Red Jasper

Red Jasper

Aka: The Supreme Nurturer 
Grounding, Vitality, Strength
Spiritual Properties
  • 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

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