Red Moon Rising...Eclipse

"Lunar Eclipse"

(Necklace)   Price: $70.00 SOLD 

I have a bunch of largish Black Onyx drilled beads with openings in them that I've been toying with ideas what to do with them for awhile now. Inserting a bead or other focal element into the opening sounded intriguing and I wondered what ideas or story it would carry if I did. I'd been mooching through my beads on a break from tax stuff and paperwork and thought, ooh, I wonder if one of my Leopard Skin Jasper beads would fit. None of the regular moon-colored beads from that stash fitted, so I turned to the darker red and the almost black ones instead. The reddish-rust colored one went hand in glove into the opening like it was made for it. And I realized later that when the Moon is eclipsed, that a lot of the time it just changes to an earthy red. It became the eclipsed Moon in the blackness of space. Smaller, below that, was the Earth, portrayed here by my fave Italian handworked blue and copper toned glass. At the top, framed in gold is The Sun. I'm not exactly sure what this bead is, since I fished it out of a mixed box of beads. I shimmers, so it could either by plain old glass or Selenite, or even Moonstone. Either-wise, it fits the role. The small black space beads are also Black Onyx. Overall, the metallic gold elements give it an antique feel in an understated magical way. I am rather proud of the simple elegance this necklace conveys, and so proud of the celestial line up of Sun, Moon, Earth. Surprisingly, I completed this vision around the 28 August, 2026...at the peak of REAL lunar eclipse happening in actual real time. Rather tickled about that.

Thanks for stopping by,

Cheers,

Marianne