What is Obsidian?
Obsidian is a volcanic glass.
 
Obsidian Associations
Chakras - Base Chakra
Zodiac - Scorpio, Sagittarius
Element - Earth/Fire
Vibration - Number 1
Colours - Black, silvery or brown
 
Healing with Obsidian
♥ Purification ♥ Transformation ♥ Fulfilment ♥ New Beginnings  ♥ Manifestation ♥ Practicality ♥ Psychic ability
 
Chemical composition: Obsidians are magmatic, silicon-rich effuseive rock which receive their characteristic colour from the admixing of iron, manganese, and titanium.
 
Obsidian is truth-enhancing.  A strongly protective stone, it forms a shield against negativity.  It blocks psychic attack and absorbs negative energies from the environment.  Obsidian draws out mental stress and tension.  It stimulates growth on all levels, urging exploration of the unknown and opening new horizons.  Brings clarity to the mind and clears confusion.  Helps you to know who you truly are.  Obsidian dissolves emotional blockages and ancient traumas.  Promotes qualities of compassion and strength.
Obsidian aids the digestion and detoxifies.  It reduces arthritis pain, joint problems and cramps.  Warms the extremities.
 
Colours and Types of Obsidian
In addition to the generic healing properties of Obsidian, specific colours and types have additional attributes.
 
Black Obsidian
Chakras - Base Chakra
Vibration - Number 3
 
Black Obsidian is a very powerful and creative stone.  It increases self-control.  It forces facing up to one’s true self.  Releases imbalances and negative energies.  Black Obsidian is protective and provides support during change.  It repels negativity and disperses unloving thoughts.
 
Golden Obsidian
Zodiac - Sagittarius
Vibration - Number 9
Golden Obsidian, also known as Gold Sheen Obsidian, is a strongly protective stone. It is particularly effective for scrying, and balancing energy fields.
 
Snowflake Obsidian
Zodiac - Libra
 
Snowflake Obsidian penetrates throughput the third eye and the secondary chakras deep into our bodies. During meditation, we feel a rapid warming in the circulation and notice how blockades, hardening an pent-up emotions in the body and mind are destroyed. Since the snowflake obsidian, due to its powerful oscillations, penetrates us with vibrations, we recoomend you use it in combination with a rainbow obsidian as the oscillations of the snowflake obsidian, have a longer wavelength and therefore are more gentle. At the same time, with the aid of the rainbow obsidian, the aurais better purified, so that broken blockages are truly tranported away from usand therefore not able to accumulate within us and cause further obstructions.
 
Mahogany Obsidian
Zodiac - Scorpion
Vibration - Number 4
 
The physical character of the mohogany obsidian is like the snowflake obsidian, but enters more sensitively into our mind. It activates the ability to think logically and bestows upon us, above all, in a relation to all of the important questions on our lives, a greater power of concentration. It is a stone which protects us from too frecuent anxiety when giving to talk and takin test and examinations.
 
Gold Obsidian 
Zodiac: Capricorn
Chakras:  All
 
This obsidian particularly helps people who suffers from neuroses and physiological disturbances. Among these are anxiety, fear, and deep depression which cannot attributed to any clearly identifiable cause in the body. Especially when in egg form laid under the pillow, or as a sphere with a large "eye" the gold obsidian helps those people who are affected to identify the cause of these disorders and to control the outbreaks.