Garnet is a deep dark red stone and has balancing properties and as a red stone is related to all the properties of the colour red and connected with the base chakra. The Garnet is a gentler and less expensive crystal than a ruby, but still embodies the similar characteristics of the more traditional red gem.

These qualities include passion, sexuality, confidence and success, and therefore a garnet can help maintain a balanced mind, balanced sex drive and is known to encourage faithfulness in relationships. It is also known as the happiness stone as it engenders feeling of contentment and happiness, which makes it an ideal crystal to meditation on for depression.

Jasper is an orangey red stone and known to have strong grounding energies which is strongly connected to the base chakra, and shares is properties with the colour red and the element fire. As it is a grounding stone however, it helps ground overly active sexual energies, as well as encourage them. It is also the birth stone for the astrological sign Aries.

Red Tigers Eye has similar properties to tigers eye but invokes the fire of the colour red, giving an energy and passion and getting to the root of a problem. As with all red crystals, red tigers eye is an ideal healing crystal to work with the base chakra.

 

Other red crystals include, ruby