{"title":"Abundance","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo stop apologising for wanting more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFive pieces. Citrine was the merchant's stone, kept near where money was actually counted. Moss agate went by the name of the gardener's stone long before anybody tested whether it did anything — its green is not colour in the stone but mineral threaded through clear chalcedony, so no two are the same. Peridot was mined at night on a guarded island in the Red Sea and shipped out as treasure. Chrome diopside comes out of Yakutia in a short window each year, when the ground is frozen hard enough to work. African opal holds water in its structure and has done for a very long time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver, made after you order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-codex\/citrine-meaning-history\"\u003eRead the file on citrine →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-codex\/what-stone-meaning-actually-means\"\u003eWhere these meanings actually come from — an honest account →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bee-garden-multi-stone-ring","title":"The Garden Rule — Amethyst, Peridot \u0026 Topaz Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome of it never belonged to this planet at all.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is an island in the Red Sea that the Egyptians worked for three and a half thousand years, and for most of that time they did it at night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZabargad. Topazios to the Greeks, which is where the word topaz comes from — except the island never produced topaz. It produced peridot. The naming has been wrong since antiquity and nobody has managed to fix it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey mined it after dark because peridot is hard to spot in daylight and shows itself under a lamp. Miners marked the stones at night and dug them out in the morning. The island was guarded; the penalty for landing on it without permission was death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA good deal of what Cleopatra was said to wear as emerald was almost certainly peridot from that island.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the part that still stops me. Peridot is olivine, and olivine forms far down in the earth's mantle under pressure that does not exist at the surface. It arrives here by volcano. It also arrives here by meteorite — pallasites, iron meteorites shot through with olivine crystals, fall to earth carrying gem peridot formed at the core of a shattered planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSome of it never belonged to this planet at all.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis ring is a garden. Amethyst, peridot and topaz set among bees and flowers in silver — the peridot is the green you keep coming back to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI nearly left this one out of the collection for being too much. I kept it because too much is occasionally the correct amount, and because the bee is not decoration here: a bee is the only reason a garden pays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating on the bees and flowers. Posted to you tracked — 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePriced for three natural stones and this much bench time. The band is wide and every flower on it is finished separately, which is where the hours went.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural peridot 4×6 mm, natural amethyst 4×6 mm, natural sky blue topaz 4×6 mm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSynthetic ruby accent\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePeridot has been carried as a stone of prosperity since before Rome. Some people feel something. Some don't. If you don't, you are still wearing the mantle of the earth.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asi8","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49038640447658,"sku":"ASI8-PER-002","price":179.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3313\/2970\/files\/p02a.jpg?v=1786491298"},{"product_id":"citrine-butterfly-floral-open-ring","title":"The Flower of Plenty — Citrine Butterfly Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe merchant's stone. Kept where money was counted.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCitrine is called the merchant's stone, and that name is worth being straight about: it is a modern one. It belongs to the crystal literature of the last hundred years, not to antiquity, and you will not find citrine under that title in the medieval lapidaries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe reasoning underneath it is much older, and much plainer. A yellow stone the colour of gold, kept near where gold was counted, on the principle that like calls to like. It is sympathetic magic — the same logic that put red stones on wounds and green stones in gardens. Not a theory about minerals. A theory about resemblance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is one of the very few stones whose folklore is about commerce rather than love or war, and I find that refreshing. Every other stone in this collection is about how you feel. This one is about what you are owed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuartz is hard enough to be worn without ceremony — 7 on the Mohs scale, the same as the sand that scratches everything softer than it. A ring you can put on in the morning without thinking about it, which is the point of a stone with a job.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe merchant's stone was meant for the ordinary Tuesday, not the occasion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-codex\/citrine-meaning-history\"\u003eWhere the name came from, and how to tell natural citrine from heated amethyst →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe setting is open floral silver with a butterfly, and the citrine sits where a bud would. Open band, so a little give in the fit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating on the butterfly. Posted to you tracked — 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePriced for the silver work, which is where the hours actually went.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural citrine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen band — adjusts a little\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTraditionally associated with money already earned. That is folklore, offered as such. Some people feel something when they put a stone on. Some don't. 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That is what security looked like, and the writing system fixed it in place before anyone thought to be embarrassed about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe pig comes twelfth. Last of the twelve, which people occasionally read as an insult and which is the opposite. The cycle ends on the animal that means there is enough, and then it starts again at the rat's midnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Chinese character for home is a roof with a pig underneath it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHai, the twelfth earthly branch, is the double hour from nine until eleven at night. The end of the day, and the last hour before the whole thing begins again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis pig has wings, and I nearly took them off.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI left them because the joke is old and it is not really a joke here. The sign is about receiving something — and receiving is the part most people are worse at than working. A pig with wings is a fair drawing of how unlikely that feels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eye is a single red stone. Black circle, gold animal, one small warm point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe metal is solid 925 sterling silver. The gold is a plated finish over that silver and the dark sections are a black finish over the same silver — plating is a surface, it wears with time, the silver underneath does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePosted to you tracked. 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe wing is the work. 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