Copper Goddess…I always fancied myself as a Gold and Brass Goddess but recently I have become fascinated and slightly obsessed with copper. Well it all began when I was vending at a local pagan festival and the woman across from me had a booth full of copper products. The energy of this golden orange metal seemed to overcome my being. Few days later after that festival I decided to try making some copper jewelry and since then I have been hooked. I first made some for myself and I immediately felt its effects on my circulatory system and spiritual psyche. Also it solved my problem of decided how to set my crystals in jewelry with out hindering their metaphysical effects. Copper is an excellent conductor of energy so it actually amplifies your gems and crystals.
You can make wands,jewelry or other magick tool with copper and your crystals. The copper will increase the charge of the crystal you are working with.
I usually made jewelry out of seed beads you know the kind like in the native american artwork. This form of jewelry making is very time consuming and very under appreciated in todays jewelry markets. Most people are into sterling silver, white or yellow gold, platinum but for a lot of new agers Copper is the way to go.
My second choice in metal from Gold was Brass until I discovered that Brass is a combination of Copper as well as Bronze. So I realized that Copper was the real deal as far as metals were concerned.
According to wikipedia;
Brass is an alloy made of copper and zinc; the proportions of zinc and copper can be varied to create a range of brasses with varying properties.[1]
By comparison, bronze is principally an alloy of copper and tin.
Bronze is an alloy consisting primarily of copper, usually with tin as the main additive. It is hard and tough, and it was so significant in antiquity that the Bronze Age was named after the metal.
Copper is a chemical elementwith the symbol Cu (from Latin: cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal andelectrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; a freshly exposed surface has a reddish-orange color. It is used as a conductor of heat and electricity, a building material, and a constituent of various metal alloys.
The metal and its alloys have been used for thousands of years. In the Roman era, copper was principally mined on Cyprus, hence the origin of the name of the metal as сyprium (metal of Cyprus), later shortened to сuprum. Its compounds are commonly encountered as copper(II) salts, which often impart blue or green colors to minerals such as azurite and turquoise and have been widely used historically as pigments. Architectural structures built with copper corrode to give green verdigris (or patina). Decorative art prominently features copper, both by itself and as part of pigments.
Copper is essential to all living organisms as a trace dietary mineral because it is a key constituent of the respiratory enzyme complexcytochrome c oxidase. In molluscs and crustacea copper is a constituent of the blood pigment hemocyanin, which is replaced by the iron-complexed hemoglobin in fish and other vertebrates. The main areas where copper is found in humans are liver, muscle and bone.[2] Copper compounds are used as bacteriostatic substances, fungicides, and wood preservatives.
