If you're still young adequate to remember your birthday, you probably also remember the extra birthstone assigned to it. But at your age, we bet you don't indeed know the significance of your birthstone and what power the ancients felt would be bestowed about you by wearing it.
April Birthstone: Diamond
Diamond
Birthstone Properties: Enhances competence, trust and love
Alternative Birthstone: Opal
Formed deep within the earth where there is intense heat and pressure, diamonds are plainly crystallized carbon. April's birthstone is the perennial first option for engagement rings, but is it also the anniversary gem for the 10th and 60th years of marriage when eternity bands and other diamond-detailed rings replace primary wedding bands.
The antique Greeks believed that diamonds were splinters of stars fallen to earth. It was even said by some that they were the tears of the Gods or possibly crystallized lightning or hardened dew drops. In fact, the exact origin of diamonds is still something of a mystery, even to scientists and geologists.
India is plan to be the first river-bed source of diamond mining. The antique Hindus called the diamond "Vajra," (lightening) because of the sparks of light that it emits as well as its invincible strength. Arguably the most beautiful gemstones on the planet, diamonds are also harder than any other substance on earth and found today in Australia, Botswana, Russia and South Africa.
Dr. Diamond
Diamonds have long been credited for having positive corrective properties. During the middle ages, these gemstones were plan to heal illness, but only if the ill person took the diamond into bed to warm it up first!
Of Kings and Queens, Archdukes and Duchesses
Legend has it that Cupid's arrows were tipped in diamonds and over the centuries, this magnificent gemstone has acquired a well-deserved reputation as the greatest gift of love.
In less democratic times, diamonds were reserved for royalty...the only people "entitled" to their symbolism of strength, courage and invincibility. But in 1477, Archduke Maximillian of Austria gave a diamond ring to Mary of Burgundy and before long the tradition of diamond engagement rings was one embraced by even the most humble brides-to-be and their suitors.
The diamond's white hue signifies life, joy and innocence. But diamonds may be nearly any color in the rainbow plus a wide range of browns, grays, and white. Shades of yellow are most common, followed by colorless. Blue, black, reddish, and greenish are more important (some extremely so).
P.S. I Love You
It's fascinating to note that a woman wears her diamond on the third finger of her left hand because early Egyptians believed the vena amoris (vein of love) ran directly from the heart to the top of the third finger, left hand
A gift of a Diamond is symbolic of everlasting love. There is no more convincing a promise of an enduring relationship than the great gemstone that has endured in people's hearts throughout the history.
diamond is April's Birthstone
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