Sacred Spiral Drop Earrings
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Artisan Spiral Drop Earrings
These beautiful spirals are made from flat hammered thick silver wire, and suspended from sterling cast clamshell beads.
The spiral symbol is believed to have originated with the idea of a cycling upward. A concept from magic and Kabbalah, and represents a pathway in maze-form, similar to the path you walk to climb sacred hills like Glastonbury Tor.
Spirals are an eternal symbol of creative change and development, and are found in many cultures around the world -- from Anasazi petroglyphs and pottery, to ancient Celtic tombs, Stone-Age Europe to pre-dynastic Egypt, the Far East to Australian aboriginals. It is found in art and dance, philosophy, geomancy, occultism, magic, and shamanism.
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- 1-1/4" drop earrings, with hand-hammered sterling silver 3/4" spiral
More about Spirals
The revolution of the spiral represents a route to a higher consciousness, and spiral energy fields even at the atomic level govern our physical lives.
Spirals reflect all things in nature which start from the center and expand. Evolution and awareness. Creation, birth, life, and rebirth.
Sprial growth occurs in our day to day lives in whirlpools, movement of the stars and planets, the shape of a snail's shell, or the curled fern emerging from the earth. Dowsers can detect earth energies which run in spirals.
It is the "center of the world" symbol in the Tibetan mythical kingdowm of Shambhala. It is said the Welsh Goddess, Arianrhod, lived in a castle in the center of a spiral path. In ancient Ireland it is believed a clockwise spiral represented the shrinking winter sun.
It is also symbolic of serpents and dragons. But dragonlore is a subject for another time!