Moss Agate
Healing Overview
Key Words: Joy, Inner Child, Love, Physical Healing, Gaia
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Agate is a type of chalcedony and part of the Quartz family, and by definition, agates should have layers or bands. Moss Agate is not a true agate because, while it has dendritic inclusions, it lacks the typical layers seen in other agates. The dendrites are often fernlike and green or brown, hence the name ‘moss’ (and in many instances the formation of the minerals gives a plant-like or organic appearance). It is sourced around the world, and more rarely the dendrites are yellow, red or black. Most commercially sourced Moss Agate on the market comes from deposits in India. Much of the Moss Agate on the market is not actually Moss Agate, but rather another type of stone found in Mocha, Yemen, known as “Mocha Stone,” or it has been dyed and sold as lower quality. Moss Agate is usually clear or whitish transparent (or semi-transparent), with visible dendrites. It is never opaque or vibrantly coloured. It differs from Tree Agate by its transparency and clear quartz, whereas Tree Agate has a milky, opaque base stone with inclusions of green dendrites that are thicker, less fernlike, and appear as branches or tree roots. Both Moss and Tree Agate can contain druzy or small cave-like inclusions with clusters of fine crystals within. Mocha Stone from Yemen does not contain banding and rarely has dendrites (although some mocha stone on the market is opaque white with brown dendrites). Generally speaking, Mocha Stone is opaque and a rich green colour, with some inclusions and mineral deposits; it tends not to have dendrites or fernlike inclusions and is devoid of banding and layers.
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Metaphysical Attributes
Metaphysically, Moss and Tree Agate are deeply spiritual and healing stones that bring us closer to Mother Earth and open and activate the heart chakra. Typically, Moss Agate, with its clear quartz inclusions, amplifies the healing properties of the dendrites (if they are green, it is associated with heart chakra healing; if brown, Earth Star activation and attributes). Tree Agate has white quartz, so its healing energy is directed more to the Crown Star attributes, the power of the mind, and nurturing or maternal aspects of love. Both support the development of love, forgiveness, compassion, and empathy, and help you experience greater joy and a greater capacity to have and heal (or at least our attitude towards the people in our social and intimate circles. relationships
Spiritual
Gaia/Mother Earth: Connects to Nature, Earth Wisdom, Plants and the Animal Kingdom
Magic: Weather (Native American cloudbursting).
Fairies and Elementals: Activates and connects to, enabling communication with Devas and Elementals.
Unity: Connects to and integrates the Higher Self and Divine Will with the Lower Self.
Abundance: Attracts all forms of abundance
Agriculture: Promotes growth of plants and crops. Beneficial for improving plant health (especially ailing ones).
Aura: Stability and balance, transforms negative to positive, purification and clearing of auric layers.
Dreams: Promotes occurrence, recollection and interpretation.
Protection: Repels against and transmutes negativity.
Karma: Helps to heal Karmic Debt and any negative karmic attachments
Past Life Healing: To heal issues from previous lives that negatively impact current life.
Surrender: Releases resistance and helps you with the flow (align with Divine Will).
Prosperity and Wealth: Attracts money and opportunities for strong financial foundations and success in projects and enterprises. Moss Agate is also a stone of wealth, attracting abundance in all forms.
Psychic Gifts: Clair-empathy (feelings), Clairsentience (energy awareness), Psychometry (through touching). An open heart chakra paves the way to the development of the first stages of psychic gifts and awareness; intuitive hunches may also become more frequent (and accurate).
Inner Child: Reclamation and healing of childhood trauma and issues. Open eyes and heart to experiencing more love.
Heart Chakra: Activates and recalibrates to allow for greater capacity to both receive and give love. Removes blockages and promotes forgiveness and understanding of self and others, and to extend compassion.
Love: Activating the heart chakra opens receptivity to more love (including unconditional divine love) and the ability to love others. The open heart chakra is pivotal to reliable communication with the Higher Powers.
Spiritual Awakening: Opens heart and mind to the Divinity within and around.
Collective Consciousness: Grounds the knowledge that we are all individual sparks of the Divine on a shared eternal journey,
Animal: Heals animals, including sleeping problems, by placing a piece in their bed.
Environmental: Purification and space clearing (home or work), and removes stagnant energy, otherwise known as ‘dross’.
New Beginnings: Use when feeling stagnant in life to help raise energy to begin new starts and clear blockages in the pathway.
Physical
Colds and Flus: Aids recovery, relieves flu symptoms and heals the emotional cause (blocks in the heart chakra leading to congestion and, if sinus, unshed tears).
Skin Disorders: Use as an elixir for external application to the skin to treat fungal and skin infections. Recommended for wear for sufferers of conditions such as psoriasis, dermatitis, and eczema.
Digestive System: To treat and relieve gastric health problems, enhance digestive processes, and improve the health of digestive organs.
Waste Elimination: Improves digestion, supports the health of waste-elimination organs, and acts as an antioxidant.
Strength: Strengthens the entire physical body, beneficial for exercise programs and bodybuilding.
Sensory Perception: Improves somatic awareness (recognition of the body in response to emotions), and environmental awareness (sensations against the skin- tingling and so forth), and feeling the body functions.
Inflammation: Believed to act as an anti-inflammatory and lower fevers. May be beneficial for stings and bites, relieving symptoms when used as an elixir and applied externally.
Brain: Balances left and right spheres. Neural function and neural pathway formation and creation (for new beginnings).
Pregnancy and Childbirth: To promote healthy pregnancy and reduce pain during delivery. Recommended for midwives.
Cardiac System: Heart function, and strengthen cardiac muscle, regulate rhythm,
Lungs: For muscle health and decongestion (especially if related to colds and flus).
Epilepsy: Believed to reduce the occurrence and severity of fits and symptoms.
Food Sensitivities: Believed to reduce sensitivity (and may help to reduce symptoms of food allergies).
Sleepwalking: To reduce instances, place a piece under your pillow.
Blood Sugar: Balances and acts as a guard against hypoglycaemia. Recommended for diabetics to wear as a talisman.
Vitality: Supports recovery from physical illness, particularly where there is lethargy and exhaustion; may be beneficial to sufferers of Chronic Fatigue.
Body Tissue: Believed to promote tissue repair and regeneration.
Illness: Powerful healer for those suffering from long-term illness and expedites recovery.
Infections and Swelling: Reduces inflammation; recommended as an externally applied elixir for bites and skin infections.
Lymphatic System: Healing and function; decongests clogged glands; promotes organ health.
Immune System: Restores immunity and strengthens defences against viruses and contagious illnesses.
Thoughts/Beliefs
Judgement: Releases judgements of right and wrong, and teaches acceptance of what we each are (souls in progress).
Self Awareness: Promotes self-awareness and self-growth through reflection on life experiences.
Discernment: Teaches what to let go of and what to hold onto (regarding memories, people, and relationships).
Cancer: Brings awareness of the underlying and repressed thoughts that create the conditions for cancer to thrive
Thoughts: Breaks through emotional and mental patterns that cause disease and illness, and breaks through them, especially unloving, prickly thoughts.
New Beginnings: Opens the mind to new ways of thinking, being and doing. Supports behavioural change.
Perception and Analysis: Assists in processing information (and seeing from different perspectives) and analysing the information presented, including from the periphery.
Analysis and Processing: Enhances analysis and processing, and is recommended for people who work with numbers, such as Tax Accountants, bankers, and so forth. New Business Owners could consider wearing Moss Agate as a Talisman when handling administration and paperwork.
Stress: Opens the mind to stress-reduction solutions and stress-management strategies (such as creating time to ‘breathe’) or, where possible, delegating tasks to others.
Attitude: promotes an “Attitude of Gratitude’ and appreciation of all things.
Optimism: Promotes a positive outlook on life
Self-Awareness: Encourages reflection on the past and present and builds understanding of self, motivations, desired outcomes, strengths, vulnerabilities, and areas to work on for self-development.
Perseverance: Builds upon the attributes of endurance and perseverance and the ‘never give up’ approach to problems and solutions or solution-finding.
Boundaries: Setting and maintaining boundaries for healthy relationships, knowing what is 'ours', 'theirs' and 'mine'.
Personal Growth and Development: Encourages self-awareness and promotes a desire for self-improvement, and learning and doing new things.
Focus and Concentration: Enhances capacity - recommended for students and when learning any new type of behaviour or activity.
Memory: Improves retention of information, recommended for people who are innately forgetful or starting to experience memory loss (including short-term).
Judgement and Critical thinking: Promotes acceptance and understanding that everyone (including self) is in the perfect place and space right NOW, and recognition that there is more to people and situations than immediately meets the eye. Teaches acceptance of people for who they are and discernment in associations.
Willpower and Determination: Provides the strength to pursue goal completion across all endeavours.
Emotions
Joy and Happiness: Promotes and fosters joy and happiness through an attitude of gratitude and appreciation and an open heart.
Inner Child: Opens the heart for reclamation of the Inner Child aspect - viewing the world through a lens of awe and beauty, and excitement. Heals emotional pain of childhood trauma.
Compassion and Forgiveness: Promotes compassion toward all people (and self) as well as forgiveness and a desire to let go of the angry, prickly emotions that create pain.
Peace and Harmony: Promotes and enhances inner peacefulness through the art of acceptance and release of judgement and unforgiveness.
Emotional Balance: Supports regulation and impulse control (especially for people with Mood Disorders of extreme highs and lows, or explosive outbursts).
Hope and Trust: Promotes hopefulness for the future during difficult times and trust in self and the universal processes.
Fear and Anxiety: Releases and relieves symptoms (particularly the angry and potentially violent reactions) and converts them into positive.
Trauma: Heals traumatic experiences and promotes understanding around situations; combined with forgiveness, relieves symptoms of anger and is recommended for all types of PTSD
Love: Restores love to existing relationships or attracts new opportunities for love.
Optimism: Promotes faith during difficult times with the knowledge that challenges are temporary and that ultimately what goes down must come up - and a belief in the best possible outcome.
Grief and Loss: Eases symptoms and supports acceptance and living in the present “NOW”.
Depression, Sadness and Sorrow: Eases symptoms and feelings of grief, loss, sadness, and sorrow.
Empowerment: Empowers a person through recognition (and new beginnings) that while it is outside of our power to control others, we can control our emotional reactions and ensure that they support the best possible outcome for ourselves (and others).
Strength: Fosters emotional resilience and strength, enhancing the capacity to ‘bounce back’ after let downs and remain positive.
Self Love: Promotes self-awareness, understanding self, self-acceptance, and a willingness to self-improve and to create the time for self-care and self-nurturing.
Self Image: Improves through recognition and awareness of positive traits.
Emotional Mastery: Capacity to recognise when a ‘trigger’ has occurred (the ‘red flag’), to process through the frontal lobe, and take positive empowering actions, resulting in emotional self-control.
Relationships: Improved communication with enhanced emotional expression.
Crystal Care
Moss Agate is fairly durable, with a hardness of 6.5-7, and is suitable for carving. It can withstand most treatments, including water immersion, and is not believed to contain toxic minerals. As with most crystals, if your agate gets dusty or grimy, you can usually safely wash it with tepid water and an organic cleaner, then dry it with a soft cloth. Prolonged exposure to water may destabilise the stone's integrity. You would need to ensure that you don’t place your polished crystals against ‘rough’ or ‘raw’ crystals to protect them from scratching. As with most coloured crystals, they can fade when exposed to sustained sunlight, so, particularly in countries such as Australia, you would restrict their time outdoors or place them in an area with filtered sunlight. Selenite is a great option for clearing and recharging your crystals - especially if you have a charging plate or selenite log. For Moss Agate, pay special attention to the amount of clear quartz in your specimen, because clear quartz can be affected by the environment (too hot or too cold, and sudden temperature changes) and is easily scratched or damaged. It's probably best to keep it in a cabinet or store it when not in use,, wrapped and separate from anything that could damage it (such as raw and unpolished crystals).
Suitable alternatives for clearing and charging your Moss Agate include smudging with sage, cedar, juniper or palo santo (or other cleansing and purifying herbs and aromatherapy oils), sound healing (with tuning forks, crystal or Tibetan bowls and bells, sound drumming), energy healing, or placing it on another crystal with clearing and cleansing attributes, such as a selenite charging plate. Earthing by placing it outside in a sheltered part of the garden is also a suitable method of cleansing and recharging; a good strategy could be to place it in a ceramic potted plant and expose it to moonlight or filtered sunlight for a few hours or overnight for ‘gentle cleansing’. Earthing allows the stone energy to reconnect with the natural energy of “Mother Earth’ and reinvigorate and revitalise crystals that have become ‘drained’. Other methods for cleansing, clearing, and charging your crystals can include visualisation (seeing a bright, pure white light surrounding the crystal and clearing it of any negative energies to restore it to its natural energetic state) or using healing modalities such as reiki to cleanse and recharge it.
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