Garnets have long symbolized Aquarians and the January-born, and while you are likely familiar with the darkish red gemstone, did you know that garnets actually appear in every color of the rainbow? Well, just about every color of the rainbow except true blue.

Not only do garnets have many colors; garnets also have many names, too. The most popular varieties of garnets are the warm red pyrope, the cool red almandine, and the green grossular varieties, but there are also the bright green demantoid, the orange-yellow hessonite, rose-red rhodolite, just to name a few.

The first garnets in recorded history were described as red like the seeds of a pomegranate. In fact, garnet gets its name from the Latin words granum or granate which translates “like a grain of pomegranate”.