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 Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:03 am
Agate
There are a ba-zillion Agates! They are found all over the world and each has very specific qualities, so I will list them individually.
Color:green, red, orange, yellow, browns; Clear Quartz with green and brown inclusions. Green: the color of Healing and Hope&&
Brown: the color of stability and grounding in Earth.
Metaphysical:
This quartz, belonging to the Chalcedony family, comes in a wide range of colors and is often variegated and banded. Agates foster love, abundance, wealth, good luck, longevity, acceptance, courage, protection, balance, harmony, generosity, strength, security and appreciation of nature. Agates are considered Power Stones. The are very grounding, solid and stable. All Agates have excellent protective and healing energy, and stimulate analytical capabilities and precision. If you have to deal with numbers, Excel spread sheets, charts and accounts, an Agate crystal on your desk will help you be more precise. Also helps awaken (discover) your inherent natural talents. Good stone for those in banking, or who are the treasurer of a club.
Bitterness: Particularly helpful to people having a hard time with forgiveness, and in dealing with letting go of bitterness and resentments, especially in relationships. (family or romantic ).
Stress: Wear Agate when you are feeling overwhelmed, constricted, pressured, closed in or suffocated with current responsibilities. Better yet, enjoy the best of both worlds, and go for that walk with a nugget of Moss Agate in your pocket, as it is said to enhance the appreciation of nature.
Strength: In Ancient times, the forces of the Four Elements were considered the most powerful forces in the Universe to be reckoned with. Moss Agate is an Earth Stone, which the ancients believed were among the most powerful of medicines. They believed Agates had the ability to make warriors both strong and victorious in battle.
Courage: What battles do you face today? The need for Courage and Bravery ..in being true to ourselves and what we believe, was not lost when we put down our swords!! On the contrary, the most courageous among us today are those that have the courage to stay the course and keep totheir own inner truth despite the temptations around us.
Give an Agate pendent or bracelet to your teenager.Sometimes its tough to Just say No. This stone is helpful when starting new friendships, especially if you tend to come across as an aggressive or forceful person that doesn't usually make a good first impression.
Moss Agate - Due to its associations with nature, Moss Agate fosters feelings of expansion, freedom, and space, the same feelings you experience when you go for a walk along streams, the beach, or thru the woods. Draws new friends. Relieves exhaustion and heals problems with the neck and back. Blood sugar, anorexia/food issues, lymph nodes. Balances emotions.
Gardening: Because of its association with Nature and the Earth, Moss Agate is particularity useful to gardeners. Wear your Agate necklace, pendant, or bracelet while tending your garden. Ancient traditions say that placing Agates in your garden will make you flowers brighter, and increase the yield in vegetable gardens. Walking thru the village, you would see Agate nuggets tied with strings and hanging from branches over the garden, and larger stones set on the ground. So if you are of the mind to create a rock garden, makesure to add Agates to your list!
Picture Agate: Gaze into for meditation. L/Rt. brain balance. Pineal, pituitary; coordination.
Blue Lace: This stone helps one to reach high spiritual places through
patience and peace. Associated with hope, unity, cleansing, harmony, protection, optimism, positive thinking, smooth energy flow, joy, truth, purification and promptness. Makes us more easygoing.
MEXICAN LACE AGATE is said to lift depression.
PINK LACE AGATE increases friendliness and happiness.
WHITE LACE AGATE attunes us to our highest mind and to the Creator.
BOTSWANA AGATE A banded agate promoting protection, fertility,
sensuality, sexuality, passion, artistic expression and emotional comfort.
Crazy Lace: Aids with energy lows. Relieves emotional pain. Opens the way for laughter. Strengthens the heart. Clears energy blockages. Brings vitality to major organs.
Flame Agate: Provides clarity during periods of transition. Stimulates awareness. Enhances physical vitality. Treatment of burns and relieving pain.
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 8:32 am
Amazonite
A green or blue green member of the Feldspar clan.
Metaphysical:
Amazonite creates a feeling of power. It inspires truth, sincerity, honor, self love, communication, eloquence, integrity, trust, clairvoyance, clarity, prophecy and openness. Held to the third eye (middle of forehead), Amazonite unlocks psychic vision.
Helps one to analyze and sort out information and combine this process with intuitive wisdom. It helps you to manifest and retain the pure energy of Universal Love.
Amazonite will assist you in developing a more trusting relationship with Spirit. The stone helps you to trust your intuitions more, instead of rationalizing them away.
Reduces self-damaging behavior, and leads one away from the self-destructive behavior that sometimes surfaces when we experience disappointments. (Acting out) Eliminates irritation and aggravation.
This stone improves confidence, both directed towards oneself and towards others.
Restores spiritual faith, gives stamina, faith and compassion.
Amazonite gives you strength in making tough decisions. Helps develop your own personal truth, and gives courage to follow your convictions.
dispels negative energy; is soothing and calming;
dissolves sadness and grief;
Improves self-expression. It's a great stone for writers and other creative types that use voice or hands for a living.
enhances communications concerning love.
You may use Amazonite to help calm all your Chakras after you&ve been exposed to erratic or disturbing energies. It will rejuvenate your Heart Chakra also works well with the Throat Chakra
If you have a challenging situation to face, a long-overdue speaking of your truth, a difficult request to make, a public-speaking engagement, amazonite is one of the most beneficial stones to wear or carry.
Physical - tooth decay osteoporosis by assisting the body with the absorption of calcium, Balances metabolism, nervous system, liver, throat, thyroid, nerve and brain paths, pinched nerves, spinal difficulties, bursitis .
Amazonite is also useful in relieving cramps from menstruation, and muscle cramps and spasms. During childbirth it assists with the natural dilation of the birth canal, allowing for an easier delivery
Keywords: Gentle, friendly, calming, soothing, self-expression, artistic creativity, healing, confidence, grace, self-assuredness, self-respect.
Hardness: 3.5 - 4
Main Chakra: 5th Chakra
Vibrates to the numbers . #2 and #3
Astrological: Virgo Stone
Birthstone:
Element: Earth
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 4:10 pm
Amber
Color: Red, orange, yellow, browns, blue.
fossilized tree resin that has aged millions of years by losing water. Floats on water and burns.
Yellow - The color of Optimism
Metaphysical:
Amber heightens creativity. It helps you to accept change, and follow your dreams.
Amber is excellent at removing self-imposed obstacles, it also imparts a positive attitude that is fueled by self confidence.
It has been used to guard against impotency & promote fertility. Many early Amber carvings were of animals associated with conception, frogs, rabbits or fish. Many ancient traditions associate Amber with the universal life force, essentially life has been trapped inside.
This gentle stone draws out negative energy from the body and purifies the spirit and heart. Amber also helps us discover ancient wisdom and knowledge.
Amber allows the body to heal itself by absorbing and transmuting negative energy into positive energy. It stimulates the intellect and opens the crown Chakra.
It also transmutes the energy of physical vitality toward the activation of unconditional love. It aligns the ethereal energies to the physical, mental, and emotional bodies, providing for an even flow of perfect order to the requirements of the Earth plane while balancing the electro-magnetic of the physical body.
Helps the body heal itself by absorbing and transmuting negative energy into positive energy. Helps to calm the nerves.
Aids in the making of correct choices.
Excellent detoxification and protection from radiation, especially x-rays, sun, computers, airport, planes and others' energies. Sacred use by American Indians.
Manifestation:
The good luck stone brings the purifying, revitalizing force of the sun and the absorptive, transmuting energy of the earth together to create a powerful tool. Draws disease out of the body and transforms it. Clears negativity.
Amber is said to be a very strong healing stone allowing the body to heal itself. It takes negative energy and turns it into positive energy and releases the energy giving a bright and sunny feeling. It helps one in the art of manifestation; helping you realize your desires into reality. Amber has said to bring good luck.
Opens solar plexus Chakra for mental clarity, mood balance, confidence.
Excellent in use in rituals for enhancing your beauty and attractiveness. Helps to attract love and stimulates happiness and pleasure.
Used for both good luck and as protective talismans and amulets.
Physical: Protect from disease, relieve the pain during childbirth, stop nosebleeds, relieve headache, sore throat, digestive problems or reduce fever.
Aids healing in the areas of the stomach, gall bladder, soothes nerves, kidneys, teeth and joint problems. Stomach anxiety, spine, Central Nervous System, brain, memory loss, cell regeneration, Goiter. Throat diseases. Kidney and bladder.
Keywords: Brings romantic love, purification, wisdom, energy and balance. Promotes inner peace and joy, freedom, desire, growth, good luck, enlightenment, happiness, wisdom, flexibility, creativity, uplifting, mental clarity, faith; balances moods and enables confidence. Romantic love, purification, wisdom, energizing, healing and balancing.
It enhances patience, altruism, strength, calmness, healing, remembrance of past lives and ancient knowledge.
Main Chakra: 2nd Chakra
Elements: Fire Akasha
Astrological Sign: Leo and Sagittarius
3 and #8 vibration.
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