Traditional Astrology, Magic, and Sundry Matters
For this election we need the following:
1. Moon in Taurus, Cancer, Virgo or Pisces
2. Moon free from misfortune
3. Moon separating from a conjunction or aspect of one or both of the fortunes and applying to aspect (but not a conjunction) to one or both of the infortunes
Continue reading “An election from William Ramesey to profit from the sale of goods”
Sun is dignified by domicile in Leo and is conjunct the midheaven. It’s just separated (within a degree) from Mars and is making an applying sextile to the benefic Jupiter. The Moon is waxing and it’s next applying aspect is a conjunction to Jupiter. For London the date is 28 July 2017 and time is 1307 (1:07PM). It’s the hour of the Sun – in London it literally starts just as the Sun culminates so your drawing/inscribing/etc will have to start then and completed within about 10 minutes, although you can continue any consecrations for the rest of the Sun hour. You can see the chart for this election below.
Having well established the Geniture, and in particular examined the Fortitudes and Debilities of the Planets, observe if in the Scheme you find three or four Planets in their essential dignities, or if they receive one another out of such dignities, for then the heavens declare, that the Native shall enjoy a manifest and ample fortune, shall live gallantly and in much esteem, according to the quality, and above the ordinary Vogue of his Birth, and that he shall manage the actions of his whole life, for the greatest part thereof, with happy and admirable success: On the contrary, when most of the planets are either in their Falls or Detriments, or in abject houses of Heaven, or Peregrine, such persons shall generally be involved with many infelicities, one mischief ever following in the neck of another. – Christian Astrology, William Lilly
I had a question recently regarding whether someone could be born unlucky. It’s sure to raise a few modern eyebrows, but from the Ancient Greeks all the way through the Renaissance and Medieval period, the answer would have been a resounding yes.
Continue reading “Signs of luck and fortune in the nativity”
And if someone wished to eject or expel phantasms or some harmful spirit (which is called the Devil by certain people) from some place or home, or some harmful thing either terrible or infesting the inhabitants of that place, or [if] in some person there were some violent motions (which is called demonic), and you wished to administer some medicine or perform some exorcism or the like, and you wanted to elect for him the hour fit for it, adapt the Ascendant and its Lord, and beware lest the Ascendant be Cancer or Leo or Scorpio or Aquarius; not let the Moon be in one of those signs; let the Ascendant be whatever [other] one you wanted, and its Lord free, and let [not] the Moon be in any one of them, joined to some benefic, nor let her be impeded.
Guido Bonatti, Book of Astronomy p.769 (translated by Benjamin Dykes)
Continue reading “An election for exorcism and house cleansing from Bonatti”
Natal Insights
I’ve had some requests recently from people who could not afford the full natal reading but nevertheless wanted some insight on a particular matter described in their natal chart. Natal Insights are a way to do exactly that and allow you to focus in on a particular area such as love, career, wealth etc at a much reduced cost as compared to a full natal reading.
Talismans
On ocassion I’m moved to create talismans at carefully elected times when a particular planetary or celestial object is strongly dignified. Some of these I will be offering for sale and will be available under the Talismans tab. I currently have three Venus talismans for Love, Luck and Fertility that were created when Venus was essentially dignified in Taurus. These Venus talismans are available for sale here.
Furthermore, they ought to believe firmly in the works that they do with images, so that what they do will be true and without doubt, nor should they harbour doubts concerning its effectiveness, since this work is not done in order to test or prove whether it be true or not, rather, they should have faith in their mind that it be true. By this the rational spirit is strengthened, and joined to that virtue of the upper world from which proceeds the celestial spirit that acts in the image; and in this way, what is desired will come to pass.
Thus it is necessary to believe firmly, because it is by this that the image will have the power to call upon the cooperation, and of all the primary and principal intelligences, and all the intermediate intelligences. Among all these intelligences, the human soul or intellect is clearly the lowest that can call upon the cooperation of others, and then only when it operates and cooperates with a firm and full intention and diligence with the greatest solicitude. This is called faith in a proposition. In other works of craftsmanship, if the craftsman is not diligent, solicitude and full intention can accomplish the work, but only rarely in making images will this function and complete the work. – Latin Picatrix, translated by Greer and Warnock
This is a pretty fortunate month for the ambitious astrological magician with both Mercury, planet of traders, scholars and astrologers, and Venus, planet of all the other fun things you do when you are not working or studying, dignified by domicile. Mercury is in Gemini from 7 June to 22 June, and Venus is in Taurus from 6 June to July 4.
Below is an interesting election from the Picatrix for enduring love.
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“If you do this for two friends, make the 11th house of the first image the ascendant of the second image; and if you wish to generate friendship between man and wife, make the ascendant of the second image the seventh house of the first image. And make it so the lord of the ascendant of the one who will return the friendship [i.e., the friend or wife] makes as good aspect with reception to the lord of the ascendant of the other image. Then join the images and bury them in the place of the one who is to have friendship [i.e., you] and they will be friends as before.” – Book 1, Chapter 3, Greer and Warnock translation
As an example, let us assume that you want to create friendship between two people (reconcile two friends), you would do the following:
Continue reading “Creating and reconciling relationships – two-fold images of the Picatrix”
1. Conjure Godzilla to destroy a city
The Picatrix mentions several times the possibility of using the results of a horary reading to make magical images. For example, in Book 3, Chapter 5, one of the elections given “for the destruction of cities, houses and the like” utilises the ascendant of the city to be destroyed. (If you are wondering how a city could possibly have an ascendant associated with it, the ascendant of the city would have been drawn from the mundane chart erected for when that city was built.) However, in the absence of a known ascendant for the city, one could use the ascendant of a horary chart erected for this particular purpose.
Continue reading “Horary, and how to destroy cities using the Picatrix”