Presentation :

Names) : 

• Fire agate.

Etymology: 

• Agate: Named after the Achates River, in southern Sicily.

Group, Family: 

• Quartz Group (Microcrystalline / Cryptocrystalline) | Chalcedony family.

Color : 

• Brown with iridescence.

Chandelier: 

• Glassy, ​​Resinous, Oily.

Origin : 

• Mexico.

Crystal system: 

• Rhombohedral .

Chemical composition : 

• SiO2 | Coloring: Microscopic inclusions, etc.

Transparency: 

• Translucent to Opaque.

Density : 

• Usually 2.58 to 2.65, sometimes up to 2.91.

Hardness : 

• 6 to 7.

Cleavage: 

• Null.

Breakage: 

• Irregular.

Line color: 

• White.

Shock resistance: 

• Good.

Heat resistance: 

• Variable depending on color.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Metabolism regenerative stone.
• Very useful in treating the endocrine system, colon and increasing metabolism.
• Stimulates the digestive system and relieves gastritis.
• Very beneficial for eyes, hollow organs such as stomach, uterus, intestines.
• Helps reduce fever.
• Heals skin disorders.
• Relieves itching caused by insect bites.
• Reactivates the renewal of body cells.
• Very beneficial for the central nervous system and for brain activity, which it helps to stimulate and activate.
• Strengthens memory and stimulates cognitive functions.
• Reduces hot flashes.
• Helps stimulate sexual energy and increase endurance and circulation.
• Very useful in treating sexual imbalances, including impotence or fear of sexual intimacy.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Helps to overcome fears and insecurities.
• Very useful also for shy people who are afraid of their desires, or who lack confidence in their feelings.
• Gives confidence to clumsy people.
• Improves concentration, perception and analytical abilities.
• Helps to move forward and push back the limits and obstacles that could arise between the person and their goals.
• Facilitates self-criticism and admitting one's wrongs.
• Stabilizes and harmonizes our desires. It helps avoid the dispersion created by multiple desires.
• Useful against lethargy or lack of energy, or depression.
• Promotes self-acceptance and confidence, encouraging speaking your own truth.
• Eliminates mood swings.
• Soothes anger by bringing out love within ourselves to help us overcome certain emotional-related traumas.
• Regulates our interaction with the outside world

Spiritual virtues:

• Balances earthly energy and spiritual energy. Helps to find mental harmony. Perfect for meditation.
• Very stimulating, it fluidifies the circulation of telluric energies in the body.
• Allows you to tone stagnant and blocked energies.
• Stone of evolution and improvement in the destiny of being.
• Protective stone which establishes an effective energy shield against negative waves and even against bad spells and curses.
• Makes it easier to let go.

Chakras:

• Root (Anchoring and protection).
• Solar plexus (Dynamism).

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