Gemstones - Veda Vasthu

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Pearl

Most pearls in today’s market are cultured pearls, which are very affordable when compared to natural pearls, and make a much nicer gift than imitation pearls. Most jewelry stores sell pearl jewelry, most often with cultured pearls. The pearls in the photo are a white South Sea pearl, a black Tahitian pearl, and a gold South Sea pearl

Diamond

Diamond the birthstone of April. It is the world’s most popular gem. Many people enjoy diamond because of its brilliance and because of its dispersion. Dispersion is the ability of a gem to act as a prism and separate light into its component colors Diamond is one of the most expensive birthstones

Moon Stone

The stone and is reflected by mineral layers within the gem. Moonstone is most often a white or gray color with a glow that is white or silvery – like the glow of the moon (that’s how it got its name!). Moonstone also occurs in pink, orange, near-colorless and other colors. Rare moonstones produce a blue or a multicolored glow.

Blue Sapphire

White Croal

The white coral gemstone is primarily used to address the typical position of Mars in cancer which is a deeply debilitating planetary position. At many places the energies of Venus have been attributed to White coral which is incorrect. The Gemstones used for Venus are Diamond, White Sapphire, White Zircon, Colorless Quartz and in very typical cases Opal. White Coral healing benefits are primarily due to Mars energies.

Red coral

Red Coral is one such popular gemstone coated with a striking luster, having phenomenal cosmic energies and metaphysical significance. It is popularly known as “Moonga Ratna” in Hindi and holds a respectable place in Vedic astrology. Unlike Ruby, Blue Sapphire, or Emerald, this magical gemstone comes from a deep sea bed.hese naturally vibrant, underwater beauties take over thousands of years to form thanks to coral polyps that leave a hard skeleton.

Ruby

is the birthstone for the month of July and the world’s most popular red gem. Rubies range in color from orange-red, to red, to slightly purplish-red. The most desirable and valuable colors are pure red and slightly purplish red. Natural rubies have historically been expensive gems, but recent discoveries in Africa bring many attractive natural rubies into the market at affordable prices.

Purple Sapphire

Sapphire is the birthstone for September. Most people immediately think of a blue gem when they hear the name “sapphire”. That is because gem-quality specimens of the mineral corundum with a blue color are called “sapphire” by definition. However, corundum occurs in many colors.

jade

Jade is a cultural term used for a very durable material that has been fashioned into tools, sculptures, jewelry, gemstones, and other objects for over 5,000 years. It was first used to manufacture ax heads, weapons, and tools for scraping and hammering because of its toughness. Then, because some specimens had a beautiful color and could be polished to a brilliant

Tiger Eye

“tigers eye,” is a very popular gemstone that displays a chatoyancy (cat’s-eye) when a polished stone is moved back and forth in incident light. It is a quartz gemstone, usually amber to brown in color, that forms when fibers of the mineral crocidolite are replaced by silica. This structure of parallel fibers is preserved in the stone, and the chatoyant “eye” crosses the parallel fibers at right angles.

Amethyst

Most amethyst used in jewelry is cut as faceted stones. Shown above are four popular shapes. Clockwise from top left: a trillion, a pear, a round, and an oval.

The oval shows strong color zoning that is very common in natural amethyst and not usually seen in synthetic amethyst.

Blue Topaze

Topaze is a birthstone for the month of November. It occurs in a wide range of natural and treated colors that include blue, pink, purple, yellow, brown, orange, and colorless. Topaz is a very durable stone with a Mohs hardness of 8. Diamond, ruby and sapphire are the only commonly used gemstones with a greater hardness.