{"title":"Zodiac Circle","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwelve animals, twelve hours of the day, one circle each — now in a single piece. You choose your sign when you buy it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2026 is a fire horse year\u003c\/strong\u003e, from 17 February — it comes round once in sixty. \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-horse\"\u003eMore on that →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Chinese zodiac is older than the race story usually told about it. Bamboo slips buried with a Qin official in the third century BC already list the animals against the twelve earthly branches — the Jade Emperor's river crossing was attached long afterwards, the way stories get attached to systems people inherit and no longer remember building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery pendant is solid 925 sterling silver with a natural stone: African opal for most of the twelve, Swiss blue topaz for the Snake, amethyst for the Rooster, garnet for the Dog, and African opal with chrome diopside for the Goat. Made after you order it, up to 10 days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYour animal is set by Chinese New Year rather than 1 January, so if you were born in January or the first half of February, check your birth year before you choose. \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/chinese-zodiac\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFind your sign →\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-rat\"\u003eRat\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-ox\"\u003eOx\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-tiger\"\u003eTiger\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-rabbit\"\u003eRabbit\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-dragon\"\u003eDragon\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-snake\"\u003eSnake\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-horse\"\u003eHorse\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-goat\"\u003eGoat\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-monkey\"\u003eMonkey\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-rooster\"\u003eRooster\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-dog\"\u003eDog\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/year-of-the-pig\"\u003ePig\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/the-codex\/chinese-zodiac-jewellery-meaning\"\u003eRead the file on the twelve animals — how the Chinese zodiac became jewellery →\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"first-sign-opal-rat-zodiac-necklace","title":"First Sign — African Opal Rat Zodiac Necklace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe first sign is not a winner. It is an hour.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone tells the same story about how the rat came first. The Jade Emperor called a race, the rat rode across the river on the ox's back, jumped off at the bank and took the finish line by a nose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a good story. It is also much younger than the thing it explains.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1975, in Hubei province, archaeologists opened the tomb of a minor Qin official and found bamboo slips buried with him — administrative texts, legal texts, and an almanac. Third century BC. The animals are already there, already matched to the twelve earthly branches, already in this order. The race was attached afterwards, the way people attach stories to systems they have inherited and no longer remember building.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the older system the rat is not a competitor. It is a position. Zi — the first branch, the double hour around midnight. Eleven at night until one in the morning. The hinge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe first sign is not a winner. It is an hour.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the hour when one day has finished and the next one has not admitted it yet. Nothing has started. Everything is about to. That is a stranger and better thing to wear than a race.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI kept this one dark deliberately. The circle is blackened, the rat is gold, and the opal sits near the top like the one light somebody left on.\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\u003eTwelve pieces were modelled separately for this series — no shared body, no swapped heads — which is most of where the cost sits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural opal — 4 mm round\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNano black and white cubic zirconia accent stones — laboratory-made, not mined\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver, gold plated, with a black finish on the dark sections\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePendant 25.49 mm across, on a box chain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWorn in China for over two thousand years as the opening of the cycle. Some people feel something when they put a sign on. Some don't. Either way it is an old idea and it is accurately made.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asi8","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49044056703146,"sku":"ASI8-OPA-016","price":189.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3313\/2970\/files\/16-1.jpg?v=1786612304"},{"product_id":"slow-step-african-opal-ox-zodiac-necklace","title":"The Slow Step — African Opal Ox Zodiac Necklace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe animal that did the actual work came second.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the race story the ox carries the rat across the river, plods to the finish line, and loses by the length of a jump. People tell it as a joke about cunning beating effort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ox never seems to have minded. It got something better than first place: a ceremony.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt Lichun, the day that opened spring in the old Chinese calendar, officials built an ox out of clay and paraded it through the town. Then they beat it apart with coloured whips. The point was not cruelty — there was no animal in it — the point was that the farming year could not begin until somebody publicly broke the ox open. Farmers carried the pieces home to their fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA whole province waiting on a clay animal before anyone was allowed to start work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe animal that did the actual work came second.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChou, the second earthly branch, is the double hour from one until three in the morning. Deep night. Long before anything is visible, and long before anyone is grateful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one is the darkest piece in the series and the most patient looking. 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Four strokes, three horizontal and one down the middle. Painters stopped suggesting it and started drawing it outright, so that on a great many Chinese tigers the word is not a resemblance any more. It is written there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tiger also had a direction. In the four-creature scheme painted on Han tomb walls, the White Tiger holds the west, the autumn, the metal, the side the sun leaves from. Not the friendly quarter.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChina's king of beasts was never the lion.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYin, the third earthly branch, is the double hour from three until five in the morning. The hour before light. Traditionally the hour tigers were said to be most active, which is a polite way of saying the hour you did not go outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone expects a tiger piece to be a tiger mid-roar. 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Wearing a dragon with the wrong number of toes was not a fashion error — it was a matter for the authorities. An empire wrote legislation about a creature that does not exist, and enforced it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSomething similar had happened in Rome, with a stone. Pliny records a senator called Nonius who owned an opal Mark Antony wanted. Nonius kept the ring and went into exile instead. He left his property, his city and his standing, and took one stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEleven of these animals can be kept in a yard. This one cannot.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChen, the fifth earthly branch, is the double hour from seven until nine in the morning. Full working light. 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Opal has had a strange run in Europe — in 1829 Walter Scott published a novel in which a woman wearing one dies, and the market for opals across the continent is said to have collapsed on the strength of a plot device. It took decades to recover. A stone's reputation is not the same thing as a stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe metal is solid 925 sterling silver with gold plating on the snake, the grass and the mount. 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Gold plating on the animal and the mount, with blackened or rhodium finishes on the frame depending on the sign\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne natural stone per pendant, listed above\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite cubic zirconia accent stones — laboratory-made, not mined\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePendant roughly 25 mm across, on a box chain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree UK delivery · 5–10 days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlating is a surface finish and it wears with time; the silver beneath it does not. We never plate base metal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe same price whichever sign you choose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarried as a mark of when you started. Some people feel something when they put one on. Some don't. 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