Aquamarine is March's Birthstone

By Sam Serio
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Aquamarine Jewelry

March Birthstone: Aquamarine
Birthstone Powers: Courage, keen awareness, and victory

Aquamarine is the traditional birthstone for March. It is also the accepted anniversary gemstone for the nineteenth year of marriage. Aquamarine is found mainly in Brazil, Nigeria and Zambia.

The Water Baby Gem

Created by combining Latin words for water (aqua) and sea (mare), aquamarine does indeed resemble the bottomless blue of seawater. Like Emerald, aquamarine is a variety of beryl (a mineral that crystallizes within large rocks on the earth's crust).

Aquamarine varies in color from blue-green to a light sky blue, and for generations, those stones containing green are often heat-treated to remove this less desirable color. Surprisingly, unlike other coveted gemstones, the majority of aquamarines are flawless. As a gift, aquamarine is unsurpassed in its legendary abilities to preserve and enhance mutual love, to ensure truth in relationships and to maintain a good marriage

When In Rome…

Ancient Romans believed the magnificent gemstone was sacred to Neptune, the god of the sea. Some legends say that it was a gift from mermaids, while others suggest that Neptune retrieved it after it fell from the jewel boxes of sirens and washed onto shore. Early sailors wore aquamarine talismans, engraved with the likeness of Neptune as protection against dangers at sea.

The association with water led to the belief that the Aquamarine was particularly powerful when immersed in water. Water, in which this gemstone had been submerged, was used in ancient times to heal a variety of illnesses of the heart, liver, stomach, mouth and throat. Aquamarine was also used to cure poisoning and to aid in fortune telling.

Healing

Many believe that aquamarine helps dependence on drugs, is an aid in digestion, and can be used as remedy for swollen glands and to maintain the health of the jaws and teeth.

On the non-physical plain, aquamarine is believed to release anger and negativity replacing them with mental peace and clarity, providing emotional and mental balance. It has been used as an aid in meditation and to assist in self-expression.

A Gift of Love

To dream of aquamarine symbolizes the forming of new friendships. To wear aquamarine brings love and affection. To give aquamarine is to offer the gift of knowledge, foresight and individual inspiration. It is a universal symbol of youth, fidelity, hope and health.

Ideal for carving into cameos and beads, the "blue sea" stone is said to aid seafarers. It is an auspicious gift for sailors, fishermen, and everyone who spends time at sea. Aquamarine represents safety and security, especially within long standing relationships.

Caveat Emptor (Buyer beware): The beautiful light blue to blue-green color of aquamarine may fade upon prolonged exposure to light, so it is especially important to purchase this gem from a reputable source.

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BENEFITS OF WEARING AN AQUAMARINE NECKLACE

By Michael Katz of Gemisphere Therapeutic Gemstones

Aquamarine opens your consciousness to the inner ocean of knowledge, wisdom, and creativity. Its energy illuminates the hidden causes of your physical and emotional conditions so that you may better master their lessons. Aquamarine's light blue color deeply relaxes your body and mind and helps you let go of your resistance to the truth within. As a source of spiritual nourishment, it imparts youthful energy and brightens your aura as it brings liquidity to all aspects of your being.

Aquamarine is able to heighten your awareness of the truth at every level of existence: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. It also opens your awareness to the ways in which the realities or truths on these levels seemingly conflict with one another.

Just having Aquamarine in your aura will begin to open your awareness on all levels. To understand how Aquamarine does this, you can compare yourself to a mansion with several floors and many rooms. The floors of the mansion are like your inner levels, and each floor contains many rooms. Aquamarine works to open more and more doors in the rooms of this mansion. When the doors to these rooms open, Aquamarine's energy turns on the lights within them. By shining its energy on all of your inner aspects, Aquamarine increases your awareness in more and more areas. As a result, you become aware of things hiding in the shadows and recesses of your emotions, memory, and mind. You also gain greater insight and a fuller comprehension of who you are and what your potential is.

Everyone reacts differently to Aquamarine because everyone accepts truth in different ways and to different degrees. Indeed, because it opens the awareness so powerfully, some people feel uncomfortable when they first wear Aquamarine; at first, the truth revealed may be too much for the mind to accept. If you're not quite ready to accept a certain truth about yourself, you may resist facing it, and, as a result, you may become uncomfortable or cranky. If this happens, you can regulate how much truth you see by adjusting how often you wear the Aquamarine.

After wearing Aquamarine for some time, you will begin to relax. This relaxation occurs partly because of the energy of Aquamarine's color. The deeper the blue color of the Aquamarine, the stronger this relaxing influence will be. Aquamarine's blue color helps you let go of your resistance. When you relax, you can accept the truth more easily because it can flow more easily into your conscious awareness. As you become more comfortable with increased inner awareness, this period of resistance, fidgeting, and crankiness will pass.

Aquamarine can ease any overwhelming physical or emotional pain, especially the pain of grief. This is, in part, a result of Aquamarine's brightening of the aura. Because you view the world through your aura, when it is made brighter, your outlook is brightened as well.

As your awareness grows and you gain a greater understanding of yourself, several things will start to happen. Opportunities on all levels of life will present themselves. You will start to understand life better, and this will allow you to work in greater harmony with your true self and with all of life. When you wear Aquamarine, it will show you only enough about yourself to spur your growth to the next level of awareness. When you awaken to the next level, it will show you more; and when you grow and reach yet a higher level, it will show you more again. Aquamarine will continue this cycle for as long as you wear it. The amount of truth it can reveal at each stage is limited only by the depth of its true color. Therefore, the deeper and brighter the Aquamarine's natural color, the more it can give.

Aquamarine is most beneficial to those who are on a path of awakening. It helps those who want to know more about themselves, their destiny, and their potential. It is especially helpful for those who have reached apparent plateaus in their spiritual unfoldment, for it can awaken them to new vistas and help them grow to ever-higher levels.

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