Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez , Ashley Leavy and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #24 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Red Garnet meaning, including:

Red Garnet for tuning into Mabon energies

Powerful & protective nurturing with Red Garnet

Red Garnet's connection to Goddess Brigid

The chemistry and energy of Red Garnet

 

Tune in now for a deeper look at Red Garnet meaning!

Podcast Transcript:

 

Crystal Confab Podcast Introduction: Are you just starting with crystals? Or maybe you have a whole collection but aren't sure how to use them? Join four crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for crystal confab, a casual chat about all things crystals.

 

Kyle Perez: Hello, and welcome to another Crystal Confab. I'm Kyle, the Crystalline Mage, and I'm joined by Ashley Leavy, Nicholas Pearson, and Adam Barralet, my crystal besties as we confab about a different crystal every single week. Now this mineral in particular, I would argue we all have a very good relationship with. I think everyone loves a bit of this, and this is, of course, our red garnet. Red garnet has few different variations, and we're going to dive straight into Nicholas who's going to share a bit of the chemistry, a bit of the magic, and a bit of the energy that it entails.

 

Nicholas Pearson: So I wanna preface this by saying I'm as we've probably discussed in the past, I'm like an Uber Capricorn. I've got a big stellium there. I'm a January baby. Garnet is my birthstone. I'm also red-green colorblind.

 

I have never been excited about a red garnet in my life. And I'd heard that there were such things as green garnets and never laid my eyes on them. You know, I'd seen orangey reds and pinky reds, but it was mostly the dull, earthy, browny kind of reds that I just don't think my eyes perceive that color well. So I grew up not loving my birthstone, a story that sounds similar to others out there. And when I was a freshman at university and I started working for the Earth Science Museum, I found out that garnets could come in other colors, not just kind of, you know, green was an option and then variations on red, but they actually came in a a wide variety, and it dealt a lot with their chemistry and trace elements and things.

 

And I was really mystified to learn that unlike quartz, which comes in so many different colors but is fundamentally the same substance, garnets are a whole family. In fact, they're like two two series that share a common element, and it blew my mind. Furthermore, that particular year, this would be, like, early, maybe mid two thousands, the discovery of the Japanese rainbow andro garnets from Tenkawa Mine in Nara Prefecture was just blowing up all over the place. It was on the front of, like, Rockin' Gym and the neurological journal. And the museum I worked for, of course, got all these publications, and I saw this vivid multicolored thing.

 

And I was like, what is this? And my boss goes, oh, well, those are the Japanese rainbow garnets. You like rocks. Really, you've heard about these. They're everywhere.

 

I'm like, I know nothing. So I learned everything I could about garnet. It turns out at that point, the textbook said garnet came in every color of the rainbow except blue. Not long later, I found better, better data, more up to date information that said garnets could come in every color of the rainbow except blue garnets were usually microgarnets, and they were found in things like kimberlite pipes. And they were good indicators if you're looking at thin sections under polarizite that you might have diamonds nearby.

 

So you wanted to find them. They just weren't exciting to look at. And then sometime in the last decade, there was a find in Tanzania. I don't know how well this is gonna show up on camera, but blue garnets exist. They're kind of more blue violet than, like, a true blue.

 

But my white whale is out there in college.