Crystal Grimoire
Picture Jasper
Also known as: Union Jasper, Landscape Jasper, Owyhee Jasper, Picture Stone
Chakras: Root, Heart
Zodiac: Capricorn, Pisces
Planets: Earth, Saturn
Elements: Earth, Water
Summary
Picture Jasper aligns the desires of the heart with those of the spirit and earth, alleviates fear, and allows one to face problems head-on. It helps manifest dreams into reality and supports energetic clearing.
Keywords
Often associated with: aligns heart and spirit, alleviates fear, face problems, manifest dreams, energetic clearing
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: Aligns the desires of the heart with those of the spirit and earth.
Emotional meaning
Often associated with: Alleviates fear and allows one to face problems head-on.
History and lore
In history and lore: Picture Jasper shared the old lore of jasper, which in the fourth century was credited with guarding its wearers against the bites of venomous creatures. An anonymous German author of the eleventh or twelfth century wrote that a jasper laid upon a snake bite drew the poison out of the wound. Budge noted that the Egyptians associated red jasper, one variety of the stone, with the blood of Isis.
About the sources
- E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptologist, sometime Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, author of Amulets and Superstitions (Oxford University Press, 1930), which covers Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Islamic and Christian amulets.