Ink of Exalted Mercury

I engage this materia whenever I have a written or drawn component to a spell like a sigil, magic square, or petition papers.

As others have noted, very light, and more suitable for adding an aura to paper than producing something lasting that you can read.

Re-reading the description has made me want to try it out for road-opening purposes specifically, and I'll update here once I do!

This ink is POTENT. I used it for the background of a sigil that had to do with Mercury-related matters and it worked far better than any sigils I created in the past without materia. I have also put a few brushstrokes on paper I use for writing drafts if my story and found the words flowed with ease. Excellent materia for success with any endeavors you might embark on with a pen.

I’m still discovering ways to apply and best understand the ink. I really like exalted mercury energy and this doesn’t bring it as close to the body as I wanted, understandably. For including the external world in the exalted mercury realm however, this magic is amazing.

I used this to help me learn my lines for a play that I'm in. It helped me focus on the words as I used it almost like a highlighter, and then afterwards when I held the bottle I felt supported in my recall. Amazing, a gift considering I was really struggling with this beforehand.

Gentle soft color. Have used on paper with prayers and it feels to really bring movement to them. Will also try staining skin as per other reviews

I’ve used this to consecrate art made in Hermes’ honour - the colour is just gorgeous. I will be using this for sigils as well as painting my body. I think this is my favourite form from this series.

The soft, subtle green is beautiful in the bottle, and it's great for discreetly writing on skin, especially tops of hands pretty invisibly. Have yet to put to use for specific sigils or petitions really, but it has been a great aid to embodying practical and purposeful Mercury vibes by wearing the symbol or marking pages I'm working with. Might be my fave form of this series!

I like staining my skin with the symbol of Mercury using this ink when I have things to do. It amplifies the focus that my adhd medication is already giving me, but it feels much more gentle and positive than a mundane choice to bump my dose up. I love it for writing; I have sigiled on notebooks with it to assist me in creative projects, and plan to paint some watercolor paper with it as a background for a Wednesday sigil launch. I do wish that as an ink it was a bit darker so that I could actually dip a fountain pen in it and write with it. But then, it wouldn't be so simple to paint it on my skin before going out.

Supercharger to any petition - I tried several times and it works wonders.

I love both mercury series for being meta-magical and incredibly versatile for all manner of sorcerous applications. S+S materia is amazing for personal development, devotional application, and theurgical gnosis, but sometimes I think that it's application in very concrete works of spell-craft and magic-making is sometimes overlooked. This ink is my go-to for two of those applications: that of making pacts with spirits (human and not!) as well as crafting sigils and as such it's been a priceless boon in my magical arsenal.