The Loyal Circle — Garnet Dog Zodiac Necklace
The Loyal Circle — Garnet Dog Zodiac Necklace
The Loyal Circle — Garnet Dog Zodiac Necklace
The Loyal Circle — Garnet Dog Zodiac Necklace

For love

The Loyal Circle Garnet Dog Zodiac Necklace

Han families were buried with pottery dogs so that somebody would still be watching the gate.

£189.00

925 sterling silver · natural stone · free UK delivery

More than one

Two intentions sit better together than one repeated. Pick the tier, then pick the pieces.

  • Free UK deliverytracked, either way
  • Solid 925never plated brass
  • Free UK delivery5–10 days, tracked
  • 14 daysto change your mind
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Delivery & the stone
  • Free UK delivery, whatever you order. Tracked and signed for either way. Europe and Australia are free too, apart from the smallest bracelets, where a small tracked postage is shown at checkout, before you pay.
  • A natural garnet. Not a made one. Out of the ground, cut and set by hand. Yours will not match the photograph exactly — that is the point.
Customs & duties
Nothing to pay on arrival Delivery to the UK is free on every order, tracked and signed for, and the price at the checkout is the whole of what you pay. Your piece is posted directly from our maker, so it travels as an import — if a carrier ever asks you for an import charge at the door, send us the receipt and we refund it in full. That one is ours, not yours. Delivery
Returns & guarantees
  • 14 days to change your mindFrom delivery. Faulty is our cost.
  • Solid 925 sterling silverNever plated base metal.
  • A person answers, before you buyOne working day. Not a ticket.
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The story

Named after the pomegranate — the oldest story there is about wanting something.

Open a Han dynasty tomb and you find a household in miniature. Model granaries, model wells, model watchtowers, model stoves. And dogs — glazed pottery dogs, collared, ears up, set beside the gate of a house nobody was going to live in again.

They were not toys and they were not ornaments. They were staff. The belief was practical to the point of being domestic: the dead go on keeping house, and a house without a dog at the gate is not a finished house.

Two thousand years later they come out of the ground still standing in the same position.

Han families were buried with pottery dogs so that somebody would still be watching the gate.

Xu, the eleventh earthly branch, is the double hour from seven until nine in the evening. The hour the door gets shut. Everyone is home or they are not coming.


The dog is gold and mid-stride, head up, and there are butterflies drifting through the circle around it. The opal is set plainly on the far side.

Butterflies with a guard dog is an odd pairing and it is the reason I like this one. Loyalty in the sign is not the same thing as being fixed in place. The dog is moving and it is still watching.

The metal is solid 925 sterling silver. The gold is a plated finish over that silver and the dark rim is a black finish over the same silver — plating is a surface, it wears with time, the silver underneath does not.

Posted to you tracked. 5–10 days to the UK.

The coat is cut in strand by strand across the whole body, which is what keeps it from reading as a generic animal at small size.

Materials

  • Natural African opal — 4 mm round
  • Nano black accent stones — laboratory-made, not mined
  • 925 sterling silver, gold plated, with a black finish on the rim
  • Pendant 25.49 mm across, on a box chain
  • Free UK delivery · 5–10 days

Worn for centuries as the sign of staying without being owned. 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.

  1. A stone is pickedby hand, to the light
  2. Cast in silversolid 925, never plated brass
  3. Set by handprong by prong
  4. Checkedunder a loupe, twice
  5. Wrappedwith its card and date
  • 925solid sterling silver, then plated
  • Garnetnatural, out of the ground
  • 5–10 daysto your door, tracked
  • Free UK deliverytracked, either way
  • 14 daysto change your mind

Charged with ThetaHealing

  1. 1The beliefthe old sentence underneath
  2. 2The digwhere you learned it
  3. 3The releaselet go, and thanked
  4. 4The downloadthe new feeling, named
  5. ✓“I accept”said out loud, by you

The stone is the anchor, not the treatment — the thing on your hand when the feeling has gone and you need to remember what you agreed to.

Before you ask

The questions people actually send us.

When would it get here?

It is posted to you directly from our maker, tracked and signed for — to the United Kingdom that is 5–10 days, usually within a week. The date in the buying panel above is the real latest date it should be with you; it moves forward every day and it is not a countdown put there to hurry you.

Is the silver solid, or is it plated?

Solid 925 sterling silver, all the way through. We never plate base metal and call it silver. This particular design carries a plated finish over that silver, which is why it looks the colour it looks. Plating is a surface and it wears; the silver under it does not.

Will my stone look exactly like the photograph?

No, and it should not. Garnet comes out of the ground, so colour, depth and inclusions differ from one to the next. The photographs show a real one, not a rendering — yours will be its own. If that difference would disappoint you, write to us before you order and we will tell you honestly how much variation this stone has.

How is it worn?

As it comes. The measurements are visible in the photographs above, and the piece is described on the page in the same words we would use in person.

What if I change my mind, or it does not fit?

Fourteen days from the day it arrives to tell us, and a further fourteen to post it back — that is the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, and we do not try to write around it. Faulty or not as described is always our cost. The whole policy is here, in plain English.

Do you post to where I live?

The UK, the twenty-seven EU countries and Australia. To the UK the delivery is free on every order, tracked and signed for. Europe and Australia are free too, apart from the smallest bracelets, where a small tracked postage is shown at checkout, before you pay — never added afterwards. If your country is not on the list at checkout, we cannot post there yet, and we would rather say so than take your money and find out.

Do I have to do the ThetaHealing part?

No. It is a ring, and it is a good ring on its own. The feeling download is written out above so you can read it, use it, or ignore it — nothing is charged for it and nothing is done without your say-so. Some people buy the piece for the stone and never think about the rest, and that is a completely ordinary way to own it.

Is any of this medical?

No, and we will not pretend otherwise. What you read here about stones is history and folklore, told as history and folklore with dates and sources. A ThetaHealing feeling download is a spoken intention, not a treatment. Nothing on this page treats, prevents or cures anything, and none of it replaces a doctor.

Can I ask something that is not here?

Yes, and it gets a real answer from a person — before you buy, not after. Write to us here. If we do not know something about a piece, we will say we do not know rather than fill the gap.

The pieces you choose together

A colour. A symbol.
A combination that feels like you.

Styling ideas and personal intentions. These meanings are symbolic, not claims about what a stone will do.

What it has been carried for

Garnet

Named after a fruit, and carrying the oldest story there is about wanting something.

  1. 01
    The one everybody knows

    Safe return

    Roman travellers carried it. So did soldiers, and later anyone setting out on a road they were not sure of. The idea is not protection from harm — it is coming back.

    Roman and medieval travel custom
  2. 02
    Less known

    The pomegranate

    Granatum. Break one open and the seeds are exactly this — dozens of small dark-red translucent things packed tight. Which puts it straight into Persephone’s six seeds: the thing you wanted, and the price, in the same hand.

    Latin, and older than Latin
  3. 03
    Almost nobody knows

    The only light

    Rabbinic commentary on Genesis holds that the single light Noah had through the flood was a stone hung from the ceiling of the ark, glowing for a year while it rained. It is not in the text. It is what people decided the text needed.

    Talmudic commentary, Sanhedrin

All of the above is history and folklore, written down because it is real and it is interesting. It is not a claim about what the stone will do. Some people feel something. Some don’t. More in The Codex

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  • You can ask before you spend anything

    Write to us and a person answers within one working day — not a ticket number and not a bot. If we do not know something about a piece, we will say we do not know rather than fill the gap.

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  • What the metal is

    Solid 925 sterling silver, all the way through. We do not plate base metal and call it silver. Where a piece carries a plated finish over that silver, it says so on its own page.

    Questions →
  • What the stone is

    Named, every time. Where a stone is lab-grown or treated we say that too, by name, on the piece. We never write semi-precious, and we never call a treated stone natural.

    The Codex →
  • What happens if you do not want it

    Fourteen days from delivery to change your mind, under the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013, and a further fourteen to post it back. Faulty or wrong is always our cost, whatever it is.

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Behind ASİ · Founder & ThetaHealer

Jewellery for the intention you choose to carry.

I am a young entrepreneur and ThetaHealer. ASİ is where my love of jewellery meets my interest in intention, personal meaning and the stories we carry.

I am building a brand for people who want to feel a connection to what they wear. A stone, an animal or a small knot can become a reminder of something you choose for yourself.

A little more about my approach

ThetaHealing is part of my personal practice and the perspective I bring to ASİ. I see jewellery as a place for a personal intention: a quiet pause, a new beginning, or a promise to yourself. You decide what your piece means.

Stone meanings on this site are symbolic associations, not promised physical or psychological effects. Jewellery and spiritual practices do not replace healthcare.

Created with intention.

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01Meaning before noiseA piece begins with a story you can make your own.

02Honesty in every detailStone, metal, finish and delivery are named plainly.

03Your intention, your wordsSymbolism is an invitation, never a promised effect.