zodiac pendants

A custom “Charm Holder” and necklace.

The Charm Holder
A custom necklace
to hold various amulets

After searching “high and low” (as she put it) for several years,
such a thing was not to be found.
Apparently my client had a charm holder made in the ‘70s,
but due to her allergy to gold and the problem of breakage,
she sought a jeweler to re-create the piece.
After sending me a rather blurry image with a written description
I created a rendering fro her approval.
Because of her purposes for the piece
I added the triple moon at the top harnessing a hinge and clasp for the armature to swing out,
change the amulets out as needed and clasp again behind the triple moon shield.
I did not add stones because it would “color” what it is
holding to a narrow spectrum of purpose.

Shown here are three amulets in combination:
the High priestess, Leo and an ancestor skull bead.
This combination holds the vitality and perseverance of Leo,
the qualities of the Akashic amulet of the High Priestess
and the wisdom of the ancestors.
As the bearer of this Charm Holder,
she is able to construct a pattern of influences
needed for a specific purpose
or to develop a matrix of intent
for a period of time
and then reconstruct the holder for other purposes in the future.

Although this piece is a one of a kind,
I can create a charm holder of similar make and construction for you
with your choice of symbol at the top and size of armature.
Custom work is one of my favorite things to create,
so all you need to do is ask.

The Capricorn Amulet

Posted by Amulets by Merlin on February 16, 2010

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Capricorn is
Cardinal (initiation, creativity and leadership)
Earth (socially acceptable, very polite, prudent, and aroused by sensory stimulation).
Capricorn’s house begins with the longest night of the year
and the promise of longer days, yet the winter deepens.
This conflict is reflected in Capricorn’s qualities.

The Capricorn Amulet

Saturn’s limiting influence of Capricorn is dominate;
associated with the confines of Time itself,
Capricorn does best when limited to deadlines
and delineated spaces and shine under pressure.
Capricorns are extremely solid,
practical and determined.
Even as winter sets in,
Capricorn “sees the light at the end of the tunnel”
though they deem it nearly unreachable,
their determination cannot be thwarted
even when faced with insurmountable odds.
Thus they become extremely dependable both as workers and managers.
Because they perceive everything as “weaker” than themselves,
they trust little they themselves did not set in motion,
they test and question everything,
thus they can become tedious when faced with uncertainty.
Their powers of manipulation have given them the phrase
“I Use” for everything from objects,
people and situations.

The Capricorn Amulet reflects the Capricorn’s essence
of fierce determination and drive to complete their goals;
solid Earth texture framed in a solid circle of delineation.

This amulet is for both the Capricorn sun and moon signs:
The Sun signs are those of the Zodiac houses under which you are born:
December 22 – January 19/20,
or if you are more concerned with your moon sign,
the house the moon occupied while you were born.
It may also be used as an amulet
should you wish to emphasize the qualities of Capricorn in your life,
actions, position in your community or home;
perfect for those who are analysts, quality control,
advisers, managers and workers of all kinds.

Scorpio is a
Fixed (stabilization, determination, depth and persistence)
Water (cooperative, companionable, hospitable and sociable)
and straddles Samhain,
the time of the year when the veil between worlds is the thinnest.

The Scorpio Amulet

Scorpios are self-confident, intelligent,
and strong-willed offering their opinion whether you like it or not.
Ruled by Mars
they will resort to cutting verbal
and physical violence when angered;
and like Mars it’s symbol also uses the “Broken Cross”
(arrow at the end)
signifying a quick movement through matter.

Scorpio itself
is associated with Transmutation
beginning with the Scorpion:
reactionary and hard pressed to get more then a basic self-centered response.
Once they grow older,
Scorpio becomes the Eagle,
still set apart yet with a much better perspective;
allowing them to see beyond their own issues
and encompasses a broad view.
Finally they evolve into the Phoenix:
harnessing their experience of the Human Condition,
allowing their perspective to stretch beyond
even the whole of the Human Experience.
Thus the short phrase “I Create”
applies to both their inward progression
and the outward response to their drive of self Transmutation,
producing a fierce beauty in their wake.

The Scorpio Amulet holds the classic Glyph of Scorpio:
double crescents with the arrow
(cross of movement) at its tail;
the symbol is encircled by a deeply cut frame
and textured with turbulent water.

This amulet is for both the Scorpio sun and moon signs:
The Sun signs are those of the Zodiac houses
under which you are born:
October 23 – November 22,
or if you are more concerned with your moon sign,
the house the moon occupied while you were born.
It may also be used as an amulet
should you wish to emphasize the qualities of Scorpio in your life,
actions, position in your community or home;
perfect for those who are Artists or in professional careers
such as medicine chemistry and physics,
yet good in any task that requires sound judgment and creativity.

The Libra Amulet

Posted by Amulets by Merlin on February 11, 2010

Posted in: Zodiac Amulets. Tagged: Astrology Amulets, Astrology jewelry, Astrology Talismans, Libra Amulet, Libra jewelry, Libra pendant, Libra talisman, Zodiac Jewelry, Zodiac pendant, zodiac pendants, zodiac talisman. 3 Comments

Libra is
Mutable (adaptability, service-providing and expansion)
Air (curious, initiative, original, and well-disciplined, quick thinkers).
Libra tends to be associated
with Law and Justice because of
their ability to perceive a situation
and find its balance intuitively.
When associating themselves with others,
they tend to be extremely diplomatic
yet when faced with primal issues
of right and wrong,
become very hard lined and stubborn.
Hence they are at times referred to as
“The iron hand in the velvet glove”.

The Libra Amulet

Libra’s phrase is
“We Balance”
because of their unconscious drive
to create order in their lives
whether it be with friends and family
(seeking a peaceful settlement)
their environment
(they love symmetry)
or themselves as they seek to keep healthy in mind body and spirit.
For all their efforts to keep things balanced,
they tend to get caught up in their own perceptions
and tend to over look new information as it arrives,
thus their tendency to miss ideas threatening their perspective,
and become upset
(more with themselves)
as their world view becomes distorted.

Libra is associated with Venus,
a planet usually associated with Love
because it is the balance between
the Spirit (the circle)
and Matter (the cross);
thus Libra tends to be concerned with emotional issues,
not taking kindly to insult
and tend to carry grudges,
yet reward their focus of affection
with the greatest kindness and compassion.

The Libra Amulet
holds the classic symbol of the scales
with a deep cut frame “brushed” with air
moving in a multitude of directions.
The Scales of its central focus
provide the balance between directions,
actions and intent.

This amulet is for both the Libra sun and moon signs:
The Sun signs are those of the Zodiac houses
under which you are born:
September 23 – October 23/24,
or if you are more concerned with your moon sign,
the house the moon occupied while you were born.
It may also be used as an amulet
should you wish to emphasize the qualities of Libra in your life,
actions, position in your community or home;
perfect for those who are practicing Law,
educators, councilors and arbitrators.

The Virgo Amulet

Posted by Amulets by Merlin on February 10, 2010

Posted in: Amulets, Zodiac Amulets. Tagged: Astrology Amulets, Astrology jewelry, Astrology Pendants, Astrology Talismans, Virgo Amulet, Virgo jewelry, Virgo pendant, Virgo talisman, Zodiac Amulets, Zodiac Jewelry, zodiac pendants, zodiac talisman. 4 Comments

Virgo is a
Mutable (adaptability, service-providing and expansion)
Earth (socially acceptable,
very polite, prudent, and aroused by sensory stimulation).
Standing between Summer and Fall;
neither truly fixed nor truly movable,
it partakes of both in the same way as Gemini and Pisces.

The Virgo Amulet

Virgo’s qualities may be well described
as “I Analyze”
for it observes what is there and considers its worth.
They are good in creating and keeping order in all of its many manifestations,
yet because of their natural attraction
to “everything in its place” will argue about their lack of it.
(Pardon the mess) More often than not,
they hide what they feel for fear of committing to a relationship,
careful about expressing their feelings.
The friends they do make are solid relationships that will last a lifetime.

Virgo takes pride in being realists,
yet may slow down a project by their demand for precision.
Practical with their hands,
good technicians with inventive talents,
Virgos are thorough, hard working,
conscientiousness perfectionists; and are easily discouraged.

Because of their ability to see every angle of a many-sided question,
and drive for a practical result they are frustrated
with philosophical concepts because they “seem” unrealistic and long-winded.

The Virgo Amulet’s frame is a deep cut circle featuring the classic symbol in the center,

framed in the texture of soil; like the earth holding the potential of bounty.

This amulet is for both the Virgo sun and moon signs:
The Sun signs are those of the Zodiac houses
under which you are born:
August 23 – September 23,
or if you are more concerned with your moon sign,
the house the moon occupied while you were born.
It may also be used as an amulet should you wish
to emphasize the qualities of Virgo in your life,
actions, position in your community or home;
perfect for those who are storekeepers,
writers, gardeners, merchants and traders.

The Leo Amulet

Posted by Amulets by Merlin on February 9, 2010

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The Leo Amulet represents the qualities
of Fixed (stabilization, determination, depth and persistence)
Fire (enthusiasm, courage and action).
Leo tends to be single minded when performing a task,
but like the feline that is associated with the Astrological House,
Leo can be distracted by the pretty sparkle of objects and ideas,
sidetracked by a call of rescue for those in distress,
often leaving their own problems suspended and unresolved.

Leo Amulet

A phrase that expresses the House of Leo
is “I Will”
because of the baseline objective is to manifest their intent.
By instinct they seem to dominate everything around them,
and those who are friends and family recognize their “unspoken” prerogative.
One of the planets associated with Leo is Uranus
which governs societies,
clubs and any group dedicated to humanitarian or progressive ideals.
Also associated with Saturn:
the principles of limitation, restrictions, boundaries,
practicality and reality, crystallizing and structures;
and governs ambition, career, authority and hierarchy,
and conforming social structures.
These qualities in Leo can produce some of the most effective results for good and ill.

The Leo Amulet is sculpted in flame,
frozen and “fixed” into the shape of the classic glyph of Leo.
The frame carries the texture
into the surrounding field and background of the amulet.

This amulet is for both the Leo sun and moon signs:
The Sun signs are those of the Zodiac houses under which you are born:
July 23 – August 23,
or if you are more concerned with your moon sign,
the house the moon occupied while you were born.
It may also be used as an amulet
should you wish to emphasize the qualities of Leo in your life,
actions, position in your community or home;
perfect for those who are leaders, paramedics,
doctors, counselors and heroes of all kinds.

The Cancer Amulet represents the Cardinal Mode of Water.
The Cardinal Mode refers to first phase of the element: activation.
Cardinal mode Houses are often energizers of ideas, people and events.
They are the activists of the world.
Cancer being of the element of water tends to work on an unconscious level,
often unbeknown to them selves they set people or events into motion
by tapping directly into the emotional unconscious both of them selves and others.
Their primary response is “I Feel”,
which is in turn translated into physical and intellectual action.

Like the crab that it is associated with,
Cancer Folk tends to keep to them selves,
presenting a hard exterior,
on the surface “feeling nothing” yet deep beneath there is a soft heart
which is easily damaged.
They glorify in privacy and keep their impressions close,
almost incubating their projects and planed responses.
The inner-most portion of the symbol is protected
both by the frame and the “shell” of the symbol.
Like the hermit Crab who dons a pretty shell when the mood strikes him,
the Cancer symbol of the classic “Crab” is surrounded
by the textures of water “under pressure” ready to break loose when appropriate.

The Cancer Amulet is for both the Cancer sun and moon signs:
The Sun signs are those of the Zodiac houses under which you are born:
June 21 – July 23,
or if you are more concerned with your moon sign,
the house the moon occupied while you were born.
It may also be used as an amulet should you wish
to emphasize the qualities of Cancer in your life,
actions, position in your community or home;
perfect for those who are solitaries,
leaders, creators of all kinds and secret geniuses.

The Gemini Amulet is one of “Mutable Air”,
thus the piece is textured to produce a sense of breezes flowing
in two directions at once,
ever changing directions depending on what it surrounds.

The Gemini Amulet

With the ability of self reflection,
The Twins
provides two sides to every issue and puzzling through the paradox.
The seeming conflict may drive another House crazy
with the two streams of information colliding at every turn,
but the element of air gives it the flexibility
to see oneself and appreciate the conflicts,
thus providing a space where paradox my be held together
without conflict to gain wisdom and understanding.

Without a firm hand to balance these opposite views,
Gemini can become confused,
undecided and lost within them selves.
This sign of the twins,
nether positive nor negative yet the potential of both.
Mutable air combined with Mercury brings strong communication,
versatile, witty, logical inquisitive, spontaneous.

The amulet itself holds the qualities of Gemini:
the textures of air moving in opposite directions
with the possibility that it might change directions at any time.
The Gemini symbol of two staves set beside each other
provides the duality of view, and perspective.

This amulet is for both the Gemini sun and moon signs:
The Sun signs are those of the Zodiac houses under which you are born:
May 21 – June 21,
or if you are more concerned with your moon sign,
the house the moon occupied while you were born.
It may also be used as an amulet
should you wish to emphasize the qualities of Gemini in your life,
actions, position in your community or home;
perfect for those who are seekers of knowledge,
blue collar philosophers, writers, poets, actors, musicians and consultants.

The Element of Aries is Primal Fire:
transformation and transmutation.
Aries is considered both the first House
and the first Fire of Spring.
Aries shatters the cold bonds of Winter,
cracks the ice
and allows the first seeds that
to crack open and begin it’s shoots.
Aries is the Ram:
single minded and capable of knocking down barriers
standing in the way
(even if there is a door right next to the passage).

The Aries Amulet

This Sign of the Zodiac establishes the first realization:
“I AM”;
a perception every human has
once aware of their surroundings
and there are other people in the world.
It is with this perspective
the Aries Nature may incite actions,
blaze trails
and conceive notations
others will in turn build on,
extrapolate and complete.
Unfortunately this can also be a bane
Aries struggles with completion of projects.
They make poor followers by nature;
rather
they are trail blazers and path creators.
If they should find themselves as leaders,
it is often confusing to them,
not quite understanding
why someone would not find their own way through life.

The Aries Amulet is composed of the tongues of flame, both the symbol and frame. The amulet looks heavier than it is because of the deeply cut three dimensional frame.

This amulet is for both the Aries
sun and moon signs:
The Sun signs are those of the Zodiac houses
under which you are born:
March 20/21 – April 20,
or if you are more concerned with your moon sign,
the house the moon occupied while you were born.
It may also be used as an amulet
should you wish to emphasize the qualities of Aries in your life,
actions, position in your community or home;
perfect for those who are solitaries,
leaders, creators of all kinds,
Hermits and brain stormers.

To get yours:
Please visit my Aries Amulet Page

The Pisces Amulet
is from my Astrology collection.
Pisces is Mutable Water associated with consciousness,
in it’s mutable from always in flux – even when standing still.
By its nature (like the fish)
it rides the current of thought and emotion
finding currents and eddies to explore.
Pisces is very intuitive
they understand emotion and can grasp another person’s struggle
without losing themselves (Hopefully!).

The Pisces Amulet

“I Believe”.
Knowledge of the current of consciousness
provides a conviction based on gut instinct
rather than calculation.
With this kind of foundation
they can stand in the perpetual Mutation of Being
without loosing their nature.

The amulet’s design produces the effect of “Water within Water”
both holding true to the design
yet creating more flow than is already there.
Like the others in the series,
the frame is deep cut to produce a three dimensional effect to the amulet,
presenting the eye with the idea:
there is more to it than first apparent.

This amulet is for both the Pisces Sun and Moon signs:
The Sun signs are those of the Zodiac houses under which you are born:
February 18/19 – 20/21,
or if you are more concerned with your moon sign,
the house the moon occupied while you were born.
It may also be used as an amulet
should you wish to emphasize the qualities
of Pisces in your life, actions, position in your community or home;
perfect for those who are true believers, religious leaders,
artists, creators of all kinds, Lovers, Lawyers and performers.

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