Metaphysical Properties of Garnet

Garnet is available in different varieties, each with its own colors, chemical compositions, and metaphysical properties. Most types of Garnet work primarily on the Root Chakra and activate the individual’s survival instincts. Garnet is an excellent ally to have during times of crisis as it lends courage and hope into situations that appear to be completely hopeless. Garnet is an excellent manifestation stone and will help to improve self-confidence. It inspires love and devotion and balances the sex drive and emotional disharmony. It is a protective stone and dissolves behavioral patterns that no longer serve the individual. Garnet regenerates the body, stimulates metabolism, and cleanses the thyroid and spleen.

Almandine Garnet
• Element: Earth
• Birthstone: Scorpio, Virgo
• Chakras: Root (1st)
• Key Traits: Strength, Security, Confidence, Grounding, Protection

When the physical experience becomes difficult, one is suggested to impart the help of Almandine Garnet. As a stone of the Root Chakra, Almandine Garnet helps one to cultivate a sense of physical security, safety, and abundance. It assists one in connecting with the physical body and finding joy in the physical world. Almandine Garnet supplies the individual with revitalizing energies of the Earth. It’s relatively dense energies keep one strongly connected to body and is an excellent stone for those who tend to be ungrounded. Almandine Garnet helps one to release habituated worries, fears, anxiety, particularly in financial matters. If business matters are not going as one had hoped, placing garnet stones on your desk will facilitate gradual improvements to take place.