Blood Milk Jewels
Belladonna of the Abyss. Necklace.
$250.00 $225.00
Blood Milk Jewels
Belladonna of the Abyss. Necklace.
$250.00 $225.00
IMPORTANT: Available for purchase Friday December 5th at 3PM EST through Friday December 19th at 11:59PM EST
PLEASE NOTE : We are excited to extend a discounted price to our clients, this entire collection has been marked down 10%.
Belladonna is considered to be one of the most potent and magical poisonous plants on the planet. Sacred to Hecate, liminal goddess of the crossroads, the dead, witchcraft and the edge, among other things, who guided Persephone out of the Underworld on her first ascent from it. It is one of the ingredients of the infamous Witches ‘flying ointment’ and when used correctly, it is healing and transformative rather than poisonous and deadly.
Ancient coins have been found in grave goods and are significant to Charon, the ferryman who ferried shades of the dead over the River Styx to the realm of Persephone and Hades, the Underworld. The Underworld can also represent the realms of our unconscious, a space for growth and regeneration as we face the sharp parts of ourself - to descend into the shadowy recesses of ourselves, the haunted parts we often choose not to look ~ there is a romanticism to this kind of work, but it is also ugly, hard and dark work as well, and often, we are in need of many kinds of support when we make this descent - this coin is a talisman of assistance and comfort, a coin of passage, of crossing a threshold and of holding tight through the ‘trouble’, of staying safe in a dark place, of taking just the ‘right’ dose of poison to heal rather than harm.
- Designed to be highly tactile and grounding in moments of anxiety, grief, flashes of anger or misunderstanding, when you feel you are floating out of yourself and need to root back to this plane…. its edges have been highly distressed by hand in ritual in the bowels of our studio ‘ship’ in the presence of ancient coins. It represents a 'shard' of a coin worn smooth by time or by the hands of someone who used it in the manner of prayer or ritual rather than currency.
“...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
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Back in 2017/2018 I started sketching & dreaming on ideas for an Oracle deck I wanted to make with my husband Aaron Horkey that was never to be as A). there are plenty in existence already B). it’s an extremely time & all consuming project if done the way he & I would have liked to have brought it into the world. Still, the ideas haunted me, the sketches & notes lived in my notebooks like embers which raged like wildfires in my sleep & cornering me at surprising moments in my waking hours. Considering this ~ I thought I could make these ideas into ‘divination coins’ instead ~ a deck of cards spread out over time to jewels ~ a narrative thread woven through silver talismanic vessels that could be worn and pressed against parts of the body, held, slept with, rather than made of paper and flipped over - fanned out in brief moments ~ something that resonated deeper than the original meaning I dreamed up for them.
~ I started to think of Ancient coins ~ of the many ‘values’ coins have had ~ grave goods, objects to collect over the ages- coins for the ferryman ~ objects that outlast us, ancestral objects ~ ancestral currency…..& I wanted to make my own that held a talismanic and personal value rather than monetary value that could then potentially hold a talismanic & personal narrative value to its new wearers….each of these three ‘coins’ are struck with extremely personal significance and I'm please to introduce the first three an ongoing series.
*Details* :
- 30mm at it's widest
- 50mm from top to bottom ( including jump ring )
- Shown on Jess with a 16 inch chain
- Pendant, chain, jump rings, and clasp are all solid Sterling Silver hand oxidized to achieve our favorite shade of stormy gray and then highlighted to reveal the bright luminous silver beneath
- Jess is also wearing the Snake Rib Ouroboros Spyglass necklace which you can find HERE.
***IMPORTANT***
This jewel is handmade to order, just for you, with care and focus. Please allow approximately 6-8 weeks for creation before shipping.
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