With Venus in Taurus, nine talismans were crafted, carved into rich green malachite cabochons and vibrant azurite cabochons splashed with Malachite. Both of these stones are mineralised copper carry powerful Venusian virtues. Equally, these stones are ethically-sourced and recycled.

All aspects of their creation took place during full ritual conditions and during auspicious astrological elections. With Venus as Morning Star, and during the period of greatest western (morning) elongation, the Star of Aphrodite actively seeks to establish her sovereignty and the fulfillment of their abundantly rich and bountiful desires on Earth.

In the election for the talismans’ creation and suffumigation, the abundantly radiant waning gibbous Moon in fertile Pisces, the sign of Venus’ exaltation, was blessing Venus by sextile, after being further bonified by the recent trine with Jupiter in Cancer. Venus is rising and the suffumigation took place during a Venus planetary hour.

There was a second ritual consecration and empowerment performed as the Moon was in Taurus, the sign of the Moon’s exaltation, conjunct Venus, giving her light to the Queen of Heaven.

The intentions and telos of these beauties bring forth sensuality, and deep appreciation of the exquisite fleshiness of the world, To taste, be touched, and at once enraptured, strong, firm, and soft—the pleasures of the earth made manifest. They are intended to grant the wearer and their efforts to come about by the power of the radiant and generative effluence of the Star of Aphrodite.

These talismans are for general good fortune, profound sexuality, drawing and emboding beauty, as well as talent in the arts and crafts.

The design is inspired by the image described in the Picatrix, the lady holding a apple in her right hand.

On the back is a name written in two lines of Greek letters.  This is Aphrodite’s secret and magical name, ΑΡΩΡΙΦΡΑΣΙΣ, pronounced Arorifrasis, which can be translated in modern Greek as “aroma”. This name, however, means much more.

Some scholars have speculated that “the magical name of Aphrodite, ΑΡΩΡΙΦΡΑΣΙΣ, would express perfectly the goddess's duality by calling her goddess of fertility and goddess of heaven in one name, thus combining for the talisman wearer all the powers of the celestial Aphrodite Ourania and the popular Aphrodite Pandemos.”

The Talismans can be fitted with a Sterling Silver bail, and one in both copper and rolled-14k-gold on brass will be included. Equally, they can be kept without a bail to become a powerful image of the Goddess to be included on a shrine or other suitable place.

Various translations of the Hymn to Physis, see below, were used during all preparations and rituals to emphasis the funcund and powerful expression of Venus during all the rituals mentioned above. Quoted below is the masterful translation from Kristin Mathis, whose work I deeply respect and would highly recommend.

….You are All-wise, Gifter of All,

Caretaker, Conductor,

Queen of All.

Bringing Plenty to maturity,

Softening, Ripening, Suppurating: 

You are Plump, Juicy,

Growth-nurturer and Loosening Liberator.

You are at once Father, Mother, 

Nursemaid, and Foster of All,

Blessed Swift-birther, 

You are prolific, with many seeds,

You are the impulse behind seasonal bounty,

the Starter of Seasons:

Come to anchor in them!

Artisan of All and the All,

Fabricator, Sculptor, 

Bountiful Builder, Planter, Inventor, 

Foundational Sea Queen,

Eternal, Unseen, Awe-full Hadean,

Actuator, Mobilizer, 

You set things in motion.

Great Experiencer, Experimentalist, 

You are much trialed and tested,

Bountifully boundaried,

Smart and shrewd,

Ever-flowing in eddies and orbits,

Whirling, a swift-flowing, rushing stream

All-Rushing and Streaming,

All-Stretching and Drawing,

All-Warding and Saving,

Made cyclical by turning,

Always morphing into other forms,

Dwelling in strange, ever-shifting shapes:

Otherness is your daily regimen.

Beautifully Enthroned, you are Honored:

You alone will decide the judgement,

You alone will determine the worthy,

You alone will initiate the chosen.

Atop and all over the Scepter-Bearers*,

You are Mightiest Loud-Thunderess,

Fearless, Undisturbed,

All-Subduing, All-Taming,

Destined and Destiny: 

Goddess Aisa, 

Dispenser of Lots.

Fiery-breathed, 

You are Eternal Life and Undying Pronoia:

Foresight and Providence,

All is in and by and for You.

For You Alone build and craft the All,

You Alone bring the All to pass.

Come, Goddess, I pray you:

in the presence of the beneficent Horai, 

with good blessings 

in seasons, hours, and birth degrees,

Bring Peaceful Health, the Development of Everything.

Fetch Eirene Hygeia, O Growth of All.

-Hymn to Physis (Nature), trans. Kristin Mathis

* In Krisin’s commentary on this translation, ‘Physis ENCOMPASSES and “covers” all the scepter-bearers. Put more colloquially, Physis is “all over” Zeus and Aphrodite, etc. Like hair on a head, a cover on a bed, or vines on a grave. She is both somewhat distinguishable from the deities and yet she covers AND at the same time is not easily separated from them.’

Having used the Hymn to Physis for many years in my work with both Zeus and especially Aphrodite, this drove a deep connection home for me regarding the generative powers that Venus carries throughout our Cosmos, as one who is intimately entwined with the unfolding of Nature’s bountiful, manifold, and endlessly profusive vigour.