Black Agate: The lucky gemstone gift for life’s challenges
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This is the gemstone that everyone should have for protection. It is said to protect from stress, energy drains, and bad dreams, and attract strength – an ideal gift for someone under stress like attending an interview.
In ancient times, Agate was highly valued as a talisman or amulet. It is believed to enhance the wearer’s courage, improve perception and concentration, and stimulate analytical capabilities and precision.
Agate exists in several distinct colours and the tones vary within each particular colour making every piece of Agate jewellery unique. Black Agate owes its colour to the higher level of iron and manganese. It is believed to create balance between the physical, emotional and spiritual state of the wearer. It enhances people’s analytical ability and improves their perceptiveness. Give your friend something with Black Agate when they need luck to to make an important decision – ideal gift for someone who is a judge, a lawyer or a journalist, for example. It is believed to eliminate negativity. Agate is associated with the birthstone month of May and the zodiac sign Gemini.
Black Agate should be included in presents or gifts for occasions or people needing perceptiveness and analytical ability such as a gift for judges, lawyers or journalists, or for a First Day (at school or University, for example), or an Interview.
- Black Agate jewellery or other gift to wish Good Luck at an Interview
- Gift a piece of Black Agate or other jewelry to help your friends have Luck on their First Day
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These are some of the most well known ‘ Lucky Gemstones ‘ offering gifts for their own particular / special event that sometimes needs that extra bit of luck or inspiration:
Amethyst * Aquamarine * Aventurine * Black Agate * Carnelian * Citrine * Coral * Garnet * Indian Agate * Jade * Moonstone * Pearl * Red Jasper * Rose Quartz * Smokey Quartz * Tigers Eye * Sodalite
Each of these is renowned for igniting belief and bringing inspiration and good luck to certain events or occasions:
Wish good luck for a special occasion
This is a REAL steel horseshoe, crafted by a master farrier blacksmith in the heart of England, and beautifully decorated. It makes the ideal gift for a special occasion like a Wedding, or for someone moving into a new home. There are many legends surrounding the horseshoe / symbol and why it is thought lucky, but the English legend is the most famous: It says that, in olde England, St Dunstan** (the original patron Saint of England) nailed a horseshoe to a horse whilst working as a blacksmith. But the horse was actually the Devil in disguise and it caused the Devil great pain. Saint Dunstan only agreed to remove the horseshoe after the Devil promised never to enter a house where a horseshoe hung. All our lucky horseshoes are handcrafted in England.
Dimensions: 11.5cms high x 11.5cms wide and weighs just over 8oz (230gms). It is beautifully decorated with ivory coloured mulberry paper sweetheart blossoms and natural raffia for a rustic look, perfect for a wedding or new home. It is supplied with two nails for fixing to a wall, door, etc.
The ideal gift to wish the bride and groom good luck for their future together and to remind them of their wedding day, or to bring good fortune into the new home. Comes gift-wrapped, like all our presents - and we can print a personal message on your behalf.
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More information about Horseshoe luck . . and St Dunstan
**Dunstan (909 -988 AD): Abbot of Glastonbury Abbey, Bishop of Worcester, Bishop of London, and Archbishop of Canterbury, later canonised as a Saint. His work restored monastic life in England and reformed the English Church. He served as an important minister to several English kings, and was the most popular saint in England for nearly two centuries, having gained fame for the many stories of his greatness, not least among which were those concerning his famed cunning in defeating the devil.
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