The Meaning Of Jasper
Jasper is a variety of Chalcedony. It is usually brown in color but can also be found in shades of grey, blue, white, purple, pink, red, orange, and yellow.
The name Jasper means spotted or speckled stone and is derived from the Latin ‘iaspidem’, or the Old French ‘jaspre’.
The speckles are caused by the inclusion of mineral, ash, or sediment within the structure of the crystal.
Jasper is found all over the world but most specimens come from India or Australia.
When we speak of the “meaning” of a stone, we usually refer to the esoteric qualities that the stone embodies.
These qualities are usually recognized as being part of the crystal’s effects on the human mind and/or body and have come into being after thousands of years’ worth of observation by people in all sorts of different situations or cultures.
One of the most common interpretations of the spiritual meaning of Jasper is that it carries an energy, or vibration of peace, calm, and tranquility.
It confers patience and understanding on all who connect with it.
Jasper is also widely held to be a very nurturing stone, bringing comfort and reassurance to the wearer or bearer as well as feelings of optimism and freedom from fear.
The Properties Of Jasper
Physical Properties
- Chemical composition: Si02
- Class: tectosilate
- Crystal system: Hexagonal-R
- Found in: massive microgranular quartz
Mohs hardness of Jasper: 6.5-7
Metaphysical Properties
The frequency of Jasper is very steady and calming. It is almost like having the reassuring presence of a good friend at your side if you carry Jasper with you.
It can be very beneficial during times of stress and also brings confidence. Jasper allows us to face and deal with irrational fears and allows us to access inner peace, happiness, and a sense of completeness.
Jasper is often associated with the season of autumn, with grounding and being connected to the energies of the earth.
Many people who love Jasper say that it anchors them in the present moment and helps with any tendencies towards over-thinking and worrying about the future.
The energy of Jasper is slow, relaxed, and very grounded, bringing comfort and a sense that all is right with your world.
Jasper encourages gratitude, something that is widely held to be extremely beneficial to our mental health.
Many of us struggle with the concept of gratitude when we are feeling overwhelmed or badly treated. Jasper can help us to find the little things we need to be grateful for.
Jasper is a good stone to have near you if you feel that things are becoming overwhelming, or that you are close to burning out.
Jasper is a balancing stone and can help you to put down any burdens you may be shouldering that are not yours to carry. It helps clear the mind and is a powerful protector against negative feelings, moods, and vibrations.
Varieties Of Jasper
There are many different kinds of Jasper, too numerous to mention in detail here.
However, some of the more commonly occurring varieties include Agate Jasper, Basanite, Biggs Jasper, Brecciated Jasper, Leopard Jasper, and Ribbon Jasper.
The differences between the kinds of stone largely refer to the crystal’s appearance and do not impact on the metaphysical properties of the stones.
Using Jasper
How To Best Use Jasper
Jasper is versatile and can be used in many ways.
One of the best ways to ensure that you can access its powers and take advantage of its healing, nurturing qualities is to choose jewelry crafted from one of the many colors.
You will find that you are more drawn towards one variety than the others, and this will most likely reflect your needs for healing and support at the time.
For example, you may need to feel more grounded if you are going through a stressful time, and find that you are drawn to the red and grey/black specimens.
If you do not wish to wear jewelry you can place tumbled stones in a pot on your desk, use larger, unpolished stones as paperweights or simply carry a smaller piece of Jasper with you in your pocket.
Benefits Of Using Jasper
Jasper can bring many benefits to all areas of your life. Like I said earlier, think of it as good friend, always by your side bringing you the support, love and nurturing that you need.
The efficacy of Jasper can depend on how attuned to the stone you are, so it is worth taking the time to infuse your chosen stone with your own thoughts, hopes and dreams.
It will absorb your fears and worries if you are willing to let these go and trust that you do not need them.
Jasper For Grounding
A good grounding technique is to hold your Jasper in one hand and press your fingers against it as you turn it over in your palm, really taking in the surface and contours of the stone – letting those sensations connect you unshakingly to the here and now.
It’s a good way to revisit ideas that you may have approached with a scattered sense of identity or questioning in the past, as well as a means by which to really let the best energies of this stone come to your assistance when you really need it.
The Healing Powers Of Jasper
Emotional Healing Powers
A large part of the lore and traditional meaning of Jasper revolves around its ability to connect and work with mind and body in tandem.
Jasper helps us to understand how our thoughts and feelings may be affecting us in a physical way.
If you are prone to daydreaming and fantasizing Jasper can help you to be more present in the here and now, and to keep your feet firmly on the ground. Whilst it is good to dream, Jasper enables you to avoid getting lost in fantasies of how you want your life to be and start creating the reality.
Jasper is an excellent choice for anyone who wishes to access spiritual messages from guides, angels and other powers.
It helps to illuminate the spiritual truth of situations that you may be struggling to make sense of, and also brings a feeling of emotional peace, tranquility and calm.
Jasper is a stone of beauty, both inside and out. It helps you to appreciate your own inner beauty and to appreciate the beauty that lives within others.
Physical Healing Powers
Jasper is credited with a wide variety of qualities that can help to alleviate the symptoms of many physical conditions.
It is believed to be very restorative for the tissues for the internal organs, especially the liver, kidneys, spleen, and bladder.
Jasper is also held to be helpful in supporting our body’s ability to absorb minerals such as iron and manganese.
It can aid in the elimination of stomach and abdominal pains, ease the symptoms of gout and liven up a sluggish digestion.
Jasper And Wealth
Because Jasper carries the energies of determination and motivation it can help with your financial situation if you call upon its abilities to boost your stamina in order to get things done.
Jasper helps you to stay focused so that you do not waste time or energy on irrelevant details and not matter what the distractions are in your life Jasper can help you to reach your financial goals.
Jasper has long been associated with prosperity and abundance and is believed by many to be the best talisman for attracting more wealth into your life.
If you need to think quickly, or to act decisively in order to increase your wealth Jasper will help you to weigh up alternatives courses of action, enhance your mental clarity around financial situations and help you to come up with the best decision.
Jasper is an excellent stone for promoting creative and imaginative thinking. Because it carries the vibration needed for focus Jasper can be of great benefit in enabling you to turn your creative ideas into concrete reality.
Jasper For Love And Relationships
Call upon the powers of Jasper when you want to attract a relationship that is filled with love, support and happiness.
There is no such thing as a perfect relationship, but that does not mean that we give up and stop trying to either find or keep a love relationship that brings these benefits to all concerned.
Jasper is a stone of perseverance and can help to support your energies as you negotiate your way around relationships with others.
When we are feeling stressed or anxious we sometimes take out our bad feelings on those around us, and the closer the individual is to you the more likely you are to lash out! Jasper can help to bring your stress under control and enable you to replace your agitation with compassion and understanding.
When it comes to an intimate sexual relationship Jasper can be an excellent source of support for both partners.
If you are feeling a loss of libido, or simply feel too tired to engage in intimacy, jasper can help you to let go of the worries that are bringing your energy down and to remain fully in the present moment. This helps you to connect with your significant other on both a physical and an emotional level.
Jasper helps to assuage feelings of restlessness and dissatisfaction, replacing them with the vibrations of stability, security and contentment.
The frequencies emanated by this stone are often described as warmth, safety and comfort.
When you feel as if things are just not going right for you, or that you have made a mess of your love life simply take a moment to focus on your Jasper talisman and realize that you are human, that nothing is so broken that it cannot be mended if you want it to be, and that many areas of your life are just fine!
Sometimes in relationships, our old karmic patterns and defense mechanisms sabotage us in ways we don’t always expect.
This can be daunting at the best of times, and in love can prove extremely damaging despite our best efforts.
It takes a lot of courage to face up to the parts of ourselves that, in earnest, we would much rather ignore.
Yet the relaxing energies of Jasper promote forgiveness not just for your relationship, but also towards yourself.
Because of this, you will somehow begin finding the words to say to express your true emotions, expressed without any blame game mentality or any lack of empathy.
You may even find your partner, or partner to be, is similarly expressive in his own way, even if not usually one for vocalizing such thoughts. Jasper can really help love along!
Jasper Stone will encourage honesty, trust, and faithfulness in your relationship. It will not feel forced, and it will be just what your relationship needs.
The energies of this stone will give you the courage to face your challenges and tackle your problems.
Jasper will give you a sense of completion.
All the endings or closures that you wish to have will be given to you, and you will not feel like you’ve been left hanging.
This stone will bring peace to your life even if you have to end a romance or a relationship. It will give you the courage to accept your reality without feeling like it’s the end of the world.
The Chakras And Jasper
As we have seen, Jasper comes in a large variety of shades and colors. It is one of the most useful chakra stones because it is able to balance, activate and cleanse each of the chakras, in turn, allowing energy to flow freely from the base of the spine up to the crown.
Jasper is very grounding, so it is a good choice for working with the Base chakra and Kundalini energy.
Start with this chakra during a chakra meditation by pacing a piece of Red Jasper either on the small of your back or your pubic bone.
Visualize the energies of the stone entering the Base chakra and clearing out debris and stagnant energy, allowing the disc to spin freely. Drawing in clean energy and releasing the emotions and vibrations that you do not want.
Pull the energy from the Base chakra up into your Sacral chakra and repeat the process, moving the crystal as you go.
You may wish to work with different colored stones as you work up the chakras, but it is fine to use the same piece.
This process will energize and revitalize all of your chakras, leaving you feeling calmer and more in control of both your own emotions and the situation or environment around you.
Best Crystals To Combine And Use With Jasper
Jasper works well with many other crystals, especially with fellow nurturing stones such as Aventurine and Rose Quartz. It also combines very well with the “grounding” stones such as Black Tourmaline.
Chakra Crystal Combinations
Combining Red Jasper with Green Aventurine will help if you are currently dealing with communication issues. Place these near to the Throat chakra if you need to find the courage to speak your own truth.
Pairing Jasper with amethyst when balancing the Base and Sacral chakras is a very effective way of boosting both physical and spiritual energy levels. These crystal together can provide a very effective shield against the harmful energetic effects of electromagnetic frequencies.
Red Jasper works particularly well with Smoky Quartz if you want to stay grounded and in the present moment. The protective nature of Smoky Quartz keeps you safe and secure when you are facing difficult situations. Use this combination to balance and activate the lower chakras of the Base, Sacral, and Solar Plexus chakras.
To enhance your creativity and stimulate imagination combine Jasper with Citrine and place it on your Solar Plexus as you focus on any creative projects that you are feeling stuck with. Citrine brings the added bonus of calming a nervous digestive system and alleviating anxiety.
Other Crystal Combinations
Any of the Jaspers work well in a healing grid when paired with points of Clear Quartz. Place pieces of Jasper around the grid in your desired pattern and alternate them with pointed specimens of Clear Quartz. If you want to bring in grounding energies have the pints angled towards the center of the grid. If you wish to banish negativity reverse the points to face outwards.
Jasper is a relaxed and relaxing stone and is quite happy in a whole host of crystal combinations.
Have fun combining it with stones of your choice to see if you can feel the difference in the energies produced.
Trust your intuition to guide you when it comes to choosing crystals and combinations.
You may feel a certain “knowing” that one stone is especially right for your purposes right now, or you may feel your hand being tugged towards or pulled away from a certain pattern or mandala.
Of course, certain relationships and harmonious ways of synergy can make Jasper more suitably aligned with one kind of stone than another, depending on what you are trying to accomplish or realize.
If you wish to attract more luck or money, you can pair your Jasper Stone with Goldstone, Agate, Hematite, Aventurine, Garnet, Carnelian, Sodalite, or Citrine.
When you want to feel more safe and secure, whether at home, at work, or while traveling, you can partner your Jasper Stone with an Agate, Aventurine, Iolite, Turquoise, Onyx, Carnelian, Fluorite, Malachite, Garnet, or Tiger’s Eye.
Cleansing And Charging Jasper
Jasper is a robust stone that can be safely cleansed using a mild detergent and warm water.
Because Jasper is so absorbent of negative vibrations you may need to cleanse it this way fairly frequently.
Charge your crystals by holding them in meditation or creating a mandala with other crystals and use this daily to reaffirm any intentions or goals you wish to achieve.
Jasper As A Birthstone
As a versatile stone, it is no surprise that Jasper is associated with more than one sun sign.
Cancer benefits from the nurturing qualities of Jasper and helps you to open up if you are a shy Cancer zodiac.
Virgo people sometimes have difficulty opening their hearts to others and Jasper can help you to trust and become more generous with your emotions.
For Scorpio the benefits of Jasper lie in its vibration of joy and lightheartedness. Scorpios can sometimes be very serious and solemn and jasper can help you see the lighter side of life.
Jasper In Legends And History
Jasper has a very long history and references to its value can be found in many ancient texts.
Between the 4th and 5th millennia jasper was used to make bow drills and archeological digs at the ancient site of Knossos in Crete prove that it was also used to produce seals as far back as 1800 BC.
The metaphysical properties of Jasper as a stone of protection can be seen in the study of protection rituals amongst the peoples of Ancient Britain and Eastern Europe.
It was also revered as a stone for warriors to protect them from physical harm. Poppy Jasper is said to bring joy into your life and there are references to its power to bring forth rain in texts describing the ancient rituals of Native Americans and the indigenous peoples of South America and the Far East.
Folklore states that Jasper can drive away evil spirits and provide protection against snake and spider bites.
Jasper Tumbled Stones
Jasper tumbled stones are very beautiful. They hold the energy of balance and unite the energies of the masculine and feminine, which are also known as the Yin and Yang.
They balance the chakras, as well as the physical, intellectual, emotional, and etheric bodies.
This is partly why this stone makes such a great crystal to keep around if you find your head is in the clouds too much, or your worries tend to run away with themselves.
Having Jasper tumbled stones in your environment will help you see or realize ways that you can resolve your difficult problems.
Worn as a protective amulet, they can ward off negativity and transmute dense energies into higher frequencies.
Jasper tumbled stones also provide you with protection when you’re performing spiritual work and physical travel.
They align the chakras and can be very beneficial in chakra layouts. They stimulate the solar plexus and create a channel for positive energy as well.
Final Thoughts On The Power Of Jasper
Jasper is a protective, warm, and nourishing stone. It will fill you with strengthening energies for your physical and emotional body.
It will help ease your stresses and produce a calming stability and security for yourself and the people around you.
This stone will create a pleasant sensation all throughout your body that will invite feelings of love, understanding, generosity, and compassion.
It’s a stone of courage that will impart tenacity and determination in all your pursuits. It will keep encouraging you to be honest with yourself and to face your problem head on.
The Jasper Stone will help you recognize your insecurities and show you how you can overcome them. More importantly, it will help you get rid of your fears, worries, and anxieties. The energies of this stone will guide you to work and live harmoniously with others.
Caroline Lucas
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