SAPPHIRE

COLOR: Blue, yellow, green, black, purple

APPEARANCE: Bright, transparent when polished, often small or larger cloudy piece

RARITY: Some sapphire colors are rare but most are easily obtained as uncut stones

SOURCE: Myanmar, Czech Republic, Brazil, Kenya, India, Australia, Sri Lanka

ATTRIBUTES: Sapphire is known as the wisdom stone, each color having its own particular wisdom. It focuses and calms the mind and releases unwanted thoughts and mental tension. Bringing in peace of mind and serenity, Sapphire aligns the physical, mental, and spiritual planes and restores balance within the body.

This stone releases depression and spiritual confusion and stimulates concentration. It brings prosperity and attracts gifts of all kinds. Placed on the throat, Sapphire releases frustration and facilitates self-expression.

HEALING: Sapphire calms overactive body systems and regulates the glands. It heals the eyes, removing impurities and stress. It treats blood disorders and alleviates excessive bleeding, strengthens veins, and improves their elasticity.

POSITION: Touching the body. Wear on the finger or place as appropriate.

SPECIFIC COLORS
Each color of Sapphire has its own unique attributes in addition to the generic qualities.

Black Sapphire is protective and centering. It imparts confidence in one's own intuition. This stone heightens employment prospects and helps in retaining a job.

Blue Sapphire is a seeker after spiritual truth, traditionally associated with love and purity. It is extremely effective for earth and chakra healing. This tranquil stone helps you to transmute negative energies. It opens and heals the throat chakra and the thyroid, and facilitates self-expression and speaking your truth.

Green Sapphire improves vision, both inner and outer, and improves dream recall. It stimulates the heart chakra, bringing loyalty, fidelity, and integrity. This stone enhances compassion and an understanding of the frailties and unique qualities of others. It honors trust and respect for other people's belief systems.

Pink Sapphire acts as a magnet to draw into your life all that you need in order to evolve. It is a fast-acting stone that teaches you how to master emotions, clearing emotional blockages and integrating the transmuted energies.

Purple Sapphire awakens. It is helpful for meditation, stimulating the kundalini rise and the crown chakra and opening spirituality. This stone activates the pineal gland with its link to psychic abilities, and stimulates visionary qualities. It is extremely calming for the emotionally unstable.

Royal Sapphire eliminates negative energies from chakras, and stimulates the third eye to access information for growth. The stone teaches responsibility for your own thoughts and feelings. It treats brain disorders, including dyslexia.

Star Sapphire has a five pointed star-shaped formation in its depths. This rare stone draws you into its depths and opens intuition. It brings about centering of your thoughts and aids in anticipating the intentions of other people. It is said to contact extraterrestrial beings.

White Sapphire has an extremely pure energy. Opening the crown chakra, it takes spiritual awareness to a very high space, opening cosmic consciousness. This is an extremely protective stone that removes obstacles to the spiritual path. It is helpful in accessing your potential and life purpose.

Yellow Sapphire attracts wealth to the home and can be placed in cash boxes to increase prosperity and earrings. If worn, it should touch the body. Yellow Sapphire stimulates the intellect and improves overall focus so that the bigger picture is seen. As an elixir, it removes toxins from the body.

From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press

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