Agate has a variety of beautiful colors, from common red, white, and black to rare blue, green, and purple. These colors are caused by the different elements contained in agate. For example, red agate contains iron oxide, and white agate contains magnesium dioxide.
The color of agate not only implies blue, but also has different meanings. For example, red agate symbolizes good luck; white agate symbolizes color and loyalty; black agate symbolizes perseverance and bravery.
Agate is a gem with a long history. It has been loved by people as early as in ancient times. The effect of agate can dispel evil and keep peace. It is one of the seven treasures of Buddhism. In the West, agate is called a "lucky stone" and symbolizes good luck and happiness.
Agate History
So, where does agate come from?
The meaning of agate has a long history. The original meaning of agate comes from the ancient Greek philosopher Theophrastus, who named the stone after the Achates River in southwestern Sicily between 400 and 300 BC.
What is the name of this river, Achates, translated into English? Agate! The river once flowed through a Greek colony, and for centuries the stones had been arranged in shallow water, making it a popular source of the material.
Agate tombstone carvings have been found at various archaeological sites from the Bronze Age, including the site of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. In the Middle Ages, agate was a popular ring material, and nobles used it to make seal rings.
Different Agate Types, Effects, and Corresponding Chakras
Red Agate
Red agate corresponds to the root chakra, which is located at the bottom of the human spine. It is the foundation of the human body and controls people's sense of security, vitality and vigor. The effect of red agate can activate the root chakra, increase the sense of security, and activate vitality and vigor.
In addition, the effect of red agate can also ward off evil spirits. In traditional culture, red is an auspicious color and has the effect of warding off evil spirits. Therefore, red agate can also be used as a talisman.
Yellow Agate
Yellow agate corresponds to the solar plexus, which is located in the abdomen and controls people's willpower, courage and self-control. Yellow agate can awaken and dredge the energy of the solar plexus, allowing people to show a confident attitude, firm will, and not easily swayed by others.
Yellow agate can also heal trauma related to self-esteem, giving people the courage to face challenges or difficulties.
Green Agate
Green agate corresponds to the heart chakra, which is located in the center of the chest and controls people's love, hope and tolerance. Green agate can balance and clear the energy of the heart chakra, making people positive and empathetic, and able to establish good relationships with others.
In addition, it can also heal trauma in love and establish healthy intimate relationships.
Blue Agate
Blue agate corresponds to the throat chakra, which is located in the throat and controls people's expression, communication and wisdom. Blue agate effects can balance the throat chakra, and people will feel confident, clear-minded, and able to express their thoughts and feelings effectively.
In addition, blue agate also has the effect of improving confusion, lack of concentration, lack of inspiration, etc. It can improve concentration, communication and expression skills, and promote interpersonal relationships.
Purple Agate
Purple agate corresponds to the crown chakra, located at the top of the head, and controls human wisdom, spirituality and spirit. The effect of purple agate can keep the mental state stable and improve the state of confusion, confusion, and lack of spiritual pursuit.
In addition, purple agate can help to clear the energy of the crown chakra. When the energy of the crown chakra is unobstructed, you can let go of obsession or not be overly superstitious, thereby enhancing spiritual awareness.
Black Agate
Black agate corresponds to the root chakra, located at the bottom of the human spine, which is the foundation of the human body and controls people's sense of security, vitality and vitality. Black agate can help connect to the earth energy, making people more stable and down-to-earth, and reducing impetuousness and insecurity.
Black agate promotes energy flow, keeps the root chakra in a balanced state, and helps people get rid of negative emotional states such as fear, anxiety, and lack of security. In addition, black agate can also ward off evil spirits and prevent the invasion of negative energy.
White Agate
White agate corresponds to the crown chakra and the eighth chakra. The crown chakra is located at the top of the head, and the eighth chakra is located above the head. The crown chakra controls human wisdom, spirituality and spirit, and the eighth chakra controls human soul, cosmic consciousness and divinity.
White agate can keep the mental state stable and improve the state of confusion, confusion, and lack of spiritual pursuit. In addition, white agate can help to clear the energy of the crown chakra. When the energy of the crown chakra is unblocked, you can let go of obsessions or stop being overly superstitious, thereby enhancing your spiritual awareness.
Special Agate
Sakura Agate
Sakura agate is named for its inclusions that resemble cherry blossom petals. The color of Sakura agate is different shades of pink, and has white or transparent stripes and patches, and is arranged in star-shaped, petal-shaped or other irregular shapes.
The effect of Sakura agate can promote love, peace and harmony, help relieve stress and anxiety, and promote emotional wound healing.
Blue Lace Agate
Blue lace agate usually has light blue and white stripes, like the blue and white interlaced patterns between waves and spray. Blue lace agate has the energy effect of soothing trauma and restoring peace. Blue lace agate can also bring out the inner gentleness and yin aspects.
Waterweed Agate
The inclusions of waterweed agate are named after the shape of waterweed, ranging in color from light green to dark green, with white or transparent stripes or patches. The inclusions of waterweed agate are usually composed of iron oxide or manganese, arranged in long, curved shapes.
Waterweed agate is said to promote growth, prosperity and new beginnings. The effect of waterweed agate can reduce stress, anxiety, transform negative energy, and maintain emotional stability.
Waterweed agate is a gemstone with powerful energy, which is said to bring wealth, prosperity and new growth. The efficacy of water grass agate can also help build healthy interpersonal relationships and improve social isolation.
South Red Agate
South Red Agate is a unique agate variety in China. It is mainly produced in Baoshan, Yunnan, Liangshan, Sichuan, and Diebu, Gansu. It is named for its bright red color.
South Red Agate has different colors of red, including persimmon red, rose red, cherry red, brocade red, cinnabar red, etc. Among them, persimmon red and rose red are the most common colors.
Yanyuan Agate
Yanyuan Agate is named after Yanyuan County, Sichuan Province, China. The colors of Yanyuan Agate are very diverse, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, etc., among which red is the most common color.
Salt agate is characterized by its distinct luster and warm texture.
Grape Agate
Grape agate is named after its shape, which is similar to grapes. It is a relatively new agate variety and was first discovered in Indonesia in 2017. Grape agate includes purple, pink, green and blue. Grape agate usually has multiple colors, forming a unique mottled pattern.
Threaded Agate
Threaded agate is characterized by fine, thread-like stripes, which are usually white, red or black. Threaded agate is formed because agate is affected by different minerals during the formation process.
Wire agate is a relatively rare variety of agate found in China, India and Brazil. Wire agate is often used to make jewelry and ornaments.
Fire Agate
Fire agate gets its name from its color, which is usually red or orange, with a beautiful rainbow effect. The rainbow effect produced by the limonite inside the quartz will appear like sparks after partial cutting.
Fire agate corresponds to the root chakra, can connect to the energy of the earth, and has the effect of activating vitality and strengthening the sense of security.
Crazy lace Agate
Crazy lace agate is named for the pattern formed by its inclusions. It is mainly produced in Mexico. The color is usually white, gray or brown, and has black, brown or red stripes or patches.
Crazy lace agate can make people happy, optimistic, and enhance creativity and imagination. It can also reduce stress and relieve anxiety. It is a healing stone with special ornamental value.
Gallbladder Agate
The inclusions of gallbladder agate are water or gas, forming one or more bubbles or liquid inclusions. Gallbladder agate can appear in white, gray, brown, red and other colors. The water or gas included can be transparent or colored.
Gallbladder agate has the effect of improving sleep quality. If you have many dreams at night or are often awakened by nightmares, you can put gallbladder agate next to your pillow. The effect of gallbladder agate can help you get through nightmares and return to a clear state.
Gobi Agate
Gobi agate is produced in the Gobi Desert in Inner Mongolia, China. The formation of Gobi agate has gone through tens of millions of years of wind and sand grinding, so it has unique wind erosion texture. The colors and shapes of Gobi agate are very diverse, including red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, etc., and the shapes are round, oval, irregular, etc. Among them, red is the most common color. The common Alxa in the market is a type of Gobi agate.
Warring States Red Agate
The main production areas of Warring States Red Agate are Beipiao City, Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, China and Xuanhua County, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. The Warring States red agate produced in Beipiao is also called "Beipiao Warring States red agate", which is characterized by a multi-wire structure, and the wire drawing is fine and compact, which will produce a "moving wire" shadow effect.
The Warring States red agate produced in Xuanhua is called "Shanggu Warring States red agate", which is mainly red and yellow, and also has white, blue, purple, black and other colors. The spherical structure of Shanggu Warring States red agate has a thinner stone skin, and the texture structure is mostly concentric circles with few corners.
Rainbow Agate (Iris Agate)
Rainbow agate is also called "iris agate". It comes in many colors such as red, orange, and yellow. The spectral rainbow effect can be observed. Rainbow agate needs to have good transparency and be cut into slices. In this way, when light passes through the agate, it will produce a very eye-catching brilliance phenomenon.
Rainbow agate has the effect of inspiring enthusiasm, enhancing vitality, enhancing creativity and resisting negative energy.
Tree Agate
Tree Branch Agate is also called Small Tree Agate or Landscape Agate. Tree Branch Agate is named because its inclusions form figures, animals, plants, or natural scenes such as sea of clouds, sunrise, mountains and waters. These special patterns create unique ornamental value. The inclusions of tree branch agate are mainly composed of iron manganese oxides, arranged in the form of branches or feathers.
The effect of tree branch agate can inspire inspiration and promote creativity, and it is suitable for creators.
Agate's Effect
Ward off evil spirits and keep safe
Agate has been used as an evil-warding object and amulet since ancient times. It symbolizes friendly love and hope, and helps to eliminate negative energy such as stress, fatigue, and turbidity.
In China, people often make agate into bracelets, necklaces, earrings and other accessories to wear on their bodies in order to bless peace. In some religious beliefs, agate is also regarded as a sacred gemstone with the effect of warding off evil spirits.
Both Japan and China regard agate as a mineral with divine power. It is listed as one of the seven treasures of Buddhism and is an important symbol in Eastern culture.
Improve interpersonal relationships
Agate can help improve interpersonal relationships. Agate has a gentle and stable energy that can keep the heart calm. Among them, blue agate has a significant effect on improving interpersonal relationships.
Blue agate corresponds to the throat chakra, which controls the ability to communicate and express. When the throat chakra energy is smooth, you can express your thoughts and opinions freely and smoothly, avoid misunderstandings, and thus improve interpersonal relationships.
Maintain emotional stability
Agate has a calming effect. Blue agate and green agate are particularly effective in maintaining emotional stability.
Blue agate corresponds to the throat chakra, which can keep the throat chakra energy stable, allowing the wearer to communicate and express smoothly, avoiding misunderstandings and inner depression. Green agate corresponds to the heart chakra. When the heart chakra energy is smooth, you can freely accept and express love, strengthen empathy, and keep your emotions in a harmonious and calm state.
Enhance self-confidence
Agate can stabilize emotions, calm anxiety and insecurity, and keep people calm and confident. Agate is also regarded as a crystal that helps to enhance decisiveness and action. This characteristic will help people pursue their goals and dreams more decisively, thereby enhancing self-confidence.
In addition, dispersing negative energy is also one of the effects of agate. It helps get rid of negative emotions and thoughts, and can make it easier to maintain self-confidence.
Calming the mind and helping sleep
Agate can calm the mind, soothe emotions, eliminate anxiety, relax the mood, and promote sleep and improve sleep quality. Blue agate, green agate and white agate are particularly effective in calming the mind and helping sleep.
Blue agate can avoid inner depression; green agate can relieve stress, tense emotions, and maintain emotional stability; white agate corresponds to the eighth chakra. When the energy of the eighth chakra is unblocked, it can maintain a state of physical and mental balance. The above three colors of agate can improve sleep quality.
Absorb and resist negative energy
Agate has a strong magnetic field, and its crystalline structure can help the human body absorb negative energy and transform it into positive energy, resist the invasion of negative energy, and maintain the health of the body, mind and spirit.
If agate is placed in the home or work environment, the agate effect of absorbing and clearing the negative energy in the environment will make the space more fresh and positive, allowing work or life to enter a more comfortable state.
Who should wear Agate
People or students with high stress
When facing situations that may bring stress, such as work, schoolwork or social occasions, you can wear agate. The effect of agate can eliminate anxiety, relax your mood, enhance self-confidence, further improve concentration, learning or work efficiency, and avoid stage fright, and can flexibly deal with various occasions.
People who often travel on business or travel
The effect of agate can ward off evil spirits and ensure safety, and can be worn as a talisman. Agate also has the function of absorbing negative energy and can resist the invasion of external negative energy. Business trips or travel may make you tired due to running around. The effect of agate can keep your mood stable and enhance your immunity, bringing good help on the physiological and psychological levels.
In addition, when traveling or on business, you may encounter various unexpected situations, which may cause mental fatigue. At this time, the agate effect of enhancing self-confidence can come in handy, allowing people to face challenges bravely and deal with emergencies properly.
People with poor sleep quality
If you have difficulty falling asleep, light sleep and easy awakening, often have nightmares, or are still very tired after waking up, you can use agate to improve your sleep quality. The agate effect can help people calm down and help them sleep, and improve their sleeping conditions. The agate effect of relieving anxiety and fear can also help sleep, reduce the impact of negative emotions, and make it easier to fall asleep.
People with emotional tension
Agate can balance emotions and reduce anxiety and tension, making people feel calmer and more stable. Agate can also block external negative energy, help people get rid of stress and negative emotions, and improve negative emotional states.
In addition, agate also helps to reduce emotional tension, can help people relax their body and mind, and thus improve sleep conditions, making it easier to fall asleep and enjoy deep sleep.
People who often feel tired
Agate can activate vitality. When the energy of the root chakra is unblocked, it is believed to promote blood circulation, improve metabolism, and enhance physical fitness. Agate can also help the human body resist the invasion of negative energy from the outside world and prevent negative energy from affecting its own state.
Maintaining emotional stability is also an effect of agate, which can reduce anxiety and irritability, and also help to improve fatigue. Agate can also improve sleep conditions. Improving sleep quality will make the body stronger and no longer weak.
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Avoid when wearing Agate
Avoid long-term exposure to the sun
Agate should avoid long-term exposure to sunlight or strong light, or avoid heat sources, and be placed in a cool place. When doing outdoor activities, you need to pay more attention to the exposure to sunlight, or take it off directly to avoid the above situations.
Pay attention to collision
Although the hardness of agate is not low, you still need to pay attention to collision with hard objects when wearing it. It is recommended to temporarily take it off when doing housework, exercising, or other more intense activities to avoid being hit or scratched. If a collision occurs, it is recommended to check the condition of the agate at the time.
Avoid contact with chemical substances
It is recommended to take off the agate when bathing or cleaning to avoid contact with chemicals.
How to distinguish between real & fake Agate
Agate is a gemstone commonly used for inlaying jewelry and carving crafts. The following are the methods for distinguishing between the real and the fake:
Color
Real agate has bright and shiny colors, while fake agate has a slightly worse color and luster. The contrast between the two is quite obvious. Natural red agate has distinct colors and very obvious stripes. If you look closely, you can see densely arranged tiny red spots on the red stripes.
Most fake agate tobacco pipes made of stone have petal-shaped patterns on the bottom, forming a "chrysanthemum bottom"; while dyed blue agate has bright and uniform colors, giving people a fake feeling.
Texture
Fake agate is mostly made of stone, and is softer than real agate. You can scratch fake agate with jade, but not the real one. From the surface, real agate has few flaws, while inferior agate has more.
Craftsmanship quality
The production process of high-quality agate is strict and advanced, so the surface is bright and shiny, and the inlay is firm and round without scratches or cracks.
Grade
Water-filled agate is the most precious variety of agate, characterized by closed cavities containing water.
How to identify different type of Agate
Agate should be distinguished from its color, transparency, material and temperature:
Color characteristics
Real agate has a bright, active, pure, thick and harmonious color; while fake agate has unnatural color and light, often gaudy and frivolous.
Some vintage products may come from old pits with high pH values, usually with reduced luster, chroma and transparency. Of course, their identity is changed by the precious beauty of their aged and mottled surface.
Transparency
Real agate has low transparency (otherwise it has reached the crystal boundary), and some can see natural water lines or "clouds" and "silk". Artificially synthesized agate has good transparency, even as transparent as a glass ball, which is often unnatural.
Material
Fake agate is imitated from other stones, especially those that are fragile or soft. Generally, agate is relatively strong, and most agates that are not affected by acid or alkali can scratch glass plates. Real agate jewelry is heavier than synthetic agate jewelry.
Temperature
Real agate (especially new material that has not been affected by acid and alkali factors) is warm in winter and cool in summer, while synthetic agate changes with the external temperature. It is hot when it is hot and cool when it is cool.