Anyone use / wear ruby ?

If anyone lives near Caves (the type you can visit) they always have bags of sand with minerals and you can 'pan' them (there at the cave site with running water and a screen).

I have rough cut rubies and emeralds. The sand bad is full of them for about $10.00. And they they fossils too, which are excellent for healing.

And a ruby is a ruby and a emerald is a emerald whether or not it's a jeweler's grade or a healers grade.

And don't forget to look at the ruby beads on e-bay. You should be able to get them at good prices.

Helvetica said:

I love rubies - but a good one is beyond my price range

So I console myself with this saying from the Bible: "Who can sufficiently praise a good woman? Her value is above rubies".

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If I sufficiently praise you, will you send me a ruby?

You mean me Ravenest? I'm sending you a PM.

Of all the precious stones, I think ruby is the most beautiful. I have a ruby in my engagement ring and a beautiful ruby ring that I brought back from India some years ago (jewellery was incredibly cheap there). And I have a little Victorian brooch with a ruby in it, given to me by my husband's aunt and which had belonged to her great aunt Mary.

I've not worked with rubies - I just love wearing them!

Oh dear, how embarresing.

HeavensVault said:

You mean me Ravenest? I'm sending you a PM.

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Ummm .... no, sorry. I was having a joke with Helvetica (that's why I quoted her).

ravenest said:

If I sufficiently praise you, will you send me a ruby?

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I you sufficiently praise me, I might marry you (and you can have the privilege of buying me a ruby engagement ring ).

Who is this maiden robed for a bride,
White shoulders and bright brows adorable,
The flaming locks that clothe her, and abide,
As God were bathing in the fire of Hell?
They change, they grow, they shake
As sunlight on the lake:
They hiss, they glisten on her bosom bare.
O maiden, maiden queen!
The lightning flows between
Thy mounting breasts, too magically fair.

Draw me, O draw me to a dreaming death!
Send out thine opiate breath,
And lull me to the everlasting sleep,
That, closing from the kisses of disdain
To ecstasy of pain,
I may sob out my life into their dangerous deep.

Who cometh from the mountain as a tower
Stalwart and set against the fiery foes!
Who, breathing as a jasmine-laden bower?
Who, crowned and lissome as a living rose?
Sharp thorns in thee are set;
In me, in me beget
The dolorous despair of this desire.
Thy body sways and swings
Above the tide of things,
Laps me as ocean, wraps me round as fire!

Ye elemental sorceries of song,
Surge, strenuous and strong,
Seeking dead dreams, the secret of the shrine;
So that she drain my life and being up
As from a golden cup,
To mingle in her blood, death's kiss incarnadine.

Who cometh from the ocean as a flower?
Who blossometh above the barren sea,
Thy lotus set beneath thee for a bower,
Thine eyes awakened, lightened, fallen on me?
O Goddess, queen, and wife!
O lady of my life!

Who set thy stature as a wood to wave?
Whose love begat thy limbs?
Whose wave-washed body swims
That nurtured thee, and found herself a grave?
But thou, O thou, hast risen from the deep!
All mortals mourn and weep
To see thee, seeing that all love must die
Besides thy beauty, see thee and despair!
Deadly as thou art fair.

Not much to answer that

(gone to test my opiate breath)

I used to have a very small ruby which was given to me as a natural apidural when I last gave birth...it was supposed to reduce pain during labor...well,- it STILL hurt unbelievably much but the birth itself was reduced by 4 times my usual, so perhaps it did help after all...

skygreen, i did not know so much about the ruby---thanks for posting all that. i love the ruby too---(i love ALL gemstones!), and for our 10th anniversary, my husband and i exchanged ruby rings to wear with our wedding rings. mainly because it is also our daughter's birthstone, and so the ruby has special meaning to us both.

your posting on this stone has led me to want to learn more about gemstones. i wonder---does this site have information on all gemstones? guess i'll find out soon enough. and no, ruby's don't have to be expensive--we really did not spend much on our ruby rings, and they are beautiful stones. we get great compliments on them all the time!