{"id":246,"date":"2006-11-23T12:54:35","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T17:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/246-12-garnet-gem-facts"},"modified":"2013-01-19T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T21:54:00","slug":"12-garnet-gem-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/246-12-garnet-gem-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Garnet Gem Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/garnet.jpg\" alt=\"Garnet\" height=\"166\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 166px\" title=\"Garnet\" \/>o\u00a0The name garnet is derived from the Latin word granatus, meaning grain. It has been speculated that this is due to small alluvial crystals being found wich closely resembled pomegranate seeds or grain.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0Garnet is actually a group of minerals. It consists of eight main varieties:<br \/>\no\u00a0Almandine or Almandite Garnet<br \/>\no\u00a0Andradite<br \/>\no\u00a0Grossularite<br \/>\no\u00a0Hydrogrossular Garnet<br \/>\no\u00a0Malaia and Color Change<br \/>\no\u00a0Pyrope<br \/>\no\u00a0Rhodolite<br \/>\no\u00a0Spessartite<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\no\u00a0Garnets naturally occur in many colors and hues. They range from green, orange, to red hues. They have also been found colorless.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0The most sought after garnet is the color change garnet. This particular garnet changes hues under incandescent and fluorescent light.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0A popular green gemstone known as tsavorite belongs to the grossularite variety of the garnet family. The source of tsavorite is Tanzania and Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0All garnets rate 7 -7 \u00bd on Moh&#8217;s hardness scale.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0It is the designated gemstone for January and 2nd wedding anniversaries. It has been associated with a specific time of day which is 11:00 AM.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0It has been associated with the astrological signs of Aquarius, Leo, Virgo, and Capricorn. It has also been linked astrologically with the planet of Mars.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0In numerology garnet has been associated with the number of 2.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0In folklore, garnet was thought to soothe discord. Due to its deep red hue many myths have linked it to healing ailments of the blood. In some civilizations tribes used garnets as projectiles in weaponry, believing that it would seek blood and inflict more damage.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0In chakra workings it has been used to remove negative energy.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0Ancient healers ground garnets into poultice powders and used according to the color. Red garnet powder reduced fevers; while yellow garnets were used for jaundice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>o\u00a0The name garnet is derived from the Latin word granatus, meaning grain. It has been speculated that this is due to small alluvial crystals being found wich closely resembled pomegranate seeds or grain. o\u00a0Garnet is actually a group of minerals. It consists of eight main varieties: o\u00a0Almandine or Almandite Garnet o\u00a0Andradite o\u00a0Grossularite o\u00a0Hydrogrossular Garnet o\u00a0Malaia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":344,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}