Introducing the Alchemical Zodiac Collection
For years, I’ve avoided creating a zodiac jewelry collection, no matter how many of you have asked. Not because I don’t love astrology—quite the opposite. I’ve always been drawn to...
The Common Cause
Why we can't melt down your gold jewelry
I often receive requests from customers asking if we can melt down their gold to create a new piece of jewelry. These requests are always heartfelt—gold from a cherished heirloom...
The Futility of Being Perceived: A Hymn to Circe
“Serpent, sea-witch, wife.”The years of tyrannical sameness draw out a revolution of names.Does she grow old, who lives in folklore? Frail, or sick? Or changeless and static, to be released...
On Our Difficult Women Collection
Last year I posted an emotional video where I declared "NO. MORE. COLLECTIONS." It was a reaction to the hectic pace of the jewelry world, and the insane expectations placed on...
Common Era in the Wild
I see elegant, stylish, intelligent people on our socials, in our reviews, our inboxes, and out & about – pretty hands, lush as rose petals and gleaming with gems, collars...
The Wandering of Eurydice: On Ephemerality and Renewal
Persephone is, being that deathless goddess of waxing spring and waning autumn, a symbol of renewal. After Orpheus, son of Calliope and uncommonly talented musical savant, lost his nymph bride...
Thoughts on the Persistence of Gold
In times of crisis, inflation, or economic uncertainty, investors turn to gold to protect their principle. The precious metal has historically always been considered a safe purchase, with positive price...
The Empire and the Virtue Ethic
“...being virtuous is more than having a particular habit of acting, e.g. generosity. Rather, it means having a fundamental set of related virtues that enable a person to live and...
The Rites of Kore, or Persephone the Maiden
This time of year my thoughts always return to the rites of Kore. I might be coping with the world folding in on itself, and the similar changes I experience...
Vestal Virgins & the Holy Virtue of Rome
It’s girls' night at the temple and we’re all performing rituals and offerings, remaining celibate from men, keeping the sacred flame of the hearth alive. At the Temple of Vesta...
The 2022 Gift Guide: Bestsellers (Jewelry & Books)
In our longstanding quest to weave artistic expression into all of the most significant parts of life, we are pairing each of our bestselling necklaces with the perfect book that...
Leda, Truth and Sensuality
“Only in womankind is sexuality no surrender of the ego boundary, no schism; it abides as the homeland of the personality, which can still include the sublimations of the spirit...
The Art History Gift Guide
Common Era holds true to an undying, centuries-spanning love for art – literature, architecture, and of course a swath of visual arts (painting, sculpture, mosaics, and so forth). Our muses...
Persephone and Hecate: The Maiden and the Crone
The myth of Persephone’s connection to the seasons & vegetation is made evident by her yearly ascent from and descent into the Underworld. Most versions of the etiological myth follow...
All the Little Gods of Love
The pluralization of Aphrodite’s son Eros, the god of love, should come as no surprise. Tradition changes as the myth arches and swells to fill the space in which it...
