Agate enhances
creativity and strengthens the intellect, making it a beneficial stone for both
students and artists. It is also known as a good luck stone. As a stone of
harmony, one of the things agate does is balance yin/yang energy. Agate
increases energy. However, because it is a grounding stone, it does not
increase energy at all times, but rather enables bursts of energy as needed. In
this way, agate is a conservation stone, and enhances longevity.
Sodalite
is a stone of logic, rationality, and efficiency. It is helpful for work in
groups and stimulates thought. Sodalite is a stone that is good for healing
breaches in communication. It is a stone of truth, and brings this to all
communications. It is called a Poet's Stone. It can help end arguments or other
disagreements. It is particularly useful for honesty of emotions and love. It
increases intelligence, knowledge and learning, and can unite the logical with
the spiritual.
Hematite is used to bring mental
organization and is very grounding and
calming. It can help with original thinking, logical thinking, and mathematics,
any type of thinking which requires significant mental organization. Emotionally,
hematite decreases negativity. This lowering of negativity can benifit by
helping balance the body/mind/spirit connection. It also is said to
balance the meridiians, boost self-esteen, and self-confidence.