====== Beryl ======
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energy_tags: Receptive
gender_tags: 
planet_tags: Moon
element_tags: Water
deity_tags: Poseidon, Neptune, Tiamat, Mara
effect_tags: Psychism, healing, love, energy, antigossip
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===== Magical Uses =====
Another stone related to the sea, like the aquamarine, beryl is worn while on the water for protection against storms. This stone guards its wearer against drowning and also, prosaically enough, seasickness.

It is worn to prevent *fascination,* or what would today be called deliberate psychic manipulation or persuasion, such as is practiced by evangelists, and some salespersons and politicians. In this sense, it is also carried to make its bearer unconquerable and to assuage fear, and increase optimism and happiness.

In the sixteenth century, magicians prescribed beryl to be worn to win all debates and arguments, and yet to cause its bearer to be well mannered and amiable, and to gain

understanding.

Beryl has long been used to increase psychic awareness. As such, it was called the stone of the seer. Spheres of beryl were, at one time, considered to be superior to those of quartz crystal. It was also carved into flat, round mirrors for scrying purposes. These, like the spheres, were sometimes held in white cloth and gazed at while the conscious mind drowsed.

According to ancient magical directions, beryl-scrying should be practiced only during the Waxing Moon for the most potent results. Because of its associations with lunar energy, beryl can be worn or placed on the altar during Full Moon rituals.

When you have lost something, hold a beryl in your hand and visualize the object. Then still your mind and let your psychic impressions reveal its whereabouts.

It is another stone exchanged between lovers to strengthen their relationship and is carried or worn to attract love.

The beryl is also used to send energy into the body as well as to halt gossip. During study, wear beryl to increase your conscious mind's retention of information.

In the thirteenth century an image of a frog was engraved on beryl, and the stone was carried to reconcile enemies and to attract friendship.

For healing purposes, the beryl was considered to be excellent in relieving liver ailments, swollen glands, and diseases of the eyes.

If you feel lazy, hold or wear a beryl and let its structured, low vibrations enter you.
===== Ritual Lore =====
In fifth-century Ireland, scryers who used beryl spheres were known as *specularii.* Dr. Dee's famous crystal, now housed in the British Museum, was of beryl, not clear quartz crystal as is often imagined. Ancient peoples utilized the beryl in rituals designed to bring rain.</ifauth>
===== Notes =====
==== Related Herbs ====
* [[herb:seaweed]]