Moon of Horses is live at BPAL & BPTP!

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Happy Friday the 13th! We’ve taken a slightly different angle on the traditional BPAL 13: this 13 is all about getting lucky!

 

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13 is significant, whether you consider it lucky, unlucky or just plain odd. Many believe it to be unfortunate...

 

... because there were 13 present at the Last Supper.

... Loki crashed a party of 12 at Valhalla, which ended in Baldur's death.

... Oinomaos killed 13 of Hippodamia's suitors before Pelops finally, in his own shady way, defeated the jealous king.

... In ancient Rome, Hecate's witches gathered in groups of 12, the Goddess herself being the 13th in the coven.

 

Concern over the number thirteen echoes back beyond the Christian era. Line 13 was omitted form the Code of Hammurabi.

 

The shivers over Friday the 13th also have some interesting origins:

 

... Christ was allegedly crucified on Friday the 13th.

... On Friday, October 13, 1307, King Philip IV of France ordered the arrests of Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and sixty of his senior knights.

... In British custom, hangings were held on Fridays, and there were 13 steps on the gallows leading to the noose.

 

To combat the superstition, Robert Ingersoll and the Thirteen Club held thirteen-men dinners during the 19th Century. Successful? Hardly. The number still invokes trepidation to this day. A recent whimsical little serial killer study showed that the following murderers all have names that total thirteen letters:

 

Theodore Bundy

Jeffrey Dahmer

Albert De Salvo

John Wayne Gacy

 

And, with a little stretch of the imagination, you can also fit 'Jack the Ripper' and 'Charles Manson' into that equation.

 

More current-era paranoia: modern schoolchildren stop their memorization of the multiplication tables at 12. There were 13 Plutonium slugs in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki. Apollo 13 wasn't exactly the most successful space mission. All of these are things that modern triskaidekaphobes point to when justifying their fears.

 

For some, 13 is an extremely fortuitous and auspicious number...

 

... In Jewish tradition, God has 13 Attributes of Mercy. Also, there were 13 tribes of Israel, 13 principles of Jewish faith, and 13 is considered the age of maturity.

... The ancient Egyptians believed that there were 12 stages of spiritual achievement in this lifetime, and a 13th beyond death.

... The word for thirteen, in Chinese, sounds much like the word which means “must be alive” .

 

Thirteen, whether you love it or loathe it, is a pretty cool number all around.

 

... In some theories of relativity, there are 13 dimensions.

... It is a prime number, lucky number, star number, Wilson Prime, and Fibonacci number.

... There are 13 Archimedean solids.

 

AND...

... There were 13 original colonies when the United States were founded.

 

Says a lot about the US, doesn't it?

 

A base of rich cacao absolute and honey with thirteen lust-inspiring oils: patchouli, vanilla absolute, rose otto, red sandalwood, devil’s bit, caraway, cardamom, cubeb, carrot seed, ginseng, yohimbe, saffron, and grains of paradise.

 

 

Moon of Horses is also live on BPAL and BPTP!

 

 

 

MOON OF HORSES

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

 

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

 

Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

 

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

 

And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.

 

And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads

of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.

 

By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

 

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

 

Grape vines, cinnamon, frankincense, olive leaf, red wine, saffron, stacte, galbanum, costus root, smoke, and brimstone.

 

 

Charmingly apocalyptic artwork by Julie Dillon!

 

 

 

The bees in Rappaccini’s Apiary have been busy this month: Chokecherry Honey and Redoul Honey.

 

 

 

This month, we’re proud to present what amounts to a Twilight Alchemy Lab Limited Edition blend. Created on May 11, 2011 to encapsulate the conjunction of Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter, this liquid talisman unites the energies of the two Benefics with Mercury, resulting in an oil of movement, adaptability, expansion, optimism, creativity, confidence, attraction, and inspiration. It holds the qualities of positive fearlessness, expansive courage, and helps to bolster the spirit so barriers that we have erected for ourselves in the past can finally be overcome.

 

Through this liquid talisman, your possibilities are limitless, and reality is yours to create.

 

283 bottles were created. Once they’re gone, they’re gone.

 

 

 

The Black Phoenix Trading Post RPG line of atmosphere sprays will be live later this month!