Crystal Grimoire
Rose Jasper
Also known as: Pink Jasper
Chakras: Sacral, Crown
Zodiac: Libra
Planets: Venus
Elements: Air, Earth
Color: pink, rose
Summary
Rose Jasper encourages one to always follow the heart and provides stabilizing energy for travelers. It assists in being grounded by promoting thoughtful actions and purifies energy while assisting in energetic clearing. It also promotes inner peace and stillness.
Keywords
Often associated with: follow the heart, stabilizing energy, grounded, inner peace, stillness, energetic clearing
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: Encourages one to always follow the heart and promotes inner peace and stillness.
Emotional meaning
Often associated with: Provides stabilizing energy and assists in being grounded, helping with thoughtful decision-making.
History and lore
In history and lore: Kunz recorded that Cardano credited jasper, probably the red variety, with checking hemorrhages and with a 'general effect upon the circulation of the blood' that slowed the pulse and quieted 'the restless mind.' In the thirteenth-century Arabic book of al-Tifashi, as Raineri translated it in 1818, the physician El-Mostagi and Galen alike held jasper to be useful for all ailments of the throat and stomach. Rose Jasper is a pink to red jasper, so this was lore told of its family.
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).
- Girolamo Cardano, author of De subtilitate, who, as Kunz tells it, tested gems by wearing them in turn and noting the good or ill fortune that followed.
- Ahmad al-Tifashi, thirteenth-century Arab writer on precious stones; his book, Fior di pensieri sulle pietre preziose, was printed in Arabic with an Italian translation by Antonio Raineri (Florence, 1818).
- El-Mostagi, 'a learned but little-known Arab physician' who lived a little before al-Tifashi (Raineri's note, 1818), and Galen, both quoted in al-Tifashi's book on stones.