Discover Black Obsidian
Benefits:
- Truth Enhancing - helping you to know who you truly are
- Protective - forms a shield against negativity
- Blocks psychic attack and protects against negative energies from the environment
- Urges us to grow on all levels, encouraging exploration and opening new horizons
- Brings clarity to the mind and clears confusion
- Dissolves emotional blockages and ancient traumas
- Promotes qualities of compassion and strength
- Physically it aids digestion and detoxifies, reduces arthritis pain, joint problems and cramps and warms the extremities
Goddess:
- Pele - Hawaiian Goddess of Fire
- Itzpapaloti - Aztec Butterfly Goddess (ruler of the beautiful paradise world, Tamoanchan, and a skeletal warrior goddess)
Element: Fire
How to use
- Place it at your front door to encourage those who enter to leave half truths and deceit behind
- Place obsidian in your office to stay strong and committed to yourself - not signing up for things you don't want to do or taking on excess work that you really don't have the capacity for
- Wear as jewelry to keep the full benefits constantly working for you clearing blockages
- And, of course, use in your roller bottles…
Black Obsidian works well with...
Mantras:
- I surrender to my soul's needs for healing and trust I am protected.
- As I pause and reflect I am inspired by wisdom, connection and clarity.
Essential Oil:
- Protection - Clove, Protective Blend, Frankincense, Juniper Berry
- Strength - Basil, Protective Blend, Wintergreen
- Truth - Black Pepper, Geranium Siberian Fir
- Clarity - Rosemary, Lemon, Spearmint, Grounding Blend, Focus Blend
- Compassion - Rose, Geranium
Yoga:
- Meditate with black obsidian in your hands, at your feet or on top of the head as you connect into past lives, akashic records and/or soul shadows.
- Mountain Pose, Deep Squat, Tree Pose, Sun Salutations For Vitality & Balance
Interesting Facts
- Obsidian forms from molten lava in the last stages of volcanic eruptions, the remaining silica minerals that flow onto the surface and are super-cooled into glass before crystallization can occur.
- Obsidian's protective shield enables one to go back into past lives for healing and to work on ancestral and family lines.
History
- Dates back to the stone age, many cultures used black obsidian for daily, ritual and spiritual lives.
- Mesoamerica used obsidian's reflective quality and turned It Into mirrors that often reflected shadow Images.
- Mayans used obsidian to communicate with other world entities and as a portal to other realms.
- Fashioned into arrowheads, spears and knifes In many cultures.
- Ancient Malanesians used pointed pieces for tattooing the skin.
- In Ancient Mexico obsidian was known as the divine stone and used to carve amulets, jewelry and grave ornaments.
- Ancient Greek civilizations used obsidian balls and flat mirrors for scrying.
