{"id":5372,"date":"2022-09-07T14:31:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/?p=5372"},"modified":"2023-07-26T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T17:04:04","slug":"from-the-sorcerers-workbench-mercury-in-virgo-elected-and-consecrated-talismans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/07\/from-the-sorcerers-workbench-mercury-in-virgo-elected-and-consecrated-talismans\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Sorcerer’s Workbench: Mercury in Virgo Elected and Consecrated Talismans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This August, Nina Gryphon spotted six Mercury Elections, three worthy of metal talismans, the rest better suited for petitions and prayers. Looking for clearer-cut opportunities, I had actually overlooked all of these possible elections when I was looking back in May, which is why I still outsource my electioneering. Of those three superior elections, divination indicated that two of them were suitable for me to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first election, I used for my own benefit, and for the benefit of my Lunar Shenanigans pseudo-coven, casting each of us a brass talisman of Mercury and distributing them at the end of our road-opening work at the Dark Moon. Preverb caught me hard the night before, and I barely slept. After the ritual, I was fucking high for hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second election I cast for sale. The ritual, itself, was less dramatic in its effects on me. I think that the reason for this was twofold: firstly, none of these talismans was for me; secondly, the working first election had made me a better conduit for the Mercurial powers than I had been before. The spirits names and sigils came to me easily, as did their specialties, and their advice on how best to process them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of that second cohort, presented here, I attempted to cast six talismans. Only five came through. The technical difficulties were on the jewelry end, not the sorcerous side, and I have written about that experience here<\/a>. All of the spirits – even the doomed one – spoke to me quite clearly, and I think they will all make good friends to whomever takes them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They retail for $398, shipping included.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first talisman<\/a> is a pendant. Its spirit specializes in course correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second talisman<\/a> is a coin. The sprit promises to attract anonymous patronage and sponsorship – ideal, then, for internet artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The third talisman<\/a> is a pendant. The spirit promises to bring professional renown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fourth talisman<\/a> is a pendant. The spirit promises to teach perseverance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fifth talisman<\/a> is a pendant. The spirit promises to teach excellence in art, craft, and skill.<\/s> Sold<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This August, Nina Gryphon spotted six Mercury Elections, three worthy of metal talismans, the rest better suited for petitions and prayers. Looking for clearer-cut opportunities, I had actually overlooked all of these possible elections when I was looking back in May, which is why I still outsource my electioneering. Of those three superior elections, divination … Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[377],"tags":[160,380,381,370],"class_list":["post-5372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sorcerers-workbench","tag-mercury","tag-picatix-talismans","tag-planetary-talisman","tag-sorcerers-workbench-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8kUcm-1oE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5541,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372\/revisions\/5541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journeythroughtheobsidiandream.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}