{"id":189,"date":"2009-04-10T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=189"},"modified":"2011-01-24T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T19:52:53","slug":"moss-agate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2009\/04\/moss-agate\/","title":{"rendered":"Moss Agate &#8211; A Springtime Gemstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being an avid gardener, early spring is absolutely, without question my favorite season. It makes me really happy to be outside in the cool weather, clean up a portion of my many gardens, and see all the tiny little noses of green and pink poking through the soil. Lots of people would look at the gardens and say that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing to see, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not how I think of it. Those germs of plants become the gems of late spring and summer. Although the blossoms are indeed gorgeous and bring me lots of pleasure, the thrill of seeing the spring buds is a more personal joy \u00e2\u20ac\u201c something that I enjoy just for me, not to share with others.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_190\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190\" src=\"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/moss-agate-sm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Moss Agate\" title=\"moss agate\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-190\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-190\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Moss Agate<\/p><\/div>For centuries, springtime has been associated with fertility. I think that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how the whole bunny thing came about \u00e2\u20ac\u201c ya know, multiplying like rabbits. Birds and bees, salamanders and insects, everything\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in love in spring. Or at least in lust.<\/p>\n<p>Moss agate is a great healing gemstone for spring. Its blend of greens and whites not only physically resemble the shades of the season, moss agate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s properties are in keeping with spring, too. Carry a moss agate talisman with you to enhance your fertility and prosperity, promote restoration and healing, and draw in abundance. Moss agate has also been used to build confidence and strength, to strengthen a connection with nature, and to help turn negative patterns in to positive ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being an avid gardener, early spring is absolutely, without question my favorite season. It makes me really happy to be outside in the cool weather, clean up a portion of my many gardens, and see all the tiny little noses of green and pink poking through the soil. Lots of people would look at the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5],"tags":[45,19,99],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healing-talisman","category-jewelry-healing-gemstones","tag-agate","tag-healing-gemstones","tag-nature","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2036,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/2036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}