Crystal Grimoire
Dendritic Agate
Chakras: Root Chakra
Zodiac: Virgo, Gemini
Elements: Earth, Air
Color: white, black
Summary
Dendrites are deposits of manganese & iron oxides. Strengthens connection to nature and its spirits. Catalyzes growth & personal transformation. Symbol of abundance, prosperity & sense of fulfillment. Encourages to stay in the present moment through senses. Said to bring calming, grounding support.
Keywords
Often associated with: abundance, prosperity, growth, personal transformation, connection to nature, present moment
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: Strengthens connection to nature and its spirits. Symbol of abundance, prosperity & sense of fulfillment.
Emotional meaning
Often associated with: Encourages to stay in the present moment through senses.
History and lore
In history and lore: Dendritic agate belongs to the great agate family, and Kunz records that the writer Cardano declared that agates of every variety made their wearers 'temperate, continent, and cautious.' Budge described moss agate, whose markings resembled trees and vegetation, as much prized by the husbandman, who wore one on his right upper arm and put one in the right horn of each of his oxen so that he might have an abundant harvest.
About the sources
- George Frederick Kunz (1856 to 1932), Tiffany & Co.'s chief gemologist and author of The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (1913) and The Magic of Jewels and Charms (1915).
- 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.