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Obsidian is actually natural glass that is formed when hot lava is submerged in water. This is a strong grounding stone and is known as "the protector". It is said to "mirror one's soul. This stone brings about objectivity, dis-attachment and is grounding. It reduces fantasy and escapism. Absorbs and dissolves anger, criticism, fear, and therefore is protective. This unusual black stone absorbs darkness and converts it to white light energy
Fire obsidian - iridescent obsidian from Glass Buttes, Oregon; "fire" is said to be due to reflection of light off thin layers the refractive indices of which are higher than the rest of the obsidian because of their containing extremely small (nanometric) magnetite crystals
The stones are said to bring good luck to those possessing them. Black obsidian is a powerful Meditation stone. The purpose of this gemstone is to bring to light that which is hidden from the conscious mind. It dissolves suppressed negative patterns and purifies them. It can create a somewhat radical behavior change as new positive attitudes replace old, negative, egocentric patterns. The Apache tears are also said to balance the emotional nature and protect one from being taken advantage of.
This obsidian stone, which has inclusions of phynocryst, gives it the snowflake pattern on it's surface, and allows us to recognize unnecessary patterns in our lives. Promotes self-esteem and confidence. Clairaudience and owning our lower aspects for growth; Healthy balance. Allows us to be more sensitive and aware of the beauty and love that is around us. Brings purity and balance to the body, mind, and soul. Assists with meditation. Helps one identify unwanted behaviors. Grounding. Protective.
Stimulates Throat Chakra, communication, helps in astral travel, Tarot reading. Helps keep away negativity and is an extremely protective stone when traveling. Helps with directional knowledge, as well, particularly for sensitive people. Blue obsidian cannot be used for evil. This is the protection stone for sensitive or psychic people. It provides a wonderful screen against negative energy and is good for balancing the digestive system.
Heals broken crystals and charges them. Balances Heart Chakra. Assists in energy healing during Reiki. This beautiful stone allows for a connection with nature and the self-realizations of love, tenderness and the significance of nurturing.
Clears the crown chakra, stimulates psychic awareness, dream recall and understanding. Brings clarity to past life relationships and also helps to clear karmic cords
This essence is excellent for healing crisis's that are triggered by working with any other essence or tool. It helps to provide a greater sense of stability and balance while one is moving through one's healing process. It helps one to see "the light at the end of the tunnel", knowing that all is well and your healing is progressing in a way and manner that is truly for your Highest and Best Good.
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Penetrates through the outer layers of issues, gives clarity and insight as to what stored beliefs gave life to the issue to begin with. Very helpful for people who have an "afflicted" or poorly accepted Moon in the natal, progressed, solar or lunar return charts. Helps to release fears and traumas created by a raging or devouring mother.
Supports business efforts, including International Business affairs. Helps one to allow a bit of indulgence and luxury in one's life with harm neither to the self or others, the indulgence coming from a place of self love and " I deserve to have something better", it eliminates feelings of fear in new and unknown situations and areas especially while traveling and has shown itself to be very helpful for those who have wanted to travel abroad. It is helpful for jetlag according to some test resul
Supports going for the gold, manifesting that which brings great joy and fulfillment, helps to eliminate egotistical attitudes. Encourages expansion of resources both through the attraction of wealth and prosperity and becoming more aware of spending practices that are helpful or hurtful to you. Excellent for the Solar Plexus chakra, focuses one's power and energy towards that which is desired. Helps to eliminate power struggles and repels those who may try and block you from achieving your goal
Brings light and love to one's life. Allows for the spiritual side in one's nature to be recognized. Known as the "stone of pleasure", it can bring enjoyment and gratification to one's life. It is also used for "gazing" especially in matters of love, relationship and the development of one's etheric and physical bodies.
Provides strength in times of need. Provides vitality to ones life work or fulfillment of ones aspirations. Eliminates energy blocks and relieves tension. Grounding. Balances first chakra. Shamans tool. Decision making. It has been helpful in healing my gums as well.
This rare stone has the cooling properties of the Third Eye, Crown and Transcendental Chakra energies. This is a stone that shows us the power of spirituality and the endless possibilities through Universal attraction, love and growth. This stones connects us to our intuition, our auras fields and is one of the most powerful gazing stones for it comes from the earth, yet has the properties of the heavens.
Golden Obsidian
Clear Obsidian
The ‘Stone of Self-Freedom’, allows the freedom for belief systems and faiths to be searched and followed, with the offers of guidance, security and an all round understanding. Spider-web Obsidian supports an open mind to the many belief systems, faiths and followings that follow a universal role of having a positive Divine intervention. This Divine intervention can be in many forms, but always comes in that of Love and in that of Light.
This rare stone is a luscious red with the fire of the volcano still in its appearance! Stimulates the Root Chakra and therefore, our physical energy and validates our self-worth. Grounds us and allows us to stand up to fear and face anxiety. This red obsidian allows for our dominate qualities to awake as it balances our male and female energies
Starry Night Obsidian
Major healer for the root chakra, helps to clear issues around survival. Very helpful for anyone who has done extensive inner work on clearing early childhood abuse and trauma and now is ready to release those issues completely. Can be a bit strong for those who are just beginning to work on these issues.
Helps to release fear that holds you back, even when you know you are capable of achieving goals on your own but insist on not making a move unless you feel you are guaranteed to succeed. Feeling you must have others support and lacking that, refuse to make a move forward to create what is truly desired. Helps you to forge ahead even when feeling alone and unsupported. Taking well planned risks, seeing where the energy flows and moving with it.
Orange Obsidian
Integrates the shadow and the light, clears murkiness. This essence is very helpful for people who tend to want to see things in only shades of black and white and because of this feel that there only can be right/wrong answers to any problem or situation. This essence helps these folks to see that there is also a wide range of colors/answers that can be selected, and that by allowing themselves to think in terms of possibilities that a Higher answer/solution can then be found.
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Glass Butte Obsidian
Blue Green Obsidian is also known for its telepathic endeavors, being used in fortune telling, such as Tarot cards readings.
Blue obsidian, as well as having the general properties of obsidian, stimulates the throat chakra. An excellent stone for someone who has to speak in public, it enhances communication. It is said to aid telepathic skills and act as a protector during traveling.It is good in relieving eye problems, it assists with speech therapy and alleviates pain. It can also assist mental clarity with disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia and multiple-personality confusion. The color of obsidian varies depending on the presence of impurities.
Obsidian is actually natural glass that is formed when hot lava is submerged in water. This is a strong grounding stone and is known as "the protector". It is said to "mirror one's soul. This stone brings about objectivity, dis-attachment and is grounding. It reduces fantasy and escapism. Absorbs and dissolves anger, criticism, fear, and therefore is protective. This unusual black stone absorbs darkness and converts it to white light energy. It is a warm and friendly stone, which is used at the Root Chakra, encouraging ones survival instincts and is grounding. Black obsidian brings higher Chakra light into lower ones; cleanses and uplifts. Changes fear into flexibility with the advent of change. Obsidian is used in scrying for divination purposes and often found in mirrors and crystal balls. Obsidian is used for transformation.
Folk Remedies: Obsidian is believed to draw imbalances to the surface and helps to release them. Problems or issues that are hard to face can be brought to light with obsidian. It is said to reveal half truths.
Feng Shui: Obsidian is used in the area of North for personal journeys and in the Center area for grounding and protection.
History: Obsidian is Igneous rock with inclusion. Solid/translucent black to smoky, this stone takes on many characteristics due to its unique formation. Bubbles of air can get trapped in molten rock, which, when densely packed, can produce effects that look like rainbows. When clusters of small cristobalite or feldspar get trapped in the stone, it creates snowflake effects. Apache tears are the results of wind and water smoothing out the rock. When iron is introduced into the formation, mahogany obsidian is formed. Obsidian has been used by many cultures for jewelry and tools. Obsidian arrowheads are often found, dating back centuries.
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Apache tears - dark gray to nearly black, pebble-sized glass nodules, most of which have greatest dimensions ranging between two and four centimeters, that occur as remnants within or weathered out of light gray perlite. (Perlite, apparently derived from obsidian as the result of hydration involving meteoric water, is a light gray rock made up of concentrically fractured fragments.) Many apache tears in the marketplace are from Maricopa and Pinal counties, Arizona.
Banded obsidian - the banding commonly exhibits a flowlike appearance; some roughly banded obsidian has been incorrectly designated onyx obsidian.
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Black lava glass - descriptive name given to some obsidian.
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Colombianite (americanite) - a variety of obsidian from the vicinity of Cali, Colombia.
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Chatoyant obsidian - name sometimes applied to varieties that are iridescent in diverse colors; appearance is apparently due to the presence of minute inclusions and/or bubbles.
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Electric blue obsidian - obsidian with a vibrant blue color.
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Fire obsidian - iridescent obsidian from Glass Buttes, Oregon; "fire" is said to be due to reflection of light off thin layers the refractive indices of which are higher than the rest of the obsidian because of their containing extremely small (nanometric) magnetite crystals (Rossman and Miller, 2007).
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Flame obsidian - another name for fire obsidian.
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Flowering obsidian - similar to snowflake obsidian.
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Glass (or glassy) lava - overall term that has been used, especially in the field.
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Glass agate - atrocious misnomer sometimes given obsidian.
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Golden sheen obsidian (also gold or golden obsidian) - name widely given in the marketplace to sheen obsidian with the precominant "sheen" a golden brown color
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Iceland agate (or Iceland agate lava) - misnomer sometimes given to a brownish or grayish variety of obsidian from Iceland.
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Iris obsidian - another name for rainbow obsidian.
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Itatli - obsidian (Aztec).
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Iztli - obsidian (Aztec).
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Lassenite - glass of trachytic composition (trachyte is the aphanitic equivalent of syenite, which is composed of 90 or more percent of alkali feldspar) from the vicinity of Lassen Peak, California.
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Libyan glass - see Desert glass.
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Mahogany obsidian (also Mountain mahogany) - reddish subtranslucent obsidian, commonly including black or gray bandlike or streaked swirl-like patterns. See
Marekanite - name for Apache tearlike masses OR, according to some ambiguous statements, a mottled brown and black obsidian from the vicinity of the Marekanka River, which flows into the Sea of Okhotsk, off eastern Siberia.
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Marskanite - name applied variously -- e.g., to mottled brown and black obsidian from Siberia; to any cloudy, smoky gray obsidian; and to brown and gray, commonly in part yellowish or reddish, obsidian (especially those from Mexico).
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Mexican 'Mayan' - see Rainbow obsidian.
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Mount Saint Helens emerald - a misleading misnomer given obsidian (and even more often to a green glass produced by melting ash erupted by Mount St. Helens.
Montana jet - a misleading misnomer given some black obsidian from the Yellowstone National Park area, Wyoming.
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Mountain mahogany - See Mahogany obsidian.
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Nevada diamond - term that has been applied, albeit rarely, to what is said to be artificially decolorized obsidian.
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Obsidian "cat's-eye" (or "cat's eye obsidian) - name sometimes given to obsidian that has a golden chatoyant-like appearance; see Golden sheen obsidian.
Obsidianite - name introduced by Walcott (1898) for what are now known to be tektites (australites) from Australia; however, according to Bates and Jackson (1987) this term came to have wider usage, and "Most stones originally described as 'obsidianite' were later shown to be true obsidian and not tektites." [To date, however, I have not found examples to document this purported later, wider usage.]
Peanut obsidian - a gray to greenish gray perlite that contains red or brownish red stellate spherulites, which consist of radiating fibers of Hematite-stained feldspar within shells of chalcedony; the overall appearance -- both color- and size-wise -- roughly resembles a mass of peanuts. A noteworthy occurrence is near Alamos, State of Sonora, Mexico.
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Pearlylite - name sometimes given in the marketplace to obsidian in jewelry.
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Pitchstone - obsidian that has a pitchlike luster. This rock apprently represents an intermediate phase in devitrification of the precursor obsidian per se; among other things, it contains more water and is less brittle than typical obsidians.
Plum obsidian - obsidian with a plum (purplish) color.
Pumpkin obsidian - obsidian with a pumpkin-orange color.
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Porphyritic obsidian - obsidian containing sporadic phenocrysts.
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Rainbow obsidian (also rainbow sheen obsidian and iris obsidian) - obsidian that exhibits a multicolored iridescence, apparently because of the presence of inclusions -- e.g., that from Glass Buttes, Lake County, Oregon and that, called Mexican 'Mayan' from the state of Jalisco, Mexico (see Koivula, Kammerling and Fritsch, 1993).
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Royal blue obsidian - a bluish obsidian from northeastern California.
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Schiller obsidian - obsidian exhibiting a schiller effect.
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Sheen obsidian - obsidian that exhibits a sheen when rotated in reflected light; many marketers distinguish diverse "sheen obsidians" by directing attention to the color of their sheen -- e.g., golden ... , silver ..., and even rainbow sheen obsidian.
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Snowflake obsidian (also spherulitic obsidian and flowering obsidian) - dark gray to nearly black obsidian with inclusions of white, gray or rarely red spherulites, which in many specimens have been identified as cristobalite (a high-temperature polymorph of silica). Fine examples of this obsidian occur near Milford, Beaver County, Utah
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"Star" obsidian (also "starred Apache tear obsidian") - misnomer -- in that no asterism is apparent -- applied in the marketplace to gemstones cut from aventurescent (hematite- and ilmenite-bearing) obsidian, most of which occur as Apache tears (see Koivula & Tannous, 2003).
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Velvet obsidian - obsidian with a velvetlike appeareance.
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Volcanic glass - geological designation sometimes applied to obsidian used as a gemrock.
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Xaga - name used for obsidian by some native Americans from California. The Pomo Indians are said to have distinguished between hard obsidian, which they called dupa xaga and used for razors etc. and less hard obsidian, which they called bati xaga.
