Red Jasper
The Crystal of Enduring Strength
Aries
Scorpio
Capricorn
Earth
Fire
Mars
Red Jasper Guided Meditation
Our guided red jasper meditation takes you on a powerful grounding journey to connect with your life-force energy and boost your vitality, strength, and courage.
The message
Red Jasper’s Message To You:
The steady beat of your heart
anchored like a drum
reverberating through the Earth
you stand patient and strong
stable and supported
with the energy to endure
an invigorated life force
and courage to carry you forward
Give me your fear and shame
and I’ll bury it in the Earth
like compost to nourish your roots
so you grow even stronger
These are the gifts I bring you
from the great Mother
to revitalize and nurture you
so you can drink the juice of life
act on your passions
see what you’re made of
and what you’re meant for
Red Jasper helps you to…
- Overcome inner & outer obstacles
- Ground into your strength
- Move past fear & shame
The Story of Red Jasper
Born from the life force and heartbeat of the Earth, red jasper circulates that vital life essence throughout your body and being to help you gain strength, inner balance, and reconnect with the vital energy that flows through you. Grounding and empowering, red jasper roots you deeply into the security and support of the Earth, nurturing your physical power and stamina, emotional stability, and calm mental state. It brings you out of your head, back into your body, slowing things down, moving you into the rhythm of your own heart.
Colored by iron, red jasper has a strong symbolic connection to blood, activating your vitality, passion, and vigor, helping you go after the things that get your blood pumping in life, that excite and thrill you, amping up your motivation to take action, and endurance to keep going for the long haul. It’s a stone of longevity and loyalty, with the strength to last for lifetimes, supporting you in staying resilient and determined towards acheiving your heart’s desires.
A warrior stone used for millennia by cultures around the world to adorn shields, swords, and armor, red jasper supports your physical and emotional strength, endurance, and ability to keep pushing forward through the challenges and obstacles life throws your way. It’s encouraging and energizing, like a coach by your side, to help you push farther, go longer, and gather more courage and inner strength than you ever thought you could.
Carrying the wisdom of the Earth, the learned knowledge of our ancestors, and the cycles of time that our souls have journeyed through, red jasper supports you in building upon your past, and helping you access the instinctual knowing that flows through your veins, so you can feel strong, vital, confident, and in your power in each present moment.
It helps you slowly but surely make strides forward, through your fears and perceived limitations in life, past the confines of your mind and the emotional weight you’ve been carrying, straight into the true heart of your vital essence, your reason for being- the experience of life itself.
Red Jasper Healing Properties
Element
Earth
Jasper’s Earth energy is incredibly stabilizing and strengthening. It’s one of the great nurturers of the stone world, bringing a sense of grounding and connection with nature and the healing frequencies of the Earth.
Its essence is comforting, settling, and supportive, to calm your mind, spirit, and nervous system, allowing you to fully rest and feel safe in your body and in your present moment experience. It slows the energy down, bringing more patience, resilience, and determination to continue the slow and steady walk forward in life.
When you feel like you need more support, stability, and calm in your life, you need Earth energy, and red jasper is a beautiful tool to reach for to bring that Earth element in. It will help you connect back to your body, feeling centered and steady, connected to the nature around you and within you.
Element
Fire
The fire energy in red jasper comes from the life-force essence of the Earth itself, its molten core, the fire deep within its heart. It’s invigorating and filled with passion, connecting you to your inner strength, stamina, and ability to keep moving forward.
Red jasper provides the stable Earth to build your fire upon, to create not just a spark of passion but a lasting, enduring fire to keep you warm throughout your journey. Red jasper’s fire energy is slow and steady to sustain and nurture you, when you feel like you need support in going the long haul towards your creative pursuits.
Its fire energy gives you the courage and sense of self-trust to take action toward what your heart truly desires, supported by its Earth energy to help you put in the practical work and long-term effort required. It also helps balance overwhelming or too intense fire energy, which can show up as anger, frustration, or irritation, calming the emotions down to a slow-burn that sustains you, rather than burns you out.
Chakra
Root
Red jasper’s strong connection with the Earth activates and strengthens your own connection to the Earth through your root chakra. It anchors your energy into your lower body, into the seat of your strength and power, opening and activating your root, connecting your energetic grounding cord down into the powerful heart of the Earth.
The root is the base chakra of our vital essence and needs for survival in life, and when it’s out of balance or unsupported, you can feel insecure, unsafe, like you don’t belong, or experience a lot of instability in your life and issues with having your basic needs met. Red jasper is an excellent tool to work with during these difficult times, to engage your internal strength, power, and perseverance, giving you the ability to take action on what you need to do not only to survive, but to thrive, bringing confidence, courage, and inner stability.
The root chakra can be blocked by fear, especially unconscious fears- those we were born with, those we carried in from our ancestors, those we developed as tiny ones while imprinting the world around us. Red jasper offers support and strength when these fears are blocking your path, slowly releasing them from your energy field, back down into the Earth, activating your natural instincts, courage, and inner wisdom to guide you forward.
Chakra
Sacral
Red Jasper also activates the sacral chakra, where our vital life-force essence is housed in our bodies, where our creativity, passion, sensuality, and sense of pleasure stem from. It’s a great stone to help spark your physical and emotional vitality and connect with your natural desires and creative urges.
It works to release the emotional trauma and pain that can be held here in the sacral chakra, which is often related to shame at its root, especially around sexual issues, and the emotional energies you’ve taken on from other people in your life.
When you work to let go of the heavy, harmful energies taking up space here, it frees up room for your vital essence to flow, for your creative energy to surge, helping you move forward in pursuing your passions, and igniting your natural enthusiasm and drive.
Energetic Qualities
Grounding
Red jasper activates the root and lower body, connecting you to the energies of the Earth, helping you feel stable, strong, and secure within your own body. It guides you out of your head, helping you pay attention to your physical body, your environment, and all the signs and signals they’re sending you.
Regulating
A great stone to bring calm and balance, red jasper helps regulate the blood and qi, which is the vital life force energy that flows through you. It cools heat in the blood, which can show up as anger, irritability, or even high blood pressure, stabilizing the emotional and physical bodies.
Invigorating
This vibrant red crystal breaks up stagnation and stuckness in the body, amping up your natural passion, and energizing your physical body and the creative energy within you. It’s strengthening and empowering, helping you move forward in life, to keep pushing farther than you thought you could, and to stay engaged and active in the world.
Physical Properties
Appearance
Red jasper is found in an opaque rusty red to deep blood red color, often with dark or quartzy veins running through it or small mottled spots. It can be mixed with agate, which may show areas of translucence. It’s found in raw, rough stones or polished.
Its vibrant red color reflects its energetic qualities of strength, passion, and endurance. In Daoist stone medicine, red relates to the heart and blood, and to the flow of vital energy in your body, all of which red jasper helps bring balance and stability to.
Composition
Red Jasper is a silicon dioxide plus iron. It’s basically microcrystalline quartz (tiny little quartz particles) with the strength and nurturing of iron mixed in to fortify it.
It’s formed at all layers of the Earth, energetically supporting all the layers of you, from your physical body down into the deepest layers of your unconscious. It has a trigonal crystal structure, which relates to the element of fire, to our inner fire, sparking the soul and imagination.
Use Red Jasper When...
you feel
stressed, anxious, spacey, frustrated, aggressive, irritable, nervous, unstable, exhausted, unenthused, weak, powerless, unfocused, out of balance, out of control, too in your head
you’re struggling with
fear, shame (especially around sexual issues), toxic patterns, low self-esteem, poor self-control, irresponsibility, lack of enthusiasm, new life circumstances, low energy, vascular health issues
you want
strength, stability, inner security, groundedness, presence, confidence, independence, empowerment, vitality, passion, action, agency, forward momentum, courage
Using Red Jasper in Everyday Life
Manifestation
As a stone that assists in rebirth, in releasing the past and calling forth new energies, red jasper can help you first get in touch with your reason for being, your creative essence, and then help you use your passion and drive to move those ideas and creations into the material world. It will keep you resilient and engaged as you walk the journey with confidence and a strong connection to your inner power.
It’s an excellent stone to help with long-term goals and overcoming obstacles, as its strength and the steady, rhythmic pulse of its frequency guides you to keep moving forward, to walk past your fears, right through the what ifs, past other people’s expectations, courageously towards what you want, what you’re passionate about, what your body and instincts are guiding you to.
To use it in your manifestation work, you can wear or hold red jasper as you’re writing out your goals or intentions. Keep it in your pocket down by your root chakra as you go about your day. Hold it up to your heart and breathe whenever you need to tap back into its grounding presence and be reminded of your strength to keep moving forward. Lay down with it over your root chakra as you envision yourself manifesting your goals, reaching the finish line, or seeing your creative visions come to life.
Love & Relationship
In relationships, red jasper stokes the energies of loyalty and passion, amping up your physical desire, sexual energy and stamina, and your ability to act boldly and courageously in the name of love. Keep one in the bedroom, or in the relationship corner of your home (usually the southwest corner in Feng Shui), to bring these stabilizing, energizing, passion-enhancing qualities to your romantic relationship.
It’s also beneficial for all the other relationships in your life as it’s so grounding and healing, it brings you into right here, right now, increasing the amount of presence, patience, and dedication you can bring into your interactions with others. When you’re embodied, your mind isn’t elsewhere, you’re engaged, listening, and truly there for other people, you become a supportive, stable presence in their lives, bringing the same qualities into your relationships that red jasper evokes within you.
Red jasper’s also a great choice if you’re feeling too codependent or overwhelmed by a relationship, to help you stand strong in your independence while also being supportive to others. Wear or carry a stone with you, especially as a necklace over the heart, or carried in your pocket near your sacral chakra, to take advantage of its supportive and balancing energies in all your relationships.
Shadow Work
Red Jasper can help you reach down into the roots of your toxic patterns, behaviors, and perceptions, to the places within you that feel stagnant, stuck, broken, or lost, to release the toxic energy and nurture strong, stable energetic roots to grow. When you become more grounded and connected by working with red jasper, it creates a strong internal structure within you of emotional balance, physical fortitude, and mental stability to support you in taking action and moving forward no matter what shadows may be lurking along your path.
When you’re dealing with a lot of challenge, struggle, or trauma in your life, especially if it’s manifesting in your physical body or hindering your ability to take action, move forward, and create the life you want for yourself, red jasper is a great choice to wear or carry with you daily to boost your confidence, courage, and strength to move through the world. It’s not a stone for sitting in the darkness and seeing what’s hiding there- it’s a stone to help you keep walking forward, bravely, no matter how dark it may get, spurred by a resilient inner drive that knows you will either find the light or create it yourself.
Place a red jasper stone right on the center of the sternum at the notch where your ribs meet and lay there and breathe for 15-20 minutes to help break up emotional traumas from the past and any unconscious wounds that have been keeping you from moving forward.
Physical Healing
Red Jasper is a supreme healing stone for the physical body, as it’s so connected with the Earth and the material realm. Use it to increase your physical energy, endurance, and vitality, to recover after illness, or regain your strength. It provides very supportive and balancing energy for the whole body. It’s particularly connected to the vascular system, the network of veins, vessels, and arteries that circulate blood throughout your body. It helps to move the blood, increase circulation, break up stagnation in the blood, and cool too much heat.
Place it on your head or the soles of your feet to help bring down high blood pressure. You can also use a tumbled red jasper stone to gently massage spider or varicose veins and help increase the blood flow in those areas. You can also bathe with a few red jasper stones and some sea salt in the tub with you, to help circulate and move the blood throughout your whole body, break up any stagnation, and feel physically rejuvenated.
It’s also a wonderful stone to benefit sexual function and reproductive health. It increases libido and physical stamina and helps bring your sexual energy into balance. Used as far back as ancient Egypt for reproductive health, red jasper is also thought to increase fertility, bring balance to the female reproductive system, and assist in protecting mama and baby throughout pregnancy and childbirth.
Ancestral & Past Life Work
Red Jasper is a beautiful stone to help you connect to the roots of who you are, to your blood, and your ancestors, which are all part of the life force energy you came into this world carrying. It works to help heal the trauma and pain that you may have inherited through blood or karma to slowly but surely uproot it from its source, to strengthen and reinvigorate your body and spirit.
In Daoist stone medicine, it’s seen to support the rebirthing process, helping you create a new self from the ground up, to connect to your innate power and inner strength and what you’re truly meant for in this world, who you were born to be. It helps you break through ancestral or past life patterns of fear and shame and start fresh on solid ground, feeling confident, courageous, and capable of seeing your dreams through.
It can also help you connect with your past life emotions, struggles, and issues to see how they’re affecting you in the present. You can hold or place red jasper down by your root chakra or over your heart as you listen to a past life regression or hypnosis, or have a therapist take you through it, or simply ask the jasper to help you remember what you need to know from your past life that’s affecting your vitality and creativity now, so you can release its grip on your psyche and move forward stronger and wiser.
Self Care
One of the best stones for self-nurturing and tapping into your inner strength, red jasper is a beautiful choice to use in your self-care routine. Wearing it as a bracelet is a great way to have its energy in connection with your pulse, with your veins, with the life force energy that’s flowing through you, which it has a supportive and strengthening effect on. You can also carry it with you in a pocket throughout the day so it’s down near your root and sacral chakras, which it helps to activate and stabilize.
Use red jasper when you need to get out of your head and back into your body, when you need to cultivate inner strength, or are looking for encouragement or a nudge in the right direction. Sitting with your stone in these times, taking a pause and coming into stillness, can help reorient you with your body and what all its signs, signals, symptoms, and sensations are telling you.
Your body is a highly intelligent system and red jasper can help you drop into its natural wisdom, to listen to what your body wants and needs and allow it to guide you in pursuing the things in life that will help you feel most alive, vital, and strong.
Meditation
An excellent stone to help you ground and come back into your body, you can reach for red jasper whenever your mind is swirling, or you feel disconnected, anxious, or stressed. It will slowly guide you back to the present moment, to your breath and your body, activating your root chakra and helping you connect with the nurturing energy of the Earth beneath your feet.
It’s strengthening and energizing, to invigorate and empower you on your journey ahead, and ground you into the power you hold here in this moment. Hold it or place it down between your legs at your root chakra as you meditate, and pay attention to the sensations in your lower body. It will plug you into the vital frequencies and rhythms of the Earth to bring you support, patience, and power from deep within.
❤️Our guided red jasper meditation takes you on a powerful grounding journey to connect with your life-force energy and boost your vitality, strength, and courage. 💪
Red Jasper Guided Meditation
Our guided red jasper meditation takes you on a powerful grounding journey to connect with your life-force energy and boost your vitality, strength, and courage.
Red Jasper Connections
Zodiac Signs & Ruling Planet
Aries
This stone of vitality is a great match for Aries energy, to invoke a sense of aliveness, action, and independence within you. It’s a stone of new beginnings and taking action. It’ll help you muster your Aries-style courage, stand strong within yourself, and amp up your physical strength and stamina. It’s also a good balancer for too much fire or aggression, bringing patience and persistence to help you keep the fires burning beyond that initial spark that Aries energy brings.
Scorpio
There is a depth and strength, especially around the emotional realms, that red jasper carries, which relates to Scorpio energy and its ability to stay resilient and enduring through the challenges, traumas and hardships of life. The Egyptians and Daoists both ascribe an energy of rebirth to this stone in its capacity to help you work through the roots of your pain and rise above them to bloom into a stronger, more courageous self, which is the essence of the Scorpio archetype.
Capricorn
Just like Capricorn, red jasper’s energies work slowly over time to build your foundation from the roots up. It’s grounding, connected to Earth energies, bringing stability, patience, and longevity. It teaches you endurance and resilience, aiding you to keep going on the long journey ahead. It brings Capricorn-like dedication as you move forward in your life, creating an inner discipline that eventually leads to self-mastery.
Mars
With its iron content and red coloring, red jasper carries a strong energy of Mars, providing strength and stamina, amping up your passion and prowess, helping you revel in the experience of your pure life-force energy. It’s a warrior stone to keep you feeling strong and courageous to take on whatever you have to fight for or fight through in life, in a calm, grounded manner, channeling your Martian qualities into positive action.
Sabian Symbol
Sabian Symbol
{The Sabian symbols are a set of channeled mental images that describe the energy associated with each degree of the zodiac wheel. Each Sabian symbol has been linked to a crystal that embodies the frequency and essence of that symbol’s energy.}
An Indian Warrior Riding Fiercely, a Scalp Hanging from his Belt
Phase 54, Taurus 24*
This very gruesome image brings up many different ideas around power, ambition, and leadership and the ruthlessness and violence that can come with those things when survival is threatened, or there is no sense of empathy or self-control. The goal seems to be to conquer one’s enemy, but the true enemy lies within one’s own ego.
Red jasper is a stone that catalyzes your inner power and helps you connect to the courage, determination, and leadership qualities evidenced in this symbol, but it does so in a grounded, stable way, helping you calm aggression and take self-responsibility over your animalistic tendencies and fear.
It’s a crystal that brings discipline and patience, to help you channel your incredible strength and power into self-mastery over your lower self, so you can remain calm and grounded even in states of fear or when you feel your power is being threatened, knowing full well that it’s actually an inside job, and no one can take your power away from you.
Tarot Cards
Strength
This card represents not just physical strength, but strength of heart and the ability to rise above your animal instincts, reactions, and ego and find calm confidence within yourself. It’s about mental and emotional strength, inner courage and self-trust, and learning how to channel your natural power with gentleness rather than by force.
It’s a card about tapping into your resilience, stamina, and persistence when life starts to feel like a struggle or an uphill battle, which is exactly what red jasper can help you do. When you pull the strength card in a reading, or know that you need to tap into your inner strength to help you move forward, red jasper is an excellent crystal to reach for to support you.
Spirit Animal
Elephant
Bring to mind the slow and steady pace of the elephant as it walks upon the Earth, its strength reverberating with every step, so grounded and connected to itself, to its family, and to nature. The elephant’s presence alone is inherently powerful, demanding respect, yet it’s such a gentle, nurturing, protective expression of power. This is the same grounded, patient, power that red jasper helps connect you to within your own mind, heart, and body.
Elephants are a symbol of wisdom, longevity, and perseverance. Their strength is not only physical but emotional and spiritual, too. Expressing great resilience and tenderness at the same time, they are calm, patient, and enduring. They have an incredible memory for the land they walk on and for their family bonds, and they hold the knowledge of generations of ancestors before them. Red jasper holds these same energetic qualities, tapping you into the eternal strength that lives within your blood.
Crystal Pairings
Red Jasper + Ruby
Pair with ruby to increase your vitality, strength, and emotional stability, invoke your passion for life, and take action on your creative drive.
Red Jasper + Fuschite
Pair with fuschite to create regenerative and nurturing healing for your heart and whole body, to spur you towards more growth in your life.
Red Jasper + Carnelian
Pair with carnelian for a boost of fire power for your creative drive, to increase your enthusiasm and zest for life as you go after your goals.
Care + Cleansing for Red Jasper
The quick and easy way to cleanse red jasper is under warm running water once a month or so, or after you’ve been using it consistently.
You can also leave it to rest on the Earth overnight and it will discharge any excess or disharmonious energies it has accumulated and be recharged by the nurturing essence of the Earth itself. As you’re leaving your stone out, you can ask the Earth to restore its energetic balance and vital essence.
You can also recharge your red jasper after cleansing by placing it in a bed of hematite, to restore its nurturing, iron-rich strength and ability to support you in life.
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