Introduction to Violet Sapphire

November 13, 2016

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The enduring and alluring Sapphire forms in more colors than just the legendary blue. Each
color exhibits its own unique metaphysical properties and vibrational patterns, yet all are
Stones of Wisdom. They honor the higher mind, bringing intuition, clarity, and self-mastery.
Worn throughout the ages for protection, good fortune, and spiritual insight, Sapphires are not
only symbols of power and strength but also of kindness and wise judgment.
Violet Sapphire brings the wisdom of spiritual awakening. Its noble energy helps diminish the
unnecessary worries of the world and opens the Crown Chakra, the source of our spirituality.
It allows us to recognize the bonds between all that exist on the Earth plane and All That Is.
It initiates a sense of peace and oneness and is an excellent aid to meditation. Violet Sapphire
may enhance visionary and psychic development and has been known to clear a path through

the chakras so the kundalini may rise unimpeded.

Sapphire is a variety of Corundum, an aluminum oxide mineral that forms in prismatic
tubular bipyramidal or rhombohedral crystals, as well as granular or massive habits, and may
be transparent to opaque. The name Corundum is of Indian origin, derived from the Sanskrit
korund and applied to opaque massive gems, generally of a dull color. With the exception of
Red Corundum, which is Ruby, all other colors of Corundum are Sapphires. The presence of
vanadium during the formation process provides Violet Sapphires color, which ranges in hue
from pale amethyst and lavender to shades of deep purple and violet.
Star Sapphires are created when Corundum is intergrown with fibrous inclusions of Rutile,
called silk, that reflects light in stones cut en cabochon as a six-rayed, sometimes twelverayed star that appears to glide across the face of the gem as it is moved. This effect is called
asterism and increases the rarity and value of the stone.
Star Sapphire has the same metaphysical properties as the color of Sapphire it appears in,
with an enhanced energy and intensification of those properties. The star itself represents the
manifestation of Divine knowledge and Light into denser reality and reminds us that the outer

manifestations we treasure are a reflection of the Light of our own essence. The three lines
that cross in the six-rayed star represent faith, hope, and destiny, sometimes associated with
three angels who offer protection to those who wear Star Sapphire. The moving star brings
ongoing safety to travelers and guides their way home.