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Aventurine Meaning: Luck, Healing & Spiritual Symbolism
Aventurine Meaning: Luck, Healing & Spiritual Symbolism
Aventurine is a quartzite whose shimmer, aventurescence, comes from platy inclusions - chrome-bearing fuchsite for the green, iron oxides for the warmer tones. This piece covers the Venetian glassmaking accident... Read more
Kirin Meaning: Symbol, Feng Shui & Spiritual Power
Kirin Meaning: Symbol, Feng Shui & Spiritual Power
The qilin is East Asia's omen animal: a scaled, antlered, cloven-hoofed creature that tradition says appears only when a sage or a good ruler is at hand. This guide reads... Read more
Money Tree Plant – Feng Shui Symbol for Wealth & Abundance
Money Tree Plant – Feng Shui Symbol for Wealth & Abundance
The plant sold as a money tree is Pachira aquatica, a tropical wetland tree from Central and South America that is grown in swamps and potted for desks. This guide... Read more
Money Tree – Feng Shui Symbol for Wealth & Abundance
Money Tree – Feng Shui Symbol for Wealth & Abundance
A money tree stands for growth that compounds, and the name covers two different objects: a living braided Pachira and a wired tabletop tree of tumbled stone. This guide covers... Read more
Black Tourmaline Meaning: Protection & Spiritual Significance
Black Tourmaline Meaning: Protection & Spiritual Significance
Black tourmaline is schorl, the sodium-iron end member of the tourmaline group and the most abundant tourmaline in nature. This piece covers what the tradition holds about protection, grounding and... Read more
Black Tourmaline: Protection, Healing & Spiritual Uses
Black Tourmaline: Protection, Healing & Spiritual Uses
Black tourmaline is schorl, the sodium-iron end member of the tourmaline group and the most abundant tourmaline in nature. This mineral guide covers the group's structure, schorl's Mohs 7.0-7.5 hardness,... Read more
Rat Chinese Zodiac: Meaning, Traits & Lucky Charms
Rat Chinese Zodiac: Meaning, Traits & Lucky Charms
The Rat opens the Chinese zodiac and carries the Zi branch. This guide sets out the Rat years and ages, the strengths and weaknesses the tradition assigns, the career, money... Read more
Year of the Rat Jewelry: How to Choose Pendants and Rings
Year of the Rat Jewelry: How to Choose Pendants and Rings
Rat jewelry is a design problem before it is a symbol. This guide compares pendants, bracelets and rings, explains how the rat's snout, ears and tail survive carving, weighs jade... Read more
Rose Quartz Identification: Color, Cloudiness, and Fakes
Rose Quartz Identification: Color, Cloudiness, and Fakes
Rose quartz is pink because of microscopic aligned silicate fibers rather than rutile, and it never forms flat crystal faces — which is why it is cut en cabochon or... Read more
Amethyst Jewelry Quality Checklist: Color, Clarity, and Fakes
Amethyst Jewelry Quality Checklist: Color, Clarity, and Fakes
Amethyst is judged by color and clarity, not by a holiday discount or a string of A's — and the treatment you are most likely to meet is heat, since... Read more
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