BIRTH STONE

What is Gemstone?

Gem stones play an important role in Vedic Astrology specifically for remedial and healing purposes. These are worn as a jewelry or used as a beautiful ornament since ancient times. Equally throughout the history it has been used for healing and spiritual rituals.
Though the gems are rare and exhibit great beauty, there as on the yare so precious is due to the power they impart to their wearers. They are store houses of cosmic energies, which is transmitted when the stone comes in contact with the wearer’s body. All stones or gems have magnetic powers in varying degrees, and many of them are beneficial to us for their rapeutic cures. They emit vibrations and frequencies which have strong potential influence on our whole being.

Our divine Earth is resourceful of minerals and gem stones. These are commonly known as Birth stones or Gemstones. They are precious or semi-precious type, depending upon their hardness, rarity and usefulness. Every planet is combined with a specific gemstone and help sin balancing the effects of that planet upon us.

Precious Stones

Precious gemstones are expensive, and of superlative, best and good quality. their effects are swift and strong. They are also used for healing and spiritual practices. According to the vedic system the nine precious stones are ruby, blue sapphire, Diamond, emerald,yellow sapphire, vaduryamani (cat’s eye),Pearl, coral, Hessonite. The first five are considered ‘Panchratna’ or the most precious ones.

Semi-Precious Stone

Gemstones that are not much expensive and can be worn in place of precious stones as substitutes, are called semi-precious stones. These are also effective and bestow desired results after wearing in a proper way. These stones can also be adorned as jewelleries. A few examples of semi-precious stones are Turquoise, Agate, Amber, Quartz and Lapis Lazuli, the list goes upto 84 kinds of ‘up- ratna’(substitutes or semi precious), as it was known previously. In modern days there are many more newly identified stones.

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