Moss Agate Tumbled Stones, 1 lb

A full pound, sold by weight. Size and piece count vary, as they must with tumbled material.

Every stone is a different thicket. Some dense with green, some nearly clear with a single branch running through. That variation is the whole appeal of the stone.

Natural and untreated. The pattern is not dyed, printed, or coated. Genuinely worth saying in a trade where a great deal of green agate is exactly that.

• Weight: 1 lb, sold by weight rather than count
• Form: Tumbled and polished
• Stone: Moss agate, a chalcedony with dendritic mineral inclusions
• Hardness: Mohs 6.5 to 7
• Untreated: pattern is natural
• SKU: GTMOSAB

Cunningham gives moss agate to the element Earth, with powers of gardening, riches, happiness, and long life. The gardening is not a quaint detail; it is the oldest and most consistent use of this stone. Moss agate was buried in fields, tied to plough handles, and carried by growers, and it was called the gardener's stone long before anyone put it on a bracelet.

The logic is sympathetic and completely legible: a rock with a plant inside it, carried by people who wanted plants to grow. It is one of the clearest cases in the whole tradition of a correspondence you can reconstruct just by looking at the stone.

Modern practice extends that into slow growth of other kinds: patience, incremental progress, the things that take a season rather than a moment. It is not a dramatic stone. It is for the long haul.

1. Bury it in the garden. A pound is enough to work a whole plot. This is the oldest use of moss agate and still the best one.
2. Build a grid for slow work. Anything with a horizon rather than a deadline: a business, a recovery, a long project.
3. Pouch it. A stone in a bag, carried, for the incremental things.
4. Break the pound down. Bulk quantity suits teachers, covens, and shops handing pieces out.
5. Cleanse it dry. Smoke, sound, or moonlight. The stone is hard enough for water, but salt is unnecessary abrasion on a polish you paid for.

• Moss Agate Beaded Bracelet, 8mm. The wearable form of the same stone.
• Moss Agate Stretch Bracelet, 4mm. The fine-bead bracelet, for a quieter wrist.
• Moss Agate Worry Stone, 1.5". The thumb-sized form, for the hand.
• Agate Natural Tumbled Stones, 1 lb. Untreated agate without the dendrites, at matching bulk.
• Black Tourmaline Tumbled Chips, 1 lb. The protective mineral, for a grid that needs a boundary as well as a growth edge.

Is there actually moss in it? No. The green is dendritic iron and manganese oxide, crystallised in branching shapes that only look like plants. No organic matter at all.

Is it dyed? No. The pattern is natural and untreated.

How many stones is a pound? It varies. Tumbled material comes in whatever sizes it comes in, and you are buying weight rather than count.

What are its correspondences? Cunningham gives it to Earth, with powers of gardening, riches, happiness, and long life.

Can I really bury it in a garden? Yes, and that is precisely what it was traditionally for. Mohs 6.5 to 7 handles soil and weather without trouble.