April 2014
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THE RINGS OF ULTIMATE FORTUNE: Jupiter in Degree of Exaltation, Moon trining Jupiter This was a phenomenal election and I hope some of you took advantage of it. Jupiter was in his degree-of-exaltation, in his Day, with the Moon applying a lovely trine to him. The MC was furthermore fortified by Venus in her exaltation.…
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THE RINGS OF FEVER’S ECLIPSE: Moon conjoined to Arcturus [I include this post for historical reasons only; the talismans were highly malefic and extremely dangerous. They could not even be stored safely but required complex deconsecrations.] This one is one of the riskier elections I’ve done recently, to the point it almost falls out of Tradition.…
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Someone need to write a book about the struggles to define magic (magia) between various monotheistic religious sects; particularly between Catholicism and Protestantism, but also between Catholicism and Islam, and Judaism and everybody else. There’s tons of history in there that hardly anybody has put into a coherent narrative. It’s really interesting stuff, and relevant to anybody…