Silver

Silver is the chemical element Ag, atomic number 47, a soft, white, lustrous metal that conducts electricity and heat and reflects light better than any other metal. One of the seven metals known in antiquity, it has long served as coinage and been worked into jewellery, tableware and ornament, usually alloyed with copper because the pure metal is soft, and it darkens with a black tarnish of silver sulphide. Cunningham makes silver the metal of the Moon, receptive and of water, and links it with Isis, Diana, Selene and the other goddesses of the Moon and night. Wiccan priestesses wear silver crescents for the Goddess, silver is laid on the altar at the full moon, and silver bells are rung to call her in. He treats it as the metal of emotion, love, healing and the psychic mind: worn to attract love, to quicken psychic awareness, or at night for psychic dreams, and held up to catch the full moon for scrying. It reflects negativity away from its wearer, is said to guard travellers, above all at sea, and its long use as money makes it a staple of money-drawing work. He adds that some people feel overwrought wearing it at the full moon.