Healing stones
Posted by Judy on Monday, February 7, 2011
Apache Tears, also known as Black Obsidian are said to bring good luck to those who possess them. Black Obsidian is a powerful meditation stone. The purpose of this stone is to bring to light that which is hidden from the concious mind. It is used at the root chakra for grounding and protection. Eases and releases pain, loss, sadness, anger and to help heal and go on with ones life. A stone for looking within and finding protection and purpose. Gently grounds and unblocks lower body and endocrine glands. Helps healing.
The haunting legend of the Apache tear is about the Pinal Apaches who had made several raids on a settlement in Arizona. The military had trailed the tracks of the stolen cattle and waited until dawn to attack the Apaches. The Apaches confident in the safety of their location were taken by surprise and were out-numbered in the attack. Nearly 50 of the band of 75 Apaches were killed. The rest of the tribe retreated to the cliffs edge and chose death by leaping over the edge rather than to die at the hands of the white men. For years afterward, those who ventured up the treacherous face of the Big Pacacho in Arizona, found skeletons or bleached bones wedged in the crevices on the side of the cliff.
The Apache women and the lovers of those who had died, gathered a short distance from the base where the sands were white, and for a moon, they wept for their dead. They mourned greatly for they realized that not only had they lost their warriors, they lost the great fighting spirit of the Pinal Apaches.
Their sadness so great and their burden of sorrow so sincere, that the Great Father embedded into these black stones, the tears of these Apache women who mourned their dead. These Black Obsidian stones when held to the light , reveal the translucent tear of the Apache.
The haunting legend of the Apache tear is about the Pinal Apaches who had made several raids on a settlement in Arizona. The military had trailed the tracks of the stolen cattle and waited until dawn to attack the Apaches. The Apaches confident in the safety of their location were taken by surprise and were out-numbered in the attack. Nearly 50 of the band of 75 Apaches were killed. The rest of the tribe retreated to the cliffs edge and chose death by leaping over the edge rather than to die at the hands of the white men. For years afterward, those who ventured up the treacherous face of the Big Pacacho in Arizona, found skeletons or bleached bones wedged in the crevices on the side of the cliff.
The Apache women and the lovers of those who had died, gathered a short distance from the base where the sands were white, and for a moon, they wept for their dead. They mourned greatly for they realized that not only had they lost their warriors, they lost the great fighting spirit of the Pinal Apaches.
Their sadness so great and their burden of sorrow so sincere, that the Great Father embedded into these black stones, the tears of these Apache women who mourned their dead. These Black Obsidian stones when held to the light , reveal the translucent tear of the Apache.
