Black agate

Black agate promotes courage, strengthens your willpower and builds your confidence. The stone protects you from negativity and gives you the strength to overcome problems. The stone has strong healing powers and brings emotional balance and stability.

Effects and properties: black agate

Black agate has a grounding, stabilizing and protective effect. The stone makes you feel safe and strengthens you. This balances you mentally, emotionally and physically. Agate has the power to balance yin and yang, the positive and negative forces of the universe.

It is a calming stone that calms you down. The stone works slowly but can give tremendous power. The stone builds your self-confidence and helps you accept yourself. The stone also promotes concentration and helps you find solutions. Black agate has given you the courage to speak your own truth.

Black agate gives you the strength to move on after a difficult period. The stone also calms you during stressful circumstances.

Physically, black agate can help with nausea, cramps and other digestive complaints. The stone also has a positive effect on the immune system, nervous system and nerve pain.

Black agate symbolizes protection, strength and courage.

Colour

It is a black stone with white lines.

Location

Black agate is found mainly in Africa and Brazil. It is also found in Mexico, Uruguay, the United States, and Mexico.

Physical properties*

Agate is a variety of chalcedony, a cryptocrystalline form of quartz. The majority of agates are found in fissures in ancient lava rock or eruptive rocks.

• Composition: SiO2 silicon dioxide
• Hardness: 6.5 – 7 – on Mohs scale of 1 (soft) to 10 (hard)
• Density: 2.58 to 2.64
• Translucent: translucent

Etymology

Since ancient times, black agate has been used for its medicinal properties. In ancient Mesopotamia, black agate was a symbol of power and authority. Those who owned black agate were highly respected and were also wealthy. In ancient Rome, black agate stones were used to make a pestle and mortar. The Romans then used the pestle and mortar to grind ingredients for medicines.

Constellation

Gemini, Aquarius, Cancer and Scorpio

Chakra

Black agate particularly suits the root chakra (1°).

The power of Crystals

Crystal healing is an ancient practice of using natural gemstones and crystals to heal the body, stimulate the mind and activate the soul. Countless proofs have been found throughout history where the healing power of crystals has been mentioned in various cultures and civilizations. We have long known from Egyptians, Mayans, Sumerians and Indians that they adorned themselves with crystals to ward off evil and protect themselves from dark forces.

Crystals are natural minerals usually found beneath the Earth and formed through thousands of years of crystallization in various environmental conditions. Because crystals are inherently connected to nature, they have an incredible power to sense pain and unease in a human body and to heal the body and mind.

Black agate discharging and charging

Agate Discharge

Agate can energetically cleanse or discharge you in several ways:

1. Moonlight: place the stone on the windowsill at night under a full moon. Always do this behind glass and don’t forget to take your stone out of the sunlight in the morning.
2. White Sage or Palo Santo : With dried white sage or Palo Santo (Holy Wood) you can clean quartz species by keeping them in the purifying smoke for a while.
3. Selenite: Selenite rods are ideal for cleaning your crystals. Simply place your crystals against the selenite or put them together overnight in a box or bag.
4. Hematite: Another way to discharge your stones is to put them in an abalone shell with hematite stones overnight.
5. Water: Hold the stone under running water for a few minutes, dry well.
6. Earth: place the stone in the earth overnight.

Agate Charging

Agate can energetically charge you in several ways:

• Moonlight: place the stone on the windowsill at night under a full moon. Always do this behind glass and don’t forget to take your stone out of the sunlight in the morning.
• Sunlight: Place your stone in direct sunlight for several hours. Make sure it doesn’t get too hot.
• In the earth: place your stone in the earth overnight.

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