Angel Wing Necklace | New Beginnings Talisman

Wings in symbolic use across cultures consistently mark the same condition: movement between levels of existence that are otherwise fixed. The Egyptian soul, the ba, was depicted as a bird with a human head — the part of a person that could leave the body and return. The Zoroastrian fravashi, the divine guardian spirit, was shown as a winged figure. The Christian angel is not a being that happens to have wings; it is a being whose defining characteristic is the capacity to cross the boundary between celestial and earthly without requiring special permission.

A single wing, or a pair, worn at the body carries the older symbolic claim: that the person wearing it participates in the quality of threshold-crossing, that they are not entirely fixed to one level of experience.

925 sterling silver base. Available in White Gold Plated, Yellow Gold Plated, and Rose Gold Plated finishes. Suspended on a matching chain.