What are birthstones? Birthstones are related to ones birthday or gemstone. Birthstone or gemstone is something personal to a person. It represents their birth; each birthstone shows the qualities that symbolize the month. Birthstones were discovered by a Jewish historian Josephus. He found a connection with 12 gemstones that represented each of the Gregorian calendar months relating to the Zodiac signs. Wearing the significant stones on the birth month started in the 1500's. Popular poetic sayings came with each description of the stone. For example:
"By her who in this month (January) is born No gem save garnets should be worn;
They will ensure her constancy, True friendship, and fidelity." Wikipedia 2012
The January birthstone is the garnet. The garnet comes in many colors: browns, red, pink, blue, purple, orange, yellow, green, black, and even colorless. The rarest garnet is the blue garnet, and only been found in Madagascar in the early 1990's, but since then been found in United States, Kenya, Russia, and Turkey. The blue garnet is breath-taking because it changes colors in the sunlight to different shades of blues to greens to purples.
When talking about the garnet as a birthstone, it's always been the red garnet. The word garnet means "seed" resembling a pomegranate seed, because of its deep red tones. The red garnet now comes from the great resources of Africa, Sri Lanka, and India.
The garnet is a precious stone that holds many qualities of strength, endure, prosperity, and health. If a person is born on this month he/she most likely holds these qualities. Also the gemstone itself is hard not easily broken (like a diamond), durable, but still holds a tremendous amount of beauty in all its splendid colors.
Other than the blue garnet; garnets are not scarce to come by, so many do not value them as much as other precious gemstones. They have a low reputation because of the abundance of the stone, and it's sold at much lower price than a diamond. The garnet is mostly associated with the color red, especially when it comes to the birthstone of January. The garnet comes many different shapes and sizes, add to art jewelry as rings, pendants, earrings, and other types of jewelry. Fashion Pond has a very beautiful garnet contemporary ring. The stone is perched on 14 carat gold the middle of engraved sterling silver jewelry garden of flowers. It's delightfully playful ring that sure will make conversation when seen.
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