Cleanses, Protects, Motivates
Spiritual Properties
- Anti-evil amulet
- Attracts love and abundance
- Provides good luck and protection
- Helps you find your flow of good luck
- Helps you move forward in life with no challenges or setbacks
- Helps you see your plan to the end by preventing anything to halfway finished projects
Mental Properties
- Improves focus
- Helps you take action
- Motivates truthfulness and understanding
- Motivates you organize your surrounding environment
- Helps you distinguish a person who has love for you from those who want to see you hurt
Emotional Properties
- Cleanses your emotional body
- Helps you improve your bad habits
- Encourages strength power and courage
- Helps you maintain peace in everyday life
- Encourages you to find new and better wisdom, as well as environments
Kundalini Properties
- Blocks evil and negative energies around you
Health Benefits
- Stabilizes and cleanses the body
Affirmations
- I finish every project I begin
- I am focused on taking action
- I am protected as i move forward
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root, Sacral, SolarPlexus
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Mercury, Moon
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Gemini, Virgo
- Number: 7
Physical Properties
- Color: Black,White, Brown
- Habit: hand patterned round beads that are made to resemble the Dzi stones
- Rarity: Common
- Luster: Dull vitreous to Greasy
- Species: Chalcedony, Agate
- 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: India
- 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: 2000 and 1000 BC in ancient India
- 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