Crystal
Red Jasper
Chakras: Root, Sacral
Zodiac: Virgo, Aries, Scorpio
Planets: Mars, Earth
Elements: Fire, Earth
Color: Red
Summary
Red Jasper is associated with the Root and Sacral Chakras and is known as the Supreme Protector, a powerful defender from negative energy. It promotes vitality and vibrancy, releases unhealthy attachments, and increases sexuality, confidence and self-expression.
Keywords
protector, negative energy, physical strength, vitality, vibrancy
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: The Supreme Protector: powerful defender from negative energy.
Emotional meaning
Releases attachment from unhealthy attachments; increases confidence and self-expression.
History and lore
In history and lore: Kunz records that in the fourth century jasper was credited with driving away evil spirits and guarding its wearers from the bites of venomous creatures, and that a German writer of the eleventh or twelfth century advised laying it on a snake bite, for the stone was believed to draw the poison out of the wound. The Egyptians, as Wallis Budge recorded in 1930, associated red jasper with the blood of Isis.
About the sources
- George Frederick Kunz (1856 to 1932), Tiffany & Co.'s chief gemologist and author of The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (1913) and The Magic of Jewels and Charms (1915).
- 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.