Jasper
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Zodiac:
Elemental:
Moh's Rating: 6.5-7.0
Specific Gravity 2.58-2.91
Refraction Index 1.540
Lustre: Vitreous
Type: Sedimentary or Metamorphic
Family:
Magic
- Protection, combats exhaustion.
Black Jasper[edit]
- Highly protective and healing energy.
- Said to bring good luck to the bearer in a fight, whether it be a mental, political, legal, or other type of fight.
- Black jasper is sometimes called “blackstone”.
Brecciated Jasper[edit]
- Enhances organizational abilities, relaxation, and a sense of wholeness.
- It aligns the chakras and balances the yin-yang, physical, and emotional.
- It is a stone of protection, and is used in particular for protection during astral travel.
- Encourages attunement and communication with animals.
- It brings happiness and a good outlook on life and eases stress.
- It is also said to bring energies for success in work.
- It is also a good stone for grounding oneself and is associated with the root chakra.
Dalmation Jasper[edit]
- Lessens or removes disillusionment.
- It helps one to see their strengths and weaknesses, and encourages grounding both with the Earth and in reality.
- Increases loyalty and is beneficial for long term relationships.
- It brings a sense of fun to one’s life.
- It is a stone of protection from nightmares, depression, and negative thinking.
- It is also particularly beneficial for healing people who have trouble relaxing and having fun.
Fancy Jasper[edit]
- Enhances one’s ability to relax and bring tranquility, comforting, wholeness, healing, and gentle endings.
King Cobra Jasper[edit]
- Known as the counselor’s and therapist’s stone.
- It is a very calming and nurturing stone that can help alleviate anger and bring contentment and order out of chaos.
- It is a good tool for organization.
- Particularly helpful in dealing with mental disorders because of these traits.
- It is also a very protective stone, particularly in cases of hospitalization.
Leopard Skin Jasper[edit]
- Stone of shamanic journeying.
- It also aids in service to others.
- It helps discover and connect with one’s animal totems or “power” animals.
- It makes it easier for one to take responsibility properly.
- Leopard skin jasper is said to bring energies of success in work or business.
- Particularly protective during shamanic journeying.
- Associated mainly with the root chakra.
Mookaite[edit]
- A stone of the “here and now.”
- It can help one balance the internal and external and acceptance of change.
- It helps with living meditation, where one makes a meditation of any act one does.
- Mookaite is a very protective stone, and is particularly good as an emotional protector.
- Associated with the lower chakras.
Morrisonite Jasper[edit]
- Gentleness and relaxation.
- It enhances one’s ability to relax and brings tranquility, comforting, wholeness, healing, and gentle endings.
- Morrisonite is an especially nurturing stone as it works on the heart chakra energies.
- Psychically, Morrisonite jasper is used to assist with astral travel as with other jaspers, for energizing the heart chakra, and for bridging the heart and root chakras to bring loving to survival.
- Associated primarily with the heart chakra and bridging the heart and root chakra energies.
Ocean Jasper[edit]
- Very soothing and helps to love one’s self as well as others.
- It is very healing of the emotions and brings peace of mind.
- It helps with acceptance of responsibility and increases patience.
- The circulars patterns on ocean jasper symbolize and help us realize that we are all interconnected and nature is a cyclical pattern.
- It can also help with circular breathing for healing or meditation.
- Being a type of jasper, ocean jasper is a very protective stone, and any orbs (“eyes”) enhance this in regard to protection from the “evil eye.”
- Related to the heart chakra.
Picture jasper[edit]
- Helps create harmony, proportion, creative visualization, positive things in business pursuits.
- It brings and shows hidden messages from the past as well as hidden thoughts, fears, and hopes.
- These qualities make it useful as an emotional/psychological healing stone.
Rainforest Jasper[edit]
(aka Rhyolite, Ryolite)
- Stone of resolution and perseverance.
- Helps communication of all kinds, and helps one listen easily and without distorting the message one is hearing.
- It is also a wonderful stone for meditation.
- Balances the Yin/Yang (masculine and feminine) energies.
- It can help one allow other people into their lives, even if one has been reclusive or solitary.
- Related to and helpful with the solar plexus chakra primarily, and also the throat chakra.
Red jasper[edit]
- Fairness and justice.
- It is also said to enhance responsibility, choice, and compassion.
- Enhances dream recall.
- Associated with the first and second chakras.
- Said to be a stone that helps in all areas of survival, and is a very protective stone.
- Helps control one’s own passions.
Yellow jasper[edit]
- Helps one be strong and balanced in the social arenas and protects one’s social welfare.
- It is associated with the solar plexus chakra.
- Yellow jasper is a protective stone that particularly gives protection during travel, both physical and spiritual.
- It also shields one from negativity, and can protect from depression.