Hessonite garnet
Hessonite garnet is a honey-orange variety of grossular garnet. Its energy radiates joie de vivre.
The virtues and properties of hessonite garnet in lithotherapy
The company of a Hessonite Garnet stimulates your inner fire, the one that allows your creativity to flourish and your life drive to express itself.
It's an ally that invites you to live intensely! It's like the sun at the beginning of summer, the one that makes you want to get out of the house and be the adventurer of your life. Its gentle warmth and beautiful light comfort and give you confidence in life and in yourself.
With it, you'll want to feel butterflies in your stomach, indulge yourself, allow yourself to feel pleasure, joy and fill up with oxytocinand that's so good for your morale and health!). It's a stimulating and vitalizing stone that can help you get out of a slump or recharge your batteries after a difficult period.
Like the sun, Hessonite Garnet dispels gloom and offers new perspectives. Let it inspire you and give you the freedom to explore other possibilities and open doors to a wider world.
It is an excellent stone for freeing the 2ᵉ chakra area from various blockages and for harmonizing your fire in this area. Moreover, it can be of great help in regaining your libido, especially if it is absent or declining due to a lack of self-confidence, fatigue, habits and routines or stress.
It is also reputed to promote fertility (in every sense of the word).
On a physical level, Hessonite garnet promotes the assimilation of nutrients and can help restore appetite and the pleasure of eating. It is often recommended in cases of eating disorders, weight loss or deficiencies.
How to use Hessonite garnet
- To harmonize the energies of the 2ᵉ chakra, take a relaxation time, treatment or meditation with a Hessonite Garnet placed on this area.
- Wear it on your person, in your pocket or as a piece of jewelry to benefit from its virtues every day.
- Lack of sun and light? Down in the dumps? Contemplate this stone by candlelight.
- Wear your Hessonite garnet as a pendant in your lower abdomen to stimulate your libido.
Where to place a Hessonite garnet?
- A Hessonite garnet in your home will diffuse warm energies conducive to conviviality and creativity.
- It's a great stone to put in your children's playroom (as long as they don't mistake it for candy).
- In your kitchen to make you want to eat good food and share moments of conviviality.
- In your living room, hallway or garden, for joy and good cheer.
- In your studio for creativity or your workplace to chase away the gloom.
Hessonite garnet, for whom?
- It's a great source of inspiration for people who are shy, introverted, lack confidence or don't like their physical appearance.
- For people recovering from illness, depression or a difficult period.
- For mothers who have just given birth, to support them during the baby moon.
- For and who find it hard to feel pleasure or who don't allow themselves to.
How to purify hessonite garnet?
Sun, fire, earth, running water, waveform, fumigation, singing bowl, breath/wind, prayers...Chakras
2e and 3e chakras - Sacral and Solar PlexusAstrological signs
Scorpio, Leo and GeminiElement
LightHessonite garnet in mineralogy
Hessonite garnet is a variety of grossular garnet. It is a and silicate containing iron and aluminum. It is the iron that gives it its honey-yellow to orange-brown color. It forms in lime silicate rock, marble or skarn.
Hessonite garnet deposits are found in Mexico, Russia, Sri Lanka, Canada, Namibia and Italy.
Its "honey" appearance is due to the many evenly distributed micro-inclusions that make this garnet translucent. Garnet is also made up of numerous microfissures and cracks, which explains why gem-quality garnets cut for jewelry are usually small or counterfeit.
Did you know?
The more ferrous iron hessonite garnet contains, the darker brown it will tend to be. On the other hand, if ferric iron predominates in its composition, it will take on a lighter and brighter hue.
The history of Hessonite garnet
Its name comes from the Greek hêsson,meaning inferior, in connection with its lower hardness and density than other garnets (it is the calcium present in its composition that makes it softer). Its color has earned it the nickname "Cinnamon Stone".
It is particularly prized in its gem form in jewelry, where it is often faceted. Transparent varieties are highly sought-after.
Garnet hessonite and legend
In Vedic astrology, the talisman that protects against Rahu's demonic influences is a Hessonite garnet.
Lithotherapy
- Element(s) :
- Zodiac(s) :
- Gemini, Leo, Scorpio
- Purification :
- Fire, Sun
- Physics :
- Appetite (giving), Nutrient assimilation, Nutritional deficiencies, Hormones (regulation)
- Emotional :
- Emotional deficiencies, Self-esteem, Self-image, Joy of living
- Disorder(s):
- Burn-out, Depression, Eating disorders
- Miscellaneous :
- Convalescence, Creativity, Libido, Sexuality
Mineralogy
- Hardness :
- 7.0-7.5
- Moths scale:
- 7
- Strunz classification :
- Neosilicates
- Crystalline system :
- Cubic
- Chemical element :
- Ca, Al, Fe, Si, O
- Density :
- 3,5-4,3
- Cleavage :
- Imperfect
- Transparency :
- Transparent to opaque
- Colors :
- Honey yellow to reddish-brown orange
- Magnetism :
- no
- Radioactivity :
- no
For libido, creativity and joie de vivre
*Please note! Some minerals may be toxic and must not be licked or ingested (as such or in the form of powder, elixir or stone water) or be in prolonged contact with the skin or mucous membranes.
*The information on the stones described here are general indications based on our research and experience, and are not exhaustive.
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