Wellness Dish + Hermes Soap

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.

WELLNESS DISH + HERMES SOAP

BEST FOR: The flat surface of the dish, makes it perfect for holding incense, particularly backflow incense burners and cone incense. When used as a soap dish, the sealed concrete protects your intention soap from molding.

HOW TO: Use it preferably in dry place and keep your magick soap dry after every use. This soap dish is used primary for wellness and ritual practices, do not mix with foods. When used as offering plate on the altar, wash it and dry well after every use.

BOWL DETAILS: Concrete wellness dish with oxidized cement and consecrated earth, hand polished and sealed. Size 14 Ø cm, with height of 5 cm, weighting about 0,445 kg.

SOAP DETAILS: The cold processed soap was created on elected horoscope on the 9th of July, 2021. This soap conjures the energies of Mercury in its domicile Gemini on the MC, with Virgo rising on the horizon at 13°. The benevolent Jupiter positioned on the DC in the sign of Aquarius, was in nice trine aspect to the Moon in her home of Cancer. Bubbly, sensitive creativity inspired by the mental air stream, brings forth the lucid dream born from the bind of our dual mentality. This election holds the extra potent conjunction between Mars and Venus in the sign of Leo, where Mars embodies full passionate combust.

SOAP INGREDIENTS:

♦ Cretan Olive Oil
♦ Refined Organic Coconut Oil
♦ Pure Shea Butter
♦ Sunflower Oil infused with Malva Flowers
♦ Sweet Almond Oil infused with Mint & Pine Needles
♦ Castor Oil
♦ Chromium green oxide
♦ Pure Oak Moss Essential Oil
♦ Pure White Sage Essential Oil
♦ Pure Lavender Essential Oil
♦ Licorice Essential Oil
♦ Lilly of the Valley Fragrance Oil
♦ Sodium Hydroxide
♦ Distilled Water
♦ Blue Lotus Flower Petals

HOW TO: Use the soap on Mercury Day – Wednesday and possibly Mercury hour or potent Full or New Moon dates. Clear your thoughts and space beforehand. Step into your bath circle, breath deeply and set your intention. Imagine yourself surrounded by a brilliant green golden light that supports you with all the protection and love mother nature has to offer. From this supported place she asks you what it is within you that you’ve always had? Write how this light of yours that has always been can work to help lifting our human family, the light you have that can elevate you, nurture and relax your three bodies (mental, emotional, spiritual). Sit and soak your Earth body in the medicine you’ve created, allowing natural forces to carry your message far. Surrender. Exhale.

E N E R G E T I C S

Mercury – Hermes – Thoth

Hermes Trismegistus is a mystical figure, revered by many as an ancient prophet, who shared his knowledge of alchemy and the occult sciences through his writings in the ancient world. Various legends about the comings and goings of Hermes Trismegistus have been developed over the centuries. It is clear that there was not only one Hermes and that he appeared in different parts of the world during different ages with no doubt that his influence has reached far and wide, across continents and across history, to capture the imaginations of many, and create a mystical tradition that countless people still adhere to today.

“Physiological conditions found under Mercury include one’s mental alertness and predisposition to disorders of speech and/or of the nervous system. Impediments of speech, whether physiological or psychological, are often studied as afflictions of the natal Mercury. One’s ability to remember things or to retrieve information from the bins of frequently misfiled data within one’s mind are mercurial in nature.”

Naturally, Mercury is known as neither feminine or masculine, yin or yang, representing the dualistic energy and is metaphorically dry. Mercury represents energetic herbs that move quickly within the nervous system, or cause a mood/mental change quite rapidly.

Orphic Hymn 28 to Hermes

“To Hermes, Fumigation from Frankincense. Hermes, draw near, and to my prayer incline, messenger of Zeus, and Maia’s son divine; prefect of contests, ruler of mankind, with heart almighty, and a prudent mind. Celestial messenger of various skill, whose powerful arts could watchful Argos kill. With winged feet ‘tis thine through air to course, O friend of man, and prophet of discourse; great life-supporter, to rejoice is thine in arts gymnastic, and in fraud divine. With power endued all language to explain, of care the loosener, and the source of gain. Whose hand contains of blameless peace the rod, Korykion, blessed, profitable God. Of various speech, whose aid in works we find, and in necessities to mortal kind. Dire weapon of the tongue, which men revere, be present, Hermes, and thy suppliant hear; assist my works, conclude my life with peace, give graceful speech, and memory’s increase.”

Altar Offerings

Traditionally, the altar should be placed in the center or northern quarter of the ritual circle. The left-hand side of the altar is generally considered feminine, while the right-hand side is considered masculine. In a perfect world, the items on each side should be aligned with these energies and the sides should be reasonably balanced. However, this isn’t often practical. The items on your altar can, and should, change depending on the purpose of the ritual and your personal preferences. One can place altar offerings to celebrate each pagan festival.

The Buddhist altar found in temples or homes are elaborately decorated wooden cabinets with doors that enclose and protect a religious image of the Buddha, Bodhisattvas or mandala. These are installed in the highest place of honor and centered. Sacred texts, relics and also contained in the different compartments of the altar. Other religious items such as candles, incense and offerings such as fruit and flowers are placed on shelf for meditation and observation of holy days.

Creating an ancestor altar that you regularly work with is a powerful ritual that powers spirit work. It is a great way to connect with your ancestors as well as yourself. Strengthening that bond with your ancestral army will help you stay not only grounded, but properly guided. Traditionally, what are some ways your culture venerates those who have gone before us? Are there certain motifs or items that represent your family? You can simply keep table cloth, water, images, food, fruit, candle and books that connect you to family and ancestors. You may want to include more personal family items to your ancestral shrine.

Offering Bowls

Tibetan offer water first thing in the morning along with Serkyem filled with tea or wine, Butter lamp and conclude with Incense offering. It is a way to make offering to Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in four direction.

It is a common practice in Zen to make food offerings to the hungry ghosts. During formal meals during sesshin, an offering bowl will be passed or brought to each person about to partake of the meal. Everyone takes a small piece of food from his bowl, touches it to the forehead, and places it in the offering bowl. The bowl is then ceremonially placed on the altar.

Hungry ghosts represent all of our greed and thirst and clinging, which bind us to our sorrows and disappointments. By giving away something that we crave, we unbind ourselves from our own clinging and neediness to think of others.

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 these skills and knowledge to the next generation, bestowing the Acolyte w everything needed to provide a community with the necessary skillsets w 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.

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All of our products are:

♥ Handcrafted with love and care in Berlin, Germany

♥ Made with natural, organic and wild-crafted ingredients

♥ Made fresh in small batches

♥ Never tested on animals, only on husbands and girlfriends

♥ No artificial colors, dyes or preservatives

♥ No chemicals, parabens, minerals or fillers

♥ Packaged in recyclable bottles/jars/ceramics

♥ Shipped in as much recycled and recyclable packaging as possible.

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Although they may smell edible, our products are NOT for human consumption. FOR EXTERNAL USE ONLY. No liability will be assumed by OnçaRitualOfferings for any claims arising out of the misuse or otherwise of these items or any other product sold or made by OnçaRitualOfferings.

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Jarow for Onça Vessel series are reclaimed, recycled and repurposed.