Just Witchy's Blog — Luck

Today's featured stone is Adventureine--The Stone of Opportunity--prized for attracting luck, prosperity, and emotional healing and hearth health... Aventurine Ring Disembodied voice: You mean Aventurine. Yeah, that's what I said.  Disembodied voice: No, it's not. You said Adventureine. (EYEROLL) Okay, I meant aventurine. I'm pretty sure everyone knew what green gemstone I was talking about... Disembodied voice: Sometimes it's not green. Umm...what? Disembodied voice: Aventurine is a translucent quartz. The name comes from the Italian a ventura, which means by chance, referring to the 17th century Murano glassmakers who accidentally dropped metal shavings into molten glass--creating sparkling aventurine glass. Peach Aventurine Bracelets...

Ohhh, shiny, but wait, that's not gold! Pyrite Small Sphere No, it's not. It's Pyrite, but don't let it "fool" you into thinking it is something less desirable or less worthy than gold, Pyrite is more than meets the eye!      To the untrained eye, Pyrite is often mistaken for gold (thus the reason it is often referred to as Fools Gold). It's shiny and pretty, and yes, it does resemble gold with its brassy, yellow appearance, but that is where the resemblance ends. Unlike gold, it is less malleable, has a different crystalline shape and a difference in...

 Featured Shinyite: Tiger’s Eye I was first hired by Just Witchy's for a special project involving bagging backflow incense cones. It was the height of the pandemic, and because of transportation and manufacturing issues, nearly everything had to be ordered in large quantities to ensure product was available. Unfortunately, these were not necessarily quantities the customer was going to purchase. Not many customers needed 550 lilac scented backflow cones, thus the need for my special talents. I love titles, so I created one for myself: Incense Inventory Specialist. It sounded better than: Backflow Cone Counter. As time progressed, the owners...