All Saints' Day & All Souls' Day

All Saints' and All Souls' open November in quiet candlelight — Europe's days of remembering, when families visit graves, light lanterns and keep the old feast of the harvest's end. These are the stones of that season: amethyst, pearl, white moonstone and lapis lazuli, carried through the Christian centuries; petrified wood, which holds ancestral memory like a forest that remembers; moss agate, the old harvest stone of rural Europe; and the family stones — amber, the ancient baby bead, the moonstones of wedding gifts. For its beauty, its story, and whatever meaning you give it.