This 6mm mala features, from the guru bead upwards:
 
Snowflake Obsidian 12mm guru bead
Snowflake Obsidian 6mm frosted beads
Flower Jasper 6mm beads
Black Onyx 6mm beads
Gold filled rondelle spacer beads
 
As much as the Guide and Guardian mala offers a sense of security and protection, it is actually all about finding your own strength, establishing you in a strong energetic and emotional posture and helping you to feel grounded and connected to your purpose. We have nurturing jasper to bring in a sense of present moment awareness and fortifying onyx that imparts feelings of resilience and determination. Snowflake obsidian gently brings what is outside of our conscious awareness into our reality so we may better understand and integrate it with loving self acceptance making it a great stone for healing the shadow and making this mala a companion for self-mastery and spiritual evolution. This mala is perfect for you if you feel you could use a little exptra support, help in finding your own inner strength and would like to be guided to feel and accept the difficult things we are faced with. It will offer a sense of protection and sovereignty, helping you to feel more at ease in your environment and better able to withstand the energetic flucuations of those around you. It is your guide and guardian, but it really fosters those qualities within you.
 
SNOWFLAKE OBSIDIAN
A calming and soothing energy that also lends us support, protection and has a gentle grounding energy. It helps connect us to our guides and enhances our sense of security. It also helps put us in a receptive frame of mind for introspection and examining our thought patterns, helping us recognise ingrained conditioning and imprints that do not serve us well. It brings us wisdom when reflecting on our achievements, helping us value mistakes just as much as successes and leading us to be all that we aim to be. It has a soothing action also, bringing balance to the mind and the body, effective at removing toxins on every energetic level and keeping unwanted energies away.
 
FLOWER JASPER (earthy browns, reds, cream)
This variety of jasper has beautiful colourations and patterns. It has an earthy vibration, like all jaspers, that helps to bring you into the present, to bring you into a deeper connection with the earth element and help you to feel calm and grounded. This helps to promote feelings of stability and security, nurture and overall wellbeing. And a sense of being supported.
 
ONYX (opaque black, polishes to a high shine)
A stone for strength, stability, self control and for centring energy. It is very supportive in times of heightened stress. Useful in releasing past or indeed past-life pain and stuck emotions, it integrates dualities in the self, calms overwhelming worry and fear, promotes wisdom and helps align with the higher self to receive guidance. It is also useful for carrying one forward into the future, helping to build personal power and encourage being the master of your own destiny.