(g)ode
Friday, September 25

Venus is close. Today asks for tenderness.

stone photography — to be shot
Rose Quartz

The pink comes from fine traces of titanium and iron threaded through the quartz — a color the Assyrians were already carving eight centuries before the common era, and the Romans pressed into seals. It has always been the stone of softening.

On a morning that asks for less armor, not more, keep it where your hand rests.

Rhodonite

Pink manganese silicate threaded with black veins of oxide — named from the Greek word for rose. The Russian Urals gave it up in such quantity and quality that the Tsars sheathed whole rooms in it and Fabergé carved it small.

A Venus day asks for tenderness toward yourself first. Hold it where the heart sits while you make the peace.

Find them

This is today's sky for everyone. Tell (g)ode when you were born and it reads the sky against your chart.

Set up your chart