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Byline: Lynn Yaeger
Think moons in the seventh house and Jupiter aligning with Mars are best left to sixties lyrics? Maybe a gold-and-diamond necklace will change your mind. Even resolute historical materialists-and skeptical Capricorns-will melt at the sight of these AsterCast Stellium necklaces, created by the cult jewelry designers Ten Thousand Things (Ron Anderson and David Rees) and the duo behind Sextrology (Stella Starsky and Quinn Cox), a wildly popular astrology tome whose straightforward attitude has been embraced by the chic set. (Starsky and Cox have even mounted "cosmic clinics" at shops like Marc Jacobs and Colette.)
The divine results of this collaboration (the four are old friends) rest literally on the revival of that strange half-loop known as the charm holder. Here it's rendered in 18K gold and ready to show off a variety of exquisitely wrought, custom-made zodiac-theme baubles displaying French enamel, semiprecious stones, and pave diamonds to spectacular effect.
The idea behind AsterCast jewelry, according to Stella Starsky (no, not her real name; she describes it as her astrology handle), is "to represent how personal astrology can be with a ...