Before modern times metals and minerals had special meaning and supposedly powers.
A jewel is admired by it’s beauty and considered by it’s value. A jewel is an artistic and monetary investment. In the past, a jewel was also a talisman, beyond it’s material value.
In past civilizations, the human being saw it’s world as a Whole, as a big organism commanded by Forces or Deities. Every being was an expression of the Whole, and from that emerges the Hermetic principle “What is below is like that which is above, and what is above is like that which is below”.
What was, and is above are the planets seen to the naked eye, in a starry sky, they look like fixed stars.
Each planet has it’s qualities and flaws like the human beings, the reality that “is below”.
Each planet is associated with a noble metal. The Sun is associated with gold, the Moon with silver, Mercury with quicksilver, Venus with copper, Mars with iron, Jupiter with tin and Saturn with lead.
Gold represented the male energy in a patriarchal world. Silver, the feminine energy; iron, the energy of courage; quicksilver is androgynous and a communicator; copper, beauty and attraction; tin, protection and good luck; and lead, limitation.
Each day of the week was associated with a planet, and the same with each hour of the day.
The assigning of the days of the week of the occidental world, of Latin and catholic influence, was an heritage from the Mithra worship and it’s seven steps, reversed and with some changes made to the metals.
Sunday is the day of the Sun. Monday is the Moon, Tuesday is Mars, Wednesday is Mercury, Thursday is Jupiter, Friday is Venus and Saturday is Saturn’s day.
Let’s try an example. We want a fertility talisman. Fertility was a feminine matter, connected to the moon. Therefor this talisman should be made in silver, on a Monday, on the 1st, 8th, 15th or 22th hour (Moon’s astrological hours on a Monday) and adding some gemstones related to the Moon.
The jewels made from gold were associated with the more precious gemstones, which also possess characteristics beyond the physical.
And why all this? A jewel is a talisman, and as such it must be made on the right day and the right hour, so it can receive the above energies and become powerful and effective.
written by Ismenia Gomes.