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Clarity Abbreviation

Description of Gemological Institute of America (GIA) Clarity Grades & Types

WHITE GEMSTONES
White gemstones are receptive and ruled by the moon. They are linked to the night, sleep, protection from disturbing dreams, walking at night alone, and psychism.

White chalcedony (moonstones) were linked to the moon goddess and used for purifying of the spirit. It was said that priestess and nuns wore them for maintaining chastity and for healing the sick during the dark ages.

The ancients wrote that rubbing white chalcedony (moonstones) on the temples took away headaches and cleared ones thinking. Also, rubbing white chalcedony on the breast of mothers who were having problem lactating enough milk for their babies and was said to help the flow of milk.

Some white gemstones are moonstones, white chalcedony, white opal, white sapphire, and white quartz.

YELLOW GEMSTONES
Yellow gemstones are projective, ruled by the planet Mercury. In India, it is the color of the 3rd energy chakra

The color yellow stands for intelligence. Yellow stones can be used to increase understanding and increase intelligence. They are used in magical or mystical meditations to increase visualization powers and astral-projective powers.

Mystically inclined speakers and spellbinders use yellow stones mounted in gold to bind their audiencesŐ minds to their words and projected allusions.

Yellow stones have the power of movement outward, the easing of the exchange of ideas and thoughts between people. The wearing of yellow stones is thought to increase telepathic and astral-travel abilities. Many people believe that wearing yellow gems increases their intuitive powers and, in this way, are also protective.

Some yellow gemstones are yellow sapphire (thought to be the most powerful), citrine, yellow diamond, yellow garnet, yellow tourmaline, amber and tiger-eye.

PINK GEMSTONES
Pink gemstones are the love stones, and are associated with the mouth and sexual organs. They are calming, soothing, and relaxing stones - both in mind and body.

Pink gemstones are used to attract and strengthen love. They can be worn to increase love for one's self or others.

Pink gemstones have all the attributes of the red stone, but in a gentler more peaceful and harmonious way. Pink stones encourage openness in others and ourselves. They are worn to and for romantic settings and to increase the amount of subtle sexual vibrations. Pink shows others we have the fire, but it's a gentle fire, full of life harmony.

Some pink gemstones are pink sapphire, pink tourmaline, pink quartz, pink diamonds, pink spinel, pink garnet, kunzite, and pink cubic zirconia.

ORANGE GEMSTONES
Orange gemstones are much rarer than the other colors.

The color orange stands for creativeness. In India it stands for the second energy chakra. The orange stone has a portion of the power of red stones, but is more a creative subtle fire. They are used to promote creative illumination. They are related to your personal creative powers.

Wearing one of these orange stones will enhance your ability to tap in and direct your creative powers. The color orange is a projective color, as all art and creative activity is for the enjoyment and pleasure of others

All orange stones are rare and hard to come by. There are more top quality artists in the world than orange gemstones (real gemstones, not synthetic).

Some orange gemstones are-orange sapphire, orange garnet, orange quartz, orange tourmaline, orange amber, and orange calcite.

RED GEMSTONES
Red Is The Color of Life - Birth - Death

In India, red is the color of the first chakra of the seven energy centers that control the body and spiritual nature of man. Red stones are #1 on the hierarchy of stones as they represent the emotions and life itself. The heart is red, as is the blood it pumps; it nourishes every cell in the body.

Ruby is the #1 selling colored stone in the world and large quality rubies are extremely expensive. Quality rubies over one carat are extremely rare ($3,000 to $10,000).

Red gemstones are projective and receptive.

Red gemstones promote courage and are used to lend energy to the mind and body. They can be used as a focus stone to send telepathic messages to others.

In olden times, they were used to start the fires of passion in a friend or mate (sexual fire).

Red gemstones were also worn to guard against the loss of blood in battle and to protect one from fire and lightning. Ancient healing practices used red stones to link with blood disorders - curing such problems as bleeding, rashes, inflammations, miscarriages, violence, wounds, and sexual dysfunctions.

Some red gemstones are: ruby, rubelite, spinel, red tourmaline, bloodstone, and pink tourmaline.

MULTICOLORED STONES AND CRYSTALS
Multicolored stones will have a combination of attributes.

Look at the color combinations and use or combine the attributes of the colors when they are multicolored crystals, such as purple quartz (amethyst) and gold colored quartz (citrine). This crystal, with both colors, is called ametrine.

Multicolored tourmaline can have reds, blues, greens, yellow, and all the colors of the rainbow. In some of the rarest crystals, 2 or 3 colors are fairly common, but expensive.

White quartz with gold and pyrite laced through the crystal, is a very magical crystal and fairly rare.

Opals, with all the colors of the rainbow, are another very powerful crystal. Combine information regarding its colors to find out the properties of these wondrous shimmering gems.

PURPLE GEMSTONES
Purple gemstones and purple-indigo-colored gems are the colors of royalty and psychism. They are the magical stones used to open the third eye.

They have been long used by mystics and to create psychic powers. In India, purple is the symbol of the 6th Chakra. The center of the forehead is colored with indigo-purple to represent this energy center.

Wearing purple gemstones (other than a birthstone) shows those who are enlightened in the use of gemstone powers, that you to also possess the understanding.

The quartz amethyst is the best purple gemstone to wear for deep meditation, psychic projection (known as astral travel) or during any personal ritual designed to contact the super conscious.

GREEN GEMSTONES
Green gemstones have always been the color of nature, fertility, and life sustaining vegetable spirits.

Green stones are receptive and are worn by many from days of old to draw the tree and plant energies to themselves. Green gems are thought to strengthen the eyes, control kidney and bladder functions, control digestion problems and prevent headaches.

Many believe that wearing a green gemstone will promote conception. It is said that The Goddess Isis wore a large green emerald on her headband, and all that looked on this emerald would be able to conceive. Isis was the earth mother goddess of the Egyptians.

In India the color green is the 4th energy Chakra (the heart). So, in our heart lays the 2nd kingdom of nature.

Green is the color of wisdom. Green stones worn, are said to promote receptiveness to the wisdom of nature.

Green gemstones are grounding stones, energy balancing gemstones, which can be worn to attune one with the earth and the plant nature spirits.

Some green stones are-emerald, green tourmaline, green garnet, green sapphire, chromegreen diapsite, peridot, green quartz.

BLUE GEMSTONES
Blue gemstones are the color of the oceans that cover 70% of the earth, the color of mystical sleep and of deep twilight. Blue gems are receptive and promote peace and understanding. The color blue denotes loyalty to ones country, friends, and loved ones. To give a blue gemstone to a person symbolically means that you are giving peace, good will, and friendship.

Some blue gems are blue sapphires, tanzanite, blue spinel, blue opal, blue tourmaline, blue quartz, chrysacola, blue topaz.

BLACK GEMSTONES
Mystically, black is the color of night, outer space.

Some black crystals are black quartz, black sapphires, black onyx, black diopsite, black star garnet and black opal.