Discover Blue Lace Agate
Benefits:
- Stone of encouragement, support and communication
- Encourages feelings of peace and calm as well as reduces stress
- Assists with verbal expression of thoughts and feelings
- Balances physical, emotional and intellectual energy
- Excellent for balancing yin and yang
- Strengthens bones and supports healing of bones, thyroid, throat and lymph glands
Goddess:
- Nerthus - Norse/Germanic Earth Goddess of Fertility
- Hanwi - Sioux Moon Goddess
Chakras: Throat, Third Eye & Crown Chakra
Element: Water & Air
How to use
- Use or give as a gift during pregnancy or for newborn as it support lactation and banishes the "baby blues" many new mothers experience
- Wear as jewelry or carry in pocket - esp pendant to support lactation
- Hold during meditation to encourage a calm state and open the mind to higher thoughts and inner truths
- Put under your pillow while sleeping for healing sleep
- And, of course, use in your roller bottles…
Blue Lace Agate works well with...
Mantras
- I speak my truth with confidence & integrity.
- With calm clarity I express my truth and listen without judgement.
- Calming and communication - Lavender
- Centering and balancing - Vetiver & Patchouli
- Confident speech - Spearmint
- Lactation support - Fennel, Basil & Clary Sage
- Adrenal support - Geranium & Ylang Ylang
- Thyroid support - Blue tansy & Lemongrass
Yoga
- Meditate with blue lace agate to connect to your inner truth and calm the mind.
- Breath with blue lace agate In hand or on throat center and meditate one the throat chakra space to receive guidance for calm clear expression.
- Use with yoga poses such as bridge, crocodile, plow or waterfall, legs up the wall or any throat chakra yoga practice.
Interesting Facts
- Blue lace agate was first discovered in Namibia and the country is still where most natural variants of the blue agate stone are mined. Can also be found In parts of India, South Africa, brazil, China & a few places In the USA.
- Blue Lace Agate's color will never fade because its color is a result of 'Rayleigh scattering" not pigment. The blue color is something we perceive because of a Quantum interaction between atoms that results in light being scattered. Essentially, when photons (light) hit a piece Blue Lace Agate, the light causes atoms to align in a particular way that 'sends out' blue light towards our eyes.
History
- Ancient Romans valued Agate for its reputed medicinal and talismanic properties. Powdered and mixed with water, it was said to counteract serpents’ venom.
- Historically, Agate has been discovered with the artifacts of Neolithic people, and was used as healing amulets and ornamentation dating back to Babylon. Its medicinal uses continued through the ancient Greek and Egyptian civilizations, and spread throughout Africa and the Middle East into Russia.
- Agate sparked a world renowned stonecutting and polishing industry in Germany that flourished from the 15th to the 19th century, and exists today.
