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.

“Love is in the eye of the beholder.” – Unknown

 

 

VENUS MORTAR + MARS PESTLE = PLANETARY ACCOUTREMENT

BEST FOR: Brining fertility energy into your food preparation and ritual workings. Mortar is 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 grind and well mixed. The mortar is also perfect for holding incense or candle.

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.

COMPONENT DETAILS:

♦ The mortar: Concrete mortar with consecrated earth, copper and iron oxide. With size 11 Ø cm x 7,5 cm height and weighting 0,718 kg.

♦ The pestle: Resin pestle with leather strap and rainbow obsidian stone. The pestle length is 15 cm, 5 Ø cm width, weighting 0,303 kg.

E N E R G E T I C S

Venus Astrology

Venus is also the planet of the third circle, counting away from the earth, between Mercury and the sun. Mars is lord of the third heaven, Venus’s sphere. Libra is her day house, and Taurus her night house. Pisces is her exaltation or sign of maximum power, and Virgo is her depression, or sign of minimum power. She is Hesperus, the evening star, and Lucifer, the morning star.

Mars Astrology

Mars is also the fifth planet counting away from the earth, and the third planet counting toward the earth from Saturn. It is the planet of battles; conquerors, fierce and desirous of war, are born under this sign.

The Complaint of Mars may be compared with several types of poems: the moralized Ovid, the astrological poem, the aubade, the Valentine poem, the lover’s complaint, and the courtly-love poem. It is built on the Venus and Mars myth.

Venus and Mars Myth

Mars and Venus fell in love, and the Sun told Vulcan, her husband, of their amours. Vulcan forged a fine golden net, which was almost invisible, and he installed it above Venus’s bed. Locked in each other’s arms, Venus and Mars were caught in the net. Vulcan opened the doors and called the gods to see their embarrassment. The gods laughed, and the story became the talk of heaven.

Venus reigns in bliss because she governs Mars and Mars sings in his happiness with Venus, who causes him such pleasure. Ptolemy remarks that when Mars and Venus are allied, their subjects are pleasing, cheerful, erotic, fond of dancing, and pleasure loving, among other qualities.

Venus and Mars in Aquarius

Supercharged conjunction between Venus and Mars in February (Capricorn) and March (Aquarius) 2022. In the air sign of Aquarius the Venus energies are more attracted and passionate about mind than bodies. Here Venus & Mars have passion to connect and open new possibilities to meet people who can effect us in positive way. There is revolutionary charged energies in the skies, granting us with forward thinking, while broadening our world view. Now we can combine what we desire and what we assert for in context of great communal service and innovating ways to express this emotions. Because Saturn is present in Aquarius, that is also sign of his rulership, these energies disperse rather detached emotions. Here we have more structured and socially aware thoughts. Together Venus & Mars embrace always had the potency for erotically inclined, magnetising creations. But in Aquarius, these energies are felt like the heart and mind gate opening towards the New Age.

On March 28th 2022 Venus will meet her father Saturn creating testing bond for relationships. This is when we will know if a relationship ends or gets taken to the next level.

Venus Herbs

Venus rules over the metamorphosis of the cells, the reproduction and enrichment and transformation of cells, the preservation of the body, the complexion, the reproductive system and the harmony between all the systems of the 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.

HERBS FOR BEAUTY: He Shou Wu (also ruled by the Sun), Bergamont, Balm of Gilead, Camu Camu, Horsetail (also ruled by Saturn), Rose geranium, Mangosteen (also ruled by Jupiter), Orchid, Schisandra, Ylang Ylang.

APHRODISIACS + SPIRIT HERBS: Albizzia, Damiana, Catuaba, Kava Kava, Catnip, Mucuna, Muira Puama.

REPRODUCTIVE HERBS: Black Cohosh (also ruled by Pluto), Crampbark, Lady’s Mantle, Roses, Rose Hips, Red Raspberry leaf, Hibiscus, Mugwort (also ruled by the moon), Shatavari.

HEART/CARDIO TONICS: Fox glove, Motherwort, Pau d’arco.

SUPERFOODS: Apples, Blackberries, Cacao, Currants, Gooseberries, Maca (also ruled by Mars), Pear, Peaches, Raspberries, Strawberries, Watermelon.

VISIONARY: Wild Dagga, Blue Lotus (also ruled by the Moon).

Mars Herbs

Archetypally, Mars embodies the manner in which we bring ideas, dreams, and desires into manifestation. The energy of Mars yields us the power of strength, courage and physical activity. Astrologers see Mars as a key element to one’s drive, agility and the nature of one’s physical energy. By nature, the herbs of Mars are energetically yang and considered hot, energetic, and dry. They frequently cause an increase in energy or heat, even if only energetically.

STIMULANTS + ENERGIZERS: Coffee, Catuaba, Guarana, Maca, Prickly Ash, Pine (+ pine pollen), Ginkgo, Ephedra.

MUSCLES + JOINTS: (Herbs that assist rheumatism, arthritis, etc.) Chuchuhuasi, Sarsaparilla, Rheumatism weed (Chimapila), Hemp leaves, Kratom.

BITTERS: (Herbs to reduce gut inflammation, bloating, etc.) Blessed Thistle, Black Pepper, Cinchona, Pau D’Arco, Nettles, Rue, Plantain leaf, Quassia, Gentian.

CULINARY: Basil, Bay Laurel, Cashew, Chives, Cumin, Cayenne, Coriander, Garlic, Onions, Paprika, Parsley, Mustard, Marjoram, Radish.

RESINS + OILS: Benzoin, Dragons Blood, Castor Bean, Palo Santo.

VISIONARY: Mandrake, Juniper, Palo Santo.

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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