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Quick Healing Overview: Onyx grounds and stabilizes the emotional body, bringing strength in difficult or confusing circumstances and during times of tremendous mental or physical stress. It calms nervousness, quells anxiety and fear, soothes tempers, and restores rational thinking and self-control. It emanates the energy of self-mastery, imparting self-confidence, focus, ease in one’s surroundings, and the gift of wise decision-making. It lets flighty personalities move into a more stable way of life and helps one explore new ideas, as well as to carry out even dreary tasks to completion.

Birthstone & Zodiac Uses: Sardonyx is a historical birthstone for July and an alternative traditional birthstone for August, along with Peridot. Onyx and Sardonyx are not natural birthstones. Onyx is the traditional zodiac stone for those born under the sign of Leo, the middle of summer, from July 23 to August 22.

Uses in Meditation: Onyx is an excellent aid for grounding and centering during meditation and for connecting with Higher powers. It may be used to cleanse the mind in order to be more receptive to intuitive guidance and provides a grounding influence when working with high-energy stones that produce extraordinary visions and insights but may over-activate one’s energy field.

For Chakra Balancing: The black and reddish-brown hues of Onyx and Sardonyx stimulate the Earthstar and Base Chakras.

Crystal Color Energy: Black Onyx deepens our connection to the physical, natural world. It brings power and strength, relieving fears specifically associated with the physical existence here on Earth. Black Onyx offers protection and a retreat, the safety of being hidden from your enemies.

Associated Goddesses: Onyx honors Hecate, the Thracian Goddess of Wisdom, Crossroads, and Ghosts; Bean Sidhe, the Irish Fairy of Mourning; Manat, the Arabian Goddess of Time, Destiny, and Death; Cybele, the Roman Earth Mother and Goddess of Wild Animals; and Themis, the Greek Goddess of Justice and Order.

Feng Shui Uses: Onyx utilizes Water energy, the energy of stillness, quiet strength, and purification. It embodies potentialities unrealized. It is yielding, formless, yet powerful. The Water element brings the power of regeneration and rebirth and is the energy of the circle of life.

Uses in Divination: The Divinatory meaning of Onyx: Happiness and good fortune are around the corner.

Talisman Energy: Both Onyx and Sardonyx are Seeker Transformer crystals. Seekers contain a crystal energy structure that aligns the natural energy of the crystal to the natural power of the human mind in finding the way to new horizons and new capabilities. Transformer crystals enhance efforts to change our situations, prospects, health, outlook, or relationships. By transforming ourselves, we transform our lives.