6 Good Reasons to Gift Sapphire Rings

What's a gift?  A little something to treasure as the years pass by.  To symbolize what an event means.  Just to show how strongly you feel.  The reasons are so many.  Sometimes it's just that at this time you have an extra bonus, and want to make up for last time when the gift wasn't exactly what she wanted.

So, why are more and more people leaning towards sapphire rings?  The first reason is so variable for everybody.  But here are the most common reasons:

• Popularity and Color: A lot of people wear sapphires for color and trend, as seen in the celebrity circuit.  This is the most inimitable blue found.  And blue is the favorite of more than 50% people.  Further, pink sapphires are also quite popular nowadays, pink being the quintessential feminine color.  The latest sapphire ring headliner was Penelope Cruz's sapphire engagement ring from Javier Bardem.
• Rarity: There's a lot of hype that's gone into diamonds and their marketing, and it is now that people are realizing that there are other gemstones that are rarer than diamonds.  Sources of sapphires vary, and the place of origin affects the value of a sapphire.  For example, a Ceylon sapphire usually commands a much higher premium than an Australian sapphire.
• Hardness: The hardest known gemstone is diamond and the next hardest is sapphire.  Sapphires belong to the family of mineral corundum.  It is for this hardness that lends durability that sapphires have been the preferred gemstone.  This makes sapphire rings ideal for daily wear, something that some other gemstones may not boast of.
• Symbolism: For ages, sapphires have symbolized fidelity, sincerity, friendship, constancy, and this makes them ideal attestations of love.  It is a deep expression of feelings not expressed.
• Birthstone: Sapphires are birthstones for the month of September and for Zodiac sign Taurus.  So, if you missed the birthday, they make great Christmas or Thanksgiving gifts.
• Mysticism: This is perhaps the key to the current popularity of sapphires.  People now have access to loads of information about the mysticism associated with sapphires.  Throughout history sapphires have had associations, both romantic and curative, about them.  Ancient Persians believed that the earth rests on a huge solid rock of sapphire and it was formed this that the sky took its color from.  Sapphire also an eminent part of the breastplate that Aaron received.

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Some believe that the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written were blue sapphire.

Sapphire is also believed to be symbolic of prosperity and an allusion to the sapphire ring that King Solomon used to wear is most appropriate.

Sapphires were long believed to be antidotes for venom.  They were very widely used to treat eye ailments.

When worn right, sapphires are said to bring harmony, success, prosperity and abundance in the life of the wearer.