There’s never a wrong time to give our special someone a gift to show our continuing affection, appreciation and love. One of the most popular gifts we give to our loved ones is jewelry. Diamonds are an incredibly popular choice for jewelry at this time of the year, but so are other jewels, such as emeralds, sapphires, rubies, garnets, and moonstones. While any of them can offer a message of love and affection, have you ever given thought to what the traits offered by the various gemstones can add to the gift? Let’s look at a few popular gemstones and what their color can bring to the character and meaning of the gift.
Diamonds are most commonly white, although they can also appear as yellow, brown, blue, red and green. White symbolizes purity and innocence as well as openness, truth, clarity, and wholeness. This comes from the ‘color’ of white being seen as an inclusion of all colors, as can be seen when white light is broken up in a prism. In fact, one of the diamond’s natural attributes is to give a prismatic light display. Diamond also symbolizes love, security and perfection.
Emeralds are green in color, and so have been seen to have a strong tie to the world of nature. Going back to the world of ancient Rome, we discover that emeralds were held to be the gemstone of choice for the goddess Venus. The color of the stone has made it the stone of spring, of faithful and preserved love, reason, wisdom, calm and prophesy. The emerald’s green color doesn’t stop there, however. If you are seeking to offer luck, life, hope, justice and balance, the emerald might just be the stone that you offer to your love.
Rubies are most commonly known to be a deep red, as rubies that are too pink or violet are considered to be sapphires. As such, they are often associated with love and are extremely popular stones during St. Valentine’s Day. The red and the ruby have the given attributes of love, passion, vitality, energy and excitement. If your special someone has a particularly outgoing personality, perhaps a ruby could be the right gift of love.
As we have just mentioned the ruby, let’s look at its sibling, the sapphire. Sapphires can come in a wide variety of colors, giving each color-type of sapphire its own traits, with blue being the most common and popular. The sapphire itself is seen to have such traits as stress relief, devotion to higher powers, mental clarity and material gain. The name sapphire comes from the Greek, and roughly means ‘blue’. This being the case, the blue sapphire also is known to represent the sky and the heavens as well as contributing confidence and loyalty to the sapphire’s traits.
The opal is an interesting stone that has the attributes of intensification and amplification. Essentially, the opal can help to bring out both the best and worst of one’s own traits. In the area of love, the opal is believed to intensify love and loyalty, magnify desire and passion, and loosen inhibitions. Opal can come in bluish, reddish and pinkish colors, with each color adding its own traits to the stone, such as red’s spontaneity, blue’s communication of emotion, and pink’s tranquility and healing. If you want to give an opal to your loved one, an awareness of the traits each color adds can help you to personalize the stone.
We now move on to the garnet. The garnet comes in a range of color from reds to greens to yellows, browns and blacks. The garnet itself offers the vitality and energy of the ruby, but also offers compassion, grace, and protection for the traveler. The most common color of garnet is reddish-brown which adds the attributes of pride and command. If you are including the garnet in your list of possible stones for your loved one, it might also help you to know that garnets are supposed to help alleviate discord and anger; this is a trait that any couple might enjoy having around.
The moonstone is a remarkable stone, normally whitish in color with shading towards various colors such as gray, pink, yellow, green and orange. In the east, the moonstone is believed to be where yin and yang achieves balance. Among its attributes is the protection it is said to offer to women, as well as a bringer of good fortune. It is named the moonstone due to its natural similarity to the color of the moon. As a whitish stone, it also carries the purity and innocence associated with that color.
As we have seen, both gemstones and colors have their own traits afforded to them. With a little working knowledge of the traits of both the gemstones and the colors they come in, you are given a wonderful tool in the quest to find a well-tailored gift. Simply look at the traits that your loved one has, or would like to have, and match them up with the stone and color of stone of your choice. In the end, a good match will undoubtedly lend your gift of a gemstone a particular resonance and singularity of character that will make your love’s heart sing.
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