Notes from the workshop.

What I learn about the stone, the metal, and the twelve signs, written down as I go. No schedule. A piece appears when there is something worth saying.

The long read

Which zodiac should wear moonstone

The argument across all twelve signs, why the calendar hands the Moon's own sign a ruby, and how to choose when the lists disagree.

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Raw moonstones on river pebbles

The month

Moonstone, and the other two stones June was given

Pearl, moonstone and alexandrite. What the 1912 list actually is, how the three differ in hardness and in light, and how to choose between them.

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Natural moonstone with a blue sheen, one of June's three birthstones
Oxidized silver coin against a moonstone
Moonstone for Scorpio
The deep end of the water signs.
Natural moonstone showing its blue sheen
How to Tell a Real Moonstone
The tilt test, and what opalite actually is.
Moonstone bracelet on linen
Moonstone Care
Water, cleaning, and the one thing not to do.
Soon
Silver, Honestly
What the silver is, and what it is not.

Quiet, and always there.