AGATE

Grounding | Stability | Strength

Agate in all its colours is a strong grounding stone, encouraging stability, strength, and personal power. It assists one to remain balanced and grounded in all situations, allowing one to assess situations without one’s emotions getting in the way and encouraging one to be in one’s power to make the right decisions. It also helps one to awaken and discover one’s inherent natural talents which everyone has been gifted with and to believe in oneself. Agate is a powerful ally to have as one navigates one’s journey through this lifetime.

Agate is a name given to numerous varieties of banded Chalcedony, which is a mineral of the quartz group. It was given its name from the Achates River in Sicilly where the stone was discovered along its shore line by the Greek Philosopher and naturalist, Theophrastus.

Agate occurs in many colours caused by impurities and which show as bands within the Agate. Often displaying exquisite patterns and colours, it is easy to see why Agates have been used in jewellery for thousands of years.  Most Agates form as nodules in volcanic rock. Many Agates are hollow with a crystal-lined cavity or geode of druzy quartz or Amethyst.

Agate exhibits a hardness of 6.5/7 on the Mohs’ Scale.