Onyx


Element of Fire.

Onyx - is agate with plane-parallel layers of different colors, usually white and black or dark gray. The name comes from the Greek swollen (onychos) - nail. Onyx marble - rock wandering origin, consisting of calcite or aragonite, dense fine-grained or coarse-grained, often with a layered or radiating structure.

It should be borne in mind that the so-called onyx marble onyx no relation to the present has not, except for layering.

Onyx is very close to the agate stone from their families. This "stone fighters", makes it possible to concentrate the energy of. It makes a man self-confident, gives you the opportunity to push something, to defend its interests with persistence. This people stone rigorous, purposeful, it will provide them binding on the achieved positions. The strength of the "viscous, but firmly pressing."

Well he Aries and all the earth signs - Virgo, Capricorn, Taurus. He has great medical value - Stone - "Hub" and can "pull" of the disease. Most of all, it is contraindicated in Gemini. Onyx contains forces of Mars, Mercury and Venus.
Onyx color changes from light o to dark brown. In transparent onyx known species that shine to a depth of 3 4 cm and have a great slim figure in a pink and golden brown alternating strips. In pre-Columbian America Aztec Indians translucent greenish-yellow onyx marble was considered sacred.

Onyx known and widely used since ancient times - they are often mentioned in the Bible, although there is no certainty that the Hebrew word din-Scheu translated into Greek correctly.
Large chalice (ecclesiastical chalice for communion), carved from onyx, kept in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, he was brought from Rome to Novgorod in 1106 and captured by Ivan the Terrible in the capture of Novgorod .In the Middle Ages attributed onyx extremely contradictory properties: it is a stone unhappy and inspires terrible dreams, but at the same time, onyx facilitates labor, he instilled respect for the owner, encouraged him to brave business and increased revenues. According to the Georgian manuscript of X century, onyx can be found only a man pure of heart and sinless in thought.
Biruni, exploring the properties of onyx, wrote in China believe that wearing onyx brings a lot of trouble, and if his children to hang around the neck, then they start drooling; drinking from the onyx bowl suffers from insomnia. This message from an unknown person is not trustworthy book. If this were so, then the Arabs would not have worshiped onyx and dedicated his verses in which beauties are compared with onyx.

By the adverse properties of onyx in the Middle Ages include the fact that Onyx promotes frightening dreams with ghosts and grim visions about its owner having troubles, he finds himself embroiled in litigation and fights, and that he is drooling in children. Even in the XVI century, Gerolamo Cardano said that in India are of onyx on the neck to cool the ardor of love. This coincides with the ideas of onyx, as a stone is separated lovers.
Indian astrology believes that the Onyx is useful tyubomu man because he is concentrating bioenergy and pulls the disease.
As Eliphas Levi, onyx stone are also considered to be very useful - it soothes the pain, it is placed to facilitate the inflamed site to the tumor, as well as on the stomach for easing colic. Wearing onyx sharpens hearing.
Onyx modern astrological concepts - is a stone-hub and can "pull" of the disease. It strengthens memory. Tempered by the pain, it is placed to facilitate the inflamed site and the tumor, also lay on his stomach to ease colic. It sharpens the ear wearing. Set in silver helps with pain in the heart, cures insomnia.

More Onyx is considered a symbol of eloquence. Onyx raven-ons from its owner passion for enrichment, making it an energetic and enterprising