Valentine, my offering of stones of love for any day, but perfect for Valentines Day, is a 3 strand necklace with Rhodolite Garnet facets and Rose Quartz. I used Delica Glass spacer beads and a Sterling Silver toggle clasp to finish it. The delicate Garnets are a nice contrast to the varied sizes and shapes of Rose Quartz. The shortest strand is 17 inches and the longest one is 20 inches.

Rose Quartz is considered a "stone of love" and is thought to help heal the heart on all levels. As per energymuse.com, "As a stone of love, Rose Quartz is a powerful crystal for anyone seeking to bring more love into their life. The Rose Quartz healing properties connect to the heart chakra, the center of love. By opening and healing your heart center, the Rose Quartz meaning helps guide you to deepen relationships and embrace kindness, compassion, tenderness, and love toward yourself and those around you."

According to charmsoflight.com, "Rose Quartz is the stone of universal love. It restores trust and harmony in relationships, encouraging unconditional love. Rose Quartz purifies and opens the heart at all levels to promote love, self-love, friendship, deep inner healing and feelings of peace. Calming and reassuring, it helps to comfort in times of grief. Rose Quartz dispels negativity and protects against environmental pollution, replacing it with loving vibes. It encourages self forgiveness and acceptance invoking self trust and self worth.

Rose Quartz strengthens and balances the physical heart and circulatory system, and releases impurities from body fluids. It hastens recovery, reduces high blood pressure, aids chest and lung problems, heals the kidneys and adrenals, and alleviates vertigo. A good energetic support for those with leukemia. Rose Quartz has the power to increase fertility and to protect both mother and unborn fetus from miscarriage."

sagecrystals.com states, "Rhodolite Garnet is an ideal stone to use for emotional healing, or to build, or rebuild self-worth. It helps us to receive abundance on an emotional level by alleviating the feelings of inadequacy or unworthiness that block us from receiving love, acceptance, abundance, and compassion.

Rhodolite Garnet is used to sooth and heal the emotional body by encouraging self-love and self-respect. It encourages us to remember and express our innate gifts and connect to our soul's Divine purpose.

It is an ideal stone to aid in the recovery from sexual trauma and can release the emotional patterning around all forms of trauma and abuse, which may have remained stored in the physical body.

Rhodolite Garnet can gently relieve us from guilt and shame, and lightens the burden we carry on our hearts. It activates, opens, and heals the Root, Heart, and Crown Chakras to create a sense of grounded stability, heal emotional wounds, and channel Divine insight. It is associated with the idealism of Aquarius."

This lovely necklace has lots of potential healing benefits and it's just beautiful too!

Garnets are January’s birthstone.