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Anybody wondering what my Hell Tree looked like, here it is. Rest in peace, old friend, and take the people I used you to trouble back to hell with you.
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New terms; tempestarii and magonians. Relevant to people who have enjoyed my Weather & Storm Magic class and video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempestarii In medieval lore, Tempestarii were magicians, specifically weather-makers, dwelling amongst the common people, who possessed the power to raise or prevent storms at will. For this reason, anyone reputed as a weather-maker was the subject of respect,…
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When you make a petition, it mimics the medieval feudal practices of approaching a prince and begging a boon in exchange for fealty and a service. It’s quite clear from the structure of the petition incantations that this is what’s going on. That would be vaguely like being dubbed a knight in the court of…
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Page 64 Picatrix Rubeus: “Next you should learn that they do not calculate these figures in any way except from the nature of the stars and signs. In this way you will be able to understand what was said above concerning the second face [decan]. All their sayings are of this sort. What I have…
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In order for us to understand the medieval and renaissance mindset, we have to understand what they were reading. Trying to rebuild the assumptions and cultural context of the authors of books of magic is essential, and thus becoming well versed in the literary and scientific canon of those eras is helpful and perhaps mandatory. At the…
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Picatrix Rubeus, pages 63-64: “The second manner calculates the images according to the opinion of the Hindus, who arrange them in this way: in the first face of Aries there rises a man with red eyes and a large beard, wrapped in a garment of white linen, seeming to make great gestures, and wearing a…
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Why is Al Kindi important? His De Radiis Stellarum was so influential in the medieval era that it was used as a primary justification for the creation of talismans as natural phenomena and science, rather than prohibited demonic magic in the Christian West.
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An unconventional review of the more common symbols used in a traditional horoscope chart.
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Clifford Hartleigh Low’s lecture on “Introduction To Tradtional Astrology” at ConVocation 2014. This lecture covers the core metaphors of Astrology, the metaphysical cosmology of Western Traditional Astrology, the differences between Modern and Traditional Astrology, the structure of the Horoscope chart, the basics of Traditional Horary Astrology, and much much more…
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