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Ultra Rare Gogotte (from Fontainebleau, France)
Not to be mistaken with melanite stones, goddess stones or fairy stones, Gogottes are extremely rare crystalline masterpieces!
 
They are magnificant, naturally formed, snow white, silica based works of large scale voluptious earth 'art' that occur in one place only in the world, Fontainebleau in France. They are usually only ever seen in select museums, and gogottes usually sell for tens of thousands at international institutes such as Christies.
 
I remember seeing my first one in France year's ago and being so bowled away. Very few people are allowed to gather these beauties by hand, and when I met this elderly French man for the first time (at a beautiful exhibition of gogottes), it was clear that he too was both enchanted and besotted by them. I *had* to ask him to contact me if ever he came across any smaller ones that might be more affordable on my pocket strings, and for months worked on trying to manifest the funds for one that I saw at the exhibit (but that didn't work out). I have purchased four from him over the years, this is one of them. The gogotte you receive is the one seen in this listing.
 
This is absolutely stunning, and at just under 2kgs in weight it is a good size! I very much appreciate working with fossils and concretions, but gogottes are in a world of their own. Without wanting to influence your impression too much, there is a very distinct feminine energy from these formations, and a very pure and cohesive feeling of connection too, and I feel that the groups of women that this beauty should be working with are larger in size than I personally work with in person and this is the only reason this gogotte is here, I need to honour the work she needs to do and not hold on to her. I'm very curious to see where she gets called to.
 
Please note that the crystals offered as part of this seasons collection are offered for exactly the same price as I purchased them for all those years ago, and while they are worth more today, I am leaving the price as is as I do not wish to profit from them. 
 
This beauty is from my personal collection. I am offering a few key crystals and minerals this season as they relate with the themes of this collection - and energetic wellBEing/vibrational awareness is a key theme of the air element and spring!
 
Please see video for details. Both the photograph and video were taken in daylight (on a rather overcast day unfortunately) but I am quite sure if you are familiar with the crystal kingdom at all, and/or the location this crystal was gathered, you will easily appreciate what you see here.

Ultra Rare Gogotte (from Fontainebleau, France)

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  • This listing is for the aforementioned product only and does not include any other decorative items photographed. These photographs are for illustrative purposes only.

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WINTER 2025 COLLECTION: 

Full details of each season’s collection are shared exclusively through our seasonal newsletter. This missive carries the deeper ground of the season – its energies, themes, and archetypes. Shared only four times a year, it offers original long-form writings on the mythic, elemental, and archetypal ground of the season within Irish cosmology and the Celtic Wheel of the Year, along with the creative soil from which each collection emerges. Readers also receive early access and a members-only preview of these handcrafted, ephemeral offerings.

 

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SEASONAL OVERVIEW

Season • Winter

Element • Earth

Direction • North

Archetype • Elder Archetype

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THE FRAMEWORK FOR THIS COLLECTION

Our Winter/Earth Element Collection arrives into the season of Samhain – that threshold between the last new moon of the dying Celtic year in October, astronomical Samhain, and the first new moon of the year to come in November. It is here that endings and beginnings lie folded together – a dreamtime of moons that leads us into the deepest dark – asking us to walk slowly, to walk in Earth time. 

 

This is not the hurried clock-time of the everyday. It is slow time – deep time – recorded in bedrock and fault-line, in layers pressed through clay and shale. As the earth keeps her history in stone and strata, so we carry memory in bone. The land is our larger body – marrow and mountain, clay and skin, each carrying memory. To enter this season is to enter those depths, to map again the contour lines of the inner ground, to feel where the body holds fractures, pressure, weight-bearing, release. The work is slow. The work is old. Stone remembers, and so do we. Our bodies are cairns of remembrance.

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Between Samhain and Solstice we are pilgrims moving through inner hollows and chambers of the soul. It is sanctuary time, a time of reverence and devotion, where prayer is not passive but visceral and embodied – where we kneel not before idols but within the tabernacle of our own being. The ember of light is entrusted to us here, and it must be guarded with care – fanned in trust, sheltered in hope, nourished with care, until it kindles to flame and warmth.

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Samhain is also the season of surrender. To grieve what has passed in the twelve months gone. To honour ancestors, yes, but also to lay down the burdens of the year, the losses and thresholds crossed, the shocks and griefs that linger. As leaves return to soil, so sorrow returns to earth, darkening into humus that feeds what will come. In the body, this work is felt in the earth element – in the musculoskeletal frame, in the gut’s deep work of breaking down and letting go. To release is to create space, and to hold is to become heavy. The earth teaches us this balance, for she both receives and yields in the same breath.

 

This is the annual pilgrimage to the soul’s inner shrine – beyond one life, beyond one line of ancestry. It is the thread that connects us with stone and to soil, with grandmother and grandfather, with all who came before and all who will come after. In this time-out-of-time we reweave ourselves into that thread, into the north, into the slow, enduring rhythm of earth itself. And from that ground – from a living tapestry of blood and bone and surrender – the Solstice light is born again. A flame at the heart of winter.

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REFERENCES THROUGHOUT THIS COLLECTION​

Focus for the Winter collection is the element of Earth, Embodied Ritual & Green Prayer, Illuminating the Dark & the Inner Hearth, Chakras of the Root, Knees/Elbows, Feet/Hands and Earth Star, Physical WellBEing, the Musculoskeletal System, the Digestive System & Intestinal Health, Death, Grief Processing & Trauma Composting, Vulnerability & Surrender, The Pilgrim & the Inner Journey, Protection, Connection & Roots, Hibernation & Radical Rest, Cultivating Sanctuary & Stillness, Conscious Nourishment & Nurturance, and of course, Earth Rituals for the Head, Heart and Hands.

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