Metalsmith - Jeweler - Electional Astrology

Pennsylvania, USA
Joined May 2009
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Just got hooked up with a pearl merchant and purchased an obscene amount. Venus is now in cancer btw
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Asclepius IV Cast in 90/10 electrum with calcined salt of cedar and sage. An asklepian serpent, modeled in three dimensions with ventral scale underbelly. Carnelian cabochon. My contribution to @SphereandSundry Asclepius IV, a fixed star/lunar mansion series
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#NORWAC was so much fun and filled with magical potency - this photo an apt representation with different generational talents from different experiences and perspectives together around the table, with magic running through all. Thank you to everyone who helped make it happen!!
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New video! I explore the role of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus in the Latin Picatrix. Can we really call the Picatrix "Hermetic?" This video examines all instances of Hermes' presence therein and attempts to answer this question youtu.be/pfGLCywvNsk
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Mercury in Gemini Modeled in hard carver’s wax and cast in Mithraic silver [alloy of majority silver + gold, palladium, copper, and tin] Center is a century-old 2-franc coin, hammered into a dome and set over ☿ herbs. 1.2ct emerald. For @SphereandSundry Mercury in Gemini series
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Antares - Behenian Fixed Star Cast in electrum and gold. Saffron, carnelian, red agate, and yew set beneath a 3.5 carat amethyst. Ingredients and stones via De Quindecim Stellis translations ‘Quadripertus’ ‘Liber Enoch’ and ‘Liber Thebit’. For S+S Antares series
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Exalted Mercury Modeled in carver’s wax, and Cast in Mithraic silver [alloy of silver w/ gold, palladium, copper, and tin] with calcined salt of spikenard, grapevine, clove. 2.5ct welo opal For Sphere and Sundry ‘Exalted Mercury’ series [public release Thursday]
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From the Forge - cast in an alloy of gold, silver, copper, and tin [with calcined salts of peacock feather, black Ibis feather, and molted snake skin]. Black opal. My contribution to Sphere + Sundry ‘Quicksilver Tongue’
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Sancte Michael, defende nos in proelio Happy Michaelmas 🗡
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You know I keep that thing on me. Happy moon conjunct Algol 👁
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Aquarius might reject social conventions, but for the sake of establishing (and sometimes enforcing) a new social order.
Leos seek to stand out by being recognized as special and magnificent, while Aquarius stands out by rejecting social conventions in a way that makes them unique and notable.
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Jupiter in Pisces - Modeled in hard carver’s wax, and cast in electrum and gold [with calcined salts of frankincense, orange rind, and oak]. My contribution to Sphere + Sundry’s Empyreal Vantage series.
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Chalcedony cabochons were set over frankincense, orange rind, saffron, tin [engraved with the glyph of Jupiter], oak leaf, citrine, amethyst, quartz, and lapis lazuli.
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I like Venus in Virgo. Critical, discerning, hot librarian vibes. It’s fun being a problem for them.
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Much of the work that I’m most proud of is only ever seen by myself and one other person, and as a show don’t tell kind of person in the internet age, it sucks!
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