Garnet is associated with primal fire, fire which transmutes, the blazing snake: Kundalini which infiltrates the first chakra and which rises along the spinal column. It symbolizes the passion which must sometimes transform its violence into power of purity. In the temple of the body, the sacred fire sleeps like a snake coiled in the "stones vertebrae" of the backbone. It is necessary to awake the reptile and to make it rise to the head making sure that it unravels its rings slowly into transmutable energy.
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