John-David Kelley
Who I am
Several years ago, I altered the well known saying about a jack of all trades, “I am a jack of all trades, mastering some.” My logic is that given enough time and consistency of practice and learning, you are bound to slowly get good at a few of the multitude of things which you obsessively engage.
Let me tell you, I have had some time to engage with my passions. Like many, the wyrd got me early. I started quite young, unconsciously as a child through art, play, and copious amounts of time in nature, consciously at the age of 13 when I began to practice witchcraft, yoga, meditation, and holistic healing with herbs, hands, and magic; to play with stars and cards- astrology and tarot […}
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From the Great Heaven to the Great Below and Rising Again
Navigating the Emanations of Venus
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venus rx 2025
Venus is the planet of desire and connection, of beauty and refinement, and of pleasure and play. Learn about the astrology of this Venus Retrograde in Aries and Pisces, and join the spiralling dance of Venus through practices, contemplations, provocations, and reflections drawing from astrology, lore, mysticism, magic, and witchcraft.
Combining ritual and observance, we join the flow of the living effluence of Venus’ presences, spirits, and materia. Engaging directly within the visible and hidden phases of Venus, we move from abstractions, interpretations, prediction, and displaced story to encounter, revelation, prophecy, and story that is situated and living.
Talismans
The Sovereigns of the Boundless Sea talismans and were hand-carved on faceted-oblongs of lapis lazuli as Venus and Neptune were conjunct in Pisces during 2024 and 2025, utilising the final conjunctions of these planets in Pisces in this century. Drop of the Boundless Sea talismans utilised the the conjuction of 2025. These astrological conditions will not occur again until the later part of the 22nd Century.
At this time Venus was dazzling the world brightly as an evening star while Neptune, invisible to the naked eye, churned the cosmic depths for the final time in the sign of Pisces.
The telos and intention entwined within the talisman is to embody the powers of these oceanic lords: beneficent glamour, all supreme expressions of artistic and mystical prowess, and the boundless awards of such fecundity.
Sensuality, Healing, Beauty, Good Fortune
These bespoke Venus Exaltation Talismans are hand-carved on a large lapis lazuli cabochon as Venus was culminating on the Midheaven with the Waxing-Crescent Moon conjoining all in Pisces, the sign of Venus’ exaltation. They were completed and consecrated during a full ritual on an auspicious election on the 3rd of January 2025. At this time Venus was dazzling the world as an evening star.
While in the nocturnal sign of Pisces, the telos and intention entwined within the talisman is to embody the power of the Venus expressed within the sign of her exaltation: beauty, good fortune, sensuality, healing, and gracefulness.
When a planet is in its exaltation, it performs very cleanly, free from extremes, and it is treated like an honoured guest, or as a magistrate who is in their own court, free to make their own rules. Venus exaltation expresses deeply the combined expression of goddess of fertility and goddess of heaven.
Such that Venus acts in profoundly healing and sensuous ways granting the bearer to do the same, for themselves and others — to be in touch with deep life-giving desires, pleasures, and passions, those that move them in the direction of profoundly erotic and healing ways within the Venusian psychic/spiritual domain and physical expression, including the healthy function of the kidneys, loins, and vascular tissues.
De Quindecim Stellis tells us, “Mild indeed is this star in all things, wheresoever I find it, for great is its arc, and great it is appearance. Vega, Alpha Lyrae, one of the two brightest stars in the northern celestial hemisphere , the fifth luminous star in the night sky, and was the northern pole star during the 13th-century-BCE, which it will be again in the 14-century-CE. Vega is the brightest star in the constellation of Lyra, the Lyre, held within tropical Capricorn and sidereal Sagittarius.
This talisman is known from the traditional sources of western astral-magic to confers magnanimity and eminence, offering the power of persuasion; to give power over spirits, to drive away harmful spirits and daemons effortlessly and riding one of negative nocturnal phantoms; to free the wearer of fear; to have the gift to enchant beast and find favour with animals; to keep one free of disease. It is associated with the natures of Venus and Mercury, and known as favourable star. Chrysolite and its associated virtues proceed from this star, which grant immanence among, especially amongst the daemones. The associated herbs grant the bearer with unblemished health and grant power in acts of healing.
In summary, I have found that Vega’s light is like that of the Sun and the Moon, for they are circumpolar in the northern celestial hemisphere, the brightest star in the northern sky from September to December, and while only slightly second brightest to Arcturus from April to September, Vega has been, and will be again, the North Star, while Arcturus will never be able to fulfill this orientation.
Just as the light of the Sun and Moon are not easily ignored, the light of Vega for us in the northern hemisphere is impossible not to notice. Their rays shine down on us from the highest climes when both the Sun and Moon’s light is hidden. They are both a celestial and chthonic sun, offering an almost unfettered light. They are an enchanted lyre, the healing she-goat, an ancient vulture, and a cosmic eagle. Vega is the Star of Healing, Incantation, & Enchantment.
These Vega Talismans are to be crafted with gem-quality golden, glowing green Chrysolite (6mm round or 6mm x 8mm oval cabochons), more commonly known as Peridot, especially when in gem-quality, but may also be referred to as Olivine stone. These gems are the colour of warm seas are to be marked with the seal of Vega given in the De Quindecim Stellis and related sources. The optical qualities form the texts are given as such, “chrysolite, whose color is as the color of shining gold and doth seem as though it projecteth rays as rays of fire.” The nature virtue of this stone is said to terrify harmful spirits and daemons.
They will be available as a pendant or a ring in 14k Gold, 14k Rolled-Gold-on-Brass, or Sterling Silver.
As per the instructions given in the sources, the stellar seal and the stone are to be combined with Savory and Fumitory, both associated with bestail magnetism and healting, and a small portion of Turquoise, as stone tied to both Venus and Mercury, which has been powdered.
Each talisman will come with a jute pouch and a small amount of associated herbs and resins.
Excerpts from PROCLUS HYMN 1: TO HELIOS
Harken, O king who is the fire of Nous, Titan whose reins are gold, hear me! Housekeeper of fire, who holds the key, the life-supporting source who draws off a rich stream of harmony from the source of the world.
Harken! For you hold the middlemost seat of the aether, and possessing the brilliant disc, the heart of the cosmos, you have filled everything with your providence that awakens our spirits. The planets, binding their waists with your ever-blooming fires, shed life-engendering drops from their ceaseless and untiring dance. All that is born blossoms up from the returning ride of your chariot according to the course of the seasons.[…] For you the unshakable dance of the Fates has yielded. When you wish you unwind the powerful force of destiny. You are mighty, you rule with strength over all that is around you.[…]
Bring me to glory, and may I sing according to the traditions of my forebears, gifted by Muses with their pretty locks of hair. Give me, lord—if you wish!—the bliss that cannot be shaken in return for my fine dedication. You are able easily to accomplish all things, for you have the power and infinite might. And if some ill comes my way from the star-driven threads, from destiny’s spindles that move in spirals, ward it off with the mighty power of your rays!
