Aquamarine Shell Gold plated hoop Earrings

Gorgeous faceted Aquamarine gemstone earrings on gold plated sterling silver hoops, with 18k Gold plated Shell charms. 

These earrings have interchangeable charms & gemstones available.

Aquamarine, gets its name from the Latin word for seawater, and ancient mariners claimed the gem would calm waves and keep sailors safe at sea. It was also thought to bring happiness in relationships. Aquamarine helps one to move fluidly through life with emotional clarity and strength. Its a stone to unblock the throat chakra for clear communication to encourage speaking their own truth and stand up for themselves without fearing the consequence of conflict. Aquamarine nurtures strength to use their voice fearlessly to impose healthy boundaries, and to find the glorious balance of grounding with divine mysticism.

Seashells have played a part in religion and spirituality, even as ritual objects and have long, deep symbolic roots. The first reference to a seashell can be found in the Egyptian Papyrus where the seashell image was used as a symbol for humankind. The Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, and Islamic traditions also each have some form of belief about seashells.  In Christianity, the scallop shell is the symbol of Saint James the Great who used the scallop shell during his pilgrimage to Santiago to beg for food and water. Even the poorest people could fill the small shell, so he always found help along his way. It became the symbol of pilgrimage believed to promote courage, strength, resilience, and hope and is used as a symbol of direction along the Camino, pointing pilgrims towards Santiago. Los peregrinos wear shell symbols to further enhances the camaraderie along this incredible hike which I was fortunate enough to walk last summer. Buen Camino.

Shells are also perceived as a feminine symbol, associated with the womb, fertility and rebirth. The scallop shell, as exemplified in ancient and renaissance paintings of Venus, the Roman goddess of fertility and love also known as Aphrodite to the Greeks. She is often shown coming out of a scallop shell. In Botticelli’s painting ‘The Birth of Venus’ the goddess of beauty, love and fertility, Venus stands naked and freshly born and covers her nakedness with her long, free flowing hair carried on an enlarged scallop shell. Venus was said to be ‘born of the sea spray’. In Botticelli’s rendering, she balances delicately in all of her female beauty, reminiscent of a pearl shining inside its shell. 




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