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- Hello and welcome.
In this video, I'm sharing a bit about
the healing properties of Red Jasper.
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The color of this crystal really ranges
from a brick red to a dark blood red.
Let's start by talking about some of its associations
so you can get an idea of its energy.
It's connected with the root chakra, or the first chakra,
and the Zodiac signs it corresponds with
are Aries and Capricorn. (soft music)
The corresponding elements for Red Jasper
are the Earth element related to stability, security,
and protection, and the fire element,
which is connected with creativity,
passion, and physical health.
Generally Red Jasper is thought of as a grounding stone,
and it's also associated with strength.
It's often used to promote justice.
Passionate Aries is ruled by the planet Mars,
and this stone amplifies Mars's warrior spirit
while at the same time keeping emotions under control.
But contrary to what this might imply on the surface,
it's also a stone of the divine feminine,
associated with childbirth and courage
and strength and women.
Red Jasper is also strongly associated with blood.
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Red Jasper's a stone of reverence and dignity
and it mimics the honor and respect that we show
to animals that were killed at the time of the hunt.
So this stone traditionally has a really primal energy
that allows you to better understand
the Earth's natural cycles and the cycles of life and death.
When I work with my crystals, I usually like
to incorporate an affirmation statement
that helps me really enforce the healing energy
while I work with my crystals.
So here's the affirmation that I use for Red Jasper:
I am fully in touch with my creative fire,
my passion and my purpose in life.
But Red Jasper has some other amazing properties.
It promotes a grounding, encourages justice,
stimulates intuitive insight, and helps provide
some perspective into your problems and challenges.
It also helps you remember your dreams,
so great for dream recall, and it aids
in asserting your personal boundaries.
It also can bring peace and calming because
of its grounding, and it encourages you
to lend a helping hand or to receive one from others.
It also promotes journeying and astral travel,
and enhances protection magic,
cleanses the aura from outside energy.
It enhances willpower and assists with
helping you kind of organize your environment.
It also stabilizes your energy.
Now one little known thing about Red Jasper
is that it also helps facilitate pendulum dowsing sessions.
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So just hold a Red Jasper stone in your non-dominant hand
and grasp your pendulum in your dominant hand,
then you can ask your question
or begin your dowsing session.
The Red Jasper keeps you grounded and unattached
from the outcome so that you can act as a clear channel
for the energy to come through your pendulum.
Alternatively you can also just try working with a pendulum
made of Red Jasper. (soft music)
The companion flower of Red Jasper is crocosmia,
and the companion essential oil is cinnamon bark.
Super spicy.
A great companion stone to Red Jasper is Blue Kyanite.
I absolutely love this combination
and find that the energies balance each other really well.
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Now the nicest Red Jasper is commonly found in India
and in several places throughout Africa.
So let's look a little bit deeper
into Red Jasper and its lore.
Red Jasper is a form of quartz with traces of iron,
which gives it both its intense color
and some interesting properties.
So while a lot of properties go back to ancient times,
writers often used the word Jasper in ancient times
to refer to any opaque stone.
So it isn't always easy to determine if that's
really what they meant, but generally,
the brick red form of Jasper has been associated
with strength and grounding.
The Egyptians, for example, considered it the blood of Isis,
along with carnelian, and believed that
a tear drop shaped Red Jasper would give the soul
the courage needed to face Osiris
for one's judgment in the underworld.
As you likely know, Red Jasper is one
of just many varieties of Jasper.
Jaspers are primarily made of quartz or silicon dioxide,
which has been broken down and reformed within the Earth,
often picking up traces of other minerals in the process.
So Red Jasper, for example, has these traces
of iron or hematite.
Now more complex Jaspers might even include
veins or small pieces of other minerals
and some Jaspers are Jaspers by name only
and are actually more properly identified as agates
or rhyolites or, well, just about anything,
but they're known by their commercial names
or trade names as Jaspers.
But in general, most Jaspers are associated with grounding
and connection to Mother Earth.
And the really heavily pattern ones
are sometimes associated with creativity and focus.
I hope that this video helped you get to know Red Jasper
a little bit more intimately and that it will inspire you
to work with this common stone.
I'd love to know how it goes for you,
so leave me a comment below this video.
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To keep in touch, you can also visit me online
at LoveAndLightSchool.com,
or connect with me on social @loveandlightschool.
So remember, be sure to leave a comment below
and tell me how you enjoyed
working with this amazing crystal.
Thanks so much for watching.
Until next time, crystal blessings.
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