Salve of Exalted Mercury

I really love the consistency of S&S’s salves and body butters. While I mostly apply this to the body for focus and energy, I’ve also used it to dress a candle for ritual. (A little goes a long way.) Very useful! I also find it applicable to many different circumstances, including both professional and creative writing (Mercury’s energy is so beautiful for communication), work, socializing, and lifting my mood.

When I first purchased, I used this salve for more classical mercurial ends — helping me with writing, school, focus, and the like. I then it put away in my materia boxes for a while and forgot about it, and in that time had had a personal shift towards healing old injuries in my muscles and joints, relying heavily on Asclepius materia. After a certain point of daily applications, I began feeling like I 'maxed-out' the efficacy that Asclepius could give me. I rediscovered EM salve and wondered if it might help re-energize the healing of these old stubborn injuries. Much to my delight, I've found it to do exactly that! When applied to these injuries I feel a burst of new life, space, and healing energy present, as if its waking up blood flow and movement to these areas of my body that have forgotten how to heal. While Asclepius salve alone feels very soothing and medicinal, when layered with EM Salve i can feel it increase the penetrating ability of the Asclepius materica, almost as if EM is waking up all these nerve endings so that Asclepius can use them to bring healing into these forgotten places. Healthy Movement is being reawakened, thanks to the blessings of Exalted Mercury! P.S. I haven't felt inspired to write a review in a while, but as a side effect EM couldn't help but inspire me to share these findings with you all...

Uplifting and clarifying, energizing and focusing, but soothing. this compliments, my natal chart very well. Excellent for an overactive nervous system that still needs to be focused. Not the best for pain relief in it own right, but grateful for neck and back massage to help ease mental agitation that exasperates pain. It takes hypersensitivity down a notch without being sedative.

Definitely more user friendly than the anointing oil. Perfect for increasing mental activity without deep focus and distractibility which the oil has.

From a mercury in sag, this salve actually feels so smooth and easy to wear. I have Chiron in Virgo so I was prepared for discomfort. But it simultaneously helps me repair the mercurial issues that I typically have on the daily, while also accepting that there’s not something *wrong* with me. I’m not incompetent while everyone else is incredibly competent. It feels so healing in that way, while also helping supporting mercurial skill

i got this in anticipation of a writers retreat, and I've gotta say, it was a delight. i layered it with mercury in gemini and quicksliver tongue on and off. While I found the energies to not keep me up, it did add in preparing for the next day of work with creating ideas, but it did take preparation to ride the energy and use it for work.

Loooove this salve! This is probably my favorite in terms of practicality- I use this daily on the bottoms of my feet with my prayer for improved memory and being more organized. For the first time in my life someone commented that I have a good memory.

The salve distributes the Mercurial treasures more evenly than the other forms, and there’s no hangover. Very lucky things have happened and I am remembering things I forgotten.

As Virgo rising and well placed Mercury, I didn’t think I needed this salve, but discovered I actually prefer it compared to the other forms in this series. The salve is like a blanket of Mercurial activity, not as piercing as the other forms. It is more evenly distributed, and there’s no hangover. The other forms are for more intense, immedite focus, like studying for exams etc. The salve is a bit more gentle, even and balanced Mercury. I feel like a wholesome version of myself. Very pleased with this salve.

I love the scent, and the effects are absolutely incredible. Endurance, wit, smoothing out of interactions (Virgo is a relational House in my birth chart), cognitive boosting, all in a way that felt way more grounded than what I expected. I wouldn't wear it everyday or for any occasion, but when it's needed, it's PERFECT.