Stone of the Month (September) - Carnelian
Basic Properties: Carnelian represents confidence, boldness, initiative, dramatic abilities, assertiveness and outgoingness. It also represents precision, analysis, encourages celebration and
brings awareness of feelings.
It is the stone of passion and sexuality and is associated with the Sacral/Spleen Chakra. This stone helps you feel anchored and comfortable with your surroundings. Provides a connection to the past or to historical events.
Carnelian can improve motivation. Helps one achieve greater success in career or personal matters. Helps ground people who meditate. Carnelian is one of the most helpful crystals for healing trauma, stress and emotional wounds that have accumulated in the etheric body or the Aura and are now manifesting as physical symptoms.
Remedies: This stone is one of the best for fertility issues.
Carnelian is believed to warm, cleanses and purify the blood of the liver and kidneys, emotions, passion, sexuality, physical energy, reproductive system, menstrual cramps, arthritis, gall bladder, pancreas. Historically also used to pull excess fever out through the feet. Carnelian is said to strongly influence the reproductive organs hence its connection to the 2nd Chakra and is excellent for lower back trouble.
In Feng Shui Carnelian is used in the Center area for harmony and balance, in the South area for success, in the West area for creativity and in the Southeast area for self worth.
History: Carnelian is one of the oldest stones used in jewelry dating back to 3000 BCE and was found in Egyptian tombs. Gem quality carnelian is called "Sard", which refers to the ancient Greek and Roman word "sardius". Carnelian is one of the stones found in the breastplate of Aaron.
Carnelian has long held a presence in world history and the beliefs and customs of ancient civilizations. From Europe, to Asia, to the Middle East, Archaeologists have found examples of Carnelian use.
Carnelian in the Middle East
Some of the oldest examples of human jewelry contained Carnelian. At an excavation site in Ur, archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Pu-Abi, a Sumerian Queen from the third millennium, B.C. She wore a robe that contained Carnelian, along with other precious and semi-precious materials. Ancient Egyptian tombs are full of
examples of Carnelian jewels, because of their belief in the stone’s power in the afterlife. According to their system, amulets of Carnelian could prove helpful in ensuring the Ka’s (the soul’s) passage into the next world. The Egyptians so revered the power of the stone that it was one of three used most often in their jewelry, along with turquoise and lapis lazuli. Elsewhere in the middle East, Carnelian represents the Hebrew tribe of Reuben and the Apostle Phillip and some Muslims call it the Mecca stone. Muslim tenets hold that engraving the name of Allah on Carnelian stones boosts courage and some even believed that Allah would grant all the desires of wearers of the stone. In Hebrew literature, Carnelian appears as a stone in Aaron’s breastplate.
European Carnelian
In Europe, Carnelian has also been an important symbol in history. Ancient Greeks and Romans called it Sardius and used the stone for signet rings, cameos and intaglios. In more modern t imes, Goethe attributed the powers of protection against evil, of continuation of hope and comfort, and of good luck.
Asian Carnelian
In Asia, Tibetans created amulets of silver with generous applications, much as the Egyptians used these same stones, of Carnelian, Turquoise and Lapis Lazuli.
It is the stone of passion and sexuality and is associated with the Sacral/Spleen Chakra. This stone helps you feel anchored and comfortable with your surroundings. Provides a connection to the past or to historical events.
Carnelian can improve motivation. Helps one achieve greater success in career or personal matters. Helps ground people who meditate. Carnelian is one of the most helpful crystals for healing trauma, stress and emotional wounds that have accumulated in the etheric body or the Aura and are now manifesting as physical symptoms.
Remedies: This stone is one of the best for fertility issues.
Carnelian is believed to warm, cleanses and purify the blood of the liver and kidneys, emotions, passion, sexuality, physical energy, reproductive system, menstrual cramps, arthritis, gall bladder, pancreas. Historically also used to pull excess fever out through the feet. Carnelian is said to strongly influence the reproductive organs hence its connection to the 2nd Chakra and is excellent for lower back trouble.
In Feng Shui Carnelian is used in the Center area for harmony and balance, in the South area for success, in the West area for creativity and in the Southeast area for self worth.
History: Carnelian is one of the oldest stones used in jewelry
Carnelian has long held a presence in world history and the beliefs and customs of ancient civilizations. From Europe, to Asia, to the Middle East, Archaeologists have found examples of Carnelian use.
Carnelian in the Middle East
Some of the oldest examples of human jewelry contained Carnelian. At an excavation site in Ur, archaeologists uncovered the tomb of Pu-Abi, a Sumerian Queen from the third millennium, B.C. She wore a robe that contained Carnelian, along with other precious and semi-precious materials. Ancient Egyptian tombs are full of
examples of Carnelian jewels, because of their belief in the stone’s power in the afterlife. According to their system, amulets of Carnelian could prove helpful in ensuring the Ka’s (the soul’s) passage into the next world. The Egyptians so revered the power of the stone that it was one of three used most often in their jewelry, along with turquoise and lapis lazuli. Elsewhere in the middle East, Carnelian represents the Hebrew tribe of Reuben and the Apostle Phillip and some Muslims call it the Mecca stone. Muslim tenets hold that engraving the name of Allah on Carnelian stones boosts courage and some even believed that Allah would grant all the desires of wearers of the stone. In Hebrew literature, Carnelian appears as a stone in Aaron’s breastplate.
European Carnelian
In Europe, Carnelian has also been an important symbol in history. Ancient Greeks and Romans called it Sardius and used the stone for signet rings, cameos and intaglios. In more modern t
Asian Carnelian
In Asia, Tibetans created amulets of silver with generous applications, much as the Egyptians used these same stones, of Carnelian, Turquoise and Lapis Lazuli.
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