Agate: What It Is, How It Grows And Where It Comes From

Sometimes the drawings that present the agate cuts have different shapes, equally beautiful and original. Some of them are: Agate listed: the lines that form its drawing go in accordance with the border that delimits its exterior. They are the most common to find along with those of circular drawings ( Agates almost everything about them). Walled agate: the interior drawing, instead of forming rounded circles, forms peaked lines as if it were a fortification. This type of cutting agate is special for crimping it in the form of a pendant since it emits an energetic quality of protection as a shield over the area of the body where it is located (chakra of the heart or of the solar plexus). Circular agate: the drawings inside it form concentric circles.

They are the most requested to apply in face therapy for their harmonizing energy and concentrating capacity of positive vibrations on the area of the body where it is located. This type of cut agate, is the most valued to be carved in a circular way and make the most appreciated pendants for its beauty and originality of form ( Agates almost everything about them). Orbicular agate: it is characterized because the drawing formed by the concentric circular lines of its interior, adopt the shape of an eye. This type of agate has always been highly valued by mediums and people who practice the art of divination since it is attributed, by affinity, the ability to see beyond the real and physical Druze Agate: it is a type of agate in whose center there is still a hole like a druse that contains small or medium crystal formations. Very appreciated also for pendants, rings, as well as large pieces for collectors and ornamental effects in decoration of interior spaces given its spectacular beauty ( Agates almost everything on them).

Amorphous agate: very difficult to find and that is usually part of private collections because they are unique pieces. The one that shows the photograph comes from Catamarca, Argentina and it is a formation of jade-agate with an internal clustered shape. They are usually rare pieces, highly valued by original mineral collectors ( Agates almost everything about them). The circular agate is a chalcedony belonging to the family of quartz. The name of agate was formerly given to be in abundance on the banks of a river in southern Italy, the Achates. What we call circular agate, is not really a concrete mineral but a microcrystalline variety of quartz called chalcedony (as for example the onyx, which is a chalcedony or black agate that sometimes has white bands), or according to its inclusions, we have the called landscape agates or dendritic agates, mossy agates, fire agate, Allegate agate or agate eye - highly valued since ancient times in Egypt where it was carved in the form of an ocular pupil to adorn statues, or agate sardonyx, mottled, etc.

Agates are minerals of volcanic origin; in its growth, in its original formation, it grew inside a mineral bubble where it was united in a significant and unique way, temperature, pressure and space allowing its siliceous atoms and molecules to grow for millennia to end up merging giving rise to the circles that its surface presents and that when it reaches our hands, in the form of a cut of the original piece, still retains all the force as a hermetic principle "the whole is in the part and the part in the whole"; that is his energetic secret ( Agatas almost everything about them). Sometimes, as we can see in some agates, these tiny quartz crystals are visible because the piece of agate has been cut without having reached this natural fusion in its process, and before such originality, these pieces they are usually destined to jewelry where they are traditionally set in their outline to be used as hanging originals, medallions and necklaces. The beauty of form and color of the circular agate can not be appreciated until it is cut, since its external appearance is of a dark, gray or brown stone. At other times, the bubble where the agate has been growing, did not contain enough silica and the quartz tips, when opened in its middle, present the formation that we know as geode(a hollow structure, as if it were a cave, with small transparent quartz or amethyst throughout its interior). The circular agate is a hard mineral for being a quartz, however very fragile for its size that turns it into a delicate mineral ( Agates, composition and function).

Nowadays the agates that we can acquire come from Brazil mainly, from Uruguay, Argentina and also from some areas of India, China, Iceland, Italy, Romania and Madagascar ( Agates almost everything on them). Circular agates, crystalline nuclei of strength and wonder. This mineral presents a particular and unique beauty in its concentric circles. These circles can be very varied as can be seen in the photographs, the most spectacular being those with a circular banded coloration - hence we call them circular agates - in different shades keeping the uniformity of the same chromatic band generally. These circles are genuine energy concentrators of balance and harmony energy, as we will see in the section on their crsitalotherapeutic qualities (Agates almost everything about them).