George Frederick Kunz, The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (New York: Dover Publications, 1971) Judy Hall, 101 Power Crystals (Beverly, MA: Fair Winds Press, 2011) Judy Hall, The Crystal Bible 2 (Cincinnati, OH: Walking Stick Press, 2009) Judy Hall, The Crystal Bible (Cincinnati, OH: Walking Stick Press, 2003) Michael Gienger, Healing Crystals (Scotland: Earthdancer Books, 2009) Fernie, The Occult and Curative Powers of Precious Stones (Blauvelt, NY: Rudolph Steiner Publications, 1973) Gerina Dunwich, Dunwich’s Guide to Gemstone Sorcery (Career Press, 2003)Ĭassandra Eason, The New Crystal Bible (London: Carlton Books Ltd., 2010) Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian, The Book of Stones (Berkley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 2007) Agate is strongly associated with Nyx because of its properties to protect against stress and for keeping bad dreams away.īlue Lace Agate can also be used in devotions to Clota, the Goddess of the River Cldye Callisto, the Greek Moon Goddess Chirakan-Ixmucane, the Mayan Creator Goddess Dione, Phoenician Earth Goddess Itzpapaloti, the Aztec Butterfly Goddess and Jana, the Roman Goddess of Secret and Hidden Things. She is usually seen riding in a chariot, trailing stars, and painting the night sky. She is the guardian of spiritual transformation.Īll Agates honor Nyx, the Greek Goddess of the Night. She rules the gifts of prophecy and magic and powers death and rebirth. Born directly out of Chaos, the primal emptiness, she was the first (or one of the first) beings to appear during the process of creation and is honored as being the Earth itself.Īll Agates honor Cerridwen, the Welsh Goddess of Inspiration and Knowledge.
She protects women through all of their changes and is a skilled healer, particularly with herbs.Īll Agates honor Gaia, the Greek Earth Mother Goddess. Agate also helps new mothers avoid the "baby blues" sometimes experienced after giving birth, and an Agate jewel worn between the breasts encourages lactation.Īll Agates honor Bona Dea, the Roman Earth Goddess of Fertility and the Greek Goddess of Women. It is a great crystal to use during pregnancy. Its warm, protective properties encourage security and self-confidence. It is an excellent stone for imaginative children who present created stories and may need help in discerning whether an event was real or imagined.Īgate promotes inner stability, composure, and maturity.
It helps those who have trouble keeping a secret and promotes an understanding of the sanctity of trust. It encourages discernment about the thoughts they share and the beauty of inner silence. It is a great stone for those who communicate for a living, such as workshop directors, lecturers, teachers, or anyone who must connect in a clear, intelligent manner. Blue Lace Agate also tranquilizes and relaxes the mind of executives and calms stress in postal workers.īlue Lace Agate's calm, centering properties also aid those who are unable to stop talking or who speak before thinking about the consequences of their words. Agate is excellent for balancing emotional, physical, and intellectual energy and in harmonizing yin and yang, the positive and negative forces of the universe.Īs a support crystal, Blue Lace Agate assists those who fear speaking in public or sharing thoughts and ideas with strangers. The layered bands of microscopic quartz in Agate may appear delicate, they are actually very strong. Metaphysically, Agate has a lower intensity and vibrates to a slower frequency than other stones but is highly regarded as a stabilizing and strengthening influence. Agate sparked a world renowned stonecutting and polishing industry in Germany that flourished from the 15th to the 19th century and exists today. Its medicinal uses continued through the ancient Greek and Egyptian civilizations and spread throughout Africa and the Middle East into Russia. Historically, Agate has been discovered with the artifacts of Neolithic people and was used as healing amulets and ornamentation dating back to Babylon.
Agate is sometimes called the earth rainbow because, in its various forms, the concentric bands in nature form nearly every color the earth can produce, including a colorless form. It is usually banded in layers of predominantly light blue, striped with brighter blues, whites, and even brown threads of color. Blue Lace Agate is a variety of banded Chalcedony, a mineral of the Quartz family.
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