Gems are symbols of wealth, icons of beauty. Gem stones are possessed for their power and prestige and gifted as tokens of love and appreciation. They evoke feelings of passion and greed, but remain mysteriously mystical.
Gems are treasured for their beauty and value, for their effect on planetary attractions and magical efficacy on the wearer. Some are used as components of medical preparations. All gems have curative faculties in psychic therapy. They balance your will power, intelligence, and your working culture. They change your outlook towards life by transforming your attitude, positively affecting your state of mind, health and relationships. This makes you perform right actions, which become your destiny. All this uplifts your personality and your surroundings.
Years of mining have depleted mines worldwide. Now only a few function. In the absence of true and genuine gems, there are treated and synthetic stones in the market. Synthetic stones are easily available and are less expensive, but treated gems (gems that are heated, irradiated, filled, etc.) can only be assessed by an experienced eye.
We must understand that everything, including us and the planets and the stars, are vibrating at different frequencies and our minds and bodies get influenced by them. If planetary vibrations are negative, then positive energies from the gems neutralise them. The positions of the planets and lunar cycles at the time of birth influence us throughout our life and wearing a particular gem stone wards off unbalanced energies of these particular grahas, which are out of rhythm with us. I believe that a person’s Jamna Kundali is derived from the kundalini, as it reflects the energy levels of the seven chakras.
The seven chakras, from Muladhara to Sahasrara, get pushed and pulled by seven planets, 12 houses and 27 nakshatras, which activate or deactivate these chakras accordingly. Besides, the cosmic rays that bridge the chakras and planets, wane or wax, thus affecting our lives.
Working meditatively with gems can elevate the vibratory qualities of our body to a higher state of coherence. Disease first manifests in the subtle body and gems work in this field filled with physiochemical energy and pranic energy. The minerals in gems are the same as in the human body. Contact of gems with the electromagnetic field of the human body becomes more effective when they are embedded in pure electrolytes like silver and gold. However, direct contact of gems with the skin is highly recommended.
Only the highest quality gems have the potential to heal. Gems radiate incomparable energy that influence all our dimensions, physical and subtle and hence, heal and transform our entire personality. Gems should only be used, after consulting an experienced metaphysician and remedial astrologer because the wrong stones can short-circuit the magnetic fields of the subtle body and result in malfunctions.
Of course, we must pay our karmic dues, but simply wearing a gem may not immediately show results. Balance is not brought about in a day. Removing obstacles takes time. Wearing gems should be seen as a life-long fixed deposit. Gems are external interventions in an individual’s life that trigger a series of vortices, awaking his energies and his surroundings. But these have been laid out from the time of his birth and even before that, which is his prarabdha. I say that when the wearer is ready, according to his prarabdha, gems come to him, even from far away. There is always a conscious spiritual involvement by the wearer to head towards total growth.
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The author specialises in remedial astrology and gems