How to survive a Mercury Retrograde
What is Mercury retrograde?
Mercury retrograde is said to occur when the planet when appears to be moving backwards in the heavens in relation to its regular movement. Of course, the retrograde motion is apparent and not real in that it only appears to be slowing down in its orbit and moving backwards relative to our perspective here on Earth. A physical explanation for this can be found here.
Venus in Libra talisman elections
“The fifth table is of Venus, consisting of a square of seven drawn into it self, viz. of fourty nine numbers, whereof seven on each side and Diameter make 175. and the sum of all is 1225. And there are over it divine names with an Intelligency to good, and spirit to evil; And there is drawn out of it the Character of Venus, and the spirits thereof. This being engraven on a Silver plate, Venus being fortunate, procureth concord, endeth strife, procureth the love of women, conduceth to conception, is good against barreness, causeth ability for generation, dissolves enchantments, and causeth peace between man, and woman, and maketh all kind of Animals and Cattle fruitful; and being put into a Dove-house, causeth an increase of Pigeons. It conduceth to the cure of all melancholy distempers, and causeth joyfulness; and being carryed about travellers make them fortunate” – 3 Books of Occult Philosophy, Agrippa, Book 2,Chapter xxii
Sun in Leo talisman elections
“The fourth table is of the Sun, and is made of a square of six, and contains thirty six numbers, whereof six in every side, and Diameter, produce 111, and the sum of all is 666. There are over it divine names with an Intelligency to what is good, with spirit to what is evil, and out of it is drawn Characters of the Sun, and the spirits thereof. This being engraven on a Golden plate with the Sun being fortunate, renders him that wears it to be renowned, amiable, acceptable, potent in all his works, and equals a man to Kings, and Princes, elevating him to high fortunes, inabling to do whatsoever he pleaseth …”
Henry Cornelius Agrippa, 3 Books of Occult Philosophy
Cancer Ingress 2018
As the Aries Ingress for the year for the USA had a movable sign rising, we consider the Cancer Ingress to describe the influences and events in the next quarter. As before, we will examine the Ingress through the William Ramesey’s rules as described in his book Astrologia Munda published in 1653. In addition, we will consider the influences of the outer planets if they form tight and significant aspects with the other planets.
Mars Saturn Conjunction 2018 Redux: Trade Wars, Border Disputes & Censorship
So, we made some predictions, let’s see how they panned out in reality.
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Identifying enemies, known and unknown, with horary astrology
As well as identifying curses and hidden malefic spiritual influence, horary astrology also gives us a couple of methods to identify whether we have secret enemies – and to determine who they are -, as well as to discover whether a person we suspect to harbour malice towards us is indeed our enemy . As in the previous post, these rules are drawn from William Lilly’s Christian Astrology.
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Horary astrology to determine if disease has a physical or mental cause
As a follow on from the previous post, today we’ll take a brief peak into the vast and complex subject of medical astrology. Although a great deal of medical astrology relies on examination of a decumbiture (drawn up for the moment a person takes to their sick bed) rather than a horary chart, similar principles can be applied to a horary question in some instances.
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Am I cursed? An astrological approach
Given that there is a significant amount of material in traditional magical sources relating to cursing enemies (vide the last few posts), it shouldn’t come as a surprise that there are means to determine whether a person is cursed or under some sort of malefic magical influence. In traditional astrology we seek the answer to this question by examining an astrological chart drawn up for the moment and applying specific horary astrology principles.
A Picatrix election for the anger of the king to fall on your enemy
Or a ruler, or simply someone in a position of authority, such as the police, the government, or perhaps a boss. I think this will be the last of the curse elections for now simply because the weather is too nice to be searching for terribly inauspicious times.
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