Spiritual journeywork

This Teardrop Jasper sphere weighs 313g. Jasper is a stone of comfort, gentleness and relaxation. It is a stabilising and protective stone, absorbing all types of negative energies. Jasper is the supreme nurturer. Its energies bring a soothing sense of joy. Jasper sustains and supports during times of stress. It bolsters courage during difficult times and fosters a deep connection to the Earth.

Jasper unifies all aspects of your life, bringing tranquility and wholeness. Jasper stimulates creativity and imagination, transforming ideas into action. It can help with focus, organisation and the motivation to follow through.

Jasper is used to bring beauty into your life, both inner beauty and external beauty. Jasper brings peace to the endings of relationships or situations. This makes Jasper a good stone for healing grief or trauma.

Jasper is used to facilitate dreaming, dream recall and shamanic journeys. Jasper helps to balance and align the physical, mental and emotional bodies. Jasper is a stone of courage and determination.

Jasper is normally a combination of many colours, usually with patterns or banding. Its name means a banded or spotted stone. Each type and colour of Jasper resonates with the general Jasper qualities. but each colour also has its own specific healing properties.

Brown Jasper is connected to the earth and encourages ecological awareness. It brings stability and balance into your life. It is particularly useful for alleviating environmental stress. Brown jasper encourages deep meditation, centering and regression to past lives thereby revealing karmic causes. It improves your night vision, boosts your immune system, clears pollutants and toxins from your body and stimulates the elimination organs: kidneys, liver, lungs, skin and intestines. Brown jasper strengthens your resolve to quit smoking. Chakra: Root

Yellow Jasper is used for protection during spiritual journeywork and physical travel. It channels positive energy, supporting you to feel the vitality in your physical body, energising and clearing the endocrine system. Yellow Jasper releases toxins. It can heal your digestive system and stomach. Chakra: Solar Plexus

Colour: red, yellow, brown, green, multicoloured

Location: worldwide

Rarity: common

Mineral group/class: quartz, microcrystalline

Transparency: opaque

Lustre: dull to vitreous

Fracture: conchoidal to uneven

Hardness: 6.5–7

Formula: SiO₂

Chakra: Root (varies by colour)

Emotional: balance, control, grief, inner peace, joy, keeping your head, reduces gut reactions, mood swings, nervousness, security, self-healing, strength, stress relief, trauma

Mental/intellectual: altruism, endurance, organisation, resolve, stability

Spiritual: abundance, ancestral connection, astral travel, balancing polarities, chakra alignment, dreaming, enlightenment, good fortune, luck, protection

Astrology: Leo, Sun, Mars (especially Red Jasper)

Number: 6