Presentation :

Names) : 

• Apache tear obsidian.

Etymology: 

• An old Native American legend tells that the Apaches had tried to reconcile with the white men from Arizona but one day, in the early morning, they found themselves attacked by soldiers and lost the battle. A small group of Apaches who managed to escape committed suicide by jumping off a mountain to escape the military's attacks. Still according to this legend, the tears of widows were transformed into an obsidian Apache tear. This would be the work of the Great Spirit. The stone would symbolize mourning, stars and despair.
  

Group, Family: 

• Obsidian, natural glasses.

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 .

Breakage: 

• Conchoidal .

Line color: 

• White.

Shock resistance:

• Fragile.

Heat resistance:

• Bad.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

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

• Promotes the protection of the cardiac system and the renal system.

• Promotes tissue renewal of the skin.

• Reduces physical signs of stress and soothes nervous disorders.

• Facilitates the absorption of vitamins B and E.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• 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 treat problems of lack of confidence and so-called “inferiority” complexes.
• It promotes forgiveness by teaching us feelings such as compassion, empathy, thus resolving the problems of victimization annihilating desires for revenge.

Spiritual virtues:

• 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 release the gray areas that reside within us.

Chakras:

• Root chakra, 1st chakra. (protection).
  
• Master heart chakra, 4th chakra. (understanding and liberation from emotional wounds).
• 3rd eye chakra, 6th chakra. (Intuition).

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."