A Witch's Guide to Crystals and Their Meanings, Uses, and Origins

Garnet

Magick and Legend: Balances your energy system, stimulates your desires, uplifts your attitude. Draws happiness, power, possessions, and peace. Aids in patience, persistence, sexuality, and purification. Sharpens self perception. Increases creative expression and sexual appetite. Protection against thieves. Helps align the emotional body to the physical body. Sleeping with it helps one remember dreams. As a gift, a symbol of happiness and loyalty. If obtained unlawfully, brings a curse to the wearer, until returned to the rightful owner. Birthstone of January:

"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."

Healing: Enhances bodily strength and vigor. A good "work out" stone. Because of it's color, a good fertility stone. Thought to be an antidote to plague and fever.