Nature, Calmness, Concentration
Spiritual Properties
- Amplifies abundance
- Gives you strength through spirit
- Offers a passionate connection to the world of spirituality and hope
Mental Properties
- Alters your perception
- Helps you connect with nature
- Helps you break open your shell
- Helps you find you balance within life
- Encourages you to follow your heart and capitalize on your dreams
Emotional Properties
- Helps you overcome negativity
- Helps alleviate feelings of sadness
- Promotes self acceptance, self confidence, and self esteem
Kundalini Properties
- Grounds your energy
- Activates the root and crown chakras
Health Benefits
- Relieves stress
- Helps with bad dreams and insomnia
- Helps you deal with trauma and ptsd symptoms
Affirmations
- I am balanced within my life
- I am connected to my spirituality
- My perception is clear and judgment free
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root, Crown
- Energy: Receptive
- Planets: Earth, Mercury
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Gemini, Taurus
- Number: 3
Physical Properties
- Color: Variety typically dyed
- Habit: Usually as banded or layered botryoidal masses with micro-fibrous structure
- Rarity: Common
- Luster: Dull vitreous to Greasy
- Species: Quartz
- Zoning: Color banding and layers of inclusions are common
- Gravity: 2.57-2.64
- Fracture: Conchoidal to Splintery
- Cleavage: None
- Hardness: 6.5 to 7.0
- Twinning: None
- Locations: Indonesia
- Fluorescence: None
- Pleochroism: None
- Birefringence: Weak, 0.005 to 0.009
- Transparency: Translucent, Can be Transparent or Opaque
- Named After: The river 'Achates'
- Classification: Chalcedony, Tectosilicate
- Melting point: 1,600⁰ C
- Discovered In: Around the 3rd or 4th century (BC)
- Luminescence: Inert
- Discovered By: A Greek philosopher, Theophrastus
- Chemical Name: Silicon dioxide (aka silica)
- Refractive Index: 1.53-1.55
- System/Structure: Hexagonal
- Chemical Formula: SiO2
- Inclusions (streak): White
- Chemical Classification: Silicate