Black Onyx Crystal Properties

Protection, Healing, Grounding

Natural Black Onyx

Spiritual Properties

• Promotes divine order
• Amplifies your intentions
• Provides intuitive guidance
• Great for meditation and dreaming
• Allows you to access higher inspiration
• Needs to be buried to thoroughly cleanse it

Mental Properties

• Increases reflection
• Encourages wise decision making
• Encourages self-control and anchors flighty energy
• Increases your concentration, determination, balance, and strength
• It helps bring you inner strength and endurance, helping you conquer the most difficult task

Natural Black Onyx Heart

Emotional Properties

• Helps heal grief
• Promotes happiness
• Balances excitable and quick tempers
• Helps alleviate fears and worries so you feel more comfortable within yourself and in your surroundings

Kundalini Properties

• Helps prevent the draining of personal energy
• Balances the yin and yang energies of the body
• Helps shield your body and mind from harmful energy

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Correspondence

• Chakras: Root
• Energy: Receptive
• Planets: Saturn
• Element: Earth
• Zodiacs: Leo, Capricorn
• Number: 6

Affirmations

• I am a shield against negative energy
• I sever all cords that do not serve me
• I am protected and safe to fully explore my intuition and psychic abilities

Health Benefits

• Helps alleviate depression
• Helps to heal the skeletal system and skin tissue
• Improves hearing diseases associated with the inner ear and aids in healing tinnitus
• Strengthens the immune system, improves nerve function, and enhances sensory organs
• Aids you when you are physically drained by providing stamina, vigor, strength, and support

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Physical Properties

Color: Black

Habit: Trigonal

Twins: Absent

Rarity: Common

Luster: Vitreous, Waxy

Species: Chalcedony, Quartz

Zoning: Present

Parting: Absent

Gravity: 2.55 to 2.7

Tenacity: Brittle

Fracture: Conchoidal

Cleavage: Thin cleavage fragments and along sharp margins

Hardness: 6.5 to 7

Locations: Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Ireland, Madagascar, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand, Uruguay, United States of America, South Africa

Dispersion: Absent

Chatoyancy: Absent

Pleochroism: Absent

Fluorescence: Absent

Birefringence: 0.004

Diaphaneity: Translucent to Transparent

Named After: the Greek word ‘ὄνυξ’ meaning ‘fingernail’ or ‘claw’

Melting point: 145°C

Discovered In: Ancient times

Luminescence; Absent

Discovered By: Ancient Greeks

Chemical Name: Silicon Dioxide

Refractive Index: 1.53 to 1.54

System/Structure: Trigonal

Chemical Formula: SiO2

Inclusions: Parallel layers of different colors

Streak: White

Chemical Classification: Silica

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