For me, I have decided that my true work, my purpose, my essence is to be a conduit.

                   A conduit for other people to connect to their own souls. I’m a

                   conduit because I am not the source of knowing.  I am to share

                   what I’m learning every day, because I am not a teacher. I am a seeker.

                   I seek, I gather, I collect. I gather the learnings of others so

                   we don’t have to live a thousand lifetimes to reach the truth.

I study and learn, write down thoughts.  Reflect.  Read.  I love to read books about mystical teachings, ancient history, Philosophy. I love anything written by Joseph Campbell which is how I first found the writings of Carl Jung.   I am sure I must have read about Carl Jung in school but somehow the learning wasn’t absorbed.  It wasn’t until I was in my 30’s that I started to really connect with his writing.   In particular, his essay, “The Transcendent Function” resonated with me.  . He said there is a “moral obligation” to live and to share what we have learned through living. He wrote about the “collective unconscious” and indicated that symbols were a method of retrieving the knowledge of the collective unconscious.

That resonated with me because sometimes language feels so loaded and heavy with what we think we should know. Symbols seem to be a door to a different part of our minds.

I refer to historical symbols.  I search out every scratch and line that was left to us, collect them together to look for the commonalities, to look for the symbols that transcend time and cultural boundaries. I want to collect and preserve, especially, the symbols that contain a meaning that is in danger of being lost or forgotten. There is a towering mountain of symbols drawn from the experiences of humanity, and these symbols reach out across time and space to try to communicate the history, the learnings of the lives that came before us.   I search deep within when I explore these symbols to find what resonates and rings true.

The symbols that pass through the sieve of timelessness, of permanence, of inspiration, Those symbols become the Foundrae lexicon. I look to our lexicon to help to access the knowledge from the collective unconscious. It’s a language for seekers.  The collective unconscious is our inheritance.

And I translate those symbols, the Foundrae lexicon, into gold.  Gold is my medium of exploration; of self-discovery and self-expression.  With gold we are creating jewelry that functions as the tools, the platform to communicate what I believe to be important.  And through jewelry we learn from other people’s stories.  I’m so inspired by what I learn every day and that influences our collection.  Each symbol has its own intonation, its own meaning, but when they are combined, they become something more.  They are like the letters of the alphabet, an “A” is an “A” but when combined with other letters it means an entirely different thing.

Love & Light, 

Beth