Gemstone Wearing Muhurat: Day, Hora, Finger and Metal

When should I first wear my gemstone? Choose the stone and the metal of its setting above, your town or city and a start date, and this free tool lists every weekday of the stone’s planet in the weeks ahead, the hora of that planet on each, and whether the day passes the classical checks for a new ornament. The first day that passes is shown at the top, with the finger and metal our gemstone pages give for that stone. It does not tell you which stone to wear: for that, see the gemstone calculator and an astrologer you trust.

How it works

Finger, metal and day. These are taken exactly from each stone’s page in our gemstones section, for example ruby: ruby on the ring finger in gold or copper on a Sunday, pearl on the little or ring finger in silver on a Monday, red coral on the ring finger in gold or copper on a Tuesday, emerald on the little finger in gold on a Wednesday, yellow sapphire on the index finger in gold on a Thursday, diamond on the middle or ring finger in silver, white gold or platinum on a Friday, blue sapphire on the middle finger in silver or a mixed metal on a Saturday, hessonite on the middle finger on a Saturday and cat’s eye on the middle or ring finger on a Tuesday, in many traditions. Those pages describe common practice, and families differ.

The hora. The Muhurta Chintamani, chapter 1, verse 56, says that what is given to a weekday may be done in the hora of that weekday’s planet. On its own weekday a planet holds the first hora from sunrise and the eighth. We count the hora as on our hora page, the daytime split into twelve equal parts, so this tool and the hora calculator give the same times. Rahu and Ketu have no hora, so for hessonite and cat’s eye the tool shows the daylight hours of the day.

The classical checks. The verse numbers are those of the Muhurta Chintamani with the Hindi commentary of Mahidhara Sharma (Venkateshwar Press).

• Chapter 1, verse 48, as Mahidhara Sharma explains it, holds a new ornament of ivory or gems back while the Sun and Jupiter are in the same sign and in a paksha of only thirteen days. Readings differ: the common panchang practice uses neither bar, and we follow it, so the tool applies neither. The same verse adds Jupiter in Simha or Makara, but verses 49 to 52 limit or lift that part by region and by where in the sign Jupiter stands, and the common panchang practice does not hold new ornaments back for it, so the tool only tells you when Jupiter is there and does not apply it.
• Chapter 2, verse 10: new coral, ivory, conch, gold and clothes are first worn when the Moon is in Revati, Rohini, the three Uttaras, Ashwini, Hasta, Chitra, Swati, Vishakha, Anuradha, Dhanishta, Pushya or Punarvasu, on a day without a Rikta tithi. The tool applies it to red coral, and to any stone set in gold or white gold.
• Chapter 1, verse 34, the part of it we apply: no Amavasya, no Vishti karana, no Vyatipata or Vaidhriti yoga, and not in a leaped month or a lost (kshaya) month. The Rikta tithis are left out for every stone. The rest of that verse is named under What it does not do.

A day passes when all of these hold together for at least five minutes inside the planet’s hora. Positions come from NASA JPL DE440 with the Lahiri ayanamsa, and sunrise is worked out for your city.

Reading the result

The answer at the top gives the first day that passes, with the time inside the hora. The table lists every weekday of the stone’s planet in the weeks you chose: the hora times, and either the window that passes with its nakshatra and tithi, or the reason the day does not.

Where traditions differ

Families and teachers name different fingers, metals and days; we follow our stone pages and the one text named above, and say so. Verse 10 also asks that a married woman not first wear these things on the fixed nakshatras, Punarvasu or Pushya, and Mahidhara Sharma adds Tuesday; the tool describes this but does not apply it. His gloss on verse 10 also names pearl (moti) beside coral, ivory and conch, though the verse itself does not. On that reading a new pearl ornament would also need the verse’s nakshatras and could not be first worn on a Monday, the pearl’s day; the tool follows the verse itself, so for pearl, set in silver, verse 10 is not applied. The text’s own kala hora, verse 55, is a fixed span of two and a half ghatis, one hour, counted from the start of the weekday; we use the hora page’s twelfth of the daytime so that our tools agree, which makes each hora longer than an hour on a long day and shorter on a short one.

What it does not do

It does not say which stone suits you, how big it should be or whether it is genuine; for those see the gemstone calculator and how to buy a gemstone. It does not check your own chart, your running dasha or the lagna at the hour. Chapter 1, verses 34 and 35 also name things every auspicious act avoids that this page does not check: the person’s own birth nakshatra, month and tithi and a parent’s shraddha day; a day touched by three tithis or a tithi that touches three days (tithi kshaya and vriddhi); kulika, the half-prahara and mahapata; and the opening part of the yogas Vishkambha, Vajra, Shoola, Ganda, Atiganda and Vyaghata and the first half of Parigha. An almanac that applies them may list fewer days. The lost (kshaya) month that verse 34 also names, a lunar month in which the Sun enters two signs between one new moon and the next (as Mahidhara Sharma explains it), is left out; from 1952 to 2073 there are two, beginning with the new moons of 16 November 1963 and 14 January 1983, Indian time. A stone is a traditional remedy, not medical, financial or predictive advice; most traditional advice puts conduct, giving and the planet’s mantra first.

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