* Ready to Ship * The Dreaming Stone. Rainbow Obsidian Necklace.

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Please note: This necklace is Ready to Ship and will leave the studio in 1 - 5 business days. The chain is 18 inches in length. If you would like a different chain length you must email us with your desired length immediately after placing your order. 

These photos are not of the exact stone you will receive, but they are similar. This oval cabochon has an ghostly gray green center, surrounded by a thin ring of black, and then shades of gray.

If you purchase this item with any other jewel, please be aware that our jewelry is handmade to order and takes approximately 6-8 weeks to create before shipping, meaning your Ready to Ship jewel will ship with the rest of your order. This cuts down on multiple shipping costs for you, and unnecessary waste for the environment.  

An oval rainbow obsidian cabochon gemstone is set into a wreath of sterling silver Mugwort leaves. 

Mugwort has been an important herb to many cultures across the world and across time. One of the 9 sacred medieval herbs from an Old English folk magic charm for healing from the God Woden, it also appears as an herb of protection from the Romans who also grew it on roadsides to be placed in the bottom of shoes to help travelers endure long journeys. 

Associated with both the Goddess Diana ( its genus name being Artemisia vulgaris ) for the moon colored underside of the leaves, as well as Venus, for Mugwort’s historic use for uterine health issues, including regulating lunar cycles.

In China, it was used in traditional Chinese Medicine for utilization in moxibustion, which is burned close to the skin to stimulate meridian points to cause blood and qi to flow smoother in the body. This technique is still utilized today, often in tandem with acupuncture. 

Mugwort is perhaps best known for its use as a potent aid in both divinatory and dreaming states. It can be burned to sanctify spaces and tools, before trance, divination or other altered states; in lieu of other forms of smoke cleansing. It can also be used as a wash for crystal balls and other crystal divinatory objects, and/or used around / beneath them during scrying / divination to amplify and aid psychic states. Juice/oil pressed the leaves have been used to make a substance for use on mirrors for scrying, further linking the herb with prophecy and divination. 

For dreaming: Mugwort has historically been harvested, dried and sewed into little sachets which were then put under the pillow before sleep to "bring forth dreams". These dreams, due to the herb's potency, could be vivid, lucid and prophetic. This was a customary and cultural folk practice that was normalized, and has survived to this day. Rainbow obsidian has been historically known as a dream stone, further amplifying this jewel's potency as a potential dreaming talisman. 

Shipping

All of our jewels are made to order and take 6-8 weeks to complete. If you purchase a ready to ship item with a production piece your order will ship when your jewel is completed. 

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*Details* :

- 35 mm from top to bottom

- 23 mm wide

- Solid Sterling Silver  

- Both pendant and chain are hand oxidized to achieve our favorite shade of stormy gray and then highlighted to reveal the bright luminous silver beneath

- Set with one 18 x 25 mm oval rainbow obsidian

- Seen on Miguel on a 20 inch chain

Rainbow Obsidian:

Rainbow Obsidian is found wherever volcanos are ( even here in the US), as it is formed during the rapid cooling of lava. The spectrum of colors occurs when the magma, which I consider to be the blood of the volcano, is rich with an inclusion of minerals that become trapped as the lava is hardening. The way the light interplays with these inclusions is how we perceive the bands of colors or rainbows, which is why the colors shift depending on how you hold them or how much light they are exposed to. A kind of captured magic that remind me of the rings of a tree, or the rings of Saturn. As above, so below. 

What captivates me most about Obsidian is its storied use throughout time, especially in Mexico, where these cabochons are from. Due to it being a naturally formed glass, it was  easily knapped into tools with incredibly sharp edges. While fragile, they were also highly effective and could produce the clean cuts. Aside from being used for practical tools, Obsidian was also utilized for divinatory purposes, due to its mirror like reflective surface, especially in its blackest form. It was so revered a material that it has been found as grave goods in the form of tools, jewelry, and "mirrors".

Please note that each piece of Rainbow Obsidian differs in color, as the polished igneous cabochons shine with bands of brilliant colors that vary from pink and purple to blue and green.These stones are dark in color but have beautiful flashes and rings of orange, pink, purple, green, teal, and grey when turned. 

This jewel is hand cut and therefore may have small signs of the carver's hands along the edges. It has not been fabricated by a machine rather it hand cut and therefore might not be uniformly perfect. The photographs accurately portray the quality of the stone and the cut. 

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