Every Position, By Degree. Strategic Astrology For Women Who Build Their Own Tables.

The Gilded Circle Collection is a series of limited edition, handmade jewelry from LAB79, made for The Gilded Circle and the astrology at its centre. 

Every piece is wrapped by hand in gold wire and finished on gold chain and findings. Each pearl and stone is chosen individually, and some pieces carry sea shells gathered by hand on Sanibel beach, so no two pieces are ever quite identical.

The material language

Astrology has a material language that is centuries old, and the collection is built from it. Each planet has long been matched to the stones that share its character. 

Pearls and mother of pearl belong to the Moon and to Cancer, the sign it rules, and moonstone takes its name from it. Rose quartz and pink opal are the stones of Venus, which rules Taurus and Libra. In a chart, Venus governs affection, pleasure, beauty and money. The sea shells have their own place in this language too: Venus first came ashore on one, and the tides that carried them belong to the Moon. 

Garnet carries the deep red of Mars. Citrine and peridot hold the warm light of the Sun, and glassy black obsidian sits with Saturn. Gold, the metal of the Sun, runs through all of it.

So a pair of earrings can hang the Sun from one ear and the Moon from the other, with garnet and blush pearls falling beneath them. A necklace can set a row of lavender baroque pearls against a double strand of gold mariner chain, with a single pearl suspended from the clasp.

Limited drops

The collection is released in small drops, and every piece in a drop is made in a limited number. A design can return, but it is never repeated. Each stone differs in size and shape from the last, the wire is wrapped around it by hand, and the combination of stones is chosen fresh for every piece, so the same design made twice becomes two different pieces. Even a matched pair of earrings is wrapped one at a time, which makes each pair two originals that belong together. The first drop is being made now.

The names

Every piece is named from the astrology it is designed around: the transit, planet, sign or house whose stones it holds. The name tells you what a piece has been inspired by, so you can choose it just for its beauty alone, or for the position it holds in your own natal chart.