Sapphire is a variety of corundum, an aluminium oxide. It forms in prismatic, bi-pyramidal, rhombohedral or tabular crystals and can also occur in granular or massive habits. It is found in metamorphic and igneous rocks and alluvial deposits. Sapphires have been discovered in India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Thailand, Madagascar, Tanzania, Pakistan, Afghanistan and East Africa. Today, the world’s most abundant source of sapphire in Australia In the USA, beautiful pale blue and violet sapphires and a pastel palette of other colours have been found.
Although people most often think of sapphire as dark blue, it is found in a diversity of colours, including many shades of blue, violet, pink, white, green, black, yellow and orange. In fact, all colours of corundum (except red, which is Ruby) are called Sapphire. The colouring pigment of blue sapphire is iron and titanium, and in violet sapphire the pigment is vanadium. A low iron content brings about yellow or green sapphires, and chrome produces pink ones.
Sapphire was used by the Etruscans over 2,500 years ago and was also prized in ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt. Revered as a stone of royalty, sapphire was believed to keep kings safe from harm or envy. It was also purported to protect you from dishonesty, fraud, terror, poverty, and even stupidity and ill temper. The three crossed lines in a Star Sapphire have been said to represent hope, faith and destiny, and in German lore it was considered a stone of victory. Although all corundums share some energies in common, the various colours of Sapphire have individual vibrational signatures and different spiritual properties.
SAPPHIRE And physical health
Sapphire is supportive when setting the intention to improve bone density and strength. For those who have undergone reconstructive surgery in which titanium has been used, this is an excellent stone to support good physical health; the energy calms inflammation and promotes post-surgical healing. Sapphires are helpful for people with dementia or Alzheimer's disease. It stimulates the pituitary gland and the thyroid. This stone detoxifies the skin and invigorates the auric field. Sapphire can reduce infection, inflammation, fevers and nosebleeds. Some also report good results in using sapphire to heal burns. Sapphire calms all over active organs in the body and regulates the glands. It will heal eye problems, blood disorders. It is a stone for the blood and blood vessels, it reduces bleeding and strengthens veins reduces thrombosis, varicose veins and blood clots. Sapphire encourages all healing processes through a mental decision to get well. It alleviates pain, lowers fevers and is particularly helpful with intestinal, brain and nervous diseases.
Sapphire helps balance the emotions. It brings calmness to the mind and helps you understand feelings more clearly. Work with this stone to increase inner strength and improve self esteem. With a greater sense of self understanding and further self exploration of your finer qualities, self confidence increases and general happiness ensues. This calming stone also relieves anger and frustration. Sapphire works well to stimulate communication, insight, intuition, divination, inspiration and stillness. Sapphire releases depression and increases the endorphins in your body. Sapphire has a calming effect. It helps with depression, psychic illnesses and delusions, Sapphire strengthens the power of belief and the love of truth.
Sapphire helps you train your mind for single minded focus. Use it to reduce confusion and gain clarity and understanding. With its ability to sharpen mental capacity, this stone is helpful for better comprehension of written material, especially extremely dense scholarly texts. It helps you bring your attention to details and organise your materials. When meditating with this stone it encourages wisdom, will, centring, cheerfulness and general good luck. It helps you concentrate on the task at hand and it attracts prosperity be it wealth, or pay rise or promotion. Placed on the throat chakra sapphire will release frustrations. Sapphire is known as the wisdom stone. It focuses and calms the mind, releases unnecessary thoughts clearing the way for you to start new educational programmes. It brings peace of mind and serenity to you while aligning the physical, mental and spiritual planes and restoring balance to the body. Sapphire encourages sobriety, the ability to criticise and the organisation of thoughts. Your intentions and will become so clear that both ideas and thoughts are realised very rapidly.
A sapphire makes a good meditation tool, and it helps to train the mind for contemplation and understanding. A stone of wisdom and truth, it clears away distortions and brings forth spiritual knowledge. Use this stone to align with the higher realms. With its royal associations, sapphire is a good stone for wise leadership, It also supports altruistic work that affects large populations. It is used to cleanse the auric field and meridians. Sapphire bestows straightforwardness and the ability to direct scattered spiritual energies towards a single goal. By using sapphire, you are made to look at your own life in a critical way and throw away everything that does not stand up to scrutiny. Sapphire encourages the desire for knowledge and wisdom.
blue SAPPHIRE
Blue sapphire can be used to help ease headaches, eye problems, inner ear imbalances and vertigo.
This stone assists those who are easily swayed by the opinions of others. It helps in becoming more secure in your opinion and knowledge, Blue sapphire is an ideal stone for accessing and healing emotional issues that bleed over from alternative or past lives.
Blue sapphire encourages you to maintain a strength of mind. It is excellent for countering negative influences and negative thought patterns. It helps you see the unconscious level of the mind and stimulates your dream state. It can be used effectively for astral travel and lucid dream work or for even travelling to higher realms of consciousness during meditation.
Blue sapphire offers you strength of mind and an increased learning ability, It helps you to access the deeper levels of consciousness, promoting a fuller understanding of self. It is stimulating to the third eye and crown chakras and can enhance psychic vision and abilities.
The term padparadscha comes from the Sinhalese word for 'Lotus Flower' and refers to its orange/pink colour. Padparadscha sapphires were originally found in Sri Lanka, where they and other sapphires were thought to contain the power of wisdom and the ability to overcome challenging obstacles. It is among the rarest and most highly prized varieties of sapphire, and its spiritual properties evoke a unique blend of creativity, sensuality and spirituality.
Padparadscha sapphire is a powerful stone for sexual energy and fertility. It is useful for both sexes in enhancing your sex drive, increasing sexual pleasure, overcoming past negative sexual experiences and feeling confident in expressing your sexuality.
This stone will help you feel more outgoing, joyful, playful, expressive and dynamic. It is an excellent aid for those who need more of these emotional energies. Padparadscha sapphire is also useful for those of you who desire healthier attitudes and expressions in regard to sexual energy.
Padparadscha sapphire stimulates the sacral, solar plexus and heart chakras, aligning your will to create with your heart. This stones energy ensures that your efforts are aligned with the heart and that your creations serve the highest good. It assists you in understanding the effect any of your creations will have on the world and see of those effects are for the highest good. While is enhances your ability to manifest, it will only do so when your desires are aligned with your heart.
Padparadscha sapphire assists you if you wish to bring spiritual vision to manifestation. It encourages you to take action to bring your highest desires into reality.
Pink sapphire helps to strengthen and balance the heart. It is useful for balancing blood sugar, glucose metabolism and in cases of diabetes, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia.
Pink sapphire assists you in expressing your emotions in a loving, kind way. It can help you develop the courage to be vulnerable in relationships and to remove limiting protective walls you may have erected against others due to distrust, fear or past wounds. This stone will help you overcome shyness and express your emotions more fully. It brings a loving playful energy into any relationship. With this stone in hand, concentrate your mind on overcoming any lingering feelings of resentment or the pain that you may still have from past relationships and to renew your ability to be vulnerable and passionate with others.
Pink sapphire teaches you the joy of interacting with others in a loving manner. It helps you feel more courageous in opening to love and overcoming wounds from past emotional trauma. It is a stone for psychic protection when in situations that you don't have any authority or control over, but you can't just get up and leave. Pink sapphire can facilitate the transformation of the location of your sense of self from the head to the heart; this is a shift that can change you for the good.
Star sapphires are created when corundum is intergrown with silky fibrous inclusions of rutile. These combine with sapphire's trigonal structure to create six rayed, and sometimes twelve-rayed star reflections when light is shined upon the stones.
When a star exhibits itself in any type of sapphire, it augments and strengthens that stone's energy. The star itself represents the manifestation of Divine knowledge and Light into denser reality. The appearance of a star in any colour sapphire indicates an enhanced energy and intensification of the properties of that stone. This makes them ideal tools for people who need help grounding their ideas in three dimensional reality and who also need extra energy for bringing things through to completion.
White or clear sapphire is easily mistaken for Diamond. White sapphire stimulates the pineal and pituitary glands. It is an excellent support for uncovering alternative or past life influences in current illnesses. It also assists you to gather your courage to move beyond the veil when you are ready to pass from your physical body.
White sapphire teaches you about physical courage. It is a good stone for those who are afraid of discovering and owning their spiritual power or purpose because of persecution in alternate or past lives. This stone will helps you to develop the qualities of fairness, discernment and objectivity and maintaining perspective in all situations.
This stone stimulates the third eye and crown chakras and activates the lesser energy meridians in the brain, helping you to tune in to your spirit guides, angels and even people who have crossed the vail.
White sapphire brings you spiritual clarity, which includes connection, communication and direction. It helps you achieve and maintain your connection to the Higher Self level of consciousness. This stone opens the power of the mind and strengthens the conduit of communication with Spirit. It is a stone which helps you combine spiritual insight with earthly tasks and problems, helping you to bring a higher perspective when faced with difficult decisions.
Yellow sapphire has long been known as a stone of prosperity. In India, merchants wear fine yellow sapphire to enhance their success, and people are often buried or cremated with this stone placed in their mouths, to ensure wealth in the next life. In the west, metaphysical practitioners use yellow sapphire to help in bringing not just financial abundance, but also to mansfest any vision you wish to realise.
In healing work, yellow sapphire can help balance the spleen. This stone aids digestive disorders where stimulation of the digestive system is required. It is ideal for physical energy and vitality and can be an excellent support for exercise.
Yellow sapphire helps you feel or excited and joyful about the possibilities of life. It can assist you in overcoming procrastination and in expressing your ideas, fearlessly. It can help you overcome fear and be willing to take the risks for great personal rewards.
Yellow sapphire encourages creativity, expression and manifestation. It helps you think of new directions and align your will with Divine intent. This stone stimulates the sacral and solar plexus chakras and can enhance sexual energy. It encourages creativity on all levels.
SAPPHIRE COLOURS Blue Padparadscha Pink Star White Yellow
SAPPHIRE AFFIRMATION I am blessed with a deep understanding. I have a clear view of the truth. I am grateful that I have mental clarity. My spiritual life is full. I love to share my blessings with others! I have great poise and grace.
The chakras are the body's internal energy centres, and are aligned vertically near the spine. Energy enters the body through the head (heaven) and the base (earth). The seven chakras are vortex points where these forces mingle, with each producing a distinctive energy pattern. The purpose of these chakras is to absorb, transform and distribute the body's internal energy, known by terms such as prana, life force or chi. Specific organs and body parts are associated with each chakra, as well as corresponding behavioural, emotional and personality patterns. It is important to note that the chakras are in constant interplay, and cannot really be separated.
There have two extra chakras discovered recently; the Earth Star Chakra and the Soul Star Chakra, I have included a brief description of these in the page.
See each Sapphire colour for its related Auric Bodies.
Human beings are not just the physical body. You have seven auric bodies. These seven unseen bodies are known as energy bodies, energy layers or auras. The seven non physical bodies aren't separate from the physical body, they are all interconnected with each other. The health of any of these bodies contributes toward the overall physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of a person.
These energy bodies are affected by all aspects of your lifestyle. The energy that feeds them comes from outside and inside. Everything in your life influences these bodies. The health of these energy bodies depends on the amount and quality of prana or chi flowing through them which is generated in the Kundalini Line and Chakras.
When any one of the auric bodies is not working properly, it affects the other bodies and the physical body, as each body relies on the others to gather and distribute energy. read more
See each Sapphire colour for its related Zodiac signs.
Positive qualities
Use Sapphire to enhance the positive qualities of Cancer
Caring
Cautious
Charitable
Creative
Emotional
Fruitful
Home Loving
Imaginative
Intuitive
Loving
Nurturing
Orientated
Productive
Prolific
Protective
Psychic about their children
Sensitive
Shrewd
Supportive
Sympathetic
Use Sapphire to enhance the positive qualities of Capricorn
Ambitious
Attentive
Careful
Dedicated
Deliberate
Dependable
Disciplined
Focused
Honest
Humorous
Kind
Logical
Loyal
Patient
Practical
Prudent
Reserved
Serious
Supportive
Tolerant
Use Sapphire to enhance the positive qualities of Gemini
Adaptable
Agile
Busy
Cheerful
Communicative
Eloquent
Good with Languages and Writing
Intellectual
Imaginative
Inquisitive
Lively
Logical
Persuasive
Positive
Sociable
Spontaneous
Teasing
Witty
Youthful
Use Sapphire to enhance the positive qualities of Leo
Ambitious
Broad Minded
Creative
Courageous
Daring
Dramatic
Dominant
Enthusiastic
Faithful
Flamboyant
Generous
Gracious
Intelligent
Independent
Loving
Natural Leader
Popular
Religious
Self-Assured
Strong Willed
Uncomplicated
Vivacious
Warm-hearted
Witty
Use Sapphire to enhance the positive qualities of Libra
Artistic
Charming
Civilised
Committed in Marriage
Compromising
Diplomatic
Easy-Going
Good-Looking
Idealistic
Intellectual
Objective
Observant
Peaceable
Perceptive
Principled
Respectful
Romantic
Sociable
Tasteful
Treat Everyone as an Equal
Urban
Value Others
Well-Balanced
Use Sapphire to enhance the positive qualities of Sagittarius
Adventurous
Ambitious
Broad Minded
Charming
Enthusiastic
Far Sighted
Freedom Loving
Good Humoured
Honest
Idealistic
Impulsive
Independent
Intellectual
Jovial
Loyal
Lucky
Non-Possessive
Optimistic
Outgoing
Passionate
Philosophical
Straightforward
Talkative
Use Sapphire to enhance the positive qualities of Virgo
Analytical
Detailed
Devoted
Diligent
Hardworking
Intelligent
Loving
Meticulous
Modest
Nurturing
Observant
Practical
Reliable
Shrewd
Shy
Skilled Communicator
negative qualities
Use Sapphire to reduce the negative qualities of Cancer
Changeable
Clingy
Crabby
Dependant
Fussy
Indirect
Insecure
Jealous
Manipulative
Moody
Non-Daring
Over Emotional
Possessive
Touchy
Unable to let go
Worrier
Use Sapphire to reduce the negative qualities of Capricorn
Anxious
Calculating
Cold
Controlling
Fatalistic
Grudging
Mean
Perverse
Self-Cantered
Unable to Commit
Unemotional
Unpredictable
Use Sapphire to reduce the negative qualities of Gemini
Cold
Cunning
Exaggerates
Gossiping
Inconsistent
Inquisitive
Irresponsible
Makes Promises they can't keep
Nervous
Over-Optimistic
Restless
Tense
Thinks in Circles
Two Faced
Risk Taking
Use Sapphire to reduce the negative qualities of Leo
Back Stabber
Bossy
Dogmatic
Egotistical
Interfering
Intolerant
Jealous
Liar
Overbearing
Opinionated
Patronising
Pompous
Proud
Religious Fanatic
Ruthless
Self-Centred
Spendthrift
Trickster
Use Sapphire to reduce the negative qualities of Libra
Changeable
Easily Influenced
Flirtatious
Gullible
Indecisive
Opinionated
Promiscuous
Self-Indulgent
Use Sapphire to reduce the negative qualities of Sagittarius
Aggressive
Blindly Optimistic
Careless of Self
Careless with Money
Dogmatic
Exaggerates
Flighty
Judgemental
Impatient
Impetuous
Irrational
Sarcastic
Selfish
Unpunctual
Unreliable
Use Sapphire to reduce the negative qualities of Virgo
Cleaning and Hygiene Fanatics
Cold
Conservative
Critical
Distrustful
Fearful
Fussy
Harsh
Jealous
Over Critical
Perfectionist
Reserved
Self-Serving
Worrier
likes
Cancer likes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily lives. you are encouraged to be aware when something becomes an obsession
Business
Children
Food
Future Security
Hobbies
Home and Country
Holding On
Nurturing
Parties
Personal Security
Planning for the Future
Predictability
Romance
Routine
Capricorn likes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily lives, you are encouraged to be aware of when something becomes an obsession.
Ambitious People
Being Committed
Dependability
Financial Security
Firm Foundations
Knowing what they Discuss
Loyalty
Perseverance
Professionalism
Purpose
Reliability
Security
Gemini likes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily lives, you are encouraged to be aware of when something becomes an obsession.
Flexible Thinking
Flirting
Fun
Multiple Projects on the Go
New Ideas
New People
Novelty and the Unusual
Talking
Telling Stories
Variety in Life
Well Informed
Leo likes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily lives, you are encouraged to be aware of when something becomes an obsession
Acclaim
Being the Boss
Children
Drama
Feeling Pampered
Gambling
Lavish Living
Making an Impression
Money
Overindulgence
Pageantry and Grandeur
Pleasure
Power
Speculative Ventures
Libra likes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you are encouraged to be aware when something becomes an obsession
Beauty
Communicating
Conviviality
Gentleness
Love
Making People Happy
Morality
Sharing
The Finest Things in Life
Sagittarius likes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you are encouraged to be aware of when something becomes an obsession
Causes and Demonstrations
Daydreaming
Family Friends
Feeling Trusted
Freedom
Getting to the Heart of Matters
Intellectual Compatibility
Laws and Meanings
Literature and Theatre
Music and Dance
Philosophical and Political Debates
Socialising
Taking Risks
The General Feel of Things
Travelling
Virgo likes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you are encouraged to be aware of when something becomes an obsession
Attention to Detail
Being Active
Being Pampered
Conventions and Rules
Dedication
Equality
Feeling Secure
Health Foods
Hygiene
Lists
Loyalty
Order
Perfection
Routine
Stimulating Employment
dislikes
Cancer dislikes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics that you see in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.
Advice (good or bad)
Aggravating Situations
Being Told what to Do
Being Away from Home for Too Long
Failure
Opposition
Spontaneity
Tactless Criticism
Capricorn dislikes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics that you see in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.
Bossiness
Challenged by Lover
Displays of Ego
Dominance
Extravagance
Fantasies
Flightiness
Game Playing
Go-Nowhere Jobs
Ignominy
Indecisiveness
Ridicule
Vulgarity
Wild Schemes
Gemini dislikes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics that you see in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.
Being in a Rut
Being Alone
Boring People
Feeling Tied Down
Jealousy
Learning
Mental Inaction
People with No Curiosity
Possessiveness
Leo dislikes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics that you see in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.
Apathy
Being Ignored
Competition
Criticism
Doing Things Safely
Introspection
Laziness
Lying/Deceit
Mean Spiritedness
Nagging
Ordinary, Day to Day Living
Penny Pinching
Small Minded People
Libra dislikes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics that you see in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.
Being a Slave to Fashion
Brutishness
Distasteful Situations
Injustice
Unprincipled Behaviour
Violence
Sagittarius dislikes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.
Apathy/Laziness
Being Constrained
Being Doubted
Being Tied Down
Details
Clubs
Control
Convention
Duplicity
Explaining Themselves
Jealousy
Over the Top Theories
Possessiveness
Routine
Shallow People
Waiting
Virgo dislikes the following but by using Sapphire in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.