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Continuing on with our top 500 most popular names theme, today we will cover the Wicca-lite but still exotic name Jade.
I've read that one baby name book listed the meaning of Jade as "priceless one." Whoever wrote that book is an idiot. Jade (pronounced JAYD), also sometimes spelled jaid or jadeite, is an Old French word derived from the Spanish term "piedra de ijada, "meaning "loin stone." This name comes from the belief that jades could help heal ailments of the loins or kidneys. In some countries, this gem is simply known by a more unimaginative name: "greenstone." As that name would suggest, jade is most well known for being green. However, they can also come in a creamy white, blue, lavender, and pink.
When I think of jade, the culture that pops into my head immediately is Ancient China. They have been mining jade since 6000 BC. The importance of jade in this culture is comparable to gold or diamonds in Western cultures. They were used to make both ceremonial and utilitarian objects. The Chinese thought this stone would give them inspiration and quickness of mind, as well as purity and serenity. There are also many references to jade being a symbol of love. It's an old Chinese tradition for a prospective bride to give her betrothed a gift of a jade butterfly in order to seal their engagement. Then, the prospective groom would give her a gift made from jade before the wedding. The stone was also highly esteemed by the Maori's of New Zealand. To this day, jade in New Zealand is protected under the Treaty of Waitangi, which means that it's exploitation is strictly monitored. Jade artifacts have also been found in Ancient Mayan cities.
Aside from curing ailments of the loins, this gem is believed to have other magickal abilities. Some people wear jade in the belief that it will help the body heal itself while working on underlining problems that cause disease in the first place. Many ancient cultures thought that jade helped heal eye ailments. Wearing jade while gardening supposedly improves the health of the plants.
Most Americans will associate this name with girls, but it's actually unisex. Jade appeared in the top 1,000 as a boy's name in the distant past. It peaked in the 1990s at #848. However, if you want to give it to a girl it's going to be Wicca-lite. It peaked in 2002 at #86, and now rests at #115. There are also many lady Jade's worldwide. In 2008 it ranked #6 in Quebec, #9 in France, #27 in Belgium, #44 in Australia, #78 in Ireland, and #242 in Scotland. Variations include Jada, Jayde, and Jaden.
Personally, I like Jade a lot. I would like it a little better if it wasn't so popular, but that's just my tastes acting up. Jade certainly has witchy appeal, but it is very integrated into "muggle" culture. Unless, of course, you give it to a boy.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jade
http://www.babynamewizard.com/namipedia/jade
http://www.wicca.com/celtic/stones/stonef-j.htm
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"LAST WEEK WHILE I WAS CLEANING UP THE DOWNSTAIRS, I CAME ACROSS A BOOK CALLED, "THEBOOK OF CHARMS" WRITTEN BY ELIZABETH VILLERS. I FOUND IT SO INTERESTING THAT I FELT THE NEED TO SHARE ONE OF THE MANY REALLY COOL STORIES IN THE CHAPTER REGARDING THE HISTORY OF GEMSTONES, IN PARTICULAR, THE MYTHOLOGY SURROUNDING THE BEAUTIFUL QUARTZ OF AMETHYST."
"GENERALLY SPEAKING, THE AMETHYST IS ATTRIBUTED TO BEING THE BIRTHSTONE OF THE ASTROLOGICAL SIGN OF PISCES, BUT A STONE WHICH BENEFITS ALL ~ HENCE GIVEN THE SURNAME OF "THE BENEFICIAL STONE" BY THE ANCIENTS. IT IS CONSIDERED FORTUNATE FOR BUSINESS PERSONS, SPORTS PERSONS, AND HUNTERS. IT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CALM FEARS, CURE MANY DISEASES (PARTICULARLY NEURALGIA AND ISSUES INVOLVING NERVE TROUBLES), AND IT IS A GREAT TALISMAN AGAINST DRUNKENNESS."
"ALTHOUGH IT IS UNKNOWN EXACTLY HOW OLD THE LATTER IDEA IS INVOLVING DRUNKENNESS, IT IS A FACT THAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS WORE AMETHYST FOR THAT PURPOSE AS DID THE GREEKS. ARISTOTLE TELLS OF A LEGEND ATTESTING TO ITS' POWER. ACCORDING TO HIM, THIS STONE WAS THE NAME OF A BEAUTIFUL NYMPH WHO WAS UNFORTUNATE ENOUGH TO ATTRACT THE ADMIRATION OF THE WINE GOD BACCHUS DURING ONE OF HIS DRUNKEN CELEBRATIONS. HE PURSUED HER AND, HORRIFIED AT THE THOUGHT OF HAVING SUCH A LOVER, SHE PRAYED TO THE GODDESS DIANA, WHOM WAS THE GODDESS OF CHASTITY, THAT SHE MIGHT BE SPARED FROM HER FATE."
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"DIANA HEARD HER PRAYER AND AS BACCHUS SEIZED HER, AMETHYST WAS CHANGED INTO A GLEAMING JEWEL IN HIS HAND. AS THE LEGEND GOES, HE APPARENTLY WAS SOBERED BY THIS SURPRISE AND, BEING SOMEWHAT ASHAMED OF HIS ACTIONS, ENDOWED THE JEWEL WITH THE RICH PURPLE TINT OF HIS FAVORITE WINE. IT WAS AT THIS TIME THAT HE ORDAINED THAT IN MEMORY OF HIS LOVE AND HER CHASTITY, AMETHYST SHOULD HAVE THE POWER TO WEAKEN HIS INFLUENCE OVER HIS WORSHIPPERS AND SPARE THEM FROM THE DEGRADATION TO WHICH HE WOULD DRAG THEM."
"EVEN THOUGH IT IS CALLED "THE BENEFICIAL STONE," THE AMETHYST IS ALSO KNOWN AS "THE STONE OF LOVE, THE STONE OF HEALING" AND "THE STONE OF PEACE." IT IS THE ONLY MASCOT WHICH IS FORTUNATE TO ALL AND HAS NO ILL EFFECTS ON ANYONE. IT IS ALSO WORN, MORE THAN ANY OTHER STONE, BY BISHOPS ON THEIR EPISCOPAL RINGS."
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"ALONG THE SAME LINES OF AMETHYST BEING THE STONE OF LOVERS, TRADITION ADDS THAT ST. VALENTINE WORE ONE CONSTANTLY. IT IS ALSO WORTH NOTING THAT ST. VALENTINE WAS A BISHOP OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH AND SO HE MOST PROBABLY HAD AN AMETHYST RING ON HIS FINGER. THEREFORE, AMETHYST IS ASSOCIATED WITH HIM AS WELL AS THE OLDER TRADITIONS CONCERNING IT. THIS STONE IS THE MOST FORTUNATE OF ALL GIFTS TO PASS BETWEEN SWEETHEARTS AND LOVERS. "
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Malachite crystal healing properties
ABOUT MALACHITE HEALING CRYSTALS
Malachite crystal has an incredibly rich green color, and is usually marked with gorgeous flowing lines and circles. The color connects the stone to the element of earth. The earth element is about balance, centering, stability; and caring for, as well as healing of the physical body. Due to this connection malachite is beneficial as a tool to promote healing in a variety of areas, as are many things within nature.
MALACHITE PROPERTIES
Malachite crystal has the ability to absorb negative energy and pollutants from within the body. For physical healing this stone is especially helpful for women, helping to ease cramps and regulate the menstrual cycle. In the past it has been referred to as the 'midwife stone'; and has been used to facilitate labor and ease pain during the delivery process.
Malachite's healing properties will aid you in combating the effects of osteoarthritis and spinal degeneration, as well as in the healing of bone fractures. Malachite can stimulate the liver, causing the body to more efficiently release toxins. This quality is good for healing work targeted at tumors, and even possibly with cancer.
DISCLAIMER: You should consult your health and/or mental health professional before using any alternative healing methods. This article does not suggest otherwise.
Malachite slab mineral specimen
MALACHITE AND EMOTIONS
Malachite is often used in emotional healing, especially with those who have suffered through mental/emotional abuse. It can prove to be a great asset within healing work targeting individuals who lived through emotional trauma as children. The mineral malachite can help a person to overcome any fear they may suffer from; and can help them to overcome problematic shyness. Malachite can help you to heal and move forth from most emotional issues.
The flowing patterns and rings on polished malachite's surface allow it to encourage change. It will bring the wearer to see and acknowledge all obstacles which are stunting them on a spiritual level. Malachite encourages emotional expression, and will encourage us to feel an appropriate degree of empathy. It will also aid those battling with depression and anxiety.
MALACHITE'S CONNECTION TO THE HEART CHAKRA
The mineral malachite's green color connects it to the heart chakra, which regulates a person's reaction to the outside world. When the heart chakra is balanced, we can embrace being our true selves, with a greater understanding of our personal needs and emotions. We can too be more open to accepting change as it comes into our lives.
Malachite also helps to clear other chakras, and is thought to be able to bring psychic visions when placed on the third eye chakra center. Because malachite possesses the ability to draw out negative energies, it enables positive energies to come in to replace them. For this reason it's best to cleanse your malachite crystal after each use.
If you are suffering from illness involving the bones, female sexual organs, or mental and emotional issues, malachite stone is a recommended tool for drawing out negative energies and toxins, which are the underlying cause to these conditions. Another useful quality which malachite has is to cleanse the body of uric acid; and for this reason is beneficial in healing gout.
MALACHITE TOXICITY
In its unpolished form malachite can be dangerous; this due to its copper sulphate content. For this reason the stone should only be used after it has been tumbled/polished. When using malachite always wash your hands afterwards.
It isn't recommended to use this stone for elixirs. That said, in making healing waters some use it in the regular way (immersion), based upon the assumption that a polished malachite stone has been safely stabilized. That's having an awful lot of faith in an assumption.
Some are likely going to make elixirs with malachite anyway; and if you do, be sure to wash hands thoroughly both before and after preparation. Restrict usage of finished product to external use. If you feel a dire need to make malachite elixirs, then perhaps try the non contact method as outlined here. Either way, contact or non contact method, this site doesn't recommend making elixirs with malachite jasper.
CLEANSING YOUR MALACHITE CRYSTALS
Do not cleanse malachite in salt water as it will damage the finish. A simple way to cleanse stale energies from a malachite crystal is to place it on a bed of selenite; smudging is another suitable option.
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"By Umar Ahmedo Lapis-Lazuli has a desire history to the clan all pronounce the world. At this moment, Lapis lazuli is premeditated as one of the imitation and metaphysical gemstone.o In the beginning, Lapis lazuli was hand-me-down by maximum of the Babylonians, Egyptians and Assyrians.o The Romans were hand-me-down to imaging the Lapis lazuli for "APHRODISIAC".o Lapis was in any case appraised by Pharaohs in Egypt as a spiritual and fairy-tale gem as well as abundant gemstone for formulating the sculptures, jewelry and carvings due to its affluent component to unravel a sheen and shiny.o Like all gems whose ambition is metaphysical and fortifying, range and cleansing are enormously fundamental. A forcibly powerful connotation with the lapis is scale, so unravel the time to behold and vicious circle each part previously you mix up your procurement.o Cleansing is fundamental to jelly the energies of the stone bright and filter. A lot of plea washing in saline water or with a control of upset hot and intense water but this has been predictable to scratch the sheen on Lapis, moment in time other methods are special.o The maximum effectual tackle of cleansing any gemstone is to run off it in daylight for up to an hour, moment in time the light of a chock-a-block moon is very presently as abundant, at the same time as fresh time is snooty and snooty anew stitching.o The immense short color of Lapis Lazuli resounds with the crest and esophagus chakras and it is significant as a stone of comradeship, forthrightness, legality and truth. In kindness to the esophagus chakra, Lapis can be unspoken in meditations and to difficulty up honesty and easy discussion. Lapis is attendant to planets Neptune, Venus and the astrological symbols significant as Sagittarius and Libra.o It promotes object and consciousness and is a brilliant friend to someone whose service involves demanding amounts of discussion for representation educators.o It has as well been abundant in triumphing snooty cheerlessness, restlessness and ills attached to eyes and ears.o It promotes energies and can be hand-me-down as a real or psychically adorable stone.o Lapis lazuli is hand-me-down in order to reinforce the forthrightness and think on the keen short color of the stone and endure in your guard your' esophagus chakra go kaput. If you are contemplating and try placing the granite righteous on the chakra situated at the meeting place of the neck and centering upon the color short. It makes an round off stone for jewelry that is to be placed pronounce the neck and an leader gift to inhabit that exert time, guard and real ills.o In nut flood, we can say that Lapis-Lazuli is the stone of moreover physical and psychic healing as it creates an dreary energy and power in the clan who are worry from lots of kinds of depressions such as party impress, fiscal panic about, cultural tensions/conflicts and psychic disorders elegant lassitude, annoyance, burden and impress, etc.The marker writes articles on Lapis Lazuli and Lapis Lazuli Carpet
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TANZANITE
Merry Go to see :))))) Tanzanite is a gorgeous gemstone that regularly comes in changeable shades of slump and purple. At a halt it can what's more be found with no color, yellowish-brown, and threatening. It can transfer colors depending on the search you are test it from. You spur sometimes conclude them called mauve flame crystals. It comes from Tanzania Africa and is a feeler of the zoisite relations of crystals. Tanzanite was formed participating in the occurrence of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Tanzanite was naked in 1967.
This stone has a very high hum and stimulates your tiara, third-eye and gullet chakra. This combination of resumption make it an cool substitute if you are short to get well your work with spirit communication. Tanzanite is what's more a stone that is wonderful for portion you query and find your true self. This stone is one of the stones that accelerates our coming of age. If you work with metaphysics and the spirit world this stone necessitate be on your list of prerequisite haves. It spur not fair make better you with communication and help you to stop true to yourself, but it helps to peak your awareness in studies that you expend to advance with the spiritual progress.
This is the firm stone to use afterward meditating. Reason with it usually to help your speak to with your guides, ascended masters and the angels. Because you work with this crystal, because of it's high hum it's good to disembark a long time ago working with it to remove any permit energy.
Tanzanite is a softer gemstone. For this resolution you scarcity to ring from using traditional blitzkrieg methods and use a cleansing maneuver as well. Cut the stone with white herb.
Commitment and Blessings,
Jasmeine Moonsong
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