Press & Collaborations

Outwitting The Stars is a Bangkok-based fine-jewelry brand exploring the meeting point between Jyotish, Indian cultural heritage and contemporary design. We create personalized jewelry from Vedic birth-chart gemstone recommendations and publish an educational journal about Indian astrology jewelry, natural gemstones, metals and traditional wearing practices.

About the brand

Founded in 2026, Outwitting The Stars grew from a long personal relationship with Indian spiritual traditions, jewelry and the idea—encountered in Paramahansa Yogananda’s Autobiography of a Yogi—that gemstones and metals can carry symbolic meaning beyond decoration. The brand translates traditional Jyotish recommendations into contemporary rings, pendants and fine-jewelry forms.

Story angles

  • Birth-chart jewelry beyond the birthstone: why Jyotish uses the full natal chart rather than the birth month alone.
  • Indian heritage in contemporary fine jewelry: translating traditional gemstone and metal logic without reproducing a conventional “spiritual jewelry” aesthetic.
  • Gemology meets astrology: why natural, heated, treated and lab-grown are different questions from astrological suitability.
  • The nine planetary gemstones: ruby, pearl, red coral, emerald, yellow sapphire, diamond, blue sapphire, hessonite and cat’s eye in Jyotish tradition.
  • Bangkok, India and Italy: a cross-cultural jewelry practice shaped by gemstone sourcing, Indian heritage and international craftsmanship.
  • Responsible language around spiritual jewelry: preserving tradition without turning astrological beliefs into medical or scientific guarantees.

Founder

Remi is a second-generation Bangkok-based jeweler of Indian descent. Her background spans jewelry, international media and marketing, and a life lived across Asia, Europe, Australia and the United States. Outwitting The Stars brings those perspectives together through jewelry that is culturally rooted but visually contemporary.

For editors and collaborators

We are available for interviews, founder profiles, expert commentary on Vedic gemstone traditions, jewelry and cultural features, design collaborations and selected editorial projects.

For press and collaboration enquiries: otsjewels@gmail.com

Useful background: About Outwitting The Stars · Editorial & Jyotish Standards · Gemstone Sourcing & Disclosure · Vedic Jewelry Journal