- Aids in dream recall
- Guards against poison
- Connects you to earth’s energies
- Good for health and healing spells
- Sustains and supports you through times of stress, and brings tranquility and wholeness
- Can be used for meditation as it provides a calm, harmonious energy, ideal for grounding and centering at the beginning of a ritual. It eases the transition into a meditative state
- Used as a talisman against phantasms, evil spirits, and witchcraft. It can be worn on the breast to prevent epilepsy, stomach pain and colic, and stop nosebleeds and other fluxes of the body. Jasper amulets also prevent fevers and swelling
Mental Properties
- Encourages honesty with yourself
- Activates your sexual and creative energies
- Brings problems to the light before they become to big
- Aids in quick thinking and promotes organizational abilities
- Stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into actions
- Helps you feel safe expressing yourself, and strengths boundaries
Emotional Properties
- Promotes Confidence
- Helps you release any guilt associated with negative sexual experiences in your past
Kundalini Properties
- Cleanses and stabilizes the aura
- Awakens Chi and Kundalini energies
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root and Sacral
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Mars
- Element: Fire
- Zodiacs: Cancer, Capricorn, Leo, Virgo, Scorpio, Aries
- Number: 6
- Candles: Red
Affirmations
- I am a child of the earth and I belong here
- I have the strength and energy to heal physically
Health Benefits
- Increase fertility
- Staunch wounds
- Prolongs sexual pleasure
- Detoxifies the circulatory system, blood and liver
- Enhances your physical strength, endurance, and stamina
Physical Properties
Color |
Bright red to Brownish red |
Habit |
Microcrystalline |
Twins |
Absent |
Rarity |
Common |
Luster |
Vitreous |
Species |
Chalcedony, Micro-granular quartz |
Zoning |
Present in some forms |
Parting |
Absent |
Gravity |
2.7 |
Tenacity |
Brittle |
Fracture |
Conchoidal |
Cleavage |
Indiscernible |
Hardness |
6.5 to 7 |
Locations |
Brazil, France, Germany, India, Russia, and the United States |
Bipartisan |
Absent |
Dispersion |
Absent |
Chatoyancy |
Absent |
Pleochroism |
Absent |
Fluorescence |
Absent |
Birefringence |
0.009 |
Diaphaneity |
Opaque |
Named After |
From the Old French word “jaspre” which is derived from the Latin term “iaspidem,” both of which means “spotted or speckled stone.” |
Melting point |
600°C+ |
Discovered In |
1810-11 |
Luminescence |
Present in some forms |
Discovered By |
Explorer David Thompson became one of the earliest Europeans to discover a northern route through the Rocky Mountains at Athabasca Pass, on the western side of Jasper National Park |
Chemical Name |
Silicon Dioxide |
Refractive Index |
1.54 – 1.55 |
System/Structure |
Trigonal, Hexagonal |
Chemical Formula |
SiO2 |
Inclusions (streak) |
White |
Chemical Classification |
Silicate |