Black obsidian baoding balls on a bamboo display stand

Black Obsidian Baoding Balls

Obsidian is most often found in its glossy jet black form, although there are many varieties of this popular and powerful stone. It is also referred to as volcano glass as it is formed from molten lava in the last stages of a volcanic eruption.

Metaphysical Applications of Back Obsidian
Obsidian has many metaphysical properties that can prove useful in your everyday life, as well as shamanic and ritual applications. It is considered to be a very personal stone and it is best to buy and use your own stone as it will very quickly absorb your unique vibration and energetic blueprint. It is a great rescue remedy for shock and trauma and will ground you very effectively if placed between the feet during times of turmoil.

It is a powerful stone of protection against the intrusions of others into your energy field. If you are a sensitive soul and prone to absorb the problems and stresses of others to your own detriment, wear a necklace of other form of obsidian jewelry to protect and shield you when you feel vulnerable to this kind of influence. If you are experiencing bullying of any kind keep obsidian with you, preferably on show, until the unwanted behavior stops.

Nothing is hidden from Obsidian, so be wary of you are not yet ready to address your own shadow side! It is the talisman of those who dare to truly see into the heart of things and will facilitate any ritual or exercise concerned with revealing your issues or demons. It helps to clear energetic blockages and to bring everything out into the light so that it can be transmuted and healed.

Obsidian has long been prized by shamans and wise women in all cultures, and it can be brutal in its effect. However, this quality also makes it an excellent stone for achieving catharsis and deep soul healing.

It will block geopathic stress and is an excellent stone for soaking up environmental pollution, making it a favorite talisman for eco warriors and environmental activists.

Feng Shui and Black Obsidian
Even though Obsidian is born of fire in the heart of the volcano, it utilizes water energy in feng shui terms. This is the energy of purification, stillness and quiet strength. It is also the energy of the will and of ceaseless drive. The water element embodies the energy of the circle of life and the power of regeneration.

Water is associated with the north area of the home, so place Obsidian in the north to attract the vibrations of repose, reflection, meditation and prayer. The north corner is associated with career and life path and the flowing energy of Obsidian ensures balance and harmony as your life and work unfold and move forward.

Using Black Obsidian to Enhance Spiritual Awareness
Obsidian draws you inward spiritually, to the place of truth at the center of your being. It is a stone of integrity and deep soul cleansing and will stimulate the integration of the body with mind and spirit. It is excellent for removing blockages and detritus from past lives and past experiences in this life. It will activate any unknown abilities you may be holding in your etheric body, and is also highly effective for expanding the consciousness during meditation.

All forms of the stone stimulate the healing of the emotions and will help you if you feel you have lost your power to another. If your spirit has been wounded Obsidian will mend the tears or rifts that cause distress arising from a loss of connection with both the Higher realms and one’s own soul.

It is the best stone of all for connecting with the Spirit of the Earth, Mother Gaia. It strengthens and supports the base chakra and forms a bridge between this center and the earth star chakra which lies beneath the feet. The earth star holds the soul into incarnation and creates a strong connection to the planet, acting as a conduit for the egress of all excess and imbalanced energies so that they flow out of the body and into the earth for transmutation.

Healing with Back Obsidian
Physically, Obsidian is thought to relieve tension in the muscles of the upper back, spine and neck. It helps to combat stress, improves circulation and arterial blood flow in particular. It enhances the immune system, accelerates the healing of wounds, aids digestion and promotes strength in both the physical body and the mind or emotions.

Tiger iron baoding balls on a bamboo display stand

Tiger Iron Baoding Balls

Tiger Iron is a stone of good luck, abundance and great fortune. Not just in your finances, but also in your career prospects and your relationships with others. It is a useful talisman to wear or carry when entering into any form of negotiation. It will help to overcome feelings of nervousness before sitting an exam or presenting your ideas in an important meeting. 

Metaphysical Applications of Tiger Iron

In the metaphysical arena, Tiger Iron is considered to be a stone of great power and protection. It has a strong vibration and is one of the best stones for sharpening perception and aiding in decision making. It boosts your own power and helps to overcome feelings of self-doubt or inadequacy. It is a stone of practicality and balance and for this reason is much prized for its ability to bring harmony where there are differences of opinion or religious beliefs. 

Tiger Iron warns us against complacency, and as it has such a dynamic resonance it encourages us to drive our ideas forward, to think laterally and ambitiously and to persevere in bringing our visions to fruition. 

Tiger Iron will also help us to overcome challenges in our personal lives, such as making radical lifestyle changes. If you are determined to kick a harmful habit, or to turn your whole lifestyle around by embracing a new way of eating, exercising or behaving, tiger Iron will feed your strength and will and bring positive energies into your etheric body to help you on your way. 

Feng Shui and Tiger Iron 

Tiger Iron is closely aligned to the fire element in feng shui terms and utilizes the energies of enthusiasm, warmth, action, brightness and illumination. For this reason it is a good stone to place in the south of your home or room where it will enhance your standing in the eyes of both family and community. It is allied to the concepts of fame and reputation as well as the dynamics of successful sexual relationships.  

Using Tiger Iron to Enhance Spiritual Awareness

In spiritual terms, Tiger Iron grounds the energy of the sun into the earth and brings dynamism and action to the user. It also grounds solar energy into the body by stimulating the lower chakras. The base chakra, the color of which is red, is responsible for protecting us materially and helping us to feel safe and secure in our physical needs. The sacral chakra, with its orange hue, is responsible for our sexuality, among other things, and governs the reproductive organs and the genito-urinary tract. Tiger Iron therefore brings confidence and alleviates misplaced feelings of shame in our attitudes towards sexual activity. The solar plexus, with its sunshine yellow color, is the powerhouse of the chakra system and, when in balance spiritually, allows the Chi or universal energy to flow freely through all of our bodily systems, both physical and etheric. 

Tiger Iron will cleanse and balance these three lower chakras if used with intent during a meditation or healing session. It will also allow us to open up channels of communication to the fire elementals, the archangel Michael, who wields a fiery sword for our protection, and with your own solar angel.

Tiger Iron will help to harness the mighty power of the sun itself if you wish to draw it down into your body and mind. 

Healing With Tiger Iron 

Tiger Iron increases vitality and strength in the physical body and restores balance to the body on all levels. It is a fortifier of the blood, and can be useful in treating anemia. It is thought to boost the endocrine system and to have a beneficial effect on our hormones and biochemistry. It protects and strengthens the reproductive organs and systems in both males and females and may aid in fertility problems in either sex.  

As tiger Iron holds the energy of the sun it can be very useful in treating SAD (seasonally affected disorder) and may help to lift the spirits of those suffering from depression. It is reputed to relieve asthma attacks and to help in balancing blood pressure. Energetically, its applications include brain function balancing and cleansing, clearing and balancing the solar plexus. As we hold many tensions and emotions in this area, often referred to as the gut, placing tiger iron on the solar plexus alleviates feelings of anxiety and helps to release tightness arising through fear or nervousness.  

Sodalite baoding balls on a display stand

Sodalite Baoding Balls

Sodalite is the stone of writers and poets and is known for its ability to enhance creativity, especially with words, and to ease clear communication. It is also known as the Stone of Truth. It makes an excellent stone for those involved in research or scholarly activity as well as those who write for a living. Sodalite also has a reputation for shielding your psychic field from others who may wish to steal your ideas or creations.

Metaphysical Applications of Sodalite

As a Stone of Truth, Sodalite enables the conscious and the unconscious mind to form a connection leading to a much deeper level of self-knowledge. Truths that may have become hidden from ourselves, particularly uncomfortable or undesirable truths, are brought forward into the light so that we can examine our shadow side and begin to transmute it. It also supports us in doing this without shame or judgement. Sodalite disperses angry and negative feelings, especially those directed at the self, and empowers us to release phobias, feelings of guilt and any tendencies we have towards rigid, controlling behaviors.

Sodalite is an ideal stone for those who are defensive, impulsive or subject to anxiety and panic attacks. It helps to stabilize the mind and facilitate a move from emotional to rational responses when this is needed. It makes a good palm stone to encourage calm behavior and when placed on the Third Eye it amplifies intellectual understanding and clearer perspectives.
It is an excellent stone for women because its energies and vibrations are aligned with the Divine Feminine. It has been known to assist with hormonal imbalances associated with menopause, and may increase fertility in those of childbearing age.

Place Sodalite on or near electronic devices such as computers to block their negative emanations and to help clear the smog of electromagnetic pollution that causes “sick building” syndrome.

Feng Shui and Sodalite

Sodalite is aligned with Water Energy in Chinese Five Element Theory, and brings the qualities of stillness, tranquility and quiet strength to the areas in which it is placed. Water is yielding and formless, yet also persistent and powerful. These qualities ensure that your career and life flows constantly forward in balance and harmony. Place Sodalite in the north area of your home or workplace to prevent stagnation of thought or action.

Using Sodalite to Enhance Spiritual Awareness

Sodalite is useful for enhancing the deep thinking aspect of developing your spirituality. In spiritual matters it is important to maintain a balance between intuition and “blind faith” and the more analytical, intellectual aspect of your practice. Sodalite has the extraordinary ability to unite logic with intuition and proves to be an effective guide on Shamanic journeys or travel on the astral planes.

Sodalite presents ideas calmly, often through symbolic imagery, and stimulates thought and creative interpretation of ideas arising from the subconscious.
It has a natural affinity with the Third Eye Chakra, so you may it useful to employ Sodalite as an aid to developing clairvision, clairaudience, claircognizance and clairsentience. It is particularly helpful to Tarot readers, astrologers and numerologists.

Healing with Sodalite

Sodalite can be used effectively to treat the symptoms of menopause and PMS, to reduce fevers and inflammation of the organs such as sinuses and vocal chords and to enhance the body’s ability to absorb calcium from foods.

It is also a purifier of the lymphatic system and organs.

Rose quartz baoding balls on a display stand

Rose Quartz Baoding Balls

Rose quartz is the stone of love. Its delicate pink hues are delightful to look at as to wear as jewelry and its vibration is that of universal, unconditional love, making it a reassuring and comforting crystal. Rose quartz restores harmony and trust in relationships. It helps the wearer to promote self-love and to release feelings of unworthiness or self-criticism.

Metaphysical Applications of Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz dispels negativity and is a good protective stone to use in the workplace, especially if you are exposed to artificial light and to computers and other technological devices. It is a mothering crystal, meaning that it has a very nurturing vibration that brings comfort and reassurance to new mothers, babies and to anyone who has lost their own mother. It can be used to strengthen the bonds of love between mother and baby. 

Rose Quartz is the stone to use if you wish to enhance your enjoyment of the sensual aspect of your relationship as it is a powerful aphrodisiac and promotes feelings of love, connection and pleasure in the physical aspects of adult relationships.  Rose Quartz will also be of benefit to you if you wish to heal your heart following the ending of a relationship. Its gentle, yet powerful, vibration of universal love brings comfort and hope to anyone who is feeling betrayed or abandoned. It will help to re-establish trust if this is an issue for you and will also comfort and support you if you decide that you need to end a relationship for the highest good of all involved. 

Rose quartz is excellent for use in a crisis or following trauma of any kind. It amplifies the vibrations of compassion and empathy and also aids in the acceptance of necessary change. If you are sensitive to the negative vibrations of others you will find that rose quartz provides protection against unwanted intrusions of others into your energy field.  

Feng Shui and Rose Quartz

The relationship corner of your house is in the southwest and it is especially beneficial to place rose quartz in this area. If you wish to attract love into your home place twin pieces of rose quartz on a small altar or shrine in the southwest part of the house. 

Rose Quartz is aligned with, and utilizes a subdued fire energy in terms of feng shui. Fire energy is the energy of passion, enthusiasm, brightness, warmth, activity and illumination. Bringing all of these attributes into your home, or your workplace will enhance your life in very positive ways. Rose quartz in the bedroom stimulates sensuality and passion. 

Using Rose Quartz to Enhance Spiritual Awareness

Spiritually, rose quartz is an excellent stone to use to help you establish a connection with the divine. It is the crystal associated with the heart chakra and with the archangel Chamuel, angel of divine love. It is feminine in tone, and has a natural affinity with Gaia, the Earth Mother, so it will aid in any work you may be doing to connect to the planet for your own healing and for the healing of the earth. 

The vibrations of rose quartz can penetrate down to the cellular level so it is very beneficial for reprogramming cells for joy and health. The qualities of rose quartz is powerful enough to dissolve anger and resentment, fear and suspicion, as long as you set the intention to do so. It will help to restore faith in the benevolence of the universe and will help to restore and strengthen a wavering faith or a tendency towards despair. 

Healing with Rose Quartz

Rose quartz, unsurprisingly, is very beneficial for the heart and circulatory system. It can hasten recovery from illness, help to balance blood pressure, and aid in the alleviation of breathing problems. It aids in the alleviation of tension and stress and also in the treatment of irregular heart beat or palpitations. It is often used to clear impurities from the cells of the body and in supporting the function of the kidneys and adrenals. 

Rose quartz is a good stone to turn to if you are trying to conceive a child as it is believed to have the power to increase fertility. It is particularly supportive of the female reproductive organs. 

Other uses for rose quartz include rubbing a polished stone on the skin to soothe burns and mixing into an elixir with oil and water to form a treatment for clearing the skin and promoting a soft complexion. 

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