Diamond

The instant light touches it, a diamond awakens like a tiny star.

Within a single stone, light crosses and re-crosses, unraveling into white, into clear, and at times into rainbow. Moving with the wearer, its brilliance paints a fleeting scene at fingertip or collarbone.

Up close, quiet as a clear sky.
From afar, like a single star lit in the night.

Diamond's light shines even on the longing for eternity deep in the heart.

The heart knows what is beautiful.
A diamond shines as if touching that memory.

Diamonds are born far beneath the surface, under ancient continents.

Roughly 150 to 200 kilometers deep. In the earth, wrapped in high heat and pressure, carbon atoms bonded over long ages and grew into transparent crystals.

Once born, the stone sleeps for hundreds of millions of years. Then, carried by the force of volcanoes and cradled in a rock called kimberlite, it makes its way toward the surface.

Before a single diamond reaches human hands, there are the ages spent deep in the earth, the memory of volcanoes, and a long journey through wind and water.

Within the small crystal shining at your fingertip, the history of the earth quietly breathes.

A diamond is a letter of light, sent from a distant land.

People of ancient times saw the diamond as a gem of the earth, and also as something special granted from the heavens.

Its history is thought to begin with stones found in the rivers and alluvial plains of ancient India. By around the 4th century BCE, Indian diamonds were being traded, and they reached Greece and Rome.

In ancient Greece, diamond was called adamas.
The name means "unyielding" or "unconquerable." The Roman naturalist Pliny also wrote of this stone as one of the most valuable things in the world.

There is also the legend of the Valley of Diamonds, where diamonds lie at the bottom of a steep ravine and people obtain them with the help of birds. A longing for gems out of reach gave people of distant eras a beautiful tale.

In Jyotish, diamond is linked to Venus, Shukra. Venus is the planet that governs love, beauty, art, abundance, and sensuality.

Existing materials note correspondences with Friday, the middle or ring finger, and gold. Fingers and metals differ from school to school, so we present this as one traditional interpretation.

A transparent stone born in the deepest part of the earth takes on the light of Venus, ruler of love and beauty.
In its brilliance dwell the joy of being loved, the intoxication of creating, and the sensibility to savor life beautifully.

A diamond holds a quiet path of light, from the earth to the cosmos.

Every diamond has a light that belongs to it alone.

Clarity, color, cut, and the dispersion of light. Tiny inclusions and growth marks that tell of the time the crystal grew. Together they make a one-of-a-kind expression.

A stone that gives off a dazzling white light.
A stone with a brilliance as quiet as water.
A stone that holds a small landscape within, changing its look with the angle.

How light arises, wavers, and stays in the heart: all of it becomes that stone's character.

Just as each person has a voice, each diamond has a light of its own.

The stone your heart is drawn to surely has a reason that belongs to it alone.

That is the quiet secret a diamond has nurtured over a long span of time.