Red Agate
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A stone of stable vitality in lithotherapy,red agate is a variety of chalcedony with dark or light, but always intense hues.


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What is the significance and benefit of red agate in lithotherapy?

Vitality - Anchoring - Stability - Security - Courage and determination - Self-confidence

Origin of properties and symbols

Agates have a long human history, present in many ancient civilizations. In Greco-Roman antiquity, Pliny the Elder mentions them in his Natural History, attributing to them powers of protection and health.

Roman soldiers could wear them as talismans to protect themselves in battle. Later, in the Middle Ages, alchemical and esoteric texts associated red stones with the element of fire.

But in neither case is there any explicit mention of red agate as a specific variety. The use of Agate of this color is not documented in ancient or medieval legends; like its use to channel fire energy by alchemists, the legend remains an interpretation of twentieth-century esotericism.

Today, red agate is renowned in lithotherapy for the strength of its vitality, which is as stimulating as it is reassuring.

Properties and virtues of Red Agate in lithotherapy

Sometimes, our apprehensions about the future are the expression of traces of the past, freezing us in a present we don't really live in, surrounded as we are by fears and lack of confidence, as if locked in a dead-end space, at the turning points of indecision and fear of loss.

But life is also a crossroads with many paths. Your perception can recognize these roads in the thickest fog, provided you identify your subjective part through the paradoxical awakening of intuition, letting go of what is not, what is no longer and what has never belonged to you.

You'll need a stabilizing anchor as well as the energy to move forward. The accompaniment of Red Agate can be this catalyst in lithotherapy. If its anchoring can stem emotional instability, it will help you rediscover the link with your vitality, providing a reminder of a necessary security and of the fact that courage has never prevented fear, but renews its use: it displaces it; the courageous are afraid, not before, but after the action.

Supported by the stone, this movement can be the source of new self-confidence, the key to overcoming fears and facing challenges with determination.

On a physical level

The physical effects of Red Agate, while lacking scientific confirmation, are rooted in a lithotherapy tradition - which can be understood from a symbolic point of view - attributing to the stone a beneficial action on blood circulation, kidney infections, and to soothe the pain of burns.

Which crystals to match red agate with?

In lithotherapy, Red Agate's symbolic energetic correspondences enable it to be combined with other crystals to amplify its effects. Here are just a few examples of its benefits in relation to the different needs of each individual:

Purification of Red Agate

Refilling and cleaning

Sun exposure, under running water, fumigation, wind/breath, intention, singing bowl, form waves

Astrological signs

Scorpio, Aries, Taurus
strength, passion, determination

Chakras

Root chakra (Muladhara)
security, physical stability and emotions

Elements

Light
passion, stimulating energy

Mineralogy of Red Agate

Red Agate is a microcrystalline Quartz, a variety of Chalcedony with an intense red to reddish-brown color - due to the presence of iron oxides.

While quartz has a trigonal structure, this stone's crystalline system is trigonal. Its crystals are therefore not visible to the naked eye. Its luster can range from vitreous to silky, and from translucent to opaque. Natural red agates are mostly translucent at the edges, but can be opaque in the center.

It is formed in volcanic rock cavities, where silica deposits crystallize over time.

Red agate deposits are found mainly in Brazil, India, Madagascar and Australia.

The hardness of red agate lies between 6.5 and 7 on the Mohs scale. The stone is therefore highly resistant to scratches and wear.


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