The Balance of Agate
The other day I was in one of my favorite boutiques that carries Wysdohm bracelets. I noticed there was a running theme to their new products. It was all about being kind. I feel like we are all longing for that to be part of the theme for 2021. It seems so simple—a “just do it” level of simple--but how do we get there after a year like 2020?
The storms of the pandemic and election of 2020 have left all of us longing for kindness. The activity of kindness is at the heart of every healthy and fulfilling relationship we have—with strangers, friends, family, romantic partners, mother earth, and even ourselves. It is the quintessential ingredient in building thriving communities, effective leadership, and every aspect of life that involves negotiations—and I say everything is a negotiation and life is one big negotiation. So kindness is at the heart of everything, right?
The ability to participate in those sorts of connections and the exchange of kindness always starts from within. Kindness comes from a place of internal balance. It stems from a sense of being centered, present and grounded. The true catalyst of any great divide or disconnect is fear, and fear is merely a product of feeling instability and a lack of safety and security, whether physically, emotionally or spiritually. In other words, before we can act from a place of kindness with an open and balanced Heart Chakra, we must first take care of our Root Chakra.
One of the best Root Chakra stones is Agate. While I’ve always loved the aesthetic beauty of the Agate family, I’ve never been too terribly drawn to it energetically. That was the case until 2020. After many months of watching all of us struggle to maintain our balance in our new normal, I found myself suddenly drawn to almost every Agate bead we could find. I wanted to work with it, design with it, and share its beautiful energy with everyone struggling to find their equilibrium. And I had that chance with the Valentine’s Day collection.
Dillon asked me the other day why I didn’t include more pink and red bracelets that would seemingly be more in line with Valentine’s Day. While I love the pinks and reds in some of the Valentine’s Day bracelets, I explained to him that I felt the greatest gift of love we could give to ourselves and one another was a great “reset” after the energy of 2020. Whether you are considering a gift for a loved one or a special treat for yourself, consider giving the gift of mother earth’s loving energy of Agate.
I think of Agate as the “Ultimate Balance” stone. It draws its stability from its crystalline structure of quartz layered in bands. Agates are all-around healers, balancing mind, body and soul. It is mother earth’s gift of reminding us to “just breath”, assuring us everything will be all right and this too shall pass. While grounding, its energy also helps to connect with the collective consciousness for clarity on how to proceed forward.
Metaphorically, Agate’s energy is like that helping hand that comes along and reaches out when you have slipped and fallen. It helps you up, dusts you off, provides support until your footing is stable again, and then points you in the right direction to go. It inspires that feeling of safety and security of childhood when you curled up next to a parent or grandparent and they read you a book or sang you a lullaby. It is mother earth’s gift of taking the weight of the world off our shoulders and connecting us to ALL so we don’t feel so alone and unsafe in this world. While it has a slower, gentle, healing energy, it acts like a “reset” button, bringing us back to a place of feeling grounded, centered, balanced and whole. It is exactly that “reset” of balance, centeredness, stability and sense of security that we need in order to engage in the activity of giving and receiving kindness from others.
With the day that represents “love” quickly approaching, I challenge all of us to hit that “reset” button and return to that feeling of centeredness, grounding, and balance within so that we are all in a place where we can give and receive kindness with one another. We’ve designed bracelets to assist all of us in that journey as part of the Valentine’s Day Collection.
The From the Heart Bracelet is the bracelet that most simply represents this reset. Its combination of matte white agate and yellow rose quartz helps rebalance the mind, body and soul and release toxic and negative thoughts and emotions. It then harmonizes all energies within to enhance intuition and open the heart so that decisions can be made from a position of self-love and love and compassion toward others. Aesthetically, the matte quality of these uniquely pale colored stones, combined with a large silver antique coin charm, gives a very contemporary boho chic quality to this bracelet.
The Fire Bracelet is for those of us who would not only benefit from the balance and “reset” energy of beautiful Mexican Laguna Lace Agate but could also use some of that fiery energy of Red Tiger Eye and Carnelian to reignite that spark of passion within us. All of us here at Wysdohm have been “wowed” and drawn to the large raw Carnelian nugget that is the center of this combination.
I broke one of my cardinal rules of working only with stones in their natural state with the Life Reboot and Blue Skies Bracelets. The blue and white agate in these bracelets is enhanced, but I couldn’t help myself because those color swirls of blue and white are just so beautiful and calming. The Life Reboot Bracelet has that contemporary boho chic aesthetic with its 10 mm matte beads with a silver antique coin charm. The Blue Skies Bracelet pairs polished 10mm blue and white agate with a white Moonstone square center to assist in tapping into that inner moon goddess feminine energy.
My personal two favorites of the agate bracelets in this collection are the Triple Goddess and the Great Reset Protection Bracelets. I originally designed the Triple Goddess Bracelet for Samantha, my daughter-in-law, Danica, my granddaughter, and Samantha’s mom from stones that were tied to each of their zodiac signs. The real magic happened when I started exploring the combination of energy. It became clear that these stones designed themselves for the maiden, mother, and elder woman triple goddess in all of us. The citrine in Ametrine helps us feel playful and energetic like a child again. I call citrine my “happy juice.” The other half of Ametrine, amethyst, combined with the deep dark red hues of red garnet nurture and bring out that motherly loving side in all of us. Sage agate and labradorite balance, center, ground, protect and bring out the wise intuition of the elder woman. A life of the triple goddess in balance is one the word “beauty” is created to describe. A beautiful life is one full of play, love and wisdom.
The Great Reset Protection Bracelet literally revealed itself to me in a dream. With its polished hues of grays and browns, the Great Reset Protection Bracelet has a subtle gorgeous quality to it. It brings in the dynamic warm energy of the sun with golden sunstone and the calming feminine energy of “new beginnings” of gray moonstone, creating the perfect balance. The gray agate hits the inner “reset” button while the smoky quartz energy prism center neutralizes, dissipates and releases negative energy. Like the Lotus that reblooms anew each day, sometimes we all just need a great reset.
