Blue Sapphire → Saturn

T“The (Blue) sapphire is  bitter, warm and good in cold and biliousness, and alleviates the rage  of Sani (Saturn) when worn.” – Mani Mala, Part II, 68. “The man who  wears a (blue) sapphire of spotless chastity, finds favor with Narayana  and acquires longevity, family dignity, fame understanding and wealth.” –  Mani Mala, Part I, 419. “The lapis lazuli is tender, deliciously cool,  and curative of biliousness and is auspicious.” – Mani Mala, Part II,  69.

Blue sapphire is the gemstone  recommended for strengthening Saturn. Blue sapphire should only be worn  after a Vedic gemologist carefully examines your chart with a Vedic  gemstone prescription due to Saturn's malefic influence on certain  individuals' charts. However, it can be beneficial to career or work and  can promote feelings of self-contentment or detachment. It also may at  times counteract envy and give protection while traveling and free an  individual from mental and emotional anxieties. Physically, it is said  to strengthen bones and cleanse the blood, as Saturn rules the bones.

Spiritually, blue sapphire can aid in meditation and increase psychic and clairvoyant abilities.

Many  blue sapphires are heat-treated to enhance the intensity of color, as  well as to rid the gem of inclusions. Many blue sapphires are sold as  natural, but upon close, expert examination they are found to be  heat-treated to improve their appearance, which seriously harms the  gem's use for energetic and healing purposes.

Sources for  natural, unheated sapphires are Kashmir, a source of the finest and most  expensive blue sapphires in the world, but they are extremely rare.  Also, they are found in Sri Lanka and India. Other sources for blue  sapphires are Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, U.S. (Montana), and Australia.

Substitute Gems

Lapis, Amethyst, Malachite, Lapis Lazuli, (Some say Iolite and Indicolite substitute as well)

Saturn Planetary Mantra = Om Sam Sanaye Namaha (ohm shum shuneeyay nahmahhah)

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