Exalted Venus: Mother of Sustenance Oil

Only 21 bottles of this oil are available 

Here, Venus comes as the Mother of Sustenance upon her throne of exaltation in the sign of Pisces bearing boons of benevolence, love, and joy. A truly precious oil, Exalted Venus: Mother of Sustenance is an oil made in honor of Venus, she who is the very cause of generation and procreation, to call on her aid and to dispense her virtues for all workings of a Venusian hue. Most notably, this oil can help to attract an unmatched level of luck and fortune, opening the way for all good things to come to you and can help to attract generosity and pleasure in life. Beyond this, with Venus being the force of generation within the world, Mother of Sustenance Oil can help to boost and strengthen financial gain and aid in the generation of income through expexted and unexpected means. Looking even further, and pulling from known talismanic ascriptions, Exalted Venus wares can help to attract all good and benevolent things while also boosting peace and harmony in the lives of those who work with them. In terms of love and romance, Mother of Sustenance can help with the building and sustaining of love, be it familial, platonic, or romantic, as prayers were given to the mother bottle for each of these.

Now, lets get into why this oil is so special - and why it might very well be one of the best oils I have ever made: Sitting at the heart of this oil is a stone gathered by my dear friend Sfinga of With Cunning and Command, a stone gathered from the same beach - from beneath the very rock where it is said Aphrodite was born in Paphos, Cyprus. It is the closest we might get to a relic of Aphrodite, for this rock comes from the beach where the Lady of Foam was born, it is imbued with the numen of that location and infused with the grace and fire that is Aphrodite-Venus - a fire that is very much imparted to this oil.

This swirling retinue of a Venusian force is all built and centered around this stone, having been bathed in tinctures of Myrrh and Mandragora atop of a chalk-drawn image of Venus attested by Agrippa, and serenaded in prayers of love and growth before being interred within the mother bottle of Mother of Sustenance. Beyond this, the oil is further bolstered and empowered by Exalted Venus materia, most notably several pieces of White Coral - a Venus stone, all consecrated in a degree of exaltation election in 2024 and reserved for this oil. Along with the stone, the base of the bottle was formed with the nest of a dove, allowing space and home for the forces of Venus, along with dove feather and skull. The image that was drawn in chalk was scraped from the bowl after the stone was bathed and this too was added to the mother bottle. 

“From the operations of Venus they made an Image, which was available for favor, and benevolence, at the very hour it ascending into Pisces, the form of which was the Image of a woman having the head of a bird, and feet of an Eagle, holding a dart in her hand.”

 - Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book II Ch. 42 

As the oil can help to build and strengthen love whether familial, platonic, or romantic, a large focus was put on adding things that are born from each of these types of love into the oil along with the appropriate prayers. The stone from the birthplace of Aphrodite was given to me as a gift from Sfinga, a token of our friendship, and so this was given to the oil for many purposes including platonic love. In this same vein of love I also included honey that was given to me from a friends apiary, a symbol of sweetness and warmth, and Mugwort that was gifted to me from the farm of two dear friends. 

Herbal materia that was added to the oil includes: Agarwood, Apple wood, Dittany of Crete, dried double yolk egg-yolk, Jasmine, Lilac wood, Mandrake, Mint, Mulberry, Myrtle, Rose, Styrax ( Liquidambar styraciflua), Queen Elizabeth root, and Wheat among other herbal materia left unnamed. Further additions of animal materia and stones were added to the mother bottle, some of which include: beef tallow, emerald, genuine musk, freshwater pearl, powdered fish, sands bought and gathered from seven beaches, and white mountain goat fur among a sea of others.

Exalted Venus: Mother of Sustenance Oil is truly a storehouse of the powers of the Queen of Heaven, capable of being dispensed for any manner of workings with Venus when her aid is sought. The oil is colored pink through the use of high-quality natural earth-based pigment powders. Each 30ml glass bottle will arrive with detailed suggestions for working with the oil.

The third photo in the slideshow is a photo of Aphrodites rock taken by Sfinga in Paphos, Cyprus.