Onça’s Vessels Collection of Alternative Care Products is to assist the healing process, support wellness, and stimulate growth. In a hands on approach, be proactive in ones own journey with health. Onça’s vessel series were handcrafted in east Berlin, Germany by Studio Jarow. The combined components were sourced and brought together in the making of kitchen and altar utensils. Inspired by the craftsmanship of indigenous folk, each piece was individually prepared in honor of their traditions, resembling simplicity, while considering material shape and dynamics. In addition to our Planetary Magic series, we have created singular vessels that complement divine workings with the planetary forces.

COPPER MORTAR + SURIKOGI PESTLE = VENUS ACCOUTREMENT

BEST FOR: To promote love, sensuality, friendship, positive relationships, fruitful negations, and peace. Copper is connected with the kidneys and thyroid. Mortars are used in cooking to prepare wet or oily ingredients as well as grinding spices into powder. The mortar is big enough for domestic use and make great addition to any ritual altar. Combined salts, resins and potions can be grinded and well mixed. The flat medicine bowl surface make it perfect for holding incense, particularly backflow incense burners and cone incense. Through the potent energy of Venus Copper, the alchemist will refine their psychic abilities and gain intimate knowledge of their sexuality, as well as of the plant kingdom.

HOW TO: Use, rinse and dry well after every use. If the mortar is used primary for ritual practices, do not mix with foods and keep away from children. With time the copper surface will change.

COMPONENT DETAILS:

♦ The mortar: Copper, consecrated earth, cement and iron oxide with size 12 Ø cm x 7 cm height, weighting 0,993 kg.

♦ The pestle: Birch stem pestle with leather strap and brass bell with beads. The length of the pestle is 23,5 cm and is weighting 0,110 kg. Designed to fit comfortably in the hand, the hard wood is resistant to wear and is beautifully finished to showcase the natural elements of the original tree.

THE PESTLE (Surikogi)

The pestle called “surikogi” is made of wood rather than clay and keeps the pestle from wearing down the ridges in the mortar. The traditional and less common pestle is made from the Japanese pepper tree (sansho) and the bark is left on the pestle. It is said that this pestle imparts a slight peppery flavor to the food it grinds. The Suribachi is originally from Southern China and was introduced to Japan between the eleventh and twelfth century. Prior to this time the common mortar was a stone implement. The tool was first used for preparing medicines, then later used for grinding flour and eventually for food preparation. The suribachi became an indispensable kitchen tool in the Japanese home.

E N E R G E T I C S

Venus Myths

To the Sumerians, Venus/Copper was worshipped as Inanna. Inanna to the ancient Sumerians was the Queen of the Heavens and was the goddess of love and war. This meant that in their culture she presided over both birth and death. In later years, Inanna became Ishtar to the Akkadians and Babylonians. In the mythology of Inanna’s Descent into the Underworld, she is killed there and reborn on third day, returning to heaven. This symbolized the Venus/Copper cycle during the spring equinox.

Venus was the most important planet to the Mayans. Their name for Venus was Chac Ek or Noh Ek the greater star. In ancient Egypt, Sekhmet (The Mighty One) was the personification of the planet Venus/Copper. In the Egyptian Pantheon, Sekhmet was the lion-headed goddess of bloody rage, and also the protector of Kings. Sekhmet was also depicted as the Eye of Ra. Sometimes Sekhmet was considered the evening star, while her counterpart, the cat-headed goddess Bastet was considered the morning star and represented peace.

In ancient Rome, Venus was the goddess of love and beauty. She was also the goddess of sacred prostitution. The Romans also called Venus the morning and evening star. It is from the Romans that we get the word Lucifer, which means “light bringer” in Latin. The Romans had two names for Venus – Lucifer the morning star and Vesper the evening star.

Venus Body

Venus is also said to rule all functions of the throat, for Venus is assigned as the ruler of Taurus. Through Venus’ association with Libra, it is said to rule the kidneys. As a planet which is usually indicative of aesthetic values, Venus is correspondent with the skin and hair. Modern medical astrology has also incorporated the thyroid, parathyroid and thymus.

Venus Herbs

Venusian herbs work with the energies of attraction. Many of these herbs have been used in ritual by different traditions, as they are said to be the agents that fuel the dream into manifestation. Although each herb has its way of yielding its power, they have the common thread that they are known to assist in materializing what we love.

Perform Weak Venus Remedies through your Dress & Lifestyle

Every planet affects our lives in the most dramatic way. Whenever a specific period of any planet starts or it transits in a specific house in your horoscope, the planet and its related things surround us so that we would totally befall under that planet’s effect. Every planet denotes specific color and controls human life in many ways hence; to enjoy a good life, you should use (if a planet is benefic for you) or avoid (if a planet is malefic for you) following specific things related to each planet.

For this, you can change your lifestyle as per the following:

You should wear shining white and all shades of Pink colour clothes. You must respect your partner (lover), other women and wife (if you are a male). Apart from that you should develop artistic activities and maintain good character in order to achieve great results from Venus.

Prayer as Venus Remedy

Prayer is the best way to connect your soul with the almighty. Prayer is like a request to heal you, to keep your morale high and give you strength to overcome all the challenges that you are facing in your life. If you pray, it gives you hope and power to fulfill your deeds with sincerity. You can find the Orphic hymn dedicated to Venus in here. There are also the mantras and many other specific spells one can attain from different sources. To evoke the Goddess for any ritual work, best is to work on Venus day- Friday on Venus or appropriate Lunar hour in accordingly prepared sacred space.

MORTAR & PESTLE

Mortar and pestle is a set of two simple tools used since the Stone Age to the present day to prepare ingredients or substances by crushing and grinding them into a fine paste or powder in the kitchen, laboratory, and pharmacy. The mortar is characteristically a bowl, typically made of hard wood, metal, ceramic, or hard stone such as granite. The pestle is a blunt, club-shaped object. The substance to be ground, which may be wet or dry, is placed in the mortar where the pestle is pounded, pressed, and rotated into the substance until the desired texture is achieved.

Mortar and pestle in culture and symbols

The antiquity of the mortar and pestle is well documented in early writing, such as the Egyptian Ebers Papyrus of ~1550 BC (the oldest preserved piece of medical literature) and the Old Testament (Numbers 11:8 and Proverbs 27:22). In Indian mythology, Samudra Manthan from Bhagavata Purana creates amrita, the nectar of immortality, by churning the ocean with a pestle.

Since medieval times, mortars would be placed or carved on the gravestones of pharmacists and doctors. Modern pharmacies, especially in Germany, still use mortars and pestles as logos In Russian and Eastern European folklore, Baba Yaga is described and pictured as flying through the forest standing inside a large wooden mortar (stupa), holding the long wooden pestle in one hand to remove obstacles in front of her, and using the broom in her other hand to sweep and remove her traces behind her. This seems as a trace of some ancient rituals connecting the witch symbols of Baba Yaga with the use of mortars in alchemy, pharmacy and early chemistry, which was all seen as magic by uneducated people in Medieval Ages.

Mano & Metate

At sites dating from the Archaic period (6000 to 500 BC), archaeologists find the first abundant evidence of stone tools designed specifically for the preparation of plant foods. Remarkably, these same tools—or variations of them—are still used today in cultures around the world. Archaeologists working in the American Southwest call these tools “manos” and “metates.”

During the Archaic period, basin metates and one-hand manos were used to grind wild plant foods.

Mano is the Spanish word for “hand,” and it refers to a stone that is held in one or both hands and moved back and forth against a larger stone in order to grind seeds, nuts, and other hard materials. Metate is derived from metatl, a word used by native peoples in central Mexico to describe the larger stone against which the mano is ground.

During the Archaic period, manos were round or oval stones small enough to be held in one hand. They are called “one-hand manos” or, sometimes, “biscuit manos,” because they somewhat resemble large biscuits. The metates were larger and had an oval or oblong depression, which held the foodstuffs or other materials as they were being ground. These larger stone implements are called “basin metates” because of their distinctive shape.

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