Large Silk Agate Sardonyx Crystal Tumblestone Vigour / Happiness / Good Fortune

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Silk Agate Sardonyx Crystal tumblestone, measuring over 25mm in width and 19 to 26mm.

Are these crystals the most elaborate decoration in the crystal world? Beautiful banding and patterns in these Sardonyx Crystals.

Healing for the Base Chakra : Vigour / Happiness / Good Fortune

Sardonyx also known as Silk Agate is a stone of strength and protection. It brings lasting happiness to partnerships and marriage. It enhances our willpower and strengthens our character giving us added vigour, stamina and self control. This Stone helps alleviate depression.

Sardonyx Healing Properties

Sardonyx

What is Sardonyx?

Sardonyx is a variety of Chalcedony.

Sardonyx Associations

Chakras - Base Chakra

Birthstone - August

Zodiac - Aries, Leo

Typical colours - black, red, brown, clear

Healing with Sardonyx

? Luck ? Friendship ? Happiness ? Good fortune ? Romance ? Marriage ? Stamina ? Vigour ? Energy ? Creativity

Sardonyx is a stone of protection and strength. It promotes virtuous conduct and integrity. Sardonyx attracts friends and good fortune. It brings lasting happiness and stability to partnerships. Supplements willpower and strengthens character. Sardonyx increases stamina, vigour and self-control. It alleviates depression and overcomes hesitancy. Improves perception.

Sardonyx heals lungs and bones. It regulates fluids and cell metabolism, strengthens the immune system.

Colour Healing with Sardonyx

Sardonyx can be traced back four thousand years to Ancient Egypt. For most of its history, this stone has been used to create cameos and intaglios. In Ancient Rome, women wore sardonyx necklaces with cameos of Venus in hopes of harnessing the power of the goddess of love. It was also common for soldiers to wear sardonyx rings and carvings containing images of Mars, the god of war, into battle as a means of protection. Sardonyx was also a popular stone for Roman seals and signet rings that were used to imprint wax emblems on official documents because hot wax doesn't stick to this stone.

Sardonyx is an agate whose banding is straight and parallel. Much like agate, it is dyed to enhance or change its colors. Dyeing agate was an art practiced by the Romans from early on, but it reached perfection in the 1820s in Oberstein, Germany. That town is still the world's center for the finest cutting and dyeing of agate. Although the details of the process remain a commercial secret, it is known that iron oxide is a pigment used to create the rich combination of deep orange-reds in red and white bullseye sardonyx and in the red and white-banded variety. Carbon is used to create the striking deep black banding in black and white banded sardonyx. The effects are stunning--ancient agate beads in rich colors perfect for blending with solid colored red or black beads.

Sardonyx is August's birthstone and makes a great gift for anyone born in this month.

Sardonyx Metaphysical Properties

Used as a stone of strength and protection since ancient times, sardonyx is associated with courage, happiness and clear communication. It brings lasting happiness and stability to marriage and partnerships. The spiritual values of red and white-banded and red bullseye sardonyx make these stones particularly powerful. In fact, they are said to allow one to project such an incredible charisma that many people suggest the stone be used with care to avoid overwhelming others. Wear them, they say, when you want extra power in a particular circumstance.

Much of the black and white-banded sardonyx's power comes from its association with a particular body type--slender, quick-moving people who are intellectually active. If you're clever, versatile, highly verbal and have an optimistic disposition, those traits may be heightened when you wear black and white-banded sardonyx. Or, you can wear it to help you control one of those traits if it's working against you. Some believe that placing sardonyx at each corner of a house will protect against evil.

Sardonyx Geological Properties

This stone combines alternating layers of sard and onyx; hence its name. Sard appears anywhere from a dark orange to red to almost black. Onyx, although thought by most to only appear in black, can appear in almost any color. These two types of the mineral chalcedony are paired in bands to create sardonyx. Also known as Sardian Onyx, it may be clearly banded or have a less defined mix of colors.

The best examples of sardonyx, which display sharp contrasts between the layers, are found in India. Other deposits include Brazil, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Madagascar, Uruguay and the United States.