Red Garnet Tree with 500 Beads

COLOR deep red

CHAKRA root and heart

ZODIAC SIGNS Aquarius, Capricorn, Aries, Leo, and Virgo

ELEMENT earth and fire

CRYSTAL PAIRINGS serpentine, vanadanite, ruby, or red jasper

PRECAUTIONS Garnet contains aluminum and can be toxic if ingested. Avoid putting it in direct sunlight, as its colour will begin to fade.

Almandine or Red Garnet unites the energy and passions of scarlet and red with the more muted, earthy overtones of brown, like fire reflected in a deep sultry wine. It is intimately tied to the Earth, and is a talisman of protection and unyielding strength, both physically and intellectually.

Almandine or Red is known as a Stone of Tangible Truth. It assists in manifesting a realistic version of the physical world. Its energy helps alleviate worry, panic and fear, and assists in maintaining a calm connection to the present. It allows one to perceive the absolute support of the Universe. Its intellectual properties also make it useful to those exploring the fields of astronomy, astrology, and mathematics.

Almandine or Red is a strong regenerative healing crystal bringing strength and stamina, and aids circulation and all blood related issues.

It is an excellent crystal for fertility, sexual potency and libido. Emotionally, Almandine cultivates a sense of security, safety and abundance. It is associated with the First Chakra and has the healing energy to help arouse the kundalini and keep those energies grounded.

It is a stone of physical love and relationships, and a spiritual stone of psychic protection. It increases willpower and resistance to all things negative. Almandine Garnet ranges in colour from light to deep scarlet, dark red, and muted shades of brown.

Garnet is the traditional birthstone of January, and Almandine is the natural birthstones of those born in the first month of autumn and mid-autumn.

Garnet is the zodiac stone for those born under the sign Aquarius, and is an Enhancer Strengthener crystal. It has the properties of fire energy and is a talisman of protection.

Almandine or Red Physical Healing Energy

Almandine Garnet is a strong regenerative healing crystal bringing strength and stamina. It helps to absorb iron in the intestines, stimulates the eyes, and treats the liver and pancreas. It stimulates circulation and metabolism, and aids in all blood related issues. It also promotes immunity to colds and flu.

Almandine helps the body connect with the Earth’s revitalizing energy. It supports recuperation after injury, as well as the health of the ovaries and testes. It may help with pain, especially in childbirth, and is an excellent crystal for fertility, sexual potency and libido.

Almandine or Red Emotional Healing Energy

Almandine Garnet’s healing energy cultivates a sense of security, safety and abundance. It helps in bereavement. It is supportive in taking time for oneself, bringing deep love, and aids in integrating truth with self. It opens the higher mind and initiates charity and compassion.

Almandine or Red Chakra Healing and Balancing Energy

Almandine Garnet is associated with the First Chakra, the Base Chakra which is located at the base of the spine and radiates through the legs and feet. This is the grounding Chakra and deals with the health of the physical body. When out of balance, one may feel flighty and physically adrift. Almandine can be used effectively in crystal healing when the Base Chakra is in need of realignment.

As a stone of the first chakra, Almandine Garnet can help arouse the energies of the kundalini, the profound spiritual power said to lie at the base of the spine. Once stimulated, those energies are kept more grounded by Almandine’s steady, slow vibrations It is a stone of physical love and the relationship between loving partners, supporting each other’s needs and desires.

Almandine also opens the pathway between the Base and Crown chakras, channelling and grounding spiritual energies into the physical body, and anchoring the subtle body into physical incarnation.

Almandine or Red Spiritual Energy

As a Strengthener crystal, Almandine Garnet increases the powers of resistance. It aids insight and helps achieve one’s ideas and goals.

Almandine is a stone of psychic protection. Its relatively dense energies keep one strongly connected to the body, and it is more difficult for negative energies or entities to attach themselves. It can assist in accessing past-life memories from ancient civilizations and in clearing karmic patterns. Almandine protects against emotional vampires, manipulators and evil spirits. Anyone engaged in spirit rescue should wear it.