Black Obsidian Crystal Properties

Stability, Strength, Psychic Protection

Close Up of Black Obsidian

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 cut cords that block and inhibit you from moving on
• Helps you channel answers from your spirit and your higher self

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

Massive forms of black obsidian

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

black obsidian points

Correspondence

• Chakras: Root
• Energy: Receptive
• Planets: Saturn
• Element: Fire
• Zodiacs: Scorpio

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

black obsidian arrowheads

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 along sharp margins

Hardness: 5 to 5.5

Locations: Mount Hekla in Iceland, the Aeolian Islands off the coast of Italy, and Obsidian Cliff in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S., Mexico, Ecuador, Japan (Hokkaido island), Turkey, and Armenia

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

Chemical Name: Silicon Dioxide

Refractive Index: 1.48–1.51

System/Structure: Amorphous

Chemical Formula: SiO2

Inclusions: An abundant amount of microscopic crystals from minerals such as magnetite, hornblende, pyroxene, plagioclase, and biotite, combined with tiny fragments of rock

Streak: White

Chemical Classification: Silica

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