Stability, Strength, Psychic Protection
Spiritual Properties
- Scrying Tool
- Reveals the Truth
- Stimulates the gift of prophecy
- Symbolizes self control and resilience
- Enhances and intensifies psychic abilities
- Blocks psychic attacks and negative spiritual energy
- Helps you channel answers from spirit and your higher self
- Helps you cut cords that block and inhibit you from moving on
Mental Properties
- Protects you from negative thoughts
- Helps you understand who you truly are
- Helps you gain clear insights into problems
- Brings clarity to the mind and clears confusion
Emotional Properties
- Aids in compassion and strength
- Protects you from negative emotions
- Dissolves emotional blocks and ancient traumas
- Removes harmful emotions such as fear, resentment, anger, and jealousy
Kundalini Properties
- Clears the aura of negative energy
- Stores any negative energy it has cleared
- Takes in considerable amounts of energy, therefore it needs to be cleansed often
- Protects against psychic attacks and infringements of any kind that may hold you down and feed on your energy
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root
- Energy: Receptive
- Planets: Saturn
- Element: Fire
- Zodiacs: Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn
- Number: 1
Affirmations
- I sever all cords that do not serve me
- I am a shield against negative energy
- I am protected and safe to fully explore my intuition and psychic abilities
Health Benefits
- Absorbs Pain
- Draws out mental stress and tensions
Physical Properties
Color |
Black |
Habit |
Massive |
Twins |
Absent |
Rarity |
Common |
Luster |
Vitreous |
Species |
Volcanic Glass, Igneous Rock |
Zoning |
Absent |
Parting |
Absent |
Gravity |
2.35 to 2.60 |
Tenacity |
Brittle |
Fracture |
Conchoidal |
Cleavage |
Thin cleavage fragments and along sharp margins |
Hardness |
5 to 5.5 |
Locations |
Mount Hekla in Iceland, the Eolie Islands off the coast of Italy, and Obsidian Cliff in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S., Mexico, Ecuador, Japan (Hokkaido island), Turkey, and Armenia |
Bipartisan |
Absent |
Dispersion |
0.010 |
Chatoyancy |
Absent |
Pleochroism |
Absent |
Fluorescence |
Absent |
Birefringence |
Absent |
Diaphaneity |
Translucent to Opaque |
Named After |
Obsius, obsidian means “stone of Obsius.” |
Melting point |
1,000 degrees Celsius or 1,830 degrees Fahrenheit |
Discovered In |
9,000 years ago in Mesopotamia |
Luminescence |
Absent |
Discovered By |
Obsius, an explorer who discovered this material in Ethiopia |
Chemical Name |
Silicon Dioxide |
Refractive Index |
1.48 – 1.51 |
System/Structure |
Amorphous |
Chemical Formula |
SiO2 |
Inclusions (streak) |
White |
Chemical Classification |
Silica |