Agate
Description of the stone. Ability, meaning and its properties.
Agate Associations
Zodiac: Gemini, Virgo Planet: Moon Element: Earth Vibration: Number 7 Typical colors: Clear or milky white, white to gray, light blue, orange to red, black
Agate Healing Properties:
The Stone of Perception + Inner Strength
Hope, positive thinking and optimism
Harmony
Soothing and calming
Protection
Clarity
Inner Strength
Security
Agates are earth stones. Overall, agates are gentle, nourishing, and strengthening. Working with them is less intense than many other gemstones and can be a stabilizing influence, but that doesn’t mean they are less effective. It does mean you may need to work with the stone longer to start to notice the effect, but the resulting changes can be deeper and more permanent. Agate meaning and uses for individual types of agate vary as they each have their own specific healing properties. Here are the meanings of a few of the common agate varieties used in metaphysical work.
What Are Agate's Metaphysical Healing Properties?
Agate is a wonderful gemstone for balancing the mind, body, and spirit as well as helping you to slow down and center yourself. It transforms negativity into positivity. Agate enhances mental function, improves concentration, enhances perception and analytical abilities. It is a soothing and calming gemstone that heals inner anger, anxiety and helps in the strengthening of relationships. Agate instills security and safety.
Physically, Agate addresses visual, digestive and uterine functions. It cleanses the lymphatic system and the pancreas; strengthens blood vessels and heals skin disorders. It's also wonderful for those sleepless nights, because of its calming effects.
Agate Meaning
Top Three Benefits of Agate Crystals
Supports you to feel grounded and balanced
Brings stability in times of change
Helps you feel happy in your own skin
Blue Lace Agate Meaning & Properties
Blue gemstones generally correspond with the throat chakra and aid in communication, and blue lace agate fits that pattern. Combining the blue energy with agate’s steadiness, blue lace agate personifies the idea of “Your word is your bond”. It encouraging you to align word, deed, and intention and strengthens your ability to communicate your convictions in a balanced way, neither shrinking back out of doubt or overwhelming others out of excitement.
Moss Agate Meaning & Properties
Transparent to translucent with green moss-like tendrils, moss agate is a very nourishing stone of the Earth. It has the quintessential steadiness of agate crystals combined with the nature spirits and abundance connection that most green stones share. The result is a stone that supports you to have a deep spiritual connection with the Earth that gives you an abiding sense of wholeness, belonging, and having abundance as your birthright.
Crazy Lace Agate Properties & Meaning
Crazy Lace Agate is found in Mexico and has brown, pink, white, and yellow swirls and bands. This beautiful variety of agate has a spirited energy that promotes pure joy. Combined with the grounding and balancing influence of agate, you get one of the best supports for feeling truly gratified and satisfied with life. Wear crazy lace agate to help remind you to appreciate the beautiful wonder of the world while staying fully engaged with life.
Dendrite Agate Meaning & Properties
A distinctive variety which is usually milky white with fern or tree-like inclusions, dendrite or dendritic agate properties include helping you stay grounded and positive when your life is topsy-turvy. It is good for people undergoing transformational change, or simply having a particularly eventful period of their life, who want help balancing extreme states to keep moving forward productively.
Fire Agate Properties & Meaning
Deep brown or orange with iridescent flashes of green and gold, fire agate is striking and beautiful. Like many red and orange stones, fire agate properties includes stimulating the 2nd chakra, igniting a passion and enthusiasm for simply being alive. Combined with the earth energy of agate crystals, this produces a sense of being happy and excited to enjoy planet Earth. Fire agate is supportive of creativity, sexuality, and vibrant aliveness!
Agate as a Gemstone
Agate is an umbrella name for a number of varieties of banded chalcedony. Agate crystals occurs in many colors that range from translucent to opaque. Agates are found all over the world. Some agates are geodes, which means they are hollow in the middle, often with crystals inside. Agate is considered a semi-precious gemstone.
Agates grow in many types of rock, and through many processes. As such, their hardness can vary greatly, but is generally somewhere between a six and an eight on the Mohs scale. Agate is a member of the quartz family of gemstones, and often you will find agates with bands of quartz and chalcedony layered through it. Agates are found all over the world. Africa, Asia, Brazil, Egypt, Germany, England, India, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, Canada, and the United States all have varieties of Agates that are found there. Agates are most often found round instead of any other shape.
Agates have been used by humans dating back to the Neolithic period, and were used by early Egyptians and in ancient India.
Agate in Jewelry
Agates are for the most part quite durable stones. They can be dyed different colors, sliced exceptionally thin, and aside from doing a real number on your blades because they’re so hard, are quite nice to work with in jewelry. Agates provide unlimited options to work with because of the sheer number of types of agates there are in the world. Price wise, some agates (like the Fire Agate for example) can end up being quite pricey for a good quality piece; but for the most part agates are very affordable stones, and great for beginners.
Uses: Grounding, Nurturing, Physical Health Color: Blue Green Gemstones
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