Obsidian Pendant – DT – Snowflake, Black

These Black Obsidian pendants and Snowflake Obsidian pendants attract the boys and young women. Fun with the white splashes against the black, this is a gentler stone to use than the black or gold sheen obsidian. These show snowflake obsidian at its best. Read the Healing tab.

The crystal’s size is 35x10x10mm. Select a pendant with no cord so you can hand it on a silver chain or wax rope cord. Or select with an adjustable black cord (you can’t use use adjustable cord for other pendants). Read this post to see the different looks possible with the cord and how to adjust the length.

• Obsidian – Black – some have a few white dots.
• Obsidian – Snowflake – lots of white dots

The photo shows the variety from which we will intuit which black obsidian pendant or snowflake obsidian pendant is best. .

Weight	6 g
Dimensions	13 × 13 × 41 mm
Colour	Brown / Tan
Country Crystal Grew	Mexico
Country of Shaping	Brazil
With or Without Cord	Adjustable Cord, No Cord
Crystal Type	Obsidian-Black, Obsidian-Snowflake

Healing Properties

Benefits of Obsidian

Obsidian - Black

Works fast & with power esp. to bring out truths. Use in environments where a lot of negative mental stress to transform these. Stimulates & supports growth (all levels), urges exploration of unknown to open new horizons. Dissolves emotional blocks & ancient traumas affecting the present, revitalizing soul’s purpose. Gets to core of issues, to know who you are & how to integrate shadow-self. Brings clarity to mind, clears confusion & limited beliefs.

Additional Properties of Varieties

Snowflake – Puts you in a good space then shows you poor patterns & releases them. Teaches to value mistakes & success. Gold Sheen – takes you deep into core of problems. Eliminates futility & ego conflict to impart knowledge of spiritual direction. Silver Sheen – Soothes if possessive mother issues. Aids those under pressure to lose irritability, have patience & persevere. Apache Tears – gentler so transforming is slower. Comforts grief & insight into distress. Stimulates analysis & forgiveness. Rainbow – gentler but strongly protective. Teaches about your spiritual nature. Disconnects hooks in your heart energy. Mahogany – Clears blocks to creative energies & sexuality. Dispels unworthiness, humiliation, abuse & shame. Midnight Lace - Acts like a sponge absorbing any negativity trying to attach itself to our aura. One of the strongest cross-dimensional protection stones  It's a marvellous shield.

Shamarah's Insights

The following is for the real obsidian - not the coloured glass. This is a protection stone but from the point of view of protecting you from picking up other people's thoughts if you are open psychically to that method of receiving. If you need to protect from people's emotions - tourmaline If you work with people with mental problem e.g. bi-polar, schizophrenia, ... then black onyx-agate. Adds the energy of warrior - physical warrior (to help more embracing of the masculine courage, strength, protective nature) and the spiritual warrior (to help empower self to being true to one's needs walking the spiritual path, stepping up to spiritual work without being taken down by others opinions)

Geological Information

Geological Information of Obsidian Family

• Naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock which cools too quick to create crystals bigger than micro.

General Identification

• Type: Rock
• Class: n/a - high silica content
• Member of Group: Chrysoberyl
• Mohs Hardness: 5 - 6
• Crystal Habit: Amorphous
• Lustre / Diaphaneity: Translucent, Vitreous, Glassy
• Colour: black, bluish, mahogany, golden, peacock, etc. - the colors due largely to refraction by microscopic bubbles (and microscopic mineral inclusions such as magnetite in "Rainbow Obsidian").
• Snowflake obsidian, formed through the inclusion of cristobalite crystals.
• Mahogany obsidian is a combination of red brown and black colours due to magnetite or haematite oxidising within the Obsidian.
• Apache tears are small rounded obsidian nuggets often embedded within a grayish-white perlite matrix.

Obsidian in green, blue, aquamarine/aqua, peach, purple, yellow

• The real green obsidian from Middle East ran out some years ago.
• What is sold on market is actually coloured man-made glass, often made in Indonesia.
  • some vendors sell as "we are not sure if real" if you question them but I have found no positive proof that there is natural supply over the ten year.
  • Helenite obsidian is at least melted down ask from Mt St Helens, USA.
    • The silica, aluminium, iron, and trace amounts of chromium and copper present in the rocks and ash in the area, combined with the heat of the torches, transformed the volcanic particles into a compound
• Appearance: Transparent
• Aquamarine obsidian is now being sold as just aquamarine.

Special Notes

• Obsidian is hard and brittle and therefore fractures with very sharp edges.
  • In the past it was used to manufacture cutting, piercing tools and arrowheads.
• Obsidian is also used for ornamental purposes and as jewellery.
  • It presents a different appearance depending on how it is cut: in one direction it is jet black, while in another it is glistening gray.
• The first known archaeological evidence of usage was 700,000 BCE.
• Rainbow usually needs careful cutting to bring out the multi coloured layers.
• Variations where the colours are many but the layering is not obvious may be called velvet obsidian.
• Read more geological information.