GARNET: This January gemstone is perfect to attract your goals in the New Year.

​Key Words: Attraction and Creativity
Elements: Earth, Fire
Chakras: Root (1st), Sacral/ Sexual/Creative (2nd), Solar Plexus (3rd)
Affirmation/Mantra for January/Garnet: "I am attracting what I need in abundance." 
The word Garnet is taken from the Latin granatum, meaning pomegranate. Think of the most common Garnet color (dark red), and you can visualize pomegranate seeds. Because this fruit contains an enormous amount of seeds, it is regarded as a symbol of fertility, prosperity, and abundance.  What better stone to begin the year with?!  This stone is usually red in color but can also be green, black, and pink. For our purposes I will talk about the Spessartine Garnet.
Emotional: Garnet is a powerful stone to attract what you want. Use it to create, visualize, and attract dreams, aspirations, and goals.  It can bring insight where there is chaos, providing a feeling of awareness, purpose, and vitality, thus simultaneously eliminating emotional stuck places. It stimulates the kundalini energy for health and well being. Let it fire up the root chakra to attract passion, prosperity, and new beginnings.   It is an excellent stone to have when moving to a new location or changing jobs as it brings out your best qualities so you can attract new friends, associates, and like-minded individuals.
Physical: Infertility (use to help with pregnancy but also think of it in terms of giving birth to a new idea, creative project, new focus). It can help with weight loss. Garnet can also accelerate wound healing and works as an anti-inflammatory.

Meditation with Garnet: Sitting quietly and focusing on the beauty of the stone, slow your breathing down by taking a breath in through your nose for four counts, hold for a count, then exhale through your nose for four counts. Repeat for approximately three to four full breath cycles. When your breathing has slowed down to a comfortable rhythm, close your eyes if they aren't already closed.
Next, visualize any goal or aspiration you hold in your heart right now. Take it on, own it, see yourself already having achieved it. How does it feel in your head? In your heart? Your stomach? Make the choice to see yourself in something new, something vibrant. See yourself fully able and open to attract all that you wish for. Know that often what we want isn't what we need and stay open also to this. 
Continue to meditate whenever you are in need of awareness, new purpose, stimulation of new ideas, energy, and well being.
Namaste!

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