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PLEASE NOTE: This ring is a size 7.25. As this is a one of a kind ring and the gemstone is irreplaceable, we are unable to resize it.

A stunning fine cut oval purple labradorite is set into a variation of our Persephone's Jewel setting, composed of life cast bat bones.

Persephone embodies a number of complex dualities. She exists in the liminal space of belonging both to the Upperworld (Earth, the plane of the living) as well as the Underworld, the land of shadows and the dead. In each plane, she carries a different role; in the Upperworld she is the “returned” beloved daughter to Demeter. In the Underworld, she is Queen of the dead, shrouded in shadow and darkness. This ability to embody a dual nature also resides within each of us, we are capable of the transformations required to move between worlds and within each world; the inner and the outer realms of ourselves.

Persephone is a personification of death and rebirth, of renewal (seasons, the psyche) as well as the mysteries, terrors and power of the Underworld. She is both seen as destroyer, as well as linked to fertility, her mother Demeter controls the harvest while the darkness of the underworld suggests a metaphor for the creative wellspring.

Here, Persephone is visually linked to Hecate (who’s associated with guiding her out of the Underworld by torch light) by way of a similar aesthetic construction of the ring setting. Bat wing and leg bones (a creature also associated with the darkness of the Underworld with an ability to “see” with seeing) cradle a green rose cut oval labradorite, representing both the egg of transformation, rebirth, and fertility as well as the oval shape of the Pomegranate seed that Persephone ate, committing her forever to the Underworld.