Cavern, fire and ink

  A Spirit-Bank of Fortune and Growth There are banks of brick and steel, and then there are banks of spirit. In the worlds of conjure, Quimbanda, and Thai sorcery, containers have always been more than storage — they are vessels, bodies for spirits, homes for medicines, and treasuries of power. The Barrel Treasurer is born in that same current: not a piggy bank, not a curiosity, but a living treasurer who eats what you feed and multiplies what you keep. The Root of the Work Years ago, I asked my teacher, Ajarn Apichai, about methods of magic that could not only store money but also energize it — pushing fortune in games of chance, strengthening investments, and keeping wealth from slipping away. His answer was simple: a bank. Another teacher of mine had taught me the use of saving boxes as a way of building a relationship with money. That echo of familiarity struck deep. Ajarn encouraged me to build my own vessel, to craft a body for wealth using the knowledge I had learned und...

Earlier this year, I found myself putting together ideas with my good friend ajarn Wutkongmon, I had talked to him about my spiritual practices and he shared some of his way of working and we found out we have very similar ways of approaching our spiritual workings, so much that our animal symbolism are similar within our practices. Keeping this in mind, and seeing his work, I wanted to blend our work into a few projects which draws power from both practices to work well with people who are interested on working with such items. Blessed coins. These coins were designed by me, I put together the design of a rooster with a spear hiding within it’s tail. Surrounded with sigil working aimed to protect against enemies known and unknown, to send back hurtful gossip to its sender, part of the magic of this rooster is that it can help as an alerter of situations not good for you, or to bring awareness and keep an eye on things (people, situations, etc.) closely. On the back of the coin is a sp...