The most common color of garnet is red but the color varies most of the time depending on the gemstone s composition. Possessing a special beauty all their own the garnet crystal stone meaning is linked with the heart chakra making this deep red gemstone a dark and intense contrast to your other love attracting stones like jade and rose quartz. It is the state mineral of connecticut new york s gemstone and star garnet garnet with rutile asterisms is the state gemstone of idaho.