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