AGATE CRYSTAL

What is Agate Crystal?

Agate is a variety of chalcedony form of quartz with vitreous glass like lustre and hardness ranging 6.5 to 7. It is composed of silicon dioxide with Earth being its element, planet being mercury and focussing on root chakra.

It comes in many shades - from white, grey, blue, purple, pink, red, green, and brown. All agates take a wonderful polish and are tough enough for most jewellery uses. Agate generally means healing and grounding.

Types of Agate Crystal

There are various types of agate which you may encounter

Angel Wing Agate promotes concentration, spiritual communication, and clairaudience.

Blue Lace Agate activates the heart, throat, third eye, and crown chakras, and helps cultivate higher states of being.

Botswana Agate promotes creativity, problem solving, and attention to detail. It helps you release emotions that you haven’t been expressing and support you as you venture into unknown places.

Brazilian Agate is often used for dowsing and divining. Dendritic Agate has a gentle energy that encourages you to enjoy life and strengthen your connection to plants and the earth's element.

Fire Agate is calming, grounding, and stable and can eliminate fear and encourage growth and vitality.

Moss Agate helps you to see the beauty in life and enhances self-esteem, strength, and emotional balance.

Snakeskin Agate promotes strength, joy, and inner peace.

Tree Agate has a stabilizing energy that can provide a sense of safety and ward off negative energies.

Wind Fossil Agate encourages endurance, patience, and courage and is often used in pastlife healing,

Emotional Healing Properties

Agate is a grounding stone that brings the emotional, physical and mental into balance. Being grounded means we're well connected with the earth. That helps us remain calm, rational and make better decisions especially when surrounded by chaos.

It may be used to bring information to the surface that's deeply rooted in the subconscious. They can also be used to rebuild self-confidence. Its energies promote inspiration, creativity and improve motivation. It encourages the truth to be spoken and helps deal with negativity and bitterness especially in relation to love.

Agate instils a sense of inner strength, confidence, and self-assurance. It balances energies and promotes a sense of peace and overall well-being.

Physical Healing Properties

Agate enhances mental function, improves concentration, enhances perception and analytical abilities.

Wearing Agate helps strengthen your body and agate encourages more efficient functioning of your metabolism. It can help people with sleep disorders, especially among senior citizens and those suffering from sleep apnea.

Agate can assist people with digestion, foster strength of sight and is said to provide protection against kidney disease.

Using Agate

Wearing Agate is believed to harness many benefits, most especially healing. During the early times, wearing an Agate necklace can relinquish nightmares and induce sweet dreams in the process. It is also believed to cure insomnia.

Also, the ancient people thought that if they wore the stone, they would become wealthier. Agate amulet promotes integrity and bravery, two attributes that are always perfect together.

Worth of agate

Crystal The price of agates can range from incredibly cheap to incredibly expensive. The rock's worth depends on its type, colour, and where it was found. For example, tumbled agate is deemed more valuable than raw agate, as are agates with more vibrant colours.

History

The stone was given its name by Theophrastus, a Greek philosopher and naturalist, who discovered the stone along the shore line of the Dirillo River or Achates in Sicily, sometime between the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE.

It has been used for centuries as crystal and as precious materials for the production of ornaments or small sculptures. The name chalcedony comes from Chalchedon, an ancient port on the Sea of Marmara, in Asia Minor.