Aum vakratunda mahakaya surya koti samaprabha nirvignam kuru me deva sarva karyesu sarvada

Sun  Moon  Mars  Mercury  Jupiter  Venus  Saturn  Rahu  Uranus  Neptune  Pluto  Chiron Stones for Malefics Explication

3-4 There are many incarnations of the unborn Lord. Janardana, Vishnu, has incarnated as the navagrahas to bestow on living beings the results of their karmas. He assumed the auspicious form of the grahas to destroy the strength of the demons, to sustain the strength of the devas, and to establish dharma. -Brihat Parasara Hora Shastra   This is just a rough draft Copyright 2000 Freedom Cole Introduction This is a system of Astrological gem use that remedies problems in the astrological chart. It is not traditional but is based on traditional concepts. I am a Vedic astrologer and have used these stones according to that system. In Jyotisha (Vedic astrology) there are many ways this system can be applied. A western astrologer can still use this system in terms of conjunctions and aspects as well as just to give a deeper understanding of the stone's energies. Click here to learn more about the Vedic planets. This gem system was originally channeled through during the time between 1999 and 2000. I have spent the last two years refining it and applying it, and adding to it. Astrological gem data that you have personally experienced which may relate is welcome for future writings. I hope you find this system useful and effective. Coming Through It was late September of 1999, I was in Rishikesh, India, and had just come from Varanasi. I would spend a lot of time looking at gemstones because its something I enjoy. I have a long history of working with stones, crystals and gems, or what the native Americans sometimes call the Stone people. I had stones on my mind as I was walking over the Ganges across the Laxman Jhula bridge. It hit me like a brick falling from the sky, that Aquamarine balanced the energy of a Moon and Venus conjunction, it worked with Moon-Venus energy. I thought about it, and it made me think of some information I received a few months earlier. I had worked with a sattvic deep trance channel named Moonfire for some time. Once she had recommended celestite to keep an individual in tune with the Moon, and to appease the Moon. I had asked about celestite in relation to a pearl, and I was told, "Yes, it is similar, pearls being from the ocean and being effected by the tides and those tides controlled by the cycles of the Moon creates a strong relationship between pearls and the Moon. There is a difference, think of the name Celestite, it is implying that it is of the celestial realm which gives it energy from the solar system, stars and planets. Pearl is held between Earth and Moon, where celestite is Moon and all the stars, which includes the Earth. It is more powerful for Saturn on the Moon but it could be different for each individual case and usually this can be decided by asking the individual which they are more drawn to, celestite or pearl." We acquired a few pieces of celestite and moved onto other things. I thought about my realization of the Aquamarine being Moon-Venus energy and Celestite being Saturn-Moon energy. Maybe there were more connections like this. So I wrote out a chart of all the planetary combinations. With intuition from years of crystal work and the help of Moonfire who would go into deep trance to reveal or confirm various stones, soon the chart was almost filled in. This was done during our travels of India; particularly through Rishikesh, Gangotri, Herakhan, Almora, and a few other Himalayan places, as well as some in central India. A few stones took their time revealing themselves and didn't come till months later. Using the Stones There are a few different ways to use these stones astrologically. Each stone has a planetary energy. For example, Celestite has a Moon-Saturn energy. It can be used if there is a conjunction of the Moon and Saturn, or if Saturn is in Cancer, or if Saturn is aspecting the Moon, or if Saturn is transiting the Moon, and even for sadhi-sati in general, as well as a Saturn-Moon dasha. It can be used wherever there is a problem caused by these planets. I will not describe how to determine strengths and weaknesses of a chart because there are plenty of good books on the subject. I use the stones differently according to who I am working with. Those not interested much in stones or jewelry I may only recommend a simple stone, one that is most important. For those more into the healing power of gems I will design jewelry using a combination of stones for either planets or houses that need help. I also have people wear jewelry for the dasa they are in at the moment, depending on the chart. Many of these stones can be inexpensive others can have a large price range. There is a strong belief that stones need to be a certain quality or weight. I have not found this to make much difference. There is another belief that the stones need open backs and should touch the skin. I have found through my own experience that the stone is more effective when it touches the skin. I do believe that it can still work if not touching because it is within the aura and therefore its vibration is changing the vibration of the individual. For this same reason, the stones vibration, unchanged by weight is having its effect. Besides having a father who was a collector of various minerals (my Sun is in Chitra), I began using stones to move energy when I was 19 and went into my Sun Mahadasha. I remember having a simple stone layout on my chakras for the first time, I felt like I was three feet off the ground, and a waterfall of energy poured through me. On my root chakra, all I had was a tiny little pebble of smoky quartz, and it was that powerful. From that point on I was initiated into the world of the 'stone people' or crystal energies. Why could the experience of a stone's energy be so powerful and other times not. I've found that the more a stone is needed the more powerful its effect will be. If the individual has little need of the stone they will not even notice an effect unless their perception is very subtle. Other times the effects are drastic, bringing changes in a person, how they feel and how they relate to their environment. Various stones are also more drastic in their effect while some stones prefer to be subtle. I've looked into the whole question of why weight has such an emphasis. Few astrologers were able to give me good reasons except that it was in the texts, of which all texts did not agree on the same weight. When we think of gemstones on a vibrational level affecting our energy body it makes little sense. The concept of an open back has the foundation that it allows the sunlight to pass through the gemstone and enter the body, one that I agree has a powerful effect. To bring up another point, the use of gem elixirs. I wear kyanite regularly (almost every Saturday), and I rarely get much reaction energetically to it. I took a gem elixer of kyanite that I made in the full Moon and my stomach dropped, emotional blocks came up. Kyanite is a stone that has a lot of work to help me with. A drop of gem elixer where the stone was not even present had a more powerful and immediate effect than wearing the stone itself. So I don't think we can say a smaller stone won't have an effect. If we decide to believe this we are limiting ourselves and others. Trust the stones to work their magic. The stone is first worn on the day of the planet being appeased. It should be cleansed on an energetic level as crystals and gems should be. A prayer should be done as well as the correct mantra, intent is important. If it's a ring it should be worn on the finger of the weakest planet you are trying to appease or strengthen. In Feng Shui, when a remedy is applied there are three things done to reinforce the solution and empower the intention. First, speech is used, a prayer or mantra. Second, the body is used, gestures or mudras. And next the mind is used, one is told to visualize what they want the solution to accomplish. These can be applied tostone remedies in Astrology, and mantras and mudras have been included for that purpose. Another important thing to consider is Muhurta, or timing. It should be an auspicious time that the stone is put on for the first time. The more expensive the piece and the more important the effect you want it to have the more important a good muhurta becomes. An astrologer can help you with finding the correct time for your intention to be magnified and become more powerful. There are certain times that can make a remedy much more effective if their application begins in that time. A note on man made gems. They have the same chemical structure as the natural gemstone, and some will say therefore the same energetics. The Earth needed very specific conditions for a natural gemstone to be formed, my belief is that this is helped by planetary energies, and therefore happens at an appropriate time for the stone to have its character. We look at the birth chart of an individual to see who they are and look at their life cycles, their talents and faults. We can look at a chart of the day a couple is married and see how the marriage will work. We can look at the chart of a business or country and interpret its future potentials. The time something is born affects its potential, and is connected with the intent of the energy being expressed through it. At the moment, man-made gemstones are not made for you to balance planetary energies or improve that state of your life, they are made to make money, the healing intention is not there. When these stones are made with the proper intention, when an export astrologer is used to pick the appropriate time of the year, when an invocation is done before the process begins, when planetary mantras and yantras are used while the gems are being made, then those gems will be powerful.   "The hampering of limitations is to some extent overcome by use of incantations, gems and herbs, and an unbroken current of 'I' is established. With the aid of that pure yoga, O Rama observe the creation manifested by one's own will like hallucinations brought by a magician." -Tripura Rahasya, Chapter XI, verses 70, 71   Questions Along the Way How did the knowledge of the original nine stones come into the physical plane? Much as you're receiving this information now, it is the knowledge that comes from within. Can this system be applied to transits as well as the natal chart? Yes, it can be applied to both but has a greater affect on the natal chart. Has this information been revealed before or just now, and why? Now it is being revealed because the stones, there is a wider range of stones, Kyanite and Selenite are stones that recently have become activated because of the respect and energy placed in the healing of stones. Some stones that weren't as potent have become more and more potent and because of the vibration of this time period stones are having more of an effect on people and the entire play of the universe. What is the relation between using the stones for the chakra system verse this astrological system? When working with the chakras use the chakra stone, the planets corrolation with the chakras is much more specific to each persons natal chart whereas the color-chakra corralation is a general knowledge, the stones specific to each chakra will have an effect regardless of planets. A combination of both can be quite powerful. Does the size of this stone make a difference? The stress on bigger stones, which weigh certain a amount is not necessary. The most important thing is that the person wears the stone with the intention that they are powerful and will help to balance and bring the planets into harmony. Bigger stones aren't better? No, not unless you believe they are. Then is there a real effect or is it just belief? There is a vibration that is affecting the being and the planets but that vibration is not activated without the intention of the person. To see a Navratna with big beautiful stones and be in awe and look at them as more powerful than little stones, that automatically places more strength and power in the bigger stones. *Italics are used to show what information was channeled, it is not quoted because it is often paraphrased and put into proper English.