The blue stone is said to encourage harmony in relationships and help its wearer to be authentic and give his or her opinion openly. Lapis lazuli is a gemstone of the kind that might have come straight out of the Arabian Nights: a deep blue with golden inclusions of pyrites which shimmer like little stars. This opaque, deep blue gemstone has a grand past. It was among the first gemstones to be worn as jewellery and worked on. At excavations in the ancient centres of culture around the Mediterranean, archaeologists have again and again found among the grave furnishings decorative chains and figures made of lapis lazuli * clear indications that the deep blue stone was already popular thousands of years ago among the people of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome. It is said that the legendary city of Ur on the Euphrates plied a keen lapis lazuli trade as long ago as the fourth millennium B.C., the material coming to the land of the two great rivers from the famous deposits in Afghanistan. In other cultures, lapis lazuli was regarded as a holy stone. Particularly in the Middle East, it was thought to have magical powers. Countless signet rings, scarabs and figures were wrought from the blue stone which Alexander the Great brought to Europe. There, the colour was referred to as 'ultramarine', which means something like 'from beyond the sea.

ROSE QUARTZ: A light pink opaque stone. A stone of warmth, love, it helps heal emotional wounds and pain. Gentle calming opens the heart to beauty within and around us. Boosts self love and enhances all types of love. Gives emotional balance, love, beauty, peacefulness, and kindness, eases stress, hurt, fear, resentment and anger. The stone considered good for beauty. Helps with the skin, prevents wrinkles. Improves heart health and lowers blood pressure. A lovely companion is the rose quartz. Healers use the garnet for asthma, blood diseases and coughs.

MALACHITE: A green opaque veined stone called the mirror of the soul, reflecting both the negative and positive emotions. Bringing healing and peaceful sleep. Balance in relationships, flexibility, insight, intuition, love transformation and wealth. Both the negative and positive emotions. Heals the emotions, bringing peaceful sleep, releases pain, inflammation, depression and anger.A strong protector of children and travellers. Malachite also represents fidelity in love and friendship, and is a good companion stone for Jade - The stone of Fidelity in relationships , both romantic and friendships, that have had turmoil and need to rebuild trust, as it also promotes loyalty. Malachite's gift is assisting one be comfortable in changing situations. Also very powerful in aiding with the interpretation and transfer of information that leads to Spiritual Evolution. Excellent stone for identifying, recognizing and releasing negative experiences, especially one that you cannot recall. This is particularly useful for people on a spiritual path, or in recovery, for releasing guilt. How does one make amends for that which you have no recollection or knowledge? Malachite will help you clear the past that you may have no conscious awareness of, yet remains a burden you are carrying. If you feel GUILTY, but don't know why, this is a good stone to add to your collection. It can be helpful in gaining insight into the cause of specific conditions, such as relationships, resentments, and anxiety so that you can release them. A protective stone in the field of Aviation, said to stimulate awareness of and prevention of vertigo.

MOONSTONE: An opaque white with varying hues. The women*s stone but also helps men open their emotions. Give moonstone to a lover on the full moon and you will always have passion for each other. Called "the lover's stone" helps attracts a new lover. Aids in all relationships, conferring harmony and contentment. India considers the moonstone sacred. Catches moonbeams. Helps in new beginnings, intuition, tension and self expression.

Helps will all kinds of female imbalances. Brings calm and strength and offers protection for travelers. Soothes & balances the emotions; helps eliminate fear of "feeling"; encourages inner growth & strength; aids peace & harmony & psychic abilities; aligns vertebrae; digestive aid.

PERIDOT: A clear light green stone used to attract wealth and abundance, increase happiness and well being. Fertility and strength.A stone of lightness and beauty with a healing effect on gall bladder and the liver. Lime Green, Yellow-green, olive-green, One of the few gemstones sometimes found in meteorites. A good luck stone.. Peridot has be used as a Power Stone for centuries. Peridot fosters emotional balance and helps us heal from past emotional wounds. It clears the pathway to the heart and damaged egos. It helps us understand our relationships. Adds intelligence and common sense in romantic situations, sparing unnecessary heartache .Peridot is particularly good for healing the healers. A Visionary stone, it brings understanding of destiny and purpose, Releases negative vibrations and promotes clarity and well being.. Peridot is also a Money Stone. Wear it to draw money and opportunity your way. Put peridot in your cash box along with the Citrine to help draw money to you. Peridot will help to draw it to you, Citrine will help to keep it once you get it.

Cleansing: Strengthens, and regenerates all organs, stimulating new healthy growth. Promotes sleep. Aids in childbirth. New, healthy growth. Acts as if one had just taken a Health Tonic helps with eye health And healing skin wounds. Alleviate: Emotional Stress, depression, raging anger, fear, jealousy, anxiety, nervousness, protection, influenza, depression, obesity, constipation, ulcers, fears and nightmares. Promotes Relaxation, Comfort, Prosperity, Growth, Openness, health, wealth, sleep, relaxation, health, vigor, comfort and induction. Inspires healing, renewal, purification, rebirth and growth.

SMOKEY QUARTZ: A clear brown with varying hues of red and purple. Acts as a filter and trap for negative thoughts and emotions. Helps around negative people and situation. The stone of endurance helps receive depression and boosts personal pride and joy in living. Aid in poor eyesight, throat infections, hay fever, asthma, releases toxins and body fluids. A stone of endurance that helps receive depression and boosts personal pride and joy in living. Smokey quartz is nature's stone of endurance. If you need a extra boost, carry a smokey quartz gemstone with you. Smokey Quartz is a grounding stone that transmutes negative energies and facilitates your ability to get things done in the practical world. It enhances organizational skills and is good to have around in the workplace or home office.Smokey Quartz is connected with the sounds of the universe. It makes you more aware of sounds including telepathic sounds. Smokey Quartz helps relieve depression.

TIGER'S(CAT) EYE: An opaque stone in brown varying hues. Cat*s eye lets you see everything and that can bring you good luck.A good meditation stone. Divination into the past and future lives. Promotes love and balance. Allows us to be open to new spiritual insights, knowledge and feeling connected to others with the same insights. Promotes balancing of ying yang energy and passion for life. Brings compassion and empathy for others. Helps in letting go of low self esteem. Aids in pain relief, heart disease, reduces blood pressure. Calms and releases emotional grief. Protector against grief. Brings happiness willpower and discipline.Tiger Eye is a traditional talisman against the Evil Eye.It is thought to encourage emotional balance, grounding, and confidence. This stone is linked to decision making. It is also well known as a protective stone. Tiger Eye is said to stimulate wealth and enhance psychic abilities.

TURQUOISE: An opaque stone in colors ranges from bright turquoise to green. One of the oldest stones known to man. A symbol of friendship. It takes on the qualities of the owners. Promotes clarity, communication, healing, spirituality, love, youth. luck and money. Healers use it to cleanse auras, detoxify, an anti inflammatory, gout, rheumatism,viral infection, pain relief and headaches.The colour of the turquoise makes us feel happy and cheerful, for in it the light blue of the sky and the stimulating green of the sea are combined.  Anyone choosing a turquoise is sure to enjoy a piece of Heaven ... on Earth. In earlier times, turquoises were even responsible for the material wellbeing of the wearer. The Persian scholar Al-Qazwini, for example, wrote: 'The hand that wears a turquoise and seals with it will never see poverty.' Turquoises were often worn on the turban, and often surrounded with pearls, in order to protect their wearer against the 'evil eye'. As talismans, they adorned daggers, sabres and the bridles of horses. It was not until the time of the crusades that they came to Europe. Indeed it is from that period that the name 'turquoise' originates, meaning 'Turkish'. In South, Central and North America too, the turquoise has always occupied a very special position among gemstones. The Aztecs in Mexico, for example, used to decorate their ceremonial masks with this stone which was holy according to their beliefs. The Indians of North America, who still produce a good deal of traditional silver jewellery with turquoises today, believe that the sky-blue gemstone opens up a direct connection between the sky and the sea. At all times and over the world, turquoises have been worn as natural protection against the powers of darkness. If in earlier times they preserved horse and rider from unexpected falls, they are regarded today as the protective stone of pilots, air crews and other occupational groups who are exposed to an especially high degree of risk. In modern gemstone therapy, those suffering from depression are recommended to wear a turquoise or a chain with turquoise beads. The turquoise' cheerful colour is said to endow reticent personalities with more confidence. It is also often given as a gift, a stone of friendship, for the turquoise is said to be responsible for faithfulness and constancy in relationships. The turquoise is ancient, yet again and again it finds itself back in fashion. Its shining sky blue is one of the most popular trend colours in the world of jewellery and fashion. In many cultures of the Old and New Worlds, this gemstone has been esteemed for thousands of years as a holy stone, a bringer of good fortune or a talisman. It really does have the right to be called a 'gemstone of the peoples'. The oldest evidence for this claim was found in Egypt, where grave furnishings with turquoise inlay were discovered, dating from approximately 3000 B.C. In the ancient Persian kingdom, the sky-blue gemstones were earlier worn round the neck or wrist as protection against unnatural death.

SAPPHIRE: Promotes communication, intuition, clairaudience, lifts depression. Calms. Reduces nosebleeds, fevers, inflammation, hearing problems and burns.

ZIRCON: A clear diamond like natural stone. Enhances power, strength, courage, prosperity, clarity, generosity, problem solving, aids in crisis, fear and depression. Removes evil thinking. Aids in psychic, ESP, and meduimship qualities. Healers use zircon for coughs, mucus, and insomnia.  Zircon: brilliant but misunderstood Hindu poets tell of the Kalpa Tree, the ultimate gift to the gods, a glowing tree covered in gemstone fruit with leaves of zircon. Zircon has long played a supporting role to more well-known gemstones, often stepping in as an understudy when they were unavailable. In the middle ages, zircon was said to aid sleep, bring prosperity, and promote honour and wisdom in its owner. The name probably comes from the Persian word 'zargun', which means 'gold-coloured', although zircon comes in a wide range of different colours. Natural zircon today suffers on account of the similarity of its name to cubic zirconia, the laboratory-grown diamond imitation. Many people are unaware that there is a beautiful natural gemstone called zircon.

JADE: The courage stone, aids in learning, justice, compassion, emotional balance, humility, generosity, harmony, wealth and longevity. Helps with the heart, immune system, kidney cleansing, Blood and nervous systems. Good luck stone, prosperity, deep wisdom, compassion, peace, balancing of male/female energies, courage, wisdom, justice, mercy, emotional balance, stamina, love, fidelity, humility, generosity, peace, harmony, longevity, fertility, serenity, wisdom, practicality, tranquility, balance, peace, harmony, moderation, perspective, equilibrium and stability, knowledge, compassion, wealth. This gem stone is the ultimate symbol of calm and serenity. It helps bring serenity to the mind by releasing negative thoughts. A stone of balance and healing, it alleviates anxiety and fear based emotions. Jade is said to encourage self-realization and help us to recognize ourselves as spiritual beings.Know as a good luck and prosperity charm for centuries. Helps you to be calm and accept your surroundings for what they are, instilling a sense of detachment to the chaos, and not claiming it for your own. Helps the wearer to sense the truth in all situations. Helps one with remember their dreams, and provide help with dream-solving. Aids dream recall if placed under pillow. : Also helps you in bringing your dreams into reality, and in making all things possible. Given by lovers as a statement of their love and devotion to each other, and used in lovemaking for its known erotic properties and the enhancement of sexual performance, and increase in fertility. It helps you to tune into the needs of others, rising above yourself, and gives you insight into their problems. Helps you to put things in the proper perspective, and focus on the primary concerns for today. Assist in self assurance, self reliance, and self sufficiency.