Presentation :

Names) : 

• Obsidian / Volcanic glass: Mahogany or Magahony.

Etymology: 

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

Group, Family: 

• Family of natural glasses.

Color : 

• Black with brown to mahogany red ribbons.

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.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Improves blood circulation.
• Relieves aches and cramps.
• Stimulates lymphatic functions, kidneys and liver.
• Strengthens organs and tissues.
• Promotes the detoxification of toxins contained in the body.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Treats feelings of frustration, frustration and dissatisfaction.
• Promotes perseverance, determination and brings more courage to brave the obstacles along the way.
• Promotes reflection in order to make the right choices.
• Brings clarity to our thinking and decisions, dispelling doubt, confusion and indecision.
• Brings more stability and anchoring in order to act by being more responsible in our actions.
• Stabilizes mood as well as bipolar disorders and chases away negative moods or behaviors.

Spiritual virtues:

• Promotes anchoring and refocusing.
• Promotes opening helping in the cleansing of the anchor channel, which is essential if we want to embody the full range of our energetic frequencies.
  
• Balances Yin and Yang energies.
• Protects against malicious people.
• Protects against psychic attacks, whether they come from negative entities on the astral plane (low astral) or from third parties.

Chakras:

• Master-Heart Chakra.

• Root chakra.

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."