Crystal
Botswana Agate
Chakras: All
Zodiac: All Zodiac
Planets: Jupiter, Moon
Elements: Earth
Summary
Botswana Agate is associated with intense personal strength and power, bringing hidden truths to light, and providing extremely protective energy. It allows for acceptance of things we cannot change, eases mental stress, and promotes self-acceptance and understanding for life.
Keywords
personal strength, power, hidden truths, protective energy, acceptance, self-acceptance
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: Brings hidden truths to light and allows for acceptance of things we cannot change.
Emotional meaning
Eases mental stress and promotes self-acceptance and understanding for life.
History and lore
In history and lore: Old writers on gems credited agates of every kind with steadying their wearers: Camillo Leonardo claimed they gave 'victory and strength', and Cardano wrote that all varieties made those who wore them 'temperate, continent, and cautious.' Writing in 1930 of agates used extensively in the East, Budge recorded that the brown agate was the most popular kind, for it made the warrior victorious. Botswana Agate is a banded agate, so this lore was told of its family as a whole.
About the sources
- Camillo Leonardo, whose Speculum lapidum, a book of stones, was printed in Venice in 1502 (Kunz).
- 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.