Dreams, Visualization, Earth Energy
Metaphysical Properties
- Aids Inner silence
- Provides inspiration
- Good for earth rituals
- Balances your thoughts
- Strengthens early memory recall
- Promotes growth and expansion
- Stimulates creative visualization
- Contains a message from the past
- Encourages honesty with yourself
- Provides courage to tackle problems
- Encourages initiative and confidence
- Provides a sense of security and stability
- Protects pregnant women during childbirth
- Provides connection to earth’s consciousness
- Absorbs and protects against negative energy
- Brings the energies of abundance and vitality
- Reminds you to see the joy in the simple things
- Helps you see and understand the bigger picture
- Improves your romantic prospects if you’re single
- Grounds your base chakras with its earthly energy
- Encourages ecological responsibility and awareness
- Helps you demonstrate independence and leadership
- Helps you stay on path or find your path in this world
- Will help you control your urges and stop being reckless
- Can change your current romantic situation for the better
- Instills a sense of harmony and balance in your relationship
- Enhances your creativity and boost your visualization skills
- Helps merge your consciousness and the earth’s during meditation
- Brings hidden thoughts and emotions to the surface to be released
- Supports during stressful times, while sustaining tranquility and wholeness
- Brings relaxation, composure, security, and stability into your life and home
- Helps you make a new beginning and supports you in every decision you make
- The ancient priests of Egypt carved jasper into jewelry, while the Minoans used jasper for seals
- Colors are from its high iron content and the level of minerals and impurities present in the stone
- Transforms a problematic relationship and aid your efforts to grow and change into a better partner and lover
Affirmations
- I am a child of the earth and this is my home
- I am connected to the energy of the earth
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root, Third Eye
- Energy: Projective and Receptive
- Planets: Mars
- Element: Fire, Earth
- Zodiacs: Leo, Capricorn
- Number: 6, 8
Physical Properties
- Color: Cream, Brown, Grey, or Orange with Blue, Black, Tan, or Ivory
- Rarity: Common
- Luster: Vitreous
- Gravity: 2.58 - 2.91
- Hardness: 6.5 to 7
- Structure: Hexagonal/Trigonal
- Cleavage: Indiscernible
- Fracture: Splintery, Conchoidal
- Locations: Oregon, Africa, and Brazil
- Form/Habit: Cryptocrystalline
- Birefringence: 0.009
- Transparency: Opaque
- Classification: Chalcedony, Tectosilicate
- Luminescence: None
- Discovered By: Ancient Peoples
- Refractive Index: Approximately 1.54
- Chemical Formula: SiO2
- Inclusions (streak): Varies
Health Benefits
- Boosts fertility
- Prolongs sexual pleasure
- Provides physical balance
- Helps you quit bad habits
- Stimulates the immune system
- Removes toxins from your body
- Alleviates symptoms of allergies
- Alleviates fear, stress, and anxiety
- Balances your body’s mineral content
- Treats disorders of the skin and kidneys
- Promotes a happy and healthy pregnancy
- Aids in the treatment of the bowel system
- Fortifies your kidneys, intestines, and stomach
- Hastens the recovery period after a prolonged illness
- Can be effective against hernia and conditions that affect the prostate
- Provides relief from nosebleeds, colic, and other physical pains in the body