Amethyst – the emotion balancer
What do you feel when you see the color of violet or purple? Would it increase your imagination, bring peace and combat shock and fear or balance your mind? In color psychology, purple or violet were believed to posses not only the above said characteristics but also the power to suppress hunger and balance the body’s metabolism. Besides, a gemstone of violet purple is beautiful and attractive.
What do you feel when you see the color of violet or purple? Would it increase your imagination, bring peace and combat shock and fear or balance your mind? In color psychology, purple or violet were believed to posses not only the above said characteristics but also the power to suppress hunger and balance the body’s metabolism. Besides, a gemstone of violet purple is beautiful and attractive.
Amethyst is a member of the quartz family and is composed of Silicone Oxide in form of crystallized tetrahedral 3-dimensional structure. Amethyst was used as gemstone in ancient Egyptian and was considered to have the magic power to control evils, to calm the thoughts, and to make the wearer more intelligent and powerful. Wine goblets were commonly craved from amethyst. Amethyst was used in the cardinal up to 18th century. Since the 18th century, amethyst had been valued as precious as diamond, sapphire, ruby and emerald. Amethyst is abundantly supplied from Brazil, India, South Korea, United States, Russia, and Uruguay.
The fun of Amethyst
Amethyst is one of the family members of quartz; it shared the hardness of “7” on the Mohs scale as other quartz and is suitable for a wide variety of cut in jewelry design. Color of amethyst ranged from medium to medium dart purple, reddish purple, bluish purple, light pinkish purple and transparent to translucent violet. The most valuable color of Amethyst is medium to medium dark in tone because of its scarcity, and also the purple color is traditionally considered as color of royalty that represent the rich and powerful monarchs and rulers.
Nowadays, a wide variety of amethyst jewelry is available in an affordable price. We can enjoy the beauty of amethyst and possess one, especially if you are born in February, as amethyst is the Birthstone for February. I am sure there must be some that you want to keep for yourself or as gifts to your friends or love ones. With time to build your interest and knowledge, you will find its fun to have your own collections of Gemstone.
