The dawn was elemental, crisp and cold, with fire in the sky and change in the air.
Pueblo Peak was transformed into an erupting volcano, clouds of red flame rising from its summit to spread across the heavens, a herald of Father Sun’s arrival. On the other side of the sky, dark purple clouds are already closing ranks, amassing a force that is forecast to bring perhaps as much as two and half feet or more of snow over the days to come. The winter air is electric, alive with turbulent possibilities.
And so, in keeping with the themes of the week, it seems the perfect time to revisit one of the works that we highlighted earlier this week, a ring that made a brief appearance in Tuesday’s post. In style and substance, it goes well with Wings’s new masterpiece that we brought you on Wednesday, and its symbolism suits the feel of this day.
It’s a piece that evokes images of late summer’s monsoons, volatile elemental weather patterns capable of wreaking havoc as they dance across the sky, even as they deliver the very rains that keep this land alive. But on a weekend when the possibility of the phenomenon now known as thundersnow is forecast, it seems newly apt for winter, as well. The name of the piece is Crackling Sky, an homage to the lightning-like patterns of the matrix that flash across and through the stone’s bright blue body. From its description in the Rings Gallery here on the site:
Crackling Sky Solitaire Ring
Sometimes the desert is positively electric, alive with the force and power of the elements. That vibrancy in the very air itself is captured in this stone, brilliant blue shot through with coppery lightning bolts of matrix crackling across its lightly domed expanse of “sky.” Hand-stamped drops trace both halves of the scored band like the much-needed rain. Cabochon is 1/2″ square (dimensions approximate); band is sizeable. Other views shown at the link.
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The raindrop pattern that traces both strands of the band was an inspired symbolic choice to pair with this particular cabochon, allowing the turquoise its fullest expression of identity as the Skystone. Taken together, it embodies the look and feel of this place at its most powerful: when thunder is the drumbeat of an elemental dance, a grand entry into an arena lit by coruscating flashes of lighting across the sky.
It’s unlikely that we will see the bolts that Thunderbird carries in her talons this weekend, but we may be fortunate enough to hear the drumbeat of her wings. And whatever the signs and songs that accompany the storm, the snow that follows in her wake will be welcomed
~ Aji
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