Traditional Astrology, Magic, and Sundry Matters
It’s going to be a busy time for any astrological magician from October towards the end of the year with Venus, Mars and Saturn all entering signs of their dignity at various points during it. These three elections are for when Venus is dignified by domicile in LIbra between 14 October and 7 November. It’s a good time to create talismans and images for love, friendship, popularity, good relations, to alleviate melancholy moods, and for wealth.
“If indeed the intention of him for whom you elect were to make money, so that it would always remain in his possession, indeed so that it is not given over in the end to someone else, let the Ascendant at the hour of the election be a fixed sign; and let the Lord of the Ascendant and the Moon and the Lord of the Second be in fixed signs, free from impediments, and do not let them be removed from the angles.” – Guido Bonatti, Liber Astronomiae, Treatise 7, p707 (Benjamins Dykes translation)
Continue reading “Money Stay With Me: An election for maintaining wealth”
Bonatti gives us an election for dice games, but which can be extended to other games of chance. We want the following conditions:
Electional conditions
1. The ascendant in movable sign
2. Lord 1 in good condition and well disposed
3. Lord 7 weak and impedited
4. If possible, let Lord 8 in House 2 or House 1, received by Lord 2 or Lord 1 (but do not let Lord 8 receive Lord 2)
5. Preferably we want the Moon separating from a free benefic and applying to another benefic, and the moon should be above earth, and we should be facing in the direction of wherever the moon happens to be at the time
Naturally, if you are trading on a somewhat regular basis, you may not have the good fortune to be able to wait a prolonged period of time for the perfect election to come along to buy or sell your wares. Perhaps you only have a brief window to negotiate a price for the local Afghan warlord’s opium crop before exfil. For just such instances, Ramesey provides some more basic electional rules for trade (some are designed to benefit the buyer and others the seller, so bear this in mind).
This is another election from William Ramesey magnum opus Astrology Restored first published in 1653. Ramesey advises the following conditions be present when one seeks to buy something for the purpose of profiting from its sale:
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”
“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”