Zircon’s fire, brilliance, and beauty can rival any gem. The affordability of its vibrant greens, sky blues, and pleasing earth tones contributes to its growing popularity today.

Once considered a diamond alternative, today we know that natural zircons are in fact the most ancient materials on Earth, holding within their brilliant depths a time capsule of our planet’s birth.

A tiny fragment of zircon discovered in Western Australia is the oldest known object on earth: 4.404 billion years old. Earth itself formed less than 150 million years earlier.

An even older example was found in a large meteorite in Chile. The oldest thing scientists have ever examined, that zircon formed at least 4.6 billion years ago in the swirling disk of dust and rocks that became the planets.

Although diamonds are harder than zircons, they are quite young in comparison: a mere 3.3 billion years old.

Zircon was available in Greece and Italy as far back as the sixth century. However, the earlier Hindu writing list zircon as one of the many gemstone on the Kalpa Tree of their religion; green zircon was this mystical tree’s foliage, or so the story is told.

In antiquity, the zircon was often called Hyacinth or Jacinth, the legend tells of a mythological character named Hyacinthus, a youth accidentally slain By Apollo who was jealous of the young man’s beauty. This blood produced thy hyacinth flower, whose beauty is said to be reflected in the red zircon.

The red zircon or hyacinth was believed to drive away evil spirits and nightmares, protect its wearer from enchantment and lightning. 

Hindu poets tell of the Kalpa Tree, the ultimate gift to the gods, which was a glowing tree covered with gemstone fruit with leaves of zircon. 

In the middle ages, zircon was said to aid sleep, bring prosperity, and promote honour and wisdom in its owner.

According to some Zircon relieves pain. It is said to whet one’s appetite. Zircon also prevents nightmares and ensures a deep tranquil sleep.

 Zircon supposedly helps one be more at peace with oneself. Zircon is believed to provide the wearer with wisdom, honor and riches. The loss of luster on a Zircon stone is said to warn of danger.

 The name probably comes from the Persian word ‘zargun’, which means ‘gold-colored’, although zircon comes in a wide range of different colors.

The minerals jargon, hyacinth, and jacinth also contain zircon and these have been known since biblical times and are mentioned in the bible in several places. The existence of a new element within these minerals was not suspected until studies by Martin Heinrich Klaproth in the late 18th century who isolated Zircon in 1789.

Zircon has been around in jewellery for hundreds of years. It is known for its high dispersion (sparkliness) and for many years was used to imitate diamonds.

 Zircon has long had a supporting role to more well-known gemstones, often stepping in as an understudy when other gems were unavailable.

Because of its association with radioactive elements it is often used in radiometric dating. The oldest object to be discovered on Earth is a tiny grain of Zircon, 4.3 billion years old.

Zircon contains its own internal atomic clock. Its crystal accumulates atoms of uranium, which decay to lead at a known rate. By measuring the relative abundance of two types of uranium and lead in a zircon, geologists can determine old it is. Zircon is also incredibly durable. It remains unscathed while other rocks and minerals melt

and re-form under the tremendous heat and pressure of continental shifts, mountain-building, and violent asteroid impacts.

Today, natural zircon is often overlooked because cubic zirconia, the laboratory-grown diamond imitation, is so much more common. Many people don’t even realize that there is a beautiful natural gemstone called zircon.

Cubic zirconia is a man-made compound of zirconium, oxygen and yttrium, which was discovered in 1937. It lacks the silicon of a true zircon, and is, of course, very much younger.

Zircon is found worldwide in igneous rock formations and gem gravels.  Most gemstone grade Zircon is from placer deposits, in the form of rounded, water worn pebbles.  Thailand, Cambodia, and Sri Lanka, the source of the largest gem crystals and the greatest variety of colors, produce the major portion of the world’s zircon gem material. The gem gravels of Thailand are the most important commercial, followed by deposits from Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam also produce Zircon as a by product of corundum mining. Norway, Germany and Russia produce Zircon but in lesser amounts. Madagascar and Brazil have produced some very large Zircon crystals and Canada and the United States also have small gem grade zircon deposits.  The double-refractive uniaxial tetragonal crystals are often twinned and occur in tones of green, red, yellow, grey, orange, reddish-brown, and blue. 

 Blue crystals are found in Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam, but heat treatment of the red-brown material from this region produces most of the blue gems.

 Healing Properties:

Zircon symbolizes healing, and has a wide range of healing applications. It has an anti-spasmodic effect on the liver and gall bladder; it has a calming effect on asthma and allergies, and has a beneficial effect on lunch, bronchial, cold and general respiratory problems.  It helps it’s wearer to overcome loses, heals mental disturbances and promotes common sense.

 Zircon should be placed in dry sea salt once a month where it discharges and recharges at the same time.

Magical Properties:

Energy: Projective 
Element: Fire 
Powers: Protection, beauty, love, peace, healing, anti theft  

Zircon is somewhat of a confusing stone. It is found in many colors but some of them have been artificially produced, they are also known by various names all of the possess magical qualities.

• Colorless (clear or white) – a magical substitution for diamond, it is worn for protection. Use it for clear thinking and to promote the mental processes.  
• Yellow (jargon, jargoon, and ligure) – wear this to increase sexual energy or to attract love. Carry to drive away depression, to increase alertness and for business success.
• Orange (jacinth, hyacinth) - wear to increase beauty and to still fears and jealousy, carried during travel it guards against injury.  Worn or place in the home, it safeguards against theft; so keep an orange zircon with valuable.  Set in gold, it is doubly powerful. 
• Red (hyacinth) – this stone will increase riches if worn or used in such rituals. It will also guard against injuries.  A protective stone, it vitalizes the body, lends energy in times of physical stress and heals. Worn, it will draw pain from the body.
• Brown (malacon) – sued fro grounding and centering, it is also employed in wealth and money spells.
• 4 is specifically used in any and all money spells

Mystical Properties:

A stone of quiet vibrations, zircon enables one to be at peace with oneself. A stone of great purity, it can create unity with the Higher Self and spirit guides.

• Brown zircon heals headaches and is grounding.
• Colorless clears the aura
• Colorless and yellow will clear the entire aura, bring sleep and give wisdom in stressful times, may also attract love.
• Red heals injuries, soothes pains and is especially helpful with ear infections.
• Green helps one open up to make new friends and draws wealth
• Light blue balances, uplifts, stabilizes the mind and emotions
• Pink will assist in astral travel at night during sleep
• Violet is a money magnet

Chakra Classification:

Zircon works well on the 1st, Root or Base Chakra and the 2nd, Sacral or Navel Chakra.

Zircons along with turquoise are birthstones of Sagittarius (Archer): Nov. 22-Dec. 21. 

Pooja procedure of wearing Zircon:

Pooja should be performed on any Friday between 6:00 am to 7:00 am. Take a white silk cloth. Spread Rajmah over it. Apply sandal, kumkum to the ringa and place it on the white silk. Offer white flowers, agarbathi and camphor. Recite the mantra given below 108 times and wear the ring.

Shukra Mantra

“Om Shum Shukraya Namaha”