Rainbow Obsidian

Releases Past Life Karma

➤ By Liz Oakes

Rainbow Obsidian stone is excellent to use in meditation to help you to find and release karma from past lives.

It helps to cleanse and align all of the chakras, and it's energy helps you to break free from the past by severing ties or hooks connecting you to others.  

It has a beneficial energy that is helpful to aid you to release emotional problems from your past that you have been unable to let go of.

The energy of this stone is unusual in that it take you down into the deep dark depths of your being to find your light.

This stone brings light and love to your life and has a protective energy along with a strong spiritual grounding vibration that also aids emotional healing.

With the aid of this stone's vibration you can create a bridge that takes you to the place where the healing of old emotional issues can occur. 

Where Is It Found? Rainbow Obsidian Meaning

Obsidian is a natural volcanic glass, that comes from molten lava.

These stones are sold with the word Rainbow in their name, but many do not have easily seen multicolored iridescence and only a few have full rainbows in them.

All colors and types of Obsidian stones are extrusive igneous rock that is produced when a volcano erupts and the volcanic felsic lava cools quickly.

Obsidian is the result of a volcanic eruption and does not have a crystalline structure as it is natural glass. Raw pieces may have sharp edges, which is why they are commonly tumbled.

Ancient people were said to have created instruments such as surgical scalpels from these stones as they had such a sharp edge.

Many look like they are a black stone at first glance, and even if they can be seen it may be difficult to capture in images unless they are under a strong light.

The colors are likely to be seen more easily in those that have been polished to a high sheen or if held under a bright light.

They are in the family of Sheen Obsidian stone but their color is quite unique. The name of this unusual variety of Obsidian relates to the range of lovely colors that may be seen within these stones.

The range of colors is said to be related to the inclusion of nono-rods of the mineral Hedenbergite, which can cause a beautiful rainbow striped effect within the stones.

This form of obsidian has trace elements included in the volcanic lava and they are also known to contain inclusions of magnetite nanoparticles.

These stones are a popular choice to make jewelry from, but pieces do need to be cut in a special way to show the rainbow effect.

When they are moved in a specific way, and are looked at under bright lights they can show a range of beautiful bright rainbow colors.

Most pieces of this stone that are selling come from Mexico in South America, but they are also said to be found in the Swiss Alps as well as in the Modoc National Forest in California in the United States.

While the stone is known as Rainbow Obsidian, it can be difficult to show the full range of colors that are generally seen in a rainbow.

It is also known as Rainbow Sheen Obsidian and Iris Obsidian and is a great stone to add to your crystal collection.

Who Should Use It? 

Rainbow Obsidian embody great power to use to aid deep soul healing and emotional trauma.

It is a particularly helpful heart chakra stone to bring emotional healing when you are experiencing a broken heart, as it brings an increase of gentle positive energy that aids the emotions.

It is a powerful tool to use to dissolve karma and to sever ties connected to others that are causing you to feel fear, depression or mood swings that may be related to past events.

The energies of Rainbow Obsidian are powerful to aid you to journey within the spiritual realms.

It is a good idea to use them in meditation and is helpful to cleanse and align the chakras.

They resonate within the third eye chakra and are a powerful stone for spiritual growth and to boost psychic abilities.

Why Would You Use It? Grounding & Protection

Rainbow Obsidian is a great cleanser of negative energies and has strong protective energies that are helpful to prevent psychic attacks.

It an excellent grounding stone that resonates within the base or root chakra as well as within the earth star chakra.

Its energy connects your inner self down through the base chakra and makes a strong earth connection.

It also resonates within the solar plexus chakra where it has a good action to increase your personal power.

How Will It Help You? Healing Properties

These beautiful crystals have a number of excellent healing properties including helping you to release any negative energy from the whole body.

They are an excellent healing stone that can help the release of negative emotions that may be causing health problems.

They help the healing of broken bones and bruising and are said to aid the circulatory system.

These unusual stones are said to assist the healing of a number of physical health issues within both the mental and physical body.

It is known as a strong pain relief stone that will help mental stress and mental disorders as well as aiding eating disorders.

How To Use It: Wearing Rainbow Obsidian

Wearing any sort of jewelry made from Rainbow Obsidian crystal is a popular choice.

Wearing it on a regular basis may be highly beneficial and is the best way to keep it within your energy field.

These unique stones have an excellent energy to help with cutting ties connecting your true self to people you've been in a relationship with in the past.

Obsidian jewelry has a good energy to use to release karmic ties and will help to remove cords of old love affairs and toxic friendships.

Keeping a Rainbow Obsidian bracelet or pendant on your body is beneficial for a number of reasons, including to assist healing.

Obtain Obsidian beads such as a black obsidian bracelet that has a mix of the black crystals mixed with the rainbow stone may also be helpful.

My Final Thoughts: Use For Gazing

How To Use Rainbow Obsidian For Gazing: Most Rainbow Obsidian crystals look like they are black at first glance and it is only when you move them around that you catch glimpses of the various colors in the stones.

Hold your stone and move it around to see the colors first, so you can be sure it has the colors within it.

Relax into a state like you are preparing to meditate. Then hold the stone and gaze into it.

Follow a line of color with your eyes, allowing yourself to totally relax as you do this. Then follow another line, and with each color you choose go deeper and deeper.

As you gaze into the stone allow yourself to see any pictures or visions that come forward to get you attention. If a particular color gets your attention, circle around following it and asking for guidance.

As you follow it you may see images that you know intuitively are important to remember. You can close your eyes and then go deep into meditation and ask Spirit or your guides for more information about what you have seen.

In summary: This beautiful stone was first discovered in ancient times and has been used for a long time as it was recognized as a highly protective stone.

In the past it was known to remove negative spiritual influences so was thought to be a stone of powerful good luck.

They are strong grounding stones that can be used to cut karmic ties or hooks to other people from the past, including in past lives.

Other Types Or Forms Of Obsidian

There are a number of different types of obsidian but what they all have in common is that they are a type of volcanic glass.

Each of the varieties of obsidian look either slightly different or in some case a lot different and they have a range of excellent metaphysical properties.

Apache Tears is another type of Black Obsidian. Fire Obsidian, Green Obsidian and Silver Sheen Obsidian are all varieties of Obsidian stone where genuine stone can be hard to obtain.

The beautiful Golden Sheen Obsidian is also called Golden Obsidian and is a dark brown color with a sheen.

Gold Sheen Obsidian needs to be held at the right angle in order to see it clearly. 

Mahogany Obsidian is a reddish brown type with black inclusions.

Snowflake Obsidian is a black and white types that has tiny crystals of cristobalite included in it, in a what is thought of as a snowflake pattern.

The best combination to use with these stones is other members of the same family as all Obsidian stones have a powerful energy to benefit you.

Other types of Obsidian stone that will blend well with Rainbow Obsidian includes Apache Tears which is another type of Black Obsidian, Mahogany Obsidian, Snowflake Obsidian and Silver Sheen Obsidian or Gold Sheen Obsidian. 

Some look a lot different including Spiderweb Obsidian and Platinum Obsidian that have unusual patterns on them. 

Best Crystals To Use With Rainbow Obsidian

What are the best crystals to use with Rainbow Obsidian?

There are a number of stones that have a strong heart chakra energy that will be beneficial to use to help the release of emotional trauma.

Heart based stones that you can combine with these crystals to boost their energy to assist emotional healing includes Rose Quartz, Tsavorite Garnet, Rhodochrosite or Green Diopside.

There are a large number of grounding stones that you might like to combine with this stone to intensify the grounding vibration.

Regular Obsidian crystals or Black Obsidian Stone and Black Tourmaline are both powerful grounding stones and may be combined with other stones that help you to connect to earth.

Crystals such as Fire Agate, Black Jade, Black Onyx and Black Andradite Garnet are all excellent stones to assist grounding.

The energy of these stones may be helpful to assist you when you have painful issues that you can't find relief for.

You may also benefit from using them with other stones for pain relief.

Specific stones that have a vibration that can be helpful includes Black Tourmaline, which is also powerful for grounding, as mentioned above.

In addition Malachite, Blue Calcite or Emerald are excellent for crystal healing stone and blend well with it.

Their lovely heart based energy also assists emotional healing and brings through an abundance of love.

To take their energy up a notch combine them with high vibration crystals or high-energy stones.

This includes Moldavite, Libyan Desert Glass also called Libyan Gold Tektite, Selenite or Herkimer Diamonds.