The Regulus Talismans are created in the form of a lion's head, a basilisk’s tail and a garnet heart. I chose a basilisk tail because the word "basilisk" comes from the Greek basilískos and has the same meaning as Regulus - “little king”. Each Lion was meticulously hand-carved in wax and cast in sterling silver, with the underside engraved with the sigil and alchemical symbols of Regulus. These talismans were first inspirited on May 15, 2024, at 12:45 pm PT - this qualities of this election is expanded on below - with each garnet engraved on its underside with the image of a lion. As described by Hermes in Liber Hermetis Quadripartitis, a lion carved on garnet brings abundance, honor, joy to the heart, and triumph over sadness.
A second minor election took place on October 26, 2024, at 8:44 am, when Regulus was on the Midheaven, with the Moon applying within one degree of Regulus’s projected degree, unimpeded by malefics. This timing was chosen to set each garnet into the heart of its respective Lion Basilisk, following Agrippa’s guidance:
"When any star ascends fortunately, with the fortunate aspect or conjunction of the Moon, we must take a stone, and herb that is under that star, and make a ring of that metal that is suitable to this star and fasten the stone, putting the herb, or root under it; not omitting the inscriptions of images, names and characters, also the proper suffumigations..."
— Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book I, Chapter 47.
Beneath each garnet is a small rolled beeswax ball of mugwort grown in my garden, pieces of Banyan tree root harvested in Australia, and soil collected from the Temple of Zeus at Nemea during the first days of Regulus's heliacal rise. You can read more in my write-up.
The Regulus Talisman is made of solid sterling silver, and has a substantial weight. It comes with a sterling silver chain in lengths of 18", 20", or 22". If your preferred length is sold out, please message me.
I make your chain to your ordered length and solder on the clasp. This process takes a few days as I prepare each chain individually, assemble the booklets, and package everything for shipping. My goal is to ship by the Wednesday following the order for Mercury’s blessings.