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Garnet preserves life and promotes joy; but among lovers it spreads discord. It helps anemia and blood diseases. (see Gem Healing) A.G.H.
Sources: 70, 197; 81, 176.
GARNET
General tonic, helps the skin, blood and the digestion.
PYRITE (Fools Gold) ...
Garnett was looking towards our own time, when astrologers would for the most part share his view. Others, however, were to pave the way for the 20th-century resurgence of interest in the subject. Alan Leo (W. F. Allen, 1860-1917) was one.
Garnet. Topaz. Ruby. Carbuncle. Emerald. Crystal. Sapphire.
Les Herbes des Planettes.
Jonbarbe. Barbajoues. Napellus. Heliotrope. Capillum Venerii. Mercurielle. Selonotropia.
Modern: Garnet
Characteristics of the Garnet include consistency, endurance, creativity and patience. Although the Garnet is traditionally red in color, the stone ranges from a colorless hue to black but does not come in blue.
Marbodaeus (also Marbodius) described the wonderful properties of three species of the jacinth (a red zircon, an orange hessonite garnet and a topaz, some say a sapphire instead); Pliny and Leonardus are also particular in their account of it.
To the sun is assigned the carbuncle, ruby, garnet---especially the pyrope--and other fiery stones, sometimes the diamond; to the moon, the pearl, selenite, and other forms of crystal; to Saturn, the onyx, jasper, topaz, ...
302:1 "The Idiot," by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, transl. of Constance Garnett. New York, the Macmillan Co.
Next: Chapter XXIII ...
 See also: Spirit, World, Ritual, Spiritual, Light
  
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