Vintage butterflies alight a copper chain

The Butterfly is one of our most poetic images of Psyche’s self-renewal beyond even traumatic endings. Australian Aborigines imagined butterflies as returning souls that entered the afterlife in the form of earth bound caterpillars

Vintage Lucite and copper beads intertwined on a golden vintage chain

Aztec Indian legend held that cacao seeds had been brought from Paradise and that wisdom and power came from eating the fruit of the cacao tree. Ancient chronicles report that the Aztecs, believing that the god Quetzalcoatl traveled to earth on a beam of the Morning Star with a cacao tree from Paradise, took his offering to the people. They learned from Quetzalcoatl how to roast and grind the cacao seeds, making a nourishing paste that could be dissolved in water.

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Pretty vintage daisies adorn a copper chain

Remember hazy summer days sitting in a field of flowers making Daisy Chains, well we made one to remind ourselves of those halcyon days. 

The ancients dedicated the Daisy to the goddess Artemis. Artemis is the lady of wild things and she has become synonymous with wildness herself. She is twin sister to Apollo, born of Leto who named her goddess of the moon and protector of women. Hers is the way of wilderness, deep and mysterious.

 Vintage chain with antique silver plaque, strung with gorgeous feathers. Necklace chain is 75cm (29") long. Worn here with Mothmoon Cuff.

Vintage ornate pendant with filigree back and golden centre with vintage keys and lock on copper chain, hung from vintage golden chain.

The Babylonian goddess Ishtar bears the keys that open the locks of heaven. Her counterpart Cybele locks up the earth each winter and opens it to growth and flowering every spring. Human consciousness perpetually searches for the key that will give it access to the object of its longing- self discovery, peace of mind, the enigmatic heart of the beloved.

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A stunning vintage roaring lion adorns a vintage golden shell on a chain of vintage jet glass beads. A simple yet stunning statement. 

The ancient Egyptian Warrior Goddess Sekhmet, lioness, or lioness headed is the watchful, sometimes raging eye of the sun god "Ra"; her breath the hot desert winds and her body emanating a fiery glow. In Western tradition, the lion is paired with the unicorn, that eternal symbol of the feminine.

 Our last one left: on sale half price : Vintage Chain and plaque hung with gorgeous feathers. Wear with Divine Earrings -Orange

Brilliant blackened crystalline bird hung from rare vintage (60's) tri-coloured aluminium chain.

The Egyptian Ba, or soul bird is a manifestation of the fullness of each person's individuality, surviving even death and always returning to the body.

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 A Trinity of Vintage Cross's alight a vintage filigree Oval, bound with blackened lucite beads. A fabulous necklace that can be worn everyday for sweet salvation from all of your sins!

In ancient Greece, a junction of three ways was dedicated to Hecate. The marker of three faces looking in three directions signified her dominion of the three realms of the physical world-sea, sky and earth - and the three phases of the moon, and night with its lunar intimations and terrifying obscurities.

Vintage cone beads and jet jewels hung from blackened choker chain.

Rumi declared that Black was “the consummation of all colours” . Black envelops and swallows, is cave and abyss, the holes of space and the bowels of the earth, night, melancholy and death. The alchemists described the Nigredo as “black, blacker than black” and rejoiced in its teeming potential in which could be conceived the golden embryo of self.