In this episode of “5 Minutes”, Dr. Robert Svoboda explores working with gemstones or crystals.

We can refer to this as Ratnaupaya. Ratna means a gem, a jewel. Upaya Means a remedy. Let me be very frank and say that a gemstone is not the first remedy that I would suggest to anyone for any kind of jot statistical situation. And the main reason for this is as my Jyotisha guru, iterate and reiterated a gemstone is not going to improve the situation of the planet. A gemstone is only going to increase the energy of that planet.
So people will say, oh, you have a weak Saturn here, use this blue sapphire. Oh my God, OMG. No, no, no, no, no. You want only to use those gemstones that are going to benefit because they’re gonna restimulate and encourage. Y ou only wanna use those gemstones that are going to support planets that are already good in your chart. And even then you want to be very careful because a, most planets are not completely and uniformly good. So they’re going to increase all of the influences of that planet in your chart.

So you need to be very careful. You only want a gemstone that is going to be almost always either the gemstone for the Lord of the ascendant or the fifth house, or the ninth house, one of the Kona houses. I remember seeing a so-called text on Jyotisha once that said, oh, you should always wear gin stones that are applied to the second Lord. What what an insane thing to suggest because the second house is a Monica house.
You’ll be encouraging your own death to come in your direction if you do that number two, if you really wanna use a gemstone for it to have some effect, it needs to be at least two carats. It needs to be flawless. It needs to be clear. It needs not, you can’t have, it can’t have been burned, meaning, heat treated or irradiated so that it’ll become brighter. It can’t have had anything done to it.

It needs to be natural and this is another reason why I don’t always encourage gemstones, because as my guru would say, if somebody comes to you and you say, well, you need a two carat diamond, that person is going to probably go away even more miserable than before because if they were a good situation in their life. They wouldn’t need the two karat diamond, which is gonna be something they probably don’t have the money for it is particularly important also with diamonds, but even more with blue sapphires.

Every diamond, but even more, every blue sapphire is very specific to the individual. So it used to be may still be in some parts, but it used to be always in India that if you were gonna get a blue sapphire, which you would only do under very specific circumstances, because it will increase very strongly the influence of Saturn in your chart. You would go to the jeweler, he would give you a stone, you would tape it to your arm, and then you would go out into the street and if you were run over by an elephant, then you would walk back in and say, this is not the right stone for me.

And if you walked out and somebody handed you a bag full of gold coins, then you would walk back in and say, this is great. Please set it I’m going to pay you for it right now. So gemstones can be useful. I personally encourage people if they want to work with stones to start off with Uparatnas. An Uparatnas is a secondary stone. Yes, they’re not gonna give you the same intensity of effect, but yes, they’re not gonna give you the same intensity of so you’re gonna be able to find out whether you can digest it or not.

So in instead of a two karat, flawless ruby, maybe you get a two or a three or five karat flawless red Garnet, for example. Or it may be instead of a two karat, flawless natural pearl, you get a two karat or a five karat flawless moonstone. Work with something smaller first, and remember that when you do it, just wearing the thing is going to increase the influence of the Graha, but may not necessarily provide a more refined experience.
So you’re going to want to work w ith a mantra at the very least, or with some other kind of influence that is going to encourage that gemstone to work in a positive direction for you and you not just hoping that you will or thinking or imagining that you’re gonna put the gemstone on and all of your problems are gonna be solved.