Handmade Blessingway bead with red agate and amethyst gemstones, featuring a beautiful handcrafted lampwork glass bead, intricate bead caps and a pewter charm of your choice. Great focal bead or pendant for a Blessingway necklace. Amethyst is said to bring stability, strength, and peace, promote balance and healing, and reduce stress. Red Agate is a protection stone. This stone shields the wearer from negative energies and helps get rid of fear and anxiety. Red Agate attracts health and prosperity. It also encourages selflessness and acts of kindness that come from the heart. Butterfly symbolizes fertility, rebirth and transformation. Om symbolizes the essence of the ultimate reality, consciousness, it is the most sacred mantra, the sound of the universe. Key symbolizes liberation, knowledge, initiation, way to one's heart. Makes a wonderful gift for someone wishing for a baby, pregnant, breastfeeding, or working in the birth-related occupation. Perfect as a thank-you gift for a midwife, a doula, or an obstetrician. Can be used in a Red Tent or a Croning ceremony as well. Mother’s Blessing (or Blessingway, or Blessing Way) refers to honouring a pregnant mama. Whereas a baby shower focuses on the baby and on giving gifts to the baby, the Blessingway is held to shower the mother with love and understanding from other women. One of the most well-known Blessingway traditions is making a necklace for the mama. As part of the ceremony, each woman brings with her a bead and strings it on a cord, while sharing words of wisdom and love with the mama-to-be. Together the Blessingway beads make a necklace from which the pregnant mama can draw strength throughout the last weeks of her pregnancy and in labour. What is a Blessinway? http://fingeringzen.com/get-organized/what-is-a-blessingway How to organize a Blessingway: http://fingeringzen.com/get-organized/how-to-organize-a-blessingway More Blessingway beads: ======================== Birth Goddess: http://etsy.me/1fCdes4 Tree of Life: http://etsy.me/Pbj258 Key: http://etsy.me/1iO87Zt Moon: http://etsy.me/Pbjtwf Heart: http://etsy.me/QuSi0T Celtic knot: http://etsy.me/1dFoRDn Third eye: http://etsy.me/1ho2NMJ All Blessingway beads: http://etsy.me/1lf0dsY More birth items in my store: ======================== Pregnancy tracking necklaces: http://etsy.me/1pEnNj4 Moon cycle tracking necklaces and bracelets: http://etsy.me/1dG2Kgj Sheela-na-gig necklaces: http://etsy.me/1oepWqa Belly beads: http://etsy.me/1ofqj3K Please note that the item might differ slightly from the photo, as each bead is unique and each item created by hand. Do have a look at the other items in my shop to take advantage of combined shipping costs. All my creations are made with thought and love at my home-based studio in Ottawa, Canada. Please note that I am shipping from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada with Canada Post. Please check my Shop Policies for more details on shipping time and costs. I can guarantee that your item will be shipped in a timely manner. Unfortunately, I cannot guarantee a particular delivery date. Get a glimpse of my inspiration and more jewellery designs at http://www.FingeringZen.com. Make your world beautiful.