One of the most inspiring, curious, lovely things I study in my free time is the wide universe beyond Earth. How it works, how its born and grows and changes and dies. How it's discovered. Who studies it and what inspires them. The satelites we've lost track of - where are they now? Eviscerated into dust or wide-eyed passing through realms we're not yet ready to even imagine?
I've found so many parallels between Black Holes and life, Black Holes and death. I've connected themes between how we learn things as humans, and how galaxies are formed. Perceptions in a park in South Minneapolis and perceptions as you'd fly over the icy rings around Saturn.
Mostly, I find comfort in the smallness of my life, and it's simultaneous grandiose interconnectedness to everyone else's. We're the same. We have societal constructs that we humans uphold that keep us separate, othered, hurt, oppressed, on top, superior, abusive, and more.
But we come from the same and will return to the same.
At some point in the pandemic, I began learning more and more about the moon and my body, the moon and The Universe. Maybe it was the extra time at home for documentaries and reading, maybe it was an inevitability as someone perpetually, insatiably curious about all there is to learn in this world.
March 13th was a New Moon in Pisces, "making this day the best day of the year to tune into your imagination and subconscious. Your intuition will be intense around this time, and you may feel a need to embrace fantasy, glamour, all that's spiritual or other-worldly, or dip into alternative healing therapies."
It's a bigger deal than a Full Moon because a New Moon is a fresh start, energetically. I've been having so much fun learning more about the moon and my body, an interest that has come to me after having a years-long curiosity about The Universe and the physics and movement of the infinite space beyond what we can see and touch and hear here on Earth. It's something we have to piece together, to speculate and study, to imagine, to feel. All of these things bring satiate a perpetual wonder inside me, so it is only fitting that I'd eventually make some kind of locket that embodies that openness.
I wanted to share The Moon Charm Locket with you on March 13th, but part of my fresh beginnings this year is not holding everything so tightly, not letting my expectations grip the outcome to much that I miss the joy of what I want to create with my jewelry, with my motherhood, with my family, with my life. So today is March 22nd and I'm sharing this new piece with you during the Waxing Gibbous phase of the moon, which approaches the Full Moon on March 28th. Kind of fitting, I suppose, as it's a growing moon.
The Moon Charm Locket has several pendants:
- The Moon is made of druzy black agate and is dipped in 24k gold
- It has three pendants that hold photos, all 1/3" dipped in 24k gold
- This is a long 28"+2" chain for extention
I wear this locket as a reminder that my body has a rhythm that goes with a much larger energy than my own. It's connected to so many other women, to so many men, to animals and plants and it brings me peace to know that we're small yet never alone. We're all one.
Warmly,
Allyssa