Red Jasper Palm Stone Home Blessing it was cut into seal-stones

it was cut into seal-stones and mirrors in the ancient Mediterranean

and gentle prosperity

5: spare hard knocks

Harder than quartz

The colours are thin-film interference from lamellar structures at the nanometre scale within the stone - the same physics as a soap bubble

Red Jasper Palm Stone Home Blessing it was cut into seal-stonesRed jasper an opaque brick red chalcedony coloured through by iron, carved into seals and amulets since the earliest civilisations. Solid and earthy, with the heft of fired clay. From India, a palm stone. It is the opaque cousin of carnelian the same iron coloured chalcedony, but so densely included that no light passes, reading as deep, even terracotta sometimes crossed by darker veining. Its name descends through Latin and Greek from older words