Snowflake obsidian (cloudy, starry or flaky)

What does it mean?

Obsidian Snowflake symbolizes the union of opposites, the balance between feminine and masculine polarities, between light and shadow, the spiritual world and the material world.

What are its benefits?

When you've lost faith and hope, when you see everything in black, when nothing seems to go the way you want it to, when your mind is cluttered with invasive negative thoughts making you believe that "everything's screwed up", that "your life's a mess", Snowflake Obsidian can help you, little by little, to see things in a different light and to accept that there's something positive and luminous even when everything seems to be going wrong.

It teaches you that all is not either black or white, a stone of truth that encourages you to see things as they are and not as your fears, limiting beliefs and wounded misperceptions show them to you.

Obsidian Snowflake in mineralogy, composition, formation and particularities

Obsidian is an amorphous (non-crystalline) volcanic rock. It forms when lava cools rapidly and solidifies without having had time to crystallize.
It is composed mainly of silicon dioxide and various other elements, mainly oxides of aluminum, iron, calcium, potassium, magnesium and sodium.

The "snowflake" variety features white patterns of feldspar aggregates and reminiscent of flowers or snowflakes. This is due to the process of "devitrification" (slow formation of crystalline structure due to the migration of ions in the rock) that took place during its formation.