#115 · Node

Astronomers have tracked two points in the sky for over two thousand years — the places where the Moon's orbit crosses the Sun's path, called nodes, from the Latin nodus, a knot. They don't shine and they don't move on their own, yet nothing significant in the sky — no eclipse, no alignment — happens anywhere else.

Science calls a node a crossing point. We call it proof that being a fixed reference is its own kind of power, even without light of your own.

A node comes in a pair by definition: ascending, where a path rises through the plane, and descending, where it falls back through it. Never one without the other.

This ring holds both. The black diamonds mark the two points — top and bottom, ascending and descending — where the white diamond outline crosses back on itself. Between them, at its own angle to both, sits a pentagon-cut orange sapphire that answers to neither.

The Composition:

• central sapphire: pentagon cut, natural and untreated, VVS clarity, 0.5 ct. Origin: Songea, Tanzania.
• white diamonds: lab-grown: VS clarity, 0.22 ct
  
• black diamonds: natural, round cut, 0.08 ct

Any design in the shop can be rebuilt around a different stone, metal or size. Tell us what you have in mind and we will sketch it for you.

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• Made to order: 4–5 weeks
• Ready to ship: 10–12 days

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