Ammonite Fossil ~ Makramee Edelstein Kette

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When you start to look into the topic of crystals and gemstones, it can be a little overwhelming at first. What makes the small and large energy stones so special? Which one is right for me and what effect is it known for? And what do I do with it? Don't worry, we felt the same way in the beginning. The first thing you need to know: You can't really do anything wrong. Gemstones can be easily integrated into your everyday life.

Gemstones are considered powerful companions, especially at a time when we spend most of our day looking at small screens. We quickly forget the world around us and feel disconnected – from nature, our fellow human beings and ultimately ourselves.
Even if you quickly forget it with the dazzling colors and extraordinary cuts: gemstones come from nature. They are formed from magma in the earth's interior or by high pressure on a rock and can transfer this energy to us. It often takes many thousands of years for a stone to penetrate to the earth's surface.
So the stone you finally hold in your hands is many years older and carries a lot of wisdom and power. Let yourself be grounded by this thought, arrive in the moment and look not only into the future, but also to what has already been. This is the only way we can learn.
Whether you just wear your new companion and let it work on you ~ or use it for rituals and ceremonies is now in your hands.

Ammonite is the stone of the third decade of Cancer. The ammonite as a fossil of an extinct cephalopod species native exclusively to the sea fits well with the proximity to the element of water in the crab of the third decade. It manages to harmonize the different forces within it, which cancer often fails to do. The ammonite helps the Cancer to accept the natural course of events and to be steadfast towards it. It brings to light the intuition of cancer and thus gives the necessary gut feeling when making decisions. Empathy and harmony are also important meanings of ammonite. With his sinuous appearance, he promotes the development of cancer from the inside out.

Name: Cleoniceras (Grycia) cf. besairiei
Origin: Madagascar
Age: uppermost Lower Cretaceous, Albian, ca. 105 million Years

The ammonite stands for eternity and resurrection, life force, wisdom and infinity.
In Feng Shui, it is considered a stone that improves the flow of chi, thereby promoting well-being and health. It is also said to detoxify the body.
Some neopagan currents assign the ammonite – because of its spiral shape – to the goddess, and use it for meditation, or for rituals of fertility, childbirth and as a protective stone for children.

What the ammonites really looked like, how they moved and how they lived has not yet been conclusively proven, and remains the subject of controversial discussions.
All we have left of them are fossil remains, stone cores – rarely preserved mother-of-pearl of their shells.
The ammonite lived in a spirally wound shell, which was divided into chambers inside. In the outermost chamber was the animal. The "compartments" of its housing were connected by a channel called a "siphon". It is believed that gas (or water) was pumped in and out of the chambers by means of the siphon in order to regulate the diving depth and buoyancy of the animals in the water.
The images that visually bring ammonites close to octopuses and octopuses are speculation. Since their soft tissues – the actual animals – have passed, their shape cannot be reconstructed with certainty. It is possible that the living ammonites were just as diverse and diverse as their shells, which show a wide range from smooth forms, to thorn-studded specimens, and to species with differently pronounced ribs.

The ammonites were probably first mentioned by the Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD). He can also be seen as their "godfather", because the name ammonite goes back to the similarity of the fossils with the ram's horns of the Egyptian god Amun (Ammon), which Pliny noticed. In modern science, the paleontologist and geologist Karl Alfred von Ritter (1839-1904) introduced the systematization of the family Ammonidae.


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