Red Aventurine enhances creativity, prosperity, diffuses negativity, and balances the male-female energies. Red Aventurine can also help to ground excess energies within the body. Simply hold a piece of Red Aventurine, place your feet flat on the floor, visualize forming a connection with the earth and allow the energies to flow down through your feet and into the ground.

Use Red Aventurine to create balance and harmony in the home. If you have overly-critical relatives, carry a Red Aventurine with you to family gatherings to help you take it all in stride and let nothing negative affect you.Red Aventurine is a blood-strengthening stone, stimulating red blood cell production in the bone marrow, enhancing blood flow and circulation, and providing balance in auto-immune disorders and the immune system in general. It is thought to speed metabolism, adjust low blood pressure, pulse and irregular heartbeat, help reduce cholesterol levels, and relieve the side effects of radiotherapy and hemophilia.

Red Aventurine benefits the liver and removes toxins. It also supports the reproductive system, increases libido and aids in fertility.

Physical and Metaphysical Properties for

PROPERTIES FOR STONE: Red Aventurine

PRIMARY CHAKRA: Root-Chakra

SECONDARY CHAKRA: Sacral-Chakra

CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Trigonal-Crystal-System

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: SiO2 - Silicon Dioxide with inclusions of Pyrite, Goethite or Hematite

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Aries-(March-21-to-April-19)

NUMERICAL VIBRATION: Number-3

HARDNESS: 7-Hardness

COLOR: Red

LOCATION: Brazil, Canada, China, India, Russia, Tibet

RARITY: Common

PRONUNCIATION: red-uh-ven-chuh-reen

MINERAL CLASS: Silicates

ISSUES AND AILMENTS (PHYSICAL): Autoimmune-Disorders, Infertility, Liver-Disorders-and-Health, Low-Blood-Pressure, Nausea, Reproductive-Organs

ISSUES AND AILMENTS (EMOTIONAL): Abundance, Creativity-and-Creative-Expression, Dispel-or-Release-Negativity, Emotional-Balance, Harmony

EXTRA GRADE: Beautiful red color, translucent, < 10% matrix

A GRADE: Nice red color, partially translucent, 10-25% matrix

B GRADE: Poor red color and/or > 25% matrix

AFFIRMATION: I am open to new possibilities and experiences.

REFERENCE 1: http://www.healingcrystals.com/_Tis_the_Season_to_Find_the_Magic_Articles_13150.html