{"product_id":"quiet-resistance-african-opal-goat-zodiac-necklace","title":"Quiet Resistance — African Opal \u0026 Chrome Diopside Goat Zodiac Necklace","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe character for goat is sitting inside the character for beautiful.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChinese writing keeps its history in plain sight. Characters are built out of smaller characters, and once you know a few components you start reading things nobody meant you to read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYang, the goat or sheep, is one of those components. It is inside mei — beautiful. It is inside shan — good, virtuous, kind. The same small animal, twice, propping up two of the largest words in the language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNobody has to argue that the goat matters. The argument is already finished and it finished in the writing system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe character for goat is sitting inside the character for beautiful.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWei, the eighth earthly branch, is the double hour from one until three in the afternoon. The flat part of the day, after the heat and before the light turns. The hours that get through on stamina rather than momentum.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one took the longest to settle. Goats read as either comic or biblical and neither is what the sign means, so the animal here is a ram — horns curled, standing still, in front of a bare silver branch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBare branch on purpose. The other pieces in the series have flowers or grass. This one is out of season and holding its position anyway, which is the whole idea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe metal is solid 925 sterling silver with gold plating on the ram 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 horns are the part that goes wrong. They spiral, which means they cannot be polished flat, and each one is worked around separately.\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 ram 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 holding a position without raising your voice. 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":49044068958378,"sku":"ASI8-OPA-023","price":189.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0719\/3313\/2970\/files\/23-1.jpg?v=1786612346","url":"https:\/\/asieight.com\/products\/quiet-resistance-african-opal-goat-zodiac-necklace","provider":"Asi8","version":"1.0","type":"link"}