Heliotrope (Blood Jasper)

What are the benefits of Heliotrope?

Those who know how to listen to Heliotrope know how to avoid danger

This stone is a powerful healer and ally to listen to. It makes you aware of your visionary qualities, so that you can perceive when danger, difficulty or obstacles are about to come your way. That way, you can work out a strategy to better avoid or face them.

It has many similarities with the virtues and powers of red jasper.

When too many difficulties torment you, it reminds you that chaos often precedes the most salutary transformations. It's a stone that can bring you clarity and flexibility of mind in any situation, acting as a kind of "guard rail" and enabling you to keep control of the situation, not losing your footing or letting yourself be knocked down.

Heliotrope is an excellent stone for calming the mind, stimulating vital energy and anchoring. It is calming in cases of irritability, nervousness or aggressiveness and invigorating in cases of exhaustion and fatigue.

It supports women during the premenstrual phase, menstruation and menopause, especially when great sensitivity and irritability, accentuated by fatigue, become difficult to cope with.

Its virtues make it a valuable companion during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period, on physical and emotional and spiritual levels. Heliotrope promotes the mother-child bond, helps develop maternal instinct and intuition, improves adaptability and its physical virtues are very useful for supporting the body during this intense period. And for a little more magic, discover the pregnancy bola!

What are the physical benefits of Heliotrope?

On a physical level, Heliotrope boosts the immune system, purifies the blood, kidneys and bladder (perfect for cystitis), improves blood circulation, prevents blood clots, reduces bleeding, reduces varicose veins, accelerates healing, prevents anemia, stimulates the lymphatic system, helps prevent and heal infections.

It is useful for many everyday ailments, such as wounds and illnesses, including autoimmune diseases. It is also a great help during and after surgery and to purify the body after medication.

A must-have for your first-aid kit!

How to use Heliotrope?

• To promote healing, place a Heliotrope between two bandages on the affected area.
• In case of varicose veins or heavy legs, massage your legs regularly with this stone, using circular movements.
• To prevent hemorrhage and give you strength and courage, wear a Heliotrope during labor and delivery.
• In the event of an infected wound, place this stone on the affected area as soon as possible.
• To benefit from its virtues on a daily basis, wear Heliotrope as a talisman.
• You can do vision quests with a Heliotrope placed over your 3rd eye.

Where to place a Heliotrope?

• A Heliotrope in your home will diffuse energies conducive to good physical and mental health.
• Place it under your pillow to help you remember your dreams.
• It's ideal for the bed of someone recovering from an illness.
• At your workplace or office to improve your strategies and anticipate difficulties.
• In a delivery room to accompany births.

Who is Heliotrope for?

• For people with fragile health or who are often tired or weak.
• For people who are frequently nervous, irritable and aggressive.
• For all those who like to take on challenges by devising the best possible strategies while keeping their energy for the long term and their feet on the ground.
• For visionaries who receive a lot of information without really knowing what to do with it.

Heliotrope in mineralogy

Heliotrope is also known as bloodstone or blood jasper. It falls between the Jasper and Chalcedony families and belongs to the Quartz and Oxide groups. It is a silicon dioxide containing aluminum, iron, magnesium, potassium and bohrium, formed secondarily when soil erosion releases silicic acid, which gradually solidifies to become Chalcedony and silicate iron, magnesium and iron oxide impregnate the already thickened silica.

Its microcrystalline and fibrous crystals are not visible to the naked eye and its color is dark green with red spots.

Did you know?

Heliotrope is often accompanied by areas of Chalcedony and Moss Agate, as the elements that make it up often mix incompletely.

The history of Heliotrope

Its name, Heliotrope, comes from the Greek and means " turned towards the sun". It is also nicknamed Hildegarde Jasper in honor of Hildegarde de Binden, who wrote extensively about the benefits of this stone 1,000 years ago.

Heliotrope is a healing stone that has been known for thousands of years to cure all kinds of illnesses, particularly blood diseases, infections and inflammations.

Over 3,000 years ago, in Babylon, the power of Heliotrope was used to crumble walls and defeat enemies and according to popular belief, this stone also had the power to control the climate.

As with Red Jasper, in Christian myths, Heliotrope is linked to the blood of Christ at the crucifixion.