Garnet
Fine gemstones

The combination of the wisdom of the earth and the transformative power of fire, Garnet's virtues help to free you from your limitations (limiting beliefs, repetitive patterns, obsolete behaviors). By grasping the stone's significance, you can take a broader look at your reality, a fresh eye that will enable you to accept new perspectives by learning from your past "mistakes".

The benefits of a good self-image

His company helps you to maintain your self-esteem and confidence in your resources and abilities in all circumstances. This lucidity will help you preserve or rediscover your essence, wisely separating it from the pain you are experiencing. The fire of change and the benefits of evolving perception are suddenly possible. Garnet helps you to act concretely, and its properties are capable of creating your reality in matter, the one you desire deep down.

The almandine garnet

Almandine garnet is a stone that can give you great strength and courage. It anchors you so that your roots are strong, so that you can draw on and nourish the sacred energy of the earth's womb. It's this earth and fire energy that gives you vitality, dynamism, courage and strength. It's also what helps you realize your projects in matter and accept your incarnation.

Garnet almandine is also reputed to prevent miscarriage, ease childbirth, prevent the formation of clots in the uterus, relieve post-partum trenches and reduce bleeding during heavy periods.

Pyrope garnet and rhodolite

Pyrope garnet has the same virtues as almandine garnet.

It is ideal during convalescence to recover from illness, or as a support in difficult and exhausting situations.

It can also help with erectile dysfunction.

Rhodolite garnet is a blend of pyrope garnet and almandine garnet and has the same virtues.

Find out more about almandine garnets, pyropes and rhodolites

Hessonite garnet

Hessonite garnet is an invitation to joie de vivre. Its company stimulates your creative power and libido. It's a welcome companion in times of depression, loneliness or lack of warmth.

It acts as a hormone regulator and can help improve fertility.

Learn more about Hessonite garnet

Chrome Garnet

Chrome garnet carries a springtime energy that enthusiastically invites renewal. It works on the heart by encouraging the expression of feelings and helps to live through periods of change with gentleness.

It connects you to the energies of nature and its healing forces, which can bring you new confidence in life and its magic. It also has detoxifying properties for the body.

Uvarovite garnet

This garnet has great healing power, acting primarily on the heart area to dissolve ingrained emotional blockages. With it, you can rediscover a new lease on life, far from the feelings of frustration, jealousy, unspoken words or resentment that you may have felt and that have encumbered you for too long.

It can be a great help in cases of shock or intense emotional stress.

How to use a garnet

• • Wear a Garnet as a talisman to give yourself strength and courage in everyday life.

• • Place almandine or pyrope garnets in your socks or make yourself an ankle bracelet to improve circulation, prevent varicose veins and improve your anchorage.

• • Relax or meditate with a Garnet Grossulaire placed on your heart to harmonize the energies in this area.

Where to place the Garnet?

• • A Garnet in your home can bring energy to get you through difficult situations and prevent things from stagnating for too long.

• • Place an almandine garnet, rhodolite or pyrope under your bed to protect yourself from telluric disturbances.

• • A Hessonite garnet in your kitchen can enhance conviviality and inspire you to cook up a storm.

• An almandine garnet is perfect in your wine cellar to preserve their aromas.

Who is Grenat for?

• • For and who need courage to face difficult events.

• • For people who lack anchorage, have difficulty fully embodying themselves in matter or have blood circulation problems.

• • For life's adventurers and

• • For and who lack independence, willpower or vitality.

• Pyrope garnets, rhodolites and almandines are not suitable for angry people who tend to abuse their power.

Garnet in mineralogy

The garnet group belongs to the neosilicate class and comprises 16 different minerals, each divided into different varieties. The majority of garnets appear during the formation of metamorphic rock, some are magmatic and others are the result of both types of formation.

Almandine garnet is an and silicate, dark red to brown in color and its main deposits are found in India, Nepal, Scandinavia, Austria, Australia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Alaska and Brazil.

Pyrope garnet is a silicate of aluminum and magnesium, its color is bright red to reddish-black, sometimes orange-brown. The main deposits are found in Bohemia, the Alps, the United States, Argentina, Madagascar, Russia and China.

Rhodolite garnet is a blend of pyrope and almandine garnets. Its color is red-purple or dark red-pink. It is found mainly in India, Argentina and Sri Lanka.

Grossular garnet is a and silicate.

The grossular chromium variety comes mainly from Mali and contains chromium, which gives it its green color.

The hessonite variety contains iron, which gives it its orange to yellow-brown color. It is found mainly in Namibia, Russia, Canada, Sri Lanka, Mexico and Italy.

The emerald-green tsavorite variety contains vanadium and chromium and comes mainly from Tanzania and Kenya.

Uvarovite garnet is a dark-green and silicate found in metamorphic chromite deposits in the Urals, Finland, Silesia, Canada, the USA and the Himalayas. It occurs in meadows of microcrystals.

Did you know?

Garnets come in all colors except blue.

The history of Garnet

The name Garnet comes from the Latin malum granatum, meaning pomegranate, and the names of the different varieties are often given in honor of those who officially discovered them.
In Antiquity, the names of red pomegranates were " charbon ardent" and in the Middle Ages " escarboucle".

It's a stone that has always been famous the world over and is the stuff of many tales.

Garnet was used as early as 4,000 years ago by the Sumerians. Its high hardness enabled them to cut other, softer stones. It was also ground into powder for sanding. These uses of garnet are still employed today, notably for precision cutting.

The Vikings attributed to garnet the power to guide the dead to Valhalla, their paradise where they could finally drink with the gods. This stone was very much in evidence at their funeral ceremonies.

Celts, Arabs, Egyptians, American Indians and Asian tribes set garnets on their shields to give themselves strength and courage and used the stone to make a wide range of jewelry, often used as a talisman.

For certain Amerindian tribes, garnet was used to see what was hidden, for the Arabs it was a symbol of sincerity and was worn by rulers, the Greeks used it to improve their night vision, the Egyptians associated it with the war goddess Sekhmet and the Romans used it to mark the seals of important documents.

In the Middle Ages, Garnet was said to protect against imprisonment. It was also common to make sword pommels set with Garnet to bring protection and courage to the owner.

In 1892, the Hunzas used garnet projectiles against British troops in Kashmir, believing that the blood-red color of garnet would be more lethal than lead bullets.

In the Swiss Alps, garnet has long been considered a woman's stone and was sewn into many traditional costumes.

A birthstone for people born in January, garnet is widely used in jewelry. Cut into facets, the beauty of its dark-red and pinkish-red is revealed.

Myths and legends about Garnet

Legend has it that, during the Flood, Noah used a Garnet lantern to guide his ark through the dark of night.

Garnet is also said to be the 3ᵉ eye of dragons, enabling them to see the world of matter.

In Vedic astrology, the talisman that protects against Rhahu's demonic influences is a Hessonite garnet.