Healing Properties of Red Jasper: A Crystal for Passion & Life Purpose

Red Jasper is a form of quartz with traces of hematite (an iron-rich mineral), which gives it both its intense color and some interesting properties.

A Crystal Message about the Healing Properties of Red Jasper: "I am fully in touch with my creative fire, my passion, and my purpose in life."

Common Healing Properties of Red Jasper:

* Promotes grounding

* Encourages justice

* Stimulates intuitive insight and provides perspective into your problems and challenges

* Helps you to remember your dreams

* Aids you in asserting your personal boundaries

* Brings peace and calming

* Encourages you to lend a helping hand (or to receive one from others)

* Promotes journey work and astral travel

* Enhances energetic protection

* Cleanses the energy body

* Facilitates accurate pendulum dowsing sessions

* Enhances will power

* Stimulates courage

* Helps you to organize your environment

* Enhances energetic support during difficult times

* Encourages nurturing attitudes and behaviors

* Stabilizes your energy body

Colors: Brick red to dark, blood red

Zodiac Signs: Aries, Capricorn

Elements: Earth, Fire

Companion Flowers: Crocosmia

Companion Essential Oil: Cinnamon Bark

Companion Stone: Blue Kyanite

Common Origins: India, Africa

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Other Uses of Red Jasper:

Red Jasper is a grounding stone, associated with strength used to promote the cause of justice.  Passionate Aries is ruled by Mars, and this stone amplifies Mars’ warrior spirit while at the same time keeping emotions under control.  But contrary to what this might imply, it’s also historically a stone of the Divine Feminine, associated with childbirth and courage in women.  For healing, Red Jasper is strongly associated with blood.

Red Jasper is a stone of reverence and dignity and mimics the honor and respect that was shown to animals who were killed during the hunt. This stone has a primal energy and allows you to better understand the earth’s natural cycles and of the cycles of life and death.

Red Jasper Lore:

While healing and other uses go back to ancient times, writers often used the word “jasper” to refer to any opaque stone, so it isn’t always easy to be sure what mineral they mean.  But generally, the brick-red form has been associated with strength and grounding.  The ancient Egyptians, for example, considered it the “blood of Isis” (along with Carnelian),