Last Laugh Rosary for Healing Unjust Wounds

Our Last Laugh rosary is handcrafted under the auspices of Dionysos Lysios, The Liberator from Sorrow and Releaser of Shackles who unknots bindings of fear and suffering. These amulets center around an orchid pendant, calling in Dionysos in the role he played in the orchid’s Greek creation myth described below. The orchid is surrounded by beads chosen to represent the journey of healing from unjust wounds–the ones that leave us wondering why anyone would be so cruel and how the gods could allow such a thing. These rosaries are designed to be worn and/or worked with throughout the healing process to for a quicker relief to suffering. Work with them alongside Dionysos Lysios for Him to bring the comfort allows for healing to happen and the return of trust after betrayal. May you heal easily knowing that those who have left deep, cruel wounds on you will be brought to a justice that meets Dionysos’ standards. Rest and heal in comfort, knowing that in the end, you will have both a beautiful new blossom in your heart and the last laugh alike. 

Each rosary measures 25 inches around the neck while the vertical drop measures 8.5 inches to the bottom of the pendant. 

We have two styles currently available: Eggshell and Golden Teardrop. Both rosaries feature the same chain, with the only difference being the orchid pendant.

• Eggshell features a preserved orchid on a white backdrop in an egg-shaped pendant; its connector was wire wrapped by hand to attach it to the chain.
• Golden Teardrop features a preserved orchid on a shimmering golden backdrop in a teardrop-shaped pendant; its connector was wire wrapped by hand to attach it to the chain. 
  

The center orchid pendant is made with blossoms from an orchid plant we have tended for years. We originally bought this plant to rescue it: it had been potted without enough room inside a plastic structure that was supposed to support it but had instead become a cage. It would have died if left in the store, but has since come to bloom beautifully with tender care. Each blossom is saved when its time has come, gently dried, and then preserved in resin as a pendant to give it a new, enduring, ongoing life. 

Each rosary begins with the orchid pendant on the bottom, a representation of justice served and the Last Laugh of the Survivor. Then, we begin to move up the chain through the pattern of the healing journey. It begins with shiny, translucent garnet glass, representing the blood shed in the wounding, the sharp glass that cuts, and the sand that can form both glass and a pearl. Then, we move into matte red jasper beads that call in the Wounding and Suffering we rise from. Red jasper gets its color from iron oxide, the same substance that makes blood red. They aren’t the shiny red of fresh blood, but instead matte to embody the Scab and Scar of a wounding that, no matter how deep, failed to kill us. 

The red of wounds fresh and just beginning to heal moves into the Rhodonite of self-sacrifice that must be shed to heal. Rhodonite is a mineral byproduct of silver, sacrificing itself so that silver can be formed. Here, it is paired with only gold-tone metals for this reason, embodying the laying down of self-sacrificial and people pleasing tendencies. It teaches us that those who truly love us, as Dionysos does, don’t ask us to suffer for their sake. Rhodonite sings here, allowed to shine on its own, separated from the silver that demands its sacrifice.

Next comes rose quartz, calling in gentle, loving care and sweet, tender self-love. Their pink is soft and could be missed if you don’t look closely enough, but the rose quartz isn’t pink for the sake of its viewer. Its gentle shade is for its own sake, beautiful for its own sake, and confident enough that it feels no need to prove its self-love to others. The sequence ends with glass pearls for beautiful self-love born from a wounding. Glass is made from sand, the same substance that gets caught in the shell of a mollusk. This gritty irritant wounds the mollusk that heals itself by forming the pearl, softening harmful edges and creating beauty in the process. The glass of the pearl calls back to the garnet glass of Wounding, showing how we can make our own beautiful pearls from our own Wounds by healing them. 

As you pray the rosary, working from the pendant, around the neck, to the centerpiece, you walk the healing journey. The vertical section has one of each bead, with the garnet glass of the Wound and the pearl of the Healed Wound each separated by a length of gold-tone stainless steel figaro chain. The chain progresses through the healing journey with each section of 7 beads, beginning with a section of 6 garnet glass beads with one matte red jasper bead in the center. Even in the depths of the Wounding, the Seed of Healing is present with the potential for rebirth and relief from suffering. The chain moves then to a section of 6 red jasper beads with 1 rhodonite bead in the center for a section of 7 again. The chain progresses this way, each section representing a stage of healing with the center bead heralding the next section: a light at the end of the tunnel, a hope in even the deepest darkness that the healing can continue. Between each section is a garnet glass bead for the ache of an old wound, always diminishing, and the Scar it leaves behind, always reminding you what you have the ability to heal from. 

Each segment includes 7 beads for the number’s enduring association with Dionysos and the heavenly, Ouranic realms. We incorporate this number for its levity, to lighten burdens and lift heavy hearts. The center piece is a crescent moon in gold-tone stainless steel with its horns pointing upward. The crescent moon is present at both the beginning and the end of the moon cycle. It represents the closing of an old chapter and the healing of old wounds to make them a source of wisdom, not suffering. It represents the beginning of a new part of our life, a door opening to a life free from the pain and fear of unjust wounds. The crescent moon, especially with its horns up, has also been historically linked with the Bull across cosmologies. Here, it calls in Dionysos as the Sacrificial Bull, torn asunder every year as a sacrifice whose annual rebirth brings a good harvest. He, too, knows what it’s like to suffer for someone else’s benefit. He may submit to the slaughter willingly now, but it was not always that way. He has suffered and healed from his unjust woundings and takes special joy in showing people a path to rebirth. May he ensure that you, too, always have the last laugh. 

To see the other offerings in our Last Laugh Collection and how all offerings included were consecrated, as well as inspiration for how to work with them yourself, please refer to our Last Laugh Collection Catalogue. Included in this series are prayer cards ideal for work with these rosaries. The Catalogue is available HERE