What are the magical properties of sapphire?

This beautiful gem — which can be every colour of the prism but is most famous in its blue incarnation — is a stunning stone of wisdom and truth.

What is sapphire?

Sapphire is a corundum, which means it’s made of aluminium oxide with traces of iron, magnesium, chromium and titanium. Interestingly, ruby is also a variety of corundum. Both gems have a hexagonal crystal system and a Mohs score of 9, which means they’re very durable.

What are the magical and healing properties of sapphire?

Sapphire is a stone of wisdom and truth, helping to keep you calm and focused. This a fantastic gem to help balance emotions, smooth anxiety and channel stress into healthy expression. it can also help calm your fight-or-flight response.

A thoughtful stone by every measure, it can help you do important emotional work. By centring wisdom in a very physical way, it can help you work on releasing negative energy and grudges. If you’re locked in negative thought patters, sapphire can be helpful in releasing them. It can also support your own self-exploration, and all other intellectual endeavours which seek to improve your understanding of yourself and the world around you.

How do I use sapphire?

Sapphire is a powerful magical crystal, and can be used in many ways.

You can mediate with a sapphire crystal or sapphire jewellery. Simply cup the sapphire crystal or the apphire jewellery in your hands (or, if you’re wearing it, press your fingers against it) and feel the stone against your skin. Clear your mind, and focus on how the stone feels on your body or in your hand. Meditate for a moment on the stone, and the ways in which you would like it to work for you.

You can also use sapphire as part of rituals, spells and simply by wearing it on your person in your day-to-day life. Check our blog for more details.

How can sapphire help me?

Sapphire is a wonderful stone to encourage wisdom — both the quest for it and its achievement. Use sapphire to guide your self-exploration and enhance your intellectual exploration of the world.

Sapphire is a stone of truth, and can help you find the truth of yourself. It can also help guide you as you explore your own emotions, seeking to gain ownership and understanding of them and also the ways in which you can channel them into a powerful force.

How do I get my amber crystal to work?

There is no direct scientific evidence that sapphire’s healing properties have a direct impact on your mental or physical health. But sapphire has been considered a powerfully energetic stone across the world, and over many centuries. And the cunningfolk of history have passed down rituals to make sapphire a valuable part of your spiritual practice.

Many cunningpeople empower their sapphire crystal or jewellery with an intention. To do this, decide what you would like your sapphire crystal or jewellery to help you accomplish. If you bought your sapphire crystal jewellery from Cunningfolk, it will be charged by the moonlight and sunlight. And primed to accept this intention. If you bought it elsewhere, you may want to cleanse and charge your crystal before you begin. (Check out how on our blog.)

Once your sapphire crystal or jewellery is cleansed and charged, sit with it in a quiet, peaceful room. Cup it in your hands. Meditate for a few minutes on what you would like it to help you with. Are you hoping to understand how to channel your emotions, or break destructive patterns? Do you seek insight on yourself or the world? Are you seeking the truth of yourself or the world around you?

Keep your sapphire crystal or jewellery on or near your body, where you’ll see it often. Every time you glance at it, your intention will come to the forefront of your mind. And you’ll be reminded of your goals — with the help of your sapphire crystal jewellery, of course.