Gemstones To Work With This Month: January & The Sun's Influence...

January teaches us the challenges that the Sun's influences have on us, as the first month of the year. As it radiates the Light, it can also illuminate the shadows. With all of the power and magnetism that the Sun has, there can be a selfish, arrogant, or irresponsible side as well. Health issues can manifest around the heart, circulation, and heat-related disturbances, and the eyes, skin, and spine are particularly vulnerable. To address the Sun's karmic teachings, we can work with Topaz, Carnelian, and Yellow Diamonds this month.

Topaz helps the Solar Plexus Chakra and the Solar force of illuminating power. She is a stone of truth, awareness, mental clarity, warmth, and new beginnings. Topaz supports circulatory flow, vitality, spinal alignment, and the association to our higher integrity and spiritual awareness. She helps us prevent burnout during new beginnings, and recognize our self-power to push when we need to and retreat when the calling comes forth. Topaz reflects honesty, self-awareness, and the harmony between rest and play.

Carnelian is both grounding and protective. She supports circulation in the body and harnessing warmth during the colder seasons of the year. Carnelian helps us release stagnation and fear when it comes to starting something new or staying motivated to follow something to completion. She energizes our internal creative and motivational frequencies, while helping us stay rooted in our personal truths, intentions, and physical desires. Her job is to help us move forward and trust the process that life has presented to us without hesitation or reservation.

Yellow Diamond supports heart-centered confidence and joy. She reflects our Light right back to us, while reminding us to stay optimistic during our most challenging times. Yellow Diamond is connected to mental clarity and a higher vision. She helps us find resilience when the pressure is on, and to stay present when life tries to throw a curve ball. Yellow Diamond reflects back to us the Light of the Sun and the strength and stability we have deep inside. She is a stone of unwavering presence and vitality.

By carrying around one or all of these stones, meditating with them on heart-related issues, and/or using them for health, transformation, or increasing confidence, these stones can help us move forward through the Sun's most challenging aspects. Nature is a balancing agent, radiating harmony, strength, and awareness instead of causing us to push, force, or control the situation at hand. This month, we can use these stones as allies on our daily journeys toward truth, Love, peace, and healing.