Garnet: Autumn Leaves

4mm faceted natural Hessonite Brown Garnet adults stretch bracelet. 

manifesting, healing, self worth. 

Hessonite is said to have a strong spiritual value for people regarded as wise. Besides encouraging a mellow vibe, hessonite garnet is said to stay the lips from gossiping. According to Vedic astrologists, wearing hessonite garnet is said to bring wealth and success as well as promote longevity. Interestingly enough, garnet in general is well-known for being a gemstone associated with success, especially in business.

Garnet is dressed in earthly shades, blending the impassioned red with the earthly hues of brown. It’s a root chakra stone and lends itself well to strength and courage.

It is an excellent crystal for fertility, sexual potency and libido. Emotionally, Garnet cultivates a sense of security, safety and abundance.

It is a stone of physical love and relationships, and a spiritual stone of psychic protection. It increases willpower and resistance to all things negative.

A host of angels are associated with its color energies and it honors three Goddesses.

Garnet is the traditional birthstone of January, and Almandine is the natural birthstones of those born in the first month of autumn and mid-autumn.

Garnet's healing energy cultivates a sense of security, safety and abundance. It helps in bereavement. It is supportive in taking time for oneself, bringing deep love, and aids in integrating truth with self. It opens the higher mind and initiates charity and compassion.

As a Strengthener crystal, Garnet increases the powers of resistance. It aids insight and helps achieve one's ideas and goals.

This is a stone of psychic protection. Its relatively dense energies keep one strongly connected to the body, and it is more difficult for negative energies or entities to attach themselves. It can assist in accessing past-life memories from ancient civilizations and in clearing karmic patterns. It protects against emotional vampires, manipulators and evil spirits. Anyone engaged in spirit rescue should wear it.

Garnet is known for being a fairly hardy stone, and hessonite is no different with a Mohs hardness of about 7 to 7-1/2. While ultrasonic cleaners can be safe, the best option for cleaning hessonite garnet is to simply use soap, water and an untreated cloth. Treated cloths contain coarse agents than can leave abrasions on the surface of your stone. Thoroughly pat the stone and any settings dry before storing or wearing your hessonite garnet jewelry. 

store in a cold dry place, do not wear in the shower, or to swim. 

TAT 10-21 BD