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.

MORTAR + PANACEA BOWL + SURIKOGI PESTLE = VENUS ACCOUTREMENT

BEST FOR: 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 grinded and well mixed. The flat medicine bowl surface make it perfect for holding incense, particularly backflow incense burners and cone incense.

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, jimbe sand (Australian red desert sand) and Exodus holy anointing herbs, size 13,5 Ø cm x 6 cm height, weighting 1,144 kg.

♦ The pestle: Oak wood pestle with leather strap has length of 18 cm, 3 Ø cm width, weighting 0,70 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 medicine bowl: Concrete mahogany panacea bowl with consecrated earth and Exodus holy anointing oil size 11,5 Ø cm x 3,5 cm height, weighting 0,213 kg.

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 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: https://sacred-texts.com/cla/hoo/hoo59.htm. 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.

MEDICINE BOWL

These Receptacles are used in the grinding and processing as well as for the combining of herbs or other substances to make medicine. Traditionally, these Bowls were passed through the line of the Wise Woman, she like the shaman or medicine man responsible for the health of a clan or community. Whereas the the male counterpart is responsible for the spiritual health of the people, the Women were to care and protect the physical Health respectively. These healers were often the called upon by communities for any number of ailments. These Women were educated in plant lore and anatomy, alchemy, and many other trades and skills, and the employment there of, in matters of health and healing, including the duties of midwife.

These well respected elders, passing their skills and knowledge to the next generation, bestowing the Acolyte with everything needed to provide a community with the necessary skillsets, remedies and cordials, when reaching the level of trust and certainty. The elder passed the bowl for her mixing of medicines, tea, and what have on relinquishing her duties and authority in the community to the next generation.

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.

Molcajete & Tejolote

A molcajete and tejolote are stone tools, the traditional Mexican version of the mortar and pestle, similar to the South American batan, used for grinding various food products. The molcajete was used by pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican cultures, including the Aztec and Maya, stretching back several thousand years. Traditionally carved out of a single block of vesicular basalt, molcajetes are typically round in shape and supported by three short legs. They are frequently decorated with the carved head of an animal on the outside edge of the bowl, giving the molcajete the appearance of a short, stout, three-legged animal. The pig is the most common animal head used for decoration of this type.

In the pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican period, the molcajete had a lid and the set was believed to be used for burial of members in society of high status. Additionally, throughout the prehispanic Mesoamerican period, they were decorated with various colors and designs, and orange wares were identified as the most common characteristic of the molcajete. The matching hand-held grinding tool, known as a tejolote, is made of the same basalt material.

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