Obsidian-Black

Obsidian helps the stomach and intestines. It connects the mind and the emotions. It is a slightly masculine energy. It grounds spiritual energy into the physical plane. It absorbs and disperses negativity. It reduces stress. It helps to clear subconscious blocks and brings an understanding of silence and the void. It promotes detachment, but wisdom and love. It is a powerful healer for those attuned to it.

Chemical Composition: an Igneous Silica (volcanic glass)

Hardness: 6-7

Occurence: Obsidian occurs in volcanic lava flows, from silica-rich magma that has come to the surface.

Corresponding Astrological Sign: Sagittarius

Color: Black
Chakra: Earth Chakra

• Excellent for grounding and protection.
• Wards off negativity. Useful for introspection - helps one to see where changes need to be made within oneself.
• Promotes grounding into one's Earth's.
• Opens awareness of past lives.
• Reveals awareness of negative karma to clear and heal it.
• Increases awareness of the body and centering of the soul into incarnation, grounds spirit into body after psychic work.
• Stabilizes fear and panic states, grounds and centers.

Obsidian-Mahogany

Color: Brown and black
Chakra: Earth

• Roots one's life purpose into that of healing the planet
• Promotes Earth stewardship, activism, environmentalism.
• Helps psychic healers who focus on Earth healing and helps activists against species extinction.
• Helps those who care for animals, reptiles, birds, insects, and plants or the land and seas.
• Supports and prevents burnout and discouragement.
• Helps communication with nonhuman species and nature devas.

Obsidian-Purple Sheen

Color: Black
Chakra: Earth Chakra

• Helps past-life regression and future-life progression.
• Connects with the Lords of Karma.
• Heals one's past life and current karma in this lifetime, heals the past to heal the present and future.
• Helps in understanding one's present lifetime in terms of what has gone before-and heals the difficulties permanently, both karmic patterns and negative karma.

Obsidian-Rainbow

Color: Black
Chakra: Earth Chakra

• Helps in bringing soul awareness into the body, spiritualizes the incarnation for greater soul growth.
• Brings karmic healing, creates an understanding of how past lives have created present-life situations, heals karmic patterns and releases the damage of the past.
• Helps attain enlightenment in this lifetime, enhances work with the Lords of Karma, Helps in becoming an old soul

Obsidian-Snowflake

Color: Black and white
Chakra: Earth Chakra

For grounding the physical and for protection. Used as a scribing tool to help the psychic unfocused from the physical and venture inward to receive information. Used for astral travel. Absorbs negative energy and therefore is used to cleanse before crystal healing.

• Opens awareness of past lives and of having had many incarnations.
• Increases knowledge that we have been here before and will be here again, that there is no death of the soul.
• Helps in past-life meditation and regression work, and in understanding the present in terms of the past.
• Heals karma and karmic patterns