January Birthstone - Garnet;

Healing Properties and Interesting Information

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Healing

Garnet is a Stone of health - extracting negative energy from the chakras, and transmuting the energy to beneficial use. Stimulates both base and crown chakras to allow kundalini flow. Protective and calming. Commitment to a purpose.

Where Found

Garnets can be found throughout the world in streams and alluvial deposits. In the United States, they are most common in Virginia, New York, Maine, Alaska, Colorado, Utah, California, New Jersey, Arizona, and Idaho.

History, mythology

Garnets have long been carried by travellers to protect against accidents far from home. In ancient Asia and the American Southwest, garnets were used as bullets because the glowing red color was said to increase the ferocity of a wound. Garnets in legend light up the night and protect their owners from nightmares. Noah used a garnet lantern to navigate the Ark at night. The ancient world is full of praise for the carbuncle, the glowing red coal of a gemstone we now know as garnet, the January birthstone.

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