Black Obsidian – SELF-REFLECTION • PROTECTION • GROWTH. Useful for a deep psychic cleanse. Known as the “psychic vacuum cleaner,” the Obsidian crystal is your spiritual maid service, working hard to clean up the emotional wreckage and debris from the past. A bodyguard to your soul, the Obsidian crystal stone also protects you from shadow traits — addiction, fear, anxiety, and anger– by acting as a mirror to your inner self. A powerful protection stone, the Obsidian crystal meaning helps identify your dark side so that its healing properties can clear it away from your psyche. The Obsidian crystal stone meaning reminds us that everyone has a good and bad side. Devil and Angel. Instead of hiding from our inner truth, Obsidian shines a light on the negativity and clears it away, helping us to choose the path leading towards light and love.
The Obsidian crystal stone meaning can be traced back to Paleolithic times where it was used to make arrowheads and other tools. Cherished for its deep, glossy sheen, Obsidian is often called volcanic glass because it is formed from molten lava that has cooled very quickly.This warrior stone also protected our Paleo-Indian ancestors from marauding invaders and the perils of hunting.
The energy of these stones may stimulate the gift of prophesy. It has a good action to cut ties, to break negative attachments to people with whom you have been close. Pieces of these stones that had a shiny surface were used in the past as a tool for scrying.
It an excellent crystal to use when you have been doing spiritual or healing work, as it has a strong action to ground you to Mother Gaia.
This black stone is excellent to assist you to release disharmony that has built up in your day to day life and during work on yourself, including resentment of others, fear and anger. The black stones have an excellent spiritual grounding vibration and also have a strong psychic protection energy, and is an excellent crystal to aid past life healing. This may be particularly related to healing your ancestral line, which is often forgotten about but which is eminently empowering. Their energy may aid you to deal with issues relating to past misuse of power. If you have come back to this life in order to resolve a past life issue, place a piece of the stone on the third eye and ask about this. This may help you to discover the purpose for being here in this life at this time. By asking questions aloud and listening, you may hear the answer whispered back to you. The vibration of this stone may resonate within the third eye chakra and has a strong vibration to aid the receiving of answers to questions.
Black Obsidian Stone is also an excellent aid to help you to release any negativity that your day to day life may have caused.This negativity may be present within your auric field and needs to be removed, to aid your ongoing physical, emotional and spiritual health.This stone acts to remove any built up negativity caused by your own or others anger, fear, resentment and even stress.It may also aid you to remove any negative attachments, and may be used to cut karmic ties or cords, and to help you to seal your aura against future problems. You may use this stone for breaking attachments or karmic ties in meditation, where you could visualize cutting the cords linking into your chakras one by one.You may wish to ask for the help of angels or guides if you find this difficult. Start by cutting the karmic ties at your solar plexus and heart chakra then sever all of the other ties. Use a sweeping motion to remove the ties one by one, and ask that all ties to anyone else be removed. The vibration of the stone may aid you to contact your spirit guide, as they have a powerful action to aid spiritual communication.
If you are a healer and are aiding your clients to release disharmonious energy, it is possible to take this negativity into your auric field. Using this stone may aid both you and your client, as it is a strong cleanser of psychic smog created within the aura.They may also aid you to pick up the vibration of your clients thoughts via your feelings, similar to the vibration of clairsentience, also known as the psychic gift of clear feeling. They have a strong healing energy, and are known to aid the release of
- addictions
- eating disorders
- negative behaviors
- and emotional blockages
They may particularly aid health issues based in past lives, that may be holding you back. They are known to be used by healers to aid
- hardening of the arteries
- joint pain, including arthritis and cramps
- and circulation problems
. Black Obsidian Stone is excellent used in combination with a number of different stones.To boost the psychic protection aspect of other stones, you may choose to use them with other strongly protective stones to elevate the level of protection.You may combine them with Black Tourmaline, Smoky Quartz, Shungite, Tantalite, Fire Agate and Libyan Desert Glass aka Libyan Gold Techtite. Also with Jet, Dravite aka Brown Tourmaline, Dalmatian Jasper, Stellerite, Astrophyllite, Golden Rutilated Quartz and Tourmalinated Quartz.