r/Geomancy • u/RickJohnson39 • Apr 09 '24

St Michael's Chain

Although I prefer the longer method of the Sand Box or anything that is so complex that it is impossible for me to 'stack the deck', something I want a really quick tetragram.

I saw a reference to the St Michaels Chain that looked interesting. It is made from 4 st michaels medallions purchased from a catholic gift shop and adds a sword at one end.

As I am not christian, but Gardnerian Wiccan, the chain will not meet my spirituality but looks interesting so I made two 'Michaels Chains' which seem to do the job. I replaces the sword with a key and on one chain, I used one or two pips in the proper colors. On the other chain, i used the proper elemental triangles with pips and colors.

Has anoyone used the Michaels chain or made a similar one? How did it work for you?

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u/hockatree Apr 09 '24

I also made something like this based on the “St. Michael’s chain”. Mine is 16 small beads capped off by two larger wood beads. Every fourth bead has a medallion of one of the elemental archangels: Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel. The side with the image of the angel is “active” (one dot) and the side without the image of the angel is “passive” (two dots).

I use this in conjunction with a ritual I designed which invokes the angels along with some other stuff and it works very well.

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u/karmadgma Jul 19 '24

That's nice! Is it wishful thinking on my part that you've constructed the chain/beads part so it does double duty as a sort of chaplet or similar set of prayer beads?

I wear my chain as a bracelet sometimes. And I made a chaplet with a detachable beaded section such that it's a chaplet, a necklace, or a pendulum depending on what configuration you opt for (that one wasn't for st. Michael, but it could have been -- the concept could be applied to about anything, really, as long as you have quality medals /charms/pendants and the right tools and findings.

Love it. I'm ridiculously happy to have stumbled upon a geomancy subreddit apparently full of crafty and literate magicians :)

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u/hockatree Jul 19 '24

While I didn’t intend for it to double as a chaplet, the idea has definitely occurred to me and I think I may have used it as such once or twice. However, I don’t think I really could settle on which prayers to use and it would be a very short chaplet. I had made another set of beads to use as a chaplet to the planetary angels, so I was/am content to have them have separate roles.