How To Choose A Gemstone in Limited Budget?

How To Choose A Gemstone in Limited Budget?

As per astrology, a good and high-quality gemstone that is suitable to your horoscope is capable of changing your life for all better and best. Therefore, it is highly important to make a purchase of only an authentic, original and high-quality gemstones if you wish to see favorable changes in your life as expected and desired. But sometimes while opting for a high-quality gemstone, we face the constraint of a limited budget. To make a purchase of a good quality gemstone within a limited budget, you must be aware of what to consider and what not.

The Price Is Dependent On The Color, Transparency and Weight

To know if a gemstone is perfect, you must look for the color. A ideal gemstone has a pure hue, attractive tone, no secondary undertone and medium saturation. A perfectly colored gemstone would cost higher than a gemstone with the lighter and pale color tones in the market.

The other notable and important thing that you should keep in mind while selecting a right and suitable gemstone is to know that it should have good clarity and minimum inclusions (visible lines, spots etc). Natural gemstones will always have at least a few inclusions. It is however important that there should not be any negative inclusions such as cracks and dark spots. More transparent stones have better brilliance, lustre, purity and light. A fully transparent gemstone with no inclusions visible by the naked eye would be priced higher in marker.

As the weight of stone increases, the price per carat increases even for same quality stones. For example: If we take two Yellow Sapphire stones of same quality but one stone is of 5 carat and other one is of 7 carat, then the bigger stone of 7 carat would have a higher price per carat. This is because bigger stones are rarer than smaller ones.

Quality > Quantity

As mentioned above, color, transparency and weight are the parameters that majorly decide the price of a gemstone.

If you are looking to buy a gemstone in a limited budget, give the first preference to the color. It should be the ideal and the prescribed color of the gemstone as per astrology. If you have further budget, you should look for a stone with better clarity/transparency.

It is important that you look for fine quality gemstones instead of bigger quantity (carat weight) stone. It is preferable to buy a smaller gemstone of fine quality than a bigger stone of inferior quality.

It is advisable to not search for cleanest gemstone but opt for a gemstone with good color and few acceptable-inclusions.

Carat Weight to wear as per Astrology

There is a popular trend to wear a gemstone of weight as per individual’s body weight. But it is just a trend without any logic; astrology has never mentioned any weight instructions. Trends have developed as a result of personal beliefs of astrologers.

Some astrologers suggest to wear as per the rule - ‘1 ratti per 10kg of body weight’. t should also be known that the ratti weight usually differs in different states of the country. For example, in some states one ratti is equal to 0.120 grams, while in other states, one ratti may weigh 0.180 grams. Does that mean that the stone's intensity and power would vary as you move from one region to another? Thus, this theory fails to answer several questions. I

Ideally, The stone should be big enough that it can be fixed in a ring or pendant and should touch the skin. Size of stone should not be too big as it is not comfortable & practical to wear.

Thus, opt for smaller weights rather than bigger weight stones. Choose between 5 carat to 8 carat stones to optimize budget without compromising on effects.

"A Smaller Sized but Fine Quality Gemstone makes much more sense than a bigger sized gemstone of inferior Quality"

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