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 3000 BC. 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. 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.
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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 external influences. Images of Agateagate 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. |
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CRYSTALS A - C CRYSTALS D - F CRYSTALS G - I CRYSTALS J - L CRYSTALS M - O CRYSTALS P - R CRYSTALS S - U CRYSTALS V - Z |
blue lace agate and the zodiacAquarius
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blood agate and the zodiacGemini
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botswana agate and the zodiacScorpio
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crazy lace agate and the zodiacAries
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DENDRITIC agate and the zodiacGemini
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fire agate and the zodiacAries
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HOLLEY BLUE agate and the zodiacVirgo
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LAGUNA agate and the zodiacTaurus
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moss agate and the zodiacTaurus
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ONYX and the zodiacCapricorn
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snakeskin agate and the zodiacScorpio
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tree agate and the zodiacGemini
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turritella agate and the zodiacAquarius
Cancer Virgo |
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