Ruby is a gemstone of the corundum family and is attractive because of its brilliance, if it is crystal clear and transparent. It is found in a variety of crimson and scarlet red colors ranging from pink to a deep ruddy violet color. It has the smooth and delicate luster of clarified butter. The finest quality ruby has a delicate rose color, similar to the eye of a living cuckoo.
General
Following are the general properties of Gemstone
Planet
:
Sun
Cosmic Color
:
Red
Sign
:
Leo
Element
:
Fire
Time
:
Sunrise
Day
:
Sunday
Metal
:
Yellow Gold
Signs of well-placed Gemstone • Cheerful outlook, good fortune, ambition to achieve great heights, brilliance, optimism,
success in worldly affairs • Royalty, high position in administration • Successful activity, authority •Creative, vital, resistant, determined and decisiveThe gemstone helps to prevent the following diseases : • Cerebral meningitis, eruption of the face, typhoid, polypus, epilepsy, bile complaints,
sun-stroke, scorches, diseases of the head • Hemorrhage, cardiac thrombosis, heated and bilious constitution • Heart diseases, eye inflammation, low or high blood pressure
Qualities
• Heaviness in weight, high density • Color, transparent carmine red with bluish tint like pigeon blood • Transparence • Brilliance • Luster • Regular shape • Silky or milky inclusions • Smoothness • Hardness