Mental Influence Magic
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Scholastic Image Magic or SIM was one of two main branches of magical practice in the Medieval Era and the Renaissance. It was heavily influenced by the science of the Arabic world, and incorporated astrology, optics, mathematics, and the philosophy of antiquity. The European version was an outgrowth of Medieval Scholasticism; a movement which attempted to reconcile Christianity…
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Obtain dirt from the graves of seven young people who have committed suicide because of the election of Donald Trump. In combination this material will be one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal. These restless spirits will be your shock troops. They will be eager to work for you, against the administration especially.…
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VENUS PETITON: Venus and Moon in Taurus, Cancer ASC, Moon triumphed, Venus sextile ASC. Talismanic elections have been few and far between of late, and I’m taking a break from curse talismans for a while– so that leaves petitions. This one was slightly experimental. Now, the key with petitions as opposed to talismans is that…
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Page 57 Picatrix Rubeus: “All that we have said in this context we say only to sharpen the intellect and illuminate awareness, because the aforesaid words and reasons that we have stated are spiritual images and the word that Adam received form the Lord God. They cannot be understood except by the sages who have labored…
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THE TALISMANS OF THE ANGEL WITH THE BACKWARDS HEAD: Strong Capella election with the ASC Ruler Retrograde. So, I never post talismanic elections in the future that I intend to use because I find that ruins them. I won’t be using this one. “Horehound seed mixed with equal parts of mint, wormwood and mandrake, placed…
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THE RINGS OF TRIUMPHING LIGHT: Sun in Domicile Ascending, Fortunes in the 1st House. This was a particularly meaningful and powerful election, made in the hours immediately before my mother’s gravestone unveiling ceremony, one day after the third anniversary of her death. Her epitaph was “She was like the Sun; overflowing with beauty, warmth, and…
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DEFIXIOS OF BURNING HATRED: Moon in 5th Mansion, combust, besieged, Cancer ascending. Fifth Mansion effects include “to destroy the friendship between two people” in Picatrix, when the principal planets are afflicted. Some contend that combustion and/or besiegement are limited by Sign boundaries; I disagree. This election has both, a fairly toxic combo. Cancer is also…
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THE TALISMANS OF AWESTRUCK DREAD: 11th Lunar Mansion with Mars. This is one of those experimental elections which either curse the living shit out of me or work fabulously. Somebody needs to test this stuff out, might as well be me. Kids, don’t try this at home! The Moon is slow, too slow to normally…
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GEMS OF BEDAZZLING ARDOR: The Talismans of the Twenty-Sixth Mansion. PICATRIX RUBEUS page 292: “When the Moon is passing through it, take white wax and mastic and melt them together; from these fashion the image of a woman with her hair unbound and before her a vessel placed as if to receive her hair. Suffumigate it…
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