Ruby in Fuchsite Obelisk

I love this Ruby in Fuchsite Obelisk with blue kyanite. There is a bit of zoisite too. Every side of this tower looks different to the other! You can meditate with a different look each day.

All four crystals are present just in varying degrees. So what’s the difference? If the dominant colour (other than the crimson which is the ruby) is blue – its called ruby kyanite; but if pale green then its called ruby fuchsite; and if dark green then ruby zoisite.

This crystal has the capacity to help heal the heart, removing any blockages to loving energies and filling the void with positive, loving energies. Read more on the Healing tab, and here about the shape.

Most people will buy a ruby in fuchsite obelisk like this for an altar to add height to the arrangement. Others will place them in display cabinets or on a display shelf for all to admire.

Healing Properties

Benefits of Ruby and Variations

• Alternative name: Red Corundum

• Assists in reaching and utilising talents and abilities of the mind.
• Amplifies the entire energy field of the body.
• Activates crown to create altered state of consciousness - extremely helpful for soul healing.
• Promotes individuality while being inter-connected to humanity.

Additional Properties of Varieties

Ruby in Zoisite

• Amplifies the entire energy field of the body.
• Activates crown to create altered state of consciousness - extremely helpful for soul healing and past life work.
• Promotes individuality while being inter-connected to humanity so empathy exists on all level.
• Zoisite is found in found in metamorphic and pegmatitic rock. It streaks white and is said to be brittle - I found if you leave these pieces in water, the whitish mineral goes brown.

Ruby in Fuchsite

• Helps clear any blockage of the Heart Chakra and fill the void with positive, loving energies.
• Helps one to maintain an awareness of individuality, while also completely connecting with humanity as a whole.
• Transforms destructive, negative energies into positive, helpful ones.
• Opens and enhances psychic awareness when on Third-Eye (Brow) opening up the Heart Chakra to receive information from the Third-Eye Chakra.
• Thins veils to aid connecting and communicating with the spirit world and deepen meditation.
• Helps get to and stay asleep.
• Said to promote physical vitality, recovery/relief from extended or chronic illness
• Said to be strengthening the heart and blood flow/circulation issues.

Ruby in Kyanite

• As well as the qualities of Ruby (Heart) and Kyanite (Throat):
• Combination melds the heart, throat and base so that lovingly the basic difficulties and issues can be said and resolved bringing in positive energies to replace the negative.
• Synthesis between the emotional and the vocal.
• Helps ease you into meditation - balancing energy, opening heart and settling the mind.
• Kyanite helps ruby to not hold onto negative energies.
• Kyanite sweeps away and transforms negativity. Ruby helps kyanite with protection and security.
• Both help with astral travel so that you can control and remember the journey.
• Helps attune you so you can see get insight about your emotions and initiates movement of Kundalini energy.
• Said to help with muscular, throat, fever and brain issues.

Geological Information

Geological of Corundum Family

• Family includes: Sapphire, Ruby
• Ruby has fluorescence! Sapphire can show star patterns!

General Identification

• Type: Mineral
• Class: Oxides
• Member of Group: Hematite
• Mohs Hardness: 9
• Formula: Aluminium oxide, Al₂O₃
• Crystal System: Trigonal
• Crystal Habit: Steep bipyramidal, tabular, prismatic, rhombohedral crystals, massive or granular
• Lustre / Diaphaneity: Adamantine to vitreous, Transparent, translucent to opaque
• Colour: Colorless, gray, brown; pink to red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet; may be color zoned, asteriated mainly grey and brown

Ruby

• Gem stone, the red colour is caused mainly by the presence of the element chromium.
• Ruby fluoresces with UV light. Regular corundum does not.
• Has a variety which shows a three-point or six-point asterism or "star" under certain light conditions amd known as "Star Ruby".
• Red corundum is often sold as ruby.
  • It may even be coloured and is often brown corundum.
• Red spinels, red garnets, and colored glass have been falsely claimed to be rubies.
• Quality is improved through heating, improving transparency by dissolving rutile inclusions, healing of fractures (cracks) or even completely filling them.
• More geological information.
• Colours: Red. Pink colour is debated as to whether it will be classified as ruby or sapphire.

Sapphire

• Colour determined by trace amounts of elements such as iron, titanium, chromium, copper, or magnesium.
• Mainly used for jewellery, abrasives, infrared optical components, high-durability windows, wrist-watch crystals and movement bearings, and very thin electronic wafers for very special-purpose solid-state electronics.
• Has a variety which shows a "star" under certain light conditions amd known as "Star Sapphire".
• A rare variety is known as color-change sapphire, exhibits different colors in different light.
• 95% of all the world's sapphires were being heated to enhance their natural color.
• Can be confused with Iolite which is called "Water Sapphire" to add to confusion. But iolite shows as a grey tone when looked from the side.
• More geological information.
• Colours: Any color except red. Best known for blue.

Emery

• Black granular corundum intimately mixed with magnetite, hematite, or hercynite

Geuda

• Form of the mineral corundum, or sapphire, found primarily in Sri Lanka. Around 70%-80% of gems mined in Sri Lanka belong to geuda varieties.
• Semitransparent and milky appearance due to rutile inclusions, these stones have little value as gemstones in their natural state.
• Once heated they rival other natural sapphires for look.

Special Notes

• It is commonly used as an abrasive on everything from sandpaper to large tools.
• High quality versions are part of the precious gem category. Cost of natural crystals varies depending on their colour, clarity, size, cut, quality and geographic origin.
• Nowadays most sapphires and rubies now sold in jewellery stores are synthetic
  • same composition but lacking healing qualities of natural grown pieces.
  • jewelers prefer synthetic as colour is consistent and cutting and setting has little to no risk of damage as there are no imperfections.
• "Ruby in XXX" where xxx is fuchsite, kyanite and/or zoisite is with real ruby.
  • All components are visible but which name used depends on what the mines or wholesalers felt was the more sellable name.