The road we travel upon the earth is often a hard one: full of twists and turns, detours and dead-ends, switchbacks and dangerously spiraling S-curves. What we find, over time, is that we travel not one rod, but many, although all link up in one way or another.
Eventually, all roads lead to the sky.
Of course, the sky roads are even less easily navigated: After all, save for those few powerful visionaries and dreamers, most of us reach them only once we cross from this world into the next. And even then, most of us arrive without a map; how we have lived our lives, and how we heed the signs along the way, is all we have in the way of a guide.
But this world and the one beyond share much in common, and if we choose our earthly path carefully, if we walk it with due attention to the tasks set before us by Spirit, in the process we draw our own map to the sky roads.
It is this patchwork path, this network of roads that curve and halt and turn back upon themselves and eventually lead us forward around life’s hoop that Wings has captured in his latest work. From its description in the Rings Gallery here on the site:
Sky Roads Ring
Eventually, all roads lead to the sky. The path is often long and winding, but Wings has coaxed a map from Skystone and silver. Three strong, heavy strands of sterling silver triangle wire are soldered into one finely polished band in the shape the earth’s own hoop. It holds up a smooth silver setting that stretches to the four corners of the sky, edges elegantly rounded, surface bearing a softly aged patina. The setting flows upward into a scalloped bezel that holds an exquisitely webbed turquoise cabochon fast within its embrace: a perfect round jewel the color of a robin’s egg, an earth-shaped atlas of the roads of the skies. The band is 9/16″ wide; the setting is 7/8″ square; the stone is 3/4″ across (dimensions approximate). Sizeable. Other views shown below.
Sterling silver; ultra high-grade black web Kingman turquoise
$675 + shipping, handling, and insurance
We are promised very little in this life that is sure and certain. The road ahead is often rocky, the signs hard to read; sometimes the trail vanishes before us, what was once a road turned to so much dust before our eyes. At such times, it’s difficult to remember that the road is there, if only faintly — harder still to remember that it will, one day, lead us to the sky roads, enabling us to travel to the stars, to the ancestors, to the place where the spirits dwell.
Sometimes, mapping the sky is a way of mapping our own earthly road.
~ Aji
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