This is a stone for grounding and centring the energies of the Root or Base Chakra. Use for self control, grounding, resilience, quiet power, grounding, invisibility, peace and anxiety. Banded jasper is considered a receiving stones and is used for calming, soothing, inward meditation and reflection. When used for Chakra healing and balancing, banded jasper represents the element earth, and is therefore related to our survival instincts, and to our sense of grounding and connection to our bodies and the physical plane. Ideally, when using these stones at the Root Chakra, they bring us health, prosperity, security, and dynamic presence. See "READ ON" for more info. 2-3cm stones
Banded Jasper
Nurturing
Jasper is known metaphysically as a stone of gentleness, comfort, and relaxation. When its protective energies are also considered, it's no wonder jasper is sometimes called the "nurturing stone."
Jasper has other facets to its energy properties, too, such as prosperity, gardening and agriculture. Historically these were related concepts when wealth was more often counted in agricultural and pastoral terms, but jasper does have prosperity vibrations in other areas as well.
Spiritual and Psychic Properties
Psychically, jasper is used to assist with astral travel. It brings a gentle but unassailable protection to the traveler and the silver cord.
It is also a powerful protection stone in general and can be used in protection magic, in talismans and other places you want a strong but gentle protection.
In some cultures, particularly Native American, jasper is traditionally used for rain making.
Jasper is used for bringing beauty, into life and specific situations. Beauty brought by jasper can be striking inner beauty as well as external beauty. This is gaining it the name "make up stone" for the way it can bring beauty to people outside as well as inside.
Jasper balances yin/yang energies. This is helpful in many areas of life and can bring healing, peace, and ease.
Mental and Emotional Properties
In the mental and emotional realms, Jasper is primarily about peace and relaxation. It enhances one's ability to relax and come to peace even in difficult situations. This helps bring in wholeness, emotional healing, kindness, and comfort.
Jasper also brings peace to endings, whether it be the end of a relationship, the end of a situation, or something else. Because of this, in addition to its general energy of peace, it is a good stone for healing grief.
Jasper is a wonderful stone for working with emotional disturbances and trauma. It can bring deep emotional healing in these areas and lead to a sense of tranquility in the present in spite of past or current disturbances.
Smoothing out and enhancing mental processes is another quality of jasper. This can help in all mental endeavors whether it be learning, work, or something else requiring mental effort. Alleviating difficulties with mental processes can also assist in restraining desires that might lead a person into dangerous situations.
Physical Conditions Properties:
In the physical realm, jasper is used in crystal healing particularly for the liver, kidney, gallbladder, stomach and intestinal problems including heartburn, IBS, and acid reflux, hallucinations, longevity, epilepsy and seizures. It is also used to enhance healing of any kind as well as pain relief. Note: Healing crystal meanings are spiritual supports to healing, not prescription or healthcare information.
Related Chakras
Jasper is used to align all the chakras. Different varieties of jasper also have relationships to different chakras according to their specific energies and colors.
Other Information.
Jasper is a variety of chalcedony, microcrystalline quartz, so it also has the metaphysical energies of quartz and chalcedony. There are many varieties of jasper, all of which have their own energies in addition to those of general jasper.