This is a magnificent banded agate slice featuring incredible orange and yellow hues as well as a shimmering central druzy.
Stripy Druzy Agate
Stone of St Andrews
 
Agate
Stone of St Andrews
All chakras, especially the Root
Gemini
 
Holistic Healing:
Traditionally associated with balance, harmony and steady, grounded strength. In crystal lore it is also linked to the eyes, ears, nose and throat, to steady all-round wellbeing, and to slow, stable strength.
 
Metaphysical Traditions:
Regarded in tradition as a stabilising stone that brings the chakras into balance.
 
Cool Facts:
Agate forms in gas bubbles left in cooling lava, filling layer by layer with silica-rich water over millions of years.
Scotland is famous for its agates – the beaches and fields of Fife and Angus have been searched for "Scotch pebbles" for centuries.
It is named after the Achates river in Sicily, where the Greeks first collected it.