Moss Agate embodies three aspects, stability, persistence and grounding. Grounding is really the power of the moss agate, with it’s moss like structures floating within the stone, showing us paths into the deep earth mysteries and allowing us access to the stability and deep grounding of the Earth. It is an Earth stone and as such is sacred to the gnomes and of course the fairy kingdom. Sacred to the heart and base chakra, it is wonderful for relieving blockages and energizing these sectors. This stone vibrates to the Kabbalistic Spheriot of Malkuth (Gea) and Tiphareth (Bea’al-mot) and as such is a powerful connector to the Archangel Uriel, archangel of the Earth and the guardian of the pentacle.
The moss agate has a wonderfully receptive energy, with its guardian planet being Mercury, it makes it a great communicator stone, particularly concerned with communication of a more elemental style.Moss Agate is not technically a true Agate, because it is not banded. It is a Chalcedony with dendritic inclusions of moss coloured green minerals. Spots of red also occur in some specimens. Many of the best Moss Agates come from India. In the marketplace, Moss Agates are available as tumbled stones, beads and cabochons. The deep, clear energy of Moss Agate assists one in connecting with Earth energy and the Devic realm.
The stone is grounding because it assists you in connecting with the Earth but at the same time it stimulates psychic connection with elementals and nature spirits. It can also help you in contacting the Archangel Uriel. Because of this Moss Agate can help you bring ideas and concepts into being with Urial’s help, and can also bring you artistic inspiration. It can enhance mental concentration, persistence and endurance. It can be used as a talisman for increasing the effectiveness of physical workouts and even bodybuilding. If you meditate with Moss Agate one can project the image of a completed project or goal into the stone, and the stone will magnify the energy of one’s intention, thus assisting in the achievement of the goal.
Spiritual Because of its grounding and balancing influences, Moss Agate encourages the spiritualization of one’s life in all aspects. It helps you to transmute unwholesome tendencies within your self, which may be Karmic attachments from past lives, and to find the will to replace these patterns with the Divine blueprint of the higher self or holy guardian Angel.Moss Agate can help you come to the realisation that the earth is a living being and everything in nature is conscious and able to communicate on a psychic level. After all Moss Agate it ruled by Mercury (the planet of communication) it assists in communication with the earth and anything of the earthly realm.
Emotional Moss Agate helps assists you in bringing peace and stability to the emotional body. It can be a great help to those who experience wild “mood swings” and to those who have become addicted to emotional drama in their lives. So if you know anyone like this (we all know someone like this) a Moss Agate would make a great birthday present or solstice gift. Or perhaps an egg shaped Moss Agate for Ostara to symbolize new beginnings and inspiration for the future. It can help those with volatile temperaments become more patient and can help almost everyone experience a greater feeling of wholeness and inner calm. Such shifts help the individual to develop greater determination and persistence in dealing with everyday life. It releases fear and deep-seated stress. It helps to develop strength and the ability to get along with others and strengthens the ability to “try one last time” inspiring you with new ideals after a period of stagnation.
Physical Moss Agate strengthens the etheric body and can enhance the accuracy of the senses, sharpening all your perceptions such that the world itself seems more vividly present to your consciousness. It helps your circulation, digestion, neuronal activity and the function of the visceral organs with harmony and balance.
Healing purposes Moss Agate can be used to speed up recovery and counteract long-term illnesses. It is anti-inflammatory, it cleanses the circulatory and elimination systems, encouraging the flow of lymph, and boosts the immune system. Moss Agate eliminates depression caused by left-right brained imbalances. It helps prevent hypoglycaemia and dehydration, it treats infections, colds and flu, and lowers fevers. As an elixir applied to the skin, Moss Agate treats fungal and skin infections. This is an excellent stone for those who are recovering from an illness. Like the motto “slow and steady wins the race” from the fable of the hare and the tortoise, Moss Agate has this quality. It can help those who feel ungrounded or unstable.
Magical Uses Moss Agate is a great stone for abundance work, as it promotes the sense of all things being provided for us within creationWorn on the arm or carried while gardening, the Moss Agate will increase your plants’ fertility and ensures a bountiful crop or healthy flowers. Charged stones can be “planted” in the garden to promote abundance, and small Moss Agates hung from trees increase their yield.In ancient Rome, this stone worn in a ring on the hand or bound to the left arm ensured the favour of the vegetation deities, who cause the earth to be fruitful. Moss Agate is given to children to wear as a protective amulet, it is thought to be particularly useful in preventing children from falling and is also worn by adults to avoid stumbling. Warn as an amulet, this magickal jewel also prevents snake, scorpion, and insect bites and stings. In ceremonial magick, agates (including Moss Agate) were engraved with serpents or men riding on snakes. The agate is sometimes used in protective spells and rituals and was once thought to be a sovereign guard against sorcery, demons, and fiendish possessions. Moss agate is a wonderful stone for gardeners and people trying to contact the Devic realms. Useful in so many ways medically to relieve dis-ease in the body, moss agate is a necessary addition to any magick worker’s stone collection.
