Feng Shui Necklaces

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 pavilion among pines, carved into a tablet of jade.This is shanshui, the mountain-and-water landscape Chinese painters have returned to for a thousand years: somewhere high, quiet and far from the city, kept as a picture of where you would go if you could....

A smooth tablet of pale jade, left uncarved.No engraving, no symbol, just the stone and the light moving across it. Jade is kept close in Chinese homes for calm and continuity, and an uncarved piece makes that its whole argument. The cloudiness inside is...

A jade circle barely wider than a fingertip.This is the bi disc reduced to its smallest form, the open centre still carrying the old meaning of a clear path. It is the piece for someone who wants jade on every day rather than for...

Two charms in one carving: the pixiu, and the hulu gourd beneath it.The pixiu is the winged creature of Chinese myth with an appetite for gold and no way to pass it, so what it takes in, it keeps. The hulu does the same...

Jade on a hand-tied red cord. Nothing metal.Red cord and jade is the oldest pairing in Chinese jewellery, the stone for steadiness and the thread for connection and luck. Red is the colour worn at every threshold in Chinese life, at new years, weddings,...

A full disc of pale jade, taijitu at the centre.Yin and yang are not opposites at war. They are two halves that need each other, each carrying a seed of the other, and the eight trigrams around them are the eight ways that balance...

A ring of jade with an open centre.The bi disc is one of the oldest forms in Chinese jade, carved and buried with the dead for four thousand years before anyone thought to wear one. The hole at its middle stands for heaven, and...

A jade disc carved with the eight trigrams.The bagua is the map feng shui works from, eight trigrams ringed around a still centre, and it usually hangs above a door to settle a room. Carved small in jade it does the same job at...

The vajra scepter, two thunderbolt heads meeting at a central sphere, cast in titanium steel. The vajra, or dorje, is the thunderbolt of Tibetan practice, a symbol of strength and steadiness that no force can break. In its scepter form the two heads face...

The double vajra, four thunderbolts crossed at the centre, cast in titanium steel. The vajra, or dorje, is the thunderbolt of Tibetan practice, a symbol of strength that cannot be broken. Crossed into the double vajra it points to all four directions at once,...

A phurba dagger crossed with a vajra and an axe blade, set with a single red stone. The phurba is a ritual dagger whose three-sided blade stands for cutting through ignorance, attachment and aversion. Crossed with the vajra, the thunderbolt of unbreakable strength, it...

A phurba dagger with a guardian face at its crown, cast in titanium steel. The phurba is a ritual dagger whose three-sided blade stands for cutting through ignorance, attachment and aversion. The wrathful face above the blade belongs to a protector, the fierce expression...