talismans from the boundless sea
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The Sovereigns of the Boundless Sea talismans were hand-carved on faceted-oblongs of lapis lazuli as Venus and Neptune were conjunct in Pisces during 2024 and 2025, utilising the final conjunctions of these planets in Pisces in this century. These astrological conditions will not occur again until the later part of the 22nd Century.
Work began in a ritual timed to the apply Venus-Neptune conjunction of 2024, at which moment the lines of Greek letters were engraved followed by an initial consecration. They were then sealed with an appropriate vessel to await their completion the following year.
The engraving process was completed with the addition of the deities, the talismans were suffumigated, and finally consecrated during a ritual on the 1st of February 2025 as the applying conjunction of Venus and Neptune was culminating on the Midheaven with the Waxing-Crescent Moon conjoining in Pisces, the traditional sign of Venus’ exaltation and the modern domicile of Neptune.
At this time Venus was dazzling the world brightly as an evening star while Neptune, invisible to the naked eye, churned the cosmic depths for the final time in the sign of Pisces.
The telos and intention entwined within the talisman is to embody the powers of these oceanic lords: beneficent glamour, all supreme expressions of artistic and mystical prowess, and the boundless awards of such fecundity.
The engaged bearer of this talisman will be guided and taught by the principal masters of this domain, opening untold sensate and psychic worlds of untold cosmic beauty, wonder, and even transcendence. As such, they will effortlessly obtain both creative and generative power, guide others to profound states of experience, and maintain boundless abundance. Both Venus and Neptune grant powerful influence over the seas, their movements and associated spirits and beasts. Neptune grants the ability to control the weather at sea, calming storms and enhacing fair conditions.
One side of the talisman features the deities Aphrodite-Venus, crowned holding an apple in one hand and a mirror in the other, and Poseidon-Zeus-Helios, crowned holding lightning that radiates above as well as below and a trident, as inspired by magical gems that were carried by the peoples of the Hellenistic Mediterranean around the 1st century CE.
On the back is a name written in lines of Greek letters is a combination of Aphrodite’s secret and magical name, ΑΡΩΡΙΦΡΑΣΙΣ, and Poseidon's magical name, ΣΥΟΕΛΚΟΙΛΗ. In the corners of the stone on both sides you will find a symbol for each deity, one a circle with a single line extending downwards, the other a circle with three lines radiating downwards. These are enigmatic symbols and their exact origin is unknown.
Each talisman will be fitted with a sterling silver bar and pendant loop.
These bespoke Venus Talismans are hand-carved on a large lapis lazuli cabochon as Venus was culminating on the Midheaven with the Waxing-Crescent Moon conjoining all in Pisces, the sign of Venus’ exaltation. They were completed and consecrated during a full ritual on an auspicious election on the 3rd of January 2025. At this time Venus was dazzling the world as an evening star.
While in the nocturnal sign of Pisces, the telos and intention entwined within the talisman is to embody the power of the Venus expressed within the sign of her exaltation: beauty, good fortune, sensuality, healing, and gracefulness.
When a planet is in its exaltation, it performs very cleanly, free from extremes, and it is treated like an honoured guest, or as a magistrate who is in their own court, free to make their own rules. Venus exaltation expresses deeply the combined expression of goddess of fertility and goddess of heaven.
Such that Venus acts in profoundly healing and sensuous ways granting the bearer to do the same, for themselves and others — to be in touch with deep life-giving desires, pleasures, and passions, those that move them in the direction of profoundly erotic and healing ways within the Venusian psychic/spiritual domain and physical expression, including the healthy function of the kidneys, loins, and vascular tissues.
Equally, this talisman will grant the ability to accentuate one’s best qualities, both in charm and physicality, so as to be “loved by everybody and you will be well-known and seem sweet-voiced not only to human beings but also to gods.”
There is a uniquely subtle and profound effect at play here, a shimmering that grants us access to the flowing quality of experience. In particular, one can access realms of cosmic beauty, opening access to the sensuousness of one’s being in the sensate world, along with the ability to open this door for others.
Aphrodite let down your hair!
This particular design is my version of “Aphrodite unbinding her hair”. It is inspired by lapis magical gems that were carried by the peoples of the Hellenistic Mediterranean around the 1st century CE.
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.”
Each talisman is approximately 30mm x 22mm and will be fitted with a sterling silver pendant bail.
Everything comes from you:
you have yoked the world,
you control all three realms,
you give birth to all,
to everything in heaven,
to everything upon the fruitful earth,
to everything in the depths of the sea,
O venerable companion of Bacchos.
-Orphic Hymn to Aphrodite (Athanassakis & Wolkow, trans)
The Drop of the Boundless Sea talismans were hand-carved on lapis lazuli teardrops, suffumigated, and finally consecrated during a ritual on the 1st of February 2025 as the applying conjunction of Venus and Neptune was culminating on the Midheaven with the Waxing-Crescent Moon conjoining in Pisces, the traditional sign of Venus’ exaltation and the modern domicile of Neptune, utilising the final conjunctions of these planets in Pisces in this century.
These astrological conditions will not occur again until the later part of the 22nd Century.
At this time Venus was dazzling the world brightly as an evening star while Neptune, invisible to the naked eye, churned the cosmic depths for the final time in the sign of Pisces.
The telos and intention entwined within the talisman is to encounter and to be changed by the power of transcendence of these oceanic lords, coming to awaken supreme expressions of artistic and mystical prowess, and the boundless awards of such fecundity.
Each side of the lapis drop bears the symbol of the respective deities: for Venus, a circle with a single line extending downwards and for Neptune, a circle with three lines radiating downwards. These are enigmatic symbols that are found on magical gems worn by those of the Hellenistic Mediterranean in the 1st century CE. As they are enigmatic, their exact origin is unknown.
All are approximately 20 mm in length and each talisman will be fitted with a sterling silver pendant bail.