====== Garnet ======
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latin_names: 
folk_names: 
energy_tags: Projective
gender_tags: 
planet_tags: Mars
element_tags: Fire
deity_tags: 
effect_tags: Healing, protection, strength
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===== Magical Uses =====
The garnet, a fiery red stone, is worn to enhance bodily strength, endurance, and vigor. It is worn or used in magic to tap extra energy for ritual purposes. Wear or carry one when exerting yourself (hiking a mountain, studying until dawn, heavy ritual workings, and so on).

Because it is a projective stone, the garnet is worn for protective purposes. Five hundred years ago it was thought to drive off demons and night phantoms. Today the garnet, in common with many other protective stones, is seen to strengthen the aura and to create a shield of highly charged positive vibrations that repels negative energies upon contact. Say you're wearing a garnet at night and have visualized it protecting you. A would-be mugger, for example, might suddenly decide to let you pass by, "spooked" by the "bad vibes" you are releasing. Garnets are particularly prescribed as protection against thieves.

In the Middle Ages, a figure of a lion was carved on to a garnet and carried to guard the health, especially while traveling.

A healing stone, garnet is used to relieve skin conditions, especially inflammations. It also regulates the heart and blood.

In the past, garnets were exchanged between parting friends to symbolize their affection and to magically ensure that they met again.
===== Ritual Lore =====
In the thirteenth century, garnets were worn to repel insects.</ifauth>