{"id":24119,"date":"2021-02-01T10:18:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platearjewels.com\/?p=24119"},"modified":"2021-02-01T10:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:20:48","slug":"ethiopian-opal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/ethiopian-opal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Opal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Origin<\/u><\/strong>-: Opal was first discovered in Mezero, Shewa province in Ethiopia in the early 1990&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Gem Color<\/u><\/strong>-: Multi-colored (all colors)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Luster<\/u><\/strong>-: Vitreous, greasy, pearly, resinous, waxy, dull.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Diaphaneity<\/u><\/strong>-: Transparent to opaque.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Birthstone<\/u><\/strong>-: October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Hardness<\/u><\/strong>-: 5-7 on the Mohs scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Astrological Sign<\/u><\/strong>-: Cancer, Aquarius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Occurrence<\/u><\/strong>-: Gondar, Ethiopia, Africa, Welo, Afar Province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Metaphysical Properties<\/u><\/strong> -:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Mysterious, powerful, emotive, the fire and brilliance of Opals captures the imagination.<\/li><li>Both calming and stimulating, the precious opal opens the door to altered states of consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions, stimulating originality and dynamic creativity.<\/li><li>Simple beauty, complexity of design, and almost magical presence, stops the chatter and noise of the mind and ego in its tracks, often with flashes of great insight and intuition.<\/li><li>Opals depth and clarity allow wisdom&#8217;s clear vision to arise.<\/li><li>Stone of inspiration.<\/li><li>It can be used to strengthen the memory and to instill faithfulness and loyalty with respect to love, personal affiliations, and business relationships.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><u>Treatments, Enhancements &amp; Care<\/u><\/strong>-:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It can easily chip, crack or fracture when exposed to shock.<\/li><li>Due to its lack of durability, opal is occasionally treated or impregnated with mineral oil, glycerin, plastic, or wax which acts as a bonding agent.<\/li><li>Being a hydrated stone of variable composition, opal can have a high water content and this can lead to breakage from sudden changes in temperature (thermal shock) and potential problems when cleaning the stone with steam or ultrasonic cleaners.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Origin-: Opal was first discovered in Mezero, Shewa province in Ethiopia in the early 1990&#8217;s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24129,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24119\/revisions\/24129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platear.in\/platearjewels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}