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The six-pointed star, two triangles interlaced, cast in titanium steel. One triangle points up, one points down, and where they lock together they make a single form. Across many traditions the hexagram has stood for the meeting of opposites: heaven and earth, fire and...

The two-faced Buddha, one face serene and one wrathful, cast in titanium steel. In Buddhist art the calm face and the fierce face are two expressions of the same care. The serene half is compassion, the patience that waits and forgives. The wrathful half...

A faceted crystal point on a chain, held still until it moves. The pendulum is one of the oldest tools for asking a yes or no question. You hold the chain steady over the question and let the point swing, reading the small movements...

The Heart Sutra, carved in full around a cylinder of obsidian. The Heart Sutra is the shortest of the great Buddhist texts, some 260 characters that can be chanted in a minute, and it has been copied, carried and recited for over a thousand...

A clear quartz point, six faces rising to a tip. Clear quartz is the master stone, valued for clarity and for holding whatever intention is brought to it, which is why a point is usually the first piece in a collection and the one...

A pixiu crouched on a ruyi, carved from one piece of obsidian. The pixiu (貔貝) is the wealth guardian that takes fortune in and has no way to let it go. The ruyi (如意) it rests on is the curled sceptre whose name means...

A red cord braided in the vajra knot, with a small obsidian hulu. The red string is the oldest protective charm in Chinese dress, tied on at a birth year, a wedding, or the start of something uncertain. The hulu (葫芦), the calabash gourd,...

The laughing Buddha, carved in black obsidian. He is Budai, the wandering monk of Chinese folk tradition, taken as a form of Maitreya, the Buddha still to come. The open mouth and the bare belly are the whole point. He is kept for good...

A dragon in obsidian, rising through cloud over the sea. The carving is the old motif of the dragon over the four seas, 龙腾四海, the creature of the east and of rain, kept for ambition, authority and rising standing. The figure is polished to...

A dragon coiled across a tablet of smoky, see-through obsidian. The dragon is the one creature in the Chinese zodiac that never lived, and the only one that ranks with emperors. It stands for ambition, authority and the kind of luck that comes to...

A pixiu carved in polished obsidian, hung on a beaded cord. The pixiu (貔貅) is the wealth guardian of Chinese feng shui, a winged creature said to feed on gold and silver and, having no way to let it out, to keep every bit...

An amethyst point in a filigree cap, hung on a fine chain. Amethyst has long been kept to steady the thoughts and soften the edges of a hard day. Cut here into a six-sided point and capped in worked metal, it hangs true and...

The guardian of your birth year, carved in translucent obsidian. In Chinese Buddhist tradition each of the twelve animals is watched over by one of eight Buddhas and bodhisattvas, the benmingfo (本命佛), and the custom is to wear your own. Thousand-armed Guanyin for the...

The guardian of your birth year, carved in translucent obsidian. In Chinese Buddhist tradition each of the twelve animals is watched over by one of eight Buddhas and bodhisattvas, the benmingfo (本命佛), and the custom is to wear your own. Thousand-armed Guanyin for the...

A ring with a prayer wheel on it, the barrel turning under the thumb. The barrel is cut with Tibetan script, the six syllable mantra Om Mani Padme Hum, the same words carried on the hand held prayer wheels of Tibetan Buddhist practice. In...

A gold pixiu (貔貅) on a silver band that turns. The pixiu is the wealth guardian of Chinese feng shui, a winged creature said to feed on gold and silver and, having no way to let it out again, to keep every piece of...

A druzy crystal in a gold-tone band, left open at the back. Druzy is a crust of tiny quartz crystals grown over the surface of a stone, so the face is never flat and catches light the way frost does on a window. Quartz...

The guardian buddha for your birth year, carved in obsidian. In Chinese Buddhist tradition each of the twelve animals is watched over by one of eight figures: Thousand-armed Guan Yin for the rat, Akasagarbha for the ox and tiger, Manjushri for the rabbit, Samantabhadra...

The guardian buddha for your birth year, carved in obsidian. In Chinese Buddhist tradition each of the twelve animals is watched over by one of eight figures: Thousand-armed Guan Yin for the rat, Akasagarbha for the ox and tiger, Manjushri for the rabbit, Samantabhadra...

A crab in polished steel, claws raised over its shell. In Chinese painting the crab is a wish for first place. Its shell is called jia (甲), the same word as the top grade in the old imperial exams, so a crab was given...