Sapphire Benefits- Blue and Yellow Sapphire Effects

Sapphire stone is one of the most important gemstones used for crystal therapy that provides healing through energy tapped in the stones. However, it is important to fully assess the situation as well as other astrological facts in order to find the right crystal for particular condition. When it comes to sapphires, finding exactly the right colored stone becomes all the more crucial because sapphire acts too fast and too effectively. This means you can feel the good or bad effects of sapphire stone within 2-3 days, minutes or even seconds! Among all, blue and yellow sapphires known as Neelam and Pukhraj respectively have more benefits when compared to other sapphire stones of different colors.

Blue Sapphire Benefits

The most common and the most effective blue sapphire stone has a number of benefits. It brings the wearer wealth, fame, good name, health, happiness, prosperity, long life, mental peace, and trouble free family life. Blue sapphire protects against danger, terror, thieves, accidents and problems occurring due to storms, fire, or natural disasters. It can make one free of mental anxiety. It is related to the throat chakra and therefore it can encourage truth and also help in healing any disease concerning throat. This gemstone also has calming effect and so is beneficial for focusing during meditation. Blue sapphire associates and acts directly on the intellect and thus works on various mental maladies and neurosis. It helps the wearer in avoiding ill effects of enviousness and also protects from dangers in travel, heals illnesses related to nerves including asthma as well as fortifies heart.

Yellow Sapphire Benefits

Yellow sapphire, like its blue counterpart, is also associated with various astrological benefits. They bring good health, happiness, prosperity and fertility to the wearer. However, this yellow stone is only beneficial to the people having certain zodiac signs. For example, it brings luck for people with Aries sign. Those having Cancer as their astrological sign get knowledge, grace and ease of travel from yellow sapphire. While Scorpio get financial gains, Sagittarius is benefited with increased concentration and mental peace. People with Pisces sign get enhanced leadership, spiritual and academic abilities when they wear yellow sapphire.

To know the benefits of other sapphire stone, read Sapphire Stone

How to Identify True Ruby Gemstone?

Rubies are a real charm for anyone! However, to find a true ruby gemstone is also a real difficult task. There are so many types of ruby gemstones available in the market that when you are out to buy one, you get confused- which red color is the color of true ruby, why some rubies are clear and others not, why some of them do not sparkle and whether those which shine or those which don't shine are the true rubies? These are only some of the questions that disturb your mind while you try to buy a ruby gemstone- either for jewelry or for its many benefits. Here are some tips for you that can help in finding out the true ruby gemstone.

• The color of ruby- the outstanding red color- is the first sign of its purity. A ruby is red and nothing less than that- its not purple, not pink and not even a “sort of red color.”
• An untreated ruby is very difficult to find, if you get one you are lucky in that matter. However, all rubies, including natural ones, are given at least heat treatment for improving clarity and transparency. Though heat treated rubies are less costlier than untreated natural ones, they are not fake.
• Although heat treatment do not affect the quality of ruby but other treatments can such as glass filling or lead filling. Glass filling improves clarity of rubies and lead filling improves both clarity and color but then lead is injurious to health and glass is nothing compared to ruby.
• When buying ruby gemstone, you must also be cautious about not buying imitation rubies. Other than natural rubies, the gemstone dealer can even offer you synthetic or laboratory created rubies. Synthetic rubies, not as costlier as natural rubies, are still acceptable because their composition is similar to the natural ones but imitations are fake gemstones. To know the exact difference between synthetic and imitation rubies as well as other criteria to check while shopping for the gemstone, read Buying Guide for Ruby Gemstone

Identifying and buying rubies is tricky enough because evaluating ruby is a difficult task in intself. Therefore, the best way is to buy them from a trustworthy jeweler or gemstone dealer or at least get the one that comes with a certificate from a reputed gemstones laboratory. There are many certification agencies and thus you might not find it difficult to buy ruby with a certificate of its authenticity!

Know more about Ruby - its properties, history occurence, value, and benefits- read Ruby Gemstone

How to Know Emerald Value?

Emerald is perhaps the most popular and valuable colored gemstone- of course behind diamond (which is most often preferred to be colorless!) However, not all Emerald Stones are as valuable as you could think of them to be! So, how to know true value of emerald? The value of this gemstone is dependent upon a combination of attributes known as 4Cs- Cut , Carat , Color and Clarity. A perfect "emerald green", large in size, considerably clear and perfectly cut or faceted gemstone is the most valuable one! But how to recognize and know the value of emerald by examining all these properties? Read on to know this.

• Examine the color – it is the most important attribute of this precious stone. It should be a bright intense green which is not too dark and at the same time not too pale. Not only color, check the tone also. Tone is the depth of color- how dark or light a color appears. It can range from colorless to black. Emerald tone is referred to as "light," "medium-light," "medium," "medium-dark," and "deep green". Always select the medium dark green tone because a dark green tone would no let the stone get brilliance.
• Look at the size of the stone- more carats mean more weight and larger size and large size in turn means more value. As larger emeralds are found rarely, they are considered best quality stones- the one with 1-carat weight will cost more than twice a 1/2-carat stone. Sometimes, cut and mounting can make an emerald appear larger (or smaller) than its actual weight. So, always ensure about the right weight before you buy it. If you are lucky enough, you might get a clean one over 3 carats with good quality – it is best priced in the market.
• See the cut- it also affects the value of emerald. A poorly cut gemstone will not sparkle nor will it reflect light from the bottom facets. You will be able to see straight through it. In some of the poorly cut stones, the facets overlap and meet at lines instead of points. In an average cut, there is some sparkle but the facets are uneven. In a perfect cut, light reflects from its every facet. You cannot see through it, you can see only the sparkle!
• Examine clarity also though it is not as important in determining value as the color is because fissures, or inclusions are bound to be there in natural emeralds. However, a very poor clarity can lead to durability problems. So, you should be careful of inclusions that reach the surface of the stone. A gemstone with terrible clarity will have too many cracks, whispy white particles, etc. and you will not be able to see into it at all. Light too is not reflected in such poorly valued gemstones. Average clarity means a transparency good enough to catch some light on and off and also a little bit of sparkle. In a perfectly clear emerald, there will be no haziness or typically visible inclusions.

Many treatments are given to emeralds to make them more beautiful. Although these treatments are acceptable to a certain level- as these treatment do not diminish a gemstone's value- but they must be "permanent." However, some treatments like dyeing is not acceptable and they do diminish their value . You can even find created or synthetic emeralds made up of the same mineral with the difference that they are made in a laboratory rather than by nature. Created emeralds are about about 1/10 the price of natural ones with the same characteristics.