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September is one of the 12 months with the best collection of beautiful and valuable birthstones. Out of all the gemstones, you will find one that reflects your personality, one you feel connected to, one you like the most or a combination of all these. Below is a collection of September birthstones you can get for decoration or any attached metaphysical healing properties.
Sapphire
The beautiful blue stone Sapphire is the modern September birthstone in Britain and the USA, the fifth and 45th wedding anniversary stone, and the Zodiac gem for Taurus.
Sapphire Meaning
Sapphire was traditionally valued as a sacred stone. Its deep blue sparkling color has always been valued since ancient times. They are almost as valuable as diamonds but have a wide popularity base due to their refreshing colors. Traditionally, it symbolized truth, nobility, and faithfulness.
Its name comes from the Greek word sappheiros, which might have referred to lapis lazuli, a deep blue, metamorphic rock utilized as a semi-precious stone.
Sapphire History
For centuries, sapphire was embedded in royal and clergy robes. The Roman and Greek elites believed that blue sapphires protected them from danger and envy. Moreover, the Middle Ages clerics wore sapphires since they signified and symbolized Heaven.
Medieval Europeans believed that the gemstone cured eye diseases and plague boils. Ancient healers used sapphire as an antidote to poison. One of the major sapphire gems is the Rockefeller Sapphire, a 62-carat rectangular step-cut discovered in Burma. John D. Rockefeller acquired the stone in 1934 from an Indian maharaja, and the stone was recut and remounted over time.
Sapphire Symbolism
There has long been a connection between celestial blue sapphires and the planet Venus. Among some beliefs, sapphires represent Friday, the day dedicated to Venus.
In the zodiac system, sapphire covers both Gemini and Taurus. Spring also falls under the stone’s symbolic rubric. Necromancers used sapphires for their supposed ability to influence spirits.
The stone also purportedly taps into the “the third eye” power and makes clear oracular announcements that are hard to decipher.
Sapphire Colors and Varieties
Blue Sapphire
Blue is the most common sapphire color in all sapphire gemstones. Most engagement rings and jewelry with sapphire are usually blue-colored.
Pink Sapphire
Pink sapphires have achieved growing popularity for years and are becoming the latest trend for engagement rings. It is also a favorite among females since pink is mainly associated with femininity. It is absolutely rare and valuable.
Yellow Sapphire
It is also a popular gemstone color that has gained recognition since the early 2000s. Yellow sapphires are a desirable and durable choice for jewelry.
Padparadscha Sapphire
It is one of the rarest sapphire colors common among some of the very famous, wealthy women. It makes an incredible engagement ring.
Star Sapphire
It is an incredibly stunning gemstone that achieves its distinct rare look from the process known as asterism. Star sapphires possess an elusive and earthy feel that guarantees you a uniquely-looking gem for decorative purposes. This gem displays rays or beams across the surface of a cabochon-cut sapphire.
White Sapphire
It has gained popularity over the ten years and is increasingly gaining popularity. White or clear sapphires have zero impurities and are almost entirely colorless.
Cabochon Sapphire
Cabochon crystals depict a raw beauty and timeless elegance in any hue, using the oldest way of crystal cutting. They have a classic and timeless feel in any jewelry piece.
Crystal Sapphire
They appear exactly as they are from the ground. Sapphire crystals maintain their natural beauty and elements of earthy minerals. They also have unique healing and soothing powers.
Sapphire Healing Properties
Blue sapphire helps to heal all body parts and cure insomnia. Using sapphire water externally or as an elixir is considered an excellent purifier and ought to be used during seasonal changes.
Blue sapphire has always been used to cure eye infections and improve eyesight. It also relieves fever, nosebleeds, and headaches. It helps with ear challenges, such as vertigo, hearing, infections, and inner-ear imbalances.
Blue sapphire also benefits your thyroids, swollen glands and treats problems related to communication and speech. Blue sapphire helps the nervous system while treating dementia, degenerative diseases, and blood disorders.
Emotionally?
Sapphires free you from psychic suffering and inner prisons that cause you to regularly shut down emotionally. It helps to treat psychosis or neuroses.
It eliminates depression and improves your moods. Sapphires bring your mind calm and focus and help your body to restore balance.
It keeps you steadfast to your opinions only and not of others. You will then understand yourself and become more secure in your knowledge and opinions.
Star sapphires are common for their healing powers, especially those with an inferiority complex, afraid of speaking out, diminished, or underestimated.
Sapphire and Chakra
Chakras are the body’s energy centers and are sometimes referred to as Qi. The body has seven Chakras throughout, and each influences a certain mental, physical, or emotional state. A different color represents each Chakra.
The sapphire strong blue rays are perfect for awakening and using the Throat Chakra and the Third Eye Chakras. These Chakras work in unison and have the capacity of inner vision. They also have the ability and focus on communicating your vision to others in an effective way.
The Throat Chakra is the voice of the body. An imbalanced Throat Chakra affects the health of other Chakras. When open, it allows you to express what you think and feel. You can communicate your ideas, emotions, and beliefs while bringing your truth to the universe. Lighter shades carry the power of balance, relaxation, and flexibility, while darker shades of blue sapphire encourage the power of truth.
Dark blue or indigo sapphires stimulate the Third Eye, commonly known as the Brow Chakra. The Third Eye is the center of your perception and command and directs your state of awareness and insights daily.
Sapphire Prices
One of the most expensive sapphire gems ever sold weighed 392 carats and was valued at $17 million. Sapphires tend to compete in value with other rival gems such as rubies, emeralds, and diamonds.
The Kashmir Blue Sapphires are currently the most valuable sapphire varieties, and their prices keep going up. The stone can fetch anything between $5000 to $50,000 per carat. Their mines are located in a war zone contested by Pakistan and India. The mines are also being exhausted, which then increases their prices even higher.
Second to these blue sapphire is the Padparadscha sapphire, which can go as high as $12000 per carat. Sapphire prices differ depending on certain factors that include color, clarity, cut, and carat.
When checking for color, you have to assess three vital factors: hue, tone, and saturation. Hue is the gem’s actual color. The tone is how light or dark it appears, and saturation is the color intensity or vividness. Blue is the most valuable sapphire. The ideal valuable blue sapphire should have a deep cornflower blue to a mildly violet-blue with no green undertone. Its tone should be medium to dark and not so dark as to affect the blue’s brightness. Lastly, its saturation should be extremely vivid and even throughout.
Clarity refers to the inclusions or flaws present in the stone. The clearer the sapphire stone, the more valuable it is.
Sapphire Care and Cleaning
Sapphire is relatively hard and weighs a 9 on the Mohs Scale. Its superb toughness and no cleavage make it an ideal choice for rings and objects subject to daily wear.
Sapphires are often treated to preserve and improve their clarity and color. Heat treatment is acceptable, and it produces long-lasting results.
Exercise special care when opting for other treatment options such as dyeing, fracture filling, and lattice diffusion. Unfortunately, dyed or fracture-filled sapphires can get damaged even by mildly acidic substances like lemon juice.
Ensure you know if your stone has been treated and the method used before purchasing a sapphire gemstone. Always keep your sapphire in a cool place away from heat or direct sunlight.
Avoid wearing your sapphire while doing manual jobs like gardening. A safe option to clean your September birthstone is using warm soapy water.
Ultrasonic and steam cleaners are ideal only for heat-treated, lattice diffusion-treated, and untreated stones.
Dyed or fracture-filled sapphires should be cleaned only using a damp cloth.
Lapis Lazuli
Lapis Lazuli is the modern September birthstone in the UK.
Mining of this gemstone occurred as early as 7000 BC in the Badakhshan Province of N.Eastern Afghanistan. It was used to make beads, small jewelry items, and sculptures. The gems have been discovered at Neolithic archaeological sites dating back to almost 3000 BC in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.
Ancient Egyptians used the gem in many ornamental objects and jewelry. It was also used as a cosmetic and a pigment. Lapis Lazuli began appearing in Europe during the Middle Ages and arrived in the form of finely ground pigment and jewelry.
It is one of the most sought-after stones since the history of gemstones.
Lapis Lazuli Properties
It is a rock and not a mineral. The stone is produced from an aggregation of various materials, lazurite being the most important. Lazurite is responsible for the stone’s deep blue color. It forms the bulk of a Lapis Lazuli rock. Other materials include Pyrite (fool’s gold), which makes the yellow speckles on the rock. The white intrusions are calcite.
Lapis Lazuli Uses
Lapis Lazuli is a popular material for cutting into beads and cabochons. It is also used in mosaic or inlay projects and sometimes as a material for small sculptures.
Lapis Lazuli Healing Properties
It is beneficial to the larynx, throat, and vocal cords.
It enhances circulation and improves cardiac rhythm. Lapis lazuli lowers blood pressure and reduces vertigo, among others.
It is a crystal of truth in all aspects. The stone encourages compassion, honesty, and uprightness when dealing with other people.
Lapis Lazuli Care
The stone has some durability issues that cap its suitability for some uses. It weighs 5 on the Mohs Scale, making it soft for rings, bracelets, or cufflinks. Avoid heat treatment to prevent damage and do not use them while performing hard tasks.
Peridot
Peridot is a traditional September birthstone in the USA.
It is a gem-quality variety of mineral olivine. The stone is an idiochromatic gem, meaning its color originates from the mineral’s basic chemical composition and not impurities.
Ancient Egyptians believed that this gem contained several properties that provided benefits such as relief from anxiety, good health, and wealth abundance. The stone was also considered to boost self-esteem and combat depression.
It has always been associated with light, and ancient Egyptians referred to it as the “gem of the sun.” It is believed to protect the owners from night terrors.
Sardonyx
Sardonyx is the traditional September birthstone in the ancient Polish and Roman calendars. The stone comes in bands of red and white. It was a favorite of the Roman soldier who wore a stone talisman engraved with Mars’s images, the god of war. As such, sardonyx is often associated with courage, bravery, and strength.
The stone is an onyx variety and agate, the banded form of chalcedony quartz. Sardonyx is believed to boost happiness and other positive emotions. It is also believed to dispel melancholy.
Sardonyx weighs 6-7 on the Mohs Scale, making it a durable alternative for jewels.
Zircon
Zircon is the September birthstone in the Hindu calendar.
It is well-known for its brilliance and flashes of multicolored light. The stone is transparent but with an array of colors.
The crystals grow in different rock types and have a range of physical and optical properties. Select zircons, particularly the green ones, tend to display lower values than the rest.
In the Middle Ages, Zircon was believed to induce sleep, chase away evil spirits, and bring honor, riches, and wisdom.
Zircon is believed to bring peace of mind and prosperity.
Moonstone
Moonstone is the September birthstone in the ancient Ayurvedic calendar.
It is composed of alternate layers of albite and orthoclase, which give the stone the glowing look from within.
The stone has a delicate beauty and a long-established heritage, making it one of the popular choices of the feldspar group. When light falls between the thin flat layers in the gems, it scatters in different directions and produces the phenomenon known as adularescence.
Moonstone is a valuable gem that is believed to relieve anxiety.
Agate
Agate is a traditional September birthstone in the ancient Tibetan calendar.
Agate is utilized as a semi-precious stone when it is of desirable color and quality.
It occurs in a wide color range that includes black, pink, gray, red, white, brown, and yellow. The colors as a result of impurities and occur as alternating bands within the stone.
Agate is believed to improved intelligence and eloquence among individuals.
Conclusion
September birthstones can make some of the best gifts for a September-born loved one. They look amazing in jewelry or mounted for daily wear. The birthstones also have rare and beneficial metaphysical properties to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
