Soft commodity cotton, and orange juice. Soft commodities have been known to adopt a backwardation trend until the late 1990s when futures were actively traded. Speculation and investment requirements later shaped the common contango trend. Soft commodity Soft commodities, or softs, are commodities such as coffee, cocoa, sugar, corn, wheat, soybean, fruit and livestock. The term generally refers to commodities that are grown, rather than mined; the latter (such as oil, copper and gold) are known as hard commodities. Soft commodities play a major part in the futures market. They are used by farmers wishing to lock-in the future prices of their
Ordo Aurum Solis "The Divine Arcana of the Aurum Solis" and "Rediscover the Magick of the Gods and Goddesses". Another book contains practices coming from the Aurum Solis. This is "The Magical Use of Prayer Beads". All these books have been published by Llewellyn Publications. Vivian Godfrey (Melita Denning) was diagnosed with cancer early in 1997 and died on March 23 of that same year. On June 14, 2003, Leon Barcynski (Osborne Phillips) retired as Grand Master and was succeeded by Jean-Louis de Biasi, the current Grand Master, who subsequently made a declaration that bore witness to the Hermetic nature of the work