Grape Agate Nodules
Grape agate (also known as Botryoidal Purple Chalcedony) is calming and sedative. This stone of grace cleanses perceptions, identifies what is important, and allows you to sit peacefully. Its tranquil nature helps to dismantle defenses and open up your heart. Use grape agate for emotional support and to overcome inner whispers of fear. This crystal encourages trust, plays to your karmic strengths, and helps you realize that you are never truly alone.
Agate Family Traits
Agates are grounding stones. They assist in bringing about emotional, physical and mental balance. They harmonize Yin/Yang and positive/negative energies, soothe and bring clarity and concentration to all situations. Agates heal emotional trauma providing that sense of safety and security by dissolving tension.
Agate improves your energy and confidence. It gently shows you the truth of situations. This stone helps with emotional balance, offering courage, balance, endurance to body, mind, spirit. It smooths and stabilizes the aura and helps precision of inner sight. Agate helps you to get in touch with your inner self. It transmutes dark emotions, such as jealousy, bitterness, and resentment, and promotes self-acceptance and forgiveness.
Historical Folklore
This stone gets its name for its color and shape, being small, round, and purple. These traits are also linked to its more scientific name, botryoidal purple chalcedony, with botryoidal referring to its shape and chalcedony being the category of stone agate fall under.
Many believe this type of agate is psychically protective and capable of enhancing dreams and visions.
Geology
Agates are semi-precious gemstones and are a variegated form of chalcedony. There are thousands of types of agate. Learn more about the geological properties of agate here.
Grape agate comes from Indonesia.
Chakra Association
This stone is connected to all the chakras. It is especially good for your crown and solar plexus chakras.
Care
You can place this stone in full moon moonlight to energize. It can also be moved through sage smoke or incense, placed in rice, or buried in the earth overnight.
Astrological Association
This stone is associated with Pisces.
Health Folklore
Grape agate is thought to balance brain chemistry, helping with symptoms of anxiety, bipolar disorder, panic disorders, Alzheimer’s, and dementia. It is also useful for aiding the stomach, lymphatic and nervous systems, and ameliorates.
Disclaimer: Crystal meanings and spiritual healing lore are not a prescription, diagnosis or healthcare information. They are presented as spiritual supports to healing and other life issues. See a doctor or licensed medical practitioner for all health issues.
Grape Agate at Crystal Life
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