Blue gemstone

Sapphire is a blue gemstone, known since ancient times. This word came to us from the Old Indian language and translated as beloved by Saturn. In those days all blue and blue gems were called sapphires.

Cornflower-blue sapphire is considered the most "right", such sapphires are called royal, but there may be violet, green, orange, brown, gray and black colors, and colorless sapphires. Not blue stones are indicated with the name of the color, for example, yellow sapphire or pink sapphire.

Sapphires are today called jewelry corundums of different colors, except for red - they are called rubies. The color of the stone can depend on the presence of impurities of titanium, iron and vanadium, and depending on their combination, the shade also changes.

The most interesting stones can have at once two any shades, but they are met rather seldom.

The color of the stone is strongly influenced by the lighting - in full measure, the color and shades play only in natural light. The best sapphires are crystal clear and can retain color under artificial lighting. Sapphires in hardness are inferior only to diamonds, they are processed by diamond cutting.

This pure and cold stone at all times was also a symbol of fidelity and chastity, meditation and contemplation. It is believed that this blue gemstone cool down passion, so it is sometimes called the stone of nuns and episcopal stone. It is known that an azure sapphire - so in ancient Russia called sapphire, adorned the crown of Cleopatra and the clothes of clergymen. In Egyptians and Romans, stone was considered a symbol of justice and truth - according to legend, it was from him that the seal of King Solomon was made.

It is believed that this stone gives power, so weak-willed and inactive people should not wear it. A blue gemstone can be a talisman that brings good luck and can even help to open a third eye to a person.

If sapphire has small inclusions of rutile, then on the surface of a well-polished stone a star is formed, which has three, six or twelve rays, clear or fuzzy. Starry stone is endowed with magical properties - this concentration, the clarification of the mind and the taming of passion. This stone brings good luck. It is good to keep such a stone on the desktop, but that it works, the room should not have other stones, even sapphires. Another star-shaped stone symbolizes three great forces - Faith, Hope and Love.

It is believed that the power possessed by the blue gem helps some signs of the zodiac strengthen positive features and weakens the negative. The stone is also credited with healing properties, and its use as a remedy has a centuries-old history.

On the healing properties of this stone, wrote the Great Magician Albert. Even simple contemplation of this stone relieves fatigue from the eyes, and water, infused on sapphire, helps with urolithiasis. You can simply apply sapphire to the sore spots. This is by no means a complete characteristic of sapphire, since its properties can be described for a long time.

Lazurite stone, whose properties are very different from the properties of sapphire, also has a blue color. But only it is found mainly in the form of fine-grained continuous masses, while crystals of lapis lazuli are extremely rare. Most often this stone is blue or violet-blue, but there are also instances of bluish-gray or greenish-gray color.

It is said that this stone can strengthen the mind, mind and body and is used to stimulate the activity of the entire body of the person who carries it. Its healing properties are also well known. It is assumed that lazurite strengthens sleep, reduces blood pressure, temperature, is used in the treatment of allergic, nervous and eye diseases.

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