The Crystal Vaults Comprehensive Illustrated Guide to Crystals

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The Healing Energies, Metaphysical Properties,

Legendary Uses and Meaning

of

White Sapphire

 

Introduction to the Meaning and Uses of White Sapphire

The enduring and alluring Sapphire forms in more colors than just the legendary blue. Each color exhibits its own unique metaphysical properties and vibrational patterns, yet all are Stones of Wisdom. They honor the higher mind, bringing intuition, clarity and self-mastery. Worn throughout the ages for protection, good fortune and spiritual insight, Sapphires are not only symbols of power and strength, but also of kindness and wise judgment.

White Sapphire brings wisdom and strength of spirit. It carries an extremely pure energy for clarity of thought and opening the powers of the mind. Through the Crown Chakra, White Sapphire strengthens communication with the Higher Self level of consciousness in seeking spiritual guidance for this lifetime, and brings the resolve needed to overcome obstacles to one’s spiritual path. It is beneficial in revealing one’s talents and potential, and inspires living with integrity and keeping true to one’s ideals when faced with difficult choices or circumstances. [Simmons, 344][Ahsian, 344][Melody, 589][Hall, 254-255]

Sapphire is a variety of Corundum, an aluminum oxide mineral that forms in prismatic tabular, bipyramidal or rhombohedral crystals, as well as granular or massive habits, and may be transparent to opaque. The name Corundum is of Indian origin, derived from the Sanskrit korund and applied to opaque massive gems, generally of a dull color. With the exception of Red Corundum, which is Ruby, all other colors of Corundum are Sapphires. [Simmons, 339][www.mindat.org][Fernie, 140]

White Sapphire, also known as “Leucosapphire,” is actually colorless and the purest form of Corundum, lacking additional trace minerals that color other Sapphires. It is less in demand than other Sapphires and reasonably inexpensive, and is often used as a Diamond substitute, usually as smaller stones with good clarity and few visible inclusions. White Sapphire can occur in almost any Corundum deposit, but gem-quality stones are exceedingly rare. [www.thenaturalsapphirecompany.com]

Star Sapphires are created when Corundum is intergrown with fibrous inclusions of Rutile, called “silk,” that reflects light in stones cut en cabochon as a six-rayed, sometimes twelve-rayed star that appears to glide across the face of the gem as it is moved. This effect is called asterism and increases the rarity and value of the stone. [Simmons, 345][Eason, 365][Mella, 104] Star Sapphires are most often found in Blue Sapphire and darker colored Sapphires, but can be distinctive in light silver-gray, grayish white and yellowy white Sapphires. [Eason, 365]

Star Sapphire has the same metaphysical properties as the color of Sapphire it appears in, with an enhanced energy and intensification of those properties. The star itself represents the manifestation of Divine knowledge and Light into denser reality, and reminds us that the outer manifestations we treasure are a reflection of the Light of our own essence. The three lines that cross in the six-rayed star represent faith, hope and destiny, sometimes associated with three angels who offer protection to those who wear Star Sapphire. The moving star brings ongoing safety to travelers and guides their way home. [Ahsian, 345][Simmons, 345][Eason, 365]

White Sapphire Uses and Purposes

Sapphire is exceptional for calming and focusing the mind, allowing the release of mental tension and unwanted thoughts. It encourages opening the mind to beauty and intuition, bringing lightness and joy as it restores balance within the body. [Melody, 584][Hall, 253]

White Sapphire helps one to recognize and access their talents and to use them in pursuing their life’s work. [Melody, 589][Hall, 255]

Wearing White Sapphire enhances the qualities of fairness, objectivity, morality, and freedom from greed. It also assists in breaking self-defeating habits or behaviors that impedes spiritual progress. [Melody, 589][Simmons, 344][Ahsian, 344]

White Star Sapphire is a token of pure and lasting love without conditions. It is excellent for exchange by first lovers who have had to give up everything for each other, and for marriage in later years, especially following the loss of a partner to avoid feeling second best. It also discourages jealousy of earlier partners in re-marriage. [Eason, 365]

Star Sapphire, especially in paler shades, is a symbol of wise and honest leadership, and a good stone for businesswomen and female entrepreneurs who wish to succeed without compromising integrity. [Eason, 365] It is also an ideal tool for anyone needing assistance in grounding their ideas into reality and who requires extra energy to bring things through to completion. [Simmons, 345]

As a professional support stone, Sapphire provides awareness of higher principles in archeologists and historians, stimulates the mind and wisdom in executives, ministers and writers, and increases discernment and good judgment in journalists and lawyers. [Mella, 129-133]

Because of its hardness (second only to Diamond), Sapphires are used in industrial applications such as components for watch crystals and movement bearings, scientific instruments, high-durability windows, and insulating substrates in special purpose solid state electronics. [www.widipedia.org]

White Sapphire Healing Therapies – Overview

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White Sapphire Physical Healing Energy

White Sapphire stimulates the pineal and pituitary glands, and is useful in discovering alternate- or past-life influences in current illnesses. It is also beneficial in gathering courage to move beyond the veil when it is time to pass out of physical form. [Ahsian, 344]

Sapphire calms overactive body systems and aids in regulation of the glands. It is beneficial in treating blood disorders and alleviates excessive bleeding; it strengthens the veins and improves their elasticity. [Hall, 253]

White Sapphire Emotional Healing Energy

White Sapphire clears the mind of negative thoughts and allows coming to new tasks with a fresh perspective. It enhances clarity and objectivity in viewing different paths, and promotes integrity and remaining aligned with one’s ideals in making life choices. [Simmons, 344][Ahsian, 344]

Star Sapphires of any hue are excellent healing crystals for those with an inferiority complex, are afraid of socializing or speaking out, or who have been told they were useless. They also lend support in following a childhood dream or ambition that seems almost impossible. [Eason, 365]

White Sapphire Chakra Healing and Balancing Energy

White Sapphire stimulates the Crown Chakra, located at the top of the head. It is our gateway to the expanded universe beyond our bodies, and controls how we think and how we respond to the world around us. It is the fountainhead of our beliefs and the source of our spirituality. It connects us to the higher planes of existence and is the source of universal energy and truth. When the Crown is in balance, our energies are in balance. We know our place in the universe and see things as they are. We are unruffled by setbacks, knowing they are an essential part of life.

White Sapphire Spiritual Energy

White Sapphire invigorates the lesser energy meridians in the brain, increasing one’s ability to tune in to spirit guides, angels and even humans who have “crossed over.” White Sapphire increases one’s psychic gifts, especially the skill of channeling high-frequency energy or information, or in seeking communication with higher beings or the deceased. [Simmons, 344][Ahsian, 344]

White Sapphire teaches spiritual courage and the pursuit of inner truth. It is an excellent crystal for those afraid of owning their spiritual power or purpose, and in overcoming fears associated with spiritual persecution, particularly where that persecution was a cause for death in an alternate or past life. [Ahsian, 344]

Sapphire is a stone of spiritual power and astuteness, bringing prosperity and helping to sustain the gifts of life. It tends to focus, emanate and radiate its energy in fulfilling dreams and desires of the consciousness, even without conscious initiation. [Gienger, 77][Melody, 584-585]

White Sapphire Color Energy

White Sapphire is colorless and not influenced by color energies.

Meditation with White Sapphire

White Sapphire clears the mind during meditation and opens to the Higher Self level of consciousness in order to receive visions or information to guide one on one’s highest path. [Ahsian, 344]

White Sapphire Divination

Dreaming of Sapphire indicates escape from danger. [Kunz, 358]

 

White Sapphire and the Angelic Realm

White Sapphire is colorless. If your birthday falls in any of the following periods, a White Sapphire of the color listed can be a valuable conduit to your Guardian Angel. The table also provides the name of the Guardian Angel of those born in the time period.

Date	Crystal Color	Name of Guardian Angel
May 6-10	Clear	Aladiah
August 13-17	Clear	Reiiel (Rejajel)
December 3-7	Clear	Hahasiah

There are other Angels that are partial to White Sapphire. The table below gives you the information about them.

Purpose	Crystal Color	Name of Angel
Protector and Ruler of the dates May 6-10; Taurus.	Clear	Aladiah
Guardian of the Eighteenth Mansion of the Moon; Scorpio.	Clear	Egibiel
Protector and Ruler of the dates December 3-7; Sagittarius.	Clear	Hahasiah
Master of the 9th Tarot Card “The Hermit”. Associated with Virgo.	Clear	Hamaliel
Guardian of the Twentieth Mansion of the Moon; Sagittarius.	Clear	Kyriel
Matariel is the Ruler of Earth/Rain.	Clear	Matariel
Raziel is known as the Wisdom Angel; Tree of Life, and Heals Spiritual Blocks.	Clear	Raziel
Protector and Ruler of the dates August 13-17; Leo.	Clear	Reiiel (Rejajel)
Master of the 16th Tarot Card “The Tower”.	Clear	Zamael

White Sapphire Goddess Crystals

All Sapphires honor Juterna, the Roman Goddess of the Brooks and Ponds, and Turan, the Etruscan Goddess of Love and Beauty.

Star Sapphire honors Gendenwitha, the Morning Star Goddess of the Iroquois.

Birthstones

There are several ways to find an appropriate birthstone. The traditional one is listed first. These are from the popular lists that most people are familiar with. The second way is to find your natural birthstone by the color wheel of life. You can click on the Natural Birthstone graphic below to learn more. Finally many people use the traditional stones of the Zodiac.

In this section you will find information on all three approaches.

White Sapphire Traditional Birthstone

Sapphire is the traditional birthstone of September. Historically, it was the birthstone of April.

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White Sapphire Natural Birthstone.

White Sapphire is not a natural birthstone.

 

White Sapphire – Zodiac Stone of Taurus

Sapphire is a zodiac stone for those born in the heart of spring under the sign of Taurus, from April 20 – May 20. Taurus is depicted as a bull because of its characteristics of being strong but quiet, and is ruled by the planet Venus that also rules Libra. Taureans are known for being “down to Earth,” the doers and the realists. They are affectionate, known for their tempers and very stubborn.

White Sapphire Talismans and Amulets

Sapphire is a Seeker Transformer crystal. Seekers contain a crystal energy structure that aligns the natural energy of the crystal to the natural power of the human mind to find the way to new horizons and new capabilities. They’re pointers, directors, and compasses; the fresh start crystals. These are talismans of the scientist, the adventurer, the hunter, wanderer, and explorer. They’re also crystals of the student and the researcher.

Transformer crystals enhance efforts to change our situations, prospects, health, outlook or relationships. By transforming ourselves we transform our lives. We learn to dance, speak a new language, grow stronger, or become a better spouse or child. Seeker crystals with the earth power of the Transformer are excellent talismans to aid our efforts to grow, develop new capabilities and change our lives.

White Sapphire Feng Shui

Clear White Sapphires are perfect as “energy dispersers” in any window. Taking light and energy from the sun, they disperse it freely within the room. They sparkle like a prism but, being perfectly natural, bring no artificiality to the natural energy flow

White Sapphire in Ancient Lore and Legend

There is no legendary information specific to White Sapphire. It is possible clear, colorless Corundum may have been mistaken for Diamond, or Quartz Rock Crystal which was highly used in the ancient world.

Though many of the Sapphires were appropriated by other names and little is written concerning them, they were well-known and highly valued in the ancient world, used by the Etruscans over 2,500 years ago and prized in ancient Rome, Greece and Egypt. [Simmons, 339] The term “Sapphire” with no color prefix attached to it refers to the Blue Sapphire and has an extensive history of legends and lore, much of which appears on our Blue Sapphire page. Other colors of Sapphire were called the same name as a popular gemstone of that color with the term “Oriental” added, thus the Oriental Amethyst was actually a Violet Sapphire, the Oriental Emerald was a Green Sapphire, and an Oriental Topaz was a Yellow Sapphire. Padparadscha was an Oriental Ruby, while Pink Sapphire was a Ruby that had not yet “ripened.” Others may simply have been mistaken for another mineral or were discovered too recently to have historical reference. [Fernie, 127, 163, 169][www.minerals.net][Kunz, 102]

The Star Sapphire, also called Asteria, has often been referred to as a Stone of Great Destiny. Some cultures believed the three light bars which cross to form the six-rayed star on the surface of the gem represented Faith, Hope, and Destiny (or mission). The Cingalese believed the moving star served as a protection against witchcraft of all kinds, and in German lore it was called Siegstein, the stone of victory. The mere sight of the stone was reputed to bring good luck, and as a guiding gem, it warded off ill omen and the Evil Eye. It was said to be so potent it continued to exercise its good influence over the first wearer even after it had passed into other hands. [Mella, 104][Kunz, 106-107][Simmons, 339]

Star Sapphire was also known in Oriental culture as a “phenomenal gem” to be worn on Tuesdays. Phenomenal gems exhibited a moving line, star, or changes on the surface as the light varied, and was considered to bring good fortune to the wearer. [Kunz, 333-335]

Footnote References

 

The symbols [  ] enclose the author’s name and a page number for a reference cited from the following books:

[Ahsian, pp.] Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian, The Book of Stones (Berkley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007).

[Altman, pp.] Jennifer Altman, Gem and Stone: Jewelry of Earth, Sea, and Sky. (San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 2012)

[Eason, pp. ]Cassandra Eason, The New Crystal Bible (London: Carlton Books Ltd., 2010).

[Fernie, pp.] William T. Fernie, The Occult and Curative Powers of Precious Stones (Blauvelt, NY: Rudolph Steiner Publications, 1973).

[Gienger, pp.] Michael Gienger, Healing Crystals (Scotland: Earthdancer Books, 2009).

[Hall, pp.] Judy Hall, The Crystal Bible (Cincinnati, OH: Walking Stick Press, 2003).

[Hall 2, pp.]Judy Hall, The Crystal Bible 2 (Cincinnati, OH: Walking Stick Press, 2009).

[Kunz, pp.] George Frederick Kunz, The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (New York: Dover Publications, 1971).

[Megemont, pp.] Florence Megemont, The Metaphysical Book of Gems and Crystals (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 2008).

[Mella, pp.] Dorothee L. Mella, Stone Power II (Albuquerque, NM: Brotherhood of Life, Inc., 1986).

[Melody, pp.] Melody, Love Is In The Earth (Wheat Ridge, CO: Earth-Love Publishing House, 1995).

[Raphaell, pp.] Katrina Raphaell, Crystal Enlightenment (Santa Fe, NM: Aurora Press, 1985)

[Simmons, pp.] Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian, The Book of Stones (Berkley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007).