Agate "Calming Stone" Agate is an attractive stone which sometimes has unusual patterns. It is a soothing and calming crystal which works slowly to bring inner strength, self acceptance and self confidence. Agate encourages you to stop worrying and to take a step back from your problems helping you to regain balance and to release negativity from your life. Agate is also believed to improve concentration, perception and analytical abilities encouraging thr discovery of practical solutions. Agate is the bithstone of Gemini. Agate is a cryptocrystalline variety of silica, chiefly chalcedony, Characterized by it's fineness of grain and brightness of color. Although agates may be found in various kinds of rock, they are classically associated with volcanic rocks and can be common in certain metamorphic rocks. Found almost anywhere there has been volcanic activities,