Agate
Balances, Grounds, Secures
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Spiritual Properties
- Strengthens life force energy
- Traveling protection amulet
- Provides strength and protection
- Helps you feel connected to the earth
Mental Properties
- Clears brain fog
- Grounds and balances
- Empowers decision making
- Sharpens the thought process
- Promotes fidelity in marriages
- Stops the desire for things you don’t need
- Helps you express ideas in a marketable form
- Helps you juggle commitments and multiple jobs
- Promotes inner stability, composure, and maturity
- Excellent for rebalancing the mind, body, and spirit
- Stabilizes the imagination and inspiration of an artist
- Brings new information and characteristics to the surface
Emotional Properties
- A soothing and calming stone
- Brings an appreciation of nature
- Increases security and self-confidence
- Heals anger and tension, while creating a sense of security and safety
Kundalini Properties
- Stabilizes the energy centers of the body
- Cleanses and stabilizes the aura by eliminating and transferring negative energy
Health Benefits
- Helps to heal the eyes, stomach, and uterus
- Assists children with learning motor functions
- Cleanses the lymphatic systems and the pancreas
- Strengthens blood vessels and helps to heal skin disorders
- Worn between the breasts to encourage lactation in new mothers
- Enhances mental functions such as concentration, perception, and analytic abilities
- helps new mothers avoid postpartum depression they might experience after giving birth
Affirmations
- Life nourishes me
- I am strong and protected
Correspondence
- Chakras: Depends on the color
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Mercury, Moon
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Gemini, Virgo
- Number: 7
Physical Properties
Color: Variety typically dyed
Habit: Usually as banded or layered botryoidal masses with micro-fibrous structure
Rarity: Common
Luster: Dull vitreous to Greasy
Species: Chalcedony, Quartz
Zoning: Color banding and layers of inclusions are common
Parting: Absent
Streak: White
Gravity: 2.57 to 2.64
Tenacity: Brittle
Fracture: Conchoidal to Splintery
Cleavage: Absent
Hardness: 6.5. To 7
Locations: Afghanistan, Antarctica, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Congo, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czechia, Ethiopia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, India, Iraq, Isle of Man, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, New Zealand, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uruguay, Viet Nam, Yemen, Zimbabwe
Twinning: Absent
Inclusions: iron oxide, manganese oxide, or other oxides
Dispersion: Absent
Chatoyancy: Absent
Pleochroism: Absent
Fluorescence: Absent
Birefringence: Weak, 0.005 to 0.009
Diaphaneity: Translucent to Transparent
Melting point: 1,600⁰ C
Luminescence: Absent
Chemical Name: Silica
Refractive Index: 1.53 to 1.55
System/Structure: Hexgonal
Optical properties: Uniaxial/+
Chemical Formula: SiO2
Chemical Classification: Tectosilicate
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