Traditional Astrology, Magic, and Sundry Matters
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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Make an image with a tortuous sign ascending, and with the lord of the ascendant cadent from the ascendant, fourth, seventh or tenth house, and the Moon similarly cadent. Bury the image at a crossroad under the Via Combusta, and make the face of the image look away from his place, and you will see miracles. – Picatrix, transl. John Michael Greer & Christopher Warnock
This is a nice example of a fairly simple multi-part election from the Picatrix. It is malefic in nature as, in its basic form, it is designed to “chase a man from his place”, and we make it more malefic still by afflicting the ascendant.
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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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