Agate 

Balances, Grounds, Secures

Spiritual Properties

• Strengthens life force energy
• Traveling protection amulet
• Provides strength and protection
• Helps you feel connected to the earth 

Mental Properties

• Clears brain fog
• Grounds and balances
• Empowers decision making
• Sharpens the thought process
• Promotes fidelity in marriages
• Stops the desires for things you don’t need
• Helps you express ideas in a marketable form
• Helps you juggle commitments and multiple jobs
• Promotes inner stability, composure, and maturity
• Excellent for rebalancing the mind, body, and spirit
• Stabilizes the imagination and inspiration of the artist
• Brings new information and characteristics to the surface

Emotional Properties

• A soothing and calming stone
• Brings an appreciation of nature
• Increases security and self-confidence
• Heals anger and tension, while creating a sense of security and safety

Kundalini Properties

• Stabilizes the energy centers of the body
• Cleanses and stabilizes the aura by eliminating and transferring negative energy

Affirmations

•  Life nourishes me 
• I am strong and protected

Correspondence 

• Chakras: Depends on the color
• Energy: Projective
• Planets: Mercury, Moon
• Element: Earth
• Zodiacs: Gemini, Virgo
• Number: 7

Health Benefits 

• Helps to heal the eyes, stomach, and uterus
• Assists children with learning motor functions
• Cleanses the lymphatic systems and the pancreas 
• Strengthens blood vessels and helps to heal skin disorders
• Worn between the breasts to encourage lactation in new mothers
• Enhances mental functions such as concentration, perception, and analytic abilities
• helps new mothers avoid postpartum depression they might experience after giving birth

Fun Facts

• Any color and banding that’s present comes from impurities of other minerals
•  Stones are often black, white, or grey
• Agate is a mineral
• Named After: The river ‘Achates’
• Was often a key component of knife-edge bearings for precision use such as laboratory scales
• You can also find guitar and bass picks made of the material. They produce a unique sound when used.
• used as a mortar and pestle occasionally
• got its unique name from the famous River Achates, Sicily.
• se can be traced back to 20000 to 15000 BC
• comes up as the first choice for a gift for 12th & 14th wedding anniversaries
• The king of Pontus was so fascinated with Mithradates that he had more than 3000 bowls made from Agate Gemstone. You can find some of the collections with royal families.
• Discovered In: Around the 3rd or 4th century (BC) 
• Discovered By: A Greek philosopher, Theophrastus