Medusa wasn't born a monster. In Ovid's telling, she was a mortal priestess who was assaulted, then punished for it. The "villain" of the myth was a survivor the gods refused to protect. 🐍

Medusa had two sisters, Stheno and Euryale, and together they were the Gorgons. But only Medusa was mortal. Her sisters were immortal, which meant she was the one who could be killed.

Medusa was a priestess in Athena's temple until Poseidon assaulted her there. Athena punished Medusa, turning her hair to snakes and her gaze to stone. Her sisters shared her exile at the edge of the world, guarding her as the only family she had left.

When Perseus came for her head, he found her asleep, and her sisters couldn't stop him. After he struck, they chased him across the sky in grief and fury, but Perseus escaped under Hades' cap of invisibility.

Her sisters lost their only mortal sibling, and she lost her life. 🐍

This broom was crafted to channel some of the feminine rage I have been feeling into a tool. A tool for cleansing this moment in time of those who use violence, strength, and power to assault others. Of those same people who take advantage of those less powerful than themselves. It is also meant to be a tool of protection, warding off the energy and intentions of those who would do harm. Boundaries, self-empowerment, righteous revenge, and transforming your curses into gifts and tools.

Three snakes for Medusa and her two sisters, Yooperlite and lack obsidian beads.

Yooperlite:

• Hidden light: It looks plain in daylight and glows only under UV, so it's often tied to shadow work, finding your inner light in dark times, and seeing what's beneath the surface.

• Intuition and truth: Yooperlite is used for clear insight, honest speech, and trusting your inner voice.

• Transformation: The fiery orange glow from a cool gray stone is read as a symbol of change, courage, and quiet inner fire.

• Endurance and resilience: Carried by glaciers from Canada, then tumbled by Lake Superior, it represents surviving long journeys and being shaped by pressure.

• Water and earth elements: Its lake origin connects it to emotional flow, while its igneous nature adds grounding and a touch of fire.

• Night and moon work: Since it's found by night, it's popular for moon rituals, divination, and meditation in low light.

Obsidian:

• Protection: Its best-known role. It's said to shield against negativity, harm, and psychic attack, often placed near doors or carried as a pocket stone.

• Shadow work: Black obsidian is called a truth mirror, used for facing hidden fears, habits, and emotions.

• Scrying: Polished obsidian mirrors have a long history. The Aztecs linked it to Tezcatlipoca, the "Smoking Mirror" god, and Renaissance figures like John Dee used an obsidian mirror for divination.

• Grounding: Tied to the root chakra, used for stability and releasing emotional baggage.

• Cutting ties: Its sharp-edged nature symbolizes severing unhealthy attachments and clearing blocked energy.