Black Tourmaline or Schorl
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The excellent energetic conductivity of its striated crystalline structure makes this stone a formidable healing tool, particularly for channeling energies and stimulating meridians. Tourmaline is like a multitude of superimposed "magic wands".

What are the benefits and significance of black tourmaline?

Black Tourmaline is often considered indispensable in lithotherapy because, in addition to its high conductivity, it is a very effective anchoring and protective stone.

Thanks to the telluric energies it channels and amplifies, Black Tourmaline is perfect for improving your anchoring, rooting and connection to the Earth. This anchoring, in the form of re-established contact with the Earth, is the best protection of all. Because when intuition is connected to wisdom, it's obvious that you no longer have to take on what doesn't belong to you. Negative influences, whether from outside or from the past, no longer have a natural hold on you.

Having solid roots also means being able to grow vertically, in perfect alignment. This stability allows you to embody yourself fully, unfolding in the physical world without life's difficulties and negative influences getting in the way of your plans.

If you have dark thoughts, if you're stressed, vulnerable, ultra-sensitive, easily irritated, if you feel burdened or like you're being "vampirized", feeling obliged to be around people who take your energy; if you scatter easily or feel like you're out of touch with your body, then Black Tourmaline can be a great help.

Another well-known use of black tourmaline in lithotherapy is to protect against electromagnetic waves, magnetic fields and electric fields: Wi-Fi, DECT or Bluetooth transmitters, babyphones, cell phones, base stations, electrical appliances, lamps, transformers, etc. Here too, it acts as a grounding agent and becomes an ally for electrosensitive people. Here too, it acts as a grounding device and becomes the ally of electrosensitive people.

What are the "magical properties" of black tourmaline?

It was already used in the Middle Ages for its magical properties, to protect against evil spells or to practice magic without being influenced by energies from the lower astral.

An auxiliary for all those working in the energy field (therapists, geobiologists, mediums, etc.), Black Tourmaline helps to maintain the anchoring and alignment essential to these practices and complements the use of other stones wonderfully.

How to use black tourmaline

Carry a Tourmaline with you whenever you're in a place charged with negative energies or electro-smog. If you go to a shopping mall with a black Tourmaline, you'll find it easier to avoid compulsive shopping.

If you're naturally airy and easily scattered, or if you feel that energy doesn't flow well in the lower part of your body, you can place a small Tourmaline in each of your socks.

Taking a Tourmaline with you after a shamanic journey, meditation or energy treatment allows you to return to the here and now and fully reintegrate your physical body.

If you feel that energy flows less well in certain parts of your body, place raw Tourmalines directly on your skin in the direction of the meridians to reactivate and energize the energy flows.

Combine it with the Rock Crystal to amplify its energies. You can also place a black Tourmaline under your feet and a Rock Crystal above your head to improve the circulation of energies in your body; or, in addition, place a Rose Quartz or Rhodochrosite over your heart.

Where to place a black tourmaline?

Widely used in geobiology to neutralize negative energies of all kinds, black tourmaline is an effective protection for your home.

Place it on your Wi-Fi transmitter, electrical panel, computer tower or printer to protect you from electromagnetic waves and harmful electrical fields.

In the living room, it is ideal in lithotherapy to avoid an overly electric climate when there is tension among those present.

To protect your home from negative energies of all kinds (black magic, thought forms, entities, wall memory, electromagnetism, etc.) and telluric disturbances (faults, negative telluric networks, soil memory, etc.), place a block of Black Tourmaline in the 4 corners of your home on each floor and one at the entrance, or directly on the geobiological disturbance. You can combine it with Pink Quartz for an energy of Love, with Rock Crystal to amplify the effect of the Tourmaline, with Tiger's Eye to create a powerful protective shield, or with Red Jasper to improve the anchoring of your home.

If you have disturbed sleep or chronic illnesses, place a block of Tourmaline under your bed, or 4 blocks at each corner of your bed.

If your children are afraid of ghosts in their rooms, burn sage (preferably throughout the house) and place a black Tourmaline in their room.

Mineralogy of black tourmaline

Black Tourmaline, also known as Schorl, is the most widespread Tourmaline variety in the world and on the market. With its opaque and deep-black color, it is the only variety that does not exhibit transparency or color variation.

Black tourmaline is a borosilicate of the cyclosilicate class, formed mainly in magma and composed of oxygen, iron, silica, aluminum, boron, sodium and hydrogen. It forms in igneous and metamorphic rocks, under extreme geological conditions of high temperature and pressure. Its black color is explained by the presence of iron and manganese impurities in its crystalline structure.

With its rhombohedral crystal system, it forms elongated, rod-shaped crystals of variable thickness and with fissures and striations, often with asymmetrical, sometimes flat, terminations.

The main black tourmaline deposits are found in Madagascar, Brazil, many African countries, Afghanistan, Burma, Australia and Russia.
They are also found in Switzerland, France and Austria.

Did you know?

Tourmalines become electrically polarized under pressure or shock, generating energy. This phenomenon is known as piezoelectricity.

Another phenomenon characterizes this mineral: pyroelectricity causes its electrical charge to vary when heated. So, if the tip of a Tourmaline is heated, a positive charge is created that will attract fine particles such as dust or ashes.

When first imported, it was nicknamed the "Ceylon magnet" and was used by Dutch sailors to clean their pipes.

Tourmaline is used in some hair straighteners to eliminate static electricity.

The history of black tourmaline

Tourmaline's name comes from the Sinhalese wordToramalli, meaning stone of different colors.

It was discovered in Europe by Dutch traders in the 17th century, but had already been used in various cultures for thousands of years for its metaphysical virtues and to protect against evil spells.

Its alternative name, Schorl or Schorlite, comes from the medieval mining industry in Germany, where it was used for various black stones. Its meaning is "impure, useless", because when black Tourmaline, fibrous Actinolite or Disthene, for example, was present in certain ores, it made them more fragile and more difficult to work.

In Art and Jewellery, it is the coloured Tourmalines that have been most appreciated throughout history. But all Tourmalines are linked to a rich mythology. For example, discover the benefits of pink tourmaline in lithotherapy.

Today, black tourmaline is renowned for its use in lithotherapy - and above all for its protective and anchoring properties.