GARNET - Stone of Regeneration and Stability

Garnet balances energy, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate, and can inspire love and balance the sex drive. Garnet is considered a lucky stone for love and success. It helps let go of old behavior patterns and boosts self-confidence.  Garnet can act as a strong help to balance the energy system, stimulate desires and uplift one's attitude. As a balancer stone, Garnet can prevent fears of insecurity and even money losses. Use Garnet to increase positivity and popularity, thus enhancing personal self-esteem. As an energy stone, it can encourage success in business and business relationships. It is a wonderful executive gem, especially for women. Square-cut Garnets are particularly useful in bringing success in business matters.

It has been used to reduce body toxins, purify vital organs and blood, and assist in assimilation of vitamins and minerals. Emotionally, it provides a protective and calming influence during use and is thought to heal melancholy and depression, strengthening the survival instinct, and bringing courage and hope into critical situations.

Garnet regenerates the body, stimulating metabolism. It treats spinal and cellular disorders, purifies the blood, heart, and lungs, and regenerates DNA. It assists assimilation of minerals and vitamins, including iodine, calcium, magnesium, and Vitamins A, D, and E.

Garnet can alleviate acne, low libido, and disturbances in the cardiac rhythm (except for arterial hypertension, which Garnet can even aggravate). It has been reported to relieve rheumatic and arthritic pain and some psychological illnesses.

Garnet is useful to have in a crisis, particularly in situations where there seems to be no way out or where life has fragmented. It fortifies, activates, and strengthens the survival instinct, bringing courage and hope into those situations. Crisis is turned into challenge under Garnet's influence and promotes mutual assistance in times of trouble.

Garnet has even been credited with aiding widows in finding a new husband. After mourning for too long, Garnet helps to regain the spirit, calming sadness, and emotional pain, helping those who have gone through great despair get back on their feet and become seductive again. Perhaps the same could be true for widowers as well.

Garnet cleanses and re-energizes the Chakras. It revitalizes, purifies, and balances energy, bringing serenity or passion as appropriate. It inspires love and devotion, balancing the sex drive and alleviating emotional disharmony. Red Garnet in particular stimulates the kundalini energy and aids sexual potency. It stimulates both the Base and Crown Chakras to provide for free flow of movement via the spinal column and the inner pathway of light, distributing the appropriate amount of energy to each portion of the body.

Garnet has a strong link with the Pituitary gland and can stimulate expanded awareness and past-life recall. It activates other crystals, amplifying their effect.

Key Signature Essences: protective, calming, instinctive, courage, hope, balances, serenity, passion, love, success, relationships, balances sex drive, self-confidence, guidance, expanded awareness, and past-life recall

Energy Centers/Chakras in the body:  stimulates from both the base of the Spine/Root - 1st Energy center/Chakra and Crown/middle of the brain/Pineal gland - 7th Energy center/Chakra

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