Vision, Creation, Perspective
Spiritual Properties
- Stabilizes your inner child
- Brings visions of past lives
- Helps during meditation by keeping your vision clear
- Helps you to link your consciousness to a superior power or divinity
- Aids you along your spiritual journey, and helps you get ready for your journey
Mental Properties
- Improves memory
- Enhances your perceptive
- Helps you accept your truth
- Stimulates the analytical mind
- Helps you find your direction in life
- Improves your creative visualizations
- Helps you make important life decisions
- Brings clarity and concentration to all situations
- Allows you to clarify your true goals and make the best actions to match
- Helps you focus on finding a spontaneous liking for uncovering hidden agendas and mundane task such as job hunting
Emotional Properties
- Boosts confidence
- Eliminates hostile energy
- Helps you understand the value of peace and harmony
Kundalini Properties
- Harmonizes yin and yang energy
- Removes negative energy from the body and aura
- Balances your spiritual, emotional, mental, and energetic bodies
Health Benefits
- Treats skin disorders
- Helps you overcome stress and anxiety
Affirmations
- My vision is clear
- I am perceptive and aware
- I replace my hostile energy with peace and harmony
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root, Third Eye and Crown
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Mercury, Moon
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Gemini, Virgo
- Number: 7
Physical Properties
- Color: Reddish Brown, White
- Habit: Layered botryoidal masses with micro-fibrous structure
- Rarity: Common
- Luster: Dull vitreous to Greasy
- Species: Quartz, Chalcedony
- 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: Oregon, Utah, Idaho, Virginia, Texas, South Dakota, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Michigan, California, Arizona, and Colorado in the USA
- 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