Red Spinel

Aids Strength, Helps Tension, Fear & Stress 

➤ By Liz Oakes

Red Spinel are strong healing crystals that may help you to feel stronger physically and may alleviate stress, tension, depression, fear and anxiety.

Their energy may intensify the level of loving feelings within personal relationships, enhancing both deep affection and passion for your partner.

These beautiful red stones resonate within both the base chakra and the heart chakra where they may help to revitalize all types of relationships.

They may ease anger and/or fear and can encourage you to be more tolerant of the views of others, particularly when you realize that the way they think is not in alignment with your ideas and ideals.

They are known to work to activate the kundalini. Please note: Kundalini awakening can be difficult for some people so it is valuable to research this before you work with this idea.

Why Would You Use Red Spinel? 

Red Spinel connects the base and heart chakra, and this helps you to feel more tolerant of others who may not think in ways that are in alignment with your ideas and ideals.

Its resonance within the heart chakra is also helpful to create a more loving personal relationship, both physically and emotionally.

These beautiful crystals are known to enhance creativity and will assist you by encouraging creative thinking, and by helping you to build a stronger self image.

As it does this it will stimulate your capacity to embrace new talents and abilities that you may previously have been unable to use due to lack of faith in your own true worth.

Who Should Use It? Red Spinel Benefits

There are a number of benefits of using Red Spinel as they are known to be helpful if you are going through a difficult relationship break-up.

This includes if you are parting ways with your partner and are undergoing major changes such as separation or divorce.

In particular they are said to help to ensure that you are able to work for your rights without the situation degenerating into anger, conflict or hostility.

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They are good crystals for conquering fear so they might help you if you are living in a situation where you believe you might be in danger of being harmed.

It is common for relationship breakdowns to became toxic and this can cause unexpected emotions to emerge, including fear, anger, trauma and panic.

These stones are also purported to have a good action to assist kundalini activation. The kundalini energy rises up the spine starting at the base chakra.

The energy of these stones can trigger kundalini awakening but please read up on the process before taking action to make this happen deliberately as some people find it difficult to deal with.

 How Will It Help You? Healing Properties

The stone meanings of these red crystals aid you to feel better physically so they are beneficial for crystal healers to use.

They are strong base chakra stones that help to align the base chakra and assist you to feel stronger physically as they enhance strength and vitality.

The have good healing properties known to assist blood disorders and are helpful for anyone who has trouble moving easily or if you have any issue related to mobility.

They are known to be good crystals for pain relief especially if you are dealing with degenerative health conditions.

Using this red stone is one of the methods to help stress, so if you are feeling depressed or anxious keep one of these stones for stress nearby.

The various colors contain different minerals and they may have different applications depending on the exact shade of the stone.

The healing properties of stones of different colors of Spinel may vary but all types of Spinel will aid in lessening fatigue and replenishing energy levels. 

They are also helpful crystals for inflammation and may be advantageous to assist problems related to muscular conditions. 

Where Is Red Spinel Found? 

This stone has been found in a number of locations, with the stone from Afghanistan being the most well known. 

Tanzania and Madagaskar are other areas where it has also been found as well as in Vietnam, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Canada, Brazil and the United States. 

Places where it comes from to particularly support the jewelry trade is Myanmar and Sri Lanka as both supply gorgeous gemstone quality crystals.

The darker twinned burgundy Red Spinel shown here came from Vietnam, but other brighter stones are also found at this location. 

Red Spinel Meaning And Color

The color of Red Spinel is interesting and when the pieces are the beautiful gem quality stone most are a beautiful bright pure red shade.

Other colors it occurs in is orange-red, pinkish red and the darker reddish purple or burgundy shade seen in the twinned pieces pictured.

The mineral make-up of these stones is magnesium aluminium oxide but this does vary as they may also contain other minerals and this affects their color.

The bright red stones are said to be higher in chromium, but they may contain other minerals which will have an effect on the exact color.

They commonly occur in a octagonal or cubic formation and it is common for them to be seen as twinned crystals like pyramids that have joined at the base. 

The meaning of the name Spinel is derived from a Latin word 'spinella' which means spine. 

This is because when it was discovered, many stones were seen in spiny, needle like formations especially when you look at them magnified.

In the past stone collectors often mistook Spinel for Ruby Stone, and this continued until the 18th century when they were able to chemically analyze minerals and know for certain which type of stone it really was.

Best Crystals To Use With Red Spinel

What are the best crystals to combine with Red Spinel? There are quite a few beautiful red base chakra stones and any of them combine well with them.

Any of the red base chakra crystals or stones will work well in combination with Red Spinel to stimulate a stronger root chakra energy.

There are a number you could choose including Poppy Jasper, Red Jasper, Rhodolite Garnet or Rubellite also called Red Tourmaline.

If you are suffering with ongoing pain and inflammation especially if it affects your ability to move freely, you may like to combine it with other crystals for pain or use it with stones that aid inflammation.

Other stones that may help your pain includes any color of Euclase, Kammererite, Amber and Black Tourmaline.

These red stones are strong crystals to release fear. If events that have occurred in the last few years have caused you to feel fearful, using them with any of the stones that relieve fear may be helpful.

There are a number of stones for this purpose including Beryllonite, Black Jade, Dioptase or Tigers Eye which all have a good energy to aid you to let go of fear.

This stone has an excellent action to encourage the level of tolerance that you and others nearby might feel.

Some people find it hard to tolerate what others do. Or conversely if you work with people who are intolerant, combine these stones with other crystals for tolerance and keep nearby.

Stones for this purpose includes the beautiful pink Rose Quartz, Kutnohorite, Lamprophyllite and Rhodochrosite.

If you wish to use this for kundalini activation, just ensure you have read about this first as it can cause health issues.

Using it with other stones that assist the kundalini to rise can be advantageous if this is your aim.

Specific stones you might choose includes Serpentine, Fulgurite, Stichtite or  Atlantisite which is naturally occurring Serpentine with Stichtite.

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