Garnet: Meanings, Properties and Powers – January Birthstone

Garnet: A Semi-precious stone that symbolizes prosperity, gratitude, success and spiritual powers. Something we all strive for in our everyday lives, isn’t it? These fierce powers of Garnet cannot be overlooked behind the sparkling dark red beauty that it possesses. Maybe that’s why Garnet Jewelry holds great value for people. Are you also planning to purchase Garnet Jewelry? Or just want to explore this Beautiful Gemstone more? Or wondering what is the entire fuss about? Whatever the reason might be, you’re at the right place. Let’s begin!

What is Garnet?

‘Garnet’ word has been derived from the Latin word ‘Granatus’, meaning grain or seed. Though commonly resembling the color of pomegranate, i.e. dark red, Garnet also comes in other variety of colors including shades of green, yellow, brown, etc. 

Garnet, also known as the ‘Stone of Love’ and ‘Stone of Health’, in a nutshell, is a semi precious gemstone that is known to hold some divine powers. In fact Ancient Egyptians gave it the tag of ‘Stone of life.’ Although, commonly people know it to enhance love and friendship. Having been popularised as the January Birthstone, Garnet Gemstone is one of the most popular symbols of love ever since 18th and 19th century. Garnet Jewelry is usually gifted to celebrate an anniversary (specially the second anniversary) in a relationship.

What properties does Garnet hold?

Did you know Garnet is known to hold manifold advantages? From physical and emotional healing to metaphysics, it has everything covered under one roof!

• Physical Healing properties:

Garnet is known to hold Physical healing properties in order to revitalise and re energise the body. Cleaning out toxins from the body, it helps in purifying the blood and maintain the health of the reproductive system. It also helps in the working of metabolism, healthy blood flow as well as a healthy heart beat. In fact, it also helps in treating serious diseases including thyroid, spinal disorder and inflammatory diseases. Apart from all this healing related to physical sickness, Garnet is also known to be a powerful sexual stone that energises your body in order to make you more sexually active for all of you facing the issue of physical intimacy.

• Emotional healing properties:

As much as emotional trauma goes unnoticed in this world when compared to physical illness, hasn’t it become all the more important to have a gemstone that provides some relief under that arena? Well, this January birthstone does the work for you. Garnet possesses emotional healing properties, thus releasing anxiety, fear in order to bring happiness and peace to the life of an individual. Magical, isn’t it? Not just that, it helps you stay away from the feelings of insecurity and unworthiness, thus helping you maintain a healthy bond with the people in your life.

• Metaphysical properties:

Garnet is believed to balance the Sacral Chakra, thus bringing stability and balance to a person’s life. In order to bring balance to the body, it equalizes the energy inside the body of a person. It sets the Kundalini energy that commands all of the human potential moving, thus making the human body much more balanced spiritually and physically.

       See, you can have multiple reasons to don this January Birthstone Jewelry            that facilitates multiple causes.

What are the powers of Garnet?

This is one of the most engrossing parts, isn’t it? Why wouldn’t you want to know about the key powers of this fierce January Birthstone? Let’s explore:

• Spiritual powers:

Enhancing self motivation, this red gemstone keeps you away from all kinds of negative energies, thus keeping the heart and soul of the individual happy. This in turn helps you keep a positive outlook towards life and stay focused on the important things, thus making the chances of success higher in anything you want to accomplish in life.

• Money and prosperity:

Astrology also believes it to bring wealth, success and prosperity, thus attracting the attention of a wide range of businessmen all over the world. As it is ruled by Planet Rahu, it is believed to alleviate all the financial troubles from the individual’s life, along with bringing richness and prosperity in a person’s life.

• Luck:

Having mentioned such fierce powers of Garnet, you thought this was to be left behind? All in all, Garnet enhances your luck in all the aspects of your life, whether you’re already running a business, starting out with something new or are having problems in your personal relationships/friendships. Garnet is strongly believed to provide the much needed dose of luck factor that you really might need at times in life.

Conclusion

Garnet is one of the oldest Gemstones that people swear by for having divine powers. Apart from being a popular choice for you to flaunt your style statement, Garnet could have multi purpose uses as well. Having beautiful bright dark red color, what benefit does this red gemstone not offer? Right? Knowing all this, wouldn’t donning Garnet Jewelry give you a positive outlook towards life? We all strive for something that might just keep us going in life. Given that, donning a Garnet Gemstone could certainly help you believe that something good is yet to come in life. Astrology strongly believes that this Gemstone could do wonders for your life. Why not, don this January Birthstone Jewelry and see for yourself?