Tourmaline

[nayrene]

Sooooo... I love rocks. A while back my fella gave me a tourmaline, a marquis-cut green one, and I just had it set in a ring. When I received stones or jewelry, especially rings, as gifts in the past, I felt ambivalent and conflicted -- rings symbolize boundaries and bondage as well as unity and devotion. I went down to the jewelers' place (awesome

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[justkimu]

I adore tourmaline. My engagement ring is watermelon tourmaline, and I wear some green tourmaline earrings. They really help me out when I need them, and kind of "keep me company" when I don't need them.

Do you like Anne LaMott's books? Many friends have suggested her, but I've yet to pick a novel up. :)

[nayrene]

It's so pretty, isn't it? And pure.

YES, I love Anne LaMott. Her writing inspires and buoys and calms me. "Traveling Mercies" is great, and so is her poetry, and I've been reading her column on Salon.com for a long time. "Joe Jones" was a gift from my sister, and it keeps on giving.

[be4u]

Love is never wrong. :)

Rings also symbolize the circle, the circle of life, and of being connected and whole. Doesn't have to be "bondage and servitude" type of commitment, either.

The ring circles the finger...but your finger is still whole and unchanged, within it.

I always keep a black tourmaline (with a tiny clear quartz crystal chip embedded in it) near my computer, to ward off negative energy.

[nayrene]

I think the stuff that surrounds love is often wrong, which is maybe where the ambivalence comes into play, at least for me.

My guy wears black tourmaline on a necklace for the same reason. And I've got kyanite and celestite, with some selenite he gave me, on my computer monitor's top, for the same reason (did I mention I love rocks?).