Venus Rising from the Wisdom of the Sea

Waves…
The Waters singing their liquid, ever-rolling song
drip from every leaf,
drop along a darkening Stone, and
roll like rushing white arms
embracing the Shore.
carrying the Song…
Muttering and mumbling
like the White Knight of Wonderland
a new voice begins to sing…
“I feed upon the bread of the Sea,
and in turn I give of myself to feed others…
but does anyone ever listen to me?
I push along
sheltered in my armor,
yet with grit in my eye, harried,
I grumble…
‘Til a gem of wisdom forms within my head.
Then, oh yes, then they’ll pry me from my bed!
Therefore, Remember!
Each of us contains a
shining form of excellence,
Wisdom,
perfection…
Luminous and
Serene
within our roughened exteriors,
it forms and waits for our attention. *
I protect this emblem,
the *Queen of the Sea,
like all secrets, with silence.
These are truths that will set you free.”

Sailing through the Oceans wide,
arms outstretched
colorful and bright,
another shimmering voice abides…
“Two- Spirited,
I come to you
Singing of Growth…
Instinct …
Adaptability…
Renewal…
Survival…
and Sensuality.

Reserve your energy.
Remember your true self.
For a single piece
may become whole again,
a renewed self,
in time.
Feast upon the bounty that surrounds you!
Dare to swim against the tide!
Life is the reward,
just take it all in stride.”
Who Sings Now?

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” Winston Churchill

“There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball,
And that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.” Ogden Nash

“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.” Buddha

Luminous, miraculous, and delicately tinged with mysterious colors it is no surprise that Pearls have been so long admired by humanity. They have represented many things over the course of time; the Moon, a pure soul or simply the state of Grace, Wisdom, Elegance, Serenity, Truth, Innocence, Dignity, Love, Luck, Purity, Honesty, Integrity, and the Sea itself have all been represented by this gemstone. Perhaps more than any other concept though, the lustrous Pearl represents Excellence, Perfection. Pearls are a tangible reminder to create a miraculous life of Beauty around the ever-present irritations we will find along the way. Pearl teaches us to live every day striving to be the best that we can be, for we all carry the potential for perfection within us.

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.” Mary Engelbreit

“We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. ” Tad Williams

“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” Thomas Jefferson

Pearls are considered to be feminine receptive stones, and have been given to women in countless cultures as a visual flag to alert others that here is a woman of Queenly or even Divine Grace. Pearls are thought to give wisdom through experience, to quicken the laws of karma and to cement engagements and love relationships. They are thought to keep children safe.There are many types of pearls: natural (made without human interference), cultured (when a foreign substance is intentionally inserted into a living oyster, a method begun in 1893), baroque (irregularly shaped), freshwater (those that form in freshwater mollusks and resemble puffed rice), Biwa (irregularly shaped freshwater pearls from Lake Biwa), blister (pearls that become attached to the inside of the shell), Mabe (cultivated blister pearls), black pearls (gray-black in color, very impressive), and seed (tiny pearls used commonly during Victorian era for jewelry and on clothing).

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.” Doug Larson

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.” David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair

“No man was ever wise by chance.” Seneca

Pearls come in eight basic shapes: round, semi-round, button, drop, pear, oval, baroque, and ringed. Perfectly round is the most rare and most desired, especially for necklaces.Semi-rounds are also used in necklaces or in pieces where the shape of the pearl can be disguised to look like it is a round pearl. Button pearls are like a slightly flattened round pearl, and more commonly used in earrings.

Drop and pear shaped pearls are sometimes referred to as teardrop pearls and are most often seen in earrings, pendants, or as a center pearl in a necklace. Baroque pearls have a different appeal to them than more standard shapes because they are often highly irregular and make unique and interesting shapes. Ringed pearls are characterized by concentric rings, or ridges, around the body of the pearl. Cultivated pearls are less valuable than natural pearls, and imitation pearls are, of course, the least expensive. One way that jewelers can tell whether a pearl is cultivated or natural is by x-raying the pearl. If the grit in the center of the pearl is a perfect sphere, then the jeweler knows it is cultivated as this is done to further ensure the formation of a round pearl.Imitation pearls will not have a concentric formation or grit in the center at all.Although imitation pearls look the part, they do not have the same weight, luster, or smoothness as real pearls.

“Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.” Chinese Proverb

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. ” William Shakespeare

“If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.” Alan Simpson

Pearl necklaces have their own identity too. While most other necklaces are simply referred to by their measurement, strands of pearls have their own set of names that categorize them based on where they hang when worn around the neck. A collar, as the name implies, will sit directly against the throat and not hang down the neck at all. These are often made up of multiple strands of pearls. Pearl chokers will nestle just at the base of the neck and are also commonly made of multiple strands. The size called a princess comes down to, or just below the collarbone.

A matinee of pearls falls just above the breasts. An opera will be long enough to reach the breastbone or sternum of the wearer, and longer still, a pearl rope is any length that falls down farther than an opera. Necklaces can also be classified as uniform, where all the pearls are the same size. Graduated pearls are where the pearls are arranged in size from large in the center to smaller at the ends. Tin cup is a term used where pearls are generally the same size, but separated by lengths of chain.

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. ” F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. ” Katherine Mansfield

The bodycolor of a pearl refers to its main color which can be: white, silver, cream, gold, green, blue or black. Bodycolor is determined by the type of mollusk that produced it as well as the conditions of the water and sometimes the type of grit which forms it.Overtones are translucent colors which appear over the bodycolor. Overtones tend to alter the bodycolor somewhat, but also add depth and glow. A pearl may be silver with blue overtones, for example, but some pearls have no overtones at all.

The term orient refers to the pearls iridescent colors which appear to shimmer and move when the pearl is turned. This is caused by the way light reflects through the various thin layers of nacre which make up the pearl. These aspects remind us that everyone is unique, everyone has their own way of hanging in this life, yet everyone has worth and beauty. Each being is a miracle in and of itself and should be prized as such, especially when they don’t see themselves or anyone else this way.

“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world; everyone you meet is your mirror.” Ken Keyes, Jr.

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” William Shakespeare

The largest pearl is currently known as the Pearl of Lao-tze, and was recovered from a giant clam on May 7th, 1934 by an unknown diver off the coast of the Palawan Island in the Philippines. The Pearl of Lao-tze is 9.4 inches long and weighs about 14 lbs. The San Francisco Gem Laboratory has valued it at $40 million dollars. Interestingly enough, modern pharmaceutical industries continue to use pearls in medicine. Pearls which are of inferior quality, unfit for jewelery, are ground into fine powder and used to make high-quality pharmaceutical calcium! But myths, beliefs and legends about pearls can be found in just about anywhere.Medieval Europe, Arabia, China, India…almost every culture have used pearls for a wide range of medicinal purposes ranging including aphrodisiacs, cures for insanity, memory loss, insomnia, liver ailments, snake bites and even as proof against lies!

“To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell.” Ancient Proverb

“Truth fears no questions”. Unknown

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” Galileo Galilei

Hindu culture associates pearls with the Moon and are symbols of love and purity. It is said that Krishna found the first pearl and presented it to his daughter on her wedding day. Pearls are still a common feature or gift at weddings of many cultures. The Koran speaks of pearls as one of the great rewards to be found in Paradise and is a symbol of perfection. The Parable of the Pearl remains an important symbol to Christians the world over.Pearls are also said to symbolize tears, to provide love and fertility, to symbolize purity, and to ward off evil. Pearls are the official birthstone for the month of June according to the American National Association of Jewelers as of 1912, and is therefore closely associated with both Gemini and Cancer sun signs.

“Life is a shipwreck but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” Voltaire

“Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one.” Chinese Proverb

Pearls symbolize all the best within us, and their Lesson/Wisdom is to use the hardships we face throughout our lives to fully realize and become the best that we carry within us; personal excellence. They remind us to Walk in Beauty, to live with Dignity, and honor even the hardships that allows us yet another lesson or opportunity to live this way. Pearls can lift our spirits, evoke calm, beauty, femininity, or any of the many qualities that they represent. It takes time to form a Pearl, which is a reminder that our own growth and transformations take time too.

A large part of accepting ourselves is being patient with ourselves and allowing a proper amount of time for the changes we wish to bring about in our lives. Sacred to all Sea and Water deities, pearls are also very useful in stimulating and balancing various Chakras. Pink pearls, for example, are especially useful to the heart Chakra.One might select a Pearl to help with digestion issues or emotional stress which is ruled by the solar plexus Chakra located midway between the navel and the base of the sternum.

” The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.” Author Unknown

“Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ” Author Unknown

“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” Ralph Marston

Potential Balancing Energies: Oyster , Otter , Seastar , Water , Elephant , Earth, Amber, Amethyst, Fish like Salmon, Frog/Toad , Dragon/Snake , Whale, Dolphin, Shark, Turtle , Moose , Crow/Raven , Peacock, Swan , Bison/Buffalo , Lion , Wolf , Fox , Owl, Crane

Associated with: Venus/Aphrodite, Kwan Yin, White Tara, Heqet, Fand, Ambaji, Gemini, Krishna, Water elementals/faeries, Sky Nation especially Rain, Ho Hsien-Ku, Lakshmi, Maat, Manat, Salacia/Amphitrite, Thalassa, Poseidon/Neptune, Artemis/Diana, Athena/Minerva, Pontos, Leto, Selene, Cailleach Bheur, Branwen, Mari, Tiamat, Manannon, Lir

Key Concepts: Excellence, Feminine Wisdom/Power/Excellence, Balance, Beauty, Love, Knowledge/Wisdom, Exemplary Living, Immortality, Spirit, Soul, Lunar energy, Purity, Perfection

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