Sirius in silver: goodwill, favour, and a quarrel settled

Goodwill is a practical matter, not a vague wish

Goodwill sounds soft, and that is why it is often misunderstood. In the language Agrippa uses for Sirius, goodwill is not a feeling you hope other people have about you. It is a working condition: people who are willing to deal fairly with you, to hear you out, and to settle a matter rather than prolong it. That is a practical condition, and it can be the difference between a dispute that ends and a dispute that drags on for months, costing time, money, and sleep, long after anyone remembers what started it.

Sirius, the greater Dog-star, is the star Agrippa gives for this work. He says its image bestows honour and goodwill, and the favour of men and of aerial spirits, and gives power to pacify and reconcile kings, princes, and other men. Read that list slowly, because each part is a different kind of help. Honour is standing. Goodwill is fair dealing. Favour of men is help from people in a position to give it. Pacifying and reconciling is the settling itself. A working for Sirius should be clear about which of those you need, because a working that asks for all of them at once, for every relationship in your life, will be too vague to read afterwards.

Ask yourself, plainly, where goodwill has broken down for you. Is it one relationship, one workplace, one family matter, or one negotiation? Is there a person in authority whose favour would change the situation, or is the matter between equals who simply cannot hear each other any more? Name the matter in one sentence before you go further. If you cannot, you are not ready to wear a talisman for it yet, and that pause is part of the work.

The image: a hound and a little virgin

Under the greater Dog-star, Agrippa says, they made the image of a hound and a little virgin. In the ring offered here, that image is engraved onto a beryl. It helps to think about what each part of the image does, rather than treating the whole thing as a mysterious emblem.

A hound follows a scent, stays with a trail, and does not give up halfway. It is also loyal, watchful, and known to its master. A little virgin figure, in this older imagery, suggests something kept clean, set apart, and not yet compromised. Put together, the image suggests a working that stays on its trail without getting dirty in the process: you pursue the settlement, you do not abandon it, and you do not win it by means that cost you your standing afterwards. That is a useful image to carry into a difficult conversation, because difficult conversations are exactly where people abandon the trail, or win it badly.

The stone matters in the same way. Among stones, Sirius rules over the beryl, and the image is engraved onto a beryl in this ring. Among plants, Agrippa lists savin, mugwort, and dragonwort. Among animals, the tongue of a snake. Those are the correspondences of the star in this system, and a talisman made in this tradition is built from them, not from a general idea of brightness. Sirius is the brightest star in the sky, but brightness alone is not the working. The working is honour, goodwill, favour, and reconciliation, and the image and stone are how that working is made concrete.

Why silver, and why the same working in a different metal

This article is about the silver version of the Sirius ring. A gold version of the same working is also listed, at a higher price. This article does not pretend the two are different workings. They are the same star, the same image of a hound and a little virgin, and the same beryl, in different metals. The difference that matters is a practical one: which metal will you actually wear, every day, in the situations where this work is tested?

Think about your hands, your work, and your life, not about a ranking of metals. Do you work with your hands in a way that will batter a soft setting? Do you wear other silver, and want this ring to sit comfortably alongside it? Do you need a ring you can wear without worrying about it every hour, so that your attention stays on the conversation, not on the object? Those are the questions that should decide the metal, because a talisman you leave at home, for fear of damaging it, is not being worn for the work it was made for.

Agrippa's fixed star talismans are gemstone ring talismans, created as per the instructions in his Three Books of Occult Philosophy. That instruction is the core of the tradition, and it is the same for the silver ring and the gold ring. What changes is the metal of the band, not the star, the image, or the stone. Choose on that basis, and do not let a price difference persuade you that one version is a different kind of working from the other. It is not, and this article does not claim otherwise.

Wearing a talisman into ordinary situations

A ring is worn, and that is why this form suits Sirius work. A reconciliation, a negotiation, or a request for fair treatment does not happen in a temple. It happens in a kitchen, an office, a solicitor's waiting room, or a long phone call you have been avoiding. A talisman that stays with you through the ordinary business of the day is present in the situations where honour and goodwill are actually tested, not only in the situations where you remember to take it out and look at it.

Wear it when you are doing the business it belongs to, and put it away properly when you are not wearing it, in a clean place of its own, rather than leaving it in a pocket with keys and loose change. A tool that is treated carelessly tends to be worked with carelessly, and that shows in the record you keep afterwards. Before you wear it for a particular matter, be clear about that matter, and about what you will do yourself. A reconciliation working does not replace the conversation, the apology, or the letter that needs to be written. It belongs alongside that ordinary work, not instead of it.

If there is a legal matter, a safety matter, or a medical matter involved, deal with that matter in the ordinary world first, or at the same time. Ritual work is not a substitute for a lawyer, a doctor, or for leaving a dangerous situation. That warning is not a formality. It is part of working honestly, and it applies to goodwill work as much as to any other kind, because the situations where goodwill matters most are often the situations where ordinary-world help matters most as well.

What a settled outcome actually looks like

It helps, before you wear a Sirius ring for a particular matter, to write down what a settled outcome would actually look like, in concrete terms. Not a feeling, not a general hope that things get better, but a description: who speaks to whom, about what, and what is agreed, or let go, at the end of it. Would a settled outcome mean a debt paid, an apology given, a boundary agreed, a contract signed, or simply a conversation that ends without a new wound? Each of those is a different outcome, and each requires different ordinary-world steps from you.

Writing that description down does two things. First, it keeps the working honest, because you can tell afterwards whether the outcome you described actually happened, or whether you moved the goalposts after the fact. Second, it keeps you from asking the talisman to do work that only you can do. If a settled outcome requires you to make a phone call you have been avoiding, the talisman will not make that call for you. It can mark your intention to make it, and keep that intention present through the day, but the call itself is yours.

That is also why it helps to be specific about favour. Favour of men, in Agrippa's phrase, means help from people in a position to give it. Who, concretely, is in that position for your matter? Name them, or name the office they hold, and think about what a fair hearing from them would actually involve. A working aimed at favour in general, with no person or office in mind, is a wish. A working aimed at a fair hearing from a particular person, in a particular matter, is a working you can prepare for, and a working you can read afterwards.

Keeping a record, and knowing when to stop

Keep a short record for this working: date, purpose in one sentence, the ring and when you wore it, what you did in the ordinary world, and what you noticed afterwards, over days and weeks, not just on the day itself. Note the conversations that went better than expected, and the ones that did not, in plain language, without dressing them up. That record is what lets you tell, weeks later, whether anything changed, and whether that change had anything to do with the work.

If nothing changes, that is also information. It may mean the petition was unclear, the other person is not ready, the timing was wrong, or simply that the situation needs a different approach, including a mediator, a different conversation, or accepting that a particular relationship will not be restored in the form you hoped for. Do not wear the same talisman endlessly for the same matter in the hope that repetition alone will force a result. Do the work properly, observe, and then decide, calmly, whether a second working, a different approach, or no further working is the right next step.

Care for a gemstone ring

Care for a gemstone ring is practical, not mystical, and it is worth stating plainly. A beryl set in a ring worn every day will meet skin, clothing, water, and hard surfaces, and it will show wear over time. That wear is normal for a working tool, and it is not a sign that the ring has stopped working. It is a sign that it has been worn.

Keep the ring in a clean, dry place when you are not wearing it, away from other metal objects that could scratch it. Clean it gently, with a soft cloth, and do not use harsh chemicals or abrasive cleaners on it unless you know, for the specific stone and metal involved, that such a cleaner is safe. If the setting loosens, or if the stone shows damage, stop wearing it until it can be repaired properly. A tool you are worried about losing is a tool you cannot focus with.

Sirius Greater Dog Star ring in silver, with beryl

Goodwill is a practical matter, not a vague wish.

I make this as a gemstone ring talisman as per the instructions in Agrippa's Three Books of Occult Philosophy: the image of a hound and a little virgin, engraved onto a beryl, for the greater Dog-star, Sirius, which bestows honour and goodwill, and the favour of men and aerial spirits, and gives power to pacify and reconcile kings, princes, and other men. I make no promise about what it will do for you, only that it is made for this work, in this tradition.

If you want the silver version for that work, this is the one I offer: Sirius Agrippa fixed star talisman, Greater Dog Star, silver ring, beryl and snake tongue, $755 CAD. View the product

A gold version of the same Sirius working is also listed, at $2,911 CAD.

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