This ring is Ready to Ship and will leave the studio in 3 - 5 business days. It can not be resized before leaving our studio. These photos are not of the specific ring you will be receiving. The labradorite in this ring is a translucent teal with warm undertones. 

If you purchase this item with any other jewel, please be aware that our jewelry is handmade to order and takes approximately 6-8 weeks to create before shipping, meaning your Ready to Ship jewel will ship with the rest of your order. This cuts down on multiple shipping costs for you, and unnecessary waste for the environment. 

Dear you, I am writing to you on the cusp of a new year, on the liminal bridge between years. I am offering a signet ring of the sea - a signing of your name that is soaked in the brine of the deeps, the barnacles evidence of ancient time, sparkling with a ‘sea-change’ in the form of the earth’s gem stones. 

One summer day long ago, Percy Shelley took his boat, “Ariel” out on to sea off the Gulf of Larici in Italy where he was staying with his wife, Mary Shelley, infamously know to have written “Frankenstein”. A violent storm, his and his crewmen’s inexperience and perhaps the boat’s poor construction caused him and the others to drown. Their bodies were cremated days later on the shore. While witnessing the funeral pyre of their friend, John Edward Trelawny retrieved the unburned and whole heart of Shelley from the flames, severely burning his hand in the process. The heart eventually made it to Mary Shelley, who wrapped it in poetry and kept it with her safely.

Something about this story, this unburned heart within a pyre near the sea - the way death and life, sorrow and the eternal endurance of Frankenstein and all who surrounded its fateful creation and around Mary Shelley, has always lit up my imagination. The gravestone of Percy Shelley features a part of Ariel’s song in Shakespeare’s The Tempest , which has also followed me around all these years, and 10 years of Sea Witch jewels:

    Nothing of him that doth fade, 

    But doth suffer a sea-change

    Into something rich and strange.

I think of Sea-change - the promise of transformation, of a huge shift - seismic and beautiful - but also the pain of it, how we must drown parts of ourselves or how others or circumstances out of our control, or the world drowns our hearts, how our hearts can be placed on funeral pyres - but also, how our hearts can still be ‘alive’ even if put to the flame - our poet’s hearts - rich with experience - with melancholy with strangeness … can still be whole. We may grow barnacles from our time in the deep, from being still in our solitude, but we can still find the stars ….we can still find each other to wrap our hearts in the poetry of kinship poetry, to keep our hearts close to one another. 

This ring is cast in sterling silver, hand oxidized to achieve our favorite shade of stormy gray, and then finished to highlight the bright luminous silver beneath.

Details:

-Sits almost 9mm off of the finger

-20 x 23mm 

-Solid sterling silver

-6mm fine cut round Labradorite 

- Seen on Jen Von Haunt with the Eternal Return Bangle 

Labradorite:

Labradorite is known for its healing properties, in particular for its ability to relieve anxiety & melancholy. It is also said to be used to dispel negativity & fear, acting as a kind of psychic armor to protect against more troubling & turbulent emotions. As a 'sister' to moonstone, Labradorite is often associated with the more "darker" aspects of the Goddess, in her Crone form, full of the experience & wisdom of life and death, associated with the darker moon: waning through new moon phases.

It is also a stone of transformation, and is said to help those with intuitive gifts to awaken and realize their full potential as well as helping enhance creative talents. It also ranks as one of the most protective stones, shielding its wearer from negativity. Much like its 'sister' Moonstone, Labradorite has been used and worn in many cultures and tribes for both its incredible natural beauty, and for its potent magical properties.

As they are entirely natural, earth made stones, color and clarity will vary from stone to stone.  Labradorite has natural lines and inclusions and varies in shades of green (teal, swamp green, olive green) to shades of (light grey to dark) blue. If you have any concerns over the stone that will be chosen for you, please contact us after making your purchase so we may best assist you.

These jewels are hand cut and therefore may have very slight differences in size and may have small signs of the carver's hands along the edges. These are not fabricated by a machine, they are made by hand and therefore aren't uniformly perfect. The photographs accurately portray the quality of the stones and the cuts. 

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