Let the lost become sacred again
BorboroForge means "filth-forge," a name inspired by Hekate's ancient epithet Borborophorba, "eater of filth." It honors her power to transmute waste into sacredness. My work follows that path: reclaiming scrap metal and forging it into ritual tools, jewelry, and art. Every piece is a transformation, detritus to the divine.
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BorboroForge is a personal studio showcasing hand-forged metalwork and experimental web projects. I create ritual tools, jewelry, and sculptural objects from reclaimed metals, alongside small interactive web builds and creative code experiments.
What You'll Find Here
This site serves as a living portfolio of my work.
On the metal side, I focus on hand-forged pieces made from reclaimed bronze, copper, and steel ritual objects, jewelry, blades, and functional art shaped through heat, hammer, and time.
On the digital side, I share small web projects and creative experiments tools, interfaces, and ideas built for curiosity rather than scale.
Beyond the Forge
BorboroForge isn’t only about metalwork, it’s also a living archive of the ideas that shape my craft. In Hekate’s Epithets, I trace the language and mythology that surround the goddess across centuries. The Baneful Herbs of the Pacific Northwest and Pharmakeia turn toward plant lore where knowledge carries real weight, and where curiosity has to be balanced with caution.
Some of the projects here treat old magical systems the way an engineer might treat an old machine: taking them apart to understand how they work. The Magic Squares tool gathers the classical planetary kameas described by Agrippa alongside older and stranger examples, and can generate new squares for study or talismanic design.
The PGM Pronunciation Engine approaches the Greek Magical Papyri the same way, translating their voces magicae into phonetic form so the words can actually be spoken rather than guessed at.
Others lean toward practice rather than analysis. Grammatomanteia recreates the alphabet oracle once carved into stone across the eastern Mediterranean, where a single letter could carry a response from the unseen.
The Planetary Hours calculator tracks the shifting rulership of the day and night according to the old Chaldean order, making it possible to see when a particular current is said to be strongest.
Tarot Compressed is my own attempt to distill all 78 cards to their essence — a single compressed line per card, with upright and reversed meanings stripped of the usual padding. One reader's take, not a final word.
Every part of this site, from molten bronze to sacred names, follows the same instinct: understanding a tradition deeply enough that it can live again.