“Stone of Self-Mastery”

Chakra(s): Root, Solar Plexus and Third-Eye

Energy Vibration: 6

Energy:

Protection

Healing

Grounding

Protection:

Captures and Grounds Psychic Attack

Protects against Adversaries

Protects against Black Magick

Blocks negative influences.

Stimulates:

Grounding

All The Senses

Inner-Strength

Concentration

Self-Mastery

Self-Discipline

Intuition

Metaphysical Properties:

• Prevents the draining of personal energy
• Absorbs and transforms negative energy
• Fosters decision making
• Excellent stone for centering and alignment of the total person with a Higher Power.
• Used to end unhappy relationships
• Heighten one’s intuition and instinct
• Helps one to realize material goals
• Helps one become the master of their own future
• Encourages a healthy egotism
• Creates invisibility
• Fortifies self-confidence
• Balances the male and female polarities within each person
• Helps one regain emotional balance
• Anchors and stabilizes one to elevate fears and worries
• Protects against black magic, as well as defends against negativity directed towards the wearer
• Helps banish negativity or people from one’s life
• Provide the wearer with strength, both physical and mental.

Healing Properties:

• Past Life Issues/Old Wounds
• Teeth
• Bones
• Blood Disorders
• Epilepsy
• Skin Ailments
• Cell Damage
• Glaucoma

The Myth:

The myth of the origin of onyx says that the goddess Venus was resting on the banks of the Indus River. As she slept, Cupid used the point of one of his enchanted arrows to give her a manicure. The parings of her nails then fell into the waters of the sacred river. Since the nails were of heavenly origin, they sank to the river bottom and were metamorphosed into onyx.

In Ancient Times:

Onyx is a protective stone worn when facing adversaries in battles of conflicts of all kinds, or while hurrying down a dark street late at night. In classical ceremonial magic, the image of the head of the god Mars or a figure of the hero Hercules was engraved on onyx and carried for courage. Indians and Persians believed that wearing onyx protected them from the evil eye, and that placing onyx on the stomach of a pregnant woman in labor would reduce the labor pain and bring on earlier delivery.

Effects:

Onyx is not only used for protection, but also as defense against negativity consciously directed towards you. It has also been used to reduce uncontrollable sexual impulses. The close union and yet strong contrast between the layers of black and white in some varities of onyx may suggest its connection with romance. In India, Gemologists recommend Onyx as a protective measure for harmonious relationships, thus keeping away any probability of disturbances or differences between the couple. Onyx as a birthstone provides the structure and authority you crave. It can help you be the master of your destiny and strengthen your confidence. It provides support in difficult times and centers your energy in times of mental or physical stress. It also offers the gift of wise decisions.

Mystical Power of Onyx (general):

Throughout history, onyx has been thought to bring powers of protection, defensive magic, and the reduction of sexual desires. It has also been thought to reinforce the knowledge that there is no death, aiding in the understanding of the wheel of birth, death and rebirth. It brings about the knowledge that separation is an illusion and reunion will come. It aids psychic contact with those who have died, facilitates séances and mediumship, brings messages from the dead, and aids past-life and between-lives regression work. It helps future life progressions, and prevents and removes spirit possessions.

Contemporary authors say the onyx brings increased vigor, strength, stamina, and self control. It alleviates worry, tension, and nervousness and eliminates confusion and nightmares. It is used to provide glimpses of that which is ‘beyond’ and activates one’s memory of one’s roots and reality. Medicinal applications include the treatment of bone marrow diseases, teeth, foot, blood and bone problems, and soft tissue disorders. It is also believed to aid in ailments such as epilepsy or glaucoma and is known to have powers to rectify damage done to cells.

Mystical Power of the Black Onyx (specific):

The Black Onyx seems like a gift from the gods to us…  it can help you live a more fulfilling life!

The Onyx is a type of chalcedony that’s part of the quartz family. It was a popular stone for the Greeks. They believed that the Onyx stone came from the fingernails of the Goddess Venus.

It is a powerful stone with plenty of positive attributes. First, it is a grounding and centering stone. It will balance you mentally, spiritually, and emotionally. Second, it is a strengthening stone that will assist you in tasks where you feel challenged and weak. Third, it will ease your fears where they are the strongest. Fourth, it will banish negativity. Fifth, it will rejuvenate you when you have run out of energy. Finally, it will attract positive energy and bring you happiness.

When you wear a Black Onyx Bracelet, it will inspire self-control, confidence, fidelity to your partner. It enhances your meditation and dreams. It will give you confidence in your career, like in interviews and presentations. The Black Onyx will work according to your heart’s desire.

The Black Onyx is also believed to have healing powers and to heal teeth, bones, feet, and blood disorders. Place it on your body and feel the healing take place. Use the Black Onyx to charge water to treat skin ailments like fungal infections and sunburns, and also wounds and rashes. Just pat it on the affected area and use an Onyx water compress at night.

Here’s just some of the benefits you will get, when having the Black Onyx near you:

• Self Control
• Confidence
• Mental strength
• Protection from negativity
• A feeling of being grounded

If you use Hecate’s Eye constantly for chanting, protection and enhancements; or feel that your energies are constantly under attack… then, every week, you should discharge the Onyx by placing it under running water.

If you’ve used it for a long time without doing so, bury it in the earth overnight at least once a month to regenerate its energies (preferably inside a sealed wooden box and on dry days).

To conclude: wearing Hecate's Eye, placing it on your altar, or using it during rituals allows you access to all the benefits that have been mentioned here.

The Black Onyx is one of Nature’s gifts to us, showing us that all we ever need is already here on earth and provided for.

Dragon Blood Jasper is a member of the quartz family (chalcedony). It is a fantastically patterned gemstone with deep red tones of matrix joined with a combination of forest green hues. Dragon Blood Jasper is found only in western Australia. Local legend there says that the stone is the remains of deceased ancient dragons – the green being the skin and the red the blood.

Metaphysical Meaning: Enhances life force; healing; balance, opening of the third eye, explore past lives

Source: Australia

Mohs Hardness Scale: 7

Chakra:  Heart

Source:   Australia

Astrological:   Leo

Healing Qualities:  Enhances Life Force, courage, strength and vitality.

Brings joy to community interactions.  Helps you achieve goals.

Draws money and love to the wearer.

Good for diagnosing illness and preventing illness.

Physical: Good for nerves, bladder, spleen, stomach, kidneys, liver, bile ducts, mineral balance and sense of smell. 

Provides physical heart healing.

Helps bronchitis, backache, cramps, colds, flu, jaundice and Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

Useful during fasting.

Emotional / Spiritual:   Grounds spiritual energy through the heart chakra.

Forms a 3-foot (ca. 1 meter) barrier around the wearer for protection against negative people.

A stone with a strong pattern of physical vitality, capable of bringing more energy into the auric field and the physical self. 

It calls forth the gentle strengths of love, forgiveness, and compassion - the only energies that can tame the inner dragon.

Helps loneliness and keeps your spirits up.

Good for yin/yang balance and the aura.

Robert Simmons writes: "Dragon Stone is a strengthener of the physical and etheric bodies, and it works very well for knitting the two of them together, when illness or other negative conditions have brought one's vitality down. Its influence assists the body in the spiritual purification of the blood, and of the cells. It is a wellspring of prana, and it can help one find one's inner ‘reset,' so that one's body and energy fields regain their resonance with a pattern of health, stability and emotional wellbeing. It works steadily rather than rapidly, like most Jaspers, although the exceptional potency of Dragon Stone makes it one of the most powerful and dynamic of the stones in this family”.

It has been said that the best way of breaking an old habit is to introduce a new one. That is Dragon Stone's special talent. If one has––through being buffeted by life's events, through confusion or fear, or through self-indulgence––fallen into unhealthy, debilitating patterns, Dragon Stone offers a strong, self-affirming template to follow.

Emotionally, Dragon Stones helps one develop self-confidence, a stronger will, an open expression of feeling and affection, a willingness to help others for the greater good, and the persistence required to make real and effective change.

Physically, it seems to aid endurance, and to inspire one to work hard to be well. This includes diet and exercise regimes for getting in shape. It also feels to me that it can aid those who are working to repattern one's cellular habits for regeneration and rejuvenation, all the way down to the DNA. The twisting, snakelike DNA molecule is, after all, something of a Dragon itself!

Spiritually, Dragon Stone can inspire one to place one's self-serving tendencies into service of the well-being of the world. Yet it does not make one into a weak rule-follower. Rather, it encourages fierceness and loyalty to what seems in one's heart to be the Good, and it teaches one to protect and defend that Good with a power and strength one may never have known one even had! A dragon is not a domesticated animal. It is a wild, sentient journeyer among many realms––an excellent ally and a worthy opponent. To carry Dragon Stone is to invite such qualities into oneself.

OBSIDIAN

THE MIRROR

SELF-REFLECTION • PROTECTION • GROWTH

If you find yourself drawn to the Obsidian crystal stone and its intense, mysterious vibes, it could be a sign that you're in need of 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.

Obsidian Meaning

The deep and dark mirror-like surface running along and through these shiny black stones has long hinted at a cabal of concealed metaphysical properties.

In ancient times, tribal elders, the shaman of their time, used the ebony crystals as scrying mirrors, and there was more to come as those tribal elders experienced the darkness drawing attributes of Obsidian.

Obsidian breaks easily, which means the crystals can quickly be made into jewelry. Due to that material trait, the stones have been used as bracelet and necklace accents.

Then, for more practical occasions, the glass was turned into arrowheads, dagger blades, and all manner of sharp-edged cutting tools.

While it’s true the dark volcanic glass was used in many prosaic applications, it’s the mysterious reflective qualities of the vitreous silica that have made it a sought after stone.

The dark, glossy surface endows the crystal with an esoteric quality, a black mirror look that hints at wisdom and promises of exposed truths.

Possess obsidian and expose those inner truths. Expose reality, uncover deeply seated emotions, and dismiss the illusions that cloud a healthy spiritual essence, for this ebony crystal is a powerful soul healer.

But remember, not all newly illuminated secrets are friendly, nor can they always be accepted, at least not at first.

Indeed, the dark glass exposes weaknesses and flaws, imperfections and unpleasant shortcomings, but that’s so that the bearer can overcome these failings and grow.

Having grown spiritually, the negative self fades, it loses control, and new positive virtues are allowed to find room and flourish. Like the clearing of dark, choking weeds, the exposed flaws wilt while positive feelings are rekindled.

Obsidian Properties

Viewed by many as a mirror stone, the black, glossy crystal possesses a talent for revealing difficult truths.

Just as those potentially bitter pills are exposed, the stone alleviates the impact and helps the owner to accept reality, to move forward and to remove the dark influences that could emotionally or spiritually stunt a troubled individual.

With this in mind, obsidian has cathartic properties. It cleanses the soul and scoops out negativity. It’s a crystal of truth, of introspection, of grounding, and of deep spiritual healing.

Kept as a pendant or some other attractive piece of jewelry, the ebony glass continues to work its arcane charm. Wear it as a shield, as a psychic barrier when dark feelings and depressive episodes become intrusive.

Obsidian Healing Properties

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Life is an adventure hard to navigate. People lose track of their goals and can’t remember their core values, so they’re cast adrift in a miasma of never-ending chaos.

Left adrift, unmoored even, a person can’t hope to stay healthy under such soul-crushing conditions.

Physical Healing

Stemming the tide of oppressive darkness, it takes a polished black crystal to restore the light. Physically speaking, that light causes stomach tension to fade as the mental stress crumbles.

The digestive system improves, circulatory health is restored, and muscle tension fades until it’s a long forgotten memory.

As the energy centers in the spiritual form align, the ability to quickly heal physical ailments is simultaneously revived.

Sprained ankles heal faster, bones mend rapidly, colds and viruses end in a fraction of a time they’d normally take, and chronic pains evaporate quickly. In other words, recovery times are happily reduced when Obsidian crystals are nearby.

Obsessive thoughts trouble many people, as do alcohol addictions, drug abuse problems, and gambling issues. Obsidian strengthens the will so the stone owner can give up these system-contaminating influences, plus it aids troubled users through tough substance detoxification programs.

Emotional Healing

Deeply embedded emotional trauma is like a heavy, near unbearable weight. Use the black glass as an emotional spotlight. The truth, harsh as it may be, will set the bearer free so that the true healing work can commence.

Deep healing vibrations reach out from the stone to penetrate a hurt heart. The psyche rallies, the strength to recover is found and accessed, and fear mechanisms are brought under control until a formerly emotionally destructive cycle is broken forever.

Wear obsidian jewelry as a psychic shield. Depression and negativity may whisper psyche undermining messages to the undefended ear, but the black, glossy quartz radiates a vibrating field that defuses the negative energy.

Spiritual Healing

Obsidian illuminates the self. It protects the bearer from chaos, clarifies and stimulates a need for spiritual and intellectual growth, and the stone has a particular gift for clearing confusion.

Strong and focused once more, a once lost life path becomes clear again when these mind-clouding influences evaporate like morning mist.

As spiritual distress recedes, balance is restored. As that balance comes into focus, the spirit is connected more deeply to the physical body, so a grounding feeling flows through the user’s aura.

Subsequently, the stress and negativity flow through the feet of the crystal holder and deep into the ground, where it’s humbled by Gaia.