Sardonyx... Mental Discipline, Focus Happiness, Optimism & Confidence

Sardonyx

Sardonyx is a highly protective stone that embodies a vibration of happiness, optimism and confidence. It helps to boost your self control and your level of personal power.

It has excellent metaphysical properties that encourage motivation, willpower, discipline and strength of character.

This makes it a good stone for anyone studying, or if you work in a job where you require mental disciple to focus on the task at hand.

This stone creates an excellent grounding action through the earth and base chakras... and brings you back to earth after spiritual work.

Where Does It Come From... Sardonyx Meaning

This stone has been found in a large number of locations including Brazil, India, Germany, Uruguay, Russia and USA, but it is said that the best stone comes from India.

This stone is type of banded or striped Chalcedony, and is a mixture of Onyx and Orange Carnelian. It may be clearly banded or have a less defined mix of colors.

Sard stones have been in use since the bronze age... and they are similar to Carnelian except they are a darker orange. Sard stones were named for the ancient Turkish city named Sardis.

The meaning of the name Sardonyx relates to the fact that it is a mixture of Onyx and Sard, a type of Orange Carnelian. Although many people think of Onyx as being black, as the black Onyx stone is so prevalent, Onyx comes in a variety of colors and often in bands.

So while Onyx may be black, it occurs in other colors, including white, purple, gray, brown, red, yellow and blue, and Sardonyx may have any of these colors, plus the orange color of Carnelian within it.

What Is It? Why Would You Use It

This stone is a mixture of Onyx and Carnelian... so it embodies within it the vibrations of these two energies... that meld together to create a new and very helpful stone. If you have been searching for meaning in your life... using this stone may help you to find the answers to your search. Sardonyx has a positive vibration that helps you to attract new friendships and will improve your close relationships.

Because it promotes integrity and virtuous behavior... this may assist you to enhance your marriage or close partnership... especially if either partner is losing interest in remaining faithful. In this is the case, it might you help to put one under your pillow as well as under your partner's. Having it within your aura for a long period each day, will help you to act decisively... and will bolster your willpower and aid you to build character.

It is a good stone to aid the thinking processes... as it has a strong vibration within the crown and third eye chakras. They are helpful when studying to assist you to use and absorb information. They are also helpful for enhancing creativity... and may help writers to write more creatively.

How Will It Help You

Stones that contain White Onyx within them are excellent stones to use to use in meditation. The white onyx within the stone will help you to make contact with the spiritual realms... and yet because they are strong spiritual grounding stones they will help you to remain grounded.

Sardonyx stones with white colored inclusions are known to have a strong vibration within the third eye chakra and the crown chakra.

You may use them to do a psychic meditation... when they may stimulate within you the gift of psychic visions.

They are also excellent healing stones...and are very helpful if you have allergies and need to strengthen your immune system.

They are known to aid the prevention of bronchitis and other respiratory infections... as they will help to heal the lungs. They are also helpful stones to aid back problems and may help to heal the bones... and may assist you to regulate the flow of fluid in the body.

If you have been suffering from grief, sadness or are stressed by life circumstances, using Sardonyx is one of the ways to relieve stress so they may help you to let go of stress, and aid anxiety and depression.

How To Use It ... Wearing Sardonyx

This stone was said to have been used as a talisman in Ancient Egypt for protection against evil... as it has a strong level of psychic protection energy. It was believed that the presence of Sardonyx created a decrease of crime in its vicinity.

One of the ways it was used in ancient times... that is still known to be particularly useful was to grid homes... and you can do this quite easily.

You can choose to grid your whole home or you can just do one room. Simply place a stone in each corner of your home or of the room.

You may also like to place one near the windows or doors to strengthen the protective energies... but it takes a while for the energy of this stone to work at its highest level.

Sardonyx jewelry is easy to buy... so it is a good idea if you wish to fully benefit from the energy of Sardonyx to keep a piece of this stone on you all the time.

Their energy will help you to have the courage to deal with problems as they occur, as well as being very protective. It is on the birthstone list as it is an August birthstone, and it's on the zodiac birthstones list as well.

As it is a Virgo birthstone and a Leo birthstone you may find that you may be able to buy jewelry made from this stone. It may be helpful to wear it if you wish to benefit from the variety of different attributes that its energy stimulates.

Combining It With Other Stones

This stone combines well with both Onyx and Carnelian stones, to strengthen their attributes. They combine well with sacral chakra stones to enhance your creativity... and they work particularly well with Anyolite, Zincite, Chrysanthemum Stone, Cinnabar, Sunstones and Dravite aka Brown Tourmaline.

If you use them with Yellow Apatite or Sunstones this will bolster your mental clarity as well. It is a strong psychic protection stone.. and it may be helpful to use it with any of the high crystal energy stones when doing spiritual journeys.

They can help to prevent problems caused by visits to the higher realms and at the same time may reinforce the action of the other stones.

Combined with Fire Agate they are powerful to aid protection. They can be combined with any stones that aid psychic visions and are excellent used to do a crystal meditation... as they have a good level of spiritual grounding.

In Summary

Sardonyx has a very protective vibration and will create a strong grounding action through the earth and base chakras, to return you energetically back to earth after spiritual work. This is a helpful stone to improve your self control, and it embodies an energy of happiness, optimism and confidence.

It supports discipline, willpower, motivation and strength of character. This makes it a good stone for anyone studying, or if you work in a job where you require mental disciple to focus on the task at hand.