Australian handmade gemstone necklace - pyrite, matt onyx and Tibetan silver - 40cm

Pyrite

Possesses a defending quality and is an excellent preventive, shielding one from negative energies. Creates an energy field within the aura which shields the physical, etheric and emotional bodies. Also works to allay physical danger. Encourages and sustains the ideal of perfect health, intellect and emotional well-being. Stimulates perfect recall, memory and perception.

Onyx

Enhances centering and alignment of the total person with higher powers. Helps to banish grief, enhance self-control, stimulate wise decision-making, and to encourage happiness and good fortune. Also helps to cleanse ones intuitive receivers and instincts. Helps one to see the duality and to synthesize the yin/yang into the whole. Activates the memory to master the future.

In the Shri Vidya school of Hindu tantra, the Sri Yantra ("sacred [Sri Chakra]"), is a diagram formed by nine interlocking triangles that surround and radiate out from the central (bindu) point.The two dimensional Sri Chakra, when it is projected into three dimensions is called a Maha Meru.Mount Meru derives its name from this Meru like shape.

It represents the goddess in her form of Shri Lalita or Tripura Sundari, "the beauty of the three worlds" (Bhoo, Bhuva and Swa). The worship of the Sri Chakra is central to the Shri Vidya system of Hindu worship. Four isosceles triangles with the apices upwards, representing Shiva or the Masculine. Five isosceles triangles with the apices downward, symbolizing female embodiment Shakti. Thus the Sri Yantra also represents the union of Masculine and Feminine Divine. Because it is composed of nine triangles, it is known as theNavayoni Chakra.

"These nine triangles are of various sizes and intersect with one another. In the middle is the power point (bindu), visualizing the highest, the invisible, elusive centre from which the entire figure and the cosmos expand. The triangles are enclosed by two rows of (8 and 16) petals, representing the lotus of creation and reproductive vital force. The broken lines of the outer frame denote the figure to be a sanctuary with four openings to the regions of the universe".