BLACK OBSIDIAN STONE RING HOW TO

If you’re looking at a rough natural piece as in my above photo (where I’m comparing all of these black stones), you’ll notice that obsidian usually has a conchoidal fracture: a geeky-geo-term for a curved break off point when the obsidian gets chipped away.Ĭan you see that conchoidal fracture in the below pic? So your clue here is that all obsidian (not just the black variety) will be very smooth, shiny and glassy-looking. Obsidian, another non-mineral, is a volcanic glass born literally of forceful fiery energy.īirthed in a volcanic eruption when molten lava spews up from a volcano, obsidian flies out and then cools quickly once it touches the cooler land or much cooler water, sometimes forming teeny bubbles within…and cooling much too quickly for its atoms to arrange themselves in the necessary crystalline atomic structure to qualify as a mineral. Another tell-tale clue is that jet can look a bit dark-silvery-metallic (sort of like dark hematite).Įnergetically, jet is known to be safely grounding + purifying while also being protective…in a gentle, non-forceful way. It almost feels like plastic, it’s so light.Īlthough it’s usually pretty dull in its raw form, it can be polished up to a high luster and be quite shiny (as you can see in my above picture where its shown compared to other black stones). Pick it up and compare its weight in your hands. Raw Jet – By Geni (Photo by user:geni), via Wikimedia CommonsUnder a microscope, you can see the old tree’s cell walls! Pretty cool.īecause of this cell-wall kind of structure, it’s very lightweight and that’s one of your clues when comparing it to their black stones.

It’s considered to be coal and forms when pieces of wood from a tree get buried in sediment and get “coalified.” This process took place a looooong time ago we’re talking literal Jurassic Period here. So it’s organic and not a mineral at all. Why? Because it originates from a once-living thing a tree. Jet is not a crystal/mineral…it lacks a crystalline structure. The non-minerals, although usually lumped in with the rest of the crystals, are not technically minerals because they don’t have one very important aspect that all minerals must have: a crystalline atomic matrix, a repeating geometric pattern among their atoms. I’ve divided the stones into 2 sub-groups of “non-mineral” & “mineral.” Now let’s get into the subtle differences… I’m going to focus on the 5 most common ones:Īs most black stones usually are, all 5 of these are considered to generally be energetically grounding, protective and usually resonating well with either the Earth Star Chakra or Root Chakra.

There are several common ones that all polish up pretty shiny, making it almost impossible to tell them apart both physically and sometimes even energetically.īut there are slight differences and I’m going to tell you what to look for right here.

BLACK OBSIDIAN STONE RING HOW TO

How to tell the difference between our many shiny black tumbled stones. A common question I get from my students in my Certified Crystal Practitioner Course is:

Black obsidian stone ring