Every birth month has its own gemstone, each with a colour, a meaning, and a few thousand years of history behind it. Find yours below.
This Month's Birthstone
It's July, and Ruby shines as the birthstone of the month. Ruby's fiery red color represents passion and protection. This precious gemstone is associated with prosperity and courage.
Symbolism
Freedom
Color Palette
Red
Stone Type
Precious Gemstone
Season
Summer
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Birthstones are more than just beautiful gemstones – they're symbols of identity, tradition, and personal meaning. For thousands of years, cultures around the world have associated specific gems with the months of the year, believing each stone holds unique powers and significance.
From the fiery red garnet of January to the icy blue tanzanite of December, each birthstone tells a story. Whether you're drawn to their beauty, intrigued by their history, or believe in their mystical properties, birthstones offer a personal connection to the natural world.
Our comprehensive guides explore each stone's geological formation, historical significance, and cultural meanings, helping you discover the deeper story behind your birthstone.
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SepEach month has its own special gemstone with unique properties and meanings. Explore all 12 birthstones below.
Known for its deep red color, garnet symbolizes friendship and trust. This gemstone is believed to protect travelers on their journeys.
Learn MoreWith its stunning purple hue, amethyst represents peace, protection, and tranquility. It's associated with clarity of thought and sobriety.
Learn MoreAquamarine's serene blue color evokes the tranquility of the sea. It symbolizes courage, honesty, and loyalty.
Learn MoreThe most brilliant of all gemstones, diamond represents enduring love and purity. It's known for its unmatched hardness and clarity.
Learn MoreEmerald's lush green color symbolizes rebirth and love. This precious gemstone is associated with wisdom, growth, and patience.
Learn MoreJune has two birthstones: the classic pearl, symbolizing purity, and the rare alexandrite, known for its color-changing properties.
Learn MoreRuby's fiery red color represents passion and protection. This precious gemstone is associated with prosperity and courage.
Learn MorePeridot's lime-green color symbolizes strength and good fortune. This gemstone is believed to bring peace and rest to the wearer.
Learn MoreSapphire's deep blue color represents wisdom and royalty. This precious gemstone symbolizes loyalty, trust, and sincerity.
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October has two birthstones: the multicolored opal, symbolizing hope, and tourmaline, known for its wide range of colors.
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November has two birthstones: topaz, symbolizing love and affection, and citrine, known as the "healing quartz" for its warm energy.
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December has three birthstones: tanzanite, turquoise, and zircon, each with unique colors and properties.
Learn MoreMonthly Birthstones
Years of History
Alternative Stones
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Ruby and sapphire are not cousins or rivals. They are the exact same mineral, corundum, separated by nothing more than colour and a naming line the trade draws by hand. Here is what that means for hardness, price, and buying, plus the genuinely blurry border where a pink sapphire becomes a ruby, and where emerald fits into the ruby vs sapphire vs emerald question.
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Bloodstone is March's forgotten birthstone, a deep forest-green gem freckled with drops of red that reads like a battlefield in miniature. It is the stone of courage, vitality, and protection, carried by Roman soldiers to stop bleeding and carved into the seals of kings. But its strangest secret is one almost nobody tells you: for over a thousand years, magicians and lapidary writers genuinely believed bloodstone could turn its wearer invisible, a legend so widespread that Boccaccio built a comic tale around it. This is the honest, complete guide to what bloodstone means and where that meaning comes from, the real green-and-red material versus the different 'African bloodstone' jasper sold under the same name, the full colour range, why it is one of the most affordable and underrated gems on the birthstone calendar, and how to buy and care for a genuinely tough daily-wear stone.
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Onyx is the deep, glassy black stone of protection, focus, and quiet strength, and it hides one of the biggest open secrets in the gem trade: almost all of the jet-black onyx you see has been dyed. It starts life as plain grey banded agate and is turned black with a sugar-and-acid recipe the Romans worked out two thousand years ago. That is not a scam, it is standard and stable, but almost nobody tells you. This is the honest guide to what onyx means, why black onyx is nearly always treated grey chalcedony, the completely different soft calcite 'onyx' that shares the name and scratches in a heartbeat, the real colours (black, sardonyx, white, green, banded), why sardonyx is August's traditional birthstone and the stone the Romans carved cameos from, and how to buy and care for a genuinely tough daily-wear gem.
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