Select Jewelry For Sophisticated Women
by Barbara
women jewelry, womens jewelry, jewelry for women
Jewelry, since time began offers a host of the mythical and superstitious. Some stones have healing powers, others will ward off sickness, offer protection, give courage and will even attract the opposite sex. We have all experienced at some time what our birth stone is and what it represents. As there are only twelve months in the year this offers us only the possibility of twelve different gem stones. We are familiar with January being the Garnet, a cousin to the Ruby, February the Amethyst, March the Aquamarine, April the Diamond, May the Emerald, June the Pearl, July the Ruby, August the Peridot, September the Sapphire, October the Opal, November the Topaz and December the Turquoise. Whilst this is all well and good there are some very fine stones out there that were not lucky enough to be chosen as a stone of the month.
Malachite, Lapis Lazuli and Opal come to mind as do Onyx, Tiger eye and Jade. Totally worthy stones in their own right and if you would like to make one of them your own personal favorite, well who’s going to stop you. The stone attributed to be your own just because you were born in that month may not be a color that you warm up to instinctively.
If you happen to be a devotee of the further variety that Jade affords you over Emerald shall we say, then by all means choose that. Jade is the bringer of peace, wiseness, long life and a peaceful death. Emerald bestows healing, success in business and to be able to fortell the future. Hmm. Tell the future? Bring those Emeralds on. Well maybe not. Knowing the future may not be such a neat thing after all, but you get my drift here.
The wearing of Malachite is supposed to be beneficial to the eyes and blood sugar levels. Lapis Lazuli is supposed to make us more kind and helpful and is the stone of fidelity. I once saw a fireplace surround in King Ludwig’s Castle Neuschwanstein in Bavaria made of Lapis. It was a bit excessive but no doubt extravagant in its luxury as non jewelry.
The primaeval connection that Tiger Eye represents is as appealing as animal print silks. It has a luminance that has a universal attraction and is known as a custodial stone and treats eye disease. I guess the eyes have it. Naturally there’s a lot more to gems, stones, silver and gold but for now we have scraped the surface and afforded ourselves the chance to delve a little further next time. For now, merely go out and look, touch and go through the wonder of the bauble and who knows, maybe one will verbalize its own special language to you.
Most of the time you will find people that collect stamps, some collect coins and other collect collectors beer cans and soda cans with pictures of their favorite sports start printed on them. These are normal things to collect, as they are not too expensive, but then you will find people collecting things like diamond, gold coins, lapidary and gemstones, which gets a bit expensive, just like collecting painting and other more expensive things.
