Apatite and Garnet Natural Cuff Bracelet

For motivation that had gone quiet.

Apatite is the mineral your teeth and bones are made of — the same calcium phosphate, in a different arrangement. The name comes from Greek apatáō, to deceive, because it turns up in so many colours it was constantly mistaken for other minerals. The blue-green from Madagascar is what most people mean when they say apatite.

It's soft, at five on the Mohs scale, which makes it the reference point for that number in the standard hardness test.

Apatite is worked with for motivation and clarity of purpose — it has a long association with appetite, both literal and figurative. It sits with the throat and third eye. Often suggested when the will is the thing that's missing.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.

For commitment rather than beginning.

Garnet isn't one mineral but a family of them — almandine, pyrope, spessartine, grossular, andradite — sharing a crystal structure and ranging from the familiar deep red through orange, green and even colour-change varieties. The name comes from granatum, pomegranate, for the seed-like crystals.

It has been set into jewellery for five thousand years. Bohemian garnet was so fashionable in nineteenth-century Europe that entire towns worked nothing else, and Anglo-Saxon garnet cloisonné turns up in the Sutton Hoo burial.

Garnet is worked with for commitment, endurance and the vitality to see something through. It sits with the root and heart. Traditionally the stone of safe return — carried by travellers who intended to come back.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.