Ruby
Ruby is a stone of Divine creativity. It boosts your energy levels and promotes high self-esteem, intuition, and spiritual wisdom.
Ruby is a powerful heart stone, opening and activating the Heart chakra. Ruby protects against the loss of heart energy and dissolves emotional congestion. Ruby helps us to see the true nature of love and reveals the Divine Love in everything in the Universe. Using Ruby can help you open up to and receive this Divine Love, as well as become a vehicle through which Divine Love can flow to others. Ruby helps to gather and amplify energy, aiding in opening the doorway to spiritual knowledge. Ruby is a wonderful stone for students as it stimulates deep mental concentration.
Ruby is a symbol of good fortune, pure love, and loyalty. As an aphrodisiac stone, it brings vigor into your life. Ruby is a powerful heart stone, opening and activating the Heart chakra.
Revered in many cultures throughout history, Ruby has always been a talisman of passion, protection, and prosperity. It actively stimulates the Base Chakra, increasing vitality and chi, the life-force energy, throughout the physical body, and into the spirit. It promotes a clear mind, increased concentration and motivation, and brings a sense of power to the wearer, a self-confidence and determination that overcomes timidity and propels one toward prosperity and achievement.
Did you know that Rubies, Pink, and Blue Sapphires are all the same stone? Corundum.
Natural, gem level Ruby is one of four “precious” gemstones (including Diamond, Emerald, and Sapphire) known its rarity, monetary value, and hardness (second only to Diamond). Ruby is red Corundum, and all other color varieties of Corundum are designated as Sapphire. So if it's light red, or pink, it's called Pink Sapphire, and if it's Blue, the Blue Sapphire.