Silver Necklace with Moonstone

This beautiful silver necklace has six moonstones. Three moonstones are placed together in middle; one stone on each of the two arms of necklace while the last one hangs pretty at the bottom.

About Moonstone

Moonstone owes its name to this mysterious gleaming, which appears different whenever the stone changes its position in movement. While this phenomenon is known as the “adularescence”, in earlier times the phases of waxing and waning moon were though to be discerned in this phenomenon. Many mystical and magical connotations surround this stone. In several cultures, like for example in India, it is considered a sacred and magical gemstone. In India Moonstone is also appreciated as a “dream stone”, as it is supposed to bring about sweet and beautiful dreams. In Arab countries women often were Moonstone sewn into their garment, because there this gemstone is appreciated as a symbol of fertility.

During the phase of art nouveau, moonstone was rampantly used in jewelry. The famous French Master Goldsmith René Lalique and his contemporaries used it to decorate pieces of jewelry. This mystical gemstone belongs to the family of feldspar stones. Moonstone is derived from a variety of feldspar called “adularia” a silicate of potassium aluminium in gemstone quality, which is also found in the European Alps near the Adula-group – thus the name “adularia”. Another synonym for Moonstone is “Selenite”, as per the name of the Greek goddess of the moon, Selene.