Tsavorite Green Garnet

Presentation

Names) :

• Tsavorite green garnet.

Etymology :

• Tsavorite is the name given to green grossular garnet. This gem was discovered in Tanzania in 1967 by Bridges Campbell. The name "tsavorite" was coined in 1974 by Campbell Bridges and Tiffany Henry Platt and is derived from the name of Tsavo National Park in Kenya. .

Group, Family:

• Garnet Group.

Color :

• Yellow-Green, Intense Apple Green, Light Green to Dark Green (Tsavorite) .

Chandelier:

• Glassy.

Origin :

• Germany, Austria, Zimbabwe, Norway, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, India, Russia, Kenya, Tanzania, Brazil, Canada.

Crystal system:

• Cubic.

Chemical composition : 

• Grossular: Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 forms three series with: 1) Andradite: Ca3Fe3+2(SiO4)3 | 2) "Hydrogrossular": Ca3Al2(SiO4)3-x(OH)4x (where if x=0.2 to 1.5 => Hibschite and if x=1.5 to 3 => Katoite) | 3) Uvarovite: Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 .

Transparency: 

• Transparent, Translucent to Opaque.

Density : 

• 3.57 to 3.72 | Hydrogrossular ~3.35 .

Hardness : 

• 7 to 8.

Cleavage: 

• Imperfect.

Breakage: 

• Conchoidal, Fragile squiggle.

Line color: 

• White.

Shock resistance: 

• Good.

Heat resistance: 

• Average.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Strengthens the heart.
• Protects against poisons.
• Promotes relaxation and calming .
• Promotes revitalization while purifying and balancing all of our energy and energy centers.
• Promotes romantic contacts, sexual relations and harmonizes.
• Delays aging, regenerates the skin and tightens the tissues.
• Limits rheumatism and arthritis.
• Allows, among other things, to reduce libido.
• Has the property of giving healthy bones, regulates the thyroid.
• Useful in cases of inflammation, anemia and circulatory problems.
• Reduces toxins from the body to purify the blood and organs.
• Promotes the absorption of vitamins and minerals (particularly iodine, calcium, magnesium and vitamins A, D and E)

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Stone of transformation and transmutation.
• Helps to overcome difficulties to gain experience from them.
• Transcend loving passion.
• Brings harmony and serenity.
• Promotes goodwill in friendly or romantic relationships.
• Allows you to take a step back, listen to others, without judgment
• Arouses self-confidence.
• Helps fight stress and anxiety.
• It is always good to wear a garnet because it only brings positive things, it encourages you to move forward, not to give up even if sometimes everything seems irremediable.
• Excellent stone to stimulate awareness and succeed in business.
• Attracts luck and abundance.

Virtues on a psychological and spiritual level:

• Purifies the chakras and revitalizes with energy.
• Gives courage and determination to follow one's own spiritual path. More particularly, the Almandine garnet, a stone of deep love, opens the path to spirituality by being well anchored on the earth. Pyrope garnet helps the crown and root chakras to be in harmony with the aura. The Uvarovite grain is the spiritual guide leading to tranquility and inner peace.
• Protects from evil and hidden dangers, but also from negative energies.
• Excellent stone for meditation, it has the ability to connect to the earth.

Chakras:

• Garnet : Heart chakra (4th Ch), solar plexus chakra (3rd Ch) root chakra (1st Ch).
• Almandine garnet : Heart chakra (4th Ch), sacral chakra (2nd Ch), solar plexus chakra (3rd Ch), root chakra (1st Ch).
• Demantoid Garnet : Heart chakra (4th Ch), third eye chakra (6th Ch).
• Grossular garnet : Solar plexus chakra (3rd Ch), heart chakra (4th Ch).
• Pyrope Garnet : Solar plexus chakra (3rd Ch).
• Spessartite Garnet : Solar plexus chakra (3rd Ch), sex chakra (2nd Ch).
• Uvarovite Garnet : Heart chakra (4th Ch).
• Hessonite : Solar plexus chakra (3rd Ch), sex chakra (2nd Ch).
• Tsavorite : Heart chakra (4th Ch).
• Andradite : Solar plexus chakra (3rd Ch).
• Rhodolite : Heart chakra (4th Ch).

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