Witches regularly wear occult jewellery: pentagram pendants, amber, jet, moonstone, coral, or even acorn necklaces; magical rings with special stones or symbolic designs; and lots of silver, the metal of the moon. Wearing jewellery is a form of communication: to the wearer to other people, and to hidden forces attracted by certain colours, substances and patterns.
Join Dr Caroline Tully in a workshop about magical gems and jewellery from ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt; ancient healing modalities and gods; and healing astrology. Learn about the stone amulets, empowering talismans, and protective jewellery of the Ancient World, and the spells used to activate them. Through discussion and practical ritual, contemporary approaches to healing magic will be revealed. Bring a piece of your own jewellery and through ritual we will draw down the stars to consecrate it to a healing deity. Participants will also take home their own moonstone amulet.
Caroline has a background in various traditions of witchcraft and magic/k and is also an academic who studies ancient Mediterranean Pagan religions and their manifestation in the modern world.
11 am to 2 pm
2 comments:
Hi - Could you recommend a book or two about this topic? Thank you in advance! 😘
Hi there, well, a good recent book is Christopher Faraone's The Transformation of Greek Amulets in Roman Imperial Times https://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15774.html
Now that sounds a little specific, but it's got a lot of good background about amulets and magical gems and jewellery in general. But there are a lot of free pdfs you can get on Academia.edu, search terms such as: engraved gems, Roman gems etc. In fact Christopher Faraone has some articles available on his Academia page, but he is not the only specialist in magical gems, but is a good place to start.
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