Small Goddess Moonstone pendant (sterling silver)

Goddess - Spiritual, feminine, re-connection
A goddess is a female being who's believed to be the source of life and being. Cultures worldwide worshipped goddesses from early times, although the Christianity movement in particular fazed it out. Today, however, there's a rising popularity in re-kindling connections with goddesses, especially from women who feel traditional religions lack the extra perspective and guidance they seek.

Celebrating goddesses offers a way of embracing and rediscovering female characteristics, of celebrating feminine abilities, thoughts and capabilities. It offers a form of spirituality that means something to women and celebrates their unique power and self-worth. Each goddess has her own characteristics and linking to the one that seems appropriate to you is said to help enhance those particularly qualities in your own life.

Examples of goddesses, their culture of origin, and their characteristics:

Aphrodite: Greek; pleasure, sensuality, love, passion
Artemis: Greek; nature, independence, courage, determination
Athena: Greek; intelligence, inner wisdom, art, creativity
Ceridwen: Celtic; abundance, death, rebirth
Diana: Roman; nature, independence, reaching goals
Freya: Norse; grounded, fertility, opportunities
Hathor: Egyptian; beauty, power, wisdom, abundance, fertility
Isis: Egyptian; mysticism, self-assurance, intuition
Kali: Hindu; courage, fearlessness, releasing negativity
Minerva: Roman; intelligence, wisdom, healing, intuition
Venus: Roman; love, growth, sexuality
White Buffalo Calf Woman: Native American; earth, dignity, grace, energy balance

Moonstone - Intuition, renewal, awareness
Moonstone is mostly milky white, sometimes with clear areas, and some pieces exhibit a bluey chatoyancy or luminous reflection.

The delicate and motherly energy of moonstone promotes the use of intuition and gut feelings, rather than relying constantly on intellectual reasoning. As such, it acts as a form of energetic reminder of how you have all the tools to guide yourself, if only you give them a try and stop worrying too much.

Like the moon itself, the energy also carries it with a sense of renewal and the notion that life is a continuing process with many births and many deaths along the way. It can be used as a tool to help you accept this process more readily, and maybe even to welcome it, because every death and resulting birth brings you greater knowledge of yourself and the world you live in.

Peter Stone Company - High quality jewellery manufacturer
Holisticshop.co.uk has been trading with Peter Stone Jewellery for many years now because we consistently find their products to be of a high quality. The Peter Stone Company purchases raw silver and produces their own true .925 sterling silver alloy in their own factory. All rings are cast to size and craftsmen cut and inlay each stone for a perfect fit. Every piece of jewellery created is hand polished not tumble polished. The gems they use are of excellent quality and the prices we have always found to be very competitive.

Peter Koslowski had been working on merchant ships since 1983 while living in Sri Lanka and was fortunate to be exposed to an abundance of precious stones and he began to purchase and trade them, as well as silver. During this period he also studied gemology and jewellery making in a number of countries. This then lead to the founding of the Peter Stone Company in 1992 in Bangkok, Thailand, where he still resides.