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A vision jewel holds your intentions for the magic you’re creating in your life. It’s a tangible reminder of your worth, & the gifts you offer the world.

Your vision jewel is a potent touchstone in times of transition, revealing who you’re becoming and your path ahead. It can symbolise commitment, a promise to another – or to yourself.

Whatever your vision, we’ll create your personal power jewel using my unique custom design process.

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What’s your big picture vision? Do you sense a deeper purpose, an urge to change the world? Whether you have a grand plan or you’re seeking guidance on your next steps Soul Mapping shows you the way.

Your astrological birth chart reveals the gifts that are uniquely yours. Through the chart we explore what makes you feel truly alive, so you can live that daily and experience the delight, satisfaction – and purpose – of being you!

It’s this intangible essence of you that we can distil into your personal power jewel. A jewel that becomes your pathfinder, a daily reminder of your vision for life, the gifts you have – and the gift you are.

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Hello, I’m Sheridan, jewellery designer and diviner, harnessing an alchemical mix of ancient practices & future possibilities.

I blend doctoral expertise on the science and spirit of wellbeing, with astrological insights, to create beautiful and original pieces of jewellery that celebrate who you are.

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Once in a Blue Aquarius Moon we have an opportunit

Once in a Blue Aquarius Moon we have an opportunity to see something distinctly new in our self and in the world - an evolutionary edge...
Tonight, our second Aquarian full moon accompanies Jupiter across the sky. As they pass through the wisdom degrees of Aquarius the innovator, they reflect upon that human urge to expand, to go beyond what’s believed to be possible... Can you tune in to this moon’s big picture views - even as you feel the collective’s disgruntled unease, and are swept along in the communal trance of helplessness? Can you come down and in, to meet the struggles and strife of the world without losing that vital vision?

What collective future do you imagine that you want to live in? Does it look like the past?

Can each of us be true to our experience, and yet also be an evolutionary vessel bringing in a new earth?
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Big questions- the kind Aquarius moons like us to reflect upon. 🌝
Expect some clear messages on how you can actively devote yourself to creating your new earth.

What emotional leftovers are getting in the way of

What emotional leftovers are getting in the way of you following your evolutionary path? Capricorn’s perspective from the mountain top offers big picture views & today’s Capricorn Full Moon (exact Friday 4.52am AEST), illuminates some clues, perhaps even offering them to you in dreamland…

Venus and Pluto also emphasise the oppositional Cancer/Capricorn energy, bringing focus to themes of emotional security and personal power.

What contradictions and paradoxes are you wrestling with? Are there things you’ve been meaning to say but still remain unsaid? Feelings you would rather not have but that keep hanging around?

Are you confronted by what’s out of your control, or made uncomfortable by emotional meltdowns?
Is your obstinate toddler-self rising to the surface a little too frequently of late?

When emotional energies come up against rational structures too often we presume that reason must win. But the resolution is not in proving one is right and better than the other. Our real work is to bring all the scattered and devalued bits back into the whole.

We are many contradictory things, and we have to practice accommodating them all. To be willing to encounter our fear of success as much as we fixate on our fear of failure. To nurture both our need to belong and our desire to stand out from the crowd, our secret hermit selves and the shining face we show the world.

The Cancer/ Capricorn polarity requires that we trust our feelings, so that we can nurture our own internal authority. When we’re unafraid of our emotional truth it is so much easier to trust our very capable worldly selves!

**Photo of Nubian Ibex by @tiki_ozer .**

Today is the Winter Solstice and the Sun has enter

Today is the Winter Solstice and the Sun has entered the first degree of Cancer, the sign of kinship and homecoming. Aligning with the Tropic of Cancer in the northern hemisphere the Sun appears to stand still before turning his face our way again as our days get longer, our nights get shorter and the light (and warmth) start to return.
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#wintersolstice #shortestdayoftheyear #thelightreturns

To see with many eyes. Travels through the time ma

To see with many eyes. Travels through the time machine: last century I was obsessed with kaleidoscopes – I made many of them, like this beauty The Multi Eye Kaleidescope Ring that not only turned using the little handle on the side, it was also very adaptable – wearable as ring or pendant, and the perfect accessory for chilling at fabulous parties (watching the light show). As a Mercurial type, I love flexibility in a jewel – and multiple ways of seeing things!

All my various Kaleidescopic Jewels used crystals except for one giant rotating jewelled eye that I made with glass lenses – swipe left to see this matching giant kaleidoscope called the Optogemel and installed in Brisbane Powerhouse foyer. Like this ring it also has a handle to move it – because there is no kaleidoscope without movement!

The philosopher in me is tempted to draw an analogy to the experience of life… it’s only by keeping in motion, not letting our points of view stagnate that we can see the multiplicit nature of the world... 🌈(appropriate as we move through the final days and wisdom degrees of Gemini).

P.S. The ring is homed in the @qagoma Queensland Art Gallery jewellery collection.
Photo by @campaignandimage

Each of us is a gift that we need to give to the w

Each of us is a gift that we need to give to the world. This makes you a unique, one-of-a-kind magical being. 💫.
The more you can create space to be yourself, wherever you are, the more you are being that gift.

Can you feel the freedom that offers?

#beyourself #youareagift

Tonight’s Solar Eclipse at 20ºGemini is about b

Tonight’s Solar Eclipse at 20ºGemini is about becoming free of ordinary boundaries & customary mindsets. This unique and lively opal reflects Gemini’s ability to tap extraordinary states and quicksilver changes – epitomising the future-oriented energies this eclipse is activating!

And the little piece of magic in today’s eclipse: Mercury is also in the mix, conjunct the Sun at the halfway point of its retrograde cycle.

This offers an opportunity for the ‘real story’ to come through loud and clear. Your colourful flashes of insight don’t vanish into the fog but can be shaped into words, sentences and sense.

If you want some place to go with these insights, consider the Gemini theme of the eclipse: feel into that sense of radical awareness you’ve been carefully nurturing for years now – this is your future self streaming through.

Gemini holds the key to the future.

And not in a “here’s the solution” kind of way. The cosmic twins are entangled in a game of resolving polarities by finding a way through - to where answers are no longer important. The cosmic secret offered by this sign: it’s not about seeking the truth outside. But neither is it about seeking it within… it’s about dissolving limits and borders. The answers, if there are such things (and Gemini really does prefer questions over answers), are in the synthesis – beyond the accepted and tamed version of reality.

This cosmic energy loves wrestling with paradoxes, not to reduce them into a unifying conformity but to expand them into multiplicities.

To create a world that is immense enough to contain it all.

Remember those feelings you have sometimes where the future is already here?

The secret of such perceptual leaps: we are already everything we’re growing into. It is simply that the ordinary, consensus reality has all kinds of well-intentioned ways to shut us down.

This Gemini eclipse says “do your own reality – don’t consider that it depends on a consensus”.

Your reality may not always sync up with others, and that doesn’t make you wrong or right.

It simply shows up the unique qualities that you bring to the world!

Crystals are everywhere. All around us - and insid

Crystals are everywhere. All around us - and inside us as well! Most dust is silicon quartz, sand is crystalline; our bones contain apatite (which also occurs as a pretty blue gemstone); liquid crystalline forms of magnetite in the brains of migrating birds help them orient to earth’s polarity (we also have it in our pineal gland); the now extinct trilobite had unique compound eyes of calcite crystals (now that’s what I call sparkly eyes!! 🤩).

The sparkling crystalline surface of the Crustaceous Druzy ring is composed of hundreds of baby crystals - quite literally. If left in the ground for a few more million years, they may have grown up into chunky adult crystals. As it is, they are formed in rather traumatic circumstances as quartz crystallises directly from igneous magma that doesn’t quite reach the surface when volcanos erupt. I’m tempted to draw an allusion to the way our own treasures and gifts are often crystallised from those deep wounds that we never let out into the light of day. And yet, what use is our gift if we keep it in the closet?

An appropriate enough theme as we navigate this potent eclipse window from the full pink moon to tomorrow’s new moon/ solar eclipse.

Tune in tomorrow if you’re interested to hear more about the astral messages of the solar eclipse…🌚💫

#crystalstories #druzyquartz #eclipseseason2021 #uniquejewellery #bethegift

Tonight, we have an opportunity to tune into cosmi

Tonight, we have an opportunity to tune into cosmic synchronicities and uncanny knowing. You don’t need to make sense of any of it, yet. There is something coming through this particular alignment of planetary influences that shows your strength, and your expansive possibilities.

The total lunar eclipse visible on the east coast of Australia from 9.13 to 9.25pm is more potent because it’s also the closest the moon gets to the earth all year. “Supermoon eclipse” sounds super powerful, but it’s not the time to charge crystals or one’s self!

It’s time to power down, get quiet and listen.

Can you feel it?

Whatever has been coming up in the last day or two, and ‘stuff’ that follows after, has messages for you if you let it come in. Good, bad, ugly, whatever - if tonight you can just be with it, rather than resist or try to contain it, the result will be more freedom to be yourself, in all your glorious imperfections.

Eclipses involve intense polarity energies, exacerbated by the earth getting in the way of the sun’s light reflecting off the moon – something like a ‘short circuit’ effect. So be careful not to fry yourself!

Jupiter has just entered the unlimited seas of Pisces and is squaring off against the already intense Sun/Earth/Moon showdown. There is a beautiful symbolism in us, as earth species, using eclipse moments to ‘power down’ – ‘earthing’ all those expansive possibilities you may have felt flooding in over the last few weeks.

And with this full moon in Sagittarius, Jupiter’s other fav sign, vistas are opening – if we stop worrying about whether we’re ready yet!!

However, tonight isn’t the time to ‘work it’ or ‘sniff out the clues’. Venus and Mercury square to Neptune are already waiting in Gemini, ears pricked, to receive the transmissions. Mercury goes retrograde on the weekend so that will signal that it’s time to do your detective work. Then you can start to analyse and give words to eclipse insights.

For this moment, the magic is not in the intention or the action. Just be with what is now, don’t push through it. As the great philosopher Busta Rhymes says: “what it is, is what it is right now!” 👌🏾💖

New Moon at 22º Taurus: “A blindfolded woman wh

New Moon at 22º Taurus: “A blindfolded woman who sees the future” at 4.59am Wed (AEST).
I’ve been sitting with this one all day. It’s not an easy new moon to distil into understandings. It feels uncomfortable, edgy, initiatory – it’s the ‘darker’ face of Taurus and the key note is the mystical novile aspect between Moon/Sun and Chiron – bridging times & realms, tracking invisibles & intangibles…

Blindfolded and seeing the future: what is in front of us, available to the ordinary gaze, actually obscures other possibilities. We’re learning how to “see” beyond the use of our eyes (that sense we humans have become most accustomed to using, and most dependent upon – we want to “see it to believe it”.)

This new moon ushers in experiences that take us off the visible path, the sure way ahead – because perhaps we are most dangerous as a species when we are so sure that we know; when we have an intellectual grasp of the situation and thus we feel in control.

Something is becoming available to us now, outside our theories, and rational assessments. It takes us beyond the fear that rises up when we’re trying to do everything ‘right’, but we don’t know if we know enough yet to be sure…

We have ‘second sight’ and the ‘third eye’ and other ways of seeing in the dark: this new Moon+Sun are in easy geometry with Neptune and we’re able to attune to a total view inside each little thing. Take note of your dreams tonight, and whatever strange synchronicities come through during the few days of the dark moon.

Something new and absolutely vital and real is preparing our vessels, expanding our capacity for love, and beauty and belonging – all of Taurus’ favourite things.

The Opal & Emerald Treasure earrings are set in ro

The Opal & Emerald Treasure earrings are set in rough hewn gold as if they’ve been buried a thousand years and just dug up by some team of archeologists... what lost civilisation might they belong to? What stories can they tell? Regardless that they came off my work bench in much more recent times the opals tell tales of water from Gondwana’s great inland sea. And the little emeralds have crossed the ocean from Brazil. They offer their joyous greens to Venus who is,today, risen from her Underworld journey and celebrating her first night as the evening star in green-loving Taurus. 💚 Their beautiful imperfections reflect her 60 day journey from when she disappeared from the morning sky back in March - and since ancient times this passage symbolises a transformation- can you feel it yet? We don’t emerge all smooth & perfect from this journey- rather like these earrings! Perfect jewels have the tales polished out of them, while these opals still celebrate the treasure that is this rich, diverse, imperfect world.
#venusrising #opalsandemeralds #taurusgems #taurusseason #australianopals #australianboulderopal

Calling all rebels… power-broker Pluto has gone

Calling all rebels… power-broker Pluto has gone retrograde while the Sun is (briefly) conjunct revolutionary Uranus, so if you’ve been chafing against unfairness and inspired to defiance then this points to your message and mission – listen up! What’s coming through for you? Maybe something unexpected and out-of-the-ordinary has sparked your rebellious urges. Or maybe you’re tired, tired, tired of old rules well past their use-by-date.
Pluto retrograde until October is our yearly review of power and its discontents. And Einstein’s statement is a perfect summary of Pluto’s work in Capricorn over the past decade or so, as everywhere, all around us we are seeing the uncovering of the myths of authority – and the mechanisms that have made us so willingly compliant. This is the product of lifetimes, of generations of training that programs us to deny natural instincts and look outward for confirmation & truth. We wait for authorities to smile upon us, we feel ashamed of being different and want the reassurance of fitting in. We comply with expectations because that makes us acceptable.

When Sun conjoins Uranus each year we are reminded that what makes us different is a gift not a shame, and then we get little flashes of insight into what freedom really feels like - if we’re willing to risk being our messy, complex, one-of-a-kind self.

An interesting beginning to Pluto’s review of power… those little gems of insight, and flashes of freedom you’ve been feeling recently, write them down, draw them, anchor them into a piece of jewellery, create a ritual, do whatever it is you do to take note; over the next 5 months review you’ll get opportunities to uncover what’s getting in the way of that freedom - and how you can change that.

It’s almost Scorpio Full Moon - break out the in

It’s almost Scorpio Full Moon - break out the indicolite tourmaline! Perfect for all Scorpionic activities such as enhancing one’s visionary powers & psychic insights. I made this ring for an artist with her expansive and vision-making Scorpionic Jupiter in the house of creative practice... supported by her mystic Neptune in the wisdom degrees of Scorpio. Indicolite or indigo-light tourmaline affects both throat & third eye chakras- helping us to see in the dark, communicate with ancestors, & explore deep insights for emotional healing- all important Scorpio work. While this supermoon moon looks full tonight it will peak tomorrow at 1.31pm here on the east coast of Aus.
#visionjewels #scorpiofullmoon #creativeprocess #soulmapping

Venus is in Taurus, her favourite place. In fact b

Venus is in Taurus, her favourite place. In fact both Sun and Mercury have joined her there so the next few weeks is perfect for cultivating some sacred self-love. What does that look like for you? Or I should say what does that FEEL like since Venus ensconced in this sensual and earthy sign is all about feeling. Maybe it’s a long bath and then anointing yourself with exquisite oils? Maybe it’s the sensation of something silky against your skin. Maybe it’s simply chilling. Whatever self love feels like for you indulge in it for the next few weeks (at least ... a lifetime is better 😊) and you’ll find your senses are heightened and you will feel the natural strength that comes from full presence on this earth. Who wouldn’t want that??? If you don’t maybe your Venus is in another sign - we can talk about that later 😁😉. 💚💚
#venusintaurus #venusmoments #soultruths #venuscodes

We are almost at the end of Aries month. I’ve be

We are almost at the end of Aries month. I’ve been feeling the freshness of this zodiac new year - but it’s no gentle breeze blowing through! With quite a line up of planets in Aries, have you been feeling sparked by little fires of inspiration, and urges to begin something new??? It’s a build up of pressure as impulse meets resistance, particularly since the new Moon last Monday - with Sun, Ceres, Venus, Moon and Mercury travelling through the wisdom degrees (the final 10 degrees of the sign). And as each one leaves Aries they must cross the gauntlet of Pluto (squaring from Capricorn), which ramps up the pressure to DO something! Or to work out why you’re not doing what you really love to do - that which will help you to thrive.

Now is a perfect to time to get some clear insights into what’s holding you back because Pluto’s square masquerades as your favourite authoritarian nightmare conjuring whatever limits you - through how you’re seeing the limits of the world around you. Whether you’re incensed by injustice, rankled by rampant tyrannies, irked by whatever fails to respect or protect. Or perhaps you’re doing quite the opposite - avoiding face offs, and hoping sheer willpower and good intentions will pull you through whatever is holding you back.

The trick though is that all the various ways that you resist or persist can also reveal the ways you limit yourself.
The wisdom stage of Aries shows everywhere that our resistance (or persistence) is futile, a waste of energy and time, like hitting heads against brick walls. And it also shows every way that resistance offers us a launch point where we can use the force for lift off, like a sprinter at the starting block, or a sailing boat tacking against the wind. There are so many ways we can work with resistance rather than against it, thus saving precious energy. We are coming to understand there are no hard and fast rules that we can apply at all times. Sometimes we must draw a line that will not be crossed, and sometimes we need to know when to lay it all down and release the need to fight and win.

This is Aries in its wisdom stage. How has it been showing up in your life?

Appropriately enough for the Zodiacal beginning of

Appropriately enough for the Zodiacal beginning of the year (plus birthday) I’ve had a little refresh and revamp. I’m enjoying some inspiration at my new workstation. Aquamarine nuggets in a beautiful bowl by @ponycantorini ... And what do you think of the colour combo of chrysocolla with smoky quartz? 😍

Lucky March gets aquamarine as a birthstone 💙 H

Lucky March gets aquamarine as a birthstone 💙 Here’s my first aquamarine post for the month: a beautiful bespoke Lotus Flower necklace of pink gold, silver and a 35carat natural aqua crystal. Made for for a friend for whom the lotus holds a special significance. Lotus flowers have long held a place in my heart and keep recurring across the ages in my work! An almost universal symbol since the natural flower also relates to the lily, thus in its various symbolic guides it appears in ancient Egypt, in medieval Europe and in Asia from India through to Vietnam (and no doubt in many other traditions).

It grows in water and opens with the sun and closes at sunset, thus it symbolises cosmic and earthly creative forces through the interaction of the solar power of fire and the lunar power of water (here in the combination of gold and silver).

It is the ‘flower that was in the Beginning’ ... entirely appropriate then that the Lotus has a secret history - rarely spoken of - as the primary symbol of the yoni. Now there’s the true creative force!

Continuing our celebration of goddesses: Green Tar

Continuing our celebration of goddesses: Green Tara (yes I know she’s looking a tad blue), the feminine bodhisattva of love & compassion, here adorned with heavenly attire including the Garnet Petal Pendant in 18k gold with a natural tourmaline crystal in soft pink, on a silver box chain for a contemporary touch... Garnets are traditionally February’s stone and joyful tourmalines are perfect for the heart chakra.
Original painting is by Nepali brothers Dinesh and Uday Shrestha.

A pendant fit for a goddess 👑. One of my favour

A pendant fit for a goddess 👑. One of my favourite pieces, made for my beautiful niece @phoebe.kate01 (special birthday commission from her Gran). A bright little opal surrounded by multicoloured sapphires set in hand carved 18k yellow gold.
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#australianopal #handmadewithlove #handmadeinaustralia #handmadejewellery #australiandesigner #birthdayjewels #oneofakind #pendants #soulfueled #visionjewels #iamagift #iamlove

February seems like a good month to celebrate godd

February seems like a good month to celebrate goddesses of love. Here Ochun wears the Petal earrings – Amethyst for the month of February, Citrine & gold for her sacred colour yellow, and Aquamarine for some cardinal water energy (good for love activities, with Valentine’s Day approaching). This gem mix combines insight and abundance with a sense of relaxed, sweet calm.
Exquisite little carving of Ochun by Cuban wood artist Guadiola.
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#divinefeminine #iamlove #iamagift #goddessvibes

mantra for Venus in Aquarius. Here she’s a visio

mantra for Venus in Aquarius.
Here she’s a visionary aesthete, informing the world, changing its form, mapping its frontiers in whatever ways satisfy her (because Venus is all about satisfaction 🥰👑). She values the Unusual, bringing them onto the map of human experience. What we haven’t noticed before, in quite that way, we now see in a new light.

Venus entered Aquarius last week and will be in the cosmic cartographer’s sign until end of Feb.

Over the next weeks she will refine & hone the course you’ve set for 2021.

While she’s here we get to tap into a little bit of her Aquarian magic. Encourage your unusual bliss – the one that you really want to give on to but are a little afraid of letting through!

Do you know the sign of your natal Venus? If she’s in Aquarius for you, then this is a mantra to entice more of her into your life.

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JOURNAL: FIELD NOTES

It’s not your lizard brain – it’s the culture

January 18, 2021 No Comments

I’m sick of hearing about the lizard brain. You know the drill: the seat of our fear. Blah blah. It’s like the ‘sabre tooth tiger’

Potent forces align for change

January 12, 2020 No Comments

January 12, 2020. We can think of this particular juncture of astrological time as ‘cosmic acupuncture’. We’re experiencing particular ‘nodal point’ activations in a systemic

Scorpio & the universal law of threefold return

November 22, 2019 No Comments

Recently, I came across an old astrological diagram that applied the term ‘retribution’ to Scorpio. We’ve heard about Scorpio’s ‘sting in the tail’. Retribution is