Gemstones and Their Meanings Flashcards
What qualities are associated with Diamond?
- Innocence
- Love
- Beauty
- Purity
- Enable inner peace and calm
- Give courage and invincibility
- Build self respect
- Bring clarity of thought – for meditation and intellectual pursuits
What qualities are associated with Peridot?
- Felicity
- Protection
- For dreams to become a reality
- Attract love and wealth
- Promote a positive attitude
- Improve quality of sleep
- Increases strength and vitality
What qualities are associated with Zircon?
- Wisdom
- Wealth
What qualities are associated with Amethyst?
- Sincerity
- Peace
- Improving mood and energy
- Attracting love and happiness
- Finding spiritual guidance
- Overcoming insomnia and improving quality of sleep
- Conquering addictions – especially to alcohol
- Promoting a sense of peace and healing
What qualities are associated with Garnet?
- Constancy
- Loyalty
- Courage, bravery and strength
- Developing self esteem
- Confidence building – public speaking – improving communication skills
- Creating balance, harmony, tranquillity and reducing stress and anxiety
- Reducing anger, resentment, acceptance, being able to forgive and move on
- Maximising creativity
- Improving concentration
- Attracting good fortune, abundance and wealth
- Pleasant dreams
- Protective and healing energy
What qualities are associated with Aquamarine?
- Courage
- Health
- Calming and overcoming fears and phobias
- Uplifting mood from depression to cheerfulness
- Keeping focused in order to achieve success
- Improving communication between couples
- Maximising love and fidelity in relationships
- Enhancing knowledge and insight
- Protection from the sea – the Aquamarine was historically used by sailors and believed to be the stone of mermaids.
What qualities are associated with Emerald?
- Happiness
- Fertility
- Promotes love and romance – and luck with romance
- Serenity and tranquillity
- Enables clarity of mind – practical insight
- Improve memory and focus
- Ability to work in harmony and create unity
- Development of psychic insight
- Optimism and abundance
What qualities are associated with Tourmaline?
- Balance
- Endurance
- For love, joy and peace
- Helps fertility
- Develops creativity
- Calming – reduces the effects of stress
- Protecting
- Life energising
- Encourages self confidence
- Enhances spirituality and wisdom
What qualities are associated with Sapphire?
- Wisdom
- Calmness
- Blue sapphires were known by the ancients as “celestial gems” because their colors reflected the sky at various times of the day from dawn to sunset. Some of their perceived properties are:
Faithfulness and devotion
Truthfulness
Clarity and perception
Calmness
-Pink Sapphires promote:
Passion
Emotional healing
Overcomes shyness
What qualities are associated with Ruby?
- Nobility
- Beauty
- Develops confidence and self belief
- Helps with wise decision making
- Protects and gives courage – some ancient cultures believed the ring warned of danger by becoming darker until the danger had passed.
- Motivates and lifts mood
- Nurtures positive change in one’s life
- Passion and fertility
- A gemstone for celebrating the 15th and 40th wedding anniversary
What qualities are associated with Alexandrite?
- Balance
- Joy
What are qualities associated with Agate?
- Bring calmness and tranquillity
- Reduce anxiety and effects of Stress
- Improve communication – including confidence in public speaking
- Build self esteem
- Stimulate creativity
- Prevent insomnia and promotes improved quality of sleep
- Attract good fortune
- Assist with concentration – especially for analytical work
What are the qualities of Moonstone?
-Helps to calm and balance the emotions
-Brings out the “feminine qualities” – gentleness and intuition
-Used by gemstone healers for balancing hormone cycles
-Enhances passion for couples when worn at full moon
-heals damaged relationships and creates new ones
Bestows good fortune upon the wearer
What are the qualities of Bloodstone?
- Helps reduce conflict and protect against the “evil eye” of others
- Provides courage to wearer to overcome difficulties – has been known as the “Hero’s Gemstone”
- Increases endurance – Greek and Roman athletes wore bloodstone
- Improves creativity
- De-toxifies the body, strengthens immunity system
- Also known as the “Martyr’s Stone” and worn as a sign of Christian Faith – due to the Red Jasper within the stone symbolising the blood of Christ.
What are the qualities of Onyx?
- Acquisition of self mastery and self confidence
- Ability to repel negative thinking and negativity of others
- Protection from adversaries – wards off the evil eye
- Development of stamina and strength
- Courage and control
- Increased prosperity
- Health and happiness
- Vigor and constancy
- Determination
What are the qualities of Lapis Lazuli?
- Like the Sapphire, Lapis Lazuli was also viewed by ancient cultures as a gemstone with connections to the sky – being given names such as “Light of the gods”
- Lapis Lazuli has been worn by kings and priests for thousands of years
- The ancient Egyptians used it extensively for jewelry and ornaments
- Knowledge and wisdom
- Calmness
- Love and faithfulness
- Passion – the Romans believed that it was an aphrodisiac
- Strengthening of physical, mental and psychic powers
- Overcomes shyness
What qualities are associated with Topaz?
-Friendship
-Strength
-Promotes happiness and positive thinking
-Develops creativity
-Enables knowledge, understanding and wisdom
-Energising
-Creates wealth
-Calming
-Used for meditation and developing spiritual awareness
Citrine:
-Stimulates the mind and makes it more alert
-Helps develop intuition
-Promotes creativity
-Takes away negative thoughts and brings joy and optimism
-Brings confidence and self esteem
-Instils self discipline
-Assists in spiritual development
-Generates abundance, prosperity and career success
-Energises and develops physical strength
