#birthstones by month

[yuviur]

And then, Henry is holding them really tight, more for his security than theirs, and he walks out of the dungeon (ep 42)

I cannot be the only one who cried when the twins climbed Henry and sat on his shoulders like two loving pauldrons 🥺

#I am NOT ready for the next episode #also he is so strong for carrying two 12 year-olds like that #and now some design notes yayy #the string visible under Henry's shirt is a necklace with the birthstones of the four of them (he tucks it under his shirt to keep it safe) #Lark is on Henry's right shoulder and Sparrow's on his left if it's unclear (you can barely see the ends of their tattoos) #I think the twins have had different haircuts throughout their lives to keep things simple for their parents #after the events of S1 Lark buzzed his hair to further himself from Henry and Sparrow let his grow out (I'm working on their S2 designs rn) #Lark has a black toe from kicking something too hard #Sparrow and him used to have matching bead bracelets but Lark's got ripped during the pyramid incident #Sparrow offered him his but Lark wouldn't take it #also these trees do not look like oaks and especially not the same one but it was so ugly when I tried to do that so shhh #this was actually my first dndads fanart but it was left in my sketchbook for MONTHS before I decided to digitalize it... #so I actually sketched it the moment I heard the ep and before Deck Picks which makes me lose it #anyway! #my art #dndads #dungeons and daddies #dndads s1 #dndaddies #dndads odyssey #henry oak #sparrow oak #lark oak #sparrow oak garcia #lark oak garcia

[valiant-sun]

will probably delete this later but idk for now I'm feeling insane enough about them to post this here. Houseki no Kuni AU

#idolish7 #my art #yukito orikasa #banri ogami #yukiban #banyuki #i thought A LOT about which gems they represent lmao #yuki is supposed to be a moonstone #because i associate banri with the moon... but that's a whole different story #banri is a tanzanite #because tanzanite is one of December's birthstones aka Yuki's birth month #so yeah their gems kinda... resemble each other... because i can #other options for yuki would've been opal and pearl for various reasons but i went with moonstone in the end #why am i putting all this in the tags. idk

[tarmac-rat]

OC Associations

Tagged by @ghostoffuturespast -- finally getting around to clearing some of my tag games out lolol

Animal: Coyote

Colors: Electric blue, neon green, dark gray, burnt gold

Month: August

Song: Zombie by Bad Pony and TrusT by half alive

Number: 9

Day or Night: Day

Plant: Star Cacti, Black-eyed Susans, California Gold Poppies

Smells: Oil, old leather, gunsmoke, vanilla, licorice

Gemstone: Turquoise

Season: Summer

Places: Reconciliation Park, the top of MegaBuilding 10, the pavilion overlooking Westbrook on Lilac Street, your local grungy dive bar

Food: Syn-lamb shawarma, Moochies, cold noodles in peanut sesame sauce, charred hot dogs cooked over an open flame

Astrological Sign: Sagittarius

Element: Earth, Ice, Electricity, Mercury

Drink: White rum, bourbon, black coffee, Chromanticore Lime

I'm thinking I missed the boat on this one, so I'll hold off on tagging for now. Maybe I'll reblog with some extra tags.

#Cyberpunk 2077 #CP2077 #V #My V #Riley Aldana #She's a winter baby who's favorite season is spring who's associated with a summer month. She contains multitudes not fallacies #Also yes the Arizona trashbaby IS going to love turquoise she was jazzed to learn it's her birthstone #Aldi speaks #Thank you for tagging me as always!

[sixminutestoriesblog]

garnet

Unlike most of the other months, January babies only have one birth stone. But oh - what a birthstone it is!

Garnets come in a variety of colors, including the ultra rare blue ones, but the most well known and well loved is the deep rich red. Red garnets are one of the oldest recorded gems for humanity and one that stretched across continents. Garnets can be found in jewelry as far back as the Bronze Age and ancient Romans and Greeks were fond of it as well. The carbuncle gemstone on the High Priest's breastplate in the Old Testament might have been a garnet. They were often found on the jewelry of ancient pharaohs. In fact, archeologists have used garnets to trace historic trade routes, with the 7th century Staffordshire Hoard and the Winfarthing pendant of England both containing garnets from as far away as ancient Sri Lanka. Garnets featured frequently in Migration Period art, a style that arose across Europe and Britain after the collapse of Rome, during the 3rd century, that relied on small, intricate interlocking patterns like the above sword hilt piece.

In modern times, garnets are more than just a pretty face. With a hardness on the Mohs scale from 6 to 7.5, they are often used for their abrasive properties. Garnet grains added to a jet of water can cut through steel!

Just remember, January babies, you're made of tough stuff!

Having such a long history across so much of the world, garnets have netted their fair share of superstitions over the centuries.

In Persia, the garnet was good for protection from natural dangers, like storms and their lightning. In some stories, while there was no light from the moon or the sun during the storm that brought the flood, Noah's ark was lit with the light from a brilliant garnet. Many cultures saw garnets as protection against physical harm and wore them into battle. In fact, during the Crusades, both Christian and Muslim soldiers wore garnets for the exact same reason. Garnets were good at signalling danger since they would grow pale as it approached. They were also supposed to help protect travelers going on long journeys to ensure they came safely home and parting friends would exchange garnets in the belief that the stones would ensure they would meet again. In ancient Egypt, garnets could ward off depression and bad dreams.

The garnet's red color associates it naturally with blood and the stone was supposed to be a cure against inflammation. Too much blood could make you hot-headed, and the garnet was supposed to soothe anger and help with mental clarity and peace of mind. It was also associated with love and friendship. Many older engagement rings were set with garnet as it was supposed to represent loyalty and unchanging affection.

In Medieval Europe, dragon's eyes were sometimes said to be made of garnets. Garnets were also associated with the deep red pomegranate seeds Persephone ate while trapped in the underworld.

Garnets were popular through the Victorian times and are starting to return to popularity as different colored garnets are coming into vogue. Demantoid garnets are a beautiful green color while mandarin garnets are a brilliant golden orange. The iridescent garnet changes color, from red to purple under different lighting. And, as already mentioned, the blue garnet is a deep teal color and was only official in 2017. Garnet lovers have more choices than ever -

but there's something to be said for the classic red garnets that have entranced humanity down through the centuries.

#garnet #january #birth stone #superstition #folklore #birth month #birthstone #january birthstone

[palialaina]

I knew something was going to be in that nest eventually, but I wasn't quite expecting it to be so dang cute!

BIRB!

And the Kitsuu pretending it doesn't see me~

Like the kitsuu, it flew away when I tried to get close, but it left me an egg, which was really yummy. I was not expecting weird candy eggs from a Silverwing, but you know what? I'll take it.

Najuma made a timer for the Kamera, and a weird extension pole thing so that I could get shots like this. It's a bit fiddly to work with, but hey, it's fun too! She's so smart.

It took a lot of mining, but I was finally able to get a stone I wanted to keep and display. I'm really really attached to amethysts, for all my favorite color is actually shades of pink (just look at my house exterior!) but for some reason this stone specifically makes me happy. Chayne says it's probably related to the sign I'm born under, but I'm not really sure I believe all that starstone stuff.

Now I want a citrine! I can worry about the harder to get stones another day though. Rather, I have to, because I got run over by a mujiin again. Najuma thought it was pretty funny, but Hodari was not as amused.

Honestly, it was pretty funny, but Hodari fusses almost as bad as Jel does sometimes, so I decided it was smarter to not tell him the stuff I was doing that led up to the mujiin headbutt.

Hey, at least this time it wasn't a sernuk? Hassian still hasn't let me live that one down...

#palia #palia online #singularity 6 #berry plays palia #palia game #palia journaling #palia journey #palia roleplaying #palia mmo #Amethyst is actually my birthstone so this was a DELIGHT to get #Is mah birthday this month #yeah baby~

[deityofhearts]

sure sagittarius is an under appreciated and slept on sign who only gets the short end of the stick in those “the signs as [blank]” posts and who’s merch is almost always just. Horse. Arrow. But you know what we do have? The most fucking birthstones (if you’re born in december but the november besties also have two and as a december bitch I’m willing to share with y’all, sagittarius solidarity)

#deity dialogue #sorry if I don’t make a post complaining about u important sagittarius things ever few months I die #anyways I have four possible birthstones so. get on my level #updated this to be meaner #sagittarius posting

[bananapudding752]

I bet at least…. 16 of y’all haven’t had a wedding between yourself and one of your friends and I think that is absolutely despicable. more friendship wedding need to happen

#one of mine got us matching rings with our birthstone (same month) but it wasn’t really a wedding #we’re no longer friends too but it’s the thought that counts :

[li-bruh]

birthstones ఇ flowers ఇ colors 

january garnet (constancy) • carnation • black, dark blue and red

february amethyst (sincerity) • violet • light blue and yellow

march bloodstone (courage) • jonquil • white and light blue

april diamond (innocence) • sweet pea • yellow and red

may emerald (success in love) • lily of the valley • yellow, red and green

june pearl (health) • rose • white, cream and light blue

july ruby (contented mind) • larkspur • green, russet and red

august sardonyx (conjugal felicity) • gladioli • orange, red and light green

september sapphire (love) • aster • brown and dark blue

october opal (hope) • calendula • white and yellow

november topaz (fidelity) • chrysanthemum • dark blue, red and yellow

december turquoise (prosperity) • narcissus • indigo, blue-green and green

#astrology #birthmonth #birth month #birthstone #flower #color

[oars]

i think its so funny that i come with all these fish and water themes naturally and seafood is one of my worst allergies

#.1 am #named bubbles born pisces aquamarine birthstone loved marine bio since 4-5 #but im a bad swimmer and allergic to seafood i can touch live fish just fine though apparently #i did take a free scuba class in school so i was good at swimming for a few months lol #i think ik how to free dive though

[aluminumoxideaddict]

Peridot and her GFs to cap off August.

#peridot #sphene #blue zoisite #houseki no kuni #land of the lustrous #in another universe these three and Topaz would be a happy quad #I thought it'd be fun to draw gems during their respective birthstone months #give some love to gems I don't draw as much #even relatively minor characters deserve love! #...especially considering the only three gems I don't like are major / popular characters lol

[ourbastardofsorrows]

me: this [gallows hill] is about a lady whose parents sent her away as a child, and she only comes back after they die mysteriously. she inherits their vineyard, and she has to figure out how to break the curse on the land before she dies, too! and there are walking corpses of people who’d been hanged on that land, and they try to kill her every night!

mom: i read a book about a lady who inherits a vineyard, too... except in the book i read, she just fell in love with someone and there were no walking corpses

#tia text #oh anyway for an end of year gift she gave sister & i necklaces with our birthstones #and my dumbass nearly asked what birthstone sister's necklace had #we were born within days of each other in the same month. we have the same damn birthstone

[sixminutestoriesblog]

tanzanite

While December babies share topaz with the November babies, November's topaz being golden-brown while December's is blue, December also lays claim to the newly discovered excitement of tanzanite.

Tanzanite, so the legend goes, was discovered by Masai herders in the Merelani Hills near Mt. Kilimanjaro. A lightning strike set the grasslands around the area on fire, forcing the herders to flee with their animals. When the fire had burned itself out and the Masai returned with their herds, they found the ground littered with beautiful dark blue stones (the government of Tanzania recognizes Jumanne Mhero Ngoma as the official discoverer of the gem). The rest of the world wouldn't find out about these stones until 1967 when a Indian prospector named Manuel de Souza, hunting for sapphires or gold depending on which story you go with, either stumbled across some of the blue gems himself or was directed there by the locals. At first he assumed they were olivine but something about them struck him as unique and so he sent some samples to a gemstone dealer friend of his and from that point on things took off. It wasn't long before the gem was discovered to be a brand new jewel. While the official name of the stone is blue zoisite, jewelry dealers knew better. In 1968, the gem was marketed as 'tanzanite' by Tiffany and Co. with the slogan that the rare new gem could only be found in two places in the entire world: "Tanzania and Tiffany's".

And Tiffanys was right. To this day, the rare stone is only found in Tanzania, in the same foothills that it was originally discovered in. There is no where else in the world these gems turn up. While I found 'lab created tanzanite' on etsy, I couldn't find any actual confirmation that the stone has ever been replicated in a lab, just that it has been imitated there. Right now, the entirety of this jewels deposits all exist in one single point, a stretch of land that's four miles long and one mile wide. This area is broken up into four sectors, half given to corporate mining and half to locals. In fact, Saniniu Laizer, a local man, mined the two largest tanzanite stones to ever have been found at 21 pounds(972 kg) and 11 pounds (5.1kg). He sold them to the government for 3.35 million USD.

Tanzanite is measured at 6.5 on the Mohs hardness scale. It is a member of the zoisite family with its natural color being a reddish brown to clear. Heat brings out its blue color which can dip almost into purple with some stones. It also shows different shades of color when viewed from different angles from red-violet to deep blue to yellow-green, though heat treatment will all but eliminate everything but the blue and violet colors and the cut of the gem can enhance a specific color as well. When viewed under cool lighting the gem appear more blue while warm lighting brings out its purple.

As a fairly new stone, to the west at least, tanzanite doesn't have much folklore to go with it. But there is some.

Tanzanite is considered a stone that brings good luck, new beginnings and prosperity. Which, yeah, that makes sense considering. In Tanzania, women that have just given birth wear blue, both their clothes and their jewelry, to give their child a healthy and positive life. Since tanzanite both changes color with heat as well as while it is turned to catch different angles, it is know as 'the stone of transformation'. Feng Shui believes that a tanzanite stone can promote peace, tranquility and open communication. It is the gift for 24th wedding anniversaries.

It is also very, very rare and limited. It has the moniker of 'the gemstone of a generation' because when the mines run dry, some guesstimates give less than twenty-five years, the tanzanite we have will be the only trace of it left.

#tanzania #tanzanite #december #birthstone #superstition #folklore #birthday #christmas #jewelry #birth month #tiffany #tiffany and co #ask santa baby

[dxntloseurhead]

thinking about her

#HELP GIRL THE BIRTHSTONE BARBIE FKR MY BIRTH MONTH IS SO PRETTY

[cozypersimmon]

Birthstone Poster by @cozypersimmon

#digital illustration #illustration #digital art #procreate #drawing #redbubble #gemstones #society6 #crystals #birth month #birthstones

[reddpenn]

Here is a potentially silly question: how do you feel about birthstones? Do you think they fit the months (by season or astrological sign)? Do you have other stones you'd rather see as birthstones?

Okay, so, birthstones make absolutely no sense.

I mean, look at this mess. We’re doing beryl and corundum twice! I get that they get Special Different Names for their Special Different Colors, but it's just lazy. And why are we giving some months cheap, common gemstones like garnet and amethyst while the poor June birthdays have to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for FREAKING ALEXANDRITE? That’s incredibly unfair! We should be picking birthstones that are all roughly the same price. And why do some months get multiple gemstones? I’ll tell you why: because nobody can agree on an official list and every attempt to standardize this thing has just added MORE birthstones to every month.

So obviously the answer is to standardize it again, by throwing out everything and starting over. Here are our goals:

Fair pricing. You should be paying roughly the same amount regardless of what month you were born in. We’re getting rid of those ridiculous outliers like diamond and alexandrite.

More customization potential! Nobody should be stuck with a stone they hate. We’re picking gemstones that come in multiple colors or varieties, so that everyone can choose a variant they like.

Wearability. Some birthstones are too fragile to be worn as jewelry. We need to replace them with stronger stuff.

No more duplicate gemstones. Every month gets a stone or family of stones with a unique chemical composition.

Now without further ado, I present to you:

The New And Improved List Of Birthstones With No Problems Or Flaws That Everyone Will Definitely Agree On And We Can Start Using Right Now Immediately

JANUARY: GARNET

I've got no problem with garnet. It's a fine, classic birthstone, so January can keep it. But I would like to see a little more garnet diversity. January birthdays shouldn’t be confined to just red. The garnet family of minerals contains a rainbow of different colors, like orange hessonite, green uvarovite, pink rhodolite, yellow grandite, and many more. They’re all garnet, so we should be wearing them all!

FEBRUARY: QUARTZ

The original birthstone of February was amethyst, which is… kinda boring. Super cheap and common and you only get one color? No, we can do better. February gets ALL the quartzes now. Keep wearing amethyst if you want, but also feel free to branch out into clear quartz, citrine, rose quartz, smoky quartz, rutilated quartz, tiger eye… actually, take all the agates too. If it’s quartz, it’s yours!

MARCH: SPODUMENE

March was originally aquamarine, but I’ll be giving all the beryls to May, so we need a different stone here. Let’s stick with that theme of pale pastels and go with spodumene. For an April birthday, bedeck yourself in green hiddenite, pink kunzite, or yellow triphane. Despite its subtle colors, your birthstone has some amazing fluorescence, with really cool pinks and oranges under a UV light.

APRIL: FELDSPAR

Diamond is too pricy for this list, so we’re replacing it with something less expensive and way more interesting. April will now be represented by the feldspar family. We’re talking labradorite, moonstone, amazonite, aventurine, and sunstone. While you don’t have much variety in color, your stones are full of shimmery schiller which glitters and shifts as it catches the light.

MAY: BERYL

May’s original birthstone was emerald, which is great and can stay, but we’re also adding its siblings! May is now represented by all beryls: Emerald, Aquamarine, Morganite, Bixbite, Heliodor, Goshenite, and whatever other varieties I’m forgetting to list. A bright and saturated rainbow of colors is represented here, so everyone born in May is sure to find something they like.

JUNE: ORGANIC GEMSTONES AND FOSSILS

It’s time to address the alexandrite in the room, and obviously we’re getting rid of alexandrite. A stone worth $15,000 to $70,000 a carat does not belong on the same list as friggin amethyst. Instead we’ll look at the other traditional June birthstone, pearl. The problem with pearl is that it’s a clear outlier in this list. An organic gemstone, by some definitions not even a mineral. Should we replace it? NO. We are OWNING it. All organic gemstones now belong to June. Pearl is joined here by jet, amber, coral, ivory, ammolite, petrified wood… in fact, June can have every fossil ever.

JULY: SPINEL

July was originally represented by ruby, which is a fine stone and won’t be kicked off the birthstone list - we’re just shuffling it down to September. Replacing ruby for July is spinel. (See, it’s funny because historically spinel has often been mistakenly identified as ruby! That's a little gemology humor for you.) Available in any hue you could possibly desire, spinel offers some nice color options to a month that previously only featured red. Of course if you want to keep wearing red, red spinel mimics ruby so well that you’ll barely notice the difference.

AUGUST: PERIDOT

Nope, we’re not changing this one. Peridot is the ideal gemstone and you ungrateful August whiners can die mad about it. HOW ABOUT YOU LEARN TO APPRECIATE PERFECTION

SEPTEMBER: CORUNDUM

Sapphire is a wonderful, classic stone and it deserves its spot on this list. But the corundum family has been separated for far too long, and we’re finally going to reunite them. Joining sapphire in September is its sister ruby. Between the pinks and reds of ruby and the many, many colors of sapphire, these two stones give September a nice variety of colors.

OCTOBER: TOURMALINE

Look, as gorgeous as opal is and as much as I love it, it is both way too pricy for our list and also TERRIBLE in jewelry. This stone is just too brittle to wear around from day to day and can be ruined just by getting it wet, which makes wearing your birthstone a huge hassle. We’ll kick opal out and hang on to October’s other traditional birthstone, tourmaline. Pink tourmaline may be classic, but this stone comes in plenty of other colors. Whether it’s brown dravite, watermelon elbaite, or the rare and beautiful blue indicolite, you can wear them all!

NOVEMBER: TOPAZ

November can keep topaz, but we’re not confining it to the color yellow. This stone comes in a huge variety of colors, and now they can ALL represent November. No further notes; it’s a nice, classic stone.

DECEMBER: ZIRCON

I dunno, I’ve had to come up with 12 of these, I’m burnt out. Sure, zircon, whatever.

“BUT WAIT,” you say. “Now instead of having a single color assigned to each month, almost every month is represented by almost every color, making it impossible to tell anyone’s birthstones apart and removing what made them special and recognizable as symbols!”

Well CLEARLY you didn’t read the title of this list.

#birthstones #talkin' bout rocks

[carissa3mae]

Happy 1st day of December, everyone! ❄️ Can you believe that we made it to the final month of the year? Only thirty more days to go and then it's hello to 2024! 🍾 December is an excellent time to reflect on the previous year and to prepare for the year to come.

As for this month's happenings, we have winter commencing on the 21st, and we have Christmas, of course, on the 25th. The 25th is a Monday, so for some of you, you may be enjoying a three-day weekend! ⛄ We also have the final moon of the lunar calendar rising into the sky on the 26th of this month, closing out the lunar year with the Cold Moon, named so because, well, it's cold. 🌕

In other astronomical news, the Geminid meteor shower will take place this month on the 13th, so be sure to gaze up to the stars that night around 9PM! 🌠 It's one of the most active showers of the year, and it's almost always cloudy, but maybe we'll be able to see it this time! 😁

And to those born in this month of the Cold Moon, happy birthday! 🎂 You may know that your birthstone is turquoise, but did you know that you have two birth flowers? 💐 Holly and paperwhite narcissus!

In closing, I want to thank all of you for making it to the beginning of the end of another year! 🥳 I'm going to end each post this month with a question that will get you contemplating what this past year has done for you and what you can change next year (here's that reader participation I talked about yesterday). Write out your answers in a journal, or word doc on your phone or computer, or maybe even write them in the comments if you want to share! 😊 Let's start this off on a positive note: What goals did you achieve this year? 📃

#Carissa's Posts #Carissa Mae Whaddya Say #December #new month #winter #astronomy #journal prompt #journal prompts #journaling #birthstone #birthstones #birth flower #birth flowers #yearly review #year end review #end of year review #goal #goals