Agate: Meanings, Properties and Powers

Agate Properties

Agate stones are banded in stripes or layers and part of the Chalcedony family. It’s the most popular and most varied Chalcedony.

Some varieties of Agate have specks of color or eye markings, while some also have fossilized or solid inclusions.

It displays a wide range of colors, including black, yellow, pink, red, gray, white, and brown.

Some Agates have created their own identities and are easily recognizable from the lot because of their unique colors and patterns, like the Botswana Agate, Fire Agate, Dendritic Agate, Moss Agate, and Blue Lace Agate.

Agate forms in all mineral environments, but it’s most commonly found in igneous rocks.

Agate’s name is derived from the place where it was first found, which is in the Achates River in Sicily. It’s such a popular and in demand stone, but thankfully, it can be found all over the world!

Why Would You Use Agate?

Turritella Agate has a strengthening and stabilizing energy that will help you in your daily tasks. It will help you balance your energies and direct them appropriately.

The energies of Agate will calm, elevate, and uplift you. Even if you’re having a very busy and crazy day, you will still be able to relax and find peace and solitude.

Agate will also make sure that positive energies flow through you non-stop. It will keep you energized and empowered. It will keep you feeling positive and uplifted.

Negative energies will be dispelled, and you will be protected from any kind of negative attack on your body, heart, mind, and spirit.

Agate will work as a source of support and encouragement, especially when it comes to work and career.

The energies of Agate will keep you inspired, motivated, creative, and productive.

It’s a stone that will also fill your life with joy, gladness, and optimism. Whenever you feel low and uninspired, Agate will infuse you with happy and fun energies to make you feel better.

This stone will stimulate your mind and emphasize all your wonderful traits. It will encourage you to make use of your talents and gifts to change your life for the better.

Agate will show you that the possibilities are endless, and you can go follow the path that best resonates with you!

It will encourage you to do some self-examination just to know where you are in your life and how you feel about it as a whole.

This stone will curb your desire to accomplish many things all at once, even the things that you don’t need to do. It will help you better manage your time so that you will not feel overwhelmed.

Montana Agate is a good grounding stone that will help you center, stabilize, and direct your energies.

How Will Agate Help You?

Agate, Healing and Health

Agate is a helpful stone during pregnancy because it can help new moms avoid having the baby blues right after giving birth. The energies of this stone can also increase lactation.

When used as an elixir, Agate can stimulate the digestive system and relieve digestive pains, such as gastritis.

It can be beneficial to the intestines and the stomach.

It’s known to be good for the eyes and healing to the skin. It can help in the treatment of skin-related illnesses and irritations.

Wearing Agate close to your heart can improve the functions of the heart and the lungs. It’s helpful to the blood vessels, and it can strengthen your cardiac muscles as well.

Agate and Wealth

Agate is a stone that can bring abundance and fullness in all aspects of your life, particularly your financial life. When you work with the energies of this stone, you will feel enriched and empowered to achieve all your financial goals.

This stone will strengthen your sense of reality and encourage pragmatic thinking. This will be very beneficial when it comes to decision making, especially if you’re working on a budget.

The energies of this stone will also prompt you to think on your feet and take the necessary action with wisdom and authority. It will guide you in making the best decisions without putting your finances in a precarious situation.

Agate will attract a lot of positive energies that will keep you excited and enthusiastic about your financial ventures!

Agate, Love and Relationships

Agate has a soothing and positive effect on your emotions. When you work with Agate’s energies, the pain will not hurt as much, and the anger will not burn as hot.

It will help you maintain a positive attitude even if you are going through something difficult in your relationship. It will support your beliefs that all the challenges that you are going through are temporary.

It will give you the reassurance that what does not kill you will only make you stronger. Whatever challenges you are experiencing will only strengthen your relationship.

Agate will promote stability in your relationship and remove the emotional disharmony.

It will allow you to talk about the things that are making you unhappy. It will give you the opportunity to right your wrongs and give your relationship another shot.

You will also become more secure about yourself and deal with the unexpected with confidence.

Agate will help you overcome negativity and let go of the bitterness in your heart. It will help you focus on all the blessings that you have and just be grateful for them!

This stone will show you how you can let go of your anger, expand the love in your heart, and gather the courage to make a new beginning. It will inspire you to fill your life with only good and wonderful things.

Agate will show you how to maintain your composure and keep a level head even when you’re experiencing problems in your romantic life.

There’s no avoiding these struggles, but always remember that you decide how you’re going to handle these struggles.

Agate symbolizes emotional endurance. This stone will encourage you to weather the storm together and believe in the promise that you made to one another.

Every relationship experiences problems and challenges. With the help of this stone, you will be able to surpass all your trials and become better people for it!

Agate will promote maturity in your decisions. It will remind you that being in a relationship with someone means being responsible for their happiness as well

Crazy Lace Agate will promote fidelity in your marriage and trust in your relationship. It will strengthen your bonds, and it will increase the love that you feel for each other.

This stone will also remove feelings of envy or jealousy. Instead, it will give you fearlessness and emotional strength.

It’s a stone of strength. You can always rely on the vibrations of this stone to give you that much-needed push and that last bit of effort.

Agate will remind you of your own strength, and it will encourage you to speak your own truth.

It will show you how you can forgive yourself for your shortcomings, and how you can learn to accept that there’s no perfect lover or relationship.

Agate will direct your focus on the things that truly matter. It will remove the distractions from your life so that you can better focus on what you want.

The energies of Agate will soothe and calm you. It will clear your mind and unload what’s in your heart.

Agate will also help you accept the fact that you will not get your way every single time.

It will not always work out the way you planned but being happy and glad despite the circumstances is what will make the difference!

How to Use Agate for the Best Results?

Agate is cut into cabochons, small sculptures, beads, and other practical items such as bookends and paper weights. It’s also a popular stone to make into jewelry because of their beauty and metaphysical properties.

Having it close to your body will activate all your chakras and unlock a whole bunch of healing benefits!

It’s a very protective stone that can ward off any kind of harm or negative energy. Keep it inside your purse or slip it in your pocket whenever and wherever; or, even better, wear the Shiva Transcendence bracelet created by the Shiva-Team.

“Stone of Self-Mastery”

Chakra(s): Root, Solar Plexus and Third-Eye

Energy Vibration: 6

Energy:

Protection

Healing

Grounding

Protection:

Captures and Grounds Psychic Attack

Protects against Adversaries

Protects against Black Magick

Blocks negative influences.

Stimulates:

Grounding

All The Senses

Inner-Strength

Concentration

Self-Mastery

Self-Discipline

Intuition

Metaphysical Properties:

• Prevents the draining of personal energy
• Absorbs and transforms negative energy
• Fosters decision making
• Excellent stone for centering and alignment of the total person with a Higher Power.
• Used to end unhappy relationships
• Heighten one’s intuition and instinct
• Helps one to realize material goals
• Helps one become the master of their own future
• Encourages a healthy egotism
• Creates invisibility
• Fortifies self-confidence
• Balances the male and female polarities within each person
• Helps one regain emotional balance
• Anchors and stabilizes one to elevate fears and worries
• Protects against black magic, as well as defends against negativity directed towards the wearer
• Helps banish negativity or people from one’s life
• Provide the wearer with strength, both physical and mental.

Healing Properties:

• Past Life Issues/Old Wounds
• Teeth
• Bones
• Blood Disorders
• Epilepsy
• Skin Ailments
• Cell Damage
• Glaucoma

The Myth:

The myth of the origin of onyx says that the goddess Venus was resting on the banks of the Indus River. As she slept, Cupid used the point of one of his enchanted arrows to give her a manicure. The parings of her nails then fell into the waters of the sacred river. Since the nails were of heavenly origin, they sank to the river bottom and were metamorphosed into onyx.

In Ancient Times:

Onyx is a protective stone worn when facing adversaries in battles of conflicts of all kinds, or while hurrying down a dark street late at night. In classical ceremonial magic, the image of the head of the god Mars or a figure of the hero Hercules was engraved on onyx and carried for courage. Indians and Persians believed that wearing onyx protected them from the evil eye, and that placing onyx on the stomach of a pregnant woman in labor would reduce the labor pain and bring on earlier delivery.

Effects:

Onyx is not only used for protection, but also as defense against negativity consciously directed towards you. It has also been used to reduce uncontrollable sexual impulses. The close union and yet strong contrast between the layers of black and white in some varities of onyx may suggest its connection with romance. In India, Gemologists recommend Onyx as a protective measure for harmonious relationships, thus keeping away any probability of disturbances or differences between the couple. Onyx as a birthstone provides the structure and authority you crave. It can help you be the master of your destiny and strengthen your confidence. It provides support in difficult times and centers your energy in times of mental or physical stress. It also offers the gift of wise decisions.

Mystical Power of Onyx (general):

Throughout history, onyx has been thought to bring powers of protection, defensive magic, and the reduction of sexual desires. It has also been thought to reinforce the knowledge that there is no death, aiding in the understanding of the wheel of birth, death and rebirth. It brings about the knowledge that separation is an illusion and reunion will come. It aids psychic contact with those who have died, facilitates séances and mediumship, brings messages from the dead, and aids past-life and between-lives regression work. It helps future life progressions, and prevents and removes spirit possessions.

Contemporary authors say the onyx brings increased vigor, strength, stamina, and self control. It alleviates worry, tension, and nervousness and eliminates confusion and nightmares. It is used to provide glimpses of that which is ‘beyond’ and activates one’s memory of one’s roots and reality. Medicinal applications include the treatment of bone marrow diseases, teeth, foot, blood and bone problems, and soft tissue disorders. It is also believed to aid in ailments such as epilepsy or glaucoma and is known to have powers to rectify damage done to cells.

Mystical Power of the Black Onyx (specific):

The Black Onyx seems like a gift from the gods to us…  it can help you live a more fulfilling life!

The Onyx is a type of chalcedony that’s part of the quartz family. It was a popular stone for the Greeks. They believed that the Onyx stone came from the fingernails of the Goddess Venus.

It is a powerful stone with plenty of positive attributes. First, it is a grounding and centering stone. It will balance you mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. Second, it is a strengthening stone that will assist you in tasks where you feel challenged and weak. Third, it will ease your fears where they are the strongest. Fourth, it will banish negativity. Fifth, it will rejuvenate you when you have run out of energy. Finally, it will attract positive energy and bring you happiness.

When you wear a Black Onyx Bracelet, it will inspire self-control, confidence, fidelity to your partner. It enhances your meditation and dreams. It will give you confidence in your career, like in interviews and presentations. The Black Onyx will work according to your heart’s desire.

The Black Onyx is also believed to have healing powers and to heal teeth, bones, feet, and blood disorders. Place it on your body and feel the healing take place. Use the Black Onyx to charge water to treat skin ailments like fungal infections and sunburns, and also wounds and rashes. Just pat it on the affected area and use an Onyx water compress at night.

Here’s just some of the benefits you will get, when having the Black Onyx near you:

• Self Control
• Confidence
• Mental strength
• Protection from negativity
• A feeling of being grounded

If you use Hecate’s Eye constantly for chanting, protection and enhancements; or feel that your energies are constantly under attack… then, every week, you should discharge the Onyx by placing it under running water.

If you’ve used it for a long time without doing so, bury it in the earth overnight at least once a month to regenerate its energies (preferably inside a sealed wooden box and on dry days).

To conclude: wearing Hecate's Eye, placing it on your altar, or using it during rituals allows you access to all the benefits that have been mentioned here.

The Black Onyx is one of Nature’s gifts to us, showing us that all we ever need is already here on earth and provided for.

Whereas gold is the metal of the sun, silver is the metal of the moon. Like the moon and water, silver is reflective and used to mirror the soul bringing people calm and balance. Silver is used to 'draw down the moon' during lunar ceremonies, giving the wearer use of the moons energy and protecting them from negativity.

Silver's connection to the spiritual life is mostly seen in traditional cultures where people live in union and deep respect for the earth. For example, the Tibetans spiritual silver jewelry is often combined with gemstones and crystals which then resonate their healing vibrations more strongly. Another aspect of the silver natural healing belief is that wearing this jewelry brings the wearer more in tune with the vibrations and flow of the universe. It is the metal of emotions, love and healing. Silver's properties are strongest during the new and full moon.

Silver Metaphysical Properties and Silver Mystical Properties

• manifestation of wealth, riches, and health
• improves quality of speech and brings eloquence to conversations
• calming and balancing
• reflects away negativity and evil intentions
• brings the wearer more in tune with the flow of the universe
• like the moon and water, a mirror to the soul
• increases strength of perception
• awakens and increases psychic and intuitive capacities
• provides strong connection between physical and astral bodies
• increases the strength of gemstones and crystals, particularly Moonstone, Amethyst, Quartz, and Turquoise
• high malleability (ability to be shaped), enables the user/wearer to bend energies, creating vital energy centers
• placed on your forehead, activates and opens your Third Eye Chakra
• astrologically associated with Cancer and Aquarius, the element Water, and direction West
• increased Perception, increased intuition and increased Recovery.

Silver in Healing

Wearing silver jewelry is said to help heal and calm the mind, to help clear the lungs and throat, to increase circulation and purify the blood, to balance hormones and to slow the progression of degenerative brain diseases. Just wearing silver is said to help draw negative energy from the body to make way for positive energy.

Any stone used for healing will benefit from being set into silver.

Silver is a great conductor of energy, including magic. Any stone set in silver will be amplified and its energy more easily directed.

OBSIDIAN

THE MIRROR

SELF-REFLECTION • PROTECTION • GROWTH

If you find yourself drawn to the Obsidian crystal stone and its intense, mysterious vibes, it could be a sign that you're in need of a deep psychic cleanse. Known as the "psychic vacuum cleaner," the Obsidian crystal is your spiritual maid service, working hard to clean up the emotional wreckage and debris from the past. A bodyguard to your soul, the Obsidian crystal stone also protects you from shadow traits -- addiction, fear, anxiety, and anger-- by acting as a mirror to your inner self.

Obsidian Meaning

The deep and dark mirror-like surface running along and through these shiny black stones has long hinted at a cabal of concealed metaphysical properties.

In ancient times, tribal elders, the shaman of their time, used the ebony crystals as scrying mirrors, and there was more to come as those tribal elders experienced the darkness drawing attributes of Obsidian.

Obsidian breaks easily, which means the crystals can quickly be made into jewelry. Due to that material trait, the stones have been used as bracelet and necklace accents.

Then, for more practical occasions, the glass was turned into arrowheads, dagger blades, and all manner of sharp-edged cutting tools.

While it’s true the dark volcanic glass was used in many prosaic applications, it’s the mysterious reflective qualities of the vitreous silica that have made it a sought after stone.

The dark, glossy surface endows the crystal with an esoteric quality, a black mirror look that hints at wisdom and promises of exposed truths.

Possess obsidian and expose those inner truths. Expose reality, uncover deeply seated emotions, and dismiss the illusions that cloud a healthy spiritual essence, for this ebony crystal is a powerful soul healer.

But remember, not all newly illuminated secrets are friendly, nor can they always be accepted, at least not at first.

Indeed, the dark glass exposes weaknesses and flaws, imperfections and unpleasant shortcomings, but that’s so that the bearer can overcome these failings and grow.

Having grown spiritually, the negative self fades, it loses control, and new positive virtues are allowed to find room and flourish. Like the clearing of dark, choking weeds, the exposed flaws wilt while positive feelings are rekindled.

Obsidian Properties

Viewed by many as a mirror stone, the black, glossy crystal possesses a talent for revealing difficult truths.

Just as those potentially bitter pills are exposed, the stone alleviates the impact and helps the owner to accept reality, to move forward and to remove the dark influences that could emotionally or spiritually stunt a troubled individual.

With this in mind, obsidian has cathartic properties. It cleanses the soul and scoops out negativity. It’s a crystal of truth, of introspection, of grounding, and of deep spiritual healing.

Kept as a pendant or some other attractive piece of jewelry, the ebony glass continues to work its arcane charm. Wear it as a shield, as a psychic barrier when dark feelings and depressive episodes become intrusive.

Obsidian Healing Properties

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Life is an adventure hard to navigate. People lose track of their goals and can’t remember their core values, so they’re cast adrift in a miasma of never-ending chaos.

Left adrift, unmoored even, a person can’t hope to stay healthy under such soul-crushing conditions.

Physical Healing

Stemming the tide of oppressive darkness, it takes a polished black crystal to restore the light. Physically speaking, that light causes stomach tension to fade as the mental stress crumbles.

The digestive system improves, circulatory health is restored, and muscle tension fades until it’s a long forgotten memory.

As the energy centers in the spiritual form align, the ability to quickly heal physical ailments is simultaneously revived.

Sprained ankles heal faster, bones mend rapidly, colds and viruses end in a fraction of a time they’d normally take, and chronic pains evaporate quickly. In other words, recovery times are happily reduced when Obsidian crystals are nearby.

Obsessive thoughts trouble many people, as do alcohol addictions, drug abuse problems, and gambling issues. Obsidian strengthens the will so the stone owner can give up these system-contaminating influences, plus it aids troubled users through tough substance detoxification programs.

Emotional Healing

Deeply embedded emotional trauma is like a heavy, near unbearable weight. Use the black glass as an emotional spotlight. The truth, harsh as it may be, will set the bearer free so that the true healing work can commence.

Deep healing vibrations reach out from the stone to penetrate a hurt heart. The psyche rallies, the strength to recover is found and accessed, and fear mechanisms are brought under control until a formerly emotionally destructive cycle is broken forever.

Wear obsidian jewelry as a psychic shield. Depression and negativity may whisper psyche undermining messages to the undefended ear, but the black, glossy quartz radiates a vibrating field that defuses the negative energy.

Spiritual Healing

Obsidian illuminates the self. It protects the bearer from chaos, clarifies and stimulates a need for spiritual and intellectual growth, and the stone has a particular gift for clearing confusion.

Strong and focused once more, a once lost life path becomes clear again when these mind-clouding influences evaporate like morning mist.

As spiritual distress recedes, balance is restored. As that balance comes into focus, the spirit is connected more deeply to the physical body, so a grounding feeling flows through the user’s aura.

Subsequently, the stress and negativity flow through the feet of the crystal holder and deep into the ground, where it’s humbled by Gaia.

Obsidian Uses

In Feng Shui, the Chinese art of balancing environmental energies, the black stones are associated with water and purification.

Curiously, the glass is born of fire, but its glossy black surface conjures images of deeply coursing waters. Keep that energy clean by washing the stones in running water and charging them in the light of the midday sun.

As for assembling an Obsidian Feng Shui structure in-home, loosely stack several stones, one atop the other, and enjoy the power of rebirth and revitalization.

The infinite mysteries suspended inside the water-like stone outer shell seem to travel deep within the glossy exterior, so it attracts negative energies like a sponge.

Then, for those moments when the holder feels as if they’re floating free of the Earth, obsidian performs as a potent anchor. As mentioned earlier, do remember to keep the glossy stone clean, for that watery-dark film is the bridge that links the spiritual self to the anchoring body of the Earth.

Among many other uses, black obsidian has long been employed as a polished scrying glass. Looking into the dark mirror, we see our true selves, penetrate the veils that separate past lives, and we strengthen latent psychic abilities until near clairvoyant perceptions come easily.

There are numerous retellings of mysterious observations, as caught in the dark glassy mirror. Spirit guides reside inside the glass, as do images of long departed loved ones.

An owner of an Obsidian crystal can communicate with other realms when they’re ready to embrace this ancient belief.

Obsidian Meditation

A visually appealing dark glass, obsidian stones aid meditative states by providing an earthly focusing point. Instead of sinking into a deep contemplative state of being, the seeker of truth and enlightenment gazes down and down until there’s a sense of sliding, of embracing the crystal vibrations as they ascend from the core of the reflective glaze.

Obsidian-tuned meditations enable deeper states of consciousness. Holding the stone, the reflective disciple gently allows the dark glass to open the mind’s center.

The mind clears, intrusive thoughts settle, and the journey begins. Breathe in the light and crystal energy, then breathe out the negativity.

Meditative exercises should never be a battle, should never be fought as a conscious need to reach some ill-defined answer.

In place of all self-defeating conscious energies, grounding vibrations flow from the obsidian glass to help promote a deeper state of relaxation. In this state, the crystal user feels detached but still in touch with the spiritual realm.

Do be alert when employing these black glass stones. As mentioned earlier, Obsidian is a known truth conveyor, a tool for opening the mind’s eye.

Still, some of the personal feelings and truths uncovered by the powerful stones can be disturbing.

Start with a single crystal, and use that crystal for a short period as a consciousness-expanding medium. If uncomfortable thoughts do come to light, accept them and move on instead of questioning their authenticity.

Obsidian Birthstone

Pure dark glass or lace, blotchy clouds or mahogany tones, the various types of Obsidian glass are not traditional birthstone. In truth, the stones are modern birthstones, but that fact doesn’t diminish their astrological effects.

Dwelling in the month of November, midnight black stones ground restless winter energies while Rainbow Obsidian crystals bring hope and positive vibrations to that potentially bleak end-of-year month.

Like the delicate flavors found in a life-sustaining meal, different forms of the glassy stone bring distinctive vibrational energies to those who were born in the colder months.

Obsidian Zodiac Sign

Since Obsidian is a dark glass, it’s usually associated with the colder end of the year. On the zodiac wheel, in the houses of Capricorn and Scorpio, the wintery hues reach peak vibrational ascendancy.

Negative vibrations are grounded towards Mother Gaia, which is an especially prized property when a deeply emotional Scorpio feels his or her mood turning sour.

Likewise, silently simmering Capricorns also experience this grounding effect when Black Obsidian exercises its emotionally grounding talents.

Again, Obsidian is not a natural birthstone, but its wintery features do plainly call out to the months of the year when the Earth sleeps.

A fellowship of Obsidian types, including Black and Snowflake Obsidian, are known to influence Scorpio and Capricorn born stone holders.

Obsidian Chakra

Above all else, the chiefly black crystals radiate grounding vibrations. Therefore, Obsidian naturally strengthens the root chakra. From the base of the spine to the feet, then into the Earth, the dark crystal anchors.

As a contemplative spirit aligns the various bodily chakras, it’s this root connection that keeps the meditator connected to reality.

On moving into alignment, the spirit-to-body connection reignites. Spiritual energies are stimulated, the stone owner’s physical well-being responds in kind, and the harmonizing effect produces newfound feelings of stamina, of connectivity, and of confidence.

Just as importantly, the other members of this crystalized fellowship have a role to play in chakra clearing.

For Rainbow Obsidian, an added light source brings out the many interlaced colors, which cause a cleansing energy to sweep through the energy channels that link these spiritual power centers.

Whether the black glass crystals are clearing chakras or grounding negative energies, those different Obsidian types are gifted with unique spiritual healing and cleansing properties.

The vibrational and visual traits gently ebb and flow, like a tide, as they radiate inexorably from that polished black surface. They protect, ground, and balance, leaving the holder refreshed and rebalanced.