There is such great healing and power in this combination of Czechia Moldavite, Herkimer Diamond and Ethiopian Opal. Here they are artistically arranged in sterling silver.
The Moldavite and Herkimer Diamond are raw. They have not been cut or polished. The Ethiopian Opal has been gently polished.
The total length of the pendant from the top of the bail to the bottom is 1.67 inches long by 0.55 inch.
Moldavite meaning:
Moldavite always green, but can vary from a yellowish green to a true dark green to a blush green. It is a vitreous (glasslike) silica formation that happened with a meteorite hit an area in the southern part of Germany and in the Czech Republic. This happened about 14 or 15 million years ago. Rocks that are naturally occurring glass as a result of a meteor impact are called tektites. They are different from the glass that forms from volcanoes in that they do not contain any water in them. If you melt volcanic glass, such as obsidian, it will be foamy because of the water content. Sometimes Moldavite is spelled moldevite or mouldavite.
The first time the public learned of its existence was in 1786 at the Bohemian Scientific Society in Prague during a talk given by Josef Mayer from the Prague University. He called the specimens chrysolites. Fifty years later, they were called Moldavite. The name had its roots in the Moldau River in Bohemia in the Czech Republic, which is where they found it.
Moldavite is also known as crater glass and as "the stone that fell to Earth."
Moldavite metaphysical properties:
Moldavite helps to dissolve conflict. Imagine the two sides of the issue or opposing forces in your mind as you hold your mouldavite. Now imagine them coming together into a ball of light.
Many shamans use Moldavite to clear traces or energies of black magic.
Moldavite healing properties:
Moldavite can be very effective in helping to alleviate problems of absorption, such as nutrients or even water. Along with Amethyst, it is recommended for issues of addiction, drugs and alcohol in particular.
If you have foot ailments, you can put your mouldavite in your bath as Moldavite is one of the best crystals for healing the feet.
Herkimer Diamond meaning:
Herkimer Diamond Double Terminated Crystals hand-mined in Herkimer. Herkimer Diamonds are colorless crystals that look like diamonds even though they are natural, rough crystals.
Herkimer Diamond properties:
Whereas Quartz crystals broadcast information, Herkimer Diamonds store information. The authentic Herkimer's, which these are, were mined in Herkimer, New York. Herkimer's formed during the Cambrian Age. They are about 500 million years old. They are an incredibly clear form of quartz.
Herkimer Diamond metaphysical properties:
Herkimer's align you with your heart's ultimate desires, both spiritually and materially. These crystals are about having it all!
Herkimer's are associated with attainment and completion. Numerologically, they are a culmination of all the values of numbers zero through twelve and rule the twelve months in a year and the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Herkimer Diamond healing properties:
Excellent for liver, gall bladder, bladder and intestines.
Herkimer Diamond meaning:
Herkimer Diamond Double Terminated Crystals hand-mined in Herkimer. Herkimer Diamonds are colorless crystals that look like diamonds even though they are natural, rough crystals.
Herkimer Diamond properties:
Whereas Quartz crystals broadcast information, Herkimer Diamonds store information. The authentic Herkimer's, which these are, were mined in Herkimer, New York. Herkimer's formed during the Cambrian Age. They are about 500 million years old. They are an incredibly clear form of quartz.
Herkimer Diamond metaphysical properties:
Herkimer's align you with your heart's ultimate desires, both spiritually and materially. These crystals are about having it all!
Herkimer's are associated with attainment and completion. Numerologically, they are a culmination of all the values of numbers zero through twelve and rule the twelve months in a year and the twelve signs of the zodiac.
Herkimer Diamond healing properties:
Excellent for liver, gall bladder, bladder and intestines.
Fire Opal meaning:
Tools have been discovered made of Ethiopian Opal that date back to 4000 BC.
Scholars differ on where the word opal originated. One theory is that it is derived from the root Latin word opalus, while others say it actually stems from the Sanskrit word úpala. And another theory is that it is derived from the root ancient Greek word, opallios.
Opals started to appear in Rome around 250 BC in references to opals being the most highly valued gemstones. Merchants from Bosporus brought them from India.
Pliny the Elder, the Roman naturalist and philosopher, 23 to 79 AD, wrote about opals associating them with the fertility, opulence and wealth of the wife of Roman god Saturn. Her name was Ops, which sounds kind of like a nickname for Opal.
Opallios, the ancient Greek word, had two interpretations. It could mean seeing or it could mean alias or an alternate choice. When opallios was used for how one saw something, it was like the English word, opaque. There's the op again. Put them together, and you've got seeing alternative colors. Certainly seems plausible until scholars asserted that this ancient Greek term didn't even show up anywhere until after the Roman seized the Greek states around 180 BC. Before that, the Romans used the word paederos to mean those things. That seems to confirm the Sanskrit origin.
From 400 to 1400 AD, opals were super popular as they were considered divine and bringers of good luck. The rainbow of colors were interpreted as divine virtues and that opals possessed all the positive qualities of other gemstones that were of colors seen in the opal.
Wicca folks would wrap an opal in a freshly picked bay leaf and hold it to be invisible, more convenient than Harry Potter's invisibility cloak.
Opals fell out of favor due to a popular novel written in 1829 by Sir Walter Scott. The novel is Anne of Geierstein. The Baroness character wears a lucky opal that is supposed to have special powers. All is good until a drop of holy water splashes on her opal which causes it lose all of its color. Then the Baroness dies. This book was a bestseller and the readers began to think of opals as bringers of bad luck and even death. After the book had been out for only a year, opal sales went down by fifty percent and stayed down for another twenty years.
The Russians used to believe that an opal was omen of evil. If a merchant showed up with an opal, all trading stopped. This was going in the early 1900's.
This Ethiopian gemstone attracts abundance and allowance.
Fire Opal is also an excellent gemstone for healing for individuals born between July 4th through July 13th and is also a birthstone for October.