With its soft blue color, Blue Storm Agate is known as a soothing stone. It is also considered a stone of communication, promoting confidence & understanding. Blue Storm Agate is sometimes referred to as the Stone of the Diplomat, helping to ensure calm words with articulate meaning. Since Agate has a slower vibration frequency than most stones, it is valued as a stabilizing gemstone.
Blue Storm Agate is the polished variety of Blue Lace Agate & features less banding as well as less apparent crystalline structure. Blue Storm Agate is a variegated chalcedony, more specifically a variety of quartz. The color can vary from a very pale to quite intense sky blue. The color is not pigmented (like Lapis Lazuli) but caused by tiny inclusions, which result in an effect called Rayleigh scattering, the same effect that gives the sky its blue color. Blue Storm Agate is composed of microscopic crystals.
Agate is the name given to numerous varieties of banded Chalcedony, a mineral of the Quartz family. Its name comes from the Achetes River in Sicily, where Agates were first discovered & are typically formed as nodules or geodes in igneous rocks. When an empty pocket or hole inside a porous rock fills & the molecules begin to crystallize, bands of agate form.
Ancient Greeks held the belief the Blue Storm Agate could protect them from the evil eye & would protect the wearer from envy & greed, making them happy & at peace.
