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Tag: Gemstones
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Sanctuary Collection Update
Launched to our mailing list on March 22 (with our early access list getting the first selection on March 21), the Sanctuary collection was down to only three unsold talismans in under four hours. The last few pieces from the collection found takers the next day, meaning that the whole collection was sold out the…
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Why We Use Natural Gemstones for Astrological Talismans
At Idola Stellarum, we make every effort to source gemstones that are 100% natural: undyed, unheated, untreated, and not lab-created. We are painfully aware that natural gemstones present their own violence and ethical problems, including but not limited to the opacity of the supply chain, the treatment of workers, disrespect for the land and Indigenous…
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Talismanic Gemstones are Neither like Birdhouses nor Birdcages: An Ecological Spirit Model Perspective On the Essential Freedom of Celestial Spirits (Part III)
In Part I of this post series on the freedom of celestial spirits, we used traditional sources to reject the idea that talismans are like birdcages that trap spirits inside them. In Part II of this post series, we deepened this idea by proposing another metaphor: that a talisman could be thought of as more…
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Talismanic Gemstones are more like Birdhouses than Birdcages: On the Essential Freedom of Celestial Spirits (Part II)
In Part I of this post series on the freedom of celestial spirits, we examined source texts in the tradition of astrological magic and compared the methods of astrological magic to the methods of Solomonic magic to reject the idea that talismans are like birdcages. That is, celestial spirits do not become trapped or imprisoned…