Presentation :

Names) :

• Onyx and Sardonyx (variety of chalcedony / variety of agate).

Etymology:

• Onyx: From the Greek onux = nail or claw | Sardonyx: Probably from the contraction of Sardoine and Onyx => Sardoine: From the name of the city of Sardis, in Asia Minor.

Group, Family:

• Quartz Family (Microcrystalline/Cryptocrystalline) | Chalcedony Family.

Color :

• Banded Multicolor (Same pattern type as Agate): Black to Black Banded with White (Onyx) | Black Banded with White and/or Brown to Red-brown (Sardonyx).

Chandelier:

• Vitreous, Fatty, Resinous.

Origin :

• Germany, Austria, Italy, Brazil, Uruguay, United States, etc.

Crystal system:

• Trigonal 296 / Microcrystalline.

Chemical composition:

• SiO2 | Coloration/Effect: Microscopic inclusions and probable black coloration due to natural irradiation.

Transparency:

• Opaque and Translucent on white ribbons.

Density :

• 2.58 to 2.65 | Sometimes up to more than 2.91.

Hardness:

• 6 to 7.

Cleavage:

• Null.

Break:

• Irregular, Conchoidal.

Line color:

• White.

Impact resistance:

• Good.

Heat resistance:

• Good.

Properties, benefits and virtues:

Virtues on the physical level:

• Speeds up recovery after illness or during a long convalescence period.
• Treats inner ear problems, ringing in the ears and tinnitus.
• Regulates the pace of speech. Ideal for people who speak too quickly.
• Treats the entire oral region: mouth, teeth, vocal cords.
• Regulates temperature to better resist the cold.
• Helps relieve the pain of contractions during childbirth.
• Promotes healthy fetal development.
• Regulates libido and helps calm overly strong sexual urges and overly demanding people.
• Treats, tones and firms the skin.
• Treats allergies and some forms of addiction.
• Effectively fights hair loss.
• Treats and strengthens nails.
• Treats arthritis and osteoarthritis and joint disorders.
• Treats eye disorders and strengthens eyesight.
• Greatly treats and tones the pancreas, heart, spleen, kidneys, nerves and spinal cord.
• Treats and soothes epileptic seizures.
• Promotes the circulatory system and therefore good blood circulation.
• Helps strengthen the cardiovascular system
• Improves cholesterol and triglyceride levels
• Helps people with hypochondriacs.

Virtues on the psychological, emotional and mental level:

• Promotes and strengthens self-esteem, confidence and self-control.
• Stabilizes and acts against inconstancy.
• Helps to overcome with great strength the major upheavals that we might encounter during our lives, such as bereavements or romantic breakups for example.
• Treats anxiety as well as melancholic states, sadness and depression and helps to banish bad memories.
• Promotes moderation and helps us not to let ourselves be too overwhelmed and submerged by our emotions at the risk of finding ourselves caught up in mad passions.
• Promotes and develops instinct and intuition.
• Promotes taking responsibility and leads us to take full responsibility for our actions.
• Treats sleep by keeping nightmares away.

Virtues on the spiritual level:

• Promotes anchoring.
• Protects from the evil eye.
• Protects during care or parapsychic work, from all risks of influence linked to wandering souls and entities.
• Helps purify Karma.
• Helps overcome the weight of our karma due to the consequences of our actions in our previous lives.

Chakra:

• Root Chakra, 1st Ch.

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."

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