Dendritic Agate Crystal Properties

Nature, Self-discovery, Abundance

Aka: Dendritic Opal, Tree Agate

Spiritual Properties

• Attracts prosperity
• Changes your flow of luck
• Strengthens family connections
• Brings abundance into your life
• Can help deepen your meditation
• Connected to the earth’s vibrations
• Aids in environmental work of any kind
• Helps you channel messages from tree spirits
• Helps to root you into the earth so you feel more grounded

Mental Properties

• Beneficial for self analysis
• Helps you understand yourself
• Encourages you to speak your truth
• Helps you make peace with your past
• Helps you get rid of arrogance and egoism
• Helps one see their lives clearly and honestly
• Promotes clarity, motivation, and good actions
• Brings stability during times of strife or confusion
• Helps you deeply appreciated nature and all living things
• Promotes perseverance and the ability to see life’s difficulties as a challenge
• Will help you work behind the scenes and achieve all that you want to achieve

Emotional Properties

• Enhances energy and vitality
• Brings peace to a troubled mind
• Brings feelings of hope and inner peace
• Promotes self acceptance and self confidence
• Boost self -confidence when things go wrong
• It has a heart based energy that strengthens family bonds
• It will make more room for positivity in your relationships
• It will help you work diligently and ignore all the things that cause you confusion and pain
• It’s also a good stone to have when you’re pregnant because it can encourage lactation and help new mothers deal with postpartum depression

Kundalini Properties

• Connects all of the chakras
• Opens and aligns the chakras
• Helps clear blockages in your energy field to open up a flow of money and prosperity
• It will help stabilize your energy so that your always a pleasant person to be around

Correspondence

• Chakras: Root, Heart, Crown
• Energy: Receptive
• Planets: Earth, Mercury
• Element: Earth
• Zodiacs: Virgo, Gemini
• Number: 3

Affirmations

• I am connected to the natural cycles of life
• I embrace the sunshine as well as the rain, and in this way, I am in balance with all life
• The earth is my mother. I am one with all that is, and i am connected with the sacred energy of the trees, plants, and shrubs

Health Benefits

• Helps to increase your fertility
• Can balance the water in the body
• Can help boost your immune system
• Helps with ear imbalances and dizziness
• Can strengthen cardiac muscles and the chest
• Works to alleviate back pain caused by tension and stress
• Heals the nervous system and conditions such as neuralgia
• Can help with ailments affecting the nerves and the blood capillaries
• It will help improve your mental functions and help give you mental clarity
• Can be used to cure fevers, relieve headaches, and stimulate the digestive system
• An effective stone when it comes to aligning the vertebra in certain skeletal disorders
• It can be beneficial to the eyes and to those who are suffering from insomnia or sleepwalking

Physical Properties

Color: Colorless, gray, or white, and it usually displays tree or fern-like manganese and iron inclusions

Habit: Usually as banded or layered botryoidal masses with microfibrous structure

Rarity: Common

Luster: Dull vitreous to Greasy

Species: Quartz

Zoning: Color banding and layers of inclusions are common

Parting: Absent

Streak: White

Gravity: 2.57–2.64

Tenacity: Brittle

Fracture: Conchoidal to Splintery

Cleavage: Absent

Hardness: 6.5 to 7.0

Locations: Uruguay, India, Brazil Botswana, Turkey, and the United States

Twinning: Absent

Inclusions: manganese- or iron-oxides

Dispersion: Low

Chatoyancy: Absent

Pleochroism: Absent

Fluorescence: Absent

Birefringence: Weak, 0.005 to 0.009

Diaphaneity: Transparent to opaque

Melting point: 1,600 C

Luminescence: Absent

Chemical Name: Silicon dioxide (aka silica)

Refractive Index: 1.53–1.55

System/Structure: Trigonal

Optical properties: N/a

Chemical Formula: SiO2

Chemical Classification: Tectosilicate