CRYSTALS & THEIR HEALING PROPERTIES
overview
Agate is a variety of crypto-crystalline quartz; Silicon Dioxide. Agate is a common term for a distinctly banded fibrous chalcedony. It is often found as layers lining Geodes. There are hundreds of names applied to the varieties of agate that are found throughout the world. While many of the names reflect the source of the crystal, other names are descriptive of their colour and pattern. Many people are confused by the differences between agate and jasper, the simple explanation is that Agate is translucent and Jasper is opaque.
Agate is made of fibrous chalcedony. There are two types of banding in Agates. Wall lining banding is where the individual banding runs perpendicular to the orientation and growth direction of the chalcedony fibres. Horizontal banding consists of fine, irregular spaced layers of small chalcedony spherulites. There are other types of chalcedony that are banded, this is due to the layers of another mineral such as sard being laid down between the layers of chalcedony as the stone is growing. Agate is translucent and vitreous when polished. The name Agate comes from the river Achetes in Sicily, where Agates have been discovered with the artefacts of Neolithic people, and they were used by the early Egyptians before 3000BC. These stones were also used in jewellery in ancient India. Agates are regarded as having stabilising and strengthening influences which can help you build a lasting connection or resonance with which ever energy pattern a particular variety represents. When agate is placed on the heart chakra, it will heal the emotional disease that prevents your acceptance of love. Placed on the sacral chakra (abdomen) or taken as crystal water, agate stimulates the digestive process and relieves gastritis. Agate stimulates the crown chakra, bringing celestial and earth energy into the auras and harmonising them with the physical body. If placed on the third eye, agate quickly cuts the mental cords that were attached to a previous partner or a manipulative parent and replenishing the energy that was lost. AGATE colours AN EXPLANATION!Agate can be of any colour, but the most frequent colours are grey, white, brown, salmon, pink, red, orange, black, and yellow. Shades of violet or a greyish-blue can occur, deep green and blue tones are very unusual . The colour is caused by various embedded minerals, of which iron oxides and hydroxides are most common, giving yellow, brown and red colours. A "pure" agate is white, grey or blue-grey.
Agate has long been known as a porous material that can be dyed easily and numerous methods to change, enhance or add colour have been developed. Specimens that lack vivid colours and banding, like many agates from Brazil, are cut into thin slices and artificially "enhanced" with various dyes, yielding deep green, bright blue and bright pink. Black Agate offers you prosperity, victory for athletes and courage. Black Agate connects the spirit and physical planes together and grounds you in reality. Black Agate stabilises and grounds. Black agate connects the heavenly chi force with the earthly chi force and brings spiritual level energy into your entire Hara line and grounds it into the earthly plane, reality and consciousness. It brings spiritual awareness into action, balances earth and the sky. It stabilises and grounds while elevating awareness, helps to clear emotional pain. It is ideal for centring and focusing. Eases nausea, indigestion and cramps. Blue agate is a good stone to work with if you frequently strain parts of your body. Using this stone can help keep your attention on what you are doing. If you tend to become angry easily, this stone can remind you that everything is okay at the deepest level. Breathe deeply and allow the blue energy to dissipate the angry red energy from your consciousness. It is also a stone of good fortune and many blessings Use this stone to discover your life's work and fulfil your divine purpose. With blue agate in hand, set your intentions on balancing your emotions and bringing yourself into a place of calmness. If you have a tendency to be up and down in your emotions, this is one of the stones that can help you maintain that focus. All agates are grounding and the blue energy in this stone will calm any inflamed emotions you may be experiencing. Blue agate is useful for gaining insight and clarity. In cases where confusion or distractions exist, this stone can assist in gently guiding your attention back to the matter at hand. Use this stone with children for relieving stress regarding school work or any type of study. It is helpful for children as well as adults with ADD and ADHD. With its peaceful blue energy, this agate emits calming vibrations. This stone infuses peacefulness into the surrounding area. Use this stone to integrate grounded meditation experiences for children's spiritual activities in the metaphysical realm. Brown agate is a good tool for balancing the absorption and elimination processes of the physical body. This stone helps you remove toxins from your physical body through your reconnection with nature. It reminds you to spend time with the trees, grass and flowers, which aid in physical health and wellbeing. This is a good stone for gardeners, landscape architects, herbalists, aromatherapists and ecologists. Brown agate reminds you that laughter and play are keys to a balanced emotional state. This stone wants you to make mud pies and reactivate your childlike nature. The carefree energy of this stone, which is strongly aligned with the nature spirits, helps you heal your inner child and issues from the past. This stone also helps you to sort out your emotions so that you can recognise that all that exists in this present moment. The colour of the earth, brown agate is a useful tool for grounding your awareness by connecting to the soil. It is easy to get distracted, go off on tangents and never get anything done but this stone can gently keep you on task while still allowing the energy of fun, play and creativity. Brown agate is a perfect stone for connecting with the elemental spirits, devic forces and the fairy kingdom. The plant and other earth spirits are aligned with this stone. With it, you can tap into the wisdom of the earth stewards. This stone opens up the 'trap doors' on the soles of your feet, grounding you so that you can communicate with the nature spirits. Green agate reminds you that there is a great power in 'being green'. Recycling keeps your physical space in order and this stone keeps you aware of how the materials you leave behind might affect the next seven generations. This stone can be used by vegetarians and/or vegans for making peace with the plant kingdom and thanking it for the sustenance it provides. Green agate helps you to remember to cleanse and purify your body as well as your environment. As you release toxins or unnecessary clutter in your life, you will make a healthier and clearer space in which to live. With this stone close by, take advantage of the healing properties of a swim in a pool, lake, ocean or simply relax in a bath. With green agate in hand, contemplate the limiting belief systems and outdated thought forms or mental energy that needs to be removed from your consciousness. Set the intention to release this clutter from your mind and energy field and foster positivity in its place. Green agate opens your mind to understanding the spiritual dimensions of plants and plant life forms. Plants have a consciousness in similar alignment to the consciousness of animals. This stone allows you to hear messages from the plant kingdom and to benefit from its vast knowledge. Green agate enhances mental and emotional flexibility and improves decision making. It is useful in resolving disputes. Green agate also strengthens, opens and activates the heart chakra. With its deep pink vibration, pink agate activates the opening of your heart chakra to allow love to enter. There are many sensual feelings that naturally arise when the heart centre opens. With this stone in hand, use breath and discipline to harness the sensual energy for the higher good of all. Pink agate can help you to balance your emotions, thereby increasing your emotional maturity. The colour of this stone is a reminder of the Divine Mother within, who hears and knows truth and accepts you unconditionally. This stone amplifies retribution, both positive and negative. Make use of the energy to amplify your intention through your heart and thymus to project love into all your thoughts, goals and actions. It effects the heart like a stone thrown into a pool, sending rings and ripples radiating out to heal old pain, heals despair, heartache, and heart pain layer by layer. It replaces pain with joy, heart healing and heart warming. Pink agate calms, comforts and provides security. It eases stress, promotes unconditional love for others and the understanding that you are loveable. Pink agate offers positive self image. Pink agate promotes love between parent and child. Position over the heart for optimum effect. The mental energy, associated with pink agate align the consciousness with the Feminine Christ. This energy embodies compassion, nurturing and great wisdom. Through meditation on the thymus area (above the heart and below the throat), you can begin to grasp the difference between information, knowledge and wisdom with pink agate. Strive for wisdom, and the information and knowledge will always be available to you. Pink agate reminds you to be receptive to your intuition and accept the part of you that is able to hold a vision and imagine a better way of life for all beings. Archetypes for this energy are Mother Mary, Kuan Yin, Isis and Mary Magdalene. Use this agate to awaken your awareness of your spiritual purpose. Purple agate can help you beneficially readjust how you take care of your physical body. Use the grounded vibration of its transformative energy to transmute aches, pains, weight issues and a whole plethora of potential health challenges. Purple agate carries the transformative power to remove people, places or things from your life that upset you emotionally. With this stone, you can lovingly release people from your life who keep hurting your feelings. This agate is useful to let go of feelings of insecurity, depression and lack of confidence. Purple agate will help your communication skills be more powerful and to get the point across to others in a diplomatic manner. Purple agate helps you to transform negative thoughts or beliefs by awakening your awareness to the incessant chatter. This is a stone of unlimited possibilities. Use it to think outside the box and find different ways to approach a problem of any mind bending challenge. Purple agate helps to keep you grounded during your spiritual quest while allowing your consciousness to open up to unlimited possibilities. This stone aids in opening channels in the crown chakra and the third eye chakra to all wisdom, enabling information to flow through you with ease. It is protective and grounding, which is beneficial when opening the upper chakras. agate and physical healing Agates are grounding stones, bringing about an emotional, physical and intellectual balance. They aid in centring and stabilising physical energy. It heals the eyes, stomach, and uterus, it cleanses the lymphatic system and pancreas, it strengthens blood vessels and heals skin disorders. Agate teaches us that sexuality is a natural function and that sensuality is the appreciation by the senses of the fullness of life. It is useful for reprogramming the cellular memory after mortification of the flesh, emotions or spirit in a previous or present life. Agate aids self analysis and perception of hidden circumstances, bringing to your attention any disease that is interfering with your well being.
Agate and your feelingsAgate has the power to harmonise yin and yang, the positive and the negative forces that hold the universe in place. A soothing and calming stone, agate works slowly but brings great strength. Its multiple layers can bring hidden emotional information to light.
Agate gently facilitates acceptance of ones self, this builds self confidence. Agates love of truthfulness encourages speaking your truth. Agates with clear crystals can stimulate memories. This crystal overcomes negativity and bitterness of the heart. It heals inner anger fostering love and the courage to start again. It is useful for any kind of emotional trauma. It creates a sense of safety and security by dissolving internal tension. A powerful holistic healer, Agate remove dualities and conflict, maintaining well-being. This stone can be programmed to protect you and your family and to encourage supportive love, which is objective and not all consuming. It releases emotional repression and encourages artistic expression. Useful for people who are easily hurt, this stone teaches the you to look for solutions rather than dwell on problems and it shuts off obsessive thoughts and destructive mental patterns. Giving the broader picture, it encourages you to explore unknown territory and creativity while at the same time paying appropriate attention to detail. Agate gives protection, security and safety by dissolving internal tensions, it also makes you better able to resist eternal influences.
agate and the mindAgates enhance mental function as they improve concentration. perception and analytical abilities, leading to practical solutions. Agate enhances love, abundance, wealth, good luck, longevity and harmony.
This stone is a protector of children. Agate helps to change your level of perception and give you the strength to carry on. Traditionally, agate has been used to overcome physical, emotional and mental poisoning or toxicity and is a useful receptacle for negative energy. Agate enhances cellular memory and multi dimensional healing. Agate helps you overcome depression. agate and the spiritAgate raises consciousness and links into collective consciousness and awareness of the oneness of life. It encourages quiet contemplation and assimilation of life experiences, leading to spiritual growth and inner stability. Agate stabilises the aura by eliminating and transforming negative energies. Its cleansing effect is powerful at the spiritual, physical and emotional levels.
Agate guards against all dangers; averts lightening and storms; gives strength and victory in all your endeavours; opens the wearer to receive unexpected favours from the deities. If used in sacred rituals as a divine object, it turns the words of your enemies against themselves. It is useful when sudden bursts of energy are needed. Use as a protection against black magic, troublesome spirits and negative thought forms. This crystal is extremely effective for multi-dimensional healing and soul work, the bands across its surface taking you travelling into another reality, different streams of consciousness or other lives. Agate supports spiritualisation, it encourages a calm and contemplative view of life and help with a concentrated, positive regulation of your affairs. Agate encourages the conscious understanding of your life experiences that leads to spiritual maturity adm growth, inner stability and a sense of reality. 
In pre-christian times in Scandinavia and Denmark, blue lace agate was dedicated to Nerthus the earth mother.
Blue Lace Agate is pale blue with white or darker lines. It is a wonderful healing stone. Its soft energy is cooling and calming, bringing peace of mind. It is particularly effective for activating and healing the Throat Chakra, allowing free expression of thoughts and feelings. It opens the way to experience the higher energies. This is one of the great nurturing and supportive stones. It will neutralise anger, infection, inflammation and fever. Blue lace agate is a visionary stone that enhances psychic abilities and helps with dream interpretation. This agate is for the throat chakra and promotes creative analysis and problem solving. This stone promotes creative expression of all types especially for decorating and acting, it enhances the ability to create a sacred space. It gives you the courage to uphold and defend your convictions. Blue Lace Agate counteracts the repression and suppression of feelings that stem from fear of being judged and rejected. Judgement is often present in the parent-child relationship, both in childhood and adulthood. As a result, feelings are held back and the lack of self expression blocks the throat chakra and may affect the chest, a feeling of being suffocated. Blue lace agate gently dissolves the old pattern of repression and encourages a new mode of expression. It is useful for helping men to release and accept their sensitive side. The peaceful energies exuded by this stone neutralise feelings of anger, stress related conditions and communication difficulties. Blue lace agate clears the throat chakra so that the highest spiritual truth can be expressed. it is a stone that links thought to the spiritual vibration and brings in deep peace. Blue lace agate is a powerful throat healer. Its property of counteracting blocked self expression releases shoulder and neck problems, thyroid deficiencies. and throat and lymph infections. It lowers fevers and removes blockages of the nervous system, and treats arthritic and bone deformity, strengthening the skeletal system and healing fractures. It also aids capillaries and the pancreas. As crystal water, it treats brain fluid imbalances and hydrocephalus. Blue lace agate can also be used to enhance sound healing, it focuses and directs sound to the appropriate place. Blue lace agate protects those people who help others or who act as carers for the disabled, sick or very old. It is also for parents of small children, to give them much needed patience. Place some blue lace agate tumbled stones in a bowl on the table for any workplace meeting. Blue lace agate assists you to hear the words of your guardian angels by activating your clairaudience abilities. 
This stone is known as red agate, pigeons blood agate and blood agate. It is a red translucent stone that resembles coagulated blood. It glows in the light.
This stone is helpful for blood disorders, circulation, excessive bleeding and menstrual problems. Blood agate will assist in the recovery from hysterectomy surgery. It will give you more physical energy and stamina. If you are having fertility issues, blood agate will help you overcome obstacles relating to becoming pregnant or maintaining a healthy pregnancy. It heals and controls your digestive and lymphatic systems and maintains general good health. Blood agate helps girls with late onset puberty and assists withy the transition to womanhood. Blood agate is a survival stone, particularly if you have lost the will to live, contemplating self harm or are neglecting yourself. It is a particularly effective stone for people who are suffering bulimia and anorexia. It restores passion in your love life and in life in general. This stone offer determination, stamina and ingenuity in finding a job and collaborating with others. It combats inequality by non aggressive means. It can be used in divination to find lost objects or hidden treasures, hold this stone in your hand to know where and how to find what you need. Blood agate heals, opens and balances the Base and Sacral chakras. 
Named after the land in Africa where it was discovered, Botswana agate is called the sunset stone because it retains sunlight which can comfort people through their dark lonely nights.
Botswana agate occurs in the colours pink, cream and grey in bands. This stone can sometimes have an eye formation. Traditionally these crystals were used in African fertility ceremonies to encourage potency and the conception of strong healthy offspring. Botswana agate will assist in relieving sexual dysfunction in both sexes. It will ease stomach problems. This stone will stimulate your immune system, assist the body in absorbing oxygen which then benefits circulation. Botswana agate is beneficial for healing skin conditions and skin rejuvenation. It assists in finding and treating the underlying cause of illness rather than the symptoms. It is beneficial for smokers and those who want to quit smoking. This stone improves brain function. Wear botswana agate to bring infinite possibilities and hope into your life. It eases the symptoms of depression, agoraphobia and panic attacks. It is a helpful stone to overcome anxiety in crowded places. It eases the grief associated with the loss of a loved one. It assists you in understanding any emotional blocks that you may have about getting pregnant and having a baby. Botswana agate will help children and teenagers who are highly sensitive and easily hurt by teasing and also help them find like minded friends. Botswana agate should be use by people who have joined or are thinking about joining dating sites, agencies or apps, it will assist you in finding someone who you are spiritually in tune with and who shares your dreams. Botswana agate will help you look for solutions to emotional, physical and psychological problems rather that dwelling on them. It helps you to explore unknown territory and your own creativity while keeping an eye on the bigger picture. Botswana agate stimulates the crown chakra, sacral chakra and brings healing energy into the Auric field. 
The colours of this stone are mixed rust red, orange, grey, brown, yellow, ochre, cream and white in uneven bands in the stone.
Crazy lace agate assists with controlling and healing skin disorders. It will help improve your eyesight and overcome problems with your heart and colon. This stone will reduce the size and pain from varicose veins. It encourages healthy veins and arteries and improves blood circulation in the body. If you have sudden energy dips during the day, crazy lace agate will regularise your energy flow. Crazy lace agate is called the laughter stone because it is associated with fun, laughter, happiness dancing and joy. Place a bowl filled with crazy lace agate tumbled stones on a table to spread laughter and fun at a party. This stone will assist you in uniting the people in your office or home where normally they sit in their own areas and don't communicate directly with each other. Crazy lace agate will assist with phobias particularly an uncontrolled fear of spiders and other crawling insects. It increases your self esteem and absorbs emotional pain. Wear this stone other the heart to ease the pain associated with separation or divorce from your significant other. It is an excellent stone to balance the senses and it assists you in understanding what is real and what is not. Crazy lace agate is a good stone for focus and excellent for those who suffer attention deficit disorder. This stone is associated with the web of fate, use it when you feel spooked about a situation that you believe that you have no control over and to protect you from negative energy. Crazy lace agate enables you to see past worlds and spirits.
Dendritic Agate is a white translucent chalcedony that has embedded contrasting branching, fern like dendritic generally green or brown, mineral inclusions. Dendritic Agate is similar to Tree Agate.
Wear for long periods to gain maximum benefit. Dendritic agate is named after Dendrite - the old Greek name for a tree and is associated with the ancient greek dryads, woodland and tree sprites. Dendritic agate clears energy blockages and fluid retention. It absorbs pain, especially if placed on the point of pain. Dendritic agate resonates with anything that branches, such as blood vessels and nerves. It heals the nervous system and conditions such as neuralgia. This stone treats skeletal disorders and aligns the skeleton. Dendritic agate reverses capillary degeneration and stimulates the circulatory system. Dendritic agate brings you peace to your troubled mind. It will assist you in acknowledging the pain associated with an unhappy childhood or divorce, so that you are able to move forward to a more fulfilling future. Dendritic agate encourages you to remain centred in times of strife or confusion, bringing stability. It lends you perseverance and the ability to see difficulties as a challenge. To bring abundance into your life, plant a dendritic agate tumbled stone beneath a small tree, as the tree grows so will your wealth, be it financial, emotional or spiritual. If you work or live in an air-conditioned environment, a bowl of dendritic agate will bring a breath of fresh air to a stagnant indoor atmosphere. This stone strengthens family connections and it is protective for travel by air or car. It can be used to enhance the yield of crops or to maintain the health of house plants. Dendritic agate creates a peaceful environment of each moment. This crystal has a particularly strong connection with the plant kingdom and can enhance communication with that realm. It deepens your own connection to the Earth. 
Fire Agate contains iridescent spheroids of limonite (iron ore), Fire Agate colours are brownish red, orange, blue and green with swirling luminescence.
Fire agate heals the digestive, nervous and endocrine systems. This stone will assist in reducing fever and increase blood circulation throughout the body. It aids eyes, strengthening night vision. Fire agate resonates with the triple burner meridian and can be applied to bring it back into balance, reducing hot flushes cleansing the colon and removing heat from the body. Fire agate brings vitality into the body, preventing energy burn out. Fire agate increases your metabolism aiding weight loss. Fire agate's energy is calming, bringing security and safety. With strong grounding powers, it is supportive to you during difficult and stressful times. This stone will increase your sexuality and sensuality so that you are able to embrace and not fear an active sex life with your significant other. Fire agate dispels fear and instils deep security. Holding a fire agate encourages introspection, effortlessly bringing up inner problems for resolution. It helps to eliminate cravings and destructive desires and can be useful in treating addictions. Fire agate encourages timid adults and shy children to speak up and not be ignored or bullied. It encourages high standards of behaviour and intentions in yourself and others. Fire agate adds fire to your determination so that you can break free of jealous, malicious or greedy control by others. Carry a piece of fire agate with your during the day and put it under your pillow at night to sever any cords caused by jealous co-workers, ex-partners, controlling parents, jealous so-called friends, or nosy neighbours. Fire agate is also useful when you need that extra little vitality and poise when applying for a job, buying a car, facing and dealing with a pushy sales representative, or whenever you must confront a possible adversary. This stone helps you to do relaxation exercises effectively, so that the body mellows out. It will enhance the meditation process, when you rest this stone on the base or sacral chakra. Fire agate is said to represent absolute perfection, it instils spiritual fortitude and aids the evolution of consciousness. Fire agate is a strongly protective stone, especially against ill-wishing. Building a protective shield around the body, it returns harm back to its source so that the source understands the harm it is doing. Place this stone outside on a window sill to protect your family and home. This is also a stone of ambition and high achievement, place it on any proposal or creation that you wish to sell. It has traditionally been used to connect with fire elementals and spirits. 
Holley Blue Agate was named for the village of Holley, Linn County, Oregon, USA where it was discovered. Holley Blue agate is generally a lavender to bluish banded agate.
Holley blue agate relieves headaches, ear problems and deafness. It will ease headaches, muscle tension and pain in the neck, shoulders and back. This stone combats nausea, fevers and high blood pressure. Holley blue agate relieves the itch, inflammation and pain from skin allergies, eczema, acne and mouth ulcers. It relieves sore throats, laryngitis and persistent coughs. This stone will assist you in overcoming dementia, dizziness, degeneration of your eyesight and other eye conditions. Holley blue agate will help you remove the stress associated with things that have been lost and assist you in understanding that by relaxing your mind, you will be better able to remember where they are. This stone assists you in analysing your persistent worries and realise that if something or a situation cannot be fixed then you can dismiss the worry from your mind. It helps you focus if you get distracted by emails, your phone or surfing the internet. Hold this stone to encourage reconciliation in times of strife as it enable all present to understand the viewpoints and feelings of others. Place this stone by your bed to improve dream recall and to bring peaceful sleep. Use this stone to activate your clairaudience skills. Holley blue agate moves your spiritual energy from a higher plane into the physical. It opens and balances the brow chakra so that spiritual energy can move more freely, which then transmits spiritual energy into your consciousness. It stabilises spiritual energy, focuses on your life purpose and karmic learning plan for this incarnation into physical fulfilment. It transmits higher level information in a way that facilitates understanding and helps people who are new to channelling spiritual energies. 
The red colours of Laguna Agate are less important than the shape for identification. Just imagine that you are sitting beside a dam in Australia, an oasis in the desert or a pool in the Amazon. The centre of the crystal is the lagoon and you are sitting on the edge. Laguna Agate was discovered near Chihuahua Mexico.
Laguna Agate helps bind groups tightly together, and would greatly benefit educators, counsellors, and professional coordinators. It also stimulates the imagination and inspiration of writers and artists, and has the power of weaving complex themes into a work of art. Laguna Agate is an excellent stone for mathematical endeavours, enhancing precision and stimulating intellectual pursuits. This red agate can stimulate sexual and physical energy, increasing stamina and circulation, and is helpful in treating sexual imbalances. Laguna Agate promotes inner stability, composure, and maturity. Its warm, protective properties encourage security and self-confidence. Laguna Agate stops the burning desires for things we do not need, and assists those juggling commitments or multiple jobs. It helps young children learn to walk and not fall as they get older. This agate also promotes marital fidelity. Laguna agate is useful as a protection amulet when travelling, and is especially effective against traffic accidents. 
A translucent chalcedony containing delicate green strands of chlorate. Moss agate can be found in the colours green, blue, red, yellow and brown. It is transparent or translucent with branching markings like moss.
A stabilising stone strongly connected with nature, moss agate is said to refresh the soul and enable you to see the beauty in all you behold. It is helpful in reducing sensitivity to weather and to environmental pollutants. This stone is extremely beneficial for anyone employed in agriculture or associated with botany. Moss Agate speeds up recovery. It can be used to counteract long term illness and is especially good for wounds or after surgery. It is anti inflammatory, cleanses the circulatory and elimination systems, encouraging the flow of lymph, and boosts the immune system. It helps prevent hypoglycaemia and dehydration, treats infections, colds and flu, and lowers fevers. Use Moss Agate crystal water to bathe fungal and skin infections. A birthing crystal, Moss Agate assists midwives in their work by lessening pain and ensuring a good delivery. Moss Agate improves self esteem and strengthens positive personality traits. It releases fear and deep seated stress. It helps to develop strength and the ability to get along with others, and encourage expanding one's personal space and growth. It strengthens the ability to try one more time, inspiring with new ideals after a period of stagnation. Moss Agate promotes self expression and communication. It balances the emotions. reducing stress and lessening fear. It encourages trust and hope, being a highly optimistic stone. It is helpful for anyone suffering from depression through life circumstances or brain imbalances. No matter how difficult those circumstances maybe, Moss Agate gives insight into the reason behind them. It is a stone of new beginnings and release from blockages or spiritual fetters. A stone of wealth, moss agate attracts abundance. Moss Agate can act with a dual purpose. It helps intellectual people access their intuitive feelings and, conversely, assists intuitive people in channelling their energy in practical ways. Moss agate is a psychic stone, helping to develop, channel and use your psychic abilities. Helps create clarity of thought. Moss agate not only protects the aura, it helps in opening the third eye. Use this stone for meditation, scrying, travelling the astral planes, and finding spirit guides. It is useful when casting spells for wealth, happiness, long life, and to find new friends. It is also said to help you discover treasure. 
Onyx is a translucent to opaque chalcedony. Onyx has the classic banding of agate. Onyx occurs in a wide range of colours including yellow, red, brown, green depending on the mineral inclusions in the crystal. Onyx occurs most often as black or white. The structure of the onyx lends itself to carving into cameos.
Snakeskin agate shows the clear patterning of snake skin and occurs in the colours clear/grey with white to make the pattern and red, brown and orange with brown or orange to make the pattern.
Snakeskin agate assists with skin disorders such as eczema, dry or flaky skin, psoriasis, skin parasites, warts, warts, melanomas and bites or stings. It will reduce the signs of ageing on the skin such as liver spots and wrinkles. This stone enhances the healing of hearing difficulties, the intestines and stomach disorders. Snakeskin agate encourages weight loss and cell and muscle regrowth. Snakeskin agate much like it's name sake is a powerful healer for people are recovering from cosmetic surgery, liposuction, breast enhancement or reduction and reconstructive surgery. This is an exceptionally cheerful stone that will assist you in eliminating worry and depression from everyday life and connects you instead to the joy of living. It will remind you that, just as a snake sheds its skin, you can shed your past and be reborn. This stone will activate your Kundalini energy if it placed on the base or sacral chakras. Snakeskin Agate will help you deal effectively with devious people and difficult situations. This stone will protect you from false friends and bad influences. It will help those who are continually hurt by betrayal and trickery by assisting them to break the negative pattern. Snakeskin agate will emotionally help you to be ready and able to leave a place where you have been unhappy, or leave a relationship that is going nowhere. Snakeskin agate will help with the mental desire to continue smoking even though you no longer crave the nicotine. It will assist you in overcoming or controlling an environment where you need to remain but is lacking trust or feels unstable. Snakeskin agate is associated with the wise power serpent in American Indian tribes where is is valued as a meditation and relaxation tool. Snakeskin agate will help you blend into your environment and travel without being seen in both the physical and the spiritual worlds. It is useful stone to have with you when you are doing a soul retrieval. Snakeskin agate strengthens the base, sacral and crown chakras, embedding the soul in the body and the earth, and facilitating full acceptance of incarnation. 
Tree agate is closely related to Dendritic Agate the difference between the two is that Dendritic agate is a translucent agate with dendritic inclusions and Tree agate is white agate with larger dendritic inclusions. The colours of this stone is white and green. Place one of these anywhere that you want to encourage abundance and fullness.
Tree Agate enhances the health of house plants, Creates a peaceful environment and Deepens your connection to the earth. Tree agate instils a feeling of safety in the most challenging of situations. It imparts strength and perseverance, it helps you to face difficult circumstances with equanimity and in identifying the gift of karmic lessons. This stone encourages a positive sense of self and unshakable self esteem. Be patient when using tree agate. It works slowly and takes time to be effective. Use it to encourage a more centred viewpoint in life. Tree agate gives you protection against negativity in yourself and others. Tree agate restores and revives vitality and imparts strength. It supports the immune system and helps to fight infection. Healers use tree agate to align and correct anything with branches (such as blood vessels, nerves, skeletal disorders). Place it on a point of pain for relief. 
Turritella Agate is the popular name used for a brown, translucent, fossiliferous agate found in the Green River Formation of Wyoming. It is very easy to recognise because it contains large fossil snails that stand out in a white-to-tan colour that contrasts with the brownish agate.
Turritella Agate is a stone of personal connection with one's past - ancestry, homeland, and the country from which those ancestors came. As a record keeper crystal, it may be used to gain access to the wisdom of past worlds and past life recall. It opens communication between the plant and mineral kingdom, providing access to information beneficial in healing the planet. If buried in land that has been neglected or polluted, Turritella Agate cleanses and re-vitalises. Its healing energies can be projected if placed on a map or photo of an endangered area. For frequent travellers, Turritella Agate protects against danger, alleviates fears, and keeps the connection to loved ones at home. This agate is especially effective against traffic accidents. An excellent fertility crystal, Turritella Agate increases the chances of success with IVF, artificial insemination and other fertility treatments. Turritella agate promotes inner stability, composure, and maturity. Its warm, protective properties encourage security and self-confidence. It is a great crystal to use during pregnancy. Agate also helps new mothers avoid the "baby blues" sometimes experienced after giving birth. Turritella agate stops the burning desires for things we do not need, and assists those juggling commitments or multiple jobs. It helps writers express ideas in marketable form, and helps young children learn to walk and not fall as they get older. Agate also promotes marital fidelity. agate harmonises well with....
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