{"product_id":"light-crossing-african-opal-rabbit-zodiac-necklace","title":"Light Crossing — African Opal Rabbit Zodiac Necklace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThere has been a rabbit in the moon for well over two thousand years.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook at the full moon long enough and the dark seas start behaving like a drawing. Europe found a face. China found a rabbit, sitting up, working a mortar and pestle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is in the poetry of the Warring States period, which puts it earlier than most things anyone still repeats. What the rabbit is pounding in the mortar depends entirely on which century you ask — the stories do not agree, and the ones that claim to be certain are usually the newest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rabbit itself never changes. Same posture, same patience, same job, dynasty after dynasty, for a job nobody can name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere has been a rabbit in the moon for well over two thousand years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMao, the fourth earthly branch, is the double hour from five until seven in the morning. Sunrise. The crossing point — not dark, not yet properly day, the part of the morning that does not commit to anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the palest piece in the series and the only one I would call quiet. White stones all the way round the circle, a gold rabbit sitting up among mushrooms, and the opal held in a rayed gold mount off to the side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpal is worth a sentence here. It is not crystalline like quartz — it is hydrated silica, and it holds real water inside it, several percent by weight. That is why the colour moves as you move. You are looking at light bending through water trapped in stone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe metal is solid 925 sterling silver with gold plating on the rabbit and the mount. Plating is a surface finish and it wears with time; the silver beneath it does not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePosted to you tracked. 5–10 days to the UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stone-set rim is the expensive part — every stone in that circle is placed individually and a single one sitting proud is visible from across a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch2\u003eMaterials\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural African opal — 4 mm round\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhite cubic zirconia accent stones — laboratory-made, not mined\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e925 sterling silver with gold plating on the rabbit and mount\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\u003eCarried for centuries as the sign of moving gently and arriving anyway. 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":49044068106410,"sku":"ASI8-OPA-019","price":189.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3313\/2970\/files\/19-1.jpg?v=1786612305","url":"https:\/\/asieight.com\/products\/light-crossing-african-opal-rabbit-zodiac-necklace","provider":"Asi8","version":"1.0","type":"link"}