Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez , Ashley Leavy and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #10 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Red Jasper meaning, including:

Red Jasper for Pendulum Dowsing and Dream Recall

Navigating Mars Retrograde with Red Jasper

Balancing the Air Element with Red Jasper's Earth Element

Historical perspectives on Red Jasper

 

 

Tune in now for a deeper look at Red Jasper 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 4 crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for crystal confab, a casual chat about all things crystals.

Adam Barralet: You've probably got at least one of these stones, if not many of these stones, floating around your home. Today, we're gonna be exploring here on crystal confab, jaspers, in particular of the red variety. But I am joined by 3 of the most fabulous crystal experts from around the world, Ashley, Kyle, and Nicholas. Welcome to Crystal Confab, everyone. Today, we're looking at red Jasper and Nicholas. You've become - I don't know if this was intended or not - but you for me, you're feeling like a crystal historian. You're really, really great in telling us where the crystals have kinda journeyed through things. And Jasper, it seems like any rock that you don't know what it is, you just call it a Jasper. Is that playing a bit of a historical thing or why are we calling everything a Jasper?

Nicholas Pearson: You know, it's kind of interesting. We've almost come full circle in this. So I think before we can build that context, we gotta, like, talk about what Jasper really is. And the short answer is it doesn't mean anything, except that it does, but different things to different people. So, to make that make sense, we have to consider that there's a geological definition of Jasper, a gemological definition of Jasper, and then also historical and linguistic one, and very seldom do they agree.

So if you ask a gemologist what the definition of jasper is, you're usually going to get something, and Kyle's please correct me if I'm wrong here. You're usually gonna get an answer that sounds a lot like a cryptocrystalline or microcrystalline variety of quartz. It is often defined as a variety of chalcedony. So chalcedony forms, and we have, these, length fast fibrous, microscopic crystals of quartz that form together. They usually form out of a kind of colloid or goo, if we wanna be unscientific about it.

And as that kind of gel solidifies, we get these tiny little crystals to emerge. And because of the way the crystal lattices kinda line up and twist and form those little fibers, there's space in between them. They don't form in neat little stacks like a box would because they're not shaped like a box. They're shaped like microscopic quartz crystals, and so they have a little twist to them, a little spiral, and there's room in between, which allows for so much variety and color and texture and pattern in the chalcedony world. That's how we get our carnelians and our Botswana agates and blue lace agates and red jaspers and green jaspers and bloodstones and, I mean, if you name it, if it's chalcedony, that's what it is.

Except the challenge here is that, socially speaking, a lot of the things that get called Jaspers are maybe in fact a variety of quartz, but don't meet that length-fast fibrous definition that makes a chalcedony a chalcedony. So some of them are actually something called quartzine, which is a very, very close cousin to that. The crystals orient slightly differently, but still form in fibers. It makes room for different shaped gaps in there. We can also end up with chert, which is also known as flint except when it's not.

And then we get a whole bunch of other hard stones that don't necessarily fit a perfect little catchall term, so we call them anyway,