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|  | |  Diamond Chakra: Crown, 7th.
Vedic Astrological Information:
Ruling Planet: Venus
Gemstones: Diamond, clear quartz, clear zircon.
Metal to be used: Silver.
Number: 6
Hand: Both
Affected Element: Water
Affected Chakra: 3rd, Vishuddhi
Day for Invocation: Friday
Time for Invocation: Sunrise
Mantra of Invocation: “Om shum shukraya namah�?Repeat 16 times.
Pronunciation: “Owm shoom shookra-ya nama-ha�?/FONT> Diamond is a stone that bonds relationships and enhances love. It brings longevity, particularly to relationships, balance, clarity and abundance. It can amplify one's thoughts, strengths, and weaknesses. It gives one who wears or carries it courage and hope. Historically, crushed diamond has been used as a cure for many ailments. Diamond is associated with the crown chakra Metaphysical properties of diamond
Diamonds are at the peak of perfection in the mineral world. They can be seen as the purest expression of earth energies. Diamonds are also connected with the non-physical planes, as evidenced by their unparalleled ability to refract light of all colors. Thus the diamond is a bridge or link between the physical and spiritual realms. Diamonds are able to amplify energies. In use, they are often combined with other stones and crystals to increase the effectiveness of the other stones. Diamond is a universal amplifier, and has the ability to amplify negative as well as positive energies. For this reason, it should never be worn or carried when you are under the effects of negative energy or feeling less than positive about yourself. For those in a positive state of mind, diamonds are an excellent choice. They can help you achieve balance between the mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional aspects of yourself. This balance, once achieved, will make your life seem effortless... a dance of joy. Diamonds can help open your crown chakra, allowing you to connect with the pure unfiltered love of the universe. In this use, it is a very energizing stone, and can lead you to accelerated spiritual growth. Its use will aid you in aligning with your true higher purpose. Physically, diamonds are said to energize and help heal the eyes, sexual organs, brain, heart, and to cleanse and remove energy blockages in all of the chakras. This webset page was assembled by Erin using one of the many auto-scripters available at Chat_Central_Gateway All rights reserved KENDOC 2005 | | | | | |  | | | | | | |
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| The Diamond
The diamond, the most precious gemstone, is formed in a temperature of 2,000 degrees Celsius. It is the highest and most exalted manifestation of white light, universal light, and is considered to be the “king of the minerals.�?It represents brightness, purity, and enlightenment. Its process of creation from coal, via many natural processes and tremendous heat and pressure, symbolizes the light at the end of the tunnel, the embodiment of the greatest beauty of the blackest depths, the essence of transformation, and the prodigious vicissitudes that cleanse the soul and purify it. The diamond is the hardest mineral in nature. It can not be cut except by the means of another diamond (as in the case of the diamond industry). The diamond crystallizes in an octahedral (eight-faced), dodecahedral (twelve faceted), and trapezohedral forms. It occurs in a variety of colors, including transparent, black, white, pink, yellow, red, blue, green, orange, and brown. The diamond has an extensive history. It was evidently one of the stones in the High Priest’s breastplate (though many people contest this opinion), identified with the tribes of Zebulon, and mentioned several times in the Bible. During the time of the Black Plague in Europe, during the Middle Ages, the aristocrats wore diamonds in order to protect themselves against infection. This proved to be a false hope, since the diamonds did not save them or protect them from contagion. At other times, it was the custom to grind diamonds and sprinkle the dust over the food of enemies as a poison. Again, there is no way of knowing if this worked.
Today, the diamond symbolizes love, innocence, and fidelity in love. It is one of the most common stones in engagement rings, wedding rings, and gifts of love. Many people do not know this, but those very diamonds that are set in rings and other items of jewelry to be given as gifts of love, are liable to carry non-positive energies. The people that excavate them are sometimes subjected to difficult and depressing conditions, and a lot of greed filled energy is liable to reach the diamond via the numerous hands through which it passes until it reaches the jewelry store. When you buy a diamond, or an item of jewelry with a diamond set in it, make sure to purify it. It is advisable to place the diamond in a glass bowl for about three hours (better still, a crystal bowl that can be placed in the sunlight afterwards). Before placing the diamond in the bowl, fill the bowl with about a liter of water, pour in a level teaspoon full of sea salt and a level teaspoon full of baking soda. Place the bowl in the sunlight. After about three hours, dry the diamond well (or the piece of jewelry in which the diamond is set). It will be purified and clean, and will have a greater glow and shine.
Many legends have been spun around the mystic power of the diamond to protect the wearer from danger, devils, ghosts, and nightmares. This is because of its shininess which is attributed to the powers of “good�?of the universe. Despite these legends, charoite, for example, provides far more effective protection against unwanted entities and nightmares, and other protective stones tend to be more powerful in the field of protection against dangers than the diamond. Nevertheless, this is one of the stones with the strongest powers of absorption. It absorbs everything, thoughts, emotions, and even body heat. For this reason, it must be cleansed and purified of negative energies frequently. Together with these absorptive properties, it also sucks up white, pure, healing light from the universe, which is an exalted property that is unique to it in its intensity.
Physical Healing Properties:
The diamond is used for balancing the metabolism in the body, as an antidote to poison, and for improving and purifying the vision. In an elixir, the diamond is used for treating illnesses and problems that are connected to the head, tumors, and epilepsy. In addition, it is used to treat sexual problems and sexual dysfunction in men. Because of its tremendous healing powers, the diamond constitutes an effective help in treating any kind of disease.
Effect on Emotional and Mental Layers:
The diamond stimulates self love and love of others. It strengthens and spreads a feeling of harmony and serenity. It encourages fidelity, purity and openness. In relationships, it inspires a feeling of trust and security. It stimulates the intellect, the imagination, creativity, and the innovative and inventive ability.
Effect on the Chakras:
The diamond balances and opens all the chakras, via the crown chakra. It is one of the most suitable stones for opening and activating the crown chakra by linking it to the powers of the universe and to divine power.
Spiritual Effect:
The diamond reinforces and expands the strength of other stones, and strengthens and stabilizes their energies. Some people claim that it does it by thrusting those energies out, thus protecting the electromagnetic field. In addition, the diamond promotes the link between the energies of the heart, the will, and the superego. Wearing diamonds as earrings helps create a balance between the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. The balance is not only on the mental levels, but also on the spiritual levels.
Profession, Occupation:
Various channelers and healers tend to wear a diamond in order to strengthen their healing and channeling powers, to safeguard their purity, and to link up to the divine healing power.
Resource: The Ultimate Full Color Guide, Crystals, by Connie Islin | | |
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The Diamond and it's Properties Physical properties of diamond:
Diamond is a pure form of carbon produced under intense heat and pressure, It is the hardest substance known. It can be found in clear, yellow, brown, and sometimes blue, reddish, black, or green. Diamond has a hardness of 10 on the Mohs' scale, and a specific gravity of 3.47 to 3.55. Metaphysical properties of diamond:
Diamonds are at the peak of perfection in the mineral world. They can be seen as the purest expression of earth energies. Diamonds are also connected with the non-physical planes, as evidenced by their unparalleled ability to refract light of all colors. Thus the diamond is a bridge or link between the physical and spiritual realms. Diamonds are able to amplify energies. In use, they are often combined with other stones and crystals to increase the effectiveness of the other stones.
Diamond is a universal amplifier, and has the ability to amplify negative as well as positive energies. For this reason, it should never be worn or carried when you are under the effects of negative energy or feeling less than positive about yourself. For those in a positive state of mind, diamonds are an excellent choice. They can help you achieve balance between the mental, physical, spiritual, and emotional aspects of yourself. This balance, once achieved, will make your life seem effortless... a dance of joy. Diamonds can help open your crown chakra, allowing you to connect with the pure unfiltered love of the universe. In this use, it is a very energizing stone, and can lead you to accelerated spiritual growth. Its use will aid you in aligning with your true higher purpose. Physically, diamonds are said to energize and help heal the eyes, sexual organs, brain, heart, and to cleanse and remove energy blockages in all of the chakras.
Diamond and synergy:
Diamonds are a universal stone, and are well suited to people born at any time of the year.
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DIAMOND
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Other Names:
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King of Crystals; Stone of Invulnerability; King Gem
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Chemical Composition:
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C (elemental carbon)
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Hardness:
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10 (the hardest substance known)
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Description:
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Diamonds actually come in many colors but the one's we're most familiar with are clear crystals with incredible sparkle and "fire" inside.
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Most people know that diamonds are the hardest substance found in nature but did you know diamonds are four times harder than corundum (sapphire and ruby), the next hardest stones? But even as hard as they are they do have one weakness, or should I say four? Diamonds have four direction of cleavage, meaning if one received a sharp blow in one of these directions it will split. It takes a skilled diamond cutter and setter to ensure that the stone is shaped and set in a position where one of these weak points will be protected during normal wear.
Diamonds are a form of elemental carbon, the foundation of all life on earth. Perfect crystals are extremely rare and most will have a slight flaw somewhere inside. These flaws are generally minute traces of non-crystallized carbon or internal stress fractures called 'inclusions', luckily most of these aren't apparent to the naked eye. Perfect clarity means that no inclusions are visible when the diamond is viewed under a 10X lens. The clarity grading scale includes FL for flawless; VS for very slight inclusions; SI for slight inclusions; and I for imperfect. SI diamonds usually appear perfect to the naked eye, only when viewed under a strong lens are the inclusions appparent.
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Diamond" comes from the Greek adamao, transliterated as "adamao," "I tame" or "I subdue." The adjective "adamas" was used to describe the hardest substance known, and eventually became synonymous with diamond. It is difficult to determine at what point in history the hardest known substance become diamond. "Adamas" may have previously referred to the next hardest mineral, corundum -- the gem variety is sapphire -- or to something else altogether. Tracing the history of diamond is complicated by this problem with names.
Knowledge of the diamond and the origin of its many conations (sic) start in India, where it was first mined. The word most generally used for diamond in Sanskrit is transliterated as vajra, "thunderbolt," and indrayudha, "Indra's weapon." Because Indra is the warrior god from Vedic scriptures, the foundation of Hinduism, the thunderbolt symbol indicates much about the Indian conception of the diamond. The flash of lightning is a suitable comparison for the light thrown off by a fine diamond octahedron and a diamond's indomitable hardness. Early descriptions of vajra date to the 4th century BCE that is supported by archaeological evidence. By that date diamond was a valued material. The presence of diamonds in Rome by about 100 CE is established by the writings of Pliny the Elder (23--79 CE), by sapphire engravings, and by talismanic diamond rings.
Curiously, early Chinese references to diamonds cite their coming from Rome in iron scribes. Chinese interest in diamonds was strictly as an engraving or carving tool, primarily for jade, or as a drill for beads and pearls.
Diamonds began appearing in European regalia and jewelry in the 13th and 14th centuries. Diamonds disappeared from Europe for nearly 1,000 years after the rise of Christianity. Roman talismanic and Eastern magical symbolism rendered diamond abhorrent to the rising new religion.
Despite its physical absence, the diamond survived conceptually, as the Middle Ages witnessed a rediscovery and reinterpretation of early writings on stones. Medieval treatises called lapidaries presented the qualities of different stones; their power; their efficacy as medicine, poison, or antidote; whether they could reproduce; and sundry other properties. Lapidaries were written until the Age of Enlightenment, in the 18th century.
Marbode, Bishop of Rennes (1061--1081), wrote "De gemmarum," on the spiritual and medicinal attributes of gems. In a book lacking in the expected Christian symbolism, Marbode describes the diamond: "This stone has aptitude for magical arts, indomitable virtues it provides the bearer, nocturnal spirits and bad dreams it repels, black poisons flee, disputes and screams are changed. Cures insanity, strikes hard against enemies. For these purposes the stone should be set in silver, armored in gold, and fastened to the left arm."
Diamonds were believed to render their owners courageous and fearless. Thus nobles like Cosimo the Elder, Florence (1389-1464), Henry II of France (1519 -- 59), and perhaps the Dukes of Burgundy used them as symbols in rings and even wore them into battle.
Above history and lore ©Gail’s Rock of the Week
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Specific Properties of colored diamonds:
Clear: bond relationships, encourage innocence, love, longevity, balance, clarity, profundity, abundance, courage, purity, hope and discernment. Helps one get to the essence of things.
Black: Helps to grant the courage to look within ourselves without illusions.
Blue: Helps to inspire us to take better care of our health and helps strengthen the will.
Pink: Fosters Creative Expression (great stone for an artist of any kind)
Yellow (also called Canary): Encorages thoughtfulness and consideration of others.
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Healing Properties:
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Diamonds are used to balance the metabolism, de-toxify the body, and strengthen ones eyesight.
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Magickal/Metaphysical Properties:
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Diamonds, being perfect forms of carbon, are the purest expression of earth's energy. Diamonds are also connected with the non-physical planes, as evidenced by their unparalleled ability to refract light of all colors. Thus the diamond is a bridge or link between the physical and spiritual realms.
Diamonds are great conductors of energy, both physically and spiritually. They are said to amplify whatever energy the wearer is experiencing. This means that anyone depressed should not wear this stone.
Because of diamonds unique powers of light reflection, this stone is incredible at cleansing all of the chakras, as well as all the layers of the aura. Diamonds are associated with the 7th, or crown, chakra. It allows us to connect with the pure love of the universe.
Diamonds are often used in a metaphor for our human process of becoming refined, cut and polished: to be a perfect manifestation of light in the physical world.
Because of its durability and purity, the diamond is often given as engagement, wedding, and anniversary gifts as a commitment to never-ending love. The diamond is also known as the stone of reconciliation
Above Magickal and Metaphysical information ©Gail’s Rock of the Week
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Deity/Elemental/Planetary Affinity:
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Fire/Sun
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Astrological Correspondence:
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Aries Birthstone; Alternate Birthstone for August, September and November; Stone for teh 30th and 60th anniversary; Diamond Jewelry for 10th anniversary; State Gem of Arkansas; Seasonal Gem for Winter; Universal Symbol of Love
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Where to Wear for best results:
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Finger or Temple; said to be particulary lucky to Aries people when worn on the left side of the body.
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