Birthstone March Aquamarine Initial Necklace in Sterling SilverMarch's stone is the stone of safe passage. A pale, clear blue the colour of shallow water over white sand, of the sea on a calm morning. Its name comes straight from the Latin aqua marina, water of the sea. Pliny the Elder was the first to record it, writing that aquamarine "seems to have come from some mermaid's treasure house, in the depths of a summer sea." Sailors carried it as a talisman for centuries for courage, for protection, for a safe

a light that could not be put out

The friend who always shows up

Wearers were believed to carry warmth

each necklace features a beautifully hand-engraved scrolled initial

is for the moments worth marking

meaning 'water of the sea

what will look right on the face

this luminous gem has been seen as divine tears or the product of lightning strikes

This is that

March's birthstone

compasses guided voyagers through unknown seas — believed to bring protection and safe passage to those who carried them

I've always believed that the jewellery we choose to wear carries something of us