A day that began in rain and fog has at last allowed a little sun through the clouds. The air is clear for the moment, but the thunderheads reforming to the west call into question the forecast’s new prediction of a full clearing.
And in truth, we are not concerned with clearing now. The rains of recent days, soft, intermittent, yet frequent enough to add measurable volume, are perfect for a land still recovering from intensified drought. In this place, rain for Mother Earth is a gift at any time, but all the more so now, as we ready the land for planting.
Today’s featured work embodies the gift, and the process too — brilliant blue-green Skystone marbled with darkly swirled host rock, stretching to the four corners of earth and sky, dropping a cascade of silvery rain onto a marbled ground. From its description in the Earrings Gallery here on the site:
Rain For Mother Earth Earrings
In a time of climate change, in a drought-prone high desert, rain for Mother Earth is life itself. Wings honors water and earth and gift alike with these earrings, a pair of dangling drops wrought in the old traditional way, long and reflective of the light. Each earring begins with a square Skystone cabochon in a shade that can only properly be called teal, each with a beautifully mysterious spiderwebbed matrix. Cascading beneath each bezel-set cabochon is a long, dangling hand-cut drop, each ending in a single inverted scallop, each hand-milled in a whorled earth-like pattern to shimmer and dance in the light. Near the bottom of each drop, paired thunderheads are stamped gently, just enough to show through the light-catching earth design. Each pendant hangs from its focal stones by way of sterling silver jump rings; the cabochons are similarly suspended from sterling silver wires. Each earring hangs a bold 4.5″ long (excluding wires) in total length; cabochons and pendants alike are 9/16″ across; pendants are 3.75″ long (dimensions approximate).
Sterling silver; teal blue-green turquoise
$640 + shipping, handling, and insurance
Even now as the blue shows through, the clouds are coming together again overhead. Around the horizon, their towers climb ever higher; to the west, their color deepens as their mass and volume grow. We are unlikely to leave this day without at least a smattering of new rain, and perhaps even a full-scale storm.
Meanwhile, the earth embraces it fully, completely. It is, after all, a gift of life itself, a cosmic outpouring of medicine, of healing, of harmony.
We embrace it, too.
~ Aji
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