Traditional Astrology, Magic, and Sundry Matters
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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Make two images, the first in the hour of the Sun, with Leo rising and the Moon cadent from the ascendant, and the other make in the hour of the Mars with Cancer rising and Mars cadent from the Moon, and make them in the form of one striking another, Bury them in the hour of Mars with the first face of Aries rising. When you have done this, you will be able to act against your enemy as you wish. – The Picatrix, tranl. John Michael Greer & Christopher Warnock
To continue with our examination, during the season of the malefics, of some of the more malicious uses for electional astrology in the Picatrix, today we’ll look at another one of the enemy destruction elections from Book 1, Chapter 5.
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