Traditional Astrology, Magic, and Sundry Matters
Some exciting news! I have added some lunar mansion talismans to the catalogue.
I hope to be making many more in the not-so-distant future, but in the meantime you can find some new talismans for success, love and sex in the Talismans section of this website.
It’s been a particularly auspicious few months astrologically and we have a few new talismans and available that you can find under the Talismans section of the homepage. You are now also able to order an election for a particular talisman or goal you want to achieve here.
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.
What are the Lunar Mansions?
Simply put, the Lunar Mansions are a form of Lunar Zodiac which splits the ecliptic into 28 sections. Although based on an older sidereal form, we will be using the Mansion system used in the Picatrix which is based on the tropical zodiac.
Each Mansion is said to have a particular effect (which you can find here or in one of the translations of the Picatrix), and the position of the moon in any of these mansions can be used either to simply elect a time to perform a certain action (e.g., with the moon in the 5th mansion, it’s a good to ask for favours from kings – or to ask your boss for a raise, if you do not work for your monarch directly) or to create a talisman for a magical effect (e.g., with the moon in the 3rd Mansion, it is a good time to make a talisman to bring good luck).
The great thing about using the mansions is that they can be utilised with whatever system you currently work with to add a little celestial oomph to your magick. As an example, if you do not want to create a silver ring bearing the image of a woman with her hand raised over her head for luck during the 3rd Mansion of the Moon, and would prefer to create a mojo hand instead, that is certainly another possibility.
Just as the influences of the planets and fixed stars reigning at a particular time and place are impressed upon body and soul of someone born at that time and particular place, it is possible to impregnate a physical object with a particular celestial influence.
A talisman is created through a combination of timing, with the construction taking place when the celestial influences are at their peak, an appropriate physical basis that has the ability to receive the influence of the celestial influence due to similarity or correspondence with the influence, 3) inscription with figures, divine names and symbols consonant with the influence, 4) invocation of spirits who rule over or direct the power of the planet or star to consecrate (literally ‘make sacred’) the talisman to indwell the talisman itself, and 5) intention, that is, giving the talisman a mission through the charge to the spirit or impressing the effect on the talisman through the imaginative faculty.