Ruby-Onyx
Benefits of a Ruby Onyx Necklace
How a Ruby-Onyx Necklace can Help You
How to Work With this Necklace
Therapeutic-Quality Parameters
Ruby catalyzes Onyx. This means that Ruby allows the effects of Onyx to occur immediately and effectively. When you wear it by itself, Onyx strengthens and normalizes the root chakra and helps to ground the body by connecting it with Earth energy. Onyx also absorbs colors and funnels them into your body through the root chakra. Ruby carries the red ray, which nourishes, heals, and sustains the root chakra. Ruby also helps to heal and open the heart.
When combined with Onyx, Ruby not only nourishes the root chakra, it also prompts the heart to draw Onyx’s colors into the body in a magnetic-like way. Together, Ruby and Onyx can help to ground and nourish your body in a way that is gentler and deeply soothing. Wearing the Ruby-Onyx necklace leaves you feeling more integrated and better able to handle multi-tasking and the many challenges of life. This gemstone combination also works immediately with your whole-body vortex, something that Onyx alone is unable to address until after you have worn it for a considerable time.
Benefits of a Ruby-Onyx Necklace
Strengthens and Heals the Root Chakra
An optimally healthy root chakra should be able to move, as though on a hinge, to face either forward or downward. (Read more about the root chakra.) Because the red ray nourishes the root chakra, the presence of the red-ray-bearer Ruby in this necklace allows Onyx to work more effectively and immediately on the root chakra.
Enhances Color-Ray Nourishment
The color black naturally absorbs colors. The energy of Black Onyx takes these colors and moves them into the body via the root chakra. When you wear Onyx by itself, it can take awhile for the other chakras to benefit from these colors, as they are only drawn upward in a natural osmosis-type action. When Ruby is combined with Onyx, this upward movement is greatly enhanced because Ruby has an affinity with the heart. When Ruby-Onyx is worn, the colors absorbed by Onyx are actively drawn upwards by a magnetic-like action from the heart center. The colors ride up the momentum of this upward movement to nourish the throat, brow, and crown chakras. By itself, Onyx is unable to access the crown chakra.
Strengthens the Whole-Body Vortex
The whole-body vortex surrounds the physical body and helps to keep the body’s cells and organs vitalized. (Read more about the whole-body vortex.) Onyx, when worn by itself, is usually able to affect the whole-body vortex after the gemstone has been worn long enough to normalize chakra energies. This can take many months of regular wear. When chakras are overactive or underactive, the movement and effectiveness of the whole-body vortex is significantly reduced.
Helps You Feel More Grounded
By itself, Onyx is well appreciated for its ability to help a wearer feel more grounded. It can also stabilize body energies so that other healing changes can occur more easily. With Ruby added to Onyx, grounding occurs more smoothly and gracefully. The body is able to settle into itself and connect with Earth energy with greater ease. This is due to Ruby’s influence on the whole-body vortex and the root chakra. With these functioning more effectively, grounding comes naturally.
The Ruby-Onyx Necklace Can Help You
- When you have low vitality, overall weakened organs, or low energy. The combination of Ruby and Onyx energies can enhance and support your whole-body vortex, which feeds your cells, organs, and chakras with bio-electrical current to enhance vitality and function.
- When your root chakra is blocked or stuck. Common symptoms of this condition are bad temper, being quick to feel negative emotions such as anger, and difficulty letting go of these feelings. By feeding your root chakra with the Ruby’s red ray, and providing Onyx’s grounding influence, this necklace can help your root chakra become freer, healthier, and more open to healthy energy flows. This includes healthier emotional flows, too.
- When you feel removed or disconnected from Earth energies. This necklace can help you feel more grounded and more connected to your own body at the same time. As Ruby nourishes your root chakra, it is better able to collect life-giving energy, therefore balancing the inflow and outflow of other chakras. You should feel more alive and comfortable in your body, and less likely to feel physically disconnected, spaced-out, or dizzy. These symptoms can occur when you give too much attention to mental activity.
- When your body tends to collect unwanted energies or you have a difficult time letting go of things in your life. Additionally, your body may have trouble ridding itself of waste. As Ruby-Onyx energy works to revive your root chakra and return it to normal function, it will naturally orient itself downward when necessary and release excess energies accumulated in your body and throughout your being.
The root chakra is the only chakra that can reposition itself. It moves as though on a door hinge. This chakra can point to the front of the body as other chakras do, or it can turn and point to the Earth. In the frontal position, the root chakra helps regulate the other six chakras of the body to ensure no chakra is more energized or active than another. In the downward position, the root chakra is able to expel unwanted energies from the body into the Earth. The root chakra can also uptake Earth energy to feed the chakras. By repositioning itself as needed, the root chakra helps the body stay energetically balanced.
A cocoon of energy called the whole-body vortex surrounds each one of us. This vortex moves either clockwise or counterclockwise. Looking outward, a clockwise movement circles your body from left to right, and thus, a counterclockwise movement would go from right to left. The speed and strength of this vortex has to do with how much vitality and life energy your cells and organs express. As the vortex energy passes across your body, it creates a friction that produces an electrical charge. This charge feeds and stimulates all body functions. When the body is weakened, the personal vortex can shift directions or move so slowly that it is barely perceptible.
How to Work With this Necklace
Wear it
Start by wearing this necklace for a few hours every day. Increase the amount of time you wear it until you can keep it on for an entire day. Do not sleep with this necklace on, and be sure to cleanse it after each time you wear it.
Before you wear this necklace, determine whether your personal vortex is moving clockwise or counterclockwise. To do this, hold the intention that you want to determine the direction of your personal vortex.
1. With one hand, touch your right shoulder and then your left. Meanwhile, do a muscle test using the fingers of your right hand (or have someone else muscle test for you). When you muscle test, hold the intention that a muscle response will go “weak” when indicating “yes.” If you get a “yes” response from the muscle, then your vortex moves from right to left, or counterclockwise. In this case, wear the Ruby-Onyx with the Ruby on the left side. If you get a “no” response, go to Step 2.
2. With one hand, touch your left shoulder and then your right. Meanwhile, do a muscle test. If you get a “yes” response, then your vortex moves from left to right, and you should wear the Ruby-Onyx with the Ruby on the right side.
You can also intuit the direction of your whole-body vortex by giving it attention and then inviting your upper torso to move in that same direction. If your body feels more comfortable turning slightly left, then it is likely that your personal vortex moves counterclockwise. If your body is inclined to turn slightly to the right, your personal vortex is moving clockwise.
Keep it at your feet
You can achieve significant results with this necklace at your feet:
1. At night when you are in bed sleeping.
2. During a self-therapy session of any kind.
3. During a therapy you give someone else, to keep you grounded and therefore a better vehicle for healing energy.
Use it in a treatment session
You can also place Ruby-Onyx bunched in a pile at or below the feet of someone to whom you are giving a treatment session. Alternatively, drape the necklace across the ankles or lower legs. Use it for gemstone therapy, reiki, massage, or other body and energy work. This will help your patient’s energy be more grounded while his or her whole-body vortex is also stimulated, so that the work you do can be deeper and more meaningful.
If your patients sit during a therapy session, such as psychotherapy or other talk therapy, they may hold the necklace in their lap or wear it. The lap would be preferred to settle scattered emotional, mental, or physical energy. Wearing it would be preferred if your patient has very low vitality, and if his or her condition includes blocked energy in the heart chakra.
Therapeutic-Quality Parameters
Therapeutic-quality Onyx is banded gray chalcedony that has been dyed black. Its color should be deep and consistent. Its clarity is opaque and its polish should shine brightly. Black Onyx should be almost perfectly spherical, with even drill holes that aren’t too large. Most therapeutic-quality Onyx is graded "Dyed" for color, and A for its other 3 grading parameters: clarity, brilliance, and cut.
Ruby is a member of the corundum family, which includes Blue Sapphire and Yellow Sapphire. The color of therapeutic-quality Ruby should be a true rich red that is deep but not dark. It should be translucent. Therapeutic-quality clarity falls in a narrow range, with Grade AAA Ruby being flawless or nearly flawless, AA Ruby having some very small visible inclusions, and A Ruby having visible but acceptable inclusions. Its cut should be as even as possible, with Grade AAA reflecting perfection. Very slightly irregular rondels may carry a grade of A.
Back-Story / Why is Onyx Dyed?
My intention for this journey was to research the Onyx-Azurite-Malachite GEMFormulas design in an inner-world library. However, when I stepped into the inner planes, the Guardians of Onyx and Amethyst greeted me. I love being surprised by unexpected experiences like this because it assures me that my inner journeys are not figments of an overactive imagination. I hadn’t seen the Guardian of Amethyst in over 20 years and never would have guessed I’d ever see him again.
The Onyx Guardian was most intriguing. His skin was a variegated gray color, which I recognized was the Onyx source material. His hair was jet black. I knew immediately what I wanted to ask him, and as soon as the question came to mind it was communicated. I realized this was rude, as I hadn’t even said hello or inquired about their visit.
My question was, “Why is Onyx dyed?”
The reply came telepathically and instantly. The energy of Gray Onyx does not resonate with the human body. The vibrations clash. By dying the source material, the vibrations are lowered, and they become compatible with human beings.
Gray Onyx actually works for beings that live on Earth’s supraphysical plane. It is used by those beings who populate Earth’s spiritual cities. It works for them, just as dyed Onyx works for humans on the physical plane.
When you dye Onyx, the vibrations of the dye and the Onyx blend. When you wear an Onyx necklace, you may become aware of the presence of the black color in your aura. This is the energy of Onyx, and not the dye. The black color indicates that the gem is working on your chakras. It does not have any negative connotations or effects, as black is simply a color that absorbs all colors. At times, this type of absorption is necessary when the body is unable to directly receive pure colors. After working with Onyx for a cycle, your ability to receive pure colors directly should improve.
My curiosity satisfied, I was able to turn my attention to the Guardian of Amethyst. It was really good to see him again. In the moments that followed, he conveyed quite a bit of information about gemstone necklaces in a few short minutes. He shared the 4 innovations to gemstone necklace therapy, which you can read here. He also made it clear that GEMFormulas’ next step was to make gemstone energy medicine “formulas” from symbiotic gemstones in necklace form.
He suggested we begin with a necklace of Ruby and Onyx, and he explained the benefits of that combination (see info above on this page). I expressed concern that I barely retained what he’d communicated, but he assured me that it was okay, as the information would emerge in the next few days in my nighttime note-taking sessions.
A day or so later, my stepson, who does the GEMFormulas’ graphics was inspired with an idea for the new GEMFormulas necklaces logo. Somehow that helped to make this project real. Many thanks also to Linda Lile, who offered invaluable support in this necklace launch and Antje Ryken, our stringer, who has helped to develop our signature clasp.
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Ruby-Onyx
The above photo shows a .80 carat Ruby with 8mm Onyx
Ruby-Onyx
The above photo shows a .10 carat Ruby with 8mm Onyx.This necklace is 20 inches long with a button clasp.
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