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bookofmirrors(The following is taken from Love is in the Earth by Melody.)
I resisted buying amber for a long time. I wasn't horribly fond of it to begin with, and it seemed like an obligatory item for a pagan to have, so I didn't. However, this ring spoke to me before I knew what it was. I had never heard of green amber before, so I didn't recognize it. Anyway, here's what the book says about it:
AMBER
(astrological signs of Leo and Aquarius)
Amber is a fossilized resin and is usually golden to yellow-brown in colour. Some amber has been found to contain red, blue, or green hues.
Amber allows the body to heal itself by absorbing and transmuting negative energy into positive energy. It emits a sunny and bright soothing energy which helps to calm nerves and to enliven the dispostion.
The different colours of amber may be used on the appropriate chakras to facilitate opening and cleansing.
It is a stone dedicated to the connection of the conscious self to universal perfection. It helps one in the art of manifestation to bring that which is desired to the state of reality. It stimulates the intellect and opens the crown chakra. It also transmutes the energy of physical vitality toward the activation of unconditional love.
Amber provides an energy to kindle the realization and subsequent response of choice, helping one to choose and to be chosen.
It has been used as a symbol for renewal of marriage vows and to assure promises. It has been said to bring good luck to warriors.
It is a sacred stone to both the Native American and Eastern Indians. It has also been used in the fire ceremonies of ancient tribal healers. It was burned, beginning in the medieval days, as a fumigant and as an incense to clear the environment of negativity.
Is is said to have been one of the stones used in the breastplate of the high priest.
It aligns the ethereal energies to the physical, mental, and emotional bodies, providing for an even flow of perfect order to the requirements of the Earth plane while balancing the electro-magnetics of the physical body.
It cleanses the environment in which it rests and is an excellent mineral for use in purifing birthing and re-birthing rooms. It also acts to purify ones body, mind, and spirit when worn, carried, or used as an elixir.
It has been used in the treatment of goiter and other dis-eases of the throat. It has also been successful in the treatment of disorders of the kidneys and bladder. In ancient times it was used as a penicillin-type remedy, ground and ingested or soaked [as in an elixir] and subsequently drunk.
Vibrates to the number 3.
Green is the heart chakra, Anahata, which is connected to air (Libra is an air sign), and deals with love and relationships. An excessive heart chakra results in co-dependent caretaking and clinging behaviors. It's connected to Venus (Libra's ruling planet, as well as Taurus's), and deals with equilibrium (also a Libra thing). It's connected with emerald (Taurus's stone, May's birthstone, and the stone in my wedding ring) and rose quartz (a love stone, and I *think* one associated with Libra back in the day, before jewelry companies thought they could make more money if a different stone was used - not sure about this, though... I think opal is a long-standing October birthstone...) (This is from the book The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Chakras by Anodea Judith & Selene Vega.)
Anyway... Yeah... That pretty much sums it up.
I resisted buying amber for a long time. I wasn't horribly fond of it to begin with, and it seemed like an obligatory item for a pagan to have, so I didn't. However, this ring spoke to me before I knew what it was. I had never heard of green amber before, so I didn't recognize it. Anyway, here's what the book says about it:
AMBER
(astrological signs of Leo and Aquarius)
Amber is a fossilized resin and is usually golden to yellow-brown in colour. Some amber has been found to contain red, blue, or green hues.
Amber allows the body to heal itself by absorbing and transmuting negative energy into positive energy. It emits a sunny and bright soothing energy which helps to calm nerves and to enliven the dispostion.
The different colours of amber may be used on the appropriate chakras to facilitate opening and cleansing.
It is a stone dedicated to the connection of the conscious self to universal perfection. It helps one in the art of manifestation to bring that which is desired to the state of reality. It stimulates the intellect and opens the crown chakra. It also transmutes the energy of physical vitality toward the activation of unconditional love.
Amber provides an energy to kindle the realization and subsequent response of choice, helping one to choose and to be chosen.
It has been used as a symbol for renewal of marriage vows and to assure promises. It has been said to bring good luck to warriors.
It is a sacred stone to both the Native American and Eastern Indians. It has also been used in the fire ceremonies of ancient tribal healers. It was burned, beginning in the medieval days, as a fumigant and as an incense to clear the environment of negativity.
Is is said to have been one of the stones used in the breastplate of the high priest.
It aligns the ethereal energies to the physical, mental, and emotional bodies, providing for an even flow of perfect order to the requirements of the Earth plane while balancing the electro-magnetics of the physical body.
It cleanses the environment in which it rests and is an excellent mineral for use in purifing birthing and re-birthing rooms. It also acts to purify ones body, mind, and spirit when worn, carried, or used as an elixir.
It has been used in the treatment of goiter and other dis-eases of the throat. It has also been successful in the treatment of disorders of the kidneys and bladder. In ancient times it was used as a penicillin-type remedy, ground and ingested or soaked [as in an elixir] and subsequently drunk.
Vibrates to the number 3.
Green is the heart chakra, Anahata, which is connected to air (Libra is an air sign), and deals with love and relationships. An excessive heart chakra results in co-dependent caretaking and clinging behaviors. It's connected to Venus (Libra's ruling planet, as well as Taurus's), and deals with equilibrium (also a Libra thing). It's connected with emerald (Taurus's stone, May's birthstone, and the stone in my wedding ring) and rose quartz (a love stone, and I *think* one associated with Libra back in the day, before jewelry companies thought they could make more money if a different stone was used - not sure about this, though... I think opal is a long-standing October birthstone...) (This is from the book The Sevenfold Journey: Reclaiming Mind, Body & Spirit Through the Chakras by Anodea Judith & Selene Vega.)
Anyway... Yeah... That pretty much sums it up.
