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silver celestial star of david glass beaded necklace

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silver star of david cream glass bead necklace

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silver clay star of david huggie hoop earrings

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blue star of david pearl bead silver dangle earrings

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silver star of david cream glass bead necklace

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silver celestial star of david glass beaded necklace

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medieval jewish amulet texts from the sefer raziel. the top, "for grace and favor." the bottom, "to safeguard a man against all weapons."

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My hagstone amulet. It’s made out of various things I’ve found and collected over the years (as usual). ☀️ Adder stone, a piece of a synthetic braid of a friend, glass beads, wooden beads, coral beads, plastic beads (I guess?), silver, and other metals.

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blue star of david pearl bead silver dangle earrings

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Seraph Serpent Birkat Habayit, 2024

a (non-)traditional blessing for the home, commissioned earlier this year as a wedding gift for a wonderful couple who share my alternative/dark-fantasy Jewish aesthetic! having just finished Esther Hamori's book God's Monsters, i was already thinking about the nachash seraphim & was excited to integrate one as a guardian here. the original piece was sketched in Procreate and then finished traditionally, but the photo i took of it before sending it off wasn't the right quality for prints, so this is actually a digital re-inking of the same piece.

it's not my usual practice to make prints of commissioned work, but the family not only graciously gave permission but in fact suggested it to me in this case! so i'll have some of these with me at my local Hanukkah market this December & will be stocking them in my shop next year.

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Mollayaghoub Synagogue/ Isfahan/ Iran

Photography: Saeed amini

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This guy is a treasure. So much information about magical history.

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Witch’s Riddle

I am the pillar

I am the stone

I am the tree

between earth and sky

I am the lock

I am the key

I am the doorway

all must pass through

I am the mountain

I am the path

I am the centre

of the crossroad

I am the fire

I am the light

I am the brightness

illuminating dark

-Sarah Anne Lawless

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A specialized house ward, meant to prevent spiritual eavesdropping within the warded structure. It utilizes a wild-gathered Walnut shell, which was stained with a pigment made from Indigo and Azurite, sealed using an empowered wood varnish made from precious tree resins, and studded with a Black Tourmaline crystal.

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Spiritual seekers need one another as mirrors. A member of the Hopi nation once asked me about our holy days. I was telling him about Passover, our celebration of freedom, and Sukkot, our Feast of Tabernacles, and how they fit in with the cycles of the year. "I think I get it," he said finally. "You people don't want to be in slavery. And you want to pass this on to your children. But when you tell your kids on Passover, 'We have to go away from here; we can't stay here because it will cost us our freedom,' your kids will say, 'Yeah, but what are we going to eat?' So you teach them how to bake bread on stones, how to roast a lamb if you are hungry, how to find dandelion greens, and so on. When the kids ask, 'But where will we stay?' you show them how to build a lean-to, so they will have somewhere to live." An Indian perspective on the mitzvot to eat the Passover lamb with matzot and bitter herbs and to build a sukkah on Sukkot gave me a completely different insight into my own traditions.

-Jewish with Feeling, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. 2005, p. 198-199

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hi! do you know any epithets for “witch”? thx!!

okay, this is not an epithet, but the dictionary entry for it is amazing

trivenefica, -ae, an arrant poison-mixer, a thorough hag, witch, or sorceress

don’t we all aspire to be a thorough hag?

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LMFAO