JASPER
COLOR: Red, brown, yellow, green, blue, purple
APPEARANCE: Opaque, patterned, often water-worn
or small and tumbled
RARITY: Common
SOURCE: Worldwide
ATTRIBUTES: Jasper is known as the "supreme nurturer." It sustains and supports during times of stress, and brings tranquility and wholeness. Used in healing, it unifies all aspects of your life. Jasper reminds people to help each other.
Jasper aligns the chakras and can be used in chakra layouts. Each color is appropriate to a specific chakra. This stone facilitates shamanic journeys and dream recall. It provides protection and grounds energies and the body. It absorbs negative energy and cleanses and aligns the chakras and the aura. Jasper balances yin and yang and aligns the physical, emotional, and mental bodies with the etheric realm. It clears electromagnetic and environmental pollution, including radiation, and aids dowsing.
Psychologically, Jasper imparts determination to all pursuits. It brings the courage to get to grips with problems assertively, and encourages honesty with yourself. It supports during necessary conflict.
Mentally, Jasper aids quick thinking, and promotes organizational abilities and seeing projects through. It stimulates the imagination and transforms ideas into action.
Physically, Jasper prolongs sexual pleasure. It supports during prolonged illness or hospitalization and reenergizes the body.
HEALING: Jasper supports the circulatory, digestive, and sexual organs. It balances the mineral content of the body. It is particularly useful as a gem elixir because it does not overstimulate the body.
POSITION: As appropriate in contact with the skin. Specific placements are shown under each color. Use for long periods of time as Jasper works slowly. Place a large piece of decorative Brown Jasper in a room to absorb negative energy.
SPECIFIC COLORS AND FORMS
In addition to the generic attributes, the following colors have additional properties.
Blue Jasper connects you to the spiritual world. It stimulates the throat chakra, balances yin-yang energy, and stabilizes the aura. This stone sustains energy during a fast, heals degenerative diseases, and balances mineral deficiency. Position: Navel and heart chakra for astral travel.
Brown Jasper (including Picture Jasper) is connected to the earth and encourages ecological awareness. As a result, it brings stability and balance. It is particularly useful for alleviating geopathic and environmental stress. It facilitates deep meditation, centering, and regression to past lives, revealing karmic causes. This stone improves night vision, encourages astral travel, and stimulates the earth chakra. It boosts the immune system, clears pollutants and toxins from the body, and stimulates the cleansing organs. It heals the skin. Brown Jasper strengthens the resolve to give up smoking. Position: Forehead, or as appropriate.
Green Jasper heals and releases dis-ease and obsession. It balances out parts of your life that have become all-important to the detriment of others. This stone stimulates the heart chakra. Green Jasper treats skin disorders and dispels bloating. It heals ailments of the upper torso, the digestive tract, and the purifying organs. It reduces toxicity and inflamation.
Purple Jasper stimulates the crown chakra. It eliminates contradictions. Position: Crown
Red Jasper (including Brecciated Jasper) is gently stimulating. It grounds energy and reflects unjust situations. Red Jasper brings problems to light before they become too big and provides insights into the most difficult situations. It makes an excellent "worry bead," calming the emotions when played with. Placed under the pillow, it helps dream recall. Red Jasper stimulates the base chakras and assists rebirthing. It cleans and stabalizes the aura, and strengthens your boundaries. This is a stone of health, strengthening and detoxifying the circulatory system, the blood, and the liver. It dissolves blockages in the liver or bile ducts. Position: Base chakra or as appropriate.
Yellow Jasper protects during spiritual work and physical travel. It channels positive energy, making you feel physically better, and energizes the endrocrine system. Yellow Jasper stimulates the solar plexus chakra. It releases toxins and heals digestion and the stomach. Posotion: Forehead, chest, throat, wrist, or place over pain until it eases.
Basanite (Black Jasper) is a useful scrying stone. It takes you deep into an altered state od consciousness and brings prophetic dreams and visions.
Mookaite (Australian Jasper) provides a useful balance between inner and outer experiences. It imparts both a desire for new experiences and a deep calm with which to face them. Flexible Mookaite encourages versatility. It points out all possibilities and assists in choosing the right one. Mookaite is a physically stabalizing stone that fortifies the immune system, heals wounds, and purifies the blood.
Picture Jasper (see Brown Jasper) is said to be the Earth Mother speaking to her children. It contains a message from the past within its pictures for those who can read it. It brings to the surface hidden feelings of guilt, envy, hatred, and love, and thoughts that are normally pushed aside, whether from the present or past lives. Once the repression is released, they are seen as lessons along the way. This stone instills a sense of porportion and harmony. Picture Jasper brings comfort and alleviates fear. It stimulates the immune system and cleanses the kidneys.
Orbicular Jasper supports service, asists in accepting responsibility and instilling patience. Its circular markings resonate with circular breathing, which it facilitates. It eliminates the toxins that cause unpleasant body odor.
Royal Plume Jasper opens the crown chakra and aligns the spiritual energies to personal purpose, bringing status and power. This stone eliminates contradictions and supports preserving one's dignity. It brings emotional and mental stability.
Brecciated Jasper (Jasper veined with Hematite) is an excellent aid to keeping your feet on the ground and attaining emotional stability. It draws excess energy away from the head, promoting mental clarity.
COMBINATION STONE
Tiger Iron is a combination of Jasper, Hematite, and Tiger's Eye. It promotes vitality and helps in passing through change, pointing to a place of refuge when danger threatens. It is extremely helpful for people who are deeply exhausted at any level, especially those suffering from emotional or mental burn-out or family stress. It promotes change by opening a space to comtemplate what is needed and then supplying the energy necessary for action. Tiget Iron is a creative and srtistic stone that brings out inherent talents.
Tiger Iron works on the blood, balancing the red-white cell count, eliminates toxins, and heals the hips, lower limbs, and feet, strengthening muscles. It aids assimilation of B vitamins and produces natural steroids. Keep Tiger Iron in contact with the skin.
From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press
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