St Hildegard’s Bracelet of Viriditas
St Hildegard’s Bracelet of Viriditas
Saintly Amuletic Charm for Herb-Charming & Green-craft
A wearable magical assemblage from a limited batch run – ritually consecrated on the Feast of St Hildegard with vigil-light, prayer, and floral waters and perfumes – designed to aid in arts of herbalism, plant charming, and greening empowerment; as well as all spiritual works of natural devotion, vision, and refreshment, from preparing and administering botanical materia to enlivening arts, medicaments, and communing with the sacred natural world.
Strung in peridot, glass, wood, and copper alloy, these wearable amulets are dedicated not only to the sainted Abbess Hildegard herself on her feast day, but to aligning with, honouring, and empowering the greening vitality of nature's freshness and energy; that divine force of the sheer creative power of life itself which she called ‘viriditas'.
This greening ability of Nature to put forth fresh shoots, to renew, restore, and re-vitalise – this cosmic “juiciness", if you will – provides a key to the potent metaphysic which undergirds St. Hildegard's approaches not only to medicine and plantcraft, but to the fundamental human endeavours of creativity, wonder, and devotion.
As such, Hildegard’s Bracelets of Viriditas can be worn to empower all works with plants, all works of healing restoration, natural growth, and enlivening reinvigoration, and all works which honour, celebrate, and nurture the keenly fecund and creative "greening" of any and all things.