Moss Agate Crystal Properties
Clarity, Self-Esteem, Emotional Balance
Spiritual Properties
- Refreshes the soul
- Promotes spiritual growth
- Helps you maintain your garden
- Aids in bringing new beginnings
- Protects you from the harsh energies of earth, and earth from our harsh energies
- Attracts new business, greater success, and expansion in existing businesses, new friendships, love bonds, abundance, and wealth
Mental Properties
- Boosts Mental Clarity
- Helps you accept new opportunities
- Helps you see the beauty within the world
- Promotes self-expression and communication
- Inspires new ideas after periods of stagnation
- Eliminates depression caused by brain imbalances
- Develops strength and the ability to get along with others
Emotional Properties
- Improves self-esteem
- Boosts Emotional Clarity
- Encourages trust and hope
- Reduces your sensitivity to emotional drama
- Balances the emotions by releasing stress and fear
- Promotes optimism, balance, harmony, persistence, endurance, forgiveness, and happiness
Kundalini Properties
- Cleanses the aura of any negative energy and provides protection that allows you to truly be you
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root, Heart
- Energy: Receptive and Projective
- Planets: Earth, Moon
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Virgo, Leo
- Number: 1
Affirmations
- I embrace the new and positive aspects of my life
Health Benefits
- Boosts the immune system
- Speeds up recovery from illness
- Helps treat fungal and skin infections
- Prevents hypoglycemia and dehydration
- Helps treat infections, colds, and cases of flu, as well as lowers fevers
- Reduces your sensitivity to pollutants and weather change
- Assists midwives and doulas by lessening the pain of child labor and ensuring a gentle delivery
- Anti-inflammatory, as well as cleanses the circulatory and elimination systems and assists midwives during childbirth to lessen pain
Physical Properties
Color: Green and grayish to milky-white
Habit: Layered botryoidal masses with micro-fibrous structure, Microcrystalline
Twins: Rare
Rarity: Common
Luster: Waxy
Species: Chalcedony, Dendetric Agate
Zoning: Common
Parting: Absent
Gravity: 2.58 to 2.64
Tenacity: Brittle
Fracture: Conchoidal to Splintery
Cleavage: Absent
Hardness: 6.5–7
Locations: Europe, the western part of the United States of America, India, Uruguay and Brazil, Australia, and Russia
Dispersion: Absent
Chatoyancy: Absent
Pleochroism: Absent
Fluorescence: Variable
Birefringence: Weak, up to 0.004
Diaphaneity: Translucent
Named After: Moss and Lichen like inclusions
Melting point: 1,600 degrees C (2,912 degrees F)91
Discovered In: 300 B.C, in a river in ancient Crete, Greece
Luminescence: Variable
Discovered By: Ancient Greeks
Chemical Name: Silicate Dioxide
Refractive Index: 1.53 to 1.54
System/Structure: Trigonal
Chemical Formula: SiO2
Inclusions: Green hornblende (or chlorite) in moss-like patterns
Streak: White
Chemical Classification: Silica
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