Free Book of Witchery by Ellen Dugan

Interestingly, there are no red sapphires, because a red sapphire is actually considered to be a ruby. (Rubies are also from the corundum group.) Actually, rubies and sapphires are often found together, with one of the colors more prevalent than the other.
    This fabulous precious stone is incorporated into rituals and magick for protection, sorcery, and healing. Wearing sapphire jewelry will also increase your psychic abilities. Blue sapphires are also considered to be a love stone, which makes them a more romantic choice for wedding jewelry than a diamond. Sapphires also will increase your spirituality, and if worn while meditating, they can increase divine knowledge.
    You may care to enchant these lunar stones by placing them on a windowsill that receives the moonlight or by setting them in a dish and leaving them in the garden on the night of a full moon, letting them soak up some lunar energy. If you own any pearl or sapphire jewelry, then let it stay indoors on a moonlit windowsill. (I wouldn’t recommend leaving your good jewelry outdoors overnight.)
    Moonstone: The moonstone is linked to the sea and to the moon. The elemental association for the moonstone is water, and it is a receptive stone. It is employed in all types of moon magick. Tumbled moonstones are enchantingly affordable and come in a range of colors—white, beige, pearly gray—and these stones are gorgeous and shimmery. As jewelry, white moonstones are typically set in silver. Wearing moonstone earrings, rings, pendants, or bracelets can increase your sensitivity to psychic impressions, though, so if you are already sensitive enough, limit your exposure to moonstones.
    Personally, I adore moonstones; however, I do not wear them as often as I’d like. I never wear my moonstone earrings or my moonstone pendant when I do psychic readings. Why? Because when I do, I typically get overloaded with information—rather delicate, personal information that the client may not have wished for me to know. Also, moonstones tend to turn up my mediumship abilities to full blast. So I do not wear my moonstone jewelry during psychic work unless I want to spend my day talking to all the client’s dead relatives, who can be very demanding —once they have someone to talk to, they typically do not shut up—and yeah, they do follow me home, which is very disruptive.
    This is not the case for everyone, but if you do counseling, assist in physical therapy, perform healing work such as Reiki, or give tarot readings to the public, you are already sensitive. Moonstone jewelry may really help you “up your game,” so to speak, and become incredibly empathic to others, or it may cause you some psychic overload and emotional distress. In other words, you may feel so overwhelmed and so emotionally worn out by other people that you need a break. It’s like having a psychic hangover; it feels like all the symptoms of drinking too much without the actual drinking. And believe me, psychic hangovers suck big time. So you’ll have to experiment to see how moonstones set in silver affect you.
    Truthfully, they may not bother you at all. I know plenty of folks who work beautifully with the moonstone for psychic work and tarot readings. Just remember, when moonstones are set in silver, it only increases their receptive powers. There is no reason to be alarmed; just use this moonstone information to your advantage in the future.
    Try carrying a piece of tumbled, polished moonstone in your pocket to celebrate your connection to the moon and all its energies. Or keep the opalescent stone with your divinatory tools. I like to surround spell candles with a ring of tumbled moonstones to give my candle spells a boost of lunar magick. The moonstone is wonderful for use in the following types of spells: safe travel, increasing psychic powers, boosting your empathy, gardening, and self-awareness. It is a classic Goddess stone. Since the moonstone is often used