Snowflake Obsidian is usually black in color, with white patches called Phenocryst. It resembles snowflakes, hence the name. Snowflake Obsidian is formed when the felsic lava from a volcano rapidly cools down with very minimum crystal growth.
Obsidian's high silica content makes the lava it forms from highly viscous, or thick. It also has a low water content, since as the magma reaches the surface, most of the water evaporates as steam. The lava therefore moves quite slowly.
The composition of obsidian can change over time, just as any type of rock changes over time, moving through different phases of the rock cycle. This stone helps connect us deeply to the earth and contains our mind from wandering endlessly. This variety of Obsidian helps keep us focused and determined on the task at hand, while eliminating that inner procrastination that constantly distracts us from getting our work done. If your someone who is working on trying to break a bad habit, Snowflake Obsidian can drastically help you.
This stone will first work to purify and strengthen your mind, trying to eliminate whatever patterns of bad habits it can. This Obsidian variety will show you first hand that if you are not constantly thinking about it or allowing this bad vice to consume your mind, then you are strong enough to look past it.
By purifying your mind and allowing it to stay focused and grounded, anything then becomes possible. Anyone who is still having problems breaking bad habits or addictions, The Council recommends using Amethyst in association with Snowflake Obsidian. Working with both these stones or even carrying them with you daily will help reduce the chance that you follow in your old footsteps. Both these stones strengthen and purify the mind, which heavily reduces the risk of sudden urges that would make you relapse into these habits again.
Both these stones are major influences in self-expansion and restriction. Obsidian forms when lava cools quickly. When lava cools more slowly, crystals begin to form, giving the rock a more textured appearance. Snowflake obsidian can form underground, in cracks that the magma seeps into, or above ground in slow-moving, silica-rich lava flows. Obsidian's high silica content makes the lava it forms from highly viscous, or thick. It also has a low water content, since as the magma reaches the surface, most of the water evaporates as steam.
The lava therefore moves quite slowly. The composition of obsidian can change over time, just as any type of rock changes over time, moving through different phases of the rock cycle.
Over a long period of time, it changes into true rock. In this process, called devitrification, the silica molecules rearrange themselves into crystal patterns, as geologist Jim Miller of Oregon State University explains.
As quartz crystals form, they can have the appearance of snowflakes, and the rock becomes known as snowflake obsidian. At this point, the formation of the crystals has caused it to lose its glassiness.
Obsidian has been used in many societies in making tools, but because snowflake obsidian is a true rock rather than a glass, it does not have the same smooth, sharp edge when it breaks. It is therefore less useful as a tool than obsidian itself. However, people sometimes use snowflake obsidian in metaphysical healing practices.
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