Rambling through my notes I’ve found something
that made me so ashamed of my poor management when I’ve found this gem I had to
be added just with Topaz and Onyx and Pearl. And Diamond. And Steel. Somehow I
had it completely forgotten, but then again those days I didn’t really have my
thoughts really straight.
Obsidian means the beauty of space: galaxies,
nebulae, quasars, pulsars, spinning planets and blazing stars. It’s the passion
of astrophysics and space exploration. It’s seeing the moonrise over the
horizon with the amateur telescope my godfather once gave me, looking for all
its craters in its waning horizon. It’s the celestial search for planets, and
weighing realization that the bodies in the skies are insanely huge balls
floating around the black ether.
It’s related to Chrysoberyl when the moon rises
in the sky before nightfall, and Lazulite as magical and wondrous the universe
seems to be when I see the Milky Way poured across the sky. This gem is about
night skies when there’s the cold breeze and countless dots blinking scattered
over the dark blue velvet. It makes me think of summer nights staying awake
until late, lying on grass and thinking about all the dimension of the universe
and searching for solar system planets to be the lone remnants when the sunrise
approaches.
The importance of Obsidian is in making for the
perception of the world a little broader. After all, one thing is to watch the
sky and the stars, and it’s something else to see the stars while fully
realizing they’re distant giant bodies glowing. The experience of Obsidian is
not accessible from anywhere, but once it can be felt it is a very enthralling
experience.
As a last note, Obsidian has become such a
chaotic droplet to gems as I’m finding it to disturb my choice of using Opal
(and I’m afraid of this crack being the beginning of some downfall ignited by a snowball of
interdependent vertices). Maybe I should change meaning with Opal, as Opal
would represent constellations and nebula clouds better, mainly because
obsidian rocks couldn’t be more earthly in its volcanic origins (but chosen
because it sounds otherworldly). I’ll
give it a try without obligation. If in a month it works, Opal will become the
celestial and astronomical, while Obsidian will represent the broken and…
burned…
