Stars and Opal Ethnic Earrings

Description

These simple statements are made from creamy African opal and dyed bone with a star motif. As a symbol, stars are universally used worldwide in everything from art to meditation…a standard of excellence.

These happen to be six pointed stars, and I found this interesting description online: The six-pointed star is actually a very old symbol, and it’s not linked to any particular religion in history. Different people have described it in different ways, but one of them is to think of it as composed of two triangles. One points upward, and symbolizes all our hopes and aspirations. The other points downward, and symbolizes the light that comes to us, like grace. The two completely joined with no divisions, symbolizes perfect balance. It means balance between the gifts of life and our gift to life.

The slightly graduated drop is suspended from a fancy sterling silver French hook earwire. The top bead is 7mm, the bottom 10mm.
Length from the top of the earwire: 70mm (the drop itself is 2”)
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African opal: also called common opal, earning and retaining money, self-worth, balancing, work and business relationships, Libra, numbers 8 and 9

Vegetable Ivory: made from both coquilla nut and tagua nut, an alternative to ivory and very positive in that it helps discourage poaching of elephant tusks

Silver: a precious metal, mildly sedating and calming, a malleable attractor, retainer and director of energy, enhances the power of the Moon, mirror to the Soul, catalyses negative energy to positive energy, cleanser, Cancer, Aquarius, the number 4

Added on Oct 27, 2009