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Agates

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The agate is an anchor and luck stone.

 

The properties of agate are to bring emotional, physical and intellectual balance by eliminating energy blockages inside the body and stabilizes the energy of the physical body. The agate stabilizes the aura.

Another property is to harmonize yin and yang. Agate is a soothing, calming stone that acts gently. Calming stone of inexplicable anxieties.

 

On the psychological level, natural stone agate helps self-acceptance, self-confidence. It gives courage to face difficult situations. It is a stone that helps in self-analysis and the perception of hidden situations. The agate draws attention to the evil that interferes with well-being.

 

It is natural stone that prompts us to tell the truth and what we really think. The agate promotes quiet contemplation and the assimilation of life experiences. The natural stone agate promotes clairvoyance.

 

The agate has the virtues of eliminating internal anger. It would also have the property to erase any type of emotional trauma. Its virtues are to create a feeling of security by dissipating internal tensions.

Agate has wonderful properties on our living space and our environment.

Agate is the ideal stone to harmonize energy and soothe our living spaces or professional places.

Place an agate in your living space (living room) or in your workplace, it will bring you luck and calm.

Place an agate in the room of a sick person, it gives courage, and allows morale to improve in order to fight the disease

 

Property :

 

Crystallized silica divided into concentric colored zones, Family of quartz, Silicon dioxide: SiO2.

Form generally in geode, frequent association of quartz crystals concentric convolutions, parallel lines, dendritic mosses, polyhedral geometric figures, orbicular effects.

It is a form of chalcedony characterized by thin bands of different color. It is deposited from water heavily loaded with silica and lines the cavities of certain lavas. The variations in color are partly caused by the modification of the chemical elements present in the water when the layers are deposited. Density 2.6. Hardness 6.5 to 7.

Blue, gray, brown, beige,… pink. Almost all of the colors are represented. The agate from South America is generally in shades of gray. It is often tinted blue, red, green, brown, black, yellow by suitable chemical baths. In lithotherapy we prefer to avoid them.

Deposits: Brazil, India, Madagascar, Uruguay, etc.

 

Crystal system: Rhombohedral

 

 

Tradition:

 

In the past, it was thought to promote longevity and obtain wealth. Its name derives from the Greek akhatês, which simply designated this variety of chalcedony.

"In ancient times, peasants believed that by wearing an agate they gave themselves the best chances of obtaining an abundant harvest, and this belief persisted for a very long time." It was therefore common to see an agate hanging from the hitch of a plow.

Even today, it is considered the lucky stone of gardeners.

But other beliefs have been linked to it for millennia, the most frequent of which is its power to protect the person who wears it from lightning.

"In the Middle Ages, it was also thought to preserve spells, demons, poisons, and therefore all the evils and all the misfortunes produced or generated by the doers of evil spells."

 

Physical virtues:

 

Its particularity: soothe the environment in which it is located. Calming: relaxes the body if it is contracted and restores a certain body flexibility.

Fluids and regulates fluids (useful in prostate and kidney problems).

Stimulates hearing.

Calms insect bites.

Eye diseases.

Water agate: It is an agate which contains a drop of water almost since its formation. Recommended for headaches.

White agate: Very calming.

Cyclops agate: Retina problems. Tired eyes.

Dendritic agate: reconnects to the Earth, and realigns the spine.

Agate Violet: Affections of the larynx, emphysema.

Jasper agate: Any problem with digestion. In general: Cramps, back pain. Epilepsy, congestion, swelling, edema.

Relieves the abdominal belt, the stomach.

Very effective in case of watery eyes.

Against vertigo and loss of balance.

Reconstituting for reproductive organs: protects new life (pregnancy).

Treats sterility (green).

Stimulates digestion, speech. Gives stability, energy.

Treats colic (gray).
 

Psychic virtues:

 

Influence on the mind: Luck, abundance. Interior contemplation.

Dissolve the blockages in us. Breaks rigidity. Keep negative energies away. Soothing.

Against fears, phobias, withdrawal into oneself. Somnambulism. Builds self-confidence. Lets you distinguish between true and false friends.

Promotes stability.

Water agate: Groundless anxieties and fears.

Gray Agate: serenity, spiritual love.

Violet Agate: for emotional balance (on Coronal). Its color refers to the Violet Flame and carrying it with you can help us transmute all that is negative in us.

White agate: Action on the mind: Keeps negative thoughts from our mind (on frontal chakra)

Cyclops agate: Clairvoyance. To open and develop the third eye.

Eye agate: agate with inclusions of several eyes. Allows us to understand our environment from several angles, and in a global way. In general, promotes self-awareness and introspection by bringing calm and serenity.

 

To dissolve nervous tension, use an agate of 80 to 100 grams (whatever its color).
 

Chakra:

 

Root and solar

 

Cleaning :

 

Running water once a week

 

Charge :

 

Sun

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