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Here’s the New Age way to shop for jewellery: Star Gems, by Solitaire, ‘Asia Pacific’s Jewellery and Watch Magazine’.

AQUARIUS 20 January – 18 February
You may need to think more about how you present yourself to your beloved. It may sound shallow, but it couldn’t hurt to focus on the surface at times. Also, you have been living too much in your head and it is time to jump out into the world. Impress people with your sense of humour. Kindnesses performed at this time will return to bless you a hundred times over in the years to come. Jasper expresses the divinity that is close to you at this time. For an energy pick-up, choose the Sodalite.

What a load of crock. Not the advice, but how it professes to be specific to a star sign — nothing could be more generic.

More information:

• “Jasper is an opaque, impure Chalcedony, traditionally thought of as red. It also comes in pinks,yellows, greens, browns, and grayish blues. Association with other minerals give jasper nice bands and patterns. In the ancient world Jasper was a favorite gem. We can find the name jasper in accent Hebrew, Assyrian, Greek, and Latin. Jasper is usually named according to its pattern. picture jasper, ribbon jasper, orbicular jasper, abraciated and etc. Jasper is found worldwide.”
• Sodalite works on your fifth chakra, apparently.

• 24 Jun 2004