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7" × 7" translucent vinyl candle sticker, sized to wrap around a standard seven-day glass jar candle. The translucent artwork allows the candlelight to shine softly through the image as it burns. A black or grey candle is recommended for the clearest color and illumination.
Original artwork and design by Heron Michelle. Candle not included.
Medusa, the famous Gorgon of Greek mythology, has become a powerful modern symbol of sovereignty, boundaries, protection, and righteous fury. Yet the Medusa depicted in this original artwork reaches beyond the familiar Roman story of a beautiful woman transformed into a monster. In Hesiod’s much earlier Theogony, Medusa is a Gorgon by birth, daughter of the ancient sea divinities Phorkys and Keto and granddaughter of Gaia and Pontos—Earth and Sea. Of the three Gorgon sisters, Medusa alone is mortal, yet her terrible power survives even death.
Her image became one of the ancient Mediterranean world’s most recognizable apotropaic emblems. The gorgoneion, the staring face of the Gorgon, appeared upon temples, armor, jewelry, vessels, and funerary monuments as an image intended to avert danger: a terrifying guardian whose unwavering gaze turns threatening forces away.
This original candle-wrap design by Heron Michelle draws upon that ancient protective symbolism while developing Medusa through a modern Witchcraft and Hermetic framework as The Gorgon, Defender of Sovereignty.
Medusa appears in three aspects, each associated with a different magical intention and planetary influence:
Allure • Venus • Choice, the sovereign power to choose how we are seen and whom we welcome into our sphere;
Command • Saturn • Authority, the power to establish boundaries and determine what is permitted within our domain;
and Fury • Mars • Defense, the power to actively defend those boundaries when they are violated.
Because the artwork wraps around the candle, only one Gaze of Medusa fully faces the practitioner at a time. Turn the candle toward Allure for workings of attraction, sensuality, self-expression, and chosen intimacy; toward Command for authority, boundaries, self-possession, and personal sovereignty; or toward Fury for courage, protection, defiance, and active defense.
Her expression may change, but Medusa’s gaze never yields.
Use this three-part charm for spells with this candle:
My gaze allures whom I invite.
My gaze commands by sovereign right.
My gaze turns trespass into flight.
Now taking pre-orders - shipping by
7" × 7" translucent vinyl candle sticker, sized to wrap around a standard seven-day glass jar candle. The translucent artwork allows the candlelight to shine softly through the image as it burns. A black or grey candle is recommended for the clearest color and illumination.
Original artwork and design by Heron Michelle. Candle not included.
Medusa, the famous Gorgon of Greek mythology, has become a powerful modern symbol of sovereignty, boundaries, protection, and righteous fury. Yet the Medusa depicted in this original artwork reaches beyond the familiar Roman story of a beautiful woman transformed into a monster. In Hesiod’s much earlier Theogony, Medusa is a Gorgon by birth, daughter of the ancient sea divinities Phorkys and Keto and granddaughter of Gaia and Pontos—Earth and Sea. Of the three Gorgon sisters, Medusa alone is mortal, yet her terrible power survives even death.
Her image became one of the ancient Mediterranean world’s most recognizable apotropaic emblems. The gorgoneion, the staring face of the Gorgon, appeared upon temples, armor, jewelry, vessels, and funerary monuments as an image intended to avert danger: a terrifying guardian whose unwavering gaze turns threatening forces away.
This original candle-wrap design by Heron Michelle draws upon that ancient protective symbolism while developing Medusa through a modern Witchcraft and Hermetic framework as The Gorgon, Defender of Sovereignty.
Medusa appears in three aspects, each associated with a different magical intention and planetary influence:
Allure • Venus • Choice, the sovereign power to choose how we are seen and whom we welcome into our sphere;
Command • Saturn • Authority, the power to establish boundaries and determine what is permitted within our domain;
and Fury • Mars • Defense, the power to actively defend those boundaries when they are violated.
Because the artwork wraps around the candle, only one Gaze of Medusa fully faces the practitioner at a time. Turn the candle toward Allure for workings of attraction, sensuality, self-expression, and chosen intimacy; toward Command for authority, boundaries, self-possession, and personal sovereignty; or toward Fury for courage, protection, defiance, and active defense.
Her expression may change, but Medusa’s gaze never yields.
Use this three-part charm for spells with this candle:
My gaze allures whom I invite.
My gaze commands by sovereign right.
My gaze turns trespass into flight.
