Presentation :

Names) : 

• Apache Tear Obsidian.

Etymology: 

• An old Native American legend tells of Apaches who attempted to reconcile with the white men from Arizona, but one day, early in the morning, they were attacked by soldiers and lost the battle. A small group of Apaches managed to escape and committed suicide by jumping off a mountain to escape the military's assault. According to this legend, the widows' tears were transformed into Apache Tear Obsidian. This was the work of the Great Spirit. The stone symbolizes mourning, the stars, and despair.
  

Group, Family: 

• Obsidian, natural glass.

Color : 

• black, transparent to translucent.

Chandelier: 

• Glassy.

Origin : 

• Mexico, Peru, American Southwest .

Crystal system: 

• Amorphous.

Chemical composition: 

• SiO2.

Transparency: 

• Translucent to opaque.

Density : 

• 2.35 to 2.60.

Hardness: 

• 5 to 6.

Cleavage: 

• Null .

Break: 

• Conchoidal .

Line color: 

• White.

Impact resistance:

• Fragile.

Heat resistance:

• Bad.

Properties, benefits and virtues in lithotherapy:

Virtues on the physical level:

• Helps balance and regenerate the intestinal system and strengthen muscle, hair and kidney tissue.

• Promotes protection of the cardiac and renal systems.

• Promotes skin tissue renewal.

• Alleviates the physical signs of stress and soothes nervous disorders.

• Facilitates the absorption of vitamins B and E.

Virtues on the psychological, emotional and mental level:

• Helps treat fears, anxieties and sadness related to grief.
• Promotes introspection in order to definitively free oneself from all negative feelings (conscious or not) such as resentment, trauma, disappointments, etc.
• Helps to treat issues of lack of confidence and so-called "inferiority" complexes.
• It promotes forgiveness by teaching us feelings such as compassion and empathy, thus untangling the problems of victimization. annihilating desires for revenge.

Virtues on the spiritual level:

• A protective stone with milder effects than most Obsidians, it nevertheless provides a good shield against negative energies as well as against all forms of occult magic.
• Stone of truth which allows us to confront ourselves in order to help free the areas of shadow which reside within us.

Chakras:

• Root chakra, 1st chakra. (protection).
  
• Master Heart Chakra, 4th chakra. (understanding and releasing emotional wounds).
• 3rd eye chakra, 6th chakra. (Intuition).

Cleaning, recharging, reprogramming:

• Clean with clear spring water or filtered water (never add salt to the water. Salt alters the structure of the mineral and the abyss). Soak the mineral overnight in an unmarked glass container, then take it out in the morning to rinse it with fresh spring or filtered water.
• Direct charging on a crystal or amethyst druse, in a crystal or amethyst geode. You can also place a dozen laser crystals or rocks in a circle (like a time dial), points towards the center, and place your minerals in the center to charge them. Another method is to 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 is to place your minerals on a disc (wood or mineral) engraved with the flower of life or the seal of Solomon or any other form of sacred geometry.
• Reprogramming: Reprogramming is not about telling your mineral what to do or not to do, but about putting the mineral in resonate with you to ask it to do what it needs to do, for you. Reprogramming must be done after each cleansing and must remain simple. Example of reprogramming: "I ask this mineral to bring me all the virtues and benefits on the different levels, for my greater good as well as for the greater good of the people around me."