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Hessonite Garnet
The Cinnamon Stone
Your confidence has become smoky and uncertain. Hessonite carries a honey-cinnamon glow and a roiled internal texture collectors call heat wave. Some assurance arrives with movement still visible inside it.
Sacral ChakraGrossularOrange-BrownSri Lanka, India, Tanzania
Tsavorite
The Green Treasure
You need a green that cuts instead of soothes. Tsavorite is a vanadium- and chromium-bearing grossular garnet, vivid and lively at Mohs 7 to 7.5 with a brilliance that does not blur. Vivid, hard, precise. Green that cuts.
Heart ChakraGrossularGreenKenya, Tanzania