I honestly don’t have expensive tastes. I don’t like bling, nor even jewellery. It just feels like clutter on my skin. I don’t drive so don’t covet a Porsche. Etc. But when I do like something, it’s way beyond Price On Application. It’s priceless. And the reason I am linking this into Venus Retrograde is that when Thing Lust strikes me, it tends to be for things i feel i left behind in a past life. So the emo is not really avarice as yearning nostalgia; “give it back.”
Priceless Ancient Thing Lust One;
17th Century Tibetan Divination mirror, used by the State Oracle. Seven metal alloy, silver, gold and Turquoise.
Priceless Ancient Thing Lust Two:
Aphrodite Dove earrings from her temple in Crete, circa 2 BC
Priceless Ancient Thing Lust Three:
The Antikythera Mechanism
“…Parts of this ancient machine were found at the bottom of the Aegean Sea at the turn of the last century. Recently, with the help of new technology, researchers have come to understand its form and function. A complicated arrangement of gears housed in a wooden box, this ancient analog “computer” could be used to calculate astronomical events, such as the next full moon or a solar eclipse, in the near future….” New Yorker
Tags: 17th century, Antikythera Mechanism, Aphrodite, astrology past lives, divination, Full Moon, mirror, retro-Venus, Solar Eclipse, Tibetan astrology, Venus Retro, Venus Retrograde
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“priceless”…..
“So the emo is not really avarice as yearning nostalgia; “give it back.””
Mystic,
Think I’m gonna cry! Touching…
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I think I want the things… PURDY…
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i’m with you Mystic – don’t like bling but gee would love to own The Antikythera Mechanism!! It’s divine!
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do you like the smell of old engines SR? I’ve been meaning to ask. Or the way the dials on old amps turn heavy and noiselessly? the pretty insides of transister radios and the innards of old watches? You seem like a totally “niche” machine loving kind of peep.
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The Antikythera Mechanism is very high the list of things for which I lust… not into jewelry, but i love history and mystery and ingenuity. When I scrolled down and saw the pciture, i made an indecent sort of sound!
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nnb, you know me too well. I love the innards of machines – especially old amps/reverberators with glass valves!! *sigh* I like to pull things apart to see what’s inside.
I have hi-fi lust too.-
oo we have glass valves on our amp – such delicious honey sound – I too love the heavy feeling of the old hi-fi knobs god knows what that’s about haha… there is a free download on istock at the moment of the innards of a watch – go get em tiger
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haha… i LOVE watches. I use to treat myself to a new watch every time i started a new job – how Cap rising, Sun in the 10th house is that!! I owned and lost a skeleton watch back in 80’s… would be a bit daggy now.
Currently wearing a big chunky yellow-faced Zodiac watch. The logo for 12′ o’clock is the astro symbol for earth.
Have you seen the movie? – directed by David Fincher, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. the Zodiac killer. Loved all the astrological references in the movie. Awesome movie!
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no haven’t seen it but i looove robert downey jr – will check it out i was thinking I could go mulholland drive again too.
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ooh, there’s a few extra words in there. Think i got a bit excited. Robert Downey Jr is NOT the zodiac killer. He plays a journalist. His performance blew me away. Notice the way he walks in the role…
I preferred Lost Highway. I think Naomi Watts ruined mulholland drive for me. There was one scene where she seemed so self-conscious and you could SEE her acting and it was down hill from there.
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And at least we’d have a bloody good chance of being able to work the thing. “Astronomical”… psshhht.
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Mystic the Divination mirror is gorgeous…
I have that bad habit too – must be my Pisces rising. I usually find the one dress I like in the whole “specials” rack has been mistakenly placed there from the “you can’t even begin to afford it” rack.
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I think it’s a trait passed down from my Taurean grandma, but I have *really* expensive tastes – and I expect things to be beautifully made, too. I have the classic nanna trait of flipping up hems & cuffs in clothing shops to see how garments are finished (and to check for the tag that says ‘dry clean only’, in which case I flee).
Went to buy a scarf for last minute glamming up on the morning of a job interview once – *only* one I remotely liked was $400.
As you can imagine, I walk out empty handed most of the time.
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