Presentation :

Names) : 

• Obsidian / Volcanic glass: Apache tear, Celestial Eye, Snowy Obsidian etc.

Etymology: 

• Obsidian: Named after the Roman Obsius supposed to have discovered this stone in Ethiopia.

Group, Family: 

• Family of natural glasses.

Color : 

• Black, Grey, Ribbons brunettes, rarely green to dark green, blue to dark blue, red, Sometimes iridescence (Celestial Eye), Black spotted with white flakes of Christobalite (Snowy Obsidian), Sometimes golden or silver.

Chandelier: 

• Glassy.

Origin : 

• United States, Mexico, Japan, Hawaii.

Crystal system: 

• Amorphous.

Chemical composition : 

• SiO2 (66 to 72% + Oxides of Ca, Na, K, etc. Basalt glasses are approximately 50% SiO2).

Transparency: 

• Translucent to Opaque.

Density : 

• 2.33 to 2.42 | 2.70 to 3.0 for basalt glasses.

Hardness : 

• 5 to 6.

Cleavage: 

• Null.

Breakage: 

• Perfect conchoidal.

Line color: 

• White.

Shock resistance: 

• Fragile (Very brittle).

Heat resistance:

• Weak.

Protector:

• It is a powerful shield against negative energies and the most harmful influences.
• Absorbs negative energies from the environment and strengthens if necessary. Very effective against geopathic stress or to absorb environmental pollution.

Physical virtues:

• By eliminating energy blockages, it relieves tension. This stone acts as a detoxifier, dissipating blockages and tension from the subtle bodies and the physical body, including in hardened arteries. Relieves pain from arthritis, joint problems, cramps and injuries.
• Calms suffering, stops bleeding. Useful for reducing the size of a prostate.
• Meditation and black obsidian This mineral is deeply anchored in reality.
• It builds a protective shield around the person in meditation, facilitating concentration in their meditative tasks. Meditation using obsidian, however, requires precautions and remains reserved for the initiated.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Anchors the mind in the body, stimulates growth on all levels. Blocks psychic attack and wards off negative spiritual influences. Expands the field of consciousness and allows the soul to heal, grow and prosper. Leads to intellectual clarity. Strengthens self-control. Leads to confront one's "true self" Facilitates the return to past lives to heal old emotions or trauma.
• Helps to let go of old loves. Promotes compassion and strength. Calms stress by highlighting the causes (brings the individual face to face with these causes): resolves the problem permanently and not as a palliative. Stone of absolute Yin and Yang balance.

Spiritual virtues:

• Useful in divination, it is as effective as a crystal ball and develops the gift of prophecy. It opens access to knowledge, the truth. Applied near the root chakra.

Chakras:

• Muladhara root chakra (1st chakra, base chakra, earth chakra) Muladhara is the anchor point with the earth and material reality. It is the seat of vital energy and the adrenal glands. The colors of the 1st chakra are red, brown and black, black obsidian is a perfect stone to harmonize and balance it.

Cleaning, recharging, reprogramming:

• Cleaning with clear spring water or filtered water (never salt in the water. Salt alters the structure of the mineral and the abyss). Soak the mineral overnight in an unmarked glass container, and then take it out in the morning to rinse it with new spring or filtered water.
• Direct recharge on a crystal or amethyst druse, in a crystal or amethyst geode. You can also place a dozen laser or rock crystals in a circle (like a time dial), points toward the center, and place your minerals in the center to recharge them. Another method, place your minerals in a singing bowl: Tibetan or crystal bowl, (on a cotton cloth to avoid bowl/mineral vibrations), then ring the bowl to fill your minerals with this sound energy. Last method, place your minerals on a disc (wood or mineral) engraved with the flower of life or the seal of Solomon or any other forms of sacred geometry.
• Reprogramming: Reprogramming consists not of telling your mineral what it should or should not do, but of putting the mineral in resonate with you to ask him to do what he needs to do, for you. Reprogramming must be done after each cleaning and must remain simple. Example of reprogramming: "I ask this mineral to bring me all the virtues and benefits on different levels, for my greatest good as well as for the greatest good of the people around me."

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