Black Obsidian

Black Obsidian

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 

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