Magical Silver Metal of the Moon
Everyone loves wearing silver jewelry, from rappers and rock artists to wiccans, pagans, surfers, and men and women from all walks of live. This prescious metal glows softly or vibrantly with what seems like an other-worldly, shimmer and shines like a slice of captured moonlight worn by the wearer and imbuing them with magical and mystical powers.
Pure silver is harder than gold, has the whitest colour and can be shined to the highest sheen of any metal, it has the highest optical reflectivity and is used in paper thin sheets to create mirrors and in even thinner, transparent sheets to create reflective window treatments in high rise buildings.Silvers association with the moon and mystical or religious traditions is 1,000’s of year old, it is perhaps (disputed) the oldest metal to have been refined in history: used as money, for trade, in ceremonies Pagan, Christian and Asian, as trade, and to decorate the bodies of VIP’s throughout history.
The word ‘Silver’ comes from the Indo-European root arg meaning ‘white’ or ‘shining’ and also appears in the Ango-Saxon in various forms such as seolfor and siolfor and in the Teutonic as silabar and silbir. Silver’s story is long and rich and filled with fascination information. Silver: Argentum (latin) Chemical symbols: (Ag) and the shape of the cresent moon. Scientifically and historically silver has many unique properties and has been used in many ways. It is classified as a soft, lustrous, white transition metal and has the highest electrical and thermal conductivity of any metal. It has been used in coins, ingots, jewelry, tableware and photography and for the religious objects of many traditions.
For 1,000’s of years it was considered more precious