Ruby

Color: Red Composition: O3Al2 +Cr Hardness: 9 Main Chakras: Root, Heart Energy: Sustaining, Encouraging, Helpful Personality: Honest, Friendly, Confident, Warm, Open Qualities: Balanced, Positive, Secure

Spiritual and Healing Properties of Ruby:

               An energizing and invigorating stone, ruby has a strong affinity to the blood and circulation, warming cold limbs, and bringing strength.  Used at the root chakra, rubies increase one's life force, and strengthens the aura.  Ruby promotes positive, and powerful feelings.  Gem quality ruby, with its color and trandlucency resembling drops of blood, has a strong link to the vital life force of the physical body.  In Ayurvedic medicine, ruby crystals are said to hold and amplifly the powers of the sun.  Star ruby strengthens the relationship of the individual being to the divine and increases the flow of vital life energy.  Ruby improves self confidence, while increasing vitality and courage.