Peridot

Green Fire. Solar Power.

Most green stones pull from the earth—moss, forest, shadow. Peridot pulls from the sun. This is the green of new growth that cracks through lava rock. The green that glows even in low light because it carries its own fire.

Ancient Egyptians called it the "gem of the sun" and mined it on a volcanic island in the Red Sea. Cleopatra's famous emeralds? Historians now believe many were actually peridot—brighter, fiercer, born from the kind of heat that would melt anything softer.

Peridot doesn't come from gentle compression over time. It forms in the molten mantle of the earth and erupts to the surface in volcanic fury. It's found in meteorites—literally forged in space and hurled to earth. This is a stone that survives conditions that would vaporize most gems.

You wear peridot when you're in the middle of your own eruption. When the old life is burning down and something new is forcing its way through the ash. When you need the kind of strength that doesn't come from endurance—it comes from transformation so violent it creates something that never existed before.

New beginnings aren't gentle. They're volcanic. Wear the fire.