Garnet 1st chakra root
Place 3 or more garnets on your desk. The Garnet is known as the stone for a successful business. Garnets can be used to make a person popular and have self-esteem when worn as jewelry. It helps protect one on trips. Garnets bring constancy to friendships. Place under the pillow for depression.
Garnet comes in many colors, but now we will speak only about red Garnet. Associated with the thyroid and spleen, it helps cleanse and purify both when held over the area. Searching or meditating on past lives, the garnet is held in the hand or placed on top of the head. Information that is beneficial and helpful will usually be released for the searcher.
Garnet is a stone of purity and truth as well as a symbol of love and compassion. The information released in a search may be painful, but it will always be what the searcher needs. The Garnet will help everyone's security level and spiritual awareness. Even said to increase the sex drive.
The first association of specific gems with each month was recorded in the Bible. Moses was supposedly instructed to create a breastplate for the High Priest of the Hebrews in 1250 BC. Embedded in it were twelve gems, each associated with a sign of the zodiac. These stones were later associated with months of the year. It is the official birthstone of January and Zodiac sign of Aquarius.
Garnet is said to symbolize happiness as well as deep and enduring love and friendships. Very much favored by travelers, for it was said to protect and preserve honor and health, cure the wearer of diseases and guard him against perils during a journey. All these powers were said to double for people born in January.
Garnet not only favored for its beauty, but also for the powers it was believed to have. Many Native American tribes used garnet in jewelry and to decorate shields, dream catchers and many other things. But their uses went much deeper than decoration. It was believed that garnet had strong medicinal powers and thought to protect its wearer against poisons and wounds. It was also believed by some to help cure depression and to prevent nightmares. Red garnets in particular was believed to break a fever, stop bleeding and to reduce inflammation.
Garnet is the fourth stone in Aaron's breastplate, and its ruddy warmth and brightness are so great that Noah was supposed to have lighted the ark with its light. Christian tradition considered the blood-red garnet symbolic of Christ's sacrifice and in the Koran it illuminates the fourth heaven. The Egyptians wore garnets as talismans, too, and the Aztecs offered them as tributes to the gods.
Garnet long associated with blood, was considered an incomparable cure for all disorders of the blood. Since anger causes the face to flush, the garnet was used as a charm against the effects of anger and was said to be a calming influence and even a remedy for mental instability. Soldiers in combat wore garnets for protection against battle wounds.