The Southern Cross, the guide of the first explorers

For a long time, the Southern Cross was the landmark of the first navigators, such as Magellan, who left the northern hemisphere and experienced the anguish of seeing their ancestral landmark, the Polar Star, disappear.

The perfection of the alignment of these four stars into a cross as a gift from heaven for these explorers inspired me these earrings. The fifth star is symbolized here by a central diamond as a lighthouse in the night for men to find their way back