Crystal Grimoire
Blue Lace Agate
Chakras: Throat Chakra
Zodiac: Gemini, Pisces
Planets: Neptune, Mercury
Elements: Air, Water
Color: blue
Summary
Blue Lace Agate is associated with the Throat Chakra and is known for its soothing, tranquil energy. It lessens anger, releases tension, clears negative energy from the aura, and encourages clear, compassionate and articulate communication.
Keywords
Often associated with: restores tranquility, soothing energy, calming, tension release, energetic clearing, clear communication
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: Clears negative energy from the aura and opens the way for clear, compassionate expression.
Emotional meaning
Often associated with: Soothing energy that calms the mind, releases tension, and lessens anger.
History and lore
In history and lore: Blue lace agate is a banded chalcedony, and agates of every kind carried old reputations for steadiness. Marbodus, the eleventh-century Bishop of Rennes, declared that agates made their wearers agreeable and persuasive, and the writer Cardano held that all varieties rendered their wearers 'temperate, continent, and cautious.' Budge recorded that the grey agate amulets common in Egypt were worn on the neck against stiff-neck and colic.
About the sources
- Marbodus, Bishop of Rennes, whose poem on the virtues of precious stones, written at the end of the eleventh century, Kunz calls the lapidary of the Middle Ages.
- Girolamo Cardano, author of De subtilitate, who, as Kunz tells it, tested gems by wearing them in turn and noting the good or ill fortune that followed.
- E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptologist, sometime Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, author of Amulets and Superstitions (Oxford University Press, 1930), which covers Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Islamic and Christian amulets.