October Opal 📿
The Natural Birthstone seduced the sign of Scorpio and Libra
Let Her Noble Beauty be fit for a Gallant King of Constantinople
The National Gemstone produced most bounteously in Australia
Set Personal Jewellery worn as a Potent Ring of October Opal
Famous Opals 📿
- The Andamooka Opal, presented to Queen Elizabeth II, also known as the Queen’s Opal
- The Aurora Australis Opal, considered to be the most valuable black opal
- The Black Prince Opal, originally known as Harlequin Prince
- The Empress of Australia Opal
- The Fire Queen Opal
- The Flame Queen Opal
- The Flamingo Opal
- The Halley’s Comet Opal, the world’s largest uncut black opal
- The Jupiter Five Opal
- The Olympic Australis Opal, reported to be the largest and most valuable gem opal ever found
- The Pride of Australia Opal, also known as the Red Emperor Opal
- The Red Admiral Opal, also known as the Butterfly Stone
English: An opal doublet from Andamooka South Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Opal from Yowah, Queensland, Australia. Length: about 20mm. Français : Une opale provenant de Yowah, dans le Queensland, en Australie. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Black Precious-Opal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Black Precious-Opal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Raw opal found in Andamooka South Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Opal (length: 6 cm). Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Opal in rock. Australia (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Opal, Australia (length 6 cm) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Opal, Australia (length 5 cm) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
A modern opal bracelet from Australia. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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That is an interesting poem. If ‘the national gemstone produced most bounteously in Australia’, I wonder where the hammer that I use for slapping the thunder was produced in.
Subhan Zein
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Dear Subhan Zeus,
Yes, SoundEagle wonders about that too. Thank you very much for honouring SoundEagle with your very first thunderous comment at SoundEagle’s blog. SoundEagle awaits further thunder bolts and lightning strikes from your heavenly highness!
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ah, that’s too much, please. My comment was just a self-mockery, you know that.
Subhan Zein
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Perhaps we shall grant your sudden self-deprecation with just a little demotion: you are now Subhan Thor instead. 🙂 SoundEagle likes that title.
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Ah, please, nothing like that, not at all. What I have in my tagline of my blog is just a metaphor. The light is happy days, and the thunder is sad days, so it’s all about metaphor. The truth is in the last sentence: I’m just a man who’s learning to write fiction and poetry. Now that’s the truth, because I am an apprentice.
Now that you bring it up, I need to clarify that half of what I say are meaningless, but the only reason for me to do that is so the other half would reach you.
Subhan Zein
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Please pardon any misunderstanding.
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Subhan, since you like this poetic post about October Opal, SoundEagle thought that you might be interested in SoundEagle‘s other poetic post about September Sapphire.
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I read a wonderful story, about how the opal came to have such wonderful colours, when I was a child. It was in a book of children’s stories called “On a Pincushion”. A variety of pins & brooches reside together on a pincushion, in a jewelry box. They take it in turns to relate stories from their ‘lives’. The opal is last & tells a wonderful, but sad, tale of true love between a sunbeam & moonbeam.
You have created a wonderful site here. Congratulations & thank you for visiting my fledgling blog 🙂
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We both have fairly new blogs to the extent that SoundEagle only really started blogging meaningfully and consistently since August 2012. Time and energy are always in short supply, given my caretaking duties and other responsibilities.
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OOOOOOOOOHHH!!!! I love opals,especially black opals. Opals are my favorite gemstone.
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opals are very colorful stones and each is an unique gem
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I used to be superstitious about Opal especially as my birthstone is Moonstone/Ruby. Then my geologist husband pointed out that you are only unlucky if you don’t own a beautiful opal! I now have a lovely opal band.
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October Opal 📿
SoundEagle🦅 is delighted that opal has begun to grow on you, so to speak.
What do you think of SoundEagle🦅’s single-stanza poem above, and what does your geologist husband think of SoundEagle🦅’s choice of opals shown in this post?
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How beautiful! Who knew? I always thought of opals as just rather plain, white stones. Thanks for sharing these beauties!
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October Opal 📿
Additional YouTube videos have been included since you last visited this post so that SoundEagle🦅 may indeed whet your appetite even more and rid your formerly insipid impression of what you have now realized to be a precious gem with wondrous colour play and variety.
SoundEagle🦅 hopes that you have indeed found the potent opalescent spark needed to offset your effervescent snark chronically induced by the presidential shark.
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Beautiful rocks! You could say, they rock! 😀
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Thank you for having created such a stunning page, SoundEagle. For me, the treasures of the earth are a reflection of God’s own glory. ❤
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Wonderful collection of stones here S, E, and I also like to collect these gems stones .. I too have a page devoted to Gemstones.. I am wearing Rose Quartz with clear quartz crystal at the moment in a pendant…
Wishing you well during these uncertain times.. :🙏💚
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Thank you again for your perusing and complimenting SoundEagle🦅’s glorious and gorgeous celebration of October Opals 📿, which hopefully can resonate strongly with your own collection of these gemstones, especially when you wear them during special occasions or at anytime to bring Opalescent Sparks into your life.
May both this very bespoke comment and SoundEagle🦅’s poem dedicated to celebrating October Opal 📿 as the Natural Birthstone of October begin to spark deep and meaningful resonances with Sue the Dreamwalker!
It is lovely of you to inform SoundEagle🦅 that you are “wearing Rose Quartz with clear quartz crystal at the moment in a pendant”.
By the way, SoundEagle🦅 adores Mystic Topaz, which is a natural colourless topaz gemstone that has been coated with a thin layer of titanium using a modern technique called chemical vapour deposition (CVD) to impart a unique rainbow appearance with alluring play of colour. First seen in September of 1998 at the Hong Kong Jewellery Fair, mystic topaz is much harder than mystic quartz. You can see an example of that in the large centre stone on the necklace that SoundEagle🦅 wore, as shown in the photo with the caption “Khai & Khim in Her Tiffany Blue Dress at a Jewellery Shop — Don’t look at moy, look at mum! (14 Aug 2018, 9:15 AM Tuesday)” from the Special Tribute entitled Khai & Khim: For Always and Beyond Goodbye ❀🌸🦢💮❀ೋღஜஇ💕ღೋ♡ࣰ⋆*ࣰ☀̤̣̈̇🏝☆⋆*ࣰ✻ණි❉˜҈”˜҈░░✲﴾۞ࣰ﴿ࣰ֍ࣰࣰමෙ.
Apart from topaz, other crystals coated with gold, indium, titanium, niobium and/or copper include angel aura, flame aura, opal aura or rainbow quartz.
Happy October to you and your family!
ჱܓSoundEagle🦅
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These really are amazing images, SoundEagle. I can’t imagine where you managed to find them all.
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NYC’s Museum of Natural History has a room filled w/ gems. Do visit sometime, SoundEagle, once this pandemic is behind us. It is like walking into a jewelry box.
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