Meaning Black obsidian is a very powerful stone with a mysterious yet cleansing aura. It is commonly used for psychic protection, and it has the capacity to remove all the psychic smog that has been encapsulating its owner for quite some time. It also has powerful properties that can shield its user from negative auras and spirits. Spiritual & Emotional Influence: Obsidian provides deep soul balancing and can help facilitate going back into past lives to heal any trauma or festering emotions that may have carried forward into your present life. It helps block a psychic attack and removes negative spiritual influences. This variety is a stone of truths that can reveal secrets and answer your questions. Blue obsidian meaning is enhancing communication skills and blocking negativity. The blue color in obsidian very close to spiritual properties. People who use obsidian stone seem more interested in religious things.This is the effect of blue obsidian properties.
Golden Sheen Obsidian History
Obsidian gets its English name from a mistranslation of Natural History by Pliny the Elder (the guy who died at Pompeii):'Among the various kinds of glass, we may also reckon Obsian glass, a substance very similar to the stone which Obsius [mistranslated as Obsidius] discovered in Æthiopia. This stone is of a very dark color, and sometimes transparent ... Many persons use it for jewelery, and I myself have seen solid statues in this material of the late Emperor Augustus .... Xenocrates says that Obsian stone is found in India also, and in Samnium in Italy; and that it is a natural product of Spain, upon the coasts which border on the Ocean.'Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed in swiftly cooling lava that has a high silica content. It is not considered a true mineral, as it does not have an entirely consistent chemical content and it does not form crystals.Color in obsidian varies, depending on impurities in the parent lava formation. Golden sheen obsidian is formed when patterns of gas bubbles are aligned along layers created by the flowing lava before it solidified.The chemical make-up of obsidian also varies among volcanic sources--sometimes even different eruptions of the same volcano have different chemical types. This makes obsidian tools or weapons a valuable resource to archaeologists for tracking trade routes or dating graves and settlements, as their source volcano and eruption can be determined through analysis.
Golden Sheen Obsidian Metaphysical Properties
Golden sheen obsidian is believed, by crystal practitioners, to be particularly suitable for scrying. It is also thought to be ideal for balancing energy fields and releasing the ego. The reflective nature of obsidian makes it one of the first stones used in self-reflective meditation, internal growth and self-understanding. The stone is not thought to give energy, but to help seekers discover where healing needs to happen.Golden sheen obsidian is affiliated with the root chakra, though it is said to have applications to the solar plexus and third eye chakras. It is assigned to the western astrological sign Sagittarius.Golden Sheen Obsidian Geological Properties
Obsidian has a conchoidal fracture pattern due to its rapid cooling, making it easy to split and flake into pieces with curved surfaces that have very sharp edges. Newly split pieces of obsidian have an extremely high luster. Obsidian is considered an extrusive rock because it usually forms above the earth's surface as a result of coming into contact with cold air or water.Obsidian cleaves easily, flaking off into ultra-sharp fragments of glass. As such, it was used for millennia for cutting, slicing and scraping. In Eurasia, earliest use dates back to the Neolithic age in the Levant; in the Americas, obsidian was extensively used for sophisticated surgical tools as well as weaponry up until first contact with the Spanish. Even today, it is used in surgical scalpels more narrow and precise than the finest surgical steel.Significant deposits of obsidian are found in volcanic areas across the world, including Central and South America, and in North America west of the Mississippi River (as well as in Alaska and Hawaii). Yes, there's obsidian right here in Oregon.Proper Care of Golden Sheen Obsidian
A mid-range stone in terms of overall hardness, golden sheen obsidian cleaves easily. Therefore, avoid using ultrasonic or steam cleaners with it. Use warm soapy water and a soft cotton cloth to wipe down golden sheen obsidian, and remove any traces of body oils or perspiration. Store separately in a box or padded bag to prevent damage.To learn more about golden sheen obsidian and other gemstones, order your copy of Walter Schumann's revised and expanded edition of Gemstones of the World.Designing with Golden Sheen Obsidian
Black and gold are a timeless pairing--and golden sheen obsidian proves their elegance, too. The golden shimmer over black means this obsidian variant pairs beautifully with a range of yellow or golden gemstone beads, as well as golden findings and settings.A subtle stone, golden sheen obsidian can be overwhelmed by bold color combinations. While available in a range of sizes, large cabochons and flat beads showcase its beauty best. This subtle color combination makes golden sheen obsidian a great seller in men's and unisex designs, while remaining popular in women's styles.As obsidians can cleave easily into flakes of ultra-sharp glass, this stone is not recommended for anklets, rings, bracelets or other jewelry uses which are likely to take impact. Remove obsidian jewelry before engaging in physical activity.View design inspirations featuring golden sheen obsidian in the Gallery of DesignsShop for Golden Sheen Obsidian Items
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Cleanses Negative Psychic Smog From Aura
Written By Liz Oakes
Black Obsidian Stone is a powerful cleanser of psychic smog created within your aura, and is a strong psychic protection stone.
This stone has powerful metaphysical properties that will help to shield you against negativity.
The energy of these stones may stimulate the gift of prophesy and may boost precognition.
Pieces of these stones that had a shiny surface were used in the past as a tool for scrying.
It has a good action to cut or sever ties, to break negative attachments to people with whom you have been close.
It an excellent crystal to use when you have been doing spiritual or healing work, as it has a strong action to ground you to Mother Gaia.
This black stone is excellent to assist you to release disharmony that has built up in your day to day life and during work on yourself, including resentment of others, fear and anger.
What Is Obsidian Stone?
Obsidian rock forms from molten lava that cooled very quickly and had no time to form into glass.
It is said to be a type of volcanic glass, and is found in a number of places worldwide.
There are a number of different variations of this mineral, and it comes in a range of types and colors. This includes the gorgeous rainbow obsidian crystals, that are quite beautiful.
Obsidian rock may also be green and purple, brown, blue and green, but the black crystals are what I am concentrating on in this article, as they have some powerful metaphysical properties.
Snowflake Obsidian is the black and white stone, and you can see photos of these at bottom of page.
Apache Tears are also in this stone group or family, and they are closely related with some excellent qualities.
While the different types of this crystal have different metaphysical properties, all sorts or colors have excellent healing attributes.
The black stones have an excellent spiritual grounding vibration and also have a strong psychic protection energy.
Why Would You Use It?
There are a number of reasons why you might choose to use Black Obsidian including:
- The vibration of the stone may aid you to contact your spirit guide, as they have a powerful action to aid spiritual communication.
- They are excellent grounding stones, and their energy works by helping you to move any excess energy down via the earth star chakra to Mother Gaia for grounding.
- Their resonance within the base or root chakra is very strong, and they have a powerful vibration that aids you to ground yourself.
- For many centuries they have been used successfully by crystals gazers and shamans to make contact with the spirit world.
Black Obsidian Properties
It may be used by looking into a shiny piece of the stone in the right light.
Usually using it in low light is best, when you may see the images of loved ones in spirit.
For this purpose, shiny pieces of black Obsidian stone with a mirror finish make excellent scrying tools.
The properties of Black Obsidian stone makes them very helpful to have in your collection.
They are a strong psychic protection stone, and will benefit you by shielding you from all negativity. This makes them very helpful stones to keep within your auric field.
They are especially beneficial if you are doing any type of work involving contact with the spirit world as they are highly protective.
How To Use It
The vibration of this stone may resonate within thethird eyechakra and has a strong vibration to aid the receiving of answers to questions.
This may be particularly related to healing your ancestral line. Their energy may aid you to deal with issues relating to past misuse of power.
It may be helpful to have in your collection for many reasons, and is an excellent crystal to aid past life healing.
These black stones are one of the premier crystals to assist you to communicate with spirit and may bring through the power of prophesy or boost precognitive ability.
If you believe you may have come back to this life in order to resolve a past life issue, place a piece of the stone on the third eye and ask about this.
This may help you to discover the purpose for being here in this life at this time.
By asking questions aloud and listening, you may hear the answer whispered back to you.
Their energy encourages you to ask questions about specific questions around relationships, finances, career choices or health issues.
These answers from the Spirit realm may help you to make better choices when making decisions about future actions.
Helps To Release Built Up Negativity From Aura
Black Obsidian Stone is also an excellent aid to help you to release any negativity that living your day to day life may have caused.
This negativity may be present within your auric field and needs to be removed, to aid your ongoing physical, emotional and spiritual health.
It is easy to buy Black Obsidian Stone, and it is highly benefical stone to utilize every day.
It is powerful to use as it acts to remove any built up negativity caused by your own or others anger, fear, resentment and even stress.
It may also aid you to remove any negative attachments, and may be used to cut karmic ties or cords, and to help you to seal your aura against future problems.
These stones are on the zodiac birthstone list, so they make this crystal into lovely necklaces in a variety of styles and types of obsidian.
It is common to find Obsidian beads used in combination with other stones. Beautiful Black Obsidian Stone is easy to buy, including pieces of Obsidian jewelry.
They are a birthstone for Sagittarian's, but of course they can be used by those born under other star-signs as well.
Other colors of Obsidian such as Mahogany or Snowflake Obsidian is made into jewelry, as all colors of this stone are very popular.
They are excellent healing crystals for you to utilize to protect you from negativity.
They also have strong metaphysical properties that are very useful to help you to let go of disharmony that has accumulated from your day to day life.
Obsidian pendants and rings are easy to buy, and you may find interesting pieces like the Black Obsidian spear pendant shown in the picture above.
A build-up of psychic smog may occur within your auric field, and it may be released by the use of this crystal, as it is a powerful spiritual cleanser.
How Will It Help You? Boosting Precognition
The energy of this stone may stimulate the gift of prophesy and precognition.
They are powerful crystals toboost precognition and have been used in the past to stimulate the gift of prophecy.
If you wish to boost the ability to receive precognitive messages it may be beneficial to use them in meditation.
Meditating with them is quite powerful as they are strong psychic protection stones so this may help you to feel reassured when you venture deep into the spiritual realms in meditation.
They may also aid you to contact spirit guides or teachers.
Your spirit guides may be asked for help if you receive messages or visions about future events and need clarity on what the message means.
Using a shiny piece of this stone may be beneficial if you have clairvoyant gifts and are using this gift to receive psychic visions.
A shiny surface on the stone may enable you to see scenes of future events reflected in the stone, although messages may be received using any of your psychic senses.
Ideas may be communicated to you in a range of ways, including hearing a precognitive message (clairaudience) or intuitively feeling the meaning of what is coming through to you.
If you find that you receive messages or visions while dreaming, you may encourage precognitive dreaming using the energy of this stone.
For this purpose it could be beneficial to place it in the bedroom close to where you sleep.
Obsidian Stone is known to stimulate the gift of prophecy as well as precognition. Using a shiny piece may allow you to see future scenes reflected within the stone.
Healing Properties Black Obsidian Stone
They are potent healing crystals for you to add to your collection for a number of reasons especially when you take a look at their excellent healing properties.
These stones have a strong healing energy, and are known to aid the release of addictions, eating disorders, negative behaviors and emotional blockages.
They are an excellent healing stone on many levels and may particularly aid health issues based in past lives, that may be holding you back in your current life.
They are known to be used by healers to aid hardening of the arteries, joint pain, including arthritis and cramps, and circulation problems.
Another way they help you is to aid grounding.
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If you are a healer and are aiding your clients to release disharmonious energy, it is possible to take this negativity into your auric field.
Using this stone may aid both you and your client, as it is a strong cleanser of psychic smog created within the aura.
It may also aid you to clear energy you may have picked up from the vibration of your clients thoughts, which you may have attracted via your feelings, related to your empathy for their hurt and feelings around their health issues.
This is similar to the vibration of clairsentience, also known as the psychic gift of clear feeling, and you can use this stones vibration to clear energy you may have inadvertently brought into yourself.
Who Should Use It? Aids You To Sever Ties
This stone may aid you unfetter yourself from any negative attachments that you may have unintentionally taken into your aura.
These negative attachments are often related to karmic ties that connect you to people with whom you have been close, especially those who you have been in a relationship with.
It may be advantageous to use a piece of obsidian stone like the one shown above, as it has an obvious cutting edge, that allows you to more easily visualize the severing of these unwanted ties.
Use a sweeping motion to remove the ties one by one, and ask Spirit that all ties or connections to anyone else be removed.
You may wish to ask for the help of angels or guides if you find this difficult. Start by cutting the karmic ties at your solar plexus and heart chakra then sever all of the other ties.
Some people find it hard to use, so take care when using it for this purpose, as the process of cutting cords can be a little emotionally overwhelming.
You may use these crystals to sever karmic ties in meditation.
You could visualize cutting the cords linking into your chakras one by one, aiding you to break any unwanted or undesirable attachments.
My Final Thoughts: Black Obsidian Meaning
This is a stone that has no limitations.
The meaning of Black Obsidian strongly relates to how its energy is inclined to bring out attributes that you may have been wanting to ignore.
Once you perceive these issues, the energy of this stone pushes you to make changes. These stones have a particularly strong and often confronting vibration of truth, and work very fast.
In summary: please note that Black Obsidian Stone may not always be comfortable to work with, and if you have difficulty with it maybe you may prefer to use Apache Tears.
This is a type of black obsidian which has a less challenging, more friendly and easier to use vibration, see picture above.
One of the Obsidian meanings that you need to remember is that if you are using this black crystal to do spiritual work on yourself, you may release past problems.
This includes emotions such as fear, anger, stress and resentment of others.
Once you have released these negative emotions you can bring spiritual healing and be enabled to move forward.
As they may also aid you to discover the spiritual aspects of unconditional love, you can use this energy to make your life better in many ways.
Using It With Other Stones
Black Obsidian Stone is excellent used in combination with a number of different stones.
To boost the psychic protection aspect of other stones, you may choose to use them with other strongly protective stones to elevate the level of protection, such asFire Agate, Dalmatian Jasper, Astrophyllite or Black Tourmaline.
If you have a particular interest in increasing your ability to receive prophetic messages of any sort, use them in combination with some of the other stones that bring through these gifts.
There are a number of crystals to use for this purpose, and it is of value to use your intuition when choosing the right ones for your personal use.
Stones you could use for this purpose includes Mariposite, Shungite, Celestite, Dream Quartz or Prehnite.
This is a powerful stone to use to remove karmic ties.
But if you need more assistance to help you to remove or cut these ties, that can be ties from this life or karmic in nature and related to past lives, there are a number of other strong crystals that can also help with this.
Specific stones to use for cutting karmic ties includes Novaculite, Black Kyanite or Amblygonite used alone or in combination with Tunellite which has a good action to sever ties.
You may use Black Obsidian stone with other grounding stones, to boost the grounding energy of both stones.
Many of the protection stones also carry this same energy, so many may benefit you in both areas.
Some grounding stones that will benefit by this combination are Magnetite, Black Andradite Garnet also called Melanite Garnet, Unakite, Black Diopside, Bloodstone, Zircon, Hematite and Sphalerite.
To raise the vibration of Black Obsidian stone you may use it with high crystal energy stones.
This combination will stimulate the higher chakras and may aid the development of psychic abilities and help your overall spiritual growth. Use stones such as Phenacite, Nirvana Quartz, Rhodizite or Natrolite with this crystal.
To aid the release of addictions, use them with other stones that aid you to let go of addictive substances and behaviors.
Use it with stones such as Hematite Crystals, Astrophyllite, Smithsonite, Datolite, Purple Amethyst, Unakite, Tantalite, Dumortierite and Staurolite.
In-Depth Pages About Stones in The B Alphabetic Group
- Black Jade
- Black Moonstone
- Black Onyx
- Blue Barite
- Blue Calcite
- Blue Kyanite
- Blue Topaz
- Blue Tourmaline
- Boli Stone
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