Black Tourmaline can be used to both repel and protect against negativity. It acts to protect one from being victimized by the negative energy of another. It has also been used as an energy deflector, being an excellence stone for those with potential for exposure to excessive amounts of radiation. It provides for an increase in one's physical vitality, emotional stability, and intellectual acuity, and can maintain one's "spirits" even in conditions, which appear to emit the messages of " doom and gloom."
It furthers the wakening of altruism and enhances practicality and creativity as a protective stone against "spells" which are cast by the negative side of another. It is a special stone to Native American Indians; black Tourmaline in quartz not only dispels the "spell", but energizes the "victim" and actually increases well-being; black Tourmaline used with Mica, returns the "spell" to the originating source and allows one to view the sender of the negative energies.
It is also used to activate grounding between the first chakra and the center of the Earth, providing for enhancement of one's well being on the physical plane, and protecting against those in the spear world and/or those on the physical plane who are not in and the "light of" and do not understand the love of the universe.
Size: 38 x 28 x 18 mm + -
1 1/2 x 1 1/16 x 5/8 inches + -
Chakra: 1st Root
Ray: 3rd Active Intelligence, 7th Ceremonial Order
Planet: Saturn
Element: Earth
Vibrates to the numbers: 3 and 4