Ref.WD0480

Ref.WD0480 - Gold plated on silver wand with Penta Vortex geometry, amethyst [pommel], ruby [handle], garnet, ecologically sourced buffalo horn [guards], and orthoceras fossil [blade]. 

Orthoceras fossils, the ancient remains of straight-shelled nautiloid cephalopods dating back over 400 million years to the Paleozoic era, carry profound spiritual and metaphysical meanings in contemporary practices. These fossils are often revered in crystal healing, lithotherapy, and New Age spirituality as conduits for ancient Earth energies, symbolizing the planet's evolutionary history and life's enduring cycles. While their spiritual interpretations are largely modern, drawing from intuitive and energetic associations rather than well-documented ancient traditions, they are believed to bridge the past and present, offering insights into personal evolution and cosmic continuity. Some anecdotal lore hints at their use in folklore for longevity and protection, though specific cultural references are sparse beyond general associations with marine fossils in European or African traditions.

 Expanded Key Spiritual and Metaphysical Significances
Building on their core themes, orthoceras fossils are multifaceted tools for spiritual work. Here's a deeper exploration:

- Transformation, Evolution, and Personal Growth: These fossils embody the essence of life's perpetual change, representing cycles of growth, adaptation, and rebirth. They encourage individuals to release outdated habits, embrace transitions, and draw lessons from past experiences—including potential past lives—to foster altruism and self-improvement. In meditation, they can facilitate a profound shift, helping users navigate life's "ebb and flow" and recognize the impermanence of existence, ultimately promoting resilience and a forward-moving path.

- Grounding, Stability, and Emotional Balance: Strongly linked to Earth's primordial energies, orthoceras activates grounding forces, providing a sense of security and rootedness during times of uncertainty. It aids in emotional processing, reducing stress, anxiety, and toxins while promoting inner peace, calm, and harmony. Users often report feeling more present and true to themselves, as the fossil helps cast off negativity, release karmic attachments, and harmonize heart-centered energies with the physical world.

- Ancient Wisdom, Longevity, and Spiritual Awakening: As relics of prehistoric oceans, orthoceras connects users to ancestral knowledge, higher consciousness, and the wisdom of Mother Gaia. It enhances intuition, mental clarity, and access to past-life insights, potentially aiding in spiritual growth and awakening. Some traditions suggest it extends lifespan by channeling vital life force, reducing physical and energetic toxins, and fostering endurance.

- Protection, Success, and Practical Empowerment: Beyond introspection, orthoceras serves as a protective talisman, shielding against negative energies and toxic influences while sharpening quick thinking and reaction. It promotes pride, business success, and career advancement, making it ideal for Feng Shui placements to enhance positive energy flow, restful spaces, and goal-oriented resilience.

 Associated Energies and Correspondences
While associations vary across sources, common ones include:

- Chakras: Primarily the Root (for grounding and stability); also Sacral (transformation and adaptability), Solar Plexus (personal power and wisdom integration), Third Eye (intuition and past-life recall), and Earth Star (deep Earth connection). 

- Elements: Earth (stability and nature connection) and Water (flow, intuition, and transformation). 

- Planets and Numbers: Saturn (discipline and time) or Earth; sacred numbers 4 (foundation) and 8 (cycles and infinity). 

 Practical Uses and Considerations
Orthoceras is versatile in spiritual practices: wear it as jewelry for daily protection and longevity benefits, place it in homes for Feng Shui harmony, or use during meditation to access ancient insights and heal past traumas. Cleanse it regularly with smoke to maintain its energies. While scientifically valued for paleontological study, its spiritual roles emphasize subjective, intuitive benefits—always approach with personal discernment, as claims like lifespan extension lack empirical backing but resonate in holistic traditions.

Penta Vortex - 11D Solar Vortex

Hyper dodecahedron to the 11th dimension - bridging spirit and matter, body and soul

This Form is a Phaseometric [Phase-o-metric] complex of interrelated morphing patterns folding through an event, symmetrically defining the conduit between our understanding of matter and spirit.
Phase-o-metric, as opposed to geometric (geometric means the measurement of matter), earth and the space-time in it and around it. Phaseometry is a word I created to express the fact that matter, space and time, are not static; that what we experience as frozen in time is actually a constant state of an energy flux of co-creative waves of conscious intent manifesting as the seen and unseen holonomic reality-system that we are and are a part of. This shape fulfils the need for a universal language that transcends the dualistic and mechanistic language that through analytical polarization of spirit and matter, has for time immemorial diverted the thinking of both philosophers and scientists. The Penta Vortex gives us a virtual wormhole into a greater cosmological truth.
Sacred geometry is beyond symbolic because it IS a model of the reality it expresses.
In this case there is the cube (earth) + dodecahedron (spirit) / hyper dodecahedron and hyper-cube. Combined in a way that expresses the fact that there is no differentiation (geometrically) between matter and spirit. 
There are many ways to look at or see this piece and the elements that form it and the patterns of relationships they reveal, but here I will give you just a few …
If you are holding this object, rotating and examining it, you may begin a contemplation/meditation on these for your own deeper understanding – and for further patterns.
1.    12 pentagrams joined by their points so that each vertex [point] is a joining of 3 pentagrams, then those intersecting points of the 6 lines are joined to each of their neighbouring point which forms a dodecahedron. Thus, you now have a dodecahedron with a pentagram on each face. OR another way to see that is what I also call the PentaDodeca which is five cubes perfectly defined as nested in the dodecahedron as each line that forms the pentagram is the edge of a perfect 3D cube (this is hard to see in this piece as there are many other things going on in it). Now let’s take a closer look at those cubes; lets again take away the dodecahedron leaving us with the 5 cubes formed by the 12 pentagrams. As I said before this gives us 6 lines meeting at each point. Thus, this is not 5 cubes, it is a 6D hypercube. 12 5-cube 5-faces. It can be called a hexeract. It can also be called a regular dodeca-6-tope or dodecapeton, being a 6-dimensional polytope constructed from 12 regular facets.
2.    Now that only defined the outside of this structure piercing through this shell is 12 more pentagrams – again attaching themselves by their points to all the other 12 points that create the dodecahedron thus making it an 11D hyper dodecahedron. This of course forms, though not defined, the icosahedron in the center; the hyper cubes also create by default a matrix of octahedrons and so on and so on.
3.    The last piece of this I want to draw your attention to, is that as you have nested a 6D hypercube inside an 11D hyper dodecahedron. Viewed at this phase it becomes a matrix of 12 equal Phi vortex symmetry. I have slightly flattened it so that it can be worn comfortably.
What are the benefits of wearing this piece? Again, I will here only give a few but I believe you will most likely unfold the infinite possibilities of this multidimensional stargate for yourself. Happy exploration.
Because it creates a conduit between our understanding of matter and spirit, it is the ultimate in communication and connection revealing interconnectedness; it gives you a portal into the understanding of cosmic and daily conversation with yourself, others and the universal. In every aspect of our lives, communication is one of the most important aspects of our evolution and defines the quality of our relationships.
Because it helps us to see within, it is a fast track to self-referencing and personal evolution. It gives us a view of all other, from the perspective of self-understanding, and thus an ability to express our truth from an expanded self-awareness.
It also, in virtue of its prismatic vortex complexity that is able to recognize and reject parasitic consciousness and thought form attachments and with directed intent, filter frequencies that are not in resonance with our most expanded consciousness destiny.

Size: 275mm/10.83in approx.